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=☽ November 7th, YDAU - Joelle goes to Molly Notkin's party=

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'''striated''' 
marked with stripes or streaks

'''Cukor''' 
George Dewey Cukor (1899-1983) was an American [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002030/ film director].

'''Murnau in Méliès's fiberglass lap''' 
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (1888-1931) was a German expressionist filmmaker who later worked in Hollywood. He made the classic vampire film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013442/ "Nosferatu"] (1922). Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès (1861-1938) was a French filmmaker, famous for the 1902 silent [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000417/ "A Trip to the Moon"] (featured in Martin Scorsese's 2011 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970179/ "Hugo"]).

'''cummerbund''' 
the band of fabric worn around the waist with a tuxedo

'''M.I.T.-crested''' 
see right

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'''low-pH chemist''' 
i.e., he worked with acids

'''piebald''' 
having patches of black and white

'''G.W. Pabst''' 
Georg Wilhelm Pabst (1885-1967) was a Bohemian-born Austrian filmmaker.

'''sorghum''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorghum grain] used in the production of molasses, alcholic beverages, and animal feed

'''tumefies''' 
swells

'''sororal''' 
another word for "sisterly"

'''sub-rosa''' 
From the Latin "under the rose," this word means secretly held.

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'''sienna-glazed''' 
glazed with an earth-based pigment

'''polyresin''' 
a resin compound used to make figurines, among other things

'''staccato''' 
in music, notes that are sounded in a detached and distinct manner

'''cataract''' 
In the non-ophthalmic sense, this word means "waterfall."

==Page 222==

'''NOTRE RAI PAYS''' 
perhaps idiomatic French (literally "our spoke [''or'' ray] country") for "our home away from home," indicating Québec's colonial status with respect to motherland France; potentially meant to be translated as "our shining land".

'''.473-liter''' 
16 ounces, a pint

'''Big Red Soda Water''' 
a [http://www.bigredltd.com/ real brand] similar to cream soda, only red. This was originally only sold in Central/South Texas and Kentucky and is still popular in that region, though available elsewhere.

'''Chore Boy''' 
a brand of [http://www.choreboyscrubbers.com/ scrubbing pads]. The copper version of these pads can be used as a filter for smoking crack.

'''two-k. square''' 
0.77 square miles

'''selvage''' 
the finished edge of a piece of fabric, so done to prevent fraying

'''The afternoon's meshes.''' 
recalls an experimental film by Maya Deren and her husband Alexander Hammid, "Meshes of the Afternoon" (1943)

'''delimits''' 
establishes the boundaries of

==Page 223==

=Chronology of O.N.A.N.'s Revenue-Enhancing Subsidized Time™=

==Page 223==

See [[Subsidized Time]].

==Endnote 78==

'''G.F.R. Co.''' 
perhaps [http://www.gfr.cc/ Global Food Resources]

'''Zanesville OH''' 
a town 55 miles east of Columbus

'''Vienna VA''' 
a suburb of Washington, D.C., about 15 miles due west of the city

=Joelle, cont.=

==Page 223==

'''Colonel Shaw and the MA 54th''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw Robert Gould Shaw] was a Bostonian killed in the Civil War while commanding the all-black Massachusetts 54th Regiment. A relief sculpture [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_Memorial memorial] to him is located on Beacon Street (not Boylston Street) in front of the Massachusetts State House.

==Page 225==

'''tumbrel''' 
a cart for hauling manure or for hauling victims to the guillotine during the French Revolution

'''imprecated''' 
called down curses upon someone

'''Delphina''' 
name of a [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04701a.htm beatified Catholic virgin]

==Endnote 79==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Trial-Sized Dove Bar]]

==Page 225 (cont'd)==

'''Veedersburg, Indiana and Powell, Wyoming''' 
Veedersburg is about 70 miles west-northest of Indianapolis; Powell is about 90 miles south of Billings, Mont.

'''parallax''' 
This is "the difference between the view of an object as seen through the picture-taking lens of a camera and the view as seen through a separate viewfinder" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

==Page 226==

'''8-gram''' 
a bit over a quarter of an ounce

'''wildly carbuncular wife''' 
This is a reference to Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor (1879-1964), wife of Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor.

'''P.M.U.K.''' 
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

'''Lend-Lease''' 
a program between the beginning of World War II and U.S. entry after the bombing of Pearl Harbor whereby the U.S. government provided materiel to Britain (and later the Soviets) in return for military bases

'''scopophobic''' 
scopophobia is the morbid fear of being seen or stared at by others

'''he was indeed inebriated...while she...would tomorrow still be hideously and improbably deformed.''' 
Many versions of this witty exchange between Winston Churchill and a woman have been propagated over the the years. It may or may not have actually occurred.

=Helen P. Steeply's (putative) c.v.=

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'''1.98 M., 104 KG., A.B., M.J.A.''' 
1.98 meters is about 6'4" tall. 104 kg is around 230 lbs. She's enormous.

A.B. is the older Latin equivalent (''Artium Baccalaureus'' or ''Artium Baccalaureatus'') of B.A., i.e., Bachelor of Arts. M.J.A. is Master of Justice Administration.

'''''Decade Magazine''''' 
probably not a real publication 

'''''Southwest Annual''''' 
probably not a real publication

'''''Ladies Day''''' 
also not a real publication

'''Erythema AZ''' 
not a real town, but erythema is a [http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9363881/erythema real disease]

=Joelle, cont.=

==Page 227==

'''A.B.D.''' 
"All But Dissertation," a term used to refer to people who have completed their doctoral studies with the exception of their dissertations.

[[Image:Homburg.jpg|thumb|caption|Homburg Hat|150px|right]]

'''Homburg''' 
A homburg is a stiff felt hat characterized by a single dent running down the center of the crown and a brim fixed in a tight, upwards curl. It is superficially similar to the trilby or fedora; trilbys and fedoras, however, have soft, "snappable" brims and can have various designs "pinched" into the crown, whereas the shape of a homburg is fixed. (see right) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homburg_(hat) Wikipedia]

'''Wiesbaden''' 
a city of Germany above 25 miles west of Frankfurt (Main)

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.S.D.B.]]

==Page 228==

'''the A.M.'s interruptus''' 
Presumably this means the end of the morning, although the only common English usage of "interruptus" is in the Latin phrase ''coitus interrruptus'', i.e., "pulling out." (See the [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_157-181#Page_171 Consummation of the Levirates].)

The A.M.'s interruptus could refer to her "quitting" her drug use that morning.

'''Maya Deren''' 
Born Eleanora Derenkowsky, Maya Deren (1917-1961) was a Ukrainian-born American director [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220305/].

==Page 229==

'''glycine''' 
one of the 20 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycine amino acids] found in proteins

'''Rutherford Keck and Crosby Baum''' 
These both seem to be invented people.... Continuing with the optics theme, Keck is a major observatory on the big island of Hawaii. Rutherford could refer to a British nuclear physicist who pioneered an erroneous model of the atom and discovered the concept of radioactive half-life.

'''Smothergill''' 
...as does this...

'''Miriam Prickett''' 
...and this.

[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]

'''Franciscan bald spot''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscan Orders of Friars Minor] were known to shave the tops of their heads in medieval and early modern times.

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'''paps''' 
breasts or nipples

'''diphthong''' 
In linguistics, a diphthong is a vowel combination involving a smooth transition from one vowel to another. English has three diphthongs: /ay/ as in "papaya," /oy/ as in "boy," and /au/ as in "Bauhaus." Technically "beautiful" doesn't have a diphthong.

'''febrile''' 
feverish

'''scopophiliac''' 
An individual affected with the desire to look at sexually stimulating scenes especially as a substitute for actual sexual participation. From the translation of the Freudian notion of Schaulust, "pleasure in looking," in the sense of both seeing and being seen, as well as "curiosity." Freud distinguished between two frequently encountered forms of this partial drive: one active, "voyeurism," and the other passive, "exhibitionism," neither of which he would necessarily rank among perversions. [cf. scopophobic (p.226) & scopophilia (p.832)]

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.S.D.B.]]

'''Boaz''' 
the name of cities in both Alabama and West Virginia

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'''Vogelsong''' 
"Vogel" = German for "bird", i.e. something like: bird song ("song" is not German)

'''Emerson College''' 
a [http://www.emerson.edu/ college] in Boston

'''ectoplasm''' 
the supposed emanation of the soul from the body; here used as a metaphor for vomit

'''afflatus''' 
inspiration; a divine imparting of knowledge or power

'''dithers''' 
behaves in a nervous or agitated way

'''jaundice''' 
yellowing of the skin caused by liver disease

'''b & w''' 
black and white

'''Bouvier''' 
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's maiden surname

'''''f''-stop''' 
This is "the ratio of the focal length (''f'')) of a lens or lens system to the effective diameter of its aperture" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition'').

'''''Berliner''''' 
Technically, it's called the ''Berliner Pfannkuchen'' (doughnut).

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'''''Ich bein ein Berliner''''' 
''Bein'' is the wrong word. It's a noun in German and means "leg". The first-person singular of ''sein'' ("to be") is ''bin''. Still, the wrong spelling may be related to Kennedy's wrong pronounciation of this sentence. And yes, it's true "Berliner" is a German word for a special kind of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_%28pastry%29 pastry]. [You find a quite interesting episode related to this topic in Pychon's "Against the Day"...]

'''TA''' 
Teaching Assistant

'''''À du nous avons foi au poison''''' 
French (roughly): We have faith in poison

'''Eve Plumb''' 
She played Jan Brady on ''The Brady Bunch''.

'''Henderson''' 
Florence Henderson, who played Carol Brady

'''Davis''' 
Ann B. Davis, who played Alice, the maid

'''Peter''' 
the middle son, played by Christopher Knight

'''Greg''' 
the eldest son, played by Barry Williams

'''''De gustibus non est disputandum''''' 
Latin: There's no accounting for taste (literally, "tastes are not disputable")

'''Eisenstein and Kurosawa and Michaux''' 
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (1898-1948) was a Latvian-born Russian-Jewish filmmaker, famous for his film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015648/ Battleship Potemkin]. Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) was perhaps the most prominent Japanese filmmaker of the twentieth century. Oscar Micheaux (1893-1951) was an African-American filmmaker whose ouevre can be viewed [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0584778/ here].

'''draw a bead''' 
slang for taking aim at a target with a rifle

'''ten m.''' 
Ten meters is equal to 32.8 feet.

==Page 233==

'''Heideggerian''' 
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) was a prominent twentieth-century German philosopher and proponent of existentialism.

'''''a priori''''' 
From the Latin for "from what comes first," these are assumptions made before observations are made.

'''wraith''' 
another word for "ghost"

'''labile''' 
unstable

'''''The Incision''''' 
I could locate no film by this name.

'''qua''' 
From the Latin ablative case of the word for "who," this word means "in the character of capacity of."

'''dopamine''' 
a neurotransmitter, primarily responsible for movement and cognition

'''blinis''' 
Russian crepes

'''tartines''' 
a type of French open-faced sandwich

'''sweetbreads''' 
thymus gland or pancreas of young animals (calf or lamb)

'''glacé''' 
French for "iced"

'''Morris Mini''' 
another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Minor Morris Minor]

'''ipecac''' 
derived from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipecacuanha ipecacuanha plant], a syrup produced to induce vomiting

'''clapper''' 
the tongue of a bell

'''Dishmaster''' 
see [[Subsidized Time]]

'''Makavajev''' 
Born in 1932, [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0538445/ Dusan Makavejev] (probably misspelled) is a Yugoslavian-born film director.

==Page 234==

'''Shiny Prize, Kentucky''' 
not a real town

'''1.7 meters tall''' 
a little over 5'6"

'''48 kilograms''' 
about 106 pounds (This makes her about 15-30 pounds below her ideal weight.)

'''phalloneurotic''' 
a portmanteau of ''phallus'' and ''neurotic'', probably intended to mean a mental disorder involving obsession with one's penis, or perhaps with penes more generally; uncertain as to which "phalloneurotic" New Yorker this refers

'''EZ-Widers''' 
a brand of cigarette rolling papers

'''Cyrillic''' 
employing the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_alphabet Cyrillic alphabet], as with Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Bulgarian, etc.

'''mollified''' 
softened in feeling and temper

'''soft rock's grim dental association''' 
which is to say, it's the kind of music you'd hear in a dentist's office

'''Kinski as Paganini''' 
Klaus Kinski (1926-1991), Danzig-born German-American actor, played Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840), the Italian violinist and composer, in his final film, [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098052/ Kinski Paganini].

'''Léaud as Doinel''' 
Jean-Pierre Léaud (born 1944), a French actor, played the fictional character Antoine Doinel in five [http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0027246/ films].

'''Peterson's ''The Lead Shoes''''' 
An 18-minute [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgMdkslzAC0 film] by Sidney Peterson (1949), preceded by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's great [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040725/ ''The Red Shoes''](1948) with Moira Shearer. (Cf. the color in the title of the fictitious monograph in endnote 81.)

'''pomander''' 
This is "a mixture of aromatic substances, often in the form of a ball, formerly carried on the person as a supposed guard against infection but now placed in closets, dressers, etc." (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

==Page 235==

'''dicky''' 
impaired

'''bathetic''' 
appealing to bathos, i.e., insincere pathos (emotion)

'''neat bourbon''' 
bourbon without ice

'''Vittoria''' 
a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_della_Vittoria Santa Maria della Vittoria], where the mentioned work by Bernini hangs

'''recumbent''' 
reclining

'''Gleem''' 
a brand of toothpaste

'''NoCoat scraper''' 
Presumably refers to NoCoat LinguaScrapers (tongue scrapers) mentioned on [http://wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_127-156#Page_151 Page 151].

'''NeGram''' 
a brand name of nalidixic acid, used to treat urinary tract infections

'''depilatory''' 
for removal of hair

'''Monostat''' 
brand name of a treatment for vaginal yeast infections

'''Parapectolin''' 
a mixture of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaolin kaolinite] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pectin pectin], used to treat diarrhea

==Page 236==

'''Kodachrome''' 
a brand name of camera film

'''Reynolds Wrap''' 
a brand name of aluminum foil

'''baking soda''' 
Joelle is making crack, as opposed to 'freebase cocaine' which requires ether. Crack production is procedurally distinct (and safer) from that of purer 'freebase cocaine,' but the freebase products are the same: the baking soda serves to ''free'' the cocaine ''base'' from the pure cocaine hydrochloride. Both methods produce crystals that can be smoked. The production method of Joelle's earlier "home made freebase cocaine" is uncertain, but conventional terminology suggests she makes the ether-based variety at home.

'''C knob''' 
the knob for cold water

==Page 237==

'''Paducah''' 
a city in Kentucky about 175 miles southeast of St. Louis, Mo.

'''Qantas''' 
an airline serving Australia and New Zealand

==Page 238==

'''fillips''' 
a sharp tap

'''mâché''' 
French for "chewed" indicating here bits and pieces of the material. e.g., papier mâché

'''S.O.P.''' 
Standard Operating Procedure

'''imperial''' 
a case for luggage

'''"...darkness dance on the face of the deep..."''' 
a play on [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201:2;&version=9; Genesis 1:2]

'''"...that skull fragment out of the ''Hamlet'' graveyard scene..."''' 
i.e., "infinite jest"

'''Mad Stork''' 
the nickname for former NFL linebacker [http://www.profootballhof.com/history/release.jsp?release_id=1046 Ted Hendricks]

==Page 239==

'''banal''' 
hackneyed or trite

'''Prettiest G.O.A.T.''' 
Though G.O.A.T. stands here for "Girl Of All Time," it's an oxymoron, because "goat" is a slang term for an ugly person.

'''slew-footed''' 
with the foot turned on the axis of the ankle

==Page 240==

'''white- party-noise''' 
which is to say random noise generated by the party outside the bedroom

''''We've Only Just Begun'''' 
a song by Paul Williams and Roger Nichols first recorded by the [http://wc04.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:hifrxqw5ldfe Carpenters] in 1970

'''mercuric red''' 
red as the color made by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merbromin MercuroChrome]

=☽ - Enfield, MA=

==Page 240==

Note: Most of these places exist but there is no such town (anymore) as Enfield, Mass.

'''Dicalced''' 
Apparently there is a misspelling. The correct term would be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discalced_Carmelites Discalced Carmelites], which means they go barefoot or wear sandals.

==Page 241==

'''RCC''' 
Roman Catholic Church

'''''les trebuchets noirs''''' 
French: the black catapults

'''5 km''' 
about 3.1 miles

'''brachiform''' 
in the shape of an arm

'''75 hectares''' 
almost 900,000 square yards

'''palisades''' 
fences

'''guano''' 
feces, particularly of birds or bats

'''four-km.''' 
almost 2.5 miles

'''coaxial''' 
having common axes

==Page 242==

'''Ø's''' 
This could refer to all the zeros in the presumably large number of amps in the warning signs, but it may also refer (in plural) to the internationally recognized graphic prohibition sign, i.e., the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ No symbol], although the graphic incorporates a red circle with a backslash (from top left to bottom right, rather than bottom left to top right), as for the zero symbol. The numerical symbol incorporates the forward slash to distinguish it from the capital letter O.

'''A.D.E.''' 
one of ATSHCME's Air-Displacement Effectuators

=November 5th, YDAU - Hal and Orin discuss Himself's suicide=

==Page 242==

==Endnote 82==
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote 82|Endnote 82]]

==Page 243==

'''caroms''' 
rebounds

'''1100 meters''' 
a little over 3,600 feet

'''Superstition mountains''' 
a real range east of Phoenix

'''precipice''' 
a cliff with a vertical face

'''''propitiate''''' 
to conciliate, appease or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit

'''apotropaic barn-signs''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_sign Hex signs] commonly seen in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, ostensibly intended to ward off evil, but now probably used more as a decorative element

'''Popogatapec''' 
probably a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popocat%C3%A9petl Popocatépetl]

'''Ahts of Vancouver''' 
another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuu-chah-nulth Nuu-chah-nulth], the indigenous peoples of Vancouver Island, Canada

'''Micturation''' 
urination

==Page 244==

'''200-kilo''' 
about 441 pounds

'''apposite''' 
pertinent

==Page 245==

'''decamp''' 
to depart secretly

'''domino-mask''' 
This is "a large, hooded cloak with a mask covering the eyes, worn at masquerades" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''lacuna''' 
a missing part

'''frothy biblical saw''' 
a trifling or empty biblical proverb

==Page 246==

'''rodneys''' 
obviously some kind of impulse buy: cigarettes

'''refracted''' 
bent or twisted by a change in medium. An optics term, so this is an oblique reference to filming.

'''Cardinal Stadium''' 
The Arizona Cardinals now play in the University of Phoenix Stadium.

==Page 247==

'''Royal Victoria''' 
This is the name of one of the docks of east London, but probably not what's being referred to here. Victoria is also the capital of British Columbia, and an island in the Pacific off the B.C. coast. The Royal Victoria College was a women's college created as part of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.

==Page 248==

'''Rog and Wilc,O.''' 
"Roger Wilco, Orin" - Roger Wilco is a radio communication meaning Roger - "I received your message./" and Wilco - "I will comply."

''''20 for 28 is what, 65%?'''' 
It's a little over 71%.

==Page 249==

'''telemachry''' 
Maybe not the word Hal was looking for, but Telemachus was a monk who tried to stop the Roman gladiator fights and told the Romans to stop worshiping false idols instead of Christ. He was stoned to death, though his death is sometimes said to have ended the Gladiatorial games. So, "telemachry" could be interpreted to be trust in a higher power.

'''telemetry''' 
the transmission of something automatically and at a distance -- here, Hal's toenails to the wastebasket

==Page 250==
'''asphyxuated''' 
There's no clear reason for Orin's mispronunciation of ''asphyxiated''. Perhaps he's combining ''asphyxia'' and ''evacuated''.

==Page 251==

'''magnitron''' 
a misspelling of "magnetron," which is "a two-element vacuum tube in which the flow of electrons is under the influence of an external magnetic field, used to generate extremely short radio waves" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''kg.s.cm.''' 
kilograms per square centimeter, as a measurement of pressure, like pounds per square inch

==Page 252==

'''synclinal''' 
sloping downward from opposite directions to meet in a common point or line

'''Adriatic''' 
the sea between the west coast of Italy and the Balkan peninsula

==Page 253==

'''StairMaster''' 
a brand name of exercise machines

'''Kübler-Ross, Hinton''' 
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. (1926-2004) was a Swiss-born American psychiatrist and specialist on death and dying. John Hinton is a British contemporary expert in the field.

'''Kastenbaum and Kastenbaum''' 
Robert J. Kastenbaum is another prominent scholar in the field of death and dying. I can't find another person by that name, so perhaps Hal is referring to multiple volumes by the same Kastenbaum.

'''Elizabeth Harper Neeld's ''Seven Choices: Taking the Steps to New Life After Losing Someone You Love''''' 
A real book, it's actually 343 pages. (The 1997 edition is 343 pages, but an earlier publishing may have been 352.)

'''Wyclif and 14th-century ''langue-d'oc'' French''' 
John Wyclif was a 14th century English theologian. He made the first translation of the Bible into English, thus his importance to etymology in general. ''Langue d'oc'' is another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langue_d%27oc Occitan] language. The ''OED'' actually dates the word's (acceptance) earliest usage to 1596 by Shakespeare in ''The Merchant of Venice''.

'''Hindi''' 
a national language of India and one of the most widely spoken

'''Gila monster''' 
a venomous lizard native to the Southwest U.S. and Mexico, known for its tenacious bite

'''hypertensive''' 
having high blood pressure

==Page 254==

'''''Leaves of Grass''''' 
the most famous volume of poetry by Walt Whitman

==Page 255==

'''unfazable''' 
incapable of being disturbed

'''paroxysmic''' 
characteristic of an outburst of violent emotion

==Page 256==

'''half a meter''' 
about 1.64 feet

==Page 257==

'''dewlaps''' 
loose flesh as under the jaw of a cow

'''"...when Luke removes his high-tech targeting helmet..."''' 
Hal is referring to a scene from [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/ Star Wars]; Luke is Luke Skywalker.

'''coccyges''' 
plural of coccyx, i.e., the tailbone

==Page 258==

'''jonquil-yellow''' 
another name for the flower known as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonquil narcissus] or daffodil

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'''B.Y.P.''' 
Brookline Young People's (a previously mentioned AA group)

==Page 737==

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

'''fifth wall''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_wall "fourth wall"] is a term used in theater to describe the imaginary wall that separates the stage from the audience. The "fifth wall" could be an extrapolation of this concept, meaning a wall separating an actor from a critic, or separating two people sharing the same experience notably when viewing projected or broadcasted media.

==Page 738==

'''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

==Page 739==

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

'''disdain''' 
dislike or hatred

==Page 740==

'''rancid''' 
rotten

'''oeuvre''' 
body of work

'''inbent''' 
directed inward

==Page 741==

'''s-boarded''' 
story-boarded

'''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]

==Page 742==

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

Bernini's sculpture 'Ecstasy of St. Teresa' is located in the Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome

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

==Page 743==

'''Legal Seafood up in Brookline''' 
[http://www.legalseafoods.com Legal Sea Foods], a chain that got its start in Inman Square, has a restaurant at 43 Boylston St., at the border of Brookline and within five miles of ETA.

==Endnote 309==

'''boniface''' 
an innkeeper

==Page 743 (cont'd)==

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

==Page 744==

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

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

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

==Page 745==

'''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.

'''Bazin''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Bazin André Bazin] (1918 – 1958) was an influential French film critic and film theorist.

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

'''''personalistes''''' 
One of the main currents of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-conformists_of_the_1930s non-conformist movement] in France in the 1930s, the ''personalistes'' school's main organ was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Mounier Emmanuel Mounier's] jouranl ''Esprit'', in which Bazin published film criticism. The aesthetic theory of the ''personalistes'' was formulated by [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/maritain/#Aest Jacques Maritain]. For a discussion of Bazin's relation to Mounier see [http://www.horschamp.qc.ca/new_offscreen/bazin_intro2.html this article].

'''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"

==Page 746==

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

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

==Page 747==

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

'''blancmange''' 
a thick milk pudding

'''chickory''' 
usually spelled [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicory chicory], is used as a coffee substitute or additive in some places

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

=Marathe at Ennet House, cont.=

==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.

==Page 750==

'''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

=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." What would make more sense in context is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cachexia cachexia], the weight loss and muscle atrophy caused by some chronic diseases.

==Page 752==

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

=Marathe's Intake, cont.=

==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

==Page 753==

'''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

==Page 755==

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'''entrepôt''' 
a place where stolen goods are stored and sold from

'''frustum''' 
This is "the part of a conical solid left after cutting off a top portion with a plane parallel to the base" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

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==Page 916==

'''proclavity''' 
Gately means "proclivity"

==Page 917==

'''fuchsia''' 
hot pink

'''boot-knife''' 
defined [http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Boot_knife here]

'''highatus''' 
i.e., hiatus

==Page 918==

'''VO''' 
a type of whiskey by Seagram's, the VO standing for "very own"

'''32 mb²''' 
this would, presumably, be 1024 megabytes, or a little over 1 gigabyte

==Page 919==

'''''LISLE''''' 
a fine, hard-twisted cotton thread used for hose, gloves, etc.

'''''EMBRASURE''''' 
an opening in a thick wall for a window

'''lissome''' 
agile; nimble

==Page 920==

'''''CIRCUMAMBIENT''''' 
surrounding; encompassing

'''head''' 
toilet; bathroom

'''Pressburger''' 
Until the city was renamed Bratislava (currently the capital of Slovakia), a person from that Pressburg was called a ''Pressburger.''

==Page 921==

'''Something-with-six-syllables-that-started-with-''Sterno''''' 
possibilities: "Sternocleidomastoid," a muscle in the neck, or "Sternoclavicular," a joint where the clavicle, part of the sternum, and the cartilage of the first rib meet

'''16 mm. siphuncular''' 
0.63 inches; siphuncular basically means "tubular"

'''4 ml.''' 
The proper abbreviation for milliliters is mL.

==Endnote 373==

'''viscid''' 
sticky; adhesive

'''inspissated''' 
thickened by evaporation to become more dense

==Page 921 (cont.)==

'''edema''' 
swelling due to excess fluid

'''discreditated''' 
Presumably he means "discredited."

'''''Morbid Trauma Quarterly''''' 
not a real publication

'''hemoptysis''' 
coughing up blood

'''pertussive''' 
accompanied by coughing

==Page 922==

'''30 kg''' 
about 66.14 lbs

'''bupkis''' 
Yiddish for "absolutely nothing"

'''''embrasure''''' 
an opening in a thick wall, mentioned earlier

'''woodie''' 
erection

'''myopic''' 
near-sighted

'''Turner''' 
possibly a reference to Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), a British painter

'''innerdicted''' 
i.e., interdicted

==Page 923==

'''post-mortem''' 
Latin: after death

'''stucco''' 
Read about it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stucco here].

==Page 924==

'''''Night-Errand''''' 
i.e., knight-errant

'''papoose''' 
While the word technically means "baby," Gately's usage is probably closer to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papoose that explained here].

==Page 925==

'''W. T. Sherman''' 
William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) was an American army general, responsible for burning Atlanta during the U.S. Civil War.

'''dipsoid''' 
alcoholic

'''Margaret Thatcher''' 
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (born 1925), was Prime Minister of the U.K. from 1979 to 1990.

'''cherry''' 
a term for a virgin

'''simper''' 
to smile self-consciously

'''highball''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highball_%28cocktail%29 family of mixed drinks]

==Page 926==

'''Carry Nation''' 
Carrie A. Nation (1846-1911) was an American proponent of prohibition of alcohol.

'''exoskeletally''' 
in a way so that it is outside the skeleton

'''Zegna''' 
a clothing company founded by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zegna Ermenegildo Zegna]

'''MILKEN''' 
Michael Robert Milken (born 1946) is a former stockbroker who served several years in prison for securities fraud.

'''Beamer''' 
a BMW

'''al''mo''meter''' 
i.e., Alma Mater

==Page 927==

'''septuagenarian''' 
in ones seventies

'''tiger's eyes''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger%27s_eye gemstone]

'''doublets''' 
tight-fitting jackets

'''Plasma spheres''' 
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_sphere plasma lamp]

'''howitzer''' 
a short type of cannon

'''Green-Cardless''' 
not having permanent resident status and, thus, an illegal alien

'''moll''' 
the girlfriend of a criminal

'''bagmen''' 
people who collect payments in organized crime

'''wpm''' 
words per minute

'''shillelagh''' 
an Irish [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shillelagh_%28club%29 hand weapon]

'''Old Sod''' 
an term for the "old country" among U.S. immigrants

==Page 928==

'''Bulldog''' 
mascot of Yale University

'''proprioception''' 
See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception wikipedia]

'''VLR''' 
visitor's locker room

'''pyrotechnic''' 
like fireworks

'''Bruins''' 
mascot of Brown University, though they actually just call themselves the "Bears"

==Page 929==

'''Phalanx''' 
a close-knit group of people

'''filigreed''' 
finely and elaborately ornamented work, usually made out of wire

'''N.O.W.''' 
National Organization of Women

'''power forward''' 
the one of the two forwards in basketball who more often will drive to the net

'''ursine''' 
pertaining to bears

'''ersatz''' 
an inferior substitute

'''assassination''' 
Obviously President Limbaugh was assassinated in the recent past.

==Page 930==

'''obsequity''' 
excessive compliance

'''Gaelic''' 
i.e., the Irish language

'''C-notes''' 
hundred dollar bills

'''375 sky-blue grams''' 
about 13.23 ounces

==Page 931==

==Endnote 376==

'''$660.00/g''' 
about $18,000 an ounce

[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.-Q.M.D.]]

==Page 931 (cont'd)==

'''adulterant''' 
an impurity

'''fillip''' 
to smack one's finger against by pressing the finger against the thumb and releasing

'''gigantism''' 
excessive growth

'''smack''' 
slang term for heroin

==Page 932==

'''beeline''' 
a direct route traveled quickly

'''craven''' 
cowardly

'''gloaming''' 
dusk

==Page 933==

'''entr'actes''' 
the periods between dramatic performances

==Page 934==

'''"...digging some dead gy's head up..."''' 
See ''Hamlet,'' Act V, Scene i.

'''"...asks if they knew him..."''' 
"Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio..." (''Hamlet'').

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==Page 934==

'''"...a grotesquely huge woman whose hose bulged..."''' 
It's Steeply.

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'''cognomen''' 
a nickname

'''pre-infarcted''' 
an infarct is when a piece of organ tissue, usually in the brain or heart (stroke or heart attack, respectively), is deprived of oxygen for a period of time because of a blockage or thrombosis, and either dies or is significantly weakened

'''fullback''' 
the running back farthest from the line of scrimmage

'''a 4.4 40''' 
He could run 40 meters in 4.4 seconds.

==Page 903==

'''"...in a flaming L.A...."''' 
This would make the year 1992.

'''"some Finest got home-movied..."''' 
This is a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King Rodney King] beating.

'''Orkin''' 
a large exterminator company

'''screwdrivers''' 
vodka and orange juice

'''brownshirts and jackboots''' 
things worn by Nazis -- jackboots are combat boots that go to mid-calf

'''Zog''' 
i.e., ZOG, for Zionist Occupation Government, the acronym coined by American neo-Nazi Eric Thomson

'''''The Turner Diaries''''' 
Written by William Luther Pierce III (1933-2002), this is a neo-Nazi novel once called the "blueprint" for the Oklahoma City bombing.

'''desBois''' 
the plural of ''duBois''

'''sinsemilla''' 
cultivated high potency marijuana

==Page 904==

'''Hefenreffer''' 
apparently a real brand

'''B.M.S.''' 
Beverly Middle School

'''tapir''' 
a very long-nosed animal - see a picture [http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/sexsf/tapir10609.jpg here]

'''Erlenmeyer Flasks''' 
Read about them [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlenmeyer_flask here].T

'''"...to cyclize OH..."''' 
To cyclize something is to have it form rings. OH is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxyl_radical hydroxy radical].

==Endnote 364==

'''Love Boat''' 
actually commonly used as a nickname for marijuana laced with PCP

==Page 904 (cont'd)==

'''Farberware''' 
a brand name of pots and pans

'''tetrahydrofuran''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahydrofuran solvent]

'''PVC''' 
polyvinyl chloride

'''48 contigs''' 
48 continguous United States (excludes Alaska and Hawaii)

'''6 provinces''' 
presumably the six Canadian provinces that border the contiguous 48 states, i.e., British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Quebec

'''Sominex''' 
a brand name of antihistamine sleeping aid

'''H3C''' 
methyl group

'''mnemonic brown-out''' 
a sort of memory lapse short of a blackout

==Page 905==

'''truancy''' 
skipping school

'''A.D.D.''' 
Attention Deficit Disorder

'''strabysmic''' 
cross-eyed

'''''sieg-heil''''' 
German for "hail victory," the reference is to the Nazis.

'''aveil''' 
i.e., avail

'''Water Lou''' 
i.e., Waterloo

==Page 906==

'''''Howl''''' 
a famous [http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15308 poem] by Irwin Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), American poet

'''Chaucerian English''' 
You can read an example [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Canterbury_Tales/General_Prologue here].

'''enervated''' 
weakened

'''M.S.''' 
multiple sclerosis

'''Lou Gehrig's''' 
the more common name for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which the famous New York Yankee suffered from

'''Salem State U.''' 
There is a [http://www.salemstate.edu/ Salem State College], but not a university.

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==Page 906==

==Page 907==

'''Javol''' 
It's unclear how Hal is pronouncing this word, but he likely means ''Jawohl'', German for an emphatic "yes."

==Page 908==

'''''tu-savez-quoi''''' 
(bad) French: You know what

'''bacchanal''' 
a wild party or orgy

'''M.M.''' 
Michael Matthew

'''Shi'ite Moslems''' 
Muslims who believe that Ali was the rightful successor to the Prophet Muhammad

'''mullah''' 
a title of respect for one educated in Islamic law

'''unitard''' 
a bodysuit or one-piece leotard

==Page 909==

[[Image:Zorro.jpg|right|200px]]

'''Zorro''' 
See right

'''porcine''' 
like a swine

'''vantage''' 
point of view

'''mano-a-tete''' 
combination of "mano-a-mano" and "tête-à-tête", both essentially meaning one-on-one.

==Page 910==

'''50 kilos''' 
over 110 pounds

'''tam-o'-shanter''' 
a Scottish style hat sometimes with a tassel, feather, or pompon in the center

'''Ocean Spray''' 
a brand name of cranberry juice

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'''hydrophobia''' 
another name for rabies

'''pandemic''' 
an epidemic that spreads through human populations across a large region (for example a continent), or even worldwide

'''teleologic''' 
regarding a final cause

'''aridly''' 
dryly

==Endnote 366==

'''Professor H. Bloom''' 
Harold Bloom (born 1930) is a prominent American literary critic.

'''artistic ''influenza''''' 
not actually one of Bloom's concepts

'''peripatetic''' 
walking around

==Page 911 (cont'd)==

'''''clinamen''''' 
this refers to the indeterminate, unpredictable motion of atoms in an otherwise determinable system - read about it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinamen here].

'''''tessera''''' 
this appears to refer to the curved parallelogram-shaped individual tiles that make up mosaics - read about them [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessera here].

'''''kenosis''''' 
this is a Greek word that means "emptiness," and is a term in Christian theology that refers to Jesus relinquishing the form of God by becoming human and dying on a cross - you can read about it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenosis here].

'''''daemonization''''' 
the word "daemon" is a variant of two words: "demon," with all of its obvious meanings and connotations among various religions and mythologies, and "daimon," which is a Platonic term that signifies something or someone intermediate between the human and the divine, or sometimes used to mean "genius." "Daemon" is also used to refer to, in computer science, a computer program that runs idly in the background - it is not clear if this was a meaning that would be known to Wallace at the time he wrote ''Infinite Jest'', however.

'''''askesis''''' 
asceticism; strict self-discipline and control for religious purposes

911 · More Gately History

==Page 911==

'''Saugus''' 
a suburb about 10 miles north of Boston

==Page 912==

'''B&E''' 
breaking and entering

'''prenominate''' 
named beforehand

'''priapistic''' 
having priapisms, or painful, long lasting erections

'''Teddibly Soddy''' 
terribly sorry

'''vigorish''' 

the bookie's fee for his services

==Endnote 367==

'''Pen Registers''' 
an electronic device that records the phone numbers of outgoing calls on a particular line

==Page 913==

'''Cafergot''' 
A medication named after its combination of caffeine and ergotamine titrate, the chemical precursor to LSD; used to treat migraine headaches. Read about it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafergot here].

==Endnote 368==

'''Cimetidine''' 
actually an antacid -- strange that Wallace would make such an error, so perhaps it's deliberate

==Page 914==

==Endnote 369==

'''Mace''' 
a brand name of pepper spray

==Page 914 (cont'd)==

'''Osco''' 
a pharmacy chain

'''the Virus''' 
i.e., HIV

==Page 915==

'''respiritic''' 
presumably having something to do with breathing

'''laminating''' 
sealing in plastic

==Page 916==

'''The B.U. punter''' 
a.k.a. Orin Incandenza

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'''cognomen''' 
a nickname

'''pre-infarcted''' 
an infarct is when a piece of organ tissue, usually in the brain or heart (stroke or heart attack, respectively), is deprived of oxygen for a period of time because of a blockage or thrombosis, and either dies or is significantly weakened

'''fullback''' 
the running back farthest from the line of scrimmage

'''a 4.4 40''' 
He could run 40 meters in 4.4 seconds.

==Page 903==

'''"...in a flaming L.A...."''' 
This would make the year 1992.

'''"some Finest got home-movied..."''' 
This is a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King Rodney King] beating.

'''Orkin''' 
a large exterminator company

'''screwdrivers''' 
vodka and orange juice

'''brownshirts and jackboots''' 
things worn by Nazis -- jackboots are combat boots that go to mid-calf

'''Zog''' 
i.e., ZOG, for Zionist Occupation Government, the acronym coined by American neo-Nazi Eric Thomson

'''''The Turner Diaries''''' 
Written by William Luther Pierce III (1933-2002), this is a neo-Nazi novel once called the "blueprint" for the Oklahoma City bombing.

'''desBois''' 
the plural of ''duBois''

'''sinsemilla''' 
cultivated high potency marijuana

==Page 904==

'''Hefenreffer''' 
apparently a real brand

'''B.M.S.''' 
Beverly Middle School

'''tapir''' 
a very long-nosed animal - see a picture [http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/sexsf/tapir10609.jpg here]

'''Erlenmeyer Flasks''' 
Read about them [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlenmeyer_flask here].T

'''"...to cyclize OH..."''' 
To cyclize something is to have it form rings. OH is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxyl_radical hydroxy radical].

==Endnote 364==

'''Love Boat''' 
actually commonly used as a nickname for marijuana laced with PCP

==Page 904 (cont'd)==

'''Farberware''' 
a brand name of pots and pans

'''tetrahydrofuran''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahydrofuran solvent]

'''PVC''' 
polyvinyl chloride

'''48 contigs''' 
48 continguous United States (excludes Alaska and Hawaii)

'''6 provinces''' 
presumably the six Canadian provinces that border the contiguous 48 states, i.e., British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Quebec

'''Sominex''' 
a brand name of antihistamine sleeping aid

'''H3C''' 
methyl group

'''mnemonic brown-out''' 
a sort of memory lapse short of a blackout

==Page 905==

'''truancy''' 
skipping school

'''A.D.D.''' 
Attention Deficit Disorder

'''strabysmic''' 
cross-eyed

'''''sieg-heil''''' 
German for "hail victory," the reference is to the Nazis.

'''aveil''' 
i.e., avail

'''Water Lou''' 
i.e., Waterloo

==Page 906==

'''''Howl''''' 
a famous [http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15308 poem] by Irwin Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), American poet

'''Chaucerian English''' 
You can read an example [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Canterbury_Tales/General_Prologue here].

'''enervated''' 
weakened

'''M.S.''' 
multiple sclerosis

'''Lou Gehrig's''' 
the more common name for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which the famous New York Yankee suffered from

'''Salem State U.''' 
There is a [http://www.salemstate.edu/ Salem State College], but not a university.

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==Page 907==

'''Javol''' 
It's unclear how Hal is pronouncing this word, but he likely means ''Jawohl'', German for an emphatic "yes."

==Page 908==

'''''tu-savez-quoi''''' 
(bad) French: You know what

'''bacchanal''' 
a wild party or orgy

'''M.M.''' 
Michael Matthew

'''Shi'ite Moslems''' 
Muslims who believe that Ali was the rightful successor to the Prophet Muhammad

'''mullah''' 
a title of respect for one educated in Islamic law

'''unitard''' 
a bodysuit or one-piece leotard

==Page 909==

[[Image:Zorro.jpg|right|200px]]

'''Zorro''' 
See right

'''porcine''' 
like a swine

'''vantage''' 
point of view

'''mano-a-tete''' 
combination of "mano-a-mano" and "tête-à-tête", both essentially meaning one-on-one.

==Page 910==

'''50 kilos''' 
over 110 pounds

'''tam-o'-shanter''' 
a Scottish style hat sometimes with a tassel, feather, or pompon in the center

'''Ocean Spray''' 
a brand name of cranberry juice

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'''hydrophobia''' 
another name for rabies

'''pandemic''' 
an epidemic that spreads through human populations across a large region (for example a continent), or even worldwide

'''teleologic''' 
regarding a final cause

'''aridly''' 
dryly

==Endnote 366==

'''Professor H. Bloom''' 
Harold Bloom (born 1930) is a prominent American literary critic.

'''artistic ''influenza''''' 
not actually one of Bloom's concepts

'''peripatetic''' 
walking around

==Page 911 (cont'd)==

'''''clinamen''''' 
this refers to the indeterminate, unpredictable motion of atoms in an otherwise determinable system - read about it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinamen here].

'''''tessera''''' 
this appears to refer to the curved parallelogram-shaped individual tiles that make up mosaics - read about them [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessera here].

'''''kenosis''''' 
this is a Greek word that means "emptiness," and is a term in Christian theology that refers to Jesus relinquishing the form of God by becoming human and dying on a cross - you can read about it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenosis here].

'''''daemonization''''' 
the word "daemon" is a variant of two words: "demon," with all of its obvious meanings and connotations among various religions and mythologies, and "daimon," which is a Platonic term that signifies something or someone intermediate between the human and the divine, or sometimes used to mean "genius." "Daemon" is also used to refer to, in computer science, a computer program that runs idly in the background - it is not clear if this was a meaning that would be known to Wallace at the time he wrote ''Infinite Jest'', however.

'''''askesis''''' 
asceticism; strict self-discipline and control for religious purposes

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==Page 911==

'''Saugus''' 
a suburb about 10 miles north of Boston

==Page 912==

'''B&E''' 
breaking and entering

'''prenominate''' 
named beforehand

'''priapistic''' 
having priapisms, or painful, long lasting erections

'''Teddibly Soddy''' 
terribly sorry

'''vigorish''' 

the bookie's fee for his services

==Endnote 367==

'''Pen Registers''' 
an electronic device that records the phone numbers of outgoing calls on a particular line

==Page 913==

'''Cafergot''' 
A medication named after its combination of caffeine and ergotamine titrate, the chemical precursor to LSD; used to treat migraine headaches. Read about it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafergot here].

==Endnote 368==

'''Cimetidine''' 
actually an antacid -- strange that Wallace would make such an error, so perhaps it's deliberate

==Page 914==

==Endnote 369==

'''Mace''' 
a brand name of pepper spray

==Page 914 (cont'd)==

'''Osco''' 
a pharmacy chain

'''the Virus''' 
i.e., AIDS

==Page 915==

'''respiritic''' 
presumably having something to do with breathing

'''laminating''' 
sealing in plastic

==Page 916==

'''The B.U. punter''' 
a.k.a. Orin Incandenza

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==Page 902==

'''cognomen''' 
a nickname

'''pre-infarcted''' 
an infarct is when a piece of organ tissue, usually in the brain or heart (stroke or heart attack, respectively), is deprived of oxygen for a period of time because of a blockage or thrombosis, and either dies or is significantly weakened

'''fullback''' 
the running back farthest from the line of scrimmage

'''a 4.4 40''' 
He could run 40 meters in 4.4 seconds.

