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'''''Ethan From''''' 
Gately means American author Edith Wharton's 1911 novel [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Frome ''Ethan Frome''].

'''''OMMATOPHORIC''''' 
having eyes at the ends of stalks

'''''ghostwords''''' 
a word that has come into existence by error rather than by normal linguistic transmission, as through the mistaken reading of a manuscript, a scribal error, or a misprint. ([http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Ghost+words Dictionary.com])

==Page 885==

'''cuneiform''' 
the writing of ancient Sumer, made by digging a wedge into clay

'''Marshall Plan''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan plan] to rebuild Germany after WWII

'''Shane''' 
a reference to a [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046303/ popular western film]

==Page 886==

'''Synovial''' 
of or pertaining to the fluid that lubricates the joints

'''renal calculus''' 
kidney stones

'''ectopic labor''' 
pregnancy in the fallopian tube

'''ibuprofen''' 
the generic name for Advil

'''antipyretic''' 
designed to combat fever

'''SR''' 
Usually in drug names, this stands for "sustained release."

'''Dilaudid''' 
brand name for hydromorphone hydrochloride

'''bayou''' 
a marshy arm of a lake

'''C-II''' 
These drugs are highly addictive. Cocaine is in this class, as it is still used legally in dentistry.

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'''Hydrocodone''' 
also the active ingredient in Vicodin

'''Oxycodone-nalaxone''' 
Oxycodone also the active ingredient in Oxycontin. Naloxone blocks (partially, one must guess) the effects of opioids, probably to reduce abuse potential.

==Endnote 358==

'''NX''' 
Attached to a drug name, this means it contains Naloxone.

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'''somnolent''' 
drowsy

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'''concentric circles''' 
circles within circles (and more annularity)

'''chintz''' 
printed, glazed fabric, usually of bright colors

'''the lobsters' eyes' stalks''' 
see ''OMMATOPHORIC'' earlier on pg. 884

'''Ipswich''' 
a town in northern Massachusetts about 40 miles east of Nashua, N.H.

'''intra-ocular''' 
within the eye

==Page 892==

'''Bufferin''' 
a brand of aspirin with a protectant for the stomach

'''JFK Library''' 
the Kennedy [http://www.jfklibrary.org/ Presidential library], located in Boston

'''Banfis''' 
expensive Italian shoes

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'''libido''' 
sex drive

'''taciturn''' 
reserved or reticent in speech; saying little.

'''ebubblient''' 
i.e., "ebullient" (with bubbles)

'''''hatbeat''''' 
i.e., "heartbeat" with a Boston accent ("Ya can't pak ya ca in Havid Yad.")

'''tittymount''' 
i.e., "tantamount"

==Page 894==

'''sombrero w/ balls''' 
two possibilities (see below)

[[Image:Sombrero with Dingle Balls.jpg]][[Image:Sunbather with Sombreros.jpg]]

'''maroon''' 
a cartoonish pronunciation (''à la'' Bugs Bunny) of "moron;" (see note for page 302 ''supra'')

'''scuttlebutt''' 
gossip, rumor

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'''''FLEET''''' 
a brand of enema

'''alacrity''' 
eagerness

'''mortification''' 
extreme embarrassment

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=Hal Continues Narrating=

==Page 896==

'''''Tosca''''' 
Opera by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) that premiered in 1900. Hal's "protracted death aria" is probably Cavaradossi's final aria 'E lucevan le stelle' ('And the stars shone'). Full lyrics and a recording can be found [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_lucevan_le_stelle here].

'''overcognitive''' 
thinking too much

==Page 897==

'''megagram''' 
a million grams, or slightly over 2,200 pounds

'''vivisected''' 
slaughtered, yes, but not cut apart while still living

==Page 898==

'''''Yale Journal of Alcohol Studies''''' 
There is no such journal.

'''183.6 cm.''' 
a little over six feet tall

'''recumbency''' 
perhaps a chaise longue

[[Image:Husband Pillow.jpg|thumb|right|"Husband" pillow]]

'''spectation-pillows''' 
"husband" pillows like the one shown at right

'''mylar''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PET_film_(biaxially_oriented) PET film]

'''197 cm.''' 
over 6'5"

'''Vaipassana''' 
a type of Buddhist meditation ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipassanā Wikipedia])

'''"...etymology of the word ''blizzard''..."''' 
While Hal believes the etymology is unknown, there is one offered [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/blizzard here].

'''lumiphobia''' 
probably fear of light, although the proper term is "photophobia"

'''sausage-analog''' 
something similar in appearance to a breakfast sausage link, but perhaps made of textured vegetable protein rather than pork or other meat

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'''averred''' 
asserted with confidence

'''neologism''' 
a newly coined word

'''"...corruption of the French ''blesser,''..."''' 
''Blesser'' is French for "to injure or wound."

'''''Northern Vindicator''''' 
the name of several real publications

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]

==Page 900==

'''Sitney and Schneewind's'' Dictionary of Environmental Sciences''''' 
There is no such book, but the name Schneewind is German for "snow wind."

'''12 cm.''' 
about 4.73 inches

'''60 kph.''' 
about 38.3 miles per hour

'''500 meters''' 
a little over 1,650 feet

'''perspicacity''' 
keenness of perception

'''topology''' 
the mathematical study of sets

'''philately''' 
stamp collecting

'''gerundives''' 
the verbal adjective or present participle―in English, these end in "ing";

'''Hamlet''' 
Hal confronts his sausage-analog in Shakespeare.

==Page 901==

'''phocomelic''' 
having extremely short limbs

'''Brattleboro''' 
a town in Vermont about 75 miles west of Manchester, N.H.

'''achondroplastic''' 
having dwarfism as a result of a disorder of bone and cartilage

'''homodontic''' 
having teeth that are all of similar form (see page 316 and endnote 119)

'''bicuspid''' 
another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicuspid premolar] teeth (see note for page 316)

'''Kevlon''' 
Possibly a portmanteau-word combining Kevlar and Teflon, meaning a substance that is tough and slippery ([http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=kevlon Urbandictionary.com]).

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'''sarcophagus''' 
coffin

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==Page 809==

'''vacuole''' 
used here generically to mean a hole

'''subsonic''' 
i.e., noiseless

==Page 810==

'''circadian rhythm''' 
Have a look at this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Biological_clock_human.svg chart].

'''Eldred''' 
This was the last name of the first Eagle Scout, Arthur Rose Eldred (1895-1951).

'''Dewar's''' 
a brand name of whiskey

'''President's Physical Fitness Test''' 
You can read about this program [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%27s_Council_on_Physical_Fitness_and_Sports here].

[[Image:Flat Cap.jpg|thumb|right|A flat cap or skallycap]]

'''skallycap''' 
see example at right

'''Chock Full O'Nuts''' 
a brand name of coffee

==Page 811==

'''P.E.''' 
Physical Education, i.e., gym class

'''dugout''' 
where the teams during a baseball game sit while not actually playing

'''Franklin W. Dixon''' 
the pseudonym of the author of the Hardy Boys mysteries

==Page 812==

'''bear-market''' 
a downward-moving stock market (characterized by more selling than buying)

'''Advent''' 
the month-long period before Christmas

==Page 813==

'''aide-de-camp''' 
assistant to a general or other high-ranking officer

'''Belfast''' 
the capital of Northern Ireland

'''speculum party''' 
a pelvic examination?

'''I.B.E.W.''' 
the '''I'''nternational '''B'''rotherhood of '''E'''lectrical '''W'''orkers union (for which Wallace supplies endnote 339 on page 815)

==Page 814==

'''cubed''' 
multiplied by itself twice; taken to the third power

==Endnote 337==

'''V.i.9''' 
The line is "It must be 'se offendendo;' it cannot be else." The reference is to Ophelia, who killed herself. Notably, Act V, scene i of ''Hamlet'' is where Yorick is mentioned.

==Page 814 (cont'd)==

'''perfidy''' 
treachery

'''Gately's Humorous ball and Scalpula socket''' 
referring to the humerus (largest bone of the arm, between the shoulder and elbow) and the ball and socket joint of the shoulder, the blade of which is called the scapula

'''IM''' 
intramuscular

==Page 815==

'''toxemia''' 
a bacterial infection of the blood

'''Ninth Step''' 
The ninth of the original Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous is, "Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others."

'''Weld''' 
William Floyd Weld (born 1945) was governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997. Even the prescient Wallace could probably not have predicted Mitt Romney, who held the post from 2003 to 2007.

'''Alsace''' 
a region of France bordering the Rhine border with Germany

'''impost''' 
a tax or duty imposed on some one

==Endnote 338==

There is a potention for confusion in order here, because doxycycline hyclate can be given in preparations other than intravenous, which Gately is getting.

==Page 816==

'''Dr. Dentons''' 
a trade name of children's blanket sleeper (pajamas); Gately's are XXL, extra extra large

'''imago''' 
psychological term for an idealized image, usually of a parent, formed in childhood and continuing into adulthood subconsciously

==Page 817==

'''''catheterized''''' 
Gately has had a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_catheter Foley catheter] inserted.

==Page 818==

'''objay dart''' 
Gately's version of ''objet d'art'' (French: art object)

==Endnote 341==

'''acetaminophen''' 
the generic name of the pain-reliever Tylenol

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'''codeine''' 
an opiate used as a painkiler; a habit-forming, Schedule III narcotic

'''shiners''' 
black eyes

'''Oreida''' 
Or "Ore-Ida", maker of potato products and originator of Tater Tots; Thrust may be thinking "iota" at the same time

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'''turnipcut''' 
i.e., tourniquet

'''''medecins''''' 
French: doctors (physicians)

'''solenoid''' 
a current-carrying coil of wire

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'''fishtailing''' 
having the back end of one's car spinning

==Page 822==

'''''GQ''''' 
''Gentlemen's Quarterly''

'''embryoglio''' 
i.e., imbroglio

'''fleen''' 
Thrust's past tense of ''flee'' (à la "flown")

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'''ballast''' 
heavy material placed on the bottom of ships to provide balance and stability

'''prosfeces''' 
i.e., prostheses

'''freakas''' 
fracas

==Page 824==

'''Wellfleet Circuit Court''' 
Wellfleet is a town on Cape Cod about 10 miles south of Provincetown.

'''Cuerva''' 
Thrust means "Cuervo," a brand of tequila.

==Page 825==

'''''Nightmare on Elm Street XXII: The Senescence''''' 
a joke concerning the horror films of [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000127/ Wes Craven]; senescence is the process of growing old

'''embryoglio''' 
probably meaning ''imbroglio'': an extremely confused, complicated, or embarrassing situation

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'''prolix''' 
tediously long or wordy

'''señorio''' 
i.e., scenario

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==Page 809==

'''vacuole''' 
used here generically to mean a hole

'''subsonic''' 
i.e., noiseless

==Page 810==

'''circadian rhythm''' 
Have a look at this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Biological_clock_human.svg chart].

'''Eldred''' 
This was the last name of the first Eagle Scout, Arthur Rose Eldred (1895-1951).

'''Dewar's''' 
a brand name of whiskey

'''President's Physical Fitness Test''' 
You can read about this program [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%27s_Council_on_Physical_Fitness_and_Sports here].

[[Image:Flat Cap.jpg|thumb|right|A flat cap or skallycap]]

'''skallycap''' 
see example at right

'''Chock Full O'Nuts''' 
a brand name of coffee

==Page 811==

'''P.E.''' 
Physical Education, i.e., gym class

'''dugout''' 
where the teams during a baseball game sit while not actually playing

'''Franklin W. Dixon''' 
the pseudonym of the author of the Hardy Boys mysteries

==Page 812==

'''bear-market''' 
a downward-moving stock market (characterized by more selling than buying)

'''Advent''' 
the month-long period before Christmas

==Page 813==

'''aide-de-camp''' 
assistant to a general or other high-ranking officer

'''Belfast''' 
the capital of Northern Ireland

'''speculum party''' 
a pelvic examination?

'''I.B.E.W.''' 
the '''I'''nternational '''B'''rotherhood of '''E'''lectrical '''W'''orkers union (for which Wallace supplies endnote 339 on page 815)

==Page 814==

'''cubed''' 
multiplied by itself twice; taken to the third power

==Endnote 337==

'''V.i.9''' 
The line is "It must be 'se offendendo;' it cannot be else." The reference is to Ophelia, who killed herself. Notably, Act V, scene i of ''Hamlet'' is where Yorick is mentioned.

==Page 814 (cont'd)==

'''perfidy''' 
treachery

'''Gately's Humorous ball and Scalpula socket''' 
referring to the humerus (largest bone of the arm, between the shoulder and elbow) and the ball and socket joint of the shoulder, the blade of which is called the scapula

'''IM''' 
intramuscular

==Page 815==

'''toxemia''' 
a bacterial infection of the blood

'''Ninth Step''' 
The ninth of the original Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous is, "Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others."

'''Weld''' 
William Floyd Weld (born 1945) was governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997. Even the prescient Wallace could probably not have predicted Mitt Romney, who held the post from 2003 to 2007.

'''Alsace''' 
a region of France bordering the Rhine border with Germany

'''impost''' 
a tax or duty imposed on some one

==Endnote 338==

There is a potention for confusion in order here, because doxycycline hyclate can be given in preparations other than intravenous, which Gately is getting.

==Page 816==

'''Dr. Dentons''' 
a trade name of children's blanket sleeper (pajamas); Gately's are XXL, extra extra large

'''imago''' 
psychological term for an idealized image, usually of a parent, formed in childhood and continuing into adulthood subconsciously

==Page 817==

'''''catheterized''''' 
Gately has had a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_catheter Foley catheter] inserted.

==Page 818==

'''objay dart''' 
Gately's version of ''objet d'art'' (French: art object)

==Endnote 341==

'''acetaminophen''' 
the generic name of the pain-reliever Tylenol

==Page 819==

'''codeine''' 
an opiate used as a painkiler; a habit-forming, Schedule III narcotic

'''shiners''' 
black eyes

'''Oreida''' 
Or "Ore-Ida", maker of potato products and originator of Tater Tots; Thrust may be thinking "iota" at the same time

==Page 820==

'''turnipcut''' 
i.e., tourniquet

'''''medecins''''' 
French: doctors (physicians)

'''solenoid''' 
a current-carrying coil of wire

==Page 821==

'''fishtailing''' 
having the back end of one's car spinning

==Page 822==

'''''GQ''''' 
''Gentlemen's Quarterly''

'''embryoglio''' 
i.e., imbroglio

'''fleen''' 
Thrust's past tense of ''flee'' (à la "flown")

==Page 823==

'''ballast''' 
heavy material placed on the bottom of ships to provide balance and stability

'''prosfeces''' 
i.e., prostheses

'''freakas''' 
fracas

==Page 824==

'''Wellfleet Circuit Court''' 
Wellfleet is a town on Cape Cod about 10 miles south of Provincetown.

'''Cuerva''' 
Thrust means "Cuervo," a brand of tequila.

==Page 825==

'''''Nightmare on Elm Street XXII: The Senescence''''' 
a joke concerning the horror films of [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000127/ Wes Craven]; senescence is the process of growing old

==Page 826==

'''prolix''' 
tediously long or wordy

'''señorio''' 
i.e., scenario

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==Page 809==

'''vacuole''' 
used here generically to mean a hole

'''subsonic''' 
i.e., noiseless

==Page 810==

'''circadian rhythm''' 
Have a look at this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Biological_clock_human.svg chart].

'''Eldred''' 
This was the last name of the first Eagle Scout, Arthur Rose Eldred (1895-1951).

'''Dewar's''' 
a brand name of whiskey

'''President's Physical Fitness Test''' 
You can read about this program [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%27s_Council_on_Physical_Fitness_and_Sports here].

[[Image:Flat Cap.jpg|thumb|right|A flat cap or skallycap]]

'''skallycap''' 
see example at right

'''Chock Full O'Nuts''' 
a brand name of coffee

==Page 811==

'''P.E.''' 
Physical Education, i.e., gym class

'''dugout''' 
where the teams during a baseball game sit while not actually playing

'''Franklin W. Dixon''' 
the pseudonym of the author of the Hardy Boys mysteries

==Page 812==

'''bear-market''' 
a downward-moving stock market (characterized by more selling than buying)

'''Advent''' 
the month-long period before Christmas

==Page 813==

'''aide-de-camp''' 
assistant to a general or other high-ranking officer

'''Belfast''' 
the capital of Northern Ireland

'''speculum party''' 
a pelvic examination?

'''I.B.E.W.''' 
the '''I'''nternational '''B'''rotherhood of '''E'''lectrical '''W'''orkers union (for which Wallace supplies endnote 339 on page 815)

==Page 814==

'''cubed''' 
multiplied by itself twice; taken to the third power

==Endnote 337==

'''V.i.9''' 
The line is "It must be 'se offendendo;' it cannot be else." The reference is to Ophelia, who killed herself. Notably, Act V, scene i of ''Hamlet'' is where Yorick is mentioned.

==Page 814 (cont'd)==

'''perfidy''' 
treachery

'''Gately's Humorous ball and Scalpula socket''' 
referring to the humerus (largest bone of the arm, between the shoulder and elbow) and the ball and socket joint of the shoulder, the blade of which is called the scapula

'''IM''' 
intramuscular

==Page 815==

'''toxemia''' 
a bacterial infection of the blood

'''Ninth Step''' 
The ninth of the original Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous is, "Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others."

'''Weld''' 
William Floyd Weld (born 1945) was governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997. Even the prescient Wallace could probably not have predicted Mitt Romney, who held the post from 2003 to 2007.

'''Alsace''' 
a region of France bordering the Rhine border with Germany

'''impost''' 
a tax or duty imposed on some one

==Endnote 338==

There is a potention for confusion in order here, because doxycycline hyclate can be given in preparations other than intravenous, which Gately is getting.

==Page 816==

'''Dr. Dentons''' 
a trade name of children's blanket sleeper (pajamas); Gately's are XXL, extra extra large

'''imago''' 
psychological term for an idealized image, usually of a parent, formed in childhood and continuing into adulthood subconsciously

==Page 817==

'''''catheterized''''' 
Gately has had a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_catheter Foley catheter] inserted.

==Page 818==

'''objay dart''' 
Gately's version of ''objet d'art'' (French: art object)

==Endnote 341==

'''acetaminophen''' 
the generic name of the pain-reliever Tylenol

==Page 819==

'''codeine''' 
an opiate used as a painkiler; a habit-forming, Schedule III narcotic

'''shiners''' 
black eyes

'''Oreida''' 
Or "Ore-Ida", maker of potato products and originator of Tater Tots; Thrust may be thinking "iota" at the same time

==Page 820==

'''turnipcut''' 
i.e., tourniquet

'''''medecins''''' 
French: doctors (physicians)

'''solenoid''' 
a current-carrying coil of wire

==Page 821==

'''fishtailing''' 
having the back end of one's car spinning

==Page 822==

'''''GQ''''' 
''Gentlemen's Quarterly''

'''embryoglio''' 
i.e., imbroglio

'''fleen''' 
Thrust's past tense of ''flee'' (à la "flown")

==Page 823==

'''ballast'' 
heavy material placed on the bottom of ships to provide balance and stability

'''prosfeces''' 
i.e., prostheses

'''freakas''' 
fracas

==Page 824==

'''Wellfleet Circuit Court''' 
Wellfleet is a town on Cape Cod about 10 miles south of Provincetown.

'''Cuerva''' 
Thrust means "Cuervo," a brand of tequila.

==Page 825==

'''''Nightmare on Elm Street XXII: The Senescence''''' 
a joke concerning the horror films of [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000127/ Wes Craven]; senescence is the process of growing old

==Page 826==

'''prolix''' 
tediously long or wordy

'''señorio''' 
i.e., scenario

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==Page 786==

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

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

=Endnote 324 · John Wayne loses it=

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_324_.C2.B7_John_Wayne_loses_it|Endnote 324]]

=U.S.O.U.S. "interviews" Molly Notkin=

==Page 787==

'''homburg''' 
a felt hat with a brim meant for a man

'''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; in optics, an anamorphic lens changes the shape of an image

'''lalating''' 
anybody's guess, although perhaps similar to ''ululating'', as suggested by Amy Batchelor in one of her interesting [http://anchorpoint.blogs.com/amythoughts/2005/08/infinite_jest_v_1.html Thoughts in Random Patterns] (8 August 2005)

==Endnote 329==

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

==Page 788 (cont'd)==

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

'''ghastlyly''' 
even funnier coming from someone with a first name ending in ''-ly''; simply ''ghastly'' functions as the adverb (rarely) as well as the adjective (could Molly be lalating?)

'''Rube-Goldbergesque''' 
needlessly convoluted, like one of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine machines] for which Jewish-American cartoonist Reuben Garret Lucius "Rube" Goldberg (1883-1970) was famous

==Page 789==

'''parturient''' 
about to give birth

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

'''glabrous''' 
hairless

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

'''chicanery''' 
deception by trickery or sophistry

'''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.

'''real filmic McCoy''' 
an interpolation of "filmic" (cinematic) into the familar expression "real McCoy," signifying authenticity

==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 (and the pot in which it is prepared and served)

'''cerise''' 
a vivid purplish red

'''wattles''' 
wattles are ornamental skin on or near the base of the bill of certain birds, in this case the red wattles on the turkey's beak

'''ghastlyly''' 
see note for Page 788 ''supra''

'''anamorphic''' 
see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamorphic_format here] for a discussion of the cinematography technique

'''anti-Picaresque narrative statis''' 
This is one―or a small part of one―of Molly's pseudoscholarly (not to say "Rube-Goldbergesque") tropes. A picaresque work is the satirical, episodic story of a roguish hero (or antihero) of low birth and behavior that borders on the criminal (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picaresque_novel here] for examples of picaresque novels, including ''Don Quixote'', ''Tom Jones'', and ''Huckleberry Finn''). The phrase here may imply a storytelling technique at odds with the picaresque literary style (i.e., ''not'' a first-person narrative or ''not'' told from the protagonist's point of view; ''not'' without plot; ''not'' static in terms of the [anti-]hero's character development; ''not'' satirical; etc.). Also, of course, see Endnote 331.

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

'''all of Vienna''' 
implying all psychoanalysts, or at least all adherents of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung

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

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

'''perspicuous''' 
clearly expressed

'''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

'''reagent''' 
a substance used to produce other substances

'''neurasthenic''' 
a person suffering from a condition that is characterized especially by physical and mental exhaustion believed to result from psychological factors. (similar to chronic fatigue syndrome)

'''menses''' 
menstruation

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

'''''Putti''''' 
a play on ''Pookie'' (the baby-talk version), but also Italian (plural of [http://arthistory.about.com/cs/glossaries/g/p_putti.htm ''putto'']) for representations of male infants or cherubs often seen in Renaissance (and other) paintings

==Page 793==

'''actaeonizing''' 
a neologism in reference to Actaeon, a young hunter in Greek Mythology who looked upon Artemis bathing, who turned him into a stag; he was then killed by his own hunting dogs

'''tines''' 
prongs of a fork

'''genuflectory''' 
servilely respectful (to the extent of kneeling before)

'''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."

'''bradykinetic''' 
slow moving

=Endnote 332 · Pemulis just slays deLint=

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_332_.C2.B7_DeLint_slays_the_Peemster|Endnote 332]]

=Hal's First Anonymous 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."

'''C. C. Reservoir''' 
presumably "Cleveland Circle Reservoir," though the actual reservoir next to Cleveland Circle is known as the Chestnut Hill Reservoir.

'''shunpike''' 
a side road to avoid taking a turnpike, in this case, the Mass Turnpike (I-90).

'''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, with the Massachusetts section designated the Mass Turnpike

'''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

'''''ὃνμγα''' 
It's Greek to me, but it seems that mu and gamma may be transposed in what should probably transliterate to ''onyma''.

'''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

[[Image:Burma-Shave Signs.jpg|thumb|right|Burma-Shave signs]]

'''Burma-Shave signs''' 
small sequential road signs used to advertise an American brand of brushless shaving cream from 1925 to 1963; see examples [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma_Shave#Examples here]

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

[[Image:Quoins.jpg|thumb|right|Masonry building with quoins at corner]]

'''quoins''' 
cornerstones (see right)

==Page 798==

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

'''Draconyl''' 
perhaps a nonce adjective indicating that the carpet is made of Dacron, the synthetic polyester fiber, but could be an invented extension of the trademark, because it appears later on the page as a noun

'''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].

'''Muzak''' 
generic elevator-type music

==Page 799==

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

'''eagle-, leaf-, and broom-emblemized''' 
presumably the vestigal U.S.A. bald eagle and Canadian maple leaf, so the broom could be the symbol of O.N.A.N.

