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==Page 158==

swinishest 
most swinish, i.e., most pig-like

sodding 
a pejorative intensifier, chiefly British in usage

fingerling 
something very small

the Beats 
members of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beats Beat generation]

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[[Image:Mercury.jpg|right]]

1956 Mercury Montclair 
See right, though Incandenza's father's car is "bit-lip red."

nubbly 
full of small protuberances

sinew 
another word for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinew tendon]

parping 
According to the OED, a parp is a honking sound; parping is defined as causing something (as a car horn) to parp.

Head is body. 
Incandenza's father is expressing a non-Cartesian point of view. René Descartes (1596-1650), the French polymath, separated the mind (res cogitans) from the body (res extensa).

rutilant 
bright red

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actuating 
putting into action

Nein? 
German: No?

tiller 
what turns the rudder to steer a boat

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pronator teres 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronator_teres_muscle muscle] of the forearm

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whorled 
having whorls, i.e., coiled and spiral shapes

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flying sod 
He's referring to divots, i.e., bits of the fairway that get torn up when a golf ball is hit.

anal rage 
He's probably referring to anal-retentive rage, rather than rage specifically located in the anus.

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DeSotos 
a brand of automobile, examples of which can be seen [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSoto_%28automobile%29 here]

hove 
past tense of heave

lox 
smoked salmon

gregariously 
in a sociable manner

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Himself 
Note that Incandenza's father calls his own father by the same nickname as Incandenza's children call him.

senza errori 
Italian: Without errors

veldt 
From Afrikaans, this is a word for an open field with grass, bushes, etc.

deft 
quick and skillful

President 
here referring to Franklin Roosevelt

lattice 
This is "a structure of crossed wooden or metal strips usually arranged to form a diagonal pattern of open spaces between the strips" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

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Bisbee 
a city of Arizona, 82 miles south of Tuscon

Dean 
probably referring to [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000015/ James Dean]

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inertia 
absence of motion

scabrous 
having a rough surface because of minute points or projections

mortified 
having undergone mortification of the flesh, i.e., abuse of the body by one's self as a form of penance''

USC 
the [http://www.usc.edu/ University of Southern California]

Avalon 
probably [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000811/ Frankie Avalon]

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Latinate 
suggestive in style of the ancient Romans

Inman Square 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inman_Square square] in Cambridge named for colonial merchant Ralph Inman

Brioni 
a high-fashion clothes company

Mr. Howell 
Gilligan's Island character [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurston_Howell Thurston J. Howell, III]

rakish 
jaunty or dashing

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oxfords 
formal shoes with laces

nacelle 
the enclosed part of an airplane, where the engine is housed

DMZ 
Most commonly, this acronym stands for "demilitarized zone," as in the area between North and South Korea. Here it is a made-up drug name.

MED.COM 
not a real Web site

mescaline 
Mescaline is the active ingredient in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyote peyote].

TMA 
an acronym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimethoxyamphetamine trimethoxyamphetamine]

DOM or STP 
STP stands for "serenity, tranquity, and peace," and it's a pseudonym for DOM, which stands for dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine.

DMT 
acronym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyltryptamine dimethyltryptamine

Ololiuqui or datura's scopolamine, or Fluothane, or Bufotenine (a.k.a. 'Jackie-O.'), or Ebene 
Ololiuqui is a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ololiuqui morning glory] plants, the seeds of which are known to be hallucinogenic. Datura's scopolamine is another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopolamine hyoscine]. Fluothane is an inhaled general anesthetic. Bufotenine is an alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufotenine bufotenin] and is the active ingredient in the skin of toads that cause hallucinations when licked. (I have no idea why it's called "Jackie-O.") Ebene is a South American tree that yields a hallucinogen used in rituals.

==Endnote 56==

PMA 
acronym for [paramethoxyamphetamine paramethoxyamphetamine]

myristicin 
Found in nutmeg, it does not have hallucinogenic properties.

ergine 
Also called LSA, it's found in morning glory seeds

ibogaine 
Found in varieties of dogbane, it is a drug used to ease heroin withdrawal.

yagé's harmaline 
Yagé is the native name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banisteriopsis_caapi banisteria]. Harmaline is the active ingredient.

fitviavi 
apparently a coined word

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==Endnote 57==

Tibetan-Dead-Book 
better known as the [http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/dead/ Tibetan Book of the Dead]

Futurist 
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism_%28art%29 Italian Futurism], an art movement on the early 20th century

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chemist at Sandoz Pharm. 
This would be Albert Hoffman (born 1906), a Swiss scientist best known for first synthesizing LSD.

Alan Watts 
Alan Wilson Watts (1915-1973) was a British-born philosopher and writer in the field of comparative religion.

T. Leary 
Timothy Francis Leary (1920-1996) was an American writer and psychologist best known as an advocate for regular LSD use.

Millbrook NY 
a town in New York state, about 90 miles north of New York City

WYYY 
actually a radio station in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYYY Syracuse, New York]

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Riverside Hamlet 
The Riverside Shakespeare is one of the better-known editions of Shakespeare's work. Note that Hal, who is based on the character Hamlet, is reading Hamlet.

Consummation of the Levirates 
A levirate is a man called up to marry his elder brother's childless widow, in accordance with Jewish Law.

Baron's 
a deliberate (probably) misspelling of [http://online.barrons.com/public/main Barron's]

Tilden on Spin 
The book by William Tatem "Big Bill" Tilden II (1893-1953), American tennis giant, is actually entitled Match Play and the Spin of the Ball.

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stevedore 
a person who loads and unloads cargo from boats

40 km. 
almost 25 miles

Schnell 
German: Quickly

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formants and fricatives, trochaically stressed 
A format is, according to Wikipedia, "a peak in an acoustic frequency spectrum which results from the resonant frequencies of any acoustic system." A fricative is a phoneme produced by forcing air through tight lips. In English, fricatives are /s/, /z/, /th/, and /zh/. Trochaically means spoken in trochees, or a metrical foot on two syllables with the stress on the first (the word "trochee" is a trochee).

aperture 
An aperture is an opening; here it is probably referring to the anus.

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8 1/2 
a film by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000019/ Federico Fellini]

intensile 
incapable of being stretched

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Noxzema 
a skin cleaner marketed by Procter & Gamble

Contracol 
not a drug currently marketed in the U.S.

Epsom salts 
Magnesium sulfate, used to relieve pain, among other uses.

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Higher Power 
Most twelve-step drug or alcohol recovery programs teach a belief in God or a "Higher Power" (the latter to soften the blow to atheists).

Kemp and Limbaugh 
Jack French Kemp, Jr. (born 1935), is a conservative American politician, former member of the House of Representative, former Secretary for Housing and Urban Development, and 1996 candidate for Vice President.

Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (born 1951) is a conservative radio talk-show host.

formicate 
to crawl like ants

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magnaminously 
a (probably deliberate) misspelling of "magnanimously," i.e., generously

the Fenway 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenway-Kenmore Fenway-Kenmore] section of Boston

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septum 
more specifically, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_septum nasal septum]

harelip 
also known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harelip cleft lip] or cleft palate

doocy 
I have no idea

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2% proof 
Redundant because "proof" is an expression of alcohol content. Doubling the alcohol percentage gives you proof, i.e., 2% alcohol is 4 proof.

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Madame Psychosis 
not just a byname for DMZ, but also a radio show host

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particidal 
having a tendency to kill one's father

entomologist 
a person who studies insects scientifically

sephenoid 
a misspelling for [http://www.entnet.org/healthinfo/sinus/sinus_sphenoid.cfm sphenoid]

Infundibular 
having the form of a funnel

epiglottal 
having to do with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiglottis epiglottis]

Hillel 
a nationwide (worldwide?) Jewish student union present on several campuses

corpus callosum 
the part of the brain connecting the left and right hemispheres

larygeally fissured 
having ridges like the human [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larynx larynx]

work-study 
receiving funding from the university in exchange for work rendered to the university

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chiffon 
a lightweight, balanced, plain-woven fabric

limned 
To limn means to describe

parietal 
referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parietal_lobe parietal lobe] of the brain, responsible for sensory memory and response

pop 
Midwesterners in the U.S. use this word to denote what others call "soda," i.e., Coca-Cola, 7-Up, etc.

Dow 
a pun on the Chinese word tao, ("the way") and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJIA Dow Jones Industrial Average]

gasper 
cigarette

E.S.T. 
Eastern Standard Time

medulla 
literally that part of the brain responsible for autonomic functions like heartbeat, organ activity, etc.

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I. M. Pei 
Ieoh Ming Pei (born 1917) is a Chinese-born American architect who designed, among other famous buildings, MIT's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Building_%28MIT%29 Green Building].

==Endnote 60==

J. A. Stratton 
Julius Adams Stratton (1901-1994) was an American educator and president of MIT between 1959 and 1965.

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cerebral cortex 
that part of the brain responsible for higher-order thinking

"...what she's said for three years of midnights..." 
Up until 'Look at that fucker Dance,' the rest of her introduction is from [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201&version=9 Genesis 1].

Largest Whole Prime On The FM Band 
109 is a prime number, i.e., divisible only by itself and by 1. Actually the highest number you can get on FM is 108, and there are no whole numbers in FM radio in the U.S.

