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'''constellated''' 
covered, as with stars

'''regressed''' 
applied statistical analysis

==Page 687==

'''ontological''' 
regarding the philosophy of the nature of existence

'''Bauhaus''' 
short term for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus Staatliches Bauhaus], a design school in Germany during the Weimar period that gave rise to a particular form and style

'''festoon''' 
to decorate with flowers, although here used to refer to alarm clocks

==Page 688==

'''thrums''' 
makes a monotonous sound

'''deuteragonist''' 
the second most important character next to the main character, the protagonist

==Page 689==

'''goo''' 
over-the-top sentimentality

'''kinesthetic''' 
regarding the sensation of movement in the muscles, tendons, joints, etc.

=November 14th, YDAU - Poor Tony, after the seizure=

==Page 689==

'''continent''' 
able to control his bowels and bladder

==Page 690==

'''E. Room''' 
emergency room

'''quixotic''' 
impulsive or rashly unpredictable

'''emergent''' 
just coming out

'''mercenary''' 
paid soldiers

'''dour''' 
sullen or gloomy

'''''Contre''''' 
French: against

==Page 691==

'''rostrum''' 
a pulpit or platform for speaking

'''epicene''' 
having characteristics of both sexes

'''unrough trade''' 
i.e., homosexual relations between men that are both gay

'''tartan''' 
plaid, particularly when it is the pattern of a Scottish clan

=The Penises of Ennet House=

==Page 692==

'''Poor Richard''' 
The putative author of a famous almanac published by Benjamin Franklin.

'''nonplussed''' 
puzzled or perplexed

'''the Frightful Hog''' 
Used originally by Frederick Exley, author of "A Fan's Notes"

=Kate Gompert, types of Depression=

==Page 692==

==Endnote 280==

'''Ribot''' 
Théodule-Armand Ribot (1839-1916) was a French pre-Freudian psychologist.

==Page 692 (cont'd)==

'''gourmand''' 
a food aficionado

'''novocaine''' 
a topical anesthetic typically used for dental procedures

==Page 693==

'''schemata''' 
diagrams or plans

'''Orin's and Hal's father''' 
Notably, Mario is omitted from the list of Dr. Incandenza's children.

'''bogey''' 
something that annoys or frightens

''''Caius Is Mortal'''' 
This is a variation on an older Greek syllogism used to demonstrate deductive logic:

:Major Premise: All men are mortal 
:Minor Premise: Caius is a man 
:Conclusion: Caius is mortal

Caius was Julius Caesar's first name.

==Page 694==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Trial-Sized Dove Bar]]

'''rarified''' 
a misspelling of "rarefied," meaning "esoteric"

'''''Weltschmerz''''' 
German: World-sorrow

'''fictile''' 
capable of being molded

==Page 695==

==Endnote 281==

'''pregnant''' 
teeming or fertile

==Page 695 (cont'd)==

'''dingy''' 
lacking brightness or freshness

'''mordant''' 
sharply sarcastic

'''didactic''' 
intended to teach

'''putrid''' 
decomposing or rotten

'''remora''' 
a fish that attaches itself to sharks for easier travel

'''ventral''' 
on the side

'''involutional''' 
entangling

'''Burton''' 
Robert Burton (1577-1640) was an English author best known for his [http://www.psyplexus.com/burton/ Anatomy of Melancholy]

'''Yevtushenko''' 
not the aforementioned Russian poet

==Page 696==

'''amperage''' 
strength of electric current

==Page 697==

==Endnote 283==

'''ill-fated Prozac''' 
Wallace is probably talking about the incidents of "violent suicidal ideation" that were linked with Prozac in its early use. Now it is linked to all SSRIs, though the frequency is very low.

==Page 697 (cont'd)==

'''Quadracyclics''' 
Actually, they're known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetracyclic_antidepressant tetracyclics].

'''E.C.T.''' 
electroconvulsive therapy

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'''beads''' 
i.e., rosary beads

'''Ernest Feaster''' 
Possible reference to Ernest Hemingway, "A Moveable Feast".

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==Page 620==

'''carpal neuralgia, phospenic migraine, gluteal hyperadiposity, lumbar stressae''' 
hand pain, migraines with flashing lights, fat buttocks, and lower back pain

'''"...all three O.N.A.N. time zones..."''' 
Three is considerably fewer time zones than the five the U.S. (including Alaska and Hawaii) currently span, plus the Atlantic Time Zone, in which some of Canada can be found.