'''scrip''' 
paper money

'''Natick''' 
a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, about 15 miles west of Boston (and part of the Greater Boston area)

'''São Paulo''' 
Brazilian metropolis

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

'''"...the color of Thousand Island dressing..."''' 
the pastel salmon color resulting from mixing mayonnaise and tomato ketchup (among other ingredients, including pickle relish)

==Page 800==

[[Image:Imperial Beard.jpg|thumb|right|Imperial beard]]

'''imperial''' 
Imagine a beard like the one shown at right, only blond and with more wax.

'''sibilance''' 
hissing sound

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

==Page 801==

'''diglobular''' 
consisting of two lumps of fat - here it refers to, however, his globe-like head seated atop his globe-like body, as mentioned on the previous page

==Page 802==

'''treacly''' 
sentimental; overly sweet; cloying

[[Image:Nasa Emblem.jpg|thumbnail|right|NASA emblem]]
'''space-and-spacecraft emblem''' 
see NASA logo at right

'''mauve''' 
a moderate grey-violet to red-purple color

'''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 minimalist.

'''quaaludes''' 
capsules or caplets of Methaqualone, a sedative often used recreationally

==Page 803==

'''inguinal''' 
situated in the groin

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

'''obliquest''' 
most oblique (sloping); "the obliquest portion of his profile" could be his nose

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

'''Wharton''' 
the business school at the Ivy-League University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, generally believed to be the most prestigious undergraduate business school in the world and also highly regarded at post-graduate levels

==Endnote 336==

'''sudoriferous''' 
sweaty

'''agora-compulsive''' 
addicted to the market (shopping)? or doesn't want to leave the home, i.e., compulsively agoraphobic

==Page 804==

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

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water

'''"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

'''M.B.R.O.''' 
'''M'''etro-'''B'''oston '''R'''ecovery '''O'''ptions

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

'''pathos''' 
a quality that evokes pity

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

'''civety''' 
civet-like; a civet is a small carnivorous feline mammal that emits a strange smell

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

==Page 805==

'''dandled''' 
moved up and down in a playful manner (e.g., dandled a baby on one's knee)

'''Fred MacMurray''' 
Fredrick Martin MacMurray (1908-1991) was an American film and television actor, referenced here for his starring role as the father in the hit 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

'''vivisecting''' 
performing an operation on a living animal for research purposes

'''timpani''' 
large drums (kettledrums) 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'' with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice, sung by the character of Mary Magdalene (album: 1970; stage premiere, on Broadway: 1971)

'''"tornadic gale"''' 
tornado-strength wind

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

'''cytological''' 
Like microscopic cells; on the other hand, maybe this is a deliberate or accidental misspelling of cetological (related to whales). Hal seems to be imagining himself spitting water like a whale spouting water from its blowhole.

'''plume''' 
here, a stream of water resembling a feather

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==Page 786==

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

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

=Endnote 324 · John Wayne loses it=

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_324_.C2.B7_John_Wayne_loses_it|Endnote 324]]

=U.S.O.U.S. "interviews" Molly Notkin=

==Page 787==

'''homburg''' 
a felt hat with a brim meant for a man

'''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; in optics, an anamorphic lens changes the shape of an image

'''lalating''' 
anybody's guess, although perhaps similar to ''ululating'', as suggested by Amy Batchelor in one of her interesting [http://anchorpoint.blogs.com/amythoughts/2005/08/infinite_jest_v_1.html Thoughts in Random Patterns] (8 August 2005)

==Endnote 329==

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

==Page 788 (cont'd)==

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

'''ghastlyly''' 
even funnier coming from someone with a first name ending in ''-ly''; simply ''ghastly'' functions as the adverb (rarely) as well as the adjective (could Molly be lalating?)

'''Rube-Goldbergesque''' 
needlessly convoluted, like one of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine machines] for which Jewish-American cartoonist Reuben Garret Lucius "Rube" Goldberg (1883-1970) was famous

==Page 789==

'''parturient''' 
about to give birth

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

'''glabrous''' 
hairless

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

'''chicanery''' 
deception by trickery or sophistry

'''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.

'''real filmic McCoy''' 
an interpolation of "filmic" (cinematic) into the familar expression "real McCoy," signifying authenticity

==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 (and the pot in which it is prepared and served)

'''cerise''' 
a vivid purplish red

'''wattles''' 
wattles are ornamental skin on or near the base of the bill of certain birds, in this case the red wattles on the turkey's beak

'''ghastlyly''' 
see note for Page 788 ''supra''

'''anamorphic''' 
see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamorphic_format here] for a discussion of the cinematography technique

'''anti-Picaresque narrative statis''' 
This is one―or a small part of one―of Molly's pseudoscholarly (not to say "Rube-Goldbergesque") tropes. A picaresque work is the satirical, episodic story of a roguish hero (or antihero) of low birth and behavior that borders on the criminal (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picaresque_novel here] for examples of picaresque novels, including ''Don Quixote'', ''Tom Jones'', and ''Huckleberry Finn''). The phrase here may imply a storytelling technique at odds with the picaresque literary style (i.e., ''not'' a first-person narrative or ''not'' told from the protagonist's point of view; ''not'' without plot; ''not'' static in terms of the [anti-]hero's character development; ''not'' satirical; etc.). Also, of course, see Endnote 331.

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

'''all of Vienna''' 
implying all psychoanalysts, or at least all adherents of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung

==Page 792==

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

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

'''perspicuous''' 
clearly expressed

'''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

'''reagent''' 
a substance used to produce other substances

'''neurasthenic''' 
a person suffering from a condition that is characterized especially by physical and mental exhaustion believed to result from psychological factors. (similar to chronic fatigue syndrome)

'''menses''' 
menstruation

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

'''''Putti''''' 
a play on ''Pookie'' (the baby-talk version), but also Italian (plural of [http://arthistory.about.com/cs/glossaries/g/p_putti.htm ''putto'']) for representations of male infants or cherubs often seen in Renaissance (and other) paintings

==Page 793==

'''actaeonizing''' 
a neologism in reference to Actaeon, a young hunter in Greek Mythology who looked upon Artemis bathing, who turned him into a stag; he was then killed by his own hunting dogs

'''tines''' 
prongs of a fork

'''genuflectory''' 
servilely respectful (to the extent of kneeling before)

'''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."

'''bradykinetic''' 
slow moving

=Endnote 332 · Pemulis just slays deLint=

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_332_.C2.B7_DeLint_slays_the_Peemster|Endnote 332]]

=Hal's First Anonymous 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."

'''C. C. Reservoir''' 
presumably "Cleveland Circle Reservoir," though the actual reservoir next to Cleveland Circle is known as the Chestnut Hill Reservoir.

'''shunpike''' 
a side road to avoid taking a turnpike, in this case, the Mass Turnpike (I-90).

'''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, with the Massachusetts section designated the Mass Turnpike

'''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

'''''ὃνμγα''' 
It's Greek to me, but it seems that mu and gamma may be transposed in what should probably transliterate to ''onyma''.

'''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

[[Image:Burma-Shave Signs.jpg|thumb|right|Burma-Shave signs]]

'''Burma-Shave signs''' 
small sequential road signs used to advertise an American brand of brushless shaving cream from 1925 to 1963; see examples [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma_Shave#Examples here]

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

[[Image:Quoins.jpg|thumb|right|Masonry building with quoins at corner]]

'''quoins''' 
cornerstones (see right)

==Page 798==

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

'''Draconyl''' 
perhaps a nonce adjective indicating that the carpet is made of Dacron, the synthetic polyester fiber, but could be an invented extension of the trademark, because it appears later on the page as a noun

'''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]

'''eagle-, leaf-, and broom-emblemized''' 
presumably the vestigal U.S.A. bald eagle and Canadian maple leaf, so the broom could be the symbol of O.N.A.N.

'''scrip''' 
paper money

'''Natick''' 
a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, about 15 miles west of Boston (and part of the Greater Boston area)

'''São Paulo''' 
Brazilian metropolis

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

'''"...the color of Thousand Island dressing..."''' 
the pastel salmon color resulting from mixing mayonnaise and tomato ketchup (among other ingredients, including pickle relish)

==Page 800==

[[Image:Imperial Beard.jpg|thumb|right|Imperial beard]]

'''imperial''' 
Imagine a beard like the one shown at right, only blond and with more wax.

'''sibilance''' 
hissing sound

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

==Page 801==

'''diglobular''' 
consisting of two lumps of fat - here it refers to, however, his globe-like head seated atop his globe-like body, as mentioned on the previous page

==Page 802==

'''treacly''' 
sentimental; overly sweet; cloying

[[Image:Nasa Emblem.jpg|thumbnail|right|NASA emblem]]
'''space-and-spacecraft emblem''' 
see NASA logo at right

'''mauve''' 
a moderate grey-violet to red-purple color

'''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 minimalist.

'''quaaludes''' 
capsules or caplets of Methaqualone, a sedative often used recreationally

==Page 803==

'''inguinal''' 
situated in the groin

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

'''obliquest''' 
most oblique (sloping); "the obliquest portion of his profile" could be his nose

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

'''Wharton''' 
the business school at the Ivy-League University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, generally believed to be the most prestigious undergraduate business school in the world and also highly regarded at post-graduate levels

==Endnote 336==

'''sudoriferous''' 
sweaty

'''agora-compulsive''' 
addicted to the market (shopping)? or doesn't want to leave the home, i.e., compulsively agoraphobic

==Page 804==

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

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water

'''"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

'''M.B.R.O.''' 
'''M'''etro-'''B'''oston '''R'''ecovery '''O'''ptions

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

'''pathos''' 
a quality that evokes pity

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

'''civety''' 
civet-like; a civet is a small carnivorous feline mammal that emits a strange smell

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

==Page 805==

'''dandled''' 
moved up and down in a playful manner (e.g., dandled a baby on one's knee)

'''Fred MacMurray''' 
Fredrick Martin MacMurray (1908-1991) was an American film and television actor, referenced here for his starring role as the father in the hit 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

'''vivisecting''' 
performing an operation on a living animal for research purposes

'''timpani''' 
large drums (kettledrums) 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'' with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice, sung by the character of Mary Magdalene (album: 1970; stage premiere, on Broadway: 1971)

'''"tornadic gale"''' 
tornado-strength wind

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

'''cytological''' 
Like microscopic cells; on the other hand, maybe this is a deliberate or accidental misspelling of cetological (related to whales). Hal seems to be imagining himself spitting water like a whale spouting water from its blowhole.

'''plume''' 
here, a stream of water resembling a feather

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==Page 755==

'''Wagnerian bass''' 
grandiose and stentorian (in the lower register) in the manner of German opera composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

==Page 756==

'''varicoceles''' 
plural of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varicoceles varicocele] (also "varicoscele"), an abnormal enlargement of a vein in the scrotum

'''a duet''' 
possibly "O sink hernieder, Nacht der Liebe" ("O sink down, night of love") sung by the title lovers in Act Two of Wagner's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_und_Isolde ''Tristan und Isolde'']

'''high D''' 
the D (designated D6) that is two octaves above the D above middle C (C4); considered the upper limit of the dramatic soprano range

'''Felicity Zweig''' 
"Felicity" means happiness, while ''Zweig'' is German for "stick" or "branch."

==Page 757==

'''Gilbert Treffert''' 
still not a real player

'''whistling 'Dixie.'''' 
See the discussion of this phrase in section 6 of the Wikipedia entry on the 19th-century American popular [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_(song)#Whistling_.22Dixie.22 song], once considered the unofficial national anthem of the Confederate States of America.

==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''' 
Definitions include: 1. the starched front of a shirt; 2. a large pad worn by a fencer to protect the chest; and 3. The part of a tortoise's shell that covers the underside. Mario wears an apparatus something like a tortoise's shell that fits around his deformed torso and allows him to carry his camera equipment in the pack on his back.

==Page 761==

'''cowlick''' 
a patch of hair standing on end

'''pennon''' 
a pennant or flag or banner

'''Peripatetic''' 
walking around

==Page 762==

'''swotting''' 
hard studying, cramming

==Page 763==

==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==

'''incontinent''' 
Having no or insufficient voluntary control over urination or defecation

==Page 769==

'''tumid''' 
swollen

=Hal fills Mario in on the aftermath of the Eschaton incident=

==Page 769==

'''"Thank you Sir may I have another"''' 
a line from the film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077975/ "Animal House"] (1978)

==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 comically optimistic character in Voltaire's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candide Candide], who believes himself and his fellows to be living 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. But Mario seems to be thinking of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Arden Elizabeth Arden] (1884-1966), who founded a cosmetics company.

=Marathe and Kate G. go drinking=

==Page 774==

==Page 775==

'''''Big Book''''' 
the AA handbook

==Page 776==

==Page 777==

'''moribund''' 
In terminal decline; lacking vitality or vigor

'''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==

'''Kahlua''' 
the Mexican coffee-flavored, rum-based liqueur, actually spelled with an accent: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahl%C3%BAa Kahlúa]

'''restenosis''' 
recurrence of stenosis, i.e., narrowing of blood vessels

'''Garçon!''' 
French: Boy! (used in reference to the waiter)

'''n'est ce―''' 
Marathe trails off in the middle of ''n'est ce pas?'' (French: isn't it?)

==Page 780==

'''m'épouse au future''' 
French: future spouse

'''hôpital of grave nature''' 
possibly "hospital of (for the) seriously injured (or, in the case of Gertraude, the comatose)

'''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

=Hal and Mario, cont.=

==Page 782==

'''Irish Spring''' 
i.e., a strong-smelling brand of soap

==Page 783==

'''poppy-seed bagel''' 
conventional wisdom has it that eating such bagels could 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 marketed with late-night television commercials

'''Calli tea''' 
Read about this [http://www.diana2.com/calli_tea.html here].

==Page 784==

==Page 785==

'''pores''' 
i.e., pores over books, reads them carefully

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'''Wagnerian bass''' 
grandiose and stentorian (in the lower register) in the manner of German opera composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

==Page 756==

'''varicoceles''' 
plural of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varicoceles varicocele] (also "varicoscele"), an abnormal enlargement of a vein in the scrotum

'''a duet''' 
possibly "O sink hernieder, Nacht der Liebe" ("O sink down, night of love") sung by the title lovers in Act Two of Wagner's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_und_Isolde ''Tristan und Isolde'']

'''high D''' 
the D (designated D6) that is two octaves above the D above middle C (C4); considered the upper limit of the dramatic soprano range

'''Felicity Zweig''' 
"Felicity" means happiness, while ''Zweig'' is German for "stick" or "branch."

==Page 757==

'''Gilbert Treffert''' 
still not a real player

'''whistling 'Dixie.'''' 
See the discussion of this phrase in section 6 of the Wikipedia entry on the 19th-century American popular [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_(song)#Whistling_.22Dixie.22 song], once considered the unofficial national anthem of the Confederate States of America.

==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''' 
Definitions include: 1. the starched front of a shirt; 2. a large pad worn by a fencer to protect the chest; and 3. The part of a tortoise's shell that covers the underside. Mario wears an apparatus something like a tortoise's shell that fits around his deformed torso and allows him to carry his camera equipment in the pack on his back.

==Page 761==

'''cowlick''' 
a patch of hair standing on end

'''pennon''' 
a pennant or flag or banner

'''Peripatetic''' 
walking around

==Page 762==

'''swotting''' 
hard studying, cramming

==Page 763==

==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==

'''incontinent''' 
Having no or insufficient voluntary control over urination or defecation

==Page 769==

'''tumid''' 
swollen

=Hal fills Mario in on the aftermath of the Eschaton incident=

==Page 769==

'''"Thank you Sir may I have another"''' 
a line from the film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077975/ "Animal House"] (1978)

==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 comically optimistic character in Voltaire's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candide Candide], who believes himself and his fellows to be living 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. But Mario seems to be thinking of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Arden Elizabeth Arden] (1884-1966), who founded a cosmetics company.

=Marathe and Kate G. go drinking=

==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==

'''Kahlua''' 
the Mexican coffee-flavored, rum-based liqueur, actually spelled with an accent: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahl%C3%BAa Kahlúa]

'''restenosis''' 
recurrence of stenosis, i.e., narrowing of blood vessels

'''Garçon!''' 
French: Boy! (used in reference to the waiter)

'''n'est ce―''' 
Marathe trails off in the middle of ''n'est ce pas?'' (French: isn't it?)

==Page 780==

'''m'épouse au future''' 
French: future spouse

'''hôpital of grave nature''' 
possibly "hospital of (for the) seriously injured (or, in the case of Gertraude, the comatose)

'''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

=Hal and Mario, cont.=

==Page 782==

'''Irish Spring''' 
i.e., a strong-smelling brand of soap

==Page 783==

'''poppy-seed bagel''' 
conventional wisdom has it that eating such bagels could 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 marketed with late-night television commercials

'''Calli tea''' 
Read about this [http://www.diana2.com/calli_tea.html here].

==Page 784==

==Page 785==

'''pores''' 
i.e., pores over books, reads them carefully

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==Page 736==

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

'''YYY tapes''' 
apparently recordings of radio-station WYYY broadcasts

==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. Or possibly simply a reference to the fact that rooms tend not to have fifth walls, meaning that his face was never there.

==Page 738==

'''futon''' 
a Japanese-style pallet or mattress that can be folded into a sofa or open like a bed; many futons have adjustable frames, but some simply fold up along a wall for seating until unfolded when needed for sleeping

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

'''greebles''' 
Here, Joelle means little wads of paper resulting from worrying the wet tissue. There is another use of [http://www.reference.com/search?r=13&q=Greeble ''greeble''], but she is not referring here to background treatments for films. The "little bits of sleepy goo you got in your eyes' corners" (two paragraphs following) are the thin mucous discharges ('eye boogers') known as ''rheum''.

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

==Page 739==

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

'''Chore-type supplies''' 
e.g., stainless-steel or copper [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chore_Boy scouring pads] now branded as Chore Boy, after some years as Chore Girl; ironically, the pads are often used in homemade crack-cocaine pipes (see note for page 222)

'''talking batons and low-pH chemistry 
''batons'' presumably in encouragement of Joelle's amateur career as a twirler and low-pH chemistry (the chemistry of acids) because of his work for the Dyne-Riney Proton Donor Reagent Corporation

'''disdain''' 
dislike or hatred

==Page 740==

[[Image:Stink Bug.jpg|thumb|right|Adult female brown marmorated stink bug
]]

'''rancid-cinnamon smell''' 
possibly the odor of the stink bug (see right); ironically, cinnamon itself can be used to dispel rancid odors; or, more likely, at least a way of covering up the odor of drugs, see, e.g., footnote 324, page 1067, where Permulis uses cayenne pepper to a similar purpose.

'''oeuvre''' 
body of work

'''Job-like protagonist''' 
referring to the title character in the Old Testament book

[[Image:Sitting Duck.jpg|right]]

'''dunk-tank''' 
a carnival attraction (see right) in which the participant pays to hurl one or more balls at a target that, if hit, will trigger a mechanism that unseats a victim into a receptacle of water

'''inbent''' 
directed inward

==Page 741==

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

'''anality''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_retentiveness anal-retentiveness]

'''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''' 
possibly a meeting room in the [http://www.nh-hotels.com/nh/en/hotels/italy/rome/nh-vittorio-veneto.html NH Vittorio Veneto] hotel in Rome; or it may refer to the Cornaro Chapel of Santa Maria della Vittoria [note the different spelling] in Rome, where Bernini's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstasy_of_St_Theresa ''Ecstasy of St. Teresa''] resides

'''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

'''diphthong''' 
A sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves toward another

'''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

[[Image:Heliotrope Plant.jpg|right|200px|Heliotrope Plant]]

'''heliotropes''' 
flowering plants of the genus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliotrope_(plant) ''heliotropium''] (sample at right), so-named because their blossoms turn toward the sun

'''Candela''' 
From the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units International System of Units] (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''' 
in speech, the elision of one of two consecutive, identical syllables, e.g., "probly" for "probably" (see the Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplology entry] for further examples, including "haplogy," the kind of in-joke that philologists enjoy)

==Page 746==

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

'''Spielberg's old computer-enhanced celluloid dinosaur things''' 
Steven Spielberg directed "Jurassic Park" (1993) and its sequel "The Lost World" (1997); it's unclear, of course, whether Wallace could have anticipated "Jurassic Park III" (2001), for which Spielberg was executive producer. (He is taking the same role on "Jurassic Park IV," announced for 2014.)

==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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'''Bishop Allen''' 
Bishop Richard Allen was a former slave and American abolitionist.

==Page 717==

'''promoted''' 
i.e., stolen

'''Lechmere's in Cambridgeside''' 
Lechmere's was an electronics and appliance chain that folded in 1997. Its flagship store was located in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CambridgeSide_Galleria CambridgeSide Galleria] mall in East Cambridge.

'''otiose''' 
of no use

'''chop''' 
helicopter

==Page 718==

'''nonchalant''' 
coolly unconcerned

==Page 719==

'''The Frightful Hog''' 
once again, Lenz's Unit (penis)

'''Yellow-Brick-Road stutter-skip''' 
a reference to the iconic 1939 film of [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/ "The Wizard of Oz"], and specifically to the skip-dance performed by Judy Garland (Dorothy), Ray Bolger (Scarecrow), Jack Haley (Tin Woodman), and Bert Lahr (Cowardly Lion) while singing "We're Off To See the Wizard" (although the Tin Woodman's voice is actually that of Buddy Ebsen, who was replaced by Haley after filming and recording was partially completed)

=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., dormant, temporarily inactive, at bay

'''''comme on dit''''' 
French: as they say

'''be turning all the stones''' 
or, leaving no stone unturned

=November 14th, YDAU - Poor Tony runs from Ruth van Cleeve, cont'd.=

==Page 719==

'''careered''' 
ran at full speed

'''veronica''' 
refers to the bullfighting move in which the matador holds the cape out and pivots slowly as the bull charges past or through it

==Page 720==

'''FRESH-KILLED CHICKEN''' 
see note for page 479

'''jay-ran''' 
ran, rather than walked, across the street somewhere other than at a designated pedestrian crossing

'''feinted''' 
acted in a way to cause a diversion

==Page 721==

'''''zuckung''''' 
German: convulsion

'''Aigners''' 
a Parisian brand of fine shoes (as here) as well as handbags and other leather accessories

'''stitch''' 
the very least bit

'''ON PARLE LE PORTUGAIS ICI''' 
French: Portuguese spoken here

'''chignon''' 
a roll of hair at the back of the head or nape of the neck

'''cesareans''' 
surgical operations to remove infants from their mothers' wombs, performed when (or before) difficulties obtain during "natural" (vaginal) birth

=AFR at Antitoi's=

==Page 721==

'''sartorially''' 
with regard to dress

'''regrettably fatal technical interview''' 
an interrogation accompanied by torture resulting in the interviewee's death

==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; here probably a dumpster

'''CLOSED, ROPAS, and RELACHE''' 
three ways (in the limited linguistic abilities of the sign-printers) of saying the same thing; ''ropas'' is Spanish for "clothes" (a pun that does not translate!) and ''relâche'' is French for "closure" (used on theatrical bills to indicate the cancellation of a performance)

'''F.L.Q.''' 
Fronte de la Libération du Québec

'''IL NE FAUT PLUS QU'ON PURSUIVE LE BONHEUR''' 
French: It is no longer necessary to pursue happiness

'''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 — an array of sensors fitted on the scalp that record electrical activity in the brain

'''''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.''' 
An abbreviation for the name given to the U.S. Office of Unspecified Services by the Québecois Sepératiste Left, the U.S. "Bureau des Services sans Spécificité" (see page 89).

=A Moment With Fortier=

==Page 723==

'''perambulation''' 
walking

=November 14th, YDAU - Joelle's Teeth=

==Page 723==

==Page 724==

'''selvage''' 
the edge of a fabric

'''lampblack''' 
A pigment taken from oil resin, football players apply it below their eyes to reduce glare from the sun or stadium lighting.

'''canines''' 
the cuspids, also called eye teeth in humans and fangs in many carnivorous mammals; positioned between the incisors and the bicuspids (premolars)

=A.F.R. at Antitoi's, after locating the copy=

==Page 724==

'''embossed''' 
decorated with a raised design

'''burglared''' 
the wanted past participle is either ''burgled'' or ''burglarized''

==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].

'''colostomy''' 
a surgical procedure in which the healthy part of the colon is sutured to an opening in the abdominal wall (for elimination of feces and urine, bypassing the rectum and bladder); a bag is attached to the opening to collect the waste products

'''''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.