EM 
probably denoting "electromagnetic"

centrifugal 
that force in a spinning object that tends to push away objects from the angle of rotation

Hundt Act 
Reed E. Hundt (born 1948) was chairman of the Federal Communications Committee in 1996, when the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was passed. Wallace may be riffing on that, as it appears there was no equivalent legislation in 1966.

spatter's center 
The spatter referred to here is probably the small amount of FM bands that can be sent out.

inelastic 
When used with regard to demand, this term means tending not to change.

3-km. cannon 
The range is about 1.86 miles.

P.E. 
Physical Education

Philology 
The love of language, the term is also used to describe the study of literature.

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hypogonadism 
lack of function of the ovaries or testicles

Nodular leprosy with leonine facies 
a form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprosy leprosy] that generates lesions made of nodes and that produces lion-like facial expressions (i.e., "leonine facies")

The acromegalic and hyperkeratosistic. The enuretic. 
Arcomegaly is a disorder of the pituitary gland whereby it produces too much human growth hormone, resulting in giantism. Hyperkeratosistic means that one is suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperkeratosis hyperkeratosis]. Enuresis is the inability to urinate.

The spasmodically torticollic. 
having a head tilted to one side (torticollis) involving convulsions (spasmodic)

G.S.L. 
Guaranteed Student Loan

treillage 
latticework

interneural 
between nerves

semitic ideograms 
Semitic languages actually tend to be written uses alphabets, where a symbol denotes a phoneme, rather than in ideograms, like Chinese and Korean are. The oldest alphabet is the Phoenician, which was Semitic.0

rostral lamina 
in biology, a beaklike or snoutlike (rostral) layer of tissue (lamina)

neuroform 
Neuroform is actually the brand-name of a type of stent.

S.O.P. 
Standard Operating Procedure

neorealist 
adhering to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_neorealism Italian neorealism]

Peterson/Broughton and Dali/Buñuel 
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0677403/ Sidney Peterson] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0112687/ James Broughton] collaborated on [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038855/ The Potted Psalm] (1946), an experimental film.

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Púbol (1904-1989) and Luis Buñuel Portolés (1900-1983) were both Spanish artists. They collaborated on [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020530/ Un chien andalou] (An Andalusian Dog, 1929), another experimental film.

Deren/Hammid 
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220305/ Maya Deren] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0352413/ Alexander Hammid] codirected [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036154/ Meshes of the Afternoon]

Antonioni 
Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007) was an Italian filmmaker probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060176/ Blowup].

Tarkovsky 
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (1932-1986) was a Soviet-Russian filmmaker.

Sometimes Ozu and Bresson 
Yasujirō Ozu (1903-1963) was a Japanese filmmaker. Robert Bresson (1901-1999) was a French filmmaker.

hoary dramaturgy 
According to Wikipedia, dramaturgy is "the art of dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage." To call it "hoary" would be to imply it's old.

Sir Herbert Tree 
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852-1917) was a British actor and manager. You can hear his performances of Hamlet [http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/playhamlet.html here].

Kaelesque 
In the style of Pauline Kael (1919-2001), an American film critic for New Yorker magazine.

De Palma, Tarantino 
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000361/ Brian De Palma] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000233/ Quentin Tarantino]

==Endnote 61==

dissociative formalism 
presumably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formalist_film_theory formalism] that focuses too much on form and not enough on character and other aspects of filmmaking

Stan Brakhage and Hollis Frampton 
Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) and Hollis Frampton (1936-1984) were American avant-garde filmmakers.

Beth B. 
You can read about here [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0044579/ here].

the Snow brothers, Vigdis Simpson 
One of the Snow brothers would have to be Michael Snow (born 1929), a Canadian-American filmmaker, principally known for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength_%281966_film%29 Wavelength]. Vigdis Simpson seems created.

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Brutalism, Found Drama 
Brutalism may refer to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalism brutalist architecture]. Found Drama is the cinematic extension of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_art Found Art].

dissonant 
inharmonious with other things (here, aspects of Madame Psychosis's taste)

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Baraka 
Imamu Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones, 1934) is an African-American poet, playwright, author, and political activist.

piamater 
actually two words: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pia_mater Pia mater]

sulci 
plural of "sulcus," a furrow or groove, particularly between sections of the brain

A.Y. ('V.F.') Rickey's summum opus 
[http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/ V. Frederick Rickey] is a prominent mathematician. I don't know who A.Y. Rickey is/was, but it is notable that there is, in fact, no Student Union building at MIT.

Summum opus would be a "great work" while magnum opus would be the "best work."

parietooccipital 
referring to both the parietal lobe of the brain, as well as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occipital_lobe occipital] lobe, which is where vision is processed

Pons and abducent 
The Pons is a structure on the brain stem, while the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abducent_nerve abducens nerve] is a nerve in the muscles of the eye.

basilar-stem artery 
a stem of an artery that carries blood to the brain

oblongata 
the second half of the full name of the medulla

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FHC 
acronym for "fluorohydrocarbon," this is a type of [http://www.polymerplastics.com/fluoro_overview.shtml fluroplastic], known to give off poisonous fumes

Heathkit 
The company's Web site is [http://www.heathkit-museum.com/ here].

10ºC 
fifty degrees Fahrenheit

five m. 
almost 16.5 feet

vascularly hued 
colored like a blood vessel

mercuric 
employing the element [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element) mercury]

wooferless 
lacking the larger speaker (i.e., the "woofer") found in multi-speaker systems

saddle-noses 
noses having a collapsed nasal bridge

atrophic 
shrinking in size

Scleredema adultorum 
a [http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic385.htm disease] characterized by non-pitting induration of the skin

serodermatotic 
suffering from serodermatosis, a skin disease with serous effusion into the skin

hydrocephalic 
having water on the brain

tabescent and chachetic 
Tabescent refers to a person with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabes tabes dorsalis], and chachetic (probably misspelled) apparently refers to a person with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cachexia cachexia].

Brag's-Diseased 
This would seem to be a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glioma glioma], though it is mentioned almost nowhere.

carbuncular or steatocryptotic 
Carbuncular means "pimply," while steatocryptotic refers to a person suffering from steatocryptosis, which is derangement of the sebaceous glands.

Marin-Amat Syndrome 
This is involuntary closure on one eye, named for Manuel Marin Amat, an early 20th century Spanish ophthalmologist.

scrofulodermic 
suffering from [http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic434.htm cutaneous tuberculosis]

Bell-shaped steatopygiacs 
A steatopygiac is a person suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steatopygia steatopygia]; if you're bell-shaped, it just means the fat is closer to the bottom than the top

Pityriasis Rosea 
a skin disease marked by patches of pink, oval rash

"Blessed are the poor in body, for they." 
This is not one of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatitude Beatitudes].

U.H.I.D. 
This is a bona fide acronym for "Universal Health Identifier," though it's doubtful this is what Wallace means. A HID is a "Human Interface Device"; U could stand for "university" or "universal" or something else entirely. Ah, what he means: Union of Hideous and Improbably Deformed

probability waves for subhadronics 
Probability waves are a concept in quantum physics that expresses the probability that "a particle or particles in a particular state will be measured to have a given position and momentum" (Wikipedia). Subhadronic refers to a particle smaller than a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadron hadron].

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Radcliffe's Bunting Institute 
Radcliffe is the women's college at Harvard University. According to the Harvard [http://www.harvard.edu/ Web site], "The Bunting Institute is a mutidisciplinary center for women scholars, writers, artists, and activists of demonstrated achievement and promise. Each year, approximately 40 women pursue projects that make significant contributions to their fields, working in a community that fosters interdisciplinary discourse, and creative and intellectual leadership. Some describe their experience as "the Bunting transformation."

L.A.S. tradition 
Liberal Arts and Sciences

==Endnote 64==

Samuel Johnson 
Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1709-1784), was a British poet, essayist, novelist, literary critic, and lexicographer.

Beesley 
Patricia Beesley, an early 20th century American educator who did author the book named.

cornup3.COM 
There is no such Web site.

mens-sana pedagogy 
"healthy-mind" teaching

ad valorem 
Latin: by value

corpore potis 
Latin: able of body

Thorp's Trigonometry of Cubes 
Edward Oakley Thorp (born 1932) is an American mathematician, but he seems not to have created a "trigonometry of cubes," which would be, frankly, impossible.

aphotic to apochromatic 
Aphotic means without light, while apochromatic means developing color.

Best Boy 
a member of a film crew, assistant to either the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaffer_%28motion_picture_industry%29 gaffer] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_grip key grip]

Cambridgeport 
an area of Cambridge, Mass.

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leukodermatic 
white-skinned

xanthodantic 
misspelling of xanthodontic, which means yellow-toothed

basilisk-breathed and pyorrheic 
A basilisk is a type of dragon, and pyorrhea is the condition of having gum disease.

