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==Page 964==

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

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

==Page 965==

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''astringent''' 
a substance or preparation, such as alum, that draws together or constricts body tissues and is effective in stopping the flow of blood or other secretions

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

==Page 966==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is also worth noting that the Fourier transform converts a signal from the time domain (that is, that the signal is a function of time) to the frequency domain (no longer a function of time but of frequency, the function being composed of wave functions). The implication being that all the "postures and little routines" are composed of repeated actions (analogous to the waves that make up a Fourier series) and can be expressed in a time independent manner.

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

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

==Page 967==

'''Y.T.M.P.''' 
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]

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

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

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

'''Carmelite''' 
a member of the Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a Catholic order.

'''liniment''' 
a liquid preparation rubbed into the skin or gums as a counterirritant, rubefacient, anodyne, or cleansing agent

==Page 968==

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

'''St. John's Seminary''' 
an actual institution in Brighton

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 969==

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

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

'''erudite''' 
scholarly

'''carcinogenic''' 
causing cancer

'''acerbity''' 
acidity

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

'''lumpen''' 
marginalized; uneducated and/or unenlightened; disenfranchised

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

'''verminousness''' 
resembling vermin

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

==Page 970==

'''alms''' 
charity

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

==Page 971==

'''fuliginous''' 
smoky or sooty

'''50° C''' 
122° Fahrenheit

=Orin=
==Page 971==

==Page 972==

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

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

=Final Chapter=

==Page 972==

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

==Page 973==

==Endnote 385==

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

==Page 973 (cont.)==

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

''''The truth will [you] set you free,...'''' 
See the Gospel of John 8:32.

==Page 974==

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

==Page 975==

[[Image:Weejun.jpg|thumb|right|Men's cordovan Bass Weejun]]

'''Weejuns''' 
G. H. Bass & Co.'s tradename for its line of men's and women's penny loafer shoes (see right)

==Page 976==

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

==Page 977==

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

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

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

==Page 978==

==Endnote 386==

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

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

==Page 978 (cont'd)==

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

'''"....somebody had taken an old disk of McCartney and Wings [...] and run it through a Kurtzweil remixer and removed every track on the songs except the tracks of poor old Mrs. Linda McCartney singing backup and playing tambourine"''' 
An alleged isolated vocal track of Linda McCartney singing along to "Hey Jude" at a concert did circulate, but the production itself may have been a hoax. For more, see [http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/03/audio_hoaxes_an.html here].

==Endnote 387==

'''pentazocine''' 
a synethetic opioid painkiller

==Endnote 387a==

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

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

==Page 979==

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

==Page 980==

'''ditty''' 
a little song

==Page 981==

'''"...the one about ultraviolence and sadism."''' 
Gately is thinking of Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/ "A Clockwork Orange."]

'''"...the last thing Gately saw was an Oriental bearing down with the held square and he looked into the square and saw clearly a reflection of his own big square pale head with its eyes closing as the floor finally pounced."''' 
See page 934: "He dreams he looks in a mirror and sees nothing and keeps trying to clean the mirror with his sleeve."

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==Page 964==

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

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

==Page 965==

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''astringent''' 
a substance or preparation, such as alum, that draws together or constricts body tissues and is effective in stopping the flow of blood or other secretions

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

==Page 966==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is also worth noting that the Fourier transform converts a signal from the time domain (that is, that the signal is a function of time) to the frequency domain (no longer a function of time but of frequency, the function being composed of wave functions). The implication being that all the "postures and little routines" are composed of repeated actions (analogous to the waves that make up a Fourier series) and can be expressed in a time independent manner.

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

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

==Page 967==

'''Y.T.M.P.''' 
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]

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

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

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

'''Carmelite''' 
a member of the Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a Catholic order.