'''genuflecting''' 
bending the knee

'''Gapers' Blocks''' 
traffic delays caused by rubbernecking

==Page 621==

'''apotheosis''' 
the process of being raised to godlike status

'''coprolaliac''' 
abnormally disposed to using profanity

'''nucleic''' 
pertaining to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_force nuclear force], which binds protons and neutrons into atomic nuclei

'''PAs''' 
public-address sytems

'''nostrums''' 
patent medicines

'''bunting''' 
loosely woven fabric in a generally half-circle shape; red-white-and-blue ones can be seen hung on podiums, porches, baseball stadiums, etc, especially on the 4th of July and other patriotic holidays.

'''c.''' 
circa

'''sylvan''' 
woodsy

==Page 622==

'''möbiusizing''' 
a neologism for taking on the shape of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip Möbius strip]

'''scopophile''' 
someone who derives pleasure (usually sexual) from looking at something

'''dun''' 
grayish brown

'''Gregg pen''' 
See one [http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?s=2eae74b99300ac6261751443db9182fa&showtopic=33208&st=0&p=305917&#entry305917 here]

'''purview''' 
scope of vision

==Page 623==

'''verdigrised''' 
covered with grayish-green rust

'''Robert McCloskey''' 
Robert McCloskey (1914-2003) was an American author and illustrator of children's books.

'''''Make Way for Ducklings''''' 
Read about this book [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Way_for_Ducklings here].

'''greensward''' 
stretch of grassy turf

'''5º C''' 
41º Fahrenheit

'''appurtenances''' 
apparatus or instruments

'''sepia''' 
dark brown, as in the pigment used to make very early photographs

==Page 624==

'''metallurgy''' 
the making and conducting of alloys

'''Mass Comm.''' 
mass communications

==Page 625==

'''ICU''' 
Intensive Care Unit

'''swart''' 
swarthy, i.e., dark-skinned

'''half a house''' 
a half-way house

'''M.D.C.''' 
Metropolitan District Commission

'''hackysackers''' 
players of a game (hackeysack) where people in a circle kick a small leather bag around to one another

==Page 626==

'''Autoteller''' 
an ATM

'''moguls''' 
bumps

'''coruscant''' 
glittering

=November 11th, YDAU - Mealtime at ETA=

==Page 627==

'''fenestrated''' 
having windows

'''R.H.I.P.''' 
Rank Has Its Privileges

'''mastication''' 
chewing

==Page 628==

'''P.O.W.''' 
Prisoner of War

'''Liberal KS''' 
To be exact, it's three miles via Route 83 to the Oklahoma border.

'''C/W''' 
Country & Western

'''Beefeater''' 
a British brand of gin

'''clapboard''' 
a long, thin board, thicker along one edge than the other, used in covering the outer walls of buildings (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'')

'''nuptial''' 
marital

==Page 629==

'''toilet-eau''' 
eau de toilette, sort of like perfume

'''connubial''' 
marital

'''Birkenstock''' 
a German brand of sandals and shoes

'''glutens''' 
a mixture of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten wheat proteins]

'''torpor''' 
sluggishness

'''turrets''' 
projections from a building where guns are placed

==Page 630==

'''"...like Roosevelt at Yalta..."''' 
a reference to the supposed bullying by Stalin of FDR at the conference at Yalta in 1945 to cede Eastern Europe to Soviet control

'''saltpeter''' 
potassium nitrate, commonly believed to cause erectile dysfunction

'''Seldane''' 
a brand-name of non-drowsy antihistamine

'''carminative''' 
expelling gas

==Page 631==

'''mammarial''' 
resembling or having to do with breasts

'''lecithin''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecithin mixture of fats] found in milk and other foods

'''semicolonized''' 
otherwise, it's a comma splice

'''buttinskis''' 
i.e., the right to butt into line

'''scooters''' 
apparently a slang term for "dollars"

'''déjà vu''' 
From French for "already seen," it's the sense that you're re-experiencing something.

==Page 632==

'''saltire''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltire Cross of St. Andrew]

'''tektitic''' 
referring to fossils formed by meteoric impacts

'''foist''' 
to insert deceitfully

==Page 633==

'''Grant's Tomb''' 
The trick answer to the question is "no one." As the tomb is above ground, Ulysses S. Grant is technically "entombed" and not "buried." The obvious answer is Grant.