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peronic or teratoidal 
Peronic means having a bent penis, while teratoidal means malformed.

prenologically malformed 
malformed in the shape of the skull

supuratively lesioned 
having lesions that ooze pus

acervulus-nosed 
having blisters on the nose

radically -ectomied 
-having to do with body-part removal (think radical mastectomy)

diaphoretic 
perspiring

granulomatous 
having masses of ulcerated infections of the skin

lazarettes and oubliettes 
A lazarette is a hospital that treats infectious diseases, while an oubliette is a dungeon accessible only by trapdoor.

kyphotic and lordotic 
Kyphotic means having abnormal rear curvature of the spine (i.e., hunchbacked), while lordotic having abnormal forward curvature of the spine.

cellulitic 
fat

fatally pulchritudinous 
deadly good-looking

Actaeonizing 
turning into a deer; growing horns

Medusoid 
looking like a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon gorgon]

papuled, the macular, the albinic 
Papules are inflammatory elevations of the skin. Macular means having opaque spots on the cornea. Albinic is having no melanin.

odalisques 
a concubine or slave in a harem

ital 
italics, used for emphasis

crosiers 
a crosier is a type of French roll

lager 
a type of beer, medium in darkness

vin blanc 
French: white wine

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Good Morning, Midnight and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Giovanni's Room and Under the Volcano 
Good Morning, Midnight is a novel by Jean Rhys (1890-1979), born Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams, a Caribbean novelist, on the topic of a woman forced to confront her own loneliness and despair. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is a novel by Stephen Crane (1871-1900), an American novelist, on the topic of a child prostitute. Giovanni's Room by African-American expatriate author James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987) is a novel on the topic of a young man coming to terms with his homosexuality. Under the Volcano is a novel by Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957), a British writer, on the topic of alcoholism.

Bret Ellis 
Bret Easton Ellis (born 1965) is an American novelist probably best known for Less Than Zero (1985), about a drug addict who turns to prostitution, and American Psycho (1991), about a serial killer.

van der Rohe 
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) was a German-born American architect.

==Endnote 66==

R.E.M. and Pearl Jam 
R.E.M.'s lead singer, Michael Stipe, was famous for his unintelligible lyrics until around 1987's Document. Pearl Jam's vocalist, Eddie Vedder, is as cryptic now as he was fifteen years ago, when they released their first record.

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wall- and cross-eyed 
To be wall-eyed is to suffer from exotropia, which is a form of ocular paralysis in which one or both eyes turn outward.

ergotic of St. Anthony 
An old name for ergot poisoning is "St. Anthony's fire," which is ergot poisoning. However, given the context, Wallace may be referring here to shingles.

varicelliformally eruptive 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eczema_herpeticum eczema due to herpes].

sarcoma'd of Kaposi 
Karposi's sarcoma is a usually benign skin cancer common in elderly Mediterranean men that has become the most easily identifiable visible symptom of AIDS.

M. Hamilton as Oz's West Witch 
Referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/ The Wizard of Oz], the Wicked Witch of the West (and East) was played by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002121/ Margaret Hamilton].

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[[Image:RCA.jpg|right]]

RCA-Victorish 
The image can be seen to the right.

snaggle-toothed 
having a broken or projecting tooth

wattled 
having flesh hanging from one's chin, like a turkey

lycanthropically 
in a way suggesting a werewolf

Tourettic 
suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourette%27s_Syndrome Tourette's syndrome]

teratoid 
resembling a monster

halitotic 
having bad breath

saurian- and equine-looking 
looking like a lizard or horse, respectively

invaginate 
sheathed

Cushing's Disease 
Named for Harvey Williams Cushing (1869-1939), an American neurologist, this disease is an endocrine disorder resulting in rapid weight gain, sweating, thinning of skin, and other negative side effects.

Rhinoplasty 
nose job

subdural 
below the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dura_mater dura mater] in the skull

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les bâtiments sanctifíes 
French: the holy buildings

Metropolis 
a 1927 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136/ film] directed by Fritz Lang

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swinishest 
most swinish, i.e., most pig-like

sodding 
a pejorative intensifier, chiefly British in usage

fingerling 
something very small

the Beats 
members of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beats Beat generation]

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[[Image:Mercury.jpg|right]]

1956 Mercury Montclair 
See right, though Incandenza's father's car is "bit-lip red."

nubbly 
full of small protuberances

sinew 
another word for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinew tendon]

parping 
According to the OED, a parp is a honking sound; parping is defined as causing something (as a car horn) to parp.

Head is body.
Incandenza's father is expressing a non-Cartesian point of view. René Descartes (1596-1650), the French polymath, separated the mind (res cogitans) from the body (res extensa).

rutilant
bright red

==Page 160==

actuating
putting into action

Nein?
German: No?

tiller
what turns the rudder to steer a boat

==Page 161==

pronator teres
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronator_teres_muscle muscle] of the forearm

==Page 162==

whorled
having whorls, i.e., coiled and spiral shapes

==Page 163==

flying sod
He's referring to divots, i.e., bits of the fairway that get torn up when a golf ball is hit.

anal rage
He's probably referring to anal-retentive rage, rather than rage specifically located in the anus.

==Page 164==

DeSotos
a brand of automobile, examples of which can be seen [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSoto_%28automobile%29 here]

hove
past tense of heave

lox
smoked salmon

gregariously
in a sociable manner

==Page 165==

Himself
Note that Incandenza's father calls his own father by the same nickname as Incandenza's children call him.

senza errori
Italian: Without errors

veldt
From Afrikaans, this is a word for an open field with grass, bushes, etc.

deft
quick and skillful

President
here referring to Franklin Roosevelt

lattice
This is "a structure of crossed wooden or metal strips usually arranged to form a diagonal pattern of open spaces between the strips" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

==Page 166==

==Page 167==

Bisbee
a city of Arizona, 82 miles south of Tuscon

Dean
probably referring to [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000015/ James Dean]

==Page 168==

inertia
absence of motion

scabrous
having a rough surface because of minute points or projections

mortified
having undergone mortification of the flesh, i.e., abuse of the body by one's self as a form of penance''

USC
the [http://www.usc.edu/ University of Southern California]

Avalon
probably [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000811/ Frankie Avalon]

==Page 169==

<big>169 · Pemulis Scores DMZ</big>

==Page 169==

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

Latinate
suggestive in style of the ancient Romans

Inman Square
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inman_Square square] in Cambridge named for colonial merchant Ralph Inman

Brioni
a high-fashion clothes company

Mr. Howell
Gilligan's Island character [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurston_Howell Thurston J. Howell, III]

rakish
jaunty or dashing

==Page 170==

oxfords
formal shoes with laces

nacelle
the enclosed part of an airplane, where the engine is housed

DMZ
Most commonly, this acronym stands for "demilitarized zone," as in the area between North and South Korea. Here it is a made-up drug name.

MED.COM
not a real Web site

mescaline
Mescaline is the active ingredient in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyote peyote].

TMA
an acronym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimethoxyamphetamine trimethoxyamphetamine]

DOM or STP
STP stands for "serenity, tranquity, and peace," and it's a pseudonym for DOM, which stands for dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine.

DMT
acronym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyltryptamine dimethyltryptamine

Ololiuqui or datura's scopolamine, or Fluothane, or Bufotenine (a.k.a. 'Jackie-O.'), or Ebene
Ololiuqui is a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ololiuqui morning glory] plants, the seeds of which are known to be hallucinogenic. Datura's scopolamine is another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopolamine hyoscine]. Fluothane is an inhaled general anesthetic. Bufotenine is an alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufotenine bufotenin] and is the active ingredient in the skin of toads that cause hallucinations when licked. (I have no idea why it's called "Jackie-O.") Ebene is a South American tree that yields a hallucinogen used in rituals.

==Endnote 56==

PMA
acronym for [paramethoxyamphetamine paramethoxyamphetamine]

myristicin
Found in nutmeg, it does not have hallucinogenic properties.

ergine
Also called LSA, it's found in morning glory seeds

ibogaine
Found in varieties of dogbane, it is a drug used to ease heroin withdrawal.

yagé's harmaline
Yagé is the native name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banisteriopsis_caapi banisteria]. Harmaline is the active ingredient.

fitviavi
apparently a coined word

==Page 170 (cont'd)==

==Endnote 57==

Tibetan-Dead-Book
better known as the [http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/dead/ Tibetan Book of the Dead]

Futurist
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism_%28art%29 Italian Futurism], an art movement on the early 20th century

==Page 170 (cont'd)==

chemist at Sandoz Pharm.
This would be Albert Hoffman (born 1906), a Swiss scientist best known for first synthesizing LSD.

Alan Watts
Alan Wilson Watts (1915-1973) was a British-born philosopher and writer in the field of comparative religion.

T. Leary
Timothy Francis Leary (1920-1996) was an American writer and psychologist best known as an advocate for regular LSD use.

Millbrook NY
a town in New York state, about 90 miles north of New York City

WYYY
actually a radio station in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYYY Syracuse, New York]

==Page 171==

Riverside Hamlet
The Riverside Shakespeare is one of the better-known editions of Shakespeare's work. Note that Hal, who is based on the character Hamlet, is reading Hamlet.

Consummation of the Levirates
A levirate is a man called up to marry his elder brother's childless widow, in accordance with Jewish Law.

Baron's
a deliberate (probably) misspelling of [http://online.barrons.com/public/main Barron's]

Tilden on Spin
The book by William Tatem "Big Bill" Tilden II (1893-1953), American tennis giant, is actually entitled Match Play and the Spin of the Ball.