'''liniment''' 
a liquid preparation rubbed into the skin or gums as a counterirritant, rubefacient, anodyne, or cleansing agent

==Page 968==

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

'''St. John's Seminary''' 
an actual institution in Brighton

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 969==

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

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

'''erudite''' 
scholarly

'''carcinogenic''' 
causing cancer

'''acerbity''' 
acidity

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

'''lumpen''' 
marginalized; uneducated and/or unenlightened; disenfranchised

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

'''verminousness''' 
resembling vermin

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

==Page 970==

'''alms''' 
charity

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

==Page 971==

'''fuliginous''' 
smoky or sooty

'''50° C''' 
122° Fahrenheit

=Orin=
==Page 971==

==Page 972==

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

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

=Final Chapter=

==Page 972==

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

==Page 973==

==Endnote 385==

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

==Page 973 (cont.)==

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

''''The truth will [you] set you free,...'''' 
See the Gospel of John 8:32.

==Page 974==

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

==Page 975==

[[Image:Weejun.jpg|thumb|right|Men's cordovan Bass Weejun]]

'''Weejuns''' 
G. H. Bass & Co.'s tradename for its line of men's and women's penny loafer shoes (see right)

==Page 976==

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

==Page 977==

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

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

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

==Page 978==

==Endnote 386==

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

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

==Page 978 (cont'd)==

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

'''"....somebody had taken an old disk of McCartney and Wings [...] and run it through a Kurtzweil remixer and removed every track on the songs except the tracks of poor old Mrs. Linda McCartney singing backup and playing tambourine"''' 
An alleged isolated vocal track of Linda McCartney singing along to "Hey Jude" at a concert did circulate, but the production itself may have been a hoax. For more, see [http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/03/audio_hoaxes_an.html here].

==Endnote 387==

'''pentazocine''' 
a synethetic opioid painkiller

==Endnote 387a==

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

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

==Page 979==

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

==Page 980==

'''ditty''' 
a little song

==Page 981==

'''"...the one about ultraviolence and sadism."''' 
Gately is thinking of Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/ "A Clockwork Orange."]

'''"...the last thing Gately saw was an Oriental bearing down with the held square and he looked into the square and saw clearly a reflection of his own big square pale head with its eyes closing as the floor finally pounced."''' 

See pg 934: "He dreams he looks in a mirror and sees nothing and keeps trying to clean the mirror with his sleeve."

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==Page 964==

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

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

==Page 965==

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''astringent''' 
a substance or preparation, such as alum, that draws together or constricts body tissues and is effective in stopping the flow of blood or other secretions

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

==Page 966==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is also worth noting that the Fourier transform converts a signal from the time domain (that is, that the signal is a function of time) to the frequency domain (no longer a function of time but of frequency, the function being composed of wave functions). The implication being that all the "postures and little routines" are composed of repeated actions (analogous to the waves that make up a Fourier series) and can be expressed in a time independent manner.

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

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

==Page 967==

'''Y.T.M.P.''' 
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]

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

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

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

'''Carmelite''' 
a member of the Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a Catholic order.

'''liniment''' 
a liquid preparation rubbed into the skin or gums as a counterirritant, rubefacient, anodyne, or cleansing agent

==Page 968==

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

'''St. John's Seminary''' 
an actual institution in Brighton

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 969==

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

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

'''erudite''' 
scholarly

'''carcinogenic''' 
causing cancer

'''acerbity''' 
acidity

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

'''lumpen''' 
marginalized; uneducated and/or unenlightened; disenfranchised

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

'''verminousness''' 
resembling vermin

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

==Page 970==

'''alms''' 
charity

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

==Page 971==

'''fuliginous''' 
smoky or sooty

'''50° C''' 
122° Fahrenheit

=Orin=
==Page 971==

==Page 972==

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

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

=Final Chapter=

==Page 972==

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

==Page 973==

==Endnote 385==

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

==Page 973 (cont.)==

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

''''The truth will [you] set you free,...'''' 
See the Gospel of John 8:32.

