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2009-04-12T01:23:46Z

AJim: more on the relevance of I. M. Pei

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''p-dope''' 
131;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Pettijohn''' 
254; ETA teacher

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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2009-04-12T01:11:13Z

AJim: two more references to Mlle. Luria P

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''p-dope''' 
131;

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

'''Pei, I.M. (Ieoh Ming)''' 
184; Chinese-born American architect, b. 1917

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Pettijohn''' 
254; ETA teacher

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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User:AJim

2009-04-12T01:01:23Z

AJim: start page

I just read this book. I like it a lot, but it is a book that could benefit from an index. When I discovered this wiki, I wanted to join in.