<big>172 · TENNIS AND THE FERAL PRODIGY</big>

==Page 172==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Yushityu...]]

==Page 173==

stevedore
a person who loads and unloads cargo from boats

40 km.
almost 25 miles

Schnell
German: Quickly

==Page 174==

formants and fricatives, trochaically stressed
A format is, according to Wikipedia, "a peak in an acoustic frequency spectrum which results from the resonant frequencies of any acoustic system." A fricative is a phoneme produced by forcing air through tight lips. In English, fricatives are /s/, /z/, /th/, and /zh/. Trochaically means spoken in trochees, or a metrical foot on two syllables with the stress on the first (the word "trochee" is a trochee).

aperture
An aperture is an opening; here it is probably referring to the anus.

==Page 175==

8 1/2
a film by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000019/ Federico Fellini]

intensile
incapable of being stretched

==Page 176==

Noxzema
a skin cleaner marketed by Procter & Gamble

Contracol
not a drug currently marketed in the U.S.

Epsom salts
Magnesium sulfate, used to relieve pain, among other uses.

<big>176 · Selected Transcripts</big>

==Page 176==

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

==Page 177==

Higher Power
Most twelve-step drug or alcohol recovery programs teach a belief in God or a "Higher Power" (the latter to soften the blow to atheists).

Kemp and Limbaugh
Jack French Kemp, Jr. (born 1935), is a conservative American politician, former member of the House of Representative, former Secretary for Housing and Urban Development, and 1996 candidate for Vice President.

Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (born 1951) is a conservative radio talk-show host.

formicate
to crawl like ants

==Page 178==

magnaminously
a (probably deliberate) misspelling of "magnanimously," i.e., generously

the Fenway
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenway-Kenmore Fenway-Kenmore] section of Boston

==Page 179==

septum
more specifically, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_septum nasal septum]

harelip
also known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harelip cleft lip] or cleft palate

doocy
I have no idea

==Page 180==

2% proof
Redundant because "proof" is an expression of alcohol content. Doubling the alcohol percentage gives you proof, i.e., 2% alcohol is 4 proof.

==Page 181==

<big>181* · Madame Psychosis on the Radio</big>

==Page 181==

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

Madame Psychosis
not just a byname for DMZ, but also a radio show host

==Page 182==

particidal
having a tendency to kill one's father

entomologist
a person who studies insects scientifically

sephenoid
a misspelling for [http://www.entnet.org/healthinfo/sinus/sinus_sphenoid.cfm sphenoid]

Infundibular
having the form of a funnel

epiglottal
having to do with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiglottis epiglottis]

Hillel
a nationwide (worldwide?) Jewish student union present on several campuses

corpus callosum
the part of the brain connecting the left and right hemispheres

larygeally fissured
having ridges like the human [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larynx larynx]

work-study
receiving funding from the university in exchange for work rendered to the university

==Page 183==

chiffon
a lightweight, balanced, plain-woven fabric

limned
To limn means to describe

parietal
referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parietal_lobe parietal lobe] of the brain, responsible for sensory memory and response

pop
Midwesterners in the U.S. use this word to denote what others call "soda," i.e., Coca-Cola, 7-Up, etc.

Dow
a pun on the Chinese word tao, ("the way") and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJIA Dow Jones Industrial Average]

gasper
cigarette

E.S.T.
Eastern Standard Time

medulla
literally that part of the brain responsible for autonomic functions like heartbeat, organ activity, etc.

==Page 184==

I. M. Pei
Ieoh Ming Pei (born 1917) is a Chinese-born American architect who designed, among other famous buildings, MIT's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Building_%28MIT%29 Green Building].

==Endnote 60==

J. A. Stratton
Julius Adams Stratton (1901-1994) was an American educator and president of MIT between 1959 and 1965.

==Page 184 (cont'd)==

cerebral cortex
that part of the brain responsible for higher-order thinking

"...what she's said for three years of midnights..."
Up until 'Look at that fucker Dance,' the rest of her introduction is from [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201&version=9 Genesis 1].

Largest Whole Prime On The FM Band
109 is a prime number, i.e., divisible only by itself and by 1. Actually the highest number you can get on FM is 108, and there are no whole numbers in FM radio in the U.S.

EM
probably denoting "electromagnetic"

centrifugal
that force in a spinning object that tends to push away objects from the angle of rotation

Hundt Act
Reed E. Hundt (born 1948) was chairman of the Federal Communications Committee in 1996, when the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was passed. Wallace may be riffing on that, as it appears there was no equivalent legislation in 1966.

spatter's center
The spatter referred to here is probably the small amount of FM bands that can be sent out.

inelastic
When used with regard to demand, this term means tending not to change.

3-km. cannon
The range is about 1.86 miles.

P.E.
Physical Education

Philology
The love of language, the term is also used to describe the study of literature.

==Page 185==

hypogonadism
lack of function of the ovaries or testicles

Nodular leprosy with leonine facies
a form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprosy leprosy] that generates lesions made of nodes and that produces lion-like facial expressions (i.e., "leonine facies")

The acromegalic and hyperkeratosistic. The enuretic.
Arcomegaly is a disorder of the pituitary gland whereby it produces too much human growth hormone, resulting in giantism. Hyperkeratosistic means that one is suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperkeratosis hyperkeratosis]. Enuresis is the inability to urinate.

The spasmodically torticollic.
having a head tilted to one side (torticollis) involving convulsions (spasmodic)

G.S.L.
Guaranteed Student Loan

treillage
latticework

interneural
between nerves

semitic ideograms
Semitic languages actually tend to be written uses alphabets, where a symbol denotes a phoneme, rather than in ideograms, like Chinese and Korean are. The oldest alphabet is the Phoenician, which was Semitic.0

rostral lamina
in biology, a beaklike or snoutlike (rostral) layer of tissue (lamina)

neuroform
Neuroform is actually the brand-name of a type of stent.

S.O.P.
Standard Operating Procedure

neorealist
adhering to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_neorealism Italian neorealism]

Peterson/Broughton and Dali/Buñuel
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0677403/ Sidney Peterson] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0112687/ James Broughton] collaborated on [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038855/ The Potted Psalm] (1946), an experimental film.

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Púbol (1904-1989) and Luis Buñuel Portolés (1900-1983) were both Spanish artists. They collaborated on [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020530/ Un chien andalou] (An Andalusian Dog, 1929), another experimental film.

Deren/Hammid
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220305/ Maya Deren] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0352413/ Alexander Hammid] codirected [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036154/ Meshes of the Afternoon]

Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007) was an Italian filmmaker probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060176/ Blowup].

Tarkovsky
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (1932-1986) was a Soviet-Russian filmmaker.

Sometimes Ozu and Bresson
Yasujirō Ozu (1903-1963) was a Japanese filmmaker. Robert Bresson (1901-1999) was a French filmmaker.

hoary dramaturgy
According to Wikipedia, dramaturgy is "the art of dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage." To call it "hoary" would be to imply it's old.

Sir Herbert Tree
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852-1917) was a British actor and manager. You can hear his performances of Hamlet [http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/playhamlet.html here].

Kaelesque
In the style of Pauline Kael (1919-2001), an American film critic for New Yorker magazine.

De Palma, Tarantino
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000361/ Brian De Palma] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000233/ Quentin Tarantino]

==Endnote 61==

dissociative formalism
presumably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formalist_film_theory formalism] that focuses too much on form and not enough on character and other aspects of filmmaking

Stan Brakhage and Hollis Frampton
Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) and Hollis Frampton (1936-1984) were American avant-garde filmmakers.

Beth B.
You can read about here [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0044579/ here].

the Snow brothers, Vigdis Simpson
One of the Snow brothers would have to be Michael Snow (born 1929), a Canadian-American filmmaker, principally known for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength_%281966_film%29 Wavelength]. Vigdis Simpson seems created.

==Page 185 (cont'd)==

Brutalism, Found Drama
Brutalism may refer to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalism brutalist architecture]. Found Drama is the cinematic extension of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_art Found Art].

dissonant
inharmonious with other things (here, aspects of Madame Psychosis's taste)

==Page 186==

Baraka
Imamu Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones, 1934) is an African-American poet, playwright, author, and political activist.

piamater
actually two words: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pia_mater Pia mater]

sulci
plural of "sulcus," a furrow or groove, particularly between sections of the brain

A.Y. ('V.F.') Rickey's summum opus
[http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/ V. Frederick Rickey] is a prominent mathematician. I don't know who A.Y. Rickey is/was, but it is notable that there is, in fact, no Student Union building at MIT.

Summum opus would be a "great work" while magnum opus would be the "best work."

parietooccipital
referring to both the parietal lobe of the brain, as well as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occipital_lobe occipital] lobe, which is where vision is processed

Pons and abducent
The Pons is a structure on the brain stem, while the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abducent_nerve abducens nerve] is a nerve in the muscles of the eye.

basilar-stem artery
a stem of an artery that carries blood to the brain

oblongata
the second half of the full name of the medulla

==Page 187==

FHC
acronym for "fluorohydrocarbon," this is a type of [http://www.polymerplastics.com/fluoro_overview.shtml fluroplastic], known to give off poisonous fumes

Heathkit
The company's Web site is [http://www.heathkit-museum.com/ here].