==Page 974==

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

==Page 975==

[[Image:Weejun.jpg|thumb|right|Men's cordovan Bass Weejun]]

'''Weejuns''' 
G. H. Bass & Co.'s tradename for its line of men's and women's penny loafer shoes (see right)

==Page 976==

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

==Page 977==

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

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

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

==Page 978==

==Endnote 386==

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

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

==Page 978 (cont'd)==

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

'''"....somebody had taken an old disk of McCartney and Wings [...] and run it through a Kurtzweil remixer and removed every track on the songs except the tracks of poor old Mrs. Linda McCartney singing backup and playing tambourine"''' 
An alleged isolated vocal track of Linda McCartney singing along to "Hey Jude" at a concert did circulate, but the production itself may have been a hoax. For more, see [http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/03/audio_hoaxes_an.html here].

==Endnote 387==

'''pentazocine''' 
a synethetic opioid painkiller

==Endnote 387a==

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

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

==Page 979==

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

==Page 980==

'''ditty''' 
a little song

==Page 981==

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

'''"...the last thing Gately saw was an Oriental bearing down with the held square and he looked into the square and saw clearly a reflection of his own big square pale head with its eyes closing as the floor finally pounced."''' 

See pg 934: "He dreams he looks in a mirror and sees nothing and keeps trying to clean the mirror with his sleeve."

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==Page 934==

==Page 935==

'''recursive''' 
capable of being used repeatedly

'''some creepy thing''' 
the creepy thing Gately and Fackelmann watch may be J.O Incandenza's ''Various Small Flames'', see Endnote 24

'''retsin''' 
the supposed active ingredient in Certs breath mints

'''Ciao Bello''' 
Italian: Goodbye, Beautiful ("Farewell, My Lovely")

==Page 936==

'''corrode''' 
to eat away at; to rust

'''ICBM''' 
intercontinental ballistic missile

'''boot''' 
junkie slang for injecting drugs

==Page 937==

'''imprimatur''' 
sanction or approval

'''bonded''' 
Sorkin had put up Gately's bail.

'''ruddled''' 
reddened

'''serration''' 
notches in the edges

==Page 938==

'''belled''' 
rang like a bell

=Joelle Talks About the Entertainment=

==Page 938==

==Page 939==

'''epicene''' 
androgynous

'''I assume you can Identify.''' 
Joelle is being interviewed by the cross-dressing Steeply.

'''bassinet''' 
an oblong basket for a baby

'''catadioptric''' 
produced by reflection and refraction simultaneously

'''nystagmus''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nystagmus condition] of voluntary or involuntary rapid and rhythmic oscillation of the eyes

==Page 940==

'''astigmatic''' 
failing to have light rays converge on a single point

==Page 941==

=Hal Narrates (Still)=
==Page 941==

'''slight tremble of something hanging from the tip of a pipette''' 
A pipette is a type of thin glass tube used in chemistry, and the something trembling would be a drop of some liquid, I suspect...

'''Thtithe fickn meth''' 
Coyle is probably trying to say, "Stice's fucking mess."

==Page 942==

'''panic-attack''' 
another term for an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_attack anxiety attack]

==Page 943==

==Page 944==

'''rank amateurs''' 
complete/total amateurs

'''pernicious''' 
harmful

'''Brecht''' 
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (1898-1956) was a German playwright, poet, and director.

'''Glen Riddle, Pennsylvania''' 
a suburb of Philadelphia, about twenty miles west

'''DeNiro''' 
Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. (born 1943), is an Academy Award-winning American actor, cast by Martin Scorsese in [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070379/ Mean Streets] and several times thereafter.

'''McLachlin''' 
a misspelling of Kyle MacLachlan (born 1959), an American actor whose second film was [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/ Blue Velvet]

'''Lynch''' 
David Keith Lynch (born 1946) is an American filmmaker.
David Lynch and Kyle MacLachlan worked together on the movies "Dune" (1984), "Blue Velvet" (1986), and the TV series ''Twin Peaks'' (1990-1991).

'''Allen to Allen''' 
a reference to American director Woody Allen (born 1935 as Allen Stewart Königsberg), who casts himself in many of his films

'''temporal-lobe''' 
the part of the brain involved in hearing, speeech, and vision

==Page 945==

'''familiar foil packet''' 
i.e., a condom

'''ascot''' 
a neck scarf

[[Image:FDR.jpg|thumb|caption|FDR and his filter|right|200px]]

'''long white FDR-style filter''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt], the 32nd President of the United States. He often used a cigarette holder as seen in the photo on the right.