==Page 903==

'''"...in a flaming L.A...."''' 
This would make the year 1992.

'''"some Finest got home-movied..."''' 
This is a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King Rodney King] beating.

'''Orkin''' 
a large exterminator company

'''screwdrivers''' 
vodka and orange juice

'''brownshirts and jackboots''' 
things worn by Nazis -- jackboots are combat boots that go to mid-calf

'''Zog''' 
i.e., ZOG, for Zionist Occupation Government, the acronym coined by American neo-Nazi Eric Thomson

'''''The Turner Diaries''''' 
Written by William Luther Pierce III (1933-2002), this is a neo-Nazi novel once called the "blueprint" for the Oklahoma City bombing.

'''desBois''' 
the plural of ''duBois''

'''sinsemilla''' 
cultivated high potency marijuana

==Page 904==

'''Hefenreffer''' 
apparently a real brand

'''B.M.S.''' 
Beverly Middle School

'''tapir''' 
a very long-nosed animal - see a picture [http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/sexsf/tapir10609.jpg here]

'''Erlenmeyer Flasks''' 
Read about them [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlenmeyer_flask here].T

'''"...to cyclize OH..."''' 
To cyclize something is to have it form rings. OH is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxyl_radical hydroxy radical].

==Endnote 364==

'''Love Boat''' 
actually commonly used as a nickname for marijuana laced with PCP

==Page 904 (cont'd)==

'''Farberware''' 
a brand name of pots and pans

'''tetrahydrofuran''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahydrofuran solvent]

'''PVC''' 
polyvinyl chloride

'''48 contigs''' 
48 continguous United States (excludes Alaska and Hawaii)

'''6 provinces''' 
presumably the six Canadian provinces that border the contiguous 48 states, i.e., British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Quebec

'''Sominex''' 
a brand name of antihistamine sleeping aid

'''H3C''' 
methyl group

'''mnemonic brown-out''' 
a sort of memory lapse short of a blackout

==Page 905==

'''truancy''' 
skipping school

'''A.D.D.''' 
Attention Deficit Disorder

'''strabysmic''' 
cross-eyed

'''''sieg-heil''''' 
German for "hail victory," the reference is to the Nazis.

'''aveil''' 
i.e., avail

'''Water Lou''' 
i.e., Waterloo

==Page 906==

'''''Howl''''' 
a famous [http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15308 poem] by Irwin Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), American poet

'''Chaucerian English''' 
You can read an example [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Canterbury_Tales/General_Prologue here].

'''enervated''' 
weakened

'''M.S.''' 
multiple sclerosis

'''Lou Gehrig's''' 
the more common name for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which the famous New York Yankee suffered from

'''Salem State U.''' 
There is a [http://www.salemstate.edu/ Salem State College], but not a university.

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==Page 906==

==Page 907==

'''Javol''' 
It's unclear how Hal is pronouncing this word, but he likely means ''Jawohl'', German for an emphatic "yes."

==Page 908==

'''''tu-savez-quoi''''' 
(bad) French: You know what

'''bacchanal''' 
a wild party or orgy

'''M.M.''' 
Michael Matthew

'''Shi'ite Moslems''' 
Muslims who believe that Ali was the rightful successor to the Prophet Muhammad

'''mullah''' 
a title of respect for one educated in Islamic law

'''unitard''' 
a bodysuit or one-piece leotard

==Page 909==

[[Image:Zorro.jpg|right|200px]]

'''Zorro''' 
See right

'''porcine''' 
like a swine

'''vantage''' 
point of view

'''mano-a-tete''' 
combination of "mano-a-mano" and "tête-à-tête", both essentially meaning one-on-one.

==Page 910==

'''50 kilos''' 
over 110 pounds

'''tam-o'-shanter''' 
a Scottish style hat sometimes with a tassel, feather, or pompon in the center

'''Ocean Spray''' 
a brand name of cranberry juice

==Page 911==

'''hydrophobia''' 
another name for rabies

'''pandemic''' 
an epidemic that spreads through human populations across a large region (for example a continent), or even worldwide

'''teleologic''' 
regarding a final cause

'''aridly''' 
dryly

==Endnote 366==

'''Professor H. Bloom''' 
Harold Bloom (born 1930) is a prominent American literary critic.

'''artistic ''influenza''''' 
not actually one of Bloom's concepts

'''peripatetic''' 
walking around

==Page 911 (cont'd)==

'''''clinamen''''' 
this refers to the indeterminate, unpredictable motion of atoms in an otherwise determinable system - read about it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinamen here].

'''''tessera''''' 
this appears to refer to the curved parallelogram-shaped individual tiles that make up mosaics - read about them [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessera here].

'''''kenosis''''' 
this is a Greek word that means "emptiness," and is a term in Christian theology that refers to Jesus relinquishing the form of God by becoming human and dying on a cross - you can read about it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenosis here].

'''''daemonization''''' 
the word "daemon" is a variant of two words: "demon," with all of its obvious meanings and connotations among various religions and mythologies, and "daimon," which is a Platonic term that signifies something or someone intermediate between the human and the divine, or sometimes used to mean "genius." "Daemon" is also used to refer to, in computer science, a computer program that runs idly in the background - it is not clear if this was a meaning that would be known to Wallace at the time he wrote ''Infinite Jest'', however.

'''''askesis''''' 
asceticism; strict self-discipline and control for religious purposes

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==Page 911==

'''Saugus''' 
a suburb about 10 miles north of Boston

==Page 912==

'''B&E''' 
breaking and entering

'''prenominate''' 
named beforehand

'''priapistic''' 
having priapisms, or painful, long lasting erections

'''Teddibly Soddy''' 
terribly sorry

'''vigorish''' 

the bookie's fee for his services

==Endnote 367==

'''Pen Registers''' 
an electronic device that records the phone numbers of outgoing calls on a particular line

==Page 913==

'''Cafergot''' 
Read about it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafergot here].

==Endnote 368==

'''Cimetidine''' 
actually an antacid -- strange that Wallace would make such an error, so perhaps it's deliberate

==Page 914==

==Endnote 369==

'''Mace''' 
a brand name of pepper spray

==Page 914 (cont'd)==

'''Osco''' 
a pharmacy chain

'''the Virus''' 
i.e., AIDS

==Page 915==

'''respiritic''' 
presumably having something to do with breathing

'''laminating''' 
sealing in plastic

==Page 916==

'''The B.U. punter''' 
a.k.a. Orin Incandenza

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==Page 902==

'''cognomen''' 
a nickname

'''pre-infarcted''' 
an infarct is when a piece of organ tissue, usually in the brain or heart (stroke or heart attack, respectively), is deprived of oxygen for a period of time because of a blockage or thrombosis, and either dies or is significantly weakened

'''fullback''' 
the running back farthest from the line of scrimmage

'''a 4.4 40''' 
He could run 40 meters in 4.4 seconds.

==Page 903==

'''"...in a flaming L.A...."''' 
This would make the year 1992.

'''"some Finest got home-movied..."''' 
This is a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King Rodney King] beating.

'''Orkin''' 
a large exterminator company

'''screwdrivers''' 
vodka and orange juice

'''brownshirts and jackboots''' 
things worn by Nazis -- jackboots are combat boots that go to mid-calf

'''Zog''' 
i.e., ZOG, for Zionist Occupation Government, the acronym coined by American neo-Nazi Eric Thomson

'''''The Turner Diaries''''' 
Written by William Luther Pierce III (1933-2002), this is a neo-Nazi novel once called the "blueprint" for the Oklahoma City bombing.

'''desBois''' 
the plural of ''duBois''

'''sinsemilla''' 
cultivated high potency marijuana

==Page 904==

'''Hefenreffer''' 
apparently a real brand

'''B.M.S.''' 
Beverly Middle School

'''tapir''' 
a very long-nosed animal - see a picture [http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/sexsf/tapir10609.jpg here]

'''Erlenmeyer Flasks''' 
Read about them [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlenmeyer_flask here].T

'''"...to cyclize OH..."''' 
To cyclize something is to have it form rings. OH is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxyl_radical hydroxy radical].

==Endnote 364==

'''Love Boat''' 
actually commonly used as a nickname for marijuana laced with PCP

==Page 904 (cont'd)==

'''Farberware''' 
a brand name of pots and pans

'''tetrahydrofuran''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahydrofuran solvent]

'''PVC''' 
polyvinyl chloride

'''48 contigs''' 
48 continguous United States (excludes Alaska and Hawaii)

'''6 provinces''' 
presumably the six Canadian provinces that border the contiguous 48 states, i.e., British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Quebec

'''Sominex''' 
a brand name of antihistamine sleeping aid

'''H3C''' 
methyl group

'''mnemonic brown-out''' 
a sort of memory lapse short of a blackout

==Page 905==

'''truancy''' 
skipping school

'''A.D.D.''' 
Attention Deficit Disorder

'''strabysmic''' 
cross-eyed

'''''sieg-heil''''' 
German for "hail victory," the reference is to the Nazis.

'''aveil''' 
i.e., avail

'''Water Lou''' 
i.e., Waterloo

==Page 906==

'''''Howl''''' 
a famous [http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15308 poem] by Irwin Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), American poet

'''Chaucerian English''' 
You can read an example [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Canterbury_Tales/General_Prologue here].

'''enervated''' 
weakened

'''M.S.''' 
multiple sclerosis

'''Lou Gehrig's''' 
the more common name for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which the famous New York Yankee suffered from

'''Salem State U.''' 
There is a [http://www.salemstate.edu/ Salem State College], but not a university.

906 · Hal Wakes Up (Maybe?)

==Page 906==

==Page 907==

'''Javol''' 
It's unclear how Hal is pronouncing this word, but he likely means ''Jawohl'', German for an emphatic "yes."

==Page 908==

'''''tu-savez-quoi''''' 
(bad) French: You know what

'''bacchanal''' 
a wild party or orgy

'''M.M.''' 
Michael Matthew

'''Shi'ite Moslems''' 
Muslims who believe that Ali was the rightful successor to the Prophet Muhammad

'''mullah''' 
a title of respect for one educated in Islamic law

'''unitard''' 
a bodysuit or one-piece leotard

==Page 909==

[[Image:Zorro.jpg|right|200px]]

'''Zorro''' 
See right

'''porcine''' 
like a swine

'''vantage''' 
point of view

'''mano-a-tete''' 
combination of "mano-a-mano" and "tête-à-tête", both essentially meaning one-on-one.

==Page 910==

'''50 kilos''' 
over 110 pounds

'''tam-o'-shanter''' 
a Scottish style hat sometimes with a tassel, feather, or pompon in the center

'''Ocean Spray''' 
a brand name of cranberry juice

==Page 911==

'''hydrophobia''' 
another name for rabies

'''pandemic''' 
an epidemic that spreads through human populations across a large region (for example a continent), or even worldwide

'''teleologic''' 
regarding a final cause

'''aridly''' 
dryly

==Endnote 366==

'''Professor H. Bloom''' 
Harold Bloom (born 1930) is a prominent American literary critic.

'''artistic ''influenza''''' 
not actually one of Bloom's concepts

'''peripatetic''' 
walking around

==Page 911 (cont'd)==

'''''clinamen''''' 
this refers to the indeterminate, unpredictable motion of atoms in an otherwise determinable system - read about it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinamen here].

'''''tessera''''' 
this appears to refer to the curved parallelogram-shaped individual tiles that make up mosaics - read about them [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessera here].

'''''kenosis''''' 
this is a Greek word that means "emptiness," and is a term in Christian theology that refers to Jesus relinquishing the form of God by becoming human and dying on a cross - you can read about it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenosis here].

'''''daemonization''''' 
the word "daemon" is a variant of two words: "demon," with all of its obvious meanings and connotations among various religions and mythologies, and "daimon," which is a Platonic term that signifies something or someone intermediate between the human and the divine, or sometimes used to mean "genius." "Daemon" is also used to refer to, in computer science, a computer program that runs idly in the background - it is not clear if this was a meaning that would be known to Wallace at the time he wrote ''Infinite Jest'', however.

'''''askesis''''' 
asceticism

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==Page 911==

'''Saugus''' 
a suburb about 10 miles north of Boston

==Page 912==

'''B&E''' 
breaking and entering

'''prenominate''' 
named beforehand

'''priapistic''' 
having priapisms, or painful, long lasting erections

'''Teddibly Soddy''' 
terribly sorry

'''vigorish''' 

the bookie's fee for his services

==Endnote 367==

'''Pen Registers''' 
an electronic device that records the phone numbers of outgoing calls on a particular line

==Page 913==

'''Cafergot''' 
Read about it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafergot here].

==Endnote 368==

'''Cimetidine''' 
actually an antacid -- strange that Wallace would make such an error, so perhaps it's deliberate

==Page 914==

==Endnote 369==

'''Mace''' 
a brand name of pepper spray

==Page 914 (cont'd)==

'''Osco''' 
a pharmacy chain

'''the Virus''' 
i.e., AIDS

==Page 915==

'''respiritic''' 
presumably having something to do with breathing

'''laminating''' 
sealing in plastic

==Page 916==

'''The B.U. punter''' 
a.k.a. Orin Incandenza

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==Page 902==

'''cognomen''' 
a nickname

'''pre-infarcted''' 
an infarct is when a piece of organ tissue, usually in the brain or heart (stroke or heart attack, respectively), is deprived of oxygen for a period of time because of a blockage or thrombosis, and either dies or is significantly weakened

'''fullback''' 
the running back farthest from the line of scrimmage

'''a 4.4 40''' 
He could run 40 meters in 4.4 seconds.

==Page 903==

'''"...in a flaming L.A...."''' 
This would make the year 1992.

'''"some Finest got home-movied..."''' 
This is a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King Rodney King] beating.

'''Orkin''' 
a large exterminator company

'''screwdrivers''' 
vodka and orange juice

'''brownshirts and jackboots''' 
things worn by Nazis -- jackboots are combat boots that go to mid-calf

'''Zog''' 
i.e., ZOG, for Zionist Occupation Government, the acronym coined by American neo-Nazi Eric Thomson

'''''The Turner Diaries''''' 
Written by William Luther Pierce III (1933-2002), this is a neo-Nazi novel once called the "blueprint" for the Oklahoma City bombing.

'''desBois''' 
the plural of ''duBois''

'''sinsemilla''' 
cultivated high potency marijuana

==Page 904==

'''Hefenreffer''' 
apparently a real brand

'''B.M.S.''' 
Beverly Middle School

'''tapir''' 
a very long-nosed animal - see a picture [http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/sexsf/tapir10609.jpg here]

'''Erlenmeyer Flasks''' 
Read about them [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlenmeyer_flask here].T

'''"...to cyclize OH..."''' 
To cyclize something is to have it form rings. OH is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxyl_radical hydroxy radical].

==Endnote 364==

'''Love Boat''' 
actually commonly used as a nickname for marijuana laced with PCP

==Page 904 (cont'd)==

'''Farberware''' 
a brand name of pots and pans

'''tetrahydrofuran''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahydrofuran solvent]

'''PVC''' 
polyvinyl chloride

'''48 contigs''' 
48 continguous United States (excludes Alaska and Hawaii)

'''6 provinces''' 
presumably the six Canadian provinces that border the contiguous 48 states, i.e., British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Quebec

'''Sominex''' 
a brand name of antihistamine sleeping aid

'''H3C''' 
methyl group

'''mnemonic brown-out''' 
a sort of memory lapse short of a blackout

==Page 905==

'''truancy''' 
skipping school

'''A.D.D.''' 
Attention Deficit Disorder

'''strabysmic''' 
cross-eyed

'''''sieg-heil''''' 
German for "hail victory," the reference is to the Nazis.

'''aveil''' 
i.e., avail

'''Water Lou''' 
i.e., Waterloo

==Page 906==

'''''Howl''''' 
a famous [http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15308 poem] by Irwin Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), American poet

'''Chaucerian English''' 
You can read an example [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Canterbury_Tales/General_Prologue here].

'''enervated''' 
weakened

'''M.S.''' 
multiple sclerosis

'''Lou Gehrig's''' 
the more common name for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which the famous New York Yankee suffered from

'''Salem State U.''' 
There is a [http://www.salemstate.edu/ Salem State College], but not a university.

906 · Hal Wakes Up (Maybe?)

==Page 906==

==Page 907==

'''Javol''' 
It's unclear how Hal is pronouncing this word, but he likely means ''Jawohl''.

==Page 908==

'''''tu-savez-quoi''''' 
(bad) French: You know what

'''bacchanal''' 
a wild party or orgy

'''M.M.''' 
Michael Matthew

'''Shi'ite Moslems''' 
Muslims who believe that Ali was the rightful successor to the Prophet Muhammad

'''mullah''' 
a title of respect for one educated in Islamic law

'''unitard''' 
a bodysuit or one-piece leotard

==Page 909==

[[Image:Zorro.jpg|right|200px]]

'''Zorro''' 
See right

'''porcine''' 
like a swine

'''vantage''' 
point of view

'''mano-a-tete''' 
combination of "mano-a-mano" and "tête-à-tête", both essentially meaning one-on-one.

==Page 910==

'''50 kilos''' 
over 110 pounds

'''tam-o'-shanter''' 
a Scottish style hat sometimes with a tassel, feather, or pompon in the center

'''Ocean Spray''' 
a brand name of cranberry juice

==Page 911==

'''hydrophobia''' 
another name for rabies

'''pandemic''' 
an epidemic that spreads through human populations across a large region (for example a continent), or even worldwide

'''teleologic''' 
regarding a final cause

'''aridly''' 
dryly

==Endnote 366==

'''Professor H. Bloom''' 
Harold Bloom (born 1930) is a prominent American literary critic.

'''artistic ''influenza''''' 
not actually one of Bloom's concepts

'''peripatetic''' 
walking around

==Page 911 (cont'd)==

'''''clinamen''''' 
this refers to the indeterminate, unpredictable motion of atoms in an otherwise determinable system - read about it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinamen here].

'''''tessera''''' 
this appears to refer to the curved parallelogram-shaped individual tiles that make up mosaics - read about them [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessera here].

'''''kenosis''''' 
this is a Greek word that means "emptiness," and is a term in Christian theology that refers to Jesus relinquishing the form of God by becoming human and dying on a cross - you can read about it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenosis here].

'''''daemonization''''' 
the word "daemon" is a variant of two words: "demon," with all of its obvious meanings and connotations among various religions and mythologies, and "daimon," which is a Platonic term that signifies something or someone intermediate between the human and the divine, or sometimes used to mean "genius." "Daemon" is also used to refer to, in computer science, a computer program that runs idly in the background - it is not clear if this was a meaning that would be known to Wallace at the time he wrote ''Infinite Jest'', however.

'''''askesis''''' 
asceticism

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==Page 911==

'''Saugus''' 
a suburb about 10 miles north of Boston

==Page 912==

'''B&E''' 
breaking and entering

'''prenominate''' 
named beforehand

'''priapistic''' 
having priapisms, or painful, long lasting erections

'''Teddibly Soddy''' 
terribly sorry

'''vigorish''' 

the bookie's fee for his services

==Endnote 367==

'''Pen Registers''' 
an electronic device that records the phone numbers of outgoing calls on a particular line

==Page 913==

'''Cafergot''' 
Read about it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafergot here].

==Endnote 368==

'''Cimetidine''' 
actually an antacid -- strange that Wallace would make such an error, so perhaps it's deliberate

==Page 914==

==Endnote 369==

'''Mace''' 
a brand name of pepper spray

==Page 914 (cont'd)==

'''Osco''' 
a pharmacy chain

'''the Virus''' 
i.e., AIDS

==Page 915==

'''respiritic''' 
presumably having something to do with breathing

'''laminating''' 
sealing in plastic

==Page 916==

'''The B.U. punter''' 
a.k.a. Orin Incandenza

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==Page 736==

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

==Page 737==

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

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

==Page 738==

'''futon''' 
a kind of Japanese furniture, 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."

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

==Page 739==

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

'''disdain''' 
dislike or hatred

==Page 740==

'''rancid''' 
rotten

'''towardness''' 
the quality of being socially proper

'''oeuvre''' 
body of work

'''inbent''' 
directed inward

==Page 741==

'''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]

==Page 742==

'''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

==Page 743==

'''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

==Page 744==

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

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

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

==Page 745==

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

'''two meters''' 
about 6.6 feet

'''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 syllable occur, e.g., "probly" for "probably"0

==Page 746==

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

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

==Page 747==

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

'''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.

==Page 750==

'''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==

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

==Page 753==

'''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

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==Endnote 315==

'''malentendu''' 
mishearing

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'''gauche''' 
French for "left," it denotes a person who makes faux-pas.

846 · Gately Dreaming

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'''Taj''' 
i.e., the Taj Mahal; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_mahal Wikipedia]

'''viscous''' 
very thick

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'''starkers''' 
i.e., stark naked

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851 · Hal Narrates

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

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'''50 cm.''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''conic sections''' 
These are studied in advanced trig; they are geometric shapes forced by passing a plane through a double-naped cone at different angles and observing the cross-sections, i.e., circles, ovals, parabolas, and hyperbolas

==Page 853==

'''''terre batu''''' 
French for "beaten earth," this is a reference to French clay courts.

'''Belize''' 
'''Mozambique''' 
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854 · Gately's Dreaming Continued

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'''effulgence''' 
shining brilliance

'''hulpil''' 
probably a misspelling of "huipil," which is a kind of thin Mexican blouse

==Page 856==

'''huaraches''' 
Mexican sandals

'''B.U.M.''' 
perhaps Boston University Multimedia

==Page 857==

'''w.o.m.''' 
word of mouth

'''jimson''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimsonweed loco weed]

==Page 859==

'''Evel Knievel''' 
Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel, Jr. (1938-2007), was an American motorcycle daredevil.

==Page 861==

'''UPS''' 
United Parcel Service

'''Route 45''' 
U.S. Route 45 runs from US-98 in Mobile, Ala., to I-43/I-94 in Milwaukee. It passes through Kentucky.

==Page 863==

'''orchasm''' 
i.e., orgasm, an interesting pun considering it incorporates "chasm," meaning "abyss"

==Page 864==

864 · Hal's Narration Continues

==Page 865==

'''11-18-EST0456''' 
November 18, Eastern Standard Time, 04:56 a.m.

==Page 866==

'''Mount Auburn''' 
probably the [http://www.mountauburnclub.com/ Mount Auburn Club] in Watertown, Mass.

'''F.A.A.''' 
Federal Aviation Administration

'''skirling''' 
shrieking; playing of bagpipes

==Page 867==

'''Winchester double-aughts''' 
This is the Winchester 00 rifle, "aught" being a widespread expression for "zero."

==Page 868==

'''confected''' 
candied or covered in sugar

'''medials''' 
i.e., medians

==Page 870==

'''hyper-v'd''' 
hyperventilated

'''cantilevered''' 
having a "projecting structure, such as a beam, that is supported at one end and carries a load at the other end or along its length" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'')

'''Telekiniption''' 
i.e., telekinesis

'''occlusive''' 
descriptive of a bandage that closes a wound and keeps it from air

==Page 871==

'''Subhadronic''' 
making up the parts of the parts of an atom; very, very small

'''Moët''' 
Moët & Chandon is a French champagne manufacturer

'''parotitic''' 
having the mumps

'''half a meter''' 
about 1.64 feet

'''dermis''' 
skin

==Page 872==

'''tacit''' 
unspoken

==Page 873==

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[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]

'''betel-nut extract''' 
This extract causes the teeth and gums to be stained red

'''internecine''' 
between siblings

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'''naif''' 
a naive male

'''dessicated''' 
dried up

'''S.-B. I.Q.''' 
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Quotient

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken]]

'''sinecure''' 
an office requiring little or no work

'''Ba'hai''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahai Bahá'í], a Middle-Eastern faith
==Page 874==

'''hypomanic''' 
not quite manic, but close

==Endnote 353==

'''joss''' 
luck

==Page 874==

'''hawked''' 
spit

'''nihil''' 
Latin: nothing

==Page 875==

'''Good prince Hal''' 
Falstaff addresses the future King Henry V in this manner in Act II, scene ii, of ''I Henry IV''.

'''cachinated''' 
misspelling of cachinnated, i.e., laughed loudly

'''compadre''' 
Spanish term for "friend"

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'''Spam''' 
a brand of spiced ham

'''tallly insubstantial ghostish figure''' 
'tall' used adverbially with 3 successive "L"s. cute.

==Page 829==

==Page 830==

'''phantasms''' 
apparitions or specters

==Page 831==

'''quanta''' 
plural of quantum, an indivisible entity of energy

'''Heisenbergian''' 
Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901-1976) was a German physicist and one of the fathers of quantum mechanics.

==Page 832==

'''extrude''' 
to thrust out

'''''ACCIACCATURA''''' 
defined [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acciaccatura#Acciaccatura here]

'''''PROPRIOCEPTION''''' 
the sense of the relative position of the parts of the body

'''''TESTUDO''''' 
a genus of tortoises

'''''BRICOLAGE''''' 
the creation of an artistic work from a diverse range of things that are around

'''''CATALEPT''''' 
a person suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalepsy catalepsy]

'''''LAERTES''''' 
a character from ''Hamlet'' who seeks to kill the title character

'''''STRIGIL''''' 
defined [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strigil here]

'''''CHRONAXY''''' 
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronaxy chronaxie]

'''''POOR YORICK''''' 

The (dead) jester in Hamlet. The quote referred to is by Hamlet, holding Yorick's skull after Yorick's remains are uncovered: 'Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest'

'''''LUCULUS''''' 
a Roman general of antiquity

'''''MONTCLAIR''''' 
the model of car owned by James Incandenza's father, Mario

'''''DE SICA''''' 
Vittorio De Sica (1902-1974) was an Italian filmmaker, probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040522/ The Bicycle Thief].

'''''CIRCUMAMBIENTFOUNDDRAMALEVIRATEMARIAGE''''' 
Circumambient means walking around. "Found Drama" was one of James Incandenza's contributions to film artistic history. Levirate marriage is a tradition in several cultures whereby the younger brother of a deceased man marries the dead brother's widow.

'''''HELIATED''''' 
infused with helium

==Page 833==

==Page 834==

''''Ren and Stimpy'''' 
the main characters in a once-popular [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_and_Stimpy animated television series]

''''Oo Is 'E When 'E's at 'Ome'''' 
or "Who Is He When He's at Home?", which is apparently a common Irish saying

''''Exposed Northerners'''' 
Wallace is punning on the name of the once-popular television show [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098878/ Northern Exposure].

'''fractional''' 
comparatively small or insignificant

==Page 835==

'''''figurants''''' 
performers with no spoken lines

'''''The Sorrow and the Pity''''' 
a [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066904/ film] about the Nazi occupation of France

'''Heineken Maneuver''' 
Gately means "Heimlich Maneuver."

'''Schwulst or Altman''' 
The only Schwulst I can find is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0778002/ Lance Schwulst], who is probably not the person referred to. Robert Bernard Altman (1925-2006) was an American filmmaker.

==Page 836==

'''''DEXTRAL''''' 
right-handed

==Page 838==

'''shell-game''' 
a con game

==Page 839==

'''Mennonite''' 
an Anabaptist denomination named for Menno Simons (1496-1561), a Frisian religious leader

'''vapid''' 
lacking liveliness or spirit

==Page 840==

'''packy''' 
short for "package store," it's where one buys alcohol

==Page 841==

'''beeswax''' 
i.e., business

==Page 842==

'''lit''' 
landed

==Page 843==

==Page 844==

'''''ü''''' 
a German diphthong, somewhere between /u/ and /ee/

[[Image:Stetson.jpg|thumb|caption|Stetson with feather|right|140px]]
'''Stetson w/ feather''' 
Stetson hats or Stetsons refers to the brand of hat manufactered by the John B. Stetson Company of St. Joseph, Missouri. The word 'Stetson' is sometimes used as a genericized term for a cowboy hat. Although the Stetson company makes other styles of brimmed hat, the Stetson name has become synonymous with a style it pioneered, featuring a high crown and wide brim, popularly known as a Cowboy hat. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stetson Wikipedia]

'''penchant''' 
a predilection

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'''depose''' 
ask questions of someone while under oath

'''''A.T.E.''''' 
Hal is wearing his jacket inside out.

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787 (2) · The Molly Notkin Interview

==Page 787==

'''post-Marxist''' 
an adherent [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Marxism school of thought] that encompasses the arts as well as politics

==Page 788==

'''co-op''' 
a co-operative, i.e., an apartment building that is jointly owned by the tenants

'''''V'' or ''VI''''' 
The filmography of Incandenza presented in an earlier (lengthy) endnote would seem to indicate that there were only five versions of the film, although the fifth version was apparently reviewed, which would mean that the "entertainment" so desperately sought is actually a sixth version.

'''instantiation''' 
a representation of an idea, here visual

'''anamorphosized''' 
changed from one form to another as a step in evolution

==Endnote 329==

'''heuristic''' 
serving to indicate or point out

==Page 788 (cont'd)==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]

'''Rube-Goldbergesque''' 
Reuben Garret Lucius "Rube" Goldberg (1883-1970) was a Jewish-American cartoonist, famous for drawing incredibly complicated devices used to perform simple tasks.

==Page 789==

'''parturient''' 
about to give birth

'''synecdoche''' 
This complicated figure of speech is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche here].

'''venery''' 
the gratification of sexual desire

'''keel''' 
This word denotes "the principal structural member of a ship, running lengthwise along the center line from bow to stern, to which the frames are attached" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language''). Here it is used in the sense of "on an even keel," i.e., sane.

==Page 790==

'''interrment''' 
a misspelling of interment, i.e., burial

'''thanatoptic''' 
regarding a vision of death

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar]]

'''''felo de self''''' 
a misspeaking of ''felo de se''

==Page 791==

'''olla podrida''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olla_podrida stew] popular in Spain

'''cerise''' 
a vivid purplish red

'''malcathected''' 
attached to emotionally in a negative way

==Page 792==

'''''Liebestod''''' 
German: love of death

'''antinomically''' 
in a manner suggesting opposition of laws

'''Gilles Deleuze''' 
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was a French philosopher.

'''''Incest and the Life of Death in Capitalist Entertainment''''' 
There is no such title.

'''malefic''' 
having a bad influence

'''menses''' 
menstruation

'''Pap smears''' 
screenings for female reproductive cancers, named for Georgios N. Papanikolaou (1883-1962), a Greek oncologist

'''''Putti''''' 
Italian: statues of human babies

==Page 793==

'''tines''' 
prongs of a fork

'''beau''' 
boyfriend

==Page 794==

'''bell-jar''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_jar laboratory glassware] -- also the title of a novel by Sylvia Plath

'''itinerant''' 
traveling from place to place

'''pointers''' 
A pointer is a breed of hunting dog

==Page 795==

'''Lucille Duquette''' 
Molly is lying about Joelle's real name, but this name means something like "Light of the Collection."

795 (1) · Endnote 332

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795 (2) · Hal's First Meeting

==Page 795==

==Endnote 333==

'''exurbs''' 
towns too far away from cities to be called "suburbs" but not far enough to be rural

'''Nantucket''' 
an island of Massachusetts about 30 miles south of Cape Cod

==Page 795 (cont'd)==

'''Route 27''' 
a Massachusetts highway running from Route 106 in Kingston to Route 4 in Chelsmfold

==Page 796==

'''condonation''' 
overlooking of an offense

'''Abandoned All Hope''' 
In Dante's ''Inferno'', the sign above Hell reads, "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."

'''shunpike''' 
a side road to avoid taking a turnpike

'''Rte. 9''' 
a Massachusetts highway running from US-20 in Pittsfield (western Massachusetts) to Route 28 in Boston

'''I-90''' 
an interstate running from Seattle to Boston

'''NPR''' 
National Public Radio

'''George Will''' 
George Frederick Will (born 1941) is a conservative American columnist. wallace implies that he has had his voicebox removed and now speaks with a prosthetic voicebox.

'''Cleveland Circle''' 
a neighborhood of Boston

==Page 797==

'''Æolic''' 
an ancient Greek dialect spoken between 800 and 300 BC

'''Thynne''' 
This is probably a reference to Francis Thynne (1544-1608), an English administrator at the College of Arms in London.

'''taproot''' 
something that provides a central source for growth

'''Cynewulf''' 
probably a reference to the Anglo-Saxon poet by that name

'''penumbra''' 
a shadowy, gray area

'''gneiss''' 
a form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gneiss metamorphic rock]

'''Quabbin''' 
the name of a reservoir in Massachusetts

'''Burma-Shave''' 
an old brand of shaving cream that advertised with consecutive road signs that rhymed

'''Lombardy''' 
a region of northern Italy with its capital at Milan

'''quoins''' 
cornerstones

==Page 798==

'''deignition''' 
shutting down of an engine

'''lintel''' 
a horizontal piece of architecture supporting the weight above a window or door

'''puce''' 
dark or brownish purple

''''Seated Harlequin'''' 
You can see this painting [http://www.abcgallery.com/P/picasso/picasso255.html here].

==Page 799==

'''Rubikular''' 
referring to [http://www.rubiks.com/ Rubik's cube]

'''scrip''' 
paper money

'''São Paulo''' 
the capital of Brazil

'''altruistic''' 
tending to do good things for their own sakes

'''"...the color of Thousand Island dressing..."''' 
sort of light orange

==Page 800==

'''bereft''' 
deprived, especially by a death

==Page 801==

'''diglobular''' 
consisting of two lumps of fat

==Page 802==

'''treacly''' 
Sentimental; too sweet.

'''apneated''' 
As if punctuated by temporary cessations of breathing.

'''Philip Glass''' 
Philip Glass (born 1937) is an American music composer and pianist. His music is repetitive and minimal.

'''quaaludes''' 
Methaqualone. A sedative often used recreationally.

==Page 803==

'''inguinal''' 
situated in the groin

'''lachrymucus''' 
mucus flowing as a result of crying

'''obliquest''' 
Most oblique; slanted.

'''Dedham''' 
a town in Massachusetts about 12 miles southwest of Boston

'''Wharton''' 
The business school at the Ivy-League University of Pennsylvania, located in Philadelphia. Generally believed to be the most prestigious undergraduate business school in the world. Also highly regarded at post-graduate levels.

==Endnote 336==

'''sudoriferous''' 
sweaty

==Page 804==

'''Humboldt County''' 
probably the county in far-north California.

[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland]]

'''"mercantile counterpart at the Rolling Hills Academy"''' 
A student at Rolling Hills who fulfills at his school much the same role that Pemulis fulfills at E.T.A.

'''Delta-9''' 
Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol. The main psychoactive substance found in marijuana.

'''MBRO''' 
Acronym for "Metro-Boston Recovery Options"

'''pathos''' 
A quality that evokes pity.

'''pizzicato''' 
the musical effect of the plucking of strings on a classical instrument

'''civety''' 
A civet is a small carnivorous mammal that emits a strange smell.

'''fenestration''' 
The arrangement of windows and doors on the elevations of a building.

==Page 805==

'''dandled''' 
Move a baby up and down in a playful manner.

'''Fred MacMurray''' 
Fredrick Martin MacMurray (1908-1991) was an American actor who starred as a father in the television show [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053525/ My Three Sons]

'''''in loco parentis''''' 
Latin: in the place of parents

'''swart''' 
Swarthy.

==Page 806==

'''widow's peak''' 
a hairline that comes to a point in the center of the forehead

'''Ruminative''' 
In the manner of thinking deeply about something.

'''narcosis''' 
A stupor generally caused by drugs.

'''Addis Ababa''' 
the capital of Ethiopia

'''American Falls''' 
the American part of Niagara Falls

==Page 807==

'''Keens''' 
Wails.

'''imperial''' 
A small pointed beard beneath the lower lip. Associated with Napoleon III.

'''vivisecting''' 
Performing an operation on a living animal for research.

'''timpani''' 
Large drums used in orchestras.

'''Cornet''' 
A brass instrument that looks much like a trumpet.

'''Appian Way''' 
an ancient [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appian_Way Roman road]

'''cannoli''' 
an Italian pastry stuffed with sweetened ricotta cheese

'''Ascension Island''' 
A volcanic island off the coast of Africa.

'''South Atlantic''' 
South Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic Ocean is bounded by the east coasts of the Americas and the west coasts of Eurasia and Africa. The area of the Ocean below the equator is referred to as the South Atlantic Ocean.

==Page 808==

''''I Don't Know (How to Love Him)'''' 
a song from the rock opera ''Jesus Christ Superstar'', sung by the character of Mary Magdalene

'''"tornadic gale"''' 
Tornado-strength wind.

'''Azores''' 
A group of islands in the Atlantic Ocean, west of Portugal.

'''cytological''' 
like microscopic cells

'''plume''' 
Here, a stream of water resembling a feather.

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'''depose''' 
ask questions of someone while under oath

'''''A.T.E.''''' 
Hal is wearing his jacket inside out.

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787 (2) · The Molly Notkin Interview

==Page 787==

'''post-Marxist''' 
an adherent [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Marxism school of thought] that encompasses the arts as well as politics

==Page 788==

'''co-op''' 
a co-operative, i.e., an apartment building that is jointly owned by the tenants

'''''V'' or ''VI''''' 
The filmography of Incandenza presented in an earlier (lengthy) endnote would seem to indicate that there were only five versions of the film, although the fifth version was apparently reviewed, which would mean that the "entertainment" so desperately sought is actually a sixth version.

'''instantiation''' 
a representation of an idea, here visual

'''anamorphosized''' 
changed from one form to another as a step in evolution

==Endnote 329==

'''heuristic''' 
serving to indicate or point out

==Page 788 (cont'd)==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]

'''Rube-Goldbergesque''' 
Reuben Garret Lucius "Rube" Goldberg (1883-1970) was a Jewish-American cartoonist, famous for drawing incredibly complicated devices used to perform simple tasks.

==Page 789==

'''parturient''' 
about to give birth

'''synecdoche''' 
This complicated figure of speech is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche here].

'''venery''' 
the gratification of sexual desire

'''keel''' 
This word denotes "the principal structural member of a ship, running lengthwise along the center line from bow to stern, to which the frames are attached" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language''). Here it is used in the sense of "on an even keel," i.e., sane.

==Page 790==

'''interrment''' 
a misspelling of interment, i.e., burial

'''thanatoptic''' 
regarding a vision of death

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar]]

'''''felo de self''''' 
a misspeaking of ''felo de se''

==Page 791==

'''olla podrida''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olla_podrida stew] popular in Spain

'''cerise''' 
a vivid purplish red

'''malcathected''' 
attached to emotionally in a negative way

==Page 792==

'''''Liebestod''''' 
German: love of death

'''antinomically''' 
in a manner suggesting opposition of laws

'''Gilles Deleuze''' 
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was a French philosopher.

'''''Incest and the Life of Death in Capitalist Entertainment''''' 
There is no such title.

'''malefic''' 
having a bad influence

'''menses''' 
menstruation

'''Pap smears''' 
screenings for female reproductive cancers, named for Georgios N. Papanikolaou (1883-1962), a Greek oncologist

'''''Putti''''' 
Italian: statues of human babies

==Page 793==

'''tines''' 
prongs of a fork

'''beau''' 
boyfriend

==Page 794==

'''bell-jar''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_jar laboratory glassware] -- also the title of a novel by Sylvia Plath

'''itinerant''' 
traveling from place to place

'''pointers''' 
A pointer is a breed of hunting dog

==Page 795==

'''Lucille Duquette''' 
Molly is lying about Joelle's real name, but this name means something like "Light of the Collection."

795 (1) · Endnote 332

==Page 795==

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_332|Endnote 332]]

795 (2) · Hal's First Meeting

==Page 795==

==Endnote 333==

'''exurbs''' 
towns too far away from cities to be called "suburbs" but not far enough to be rural

'''Nantucket''' 
an island of Massachusetts about 30 miles south of Cape Cod

==Page 795 (cont'd)==

'''Route 27''' 
a Massachusetts highway running from Route 106 in Kingston to Route 4 in Chelsmfold

==Page 796==

'''condonation''' 
overlooking of an offense

'''Abandoned All Hope''' 
In Dante's ''Inferno'', the sign above Hell reads, "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."

'''shunpike''' 
a side road to avoid taking a turnpike

'''Rte. 9''' 
a Massachusetts highway running from US-20 in Pittsfield (western Massachusetts) to Route 28 in Boston

'''I-90''' 
an interstate running from Seattle to Boston

'''NPR''' 
National Public Radio

'''George Will''' 
George Frederick Will (born 1941) is a conservative American columnist. wallace implies that he has had his voicebox removed and now speaks with a prosthetic voicebox.

'''Cleveland Circle''' 
a neighborhood of Boston

==Page 797==

'''Æolic''' 
an ancient Greek dialect spoken between 800 and 300 BC

'''Thynne''' 
This is probably a reference to Francis Thynne (1544-1608), an English administrator at the College of Arms in London.

'''taproot''' 
something that provides a central source for growth

'''Cynewulf''' 
probably a reference to the Anglo-Saxon poet by that name

'''penumbra''' 
a shadowy, gray area

'''gneiss''' 
a form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gneiss metamorphic rock]

'''Quabbin''' 
the name of a reservoir in Massachusetts

'''Burma-Shave''' 
an old brand of shaving cream that advertised with consecutive road signs that rhymed

'''Lombardy''' 
a region of northern Italy with its capital at Milan

'''quoins''' 
cornerstones

==Page 798==

'''deignition''' 
shutting down of an engine

'''lintel''' 
a horizontal piece of architecture supporting the weight above a window or door

'''puce''' 
dark or brownish purple

''''Seated Harlequin'''' 
You can see this painting [http://www.abcgallery.com/P/picasso/picasso255.html here].

==Page 799==

'''Rubikular''' 
referring to [http://www.rubiks.com/ Rubik's cube]

'''scrip''' 
paper money

'''São Paulo''' 
the capital of Brazil

'''altruistic''' 
tending to do good things for their own sakes

'''"...the color of Thousand Island dressing..."''' 
sort of light orange

==Page 800==

'''bereft''' 
deprived, especially by a death

==Page 801==

'''diglobular''' 
consisting of two lumps of fat

==Page 802==

'''treacly''' 
Sentimental; too sweet.

'''apneated''' 
As if punctuated by temporary cessations of breathing.

'''Philip Glass''' 
Philip Glass (born 1937) is an American music composer and pianist. His music is repetitive and minimal.

'''quaaludes''' 
Methaqualone. A sedative often used recreationally.

==Page 803==

'''inguinal''' 
situated in the groin

'''lachrymucus''' 
mucus flowing as a result of crying

'''obliquest''' 
Most oblique; slanted.

'''Dedham''' 
a town in Massachusetts about 12 miles southwest of Boston

'''Wharton''' 
The business school at the Ivy-League University of Pennsylvania, located in Philadelphia. Generally believed to be the most prestigious undergraduate business school in the world. Also highly regarded at post-graduate levels.

==Endnote 336==

'''sudoriferous''' 
sweaty

==Page 804==

'''Humboldt County''' 
probably the county in far-north California.

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'''"mercantile counterpart at the Rolling Hills Academy"''' 
A student at Rolling Hills who fulfills at his school much the same role that Pemulis fulfills at E.T.A.

'''Delta-9''' 
Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol. The main psychoactive substance found in marijuana.

'''MBRO''' 
Acronym for "Metro-Boston Recovery Options"

'''pathos''' 
A quality that evokes pity.

'''pizzicato''' 
the musical effect of the plucking of strings on a classical instrument

'''civety''' 
A civet is a small carnivorous mammal that emits a strange smell.

'''fenestration''' 
The arrangement of windows and doors on the elevations of a building.