'''alacrity''' 
willingness; quickness

'''''Weee''''' 
i.e., WYYY

'''''demi-maisons''''' 
French nonce 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

=Lenz Still on the Prowl=

==Page 728==

'''Chinkette''' 
another Lenz-P.O.V. ethnic epithet: Chinese

'''Sterno''' 
a brand of denatured and jellied alcohol used for cooking, as well as drinking by many street alcoholics

'''Kryptonite''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptonite_lock Kryptonite lock], named for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptonite Kryptonite] of ''Superman'' fame (and implying that not even Superman could steal whatever was secured with it)

==Page 729==

'''spic''' 
Lenz's derogatory term for Hispanic or Latino

'''extruding''' 
i.e., exuding

'''agnate''' 
Maybe he means "argot" (rather than "related paternally")?

'''fence''' 
to sell stolen goods

'''devroid''' 
devoid

=Marathe at Ennet House=

==Page 729==

'''thrift''' 
frugality: Why burn, say, twenties when the same amount of flame can be produced from a like quantity of singles?

==Page 730==

'''''de l'infere''''' 
probably a Québecois expression, it sounds like the French for "from Hell"

'''''inutile''''' 
useless

==Page 731==

'''cheesecloth''' 
a fabric of lightweight cotton threads of open texture

'''velour''' 
a knitted (and therefore flexible) fabric with looped threads knitted into the ground; it can have the plush texture of velvet, which is woven rather than knitted and cut during manufacture to create two pieces, each with a fine pile (similar, but on a smaller scale, to a plush carpet)

==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

==Endnote 304==

[[Notes_and_Errata_-_Pages_983-1079#Endnote_304_.C2.B7_The_Train_Game|Notes and Errata - Endnote 304]]

==Page 733==

'''Levi #501''' 
once-popular button-fly jeans manufactured by Levi Strauss

'''your six''' 
your back, the area behind you (as if, like points on a clock, 12 represents straight ahead, and 3 and 9, right and left, respectively)

'''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.

'''the T''' 
the Boston subway system (from the 'T' in what was originally the MTA, Metropolitan Transit Authority, and is now the MBTA, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority)

==Page 735==

'''hunnerts''' 
i.e., "hundreds of"

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==Page 716==

'''Bishop Allen''' 
Bishop Richard Allen was a former slave and American abolitionist.

==Page 717==

'''promoted''' 
i.e., stolen

'''Lechmere's in Cambridgeside''' 
Lechmere's was an electronics and appliance chain that folded in 1997. Its flagship store was located in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CambridgeSide_Galleria CambridgeSide Galleria] mall in East Cambridge.

'''otiose''' 
of no use

'''chop''' 
helicopter

==Page 718==

'''nonchalant''' 
coolly unconcerned

==Page 719==

'''The Frightful Hog''' 
once again, Lenz's Unit (penis)

'''Yellow-Brick-Road stutter-skip''' 
a reference to the iconic 1939 film of [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/ "The Wizard of Oz"], and specifically to the skip-dance performed by Judy Garland (Dorothy), Ray Bolger (Scarecrow), Jack Haley (Tin Woodman), and Bert Lahr (Cowardly Lion) while singing "We're Off To See the Wizard" (although the Tin Woodman's voice is actually that of Buddy Ebsen, who was replaced by Haley after filming and recording was partially completed)

=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., dormant, temporarily inactive, at bay

'''''comme on dit''''' 
French: as they say

'''be turning all the stones''' 
or, leaving no stone unturned

=November 14th, YDAU - Poor Tony runs from Ruth van Cleeve, cont'd.=

==Page 719==

'''careered''' 
ran at full speed

'''veronica''' 
refers to the bullfighting move in which the matador holds the cape out and pivots slowly as the bull charges past or through it

==Page 720==

'''FRESH-KILLED CHICKEN''' 
see note for page 479

'''jay-ran''' 
ran, rather than walked, across the street somewhere other than at a designated pedestrian crossing

'''feinted''' 
acted in a way to cause a diversion

==Page 721==

'''''zuckung''''' 
German: convulsion

'''Aigners''' 
a Parisian brand of fine shoes (as here) as well as handbags and other leather accessories

'''stitch''' 
the very least bit

'''ON PARLE LE PORTUGAIS ICI''' 
French: Portuguese spoken here

'''chignon''' 
a roll of hair at the back of the head or nape of the neck

'''cesareans''' 
surgical operations to remove infants from their mothers' wombs, performed when (or before) difficulties obtain during "natural" (vaginal) birth

=AFR at Antitoi's=

==Page 721==

'''sartorially''' 
with regard to dress

'''regrettably fatal technical interview''' 
an interrogation accompanied by torture resulting in the interviewee's death

==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; here probably a dumpster

'''CLOSED, ROPAS, and RELACHE''' 
three ways (in the limited linguistic abilities of the sign-printers) of saying the same thing; ''ropas'' is Spanish for "clothes" (a pun that does not translate!) and ''relâche'' is French for "closure" (used on theatrical bills to indicate the cancellation of a performance)

'''F.L.Q.''' 
Fronte de la Libération du Québec

'''IL NE FAUT PLUS QU'ON PURSUIVE LE BONHEUR''' 
French: It is no longer necessary to pursue happiness

'''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.''' 
An abbreviation for the name given to the U.S. Office of Unspecified Services by the Québecois Sepératiste Left, the U.S. "Bureau des Services sans Spécificité" (see page 89).

=A Moment With Fortier=

==Page 723==

'''perambulation''' 
walking

=November 14th, YDAU - Joelle's Teeth=

==Page 723==

==Page 724==

'''selvage''' 
the edge of a fabric

'''lampblack''' 
A pigment taken from oil resin, football players apply it below their eyes to reduce glare from the sun or stadium lighting.

'''canines''' 
the cuspids, also called eye teeth in humans and fangs in many carnivorous mammals; positioned between the incisors and the bicuspids (premolars)

=A.F.R. at Antitoi's, after locating the copy=

==Page 724==

'''embossed''' 
decorated with a raised design

'''burglared''' 
the wanted past participle is either ''burgled'' or ''burglarized''

==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].

'''colostomy''' 
a surgical procedure in which the healthy part of the colon is sutured to an opening in the abdominal wall (for elimination of feces and urine, bypassing the rectum and bladder); a bag is attached to the opening to collect the waste products

'''''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.

'''alacrity''' 
willingness; quickness

'''''Weee''''' 
i.e., WYYY

'''''demi-maisons''''' 
French nonce 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

=Lenz Still on the Prowl=

==Page 728==

'''Chinkette''' 
another Lenz-P.O.V. ethnic epithet: Chinese

'''Sterno''' 
a brand of denatured and jellied alcohol used for cooking, as well as drinking by many street alcoholics

'''Kryptonite''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptonite_lock Kryptonite lock], named for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptonite Kryptonite] of ''Superman'' fame (and implying that not even Superman could steal whatever was secured with it)

==Page 729==

'''spic''' 
Lenz's derogatory term for Hispanic or Latino

'''extruding''' 
i.e., exuding

'''agnate''' 
Maybe he means "argot" (rather than "related paternally")?

'''fence''' 
to sell stolen goods

'''devroid''' 
devoid

=Marathe at Ennet House=

==Page 729==

'''thrift''' 
frugality: Why burn, say, twenties when the same amount of flame can be produced from a like quantity of singles?

==Page 730==

'''''de l'infere''''' 
probably a Québecois expression, it sounds like the French for "from Hell"

'''''inutile''''' 
useless

==Page 731==

'''cheesecloth''' 
a fabric of lightweight cotton threads of open texture

'''velour''' 
a knitted (and therefore flexible) fabric with looped threads knitted into the ground; it can have the plush texture of velvet, which is woven rather than knitted and cut during manufacture to create two pieces, each with a fine pile (similar, but on a smaller scale, to a plush carpet)

==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

==Endnote 304==

[[Notes_and_Errata_-_Pages_983-1079#Endnote_304_.C2.B7_The_Train_Game|Notes and Errata - Endnote 304]]

==Page 733==

'''Levi #501''' 
once-popular button-fly jeans manufactured by Levi Strauss

'''your six''' 
your back, the area behind you (as if, like points on a clock, 12 represents straight ahead, and 3 and 9, right and left, respectively)

'''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.

'''the T''' 
the Boston subway system (from the 'T' in what was originally the MTA, Metropolitan Transit Authority, and is now the MBTA, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority)

==Page 735==

'''hunnerts''' 
i.e., "hundreds of"

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==Page 716==

'''Bishop Allen''' 
Bishop Richard Allen was a former slave and American abolitionist.

==Page 717==

'''promoted''' 
i.e., stolen

'''Lechmere's in Cambridgeside''' 
Lechmere's was an electronics and appliance chain that folded in 1997. Its flagship store was located in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CambridgeSide_Galleria CambridgeSide Galleria] mall in East Cambridge.

'''otiose''' 
of no use

'''chop''' 
helicopter

==Page 718==

'''nonchalant''' 
coolly unconcerned

'''abeyant''' 
The condition of being temporarily set aside; suspension.

==Page 719==

'''The Frightful Hog''' 
once again, Lenz's Unit (penis)

'''Yellow-Brick-Road stutter-skip''' 
a reference to the iconic 1939 film of [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/ "The Wizard of Oz"], and specifically to the skip-dance performed by Judy Garland (Dorothy), Ray Bolger (Scarecrow), Jack Haley (Tin Woodman), and Bert Lahr (Cowardly Lion) while singing "We're Off To See the Wizard" (although the Tin Woodman's voice is actually that of Buddy Ebsen, who was replaced by Haley after filming and recording was partially completed)

=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., dormant, temporarily inactive, at bay

'''''comme on dit''''' 
French: as they say

'''be turning all the stones''' 
or, leaving no stone unturned

=November 14th, YDAU - Poor Tony runs from Ruth van Cleeve, cont'd.=

==Page 719==

'''careered''' 
ran at full speed

'''veronica''' 
refers to the bullfighting move in which the matador holds the cape out and pivots slowly as the bull charges past or through it

==Page 720==

'''FRESH-KILLED CHICKEN''' 
see note for page 479

'''jay-ran''' 
ran, rather than walked, across the street somewhere other than at a designated pedestrian crossing

'''feinted''' 
acted in a way to cause a diversion

==Page 721==

'''''zuckung''''' 
German: convulsion

'''Aigners''' 
a Parisian brand of fine shoes (as here) as well as handbags and other leather accessories

'''stitch''' 
the very least bit

'''ON PARLE LE PORTUGAIS ICI''' 
French: Portuguese spoken here

'''chignon''' 
a roll of hair at the back of the head or nape of the neck

'''cesareans''' 
surgical operations to remove infants from their mothers' wombs, performed when (or before) difficulties obtain during "natural" (vaginal) birth

=AFR at Antitoi's=

==Page 721==

'''sartorially''' 
with regard to dress

'''regrettably fatal technical interview''' 
an interrogation accompanied by torture resulting in the interviewee's death

==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; here probably a dumpster

'''CLOSED, ROPAS, and RELACHE''' 
three ways (in the limited linguistic abilities of the sign-printers) of saying the same thing; ''ropas'' is Spanish for "clothes" (a pun that does not translate!) and ''relâche'' is French for "closure" (used on theatrical bills to indicate the cancellation of a performance)

'''F.L.Q.''' 
Fronte de la Libération du Québec

'''IL NE FAUT PLUS QU'ON PURSUIVE LE BONHEUR''' 
French: It is no longer necessary to pursue happiness

'''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.''' 
An abbreviation for the name given to the U.S. Office of Unspecified Services by the Québecois Sepératiste Left, the U.S. "Bureau des Services sans Spécificité" (see page 89).

=A Moment With Fortier=

==Page 723==

'''perambulation''' 
walking

=November 14th, YDAU - Joelle's Teeth=

==Page 723==

==Page 724==

'''selvage''' 
the edge of a fabric

'''lampblack''' 
A pigment taken from oil resin, football players apply it below their eyes to reduce glare from the sun or stadium lighting.

'''canines''' 
the cuspids, also called eye teeth in humans and fangs in many carnivorous mammals; positioned between the incisors and the bicuspids (premolars)

=A.F.R. at Antitoi's, after locating the copy=

==Page 724==

'''embossed''' 
decorated with a raised design

'''burglared''' 
the wanted past participle is either ''burgled'' or ''burglarized''

==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].

'''colostomy''' 
a surgical procedure in which the healthy part of the colon is sutured to an opening in the abdominal wall (for elimination of feces and urine, bypassing the rectum and bladder); a bag is attached to the opening to collect the waste products

'''''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.

'''alacrity''' 
willingness; quickness

'''''Weee''''' 
i.e., WYYY

'''''demi-maisons''''' 
French nonce 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

=Lenz Still on the Prowl=

==Page 728==

'''Chinkette''' 
another Lenz-P.O.V. ethnic epithet: Chinese

'''Sterno''' 
a brand of denatured and jellied alcohol used for cooking, as well as drinking by many street alcoholics

'''Kryptonite''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptonite_lock Kryptonite lock], named for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptonite Kryptonite] of ''Superman'' fame (and implying that not even Superman could steal whatever was secured with it)

==Page 729==

'''spic''' 
Lenz's derogatory term for Hispanic or Latino

'''extruding''' 
i.e., exuding

'''agnate''' 
Maybe he means "argot" (rather than "related paternally")?

'''fence''' 
to sell stolen goods

'''devroid''' 
devoid

=Marathe at Ennet House=

==Page 729==

'''thrift''' 
frugality: Why burn, say, twenties when the same amount of flame can be produced from a like quantity of singles?

==Page 730==

'''''de l'infere''''' 
probably a Québecois expression, it sounds like the French for "from Hell"

'''''inutile''''' 
useless

==Page 731==

'''cheesecloth''' 
a fabric of lightweight cotton threads of open texture

'''velour''' 
a knitted (and therefore flexible) fabric with looped threads knitted into the ground; it can have the plush texture of velvet, which is woven rather than knitted and cut during manufacture to create two pieces, each with a fine pile (similar, but on a smaller scale, to a plush carpet)

==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

==Endnote 304==

[[Notes_and_Errata_-_Pages_983-1079#Endnote_304_.C2.B7_The_Train_Game|Notes and Errata - Endnote 304]]

==Page 733==

'''Levi #501''' 
once-popular button-fly jeans manufactured by Levi Strauss

'''your six''' 
your back, the area behind you (as if, like points on a clock, 12 represents straight ahead, and 3 and 9, right and left, respectively)

'''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.

'''the T''' 
the Boston subway system (from the 'T' in what was originally the MTA, Metropolitan Transit Authority, and is now the MBTA, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority)

==Page 735==

'''hunnerts''' 
i.e., "hundreds of"

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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

==Page 700==

=Troeltsch Gets Ready for Prime Time=

==Page 700==

'''screwed''' 
i.e., left the room

=Pemulis's hiding spot=

==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.

=Lyle meditates=

==Page 700==

'''hovers''' 
hangs in air

=Mario and Schtitt go to get confections=

==Page 701==

'''sidecar''' 
a passenger car for a motorcycle, usually to the right side of the cycle driver

=The Moms Makes a Phone Call=

==Page 701==

'''stern''' 
i.e., the back end

=More With Hal Watching Himself's Movies/Segue to Addiction=

==Page 701==

'''wimple''' 
a cloth that goes over the head, frames the face, and is tucked under the chin, worn by nuns

'''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 someone lying down (i.e., Hal)

'''rheostat''' 
another name for a "variable resistor," which is something that alters the value of a circuit without interrupting it--in this case, this is in reference to a light switch with a dial, which allows for dimming the lights

'''50-point''' 
THIS BIG compared to the usual 12pt font.

 

==Page 702==

'''emetics''' 
drugs designed to make one vomit

'''descants''' 
A descant is an ornamental melody or counterpoint sung or played above a theme.

'''banks''' 
makes something (here, the spoon) glance off a surfaces (or more than one; here, the insides of her cheeks)

==Page 703==

'''hanuman''' 
a monkey held sacred in India

'''scuttly''' 
scampering

==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

'''osteoporotic''' 
suffering from osteoporosis, a bone disease that can cause pain, decreased height, and skeletal deformity (e.g., curvature of the spine, as suggested by Hal's imagining)

'''Indian-style''' 
in the lotus position of yoga

==Page 705==

'''Hawg''' 
a Harley-Davidson motorcycle

'''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).

'''stelliform''' 
star-shaped

'''coiffure''' 
hairdo

==Endnote 290==

'''stock''' 
commonplace

==Page 705 (cont'd)==

'''sacristy''' 
an anteroom or outbuilding of a church, used to store vestments, serving implements for communion, etc.

'''matins and vespers''' 
two of the nine prayer services a day in Catholic abbeys and monasteries; essentially, the daybreak and twilight services, respectively

[[IMAGE:Butch cut.jpg|thumb|right|MSNBC news anchor Rachel Maddow]]

'''severe and somewhat lesbianic haircut''' 
a "butch" cut (see right)

'''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 film sequence in which a period of time is quickly covered with short (a few seconds) scenes, usually underscored with music

==Page 706==

'''lantern jaw''' 
a mandible that protrudes beyond the maxilla, or one that is long and thin

'''Promethean''' 
suggestive of Prometheus, probably in the sense of ''bold'' and ''defiant''

''''Getting to Know You'''' 
a song from the 1951 musical ''The King and I'', by Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics)

'''saccharine''' 
sickeningly sweet

'''entrepreneurism''' 
usually ''entrepreneurship''

'''Wild Turkey''' 
a popular bourbon whiskey

'''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''' 
A 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] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth Wikipedia entry].)

==Page 707==

==Endnote 291==

'''aperture''' 
a small opening

==Page 707 (cont'd)==

'''catexic''' 
this is likely a misspelling of "cathexic," which 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)==

'''sloe''' 
likely refers to a type of North American plum tree, which can produce dark purple, yellow, or red fruit, depending on the sub-type of tree

'''tannin''' 
any of several vegetable compounds tending to have a reddish-brown color, widely used in leather- and winemaking

==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].

'''pluck''' 
resourceful daring in the face of great difficulty

==Endnote 294==

'''apostrophe''' 
direct address of an absent person, in rhetoric

==Page 710==

'''autodidactic''' 
self-taught

'''Logan''' 
the major airport of Boston

==Page 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''' 
measures of 1.5 ounces; in Utah, a shot is also defined as 1.5 ounces, although a shot glass may have a capacity of 2 ounces

==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

'''censer''' 
a device for burning incense, especially in religious services

'''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

'''Bing Crosby''' 
Boston-area slang term for Cocaine.

'''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''' 
Pertaining generally to the Fall of Man from innocence (into sexual awareness) and specifically to Adam and Eve's lapse from God's favor after disobediently partaking from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (Genesis 2:8 through 3:24); see the usages below on page 713 of ''lapse'' and ''pre-saved''.

'''obeisance''' 
a bow, curtsy, salaam, or similar gesture or movement of the body symbolizing obedience and possibly also devotion

'''nave''' 
the part of the church with the pews on either side, facing the altar but not on the altar

'''tympanum''' 
the recess between the top of the door and the arch above it

'''"...with a sword and a plowshare..."''' 
A plowshare is the blade of a plow; the reference is from [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%202:4;&version=9; Isaiah 2:4]; they are symbols of war and peace, respectively. The syringe and soup-ladle mentioned in the carving could be symbols of similarly opposed addiction (or poison, but probably not medicine) and sustenance.

[[Image:Bohr Coat of Arms.png|thumb|right|200|Coat of arms Niels Bohr]]

'''''CONTRARIA SUNT COMPLEMENTA''''' 
Latin: Opposites are complementary. The motto appears on the coat of arms of Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885-1962), the 1922 Nobelist in physics; the coat of arms (see right) also incorporates the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_yang_symbol taijitu] (yin-yang symbol), which perfectly illustrates the concept. At this [http://blog.kyleoliver.net/2007/12/bohr-identity.html blogpost], the motto continues, "...and wholeness leads to clarity." See also this interesting discussion of the good-evil dichotomy in the paragraph on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_the_knowledge_of_good_and_evil#Composition Composition] in the Wikipedia entry on the '''Tree of the knowledge of good and evil''', as well as the note on '''lapsarian''' above.

==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

=Kate & 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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==Page 698==

==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

==Page 700==

=Troeltsch Gets Ready for Prime Time=

==Page 700==

'''screwed''' 
i.e., left the room

=Pemulis's hiding spot=

==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.

=Lyle meditates=

==Page 700==

'''hovers''' 
hangs in air

=Mario and Schtitt go to get confections=

==Page 701==

'''sidecar''' 
a passenger car for a motorcycle, usually to the right side of the cycle driver

=The Moms Makes a Phone Call=

==Page 701==

'''stern''' 
i.e., the back end

=More With Hal Watching Himself's Movies/Segue to Addiction=

==Page 701==

'''wimple''' 
a cloth that goes over the head, frames the face, and is tucked under the chin, worn by nuns

'''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 someone lying down (i.e., Hal)

'''rheostat''' 
another name for a "variable resistor," which is something that alters the value of a circuit without interrupting it--in this case, this is in reference to a light switch with a dial, which allows for dimming the lights

'''50-point''' 
THIS BIG compared to the usual 12pt font.

 

==Page 702==

'''emetics''' 
drugs designed to make one vomit

'''descants''' 
A descant is an ornamental melody or counterpoint sung or played above a theme.

'''banks''' 
makes something (here, the spoon) glance off a surfaces (or more than one; here, the insides of her cheeks)

==Page 703==

'''hanuman''' 
a monkey held sacred in India

'''scuttly''' 
scampering

==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

'''osteoporotic''' 
suffering from osteoporosis, a bone disease that can cause pain, decreased height, and skeletal deformity (e.g., curvature of the spine, as suggested by Hal's imagining)

'''Indian-style''' 
in the lotus position of yoga

==Page 705==

'''Hawg''' 
a Harley-Davidson motorcycle

'''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).

'''stelliform''' 
star-shaped

'''coiffure''' 
hairdo

==Endnote 290==

'''stock''' 
commonplace

==Page 705 (cont'd)==

'''sacristy''' 
an anteroom or outbuilding of a church, used to store vestments, serving implements for communion, etc.

'''matins and vespers''' 
two of the nine prayer services a day in Catholic abbeys and monasteries; essentially, the daybreak and twilight services, respectively

[[IMAGE:Butch cut.jpg|thumb|right|MSNBC news anchor Rachel Maddow]]

'''severe and somewhat lesbianic haircut''' 
a "butch" cut (see right)

'''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 film sequence in which a period of time is quickly covered with short (a few seconds) scenes, usually underscored with music

==Page 706==

'''lantern jaw''' 
a mandible that protrudes beyond the maxilla, or one that is long and thin

'''Promethean''' 
suggestive of Prometheus, probably in the sense of ''bold'' and ''defiant''

''''Getting to Know You'''' 
a song from the 1951 musical ''The King and I'', by Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics)

'''saccharine''' 
sickeningly sweet

'''entrepreneurism''' 
usually ''entrepreneurship''

'''Wild Turkey''' 
a popular bourbon whiskey

'''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''' 
A 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] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth Wikipedia entry].)

==Page 707==

==Endnote 291==

'''aperture''' 
a small opening

==Page 707 (cont'd)==

'''catexic''' 
this is likely a misspelling of "cathexic," which 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)==

'''sloe''' 
likely refers to a type of North American plum tree, which can produce dark purple, yellow, or red fruit, depending on the sub-type of tree

'''tannin''' 
any of several vegetable compounds tending to have a reddish-brown color, widely used in leather- and winemaking

==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].

'''pluck''' 
resourceful daring in the face of great difficulty

==Endnote 294==

'''apostrophe''' 
direct address of an absent person, in rhetoric

==Page 710==

'''autodidactic''' 
self-taught

'''Logan''' 
the major airport of Boston

==Page 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''' 
measures of 1.5 ounces; in Utah, a shot is also defined as 1.5 ounces, although a shot glass may have a capacity of 2 ounces

==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

'''censer''' 
a device for burning incense, especially in religious services

'''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==

'''Bing Crosby''' 
Boston-area slang term for Cocaine.

'''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''' 
Pertaining generally to the Fall of Man from innocence (into sexual awareness) and specifically to Adam and Eve's lapse from God's favor after disobediently partaking from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (Genesis 2:8 through 3:24); see the usages below on page 713 of ''lapse'' and ''pre-saved''.

'''obeisance''' 
a bow, curtsy, salaam, or similar gesture or movement of the body symbolizing obedience and possibly also devotion

'''nave''' 
the part of the church with the pews on either side, facing the altar but not on the altar

'''tympanum''' 
the recess between the top of the door and the arch above it

'''"...with a sword and a plowshare..."''' 
A plowshare is the blade of a plow; the reference is from [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%202:4;&version=9; Isaiah 2:4]; they are symbols of war and peace, respectively. The syringe and soup-ladle mentioned in the carving could be symbols of similarly opposed addiction (or poison, but probably not medicine) and sustenance.