'''canopied''' 
framed with curtains

'''boudoir''' 
a bedroom or private sitting room

'''ponce''' 
an effeminate man

[[Image:Single-edged Razor Blade.jpg|thumb|right|Single-edged razor blade]]

'''an old-fashioned one-sharp-sided razor blade''' 
still manufactured but perhaps more commonly used in certain kinds of box-cutters than in razors (see right)

==Page 946==

'''Pheromonic Musk''' 
a scent designed to emit pheromones, or a chemical that attracts the opposite sex

'''Kaposi's Sarcoma''' 
A tumor caused by Human herpesvirus-8. One of the most common symptoms of AIDS. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaposi%27s_sarcoma here]

'''chartreuse''' 
bright yellowish-green

'''500 seconds''' 
8 minutes and 20 seconds

==Page 947==

'''conundra''' 
insoluble questions. The plural of conundrum is disputed, with the OED apparently siding with conundrums. Like stadiums.

'''sinkhole''' 
a depressed area into which waste collects

'''pratfall''' 
a fall on one's rear

==Page 948==

'''two-meter''' 
about 6.56 feet

'''Nor'easter''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nor%27easter type of storm] common to the Northeast U.S.

'''snorkels''' 
tubes for breathing

'''plucky''' 
having or showing courage and spirit in trying circumstances

'''pugnacious''' 
having a tendency to fistfight

==Page 949==

'''snifter''' 
a glass with a wide bottom that narrows at the top, for drinking brandy

'''twidgeling''' 
not a real word

'''Hancock tower''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_Tower skyscraper] in Boston

'''mimesis''' 
In art: the imitative representation of nature or human behaviour

==Page 950==

'''sinciput''' 
the upper part of the skull

'''convolutions''' 
folds on the surface of the brain

'''filigree''' 
intricate ornamentation usually consisting of twisted metal wire/ribbons on, say, a fence

'''Lindisfarne Gospels''' 
an Old English text of the Gospels found in England

'''hyperfertilized''' 
given too much fertilizer

'''finial''' 
an architectural device used to top a gable

'''defile''' 
a narrow passage

'''neutered''' 
castrated

'''topiary''' 
a sculptured shrub or bush

'''gambrel''' 
usually means the hock of an animal, particularly a horse, but here it's referring to a double sloping roof, like on a barn or church.

==Page 951==

[[File:Fritz_lang_directing_metropolis.jpg|thumb|right|The photo of Fritz Lang directing Metropolis. Also appeared on the copy of ''The Cinema Book'' that Wallace owned[http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/culturalcompass/2010/03/08/infinite-possibilities-a-first-glimpse-into-david-foster-wallace%E2%80%99s-library/][http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/fb/e8/0eb681b0c8a03b9679fea110._AA240_.L.jpg], and was one of the photographs Wallace considered using on the cover of ''Infinite Jest'' (mentioned in ''Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself'').]]
'''framed print of Lang directing Metropolis''' 
See photo.

'''etagere''' 
a stand with a series of open shelves

'''delfts''' 
type of earthenware

'''claret''' 
red wine

==Page 952==

'''Hagia Sophia and S. Simeon''' 
Hagia Sophia is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia mosque] in Istanbul that had been a Byzantine basilica. S. Simeon refers to the ruins of a monastery named for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Stylites Simeon Stylites].

'''Qal'at Si'man''' 
Arabic for "Saint Simeon"

[[Image: Guilloche.jpg|thumb|caption|A guilloche pattern|right|200px]]

'''prurient''' 
inordinately interested in matters of sex; lascivious

'''Levirates''' 
men required to marry their brothers' widows

'''''maniera greca''''' 
a style of Italian painting ("Greek style") popular in the early Renaissance

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

'''hyperemic''' 
an unusual amount of blood in part of the body

'''seraglio''' 
the living quarters of a Turkish harem

'''fieldstone''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fieldstone construction material]

==Page 953==

'''varicotic''' 
having varicose veins

'''onyx''' 
a deep black form of quartz

'''kyphotic''' 
having abnormal curvature of the spine

==Page 954==

'''climacteric''' 
A period of decrease in reproductive capacity; in women, menopause.