==Page 805==

'''dandling''' 
Move a baby up and down in a playful manner.

'''Fred MacMurray''' 
Fredrick Martin MacMurray (1908-1991) was an American actor who starred as a father in the television show [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053525/ My Three Sons]

'''''in loco parentis''''' 
Latin: in the place of parents

'''swart''' 
Swarthy.

==Page 806==

'''widow's peak''' 
a hairline that comes to a point in the center of the forehead

'''Ruminative''' 
In the manner of thinking deeply about something.

'''narcosis''' 
A stupor generally caused by drugs.

'''Addis Ababa''' 
the capital of Ethiopia

'''American Falls''' 
the American part of Niagara Falls

==Page 807==

'''Keens''' 
Wails.

'''imperial''' 
A small pointed beard beneath the lower lip. Associated with Napoleon III.

'''vivisecting''' 
Performing an operation on a living animal for research.

'''timpani''' 
Large drums used in orchestras.

'''Cornet''' 
A brass instrument that looks much like a trumpet.

'''Appian Way''' 
an ancient [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appian_Way Roman road]

'''cannoli''' 
an Italian pastry stuffed with sweetened ricotta cheese

'''Ascension Island''' 
A volcanic island off the coast of Africa.

'''South Atlantic''' 
South Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic Ocean is bounded by the east coasts of the Americas and the west coasts of Eurasia and Africa. The area of the Ocean below the equator is referred to as the South Atlantic Ocean.

==Page 808==

''''I Don't Know (How to Love Him)'''' 
a song from the rock opera ''Jesus Christ Superstar'', sung by the character of Mary Magdalene

'''"tornadic gale"''' 
Tornado-strength wind.

'''Azores''' 
A group of islands in the Atlantic Ocean, west of Portugal.

'''cytological''' 
like microscopic cells

'''plume''' 
Here, a stream of water resembling a feather.

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==Page 756==

'''Felicity Zweig''' 
"Felicity" means happiness, while ''Zweig'' is German for "stick" or "branch."

==Page 757==

'''Gilbert Treffert''' 
still not a real player

==Endnote 316==

'''Opheliac''' 
resembling Hamlet's girlfriend — see ''Hamlet'' IV.v

==Page 760==

'''Montague Semantics''' 
This is a form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montague_grammar natural language semantics].

==Endnote 317==

'''wildly expensive hdcover''' 
It's a real book and the hardcover goes for $105.85. It has been issued in softcover for $29. The publication information is either wrong or varies.

'''Plc''' 
public limited company

==Page 760 (cont'd)==

'''ten meters''' 
about 32.8 feet

'''plastron''' 
1. The starched front of a shirt.

2. A large pad worn by a fencer to protect the chest.

3. The part of a tortoise's shell that covers the underside.

==Page 761==

'''cowlick''' 
a patch of hair standing on end

'''pennon''' 
a pennant or flag or banner

'''Peripatetic''' 
walking around

==Page 762==

'''swotting''' 
i.e., swatting

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==Page 764==

'''intuiting''' 
knowing without having been told

==Page 765==

'''Bic''' 
A manufacturer of inexpensive ball-point pens. Probably blue, here.

'''St. Pamphile''' 
This is a town close to Québec City; Pamphile is [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11436b.htm St. Pamphilus].

==Page 766==

==Page 767==

'''maundering''' 
talking in a rambling, foolish way

==Page 768==

==Page 769==

'''tumid''' 
swollen

769 · Mario and Hal at Night

==Page 769==

'''"Thank you Sir may I have another"''' 
a line from [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077975/ Animal House]

==Page 770==

'''segue''' 
a smooth transition from one thing to another

==Page 771==

'''unbent''' 
not having yielded or submitted

==Page 772==

'''Panglossian''' 
Pangloss is a character in Voltaire's ''Candide'', who is wont to say "in the best of all possible worlds."

==Page 773==

'''true''' 
on target

'''mendaciously''' 
in a manner of one who is lying

'''rococo''' 
ornate or florid in speech

'''tersely''' 
in a manner using few words

==Page 774==

'''Eve Arden''' 
Eve Arden (1908-1990) was an American actress.

774 · Marathe and Kate G. Talk

==Page 774==

==Page 775==

'''''Big Book''''' 
the AA handbook

==Page 776==

==Page 777==

'''Provincial''' 
Switzerland does not have provinces; it has cantons.

==Page 778==

'''Swiss metal helmets''' 
Kate is probably thinking "Swedish" as in a Viking's helmet.

'''''schüssch''''' 
He probably means ''schuss'', i.e., skiing.

==Page 779==

'''restenosis''' 
recurrence of stenosis, i.e., narrowing of blood vessels

'''Garçon!''' 
French: Boy! (used in reference to the waiter)

==Page 780==

'''m'épouse au future''' 
French: future spouse

'''Jaarvik''' 
misspelling of "Jarvik"

==Page 781==

'''Swisshead''' 
She may be using this particular epithet to mean "one who has holes in his head," à la Swiss cheese.

==Page 782==

'''''I voot make ze hreply zat''''' 
i.e., I would make the reply that — Kate making fun of Marathe's accent

782 · Hal and Mario Continued

==Page 782==

'''Irish Spring''' 
i.e., a strong-smelling brand of soap

==Page 783==

'''poppy-seed bagel''' 
conventional wisdom telling that eating such bagels would cause one to test positive for opiates

'''snuffle''' 
to sniff as in trying to detect something

'''Indy-type''' 
they clear the system very quickly

'''Ginsu''' 
a brand of steak knives, once sold on late-night television commercials

'''Calli tea''' 
Read about this [http://www.diana2.com/calli_tea.html here].

==Page 784==

'''a perfect score''' 
which is 1600

==Page 785==

'''pores''' 
i.e., pores over books, reads them carefully

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==Page 736==

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

==Page 737==

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

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

==Page 738==

'''futon''' 
a kind of Japanese furniture, 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.

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

==Page 739==

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

'''disdain''' 
dislike or hatred

==Page 740==

'''rancid''' 
rotten

'''towardness''' 
the quality of being socially proper

'''oeuvre''' 
body of work

'''inbent''' 
directed inward

==Page 741==

'''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]

==Page 742==

'''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

==Page 743==

'''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

==Page 744==

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

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

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

==Page 745==

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

'''two meters''' 
about 6.6 feet

'''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 syllable occur, e.g., "probly" for "probably"0

==Page 746==

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

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

==Page 747==

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

'''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.

==Page 750==

'''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==

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

==Page 753==

'''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

==Page 755==

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==Page 716==

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

'''Bishop Allen''' 
Bishop Richard Allen was a former slave and American abolitionist.

==Page 717==

'''promoted''' 
i.e., stolen

'''chop''' 
helicopter

==Page 718==

'''nonchalant''' 
coolly unconcerned

==Page 719==

'''Yellow Brick Road''' 
a reference to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/ The Wizard of Oz]

719 (1) · Two Ways of Going

==Page 719==

'''technical interview''' 
i.e., torture

'''''abeyant''''' 
Not a real French word, it's used here to mean "in abeyance," i.e., suspension of activity

719 (2) · Back at the Scene of the Crime

==Page 719==

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

'''careered''' 
ran at full speed

'''veronica''' 
a bullfighting maneuver where the matador swings his cape away from the charging bull

==Page 720==

'''jay-ran''' 
punning on "jaywalk," it means running across the street not at a corner

==Page 721==

'''''zuckung''''' 
German: convulsion

'''stitch''' 
the very least bit

'''ON PARLE LE PORTUGAIS ICI''' 
French: Portuguese spoken here

721 · AFR at Antitoi's

==Page 721==

'''sartorially''' 
with regard to dress

==Endnote 300==

'''café au lait''' 
hot coffee served with an equal amount of hot milk

==Page 722==

'''Glen Almond''' 
a section of Québec City

'''''coffre d'amas''''' 
French: waste basket

'''RELACHE''' 
French: relax

'''Tassigny''' 
This character's name is perhaps taken from Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny (1889-1952), a French military hero of WWII.

'''EEG''' 
electroencephalogram

'''''Donc. D'accord.''''' 
French: So. Okay.

==Endnote 301==

'''M.B.A.''' 
Master's of Business Administration''' 
'''litigatory''' 
having to do with legal proceedings

'''OS''' 
operating system

==Page 722 (cont'd)==

'''''frappe''''' 
French: punch or kick

==Page 723==

'''U.S.B.S.S.''' 
probably United States Bureau of Special Services

723 (1) · A Moment With Fortier

==Page 723==

'''perambulation''' 
walking

723 (2) · Joelle's Teeth

==Page 723==

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

==Page 724==

'''lampblack''' 
A pigment taken from oil resin, football players wear it below their eyes.

'''canines''' 
the eye teeth

724 · Found

==Page 724==

'''embossed''' 
decorated with a raised design

==Page 725==

'''Desjardins''' 
A fairly popular French surname, it may have been inspired here by Gabriel-Alphonse Desjardins (1854-1920), Québecois founder of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desjardins_Group Desjardins Group].

'''''Bôf''''' 
an interjection in French expressing lack of interest

==Page 726==

'''"...an employee at the Academy of Tennis..."''' 
This would very likely be Poutrincourt.

'''Mlle. Luria P----''' 
This would very likely be the "Swiss" Girl Orin is sleeping with.

'''''demi-maisons''''' 
French: a created word for half-way houses.

'''25-km.''' 
about 15.5 miles

==Page 727==

'''orthopedic saw''' 
a saw used to cut bones

'''econometrics''' 
the application of quantitative and statistical methods to the study of economics

'''''de coeur''''' 
French: of the heart

'''''c'est ça''''' 
French: that's that

==Page 728==

'''sybaritically''' 
in the manner of one who engages in sensual pleasure

728 · Lenz Still on the Prowl

==Page 728==

'''Sterno''' 
a brand of denatured and jellied alcohol used for cooking, as well as drinking by many street alcoholics

'''Kryptonite''' 
either a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptonite_lock Kryptonite lock] or a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptonite Kryptonite] of ''Superman'' fame

==Page 729==

'''extruding''' 
i.e., exuding

'''agnate''' 
Maybe he means "argot"?

'''fence''' 
to sell stolen goods

729 · Marathe at Ennet House

==Page 729==

'''thrift''' 
frugality

==Page 730==

'''''de l'infere''''' 
probably a Québecois expression, it sounds like the French for "from Hell"

'''''inutile''''' 
useless

==Page 731==

'''cheesecloth''' 
lightweight cotton of open texture

==Page 732==

'''I-93''' 
Interstate 93 runs from St. Johnsbury, Vt., to Canton, Mass., just outside Boston.

'''Lac de Deux Montaignes''' 
French: Lake of Two Mountains — near Montreal

'''''Le Culte du Prochain Train''''' 
French: Cult of the Next Train

==[[IJE304|Endnote 304]]==

==Page 733==

'''Levi #501''' 
once-popular button-fly jeans by Levi Strauss

'''Trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid''' 
Apparently this acid is indeed higher in the sweat of schizophrenics.

==Page 734==

'''''Potable''''' 
It does mean "drinkable" in English.

==Page 735==

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==Page 698==

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

==Page 699==

==Endnote 285==

'''catachresis''' 
misuse of words, as in a mixed metaphor

==Page 699 (cont'd)==

'''Norfolk County''' 
a county of Massachusetts bordering Rhode Island to the southwest

''''...operating a pharmaceutical company without a license.'''' 
i.e., he was running a meth lab

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700 (1) · Troelsch Gets Ready for Prime Time

==Page 700==

'''screwed''' 
i.e., left

700 (2) · Pemulis at the Ceiling

==Page 700==

'''drop-ceiling''' 
a ceiling where, instead of meeting sheetrock at the top of the walls, you reach a series of tiles (often fiberglass-filled) that are hung a few inches below the actual ceiling, sometimes for aesthetic reasons, sometimes to facilitate lighting, etc.

700 (3) · Meanwhile in the Locker Room

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'''hovers''' 
hangs in air

701 (1) · Mario and Schtitt

==Page 701==

'''sidecar''' 
a passenger car for a motorcycle, usually to the side of the cycle driver

701 (2) · The Moms Makes a Phone Call

==Page 701==

'''stern''' 
i.e., the back end

701 (3) · More With Hal Watching Movies/Segue to Addiction

==Page 701==

'''in violent medias res''' 
''In medias res'' is Latin for "in the middle of the thing, meaning, like many epic poems, the work begins in the middle of the story (e.g., the ''Iliad'' begins nine years into a ten-year war).

'''recumbency''' 
here used to mean something one can lie down on

'''50-point''' 
''very'' large type — if your average typeface is 12 points, then this is four times as large

==Page 702==

'''emetics''' 
drugs designed to make one vomit

'''banks''' 
to make something glance off a surface, here a spoon

==Page 703==

'''hanuman''' 
a monkey held sacred in India

==Endnote 288==

'''The Continent's Best Yogurt''' 
It actually stands for "The Country's Best Yogurt," but given the formation of O.N.A.N., the change seems fitting if not necessary.

==Page 703 (cont'd)==

'''cognoscenti''' 
people having superior knowledge

'''wont''' 
accustomed

==Page 704==

'''Langesque''' 
in the style of Fritz Lang

'''tremulous''' 
fearful and shaking

'''Indian-style''' 
in the lotus position of yoga

==Page 705==

'''novenas''' 
In Roman Catholicism, a novena is a devotion or set of prayers said over nine days.

'''crank cocaine''' 
Methamphetamine and cocaine (the use of ether and baking soda implies freebase cocaine and crack cocaine, respectively; both of these freebase products are water insoluble and therefore cannot be introduced to the bloodstream via injection or snorting).

==Endnote 290==

'''stock''' 
commonplace

==Page 705 (cont'd)==

'''matins and vespers''' 
two of the nine prayer services a day in Catholic abbeys and monasteries

'''Trappists''' 
members of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trappists Order of Cistercians of Strict Observance], who do not, by the way, all take vows of silence

'''montage''' 
a type of film sequence where a period of time is covered in short order with short (a few seconds) scenes, usually over music

==Page 706==

'''Promethean''' 
boldly original

''''Getting to Know You'''' 
from ''The King and I''

'''saccharine''' 
sickeningly sweet

'''Lorimar's ''Dynasty''''' 
Lorimar was a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorimar production company] and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081856/ Dynasty] a prime-time soap opera that aired in the 1980s.

'''shibboleths''' 
Shibboleth is any language usage indicative of one's social or regional origin, or more broadly, any practice that identifies members of a group. (see [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges%2012:4%E2%80%936&version=9 Judges 12:4-6]); [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth Wikipedia]

==Page 707==

==Endnote 291==

'''aperture''' 
a small opening

==Page 707 (cont'd)==

'''catexic''' 
This is an apparently made-up word, although "cathexic" means "emotionally charged."

==Endnote 292==

==Endnote 292a==

'''covalence-hungry isotopes''' 
Isotopes of certain atoms combine with others to form covalent bonds.

'''gnomes''' 
aphorisms

'''Waterloo''' 
a city in Belgium where Napoleon suffered his final defeat — the term has come to mean "final defeat"

==Page 707 (cont'd)==

'''tannin''' 
vegetable compounds tending to have a red color

==Page 708==

'''Raytheon''' 
a major American defense contractor

'''float''' 
i.e., the money keeping them afloat (figuratively)

'''rye''' 
whiskey made from rye grain

==Page 709==

'''Ford Mystique''' 
See one [http://www.canadiandriver.com/articles/jc/95-99mystique.htm here].

==Endnote 294==

'''apostrophe''' 
direct address of an absent person, in rhetoric

==Page 710==

'''autodidactic''' 
self-taught

'''Logan''' 
the major airport of Boston

==Page 711==

711 · ''Blood Sister'' Synopsis Continued

==Page 711==

'''novitiate''' 
a novice of a religious order

'''recidivism''' 
the state of falling back into a life of crime

'''de-mufflering''' 
removing the muffler from her motorcycle, thus making it extra loud

'''Harley Hawg''' 
a repetition in terms

'''jiggers''' 
about an ounce and a half of liquor

==Endnote 296==

'''ferric oxide''' 
i.e., iron oxide, or rust

'''F/X''' 
a show business term for special effects

==Page 711 (cont'd)==

'''inimical''' 
adverse in tendency or effect

'''accretes''' 
increases

'''mace''' 
a medieval weapon, basically consisting of a stick with a ball covered with spikes at the end

'''verger''' 
a church official, such as a caretaker

==Page 712==

'''Marseillese''' 
more properly ''Marseillaise'', i.e., from Marseilles, France

'''octogenarian''' 
in one's eighties

'''Confiteor''' 
a penitent prayer said by Roman Catholics

==Endnote 297==

'''cowled''' 
hooded

==Page 712 (cont'd)==

'''Kabuki''' 
a form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabuki Japanese theater]

'''habitements''' 
a neologism, probably just referring to the habits the nuns wear

==Page 713==

'''Champlain-era''' 
of the era of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_de_Champlain Samuel de Champlain]

'''Huron''' 
the more common name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huron Wyandot Indians]

'''mahogany Christian object''' 
i.e., the aforementioned crucifix

'''lapsarian''' 
another neologism, probably referring to lapsing, as with one's faith

'''obeisance''' 
a bow symbolizing obedience

'''nave''' 
the part of the church with the pews on either side, facing the altar but not on the altar

'''"...with a sword and a plowshare..."''' 
A plowshare is the cutting part of a plow; the reference is from [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%202:4;&version=9; Isaiah 2:4]

==Page 714==

'''Smothergill''' 
i.e., Phillip T. Smothergill, the former E.T.A. who starred in Himself's movies and whose name Hal couldn't remember

714 · Kate and Ruth Continued

==Page 714==

'''gargoyle''' 
a small statue of a monster used to adorn churches and other buildings to ward off evil

==Page 715==

'''deft''' 
dexterous or nimble

'''mafun ho''' 
i.e., mother-fucking whore

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==Page 664==

'''V.D.''' 
Very dearly

==Page 665==

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'''ferrous''' 
containing iron

'''morphic''' 
probably short for "metamorphic," a type of rock

'''ovoid''' 
egg-shaped

'''26 meters''' 
about 85.3 feet

'''B.P.''' 
battery powered

'''parget''' 
plaster used for covering walls

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'''novitiate''' 
in the beginning period of something

'''dross''' 
refuse metal from the refining process

'''Trojan''' 
a brand of condoms

'''vermiform''' 
looking like a worm

==Page 668==

'''''Robert's Rules''''' 
''Robert's Rules of Parliamentary Procedure,'' the standard text on how to run a meeting

==Page 669==

'''P.B.''' 
perhaps "pulsed beam"

'''radial nerve''' 
a nerve running from above the shoulder (in the neck) down the length of the arm

'''parfait''' 
a tall glass filled with ice cream

'''electrostatic''' 
giving off erratic static electricity

'''Tallat-Kelpsa''' 
also the name of a Latvian classical composer

==Page 670==

'''pules''' 
whimpers

==Page 671==

'''malefic''' 
producing evil

'''Orkin''' 
a nationwide chain of exterminators

'''latency''' 
i.e., sexual latency, the period Freud posited during which male sexuality is dormant

==Page 672==

==Page 673==

'''The Bible''' 
The quote isn't from the Bible.

''''What're maggots?'''' 
They're fly larvae.

673 · Hal v. Stice (continued)

==Page 673==

'''Collyrium''' 
Collyrium [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyrium itself] is not a brand name; it's the generic name.

==Page 674==

'''Donnay''' 
a brand of [http://www.tennis-warehouse.com/DonnayRacquets.html tennis racquet]

'''akimbo''' 
with hands on hips

==Page 675==

''''''Veux que nous nous parlons français? Serait plus facile, ça?'''''' 
French: Do you want to speak in French? Would that be easier?

'''Lenglen, Rosewall''' 
Suzanne Rachel Flore Lenglen (1899-1938) was a French tennis player who won thirty-one Grand Slams. Kenneth Robert ("Ken") Rosewall (born 1934) was an Australian tennis player with three Grand Slam wins.

''''In A.D. 1887 a fifteen-year-old-girl won Wimbledon...'''' 
This is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottie_Dod Lottie Dod] (1871-1960), who won another four Wimbledon championships.

'''Evert''' 
Christine Marie Evert (born 1954) was a former American tennis player with eighteen grand slam wins.

'''Austin, Jaeger, Graff, Sawamatsu''' 
Tracy Ann Austin Holt (born 1962) was an American tennis player who won Wimbledon in 1979 and 1981. Andrea Jaeger (born 1965) was an American tennis player who is now an Anglican nun. Stefanie Maria Graf (born 1969) is a German former tennis player with twenty-one Grand slam titles. Naoko Sawamatsu (born 1973) was a Japanese tennis player who retired in 1988

'''Wilander''' 
Mats Wilander (born 1964) was a Swedish tennis player with seven Grand Slam titles.

'''Treffer, Medvedev, Esconja''' 
Only Andriy Medvedev (born 1974), the Ukrainian player who won the French Open in 1991, is a real person, apparently.

'''Becker''' 
Boris Franz Becker (born 1967) was a German tennis player with six Grand Slam titles.

'''Kleckner''' 
not a real player

'''''senza errori''''' 
Italian: without errors

==Page 676==

==Endnote 274==

'''Falls Church VA''' 
a city about ten miles west of Washington, D.C.

'''Clipper''' 
A clipper in electronics is a way of sort of metering how much electricity, power, data, etc., goes through a circuit. Here its usage would seem more to indicate a computer hacker.

==Page 676 (cont'd)==

'''Arias and Krickstein''' 
James ("Jimmy") Arias (born 1964) was a former American pro tennis player. Aaron Krickstein (born 1967) is also a former American tennis player.

'''Treffert''' 
apparently not a real player

'''Capriati''' 
Jennifer Marie Capriati (born 1976) was an American pro tennis player, winning three Grand Slam titles.

'''well-known tragedy''' 
By the time ''Infinite Jest'' had been published, Capriati had been arrested for marijuana possession. She returned to pro tennis that same year, perhaps after the book went to press.

'''Pat Cash''' 
Patrick Hart "Pat" Cash (born 1965) was an Australian pro tennis player, winning Wimbledon in 1987.

'''''aux disques''''' 
French: on disks, here probably referring to TP disks

==Page 677==

==Page 678==

'''Augustus''' 
Caesar Augustus, first emperor of Rome

'''Bud''' 
short for Budweiser, a brand name of beer

'''half-meter''' 
1.64 feet

'''apparition''' 
a ghost, but here referring to Mario

==Page 679==

'''salaam''' 
Arabic for "peace," here meaning a deep bow

'''intersticial''' 
misspelling of "interstitial"

==Page 680==

'''''Japonois''''' 
French: a misspelling of ''japonais'', meaning Japanese

==Page 681==

'''raglan''' 
having sleeves that go in one piece to the neckline

==Page 682==

682 · Some Pemulis Family Background

==Page 682==

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==Page 683==

'''calamari''' 
Italian-style squid

'''Louth in Lenster''' 
Louth is about 50 miles north-northwest of Dublin. Leinster (note spelling) is one of the four traditional provinces of Ireland, the others being Connaught, Ulster, and Munster. There are not officially used as Ulster is divided between the Republic of Ireland and the U.K. since 1922.

'''hauteur''' 
arrogance

==Page 684==

'''mien''' 
appearance

'''''A fook in t'boom''''' 
"a fuck in the bum" with an Irish brogue

'''malt liquor''' 
a high-alcohol-content variety of beer

'''sone''' 
i.e., son

'''a.''' 
A word ("queer" or "faggot" perhaps) is being deleted by Matty in his remembrance

'''"...rosebud, his dark star..."''' 
his anus

'''russet''' 
yellowish- or reddish-brown

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==Page 698==

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==Page 699==

==Endnote 285==

'''catachresis''' 
misuse of words, as in a mixed metaphor

==Page 699 (cont'd)==

'''Norfolk County''' 
a county of Massachusetts bordering Rhode Island to the southwest

''''...operating a pharmaceutical company without a license.'''' 
i.e., he was running a meth lab

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700 (1) · Troelsch Gets Ready for Prime Time

==Page 700==

'''screwed''' 
i.e., left

700 (2) · Pemulis at the Ceiling

==Page 700==

'''drop-ceiling''' 
a ceiling where, instead of meeting sheetrock at the top of the walls, you reach a series of tiles (often fiberglass-filled) that are hung a few inches below the actual ceiling, sometimes for aesthetic reasons, sometimes to facilitate lighting, etc.

700 (3) · Meanwhile in the Locker Room

==Page 700==

'''hovers''' 
hangs in air

701 (1) · Mario and Schtitt

==Page 701==

'''sidecar''' 
a passenger car for a motorcycle, usually to the side of the cycle driver

701 (2) · The Moms Makes a Phone Call

==Page 701==

'''stern''' 
i.e., the back end

701 (3) · More With Hal Watching Movies/Segue to Addiction

==Page 701==

'''in violent medias res''' 
''In medias res'' is Latin for "in the middle of the thing, meaning, like many epic poems, the work begins in the middle of the story (e.g., the ''Iliad'' begins nine years into a ten-year war).

'''recumbency''' 
here used to mean something one can lie down on

'''50-point''' 
''very'' large type — if your average typeface is 12 points, then this is four times as large

==Page 702==

'''emetics''' 
drugs designed to make one vomit

'''banks''' 
to make something glance off a surface, here a spoon

==Page 703==

'''hanuman''' 
a monkey held sacred in India

==Endnote 288==

'''The Continent's Best Yogurt''' 
It actually stands for "The Country's Best Yogurt," but given the formation of O.N.A.N., the change seems fitting if not necessary.

==Page 703 (cont'd)==

'''cognoscenti''' 
people having superior knowledge

'''wont''' 
accustomed

==Page 704==

'''Langesque''' 
in the style of Fritz Lang

'''tremulous''' 
fearful and shaking

'''Indian-style''' 
in the lotus position of yoga

==Page 705==

'''novenas''' 
In Roman Catholicism, a novena is a devotion or set of prayers said over nine days.

'''crank cocaine''' 
There is no such thing. In fact, the whole section here is confused, because you use ether to make freebase, and you use baking soda to make crack, and they're not the same thing.

==Endnote 290==

'''stock''' 
commonplace

==Page 705 (cont'd)==

'''matins and vespers''' 
two of the nine prayer services a day in Catholic abbeys and monasteries

'''Trappists''' 
members of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trappists Order of Cistercians of Strict Observance], who do not, by the way, all take vows of silence

'''montage''' 
a type of film sequence where a period of time is covered in short order with short (a few seconds) scenes, usually over music

==Page 706==

'''Promethean''' 
boldly original

''''Getting to Know You'''' 
from ''The King and I''

'''saccharine''' 
sickeningly sweet

'''Lorimar's ''Dynasty''''' 
Lorimar was a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorimar production company] and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081856/ Dynasty] a prime-time soap opera that aired in the 1980s.

'''shibboleths''' 
Shibboleth is any language usage indicative of one's social or regional origin, or more broadly, any practice that identifies members of a group. (see [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges%2012:4%E2%80%936&version=9 Judges 12:4-6]); [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth Wikipedia]

==Page 707==

==Endnote 291==

'''aperture''' 
a small opening

==Page 707 (cont'd)==

'''catexic''' 
This is an apparently made-up word, although "cathexic" means "emotionally charged."

==Endnote 292==

==Endnote 292a==

'''covalence-hungry isotopes''' 
Isotopes of certain atoms combine with others to form covalent bonds.

'''gnomes''' 
aphorisms

'''Waterloo''' 
a city in Belgium where Napoleon suffered his final defeat — the term has come to mean "final defeat"

==Page 707 (cont'd)==

'''tannin''' 
vegetable compounds tending to have a red color

==Page 708==

'''Raytheon''' 
a major American defense contractor

'''float''' 
i.e., the money keeping them afloat (figuratively)

'''rye''' 
whiskey made from rye grain

==Page 709==

'''Ford Mystique''' 
See one [http://www.canadiandriver.com/articles/jc/95-99mystique.htm here].

==Endnote 294==

'''apostrophe''' 
direct address of an absent person, in rhetoric

==Page 710==

'''autodidactic''' 
self-taught

'''Logan''' 
the major airport of Boston

==Page 711==

711 · ''Blood Sister'' Synopsis Continued

==Page 711==

'''novitiate''' 
a novice of a religious order

'''recidivism''' 
the state of falling back into a life of crime

'''de-mufflering''' 
removing the muffler from her motorcycle, thus making it extra loud

'''Harley Hawg''' 
a repetition in terms

'''jiggers''' 
about an ounce and a half of liquor

==Endnote 296==

'''ferric oxide''' 
i.e., iron oxide, or rust

'''F/X''' 
a show business term for special effects

==Page 711 (cont'd)==

'''inimical''' 
adverse in tendency or effect

'''accretes''' 
increases

'''mace''' 
a medieval weapon, basically consisting of a stick with a ball covered with spikes at the end

'''verger''' 
a church official, such as a caretaker

==Page 712==

'''Marseillese''' 
more properly ''Marseillaise'', i.e., from Marseilles, France

'''octogenarian''' 
in one's eighties

'''Confiteor''' 
a penitent prayer said by Roman Catholics

==Endnote 297==

'''cowled''' 
hooded

==Page 712 (cont'd)==

'''Kabuki''' 
a form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabuki Japanese theater]

'''habitements''' 
a neologism, probably just referring to the habits the nuns wear

==Page 713==

'''Champlain-era''' 
of the era of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_de_Champlain Samuel de Champlain]

'''Huron''' 
the more common name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huron Wyandot Indians]

'''mahogany Christian object''' 
i.e., the aforementioned crucifix

'''lapsarian''' 
another neologism, probably referring to lapsing, as with one's faith

'''obeisance''' 
a bow symbolizing obedience

'''nave''' 
the part of the church with the pews on either side, facing the altar but not on the altar

'''"...with a sword and a plowshare..."''' 
A plowshare is the cutting part of a plow; the reference is from [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%202:4;&version=9; Isaiah 2:4]

==Page 714==

'''Smothergill''' 
i.e., Phillip T. Smothergill, the former E.T.A. who starred in Himself's movies and whose name Hal couldn't remember

714 · Kate and Ruth Continued

==Page 714==

'''gargoyle''' 
a small statue of a monster used to adorn churches and other buildings to ward off evil

==Page 715==

'''deft''' 
dexterous or nimble

'''mafun ho''' 
i.e., mother-fucking whore

==Page 716==

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'''carpal neuralgia, phospenic migraine, gluteal hyperadiposity, lumbar stressae''' 
hand pain, migraines with flashing lights, fat buttocks, and lower back pain

'''"...all three O.N.A.N. time zones..."''' 
Three is considerably fewer time zones than the five the U.S. (including Alaska and Hawaii) currently span, plus the Atlantic Time Zone, in which some of Canada can be found.

'''genuflecting''' 
bending the knee

'''Gapers' Blocks''' 
traffic delays caused by rubbernecking

==Page 621==

'''apotheosis''' 
the process of being raised to godlike status

'''coprolaliac''' 
abnormally disposed to using profanity

'''nucleic''' 
pertaining to the nucleus of a cell, with its cohesion

'''PAs''' 
public-address sytems

'''nostrums''' 
patent medicines

'''bunting''' 
loosely woven fabric in a generally half-circle shape; red-white-and-blue ones can be seen hung on podiums, porches, baseball stadiums, etc, especially on the 4th of July and other patriotic holidays.

'''c.''' 
circa

'''sylvan''' 
woodsy

==Page 622==

'''möbiusizing''' 
a neologism for taking on the shape of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip Möbius strip]

'''dun''' 
grayish brown

'''Gregg pen''' 
See one [http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?s=2eae74b99300ac6261751443db9182fa&showtopic=33208&st=0&p=305917&#entry305917 here]

==Page 623==

'''verdigrised''' 
covered with grayish-green rust

'''Robert McCloskey''' 
Robert McCloskey (1914-2003) was an American author and illustrator of children's books.

'''''Make Way for Ducklings''''' 
Read about this book [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Way_for_Ducklings here].

'''greensward''' 
stretch of grassy turf

'''5º C''' 
41º Fahrenheit

'''appurtenances''' 
apparatus or instruments

'''sepia''' 
dark brown, as in the pigment used to make very early photographs

==Page 624==

'''metallurgy''' 
the making and conducting of alloys

'''Mass Comm.''' 
mass communications

==Page 625==

'''ICU''' 
Intensive Care Unit

'''swart''' 
swarthy, i.e., dark-skinned

'''half a house''' 
a half-way house

'''M.D.C.''' 
Metropolitan District Commission

'''hackysackers''' 
players of a game (hackeysack) where people in a circle kick a small leather bag around to one another

==Page 626==

'''Autoteller''' 
an ATM

'''moguls''' 
bumps

627 · Mealtime at ETA

==Page 627==

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'''fenestrated''' 
having windows

'''R.H.I.P.''' 
Rank Has Its Privileges

'''mastication''' 
chewing

==Page 628==

'''P.O.W.''' 
Prisoner of War

'''Liberal KS''' 
To be exact, it's three miles via Route 83 to the Oklahoma border.

'''C/W''' 
Country & Western

'''Beefeater''' 
a British brand of gin

'''clapboard''' 
a long, thin board, thicker along one edge than the other, used in covering the outer walls of buildings (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'')

'''nuptial''' 
marital

==Page 629==

'''toilet-eau''' 
eau de toilette, sort of like perfume

'''connubial''' 
marital

'''Birkenstock''' 
a German brand of sandals and shoes

'''glutens''' 
a mixture of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten wheat proteins]

'''torpor''' 
sluggishness

'''turrets''' 
projections from a building where guns are placed

==Page 630==

'''"...like Roosevelt at Yalta..."''' 
a reference to the supposed bullying by Stalin of FDR at the conference at Yalta in 1945 to cede Eastern Europe to Soviet control

'''saltpeter''' 
potassium nitrate, commonly believed to cause erectile dysfunction

'''Seldane''' 
a brand-name of non-drowsy antihistamine

'''carminative''' 
expelling gas

==Page 631==

'''mammarial''' 
resembling or having to do with breasts

'''lecithin''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecithin mixture of fats] found in milk and other foods

'''semicolonized''' 
otherwise, it's a comma splice

'''buttinskis''' 
i.e., the right to butt into line

'''scooters''' 
apparently a slang term for "dollars"

'''déjà vu''' 
From French for "already seen," it's the sense that you're re-experiencing something.

==Page 632==

'''saltire''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltire Cross of St. Andrew]

'''tektitic''' 
referring to fossils formed by meteoric impacts

==Page 633==

'''Grant's Tomb''' 
The answer to the question is "no one." As the tomb is above ground, Ulysses S. Grant is technically "entombed" and not "buried."

==Page 634==

==Endnote 261==

'''offal''' 
garbage, particularly rotting meat

'''tantric''' 
referring to a particular branch of Hinduism, but very particularly to the sexual aspect of this branch, which emphasizes long sessions of sexual intercourse

'''Twister''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twister_%28game%29 parlor game] produced by Hasbro that involves contorting the body

'''colposcope''' 
a scope used to examine the internal female reproductive organs

'''Combat Zone''' 
an area of Boston known for prostitution and sex shops

==Page 635==

'''bussed''' 
cleaned up

'''B.B.''' 
Big Brother

'''asexual''' 
not sexually active or not attracted to either sex

==Page 636==

'''nascent''' 
beginning to develop

'''Sapphic''' 
i.e., lesbian, the reference being to Sappho, the ancient Greek poet from Lesbos

'''Polycleitos''' 
a Greek sculptor of the fifth century BC

'''Hermes''' 
the messenger god of Greek mythology

'''Theseus''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theseus hero] of Greek mythology

==Page 637==

'''staccato''' 
in music, notes sounded in a detached manner

'''hick''' 
a person from a rural area

'''spitter''' 
a spitball, in baseball

'''tsunami''' 
tidal wave

==Page 638==

'''olla''' 
a pot for making stew, or stew itself

'''tsimmes''' 
a fruit and vegetable casserole

'''riches nouveaux''' 
French: new riches; here an inversion of ''nouveaux riches'', i.e., "newly rich"

638 · Steeply and Marathe Discuss ''M*A*S*H''

==Page 638==

[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]

==Page 639==

'''acronym''' 
MASH stands for "Mobile Army Surgical Hospital."

'''prima facie''' 
Latin: at first sight

'''Troy, New York''' 
a college town about ten miles from the state capital of Albany

==Page 640==

'''wens''' 
a sebaceous cyst

'''Canadiens of the N.L. of H.''' 
the Montreal Canadiens, a team in the National Hockey League

==Page 641==

'''canned''' 
pre-recorded

'''''Bröckengespenstphänom''''' 
German: Boulder-ghost-phenomenon, as best I can tell; the umlauts are incorrect

==Page 642==

'''Marsh or Swamp''' 
The principal male characters in ''M*A*S*H*'' lived in the same tent, which they called "the Swamp."

==Endnote 263==

'''Betamax''' 
the smaller format of videotape that was eventually pushed out of the market by VHS

==Page 642 (cont'd)==

'''''transperçant''''' 
French: penetrating across

'''Major Burns''' 
a "villain" character played by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0513271/?fr=c2M9MXxsbT01MDB8ZmI9dXx4PTB8eT0wfG14PTIwfGh0bWw9MXxzaXRlPWRmfHE9TGFycnkgTGludmlsbGV8bm09MXxwbj0w;fc=1;ft=20 Larry Linville]

==Page 643==

'''Maury Linville''' 
There is no such actor.

''''In the South Korea of history.'''' 
sort of implying that in the time of the novel, there's only one Korea again

''''You are not meaning your sister was a goat.'''' 
bearing in mind that "kid" also means a baby goat

==Page 644==

'''Korean Police Action of the U.N.

The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War Korean War] lasted (until the cease-fire — technically the war is still going on) was actually over three years long.

'''baroquoco''' 
This would seem to be a mix between "baroque" and "rococo."

'''augured''' 
predicted for the future

==Page 645==

==Page 646==

'''Alda''' 
a reference to ''M*A*S*H'' star [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000257/ Alan Alda]

'''transmural infarction''' 
heart attack

'''ventricle''' 
one of two of the four chambers of the heart

==Page 647==

'''mesquite''' 
a spiny shrub with bean pods

'''Dick Willis''' 
There was a spy named Richard Willis (1613-1690) active during the English Civil War (1642-1660).

'''Ossified''' 
turned to stone

'''plura''' 
a misspelling (likely) of "pleura"

==Page 648==

648 · The Triangular Horror

==Page 648==

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==Page 649==

'''benign''' 
harmless

'''anomaly''' 
something like nothing else

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'''malevolent''' 
intending harm

'''''magna cum laude''''' 
Latin: with very high honors

==Page 651==

'''130-kilo''' 
286.6 pounds

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'''carpal neuralgia, phospenic migraine, gluteal hyperadiposity, lumbar stressae''' 
hand pain, migraines with flashing lights, fat buttocks, and lower back pain

'''"...all three O.N.A.N. time zones..."''' 
Three is considerably fewer time zones than the five the U.S. (including Alaska and Hawaii) currently span, plus the Atlantic Time Zone, in which some of Canada can be found.

'''genuflecting''' 
bending the knee

'''Gapers' Blocks''' 
traffic delays caused by rubbernecking

==Page 621==

'''apotheosis''' 
the process of being raised to godlike status

'''coprolaliac''' 
abnormally disposed to using profanity

'''nucleic''' 
pertaining to the nucleus of a cell, with its cohesion

'''PAs''' 
public-address sytems

'''nostrums''' 
patent medicines

'''bunting''' 
loosely woven fabric in a generally half-circle shape; red-white-and-blue ones can be seen hung on podiums, porches, baseball stadiums, etc, especially on the 4th of July and other patriotic holidays.

'''c.''' 
circa

'''sylvan''' 
woodsy

==Page 622==

'''möbiusizing''' 
a neologism for taking on the shape of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip Möbius strip]

'''dun''' 
grayish brown

'''Gregg pen''' 
See one [http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?s=2eae74b99300ac6261751443db9182fa&showtopic=33208&st=0&p=305917&#entry305917 here]

==Page 623==

'''verdigrised''' 
covered with grayish-green rust

'''Robert McCloskey''' 
Robert McCloskey (1914-2003) was an American author and illustrator of children's books.

'''''Make Way for Ducklings''''' 
Read about this book [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Way_for_Ducklings here].

'''greensward''' 
stretch of grassy turf

'''5º C''' 
41º Fahrenheit

'''appurtenances''' 
apparatus or instruments

'''sepia''' 
dark brown, as in the pigment used to make very early photographs

==Page 624==

'''metallurgy''' 
the making and conducting of alloys

'''Mass Comm.''' 
mass communications

==Page 625==

'''ICU''' 
Intensive Care Unit

'''swart''' 
swarthy, i.e., dark-skinned

'''half a house''' 
a half-way house

'''M.D.C.''' 
Metropolitan District Commission

'''hackysackers''' 
players of a game (hackeysack) where people in a circle kick a small leather bag around to one another

==Page 626==

'''Autoteller''' 
an ATM

'''moguls''' 
bumps

627 · Mealtime at ETA

==Page 627==

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

'''fenestrated''' 
having windows

'''R.H.I.P.''' 
Rank Has Its Privileges

'''mastication''' 
chewing

==Page 628==

'''P.O.W.''' 
Prisoner of War

'''Liberal KS''' 
To be exact, it's three miles via Route 83 to the Oklahoma border.

'''C/W''' 
Country & Western

'''Beefeater''' 
a British brand of gin

'''clapboard''' 
a long, thin board, thicker along one edge than the other, used in covering the outer walls of buildings (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'')

'''nuptial''' 
marital

==Page 629==

'''toilet-eau''' 
eau de toilette, sort of like perfume

'''connubial''' 
marital

'''Birkenstock''' 
a German brand of sandals and shoes

'''glutens''' 
a mixture of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten wheat proteins]

'''torpor''' 
sluggishness

'''turrets''' 
projections from a building where guns are placed

==Page 630==

'''"...like Roosevelt at Yalta..."''' 
a reference to the supposed bullying by Stalin of FDR at the conference at Yalta in 1945 to cede Eastern Europe to Soviet control

'''saltpeter''' 
potassium nitrate, commonly believed to cause erectile dysfunction

'''Seldane''' 
a brand-name of non-drowsy antihistamine

'''carminative''' 
expelling gas

==Page 631==

'''mammarial''' 
resembling or having to do with breasts

'''lecithin''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecithin mixture of fats] found in milk and other foods

'''semicolonized''' 
otherwise, it's a comma splice

'''buttinskis''' 
i.e., the right to butt into line

'''scooters''' 
apparently a slang term for "dollars"

'''déjà vu''' 
From French for "already seen," it's the sense that you're re-experiencing something.

'''saltire''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltire Cross of St. Andrew]

'''tektitic''' 
referring to fossils formed by meteoric impacts

==Page 633==

'''Grant's Tomb''' 
The answer to the question is "no one." As the tomb is above ground, Ulysses S. Grant is technically "entombed" and not "buried."

==Page 634==

==Endnote 261==

'''offal''' 
garbage, particularly rotting meat

'''tantric''' 
referring to a particular branch of Hinduism, but very particularly to the sexual aspect of this branch, which emphasizes long sessions of sexual intercourse

'''Twister''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twister_%28game%29 parlor game] produced by Hasbro that involves contorting the body

'''colposcope''' 
a scope used to examine the internal female reproductive organs

'''Combat Zone''' 
an area of Boston known for prostitution and sex shops

==Page 635==

'''bussed''' 
cleaned up

'''B.B.''' 
Big Brother

'''asexual''' 
not sexually active or not attracted to either sex

==Page 636==

'''nascent''' 
beginning to develop

'''Sapphic''' 
i.e., lesbian, the reference being to Sappho, the ancient Greek poet from Lesbos

'''Polycleitos''' 
a Greek sculptor of the fifth century BC

'''Hermes''' 
the messenger god of Greek mythology

'''Theseus''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theseus hero] of Greek mythology

==Page 637==

'''staccato''' 
in music, notes sounded in a detached manner

'''hick''' 
a person from a rural area

'''spitter''' 
a spitball, in baseball

'''tsunami''' 
tidal wave

==Page 638==

'''olla''' 
a pot for making stew, or stew itself

'''tsimmes''' 
a fruit and vegetable casserole

'''riches nouveaux''' 
French: new riches; here an inversion of ''nouveaux riches'', i.e., "newly rich"

638 · Steeply and Marathe Discuss ''M*A*S*H''

==Page 638==

[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]

==Page 639==

'''acronym''' 
MASH stands for "Mobile Army Surgical Hospital."