'''the one about what do Canadian girls put behind their ears to attract boys''' 
Presumably a reference to Q: What does a blonde put behind her ears to make her more attractive? A: Her ankles.

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==Endnote 261==

'''offal''' 
garbage, particularly rotting meat

==Page 634 (cont.)==

'''tantric''' 
referring to a particular branch of Hinduism, but very particularly to the sexual aspect of this branch, which emphasizes long sessions of sexual intercourse

'''Twister''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twister_%28game%29 parlor game] produced by Hasbro that involves contorting the body

'''cataract''' 
waterfall

'''reticent''' 
the tendency to keep one's thoughts to oneself

'''colposcope''' 
a scope used to examine the internal female reproductive organs

'''Combat Zone''' 
an area of Boston known for prostitution and sex shops

==Page 635==

'''bussed''' 
cleaned up

'''B.B.''' 
Big Brother

'''asexual''' 
not sexually active or not attracted to either sex

==Page 636==

'''nascent''' 
beginning to develop

'''Sapphic''' 
i.e., lesbian, the reference being to Sappho, the ancient Greek poet from Lesbos

'''Penal Matron''' 
in other words, a female prison warden

'''Polycleitos''' 
a Greek sculptor of the fifth century BC

'''Hermes''' 
the messenger god of Greek mythology

'''Theseus''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theseus hero] of Greek mythology

'''swart''' 
i.e. swarthy - of dark complexion or color

==Page 637==

'''staccato''' 
in music, notes sounded in a detached manner

'''acerbic''' 
sharp or biting

'''hick''' 
a person from a rural area

'''spitter''' 
a spitball, in baseball

'''tsunami''' 
tidal wave

==Page 638==

'''olla''' 
a pot for making stew, or stew itself

'''tsimmes''' 
a fruit and vegetable casserole

'''riches nouveaux''' 
French: new riches; here an inversion of ''nouveaux riches'', i.e., "newly rich"

=May 1st, YDAU - Steeply & Marathe discuss an obsession with ''M*A*S*H''=

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==Page 639==

'''acronym''' 
MASH stands for "Mobile Army Surgical Hospital."

'''prima facie''' 
Latin: at first sight

'''Troy, New York''' 
a college town about ten miles from the state capital of Albany

'''wens''' 
a harmless cyst on the scalp or face

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'''Canadiens of the N.L. of H.''' 
the Montreal Canadiens, a team in the National Hockey League

==Page 641==

'''canned laughter''' 
pre-recorded, but also a reminder of the can of macadamia nuts incident

'''''Bröckengespenstphänom''''' 
German: Brocken is a German mountain and the brockengespenst refers to the large shadow an observer on the mountain casts in a certain lighting. More importantly, the use of the word alludes to Goethe's Faust--Brocken range being the location of the witches scenes.

==Page 642==

'''Marsh or Swamp''' 
The principal male characters in ''M*A*S*H*'' lived in the same tent, which they called "the Swamp."

==Endnote 263==

'''Betamax''' 
the smaller format of videotape that was eventually pushed out of the market by VHS

==Page 642 (cont'd)==

'''''transperçant''''' 
French: penetrating across

'''Major Burns''' 
a "villain" character played by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0513271/?fr=c2M9MXxsbT01MDB8ZmI9dXx4PTB8eT0wfG14PTIwfGh0bWw9MXxzaXRlPWRmfHE9TGFycnkgTGludmlsbGV8bm09MXxwbj0w;fc=1;ft=20 Larry Linville]

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'''inveterate''' 
habitual

'''Maury Linville''' 
There is no such actor.

''''In the South Korea of history.'''' 
sort of implying that in the time of the novel, there's only one Korea again

''''You are not meaning your sister was a goat.'''' 
bearing in mind that "kid" also means a baby goat

==Page 644==

'''Korean Police Action of the U.N.'''

this in reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War Korean War], which involved military support from (in defense of South Korea from the invading North) United Nations member nations. The war actually lasted three full years.

'''baroquoco''' 
This would seem to be a mix between "baroque" and "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo rococo]."