'''Infantilist''' 
While the term can mean a type of paraphilia in which one dresses up like a baby, here Hal more likely means a pediatrician that treats patients like babies.

'''koans''' 
in Zen Buddhism, statements that defy rational explanation upon which to meditate

==Page 955==

'''misnomer''' 
a misapplied name or designation

'''''The Green Door''''' 
The full title is [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068260/ Behind the Green Door].

'''''Deep Throat''''' 
a pornographic film starring [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001483/ Linda Lovelace]

'''jism''' 
slang for semen

'''interrogatives''' 
questions

==Page 956==

==Page 957==

'''expatriates''' 
people living outside their countries of origin

'''Faulknerian''' 
recollecting the style or manner of William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897-1962), American novelist

'''aspirating''' 
inhaling

=After the Interview=

==Page 958==

'''She''' 
i.e., Joelle

'''Middlesex County''' 
a county comprising most of the suburbs northwest and west of Boston

=Hi, Mikey=

==Page 958==

==Page 959==

'''the hook''' 
presumably, the sister's hand

'''boatayouse''' 
i.e., "both of you"

==Page 960==

'''a hundred m.'s''' 
a little over 328 feet

=The Assistant District Attorney=

==Page 960==

'''easement''' 
a convenience

'''Suffolk County''' 
the county in Massachusetts where Boston is

'''McDonald's House''' 
a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_McDonald_House Ronald McDonald House Charities], which provides housing for the parents of children undergoing intensive medical care

==Page 961==

'''Tooty''' 
apparently the ADA's wife

'''Fourth- and Eighth-Step''' 
"Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves" and "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all," respectively

==Page 962==

'''weal''' 
welfare

'''peroxide''' 
hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), used as a bleach and whitener

==Page 963==

==Page 964==

'''NoCoat LinguaScraper''' 
Fictional product mentioned on [http://wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_127-156#Page_151 Page 151].

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==Page 934==

==Page 935==

'''recursive''' 
capable of being used repeatedly

'''some creepy thing''' 
the creepy thing Gately and Fackelmann watch may be J.O Incandenza's ''Various Small Flames'', see Endnote 24

'''retsin''' 
the supposed active ingredient in Certs breath mints

'''Ciao Bello''' 
Italian: Goodbye, Beautiful ("Farewell, My Lovely")

==Page 936==

'''corrode''' 
to eat away at; to rust

'''ICBM''' 
intercontinental ballistic missile

'''boot''' 
junkie slang for injecting drugs

==Page 937==

'''imprimatur''' 
sanction or approval

'''bonded''' 
Sorkin had put up Gately's bail.

'''ruddled''' 
reddened

'''serration''' 
notches in the edges

==Page 938==

'''belled''' 
rang like a bell

=Joelle Talks About the Entertainment=

==Page 938==

==Page 939==

'''epicene''' 
androgynous

'''I assume you can Identify.''' 
Joelle is being interviewed by the cross-dressing Steeply.

'''bassinet''' 
an oblong basket for a baby

'''catadioptric''' 
produced by reflection and refraction simultaneously

'''nystagmus''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nystagmus condition] of voluntary or involuntary rapid and rhythmic oscillation of the eyes

==Page 940==

'''astigmatic''' 
failing to have light rays converge on a single point

==Page 941==

=Hal Narrates (Still)=
==Page 941==

'''slight tremble of something hanging from the tip of a pipette''' 
A pipette is a type of thin glass tube used in chemistry, and the something trembling would be a drop of some liquid, I suspect...

'''Thtithe fickn meth''' 
Coyle is probably trying to say, "Stice's fucking mess."