'''prima facie''' 
Latin: at first sight

'''Troy, New York''' 
a college town about ten miles from the state capital of Albany

==Page 640==

'''wens''' 
a sebaceous cyst

'''Canadiens of the N.L. of H.''' 
the Montreal Canadiens, a team in the National Hockey League

==Page 641==

'''canned''' 
pre-recorded

'''''Bröckengespenstphänom''''' 
German: Boulder-ghost-phenomenon, as best I can tell; the umlauts are incorrect

==Page 642==

'''Marsh or Swamp''' 
The principal male characters in ''M*A*S*H*'' lived in the same tent, which they called "the Swamp."

==Endnote 263==

'''Betamax''' 
the smaller format of videotape that was eventually pushed out of the market by VHS

==Page 642 (cont'd)==

'''''transperçant''''' 
French: penetrating across

'''Major Burns''' 
a "villain" character played by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0513271/?fr=c2M9MXxsbT01MDB8ZmI9dXx4PTB8eT0wfG14PTIwfGh0bWw9MXxzaXRlPWRmfHE9TGFycnkgTGludmlsbGV8bm09MXxwbj0w;fc=1;ft=20 Larry Linville]

==Page 643==

'''Maury Linville''' 
There is no such actor.

''''In the South Korea of history.'''' 
sort of implying that in the time of the novel, there's only one Korea again

''''You are not meaning your sister was a goat.'''' 
bearing in mind that "kid" also means a baby goat

==Page 644==

'''Korean Police Action of the U.N.

The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War Korean War] lasted (until the cease-fire — technically the war is still going on) was actually over three years long.

'''baroquoco''' 
This would seem to be a mix between "baroque" and "rococo."

'''augured''' 
predicted for the future

==Page 645==

==Page 646==

'''Alda''' 
a reference to ''M*A*S*H'' star [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000257/ Alan Alda]

'''transmural infarction''' 
heart attack

'''ventricle''' 
one of two of the four chambers of the heart

==Page 647==

'''mesquite''' 
a spiny shrub with bean pods

'''Dick Willis''' 
There was a spy named Richard Willis (1613-1690) active during the English Civil War (1642-1660).

'''Ossified''' 
turned to stone

'''plura''' 
a misspelling (likely) of "pleura"

==Page 648==

648 · The Triangular Horror

==Page 648==

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

==Page 649==

'''benign''' 
harmless

'''anomaly''' 
something like nothing else

==Page 650==

'''malevolent''' 
intending harm

'''''magna cum laude''''' 
Latin: with very high honors

==Page 651==

'''130-kilo''' 
286.6 pounds

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==Page 589==

'''Revelation of John''' 
the last book of the Bible

'''Dysautonomia''' 
any disease or malfunction of the central nervous system

==Page 590==

'''XL''' 
extra-large

'''preverbally''' 
before speaking

==Page 591==

'''''ONE DAY A''''' 
"One Day at a Time," an AA slogan

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Wonderchicken]]

==Page 592==

==Page 593==

593 · Life as an Ennet House Staff Member

==Page 593==

'''lithium''' 
used to treat bipolar disorder

'''Sylvia Plate''' 
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was an American poet and suicide.

==Page 594==

'''narc''' 
a narcotics officer

'''verbatim''' 
word for word

==Page 595==

==Page 596==

596 · Orin Continued

==Page 596==

'''tamping''' 
packing down the tobacco

==Page 597==

'''cuckolds''' 
men whose wives cheat on them

'''zaftig''' 
a Yiddish word meaning, roughly, "voluptuous"

'''pectorals''' 
chest muscles

==Page 598==

''''Plus or minus three percent sample.'''' 
This is the margin of error on the supposed survey Orin is about to take.

==Page 599==

'''CO2''' 
a misprint, likely, for CO2, i.e., carbon dioxide

'''omnissent''' 
Orin means "omniscient."

'''Schmeisser GBF''' 
Schmeisser doesn't appear to be a gun manufacturer anymore, but it was in Germany until the fall of the Third Reich. GBF may stand for "German Battle Force."

'''retromandibular''' 
behind the lower jaw

'''Sermonette''' 
a short sermon

'''Evensong''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evening_Prayer_%28Anglican%29 evening prayer] of the Episcopal church

'''megahertz''' 
a measurement of cycles per second

==Page 600==

'''Actors' Guild''' 
a reference to the [http://www.sag.org/ Screen Actors Guild]

'''Jeannie, Samantha, Sam and Diane, Gilligan, Hawkeye, Hazel, Jed''' 
characters from, respectively, [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058815/ ''I Dream of Jeannie''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057733/ ''Bewitched''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083399/ ''Cheers''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057751/ ''Gilligan's Island''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068098/ ''M*A*S*H''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054545/ ''Hazel''], and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055662/ ''The Beverly Hillbillies''].

==Page 601==

'''''comme on dit''''' 
French: as they say

601 · Ennet House Besieged by Canadians

==Page 601==

==Endnote 247==

'''the Hole''' 
prison slang for solitary confinement

==Page 602==

==Endnote 248==

'''Natick''' 
a town in Massachusetts about 20 miles west of Boston

'''third year of [[Subsidized Time]]''' 
i.e., the [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Trial-Sized Dove Bar]]

==Page 603==

'''skivvies''' 
underwear

'''per diem''' 
Latin: per day

'''klaxon''' 
a loud metal horn

==Page 604==

'''idolatry''' 
Gately probably doesn't intend to use this word.

==Page 605==

'''rack''' 
apparently a term for a bed

'''regentrifying''' 
Whereas this word would mean "gentrifying again," Lenz means "regenerating."

'''L-Dopa''' 
abbreviation for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-Dopa levadopa]

'''scrotum-tightening''' 
an epithet first used by James Joyce in ''Ulysses''

==Endnote 252==

'''boilerplate''' 
standard text entered identically, as into contracts

==Page 606==

'''Duster''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Duster Plymouth Duster]

'''lacteal''' 
milky

'''rear-mount engine''' 
all Volkswagen bugs have rear-mounted engines

'''prostrate''' 
lying flat on the ground (or, here, a bed)

'''kosher''' 
Here Gately means it as "OK," whereas this literally means, in Yiddish, "prepared according to Jewish Law" of food.

'''Daytona''' 
i.e., the Daytona 500, a yearly auto race

==Page 607==

'''Simonize''' 
to shine or polish to a high sheen

'''Premium''' 
high-octane gasoline

'''adtorsion''' 
outward rotation of a limb

'''Hoits''' 
i.e., "hurts"

==Page 608==

'''B#''' 
This is a key in music that does not exist. B# is actually C, as there is no black key between B and C on a piano.

==Page 609==

'''imprecating''' 
calling down curses on others

'''in tandem''' 
together as a unit

'''Weaver stance''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaver_stance popular technique] for firing a handgun

'''Made Guys''' 
members of the Mafia in full standing

'''at bay''' 
facing attackers

==Page 610==

'''wicks''' 
draws off (liquid) by capillary action

'''dum-dums''' 
bullets that mushroom on impact for maximum bodily damage

==Page 611==

'''Pomade''' 
a substance men used to use to style their hair

==Page 612==

'''''sans-Crist bâtard''''' 
French: Anti-Christ bastard

'''Pépé or Bébé''' 
apparently the name of the dog that Lenz just killed

'''''maricones''''' 
Spanish: homosexuals (note that Brazilians actually speak Portuguese, not Spanish)

'''two meters''' 
about 6.6 feet

'''Canadian''' 
i.e., Québecois French

==Page 613==

'''breezeblocked''' 
a breezeblock is a cinder block

==Page 614==

'''appointments''' 
furnishings

'''ailanthus''' 
a common form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ailanthus urban plant]

'''two meters''' 
an apparent exaggeration

==Page 615==

'''winged''' 
shot in the arm

'''three meters''' 
about 9.8 feet

'''Copernicanly''' 
in the manner of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Polish astronomer

'''Serenity Prayer''' 
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

==Page 616==

'''loafers''' 
shoes that slip on, rather than tie with laces

'''desisted''' 
stopped (but Wade McD. probably meant 'deceased')

==Page 617==

''''By doze is fide.'''' 
"My nose is fine" said by someone with a broken nose, i.e., Green

'''Clearasil''' 
a brand name of benzoyl peroxide, for acne

''''I'b dot touchig dothig, dud worry.'''' 
"I'm not touching nothing, don't worry," ditto

'''shock''' 
insufficient blood flow to the body's organs and tissues, often following an injury but sometimes following an emotional shock

==Page 618==

'''Shylock''' 
He means "Sherlock." Shylock is the Jewish "villain" in Shakespeare's ''The Merchant of Venice.''

'''Supervised''' 
on supervised probation

'''Madame Psychosis is in charge.''' 
This is the first time Joelle has been positively ID'ed as M.P.

'''Secyotty!''' 
"Security!" screamed with a thick Boston accent

'''chanties''' 
He means "shanties," i.e., songs.

==Page 619==

'''''oddering''''' 
i.e., ordering

'''collops''' 
rolls of fat

'''fish-eye lens''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish-eye_lens wide-angle lens]

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==Page 589==

'''Revelation of John''' 
the last book of the Bible

'''Dysautonomia''' 
any disease or malfunction of the central nervous system

==Page 590==

'''XL''' 
extra-large

'''preverbally''' 
before speaking

==Page 591==

'''''ONE DAY A''''' 
"One Day at a Time," an AA slogan

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Wonderchicken]]

==Page 592==

==Page 593==

593 · Life as an Ennet House Staff Member

==Page 593==

'''lithium''' 
used to treat bipolar disorder

'''Sylvia Plate''' 
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was an American poet and suicide.

==Page 594==

'''narc''' 
a narcotics officer

'''verbatim''' 
word for word

==Page 595==

==Page 596==

596 · Orin Continued

==Page 596==

'''tamping''' 
packing down the tobacco

==Page 597==

'''cuckolds''' 
men whose wives cheat on them

'''zaftig''' 
a Yiddish word meaning, roughly, "voluptuous"

'''pectorals''' 
chest muscles

==Page 598==

''''Plus or minus three percent sample.'''' 
This is the margin of error on the supposed survey Orin is about to take.

==Page 599==

'''CO2''' 
a misprint, likely, for CO2, i.e., carbon dioxide

'''omnissent''' 
Orin means "omniscient."

'''Schmeisser GBF''' 
Schmeisser doesn't appear to be a gun manufacturer anymore, but it was in Germany until the fall of the Third Reich. GBF may stand for "German Battle Force."

'''retromandibular''' 
behind the lower jaw

'''Sermonette''' 
a short sermon

'''Evensong''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evening_Prayer_%28Anglican%29 evening prayer] of the Episcopal church

'''megahertz''' 
a measurement of cycles per second

==Page 600==

'''Actors' Guild''' 
a reference to the [http://www.sag.org/ Screen Actors Guild]

'''Jeannie, Samantha, Sam and Diane, Gilligan, Hawkeye, Hazel, Jed''' 
characters from, respectively, [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058815/ ''I Dream of Jeannie''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057733/ ''Bewitched''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083399/ ''Cheers''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057751/ ''Gilligan's Island''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068098/ ''M*A*S*H''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054545/ ''Hazel''], and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055662/ ''The Beverly Hillbillies''].

==Page 601==

'''''comme on dit''''' 
French: as they say

601 · Ennet House Besieged by Canadians

==Page 601==

==Endnote 247==

'''the Hole''' 
prison slang for solitary confinement

==Page 602==

==Endnote 248==

'''Natick''' 
a town in Massachusetts about 20 miles west of Boston

'''third year of [[Subsidized Time]]''' 
i.e., the [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Trial-Sized Dove Bar]]

==Page 603==

'''skivvies''' 
underwear

'''per diem''' 
Latin: per day

'''klaxon''' 
a loud metal horn

==Page 604==

'''idolatry''' 
Gately probably doesn't intend to use this word.

==Page 605==

'''rack''' 
apparently a term for a bed

'''regentrifying''' 
Whereas this word would mean "gentrifying again," Lenz means "regenerating."

'''L-Dopa''' 
abbreviation for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-Dopa levadopa]

'''scrotum-tightening''' 
an epithet first used by James Joyce in ''Ulysses''

==Endnote 252==

'''boilerplate''' 
standard text entered identically, as into contracts

==Page 606==

'''Duster''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Duster Plymouth Duster]

'''lacteal''' 
milky

'''rear-mount engine''' 
all Volkswagen bugs have rear-mounted engines

'''prostrate''' 
lying flat on the ground (or, here, a bed)

'''kosher''' 
Here Gately means it as "OK," whereas this literally means, in Yiddish, "prepared according to Jewish Law" of food.

'''Daytona''' 
i.e., the Daytona 500, a yearly auto race

==Page 607==

'''Simonize''' 
to shine or polish to a high sheen

'''Premium''' 
high-octane gasoline

'''adtorsion''' 
outward rotation of a limb

'''Hoits''' 
i.e., "hurts"

==Page 608==

'''B#''' 
This is a key in music that does not exist. B# is actually C, as there is no black key between B and C on a piano.

==Page 609==

'''imprecating''' 
calling down curses on others

'''in tandem''' 
together as a unit

'''Weaver stance''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaver_stance popular technique] for firing a handgun

'''Made Guys''' 
members of the Mafia in full standing

'''at bay''' 
facing attackers

==Page 610==

'''wicks''' 
draws off (liquid) by capillary action

'''dum-dums''' 
bullets that mushroom on impact for maximum bodily damage

==Page 611==

'''Pomade''' 
a substance men used to use to style their hair

==Page 612==

'''''sans-Crist bâtard''''' 
French: Anti-Christ bastard

'''Pépé or Bébé''' 
apparently the name of the dog that Lenz just killed

'''''maricones''''' 
Spanish: homosexuals (note that Brazilians actually speak Portuguese, not Spanish)

'''two meters''' 
about 6.6 feet

'''Canadian''' 
i.e., Québecois French

==Page 613==

'''breezeblocked''' 
a breezeblock is a cinder block

==Page 614==

'''appointments''' 
furnishings

'''ailanthus''' 
a common form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ailanthus urban plant]

'''two meters''' 
an apparent exaggeration

==Page 615==

'''winged''' 
shot in the arm

'''three meters''' 
about 9.8 feet

'''Copernicanly''' 
in the manner of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Polish astronomer

'''Serenity Prayer''' 
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

==Page 616==

'''loafers''' 
shoes that slip on, rather than tie with laces

'''desisted''' 
stopped (maybe dead?)

==Page 617==

''''By doze is fide.'''' 
"My nose is fine" said by someone with a broken nose, i.e., Green

'''Clearasil''' 
a brand name of benzoyl peroxide, for acne

''''I'b dot touchig dothig, dud worry.'''' 
"I'm not touching nothing, don't worry," ditto

'''shock''' 
insufficient blood flow to the body's organs and tissues, often following an injury but sometimes following an emotional shock

==Page 618==

'''Shylock''' 
He means "Sherlock." Shylock is the Jewish "villain" in Shakespeare's ''The Merchant of Venice.''

'''Supervised''' 
on supervised probation

'''Madame Psychosis is in charge.''' 
This is the first time Joelle has been positively ID'ed as M.P.

'''Secyotty!''' 
"Security!" screamed with a thick Boston accent

'''chanties''' 
He means "shanties," i.e., songs.

==Page 619==

'''''oddering''''' 
i.e., ordering

'''collops''' 
rolls of fat

'''fish-eye lens''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish-eye_lens wide-angle lens]

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==Page 589==

'''Revelation of John''' 
the last book of the Bible

'''Dysautonomia''' 
any disease or malfunction of the central nervous system

==Page 590==

'''XL''' 
extra-large

'''preverbally''' 
before speaking

==Page 591==

'''''ONE DAY A''''' 
"One Day at a Time," an AA slogan

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Wonderchicken]]

==Page 592==

==Page 593==

593 · Life as an Ennet House Staff Member

==Page 593==

'''lithium''' 
used to treat bipolar disorder

'''Sylvia Plate''' 
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was an American poet and suicide.

==Page 594==

'''narc''' 
a narcotics officer

'''verbatim''' 
word for word

==Page 595==

==Page 596==

596 · Orin Continued

==Page 596==

'''tamping''' 
packing down the tobacco

==Page 597==

'''cuckolds''' 
men whose wives cheat on them

'''zaftig''' 
a Yiddish word meaning, roughly, "voluptuous"

'''pectorals''' 
chest muscles

==Page 598==

''''Plus or minus three percent sample.'''' 
This is the margin of error on the supposed survey Orin is about to take.

==Page 599==

'''CO2''' 
a misprint, likely, for CO2, i.e., carbon dioxide

'''omnissent''' 
Orin means "omniscient."

'''Schmeisser GBF''' 
Schmeisser doesn't appear to be a gun manufacturer anymore, but it was in Germany until the fall of the Third Reich. GBF may stand for "German Battle Force."

'''retromandibular''' 
behind the lower jaw

'''Sermonette''' 
a short sermon

'''Evensong''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evening_Prayer_%28Anglican%29 evening prayer] of the Episcopal church

'''megahertz''' 
a measurement of cycles per second

==Page 600==

'''Actors' Guild''' 
a reference to the [http://www.sag.org/ Screen Actors Guild]

'''Jeannie, Samantha, Sam and Diane, Gilligan, Hawkeye, Hazel, Jed''' 
characters from, respectively, [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058815/ ''I Dream of Jeannie''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057733/ ''Bewitched''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083399/ ''Cheers''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057751/ ''Gilligan's Island''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068098/ ''M*A*S*H''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054545/ ''Hazel''], and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055662/ ''The Beverly Hillbillies''].

==Page 601==

'''''comme on dit''''' 
French: as they say

601 · Ennet House Besieged by Canadians

==Page 601==

==Endnote 247==

'''the Hole''' 
prison slang for solitary confinement

==Page 602==

==Endnote 248==

'''Natick''' 
a town in Massachusetts about 20 miles west of Boston

'''third year of [[Subsidized Time]]''' 
i.e., the [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Trial-Sized Dove Bar]]

==Page 603==

'''skivvies''' 
underwear

'''per diem''' 
Latin: per day

'''klaxon''' 
a loud metal horn

==Page 604==

'''idolatry''' 
Gately probably doesn't intend to use this word.

==Page 605==

'''rack''' 
apparently a term for a bed

'''regentrifying''' 
Whereas this word would mean "gentrifying again," Lenz means "regenerating."

'''L-Dopa''' 
abbreviation for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-Dopa levadopa]

'''scrotum-tightening''' 
an epithet first used by James Joyce in ''Ulysses''

==Endnote 252==

'''boilerplate''' 
standard text entered identically, as into contracts

==Page 606==

'''Duster''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Duster Plymouth Duster]

'''lacteal''' 
milky

'''rear-mount engine''' 
all Volkswagen bugs have rear-mounted engines

'''prostrate''' 
lying flat on the ground (or, here, a bed)

'''kosher''' 
Here Gately means it as "OK," whereas this literally means, in Yiddish, "prepared according to Jewish Law" of food.

'''Daytona''' 
i.e., the Daytona 500, a yearly auto race

==Page 607==

'''Simonize''' 
to shine or polish to a high sheen

'''Premium''' 
high-octane gasoline

'''adtorsion''' 
outward rotation of a limb

'''Hoits''' 
i.e., "hurts"

==Page 608==

'''B#''' 
This is a key in music that does not exist. B# is actually C, as there is no black key between B and C on a piano.

==Page 609==

'''imprecating''' 
calling down curses on others

'''in tandem''' 
together as a unit

'''Weaver stance''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaver_stance popular technique] for firing a handgun

'''Made Guys''' 
members of the Mafia in full standing

'''at bay''' 
facing attackers

==Page 610==

'''wicks''' 
draws off (liquid) by capillary action

'''dum-dums''' 
bullets that mushroom on impact for maximum bodily damage

==Page 611==

'''Pomade''' 
a substance men used to use to style their hair

==Page 612==

'''''sans-Crist bâtard''''' 
French: Anti-Christ bastard

'''Pépé or Bébé''' 
apparently the name of the dog that Lenz just killed

'''''maricones''''' 
Spanish: homosexuals (note that Brazilians actually speak Portuguese, not Spanish)

'''two meters''' 
about 6.6 feet

'''Canadian''' 
i.e., Québecois French

==Page 613==

'''breezeblocked''' 
a breezeblock is a cinder block

==Page 614==

'''appointments''' 
furnishings

'''ailanthus''' 
a common form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ailanthus urban plant]

'''two meters''' 
an apparent exaggerations

==Page 615==

'''winged''' 
shot in the arm

'''three meters''' 
about 9.8 feet

'''Copernicanly''' 
in the manner of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Polish astronomer

'''Serenity Prayer''' 
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

==Page 616==

'''loafers''' 
shoes that slip on, rather than tie with laces

'''desisted''' 
stopped (maybe dead?)

==Page 617==

''''By doze is fide.'''' 
"My nose is fine" said by someone with a broken nose, i.e., Green

'''Clearasil''' 
a brand name of benzoyl peroxide, for acne

''''I'b dot touchig dothig, dud worry.'''' 
"I'm not touching nothing, don't worry," ditto

'''shock''' 
insufficient blood flow to the body's organs and tissues, often following an injury but sometimes following an emotional shock

==Page 618==

'''Shylock''' 
He means "Sherlock." Shylock is the Jewish "villain" in Shakespeare's ''The Merchant of Venice.''

'''Supervised''' 
on supervised probation

'''Madame Psychosis is in charge.''' 
This is the first time Joelle has been positively ID'ed as M.P.

'''Secyotty!''' 
"Security!" screamed with a thick Boston accent

'''chanties''' 
He means "shanties," i.e., songs.

==Page 619==

'''''oddering''''' 
i.e., ordering

'''collops''' 
rolls of fat

'''fish-eye lens''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish-eye_lens wide-angle lens]

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==Page 589==

'''Revelation of John''' 
the last book of the Bible

'''Dysautonomia''' 
any disease or malfunction of the central nervous system

==Page 590==

'''XL''' 
extra-large

'''preverbally''' 
before speaking

==Page 591==

'''''ONE DAY A''''' 
"One Day at a Time," an AA slogan

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Wonderchicken]]

==Page 592==

==Page 593==

593 · Life as an Ennet House Staff Member

==Page 593==

'''lithium''' 
used to treat bipolar disorder

'''Sylvia Plate''' 
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was an American poet and suicide.

==Page 594==

'''narc''' 
a narcotics officer

'''verbatim''' 
word for word

==Page 595==

==Page 596==

596 · Orin Continued

==Page 596==

'''tamping''' 
packing down the tobacco

==Page 597==

'''cuckolds''' 
men whose wives cheat on them

'''zaftig''' 
a Yiddish word meaning, roughly, "voluptuous"

'''pectorals''' 
chest muscles

==Page 598==

''''Plus or minus three percent sample.'''' 
This is the margin of error on the supposed survey Orin is about to take.

==Page 599==

'''CO2''' 
a misprint, likely, for CO2, i.e., carbon dioxide

'''omnissent''' 
Orin means "omniscient."

'''Schmeisser GBF''' 
Schmeisser doesn't appear to be a gun manufacturer anymore, but it was in Germany until the fall of the Third Reich. GBF may stand for "German Battle Force."

'''retromandibular''' 
behind the lower jaw

'''Sermonette''' 
a short sermon

'''Evensong''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evening_Prayer_%28Anglican%29 evening prayer] of the Episcopal church

'''megahertz''' 
a measurement of cycles per second

==Page 600==

'''Actors' Guild''' 
a reference to the [http://www.sag.org/ Screen Actors Guild]

'''Jeannie, Samantha, Sam and Diane, Gilligan, Hawkeye, Hazel, Jed''' 
characters from, respectively, [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058815/ ''I Dream of Jeannie''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057733/ ''Bewitched''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083399/ ''Cheers''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057751/ ''Gilligan's Island''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068098/ ''M*A*S*H''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054545/ ''Hazel''], and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055662/ ''The Beverly Hillbillies''].

==Page 601==

'''''comme on dit''''' 
French: as they say

601 · Ennet House Besieged by Canadians

==Page 601==

==Endnote 247==

'''the Hole''' 
prison slang for solitary confinement

==Page 602==

==Endnote 248==

'''Natick''' 
a town in Massachusetts about 20 miles west of Boston

'''third year of [[Subsidized Time]]''' 
i.e., the [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Trial-Sized Dove Bar]]

==Page 603==

'''skivvies''' 
underwear

'''per diem''' 
Latin: per day

'''klaxon''' 
a loud metal horn

==Page 604==

'''idolatry''' 
Gately probably doesn't intend to use this word.

==Page 605==

'''rack''' 
apparently a term for a bed

'''regentrifying''' 
Whereas this word would mean "gentrifying again," Lenz means "regenerating."

'''L-Dopa''' 
abbreviation for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-Dopa levadopa]

'''scrotum-tightening''' 
an epithet first used by James Joyce in ''Ulysses''

'''Duster''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Duster Plymouth Duster]

'''lacteal''' 
milky

'''rear-mount engine''' 
all Volkswagen bugs have rear-mounted engines

'''prostrate''' 
lying flat on the ground (or, here, a bed)

'''kosher''' 
Here Gately means it as "OK," whereas this literally means, in Yiddish, "prepared according to Jewish Law" of food.

==Page 606==

==Endnote 252==

'''boilerplate''' 
standard text entered identically, as into contracts

==Page 606 (cont'd)==

'''Daytona''' 
i.e., the Daytona 500, a yearly auto race

==Page 607==

'''Simonize''' 
to shine or polish to a high sheen

'''Premium''' 
high-octane gasoline

'''adtorsion''' 
outward rotation of a limb

'''Hoits''' 
i.e., "hurts"

==Page 608==

'''B#''' 
This is a key in music that does not exist. B# is actually C, as there is no black key between B and C on a piano.

==Page 609==

'''imprecating''' 
calling down curses on others

'''in tandem''' 
together as a unit

'''Weaver stance''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaver_stance popular technique] for firing a handgun

'''Made Guys''' 
members of the Mafia in full standing

'''at bay''' 
facing attackers

==Page 610==

'''wicks''' 
draws off (liquid) by capillary action

'''dum-dums''' 
bullets that mushroom on impact for maximum bodily damage

==Page 611==

'''Pomade''' 
a substance men used to use to style their hair

==Page 612==

'''''sans-Crist bâtard''''' 
French: Anti-Christ bastard

'''Pépé or Bébé''' 
apparently the name of the dog that Lenz just killed

'''''maricones''''' 
Spanish: homosexuals (note that Brazilians actually speak Portuguese, not Spanish)

'''two meters''' 
about 6.6 feet

'''Canadian''' 
i.e., Québecois French

==Page 613==

'''breezeblocked''' 
a breezeblock is a cinder block

==Page 614==

'''appointments''' 
furnishings

'''ailanthus''' 
a common form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ailanthus urban plant]

'''two meters''' 
an apparent exaggerations

==Page 615==

'''winged''' 
shot in the arm

'''three meters''' 
about 9.8 feet

'''Copernicanly''' 
in the manner of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Polish astronomer

'''Serenity Prayer''' 
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

==Page 616==

'''loafers''' 
shoes that slip on, rather than tie with laces

'''desisted''' 
stopped (maybe dead?)

==Page 617==

''''By doze is fide.'''' 
"My nose is fine" said by someone with a broken nose, i.e., Green

'''Clearasil''' 
a brand name of benzoyl peroxide, for acne

''''I'b dot touchig dothig, dud worry.'''' 
"I'm not touching nothing, don't worry," ditto

'''shock''' 
insufficient blood flow to the body's organs and tissues, often following an injury but sometimes following an emotional shock

==Page 618==

'''Shylock''' 
He means "Sherlock." Shylock is the Jewish "villain" in Shakespeare's ''The Merchant of Venice.''

'''Supervised''' 
on supervised probation

'''Madame Psychosis is in charge.''' 
This is the first time Joelle has been positively ID'ed as M.P.

'''Secyotty!''' 
"Security!" screamed with a thick Boston accent

'''chanties''' 
He means "shanties," i.e., songs.

==Page 619==

'''''oddering''''' 
i.e., ordering

'''collops''' 
rolls of fat

'''fish-eye lens''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish-eye_lens wide-angle lens]

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==Page 589==

'''Revelation of John''' 
the last book of the Bible

'''Dysautonomia''' 
any disease or malfunction of the central nervous system

==Page 590==

'''XL''' 
extra-large

'''preverbally''' 
before speaking

==Page 591==

'''''ONE DAY A''''' 
"One Day at a Time," an AA slogan

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Wonderchicken]]

==Page 592==

==Page 593==

593 · Life as an Ennet House Staff Member

==Page 593==

'''lithium''' 
used to treat bipolar disorder

'''Sylvia Plate''' 
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was an American poet and suicide.

==Page 594==

'''narc''' 
a narcotics officer

'''verbatim''' 
word for word

==Page 595==

==Page 596==

596 · Orin Continued

==Page 596==

'''tamping''' 
packing down the tobacco

==Page 597==

'''cuckolds''' 
men whose wives cheat on them

'''zaftig''' 
a Yiddish word meaning, roughly, "voluptuous"

'''pectorals''' 
chest muscles

==Page 598==

''''Plus or minus three percent sample.'''' 
This is the margin of error on the supposed survey Orin is about to take.

==Page 599==

'''CO2''' 
a misprint, likely, for CO2, i.e., carbon dioxide

'''omnissent''' 
Orin means "omniscient."

'''Schmeisser GBF''' 
Schmeisser doesn't appear to be a gun manufacturer anymore, but it was in Germany until the fall of the Third Reich. GBF may stand for "German Battle Force."

'''retromandibular''' 
behind the lower jaw

'''Sermonette''' 
a short sermon

'''Evensong''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evening_Prayer_%28Anglican%29 evening prayer] of the Episcopal church

'''megahertz''' 
a measurement of cycles per second

==Page 600==

'''Actors' Guild''' 
a reference to the [http://www.sag.org/ Screen Actors Guild]

'''Jeannie, Samantha, Sam and Diane, Gilligan, Hawkeye, Hazel, Jed''' 
characters from, respectively, [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058815/ ''I Dream of Jeannie''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057733/ ''Bewitched''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083399/ ''Cheers''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057751/ ''Gilligan's Island''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068098/ ''M*A*S*H''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054545/ ''Hazel''], and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055662/ ''The Beverly Hillbillies''].

==Page 601==

'''''comme on dit''''' 
French: as they say

601 · Ennet House Besieged by Canadians

==Page 601==

==Endnote 247==

'''the Hole''' 
prison slang for solitary confinement

==Page 602==

==Endnote 248==

'''Natick''' 
a town in Massachusetts about 20 miles west of Boston

'''third year of [[Subsidized Time]]''' 
i.e., the [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Trial-Sized Dove Bar]]

==Page 603==

'''skivvies''' 
underwear

'''per diem''' 
Latin: per day

'''klaxon''' 
a loud metal horn

==Page 604==

'''idolatry''' 
Gately probably doesn't intend to use this word.

'''rack''' 
apparently a term for a bed

'''regentrifying''' 
Whereas this word would mean "gentrifying again," Lenz means "regenerating."

'''L-Dopa''' 
abbreviation for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-Dopa levadopa]

'''scrotum-tightening''' 
an epithet first used by James Joyce in ''Ulysses''

==Page 605==

'''Duster''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Duster Plymouth Duster]

'''lacteal''' 
milky

'''rear-mount engine''' 
all Volkswagen bugs have rear-mounted engines

'''prostrate''' 
lying flat on the ground (or, here, a bed)

'''kosher''' 
Here Gately means it as "OK," whereas this literally means, in Yiddish, "prepared according to Jewish Law" of food.

==Page 606==

==Endnote 252==

'''boilerplate''' 
standard text entered identically, as into contracts

==Page 606 (cont'd)==

'''Daytona''' 
i.e., the Daytona 500, a yearly auto race

==Page 607==

'''Simonize''' 
to shine or polish to a high sheen

'''Premium''' 
high-octane gasoline

'''adtorsion''' 
outward rotation of a limb

'''Hoits''' 
i.e., "hurts"

==Page 608==

'''B#''' 
This is a key in music that does not exist. B# is actually C, as there is no black key between B and C on a piano.

==Page 609==

'''imprecating''' 
calling down curses on others

'''in tandem''' 
together as a unit

'''Weaver stance''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaver_stance popular technique] for firing a handgun

'''Made Guys''' 
members of the Mafia in full standing

'''at bay''' 
facing attackers

==Page 610==

'''wicks''' 
draws off (liquid) by capillary action

'''dum-dums''' 
bullets that mushroom on impact for maximum bodily damage

==Page 611==

'''Pomade''' 
a substance men used to use to style their hair

==Page 612==

'''''sans-Crist bâtard''''' 
French: Anti-Christ bastard

'''Pépé or Bébé''' 
apparently the name of the dog that Lenz just killed

'''''maricones''''' 
Spanish: homosexuals (note that Brazilians actually speak Portuguese, not Spanish)

'''two meters''' 
about 6.6 feet

'''Canadian''' 
i.e., Québecois French

==Page 613==

'''breezeblocked''' 
a breezeblock is a cinder block

==Page 614==

'''appointments''' 
furnishings

'''ailanthus''' 
a common form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ailanthus urban plant]

'''two meters''' 
an apparent exaggerations

==Page 615==

'''winged''' 
shot in the arm

'''three meters''' 
about 9.8 feet

'''Copernicanly''' 
in the manner of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Polish astronomer

'''Serenity Prayer''' 
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

==Page 616==

'''loafers''' 
shoes that slip on, rather than tie with laces

'''desisted''' 
stopped (maybe dead?)

==Page 617==

''''By doze is fide.'''' 
"My nose is fine" said by someone with a broken nose, i.e., Green

'''Clearasil''' 
a brand name of benzoyl peroxide, for acne

''''I'b dot touchig dothig, dud worry.'''' 
"I'm not touching nothing, don't worry," ditto

'''shock''' 
insufficient blood flow to the body's organs and tissues, often following an injury but sometimes following an emotional shock

==Page 618==

'''Shylock''' 
He means "Sherlock." Shylock is the Jewish "villain" in Shakespeare's ''The Merchant of Venice.''

'''Supervised''' 
on supervised probation

'''Madame Psychosis is in charge.''' 
This is the first time Joelle has been positively ID'ed as M.P.

'''Secyotty!''' 
"Security!" screamed with a thick Boston accent

'''chanties''' 
He means "shanties," i.e., songs.

==Page 619==

'''''oddering''''' 
i.e., ordering

'''collops''' 
rolls of fat

'''fish-eye lens''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish-eye_lens wide-angle lens]

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==Page 563==

[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]

==Page 564==

'''cheese-nibbler''' 
i.e., a rat

'''skittery''' 
shy or coy

==Page 565==

'''nomonous''' 
i.e., anonymous

565 · Orin and the Swiss Hand Model

==Page 565==

'''Sky Harbor''' 
the airport serving Phoenix

'''I-17/-10''' 
Interstate 17 runs from Phoenix to Interstate 10, which to Flagstaff, Ariz.

==[[IJE234|Endnote 234]]==

==Page 566==

'''languor''' 
lack of energy

==Page 567==

567 · In the Tunnel

==Page 567==

'''Dural edema''' 
swelling of the dura mater due to excess liquid

==Page 568==

'''perforce''' 
by force of circumstance

==Page 569==

'''nubbin''' 
a small lump

'''insurmagulate''' 
Pemulis probably means to say "insurmountable."

'''micturate''' 
urinate

==Page 570==

'''avail''' 
advantage, use, efficacy

'''"...part the veil of Maya.."''' 
This means to glimpse transcendental truth by parting the veil of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_(illusion) Maya]. Why Idris, a Muslim from Pakistan, would be aware of this Hindu reference is not explained

==Page 571==

'''hot''' 
hearing denoting radioactivity

'''UF4''' 
chemical notation for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_tetrafluoride uranium tetrafluoride], used in some nuclear reactors

'''zirconium''' 
a transition metal element

'''Da''' 
a common Irish nickname for one's father

'''cuc—''' 
Pemulis is probably about to say "cuckold."

==Page 572==

'''coprolite''' 
fossilized dung

'''A.E.C.''' 
Atomic Energy Commission

'''anathematic''' 
likely to be greatly hated

==Endnote 238==

'''meta-disease''' 
a disease syndrome, or a disease that itself causes other diseases

==Page 572==

'''''Jawohl''''' 
German for "yes" in a particularly enthusiastic way

==Page 573==

'''sterabolic anoids''' 
i.e., anabolic steroids

'''rapacial''' 
i.e., rapacious

'''"...each month's prime numbers..."''' 
Which would be the second, third, fifth, seventh, eleventh, thirteenth, seventeenth, nineteenth, twenty-third, twenty-ninth, and thirty-first (when the month has thirty-one days)

'''decelerated''' 
slowed down

'''jacklights''' 
backlights with a special light used as a lure during hunting

==Page 574==

'''Eliotical''' 
referring to T.S. Eliot, author of ''The Waste Land''

'''repose''' 
rest

574 · Orin Realizes Something

'''Junoesque''' 
Juno is the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hera Hera]. Orin means to say that "Helen" is like a goddess.

==Page 575==

'''Rt. 85''' 
Arizona State Route 85 connects Interstate 10 to the Mexican border near Lukesville, Ariz.

575 · More With Lenz and Green

==Page 575==

'''rhynophemic''' 
a misspelled reference to rhinophyma, the reddening of the nose common to alcoholics

'''"...like a seahorse..."''' 
Seahorses actually have two eyes.

'''G.E.D.''' 
General Equivalency Degree

==Endnote 239==

'''N2O''' 
nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas

'''thiopental sodium''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiopental_sodium sodium pentothal], a powerful general anesthetic

==Page 575 (cont'd)==

'''mumus''' 
a long, formless, loose-hanging dress

'''brocade''' 
fabric woven with an elaborate design

'''hove''' 
past tense of "heave"

==Page 576==

'''ordinational''' 
i.e., ordinal, or increasing by number

'''jounce''' 
to move joltingly up and down

'''recesstacle''' 
apparently a combination of "recess" and "receptacle"

'''sojourn''' 
not a synonym for "journey," as Lenz is using it, but rather a term meaning a stay in a place for a prolonged period

'''derisive''' 
intended to offend or insult

'''excretate''' 
i.e., extricate

'''plaintiffly''' 
Lenz means "plaintively."

'''Dukakis''' 
Michael Stanley Dukakis (born 1933) was governor of Massachusetts (1983-1991) and the 1988 Democratic nominee for President.

'''18th-Circus''' 
That should be "18th Circuit."

'''1.5-meter''' 
about 4.9 feet

==Page 577==

[[Image:Mondrian.jpg|thumb|caption|''Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue'' 1921|right|200px]]

'''Mondrian''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Mondrian Pieter Cornelis (Piet) Mondrian] (1872-1944) was a Dutch painter. The reference to his work makes more sense when seen right.

'''defiles''' 
narrow passageways

'''blaze-trailing''' 
trailblazing

'''5/4''' 
a meter is music with five quarter-notes per measure

''''shine''' 
a derogatory term for a black person

'''zithery''' 
provoking the sound of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zither zither], a string instrument

'''rimed''' 
covered with frost

'''kalpacs''' 
a high-crowned felt or fur hat worn by Turks and Central Asians

'''iridescent''' 
displaying all the colors of the rainbow

'''Y.C.A.''' 
Youth Corrections Act

'''patissiers''' 
French: pastry chefs

==Page 578==

'''garish''' 
crudely colorful

==Page 579==

'''''Buns of Steel''''' 
still available [http://www.amazon.com/Buns-Steel-Greg-Smithey/dp/6303182135 for sale]

'''sedentary''' 
involving much sitting

'''bosun''' 
slang sailor term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boatswain boatswain]

'''Falstaff''' 
a brand of beer that stopped being [http://www.falstaffbrewing.com/ brewed] in 2005

'''Gummi Bears''' 
a small [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gummi_bear candy] originating in Germany

==Page 580==

'''ejaculatory''' 
sudden

'''cardiac''' 
i.e., a heart attack

'''opaque''' 
cloudy; not allowing light through

'''brambled''' 
beaten with thorns

==Page 581==

'''tetryl''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetryl explosive] used to make detonators

'''V.F.W.''' 
Veterans of Foreign Wars

'''Rotarians''' 
members of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_Club Rotary International]

'''Shriners''' 
members of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shriners Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine]

'''W. Miller''' 
William Miller (1782-1849) was an American religious leader and one of the founders of the Seventh-Day Adventist movement.

'''Defarge''' 
Madame Thérèse Defarge is a character in Charles Dickens's novel ''A Tale of Two Cities''.

'''O.D.C.''' 
Ohio Department of Corrections

'''igneous''' 
produced by volcanic action

[[Image:Fez.jpg|right]]

'''fezzes''' 
Turkish or Middle-Eastern style hats (see right)

'''sump''' 
cesspool

==Page 582==

'''warbly''' 
tending to warble, i.e., to sing with a trill

'''acclivity''' 
an upward slope

'''dogleg''' 
a route that turns at a sharp angle

'''Choosy Mothers''' 
probably taken from the Jif peanut butter commerical slogan: "Choosy Mothers Choose Jif"

==Page 583==

'''midbrain''' 
another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midbrain mesencephalon]

'''intaglioed''' 
engraved

'''disincentive''' 
a deterrent

'''War of the Welles''' 
a reference to the film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046534/ War of the Worlds], itself adapted from the 1938 radio play by George Orson Welles (1915-1985), American actor and filmmaker

'''Don Ho''' 
Donald Tai Loy Ho (1930-2007) was a Hawaiian musician.

'''Sol Hoopi Players''' 
Solomon Ho'opi'i Ka'ai'ai (1902-1953) was another famous Hawaiian musician.

[[Image:Quebec.gif|right]]

'''blue and white Quenucker flag''' 
see right

'''JBL''' 
an [http://www.jbl.com/ audio wares company]

==Page 584==

'''skulk''' 
to move about secretively

'''Shetland''' 
a Shetland pony, giving some idea how big the dog is

'''''noblest oblige''''' 
a superlative pun on ''noblesse oblige'', the requirement of the wealthy to be kind to those less fortunate

'''undulate''' 
to move like waves

'''Hawaii Five-O''' 
a [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062568/ television series] than ran in the late 1960s and 1970s

==Page 585==

'''Southern Comfort''' 
an orange-flavored whiskey

'''anomic''' 
class-alienating

'''andante''' 
In music, this word indicates a moderately slow tempo.

==Page 586==

'''''Don Ho: From Hawaii With All My Love''''' 
This doesn't appear to be a real record.

'''lalations''' 
misspelling of "lallations," i.e., baby-talk

'''Day-Glo''' 
a brand name of glow-in-the-dark fabrics

'''Geiger counter''' 
a machine used to measure radioactivity

''''My Lovely Launa-Una Luau Lady'''' 
Nor does this appear to be a real song.

'''p.m.''' 
per minute

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]

'''Canadian''' 
i.e., in French

'''Montego''' 
either the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Montego Austin Montego] or the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Montego Mercury Montego]

==Page 587==

'''Molson''' 
a Canadian brand of beer

'''scruff''' 
nape of the neck

'''32-kilo''' 
a little over 70 lbs

==Page 588==

'''jabber''' 
to talk rapidly

''''Dyu!'''' 
most likely ''Dieu!'', French for "God!"