[[Image:Bohr Coat of Arms.png|thumb|right|200|Coat of arms Niels Bohr]]

'''''CONTRARIA SUNT COMPLEMENTA''''' 
Latin: Opposites are complementary. The motto appears on the coat of arms of Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885-1962), the 1922 Nobelist in physics; the coat of arms (see right) also incorporates the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_yang_symbol taijitu] (yin-yang symbol), which perfectly illustrates the concept. At this [http://blog.kyleoliver.net/2007/12/bohr-identity.html blogpost], the motto continues, "...and wholeness leads to clarity." See also this interesting discussion of the good-evil dichotomy in the paragraph on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_the_knowledge_of_good_and_evil#Composition Composition] in the Wikipedia entry on the '''Tree of the knowledge of good and evil''', as well as the note on '''lapsarian''' above.

==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

=Kate & 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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'''V.D.''' 
Very dearly

==Endnote 269==

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=The Tunnel Club's cleaning duty=

==Page 666==

'''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

'''dendriurethane''' 
a branching organic compound (carbamate), probably rubbery or at least flexible for construction purposes

==Page 667==

'''novitiate''' 
in the beginning period of something

'''dross''' 
refuse metal from the refining process

'''Trojan''' 
a brand of condoms

'''vermiform''' 
looking like a worm

'''fridgelettes''' 
small refrigerators ("dorm-sized" in the sense of small enough to fit in a dormitory room, not the size of a dorm)

'''raison d'être''' 
French: reason for being

==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

'''Lucite''' 
A brand name of polymethyl methacrylate, a kind of safety glass similar to polycarbonate.

'''burg''' 
city/town

==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==

'''quorum''' 
the minimal number of people required to be present, usually within an organization (in this case, The Tunnel Club), for an official piece of business to occur

==Page 673==

'''The Bible''' 
The quote isn't from the Bible.

''''What're maggots?'''' 
They're fly larvae.

=Hal plays Stice, cont.=

==Page 673==

'''Collyrium''' 
Collyrium [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyrium itself] is not a brand name; it's the generic name.

'''putative''' 
supposed

==Page 674==

'''rictal''' 
showing the expanse of an open mouth

'''Donnay''' 
a brand of [http://www.tennis-warehouse.com/DonnayRacquets.html tennis racquet]

'''akimbo''' 
with hands on hips

'''quandariacal''' 
not a real word (a forced adjective from "quandary")

==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. Also very close to Langley, VA (home of the CIA).

'''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)==

'''ephebic''' 
relating to a stage of life commonly known as young adult; no longer a teenager but not quite an adult

'''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.

'''ephebe''' 
Usually an adolescent male, although sometimes a term for an adolescent of any sex, as here. (Derived from a Greek graduation tradition)

'''''aux disques''''' 
French: on disks, here probably referring to TP disks

==Page 677==

'''Oven-toughened''' 
metal and glass can be strengthened though a process known as tempering (cycles of extreme heating and cooling that alter the chemical structure of the material)

==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"

'''ideogram''' 
a written note or character that symbolizes an idea without indicating the sounds used to say it.

==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==

=November 14th, YDAU - Matty Pemulis, some family background=

==Page 682==

==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

'''largesse''' 
genorosity of spirit or attitude

'''sone''' 
i.e., son

'''a.''' 
A word ("queer" or "faggot" perhaps) is being deleted by Matty in his remembrance

==Page 685==

'''"...rosebud, his dark star..."''' 
his anus

'''russet''' 
yellowish- or reddish-brown

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'''V.D.''' 
Very dearly

==Endnote 269==

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=The Tunnel Club's cleaning duty=

==Page 666==

'''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

'''dendriurethane''' 
a branching organic compound (carbamate), probably rubbery or at least flexible for construction purposes

==Page 667==

'''novitiate''' 
in the beginning period of something

'''dross''' 
refuse metal from the refining process

'''Trojan''' 
a brand of condoms

'''vermiform''' 
looking like a worm

'''fridgelettes''' 
small refrigerators ("dorm-sized" in the sense of small enough to fit in a dormitory room, not the size of a dorm)

'''raison d'être''' 
French: reason for being

==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

'''Lucite''' 
A brand name of polymethyl methacrylate, a kind of safety glass similar to polycarbonate.

'''burg''' 
city/town

==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==

'''quorum''' 
the minimal number of people required to be present, usually within an organization (in this case, The Tunnel Club), for an official piece of business to occur

==Page 673==

'''The Bible''' 
The quote isn't from the Bible.

''''What're maggots?'''' 
They're fly larvae.

=Hal plays Stice, cont.=

==Page 673==

'''Collyrium''' 
Collyrium [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyrium itself] is not a brand name; it's the generic name.

'''putative''' 
supposed

==Page 674==

'''rictal''' 
showing the expanse of an open mouth

'''Donnay''' 
a brand of [http://www.tennis-warehouse.com/DonnayRacquets.html tennis racquet]

'''akimbo''' 
with hands on hips

'''quandariacal''' 
not a real word (a forced adjective from "quandary")

==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. Also very close to Langley, VA (home of the CIA).

'''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)==

'''ephebic''' 
relating to a stage of life commonly known as young adult; no longer a teenager but not quite an adult

'''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.

'''ephebe''' 
Usually an adolescent male, although sometimes a term for an adolescent of any sex, as here. (Derived from a Greek graduation tradition)

'''''aux disques''''' 
French: on disks, here probably referring to TP disks

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'''Oven-toughened''' 
metal and glass can be strengthened though a process known as tempering (cycles of extreme heating and cooling that alter the chemical structure of the material)

==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==

=November 14th, YDAU - Matty Pemulis, some family background=

==Page 682==

==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

'''largesse''' 
genorosity of spirit or attitude

'''sone''' 
i.e., son

'''a.''' 
A word ("queer" or "faggot" perhaps) is being deleted by Matty in his remembrance

==Page 685==

'''"...rosebud, his dark star..."''' 
his anus

'''russet''' 
yellowish- or reddish-brown

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'''V.D.''' 
Very dearly

==Endnote 269==

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=The Tunnel Club's cleaning duty=

==Page 666==

'''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

'''dendriurethane''' 
a branching organic compound (carbamate), probably rubbery or at least flexible for construction purposes

==Page 667==

'''novitiate''' 
in the beginning period of something

'''dross''' 
refuse metal from the refining process

'''Trojan''' 
a brand of condoms

'''vermiform''' 
looking like a worm

'''fridgelettes''' 
small refrigerators ("dorm-sized" in the sense of small enough to fit in a dormitory room, not the size of a dorm)

'''raison d'être''' 
French: reason for being

==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

'''Lucite''' 
A brand name of polymethyl methacrylate, a kind of safety glass similar to polycarbonate.

'''burg''' 
city/town

==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==

'''quorum''' 
the minimal number of people required to be present, usually within an organization (in this case, The Tunnel Club), for an official piece of business to occur

==Page 673==

'''The Bible''' 
The quote isn't from the Bible.

''''What're maggots?'''' 
They're fly larvae.

=Hal plays Stice, cont.=

==Page 673==

'''Collyrium''' 
Collyrium [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyrium itself] is not a brand name; it's the generic name.

'''putative''' 
supposed

==Page 674==

'''rictal''' 
showing the expanse of an open mouth

'''Donnay''' 
a brand of [http://www.tennis-warehouse.com/DonnayRacquets.html tennis racquet]

'''akimbo''' 
with hands on hips

'''quandariacal''' 
not a real word (a forced adjective from "quandary")

==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. Also very close to Langley, VA (home of the CIA).

'''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)==

'''ephebic''' 
relating to a stage of life commonly known as young adult; no longer a teenager but not quite an adult

'''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.

'''ephebe''' 
Usually an adolescent male, although sometimes a term for an adolescent of any sex, as here. (Derived from a Greek graduation tradition)

'''''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==

=November 14th, YDAU - Matty Pemulis, some family background=

==Page 682==

==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

'''largesse''' 
genorosity of spirit or attitude

'''sone''' 
i.e., son

'''a.''' 
A word ("queer" or "faggot" perhaps) is being deleted by Matty in his remembrance

==Page 685==

'''"...rosebud, his dark star..."''' 
his anus

'''russet''' 
yellowish- or reddish-brown

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==Page 664==

'''V.D.''' 
Very dearly

==Endnote 269==

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_269_.C2.B7_Steeply-Bain_Correspondence|Endnote 269 · Actual Steeply-Bain Correspondence]]

=The Tunnel Club's cleaning duty=

==Page 666==

'''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

'''dendriurethane''' 
a branching organic compound (carbamate), probably rubbery or at least flexible for construction purposes

==Page 667==

'''novitiate''' 
in the beginning period of something

'''dross''' 
refuse metal from the refining process

'''Trojan''' 
a brand of condoms

'''vermiform''' 
looking like a worm

'''fridgelettes''' 
small refrigerators ("dorm-sized" in the sense of small enough to fit in a dormitory room, not the size of a dorm)

'''raison d'être''' 
French: reason for being

==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

'''Lucite''' 
A brand name of polymethyl methacrylate, a kind of safety glass similar to polycarbonate.

'''burg''' 
city/town

==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==

'''quorum''' 
the minimal number of people required to be present, usually within an organization (in this case, The Tunnel Club), for an official piece of business to occur

==Page 673==

'''The Bible''' 
The quote isn't from the Bible.

''''What're maggots?'''' 
They're fly larvae.

=Hal plays Stice, cont.=

==Page 673==

'''Collyrium''' 
Collyrium [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyrium itself] is not a brand name; it's the generic name.

'''putative''' 
supposed

==Page 674==

'''rictal''' 
showing the expanse of an open mouth

'''Donnay''' 
a brand of [http://www.tennis-warehouse.com/DonnayRacquets.html tennis racquet]

'''akimbo''' 
with hands on hips

'''quandariacal''' 
not a real word (a forced adjective from "quandary")

==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. Also very close to Langley, VA (home of the CIA).

'''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)==

'''ephebic''' 
relating to a stage of life commonly known as young adult; no longer a teenager but not quite an adult

'''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.

'''ephebe''' 
Usually an adolescent male, although sometimes a term for an adolescent of any sex, as here. (Derived from a Greek graduation tradition)

'''''aux disques''''' 
French: on disks, here probably referring to TP disks

==Page 677==

"'Oven-toughened"
metal and glass can be strengthened though a process known as tempering (cycles of extreme heating and cooling that alter the chemical structure of the material)

==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==

=November 14th, YDAU - Matty Pemulis, some family background=

==Page 682==

==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

'''largesse''' 
genorosity of spirit or attitude

'''sone''' 
i.e., son

'''a.''' 
A word ("queer" or "faggot" perhaps) is being deleted by Matty in his remembrance

==Page 685==

'''"...rosebud, his dark star..."''' 
his anus

'''russet''' 
yellowish- or reddish-brown

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==Page 664==

'''V.D.''' 
Very dearly

==Endnote 269==

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_269_.C2.B7_Steeply-Bain_Correspondence|Endnote 269 · Actual Steeply-Bain Correspondence]]

=The Tunnel Club's cleaning duty=

==Page 666==

'''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

'''dendriurethane''' 
a branching organic compound (carbamate), probably rubbery or at least flexible for construction purposes

==Page 667==

'''novitiate''' 
in the beginning period of something

'''dross''' 
refuse metal from the refining process

'''Trojan''' 
a brand of condoms

'''vermiform''' 
looking like a worm

'''fridgelettes''' 
small refrigerators ("dorm-sized" in the sense of small enough to fit in a dormitory room, not the size of a dorm)

'''raison d'être''' 
French: reason for being

==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

'''Lucite''' 
A brand name of polymethyl methacrylate, a kind of safety glass similar to polycarbonate.

'''burg''' 
city/town

==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==

'''quorum''' 
the minimal number of people required to be present, usually within an organization (in this case, The Tunnel Club), for an official piece of business to occur

==Page 673==

'''The Bible''' 
The quote isn't from the Bible.

''''What're maggots?'''' 
They're fly larvae.

=Hal plays Stice, cont.=

==Page 673==

'''Collyrium''' 
Collyrium [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyrium itself] is not a brand name; it's the generic name.

'''putative''' 
supposed

==Page 674==

'''rictal''' 
showing the expanse of an open mouth

'''Donnay''' 
a brand of [http://www.tennis-warehouse.com/DonnayRacquets.html tennis racquet]

'''akimbo''' 
with hands on hips

'''quandariacal''' 
not a real word (a forced adjective from "quandary")

==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. Also very close to Langley, VA (home of the CIA).

'''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)==

'''ephebic''' 
relating to a stage of life commonly known as young adult; no longer a teenager but not quite an adult

'''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.

'''ephebe''' 
Usually an adolescent male, although sometimes a term for an adolescent of any sex, as here. (Derived from a Greek graduation tradition)

'''''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==

=November 14th, YDAU - Matty Pemulis, some family background=

==Page 682==

==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

'''largesse''' 
genorosity of spirit or attitude

'''sone''' 
i.e., son

'''a.''' 
A word ("queer" or "faggot" perhaps) is being deleted by Matty in his remembrance

==Page 685==

'''"...rosebud, his dark star..."''' 
his anus

'''russet''' 
yellowish- or reddish-brown

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==Page 664==

'''V.D.''' 
Very dearly

==Endnote 269==

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_269_.C2.B7_Steeply-Bain_Correspondence|Endnote 269 · Actual Steeply-Bain Correspondence]]

=The Tunnel Club's cleaning duty=

==Page 666==

'''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

'''dendriurethane''' 
a branching organic compound (carbamate), probably rubbery or at least flexible for construction purposes

==Page 667==

'''novitiate''' 
in the beginning period of something

'''dross''' 
refuse metal from the refining process

'''Trojan''' 
a brand of condoms

'''vermiform''' 
looking like a worm

'''fridgelettes''' 
small refrigerators ("dorm-sized" in the sense of small enough to fit in a dormitory room, not the size of a dorm)

'''raison d'être''' 
French: reason for being

==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

'''Lucite''' 
A brand name of polymethyl methacrylate, a kind of safety glass similar to polycarbonate.

'''burg''' 
city/town

==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==

'''quorum''' 
the minimal number of people required to be present, usually within an organization (in this case, The Tunnel Club), for an official piece of business to occur

==Page 673==

'''The Bible''' 
The quote isn't from the Bible.

''''What're maggots?'''' 
They're fly larvae.

=Hal plays Stice, cont.=

==Page 673==

'''Collyrium''' 
Collyrium [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyrium itself] is not a brand name; it's the generic name.

'''putative''' 
supposed

==Page 674==

'''rictal''' 
showing the expanse of an open mouth

'''Donnay''' 
a brand of [http://www.tennis-warehouse.com/DonnayRacquets.html tennis racquet]

'''akimbo''' 
with hands on hips

'''quandariacal''' 
not a real word (a forced adjective from "quandary")

==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. Also very close to Langley, VA (home of the CIA).

'''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)==

'''ephebic''' 
relating to a stage of life commonly known as young adult; no longer a teenager but not quite an adult

'''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.

'''Ephebe''' 
Usually an adolescent male, although sometimes a term for an adolescent of any sex, as here. (Derived from a Greek graduation tradition)

'''''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==

=November 14th, YDAU - Matty Pemulis, some family background=

==Page 682==

==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

'''largesse''' 
genorosity of spirit or attitude

'''sone''' 
i.e., son

'''a.''' 
A word ("queer" or "faggot" perhaps) is being deleted by Matty in his remembrance

==Page 685==

'''"...rosebud, his dark star..."''' 
his anus

'''russet''' 
yellowish- or reddish-brown

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'''V.D.''' 
Very dearly

==Endnote 269==

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=The Tunnel Club's cleaning duty=

==Page 666==

'''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

'''dendriurethane''' 
a branching organic compound (carbamate), probably rubbery or at least flexible for construction purposes

==Page 667==

'''novitiate''' 
in the beginning period of something

'''dross''' 
refuse metal from the refining process

'''Trojan''' 
a brand of condoms

'''vermiform''' 
looking like a worm

'''fridgelettes''' 
small refrigerators ("dorm-sized" in the sense of small enough to fit in a dormitory room, not the size of a dorm)

'''raison d'être''' 
French: reason for being

==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

'''Lucite''' 
A brand name of polymethyl methacrylate, a kind of safety glass similar to polycarbonate.

'''burg''' 
city/town

==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==

'''quorum''' 
the minimal number of people required to be present, usually within an organization (in this case, The Tunnel Club), for an official piece of business to occur

==Page 673==

'''The Bible''' 
The quote isn't from the Bible.

''''What're maggots?'''' 
They're fly larvae.

=Hal plays Stice, cont.=

==Page 673==

'''Collyrium''' 
Collyrium [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyrium itself] is not a brand name; it's the generic name.

'''putative''' 
supposed

==Page 674==

'''rictal''' 
showing the expanse of an open mouth

'''Donnay''' 
a brand of [http://www.tennis-warehouse.com/DonnayRacquets.html tennis racquet]

'''akimbo''' 
with hands on hips

'''quandariacal''' 
not a real word (a forced adjective from "quandary")

==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. Also very close to Langley, VA (home of the CIA).

'''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)==

'''ephebic''' 
a young man; no longer a teenager but not quite an adult

'''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==

=November 14th, YDAU - Matty Pemulis, some family background=

==Page 682==

==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

'''largesse''' 
genorosity of spirit or attitude

'''sone''' 
i.e., son

'''a.''' 
A word ("queer" or "faggot" perhaps) is being deleted by Matty in his remembrance

==Page 685==

'''"...rosebud, his dark star..."''' 
his anus

'''russet''' 
yellowish- or reddish-brown

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==Page 664==

'''V.D.''' 
Very dearly

==Endnote 269==

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_269_.C2.B7_Steeply-Bain_Correspondence|Endnote 269 · Actual Steeply-Bain Correspondence]]

=The Tunnel Club's cleaning duty=

==Page 666==

'''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

'''dendriurethane''' 
a branching organic compound (carbamate), probably rubbery or at least flexible for construction purposes

==Page 667==

'''novitiate''' 
in the beginning period of something

'''dross''' 
refuse metal from the refining process

'''Trojan''' 
a brand of condoms

'''vermiform''' 
looking like a worm

'''fridgelettes''' 
small refrigerators ("dorm-sized" in the sense of small enough to fit in a dormitory room, not the size of a dorm)

'''raison d'être''' 
French: reason for being

==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

'''Lucite''' 
A brand name of polymethyl methacrylate, a kind of safety glass similar to polycarbonate.

'''burg''' 
city/town

==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==

'''quorum''' 
the minimal number of people required to be present, usually within an organization (in this case, The Tunnel Club), for an official piece of business to occur

==Page 673==

'''The Bible''' 
The quote isn't from the Bible.

''''What're maggots?'''' 
They're fly larvae.

=Hal plays Stice, cont.=

==Page 673==

'''Collyrium''' 
Collyrium [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyrium itself] is not a brand name; it's the generic name.

'''putative''' 
supposed

==Page 674==

'''rictal''' 
showing the expanse of an open mouth

'''Donnay''' 
a brand of [http://www.tennis-warehouse.com/DonnayRacquets.html tennis racquet]

'''akimbo''' 
with hands on hips

'''quandariacal''' 
not a real word (a forced adjective from "quandary")

==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. Also very close to Langley, VA (home of the CIA).

'''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)==

'''ephebic''' 
a young man; no longer a teenager but not quite an adult

'''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==

'''Ephebe''' 
Usually an adolescent male, although sometimes a term for an adolescent of any sex, as here.

==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==

=November 14th, YDAU - Matty Pemulis, some family background=

==Page 682==

==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

'''largesse''' 
genorosity of spirit or attitude

'''sone''' 
i.e., son

'''a.''' 
A word ("queer" or "faggot" perhaps) is being deleted by Matty in his remembrance

==Page 685==

'''"...rosebud, his dark star..."''' 
his anus

'''russet''' 
yellowish- or reddish-brown

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==Page 664==

'''V.D.''' 
Very dearly

==Endnote 269==

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=The Tunnel Club's cleaning duty=

==Page 666==

'''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

'''dendriurethane''' 
a branching organic compound (carbamate), probably rubbery or at least flexible for construction purposes

==Page 667==

'''novitiate''' 
in the beginning period of something

'''dross''' 
refuse metal from the refining process

'''Trojan''' 
a brand of condoms

'''vermiform''' 
looking like a worm

'''fridgelettes''' 
small refrigerators ("dorm-sized" in the sense of small enough to fit in a dormitory room, not the size of a dorm)

'''raison d'être''' 
French: reason for being

==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

'''Lucite''' 
A brand name of polymethyl methacrylate, a kind of safety glass similar to polycarbonate.

'''burg''' 
city/town

==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==

'''quorum''' 
the minimal number of people required to be present, usually within an organization (in this case, The Tunnel Club), for an official piece of business to occur

==Page 673==

'''The Bible''' 
The quote isn't from the Bible.

''''What're maggots?'''' 
They're fly larvae.

=Hal plays Stice, cont.=

==Page 673==

'''Collyrium''' 
Collyrium [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyrium itself] is not a brand name; it's the generic name.

'''putative''' 
supposed

==Page 674==

'''rictal''' 
showing the expanse of an open mouth

'''Donnay''' 
a brand of [http://www.tennis-warehouse.com/DonnayRacquets.html tennis racquet]

'''akimbo''' 
with hands on hips

'''quandariacal''' 
not a real word (a forced adjective from "quandary")

==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. Also very close to Langley, VA (home of the CIA).

'''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==

'''Ephebe''' 
Usually an adolescent male, although sometimes a term for an adolescent of any sex, as here.

==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==

=November 14th, YDAU - Matty Pemulis, some family background=

==Page 682==

==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

'''largesse''' 
genorosity of spirit or attitude

'''sone''' 
i.e., son

'''a.''' 
A word ("queer" or "faggot" perhaps) is being deleted by Matty in his remembrance

==Page 685==

'''"...rosebud, his dark star..."''' 
his anus

'''russet''' 
yellowish- or reddish-brown

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==Page 664==

'''V.D.''' 
Very dearly

==Endnote 269==

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_269_.C2.B7_Steeply-Bain_Correspondence|Endnote 269 · Actual Steeply-Bain Correspondence]]

=The Tunnel Club's cleaning duty=

==Page 666==

'''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

'''dendriurethane''' 
a branching organic compound (carbamate), probably rubbery or at least flexible for construction purposes

==Page 667==

'''novitiate''' 
in the beginning period of something

'''dross''' 
refuse metal from the refining process

'''Trojan''' 
a brand of condoms

'''vermiform''' 
looking like a worm

'''fridgelettes''' 
small refrigerators ("dorm-sized" in the sense of small enough to fit in a dormitory room, not the size of a dorm)

'''raison d'être''' 
French: reason for being

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'''''Robert's Rules''''' 
''Robert's Rules of Parliamentary Procedure,'' the standard text on how to run a meeting

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'''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

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'''pules''' 
whimpers

'''Lucite''' 
A brand name of polymethyl methacrylate, a kind of safety glass similar to polycarbonate.

'''burg''' 
city/town

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'''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==

'''quorum''' 
the minimal number of people required to be present, usually within an organization (in this case, The Tunnel Club), for an official piece of business to occur

==Page 673==

'''The Bible''' 
The quote isn't from the Bible.

''''What're maggots?'''' 
They're fly larvae.

=Hal plays Stice, cont.=

==Page 673==

'''Collyrium''' 
Collyrium [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyrium itself] is not a brand name; it's the generic name.

'''putative''' 
supposed

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'''rictal''' 
showing the expanse of an open mouth

'''Donnay''' 
a brand of [http://www.tennis-warehouse.com/DonnayRacquets.html tennis racquet]

'''akimbo''' 
with hands on hips

'''quandariacal''' 
not a real word (a forced adjective from "quandary")

==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

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==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==

'''Ephebe''' 
Usually an adolescent male, although sometimes a term for an adolescent of any sex, as here.

==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==

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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

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'''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

'''largesse''' 
genorosity of spirit or attitude

'''sone''' 
i.e., son

'''a.''' 
A word ("queer" or "faggot" perhaps) is being deleted by Matty in his remembrance

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'''"...rosebud, his dark star..."''' 
his anus

'''russet''' 
yellowish- or reddish-brown

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==Page 664==

'''V.D.''' 
Very dearly

==Endnote 269==

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==Page 666==

'''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

'''dendriurethane''' 
a branching organic compound (carbamate), probably rubbery or at least flexible for construction purposes

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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

'''fridgelettes''' 
small refrigerators ("dorm-sized" in the sense of small enough to fit in a dormitory room, not the size of a dorm)

'''raison d'être''' 
French: reason for being

==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

'''Lucite''' 
A brand name of polymethyl methacrylate, a kind of safety glass similar to polycarbonate.