'''augured''' 
predicted for the future

==Page 645==

==Page 646==

'''Alda''' 
a reference to ''M*A*S*H'' star [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000257/ Alan Alda]

'''transmural infarction''' 
heart attack

'''ventricle''' 
one of two of the four chambers of the heart

==Page 647==

'''mesquite''' 
a spiny shrub with bean pods

'''Dick Willis''' 
There was a spy named Richard Willis (1613-1690) active during the English Civil War (1642-1660). This is also the name of a professional peer of Steeply in the novel, first mentioned earlier.

'''Ossified''' 
turned to stone

'''plura''' 
a misspelling (likely) of "pleura," which is a thin membrane enclosing the lungs

==Page 648==

=November 13th, YDAU - Kate Gompert & Geoffrey Day discuss It=

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==Page 649==

'''benign''' 
harmless

'''anomaly''' 
something like nothing else

==Page 650==

'''malevolent''' 
intending harm

'''''magna cum laude''''' 
Latin: with very high honors

==Page 651==

'''130-kilo''' 
286.6 pounds

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==Page 620==

'''carpal neuralgia, phospenic migraine, gluteal hyperadiposity, lumbar stressae''' 
hand pain, migraines with flashing lights, fat buttocks, and lower back pain

'''"...all three O.N.A.N. time zones..."''' 
Three is considerably fewer time zones than the five the U.S. (including Alaska and Hawaii) currently span, plus the Atlantic Time Zone, in which some of Canada can be found.

'''genuflecting''' 
bending the knee

'''Gapers' Blocks''' 
traffic delays caused by rubbernecking

==Page 621==

'''apotheosis''' 
the process of being raised to godlike status

'''coprolaliac''' 
abnormally disposed to using profanity

'''nucleic''' 
pertaining to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_force nuclear force], which binds protons and neutrons into atomic nuclei

'''PAs''' 
public-address sytems

'''nostrums''' 
patent medicines

'''bunting''' 
loosely woven fabric in a generally half-circle shape; red-white-and-blue ones can be seen hung on podiums, porches, baseball stadiums, etc, especially on the 4th of July and other patriotic holidays.

'''c.''' 
circa

'''sylvan''' 
woodsy

==Page 622==

'''möbiusizing''' 
a neologism for taking on the shape of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip Möbius strip]

'''scopophile''' 
someone who derives pleasure (usually sexual) from looking at something

'''dun''' 
grayish brown

'''Gregg pen''' 
See one [http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?s=2eae74b99300ac6261751443db9182fa&showtopic=33208&st=0&p=305917&#entry305917 here]

'''purview''' 
scope of vision

==Page 623==

'''verdigrised''' 
covered with grayish-green rust

'''Robert McCloskey''' 
Robert McCloskey (1914-2003) was an American author and illustrator of children's books.

'''''Make Way for Ducklings''''' 
Read about this book [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Way_for_Ducklings here].

'''greensward''' 
stretch of grassy turf

'''5º C''' 
41º Fahrenheit

'''appurtenances''' 
apparatus or instruments

'''sepia''' 
dark brown, as in the pigment used to make very early photographs

==Page 624==

'''metallurgy''' 
the making and conducting of alloys

'''Mass Comm.''' 
mass communications

==Page 625==

'''ICU''' 
Intensive Care Unit

'''swart''' 
swarthy, i.e., dark-skinned

'''half a house''' 
a half-way house

'''M.D.C.''' 
Metropolitan District Commission

'''hackysackers''' 
players of a game (hackeysack) where people in a circle kick a small leather bag around to one another

==Page 626==

'''Autoteller''' 
an ATM

'''moguls''' 
bumps

'''coruscant''' 
glittering

=November 11th, YDAU - Mealtime at ETA=

==Page 627==

'''fenestrated''' 
having windows

'''R.H.I.P.''' 
Rank Has Its Privileges

'''mastication''' 
chewing

==Page 628==

'''P.O.W.''' 
Prisoner of War

'''Liberal KS''' 
To be exact, it's three miles via Route 83 to the Oklahoma border.