==Page 589==

'''180s''' 
turns half-way around, i.e., 180º

'''lee''' 
away from the wind

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==Page 563==

[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]

==Page 564==

'''cheese-nibbler''' 
i.e., a rat

'''skittery''' 
shy or coy

==Page 565==

'''nomonous''' 
i.e., anonymous

565 · Orin and the Swiss Hand Model

==Page 565==

'''Sky Harbor''' 
the airport serving Phoenix

'''I-17/-10''' 
Interstate 17 runs from Phoenix to Interstate 10, which to Flagstaff, Ariz.

==[[IJE234|Endnote 234]]==

==Page 566==

'''languor''' 
lack of energy

==Page 567==

567 · In the Tunnel

==Page 567==

'''Dural edema''' 
swelling of the dura mater due to excess liquid

==Page 568==

'''perforce''' 
by force of circumstance

==Page 569==

'''nubbin''' 
a small lump

'''insurmagulate''' 
Pemulis probably means to say "insurmountable."

'''micturate''' 
urinate

==Page 570==

'''avail''' 
advantage, use, efficacy

'''"...part the veil of Maya.."''' 
This means to glimpse transcendental truth by parting the veil of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_(illusion) Maya]. Why Idris, a Muslim from Pakistan, would be aware of this Hindu reference is not explained

==Page 571==

'''hot''' 
hearing denoting radioactivity

'''UF4''' 
chemical notation for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_tetrafluoride uranium tetrafluoride], used in some nuclear reactors

'''zirconium''' 
a transition metal element

'''Da''' 
a common Irish nickname for one's father

'''cuc—''' 
Pemulis is probably about to say "cuckold."

==Page 572==

'''coprolite''' 
fossilized dung

'''A.E.C.''' 
Atomic Energy Commission

'''anathematic''' 
likely to be greatly hated

==Endnote 238==

'''meta-disease''' 
a disease syndrome, or a disease that itself causes other diseases

==Page 572==

'''''Jawohl''''' 
German for "yes" in a particularly enthusiastic way

==Page 573==

'''sterabolic anoids''' 
i.e., anabolic steroids

'''rapacial''' 
i.e., rapacious

'''"...each month's prime numbers..."''' 
Which would be the second, third, fifth, seventh, eleventh, thirteenth, seventeenth, nineteenth, twenty-third, twenty-ninth, and thirty-first (when the month has thirty-one days)

'''decelerated''' 
slowed down

'''jacklights''' 
backlights with a special light used as a lure during hunting

==Page 574==

'''Eliotical''' 
referring to T.S. Eliot, author of ''The Waste Land''

'''repose''' 
rest

574 · Orin Realizes Something

'''Junoesque''' 
Juno is the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hera Hera]. Orin means to say that "Helen" is like a goddess.

==Page 575==

'''Rt. 85''' 
Arizona State Route 85 connects Interstate 10 to the Mexican border near Lukesville, Ariz.

575 · More With Lenz and Green

==Page 575==

'''rhynophemic''' 
a misspelled reference to rhinophyma, the reddening of the nose common to alcoholics

'''"...like a seahorse..."''' 
Seahorses actually have two eyes.

'''G.E.D.''' 
General Equivalency Degree

==Endnote 239==

'''N2O''' 
nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas

'''thiopental sodium''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiopental_sodium sodium pentothal], a powerful general anesthetic

==Page 575 (cont'd)==

'''mumus''' 
a long, formless, loose-hanging dress

'''brocade''' 
fabric woven with an elaborate design

'''hove''' 
past tense of "heave"

==Page 576==

'''ordinational''' 
i.e., ordinal, or increasing by number

'''jounce''' 
to move joltingly up and down

'''recesstacle''' 
apparently a combination of "recess" and "receptacle"

'''sojourn''' 
not a synonym for "journey," as Lenz is using it, but rather a term meaning a stay in a place for a prolonged period

'''derisive''' 
intended to offend or insult

'''excretate''' 
i.e., extricate

'''plaintiffly''' 
Lenz means "plaintively."

'''Dukakis''' 
Michael Stanley Dukakis (born 1933) was governor of Massachusetts (1983-1991) and the 1988 Democratic nominee for President.

'''18th-Circus''' 
That should be "18th Circuit."

'''1.5-meter''' 
about 4.9 feet

==Page 577==

[[Image:Mondrian.jpg|thumb|caption|''Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue'' 1921|right|200px]]

'''Mondrian''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Mondrian Pieter Cornelis (Piet) Mondrian] (1872-1944) was a Dutch painter. The reference to his work makes more sense when seen right.

'''defiles''' 
narrow passageways

'''blaze-trailing''' 
trailblazing

'''5/4''' 
a meter is music with five quarter-notes per measure

''''shine''' 
a derogatory term for a black person

'''zithery''' 
provoking the sound of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zither zither], a string instrument

'''rimed''' 
covered with frost

'''kalpacs''' 
a high-crowned felt or fur hat worn by Turks and Central Asians

'''iridescent''' 
displaying all the colors of the rainbow

'''Y.C.A.''' 
Youth Corrections Act

'''patissiers''' 
French: pastry chefs

==Page 578==

'''garish''' 
crudely colorful

==Page 579==

'''''Buns of Steel''''' 
still available [http://www.amazon.com/Buns-Steel-Greg-Smithey/dp/6303182135 for sale]

'''sedentary''' 
involving much sitting

'''bosun''' 
slang sailor term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boatswain boatswain]

'''Falstaff''' 
a brand of beer that stopped being [http://www.falstaffbrewing.com/ brewed] in 2005

'''Gummi Bears''' 
a small [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gummi_bear candy] originating in Germany

==Page 580==

'''ejaculatory''' 
sudden

'''cardiac''' 
i.e., a heart attack

'''opaque''' 
cloudy; not allowing light through

'''brambled''' 
beaten with thorns

==Page 581==

'''tetryl''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetryl explosive] used to make detonators

'''V.F.W.''' 
Veterans of Foreign Wars

'''Rotarians''' 
members of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_Club Rotary International]

'''Shriners''' 
members of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shriners Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine]

'''W. Miller''' 
William Miller (1782-1849) was an American religious leader and one of the founders of the Seventh-Day Adventist movement.

'''Defarge''' 
Madame Thérèse Defarge is a character in Charles Dickens's novel ''A Tale of Two Cities''.

'''O.D.C.''' 
Ohio Department of Corrections

'''igneous''' 
produced by volcanic action

[[Image:Fez.jpg|right]]

'''fezzes''' 
Turkish or Middle-Eastern style hats (see right)

'''sump''' 
cesspool

==Page 582==

'''warbly''' 
tending to warble, i.e., to sing with a trill

'''acclivity''' 
an upward slope

'''dogleg''' 
a route that turns at a sharp angle

'''Choosy Mothers''' 
probably taken from the Jif peanut butter commerical slogan: "Choosy Mothers Choose Jif"

==Page 583==

'''midbrain''' 
another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midbrain mesencephalon]

'''intaglioed''' 
engraved

'''disincentive''' 
a deterrent

'''War of the Welles''' 
a reference to the film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046534/ War of the Worlds], itself adapted from the 1938 radio play by George Orson Welles (1915-1985), American actor and filmmaker

'''Don Ho''' 
Donald Tai Loy Ho (1930-2007) was a Hawaiian musician.

'''Sol Hoopi Players''' 
Solomon Ho'opi'i Ka'ai'ai (1902-1953) was another famous Hawaiian musician.

[[Image:Quebec.gif|right]]

'''blue and white Quenucker flag''' 
see right

'''JBL''' 
an [http://www.jbl.com/ audio wares company]

==Page 584==

'''skulk''' 
to move about secretively

'''Shetland''' 
a Shetland pony, giving some idea how big the dog is

'''''noblest oblige''''' 
a superlative pun on ''noblesse oblige'', the requirement of the wealthy to be kind to those less fortunate

'''undulate''' 
to move like waves

'''Hawaii Five-O''' 
a [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062568/ television series] than ran in the late 1960s and 1970s

==Page 585==

'''Southern Comfort''' 
an orange-flavored whiskey

'''anomic''' 
class alienation

'''andante''' 
In music, this word indicates a moderately slow tempo.

==Page 586==

'''''Don Ho: From Hawaii With All My Love''''' 
This doesn't appear to be a real record.

'''lalations''' 
misspelling of "lallations," i.e., baby-talk

'''Day-Glo''' 
a brand name of glow-in-the-dark fabrics

'''Geiger counter''' 
a machine used to measure radioactivity

''''My Lovely Launa-Una Luau Lady'''' 
Nor does this appear to be a real song.

'''p.m.''' 
per minute

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]

'''Canadian''' 
i.e., in French

'''Montego''' 
either the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Montego Austin Montego] or the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Montego Mercury Montego]

==Page 587==

'''Molson''' 
a Canadian brand of beer

'''scruff''' 
nape of the neck

'''32-kilo''' 
a little over 70 lbs

==Page 588==

'''jabber''' 
to talk rapidly

''''Dyu!'''' 
most likely ''Dieu!'', French for "God!"

==Page 589==

'''180s''' 
turns half-way around, i.e., 180º

'''lee''' 
away from the wind

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'''boilermakers''' 
shots of whiskey chased with beer

'''keep''' 
i.e., the barkeep

==Page 532==

'''Cumberland''' 
Given that Joelle is from Kentucky, this is probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_Mountains Cumberland Mountains]

'''O.D.''' 
overdose

==Page 533==

'''metronome''' 
a time-keeping device for musicians, typically a pendulum-like machine that clicks to provide meter

==Page 535==

'''gregarious''' 
sociable

==Page 536==

==Page 537==

==Page 538==

'''slavering''' 
drooling

538* · Randy Lenz: Rats, Cats, and Dogs

==Page 538==

'''12-gauge blast''' 
as from as 12-gauge shotgun

==Page 539==

'''E.M.I.T.''' 
enzyme-multiplied immunoassay technique

==Page 540==

==Endnote 224==

'''EZC''' 
i.e., "easy see"

'''NAL''' 
New American Library

'''Ticknor, Fields''' 
Ticknor and Fields was a publishing house eventually bought by Houghton Mifflin in 1880.

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]

==Page 540 (cont'd)==

'''W-E''' 
west-east

'''Stegosaurus''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegosaurus dinosaur]

==Page 541==

'''verminal''' 
tending to breed vermin

'''cabbaging''' 
stealing

'''brisance''' 
the shattering effect of an explosive

==Page 542==

'''panoply''' 
a wide-ranging array of things

'''A Program of Attraction''' 
AA refers to itself as this, meaning that it doesn't need to advertise.

'''EST and Greenwich Mean''' 
Eastern Standard Time and Greenwich Mean Time, the latter of which is determined at the Prime Meridian, or 0º longitude

'''DOW''' 
probably the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average Dow Jones Industrial Average]

'''NIKEI''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikkei_225 Nikkei 225] index of the Japanese stock market

==Page 543==

'''winsome''' 
charming

'''diverticulitis''' 
inflammation of the pouches of the colon

'''gone rye''' 
i.e., gone awry

'''Principles of Psychology and the Gifford Lectures on Natural Philosophy''' 
"[http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=88 William James’s Gifford Lectures] of 1901–1902 have been heralded by some as the greatest lectures ever to be presented in the series and perhaps the most seminal of his works (alongside The Principles of Psychology). Published initially in 1902, [http://www.csp.org/experience/james-varieties/james-varieties.html The Varieties of Religions Experience: A Study in Human Nature] has stood the test of time and been republished thirty-six times."

'''20-gram''' 
About .70 ounces, this is a lot of cocaine.

'''bonerfied''' 
bona fide

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'''ten-kilo''' 
about 22 lbs

==Page 545==

'''phosphenes''' 
light sensations in the eyes when light is physically absent

'''apnea''' 
the tendency of mainly overweight people to stop breathing intermittently in their sleep

==Page 546==

'''R. Lauren''' 
Ralph Lauren

==Page 547==

'''tattlemount''' 
tantamount

==Page 548==

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

'''District''' 
the District of Columbia

==Endnote 228==

'''O.N.R.''' 
perhaps the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Naval_Research Office of Naval Research]

'''ambit''' 
sphere of operation or influence

==Page 548 (cont'd)==

'''twidgelling''' 
not a real word

'''NCA''' 
probably Northern California

'''Code-Five''' 
code for "stakeout in progress"

'''New Iberia LA''' 
a city about 50 miles southwest of Baton Rouge

'''pithed''' 
having had a needle stuck into the base of the skull

'''U.S.O.''' 
Undercover Special Operations

'''P.E.T.s''' 
positron emission tomography, a kind of medical imaging technique

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'''worsted''' 
firmly twisted yarn

==Page 555==

'''stepped on''' 
cut, as in weakened the potency of a drug by adding another substance

'''half-kilo''' 
about 1.1 pounds

==Endnote 231==

'''Manitol''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannitol mannitol]

==Page 555 (cont'd)==

'''"...go find a short pier..."''' 
and take a long walk, being the implication

'''aqua-line nose''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooknose aquiline nose]

==Page 556==

'''anileated''' 
annihilated

'''hemispasm''' 
spasm on half of the face

'''insousistent''' 
insouciant

'''parallaxing''' 
Normally a noun ("parallel") and referring to light, here it's used as a verb (gerund) and refers to sound.

'''crucifi''' 
Probably Lenz means "crucifixes."

'''threnody''' 
a funeral dirge

==Page 557==

'''To Project and to Swerve''' 
a pun on the police motto "To Protect and Serve"

'''hoovered''' 
inhaled

==Endnote 232==

'''benzoylecgonine''' 
the major metabolite of cocaine

'''ecgonine''' 
an organic chemical found naturally in coca leaves

'''benzoic acid''' 
the simplest of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboxylic_acid caroxylic acids]

'''spider angiomas''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_angioma benign tumor]

'''rhinorrhagia''' 
bleeding from the nose

'''blepharospecticity''' 
This means something like "seeing through one's eyelids."

'''ballism''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballism hemiballismus]

'''oral labia''' 
the lips of the mouth

'''Paliacci''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagliacci Pagliacci] (''Clowns''), an opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), an Italian composer

'''diuresis extremus''' 
extreme production of urine and, thus, need to urinate

'''phobophobia''' 
fear of fear

'''sociosis''' 
a neurosis that has to do with one's ability to deal with society

'''acne rosea''' 
also known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosacea rosacea]

'''rhinophyma''' 
a red nose caused by amassing of granulomas there

'''synergism''' 
the property of things working together

'''confabulation''' 
talking

'''lingual tendinitis''' 
inflammation of the muscles of the tongue

'''pulmonary phasece''' 
I have no idea.

==Page 557 (cont'd)==

'''sangfroid''' 
coolness of the blood (from French)

'''fob''' 
an ornament attached to a pocket watch by a chain

'''chamois''' 
Pronounced "shammy," this is a cloth or piece of leather used to shine a surface.

'''''Track and Flange''''' 
not a real magazine

'''ergo''' 
Latin: therefore

'''''energois de vivre''''' 
something like "energy of living," although ''energois'' isn't a French work

==Page 558==

'''Estuarial crocodile''' 
the [http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Estuarine+crocodile estuarine (saltwater) crocodile]

'''A.D.A.''' 
American Dental Association

'''akido''' 
Lenz means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikido aikido].

'''valise''' 
a small piece of luggage

'''recurving''' 
i.e., recurring

'''t'ai-chi''' 
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiji Taiji]

==Page 559==

'''mescal''' 
an alcoholic beverage distilled from a cactus

'''cableyarrow''' 
''Caballero'' (Spanish for "gentleman") is what he means.

'''''in vitro''''' 
Latin for "in glass," this term is used to refer to experiments that happen in test tubes. Lenz means ''in vivo'', i.e., ''in utero''.

560 (1) · Hal Counts His Breaths

==Page 560==

'''photosynthesizing''' 
turning light into energy, as plants do

'''Baobab tree''' 
a [http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/baobab.htm tree] native to Africa and India

'''pride''' 
family of lions

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==Page 560==

'''septum''' 
the cartilage separating the nostrils

'''reguiles''' 
i.e., regales

'''Shangri-la''' 
the utopia of the novel ''Lost Horizon'' by James Hilton (1900-1954), a British author

'''kamasupra''' 
Lenz is referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra Kama Sutra].

==Page 561==

'''Fall River''' 
a city in Massachusetts about 50 miles south of Boston

'''poofta''' 
i.e., a poofter, a vulgar term for a male homosexual

'''intrepid''' 
fearless

'''fauna''' 
wildlife

'''Shawshine River''' 
also known as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawsheen_River Shawsheen]

'''ravacious''' 
This would seem to be a cross between "ravenous" and "rapacious."

==Page 562==

'''scat-piles''' 
piles of feces

'''feti''' 
plural of fetus

'''yrstruly''' 
yours truly

'''propitiating''' 
appeasing

'''diem''' 
Latin: day

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==Page 531==

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'''boilermakers''' 
shots of whiskey chased with beer

'''keep''' 
i.e., the barkeep

==Page 532==

'''Cumberland''' 
Given that Joelle is from Kentucky, this is probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_Mountains Cumberland Mountains]

'''O.D.''' 
overdose

==Page 533==

'''metronome''' 
a time-keeping device for musicians, typically a pendulum-like machine that clicks to provide meter

==Page 535==

'''gregarious''' 
sociable

==Page 536==

==Page 537==

==Page 538==

'''slavering''' 
drooling

538* · Randy Lenz: Rats, Cats, and Dogs

==Page 538==

'''12-gauge blast''' 
as from as 12-gauge shotgun

==Page 539==

'''E.M.I.T.''' 
enzyme-multiplied immunoassay technique

==Page 540==

==Endnote 224==

'''EZC''' 
i.e., "easy see"

'''NAL''' 
New American Library

'''Ticknor, Fields''' 
Ticknor and Fields was a publishing house eventually bought by Houghton Mifflin in 1880.

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]

==Page 540 (cont'd)==

'''W-E''' 
west-east

'''Stegosaurus''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegosaurus dinosaur]

==Page 541==

'''verminal''' 
tending to breed vermin

'''cabbaging''' 
stealing

'''brisance''' 
the shattering effect of an explosive

==Page 542==

'''panoply''' 
a wide-ranging array of things

'''A Program of Attraction''' 
AA refers to itself as this, meaning that it doesn't need to advertise.

'''EST and Greenwich Mean''' 
Eastern Standard Time and Greenwich Mean Time, the latter of which is determined at the Prime Meridian, or 0º longitude

'''DOW''' 
probably the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average Dow Jones Industrial Average]

'''NIKEI''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikkei_225 Nikkei 225] index of the Japanese stock market

==Page 543==

'''winsome''' 
charming

'''diverticulitis''' 
inflammation of the pouches of the colon

'''gone rye''' 
i.e., gone awry

'''Principles of Psychology and the Gifford Lectures on Natural Philosophy''' 
"[http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=88 William James’s Gifford Lectures] of 1901–1902 have been heralded by some as the greatest lectures ever to be presented in the series and perhaps the most seminal of his works (alongside The Principles of Psychology). Published initially in 1902, [http://www.csp.org/experience/james-varieties/james-varieties.html The Varieties of Religions Experience: A Study in Human Nature] has stood the test of time and been republished thirty-six times."

'''20-gram''' 
About .70 ounces, this is a lot of cocaine.

'''bonerfied''' 
bona fide

==Page 544==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Maytag Quietmaster]]

'''ten-kilo''' 
about 22 lbs

==Page 545==

'''phosphenes''' 
light sensations in the eyes when light is physically absent

'''apnea''' 
the tendency of mainly overweight people to stop breathing intermittently in their sleep

==Page 546==

'''R. Lauren''' 
Ralph Lauren

==Page 547==

'''tattlemount''' 
tantamount

==Page 548==

548 · Rodney Tine and the ''Samizdat''

==Page 548==

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

'''District''' 
the District of Columbia

==Endnote 228==

'''O.N.R.''' 
perhaps the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Naval_Research Office of Naval Research]

'''ambit''' 
sphere of operation or influence

==Page 548 (cont'd)==

'''twidgelling''' 
not a real word

'''NCA''' 
probably Northern California

'''Code-Five''' 
code for "stakeout in progress"

'''New Iberia LA''' 
a city about 50 miles southwest of Baton Rouge

'''pithed''' 
having had a needle stuck into the base of the skull

'''U.S.O.''' 
Undercover Special Operations

'''P.E.T.s''' 
positron emission tomography, a kind of medical imaging technique

553 · Lenz and Green Walking

==Page 553==

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

'''worsted''' 
firmly twisted yarn

==Page 555==

'''stepped on''' 
cut, as in weakened the potency of a drug by adding another substance

'''half-kilo''' 
about 1.1 pounds

==Endnote 231==

'''Manitol''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannitol mannitol]

==Page 555 (cont'd)==

'''"...go find a short pier..."''' 
and take a long walk, being the implication

'''aqua-line nose''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooknose aquiline nose]

==Page 556==

'''anileated''' 
annihilated

'''hemispasm''' 
spasm on half of the face

'''insousistent''' 
insouciant

'''parallaxing''' 
Normally a noun ("parallel") and referring to light, here it's used as a verb (gerund) and refers to sound.

'''crucifi''' 
Probably Lenz means "crucifixes."

'''threnody''' 
a funeral dirge

==Page 557==

'''To Project and to Swerve''' 
a pun on the police motto "To Protect and Serve"

'''hoovered''' 
inhaled

==Endnote 232==

'''benzoylecgonine''' 
the major metabolite of cocaine

'''ecgonine''' 
an organic chemical found naturally in coca leaves

'''benzoic acid''' 
the simplest of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboxylic_acid caroxylic acids]

'''spider angiomas''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_angioma benign tumor]

'''rhinorrhagia''' 
bleeding from the nose

'''blepharospecticity''' 
This means something like "seeing through one's eyelids."

'''ballism''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballism hemiballismus]

'''oral labia''' 
the lips of the mouth

'''Paliacci''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagliacci Pagliacci] (''Clowns''), an opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), an Italian composer

'''diuresis extremus''' 
extreme production of urine and, thus, need to urinate

'''phobophobia''' 
fear of fear

'''sociosis''' 
a neurosis that has to do with one's ability to deal with society

'''acne rosea''' 
also known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosacea rosacea]

'''rhinophyma''' 
a red nose caused by amassing of granulomas there

'''synergism''' 
the property of things working together

'''confabulation''' 
talking

'''lingual tendinitis''' 
inflammation of the muscles of the tongue

'''pulmonary phasece''' 
I have no idea.

==Page 557 (cont'd)==

'''sangfroid''' 
coolness of the blood (from French)

'''fob''' 
an ornament attached to a pocket watch by a chain

'''chamois''' 
Pronounced "shammy," this is a cloth or piece of leather used to shine a surface.

'''''Track and Flange''''' 
not a real magazine

'''ergo''' 
Latin: therefore

'''''energois de vivre''''' 
something like "energy of living," although ''energois'' isn't a French work

==Page 558==

'''Estuarial crocodile''' 
the [http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Estuarine+crocodile estuarine (saltwater) crocodile]

'''A.D.A.''' 
American Dental Association

'''akido''' 
Lenz means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikido aikido].

'''valise''' 
a small piece of luggage

'''recurvent''' 
i.e., recurrent

'''t'ai-chi''' 
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiji Taiji]

==Page 559==

'''mescal''' 
an alcoholic beverage distilled from a cactus

'''cableyarrow''' 
''Caballero'' (Spanish for "gentleman") is what he means.

'''''in vitro''''' 
Latin for "in glass," this term is used to refer to experiments that happen in test tubes. Lenz means ''in vivo'', i.e., ''in utero''.

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==Page 560==

'''photosynthesizing''' 
turning light into energy, as plants do

'''Baobab tree''' 
a [http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/baobab.htm tree] native to Africa and India

'''pride''' 
family of lions

560 (2) · Lenz and Green Continued

==Page 560==

'''septum''' 
the cartilage separating the nostrils

'''reguiles''' 
i.e., regales

'''Shangri-la''' 
the utopia of the novel ''Lost Horizon'' by James Hilton (1900-1954), a British author

'''kamasupra''' 
Lenz is referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra Kama Sutra].

==Page 561==

'''Fall River''' 
a city in Massachusetts about 50 miles south of Boston

'''poofta''' 
i.e., a poofter, a vulgar term for a male homosexual

'''intrepid''' 
fearless

'''fauna''' 
wildlife

'''Shawshine River''' 
also known as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawsheen_River Shawsheen]

'''ravacious''' 
This would seem to be a cross between "ravenous" and "rapacious."

==Page 562==

'''scat-piles''' 
piles of feces

'''feti''' 
plural of fetus

'''yrstruly''' 
yours truly

'''propitiating''' 
appeasing

'''diem''' 
Latin: day

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==Page 531==

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

'''boilermakers''' 
shots of whiskey chased with beer

'''keep''' 
i.e., the barkeep

==Page 532==

'''Cumberland''' 
Given that Joelle is from Kentucky, this is probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_Mountains Cumberland Mountains]

'''O.D.''' 
overdose

==Page 533==

'''metronome''' 
a time-keeping device for musicians, typically a pendulum-like machine that clicks to provide meter

==Page 535==

'''gregarious''' 
sociable

==Page 536==

==Page 537==

==Page 538==

'''slavering''' 
drooling

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==Page 538==

'''12-gauge blast''' 
as from as 12-gauge shotgun

==Page 539==

'''E.M.I.T.''' 
enzyme-multiplied immunoassay technique

==Page 540==

==Endnote 224==

'''EZC''' 
i.e., "easy see"

'''NAL''' 
New American Library

'''Ticknor, Fields''' 
Ticknor and Fields was a publishing house eventually bought by Houghton Mifflin in 1880.

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]

==Page 540 (cont'd)==

'''W-E''' 
west-east

'''Stegosaurus''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegosaurus dinosaur]

==Page 541==

'''verminal''' 
tending to breed vermin

'''cabbaging''' 
stealing

'''brisance''' 
the shattering effect of an explosive

==Page 542==

'''panoply''' 
a wide-ranging array of things

'''A Program of Attraction''' 
AA refers to itself as this, meaning that it doesn't need to advertise.

'''EST and Greenwich Mean''' 
Eastern Standard Time and Greenwich Mean Time, the latter of which is determined at the Prime Meridian, or 0º longitude

'''DOW''' 
probably the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average Dow Jones Industrial Average]

'''NIKEI''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikkei_225 Nikkei 225] index of the Japanese stock market

==Page 543==

'''winsome''' 
charming

'''diverticulitis''' 
inflammation of the pouches of the colon

'''gone rye''' 
i.e., gone awry

'''Principles of Psychology and the Gifford Lectures on Natural Philosophy''' 
"[http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=88 William James’s Gifford Lectures] of 1901–1902 have been heralded by some as the greatest lectures ever to be presented in the series and perhaps the most seminal of his works (alongside The Principles of Psychology). Published initially in 1902, [http://www.csp.org/experience/james-varieties/james-varieties.html The Varieties of Religions Experience: A Study in Human Nature] has stood the test of time and been republished thirty-six times."

'''20-gram''' 
About .70 ounces, this is a lot of cocaine.

'''bonerfied''' 
bona fide

==Page 544==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Maytag Quietmaster]]

'''ten-kilo''' 
about 22 lbs

==Page 545==

'''phosphenes''' 
light sensations in the eyes when light is physically absent

'''apnea''' 
the tendency of mainly overweight people to stop breathing intermittently in their sleep

==Page 546==

'''R. Lauren''' 
Ralph Lauren

==Page 547==

'''tattlemount''' 
tantamount

==Page 548==

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==Page 548==

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

'''District''' 
the District of Columbia

==Endnote 228==

'''O.N.R.''' 
perhaps the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Naval_Research Office of Naval Research]

'''ambit''' 
sphere of operation or influence

==Page 548 (cont'd)==

'''twidgelling''' 
not a real word

'''NCA''' 
probably Northern California

'''Code-Five''' 
code for "stakeout in progress"

'''New Iberia LA''' 
a city about 50 miles southwest of Baton Rouge

'''pithed''' 
having had a needle stuck into the base of the skull

'''U.S.O.''' 
Undercover Special Operations

'''P.E.T.s''' 
positron emission tomography, a kind of medical imaging technique

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==Page 553==

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'''worsted''' 
firmly twisted yarn

==Page 555==

'''stepped on''' 
cut, as in weakened the potency of a drug by adding another substance

'''half-kilo''' 
about 1.1 pounds

==Endnote 231==

'''Manitol''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannitol mannitol]

==Page 555 (cont'd)==

'''"...go find a short pier..."''' 
and take a long walk, being the implication

'''aqua-line nose''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooknose aquiline nose]

==Page 556==

'''anileated''' 
annihilated

'''hemispasm''' 
spasm on half of the face

'''insousistent''' 
insouciant

'''parallaxing''' 
Normally a noun ("parallel") and referring to light, here it's used as a verb (gerund) and refers to sound.

'''crucifi''' 
Probably Lenz means "crucifixes."

'''threnody''' 
a funeral dirge

==Page 557==

'''To Project and to Swerve''' 
a pun on the police motto "To Protect and Serve"

'''hoovered''' 
inhaled

==Endnote 232==

'''benzoylecgonine''' 
the major metabolite of cocaine

'''ecgonine''' 
an organic chemical found naturally in coca leaves

'''benzoic acid''' 
the simplest of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboxylic_acid caroxylic acids]

'''spider angiomas''' 
a type of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_angioma benign tumor]

'''rhinorrhagia''' 
bleeding from the nose

'''blepharospecticity''' 
This means something like "seeing through one's eyelids."

'''ballism''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballism hemiballismus]

'''oral labia''' 
the lips of the mouth

'''Paliacci''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagliacci Pagliacci] (''Clowns''), an opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), an Italian composer

'''diuresis extremus''' 
extreme production of urine and, thus, need to urinate

'''phobophobia''' 
fear of fear

'''sociosis''' 
a neurosis that has to do with one's ability to deal with society

'''acne rosea''' 
also known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosacea rosacea]

'''rhinophyma''' 
a red nose caused by amassing of granulomas there

'''synergism''' 
the property of things working together

'''confabulation''' 
talking

'''lingual tendinitis''' 
inflammation of the muscles of the tongue

'''pulmonary phasece''' 
I have no idea.

==Page 557 (cont'd)==

'''sangfroid''' 
coolness of the blood (from French)

'''fob''' 
an ornament attached to a pocket watch by a chain

'''chamois''' 
Pronounced "shammy," this is a cloth or piece of leather used to shine a surface.

'''''Track and Flange''''' 
not a real magazine

'''ergo''' 
Latin: therefore

'''''energois de vivre''''' 
something like "energy of living," although ''energois'' isn't a French work

==Page 558==

'''Estuarial crocodile''' 
the [http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Estuarine+crocodile estuarine (saltwater) crocodile]

'''A.D.A.''' 
American Dental Association

'''akido''' 
Lenz means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikido aikido].

'''valise''' 
a small piece of luggage

'''recurvent''' 
i.e., recurrent

'''t'ai-chi''' 
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiji Taiji]

==Page 559==

'''mescal''' 
an alcoholic beverage distilled from a cactus

'''cableyarrow''' 
''Caballero'' (Spanish for "gentleman") is what he means.

'''''in vitro''''' 
Latin for "in glass," this term is used to refer to experiments that happen in test tubes. Lenz means ''in vivo'', i.e., ''in utero''.

560 (1) · Hal Counts His Breaths

==Page 560==

'''photosynthesizing''' 
turning light into energy, as plants do

'''Baobab tree''' 
a [http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/baobab.htm tree] native to Africa and India

'''pride''' 
family of lions

560 (2) · Lenz and Green Continued

==Page 560==

'''septum''' 
the cartilage separating the nostrils

'''reguiles''' 
i.e., regales

'''Shangri-la''' 
the utopia of the novel ''Lost Horizon'' by James Hilton (1900-1954), a British author

'''kamasupra''' 
Lenz is referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra Kama Sutra].

==Page 561==

'''Fall River''' 
a city in Massachusetts about 50 miles south of Boston

'''poofta''' 
i.e., a poofter, a vulgar term for a male homosexual

'''intrepid''' 
fearless

'''fauna''' 
wildlife

'''Shawshine River''' 
also known as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawsheen_River Shawsheen]

'''ravacious''' 
This would seem to be a cross between "ravenous" and "rapacious."

==Page 562==

'''scat-piles''' 
piles of feces

'''feti''' 
plural of fetus

'''yrstruly''' 
yours truly

'''propitiating''' 
appeasing

'''diem''' 
Latin: day

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==Page 531==

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

'''boilermakers''' 
shots of whiskey chased with beer

'''keep''' 
i.e., the barkeep

==Page 532==

'''Cumberland''' 
Given that Joelle is from Kentucky, this is probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_Mountains Cumberland Mountains]

'''O.D.''' 
overdose

==Page 533==

'''metronome''' 
a time-keeping device for musicians, typically a pendulum-like machine that clicks to provide meter

==Page 535==

'''gregarious''' 
sociable

==Page 536==

==Page 537==

==Page 538==

'''slavering''' 
drooling

538* · Randy Lenz: Rats, Cats, and Dogs

==Page 538==

'''12-gauge blast''' 
as from as 12-gauge shotgun

==Page 539==

'''E.M.I.T.''' 
enzyme-multiplied immunoassay technique

==Page 540==

==Endnote 224==

'''EZC''' 
i.e., "easy see"

'''NAL''' 
New American Library

'''Ticknor, Fields''' 
Ticknor and Fields was a publishing house eventually bought by Houghton Mifflin in 1880.

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]

==Page 540 (cont'd)==

'''W-E''' 
west-east

'''Stegosaurus''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegosaurus dinosaur]

==Page 541==

'''verminal''' 
tending to breed vermin

'''cabbaging''' 
stealing

'''brisance''' 
the shattering effect of an explosive

==Page 542==

'''panoply''' 
a wide-ranging array of things

'''A Program of Attraction''' 
AA refers to itself as this, meaning that it doesn't need to advertise.

'''EST and Greenwich Mean''' 
Eastern Standard Time and Greenwich Mean Time, the latter of which is determined at the Prime Meridian, or 0º longitude

'''DOW''' 
probably the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average Dow Jones Industrial Average]

'''NIKEI''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikkei_225 Nikkei 225] index of the Japanese stock market

==Page 543==

'''winsome''' 
charming

'''diverticulitis''' 
inflammation of the pouches of the colon

'''gone rye''' 
i.e., gone awry

'''Principles of Psychology and the Gifford Lectures on Natural Philosophy''' 
"[http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=88 William James’s Gifford Lectures] of 1901–1902 have been heralded by some as the greatest lectures ever to be presented in the series and perhaps the most seminal of his works (alongside The Principles of Psychology). Published initially in 1902, [http://www.csp.org/experience/james-varieties/james-varieties.html The Varieties of Religions Experience: A Study in Human Nature] has stood the test of time and been republished thirty-six times."

'''20-gram''' 
About .70 ounces, this is a lot of cocaine.

'''bonerfied''' 
bona fide

==Page 544==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Maytag Quietmaster]]

'''ten-kilo''' 
about 22 lbs

==Page 545==

'''phosphenes''' 
light sensations in the eyes when light is physically absent

'''apnea''' 
the tendency of mainly overweight people to stop breathing intermittently in their sleep

==Page 546==

'''R. Lauren''' 
Ralph Lauren

==Page 547==

'''tattlemount''' 
tantamount

==Page 548==

548 · Rodney Tine and the ''Samizdat''

==Page 548==

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

'''District''' 
the District of Columbia

==Endnote 228==

'''O.N.R.''' 
perhaps the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Naval_Research Office of Naval Research]

'''ambit''' 
sphere of operation or influence

==Page 548 (cont'd)==

'''twidgelling''' 
not a real word

'''NCA''' 
probably Northern California

'''Code-Five''' 
code for "stakeout in progress"

'''New Iberia LA''' 
a city about 50 miles southwest of Baton Rouge

'''pithed''' 
having had a needle stuck into the base of the skull

'''U.S.O.''' 
Undercover Special Operations

'''P.E.T.s''' 
positron emission tomography, a kind of medical imaging technique

553 · Lenz and Green Walking

==Page 553==

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

'''worsted''' 
firmly twisted yarn

==Page 555==

'''stepped on''' 
cut, as in weakened the potency of a drug by adding another substance

'''half-kilo''' 
about 1.1 pounds

==Endnote 231==

'''Manitol''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitol mannitol]

==Page 555 (cont'd)==

'''"...go find a short pier..."''' 
and take a long walk, being the implication

'''aqua-line nose''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooknose aquiline nose]

==Page 556==

'''anileated''' 
annihilated

'''hemispasm''' 
spasm on half of the face

'''insousistent''' 
insouciant

'''parallaxing''' 
Normally a noun ("parallel") and referring to light, here it's used as a verb (gerund) and refers to sound.

'''crucifi''' 
Probably Lenz means "crucifixes."

'''threnody''' 
a funeral dirge

==Page 557==

'''To Project and to Swerve''' 
a pun on the police motto "To Protect and Serve"

'''hoovered''' 
inhaled

==Endnote 232==

'''benzoylecgonine''' 
the major metabolite of cocaine

'''ecgonine''' 
an organic chemical found naturally in coca leaves

'''benzoic acid''' 
the simplest of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboxylic_acid caroxylic acids]

'''spider angiomas''' 
a type of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_angioma benign tumor]

'''rhinorrhagia''' 
bleeding from the nose

'''blepharospecticity''' 
This means something like "seeing through one's eyelids."

'''ballism''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballism hemiballismus]

'''oral labia''' 
the lips of the mouth

'''Paliacci''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagliacci Pagliacci] (''Clowns''), an opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), an Italian composer

'''diuresis extremus''' 
extreme production of urine and, thus, need to urinate

'''phobophobia''' 
fear of fear

'''sociosis''' 
a neurosis that has to do with one's ability to deal with society

'''acne rosea''' 
also known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosacea rosacea]

'''rhinophyma''' 
a red nose caused by amassing of granulomas there

'''synergism''' 
the property of things working together

'''confabulation''' 
talking

'''lingual tendinitis''' 
inflammation of the muscles of the tongue

'''pulmonary phasece''' 
I have no idea.

==Page 557 (cont'd)==

'''sangfroid''' 
coolness of the blood (from French)

'''fob''' 
an ornament attached to a pocket watch by a chain

'''chamois''' 
Pronounced "shammy," this is a cloth or piece of leather used to shine a surface.

'''''Track and Flange''''' 
not a real magazine

'''ergo''' 
Latin: therefore

'''''energois de vivre''''' 
something like "energy of living," although ''energois'' isn't a French work

==Page 558==

'''Estuarial crocodile''' 
the [http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Estuarine+crocodile estuarine (saltwater) crocodile]

'''A.D.A.''' 
American Dental Association

'''akido''' 
Lenz means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikido aikido].

'''valise''' 
a small piece of luggage

'''recurvent''' 
i.e., recurrent

'''t'ai-chi''' 
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiji Taiji]

==Page 559==

'''mescal''' 
an alcoholic beverage distilled from a cactus

'''cableyarrow''' 
''Caballero'' (Spanish for "gentleman") is what he means.

'''''in vitro''''' 
Latin for "in glass," this term is used to refer to experiments that happen in test tubes. Lenz means ''in vivo'', i.e., ''in utero''.

560 (1) · Hal Counts His Breaths

==Page 560==

'''photosynthesizing''' 
turning light into energy, as plants do

'''Baobab tree''' 
a [http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/baobab.htm tree] native to Africa and India

'''pride''' 
family of lions

560 (2) · Lenz and Green Continued

==Page 560==

'''septum''' 
the cartilage separating the nostrils

'''reguiles''' 
i.e., regales

'''Shangri-la''' 
the utopia of the novel ''Lost Horizon'' by James Hilton (1900-1954), a British author

'''kamasupra''' 
Lenz is referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra Kama Sutra].

==Page 561==

'''Fall River''' 
a city in Massachusetts about 50 miles south of Boston

'''poofta''' 
i.e., a poofter, a vulgar term for a male homosexual

'''intrepid''' 
fearless

'''fauna''' 
wildlife

'''Shawshine River''' 
also known as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawsheen_River Shawsheen]

'''ravacious''' 
This would seem to be a cross between "ravenous" and "rapacious."

==Page 562==

'''scat-piles''' 
piles of feces

'''feti''' 
plural of fetus

'''yrstruly''' 
yours truly

'''propitiating''' 
appeasing

'''diem''' 
Latin: day

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==Page 531==

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

'''boilermakers''' 
shots of whiskey chased with beer

'''keep''' 
i.e., the barkeep

==Page 532==

'''Cumberland''' 
Given that Joelle is from Kentucky, this is probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_Mountains Cumberland Mountains]

'''O.D.''' 
overdose

==Page 533==

'''metronome''' 
a time-keeping device for musicians, typically a pendulum-like machine that clicks to provide meter

==Page 535==

'''gregarious''' 
sociable

==Page 536==

==Page 537==

==Page 538==

'''slavering''' 
drooling

538* · Randy Lenz: Rats, Cats, and Dogs

==Page 538==

'''12-gauge blast''' 
as from as 12-gauge shotgun

==Page 539==

'''E.M.I.T.''' 
enzyme-multiplied immunoassay technique

==Page 540==

==Endnote 224==

'''EZC''' 
i.e., "easy see"

'''NAL''' 
New American Library

'''Ticknor, Fields''' 
Ticknor and Fields was a publishing house eventually bought by Houghton Mifflin in 1880.

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]

==Page 540 (cont'd)==

'''W-E''' 
west-east

'''Stegosaurus''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegosaurus dinosaur]

==Page 541==

'''verminal''' 
tending to breed vermin

'''cabbaging''' 
stealing

'''brisance''' 
the shattering effect of an explosive

==Page 542==

'''panoply''' 
a wide-ranging array of things

'''A Program of Attraction''' 
AA refers to itself as this, meaning that it doesn't need to advertise.

'''EST and Greenwich Mean''' 
Eastern Standard Time and Greenwich Mean Time, the latter of which is determined at the Prime Meridian, or 0º longitude

'''DOW''' 
probably the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average Dow Jones Industrial Average]

'''NIKEI''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikkei_225 Nikkei 225] index of the Japanese stock market

==Page 543==

'''winsome''' 
charming

'''diverticulitis''' 
inflammation of the pouches of the colon

'''gone rye''' 
i.e., gone awry

'''Principles of Psychology and the Gifford Lectures on Natural Philosophy''' 
"[http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=88 William James’s Gifford Lectures] of 1901–1902 have been heralded by some as the greatest lectures ever to be presented in the series and perhaps the most seminal of his works (alongside The Principles of Psychology). Published initially in 1902, [http://www.csp.org/experience/james-varieties/james-varieties.html The Varieties of Religions Experience: A Study in Human Nature] has stood the test of time and been republished thirty-six times."

'''20-gram''' 
About .70 ounces, this is a lot of cocaine.