==Page 942==

'''panic-attack''' 
another term for an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_attack anxiety attack]

==Page 943==

==Page 944==

'''rank amateurs''' 
complete/total amateurs

'''pernicious''' 
harmful

'''Brecht''' 
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (1898-1956) was a German playwright, poet, and director.

'''Glen Riddle, Pennsylvania''' 
a suburb of Philadelphia, about twenty miles west

'''DeNiro''' 
Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. (born 1943), is an Academy Award-winning American actor, cast by Martin Scorsese in [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070379/ Mean Streets] and several times thereafter.

'''McLachlin''' 
a misspelling of Kyle MacLachlan (born 1959), an American actor whose second film was [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/ Blue Velvet]

'''Lynch''' 
David Keith Lynch (born 1946) is an American filmmaker.
David Lynch and Kyle MacLachlan worked together on the movies "Dune" (1984), "Blue Velvet" (1986), and the TV series ''Twin Peaks'' (1990-1991).

'''Allen to Allen''' 
a reference to American director Woody Allen (born 1935 as Allen Stewart Königsberg), who casts himself in many of his films

'''temporal-lobe''' 
the part of the brain involved in hearing, speeech, and vision

==Page 945==

'''familiar foil packet''' 
i.e., a condom

'''ascot''' 
a neck scarf

[[Image:FDR.jpg|thumb|caption|FDR and his filter|right|200px]]

'''long white FDR-style filter''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt], the 32nd President of the United States. He often used a cigarette holder as seen in the photo on the right.

'''canopied''' 
framed with curtains

'''boudoir''' 
a bedroom or private sitting room

'''ponce''' 
an effeminate man

'''"...an old-fashioned one-sharp-sided razor..."''' 

==Page 946==

'''Pheromonic Musk''' 
a scent designed to emit pheromones, or a chemical that attracts the opposite sex

'''Kaposi's Sarcoma''' 
A tumor caused by Human herpesvirus-8. One of the most common symptoms of AIDS. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaposi%27s_sarcoma here]

'''chartreuse''' 
bright yellowish-green

'''500 seconds''' 
8 minutes and 20 seconds

==Page 947==

'''conundra''' 
insoluble questions. The plural of conundrum is disputed, with the OED apparently siding with conundrums. Like stadiums.

'''sinkhole''' 
a depressed area into which waste collects

'''pratfall''' 
a fall on one's rear

==Page 948==

'''two-meter''' 
about 6.56 feet

'''Nor'easter''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nor%27easter type of storm] common to the Northeast U.S.

'''snorkels''' 
tubes for breathing

'''plucky''' 
having or showing courage and spirit in trying circumstances

'''pugnacious''' 
having a tendency to fistfight

==Page 949==

'''snifter''' 
a glass with a wide bottom that narrows at the top, for drinking brandy

'''twidgeling''' 
not a real word

'''Hancock tower''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_Tower skyscraper] in Boston

'''mimesis''' 
In art: the imitative representation of nature or human behaviour

==Page 950==

'''sinciput''' 
the upper part of the skull

'''convolutions''' 
folds on the surface of the brain

'''filigree''' 
intricate ornamentation usually consisting of twisted metal wire/ribbons on, say, a fence

'''Lindisfarne Gospels''' 
an Old English text of the Gospels found in England

'''hyperfertilized''' 
given too much fertilizer

'''finial''' 
an architectural device used to top a gable

'''defile''' 
a narrow passage

'''neutered''' 
castrated

'''topiary''' 
a sculptured shrub or bush

'''gambrel''' 
usually means the hock of an animal, particularly a horse, but here it's referring to a double sloping roof, like on a barn or church.

==Page 951==

[[File:Fritz_lang_directing_metropolis.jpg|thumb|right|The photo of Fritz Lang directing Metropolis. Also appeared on the copy of ''The Cinema Book'' that Wallace owned[http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/culturalcompass/2010/03/08/infinite-possibilities-a-first-glimpse-into-david-foster-wallace%E2%80%99s-library/][http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/fb/e8/0eb681b0c8a03b9679fea110._AA240_.L.jpg], and was one of the photographs Wallace considered using on the cover of ''Infinite Jest'' (mentioned in ''Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself'').]]
'''framed print of Lang directing Metropolis''' 
See photo.