10ºC
fifty degrees Fahrenheit

five m.
almost 16.5 feet

vascularly hued
colored like a blood vessel

mercuric
employing the element [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element) mercury]

wooferless
lacking the larger speaker (i.e., the "woofer") found in multi-speaker systems

saddle-noses
noses having a collapsed nasal bridge

atrophic
shrinking in size

Scleredema adultorum
a [http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic385.htm disease] characterized by non-pitting induration of the skin

serodermatotic
suffering from serodermatosis, a skin disease with serous effusion into the skin

hydrocephalic
having water on the brain

tabescent and chachetic
Tabescent refers to a person with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabes tabes dorsalis], and chachetic (probably misspelled) apparently refers to a person with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cachexia cachexia].

Brag's-Diseased
This would seem to be a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glioma glioma], though it is mentioned almost nowhere.

carbuncular or steatocryptotic
Carbuncular means "pimply," while steatocryptotic refers to a person suffering from steatocryptosis, which is derangement of the sebaceous glands.

Marin-Amat Syndrome
This is involuntary closure on one eye, named for Manuel Marin Amat, an early 20th century Spanish ophthalmologist.

scrofulodermic
suffering from [http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic434.htm cutaneous tuberculosis]

Bell-shaped steatopygiacs
A steatopygiac is a person suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steatopygia steatopygia]; if you're bell-shaped, it just means the fat is closer to the bottom than the top

Pityriasis Rosea
a skin disease marked by patches of pink, oval rash

"Blessed are the poor in body, for they."
This is not one of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatitude Beatitudes].

U.H.I.D.
This is a bona fide acronym for "Universal Health Identifier," though it's doubtful this is what Wallace means. A HID is a "Human Interface Device"; U could stand for "university" or "universal" or something else entirely. Ah, what he means: Union of Hideous and Improbably Deformed

probability waves for subhadronics
Probability waves are a concept in quantum physics that expresses the probability that "a particle or particles in a particular state will be measured to have a given position and momentum" (Wikipedia). Subhadronic refers to a particle smaller than a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadron hadron].

==Page 188==

Radcliffe's Bunting Institute
Radcliffe is the women's college at Harvard University. According to the Harvard [http://www.harvard.edu/ Web site], "The Bunting Institute is a mutidisciplinary center for women scholars, writers, artists, and activists of demonstrated achievement and promise. Each year, approximately 40 women pursue projects that make significant contributions to their fields, working in a community that fosters interdisciplinary discourse, and creative and intellectual leadership. Some describe their experience as "the Bunting transformation."

L.A.S. tradition
Liberal Arts and Sciences

==Endnote 64==

Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1709-1784), was a British poet, essayist, novelist, literary critic, and lexicographer.

Beesley
Patricia Beesley, an early 20th century American educator who did author the book named.

cornup3.COM
There is no such Web site.

mens-sana pedagogy
"healthy-mind" teaching

ad valorem
Latin: by value

corpore potis
Latin: able of body

Thorp's Trigonometry of Cubes
Edward Oakley Thorp (born 1932) is an American mathematician, but he seems not to have created a "trigonometry of cubes," which would be, frankly, impossible.

aphotic to apochromatic
Aphotic means without light, while apochromatic means developing color.

Best Boy
a member of a film crew, assistant to either the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaffer_%28motion_picture_industry%29 gaffer] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_grip key grip]

Cambridgeport
an area of Cambridge, Mass.

==Page 189==

leukodermatic
white-skinned

xanthodantic
misspelling of xanthodontic, which means yellow-toothed

basilisk-breathed and pyorrheic
A basilisk is a type of dragon, and pyorrhea is the condition of having gum disease.

==Page 190==

peronic or teratoidal
Peronic means having a bent penis, while teratoidal means malformed.

prenologically malformed
malformed in the shape of the skull

supuratively lesioned
having lesions that ooze pus

acervulus-nosed
having blisters on the nose

radically -ectomied
-having to do with body-part removal (think radical mastectomy)

diaphoretic
perspiring

granulomatous
having masses of ulcerated infections of the skin

lazarettes and oubliettes
A lazarette is a hospital that treats infectious diseases, while an oubliette is a dungeon accessible only by trapdoor.

kyphotic and lordotic
Kyphotic means having abnormal rear curvature of the spine (i.e., hunchbacked), while lordotic having abnormal forward curvature of the spine.

cellulitic
fat

fatally pulchritudinous
deadly good-looking

Actaeonizing
turning into a deer; growing horns

Medusoid
looking like a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon gorgon]

papuled, the macular, the albinic
Papules are inflammatory elevations of the skin. Macular means having opaque spots on the cornea. Albinic is having no melanin.

odalisques
a concubine or slave in a harem

ital
italics, used for emphasis

crosiers
a crosier is a type of French roll

lager
a type of beer, medium in darkness

vin blanc
French: white wine

==Page 191==

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

Good Morning, Midnight and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Giovanni's Room and Under the Volcano
Good Morning, Midnight is a novel by Jean Rhys (1890-1979), born Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams, a Caribbean novelist, on the topic of a woman forced to confront her own loneliness and despair. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is a novel by Stephen Crane (1871-1900), an American novelist, on the topic of a child prostitute. Giovanni's Room by African-American expatriate author James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987) is a novel on the topic of a young man coming to terms with his homosexuality. Under the Volcano is a novel by Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957), a British writer, on the topic of alcoholism.

Bret Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis (born 1965) is an American novelist probably best known for Less Than Zero (1985), about a drug addict who turns to prostitution, and American Psycho (1991), about a serial killer.

van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) was a German-born American architect.

==Endnote 66==

R.E.M. and Pearl Jam
R.E.M.'s lead singer, Michael Stipe, was famous for his unintelligible lyrics until around 1987's Document. Pearl Jam's vocalist, Eddie Vedder, is as cryptic now as he was fifteen years ago, when they released their first record.

==Page 191 (cont'd)==

wall- and cross-eyed
To be wall-eyed is to suffer from exotropia, which is a form of ocular paralysis in which one or both eyes turn outward.

ergotic of St. Anthony
An old name for ergot poisoning is "St. Anthony's fire," which is ergot poisoning. However, given the context, Wallace may be referring here to shingles.

varicelliformally eruptive
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eczema_herpeticum eczema due to herpes].

sarcoma'd of Kaposi
Karposi's sarcoma is a usually benign skin cancer common in elderly Mediterranean men that has become the most easily identifiable visible symptom of AIDS.

M. Hamilton as Oz's West Witch
Referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/ The Wizard of Oz], the Wicked Witch of the West (and East) was played by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002121/ Margaret Hamilton].

==Page 192==

[[Image:RCA.jpg|right]]

RCA-Victorish
The image can be seen to the right.

snaggle-toothed
having a broken or projecting tooth

wattled
having flesh hanging from one's chin, like a turkey

lycanthropically
in a way suggesting a werewolf

Tourettic
suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourette%27s_Syndrome Tourette's syndrome]

teratoid
resembling a monster

halitotic
having bad breath

saurian- and equine-looking
looking like a lizard or horse, respectively

invaginate
sheathed

Cushing's Disease
Named for Harvey Williams Cushing (1869-1939), an American neurologist, this disease is an endocrine disorder resulting in rapid weight gain, sweating, thinning of skin, and other negative side effects.

Rhinoplasty
nose job

subdural
below the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dura_mater dura mater] in the skull

==Page 193==

les bâtiments sanctifíes
French: the holy buildings

Metropolis
a 1927 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136/ film] directed by Fritz Lang

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'''Champaign IL''' 
He probably attends the [http://www.uiuc.edu/ University of Illinois] main campus.

'''Ward and June''' 
The mother and father's names on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_It_To_Beaver Leave It to Beaver]

'''pedalferrous''' 
apparently a neologism, the word would mean "of or pertaining to foot metal," i.e., fast driving

'''fulvous''' 
in color, yellow-gray to yellowish-brown

'''teratogenic''' 
having an effect on the development of a fetus

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==Page 93==

''''''n sûr''''' 
An elision of ''bien sûr'', French for "of course"

==Page 94==

'''Sterling UL35 9 mm machine pistol with Mag Na Port silencer''' 
Sterling is a real British gun manufacturer and [http://www.oegmag.com/Magnaport.asp Mag-Na-Port] is real also, but this particular gun model is apparently made-up.

'''Charleston''' 
a dance popular in the 1920s

'''mesquite''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesquite mesquite] plant

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'''Barbicide''' 
a brand name of disinfectant used for combs and hairbrushes

'''Tolstoy's sentence''' 
The question probably referred to the opening lines of Leo Tolstoy's ''Anna Karenina:'' "HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

'''No cathode gun. No phosphenic screen.''' 
A cathode gun is an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_gun electron gun] used in a cathode ray tube. "Phosphenic" refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene phosphenes].

'''UHF''' 
Ultra High Frequency

'''acutance''' 
the edge contrast of an image

==Page 97==

'''halation''' 
blurring of a visual image by glare

'''quiescent''' 
still or at rest

<big>'''97 (1) · Marathe & Steeply (cont'd)''' </big>

==Page 97==

'''digitate''' 
having fingers

<big>'''97 (2) · ETA Locker Room (cont'd)''' </big>

==Page 97==

==Page 98==

'''Zoltan''' 
Zoltán was a 10th century ruler of Hungary.