'''burg''' 
city/town

==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==

'''quorum''' 
the minimal number of people required to be present, usually within an organization (in this case, The Tunnel Club), for an official piece of business to occur

==Page 673==

'''The Bible''' 
The quote isn't from the Bible.

''''What're maggots?'''' 
They're fly larvae.

=Hal plays Stice, cont.=

==Page 673==

'''Collyrium''' 
Collyrium [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyrium itself] is not a brand name; it's the generic name.

'''putative''' 
supposed

==Page 674==

'''rictal''' 
showing the expanse of an open mouth

'''Donnay''' 
a brand of [http://www.tennis-warehouse.com/DonnayRacquets.html tennis racquet]

'''akimbo''' 
with hands on hips

"quandariacal" 
not a real word (a forced adjective from "quandary")

==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

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==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

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'''Ephebe''' 
Usually an adolescent male, although sometimes a term for an adolescent of any sex, as here.

==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==

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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

'''largesse''' 
genorosity of spirit or attitude

'''sone''' 
i.e., son

'''a.''' 
A word ("queer" or "faggot" perhaps) is being deleted by Matty in his remembrance

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'''"...rosebud, his dark star..."''' 
his anus

'''russet''' 
yellowish- or reddish-brown

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==Page 651==

'''Vespa''' 
a brand of motor scooter

'''half km.''' 
1,640 feet

'''galumphers''' 
Galumph is a portmanteau of gallop and triumph. From Lewis Carroll's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky Jabberwocky]

==Page 652==

'''pericardium''' 
the membrane surrounding the heart

'''loogy''' 
term for a glob of phlegm

'''McEnroe-Esconja''' 
John Patrick McEnroe, Jr. (born 1959), was a professional tennis player from 1974 to 1992, with seven Grand Slam wins. Esconja appears to be a made-up name.

'''frieze''' 
a decorative band on a wall or other piece of architecture

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'''mentation''' 
mental activity

'''book''' 
derived from book-learning

'''deuce''' 
This is the score call when both sides in tennis are tied with a score of 40 or thereafter. The progression is 0 or "love," 15, 30, 40, and "game," but the winner must win the final two volleys. When each side has won three volleys, the call is "deuce" rather than 40-all; the next volley won creates "ad [advantage] in" if won by the server(s) or "ad out" if won by the opponent(s). If the side with the advantage wins the next volley, it wins the game; otherwise the score returns to "deuce." ''Sets'' are won by the first side to take six games; but sets must be won by at least two games. (In much match play, best-of-twelve-point tiebreakers are played when the sides are tied at 6-6 games. Thus a set score can be 6-4, 7-5, or 7-6, but never 6-5.) A tennis ''match'' is won by the side that takes three out of five sets (more commonly for professional male tennis players) or two of three sets (for women and amateurs).

==Page 654==

'''lozenges''' 
diamond-shaped objects

'''cathected''' 
emotionally loaded

'''reticence''' 
restraint

'''pejorative''' 
meant to offend or belittle

'''1200 meters''' 
3,937 feet

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'''Four-odd clicks''' 
Four [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klick clicks] is four kilometers, or about 2.5 miles.

'''blarneyed''' 
to flatter or wheedle

'''2.8 clicks''' 
1.7 miles

==Endnote 266==

'''Azores''' 
a Portuguese archipelago in the Atlantic

'''Houdini''' 
Harry Houdini (born Ehrich Weisz; 1874-1926) was a Jewish-American magician.

'''manacles''' 
handcuffs

'''neo-Georgian''' 
a revival of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Georgian Georgian architecture] or style

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'''M.S.T.''' 
Mountain Standard Time

'''deltoid''' 
triangular

'''languor''' 
the state or feeling, often pleasant, of tiredness or inertia

'''jape''' 
to joke with or make fun of

'''hollandaise''' 
a sauce that is an emulsion of butter and lemon juice using egg yolks; the sauce is usually a light buttery yellow in color

==Page 656==

'''Gregg shorthand''' 
a form of stenography developed in the U.S. in 1888; deLint is passing stenographic notes to Steeply when he's not speaking to her

'''double-fault''' 
two successive faults in serving, resulting in the loss of the point

==Endnote 267==

'''ace''' 
a service winner in tennis, i.e., a legal serve that is not touched by the receiver, most commonly seen on the first service

==Page 656 (cont'd)==

'''ad-in''' 
indicates that the server has the advantage (see the note for '''deuce''' on page 653)

'''ads''' 
i.e., advantages

'''whale''' 
to hit hard

==Page 657==

'''Heimliched''' 
employed the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimlich_maneuver#Abdominal_thrusts Heimlich maneuver] to forcibly dislodge an obstacle, such as a food particle, that is causing choking

'''let''' 
a play in tennis that calls for a replaying

'''inculcate''' 
to teach by repetition

==Page 658==

'''twenty-six meters''' 
85.3 feet

'''ungainly''' 
ungracefully or awkwardly

'''simian''' 
ape-like

'''chip''' 
a short, high hit

==Page 659==

'''half a meter''' 
1.64 feet

'''chinks''' 
narrow openings

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'''drop-volley''' 
a ball hit just over the net, causing the opponent to rush forward

==Page 661==

'''''Self''''' 
a real magazine, seen [http://www.self.com/ here]

'''bovine''' 
like a cow

==Page 662==

'''sardonic''' 
mockingly derisive; not quite the same as ''sarcastic'', which more often involves irony: a ''sarcastic'' remark may say one thing but mean the opposite, whereas a ''sardonic'' comment may simply be scornful without indirection

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==Page 620==

'''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

''''spect-ops'''' 
Perhaps a play on the popularized military term 'spec-ops,' meaning 'special operation(s).'

'''Gapers' Blocks''' 
traffic delays caused by rubbernecking, i.e., blocking or retarding traffic by stopping to gape at the scene of an accident

==Page 621==

'''apotheosis''' 
the process of being raised to godlike status

'''coprolaliac''' 
abnormally disposed to using profanity

'''nucleic''' 
pertaining to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_force nuclear force], which binds protons and neutrons into atomic nuclei

'''PAs''' 
public-address sytems

'''nostrums''' 
patent medicines

'''Cultists in saffron with much percussion''' 
members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Society_for_Krishna_Consciousness (Hare Krishna movement)] in their distinctive saffron-colored (orange) robes, likely carrying [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_(musical_instrument) hang] drums and tambourines

'''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.''' 
abbreviation for ''circa'', Latin for "around," used here in the sense of "approximately"

'''sylvan''' 
woodsy

==Page 622==
'''phylogenic''' 
From ''phylogeny'', the study of changes and developments in organisms' lineages. ''Phylogenetic'' is the more common adjectival form.

'''möbiusizing''' 
a neologism for taking on the shape of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip Möbius strip]

'''scopophile''' 
someone who derives pleasure (usually sexual) from looking at something

'''dun''' 
grayish brown

'''Gregg pen''' 
[[file:gregg.jpg|left]]Gregg is a phonetic shorthand writing system for stenographers, devised by John Robert Gregg and first published in 1888. The rights to Gregg shorthand were owned by the Gregg Publishing Company, founded in 1896. The Gregg company licensed pen manufacturers to produce pens to Gregg’s specifications and use the Gregg name; these pens are relatively thin and have very firm fine nibs. Some Gregg pens were fitted with an enameled Gregg emblem inlaid into the end of the cap, as shown at left on a Wahl pen from the late 1920s. [http://www.richardspens.com/?page=ref/glossary/G.htm here]. Read more about Gregg shorthand [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg_Shorthand here] and Gregg pens [http://www.vintagepens.com/gregg_shorthand_discovery.htm here].

'''purview''' 
scope of vision

==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

'''...play a game with a small beanbaggy ball...''' 
a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacky_Sack hacky sack] (or "hackey sack")

'''5º C''' 
41º Fahrenheit

'''appurtenances''' 
apparatus or instruments

'''Bread & Circus''' 
a small chain of health-food stores that first opened in Brookline, MA, in 1975 and acquired by Whole Foods Market in 1992

'''sepia''' 
dark brown, as in the pigment used to make very early photographs

'''chanting very softly 'Smoke'''' 
i.e., surreptitiously peddling marijuana

==Page 624==

'''metallurgy''' 
the making and conducting of alloys

'''Mass Comm.''' 
Massachusetts Community College(s)

==Page 625==

'''ICU''' 
Intensive Care Unit

'''swart''' 
swarthy, i.e., dark-skinned

'''Basilar''' 
related to or situated at the base, especially the base of the skull (as with the basilar artery); capitalization could suggest a fictitious branding, perhaps a competitor of Otis

'''half a house''' 
a half-way house

'''copless''' 
without policemen

'''M.D.C.''' 
Metropolitan District Commission, a former Massachusetts state agency that was responsible for maintenance of public parks and roads in the Metropolitan Boston area

'''hackysackers''' 
players of a game (hacky sack) where people in a circle kick a small leather bag around to one another (see "game with a small beanbaggy ball" on page 623)

==Page 626==

'''Autoteller''' 
an ATM (automated teller machine)

'''moguls''' 
bumps of the kind often seen in snow on ski slopes

'''coruscant''' 
glittering

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'''fenestrated''' 
having windows

'''R.H.I.P.''' 
Rank Has Its Privileges

'''mastication''' 
chewing

==Page 628==

'''P.O.W.ish''' 
greedily, in the manner of '''p'''risoners '''o'''f '''w'''ar

'''Liberal KS''' 
To be exact, it's three miles via Route 83 to the Oklahoma border.

'''C/W''' 
Country & Western

'''juris-prudential precepts''' 
rulings from a court of law

'''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 (French: toilet water) is used mainly by women and is less concentrated than perfume, but more concentrated than eau de cologne, which is used more commonly by men

'''connubial''' 
marital

[[Image:Birkenstock sandals.jpg|thumb|right|Birkenstock sandals]]

'''Birkenstock''' 
Birkenstock is a German brand of sandals and shoes (see right)

'''glutens''' 
a mixture of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten wheat proteins]

'''torpor''' 
sluggishness

'''turrets''' 
refers here to small towers of the kind seen on medieval castles and other fortifications, often built with battlement crenels (notches) for use by defensive archers

==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 or nitre, an ingredient in gunpowder, it was (is) commonly believed to be used in food fed to prisoners and even military enlistees (or other predominantly male populations, such as boys' schools and Boy Scout troops) to curb libido; there is no evidence that it causes erectile dysfunction, but large amounts can have dangerous (poisonous) side effects

'''Seldane''' 
a brand-name of non-drowsy antihistamine

'''carminative''' 
a herb mixture that prevents gastrointestinal pressure and gas

==Page 631==

'''carb-caloric''' (from page 630) 
Cranberry juice is higher in carbohydrates than other juices because of the larger amounts of sugar added to sweeten it, cranberries being less naturally sweet than, e.g., oranges or apples.

'''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

'''autolysis''' 
perhaps used here in the sense of digestion, although the term actually refers to ''self-digestion'', the destruction of a cell through the action of its own enzymes

'''buttinskis''' 
i.e., the right to butt into line

'''R.H.I. literal P.''' 
'''R'''ank '''H'''as '''I'''ts literal '''P'''riveleges (see '''R.H.I.P.''' on page 627)

'''Tryna''' 
i.e., trying to

'''scooters''' 
apparently a slang term for "dollars"

'''déjà vu''' 
From French for "already seen," it's the sense that you're re-experiencing something.

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'''saltire''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltire Cross of St. Andrew]

'''tektitic''' 
referring to fossils formed by meteoric impacts

'''foist''' 
to insert deceitfully

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'''Grant's Tomb''' 
The trick answer to the question is "no one." As the tomb is above ground, Ulysses S. Grant is technically "entombed" and not "buried." The obvious answer is Grant himself, and, in fact, he and his wife Julia are both entombed there. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant%27s_Tomb General Grant National Memorial] overlooks the Hudson River, in Riverside Park in Manhattan (New York).

'''the one about what do Canadian girls put behind their ears to attract boys''' 
Presumably a reference to this old riddle: Q: What does a blonde put behind her ears to make her more attractive? A: Her ankles.

'''cubist''' 
suggestive of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism Cubism], the early-20th-century avant-garde (''not'' après-garde) art movement

'''Crohn's Disease''' 
also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crohn%27s_disease regional enteritis], an inflammatory disease of the bowels

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==Endnote 261==

'''offal''' 
garbage, particularly rotting meat

==Page 634 (cont.)==

'''post-prandially''' 
after eating a meal

'''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

'''cataract''' 
waterfall

'''reticent''' 
tending to keep one's thoughts to oneself

'''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

'''jejune''' 
naive and childish

'''B.B.''' 
Big Buddy

'''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

'''Penal Matron''' 
in other words, a female prison warden

'''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

'''swart''' 
i.e. swarthy - of dark complexion or color

==Page 637==

'''staccato''' 
in music, notes sounded in a detached manner

'''acerbic''' 
sharp or biting

'''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"

'''Amway''' 
the American-based international direct-sales [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amway retailer]

'''Pet-Rockish''' 
inane, like the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Rock fad] phenomenon of the small stones marketed as live "pets," requiring care and feeding, in the silly '70s

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==Page 638==

==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

'''wens''' 
harmless cysts on the scalp or face

==Page 640==

'''Canadiens of the N.L. of H.''' 
the Montreal Canadiens, a team in the National Hockey League

==Page 641==

'''canned laughter''' 
prerecorded laughter used on the soundtracks of some filmed comedies (which are not "filmed before a live studio audience"), but also a reminder of the incident involving the can of macadamia nuts (page 580)

'''''Bröckengespenstphänom''''' 
German: Brocken is a German mountain and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken_spectre brockengespenst] refers to the large shadow an observer on the mountain casts in a certain lighting. This is an allusion to a scene from Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel [http://www.badgerinternet.com/~bobkat/jestwiley2.html ''Gravity's Rainbow''.]

==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==

'''Troy Record''' 
a tabloid-style daily newspaper for the city of Troy, NY

'''inveterate''' 
habitual

'''Maury Linville''' 
Steeply is misremembering ''Larry'' Linville.

''''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.'''
This is a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War Korean War], which involved military support from United Nations member nations (in defense of South Korea from the invading North). The war actually lasted three full years.

'''baroquoco''' 
This would seem to be a mix between "baroque" and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo "rococo"].

'''augured''' 
predicted; forecast

==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). This is also the name of a professional peer of Steeply in the novel, first mentioned earlier.

'''Ossified''' 
turned to bone

'''plura''' 
a misspelling (likely) of "pleura," which is a thin membrane enclosing the lungs

==Page 648==

=November 13th, YDAU - Kate Gompert & Geoffrey Day discuss It=

==Page 648==

==Page 649==

'''benign''' 
harmless

'''anomaly''' 
something like nothing else (i.e., an outlier)

==Page 650==

'''malevolent''' 
intending harm

'''''magna cum laude''''' 
Latin: with 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

''''spect-ops'''' 
Perhaps a play on the popularized military term 'spec-ops,' meaning 'special operation(s).'

'''Gapers' Blocks''' 
traffic delays caused by rubbernecking, i.e., blocking or retarding traffic by stopping to gape at the scene of an accident

==Page 621==

'''apotheosis''' 
the process of being raised to godlike status

'''coprolaliac''' 
abnormally disposed to using profanity

'''nucleic''' 
pertaining to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_force nuclear force], which binds protons and neutrons into atomic nuclei

'''PAs''' 
public-address sytems

'''nostrums''' 
patent medicines

'''Cultists in saffron with much percussion''' 
members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Society_for_Krishna_Consciousness (Hare Krishna movement)] in their distinctive saffron-colored (orange) robes, likely carrying [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_(musical_instrument) hang] drums and tambourines

'''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.''' 
abbreviation for ''circa'', Latin for "around," used here in the sense of "approximately"

'''sylvan''' 
woodsy

==Page 622==
'''phylogenic''' 
From ''phylogeny'', the study of changes and developments in organisms' lineages. ''Phylogenetic'' is the more common adjectival form.

'''möbiusizing''' 
a neologism for taking on the shape of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip Möbius strip]

'''scopophile''' 
someone who derives pleasure (usually sexual) from looking at something

'''dun''' 
grayish brown

'''Gregg pen''' 
[[file:gregg.jpg|left]]Gregg is a phonetic shorthand writing system for stenographers, devised by John Robert Gregg and first published in 1888. The rights to Gregg shorthand were owned by the Gregg Publishing Company, founded in 1896. The Gregg company licensed pen manufacturers to produce pens to Gregg’s specifications and use the Gregg name; these pens are relatively thin and have very firm fine nibs. Some Gregg pens were fitted with an enameled Gregg emblem inlaid into the end of the cap, as shown at left on a Wahl pen from the late 1920s. [http://www.richardspens.com/?page=ref/glossary/G.htm here]. Read more about Gregg shorthand [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg_Shorthand here] and Gregg pens [http://www.vintagepens.com/gregg_shorthand_discovery.htm here].

'''purview''' 
scope of vision

==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

'''...play a game with a small beanbaggy ball...''' 
a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacky_Sack hacky sack] (or "hackey sack")

'''5º C''' 
41º Fahrenheit

'''appurtenances''' 
apparatus or instruments

'''Bread & Circus''' 
a small chain of health-food stores that first opened in Brookline, MA, in 1975 and acquired by Whole Foods Market in 1992

'''sepia''' 
dark brown, as in the pigment used to make very early photographs

'''chanting very softly 'Smoke'''' 
i.e., surreptitiously peddling marijuana

==Page 624==

'''metallurgy''' 
the making and conducting of alloys

'''Mass Comm.''' 
Massachusetts Community College(s)

==Page 625==

'''ICU''' 
Intensive Care Unit

'''swart''' 
swarthy, i.e., dark-skinned

'''Basilar''' 
related to or situated at the base, especially the base of the skull (as with the basilar artery); capitalization could suggest a fictitious branding, perhaps a competitor of Otis

'''half a house''' 
a half-way house

'''copless''' 
without policemen

'''M.D.C.''' 
Metropolitan District Commission, a former Massachusetts state agency that was responsible for maintenance of public parks and roads in the Metropolitan Boston area

'''hackysackers''' 
players of a game (hacky sack) where people in a circle kick a small leather bag around to one another (see "game with a small beanbaggy ball" on page 623)

==Page 626==

'''Autoteller''' 
an ATM (automated teller machine)

'''moguls''' 
bumps of the kind often seen in snow on ski slopes

'''coruscant''' 
glittering

=November 11th, YDAU - Mealtime at ETA=

==Page 627==

'''fenestrated''' 
having windows

'''R.H.I.P.''' 
Rank Has Its Privileges

'''mastication''' 
chewing

==Page 628==

'''P.O.W.ish''' 
greedily, in the manner of '''p'''risoners '''o'''f '''w'''ar

'''Liberal KS''' 
To be exact, it's three miles via Route 83 to the Oklahoma border.

'''C/W''' 
Country & Western

'''juris-prudential precepts''' 
rulings from a court of law

'''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 (French: toilet water) is used mainly by women and is less concentrated than perfume, but more concentrated than eau de cologne, which is used more commonly by men

'''connubial''' 
marital

[[Image:Birkenstock sandals.jpg|thumb|right|Birkenstock sandals]]

'''Birkenstock''' 
Birkenstock is a German brand of sandals and shoes (see right)

'''glutens''' 
a mixture of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten wheat proteins]

'''torpor''' 
sluggishness

'''turrets''' 
refers here to small towers of the kind seen on medieval castles and other fortifications, often built with battlement crenels (notches) for use by defensive archers

==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 or nitre, an ingredient in gunpowder, it was (is) commonly believed to be used in food fed to prisoners and even military enlistees (or other predominantly male populations, such as boys' schools and Boy Scout troops) to curb libido; there is no evidence that it causes erectile dysfunction, but large amounts can have dangerous (poisonous) side effects

'''Seldane''' 
a brand-name of non-drowsy antihistamine

'''carminative''' 
a herb mixture that prevents gastrointestinal pressure and gas

==Page 631==

'''carb-caloric''' (from page 630) 
Cranberry juice is higher in carbohydrates than other juices because of the larger amounts of sugar added to sweeten it, cranberries being less naturally sweet than, e.g., oranges or apples.

'''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

'''autolysis''' 
perhaps used here in the sense of digestion, although the term actually refers to ''self-digestion'', the destruction of a cell through the action of its own enzymes

'''buttinskis''' 
i.e., the right to butt into line

'''R.H.I. literal P.''' 
'''R'''ank '''H'''as '''I'''ts literal '''P'''riveleges (see '''R.H.I.P.''' on page 627)

'''Tryna''' 
i.e., trying to

'''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

'''foist''' 
to insert deceitfully

==Page 633==

'''Grant's Tomb''' 
The trick answer to the question is "no one." As the tomb is above ground, Ulysses S. Grant is technically "entombed" and not "buried." The obvious answer is Grant himself, and, in fact, he and his wife Julia are both entombed there. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant%27s_Tomb General Grant National Memorial] overlooks the Hudson River, in Riverside Park in Manhattan (New York).

'''the one about what do Canadian girls put behind their ears to attract boys''' 
Presumably a reference to this old riddle: Q: What does a blonde put behind her ears to make her more attractive? A: Her ankles.

'''cubist''' 
suggestive of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism Cubism], the early-20th-century avant-garde (''not'' après-garde) art movement

'''Crohn's Disease''' 
also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crohn%27s_disease regional enteritis], an inflammatory disease of the bowels

==Page 634==

==Endnote 261==

'''offal''' 
garbage, particularly rotting meat

==Page 634 (cont.)==

'''post-prandially''' 
after eating a meal

'''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

'''cataract''' 
waterfall

'''reticent''' 
tending to keep one's thoughts to oneself

'''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

'''jejune''' 
naive and childish

'''B.B.''' 
Big Buddy

'''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

'''Penal Matron''' 
in other words, a female prison warden

'''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

'''swart''' 
i.e. swarthy - of dark complexion or color

==Page 637==

'''staccato''' 
in music, notes sounded in a detached manner

'''acerbic''' 
sharp or biting

'''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"

'''Amway''' 
the American-based international direct-sales [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amway retailer]

'''Pet-Rockish''' 
inane, like the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Rock fad] phenomenon of the small stones marketed as live "pets," requiring care and feeding, in the silly '70s

=May 1st, YDAU - Steeply & Marathe discuss an obsession with ''M*A*S*H''=

==Page 638==

==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

'''wens''' 
harmless cysts on the scalp or face

==Page 640==

'''Canadiens of the N.L. of H.''' 
the Montreal Canadiens, a team in the National Hockey League

==Page 641==

'''canned laughter''' 
prerecorded laughter used on the soundtracks of some filmed comedies (which are not "filmed before a live studio audience"), but also a reminder of the incident involving the can of macadamia nuts (page 580)

'''''Bröckengespenstphänom''''' 
German: Brocken is a German mountain and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken_spectre brockengespenst] refers to the large shadow an observer on the mountain casts in a certain lighting. This is an allusion to a scene from Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel [http://www.badgerinternet.com/~bobkat/jestwiley2.html ''Gravity's Rainbow''.]

==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==

'''inveterate''' 
habitual

'''Maury Linville''' 
Steeply is misremembering ''Larry'' Linville.

''''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.'''
This is a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War Korean War], which involved military support from United Nations member nations (in defense of South Korea from the invading North). The war actually lasted three full years.

'''baroquoco''' 
This would seem to be a mix between "baroque" and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo "rococo"].

'''augured''' 
predicted; forecast

==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). This is also the name of a professional peer of Steeply in the novel, first mentioned earlier.

'''Ossified''' 
turned to bone

'''plura''' 
a misspelling (likely) of "pleura," which is a thin membrane enclosing the lungs

==Page 648==

=November 13th, YDAU - Kate Gompert & Geoffrey Day discuss It=

==Page 648==

==Page 649==

'''benign''' 
harmless

'''anomaly''' 
something like nothing else (i.e., an outlier)

==Page 650==

'''malevolent''' 
intending harm

'''''magna cum laude''''' 
Latin: with 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

''''spect-ops'''' 
Perhaps a play on the popularized military term 'spec-ops,' meaning 'special operation(s).'