'''etagere''' 
a stand with a series of open shelves

'''delfts''' 
type of earthenware

'''claret''' 
red wine

==Page 952==

'''Hagia Sophia and S. Simeon''' 
Hagia Sophia is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia mosque] in Istanbul that had been a Byzantine basilica. S. Simeon refers to the ruins of a monastery named for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Stylites Simeon Stylites].

'''Qal'at Si'man''' 
Arabic for "Saint Simeon"

[[Image: Guilloche.jpg|thumb|caption|A guilloche pattern|right|200px]]

'''prurient''' 
inordinately interested in matters of sex; lascivious

'''Levirates''' 
men required to marry their brothers' widows

'''''maniera greca''''' 
a style of Italian painting ("Greek style") popular in the early Renaissance

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

'''hyperemic''' 
an unusual amount of blood in part of the body

'''seraglio''' 
the living quarters of a Turkish harem

'''fieldstone''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fieldstone construction material]

==Page 953==

'''varicotic''' 
having varicose veins

'''onyx''' 
a deep black form of quartz

'''kyphotic''' 
having abnormal curvature of the spine

==Page 954==

'''climacteric''' 
A period of decrease in reproductive capacity; in women, menopause.

'''Infantilist''' 
While the term can mean a type of paraphilia in which one dresses up like a baby, here Hal more likely means a pediatrician that treats patients like babies.

'''koans''' 
in Zen Buddhism, statements that defy rational explanation upon which to meditate

==Page 955==

'''misnomer''' 
a misapplied name or designation

'''''The Green Door''''' 
The full title is [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068260/ Behind the Green Door].

'''''Deep Throat''''' 
a pornographic film starring [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001483/ Linda Lovelace]

'''jism''' 
slang for semen

'''interrogatives''' 
questions

==Page 956==

==Page 957==

'''expatriates''' 
people living outside their countries of origin

'''Faulknerian''' 
recollecting the style or manner of William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897-1962), American novelist

'''aspirating''' 
inhaling

=After the Interview=

==Page 958==

'''She''' 
i.e., Joelle

'''Middlesex County''' 
a county comprising most of the suburbs northwest and west of Boston

=Hi, Mikey=

==Page 958==

==Page 959==

'''the hook''' 
presumably, the sister's hand

'''boatayouse''' 
i.e., "both of you"

==Page 960==

'''a hundred m.'s''' 
a little over 328 feet

=The Assistant District Attorney=

==Page 960==

'''easement''' 
a convenience

'''Suffolk County''' 
the county in Massachusetts where Boston is

'''McDonald's House''' 
a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_McDonald_House Ronald McDonald House Charities], which provides housing for the parents of children undergoing intensive medical care

==Page 961==

'''Tooty''' 
apparently the ADA's wife

'''Fourth- and Eighth-Step''' 
"Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves" and "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all," respectively

==Page 962==

'''weal''' 
welfare

'''peroxide''' 
hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), used as a bleach and whitener

==Page 963==

==Page 964==

'''NoCoat LinguaScraper''' 
Fictional product mentioned on [http://wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_127-156#Page_151 Page 151].

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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

'''outside linebacker''' 
a defensive player who plays a few yards behind the line of scrimmage and behind one end of the defensive line or the other (as opposed to inside or middle linebackers, who are behind the center of the line)

'''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''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haffenreffer_Brewery Haffenreffer], a Boston brewery

'''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

'''droogs''' 
a word from Anthony Burgess's invented [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadsat Nadsat language] from the novel 'A Clockwork Orange'; it means 'friends'

==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

'''''Ethan From''''' 
see note ''supra'' for page 884

==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.