'''C/W''' 
Country & Western

'''Beefeater''' 
a British brand of gin

'''clapboard''' 
a long, thin board, thicker along one edge than the other, used in covering the outer walls of buildings (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'')

'''nuptial''' 
marital

==Page 629==

'''toilet-eau''' 
eau de toilette, sort of like perfume

'''connubial''' 
marital

'''Birkenstock''' 
a German brand of sandals and shoes

'''glutens''' 
a mixture of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten wheat proteins]

'''torpor''' 
sluggishness

'''turrets''' 
projections from a building where guns are placed

==Page 630==

'''"...like Roosevelt at Yalta..."''' 
a reference to the supposed bullying by Stalin of FDR at the conference at Yalta in 1945 to cede Eastern Europe to Soviet control

'''saltpeter''' 
potassium nitrate, commonly believed to cause erectile dysfunction

'''Seldane''' 
a brand-name of non-drowsy antihistamine

'''carminative''' 
expelling gas

==Page 631==

'''mammarial''' 
resembling or having to do with breasts

'''lecithin''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecithin mixture of fats] found in milk and other foods

'''semicolonized''' 
otherwise, it's a comma splice

'''buttinskis''' 
i.e., the right to butt into line

'''scooters''' 
apparently a slang term for "dollars"

'''déjà vu''' 
From French for "already seen," it's the sense that you're re-experiencing something.

==Page 632==

'''saltire''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltire Cross of St. Andrew]

'''tektitic''' 
referring to fossils formed by meteoric impacts

'''foist''' 
to insert deceitfully

==Page 633==

'''Grant's Tomb''' 
The trick answer to the question is "no one." As the tomb is above ground, Ulysses S. Grant is technically "entombed" and not "buried." The obvious answer is Grant.

'''the one about what do Canadian girls put behind their ears to attract boys''' 
Presumably a reference to Q: What does a blonde put behind her ears to make her more attractive? A: Her ankles.

==Page 634==

==Endnote 261==

'''offal''' 
garbage, particularly rotting meat

==Page 634 (cont.)==

'''tantric''' 
referring to a particular branch of Hinduism, but very particularly to the sexual aspect of this branch, which emphasizes long sessions of sexual intercourse

'''Twister''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twister_%28game%29 parlor game] produced by Hasbro that involves contorting the body

'''cataract''' 
waterfall

'''reticent''' 
the tendency to keep one's thoughts to oneself

'''colposcope''' 
a scope used to examine the internal female reproductive organs

'''Combat Zone''' 
an area of Boston known for prostitution and sex shops

==Page 635==

'''bussed''' 
cleaned up

'''B.B.''' 
Big Brother

'''asexual''' 
not sexually active or not attracted to either sex

==Page 636==

'''nascent''' 
beginning to develop

'''Sapphic''' 
i.e., lesbian, the reference being to Sappho, the ancient Greek poet from Lesbos

'''Penal Matron''' 
in other words, a female prison warden

'''Polycleitos''' 
a Greek sculptor of the fifth century BC

'''Hermes''' 
the messenger god of Greek mythology

'''Theseus''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theseus hero] of Greek mythology

'''swart''' 
i.e. swarthy - of dark complexion or color

==Page 637==

'''staccato''' 
in music, notes sounded in a detached manner

'''acerbic''' 
sharp or biting

'''hick''' 
a person from a rural area

'''spitter''' 
a spitball, in baseball

'''tsunami''' 
tidal wave

==Page 638==

'''olla''' 
a pot for making stew, or stew itself

'''tsimmes''' 
a fruit and vegetable casserole

'''riches nouveaux''' 
French: new riches; here an inversion of ''nouveaux riches'', i.e., "newly rich"

=May 1st, YDAU - Steeply & Marathe discuss an obsession with ''M*A*S*H''=

==Page 638==

==Page 639==

'''acronym''' 
MASH stands for "Mobile Army Surgical Hospital."

'''prima facie''' 
Latin: at first sight

'''Troy, New York''' 
a college town about ten miles from the state capital of Albany

'''wens''' 
a harmless cyst on the scalp or face

==Page 640==

'''Canadiens of the N.L. of H.''' 
the Montreal Canadiens, a team in the National Hockey League

==Page 641==

'''canned laughter''' 
pre-recorded, but also a reminder of the can of macadamia nuts incident

'''''Bröckengespenstphänom''''' 
German: Boulder-ghost-phenomenon, as best I can tell; the umlauts are incorrect

==Page 642==

'''Marsh or Swamp''' 
The principal male characters in ''M*A*S*H*'' lived in the same tent, which they called "the Swamp."