'''Gapers' Blocks''' 
traffic delays caused by rubbernecking, i.e., blocking or retarding traffic by stopping to gape at the scene of an accident

==Page 621==

'''apotheosis''' 
the process of being raised to godlike status

'''coprolaliac''' 
abnormally disposed to using profanity

'''nucleic''' 
pertaining to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_force nuclear force], which binds protons and neutrons into atomic nuclei

'''PAs''' 
public-address sytems

'''nostrums''' 
patent medicines

'''Cultists in saffron with much percussion''' 
members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Society_for_Krishna_Consciousness (Hare Krishna movement)] in their distinctive saffron-colored (orange) robes, likely carrying [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_(musical_instrument) hang] drums and tambourines

'''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.''' 
abbreviation for ''circa'', Latin for "around," used here in the sense of "approximately"

'''sylvan''' 
woodsy

==Page 622==
'''phylogenic''' 
From ''phylogeny'', the study of changes and developments in organisms' lineages. ''Phylogenetic'' is the more common adjectival form.

'''möbiusizing''' 
a neologism for taking on the shape of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip Möbius strip]

'''scopophile''' 
someone who derives pleasure (usually sexual) from looking at something

'''dun''' 
grayish brown

'''Gregg pen''' 
[[file:gregg.jpg|left]]Gregg is a phonetic shorthand writing system for stenographers, devised by John Robert Gregg and first published in 1888. The rights to Gregg shorthand were owned by the Gregg Publishing Company, founded in 1896. The Gregg company licensed pen manufacturers to produce pens to Gregg’s specifications and use the Gregg name; these pens are relatively thin and have very firm fine nibs. Some Gregg pens were fitted with an enameled Gregg emblem inlaid into the end of the cap, as shown at left on a Wahl pen from the late 1920s. [http://www.richardspens.com/?page=ref/glossary/G.htm here]. Read more about Gregg shorthand [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg_Shorthand here] and Gregg pens [http://www.vintagepens.com/gregg_shorthand_discovery.htm here].

'''purview''' 
scope of vision

==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

'''...play a game with a small beanbaggy ball...''' 
a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacky_Sack hacky sack] (or "hackey sack")

'''5º C''' 
41º Fahrenheit

'''appurtenances''' 
apparatus or instruments

'''Bread & Circus''' 
a small chain of health-food stores that first opened in Brookline, MA, in 1975 and acquired by Whole Foods Market in 1992

'''sepia''' 
dark brown, as in the pigment used to make very early photographs

'''chanting very softly 'Smoke'''' 
i.e., surreptitiously peddling marijuana

==Page 624==

'''metallurgy''' 
the making and conducting of alloys

'''Mass Comm.''' 
Massachusetts Community College(s)

==Page 625==

'''ICU''' 
Intensive Care Unit

'''swart''' 
swarthy, i.e., dark-skinned

'''Basilar''' 
related to or situated at the base, especially the base of the skull (as with the basilar artery); capitalization could suggest a fictitious branding, perhaps a competitor of Otis

'''half a house''' 
a half-way house

'''copless''' 
without policemen

'''M.D.C.''' 
Metropolitan District Commission, a former Massachusetts state agency that was responsible for maintenance of public parks and roads in the Metropolitan Boston area

'''hackysackers''' 
players of a game (hacky sack) where people in a circle kick a small leather bag around to one another (see "game with a small beanbaggy ball" on page 623)

==Page 626==

'''Autoteller''' 
an ATM (automated teller machine)

'''moguls''' 
bumps of the kind often seen in snow on ski slopes

'''coruscant''' 
glittering

=November 11th, YDAU - Mealtime at ETA=

==Page 627==

'''fenestrated''' 
having windows

'''R.H.I.P.''' 
Rank Has Its Privileges

'''mastication''' 
chewing

==Page 628==

'''P.O.W.ish''' 
greedily, in the manner of '''p'''risoners '''o'''f '''w'''ar

'''Liberal KS''' 
To be exact, it's three miles via Route 83 to the Oklahoma border.

'''C/W''' 
Country & Western

'''juris-prudential precepts''' 
rulings from a court of law

'''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 (French: toilet water) is used mainly by women and is less concentrated than perfume, but more concentrated than eau de cologne, which is used more commonly by men

'''connubial''' 
marital

[[Image:Birkenstock sandals.jpg|thumb|right|Birkenstock sandals]]

'''Birkenstock''' 
Birkenstock is a German brand of sandals and shoes (see right)

'''glutens''' 
a mixture of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten wheat proteins]

'''torpor''' 
sluggishness

'''turrets''' 
refers here to small towers of the kind seen on medieval castles and other fortifications, often built with battlement crenels (notches) for use by defensive archers

==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 or nitre, an ingredient in gunpowder, it was (is) commonly believed to be used in food fed to prisoners and even military enlistees (or other predominantly male populations, such as boys' schools and Boy Scout troops) to curb libido; there is no evidence that it causes erectile dysfunction, but large amounts can have dangerous (poisonous) side effects

'''Seldane''' 
a brand-name of non-drowsy antihistamine

'''carminative''' 
a herb mixture that prevents gastrointestinal pressure and gas

==Page 631==

'''carb-caloric''' (from page 630) 
Cranberry juice is higher in carbohydrates than other juices because of the larger amounts of sugar added to sweeten it, cranberries being less naturally sweet than, e.g., oranges or apples.

'''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

'''autolysis''' 
perhaps used here in the sense of digestion, although the term actually refers to ''self-digestion'', the destruction of a cell through the action of its own enzymes

'''buttinskis''' 
i.e., the right to butt into line

'''R.H.I. literal P.''' 
'''R'''ank '''H'''as '''I'''ts literal '''P'''riveleges (see '''R.H.I.P.''' on page 627)

'''Tryna''' 
i.e., trying to

'''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

'''foist''' 
to insert deceitfully

==Page 633==

'''Grant's Tomb''' 
The trick answer to the question is "no one." As the tomb is above ground, Ulysses S. Grant is technically "entombed" and not "buried." The obvious answer is Grant himself, and, in fact, he and his wife Julia are both entombed there. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant%27s_Tomb General Grant National Memorial] overlooks the Hudson River, in Riverside Park in Manhattan (New York).

'''the one about what do Canadian girls put behind their ears to attract boys''' 
Presumably a reference to this old riddle: Q: What does a blonde put behind her ears to make her more attractive? A: Her ankles.

'''cubist''' 
suggestive of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism Cubism], the early-20th-century avant-garde (''not'' après-garde) art movement

'''Crohn's Disease''' 
also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crohn%27s_disease regional enteritis], an inflammatory disease of the bowels

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==Endnote 261==

'''offal''' 
garbage, particularly rotting meat

==Page 634 (cont.)==

'''post-prandially''' 
after eating a meal

'''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

'''cataract''' 
waterfall

'''reticent''' 
tending to keep one's thoughts to oneself

'''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==

'''jejune''' 
naive and childish

'''bussed''' 
cleaned up

'''B.B.''' 
Big Buddy

'''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

'''Penal Matron''' 
in other words, a female prison warden

'''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

'''swart''' 
i.e. swarthy - of dark complexion or color

==Page 637==

'''staccato''' 
in music, notes sounded in a detached manner

'''acerbic''' 
sharp or biting

'''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"

'''Amway''' 
the American-based international direct-sales [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amway retailer]

'''Pet-Rockish''' 
inane, like the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Rock fad] phenomenon of the small stones marketed as live "pets," requiring care and feeding, in the silly '70s

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==Page 638==

==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

'''wens''' 
harmless cysts on the scalp or face

==Page 640==

'''Canadiens of the N.L. of H.''' 
the Montreal Canadiens, a team in the National Hockey League

==Page 641==

'''canned laughter''' 
prerecorded laughter used on the soundtracks of some filmed comedies (which are not "filmed before a live studio audience"), but also a reminder of the incident involving the can of macadamia nuts (page 580)

'''''Bröckengespenstphänom''''' 
German: Brocken is a German mountain and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken_spectre brockengespenst] refers to the large shadow an observer on the mountain casts in a certain lighting. This is an allusion to a scene from Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel [http://www.badgerinternet.com/~bobkat/jestwiley2.html ''Gravity's Rainbow''.]

==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==

'''inveterate''' 
habitual

'''Maury Linville''' 
Steeply is misremembering ''Larry'' Linville.

''''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.'''
This is a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War Korean War], which involved military support from United Nations member nations (in defense of South Korea from the invading North). The war actually lasted three full years.

'''baroquoco''' 
This would seem to be a mix between "baroque" and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo "rococo"].

'''augured''' 
predicted; forecast

==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). This is also the name of a professional peer of Steeply in the novel, first mentioned earlier.

'''Ossified''' 
turned to bone

'''plura''' 
a misspelling (likely) of "pleura," which is a thin membrane enclosing the lungs

==Page 648==

=November 13th, YDAU - Kate Gompert & Geoffrey Day discuss It=

==Page 648==

==Page 649==

'''benign''' 
harmless

'''anomaly''' 
something like nothing else (i.e., an outlier)

==Page 650==

'''malevolent''' 
intending harm

'''''magna cum laude''''' 
Latin: with 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

''''spect-ops'''' 
Perhaps a play on the popularized military term 'spec-ops,' meaning 'special operation(s).'

'''Gapers' Blocks''' 
traffic delays caused by rubbernecking, i.e., blocking or retarding traffic by stopping to gape at the scene of an accident

==Page 621==

'''apotheosis''' 
the process of being raised to godlike status

'''coprolaliac''' 
abnormally disposed to using profanity

'''nucleic''' 
pertaining to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_force nuclear force], which binds protons and neutrons into atomic nuclei

'''PAs''' 
public-address sytems

'''nostrums''' 
patent medicines

'''Cultists in saffron with much percussion''' 
members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Society_for_Krishna_Consciousness (Hare Krishna movement)] in their distinctive saffron-colored (orange) robes, likely carrying [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_(musical_instrument) hang] drums and tambourines

'''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.''' 
abbreviation for ''circa'', Latin for "around," used here in the sense of "approximately"

'''sylvan''' 
woodsy

==Page 622==
'''phylogenic''' 
From ''phylogeny'', the study of changes and developments in organisms' lineages. ''Phylogenetic'' is the more common adjectival form.

'''möbiusizing''' 
a neologism for taking on the shape of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip Möbius strip]

'''scopophile''' 
someone who derives pleasure (usually sexual) from looking at something

'''dun''' 
grayish brown

'''Gregg pen''' 
[[file:gregg.jpg|left]]Gregg is a phonetic shorthand writing system for stenographers, devised by John Robert Gregg and first published in 1888. The rights to Gregg shorthand were owned by the Gregg Publishing Company, founded in 1896. The Gregg company licensed pen manufacturers to produce pens to Gregg’s specifications and use the Gregg name; these pens are relatively thin and have very firm fine nibs. Some Gregg pens were fitted with an enameled Gregg emblem inlaid into the end of the cap, as shown at left on a Wahl pen from the late 1920s. [http://www.richardspens.com/?page=ref/glossary/G.htm here]. Read more about Gregg shorthand [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg_Shorthand here] and Gregg pens [http://www.vintagepens.com/gregg_shorthand_discovery.htm here].

'''purview''' 
scope of vision

==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

'''...play a game with a small beanbaggy ball...''' 
a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacky_Sack hacky sack] (or "hackey sack")

'''5º C''' 
41º Fahrenheit

'''appurtenances''' 
apparatus or instruments

'''Bread & Circus''' 
a small chain of health-food stores that first opened in Brookline, MA, in 1975 and acquired by Whole Foods Market in 1992

'''sepia''' 
dark brown, as in the pigment used to make very early photographs

'''chanting very softly 'Smoke'''' 
i.e., surreptitiously peddling marijuana

==Page 624==

'''metallurgy''' 
the making and conducting of alloys

'''Mass Comm.''' 
Massachusetts Community College(s)

==Page 625==

'''ICU''' 
Intensive Care Unit

'''swart''' 
swarthy, i.e., dark-skinned

'''Basilar''' 
related to or situated at the base, especially the base of the skull (as with the basilar artery); capitalization could suggest a fictitious branding, perhaps a competitor of Otis

'''half a house''' 
a half-way house

'''copless''' 
without policemen

'''M.D.C.''' 
Metropolitan District Commission, a former Massachusetts state agency that was responsible for maintenance of public parks and roads in the Metropolitan Boston area

'''hackysackers''' 
players of a game (hacky sack) where people in a circle kick a small leather bag around to one another (see "game with a small beanbaggy ball" on page 623)

==Page 626==

'''Autoteller''' 
an ATM (automated teller machine)

'''moguls''' 
bumps of the kind often seen in snow on ski slopes

'''coruscant''' 
glittering

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==Page 627==

'''fenestrated''' 
having windows

'''R.H.I.P.''' 
Rank Has Its Privileges

'''mastication''' 
chewing

==Page 628==

'''P.O.W.ish''' 
greedily, in the manner of '''p'''risoners '''o'''f '''w'''ar

'''Liberal KS''' 
To be exact, it's three miles via Route 83 to the Oklahoma border.

'''C/W''' 
Country & Western

'''juris-prudential precepts''' 
rulings from a court of law

'''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 (French: toilet water) is used mainly by women and is less concentrated than perfume, but more concentrated than eau de cologne, which is used more commonly by men

'''connubial''' 
marital

[[Image:Birkenstock sandals.jpg|thumb|right|Birkenstock sandals]]

'''Birkenstock''' 
Birkenstock is a German brand of sandals and shoes (see right)

'''glutens''' 
a mixture of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten wheat proteins]

'''torpor''' 
sluggishness

'''turrets''' 
refers here to small towers of the kind seen on medieval castles and other fortifications, often built with battlement crenels (notches) for use by defensive archers

==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 or nitre, an ingredient in gunpowder, it was (is) commonly believed to be used in food fed to prisoners and even military enlistees (or other predominantly male populations, such as boys' schools and Boy Scout troops) to curb libido; there is no evidence that it causes erectile dysfunction, but large amounts can have dangerous (poisonous) side effects

'''Seldane''' 
a brand-name of non-drowsy antihistamine

'''carminative''' 
a herb mixture that prevents gastrointestinal pressure and gas

==Page 631==

'''carb-caloric''' (from page 630) 
Cranberry juice is higher in carbohydrates than other juices because of the larger amounts of sugar added to sweeten it, cranberries being less naturally sweet than, e.g., oranges or apples.

'''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

'''autolysis''' 
perhaps used here in the sense of digestion, although the term actually refers to ''self-digestion'', the destruction of a cell through the action of its own enzymes

'''buttinskis''' 
i.e., the right to butt into line

'''R.H.I. literal P.''' 
'''R'''ank '''H'''as '''I'''ts literal '''P'''riveleges (see '''R.H.I.P.''' on page 627)

'''Tryna''' 
i.e., trying to

'''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

'''foist''' 
to insert deceitfully

==Page 633==

'''Grant's Tomb''' 
The trick answer to the question is "no one." As the tomb is above ground, Ulysses S. Grant is technically "entombed" and not "buried." The obvious answer is Grant himself, and, in fact, he and his wife Julia are both entombed there. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant%27s_Tomb General Grant National Memorial] overlooks the Hudson River, in Riverside Park in Manhattan (New York).

'''the one about what do Canadian girls put behind their ears to attract boys''' 
Presumably a reference to this old riddle: Q: What does a blonde put behind her ears to make her more attractive? A: Her ankles.

'''cubist''' 
suggestive of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism Cubism], the early-20th-century avant-garde (''not'' après-garde) art movement

'''Crohn's Disease''' 
also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crohn%27s_disease regional enteritis], an inflammatory disease of the bowels

==Page 634==

==Endnote 261==

'''offal''' 
garbage, particularly rotting meat

==Page 634 (cont.)==

'''post-prandially''' 
after eating a meal

'''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

'''cataract''' 
waterfall

'''reticent''' 
tending to keep one's thoughts to oneself

'''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 Buddy

'''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

'''Penal Matron''' 
in other words, a female prison warden

'''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

'''swart''' 
i.e. swarthy - of dark complexion or color

==Page 637==

'''staccato''' 
in music, notes sounded in a detached manner

'''acerbic''' 
sharp or biting

'''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"

'''Amway''' 
the American-based international direct-sales [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amway retailer]

'''Pet-Rockish''' 
inane, like the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Rock fad] phenomenon of the small stones marketed as live "pets," requiring care and feeding, in the silly '70s

=May 1st, YDAU - Steeply & Marathe discuss an obsession with ''M*A*S*H''=

==Page 638==

==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

'''wens''' 
harmless cysts on the scalp or face

==Page 640==

'''Canadiens of the N.L. of H.''' 
the Montreal Canadiens, a team in the National Hockey League

==Page 641==

'''canned laughter''' 
prerecorded laughter used on the soundtracks of some filmed comedies (which are not "filmed before a live studio audience"), but also a reminder of the incident involving the can of macadamia nuts (page 580)

'''''Bröckengespenstphänom''''' 
German: Brocken is a German mountain and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken_spectre brockengespenst] refers to the large shadow an observer on the mountain casts in a certain lighting. This is an allusion to a scene from Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel [http://www.badgerinternet.com/~bobkat/jestwiley2.html ''Gravity's Rainbow''.]

==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==

'''inveterate''' 
habitual

'''Maury Linville''' 
Steeply is misremembering ''Larry'' Linville.

''''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.'''
This is a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War Korean War], which involved military support from United Nations member nations (in defense of South Korea from the invading North). The war actually lasted three full years.

'''baroquoco''' 
This would seem to be a mix between "baroque" and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo "rococo"].

'''augured''' 
predicted; forecast

==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). This is also the name of a professional peer of Steeply in the novel, first mentioned earlier.

'''Ossified''' 
turned to bone

'''plura''' 
a misspelling (likely) of "pleura," which is a thin membrane enclosing the lungs

==Page 648==

=November 13th, YDAU - Kate Gompert & Geoffrey Day discuss It=

==Page 648==

==Page 649==

'''benign''' 
harmless

'''anomaly''' 
something like nothing else (i.e., an outlier)

==Page 650==

'''malevolent''' 
intending harm

'''''magna cum laude''''' 
Latin: with 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

''''spect-ops'''' 
Perhaps a play on the popularized military term 'spec-ops,' meaning 'special operation(s).'

'''Gapers' Blocks''' 
traffic delays caused by rubbernecking, i.e., blocking or retarding traffic by stopping to gape at the scene of an accident

==Page 621==

'''apotheosis''' 
the process of being raised to godlike status

'''coprolaliac''' 
abnormally disposed to using profanity

'''nucleic''' 
pertaining to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_force nuclear force], which binds protons and neutrons into atomic nuclei

'''PAs''' 
public-address sytems

'''nostrums''' 
patent medicines

'''Cultists in saffron with much percussion''' 
members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Society_for_Krishna_Consciousness (Hare Krishna movement)] in their distinctive saffron-colored (orange) robes, likely carrying [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_(musical_instrument) hang] drums and tambourines

'''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.''' 
abbreviation for ''circa'', Latin for "around," used here in the sense of "approximately"

'''sylvan''' 
woodsy

==Page 622==
'''phylogenic''' 
From ''phylogeny'', the study of changes and developments in organisms' lineages. ''Phylogenetic'' is the more common adjectival form.

'''möbiusizing''' 
a neologism for taking on the shape of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip Möbius strip]

'''scopophile''' 
someone who derives pleasure (usually sexual) from looking at something

'''dun''' 
grayish brown

'''Gregg pen''' 
[[file:gregg.jpg|left]]Gregg is a phonetic shorthand writing system for stenographers, devised by John Robert Gregg and first published in 1888. The rights to Gregg shorthand were owned by the Gregg Publishing Company, founded in 1896. The Gregg company licensed pen manufacturers to produce pens to Gregg’s specifications and use the Gregg name; these pens are relatively thin and have very firm fine nibs. Some Gregg pens were fitted with an enameled Gregg emblem inlaid into the end of the cap, as shown at left on a Wahl pen from the late 1920s. [http://www.richardspens.com/?page=ref/glossary/G.htm here]. Read more about Gregg shorthand [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg_Shorthand here] and Gregg pens [http://www.vintagepens.com/gregg_shorthand_discovery.htm here].

'''purview''' 
scope of vision

==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

'''...play a game with a small beanbaggy ball...''' 
a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacky_Sack hacky sack] (or "hackey sack")

'''5º C''' 
41º Fahrenheit

'''appurtenances''' 
apparatus or instruments

'''Bread & Circus''' 
a small chain of health-food stores that first opened in Brookline, MA, in 1975 and acquired by Whole Foods Market in 1992

'''sepia''' 
dark brown, as in the pigment used to make very early photographs

'''chanting very softly 'Smoke'''' 
i.e., surreptitiously peddling marijuana

==Page 624==

'''metallurgy''' 
the making and conducting of alloys

'''Mass Comm.''' 
Massachusetts Community College(s)

==Page 625==

'''ICU''' 
Intensive Care Unit

'''swart''' 
swarthy, i.e., dark-skinned

'''Basilar''' 
related to or situated at the base, especially the base of the skull (as with the basilar artery); capitalization could suggest a fictitious branding, perhaps a competitor of Otis

'''half a house''' 
a half-way house

'''copless''' 
without policemen

'''M.D.C.''' 
Metropolitan District Commission, a former Massachusetts state agency that was responsible for maintenance of public parks and roads in the Metropolitan Boston area

'''hackysackers''' 
players of a game (hacky sack) where people in a circle kick a small leather bag around to one another (see "game with a small beanbaggy ball" on page 623)

==Page 626==

'''Autoteller''' 
an ATM (automated teller machine)

'''moguls''' 
bumps of the kind often seen in snow on ski slopes

'''coruscant''' 
glittering

=November 11th, YDAU - Mealtime at ETA=

==Page 627==

'''fenestrated''' 
having windows

'''R.H.I.P.''' 
Rank Has Its Privileges

'''mastication''' 
chewing

==Page 628==

'''P.O.W.ish''' 
greedily, in the manner of '''p'''risoners '''o'''f '''w'''ar

'''Liberal KS''' 
To be exact, it's three miles via Route 83 to the Oklahoma border.

'''C/W''' 
Country & Western

'''juris-prudential precepts''' 
rulings from a court of law

'''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 (French: toilet water) is used mainly by women and is less concentrated than perfume, but more concentrated than eau de cologne, which is used more commonly by men

'''connubial''' 
marital

[[Image:Birkenstock sandals.jpg|thumb|right|Birkenstock sandals]]

'''Birkenstock''' 
Birkenstock is a German brand of sandals and shoes (see right)

'''glutens''' 
a mixture of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten wheat proteins]

'''torpor''' 
sluggishness

'''turrets''' 
refers here to small towers of the kind seen on medieval castles and other fortifications, often built with battlement crenels (notches) for use by defensive archers

==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 or nitre, an ingredient in gunpowder, it was (is) commonly believed to be used in food fed to prisoners and even military enlistees (or other predominantly male populations, such as boys' schools and Boy Scout troops) to curb libido; there is no evidence that it causes erectile dysfunction, but large amounts can have dangerous (poisonous) side effects

'''Seldane''' 
a brand-name of non-drowsy antihistamine

'''carminative''' 
a herb mixture that prevents gastrointestinal pressure and gas

==Page 631==

'''carb-caloric''' (from page 630) 
Cranberry juice is higher in carbohydrates than other juices because of the larger amounts of sugar added to sweeten it, cranberries being less naturally sweet than, e.g., oranges or apples.

'''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

'''autolysis''' 
perhaps used here in the sense of digestion, although the term actually refers to ''self-digestion'', the destruction of a cell through the action of its own enzymes

'''buttinskis''' 
i.e., the right to butt into line

'''R.H.I. literal P.''' 
'''R'''ank '''H'''as '''I'''ts literal '''P'''riveleges (see '''R.H.I.P.''' on page 627)

'''Tryna''' 
i.e., trying to

'''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

'''foist''' 
to insert deceitfully

==Page 633==

'''Grant's Tomb''' 
The trick answer to the question is "no one." As the tomb is above ground, Ulysses S. Grant is technically "entombed" and not "buried." The obvious answer is Grant himself, and, in fact, he and his wife Julia are both entombed there. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant%27s_Tomb General Grant National Memorial] overlooks the Hudson River, in Riverside Park in Manhattan (New York).

'''the one about what do Canadian girls put behind their ears to attract boys''' 
Presumably a reference to this old riddle: Q: What does a blonde put behind her ears to make her more attractive? A: Her ankles.

