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'''claret-colored'''<br />
 
'''claret-colored'''<br />
A deep purplish red.  Claret is also the name of a wine that is produced in the Bordeaux region of France and slang for 'blood'.
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A deep purplish red.  Claret is also the name of a wine that is produced in the Bordeaux region of France and slang for 'blood'.[http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fuller's+earth]
  
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'''fuller's earth or sawdust'''<br />
Fuller's earth is any non-plastic clay or claylike earthy material that can be used to decolorize, filter, and purify animal, mineral, and vegetable oils and greases. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuller's_earth Wikipedia]
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Fuller's earth is an absorbent clay that is used in talcum powder. Sawdust and chalk (talcum) are used by tennis players to keep their grip dry.  
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==Page 965==
 
==Page 965==

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964 · Pre-Exhibition Fête

Page 964

Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment

claret-colored
A deep purplish red. Claret is also the name of a wine that is produced in the Bordeaux region of France and slang for 'blood'.[1]

fuller's earth or sawdust
Fuller's earth is an absorbent clay that is used in talcum powder. Sawdust and chalk (talcum) are used by tennis players to keep their grip dry. [2]

Page 965

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

antigens
a molecule that stimulates immune response

piaffer
the trotting of a horse in one place with raised legs

hip-flexors
the muscles that move the hip

fey
effeminate

Camilla
a figure from Roman mythology

Page 966

Frankenstein
or, more correctly, Frankenstein's monster

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

malleolus
a bony lump on the side of the ankle

Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell (born Roberta Joan Anderson in 1943) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter.

ingenuish
in the manner of an innocent young woman

Page 967

Y.T.M.P.

ciquatoxic
referring to a poison produced by certain fish

P.O.
philharmonic orchestra

Page 968

Sanger-Brown's ataxia
another name for Marie's ataxia

practicum
the student-teaching portion of a teaching education

ineluctable
incapable of being avoided

Apologia
in this sense, not an apology but a defense

Page 969

self-mimetic
imitating one's self

Brothers K.
The Brother's Karamazov, a novel by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), Russian novelist

erudite
scholarly

carcinogenic
causing cancer

acerbity
acidity

Ivan's Grand Inquisitor scenario
Read this portion here.

lumpen
disenfrancished

solar plexus
a complex of nerves in the abdomen

verminousness
resembling vermin

Page 970

alms
charity

silt
very small grains of rock or sand

Page 971

fuliginous
smoky or sooty

50° C
122° Fahrenheit

Page 972

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

972 · Final Chapter

Page 972

confiteor
a prayer of confession of sins

Page 973

"...look down her shirt and spell attic..."
and thus saying, "A-T-T-I-C" or "a titty I see"

Page 974

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

Page 975

Weejuns
a type of shoe, see here

Page 976

Jack Daniels
a famous brand of bourbon whiskey

Page 977

S&W
Smith & Wesson

2500-IU ampule
IUs are international units, which converts to metric depending on the substance.

transvestals
i.e., transvestites

Page 978

Endnote 386

Exocet
a type of missile

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

Page 978 (cont'd)

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

Page 979

Endnote 387

pentazocine
a synethetic opioid painkiller

Endnote 387a

dysmenorrhea
pre-menstrual syndrome and/or painful periods

hot shot
an injection intended to kill

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

Page 980

ditty
a little song

Page 981

"...the one about ultraviolence and sadism."
Gately is thinking of Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange


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