'''bonerfied''' 
bona fide

==Page 544==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Maytag Quietmaster]]

'''ten-kilo''' 
about 22 lbs

==Page 545==

'''phosphenes''' 
light sensations in the eyes when light is physically absent

'''apnea''' 
the tendency of mainly overweight people to stop breathing intermittently in their sleep

==Page 546==

'''R. Lauren''' 
Ralph Lauren

==Page 547==

'''tattlemount''' 
tantamount

==Page 548==

548 · Rodney Tine and the ''Samizdat''

==Page 548==

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

'''District''' 
the District of Columbia

==Endnote 228==

'''O.N.R.''' 
perhaps the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Naval_Research Office of Naval Research]

'''ambit''' 
sphere of operation or influence

==Page 548 (cont'd)==

'''twidgelling''' 
not a real word

'''NCA''' 
probably Northern California

'''Code-Five''' 
code for "stakeout in progress"

'''New Iberia LA''' 
a city about 50 miles southwest of Baton Rouge

'''pithed''' 
having had a needle stuck into the base of the skull

'''U.S.O.''' 
Undercover Special Operations

'''P.E.T.s''' 
positron emission tomography, a kind of medical imaging technique

553 · Lenz and Green Walking

==Page 553==

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

'''worsted''' 
firmly twisted yarn

==Page 555==

'''stepped on''' 
cut, as in weakened the potency of a drug by adding another substance

'''half-kilo''' 
about 1.1 pounds

==Endnote 231==

'''Manitol''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitol manitol]

==Page 555 (cont'd)==

'''"...go find a short pier..."''' 
and take a long walk, being the implication

'''aqua-line nose''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooknose aquiline nose]

==Page 556==

'''anileated''' 
annihilated

'''hemispasm''' 
spasm on half of the face

'''insousistent''' 
insouciant

'''parallaxing''' 
Normally a noun ("parallel") and referring to light, here it's used as a verb (gerund) and refers to sound.

'''crucifi''' 
Probably Lenz means "crucifixes."

'''threnody''' 
a funeral dirge

==Page 557==

'''To Project and to Swerve''' 
a pun on the police motto "To Protect and Serve"

'''hoovered''' 
inhaled

==Endnote 232==

'''benzoylecgonine''' 
the major metabolite of cocaine

'''ecgonine''' 
an organic chemical found naturally in coca leaves

'''benzoic acid''' 
the simplest of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboxylic_acid caroxylic acids]

'''spider angiomas''' 
a type of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_angioma benign tumor]

'''rhinorrhagia''' 
bleeding from the nose

'''blepharospecticity''' 
This means something like "seeing through one's eyelids."

'''ballism''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballism hemiballismus]

'''oral labia''' 
the lips of the mouth

'''Paliacci''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagliacci Pagliacci] (''Clowns''), an opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), an Italian composer

'''diuresis extremus''' 
extreme production of urine and, thus, need to urinate

'''phobophobia''' 
fear of fear

'''sociosis''' 
a neurosis that has to do with one's ability to deal with society

'''acne rosea''' 
also known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosacea rosacea]

'''rhinophyma''' 
a red nose caused by amassing of granulomas there

'''synergism''' 
the property of things working together

'''confabulation''' 
talking

'''lingual tendinitis''' 
inflammation of the muscles of the tongue

'''pulmonary phasece''' 
I have no idea.

==Page 557 (cont'd)==

'''sangfroid''' 
coolness of the blood (from French)

'''fob''' 
an ornament attached to a pocket watch by a chain

'''chamois''' 
Pronounced "shammy," this is a cloth or piece of leather used to shine a surface.

'''''Track and Flange''''' 
not a real magazine

'''ergo''' 
Latin: therefore

'''''energois de vivre''''' 
something like "energy of living," although ''energois'' isn't a French work

==Page 558==

'''Estuarial crocodile''' 
the [http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Estuarine+crocodile estuarine (saltwater) crocodile]

'''A.D.A.''' 
American Dental Association

'''akido''' 
Lenz means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikido aikido].

'''valise''' 
a small piece of luggage

'''recurvent''' 
i.e., recurrent

'''t'ai-chi''' 
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiji Taiji]

==Page 559==

'''mescal''' 
an alcoholic beverage distilled from a cactus

'''cableyarrow''' 
''Caballero'' (Spanish for "gentleman") is what he means.

'''''in vitro''''' 
Latin for "in glass," this term is used to refer to experiments that happen in test tubes. Lenz means ''in vivo'', i.e., ''in utero''.

560 (1) · Hal Counts His Breaths

==Page 560==

'''photosynthesizing''' 
turning light into energy, as plants do

'''Baobab tree''' 
a [http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/baobab.htm tree] native to Africa and India

'''pride''' 
family of lions

560 (2) · Lenz and Green Continued

==Page 560==

'''septum''' 
the cartilage separating the nostrils

'''reguiles''' 
i.e., regales

'''Shangri-la''' 
the utopia of the novel ''Lost Horizon'' by James Hilton (1900-1954), a British author

'''kamasupra''' 
Lenz is referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra Kama Sutra].

==Page 561==

'''Fall River''' 
a city in Massachusetts about 50 miles south of Boston

'''poofta''' 
i.e., a poofter, a vulgar term for a male homosexual

'''intrepid''' 
fearless

'''fauna''' 
wildlife

'''Shawshine River''' 
also known as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawsheen_River Shawsheen]

'''ravacious''' 
This would seem to be a cross between "ravenous" and "rapacious."

==Page 562==

'''scat-piles''' 
piles of feces

'''feti''' 
plural of fetus

'''yrstruly''' 
yours truly

'''propitiating''' 
appeasing

'''diem''' 
Latin: day

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==Page 531==

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

'''boilermakers''' 
shots of whiskey chased with beer

'''keep''' 
i.e., the barkeep

==Page 532==

'''Cumberland''' 
Given that Joelle is from Kentucky, this is probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_Mountains Cumberland Mountains]

'''O.D.''' 
overdose

==Page 533==

'''metronome''' 
a time-keeping device for musicians, typically a pendulum-like machine that clicks to provide meter

==Page 535==

'''gregarious''' 
sociable

==Page 536==

==Page 537==

==Page 538==

'''slavering''' 
drooling

538* · Randy Lenz: Rats, Cats, and Dogs

==Page 538==

'''12-gauge blast''' 
as from as 12-gauge shotgun

==Page 539==

'''E.M.I.T.''' 
enzyme-multiplied immunoassay technique

==Page 540==

==Endnote 224==

'''EZC''' 
i.e., "easy see"

'''NAL''' 
New American Library

'''Ticknor, Fields''' 
Ticknor and Fields was a publishing house eventually bought by Houghton Mifflin in 1880.

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]

==Page 540 (cont'd)==

'''W-E''' 
west-east

'''Stegosaurus''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegosaurus dinosaur]

==Page 541==

'''verminal''' 
tending to breed vermin

'''cabbaging''' 
stealing

'''brisance''' 
the shattering effect of an explosive

==Page 542==

'''panoply''' 
a wide-ranging array of things

'''A Program of Attraction''' 
AA refers to itself as this, meaning that it doesn't need to advertise.

'''EST and Greenwich Mean''' 
Eastern Standard Time and Greenwich Mean Time, the latter of which is determined at the Prime Meridian, or 0º longitude

'''DOW''' 
probably the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average Dow Jones Industrial Average]

'''NIKEI''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikkei_225 Nikkei 225] index of the Japanese stock market

==Page 543==

'''winsome''' 
charming

'''diverticulitis''' 
inflammation of the pouches of the colon

'''gone rye''' 
i.e., gone awry

'''Principles of Psychology and the Gifford Lectures on Natural Philosophy''' 
"[http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=88 William James’s Gifford Lectures] of 1901–1902 have been heralded by some as the greatest lectures ever to be presented in the series and perhaps the most seminal of his works (alongside The Principles of Psychology). Published initially in 1902, [http://www.csp.org/experience/james-varieties/james-varieties.html The Varieties of Religions Experience: A Study in Human Nature] has stood the test of time and been republished thirty-six times."

'''20-gram''' 
About .70 ounces, this is a lot of cocaine.

'''bonerfied''' 
bona fide

==Page 544==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Maytag Quietmaster]]

'''ten-kilo''' 
about 22 lbs

==Page 545==

'''phosphenes''' 
light sensations in the eyes when light is physically absent

'''apnea''' 
the tendency of mainly overweight people to stop breathing intermittently in their sleep

==Page 546==

'''R. Lauren''' 
Ralph Lauren

==Page 547==

'''tattlemount''' 
tantamount

==Page 548==

548 · Rodney Tine and the ''Samizdat''

==Page 548==

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

'''District''' 
the District of Columbia

==Endnote 228==

'''O.N.R.''' 
perhaps the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Naval_Research Office of Naval Research]

'''ambit''' 
sphere of operation or influence

==Page 548 (cont'd)==

'''twidgelling''' 
not a real word

'''NCA''' 
probably Northern California

'''Code-Five''' 
code for "stakeout in progress"

'''New Iberia LA''' 
a city about 50 miles southwest of Baton Rouge

'''pithed''' 
having had a needle stuck into the base of the skull

'''U.S.O.''' 
Undercover Special Operations

'''P.E.T.s''' 
positron emission tomography, a kind of medical imaging technique

574 · Orin Realizes Something

553 · Lenz and Green Walking

==Page 553==

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

'''worsted''' 
firmly twisted yarn

==Page 555==

'''stepped on''' 
cut, as in weakened the potency of a drug by adding another substance

'''half-kilo''' 
about 1.1 pounds

==Endnote 231==

'''Manitol''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitol manitol]

==Page 555 (cont'd)==

'''"...go find a short pier..."''' 
and take a long walk, being the implication

'''aqua-line nose''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooknose aquiline nose]

==Page 556==

'''anileated''' 
annihilated

'''hemispasm''' 
spasm on half of the face

'''insousistent''' 
insouciant

'''parallaxing''' 
Normally a noun ("parallel") and referring to light, here it's used as a verb (gerund) and refers to sound.

'''crucifi''' 
Probably Lenz means "crucifixes."

'''threnody''' 
a funeral dirge

==Page 557==

'''To Project and to Swerve''' 
a pun on the police motto "To Protect and Serve"

'''hoovered''' 
inhaled

==Endnote 232==

'''benzoylecgonine''' 
the major metabolite of cocaine

'''ecgonine''' 
an organic chemical found naturally in coca leaves

'''benzoic acid''' 
the simplest of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboxylic_acid caroxylic acids]

'''spider angiomas''' 
a type of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_angioma benign tumor]

'''rhinorrhagia''' 
bleeding from the nose

'''blepharospecticity''' 
This means something like "seeing through one's eyelids."

'''ballism''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballism hemiballismus]

'''oral labia''' 
the lips of the mouth

'''Paliacci''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagliacci Pagliacci] (''Clowns''), an opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), an Italian composer

'''diuresis extremus''' 
extreme production of urine and, thus, need to urinate

'''phobophobia''' 
fear of fear

'''sociosis''' 
a neurosis that has to do with one's ability to deal with society

'''acne rosea''' 
also known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosacea rosacea]

'''rhinophyma''' 
a red nose caused by amassing of granulomas there

'''synergism''' 
the property of things working together

'''confabulation''' 
talking

'''lingual tendinitis''' 
inflammation of the muscles of the tongue

'''pulmonary phasece''' 
I have no idea.

==Page 557 (cont'd)==

'''sangfroid''' 
coolness of the blood (from French)

'''fob''' 
an ornament attached to a pocket watch by a chain

'''chamois''' 
Pronounced "shammy," this is a cloth or piece of leather used to shine a surface.

'''''Track and Flange''''' 
not a real magazine

'''ergo''' 
Latin: therefore

'''''energois de vivre''''' 
something like "energy of living," although ''energois'' isn't a French work

==Page 558==

'''Estuarial crocodile''' 
the [http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Estuarine+crocodile estuarine (saltwater) crocodile]

'''A.D.A.''' 
American Dental Association

'''akido''' 
Lenz means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikido aikido].

'''valise''' 
a small piece of luggage

'''recurvent''' 
i.e., recurrent

'''t'ai-chi''' 
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiji Taiji]

==Page 559==

'''mescal''' 
an alcoholic beverage distilled from a cactus

'''cableyarrow''' 
''Caballero'' (Spanish for "gentleman") is what he means.

'''''in vitro''''' 
Latin for "in glass," this term is used to refer to experiments that happen in test tubes. Lenz means ''in vivo'', i.e., ''in utero''.

560 (1) · Hal Counts His Breaths

==Page 560==

'''photosynthesizing''' 
turning light into energy, as plants do

'''Baobab tree''' 
a [http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/baobab.htm tree] native to Africa and India

'''pride''' 
family of lions

560 (2) · Lenz and Green Continued

==Page 560==

'''septum''' 
the cartilage separating the nostrils

'''reguiles''' 
i.e., regales

'''Shangri-la''' 
the utopia of the novel ''Lost Horizon'' by James Hilton (1900-1954), a British author

'''kamasupra''' 
Lenz is referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra Kama Sutra].

==Page 561==

'''Fall River''' 
a city in Massachusetts about 50 miles south of Boston

'''poofta''' 
i.e., a poofter, a vulgar term for a male homosexual

'''intrepid''' 
fearless

'''fauna''' 
wildlife

'''Shawshine River''' 
also known as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawsheen_River Shawsheen]

'''ravacious''' 
This would seem to be a cross between "ravenous" and "rapacious."

==Page 562==

'''scat-piles''' 
piles of feces

'''feti''' 
plural of fetus

'''yrstruly''' 
yours truly

'''propitiating''' 
appeasing

'''diem''' 
Latin: day

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==Page 531==

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

'''boilermakers''' 
shots of whiskey chased with beer

'''keep''' 
i.e., the barkeep

==Page 532==

'''Cumberland''' 
Given that Joelle is from Kentucky, this is probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_Mountains Cumberland Mountains]

'''O.D.''' 
overdose

==Page 533==

'''metronome''' 
a time-keeping device for musicians, typically a pendulum-like machine that clicks to provide meter

==Page 535==

'''gregarious''' 
sociable

==Page 536==

==Page 537==

==Page 538==

'''slavering''' 
drooling

538* · Randy Lenz: Rats, Cats, and Dogs

==Page 538==

'''12-gauge blast''' 
as from as 12-gauge shotgun

==Page 539==

'''E.M.I.T.''' 
enzyme-multiplied immunoassay technique

==Page 540==

==Endnote 224==

'''EZC''' 
i.e., "easy see"

'''NAL''' 
New American Library

'''Ticknor, Fields''' 
Ticknor and Fields was a publishing house eventually bought by Houghton Mifflin in 1880.

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]

==Page 540 (cont'd)==

'''W-E''' 
west-east

'''Stegosaurus''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegosaurus dinosaur]

==Page 541==

'''verminal''' 
tending to breed vermin

'''cabbaging''' 
stealing

'''brisance''' 
the shattering effect of an explosive

==Page 542==

'''panoply''' 
a wide-ranging array of things

'''A Program of Attraction''' 
AA refers to itself as this, meaning that it doesn't need to advertise.

'''EST and Greenwich Mean''' 
Eastern Standard Time and Greenwich Mean Time, the latter of which is determined at the Prime Meridian, or 0º longitude

'''DOW''' 
probably the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average Dow Jones Industrial Average]

'''NIKEI''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikkei_225 Nikkei 225] index of the Japanese stock market

==Page 543==

'''winsome''' 
charming

'''diverticulitis''' 
inflammation of the pouches of the colon

'''gone rye''' 
i.e., gone awry

'''Principles of Psychology and the Gifford Lectures on Natural Philosophy''' 
"[http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=88 William James’s Gifford Lectures] of 1901–1902 have been heralded by some as the greatest lectures ever to be presented in the series and perhaps the most seminal of his works (alongside The Principles of Psychology). Published initially in 1902, [http://www.csp.org/experience/james-varieties/james-varieties.html The Varieties of Religions Experience: A Study in Human Nature] has stood the test of time and been republished thirty-six times."

'''20-gram''' 
About .70 ounces, this is a lot of cocaine.

'''bonerfied''' 
bona fide

==Page 544==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Maytag Quietmaster]]

'''ten-kilo''' 
about 22 lbs

==Page 545==

'''phosphenes''' 
light sensations in the eyes when light is physically absent

'''apnea''' 
the tendency of mainly overweight people to stop breathing intermittently in their sleep

==Page 546==

'''R. Lauren''' 
Ralph Lauren

==Page 547==

'''tattlemount''' 
tantamount

==Page 548==

548 · Rodney Tine and the ''Samizdat''

==Page 548==

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

'''District''' 
the District of Columbia

==Endnote 228==

'''O.N.R.''' 
perhaps the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Naval_Research Office of Naval Research]

'''ambit''' 
sphere of operation or influence

==Page 548 (cont'd)==

'''twidgelling''' 
not a real word

'''NCA''' 
probably Northern California

'''Code-Five''' 
code for "stakeout in progress"

'''New Iberia LA''' 
a city about 50 miles southwest of Baton Rouge

'''pithed''' 
having had a needle stuck into the base of the skull

'''U.S.O.''' 
Undercover Special Operations

'''P.E.T.s''' 
positron emission tomography, a kind of medical imaging technique

574 · Orin Realizes Something

553 · Lenz and Green Walking

==Page 553==

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

'''worsted''' 
firmly twisted yarn

==Page 555==

'''stepped on''' 
cut, as in weakened the potency of a drug by adding another substance

'''half-kilo''' 
about 1.1 pounds

==Endnote 231==

'''Manitol''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitol manitol]

==Page 555 (cont'd)==

'''"...go find a short pier..."''' 
and take a long walk, being the implication

'''aqua-line nose''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooknose aquiline nose]

==Page 556==

'''anileated''' 
annihilated

'''hemispasm''' 
spasm on half of the face

'''insousistent''' 
insouciant

'''parallaxing''' 
Normally a noun ("parallel") and referring to light, here it's used as a verb (gerund) and refers to sound.

'''crucifi''' 
Probably Lenz means "crucifixes."

'''threnody''' 
a funeral dirge

==Page 557==

'''To Project and to Swerve''' 
a pun on the police motto "To Protect and Serve"

'''hoovered''' 
inhaled

==Endnote 232==

'''benzoylecgonine''' 
the major metabolite of cocaine

'''ecgonine''' 
an organic chemical found naturally in coca leaves

'''benzoic acid''' 
the simplest of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboxylic_acid caroxylic acids]

'''spider angiomas''' 
a type of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_angioma benign tumor]

'''rhinorrhagia''' 
bleeding from the nose

'''blepharospecticity''' 
This means something like "seeing through one's eyelids."

'''ballism''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballism hemiballismus]

'''oral labia''' 
the lips of the mouth

'''Paliacci''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagliacci Pagliacci] (''Clowns''), an opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), an Italian composer

'''diuresis extremus''' 
extreme production of urine and, thus, need to urinate

'''phobophobia''' 
fear of fear

'''sociosis''' 
a neurosis that has to do with one's ability to deal with society

'''acne rosea''' 
also known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosacea rosacea]

'''rhinophyma''' 
a red nose caused by amassing of granulomas there

'''synergism''' 
the property of things working together

'''confabulation''' 
talking

'''lingual tendinitis''' 
inflammation of the muscles of the tongue

'''pulmonary phasece''' 
I have no idea.

==Page 557 (cont'd)==

'''sangfroid''' 
coolness of the blood (from French)

'''fob''' 
an ornament attached to a pocket watch by a chain

'''chamois''' 
Pronounced "shammy," this is a cloth or piece of leather used to shine a surface.

'''''Track and Flange''''' 
not a real magazine

'''ergo''' 
Latin: therefore

'''''energois de vivre''''' 
something like "energy of living," although ''energois'' isn't a French work

==Page 558==

'''Estuarial crocodile''' 
the [http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Estuarine+crocodile estuarine (saltwater) crocodile]

'''A.D.A.''' 
American Dental Association

'''akido''' 
Lenz means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikido aikido].

'''valise''' 
a small piece of luggage

'''recurvent''' 
i.e., recurrent

'''t'ai-chi''' 
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiji Taiji]

==Page 559==

'''mescal''' 
an alcoholic beverage distilled from a cactus

'''cableyarrow''' 
''Caballero'' (Spanish for "gentleman") is what he means.

'''''in vitro''''' 
Latin for "in glass," this term is used to refer to experiments that happen in test tubes. Lenz means ''in vivo'', i.e., ''in utero''.

560 (1) · Hal Counts His Breaths

==Page 560==

'''photosynthesizing''' 
turning light into energy, as plants do

'''Baobab tree''' 
a [http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/baobab.htm tree] native to Africa and India

'''pride''' 
family of lions

560 (2) · Lenz and Green Continued

==Page 560==

'''septum''' 
the cartilage separating the nostrils

'''reguiles''' 
i.e., regales

'''Shangri-la''' 
the utopia of the novel ''Lost Horizon'' by James Hilton (1900-1954), a British author

'''kamasupra''' 
Lenz is referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra Kama Sutra].

==Page 561==

'''Fall River''' 
a city in Massachusetts about 50 miles south of Boston

'''poofta''' 
i.e., a poofter, a vulgar term for a male homosexual

'''intrepid''' 
fearless

'''fauna''' 
wildlife

'''Shawshine River''' 
also known as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawsheen_River Shawsheen]

'''ravacious''' 
This would seem to be a cross between "ravenous" and "rapacious."

==Page 562==

'''scat-piles''' 
piles of feces

'''feti''' 
plural of fetus

'''yrstruly''' 
yours truly

'''propitiating''' 
appeasing

'''diem''' 
Latin: day

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==Page 531==

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

'''boilermakers''' 
shots of whiskey chased with beer

'''keep''' 
i.e., the barkeep

==Page 532==

'''Cumberland''' 
Given that Joelle is from Kentucky, this is probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_Mountains Cumberland Mountains]

'''O.D.''' 
overdose

==Page 533==

'''metronome''' 
a time-keeping device for musicians, typically a pendulum-like machine that clicks to provide meter

==Page 534==

==Page 535==

'''gregarious''' 
sociable

==Page 536==

==Page 537==

==Page 538==

'''slavering''' 
drooling

538* · Randy Lenz: Rats, Cats, and Dogs

==Page 538==

'''12-gauge blast''' 
as from as 12-gauge shotgun

==Page 539==

'''E.M.I.T.''' 
enzyme-multiplied immunoassay technique

==Page 540==

==Endnote 224==

'''EZC''' 
i.e., "easy see"

'''NAL''' 
New American Library

'''Ticknor, Fields''' 
Ticknor and Fields was a publishing house eventually bought by Houghton Mifflin in 1880.

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]

==Page 540 (cont'd)==

'''W-E''' 
west-east

'''Stegosaurus''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegosaurus dinosaur]

==Page 541==

'''verminal''' 
tending to breed vermin

'''cabbaging''' 
stealing

'''brisance''' 
the shattering effect of an explosive

==Page 542==

'''panoply''' 
a wide-ranging array of things

'''A Program of Attraction''' 
AA refers to itself as this, meaning that it doesn't need to advertise.

'''EST and Greenwich Mean''' 
Eastern Standard Time and Greenwich Mean Time, the latter of which is determined at the Prime Meridian, or 0º longitude

'''DOW''' 
probably the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average Dow Jones Industrial Average]

'''NIKEI''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikkei_225 Nikkei 225] index of the Japanese stock market

==Page 543==

'''winsome''' 
charming

'''diverticulitis''' 
inflammation of the pouches of the colon

'''gone rye''' 
i.e., gone awry

'''Principles of Psychology and the Gifford Lectures on Natural Philosophy''' 
"[http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=88 William James’s Gifford Lectures] of 1901–1902 have been heralded by some as the greatest lectures ever to be presented in the series and perhaps the most seminal of his works (alongside The Principles of Psychology). Published initially in 1902, [http://www.csp.org/experience/james-varieties/james-varieties.html The Varieties of Religions Experience: A Study in Human Nature] has stood the test of time and been republished thirty-six times."

'''20-gram''' 
About .70 ounces, this is a lot of cocaine.

'''bonerfied''' 
bona fide

==Page 544==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Maytag Quietmaster]]

'''ten-kilo''' 
about 22 lbs

==Page 545==

'''phosphenes''' 
light sensations in the eyes when light is physically absent

'''apnea''' 
the tendency of mainly overweight people to stop breathing intermittently in their sleep

==Page 546==

'''R. Lauren''' 
Ralph Lauren

==Page 547==

'''tattlemount''' 
tantamount

==Page 548==

548 · Rodney Tine and the ''Samizdat''

==Page 548==

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

'''District''' 
the District of Columbia

==Endnote 228==

'''O.N.R.''' 
perhaps the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Naval_Research Office of Naval Research]

'''ambit''' 
sphere of operation or influence

==Page 548 (cont'd)==

'''twidgelling''' 
not a real word

'''NCA''' 
probably Northern California

'''Code-Five''' 
code for "stakeout in progress"

'''New Iberia LA''' 
a city about 50 miles southwest of Baton Rouge

'''pithed''' 
having had a needle stuck into the base of the skull

'''U.S.O.''' 
Undercover Special Operations

'''P.E.T.s''' 
positron emission tomography, a kind of medical imaging technique

574 · Orin Realizes Something

553 · Lenz and Green Walking

==Page 553==

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

'''worsted''' 
firmly twisted yarn

==Page 555==

'''stepped on''' 
cut, as in weakened the potency of a drug by adding another substance

'''half-kilo''' 
about 1.1 pounds

==Endnote 231==

'''Manitol''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitol manitol]

==Page 555 (cont'd)==

'''"...go find a short pier..."''' 
and take a long walk, being the implication

'''aqua-line nose''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooknose aquiline nose]

==Page 556==

'''anileated''' 
annihilated

'''hemispasm''' 
spasm on half of the face

'''insousistent''' 
insouciant

'''parallaxing''' 
Normally a noun ("parallel") and referring to light, here it's used as a verb (gerund) and refers to sound.

'''crucifi''' 
Probably Lenz means "crucifixes."

'''threnody''' 
a funeral dirge

==Page 557==

'''To Project and to Swerve''' 
a pun on the police motto "To Protect and Serve"

'''hoovered''' 
inhaled

==Endnote 232==

'''benzoylecgonine''' 
the major metabolite of cocaine

'''ecgonine''' 
an organic chemical found naturally in coca leaves

'''benzoic acid''' 
the simplest of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboxylic_acid caroxylic acids]

'''spider angiomas''' 
a type of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_angioma benign tumor]

'''rhinorrhagia''' 
bleeding from the nose

'''blepharospecticity''' 
This means something like "seeing through one's eyelids."

'''ballism''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballism hemiballismus]

'''oral labia''' 
the lips of the mouth

'''Paliacci''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagliacci Pagliacci] (''Clowns''), an opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), an Italian composer

'''diuresis extremus''' 
extreme production of urine and, thus, need to urinate

'''phobophobia''' 
fear of fear

'''sociosis''' 
a neurosis that has to do with one's ability to deal with society

'''acne rosea''' 
also known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosacea rosacea]

'''rhinophyma''' 
a red nose caused by amassing of granulomas there

'''synergism''' 
the property of things working together

'''confabulation''' 
talking

'''lingual tendinitis''' 
inflammation of the muscles of the tongue

'''pulmonary phasece''' 
I have no idea.

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'''sangfroid''' 
coolness of the blood (from French)

'''fob''' 
an ornament attached to a pocket watch by a chain

'''chamois''' 
Pronounced "shammy," this is a cloth or piece of leather used to shine a surface.

'''''Track and Flange''''' 
not a real magazine

'''ergo''' 
Latin: therefore

'''''energois de vivre''''' 
something like "energy of living," although ''energois'' isn't a French work

==Page 558==

'''Estuarial crocodile''' 
the [http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Estuarine+crocodile estuarine (saltwater) crocodile]

'''A.D.A.''' 
American Dental Association

'''akido''' 
Lenz means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikido aikido].

'''valise''' 
a small piece of luggage

'''recurvent''' 
i.e., recurrent

'''t'ai-chi''' 
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiji Taiji]

==Page 559==

'''mescal''' 
an alcoholic beverage distilled from a cactus

'''cableyarrow''' 
''Caballero'' (Spanish for "gentleman") is what he means.

'''''in vitro''''' 
Latin for "in glass," this term is used to refer to experiments that happen in test tubes. Lenz means ''in vivo'', i.e., ''in utero''.

560 (1) · Hal Counts His Breaths

==Page 560==

'''photosynthesizing''' 
turning light into energy, as plants do

'''Baobab tree''' 
a [http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/baobab.htm tree] native to Africa and India

'''pride''' 
family of lions

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==Page 560==

'''septum''' 
the cartilage separating the nostrils

'''reguiles''' 
i.e., regales

'''Shangri-la''' 
the utopia of the novel ''Lost Horizon'' by James Hilton (1900-1954), a British author

'''kamasupra''' 
Lenz is referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra Kama Sutra].

==Page 561==

'''Fall River''' 
a city in Massachusetts about 50 miles south of Boston

'''poofta''' 
i.e., a poofter, a vulgar term for a male homosexual

'''intrepid''' 
fearless

'''fauna''' 
wildlife

'''Shawshine River''' 
also known as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawsheen_River Shawsheen]

'''ravacious''' 
This would seem to be a cross between "ravenous" and "rapacious."

==Page 562==

'''scat-piles''' 
piles of feces

'''feti''' 
plural of fetus

'''yrstruly''' 
yours truly

'''propitiating''' 
appeasing

'''diem''' 
Latin: day

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==Page 563==

[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]

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'''cheese-nibbler''' 
i.e., a rat

'''skittery''' 
shy or coy

==Page 565==

'''nomonous''' 
i.e., anonymous

565 · Orin and the Swiss Hand Model

==Page 565==

'''Sky Harbor''' 
the airport serving Phoenix

'''I-17/-10''' 
Interstate 17 runs from Phoenix to Interstate 10, which to Flagstaff, Ariz.

==[[IJE234|Endnote 234]]==

==Page 566==

'''languor''' 
lack of energy

==Page 567==

567 · In the Tunnel

==Page 567==

'''Dural edema''' 
swelling of the dura mater due to excess liquid

==Page 568==

'''perforce''' 
by force of circumstance

==Page 569==

'''nubbin''' 
a small lump

'''insurmagulate''' 
Pemulis probably means to say "insurmountable."

'''micturate''' 
urinate

==Page 570==

'''avail''' 
advantage, use, efficacy

'''"...part the veil of Maya.."''' 
This means to glimpse transcendental truth by parting the veil of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_(illusion) Maya]. Why Idris, a Muslim from Pakistan, would be aware of this Hindu reference is not explained

==Page 571==

'''hot''' 
hearing denoting radioactivity

'''UF4''' 
chemical notation for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_tetrafluoride uranium tetrafluoride], used in some nuclear reactors

'''zirconium''' 
a transition metal element

'''Da''' 
a common Irish nickname for one's father

'''cuc—''' 
Pemulis is probably about to say "cuckold."

==Page 572==

'''coprolite''' 
fossilized dung

'''A.E.C.''' 
Atomic Energy Commission

'''anathematic''' 
likely to be greatly hated

==Endnote 238==

'''meta-disease''' 
a disease syndrome, or a disease that itself causes other diseases

==Page 572==

'''''Jawohl''''' 
German for "yes" in a particularly enthusiastic way

==Page 573==

'''sterabolic anoids''' 
i.e., anabolic steroids

'''rapacial''' 
i.e., rapacious

'''"...each month's prime numbers..."''' 
Which would be the second, third, fifth, seventh, eleventh, thirteenth, seventeenth, nineteenth, twenty-third, twenty-ninth, and thirty-first (when the month has thirty-one days)

'''decelerated''' 
slowed down

'''jacklights''' 
backlights with a special light used as a lure during hunting

==Page 574==

'''Eliotical''' 
referring to T.S. Eliot, author of ''The Waste Land''

'''repose''' 
rest

574 · Orin Realizes Something

'''Junoesque''' 
Juno is the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hera Hera]. Orin means to say that "Helen" is like a goddess.

==Page 575==

'''Rt. 85''' 
Arizona State Route 85 connects Interstate 10 to the Mexican border near Lukesville, Ariz.

575 · More With Lenz and Green

==Page 575==

'''rhynophemic''' 
a misspelled reference to rhinophyma, the reddening of the nose common to alcoholics

'''"...like a seahorse..."''' 
Seahorses actually have two eyes.

'''G.E.D.''' 
General Equivalency Degree

==Endnote 239==

'''N2O''' 
nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas

'''thiopental sodium''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiopental_sodium sodium pentothal], a powerful general anesthetic

==Page 575 (cont'd)==

'''mumus''' 
a long, formless, loose-hanging dress

'''brocade''' 
fabric woven with an elaborate design

'''hove''' 
past tense of "heave"

==Page 576==

'''ordinational''' 
i.e., ordinal, or increasing by number

'''jounce''' 
to move joltingly up and down

'''recesstacle''' 
apparently a combination of "recess" and "receptacle"

'''sojourn''' 
not a synonym for "journey," as Lenz is using it, but rather a term meaning a stay in a place for a prolonged period

'''derisive''' 
intended to offend or insult

'''excretate''' 
i.e., extricate

'''plaintiffly''' 
Lenz means "plaintively."

'''Dukakis''' 
Michael Stanley Dukakis (born 1933) was governor of Massachusetts (1983-1991) and the 1988 Democratic nominee for President.

'''18th-Circus''' 
That should be "18th Circuit."

'''1.5-meter''' 
about 4.9 feet

==Page 577==

[[Image:Mondrian.jpg|thumb|caption|''Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue'' 1921|right|200px]]

'''Mondrian''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Mondrian Pieter Cornelis (Piet) Mondrian] (1872-1944) was a Dutch painter. The reference to his work makes more sense when seen right.

'''defiles''' 
narrow passageways

'''blaze-trailing''' 
trailblazing

'''5/4''' 
a meter is music with five quarter-notes per measure

''''shine''' 
a derogatory term for a black person

'''zithery''' 
provoking the sound of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zither zither], a string instrument

'''rimed''' 
covered with frost

'''kalpacs''' 
a high-crowned felt or fur hat worn by Turks and Central Asians

'''iridescent''' 
displaying all the colors of the rainbow

'''Y.C.A.''' 
I have no idea.

'''patissiers''' 
French: pastry chefs

==Page 578==

'''garish''' 
crudely colorful

==Page 579==

'''''Buns of Steel''''' 
still available [http://www.amazon.com/Buns-Steel-Greg-Smithey/dp/6303182135 for sale]

'''sedentary''' 
involving much sitting

'''bosun''' 
slang sailor term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boatswain boatswain]

'''Falstaff''' 
a brand of beer that stopped being [http://www.falstaffbrewing.com/ brewed] in 2005

'''Gummi Bears''' 
a small [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gummi_bear candy] originating in Germany

==Page 580==

'''ejaculatory''' 
sudden

'''cardiac''' 
i.e., a heart attack

'''opaque''' 
cloudy; not allowing light through

'''brambled''' 
beaten with thorns

==Page 581==

'''tetryl''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetryl explosive] used to make detonators

'''V.F.W.''' 
Veterans of Foreign Wars

'''Rotarians''' 
members of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_Club Rotary International]

'''Shriners''' 
members of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shriners Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine]

'''W. Miller''' 
William Miller (1782-1849) was an American religious leader and one of the founders of the Seventh-Day Adventist movement.

'''Defarge''' 
Madame Thérèse Defarge is a character in Charles Dickens's novel ''A Tale of Two Cities''.

'''O.D.C.''' 
Ohio Department of Corrections

'''igneous''' 
produced by volcanic action

[[Image:Fez.jpg|right]]

'''fezzes''' 
Turkish or Middle-Eastern style hats (see right)

'''sump''' 
cesspool

==Page 582==

'''warbly''' 
tending to warble, i.e., to sing with a trill

'''acclivity''' 
an upward slope

'''dogleg''' 
a route that turns at a sharp angle

'''Choosy Mothers''' 
probably taken from the Jif peanut butter commerical slogan: "Choosy Mothers Choose Jif"

==Page 583==

'''midbrain''' 
another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midbrain mesencephalon]

'''intaglioed''' 
engraved

'''disincentive''' 
a deterrent

'''War of the Welles''' 
a reference to the film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046534/ War of the Worlds], itself adapted from the 1938 radio play by George Orson Welles (1915-1985), American actor and filmmaker

'''Don Ho''' 
Donald Tai Loy Ho (1930-2007) was a Hawaiian musician.

'''Sol Hoopi Players''' 
Solomon Ho'opi'i Ka'ai'ai (1902-1953) was another famous Hawaiian musician.

[[Image:Quebec.gif|right]]

'''blue and white Quenucker flag''' 
see right

'''JBL''' 
an [http://www.jbl.com/ audio wares company]

==Page 584==

'''skulk''' 
to move about secretively

'''Shetland''' 
a Shetland pony, giving some idea how big the dog is

'''''noblest oblige''''' 
a superlative pun on ''noblesse oblige'', the requirement of the wealthy to be kind to those less fortunate

'''undulate''' 
to move like waves

'''Hawaii Five-O''' 
a [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062568/ television series] than ran in the late 1960s and 1970s

==Page 585==

'''Southern Comfort''' 
an orange-flavored whiskey

'''anomic''' 
class alienation

'''andante''' 
In music, this word indicates a moderately slow tempo.

==Page 586==

'''''Don Ho: From Hawaii With All My Love''''' 
This doesn't appear to be a real record.

'''lalations''' 
misspelling of "lallations," i.e., baby-talk

'''Day-Glo''' 
a brand name of glow-in-the-dark fabrics

'''Geiger counter''' 
a machine used to measure radioactivity

''''My Lovely Launa-Una Luau Lady'''' 
Nor does this appear to be a real song.

'''p.m.''' 
per minute

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]

'''Canadian''' 
i.e., in French

'''Montego''' 
either the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Montego Austin Montego] or the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Montego Mercury Montego]

==Page 587==

'''Molson''' 
a Canadian brand of beer

'''scruff''' 
nape of the neck

'''32-kilo''' 
a little over 70 lbs

==Page 588==

'''jabber''' 
to talk rapidly

''''Dyu!'''' 
most likely ''Dieu!'', French for "God!"

==Page 589==

'''180s''' 
turns half-way around, i.e., 180º

'''lee''' 
away from the wind

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==Page 531==

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'''boilermakers''' 
shots of whiskey chased with beer

'''keep''' 
i.e., the barkeep

==Page 532==

'''Cumberland''' 
Given that Joelle is from Kentucky, this is probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_Mountains Cumberland Mountains]

'''O.D.''' 
overdose

==Page 533==

'''metronome''' 
a time-keeping device for musicians, typically a pendulum-like machine that clicks to provide meter

==Page 534==

==Page 535==

'''gregarious''' 
sociable

==Page 536==

==Page 537==

==Page 538==

'''slavering''' 
drooling

538* · Randy Lenz: Rats, Cats, and Dogs

==Page 538==

'''12-gauge blast''' 
as from as 12-gauge shotgun

==Page 539==

'''E.M.I.T.''' 
enzyme-multiplied immunoassay technique

==Page 540==

==Endnote 224==

'''EZC''' 
i.e., "easy see"

'''NAL''' 
New American Library

'''Ticknor, Fields''' 
Ticknor and Fields was a publishing house eventually bought by Houghton Mifflin in 1880.

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]

==Page 540 (cont'd)==

'''W-E''' 
west-east

'''Stegosaurus''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegosaurus dinosaur]

==Page 541==

'''verminal''' 
tending to breed vermin

'''cabbaging''' 
stealing

'''brisance''' 
the shattering effect of an explosive

==Page 542==

'''panoply''' 
a wide-ranging array of things

'''A Program of Attraction''' 
AA refers to itself as this, meaning that it doesn't need to advertise.

'''EST and Greenwich Mean''' 
Eastern Standard Time and Greenwich Mean Time, the latter of which is determined at the Prime Meridian, or 0º longitude

'''DOW''' 
probably the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average Dow Jones Industrial Average]

'''NIKEI''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikkei_225 Nikkei 225] index of the Japanese stock market

==Page 543==

'''winsome''' 
charming

'''diverticulitis''' 
inflammation of the pouches of the colon

'''gone rye''' 
i.e., gone awry

'''Principles of Psychology and the Gifford Lectures on Natural Philosophy''' 
"[http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=88 William James’s Gifford Lectures] of 1901–1902 have been heralded by some as the greatest lectures ever to be presented in the series and perhaps the most seminal of his works (alongside The Principles of Psychology). Published initially in 1902, [http://www.csp.org/experience/james-varieties/james-varieties.html The Varieties of Religions Experience: A Study in Human Nature] has stood the test of time and been republished thirty-six times."

'''20-gram''' 
About .70 ounces, this is a lot of cocaine.

'''bonerfied''' 
bona fide

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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Maytag Quietmaster]]

'''ten-kilo''' 
about 22 lbs

==Page 545==

'''phosphenes''' 
light sensations in the eyes when light is physically absent

'''apnea''' 
the tendency of mainly overweight people to stop breathing intermittently in their sleep

==Page 546==

'''R. Lauren''' 
Ralph Lauren

==Page 547==

'''tattlemount''' 
tantamount

==Page 548==

548 · Rodney Tine and the ''Samizdat''

==Page 548==

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

'''District''' 
the District of Columbia

==Endnote 228==

'''O.N.R.''' 
perhaps the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Naval_Research Office of Naval Research]

'''ambit''' 
sphere of operation or influence

==Page 548 (cont'd)==

'''twidgelling''' 
not a real word

'''NCA''' 
probably Northern California

'''Code-Five''' 
code for "stakeout in progress"

'''New Iberia LA''' 
a city about 50 miles southwest of Baton Rouge

'''pithed''' 
having had a needle stuck into the base of the skull

'''U.S.O.''' 
Undercover Special Operations

'''P.E.T.s''' 
positron emission tomography, a kind of medical imaging technique

574 · Orin Realizes Something

553 · Lenz and Green Walking

==Page 553==

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

'''worsted''' 
firmly twisted yarn

==Page 554==

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'''stepped on''' 
cut, as in weakened the potency of a drug by adding another substance

'''half-kilo''' 
about 1.1 pounds

==Endnote 231==

'''Manitol''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitol manitol]

==Page 555 (cont'd)==

'''"...go find a short pier..."''' 
and take a long walk, being the implication

'''aqua-line nose''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooknose aquiline nose]

==Page 556==

'''anileated''' 
annihilated

'''hemispasm''' 
spasm on half of the face

'''insousistent''' 
insouciant

'''parallaxing''' 
Normally a noun ("parallel") and referring to light, here it's used as a verb (gerund) and refers to sound.

'''crucifi''' 
Probably Lenz means "crucifixes."

'''threnody''' 
a funeral dirge

==Page 557==

'''To Project and to Swerve''' 
a pun on the police motto "To Protect and Serve"

'''hoovered''' 
inhaled

==Endnote 232==

'''benzoylecgonine''' 
the major metabolite of cocaine

'''ecgonine''' 
an organic chemical found naturally in coca leaves

'''benzoic acid''' 
the simplest of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboxylic_acid caroxylic acids]

'''spider angiomas''' 
a type of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_angioma benign tumor]

'''rhinorrhagia''' 
bleeding from the nose

'''blepharospecticity''' 
This means something like "seeing through one's eyelids."

'''ballism''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballism hemiballismus]

'''oral labia''' 
the lips of the mouth

'''Paliacci''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagliacci Pagliacci] (''Clowns''), an opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), an Italian composer

'''diuresis extremus''' 
extreme production of urine and, thus, need to urinate

'''phobophobia''' 
fear of fear

'''sociosis''' 
a neurosis that has to do with one's ability to deal with society

'''acne rosea''' 
also known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosacea rosacea]

'''rhinophyma''' 
a red nose caused by amassing of granulomas there

'''synergism''' 
the property of things working together

'''confabulation''' 
talking

'''lingual tendinitis''' 
inflammation of the muscles of the tongue

'''pulmonary phasece''' 
I have no idea.

==Page 557 (cont'd)==

'''sangfroid''' 
coolness of the blood (from French)

'''fob''' 
an ornament attached to a pocket watch by a chain

'''chamois''' 
Pronounced "shammy," this is a cloth or piece of leather used to shine a surface.

'''''Track and Flange''''' 
not a real magazine

'''ergo''' 
Latin: therefore

'''''energois de vivre''''' 
something like "energy of living," although ''energois'' isn't a French work

==Page 558==

'''Estuarial crocodile''' 
the [http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Estuarine+crocodile estuarine (saltwater) crocodile]

'''A.D.A.''' 
American Dental Association

'''akido''' 
Lenz means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikido aikido].