=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|Guy Williams as Zorro]]

'''something out of Zorro''' 
referring to Stice's mask-like face bandage; see right for a picture of Guy Williams as Disney's television Zorro (originally aired 1957-1959)

'''porcine''' 
like a swine

'''vantage''' 
point of view

'''mano-à-tête''' 
combination of "mano-a-mano" (Spanish: hand to hand) and "tête-à-tête" (French: head-to-head)

==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''' 
fear of water; a manifestation of the disease rabies

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

'''Peterson's ''The Cage''''' 
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440309/ "The Cage"], a 28-minute surrealistic film from 1947, directed by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Peterson Sidney Peterson]

'''teleologic''' 
regarding a final cause

==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''''' 
an unpredictable swerve; see more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinamen here]

'''''tessera''''' 
can have several [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessera_(disambiguation) meanings]; it's unclear which (if any) applies here

'''''kenosis''''' 
the emptying of one's will to become receptive to God's will; see more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenosis here]

'''''daemonization''''' 
also "demonization;" essentially the repudiation of polytheistic deities by the teachings of monotheistic (or henotheistic) religions; see more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonization here]

'''''askesis''''' 
from the Greek for asceticism, characterised by exercise and/or training to develop self-discipline and self-control for religious or meditative purposes

=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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==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

'''outside linebacker''' 
a defensive player who plays a few yards behind the line of scrimmage and behind one end of the defensive line or the other (as opposed to inside or middle linebackers, who are behind the center of the line)

'''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''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haffenreffer_Brewery Haffenreffer], a Boston brewery

'''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

'''droogs''' 
a word from Anthony Burgess's invented [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadsat Nadsat language] from the novel 'A Clockwork Orange'; it means 'friends'

==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

'''''Ethan From''''' 
see note ''supra'' for page 884

==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.

=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|Guy Williams as Zorro]]

'''something out of Zorro''' 
referring to Stice's mask-like face bandage; see right for a picture of Guy Williams as Disney's television Zorro (originally aired 1957-1959)

'''porcine''' 
like a swine

'''vantage''' 
point of view

'''mano-à-tête''' 
combination of "mano-a-mano" (Spanish: hand to hand) and "tête-à-tête" (French: head-to-head)

==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''' 
fear of water; a manifestation of the disease rabies

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

'''Peterson's ''The Cage''''' 
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440309/ "The Cage"], a 28-minute surrealistic film from 1947, directed by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Peterson Sidney Peterson]

'''teleologic''' 
regarding a final cause

==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''''' 
an unpredictable swerve; see more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinamen here]

'''''tessera''''' 
can have several [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessera_(disambiguation) meanings]; it's unclear which (if any) applies here

'''''kenosis''''' 
the emptying of one's will to become receptive to God's will; see more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenosis here]

'''''daemonization''''' 
also "demonization;" essentially the repudiation of polytheistic deities by the teachings of monotheistic (or henotheistic) religions; see more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonization here]

'''''askesis''''' 
from the Greek for asceticism, characterised by exercise and/or training to develop self-discipline and self-control for religious or meditative purposes

=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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==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

'''outside linebacker''' 
a defensive player who plays a few yards behind the line of scrimmage and behind one end of the defensive line or the other (as opposed to inside or middle linebackers, who are behind the center of the line)

'''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''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haffenreffer_Brewery Haffenreffer], a Boston brewery

'''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

'''droogs''' 
a word from Anthony Burgess's invented [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadsat Nadsat language] from the novel 'A Clockwork Orange'; it means 'friends'

==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

'''''Ethan From''''' 
see note ''supra'' for page 884

==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.

=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|Guy Williams as Zorro]]

'''something out of Zorro''' 
referring to Stice's mask-like face bandage; see right for a picture of Guy Williams as Disney's television Zorro (originally aired 1957-1959)

'''porcine''' 
like a swine

'''vantage''' 
point of view

'''mano-à-tête''' 
combination of "mano-a-mano" (Spanish: hand to hand) and "tête-à-tête" (French: head-to-head)

==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''' 
fear of water; a manifestation of the disease rabies

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

'''Peterson's ''The Cage''''' 
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440309/ "The Cage"], a 28-minute surrealistic film from 1947, directed by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Peterson Sidney Peterson]

'''teleologic''' 
regarding a final cause

==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

=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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