'''Idris Arslanian, new this year, ethnically vague''' 
Idris is an Arabic name, corresponding in the Qur'an to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch%2C_ancestor_of_Noah Enoch] in the Bible. The last name Arslanian sounds Armenian, though ''Arslan'' is a Turkish word for "lion."

'''R.A.''' 
Resident Assistant

'''Tex Watson''' 
Besides a character in ''Infinite Jest,'' Tex Watson was the nickname of Charles Watson, one of the chief murderers in the Charles Manson Family.

'''ephebes''' 
An ephebe is an adolescent male.

'''suppliants''' 
A suppliant is a petitioner.

==Page 99==

'''sienna''' 
yellowish- to reddish-brown

'''thoracic''' 
having to do with the chest

'''atavistically''' 
Atavism means reversion to an earlier evolutionary type.

'''piebald''' 
having patches of different colors

==Page 100==

'''cognomen''' 
a nickname

'''inflation-generative grammar''' 
a grammar that generates air

==Page 101==

'''semion''' 
A semion is technically part of an anyone, the latter of which is defined in the ''OED'' as "a particle having characteristics intermediate between those of fermions and bosons in two-dimensional space." However, it seems Wallace uses the word as a form closer to "semiotics." A later search reveals that ''semion'' is Greek for "sign."

'''Umbrian''' 
From the Italian ''reggione'' of Umbria, in central Italy. Hal is Italian on his father's side, as well as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pima Pima] Native American. His mother, of course, is French-Canadian.

'''Brylcreemed''' 
Used as a verb here, Brylcreem was a brand name of men's hair grooming product.

'''zygomatics''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygomatics zygomatic bones] of the face

==Page 102==

'''haul ashes''' 
For a history of this term, click [http://www.wordwizard.com/ch_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6859 here].

'''Johnny Mathis's "Chances Are"''' 
available on [http://wm01.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=33:d95txqehldfe these recordings]

==Page 103==

'''Luther's 16th-century shoes, awaiting epiphany''' 
Martin Luther (1483-1546), German father of the Reformation, was a notorious sufferer of constipation.

'''hobnailed boots''' 
boots assembled with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobnail hobnails]

==Endnote 43==

The disease is named for Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884-1983), American gastroenterologist.

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'''carminative''' 
antispasmodic

'''gout''' 
a disease characterized by the collection of uric acid in the joints

'''Port Washington''' 
There are three cities by this name in the U.S.: In New York, Wisconsin, and Ohio.

==Page 104==

==Page 105==

'''woppsed up''' 
a created word, apparently something like "wadded up"

<big>'''105 · Marathe & Steeply (cont'd)''' </big>

==Page 105==

'''Tristan and Isolde''' 
star-crossed lovers from Arthurian myth

'''Lancelot and what's-her-name''' 
Guinevere

'''Agamemnon and Helen''' 
Steeply has this one wrong.

'''Dante and Beatrice''' 
Beatrice is Dante's guide through heaven in the third part of the ''Divine Comedy'', ''Paradiso''

'''Narcissus and Echo''' 
The story of these doomed lovers from Greek mythology is [http://thanasis.com/echo.htm here].

'''Kierkegaard and Regina''' 
Regina Olsen was the short-term fiancée of Kierkegaard.

'''Kafka and that poor girl afraid to go the postbox for the mail''' 
The story being referred to can be read [http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.jsp?what=KafkaDoll here].

'''Menelaus was husband, him of Sparta''' 
Menelaus, King of Sparta, was the husband of Helen. Agamemnon was the King of Argos and Menelaus's brother.

'''Helen and Paris. He of Troy.''' 
Paris, a Trojan prince, kidnapped Helen from Menelaus, precipitating the Trojan War.

'''The horse: the gift which was not a gift''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Horse Trojan horse]

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'''electrolysistic''' 
resulting from electrolysis, the removal of hair using electric shocks

'''sangfroid''' 
From French for "cold blood," this word means "coolness."

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'''creosote''' 
There are several types of creosote, described [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creosote here].

'''Crepuscular''' 
active in the twilight, as bats

==Endnote 45==

==[[IJE304|Endnote 304]]==

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'''gibbous''' 
the shape of the moon when it is neither full, nor crescent, nor half, i.e., when it is more than half full

'''Quonsets''' 
short form for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut Quonset huts]

<big>'''109 · Advice to Little Brothers''' </big>

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'''Stan Smith''' 
Born in 1946, Smith is a retired professional tennis player, having won Wimdledon and the U.S. Open once each.

'''dessicated''' 
dried out

==Endnote 46==

'''corticatization''' 
probably a misspelling of [http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?query=corticalization&action=Search+OMD corticalization]

==Page 111==

'''E.N.T. oncologist''' 
ear, nose, and throat; an oncologist is a cancer physician

'''violas''' 
A viola is a like a violin, only slightly larger and deeper in tone.

==Page 112==

'''''E Unibus Pluram''''' 
A Latin pun on ''E pluribus unum'' ("From many, one"), the U.S. motto. This would mean "From one, many."

==Page 113==

'''Solipsism''' 
a kind of narcissism based on the idea that one's own mind is all one can ever truly know

'''''ballet de se''''' 

French: Ballet of (itself)

==Page 114==

==Page 115==

'''plateaux''' 
the proper French plural of "plateau," rather than "plateaus"

'''slog''' 
to drive with blows

==Page 116==

'''Banzai!''' 
a Japanese battle cry

'''hangdog''' 
browbeaten or intimidated

==Page 117==

'''croupiers''' 
attendants at gambling casinos

'''plasticene''' 
misspelling of Plasticine, a brand name of plastic used for making molds

'''ancipitals''' 
double-edged

'''accretive''' 
of or pertaining to the process of natural growth

'''autonomical''' 
of or pertaining to the reflexive nervous system

==Page 118==

'''machine-language''' 
a coding system for computers that requires no compiling before running

'''Orinda CA''' 
city of northern California, in the Bay Area, about 18 miles east-northeast of San Francisco

'''me droogies''' 
Struck is speaking in Nadsat, the language of Anthony Burgess's novel ''A Clockwork Orange'', which is based on Russian. ''Droogies'' is Nadsat for "friends."

'''kertwanging''' 
from context, this would seem to be a thrashing (at tennis), particularly hitting the ball at your opponent

==Page 119==

'''Mein kinder''' 
German: My children

==Page 120==

'''Wagenknecht''' 
sort of a formal German word for "chauffeur."

'''guilloche''' 
This is "an ornamental pattern or border, as in architecture, consisting of paired ribbons or lines flowing in interlaced curves around a series of circular voids" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''A la contraire''' 
A French mistake: Should be ''au contraire'' (masculine)

'''gingival mound''' 
mound of gum tissue

==Page 121==

'''aperçu''' 
an insight

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

'''two hundred kilos''' 
over 440 pounds

'''Southpaw''' 
left-handed

==Page 122==

'''coiffure''' 
hairdo

'''osseously''' 
Osseous means "bone-like."

'''reticulate''' 
netted

'''chill dusk''' 
George Eliot (born Mary Anne Evans; 1819-1880), the British novelist, uses the expression in her novel [http://www.fullbooks.com/Adam-Bede.html Adam Bede].

'''easement''' 
Literally meaning the use of something legally not one's own, here it's used to mean a new path beaten through a thicket.

'''kliegs''' 
short form for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klieg Klieg light]

==Page 123==

'''Betty Stove''' 
Betty Stöve (born 1945) is a Dutch former professional tennis player and winner of ten Grand Slam titles

'''Montclair NJ''' 
a suburb about twenty miles west-northwest of New York City

'''Con-Edison''' 
Consolidated Edison, the utilities company serving New York

'''three meters tall''' 
about nine feet, ten inches tall

==Page 124==

'''Weber Grill''' 
a real brand, you can see examples [http://www.weberstuff.com/?gclid=CK71gtmRyI8CFQIQFQodpCUq9A here]

'''Passaic NJ''' 
near Montclair, Passaic is another western suburb of New York

'''capering''' 
To caper is to skip about in a playful manner.

'''rondelling''' 
To rondel (more properly, roundel) is to dance in a circle

'''simpering''' 
To simper is to smile coyly.

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

'''boscages''' 
masses of trees or shrubs

'''jetéed''' 
To jeté is to jump ballet-style.

==Page 125==

'''lamé''' 
an ornamental fabric incorporating threads of gold or silver

'''Titian''' 
Tiziano Vecellio (1485-1576) was a Venetian painter.

'''poison sumac''' 
a tall shrub containing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urushiol urushiol], which causes a rash similar to poison ivy

'''ambient''' 
of or pertaining to the surrounding environment

==Page 126==

<big>'''126 · Marathe & Steeply (cont'd)''' </big>

==Page 126==

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

'''les salles de danser''' 
French: dancing rooms

'''Val d'Or, Québec''' 
city of northern Québec, 325 miles northwest of Montreal

==Page 127==

'''eidetic''' 
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_memory photographic memory]

<big>'''127 · Still More Marathe & Steeply''' </big>

==Page 127==

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

'''murated''' 
a rarely used English word (found in ''OED'') meaning "surrounded by walls"

<big>'''127* · Guru on the Towel Dispense''' </big>

==Page 127==

'''yogic full lotus''' 
the cross-legged sitting position

'''crustacean''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean branch of animals] including lobsters, shrimp, and other similar shellfish

==Page 128==

'''''DEUS PROVIDEBIT''''' 
Latin: God will provide. The line appears in the Vulgate (Latin) version of the Bible at Genesis 22:8, where Abraham tell Isaac, whom he intends to sacrifice, that God will provide an animal for the sacrifice.