'''valise''' 
a small piece of luggage

'''recurvent''' 
i.e., recurrent

'''t'ai-chi''' 
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiji Taiji]

==Page 559==

'''mescal''' 
an alcoholic beverage distilled from a cactus

'''cableyarrow''' 
''Caballero'' (Spanish for "gentleman") is what he means.

'''''in vitro''''' 
Latin for "in glass," this term is used to refer to experiments that happen in test tubes. Lenz means ''in vivo'', i.e., ''in utero''.

560 (1) · Hal Counts His Breaths

==Page 560==

'''photosynthesizing''' 
turning light into energy, as plants do

'''Baobab tree''' 
a [http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/baobab.htm tree] native to Africa and India

'''pride''' 
family of lions

560 (2) · Lenz and Green Continued

==Page 560==

'''septum''' 
the cartilage separating the nostrils

'''reguiles''' 
i.e., regales

'''Shangri-la''' 
the utopia of the novel ''Lost Horizon'' by James Hilton (1900-1954), a British author

'''kamasupra''' 
Lenz is referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra Kama Sutra].

==Page 561==

'''Fall River''' 
a city in Massachusetts about 50 miles south of Boston

'''poofta''' 
i.e., a poofter, a vulgar term for a male homosexual

'''intrepid''' 
fearless

'''fauna''' 
wildlife

'''Shawshine River''' 
also known as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawsheen_River Shawsheen]

'''ravacious''' 
This would seem to be a cross between "ravenous" and "rapacious."

==Page 562==

'''scat-piles''' 
piles of feces

'''feti''' 
plural of fetus

'''yrstruly''' 
yours truly

'''propitiating''' 
appeasing

'''diem''' 
Latin: day

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==Page 531==

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'''boilermakers''' 
shots of whiskey chased with beer

'''keep''' 
i.e., the barkeep

==Page 532==

'''Cumberland''' 
Given that Joelle is from Kentucky, this is probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_Mountains Cumberland Mountains]

'''O.D.''' 
overdose

==Page 533==

'''metronome''' 
a time-keeping device for musicians, typically a pendulum-like machine that clicks to provide meter

==Page 534==

==Page 535==

'''gregarious''' 
sociable

==Page 536==

==Page 537==

==Page 538==

'''slavering''' 
drooling

538* · Randy Lenz: Rats, Cats, and Dogs

==Page 538==

'''12-gauge blast''' 
as from as 12-gauge shotgun

==Page 539==

'''E.M.I.T.''' 
enzyme-multiplied immunoassay technique

==Page 540==

==Endnote 224==

'''EZC''' 
i.e., "easy see"

'''NAL''' 
New American Library

'''Ticknor, Fields''' 
Ticknor and Fields was a publishing house eventually bought by Houghton Mifflin in 1880.

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]

==Page 540 (cont'd)==

'''W-E''' 
west-east

'''Stegosaurus''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegosaurus dinosaur]

==Page 541==

'''verminal''' 
tending to breed vermin

'''cabbaging''' 
stealing

'''brisance''' 
the shattering effect of an explosive

==Page 542==

'''panoply''' 
a wide-ranging array of things

'''A Program of Attraction''' 
AA refers to itself as this, meaning that it doesn't need to advertise.

'''EST and Greenwich Mean''' 
Eastern Standard Time and Greenwich Mean Time, the latter of which is determined at the Prime Meridian, or 0º longitude

'''DOW''' 
probably the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average Dow Jones Industrial Average]

'''NIKEI''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikkei_225 Nikkei 225] index of the Japanese stock market

==Page 543==

'''winsome''' 
charming

'''diverticulitis''' 
inflammation of the pouches of the colon

'''gone rye''' 
i.e., gone awry

'''Principles of Psychology and the Gifford Lectures on Natural Philosophy''' 
"[http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=88 William James’s Gifford Lectures] of 1901–1902 have been heralded by some as the greatest lectures ever to be presented in the series and perhaps the most seminal of his works (alongside The Principles of Psychology). Published initially in 1902, [http://www.csp.org/experience/james-varieties/james-varieties.html The Varieties of Religions Experience: A Study in Human Nature] has stood the test of time and been republished thirty-six times."

'''20-gram''' 
About .70 ounces, this is a lot of cocaine.

'''bonerfied''' 
bona fide

==Page 544==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Maytag Quietmaster]]

'''ten-kilo''' 
about 22 lbs

==Page 545==

'''phosphenes''' 
light sensations in the eyes when light is physically absent

'''apnea''' 
the tendency of mainly overweight people to stop breathing intermittently in their sleep

==Page 546==

'''R. Lauren''' 
Ralph Lauren

==Page 547==

'''tattlemount''' 
tantamount

==Page 548==

548 · Rodney Tine and the ''Samizdat''

==Page 548==

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

'''District''' 
the District of Columbia

==Endnote 228==

'''O.N.R.''' 
perhaps the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Naval_Research Office of Naval Research]

'''ambit''' 
sphere of operation or influence

==Page 548 (cont'd)==

'''twidgelling''' 
not a real word

'''NCA''' 
probably Northern California

'''Code-Five''' 
code for "stakeout in progress"

'''New Iberia LA''' 
a city about 50 miles southwest of Baton Rouge

'''pithed''' 
having had a needle stuck into the base of the skull

'''U.S.O.''' 
Undercover Special Operations

'''P.E.T.s''' 
positron emission tomography, a kind of medical imaging technique

574 · Orin Realizes Something

==Page 574==

'''Junoesque''' 
Juno is the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hera Hera]. Orin means to say that "Helen" is like a goddess.

==Page 575==

'''Rt. 85''' 
Arizona State Route 85 connects Interstate 10 to the Mexican border near Lukesville, Ariz.

553 · Lenz and Green Walking

==Page 553==

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

'''worsted''' 
firmly twisted yarn

==Page 554==

==Page 555==

'''stepped on''' 
cut, as in weakened the potency of a drug by adding another substance

'''half-kilo''' 
about 1.1 pounds

==Endnote 231==

'''Manitol''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitol manitol]

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'''"...go find a short pier..."''' 
and take a long walk, being the implication

'''aqua-line nose''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooknose aquiline nose]

==Page 556==

'''anileated''' 
annihilated

'''hemispasm''' 
spasm on half of the face

'''insousistent''' 
insouciant

'''parallaxing''' 
Normally a noun ("parallel") and referring to light, here it's used as a verb (gerund) and refers to sound.

'''crucifi''' 
Probably Lenz means "crucifixes."

'''threnody''' 
a funeral dirge

==Page 557==

'''To Project and to Swerve''' 
a pun on the police motto "To Protect and Serve"

'''hoovered''' 
inhaled

==Endnote 232==

'''benzoylecgonine''' 
the major metabolite of cocaine

'''ecgonine''' 
an organic chemical found naturally in coca leaves

'''benzoic acid''' 
the simplest of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboxylic_acid caroxylic acids]

'''spider angiomas''' 
a type of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_angioma benign tumor]

'''rhinorrhagia''' 
bleeding from the nose

'''blepharospecticity''' 
This means something like "seeing through one's eyelids."

'''ballism''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballism hemiballismus]

'''oral labia''' 
the lips of the mouth

'''Paliacci''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagliacci Pagliacci] (''Clowns''), an opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), an Italian composer

'''diuresis extremus''' 
extreme production of urine and, thus, need to urinate

'''phobophobia''' 
fear of fear

'''sociosis''' 
a neurosis that has to do with one's ability to deal with society

'''acne rosea''' 
also known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosacea rosacea]

'''rhinophyma''' 
a red nose caused by amassing of granulomas there

'''synergism''' 
the property of things working together

'''confabulation''' 
talking

'''lingual tendinitis''' 
inflammation of the muscles of the tongue

'''pulmonary phasece''' 
I have no idea.

==Page 557 (cont'd)==

'''sangfroid''' 
coolness of the blood (from French)

'''fob''' 
an ornament attached to a pocket watch by a chain

'''chamois''' 
Pronounced "shammy," this is a cloth or piece of leather used to shine a surface.

'''''Track and Flange''''' 
not a real magazine

'''ergo''' 
Latin: therefore

'''''energois de vivre''''' 
something like "energy of living," although ''energois'' isn't a French work

==Page 558==

'''Estuarial crocodile''' 
the [http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Estuarine+crocodile estuarine (saltwater) crocodile]

'''A.D.A.''' 
American Dental Association

'''akido''' 
Lenz means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikido aikido].

'''valise''' 
a small piece of luggage

'''recurvent''' 
i.e., recurrent

'''t'ai-chi''' 
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiji Taiji]

==Page 559==

'''mescal''' 
an alcoholic beverage distilled from a cactus

'''cableyarrow''' 
''Caballero'' (Spanish for "gentleman") is what he means.

'''''in vitro''''' 
Latin for "in glass," this term is used to refer to experiments that happen in test tubes. Lenz means ''in vivo'', i.e., ''in utero''.

560 (1) · Hal Counts His Breaths

==Page 560==

'''photosynthesizing''' 
turning light into energy, as plants do

'''Baobab tree''' 
a [http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/baobab.htm tree] native to Africa and India

'''pride''' 
family of lions

560 (2) · Lenz and Green Continued

==Page 560==

'''septum''' 
the cartilage separating the nostrils

'''reguiles''' 
i.e., regales

'''Shangri-la''' 
the utopia of the novel ''Lost Horizon'' by James Hilton (1900-1954), a British author

'''kamasupra''' 
Lenz is referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra Kama Sutra].

==Page 561==

'''Fall River''' 
a city in Massachusetts about 50 miles south of Boston

'''poofta''' 
i.e., a poofter, a vulgar term for a male homosexual

'''intrepid''' 
fearless

'''fauna''' 
wildlife

'''Shawshine River''' 
also known as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawsheen_River Shawsheen]

'''ravacious''' 
This would seem to be a cross between "ravenous" and "rapacious."

==Page 562==

'''scat-piles''' 
piles of feces

'''feti''' 
plural of fetus

'''yrstruly''' 
yours truly

'''propitiating''' 
appeasing

'''diem''' 
Latin: day

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'''plexus''' 
an intricate network

'''tête''' 
French: head

==Page 490==

'''I/O''' 
Input/Output

'''''C'est ça''''' 
French: that's that

==Page 491==

'''ALGOL''' 
a short term for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL Algorithmic language]

491 · Flashback to Himself's Childhood

==Page 491==

==Endnote 208==

'''''Institut für Neutronenphysik und Reaktortechnik, Kernforschungszentrum''''' 
German: Institute for Neutron Physics and Reactor Engineering, Nuclear Research Center (a real organization)

'''Karlsruhe''' 
a city in Germany about 90 miles south of Frankfurt (Main)

'''U.R.G.''' 
probably United Republic of Germany

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'''Springer-Verlag''' 
one of the largest publishers in Germany

'''Wien''' 
the German name for Vienna, capital of Austria

==Page 491 (cont'd)==

'''Bazin''' 
André Bazin (1918-1958) was a French film theorist and director.

==Page 492==

'''Eureka''' 
Ancient Greek for "I've found it," made famous by Archimedes

'''metastisate''' 
He means "metastatize."

'''gibber''' 
to chatter unintelligibly

==Page 493==

'''Synchronicity''' 
the state of happening simultaneously

'''Concord''' 
agreement

==Page 494==

'''declivity''' 
downward slope or hill

==Page 495==

'''hypotenuse'''

the longest arm of a right triangle

'''right dihedral triangle''' 
A right triangle is one whose largest angle is 90º. Dihedral means "having two sides."

==Page 497==

'''ebullient''' 
zestfully enthusiastic

'''caster''' 
wheel

==Page 499==

'''rodential''' 
like a rodent

'''stalactite''' 
the kind of V-shaped rock formations in caves that come down from the top

==Page 502==

'''Powell's ''Peeping Tom''''' 
Michael Latham Powell (1905-1990) was a British filmmaker, and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054167/ Peeping Tom] was one of his films.

'''hex''' 
i.e., hexagonal, having six sides

'''L'Hôpital''' 
Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital (1661-1704), was a French mathematician.

'''Bernoulli''' 
Jacob Bernoulli (1654-1705) was a Swiss mathematician.

'''Brachistochrone''' 
a reference to a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachistochrone brachistochrone curve]

==Page 503==

503 · NA Meeting

==Page 503==

'''anechoic vestry''' 
Anechoic means "characterized by a low level of reverberation"; a vestry is where the priests' vestments (clothing for mass) are kept between ceremonies.

'''lassitude''' 
weariness of body

'''catalepsy''' 
suspension of sensation, which bodily rigidity

'''circadian arrhythmia''' 
sleep disturbance

==Page 504==

'''anhedonia''' 
inability to feel pleasure

'''peristyle''' 
a colonnade surrounding an open space, or the space so encircled

'''astrolabes''' 
a type of navigational device used before the invention of the sextant

'''prickets''' 
sharp metal points on which to stick candles

'''Knights of Columbus''' 
a Catholic fraternal order

'''Penn Station''' 
the chief national train station in New York, at 34th Street and Eighth Avenue

==Page 505==

'''styptic''' 
contracting tissue

'''dis''' 
act of disrespect

==Page 506==

'''anorak''' 
a hooded pullover jacket

'''bonhommic''' 
a neologism, meaning "denoting good-heartedness"

==Page 507==

'''Keds''' 
a brand of sneaker

507 · More Steeply and Marathe

==Page 507==

'''''C'est la guerre''''' 
French: That's war

'''Perseus''' 
the constellation of the flying horse

'''jongleur''' 
a wandering minstrel

'''pantalone''' 
a stock mime character, often the butt of jokes

'''Castor and Pollux''' 
stars in the constellation Gemini, named for twin sons of Zeus and Leda in Greek mythology

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'''plexus''' 
an intricate network

'''tête''' 
French: head

==Page 490==

'''I/O''' 
Input/Output

'''''C'est ça''''' 
French: that's that

==Page 491==

'''ALGOL''' 
a short term for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL Algorithmic language]

491 · Flashback to Himself's Childhood

==Page 491==

==Endnote 208==

'''''Institut für Neutronenphysik und Reaktortechnik, Kernforschungszentrum''''' 
German: Institute for Neutron Physics and Reactor Engineering, Nuclear Research Center (a real organization)

'''Karlsruhe''' 
a city in Germany about 90 miles south of Frankfurt (Main)

'''U.R.G.''' 
probably United Republic of Germany

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]

'''Springer-Verlag''' 
one of the largest publishers in Germany

'''Wien''' 
the German name for Vienna, capital of Austria

==Page 491 (cont'd)==

'''Bazin''' 
André Bazin (1918-1958) was a French film theorist and director.

==Page 492==

'''Eureka''' 
Ancient Greek for "I've found it," made famous by Archimedes

'''metastisate''' 
He means "metastatize."

'''gibber''' 
to chatter unintelligibly

==Page 493==

'''Synchronicity''' 
the state of happening simultaneously

'''Concord''' 
agreement

==Page 494==

'''declivity''' 
downward slope or hill

==Page 495==

'''hypotenuse'''

the longest arm of a right triangle

'''right dihedral triangle''' 
A right triangle is one whose largest angle is 90º. Dihedral means "having two sides."

==Page 497==

'''ebullient''' 
zestfully enthusiastic

'''caster''' 
wheel

==Page 499==

'''rodential''' 
like a rodent

'''stalactite''' 
the kind of V-shaped rock formations in caves that come down from the top

==Page 501==

==Page 502==

'''Powell's ''Peeping Tom''''' 
Michael Latham Powell (1905-1990) was a British filmmaker, and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054167/ Peeping Tom] was one of his films.

'''hex''' 
i.e., hexagonal, having six sides

'''L'Hôpital''' 
Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital (1661-1704), was a French mathematician.

'''Bernoulli''' 
Jacob Bernoulli (1654-1705) was a Swiss mathematician.

'''Brachistochrone''' 
a reference to a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachistochrone brachistochrone curve]

==Page 503==

503 · NA Meeting

==Page 503==

'''anechoic vestry''' 
Anechoic means "characterized by a low level of reverberation"; a vestry is where the priests' vestments (clothing for mass) are kept between ceremonies.

'''lassitude''' 
weariness of body

'''catalepsy''' 
suspension of sensation, which bodily rigidity

'''circadian arrhythmia''' 
sleep disturbance

==Page 504==

'''anhedonia''' 
inability to feel pleasure

'''peristyle''' 
a colonnade surrounding an open space, or the space so encircled

'''astrolabes''' 
a type of navigational device used before the invention of the sextant

'''prickets''' 
sharp metal points on which to stick candles

'''Knights of Columbus''' 
a Catholic fraternal order

'''Penn Station''' 
the chief national train station in New York, at 34th Street and Eighth Avenue

==Page 505==

'''styptic''' 
contracting tissue

'''dis''' 
act of disrespect

==Page 506==

'''anorak''' 
a hooded pullover jacket

'''bonhommic''' 
a neologism, meaning "denoting good-heartedness"

==Page 507==

'''Keds''' 
a brand of sneaker

507 · More Steeply and Marathe

==Page 507==

'''''C'est la guerre''''' 
French: That's war

'''Perseus''' 
the constellation of the flying horse

'''jongleur''' 
a wandering minstrel

'''pantalone''' 
a stock mime character, often the butt of jokes

'''Castor and Pollux''' 
stars in the constellation Gemini, named for twin sons of Zeus and Leda in Greek mythology

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==Page 489==

[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]

'''plexus''' 
an intricate network

'''tête''' 
French: head

==Page 490==

'''I/O''' 
Input/Output

'''''C'est ça''''' 
French: that's that

==Page 491==

'''ALGOL''' 
a short term for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL Algorithmic language]

491 · Flashback to Himself's Childhood

==Page 491==

==Endnote 208==

'''''Institut für Neutronenphysik und Reaktortechnik, Kernforschungszentrum''''' 
German: Institute for Neutron Physics and Reactor Engineering, Nuclear Research Center (a real organization)

'''Karlsruhe''' 
a city in Germany about 90 miles south of Frankfurt (Main)

'''U.R.G.''' 
probably United Republic of Germany

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]

'''Springer-Verlag''' 
one of the largest publishers in Germany

'''Wien''' 
the German name for Vienna, capital of Austria

==Page 491 (cont'd)==

'''Bazin''' 
André Bazin (1918-1958) was a French film theorist and director.

==Page 492==

'''Eureka''' 
Ancient Greek for "I've found it," made famous by Archimedes

'''metastisate''' 
He means "metastatize."

'''gibber''' 
to chatter unintelligibly

==Page 493==

'''Synchronicity''' 
the state of happening simultaneously

'''Concord''' 
agreement

==Page 494==

'''declivity''' 
downward slope or hill

==Page 495==

'''hypotenuse'''

the longest arm of a right triangle

'''right dihedral triangle''' 
A right triangle is one whose largest angle is 90º. Dihedral means "having two sides."

==Page 497==

'''ebullient''' 
zestfully enthusiastic

'''caster''' 
wheel

==Page 499==

'''rodential''' 
like a rodent

'''stalactite''' 
the kind of V-shaped rock formations in caves that come down from the top

==Page 500==

==Page 501==

==Page 502==

'''Powell's ''Peeping Tom''''' 
Michael Latham Powell (1905-1990) was a British filmmaker, and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054167/ Peeping Tom] was one of his films.

'''hex''' 
i.e., hexagonal, having six sides

'''L'Hôpital''' 
Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital (1661-1704), was a French mathematician.

'''Bernoulli''' 
Jacob Bernoulli (1654-1705) was a Swiss mathematician.

'''Brachistochrone''' 
a reference to a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachistochrone brachistochrone curve]

==Page 503==

503 · NA Meeting

==Page 503==

'''anechoic vestry''' 
Anechoic means "characterized by a low level of reverberation"; a vestry is where the priests' vestments (clothing for mass) are kept between ceremonies.

'''lassitude''' 
weariness of body

'''catalepsy''' 
suspension of sensation, which bodily rigidity

'''circadian arrhythmia''' 
sleep disturbance

==Page 504==

'''anhedonia''' 
inability to feel pleasure

'''peristyle''' 
a colonnade surrounding an open space, or the space so encircled

'''astrolabes''' 
a type of navigational device used before the invention of the sextant

'''prickets''' 
sharp metal points on which to stick candles

'''Knights of Columbus''' 
a Catholic fraternal order

'''Penn Station''' 
the chief national train station in New York, at 34th Street and Eighth Avenue

==Page 505==

'''styptic''' 
contracting tissue

'''dis''' 
act of disrespect

==Page 506==

'''anorak''' 
a hooded pullover jacket

'''bonhommic''' 
a neologism, meaning "denoting good-heartedness"

==Page 507==

'''Keds''' 
a brand of sneaker

507 · More Steeply and Marathe

==Page 507==

'''''C'est la guerre''''' 
French: That's war

'''Perseus''' 
the constellation of the flying horse

'''jongleur''' 
a wandering minstrel

'''pantalone''' 
a stock mime character, often the butt of jokes

'''Castor and Pollux''' 
stars in the constellation Gemini, named for twin sons of Zeus and Leda in Greek mythology

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==Page 489==

[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]

'''plexus''' 
an intricate network

'''tête''' 
French: head

==Page 490==

'''I/O''' 
Input/Output

'''''C'est ça''''' 
French: that's that

==Page 491==

'''ALGOL''' 
a short term for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL Algorithmic language]

491 · Flashback to Himself's Childhood

==Page 491==

==Endnote 208==

'''''Institut für Neutronenphysik und Reaktortechnik, Kernforschungszentrum''''' 
German: Institute for Neutron Physics and Reactor Engineering, Nuclear Research Center (a real organization)

'''Karlsruhe''' 
a city in Germany about 90 miles south of Frankfurt (Main)

'''U.R.G.''' 
probably United Republic of Germany

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]

'''Springer-Verlag''' 
one of the largest publishers in Germany

'''Wien''' 
the German name for Vienna, capital of Austria

==Page 491 (cont'd)==

'''Bazin''' 
André Bazin (1918-1958) was a French film theorist and director.

==Page 492==

'''Eureka''' 
Ancient Greek for "I've found it," made famous by Archimedes

'''metastisate''' 
He means "metastatize."

'''gibber''' 
to chatter unintelligibly

==Page 493==

'''Synchronicity''' 
the state of happening simultaneously

'''Concord''' 
agreement

==Page 494==

'''declivity''' 
downward slope or hill

==Page 495==

'''hypotenuse'''

the longest arm of a right triangle

'''right dihedral triangle''' 
A right triangle is one whose largest angle is 90º. Dihedral means "having two sides."

==Page 497==

'''ebullient''' 
zestfully enthusiastic

'''caster''' 
wheel

==Page 498==

==Page 499==

'''rodential''' 
like a rodent

'''stalactite''' 
the kind of V-shaped rock formations in caves that come down from the top

==Page 500==

==Page 501==

==Page 502==

'''Powell's ''Peeping Tom''''' 
Michael Latham Powell (1905-1990) was a British filmmaker, and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054167/ Peeping Tom] was one of his films.

'''hex''' 
i.e., hexagonal, having six sides

'''L'Hôpital''' 
Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital (1661-1704), was a French mathematician.

'''Bernoulli''' 
Jacob Bernoulli (1654-1705) was a Swiss mathematician.

'''Brachistochrone''' 
a reference to a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachistochrone brachistochrone curve]

==Page 503==

503 · NA Meeting

==Page 503==

'''anechoic vestry''' 
Anechoic means "characterized by a low level of reverberation"; a vestry is where the priests' vestments (clothing for mass) are kept between ceremonies.

'''lassitude''' 
weariness of body

'''catalepsy''' 
suspension of sensation, which bodily rigidity

'''circadian arrhythmia''' 
sleep disturbance

==Page 504==

'''anhedonia''' 
inability to feel pleasure

'''peristyle''' 
a colonnade surrounding an open space, or the space so encircled

'''astrolabes''' 
a type of navigational device used before the invention of the sextant

'''prickets''' 
sharp metal points on which to stick candles

'''Knights of Columbus''' 
a Catholic fraternal order

'''Penn Station''' 
the chief national train station in New York, at 34th Street and Eighth Avenue

==Page 505==

'''styptic''' 
contracting tissue

'''dis''' 
act of disrespect

==Page 506==

'''anorak''' 
a hooded pullover jacket

'''bonhommic''' 
a neologism, meaning "denoting good-heartedness"

==Page 507==

'''Keds''' 
a brand of sneaker

507 · More Steeply and Marathe

==Page 507==

'''''C'est la guerre''''' 
French: That's war

'''Perseus''' 
the constellation of the flying horse

'''jongleur''' 
a wandering minstrel

'''pantalone''' 
a stock mime character, often the butt of jokes

'''Castor and Pollux''' 
stars in the constellation Gemini, named for twin sons of Zeus and Leda in Greek mythology

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==Page 442==

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

'''Braintree''' 
a town in Massachusetts about 13 miles south-southeast of Boston

==Page 443==

'''easement''' 
relief

'''rote''' 
repetition

==Page 444==

'''Probie''' 
probation officer

'''10-cm.''' 
a little under 4 inches

'''Our Father''' 
the Lord's Prayer

'''hawgs''' 
"Hog" is a slang term for a Harley-Davidson

'''mantis''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praying_mantis praying mantis]

==Page 445==

'''spats''' 
a covering for the uppers of shoes

'''Quincy''' 
a suburb of Boston about 9 miles south-southeast of the city; pronounced "Quinzy"

'''affable''' 
showing warmth and friendliness

'''Hennessey''' 
a brand of cognac

==Page 446==

'''sampler''' 
a piece of cloth embroidered with stitches, sometimes incorporating platitudes

'''Estonian''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonians native population] of Estonia

'''wrought-iron''' 
iron in nearly carbon-free form, making it readily forged

'''M.P.''' 
military policeman

'''brig''' 
prison on a Navy ship

==Page 447==

'''Bulat''' 
actually a common Kazakh first name

==Page 448==

'''filial''' 
pertaining to a son or daughter

'''Nimitz''' 
Chester William Nimitz (1885-1966) was a U.S. admiral and commander of Naval forces in the Pacific during WWII.

'''afghan''' 
a type of blanket

==Page 449==

==Endnote 179==

'''chivalric''' 
considerate and courteous to women

==Page 449 (cont'd)==

'''Sir Osis of Thuliver''' 
i.e., cirrhosis of the liver

'''vessels''' 
He means "vassals."

449 · Incandenza Family Update — Hal & Mario

==Page 449==

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'''shale''' 
the most common [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shale sedimentary rock]

==Page 450==

'''alto''' 
having a lower female voice

'''Horkheimer and Adorno''' 
Max Horkheimer (1895-1973) was a German philosopher and sociologist, a founder and guiding thinker of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School Frankfurt School] of critical theory. Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969) was a German sociologist and fellow member of the Frankfurt School.

'''Patridge Family''' 
the band featured on the [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065333/ television series] of the same name

'''narcotized''' 
drugged

'''timbre''' 
tone of voice

==Endnote 180==

'''Rectus Bulbi''' 
short name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_rectus_muscle superior rectus muscle]

==Page 450 (cont'd)==

'''sarcophagally''' 
in a way suggesting a coffin

450 · Morning Drills

==Page 450==

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

==Page 451==

'''permutations''' 
arrangements of the same items in different sequences

'''"...the thing it's not entirely impossible he may have fathered..."''' 
This is to say that C.T. may have been Mario's father and not James O. Incandenza. Given that C.T. and Avril are blood relatives, this would explain Mario's profound birth defects.

'''anodized''' 
coated with metal

'''perk''' 
i.e., perquisite, a special benefit

==Page 452==

'''alpaca''' 
wool taken from an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpaca animal] closely related to the camel and llama

'''Kaopectate''' 
brand name of parapectolin. A pink, clay-like antidiarrheal; believed to work by adsorbing the bacteria or germ that may be causing the diarrhea.

'''canted''' 
put in an oblique position

'''reveille''' 
the trumpet call played in the morning to awaken sleeping soldiers

'''corona''' 
crown or halo

==Page 453==

'''muzzle''' 
the barrel of a gun

'''bratwursts''' 
This is a small German sausage composed of pork and beef; the name is German for "chopped meat sausage."

==Page 454==

'''Puker''' 
a punitive run designed to make one vomit

'''American Twist''' 
another name for a kick serve

'''2 m.''' 
over 6'6" tall

==Page 455==

'''low 10's C''' 
10º C is equal to 50º Fahrenheit.

==Page 456==

'''picric''' 
Picric acid is an explosive, so the word "picric" w/r/t clouds probably implies an explosive (or about to explode) quality.

==Page 457==

'''fungoes''' 
In baseball a fungo is a pop fly deliberately hit to train players in fielding. Presumably here, in tennis, these balls are thrown in a deliberate place in a deliberate manner to exercise a particular skill.

'''quarter''' 
here meaning "mercy"

==Page 458==

'''''forvart''''' 
German: forward

==Page 459==

'''23.8 meters, 8 I think .2 meters''' 
close to 80 feet by nearly 27 feet

==Page 460==

'''Gymnasium Kaiserlautern''' 
The Web site is [http://asg.region-kl.de/ here]. ''Kaiserlautern'' means something like "Emperor acclamation" in German.

'''Raggedy Andy''' 
a popular doll seen [http://www.backtobasicstoys.com/images/6391.jpg here]

'''z coordinate''' 
the measurement of depth

'''Gaugin''' 
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a French artist who lived in Tahiti.

==Page 461==

'''morendo''' 
a musical term meaning "a gradual decrescendo at the end of a strain or cadence" (''Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary'')

461 · More on Gately at Ennet House

==Page 461==

'''1964 Ford Aventura''' 
There is no such car.

==Page 462==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whisper-Quiet Maytag Dishmaster]]

'''DUI''' 
Driving Under the Influence

'''Possession With Intent''' 
i.e., with intent to distribute

'''D.S.A.S.''' 
Division of Substance Abuse Services

'''constabulary''' 
a body of peace officers

==Page 463==

'''Murder-2''' 
second-degree murder, or murder without premeditation

'''Deer Island''' 
an island in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer_Island_%28Massachusetts%29 Boston Harbor]

'''hinked''' 
According to the ''OED'', hink as a verb means "to halt" or "to falter." The implication here is that 90 days in jail isn't much to Gately since he'd already served 17 months in another sentence.

==Page 464==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]

==Page 465==

'''women's leg-shaver thing''' 
i.e., Epi-Lady

'''misprision''' 
contempt against the government or courts

'''Cape''' 
i.e., Cape Cod

==Page 466==

'''J.C.''' 
Jesus Christ

==Page 467==

==Page 468==

'''Nixon administration''' 
January 1969 to August 1974

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'''188 cm. and 128 kg.''' 
Gately is a hair over 6'2" and weights over 282 lbs.

'''Ashland KY''' 
a city on the Ohio River about 120 miles south of Columbus, Ohio

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

==Page 419==

'''capricious''' 
subject to acting on a whim

'''Caillou Bay''' 
You can see a map of southern Louisiana [http://www.mobilegeographics.com/tideimages/tidesta5222.png here].

'''Cajun''' 
a French-speaking people dwelling in the woods of Louisiana, having emigrated there from French Canada two hundred years ago

'''Taurus PT9''' 
You can see this pistol [http://www.gunsamerica.com/976925959/Guns/Pistols/Taurus-Pistols-Revolvers/Pistols/Steel-Frame/Taurus_PT9_380.htm here].

'''unsafetied''' 
The gun's safety is off.

'''longshoremen''' 
Dock workers who load and unload ships.

'''caricaturesque''' 
pertaining to a depiction of someone that exaggerates certain facial or bodily characteristics

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'''subsumption''' 
the act of placing something under a more comprehensive category

'''''rôle''''' 
This is how we used to spell "role" in English and how it's still spelled in French.

'''Edmonton''' 
the capital of Alberta

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'''malice''' 
desire to do harm

==Page 422==

'''vacuous''' 
lacking in ideas or intelligence

'''Maxwell House''' 
a brand of coffee

'''M. Kemp''' 
as in Monsieur Kemp, i.e., Jack Kemp, implying he was assassinated with a bomb in his house

'''Very Large Satan''' 
or "Great Satan," if you will

==Page 423==

'''''utilitaire''''' 
utilitarian, i.e., providing the greatest good for the greatest number

'''Comme on dit''' 
French: Like they say

==Page 424==

'''chasm''' 
a gorge or deep cleft in the earth's surface

==Page 425==

'''Habitant ''soup aux pois''''' 
''Habitant'' is Québecois French for "farmer," though it seems like a brand name here. ''Soup aux pois'' is pea soup, very popular in Québec.

'''parodically''' 
in a sarcastic or mocking way

==Page 426==

'''Safeway''' 
a chain of supermarkets

'''burrs''' 
protruding, ragged edges

==Page 427==

'''''ami''''' 
French: friend

'''''un autre''''' 
an other, i.e., an outsider

'''supine''' 
on one's back

==Page 428==

'''ponderous''' 
awkward or unwieldy

==Endnote 173==

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'''''Veuillez Recycler Ce Contenant''''' 
French: Please Recycle This Container

'''''en ce moment''''' 
French: at this moment

==Page 429==

'''''D'éclaisant''''' 
not a real French word

'''maffick''' 
to celebrate boisterously

==Page 430==

'''''Entre nous''''' 
French: Between us

430 · The Rest of the Eric Clipperton Story

==Page 430==

==Page 431==

'''slider''' 
a breaking pitch in baseball that curves down and out, with much more speed than a typical curveball

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

'''Forest Lawn NNY''' 
a town in New York state, on Lake Ontario

'''cuirass''' 
a piece of armor covering the heart

'''PowerBook''' 
an IBM brand of laptop computer

'''vig''' 
interest, as on a loan from a loan shark

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'''CPR''' 
Cardiopulonary resuscitation

'''Winchester''' 
a city in Massachusetts about 8.5 miles northwest of Boston

'''counsel''' 
purpose, plan, or design

'''whey''' 
the liquid remaining after milk has been curdled and strained

==Page 433==

'''miasma''' 
a noxious atmosphere

'''cordite''' 
a propellant used in place of gunpowder in firearms

'''Crawfordsville, Indiana''' 
a town about 45 miles northwest of Indianapolis

'''Veedersburg IN''' 
this town lies 22 miles west of Crawfordsville on Route 74

==Page 434==

'''vicissitude''' 
a change or variation in the course of something

'''votaried''' 
filled with devotion

434 · Gately's Other Job

==Page 434==

'''Jamaica Plain''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_Plain,_Massachusetts section] of Boston

'''cab of his 4 X 4''' 
A 4 X 4 is a pick-up truck and the cab is where people sit.

'''sub-table''' 
under the table, i.e., off the books so that taxes don't have to be paid

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'''colostomy''' 
a procedure by which feces exit the body via a hole in a person's side into a bag, rather than via the anus

'''B&E''' 
Breaking and Entry, i.e., burglary

'''Kools''' 
a brand of menthol cigarettes

==Page 436==

'''mobilely upward''' 
that is to say, upwardly mobile

'''witticism''' 
a funny remark

436 · More O.N.A.N. History

==Page 436==

'''Davis''' 
a city in California about 15 miles west of Sacramento

'''Quik''' 
a powder mix used to make chocolate milk

==Page 437==

'''NaCN''' 
sodium cyanide

'''acrostics''' 
These are "set(s) of words arranged in a square such that they read the same horizontally and vertically" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'').

'''dewimpled''' 
like defrocked, except for a nun

==Page 438==

'''Benedict Arnold''' 
Benedict Arnold V (1741-1801) was an American general during the Revolutionary War who turned traitor for the British.

==Endnote 176==

'''Minister of Environment and Resource-Development Enterprises''' 
The initials spell ''merde'', which is French for "shit."

'''macrocartographic''' 
immense and involved with maps

==Page 438 (cont'd)==

'''Sino-temporal-endorsement''' 
Chinese-style-time-sponsorship; a reference to China's use of animal signs to date the years (Year of the Dog, Pig, Rat, etc.); the obvious inspiration or model for [[Subsidized Time]].

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

'''orts''' 
scraps of food

'''CONCORD''' 
the capital of New Hampshire

'''CLEMSON''' 
a [http://www.clemson.edu/ university] in South Carolina

'''Rantoul IL''' 
a town 125 miles south-southwest of Chicago

'''Ithaca NY''' 
a town in upstate New York, home to [http://www.cornell.edu/ Cornell University]

==Page 439==

'''camp''' 
deliberately artificial or vulgar -- sometimes referring specifically to gay humor

'''robber-baron''' 
Wikipedia defines robber-barons as "businessmen and bankers who dominated their respective industries and amassed huge personal fortunes, typically as a direct result of pursuing various allegedly anti-competitive or unfair business practices."

'''Ollster''' 
a nickname for Oliver, like "Ollie"

'''"...one slim cat with an outsized leg..."''' 
i.e., Orin Incandenza

==Page 440==

'''placative''' 
intending to pacify or calm

'''quadrennial''' 
occurring every four years

'''pulchritudinous''' 
good-looking

'''chapeau''' 
hat

==Page 441==

'''cheri''' 
French: my dear

'''Cerberus''' 
in Greek mythology, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus three-headed dog] that guards Hades

'''Achilles' tendon''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles%27_tendon tendon] in the back of the leg, near the foot

==Page 442==

'''canter''' 
an easy gallop

'''Ixnayish''' 
Remove -ish, and you have Pig Latin for "nix."

'''H.U.D.''' 
Housing and Urban Development

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==Page 399==

'''LOVE CANAL''' 
an area near Buffalo, N.Y., famous for its high amount of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Canal toxic waste] and the effects it had on the residents there

'''EPA''' 
Environmental Protection Agency

'''Berlin, NH''' 
a town in New Hampshire very close to the Canadian border

'''Rumford, ME''' 
Rumford is in Maine, less than 50 miles due east of Berlin, N.H.

'''MONTPELIER''' 
the capital of Vermont

'''Lancaster NH''' 
a city about twenty miles west of Berlin, N.H.

'''INFARCTION''' 
heart attack

'''ANEURISM''' 
a misspelling of "aneurysm," it's a bursting of a weak blood vessel, if in the brain, usually causing a stroke

'''SALEM MA''' 
a city 15 miles up the coast from Boston

'''FROM SYRACUSE TO TICONDEROGA, NY''' 
This line would go right through [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adirondack_ParkAdirondack Park] in New York.

'''FROM TICODEROGA, NY TO SALEM, MA''' 
The lower corner of Vermont lies below this line.

==Page 400==

'''claque''' 
a group of sycophants

'''hale''' 
healthy

'''Kevlar''' 
a synthetic substance used in, among other things, bulletproof vests

==Page 401==

'''aspersion''' 
a disparaging remark

==Page 402==

'''Bôf''' 
defined by the Cambridge Online French-English dictionary as an interjection "expressing a lack of interest or enthusiasm"

'''maroon''' 
i.e., a moron

'''benighted''' 
overtaken by darkness

'''cojones''' 
Spanish for "testicles"

==Page 403==

'''''Redemisement''''' 
probably a neologism in French, ''redémisement'', with ''démisement'' meaning something along the lines of "dislocation," so ''redémisement'' being a re-dislocation or a second dislocation, here of territory

'''scenario''' 
"Scenarios" is the correct plural.

==Page 404==

[[Image:Tyrolean.jpg|thumb|caption|Tyrolean Hat|150px|right]]

'''Tyrolean hats''' 
The Tyrolean hat, named after the region of Tyrol, is associated with the Austrian Alps. Tyrolean hats have a cord wrapped around the base of the crown and a feather or brush on the side as trim. For an example, see right. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrolean_hat Wikipedia]

'''H.E.W.''' 
Health, Education, and Welfare

'''rife''' 
abounding

'''Eminent nondomain''' 
"Eminent domain" is the right of the government to seize private property to serve a greater good. This would be the opposite.

'''''bien sûr''''' 
French: of course

'''U.S.O.''' 
United States Organizations, an organization dedicated to entertaining troops at war

==Page 405==

'''coup de grâce''' 
French: death blow

'''recalcitrant''' 
hard to deal with or manage

'''''¿Qué?''' 
Spanish: What?

'''Yukon''' 
a territory of northwest Canada that borders Alaska's western border

'''Brinksmanship''' 
According to the ''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'', this is "the technique or practice of maneuvering a dangerous situation to the limits of tolerance or safety in order to secure the greatest advantage, esp. by creating diplomatic crises."

'''1/3-rpm''' 
This is one-third of a revolution per minute. LPs go literally 100 times faster.

''''Flight of the Bumblebee'''' 
an interlude in ''The Tale of Tsar Saltan'', an opera by Russian composer Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

==Page 406==

'''IMBROGLIO''' 
a misunderstanding or disagreement between persons or nations

'''SIN CITY''' 
Las Vegas

'''F.E.C.''' 
Federal Elections Commission

==Page 407==

'''S.A.C.''' 
Strategic Air Command

'''BK''' 
Burger King

'''catastatic''' 
of or pertaining to the climax of a play, movie, etc

'''radon''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radon chemical element] that contaminates homes in gaseous form

==Page 408==

'''Maddox OH''' 
doesn't appear to be a real place

'''Hartford''' 
the capital of Connecticut

==Page 409==

'''Elmer's''' 
a brand of glue

==Endnote 158==
'''renumeration''' 

word should be remuneration

==Endnote 159==

'''Durban''' 
the second most populous city in S. Africa, on the country's southeast coast

==Page 409 (cont'd)==

'''Clipperton ''même''''' 
French: Clipperton himself

==Page 410==

'''transverse aberration''' 
this is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberration_of_light aberration of light] across a field

'''Sunkist''' 
a brand of fruit and fruit drinks

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==Page 410==

'''incipient''' 
beginning to develop

==Page 411==

'''Szechuan''' 
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szechuan Sichuan]

[[Subsidized Time|Y.P.W.]]

'''Sherman statutes''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act anti-trust act] introduced by Sen. John Sherman of Ohio (1823-1900)

'''TCI''' 
Tele-Communications, Inc. (now defunct)

'''Malone''' 
John C. Malone (born 1941), now CEO of Liberty Media

'''TBS''' 
Turner Broadcasting System, founded by Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III (born 1938)

'''CBC''' 
Canadian Broadcasting Centre

==Page 412==

'''American Council of Disseminators of Cable''' 
Look at the first letters of the capitalized words.

'''HDTV''' 
High-Definition Television

==Page 413==

'''liposuction''' 
a surgical procedure whereby fat is literally sucked out of the body

'''P.T.A.s''' 
Parent-Teacher Associations

'''PACs''' 
Political Action Committees

'''REM''' 
Rapid Eye Movement

'''kabal''' 
an alternate spelling of "cabal," meaning a small group of secret plotters

'''b&w''' 
black and white

==Page 414==

'''Preparation H''' 
a brand-name ointment for hemorrhoids

'''Überad''' 
a super advertisement, using the German ''über'' ("super") as a prefix

'''MLB''' 
Major League Baseball

==Page 415==

'''Ch. 11 protection''' 
Chapter 11, a section of the bankruptcy code under which one could file for protection from creditors

'''Dow turned Grizzly''' 
i.e., a bear (downward-moving) market environment began

''''Happy Days'''' 
a once-successful [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070992/ television series] on ABC

'''penultimate''' 
second-to-last

'''half-gainer''' 
a type of dive

==Page 416==

'''ken''' 
understanding

'''vox- and digitus-populi''' 
''Vox populi'' means "voice of the people" in Latin. ''Digitus populi'' would be "finger of the people."