'''cubist''' 
suggestive of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism Cubism], the early-20th-century avant-garde (''not'' après-garde) art movement

'''Crohn's Disease''' 
also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crohn%27s_disease regional enteritis], an inflammatory disease of the bowels

==Page 634==

==Endnote 261==

'''offal''' 
garbage, particularly rotting meat

==Page 634 (cont.)==

'''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

'''cataract''' 
waterfall

'''reticent''' 
tending to keep one's thoughts to oneself

'''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 Buddy

'''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

'''Penal Matron''' 
in other words, a female prison warden

'''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

'''swart''' 
i.e. swarthy - of dark complexion or color

==Page 637==

'''staccato''' 
in music, notes sounded in a detached manner

'''acerbic''' 
sharp or biting

'''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"

'''Amway''' 
the American-based international direct-sales [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amway retailer]

'''Pet-Rockish''' 
inane, like the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Rock fad] phenomenon of the small stones marketed as live "pets," requiring care and feeding, in the silly '70s

=May 1st, YDAU - Steeply & Marathe discuss an obsession with ''M*A*S*H''=

==Page 638==

==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

'''wens''' 
harmless cysts on the scalp or face

==Page 640==

'''Canadiens of the N.L. of H.''' 
the Montreal Canadiens, a team in the National Hockey League

==Page 641==

'''canned laughter''' 
prerecorded laughter used on the soundtracks of some filmed comedies (which are not "filmed before a live studio audience"), but also a reminder of the incident involving the can of macadamia nuts (page 580)

'''''Bröckengespenstphänom''''' 
German: Brocken is a German mountain and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken_spectre brockengespenst] refers to the large shadow an observer on the mountain casts in a certain lighting. This is an allusion to a scene from Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel [http://www.badgerinternet.com/~bobkat/jestwiley2.html ''Gravity's Rainbow''.]

==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==

'''inveterate''' 
habitual

'''Maury Linville''' 
Steeply is misremembering ''Larry'' Linville.

''''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.'''
This is a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War Korean War], which involved military support from United Nations member nations (in defense of South Korea from the invading North). The war actually lasted three full years.

'''baroquoco''' 
This would seem to be a mix between "baroque" and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo "rococo"].

'''augured''' 
predicted; forecast

==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). This is also the name of a professional peer of Steeply in the novel, first mentioned earlier.

'''Ossified''' 
turned to bone

'''plura''' 
a misspelling (likely) of "pleura," which is a thin membrane enclosing the lungs

==Page 648==

=November 13th, YDAU - Kate Gompert & Geoffrey Day discuss It=

==Page 648==

==Page 649==

'''benign''' 
harmless

'''anomaly''' 
something like nothing else (i.e., an outlier)

==Page 650==

'''malevolent''' 
intending harm

'''''magna cum laude''''' 
Latin: with high honors

==Page 651==

'''130-kilo''' 
286.6 pounds

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==Page 620==

'''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

''''spect-ops'''' 
Perhaps a play on the popularized military term 'spec-ops,' meaning 'special operation(s).'

'''Gapers' Blocks''' 
traffic delays caused by rubbernecking, i.e., blocking or retarding traffic by stopping to gape at the scene of an accident

==Page 621==

'''apotheosis''' 
the process of being raised to godlike status

'''coprolaliac''' 
abnormally disposed to using profanity

'''nucleic''' 
pertaining to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_force nuclear force], which binds protons and neutrons into atomic nuclei

'''PAs''' 
public-address sytems

'''nostrums''' 
patent medicines

'''Cultists in saffron with much percussion''' 
members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Society_for_Krishna_Consciousness (Hare Krishna movement)] in their distinctive saffron-colored (orange) robes, likely carrying [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_(musical_instrument) hang] drums and tambourines

'''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.''' 
abbreviation for ''circa'', Latin for "around," used here in the sense of "approximately"

'''sylvan''' 
woodsy

==Page 622==
'''phylogenic''' 
From ''phylogeny'', the study of changes and developments in organisms' lineages. ''Phylogenetic'' is the more common adjectival form.

'''möbiusizing''' 
a neologism for taking on the shape of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip Möbius strip]

'''scopophile''' 
someone who derives pleasure (usually sexual) from looking at something

'''dun''' 
grayish brown

'''Gregg pen''' 
[[file:gregg.jpg|left]]Gregg is a phonetic shorthand writing system for stenographers, devised by John Robert Gregg and first published in 1888. The rights to Gregg shorthand were owned by the Gregg Publishing Company, founded in 1896. The Gregg company licensed pen manufacturers to produce pens to Gregg’s specifications and use the Gregg name; these pens are relatively thin and have very firm fine nibs. Some Gregg pens were fitted with an enameled Gregg emblem inlaid into the end of the cap, as shown at left on a Wahl pen from the late 1920s. [http://www.richardspens.com/?page=ref/glossary/G.htm here]. Read more about Gregg shorthand [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg_Shorthand here] and Gregg pens [http://www.vintagepens.com/gregg_shorthand_discovery.htm here].

'''purview''' 
scope of vision

==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

'''...play a game with a small beanbaggy ball...''' 
a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacky_Sack hacky sack] (or "hackey sack")

'''5º C''' 
41º Fahrenheit

'''appurtenances''' 
apparatus or instruments

'''Bread & Circus''' 
a small chain of health-food stores that first opened in Brookline, MA, in 1975 and acquired by Whole Foods Market in 1992

'''sepia''' 
dark brown, as in the pigment used to make very early photographs

'''chanting very softly 'Smoke'''' 
i.e., surreptitiously peddling marijuana

==Page 624==

'''metallurgy''' 
the making and conducting of alloys

'''Mass Comm.''' 
Massachusetts Community College(s)

==Page 625==

'''ICU''' 
Intensive Care Unit

'''swart''' 
swarthy, i.e., dark-skinned

'''Basilar''' 
related to or situated at the base, especially the base of the skull (as with the basilar artery); capitalization could suggest a fictitious branding, perhaps a competitor of Otis

'''half a house''' 
a half-way house

'''copless''' 
without policemen

'''M.D.C.''' 
Metropolitan District Commission, a former Massachusetts state agency that was responsible for maintenance of public parks and roads in the Metropolitan Boston area

'''hackysackers''' 
players of a game (hacky sack) where people in a circle kick a small leather bag around to one another (see "game with a small beanbaggy ball" on page 623)

==Page 626==

'''Autoteller''' 
an ATM (automated teller machine)

'''moguls''' 
bumps of the kind often seen in snow on ski slopes

'''coruscant''' 
glittering

=November 11th, YDAU - Mealtime at ETA=

==Page 627==

'''fenestrated''' 
having windows

'''R.H.I.P.''' 
Rank Has Its Privileges

'''mastication''' 
chewing

==Page 628==

'''P.O.W.ish''' 
greedily, in the manner of '''p'''risoners '''o'''f '''w'''ar

'''Liberal KS''' 
To be exact, it's three miles via Route 83 to the Oklahoma border.

'''C/W''' 
Country & Western

'''juris-prudential precepts''' 
rulings from a court of law

'''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 (French: toilet water) is used mainly by women and is less concentrated than perfume, but more concentrated than eau de cologne, which is used more commonly by men

'''connubial''' 
marital

[[Image:Birkenstock sandals.jpg|thumb|right|Birkenstock sandals]]

'''Birkenstock''' 
Birkenstock is a German brand of sandals and shoes (see right)

'''glutens''' 
a mixture of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten wheat proteins]

'''torpor''' 
sluggishness

'''turrets''' 
refers here to small towers of the kind seen on medieval castles and other fortifications, often built with battlement crenels (notches) for use by defensive archers

==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 or nitre, an ingredient in gunpowder, it was (is) commonly believed to be used in food fed to prisoners and even military enlistees (or other predominantly male populations, such as boys' schools and Boy Scout troops) to curb libido; there is no evidence that it causes erectile dysfunction, but large amounts can have dangerous (poisonous) side effects

'''Seldane''' 
a brand-name of non-drowsy antihistamine

'''carminative''' 
expelling gas

==Page 631==

'''carb-caloric''' (from page 630) 
Cranberry juice is higher in carbohydrates than other juices because of the larger amounts of sugar added to sweeten it, cranberries being less naturally sweet than, e.g., oranges or apples.

'''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

'''autolysis''' 
perhaps used here in the sense of digestion, although the term actually refers to ''self-digestion'', the destruction of a cell through the action of its own enzymes

'''buttinskis''' 
i.e., the right to butt into line

'''R.H.I. literal P.''' 
'''R'''ank '''H'''as '''I'''ts literal '''P'''riveleges (see '''R.H.I.P.''' on page 627)

'''Tryna''' 
i.e., trying to

'''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

'''foist''' 
to insert deceitfully

==Page 633==

'''Grant's Tomb''' 
The trick answer to the question is "no one." As the tomb is above ground, Ulysses S. Grant is technically "entombed" and not "buried." The obvious answer is Grant himself, and, in fact, he and his wife Julia are both entombed there. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant%27s_Tomb General Grant National Memorial] overlooks the Hudson River, in Riverside Park in Manhattan (New York).

'''the one about what do Canadian girls put behind their ears to attract boys''' 
Presumably a reference to this old riddle: Q: What does a blonde put behind her ears to make her more attractive? A: Her ankles.

'''cubist''' 
suggestive of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism Cubism], the early-20th-century avant-garde (''not'' après-garde) art movement

'''Crohn's Disease''' 
also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crohn%27s_disease regional enteritis], an inflammatory disease of the bowels

==Page 634==

==Endnote 261==

'''offal''' 
garbage, particularly rotting meat

==Page 634 (cont.)==

'''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

'''cataract''' 
waterfall

'''reticent''' 
tending to keep one's thoughts to oneself

'''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 Buddy

'''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

'''Penal Matron''' 
in other words, a female prison warden

'''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

'''swart''' 
i.e. swarthy - of dark complexion or color

==Page 637==

'''staccato''' 
in music, notes sounded in a detached manner

'''acerbic''' 
sharp or biting

'''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"

'''Amway''' 
the American-based international direct-sales [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amway retailer]

'''Pet-Rockish''' 
inane, like the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Rock fad] phenomenon of the small stones marketed as live "pets," requiring care and feeding, in the silly '70s

=May 1st, YDAU - Steeply & Marathe discuss an obsession with ''M*A*S*H''=

==Page 638==

==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

'''wens''' 
harmless cysts on the scalp or face

==Page 640==

'''Canadiens of the N.L. of H.''' 
the Montreal Canadiens, a team in the National Hockey League

==Page 641==

'''canned laughter''' 
prerecorded laughter used on the soundtracks of some filmed comedies (which are not "filmed before a live studio audience"), but also a reminder of the incident involving the can of macadamia nuts (page 580)

'''''Bröckengespenstphänom''''' 
German: Brocken is a German mountain and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken_spectre brockengespenst] refers to the large shadow an observer on the mountain casts in a certain lighting. This is an allusion to a scene from Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel [http://www.badgerinternet.com/~bobkat/jestwiley2.html ''Gravity's Rainbow''.]

==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==

'''inveterate''' 
habitual

'''Maury Linville''' 
Steeply is misremembering ''Larry'' Linville.

''''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.'''
This is a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War Korean War], which involved military support from United Nations member nations (in defense of South Korea from the invading North). The war actually lasted three full years.

'''baroquoco''' 
This would seem to be a mix between "baroque" and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo "rococo"].

'''augured''' 
predicted; forecast

==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). This is also the name of a professional peer of Steeply in the novel, first mentioned earlier.

'''Ossified''' 
turned to bone

'''plura''' 
a misspelling (likely) of "pleura," which is a thin membrane enclosing the lungs

==Page 648==

=November 13th, YDAU - Kate Gompert & Geoffrey Day discuss It=

==Page 648==

==Page 649==

'''benign''' 
harmless

'''anomaly''' 
something like nothing else (i.e., an outlier)

==Page 650==

'''malevolent''' 
intending harm

'''''magna cum laude''''' 
Latin: with high honors

==Page 651==

'''130-kilo''' 
286.6 pounds

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==Page 620==

'''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

''''spect-ops'''' 
Perhaps a play on the popularized military term 'spec-ops,' meaning 'special operation(s).'

'''Gapers' Blocks''' 
traffic delays caused by rubbernecking, i.e., blocking or retarding traffic by stopping to gape at the scene of an accident

==Page 621==

'''apotheosis''' 
the process of being raised to godlike status

'''coprolaliac''' 
abnormally disposed to using profanity

'''nucleic''' 
pertaining to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_force nuclear force], which binds protons and neutrons into atomic nuclei

'''PAs''' 
public-address sytems

'''nostrums''' 
patent medicines

'''Cultists in saffron with much percussion''' 
members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Society_for_Krishna_Consciousness (Hare Krishna movement)] in their distinctive saffron-colored (orange) robes, likely carrying [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_(musical_instrument) hang] drums and tambourines

'''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.''' 
abbreviation for ''circa'', Latin for "around," used here in the sense of "approximately"

'''sylvan''' 
woodsy

==Page 622==
'''phylogenic''' 
From ''phylogeny'', the study of changes and developments in organisms' lineages. ''Phylogenetic'' is the more common adjectival form.

'''möbiusizing''' 
a neologism for taking on the shape of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip Möbius strip]

'''scopophile''' 
someone who derives pleasure (usually sexual) from looking at something

'''dun''' 
grayish brown

'''Gregg pen''' 
[[file:gregg.jpg|left]]Gregg is a phonetic shorthand writing system for stenographers, devised by John Robert Gregg and first published in 1888. The rights to Gregg shorthand were owned by the Gregg Publishing Company, founded in 1896. The Gregg company licensed pen manufacturers to produce pens to Gregg’s specifications and use the Gregg name; these pens are relatively thin and have very firm fine nibs. Some Gregg pens were fitted with an enameled Gregg emblem inlaid into the end of the cap, as shown at left on a Wahl pen from the late 1920s. [http://www.richardspens.com/?page=ref/glossary/G.htm here]. Read more about Gregg shorthand [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg_Shorthand here] and Gregg pens [http://www.vintagepens.com/gregg_shorthand_discovery.htm here].

'''purview''' 
scope of vision

==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

'''...play a game with a small beanbaggy ball...''' 
a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacky_Sack hacky sack] (or "hackey sack")

'''5º C''' 
41º Fahrenheit

'''appurtenances''' 
apparatus or instruments

'''Bread & Circus''' 
a small chain of health-food stores that first opened in Brookline, MA, in 1975 and acquired by Whole Foods Market in 1992

'''sepia''' 
dark brown, as in the pigment used to make very early photographs

'''chanting very softly 'Smoke'''' 
i.e., surreptitiously peddling marijuana

==Page 624==

'''metallurgy''' 
the making and conducting of alloys

'''Mass Comm.''' 
Massachusetts Community College(s)

==Page 625==

'''ICU''' 
Intensive Care Unit

'''swart''' 
swarthy, i.e., dark-skinned

'''Basilar''' 
related to or situated at the base, especially the base of the skull (as with the basilar artery); capitalization could suggest a fictitious branding, perhaps a competitor of Otis

'''half a house''' 
a half-way house

'''copless''' 
without policemen

'''M.D.C.''' 
Metropolitan District Commission, a former Massachusetts state agency that was responsible for maintenance of public parks and roads in the Metropolitan Boston area

'''hackysackers''' 
players of a game (hacky sack) where people in a circle kick a small leather bag around to one another (see "game with a small beanbaggy ball" on page 623)

==Page 626==

'''Autoteller''' 
an ATM (automated teller machine)

'''moguls''' 
bumps of the kind often seen in snow on ski slopes

'''coruscant''' 
glittering

=November 11th, YDAU - Mealtime at ETA=

==Page 627==

'''fenestrated''' 
having windows

'''R.H.I.P.''' 
Rank Has Its Privileges

'''mastication''' 
chewing

==Page 628==

'''P.O.W.ish''' 
greedily, in the manner of '''p'''risoners '''o'''f '''w'''ar

'''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

'''juris-prudential precepts''' 
rulings from a court of law

'''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 (French: toilet water) is used mainly by women and is less concentrated than perfume, but more concentrated than eau de cologne, which is used more commonly by men

'''connubial''' 
marital

[[Image:Birkenstock sandals.jpg|thumb|right|Birkenstock sandals]]

'''Birkenstock''' 
Birkenstock is a German brand of sandals and shoes (see right)

'''glutens''' 
a mixture of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten wheat proteins]

'''torpor''' 
sluggishness

'''turrets''' 
refers here to small towers of the kind seen on medieval castles and other fortifications, often built with battlement crenels (notches) for use by defensive archers

==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 or nitre, an ingredient in gunpowder, it was (is) commonly believed to be used in food fed to prisoners and even military enlistees (or other predominantly male populations, such as boys' schools and Boy Scout troops) to curb libido; there is no evidence that it causes erectile dysfunction, but large amounts can have dangerous (poisonous) side effects

'''Seldane''' 
a brand-name of non-drowsy antihistamine

'''carminative''' 
expelling gas

==Page 631==

'''carb-caloric''' (from page 630) 
Cranberry juice is higher in carbohydrates than other juices because of the larger amounts of sugar added to sweeten it, cranberries being less naturally sweet than, e.g., oranges or apples.

'''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

'''autolysis''' 
perhaps used here in the sense of digestion, although the term actually refers to ''self-digestion'', the destruction of a cell through the action of its own enzymes

'''buttinskis''' 
i.e., the right to butt into line

'''R.H.I. literal P.''' 
'''R'''ank '''H'''as '''I'''ts literal '''P'''riveleges (see '''R.H.I.P.''' on page 627)

'''Tryna''' 
i.e., trying to

'''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

'''foist''' 
to insert deceitfully

==Page 633==

'''Grant's Tomb''' 
The trick answer to the question is "no one." As the tomb is above ground, Ulysses S. Grant is technically "entombed" and not "buried." The obvious answer is Grant himself, and, in fact, he and his wife Julia are both entombed there. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant%27s_Tomb General Grant National Memorial] overlooks the Hudson River, in Riverside Park in Manhattan (New York).

'''the one about what do Canadian girls put behind their ears to attract boys''' 
Presumably a reference to this old riddle: Q: What does a blonde put behind her ears to make her more attractive? A: Her ankles.

'''cubist''' 
suggestive of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism Cubism], the early-20th-century avant-garde (''not'' après-garde) art movement

'''Crohn's Disease''' 
also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crohn%27s_disease regional enteritis], an inflammatory disease of the bowels

==Page 634==

==Endnote 261==

'''offal''' 
garbage, particularly rotting meat

==Page 634 (cont.)==

'''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

'''cataract''' 
waterfall

'''reticent''' 
tending to keep one's thoughts to oneself

'''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 Buddy

'''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

'''Penal Matron''' 
in other words, a female prison warden

'''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

'''swart''' 
i.e. swarthy - of dark complexion or color

==Page 637==

'''staccato''' 
in music, notes sounded in a detached manner

'''acerbic''' 
sharp or biting

'''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"

'''Amway''' 
the American-based international direct-sales [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amway retailer]

'''Pet-Rockish''' 
inane, like the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Rock fad] phenomenon of the small stones marketed as live "pets," requiring care and feeding, in the silly '70s

=May 1st, YDAU - Steeply & Marathe discuss an obsession with ''M*A*S*H''=

==Page 638==

==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

'''wens''' 
harmless cysts on the scalp or face

==Page 640==

'''Canadiens of the N.L. of H.''' 
the Montreal Canadiens, a team in the National Hockey League

==Page 641==

'''canned laughter''' 
prerecorded laughter used on the soundtracks of some filmed comedies (which are not "filmed before a live studio audience"), but also a reminder of the incident involving the can of macadamia nuts (page 580)

'''''Bröckengespenstphänom''''' 
German: Brocken is a German mountain and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken_spectre brockengespenst] refers to the large shadow an observer on the mountain casts in a certain lighting. This is an allusion to a scene from Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel [http://www.badgerinternet.com/~bobkat/jestwiley2.html ''Gravity's Rainbow''.]

==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==

'''inveterate''' 
habitual

'''Maury Linville''' 
Steeply is misremembering ''Larry'' Linville.

''''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.'''
This is a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War Korean War], which involved military support from United Nations member nations (in defense of South Korea from the invading North). The war actually lasted three full years.

'''baroquoco''' 
This would seem to be a mix between "baroque" and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo "rococo"].

'''augured''' 
predicted; forecast

==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). This is also the name of a professional peer of Steeply in the novel, first mentioned earlier.

'''Ossified''' 
turned to bone

'''plura''' 
a misspelling (likely) of "pleura," which is a thin membrane enclosing the lungs

==Page 648==

=November 13th, YDAU - Kate Gompert & Geoffrey Day discuss It=

==Page 648==

==Page 649==

'''benign''' 
harmless

'''anomaly''' 
something like nothing else (i.e., an outlier)

==Page 650==

'''malevolent''' 
intending harm

'''''magna cum laude''''' 
Latin: with high honors

==Page 651==

'''130-kilo''' 
286.6 pounds

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==Page 589==

'''Revelation of John''' 
the last book of the New Testament

'''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==

'''Rindge and Latin School''' 
Cambridge Rindge and Latin School - the only public high school in Cambridge MA.

=Life as an Ennet House Staff Member=

==Page 593==

'''picayune''' 
petty

'''lithium''' 
used to treat bipolar disorder

'''Sylvia Plate''' 
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was an American poet and novelist who suffered from depression and took her own life in 1963.

==Page 594==

'''narc''' 
a narcotics officer or a snitch

'''verbatim''' 
word for word

==Page 595==

==Page 596==

=Orin & the "Swiss" hand model, cont.=

==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

=Canadians chase Lenz to Ennet House=

==Page 601==

==Endnote 247==

'''the Hole''' 
prison slang for solitary confinement

==Page 602==

'''cribbage''' 
a type of card game

==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==

'''B.U. or -C. students''' 
i.e., students of Boston University or (Boston) College

'''constitutionally''' 
meaning "psychologically" (or even "physiologically")

'''a kind of idolotry of uniqueness''' 
i.e., a worship of individuality

==Page 605==
'''over-ebullient''' 
excessively cheerful

'''rack''' 
bed (perhaps a bunk, here)

'''seventh sense''' 
implying that Gately also possesses the sixth sense (i.e., extrasensory perception or at least uncommonly keen intuition), and suggests an ability to recognize that someone else is under the influence (although some of the first five could probably tell him that)

'''Sergeant at Arms''' 
a figurative use, probably suggesting that the drugs Lenz took have commanded him to keep moving (in the manner of a drill sergeant)

'''Nietzschean''' 
the Substance can make any man feel like an Übermensch (superhuman)

'''incognitoizing''' 
Gately's mental neologism for "rendering incognito," i.e., disguising

'''regentrifying''' 
Lenz means "regenerating" rather than "refurbishing (again)"

'''L-Dopa''' 
abbreviation for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-Dopa levadopa] a chemical precursor to dopamine, adrenaline, and other neurotransmitters

'''scrotum-tightening''' 
An epithet first used by James Joyce in Chapter 1 of his 1922 novel ''Ulysses''. Buck Mulligan is gazing at the Dublin Bay: "--God, he said quietly. Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a grey sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea. Epi oinopa ponton. Ah, Dedalus, the Greeks. I must teach you. You must read them in the original. Thalatta! Thalatta! She is our great sweet mother. Come and look." (''Epi oinopa ponton'' is Homer's famous descriptor for the Aegean Sea from ''The Odyssey'': the wine-dark sea.)

==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 "OK," whereas this literally, in Yiddish, refers to food "prepared according to Jewish Law."

'''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==

'''high-B#''' 
Equivalent to the pitch of C, and vocally, the high C is two octaves above middle C.

'''SHUCO-MIST M.P.S.''' 
Shuco-Mist Medical Pressure Systems (mentioned on page 198) is perhaps the fictional manufacturer a brand of nebulizer (actually spelled "Schuco Mist") for use by asthma patients.

==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

'''wadcutter''' 
special bullets with a flat front

'''dum-dums''' 
bullets that mushroom on impact for maximum bodily damage

'''lending weight to another cliché''' 
presumably E.M. Security is "never there when you need them."

'''cordite''' 
similar to gunpowder

==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''' 
Apparently in the manner of Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), famed for theorizing that the Earth orbits the Sun rather than vice versa, but this raises the question of ''why'' or ''how'' in the manner of Copernicus. It does not seem that Erdedy has a telescope, but perhaps he is "staring...up her [the veiled girl's] flapping robe" looking for the center of the universe.

'''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==

''''The straight and narrow? '''' 
"Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." Matthew 7:14

''''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.'''' 
Again, Green speaking with his broken nose: "I'm not touching nothing, don't worry."

'''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. (She is referred to as "a.k.a. Madame P." much earlier on page 225)

'''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]

'''And lo''' 
a reference to the opening of the M.P. radio show

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==Page 589==

'''Revelation of John''' 
the last book of the New Testament

'''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==

'''Rindge and Latin School''' 
Cambridge Rindge and Latin School - the only public high school in Cambridge MA.