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<big>'''93 (1) · Feral Hamsters''' </big>

==Page 93==

'''Champaign IL''' 
He probably attends the [http://www.uiuc.edu/ University of Illinois] main campus.

'''Ward and June''' 
The mother and father's names on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_It_To_Beaver Leave It to Beaver]

'''pedalferrous''' 
apparently a neologism, the word would mean "of or pertaining to foot metal," i.e., fast driving

'''fulvous''' 
in color, yellow-gray to yellowish-brown

'''teratogenic''' 
having an effect on the development of a fetus

<big>'''93 (2) · Marathe & Steeply continued''' </big>

==Page 93==

''''''n sûr''''' 
An elision of ''bien sûr'', French for "of course"

==Page 94==

'''Sterling UL35 9 mm machine pistol with Mag Na Port silencer''' 
Sterling is a real British gun manufacturer and [http://www.oegmag.com/Magnaport.asp Mag-Na-Port] is real also, but this particular gun model is apparently made-up.

'''Charleston''' 
a dance popular in the 1920s

'''mesquite''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesquite mesquite] plant

==Page 95==

<big>'''95 · ETA Locker Room''' </big>

==Page 95==

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

'''Barbicide''' 
a brand name of disinfectant used for combs and hairbrushes

'''Tolstoy's sentence''' 
The question probably referred to the opening lines of Leo Tolstoy's ''Anna Karenina:'' "HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

'''No cathode gun. No phosphenic screen.''' 
A cathode gun is an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_gun electron gun] used in a cathode ray tube. "Phosphenic" refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene phosphenes].

'''UHF''' 
Ultra High Frequency

'''acutance''' 
the edge contrast of an image

==Page 97==

'''halation''' 
blurring of a visual image by glare

'''quiescent''' 
still or at rest

<big>'''97 (1) · Marathe & Steeply (cont'd)''' </big>

==Page 97==

'''digitate''' 
having fingers

<big>'''97 (2) · ETA Locker Room (cont'd)''' </big>

==Page 97==

==Page 98==

'''Zoltan''' 
Zoltán was a 10th century ruler of Hungary.

'''Idris Arslanian, new this year, ethnically vague''' 
Idris is an Arabic name, corresponding in the Qur'an to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch%2C_ancestor_of_Noah Enoch] in the Bible. The last name Arslanian sounds Armenian, though ''Arslan'' is a Turkish word for "lion."

'''R.A.''' 
Resident Assistant

'''Tex Watson''' 
Besides a character in ''Infinite Jest,'' Tex Watson was the nickname of Charles Watson, one of the chief murderers in the Charles Manson Family.

'''ephebes''' 
An ephebe is an adolescent male.

'''suppliants''' 
A suppliant is a petitioner.

==Page 99==

'''sienna''' 
yellowish- to reddish-brown

'''thoracic''' 
having to do with the chest

'''atavistically''' 
Atavism means reversion to an earlier evolutionary type.

'''piebald''' 
having patches of different colors

==Page 100==

'''cognomen''' 
a nickname

'''inflation-generative grammar''' 
a grammar that generates air

==Page 101==

'''semion''' 
A semion is technically part of an anyone, the latter of which is defined in the ''OED'' as "a particle having characteristics intermediate between those of fermions and bosons in two-dimensional space." However, it seems Wallace uses the word as a form closer to "semiotics." A later search reveals that ''semion'' is Greek for "sign."

'''Umbrian''' 
From the Italian ''reggione'' of Umbria, in central Italy. Hal is Italian on his father's side, as well as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pima Pima] Native American. His mother, of course, is French-Canadian.

'''Brylcreemed''' 
Used as a verb here, Brylcreem was a brand name of men's hair grooming product.

'''zygomatics''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygomatics zygomatic bones] of the face

==Page 102==

'''haul ashes''' 
For a history of this term, click [http://www.wordwizard.com/ch_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6859 here].

'''Johnny Mathis's "Chances Are"''' 
available on [http://wm01.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=33:d95txqehldfe these recordings]

==Page 103==

'''Luther's 16th-century shoes, awaiting epiphany''' 
Martin Luther (1483-1546), German father of the Reformation, was a notorious sufferer of constipation.

'''hobnailed boots''' 
boots assembled with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobnail hobnails]

==Endnote 43==

The disease is named for Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884-1983), American gastroenterologist.

==Page 103 (cont'd)==

'''carminative''' 
antispasmodic

'''gout''' 
a disease characterized by the collection of uric acid in the joints

'''Port Washington''' 
There are three cities by this name in the U.S.: In New York, Wisconsin, and Ohio.

==Page 104==

==Page 105==

'''woppsed up''' 
a created word, apparently something like "wadded up"

<big>'''105 · Marathe & Steeply (cont'd)''' </big>

==Page 105==

'''Tristan and Isolde''' 
star-crossed lovers from Arthurian myth

'''Lancelot and what's-her-name''' 
Guinevere

'''Agamemnon and Helen''' 
Steeply has this one wrong.

'''Dante and Beatrice''' 
Beatrice is Dante's guide through heaven in the third part of the ''Divine Comedy'', ''Paradiso''

'''Narcissus and Echo''' 
The story of these doomed lovers from Greek mythology is [http://thanasis.com/echo.htm here].

'''Kierkegaard and Regina''' 
Regina Olsen was the short-term fiancée of Kierkegaard.

'''Kafka and that poor girl afraid to go the postbox for the mail''' 
The story being referred to can be read [http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.jsp?what=KafkaDoll here].

'''Menelaus was husband, him of Sparta''' 
Menelaus, King of Sparta, was the husband of Helen. Agamemnon was the King of Argos and Menelaus's brother.

'''Helen and Paris. He of Troy.''' 
Paris, a Trojan prince, kidnapped Helen from Menelaus, precipitating the Trojan War.

'''The horse: the gift which was not a gift''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Horse Trojan horse]

==Page 106==

'''electrolysistic''' 
resulting from electrolysis, the removal of hair using electric shocks

'''sangfroid''' 
From French for "cold blood," this word means "coolness."

==Page 107==

==Page 108==

'''creosote''' 
There are several types of creosote, described [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creosote here].

'''Crepuscular''' 
active in the twilight, as bats

==Endnote 45==

==[[IJE304|Endnote 304]]==

==Page 109==

'''gibbous''' 
the shape of the moon when it is neither full, nor crescent, nor half, i.e., when it is more than half full

'''Quonsets''' 
short form for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut Quonset huts]

<big>'''109 · Advice to Little Brothers''' </big>

==Page 109==

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

==Page 110==

'''Stan Smith''' 
Born in 1946, Smith is a retired professional tennis player, having won Wimdledon and the U.S. Open once each.

'''dessicated''' 
dried out

==Endnote 46==

'''corticatization''' 
probably a misspelling of [http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?query=corticalization&action=Search+OMD corticalization]

==Page 111==

'''E.N.T. oncologist''' 
ear, nose, and throat; an oncologist is a cancer physician

'''violas''' 
A viola is a like a violin, only slightly larger and deeper in tone.

==Page 112==

'''''E Unibus Pluram''''' 
A Latin pun on ''E pluribus unum'' ("From many, one"), the U.S. motto. This would mean "From one, many."

==Page 113==

'''Solipsism''' 
a kind of narcissism based on the idea that one's own mind is all one can ever truly know

'''''ballet de se''''' 

French: Ballet of (itself)

==Page 114==

==Page 115==

'''plateaux''' 
the proper French plural of "plateau," rather than "plateaus"

'''slog''' 
to drive with blows

==Page 116==

'''Banzai!''' 
a Japanese battle cry

'''hangdog''' 
browbeaten or intimidated

==Page 117==

'''croupiers''' 
attendants at gambling casinos

'''plasticene''' 
misspelling of Plasticine, a brand name of plastic used for making molds

'''ancipitals''' 
double-edged

'''accretive''' 
of or pertaining to the process of natural growth

'''autonomical''' 
of or pertaining to the reflexive nervous system

==Page 118==

'''machine-language''' 
a coding system for computers that requires no compiling before running

'''Orinda CA''' 
city of northern California, in the Bay Area, about 18 miles east-northeast of San Francisco

'''me droogies''' 
Struck is speaking in Nadsat, the language of Anthony Burgess's novel ''A Clockwork Orange'', which is based on Russian. ''Droogies'' is Nadsat for "friends."

'''kertwanging''' 
from context, this would seem to be a thrashing (at tennis), particularly hitting the ball at your opponent

==Page 119==

'''Mein kinder''' 
German: My children

==Page 120==

'''Wagenknecht''' 

sort of a formal German word for "chauffeur."