==Page 417==

'''CPU''' 
Central Processing Unit

'''tentacularly''' 
as with tentacles

'''GTE''' 
General Telephone and Electronics

'''Hobbesianly''' 
in a way suggesting that people are very much in a state of nature, i.e., without rules or laws

'''!''' 
Used in the 2 times the square root of area formula, the exclamation point denotes a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial factorial]

'''mimetic''' 
used here, meaning as close to reality as possible

'''equatorial''' 
lying on the Equator

==Page 418==

'''mycological''' 
regarding the study of mushrooms

'''ennui''' 
boredom

==Endnote 168==

'''Wagnerian''' 
in the style or manner of Richard Wagner, the German operatic composer

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==Page 398==

==Page 399==

'''LOVE CANAL''' 
an area near Buffalo, N.Y., famous for its high amount of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Canal toxic waste] and the effects it had on the residents there

'''EPA''' 
Environmental Protection Agency

'''Berlin, NH''' 
a town in New Hampshire very close to the Canadian border

'''Rumford, ME''' 
Rumford is in Maine, less than 50 miles due east of Berlin, N.H.

'''MONTPELIER''' 
the capital of Vermont

'''Lancaster NH''' 
a city about twenty miles west of Berlin, N.H.

'''INFARCTION''' 
heart attack

'''ANEURISM''' 
a misspelling of "aneurysm," it's a bursting of a weak blood vessel, if in the brain, usually causing a stroke

'''SALEM MA''' 
a city 15 miles up the coast from Boston

'''FROM SYRACUSE TO TICONDEROGA, NY''' 
This line would go right through [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adirondack_ParkAdirondack Park] in New York.

'''FROM TICODEROGA, NY TO SALEM, MA''' 
The lower corner of Vermont lies below this line.

==Page 400==

'''claque''' 
a group of sycophants

'''hale''' 
healthy

'''Kevlar''' 
a synthetic substance used in, among other things, bulletproof vests

==Page 401==

'''aspersion''' 
a disparaging remark

==Page 402==

'''Bôf''' 
defined by the Cambridge Online French-English dictionary as an interjection "expressing a lack of interest or enthusiasm"

'''maroon''' 
i.e., a moron

'''benighted''' 
overtaken by darkness

'''cojones''' 
Spanish for "testicles"

==Page 403==

'''''Redemisement''''' 
probably a neologism in French, ''redémisement'', with ''démisement'' meaning something along the lines of "dislocation," so ''redémisement'' being a re-dislocation or a second dislocation, here of territory

'''scenario''' 
"Scenarios" is the correct plural.

==Page 404==

[[Image:Tyrolean.jpg|thumb|caption|Tyrolean Hat|150px|right]]

'''Tyrolean hats''' 
The Tyrolean hat, named after the region of Tyrol, is associated with the Austrian Alps. Tyrolean hats have a cord wrapped around the base of the crown and a feather or brush on the side as trim. For an example, see right. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrolean_hat Wikipedia]

'''H.E.W.''' 
Health, Education, and Welfare

'''rife''' 
abounding

'''Eminent nondomain''' 
"Eminent domain" is the right of the government to seize private property to serve a greater good. This would be the opposite.

'''''bien sûr''''' 
French: of course

'''U.S.O.''' 
United States Organizations, an organization dedicated to entertaining troops at war

==Page 405==

'''coup de grâce''' 
French: death blow

'''recalcitrant''' 
hard to deal with or manage

'''''¿Qué?''' 
Spanish: What?

'''Yukon''' 
a territory of northwest Canada that borders Alaska's western border

'''Brinksmanship''' 
According to the ''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'', this is "the technique or practice of maneuvering a dangerous situation to the limits of tolerance or safety in order to secure the greatest advantage, esp. by creating diplomatic crises."

'''1/3-rpm''' 
This is one-third of a revolution per minute. LPs go literally 100 times faster.

''''Flight of the Bumblebee'''' 
an interlude in ''The Tale of Tsar Saltan'', an opera by Russian composer Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

==Page 406==

'''IMBROGLIO''' 
a misunderstanding or disagreement between persons or nations

'''SIN CITY''' 
Las Vegas

'''F.E.C.''' 
Federal Elections Commission

'''S.A.C.''' 
Strategic Air Command

'''BK''' 
Burger King

'''catastatic''' 
of or pertaining to the climax of a play, movie, etc

'''radon''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radon chemical element] that contaminates homes in gaseous form

==Page 408==

'''Maddox OH''' 
doesn't appear to be a real place

'''Hartford''' 
the capital of Connecticut

==Page 409==

'''Elmer's''' 
a brand of glue

==Endnote 158==
'''renumeration''' 

word should be remuneration

==Endnote 159==

'''Durban''' 
the second most populous city in S. Africa, on the country's southeast coast

==Page 409 (cont'd)==

'''Clipperton ''même''''' 
French: Clipperton himself

==Page 410==

'''transverse aberration''' 
this is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberration_of_light aberration of light] across a field

'''Sunkist''' 
a brand of fruit and fruit drinks

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==Page 410==

'''incipient''' 
beginning to develop

==Page 411==

'''Szechuan''' 
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szechuan Sichuan]

[[Subsidized Time|Y.P.W.]]

'''Sherman statutes''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act anti-trust act] introduced by Sen. John Sherman of Ohio (1823-1900)

'''TCI''' 
Tele-Communications, Inc. (now defunct)

'''Malone''' 
John C. Malone (born 1941), now CEO of Liberty Media

'''TBS''' 
Turner Broadcasting System, founded by Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III (born 1938)

'''CBC''' 
Canadian Broadcasting Centre

==Page 412==

'''American Council of Disseminators of Cable''' 
Look at the first letters of the capitalized words.

'''HDTV''' 
High-Definition Television

==Page 413==

'''liposuction''' 
a surgical procedure whereby fat is literally sucked out of the body

'''P.T.A.s''' 
Parent-Teacher Associations

'''PACs''' 
Political Action Committees

'''REM''' 
Rapid Eye Movement

'''kabal''' 
an alternate spelling of "cabal," meaning a small group of secret plotters

'''b&w''' 
black and white

==Page 414==

'''Preparation H''' 
a brand-name ointment for hemorrhoids

'''Überad''' 
a super advertisement, using the German ''über'' ("super") as a prefix

'''MLB''' 
Major League Baseball

==Page 415==

'''Ch. 11 protection''' 
Chapter 11, a section of the bankruptcy code under which one could file for protection from creditors

'''Dow turned Grizzly''' 
i.e., a bear (downward-moving) market environment began

''''Happy Days'''' 
a once-successful [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070992/ television series] on ABC

'''penultimate''' 
second-to-last

'''half-gainer''' 
a type of dive

==Page 416==

'''ken''' 
understanding

'''vox- and digitus-populi''' 
''Vox populi'' means "voice of the people" in Latin. ''Digitus populi'' would be "finger of the people."

==Page 417==

'''CPU''' 
Central Processing Unit

'''tentacularly''' 
as with tentacles

'''GTE''' 
General Telephone and Electronics

'''Hobbesianly''' 
in a way suggesting that people are very much in a state of nature, i.e., without rules or laws

'''!''' 
Used in the 2 times the square root of area formula, the exclamation point denotes a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial factorial]

'''mimetic''' 
used here, meaning as close to reality as possible

'''equatorial''' 
lying on the Equator

==Page 418==

'''mycological''' 
regarding the study of mushrooms

'''ennui''' 
boredom

==Endnote 168==

'''Wagnerian''' 
in the style or manner of Richard Wagner, the German operatic composer

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

'''singular''' 
unique

'''polysterene''' 
styrofoam

'''ziggurats''' 
an ancient type of Mesopotamian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat temple tower]

'''fiberboard''' 
board made of small fibers of wood, plastic, or some combination of these and other materials

'''Concord''' 
Concord is about 20 miles west of Boston and is the site one of the first battles of the American Revolution.

==Page 344==

'''rotary''' 
a traffic circle or, in the U.K., a roundabout

'''plywood''' 
material made of thin layers of wood glued together

''''12th-Step Work'''' 
The twelfth and final step of AA is this: "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs."

'''epigrammatic''' 
of or pertaining to the use of short and pithy statements

'''pay it ''forward''''' 
thus the title of [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0223897/ this movie]

'''nip''' 
drink of alcohol

'''Dick Cavett and Truman Capote''' 
Richard Alva "Dick" Cavett (born 1936) is an Emmy-award-winning television talk-show host. Truman Capote (1924-1984) was an American writer and novelist, best known for writing ''In Cold Blood'' and ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''. Both men were remarkably short.

==Endnote 133==

'''variegated''' 
diverse

'''esoteric''' 
understood or recognized by few people

==Page 344 (cont'd)==

'''piping''' 
This is a tubular band of ornamental material; Nodie is probably a brand name.

'''imbricate''' 
overlapping in sequence

'''tailor's notch''' 
You get one from biting thread to cut it.

'''incisors''' 
front top teeth

==Page 345==

'''insipid''' 
without interesting qualities

'''AA Preamble''' 
You can read it [http://www.serenityfound.org/preamble.html here].

'''empathy''' 
one's ability to feel the emotions of another person

'''what he is''' 
i.e., an alcoholic

==Endnote 134==

'''nonpunitive''' 
not intended as a punishment

'''nitro''' 
nitroglycerin, used for cardiac attacks

==Page 345 (cont'd)==

'''145 kph''' 
a hair over 90 miles per hour

'''litany''' 
a prolonged or tedious account

==Page 345==

'''waxing''' 
growing in size, as for the first half of a lunar cycle

'''peritonitis''' 
inflammation of the serous membrane lining the abdomenal cavity

'''cirrhotic''' 
pertaining to hardening of liver tissue

'''nephritis''' 
inflammation of the kidneys

==Page 347==

'''compadre''' 
a close friend or companion, from the Spanish for "godfather"

'''ravening''' 
voracious

'''maw''' 
mouth

'''Black Mass''' 
a Satanic ritual based on ten Roman Catholic mass

==Page 348==

'''"...something whimpery instead of banging."''' 
a reference to the last line of T.S. Eliot's poem [http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/9824/hollow.html The Hollow Men]

'''garish''' 
loud and flashy

'''Balaclavan''' 
a reference to Balaklava, Ukraine, where these is nuclear submarine base

'''thermal''' 
a warm, rising air current

'''arbitrage''' 
simultaneous purchase and sale of the same assets in different markets

'''compound''' 
i.e., a compound fracture, where the bone protrudes through the skin

'''Svce''' 
Service

'''Unitarian''' 
Though the term refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian Unitarianism], here it suggestsa kind of hippyesque, wishy-washyness.

==Page 349==

'''Hindenburg''' 
Named for Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg (1847-1934), the German field marshal, hero of World War I, and last President of the Weimar Republic, the ''Hindenburg'' was a hydrogen-powered zeppelin that exploded over Lakehurst, N.J., on May 6, 1937.

'''nonuremic''' 
so as not to appear in one's urine

'''foamer''' 
beer

==Page 350==

'''beatific''' 
blissful or angelic

'''Zippo''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippo brand] of lighter

'''saccharin''' 
Based on the word for the artificial sweetener in Sweet & Low, the word as used here means "overly sweet."

'''flummoxed''' 
confused or perplexed

'''burnished''' 
rubbed smooth

'''squalid''' 
foul and repulsive

==Page 351==

'''terse''' 
using few words

'''imperative''' 
a tense of verb implicating a command or directive

'''zealotry''' 
fanaticism

'''green-card Irishman''' 
an Irishman who is a permanent resident non-citizen of the U.S.

'''meal''' 
ground grain

'''metal-pedalled''' 
i.e., "with the pedal to the metal," i.e., at top speed

'''chemical psychosis''' 
Psychosis (called "speed psychosisis") a not uncommon side effect of amphetamine abuse.

'''wax lyrical''' 
to speak poetically

'''"'d been a confarmed..."''' 
I'd been a confirmed bowl-splatterer for years beyond counting. I'd been barred from the facilities at all the truck stops betwixt here and New York for years. The wallpaper in the loo at home hung in these curled sheets from the wall, I tell you. But now one day . . . I'll remember it always. It were a week to the day after I stood up for my ninety-day chip. I were three months sober. I were there on the throne at home, you know. Not to put too fine a point on it, I produced as usual and . . . and I were so amazed as to not believing my ears. It was a sound so unfamiliar at the first I thought I'd dropped my wallet in the loo, do you know? I thought I'd dropped me wallet in the loo as god is my witness. So down I bend betwixt my knees and had a look in the dim of the loo and couldn't believe my eyes. So good people I do then I drop to my knees by the loo and had a ''real'' look. A lover's look, do you know? And friends it were a lovely past my poor powers to say. It were a ''turd'' in the loo. A ''real turd''. It were firm and tapered and ever so gently arched. It looked . . . ''constructed'' instead of sprayed. It look as I felt in my heart God himself made a turd to look. My friends, this turd of mine practically had a pulse. I stayed down on my knees and thanked my Higher Power, which I choose to call my Higher Power God, and I been thanking my Higher Power on my knees ever since, morning and nighttime and in the loo as well, ever since.

==Page 352==

'''Enuresis''' 
bed-wetting

'''Priapism''' 
an erection that won't go away

'''Projectile-incontinence''' 
inability to hold owns bowels to the extent that feces shoot out of the anus

'''Autocastration''' 
castration of one's self

'''fringe-Birchism''' 
Birchism is adherence to the principles of the [http://www.jbs.org/ John Birch Society], an ultra-right-wing political organization

'''National-Socialist-Bundism''' 
probably something like the German-American Bund of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Kuhn_(Nazi) Fritz Julius Kuhn]

'''Coprophilia and -phagia''' 
sexual excitement brought on by feces and eating of feces, respectively

'''candelabrum''' 
a holder for more than one candle

==Page 353==

'''vitriol''' 
something highly caustic or severe, as criticism

'''orevwar''' 
They trying to say ''au revoir'', i.e., French for "goodbye."

'''fremitic''' 
characterized by tremor vibrations in any part of the body

==Page 354==

'''verdant''' 
green with vegetation

'''varicose''' 
having veins that are visible through the skin

'''shamanistic fiat''' 
A shaman is a priest or religious official, usually of an indigenous religion. A fiat is an order, based on the Latin for the imperative form of the verb "to be."

'''30 kph''' 
18.6 miles per hour

'''talismanically''' 
in a way suggesting something having to do with a magic charm or amulet

'''Lord's Prayer''' 
from [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%206:9-13;&version=9; Matthew 20:9-13]

'''ballast''' 
meaning an electric ballast, which is used to regulate and stabilize the current in lights

==Page 355==

'''gnarled''' 
knotty of misshappen

'''Sixers''' 
the short name for the [http://www.nba.com/sixers/index_main.html Philadelphia 76ers]

'''MCI-Walpole''' 
This is the Massachusetts Correction Institute at Walpole, about 25 miles southwest of Boston.

'''raisin jack''' 
an alcoholic drink fermented from raisins, commonly made in prisons

'''spectral''' 
looking like a ghost

==Page 356==

'''LeSabre''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buick_LeSabre Buick LeSabre]

'''jack-legged''' 
a slang term meaning "always screwing up"

'''dash''' 
short for "dashboard"

'''abject''' 
sunken to a low position, as in "abject poverty"

'''regs''' 
regulations

'''autonomy''' 
control or rule over one's self

==Page 357==

'''fibrosis''' 
scarring

==Endnote 139==

'''entomologic''' 
Entomology is the study of insects.

==Page 357 (cont'd)==

'''Mr. Rogers''' 
The Reverend Frederick McFeely "Fred" Rogers (1928-2003) was an American minister and children's television show host.

'''rhapsodize''' 
speak in an extravagantly elegant manner

'''fisticuffery''' 
fist-fighting

'''invectives''' 
abusive expressions of opinion

'''Sergeant at Arms''' 
an officer appointed to keep order

==Page 358==

'''apothegm''' 
a short, pithy statement

'''head''' 
bathroom

'''spuds''' 
potatoes

'''nocturnal''' 
happening at night

'''crook''' 
a shepherd's staff

'''French-curled''' 
You can see French-curled jewelry [http://www.cqout.com/item.asp?id=3093801 here]

'''demurely''' 
in an effectedly modest way

==Page 359==

'''circumferences''' 
distances around the edge of a circle

'''cuticles''' 
dead skin at the bottom of the fingernails

'''astringent''' 
a chemical that tends to dry something else out

'''onionlight''' 
You can see onionlights [http://www.hammerworks.com/onionlights_a.html here].

'''isopropyl''' 
a type of alcohol, found in rubbing alcohol

'''reek''' 
to smell very badly

'''A.D.A.''' 
Assistant District Attorney

==Page 360==

'''fumigated''' 
permeated with gas to kill insects

'''idiosyncrasy''' 
a peculiarity of personality

'''rattan''' 
material taken from the rattan plant, a climbing palm with very long stems

'''Big Book''' 
This is the AA "bible," so to speak, and can be found online [http://www.aa.org/bigbookonline/ here].

'''''As Bill Sees It''''' 
a book by Bill W., one of AA's founders, first published in 1967

'''''Came To Believe''''' 
another AA publication, this one published in 1973

==Page 361==

'''joggling''' 
shaking slightly

'''Demerol''' 
a brand name of pethidine, a painkiller

'''photic''' 
having to do with light

==Page 362==

'''copperheads''' 
one of five species of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agkistrodon_contortrix poisonous snake]

'''tongues''' 
The reference is to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossolalia glossolalia].

'''larynx''' 
voice box

'''requisite''' 
essential or necessary

'''venulated''' 
The word means "able to see the veins"; this condition of the nose is very common among advanced alcoholics.

''''Volare'''' 
This is a song whose title is from the Italian for "to fly." The song was written by Domenico Modugno and Franco Migliacci. Modugno went on to be a member of Italy's parliament

==Page 363==

'''pupil and iris''' 
The pupil is the black circle at the center of the eye, while the iris is the colored part (blue, green, brown).

'''cognito''' 
which is to say, in Lenz's case, incognito

'''Ferragamos''' 
an Italian brand of shoes

'''periphery''' 
an external boundary

'''11-Step''' 
recalling the 12th step on page 344, UHID must lack this step, or perhaps one of the others

==Page 364==

'''Rémy''' 
Rémy-Martin, a brand of cognac

'''Tiparillo''' 
a brand name of [http://lfa.atu.edu/Brucker/advertisement%20presentation/sld005.htm cigar]

[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland]]

'''defib paddles''' 
the paddles used in defibrillation, the application of electric shocks to the heart to re-start it

'''divot''' 
Normally a golf term, a divot is the hole left by the dirt displaced when one strikes a golf ball.

'''rankness''' 
the quality of being offensive

'''proprietary''' 
Usually referring to an owner, here it refers to feeling as if one has a sense of ownership.

==Page 365==

'''rectum''' 
the very end of the large intestine

'''hubristic''' 
having exaggerated pride or self-confidence

'''7-iron''' 
a type of golf club

'''tenth rough''' 
off the fairway on the tenth hole of a golf course

==Page 366==

'''flats''' 
women's shoes without heels

'''subjunctive''' 
contingent on something else happening

'''counterfactual''' 
at variance with what really happened

'''indicative''' 
According to ''Merriam-Webster,'' "indicative" means "of, relating to, or constituting a verb form or set of verb forms that represents the denoted act or state as an objective fact."

'''transposition''' 
switching the position of two things

'''Radarange''' 
microwave

'''pass''' 
here used to mean "place"

'''allude''' 
here used to mean "give an impression of"

==Page 367==

'''velour''' 
a piled and nappy material resembling velvet

'''caparison''' 
an ornamental covering for a horse, or just rich clothing

'''gavel''' 
the type of hammer a judge uses to restore or maintain order

367 (1) · Statue of Liberty

==Page 367==

'''huge photo album''' 
The book held by the statue reads, "JULY IV MDCCLXXVI [1776]."

'''product''' 
as opposed to the torch it currently holds

'''pitons''' 
spikes used by mountain climbers for support

367 (2) · Boston AA Meeting (continued)

==Page 367==

'''deprecate''' 
to express disapproval

==Page 368==

'''conundrum''' 
something puzzling

'''cunctations''' 
delays

'''chagrin''' 
embarrassment

'''aphasiac''' 
inability to speak

'''Filene's''' 
now owned by [http://www.macys.com/ Macy's]

==Page 369==

'''unironic''' 
i.e., totally expected and not at all a surprise

'''disingenuous''' 
lacking in sincerity

'''schlepping''' 
moving awkwardly or slowly

==Page 370==

'''Naked I Club''' 
a real strip club mentioned [http://www.totse.com/en/erotica/erotic_fiction_so_to_sz/striprv.html here]

'''Route 1''' 
U.S. 1 runs from Fort Kent, Maine, at the Canadian border down to Key West, Fla., mainly through small towns.

'''Saugus MA''' 
a suburb of Boston about ten miles south of the city

'''etiology''' 
the cause or source of a medical problem

'''Mud-Bug''' 
a Southern term for a crawfish

'''invertebrate''' 
an animal with a spine

'''chordate phylum''' 
the phylum of the animal kingdom containing all animals with spines

==Page 371==

'''Campfire Girls''' 
apparently [http://www.campfire.org/start.asp not just for girls] anymore

'''Lancôme''' 
one of France's largest cosmetics manufacturers

'''lurid''' 
gruesome or shocking

'''ubiquitousness''' 
the quality of always being present

'''Aetna''' 
a real [http://www.aetna.com/ insurance company]

'''Doric column''' 
columns of buildings built according to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doric_order Doric order]

'''pliability''' 
the ability to be easily bent

==Page 373==

'''''Ramparts'' and ''Commonweal''''' 
''Ramparts'' was a magazine founded for a Catholic leadership but eventually found its niche with the New Left. ''Commonweal'' was and still is a publication by and for lay Catholics.

'''Sally Jessy Raphael M.S.W.''' 
Sally Jessy Raphael (born Sally Lowenthal, 1938) is an American talk-show host. She does not hold an M.S.W., i.e., a Master's of Social Work

'''complicity''' 
the status of being an accomplice in a wrongdoing

'''Wounded, Hurting, Inadequately Nurtured but Ever-Recovering Survivors''' 
Look at the initials of the capitalized words.

'''auburn''' 
reddish-brown

'''perimeter''' 
the oustide edge of something

==Page 373==

'''vanity''' 
a dressing table

'''limbic system''' 
a complex system within the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbic_system brain]

'''gauntlet''' 
an attack from all sides

'''rasa the tabula''' 
This is a pun on ''tabula rasa,'' Latin for "blank state" and used in the philosophy of John Locke (1632-1704). The sense here is the clean the slate.

'''bandanna''' 
a large printed handkerchief, typically red or blue with a white design

'''circumoral''' 
surrounding the mouth

'''vacuole and optica''' 
These are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuole parts] of a cell, the optica likely being some kind of "seeing" organ.

'''protozoan''' 
a single-celled organism

'''some Catholic statue''' 
The statue described strongly appears to be Bernini's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstasy_of_St_Theresa The Ecstasy of St Theresa]. This statue is also referred to by name at endnote 24, page 988 in the synopsis of James Incandenza's film ''Pre-Nuptial Agreement of Heaven and Hell.''

'''Hours''' 
another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horae Horae]

'''prurient''' 
causing lust

'''cherub''' 
Often this word is used to denote a baby angel, but the actual connotation of the original Hebrew is of a fearsome warrior angel. A cherub guards the Garden of Eden in Genesis so that Adam and Eve cannot go back in.

'''lolled''' 
dropped

==Page 374==

'''IV''' 
intravenous, i.e., directly into a vein

'''lucidity''' 
mental clarity

'''implicit''' 
unspoken but implied

'''Six Flags Over the Poconos''' 
Six Flags is a [http://www.sixflags.com/national/index.aspx chain] of amusement parks. There is not currently one in the Pocono Mountains.

'''labrynth''' 
This is the mythological spelling of "labyrinth," meaning generically a maze, but more specifically denoting the maze built by Daedalus of ancient Greek myth.

'''minotaurs''' 
Daedalus build his famous maze to house the minotaur, a monster that was half man and half bull and the product of sexual congress between Europa, queen of Crete, and Zeus in the form of a bull.

'''aides de camp''' 
a confidential assistant to a military officer

'''absconded''' 
departed suddenly and in secret

'''proto-Fascist''' 
Wallace really means "quasi-Fascist" rather than "proto-Fascist"; it's not as if the rules of AA are the harbinger of Fascism later to come.

'''decamped''' 
a synonym of "absconded"

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]

'''commode''' 
toilet

==Page 375==

==Endnote 143==

'''''Sic''''' 
This word means: "Thus; so. Used to indicate that a quoted passage, especially one containing an error or unconventional spelling, has been retained in its original form or written intentionally" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'').

375 (1) · More Marathe & Steeply

==Page 375==

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

'''shelf''' 
a projecting ridge on a mountain

'''spangle''' 
a small bright spot

'''"...launching even one ship or vessel."''' 
unlike [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_of_Troy Helen of Troy], whose face "launched a thousand ships" according to Homer

375 (2) · Himself and Lyle

==Page 375==

'''blotto''' 
drunk

==Endnote 144==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Purdue Wonderchicken]]

==Page 376==

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote 145 · Found Drama|Endnote 145]]

376 · More Boston AA

==Page 376==

'''brogue''' 
an accent, usually Irish

'''Eightball''' 
an eighth of an ounce of cocaine

'''translucent''' 
capable of having light pass through

==Page 377==

'''swaddled''' 
wrapped tightly in clothes

'''fuchsia''' 
hot pink

'''dysplasia''' 
abnormal growth of cells or tissue

'''remonstrances''' 
acts of protest

'''beat-cop''' 
a policeman who patrols the streets

'''tungsten''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolframite wolframite]

==Page 378==

'''Chanel''' 
the fashion house known in long form as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanel House of Chanel]

'''reticence''' 
reluctance

'''D&C''' 
dilation (of the cervix) and curetage (scraping) of the uterus

'''placenta''' 
the tissue that nourishes a fetus and makes up the afterbirth

'''S.S.I.''' 
Social Security Insurance

==Page 379==

379 · More With Himself and Lyle

==Page 379==

'''libations''' 
alcoholic drinks

'''injudicious''' 
showing lack of judgment

'''chyme''' 
This is "the semifluid mass into which food is converted by gastric secretion and which passes from the stomach into the small intestine" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

==Endnote`146==

'''L.M.P.''' 
Latrodectus Mactans Productions

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==Page 283==

'''C.U.S.P.''' 
This could stand for several different things — perhaps Canadian-United States Party. In reality, though it was created after ''Infinite Jest'' was published, there is an organization called [http://geo.international.gc.ca/can-am/main/border/creating_cusp-en.asp CUSP].

'''Johnny Gentle''' 
the name of a [http://www.johnnygentle.co.uk/ real musician] from the U.K.

'''O.N.A.N.ism''' 
Onanism is another word for masturbation in the English language

'''cholera and amoebic-dysentery''' 
Cholera is extreme diarrhea brought on by unsanitary conditions. Amoebic dysentery is also extreme diarrhea, this time brought on by the acquisition of a parasitic infection.

'''diasporic''' 
here denoting being in exile

==Endnote 94==

'''''Lebensgefährtin''''' 
German: female romantic companion

==Page 284==

'''Palmer Academy''' 
There is a [http://www.privateschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/6794 Palmer Academy] in Florida, but it's in Haines City, sixty miles east of Tampa.

'''ROTC''' 
Reserve Officer Training Corps, which recruits future officers in the U.S. Armed Forces from universities

'''A.P.''' 
Advanced Placement

'''Croate''' 
French for "Croat" but probably just a misspelling

==Endnote 95==

'''post-Windows DOS''' 
A DOS is a Disk Operating System, the programming by which a computer runs other programs. Microsoft has not issued a new DOS after Windows as of late 2007.

[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]

'''recompile''' 
Some programs needed to be "compiled" before they run, depending on the computer language in which they're written. Recompiling would be compiling over again.

==Page 285==

'''inducement''' 
an incentive

'''Dodge''' 
A reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_City Dodge City, Kansas], to "get out of Dodge" is to disappear because of some kind of perceived or real threat.

==Endnote 96==

'''Fredericton, N.B.''' 
Fredericton is the capital of the Canadian province of New Brunswick (N.B.) about 175 miles as the crow flies (much longer if you drive it) from Halifax, Nova Scotia, the nearest "big city" in that part of Canada.

==Page 285 (cont'd)==

'''septuagenaric''' 
in one's seventies

'''patrician''' 
aristocratic

'''vault the net''' 
It used to be a tradition in tennis for one player to jump ("vault") over the net to congratulate or console his/her opponent after a match.

'''round-robins''' 
This is a type of tournament in which each player plays every other player once, the winner being the person/team/etc. with the most wins. Compare this to a single-elimination tournament like the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.

'''deck-sneakers''' 
You can see examples [http://sneakers.pair.com/m-deck.htm here].

==Page 286==

'''Lacoste''' 
a French apparel company, known for producing [http://www.izod.com/ Izod]

'''levantine''' 
from the Near East, particularly Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, or Israel, i.e., the Levant

'''kohl''' 
a powder used to darken the eyelids

'''Terriers''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhett_the_Boston_Terrier Rhett the Boston Terrier] is the mascot of Boston University.

'''plum''' 
an excellent or desirable thing

'''hiati''' 
the plural of "hiatus"

'''Blue Cross''' 
an health insurance company

'''felo de se''' 
Latin for "felony against one's self," this is a term for suicide.

[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.P.A.H.]]

'''sedulous''' 
diligent or attentive

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar]]

==Page 287==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dary PRoducts from the American Heartland]]

'''jugular''' 
the largest vein in the neck

''''''Tenebrae Factae Sunt,''' sotto v.''' 
Latin for "There Was Darkness," ''Tenebrae Factae Sunt'' is a hymn traditionally sung on Good Friday, the day on which Jesus was crucified. "Sotto v." is shorthand for the Latin ''sotto voce,'' which means "in a low voice."

==Page 288==

'''locusts''' 
Given the noise their making, Wallace is probably referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada cicadas].

'''trundle''' 
Used here, it means an impulse that causes something to move.

'''Salic law''' 
The Salic Law was a legal code of medieval Central Europe that, among other things, prevented accession to a monarchy on the basis of female relationship.

'''anthracnose''' 
another name for the plant disease known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthracnose canker]

'''PAC''' 
Political Action Committee

'''florid''' 
very red

'''trilled ''r'''s''' 
as pronounced in a Spanish word such as ''perro'' ("dog")

''''Politics and the English Language'''' 
You can read Orwell's essay [http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79e/part42.html here].

'''Tactical Phalanx''' 
Normally a military term, this would be a phalanx (from the Latin word for "fingers") or row of soldiers deployed for tactical purposes.

'''MGM''' 
Militant Grammarians of Massachusetts

'''tiller''' 
a nautical term for the device attached to a boat's rudder to assist in steering

'''sinecure''' 
a job requiring little or no work

==Page 289==

'''"...had a poster of Bill Tilden in his office..."''' 
which implies that the coach was either gay (as was Tilden) or very old-fashioned, since Tilden's career was far in the past

'''schizoid''' 
here meaning "erratic"

'''refraction''' 
here referring to the splitting of white light into a spectrum of color

'''strabismic''' 
having improperly aligned eyes

'''diffraction''' 
the bending or stretching of waves, assuming light is a wave and not a particle

'''OCD''' 
Obsessive-Compulsive Disoder

'''postcoital flanks''' 
Postcoital denotes after sexual intercourse. The flank would be the side of the body between the ribs and hip.

'''decapitated''' 
beheaded

'''epithet''' 
a word or phrase applied to a person, often derisively

==Page 290==

'''Actaeon Complex''' 
This is not a real psychiatric disorder. Actaeon was a figure from Greek mythology who fell in love with the goddess of the hunt, Artemis, only to anger her and then be changed into a deer, which was then hunted unto death — all of which perhaps suggests an underlying reluctance in the men to pursue Joelle because she might pursue them in return.

'''phylogenic''' 
regarding the evolution of an organism

'''ascapartic''' 
A word coined by Wallace, it means gigantic, as Ascapart was a giant depicted in the fiction of, among other people, J.R.R. Tolkien.

'''elisions and apical lapses''' 
Elisions are the droppings of phonemes from words. Apical refers to sounds made using the tip of the tongue; lapses would be absences of such sounds.

'''four meters''' 
a little over thirteen feet.

'''zygomatics''' 
arches on the outer borders of the eyes

'''HD''' 
high-definition, like a television

'''pungently''' 
in a way that sharply affects the organs of sense

'''attar''' 
a perfume extracted from flowers

'''avuncular''' 
characteristic of an uncle

==Page 290==

'''Facsmile''' 
probably a misspelling of "facsimile"

'''three-meter''' 
almost ten feet

'''lateral''' 
sideways

'''''bona fried''''' 
the other players mean to say "bona fide"

'''dope-slaps''' 
more commonly known as "bitch-slaps"

'''orthopedic''' 
denoting an anomaly in the bones

'''180-kilo''' 
almost 400 pounds

'''Special Teams''' 
These are the squads responsible in football for tactics that are neither offensive or defensive, e.g., returning kick-offs, kicking field goals or extra points, and, of course, punting.

'''femur to tarsus''' 
The femur is the bone running from the hip to the knee — the largest bone in the body. The tarsi (plural of tarsus) are the bones of the foot. In between are the tibia and fibula — the bones of the lower leg — and the patella, or kneecap. All of these were apparently broken.

==Page 292==

'''caromed''' 
To carom is to strike and rebound; caromed is the past tense.

'''CNS''' 
Central Nervous System

'''Gauloise''' 
a French brand of cigarettes

'''draconian''' 
Derived from Draco, the 7th century BC first lawgiver of Athens, the word means unusually harsh or severe.

==Page 293==

'''SUNY''' 
State University of New York

'''kick serve''' 
a serve in tennis with so much spin that the ball bounces high and to the left (if right-handed) or right (if left-handed) of the receiver

'''Rockette''' 
Named for the Rockefeller family and nearby Rockefeller Center, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockette Rockettes] are the Radio City Music Hall-based dancers famous for high kicks.

'''preternatural''' 
out of the ordinary course or nature

[[Image:Parabola.png|thumb|caption|parabola|right|125px]]
'''parabola''' 
a conic section made by the cutting of a cone from top to bottom; see right

'''factota''' 
plural for factotum, which is a word for a servant or assistant

'''herbicide''' 
something that kills plants

==Page 294==

'''''Schmüberty''''' 
Technically speaking, this wouldn't rhyme with "puberty," because an umlaut over a "u" in German produces a diphthong rather than the long /u/ phoneme.

'''aegis''' 
sponsorship or auspices; from the Greek for "shield"

'''bilateral''' 
having two sides

'''S.T.''' 
Special Teams

'''wide receiver's number''' 
Kickers can only be assigned numbers 1 through 19, while wide receivers get numbers in the 80s.

'''"...it was in its last season of representing an American university..."''' 
Presumably under the constitution of O.N.A.N., Syracuse, N.Y., became part of Canada.

'''book-long''' 
This is a bit confusing, since the sense would seem to imply that the "book" is a record book, but the record for a punt in both college and professional football is 99 yards.

'''Orangemen''' 
the Syracuse football team's name

==Page 295==

'''podiatric''' 
having to do with the foot

'''USMC''' 
United States Marine Corps

'''Rolling Thunder's big-bellied Berthas''' 
Rolling Thunder was the bombing campaign on North Vietnam carried out by South Vietnam and the U.S. military between 1965 and 1968. A A Bertha is probably just a really big gun, like the famous [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bertha Big Bertha] used by Germany during WWI.

'''sousaphone''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousaphone tuba] developed by John Philip Sousa (1854-1932), American composer, for easier carrying with a marching band

'''extrication''' 
freedom from entanglement

'''lardy''' 
fat

'''tête-à-tête''' 
From the French for "head to head," this term denotes a private conversation between two people.

'''30,0000''' 
The game against Syracuse is a home game, so the audience couldn't have been 30,000 because Nickerson Field has a capacity of less than 10,000 people.

'''amniotic''' 
pertaining to the fluid that surrounds a fetus ''in utero''

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'''cathedran''' 
Presumably Wallace means "like a cathedral," but this is not a real word. The proper word would be cathedrarian.

'''Yankee Conference''' 
Ironically, in 1997 (a year after ''Infinite Jest'' was published), Boston University dropped its football program.

'''K-L-RMKI/Forsythia Bowl''' 
This is not a real bowl game, but the letters stand for Ken-L-Ration-Magnavox-Kemper-Insurance Forsythia Bowl.

'''fealty''' 
faithfulness, here to a sports team

'''4WD''' 
four-wheel-drive vehicle

'''kudzu''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudzu climbing vine] indigenous to the U.S. South

'''pointers''' 
a breed of hunting dog

'''Pyrex''' 
a brand name of heat-resistant glass

'''turn blue litmus paper red''' 
presumably something highly acidic

'''star-fated''' 
as opposed to star-crossed, i.e., predestined for disaster, as Romeo and Juliet

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'''dailies''' 
Also called "rushes," these are the pieces of raw film recorded during a single day, including cuts, takes, prints, etc.

'''turtle-headed''' 
implying that Orin's neck is covered entirely but visible, as with a turtleneck sweater

'''fireman-carrying''' 
carrying a person over one's shoulder

'''Dixie Baton-Twirling Institute in Oxford MS''' 
Wallace has taken this idea from a [http://louisville.edu/a-s/english/subcultures/ideas/buzzpounds/pountwirl.html short story] by [http://www.terrysouthern.com/ Terry Southern]. Oxford, Miss., is the home of "Ole Miss," i.e., the [http://www.olemiss.edu/ University of Mississippi] and is about 60 miles southeast of Memphis, Tenn.

'''hypertrophied''' 
overgrown anatomically

'''quadriceps''' 
one of the muscles in front of the thigh

'''P.T.s''' 
Physical Therapists

'''thespian''' 
having to do with acting

'''BTL''' 
the initials of several telecommunications and television companies

'''Angenieux''' 
a [http://www.angenieux.com/ company] that produces high-technology optics devices

'''half-disk-sector''' 
an indication of the amount of digital memory used

'''#78''' 
This is Orin's jersey number — why he didn't get a changed number is uncertain, as is why it said he had gotten a receiver's number. A number in the 70s would be an offensive or defensive lineman — someone unlike to have contact with the ball.

'''mattes''' 
This is shorthand for a matte shot, which is "a shot in which parts of the background and sometimes the foreground are masked so that a different background, foreground, image, etc., can be substituted during printing" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''spectation''' 
aspect or appearance

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'''rheostat''' 
This is "an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''Jiffy Pop''' 
a brand name of home popping corn

[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.]]

'''rpm''' 
revolutions per minute

'''Storrow 500''' 
a local nickname for Storrow Drive in Boston

'''barney''' 
a heavy padded cover for a camera to reduce the amount of noise from the camera's moving parts getting onto the soundtrack

'''Pilotone blooper''' 
Pilotone is an old brand of film equipment, and a blooper is, according to the ''Random House Unabridged Dictionary,'' "a receiving set that generates from its antenna radio-frequency signals that interfere with other nearby receivers."

'''auracopia''' 
a Wallace neologism based on "aura" (sound) and "copia" (plenty) and based on cornucopia (horn of plenty)

'''Delaware''' 
The Yankee Conference, by the way, ceased to exist in 1997.

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]

'''U. Vermont and UNH now history''' 
This implies that Vermont and New Hampshire were also annexed to Canada. However, the University of Vermont had not been in the conference since 1974.

'''four-point stances''' 
with both hands and both feet on the ground

'''chuff''' 
to blow hard and loudly

'''stave''' 
to break or crush

'''scrimmage''' 
the scrimmage line, i.e., where the offense currently has the ball

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'''a bright noncontact white''' 
Orin's helmet is white because he hasn't been tackled.

'''pendular 180-arc of Orin's leg''' 
meaning Orin's leg moves the full length of half a circle around the center that is his hip, in a motion similar to that of a pendulum

'''gluteal''' 
pertaining to the buttocks

299 · Poor Tony Goes Cold Turkey

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

'''American Foundation Library in horrid central Watertown MA''' 
This is probably the same as the [http://www.almainc.org/ Armenian Library and Museum of America]. Watertown is a suburb of Boston nine miles west of the city, and it has a very large Armenian population.

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'''Equus Reese''' 
''Equus'' is Latin for "horse."

'''Donegal cap''' 
You can see one [http://irishop.com/dontweedcap.html here].

'''cadge''' 
to obtain by begging

'''Antitoi''' 
French for "against you"

'''de-mapping''' 
murder

'''''non grata''''' 
Latin: not welcome

'''cop''' 
obtain drugs

'''rough-trade''' 
homosexual sexual activity between a gay man and a straight man, sometimes for money or drugs

'''Brockton''' 
a city in Massachusetts about 25 miles south of Boston

'''portents''' 
omens

'''Fort Point''' 
a section of Boston named for a colonial-era fort of the same name

'''hepatitis-G''' 
This [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis#Hepatitis_G disease] had been identified the same year that Wallace published ''Infinite Jest''. It's unclear whether he was aware of this.

'''chip''' 
to use enough heroin to stave off withdrawal

'''wigless head''' 
which probably means he "flipped his wig" during withdrawal; doubtful—Tony is carrying his auburn wig and red leather coat in a shopping bag

'''The Old Cold Bird''' 
a variation on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_turkey cold turkey]

'''fifty kilos''' 
a little over 110 pounds

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'''color of summer squash''' 
The colors of summer squashes vary, but Wallace probably is implying that Poor Tony looks yellow.

'''sty''' 
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stye stye]

'''chignon''' 
a type of hair extension worn at the back of the head

'''troughs and nodes''' 
deep furrows and swollen areas, respectively

'''habilements''' 
misspelling of habiliments, i.e., clothing

'''wan''' 
pale in color

'''gender-dysphoric''' 
a person suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria gender identity disorder]

'''shiva''' 
the Jewish ritual of mourning for seven days, tearing one's clothes, sitting on the floor, covering mirrors, etc.

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

'''412 Mount Auburn Street''' 
This is a real address in Watertown. You can see the house [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=%22412+Mount+Auburn+Street%22+Watertown,+MA&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=51.488837,67.412109&ie=UTF8&ll=42.370023,-71.166751&spn=0.00148,0.002057&t=k&z=19&om=1 here]. It doesn't look like a residence. [Google street view suggests otherwise?]

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'''Codinex Plus''' 
a brand name of cough syrup

'''C17-morphine''' 
regular old morphine, which has the chemical composition C17H19NO3

'''Bonwit's''' 
a department store in Boston

'''hubris''' 
pride to a fault

'''cadences''' 
flows of events

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'''Merry Widow''' 
a woman's undergarment consisting of a strapless bra and short corset

'''Amalfo''' 
apparently a misspelling of Amalfi, a brand of shoes

'''45 kg''' 
a little over 99 pounds

'''''Zuckung''''' 
German: convulsion

'''pebbled glass''' 
a drinking glass having a rough surface

'''filial''' 
pertaining to a son or daughter

'''Mount Auburn Cemetery''' 
the first [http://www.mountauburn.org/ landscaped cemetery] in the U.S.

'''A.F.L.''' 
American Federation of Labor

'''loo''' 
British colloquialism for toilet

'''flatulence''' 
farting

'''demethylated''' 
with a methyl group (CH3) removed. Technically, this is incorrect; to go from codeine (C18H21NO3) to morphine (C17H19NO3) requires the removal of a methyl''ene'' group (CH2). The accurate term would be "demethyl''en''ated."

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'''duplicitous''' 
deceptive in speech

'''hapless''' 
without luck

'''bilirubin''' 
the compound that makes urine yellow

'''behemoth''' 
a large beast

'''synaptic''' 
pertaining to the spaces between brain cells

'''dessicated''' 
dried out

'''Eighty-Proof''' 
40 percent alcohol

'''augur''' 
to serve as an omen

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'''incongruous''' 
out of place

'''obstretric''' 
of or relating to childbirth

'''dirigibles''' 
blimps or zeppelins (airships)

'''tumid''' 
swollen

'''Red Sox of Rice and Lynn''' 
Jim Rice (1974-1989) and Fred Lynn (1974-1980) both played in the 1975 World Series.

'''taffeta''' 
a crisp, smooth, woven fabric, often made from silk, used in gowns

'''gaffed fish''' 
caught with a very large hook

'''flounces''' 
strips of decorative material

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