=Life as an Ennet House Staff Member=

==Page 593==

'''picayune''' 
petty

'''lithium''' 
used to treat bipolar disorder

'''Sylvia Plate''' 
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was an American poet and novelist who suffered from depression and took her own life in 1963.

==Page 594==

'''narc''' 
a narcotics officer or a snitch

'''verbatim''' 
word for word

==Page 595==

==Page 596==

=Orin & the "Swiss" hand model, cont.=

==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

=Canadians chase Lenz to Ennet House=

==Page 601==

==Endnote 247==

'''the Hole''' 
prison slang for solitary confinement

==Page 602==

'''cribbage''' 
a type of card game

==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==

'''B.U. or -C. students''' 
i.e., students of Boston University or (Boston) College

'''constitutionally''' 
meaning "psychologically" (or even "physiologically")

'''a kind of idolotry of uniqueness''' 
i.e., a worship of individuality

==Page 605==
'''over-ebullient''' 
excessively cheerful

'''rack''' 
bed (perhaps a bunk, here)

'''seventh sense''' 
implying that Gately also possesses the sixth sense (i.e., extrasensory perception or at least uncommonly keen intuition), and suggests an ability to recognize that someone else is under the influence (although some of the first five could probably tell him that)

'''Sergeant at Arms''' 
a figurative use, probably suggesting that the drugs Lenz took have commanded him to keep moving (in the manner of a drill sergeant)

'''Nietzschean''' 
the Substance can make any man feel like an Übermensch (superhuman)

'''incognitoizing''' 
Gately's mental neologism for "rendering incognito," i.e., disguising

'''regentrifying''' 
Lenz means "regenerating" rather than "refurbishing (again)"

'''L-Dopa''' 
abbreviation for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-Dopa levadopa] a chemical precursor to dopamine, adrenaline, and other neurotransmitters

'''scrotum-tightening''' 
An epithet first used by James Joyce in Chapter 1 of his 1922 novel ''Ulysses''. Buck Mulligan is gazing at the Dublin Bay: "--God, he said quietly. Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a grey sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea. Epi oinopa ponton. Ah, Dedalus, the Greeks. I must teach you. You must read them in the original. Thalatta! Thalatta! She is our great sweet mother. Come and look." (''Epi oinopa ponton'' is Homer's famous descriptor for the Aegean Sea from ''The Odyssey'': the wine-dark sea.)

==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 "OK," whereas this literally, in Yiddish, refers to food "prepared according to Jewish Law."

'''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==

'''high-B#''' 
Equivalent to the pitch of C, and vocally, the high C is two octaves above middle C.

'''SHUCO-MIST M.P.S.''' 
Shuco-Mist Medical Pressure Systems (mentioned on page 198) is perhaps the fictional manufacturer a brand of nebulizer (actually spelled "Schuco Mist") for use by asthma patients.

==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

'''wadcutter''' 
special bullets with a flat front

'''dum-dums''' 
bullets that mushroom on impact for maximum bodily damage

'''lending weight to another cliché''' 
presumably E.M. Security is "never there when you need them."

'''cordite''' 
similar to gunpowder

==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''' 
Apparently in the manner of Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), famed for theorizing that the Earth orbits the Sun rather than vice versa, but this raises the question of ''why'' or ''how'' in the manner of Copernicus. It does not seem that Erdedy has a telescope, but perhaps he is "staring...up her [the veiled girl's] flapping robe" looking for the center of the universe.

'''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.'''' 
Again, Green speaking with his broken nose: "I'm not touching nothing, don't worry."

'''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. (She is referred to as "a.k.a. Madame P." much earlier on page 225)

'''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]

'''And lo''' 
a reference to the opening of the M.P. radio show

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==Page 589==

'''Revelation of John''' 
the last book of the New Testament

'''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==

'''Rindge and Latin School''' 
Cambridge Rindge and Latin School - the only public high school in Cambridge MA.

=Life as an Ennet House Staff Member=

==Page 593==

'''picayune''' 
petty

'''lithium''' 
used to treat bipolar disorder

'''Sylvia Plate''' 
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was an American poet and novelist who suffered from depression and took her own life in 1963.

==Page 594==

'''narc''' 
a narcotics officer or a snitch

'''verbatim''' 
word for word

==Page 595==

==Page 596==

=Orin & the "Swiss" hand model, cont.=

==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

=Canadians chase Lenz to Ennet House=

==Page 601==

==Endnote 247==

'''the Hole''' 
prison slang for solitary confinement

==Page 602==

'''cribbage''' 
a type of card game

==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==

'''B.U. or -C. students''' 
i.e., students of Boston University or (Boston) College

'''constitutionally''' 
meaning "psychologically" (or even "physiologically")

'''a kind of idolotry of uniqueness''' 
i.e., a worship of individuality

==Page 605==
'''over-ebullient''' 
excessively cheerful

'''rack''' 
bed (perhaps a bunk, here)

'''seventh sense''' 
implying that Gately also possesses the sixth sense (i.e., extrasensory perception or at least uncommonly keen intuition), and suggests an ability to recognize that someone else is under the influence (although some of the first five could probably tell him that)

'''Sergeant at Arms''' 
a figurative use, probably suggesting that the drugs Lenz took have commanded him to keep moving (in the manner of a drill sergeant)

'''Nietzschean''' 
the Substance can make any man feel like an Übermensch (superhuman)

'''incognitoizing''' 
Gately's mental neologism for "rendering incognito," i.e., disguising

'''regentrifying''' 
Lenz means "regenerating" rather than "refurbishing (again)"

'''L-Dopa''' 
abbreviation for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-Dopa levadopa] a chemical precursor to dopamine, adrenaline, and other neurotransmitters

'''scrotum-tightening''' 
An epithet first used by James Joyce in Chapter 1 of his 1922 novel ''Ulysses''. Buck Mulligan is gazing at the Dublin Bay: "--God, he said quietly. Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a grey sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea. Epi oinopa ponton. Ah, Dedalus, the Greeks. I must teach you. You must read them in the original. Thalatta! Thalatta! She is our great sweet mother. Come and look." (''Epi oinopa ponton'' is Homer's famous descriptor for the Aegean Sea from ''The Odyssey'': the wine-dark sea.)

==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 "OK," whereas this literally, in Yiddish, refers to food "prepared according to Jewish Law."

'''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==

'''high-B#''' 
Equivalent to the pitch of C, and vocally, the high C is two octaves above middle C.

'''SHUCO-MIST M.P.S.''' 
Shuco-Mist Medical Pressure Systems (mentioned on page 198) is perhaps the fictional manufacturer a brand of nebulizer (actually spelled "Schuco Mist") for use by asthma patients.

==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

'''wadcutter''' 
special bullets with a flat front

'''dum-dums''' 
bullets that mushroom on impact for maximum bodily damage

'''lending weight to another cliché''' 
presumably E.M. Security is "never there when you need them."

==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''' 
Apparently in the manner of Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), famed for theorizing that the Earth orbits the Sun rather than vice versa, but this raises the question of ''why'' or ''how'' in the manner of Copernicus. It does not seem that Erdedy has a telescope, but perhaps he is "staring...up her [the veiled girl's] flapping robe" looking for the center of the universe.

'''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.'''' 
Again, Green speaking with his broken nose: "I'm not touching nothing, don't worry."

'''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. (She is referred to as "a.k.a. Madame P." much earlier on page 225)

'''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]

'''And lo''' 
a reference to the opening of the M.P. radio show

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=Mario longs for M.P., goes for a walk=

==Page 589==

'''Revelation of John''' 
the last book of the New Testament

'''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==

'''Rindge and Latin School''' 
Cambridge Rindge and Latin School - the only public high school in Cambridge MA.

=Life as an Ennet House Staff Member=

==Page 593==

'''picayune''' 
petty

'''lithium''' 
used to treat bipolar disorder

'''Sylvia Plate''' 
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was an American poet and novelist who suffered from depression and took her own life in 1963.

==Page 594==

'''narc''' 
a narcotics officer or a snitch

'''verbatim''' 
word for word

==Page 595==

==Page 596==

=Orin & the "Swiss" hand model, cont.=

==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

=Canadians chase Lenz to Ennet House=

==Page 601==

==Endnote 247==

'''the Hole''' 
prison slang for solitary confinement

==Page 602==

'''cribbage''' 
a type of card game

==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==

'''B.U. or -C. students''' 
i.e., students of Boston University or (Boston) College

'''constitutionally''' 
meaning "psychologically" (or even "physiologically")

'''a kind of idolotry of uniqueness''' 
i.e., a worship of individuality

==Page 605==
'''over-ebullient''' 
excessively cheerful

'''rack''' 
bed (perhaps a bunk, here)

'''seventh sense''' 
implying that Gately also possesses the sixth sense (i.e., extrasensory perception or at least uncommonly keen intuition), and suggests an ability to recognize that someone else is under the influence (although some of the first five could probably tell him that)

'''Sergeant at Arms''' 
a figurative use, probably suggesting that the drugs Lenz took have commanded him to keep moving (in the manner of a drill sergeant)

'''Nietzschean''' 
the Substance can make any man feel like an Übermensch (superhuman)

'''incognitoizing''' 
Gately's mental neologism for "rendering incognito," i.e., disguising

'''regentrifying''' 
Lenz means "regenerating" rather than "refurbishing (again)"

'''L-Dopa''' 
abbreviation for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-Dopa levadopa] a chemical precursor to dopamine, adrenaline, and other neurotransmitters

'''scrotum-tightening''' 
An epithet first used by James Joyce in Chapter 1 of his 1922 novel ''Ulysses''. Buck Mulligan is gazing at the Dublin Bay: "--God, he said quietly. Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a grey sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea. Epi oinopa ponton. Ah, Dedalus, the Greeks. I must teach you. You must read them in the original. Thalatta! Thalatta! She is our great sweet mother. Come and look." (''Epi oinopa ponton'' is Homer's famous descriptor for the Aegean Sea from ''The Odyssey'': the wine-dark sea.)

==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 "OK," whereas this literally, in Yiddish, refers to food "prepared according to Jewish Law."

'''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==

'''high-B#''' 
Equivalent to the pitch of C, and vocally, the high C is two octaves above middle C.

'''SHUCO-MIST M.P.S.''' 
Shuco-Mist Medical Pressure Systems (mentioned on page 198) is perhaps the fictional manufacturer a brand of nebulizer (actually spelled "Schuco Mist") for use by asthma patients.

==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

'''lending weight to another cliché''' 
presumably E.M. Security is "never there when you need them."

==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''' 
Apparently in the manner of Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), famed for theorizing that the Earth orbits the Sun rather than vice versa, but this raises the question of ''why'' or ''how'' in the manner of Copernicus. It does not seem that Erdedy has a telescope, but perhaps he is "staring...up her [the veiled girl's] flapping robe" looking for the center of the universe.

'''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.'''' 
Again, Green speaking with his broken nose: "I'm not touching nothing, don't worry."

'''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. (She is referred to as "a.k.a. Madame P." much earlier on page 225)

'''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]

'''And lo''' 
a reference to the opening of the M.P. radio show

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==Page 589==

'''Revelation of John''' 
the last book of the New Testament

'''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==

'''Rindge and Latin School''' 
Cambridge Rindge and Latin School - the only public high school in Cambridge MA.

=Life as an Ennet House Staff Member=

==Page 593==

'''picayune''' 
petty

'''lithium''' 
used to treat bipolar disorder

'''Sylvia Plate''' 
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was an American poet and novelist who suffered from depression and took her own life in 1963.

==Page 594==

'''narc''' 
a narcotics officer or a snitch

'''verbatim''' 
word for word

==Page 595==

==Page 596==

=Orin & the "Swiss" hand model, cont.=

==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

=Canadians chase Lenz to Ennet House=

==Page 601==

==Endnote 247==

'''the Hole''' 
prison slang for solitary confinement

==Page 602==

'''cribbage''' 
a type of card game

==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==

'''B.U. or -C. students''' 
i.e., students of Boston University or (Boston) College

'''constitutionally''' 
meaning "psychologically" (or even "physiologically")

'''a kind of idolotry of uniqueness''' 
i.e., a worship of individuality

==Page 605==
'''over-ebullient''' 
excessively cheerful

'''rack''' 
bed (perhaps a bunk, here)

'''seventh sense''' 
implying that Gately also possesses the sixth sense (i.e., extrasensory perception or at least uncommonly keen intuition), and suggests an ability to recognize that someone else is under the influence (although some of the first five could probably tell him that)

'''Sergeant at Arms''' 
a figurative use, probably suggesting that the drugs Lenz took have commanded him to keep moving (in the manner of a drill sergeant)

"Nietzschean" 
the Substance can make any man feel like an Übermensch (superhuman)

'''incognitoizing''' 
Gately's mental neologism for "rendering incognito," i.e., disguising

'''regentrifying''' 
Lenz means "regenerating" rather than "refurbishing (again)"

'''L-Dopa''' 
abbreviation for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-Dopa levadopa] a chemical precursor to dopamine, adrenaline, and other neurotransmitters

'''scrotum-tightening''' 
An epithet first used by James Joyce in Chapter 1 of his 1922 novel ''Ulysses''. Buck Mulligan is gazing at the Dublin Bay: "--God, he said quietly. Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a grey sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea. Epi oinopa ponton. Ah, Dedalus, the Greeks. I must teach you. You must read them in the original. Thalatta! Thalatta! She is our great sweet mother. Come and look." (''Epi oinopa ponton'' is Homer's famous descriptor for the Aegean Sea from ''The Odyssey'': the wine-dark sea.)

==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 "OK," whereas this literally, in Yiddish, refers to food "prepared according to Jewish Law."

'''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==

'''high-B#''' 
Equivalent to the pitch of C, and vocally, the high C is two octaves above middle C.

'''SHUCO-MIST M.P.S.''' 
Shuco-Mist Medical Pressure Systems (mentioned on page 198) is perhaps the fictional manufacturer a brand of nebulizer (actually spelled "Schuco Mist") for use by asthma patients.

==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

'''lending weight to another cliché''' 
presumably E.M. Security is "never there when you need them."

==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''' 
Apparently in the manner of Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), famed for theorizing that the Earth orbits the Sun rather than vice versa, but this raises the question of ''why'' or ''how'' in the manner of Copernicus. It does not seem that Erdedy has a telescope, but perhaps he is "staring...up her [the veiled girl's] flapping robe" looking for the center of the universe.

'''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.'''' 
Again, Green speaking with his broken nose: "I'm not touching nothing, don't worry."

'''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. (She is referred to as "a.k.a. Madame P." much earlier on page 225)

'''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]

'''And lo''' 
a reference to the opening of the M.P. radio show

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==Page 589==

'''Revelation of John''' 
the last book of the New Testament

'''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==

'''Rindge and Latin School''' 
Cambridge Rindge and Latin School - the only public high school in Cambridge MA.

=Life as an Ennet House Staff Member=

==Page 593==

'''picayune''' 
petty

'''lithium''' 
used to treat bipolar disorder

'''Sylvia Plate''' 
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was an American poet and novelist who suffered from depression and took her own life in 1963.

==Page 594==

'''narc''' 
a narcotics officer or a snitch

'''verbatim''' 
word for word

==Page 595==

==Page 596==

=Orin & the "Swiss" hand model, cont.=

==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

=Canadians chase Lenz to Ennet House=

==Page 601==

==Endnote 247==

'''the Hole''' 
prison slang for solitary confinement

==Page 602==

'''cribbage''' 
a type of card game

==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==

'''B.U. or -C. students''' 
i.e., students of Boston University or (Boston) College

'''constitutionally''' 
meaning "psychologically" (or even "physiologically")

'''a kind of idolotry of uniqueness''' 
i.e., a worship of individuality

==Page 605==

'''rack''' 
bed (perhaps a bunk, here)

'''seventh sense''' 
implying that Gately also possesses the sixth sense (i.e., extrasensory perception or at least uncommonly keen intuition), and suggests an ability to recognize that someone else is under the influence (although some of the first five could probably tell him that)

'''Sergeant at Arms''' 
a figurative use, probably suggesting that the drugs Lenz took have commanded him to keep moving (in the manner of a drill sergeant)

'''incognitoizing''' 
Gately's mental neologism for "rendering incognito," i.e., disguising

'''regentrifying''' 
Lenz means "regenerating" rather than "refurbishing (again)"

'''L-Dopa''' 
abbreviation for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-Dopa levadopa]

'''scrotum-tightening''' 
An epithet first used by James Joyce in Chapter 1 of his 1922 novel ''Ulysses''. Buck Mulligan is gazing at the Dublin Bay: "--God, he said quietly. Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a grey sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea. Epi oinopa ponton. Ah, Dedalus, the Greeks. I must teach you. You must read them in the original. Thalatta! Thalatta! She is our great sweet mother. Come and look." (''Epi oinopa ponton'' is Homer's famous descriptor for the Aegean Sea from ''The Odyssey'': the wine-dark sea.)

==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 "OK," whereas this literally, in Yiddish, refers to food "prepared according to Jewish Law."

'''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==

'''high-B#''' 
Equivalent to the pitch of C, and vocally, the high C is two octaves above middle C.

'''SHUCO-MIST M.P.S.''' 
Shuco-Mist Medical Pressure Systems (mentioned on page 198) is perhaps the fictional manufacturer a brand of nebulizer (actually spelled "Schuco Mist") for use by asthma patients.

==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

'''lending weight to another cliché''' 
presumably E.M. Security is "never there when you need them."

==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''' 
Apparently in the manner of Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), famed for theorizing that the Earth orbits the Sun rather than vice versa, but this raises the question of ''why'' or ''how'' in the manner of Copernicus. It does not seem that Erdedy has a telescope, but perhaps he is "staring...up her [the veiled girl's] flapping robe" looking for the center of the universe.

'''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.'''' 
Again, Green speaking with his broken nose: "I'm not touching nothing, don't worry."

'''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. (She is referred to as "a.k.a. Madame P." much earlier on page 225)

'''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]

'''And lo''' 
a reference to the opening of the M.P. radio show

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=Mario longs for M.P., goes for a walk=

==Page 589==

'''Revelation of John''' 
the last book of the New Testament

'''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==

'''Rindge and Latin School''' 
Cambridge Rindge and Latin School - the only public high school in Cambridge MA.

=Life as an Ennet House Staff Member=

==Page 593==

'''picayune''' 
petty

'''lithium''' 
used to treat bipolar disorder

'''Sylvia Plate''' 
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was an American poet and novelist who suffered from depression and took her own life in 1963.

==Page 594==

'''narc''' 
a narcotics officer or a snitch

'''verbatim''' 
word for word

==Page 595==

==Page 596==

=Orin & the "Swiss" hand model, cont.=

==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

=Canadians chase Lenz to Ennet House=

==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==

'''B.U. or -C. students''' 
i.e., students of Boston University or (Boston) College

'''constitutionally''' 
meaning "psychologically" (or even "physiologically")

'''a kind of idolotry of uniqueness''' 
i.e., a worship of individuality

==Page 605==

'''rack''' 
bed (perhaps a bunk, here)

'''seventh sense''' 
implying that Gately also possesses the sixth sense (i.e., extrasensory perception or at least uncommonly keen intuition), and suggests an ability to recognize that someone else is under the influence (although some of the first five could probably tell him that)

'''Sergeant at Arms''' 
a figurative use, probably suggesting that the drugs Lenz took have commanded him to keep moving (in the manner of a drill sergeant)

'''incognitoizing''' 
Gately's mental neologism for "rendering incognito," i.e., disguising

'''regentrifying''' 
Lenz means "regenerating" rather than "refurbishing (again)"

'''L-Dopa''' 
abbreviation for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-Dopa levadopa]

'''scrotum-tightening''' 
An epithet first used by James Joyce in Chapter 1 of his 1922 novel ''Ulysses''. Buck Mulligan is gazing at the Dublin Bay: "--God, he said quietly. Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a grey sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea. Epi oinopa ponton. Ah, Dedalus, the Greeks. I must teach you. You must read them in the original. Thalatta! Thalatta! She is our great sweet mother. Come and look." (''Epi oinopa ponton'' is Homer's famous descriptor for the Aegean Sea from ''The Odyssey'': the wine-dark sea.)

==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 "OK," whereas this literally, in Yiddish, refers to food "prepared according to Jewish Law."

'''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==

'''high-B#''' 
Equivalent to the pitch of C, and vocally, the high C is two octaves above middle C.

'''SHUCO-MIST M.P.S.''' 
Shuco-Mist Medical Pressure Systems (mentioned on page 198) is perhaps the fictional manufacturer a brand of nebulizer (actually spelled "Schuco Mist") for use by asthma patients.

==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

'''lending weight to another cliché''' 
presumably E.M. Security is "never there when you need them."

==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''' 
Apparently in the manner of Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), famed for theorizing that the Earth orbits the Sun rather than vice versa, but this raises the question of ''why'' or ''how'' in the manner of Copernicus. It does not seem that Erdedy has a telescope, but perhaps he is "staring...up her [the veiled girl's] flapping robe" looking for the center of the universe.

'''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.'''' 
Again, Green speaking with his broken nose: "I'm not touching nothing, don't worry."

'''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. (She is referred to as "a.k.a. Madame P." much earlier on page 225)

'''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]

'''And lo''' 
a reference to the opening of the M.P. radio show

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=Mario longs for M.P., goes for a walk=

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'''Revelation of John''' 
the last book of the New Testament

'''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==

'''Rindge and Latin School''' 
Cambridge Rindge and Latin School - the only public high school in Cambridge MA.

=Life as an Ennet House Staff Member=

==Page 593==

'''picayune''' 
petty

'''lithium''' 
used to treat bipolar disorder

'''Sylvia Plate''' 
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was an American poet and novelist who suffered from depression and took her own life in 1963.

==Page 594==

'''narc''' 
a narcotics officer

'''verbatim''' 
word for word

==Page 595==

==Page 596==

=Orin & the "Swiss" hand model, cont.=

==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

=Canadians chase Lenz to Ennet House=

==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==

'''B.U. or -C. students''' 
i.e., students of Boston University or (Boston) College

'''constitutionally''' 
meaning "psychologically" (or even "physiologically")

'''a kind of idolotry of uniqueness''' 
i.e., a worship of individuality

==Page 605==

'''rack''' 
bed (perhaps a bunk, here)

'''seventh sense''' 
implying that Gately also possesses the sixth sense (i.e., extrasensory perception or at least uncommonly keen intuition), and suggests an ability to recognize that someone else is under the influence (although some of the first five could probably tell him that)

'''Sergeant at Arms''' 
a figurative use, probably suggesting that the drugs Lenz took have commanded him to keep moving (in the manner of a drill sergeant)

'''incognitoizing''' 
Gately's mental neologism for "rendering incognito," i.e., disguising

'''regentrifying''' 
Lenz means "regenerating" rather than "refurbishing (again)"

'''L-Dopa''' 
abbreviation for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-Dopa levadopa]

'''scrotum-tightening''' 
An epithet first used by James Joyce in Chapter 1 of his 1922 novel ''Ulysses''. Buck Mulligan is gazing at the Dublin Bay: "--God, he said quietly. Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a grey sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea. Epi oinopa ponton. Ah, Dedalus, the Greeks. I must teach you. You must read them in the original. Thalatta! Thalatta! She is our great sweet mother. Come and look." (''Epi oinopa ponton'' is Homer's famous descriptor for the Aegean Sea from ''The Odyssey'': the wine-dark sea.)

==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 "OK," whereas this literally, in Yiddish, refers to food "prepared according to Jewish Law."

'''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==

'''high-B#''' 
Equivalent to the pitch of C, and vocally, the high C is two octaves above middle C.

'''SHUCO-MIST M.P.S.''' 
Shuco-Mist Medical Pressure Systems (mentioned on page 198) is perhaps the fictional manufacturer a brand of nebulizer (actually spelled "Schuco Mist") for use by asthma patients.

==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

'''lending weight to another cliché''' 
presumably E.M. Security is "never there when you need them."

==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''' 
Apparently in the manner of Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), famed for theorizing that the Earth orbits the Sun rather than vice versa, but this raises the question of ''why'' or ''how'' in the manner of Copernicus. It does not seem that Erdedy has a telescope, but perhaps he is "staring...up her [the veiled girl's] flapping robe" looking for the center of the universe.

'''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.'''' 
Again, Green speaking with his broken nose: "I'm not touching nothing, don't worry."

'''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. (She is referred to as "a.k.a. Madame P." much earlier on page 225)

'''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]

'''And lo''' 
a reference to the opening of the M.P. radio show

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