'''guilloche''' 
This is "an ornamental pattern or border, as in architecture, consisting of paired ribbons or lines flowing in interlaced curves around a series of circular voids" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''A la contraire''' 
A French mistake: Should be ''au contraire'' (masculine)

'''gingival mound''' 
mound of gum tissue

==Page 121==

'''aperçu''' 
an insight

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

'''two hundred kilos''' 
over 440 pounds

'''Southpaw''' 
left-handed

==Page 122==

'''coiffure''' 
hairdo

'''osseously''' 
Osseous means "bone-like."

'''reticulate''' 
netted

'''chill dusk''' 
George Eliot (born Mary Anne Evans; 1819-1880), the British novelist, uses the expression in her novel [http://www.fullbooks.com/Adam-Bede.html Adam Bede].

'''easement''' 
Literally meaning the use of something legally not one's own, here it's used to mean a new path beaten through a thicket.

'''kliegs''' 
short form for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klieg Klieg light]

==Page 123==

'''Betty Stove''' 
Betty Stöve (born 1945) is a Dutch former professional tennis player and winner of ten Grand Slam titles

'''Montclair NJ''' 
a suburb about twenty miles west-northwest of New York City

'''Con-Edison''' 
Consolidated Edison, the utilities company serving New York

'''three meters tall''' 
about nine feet, ten inches tall

==Page 124==

'''Weber Grill''' 
a real brand, you can see examples [http://www.weberstuff.com/?gclid=CK71gtmRyI8CFQIQFQodpCUq9A here]

'''Passaic NJ''' 
near Montclair, Passaic is another western suburb of New York

'''capering''' 
To caper is to skip about in a playful manner.

'''rondelling''' 
To rondel (more properly, roundel) is to dance in a circle

'''simpering''' 
To simper is to smile coyly.

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

'''boscages''' 
masses of trees or shrubs

'''jetéed''' 
To jeté is to jump ballet-style.

==Page 125==

'''lamé''' 
an ornamental fabric incorporating threads of gold or silver

'''Titian''' 
Tiziano Vecellio (1485-1576) was a Venetian painter.

'''poison sumac''' 
a tall shrub containing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urushiol urushiol], which causes a rash similar to poison ivy

'''ambient''' 
of or pertaining to the surrounding environment

==Page 126==

<big>'''126 · Marathe & Steeply (cont'd)''' </big>

==Page 126==

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

'''les salles de danser''' 
French: dancing rooms

'''Val d'Or, Québec''' 
city of northern Québec, 325 miles northwest of Montreal

==Page 127==

'''eidetic''' 
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_memory photographic memory]

<big>'''127 · Still More Marathe & Steeply''' </big>

==Page 127==

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

'''murated''' 
a rarely used English word (found in ''OED'') meaning "surrounded by walls"

<big>'''127* · Guru on the Towel Dispense''' </big>

==Page 127==

'''yogic full lotus''' 
the cross-legged sitting position

'''crustacean''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean branch of animals] including lobsters, shrimp, and other similar shellfish

==Page 128==

'''''DEUS PROVIDEBIT''''' 
Latin: God will provide. The line appears in the Vulgate (Latin) version of the Bible at Genesis 22:8, where Abraham tell Isaac, whom he intends to sacrifice, that God will provide an animal for the sacrifice.

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'''G. Ford - early G. Bush''' 
roughly 1974 to 1989

'''S.A.C.''' 
Strategic Air Command

'''neutron''' 
a subatomic particle with no charge

'''gamma-refractive''' 
referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions

'''lithium-adonized''' 
made more beautiful with lithium

==Page 64==

'''cold annular fusion''' 
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annual means it is ring-shaped.

'''Tableaux''' 
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.

'''homolosine-cartography''' 
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].

'''optative''' 
expressing a wish or choice

'''U.S.T.A.''' 
United States Tennis Assocation

'''après-garde''' 
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''

==Endnote 24==

==Page 64 (cont'd)==

'''Macdonald Chair''' 
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic

'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University''' 
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal

'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems''' 
These are two systems of cognition, the former is associative, rapid in processing, and subconcious, while the latter is rule-based and thus slower.

'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement''''' 
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely

'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada''' 
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.

'''recondite''' 
dealing with complex subject matter

'''mordantly''' 
in a caustic manner

'''feck''' 
efficacy; force; value

==Page 65==

'''F.C.''' 
Perhaps "formerly Canadian"

'''A.E.C.''' 
Atomic Energy Commission

'''ARPA-NET''' 
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.

'''L'Islet County''' 
a county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains

'''hyperfloration''' 
overgrowth of flowers or plants

'''festschrift''' 
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.

'''anticonfluential''' 
against things coming together

'''chiaroscuro''' 
distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting

'''annulation''' 
the formation of rings

'''hypertrophied''' 
grown exceeding large

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'''tacks''' 
follows a zigzag course

'''Mile-High''' 
the stadium in which the Denver Broncos play

'''100 meters over the 40''' 
I.e., the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.

'''nongarish''' 
not garish, i.e., not excessively ornate

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'''zither''' 
a harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels

'''water-drops''' 
being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks

'''Oiler''' 
the former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans

'''Brown''' 
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.

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'''organopsychedelic''' 
a substance naturally producing a psychedelic effect

'''isoxazole-alkaloid''' 
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.

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'''methoxylated''' 
Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."

'''phenylkylamine''' 
possibly a made-up substance

'''rock and bob Hasidically''' 
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim do when praying or studying religious texts.

'''titrated''' 
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (eg one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD).

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==Endnote 26==

'''enkephalin''' 
a type of painkiller

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'''psychodysleptic''' 
a drug that negative effects the take psychologically

'''''in medias''''' 
Latin: in the middle of

'''oblique''' 
neither perpendicular nor parallel

'''deliquesce''' 
to become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air

<big>'''68* · Kate Gompert in the Psych Ward''' </big>

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'''Watteau''' 
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.

'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States''''' 
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.

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'''hypocapnia''' 
reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation

'''emery board''' 
a disposable nail file

'''Wellesley Hills''' 
a section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston

'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital''' 
a real hospital

'''Parnate''' 
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAO) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.

'''dysphoria''' 
feeling badly

'''diurnal''' 
during the day

'''w/w/o''' 
with and without

'''CO''' 
carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide

'''hemotoxicity''' 
poisonous blood level

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'''Librium''' 
brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal

'''Dretske''' 
perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind

'''Mydol''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol]

'''trepidation''' 
hesitancy caused by fear

'''facial affect''' 
emotions expressed on the face

'''Lithonate''' 
a brand name of lithium

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'''plestor''' 
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter]

'''plangent''' 
loud and resounding

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'''carpopedal''' 
involving both the hands and feet

'''tetanic''' 
pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually

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'''circumorals''' 
muscles around the mouth

'''thigmotactic''' 
having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus

'''dentate''' 
having teeth

'''synclinal''' 
sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /

'''Sinse''' 
short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana

'''duBois''' 
fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette

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'''uremic''' 
smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood

==Endnote 30==

'''boric acid''' 
also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects

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'''the T''' 
local transit in the Boston metro area

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'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."''' 
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].

<big>'''78 · Medical Attaché Update #3''' </big>

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'''0145h.''' 
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.

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'''rictus''' 
a gaping grimace

<big>'''79 · Schtitt & Mario''' </big>

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'''Nick Bolletieri''' 
a [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach]

'''epaulets''' 
military shoulder decorations on clothing

'''a philosopher instead of a king''' 
Although Plato stresses, in ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.

'''F.R.G.''' 
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989)

'''leptosomatic''' 
having a slender, frail build

'''pedagogical''' 
having to do with teaching

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'''post-prandial''' 
following a meal

'''calliopsis''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis]

'''quincunx''' 
the arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right)[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]

'''briers' yeasty musk''' 
the yeasty smell arising from the brier patches

'''bradykinetic''' 
describing abnormally slow movement

'''plosivity''' 
referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, etc.

'''Euclid''' 
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."

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'''tympana''' 
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.

'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST''''' 

The euphemistic translation aside, this literaly means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.

'''discursive''' 
rambling in speech

'''wonk''' 
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

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'''simpatico''' 
in agreement

'''Hopman''' 
either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman]

==Endnote 34==

'''Mandelbrotian''' 
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.

'''post-Gödelian''' 
coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher

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'''van der Meer''' 
probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics

'''fractal''' 
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''aleatory''' 
of or pertaining to accidental causes

'''''Lieber Gott nein''''' 
German: Dear God, no

'''''Gymanasium''''' 
the equivalent of a U.S. college-prepatory high school

'''appetitive will''' 
that part of the will that desires physical things

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'''''palestra''''' 
an ancient Greek school of wrestling

'''experialist''' 
like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste

'''''Verstiegenheit''''' 
literally German for "eccentricity"

'''''Platz''''' 
German: a public square

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'''pirouetting''' 
whirling on the toes

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<big>'''85 · Tiny Ewell in Detox''' </big>

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'''D.T.''' 
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].

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'''skallycap''' 
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]

<big>'''87 · Medical Attaché Update #4''' </big>

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'''Seventh Day Adventist''' 
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"

<big>'''87* · Marathe & Steeply''' </big>

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'''payloaders''' 
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]

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