==Endnote 263==

'''Betamax''' 
the smaller format of videotape that was eventually pushed out of the market by VHS

==Page 642 (cont'd)==

'''''transperçant''''' 
French: penetrating across

'''Major Burns''' 
a "villain" character played by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0513271/?fr=c2M9MXxsbT01MDB8ZmI9dXx4PTB8eT0wfG14PTIwfGh0bWw9MXxzaXRlPWRmfHE9TGFycnkgTGludmlsbGV8bm09MXxwbj0w;fc=1;ft=20 Larry Linville]

==Page 643==

'''inveterate''' 
habitual

'''Maury Linville''' 
There is no such actor.

''''In the South Korea of history.'''' 
sort of implying that in the time of the novel, there's only one Korea again

''''You are not meaning your sister was a goat.'''' 
bearing in mind that "kid" also means a baby goat

==Page 644==

'''Korean Police Action of the U.N.'''

this in reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War Korean War], which involved military support from (in defense of South Korea from the invading North) United Nations member nations. The war actually lasted three full years.

'''baroquoco''' 
This would seem to be a mix between "baroque" and "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo rococo]."

'''augured''' 
predicted for the future

==Page 645==

==Page 646==

'''Alda''' 
a reference to ''M*A*S*H'' star [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000257/ Alan Alda]

'''transmural infarction''' 
heart attack

'''ventricle''' 
one of two of the four chambers of the heart

==Page 647==

'''mesquite''' 
a spiny shrub with bean pods

'''Dick Willis''' 
There was a spy named Richard Willis (1613-1690) active during the English Civil War (1642-1660). This is also the name of a professional peer of Steeply in the novel, first mentioned earlier.

'''Ossified''' 
turned to stone

'''plura''' 
a misspelling (likely) of "pleura," which is a thin membrane enclosing the lungs

==Page 648==

=November 13th, YDAU - Kate Gompert & Geoffrey Day discuss It=

==Page 648==

==Page 649==

'''benign''' 
harmless

'''anomaly''' 
something like nothing else

==Page 650==

'''malevolent''' 
intending harm

'''''magna cum laude''''' 
Latin: with very high honors

==Page 651==

'''130-kilo''' 
286.6 pounds

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==Page 589==

'''Revelation of John''' 
the last book of the Bible

'''Dysautonomia''' 
any disease or malfunction of the central nervous system

==Page 590==

'''XL''' 
extra-large

'''preverbally''' 
before speaking

==Page 591==

'''''ONE DAY A''''' 
"One Day at a Time," an AA slogan

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Wonderchicken]]

==Page 592==

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=Life as an Ennet House Staff Member=

==Page 593==

'''picayune''' 
petty

'''lithium''' 
used to treat bipolar disorder

'''Sylvia Plate''' 
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was an American poet and suicide.

==Page 594==

'''narc''' 
a narcotics officer

'''verbatim''' 
word for word

==Page 595==

==Page 596==

=Orin & the "Swiss" hand model, cont.=

==Page 596==

'''tamping''' 
packing down the tobacco

==Page 597==

'''cuckolds''' 
men whose wives cheat on them

'''zaftig''' 
a Yiddish word meaning, roughly, "voluptuous"

'''pectorals''' 
chest muscles

==Page 598==

''''Plus or minus three percent sample.'''' 
This is the margin of error on the supposed survey Orin is about to take.

==Page 599==

'''CO2''' 
a misprint, likely, for CO2, i.e., carbon dioxide

'''omnissent''' 
Orin means "omniscient."

'''Schmeisser GBF''' 
Schmeisser doesn't appear to be a gun manufacturer anymore, but it was in Germany until the fall of the Third Reich. GBF may stand for "German Battle Force."

'''retromandibular''' 
behind the lower jaw

'''Sermonette''' 
a short sermon

'''Evensong''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evening_Prayer_%28Anglican%29 evening prayer] of the Episcopal church

'''megahertz''' 
a measurement of cycles per second

==Page 600==

'''Actors' Guild''' 
a reference to the [http://www.sag.org/ Screen Actors Guild]

'''Jeannie, Samantha, Sam and Diane, Gilligan, Hawkeye, Hazel, Jed''' 
characters from, respectively, [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058815/ ''I Dream of Jeannie''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057733/ ''Bewitched''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083399/ ''Cheers''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057751/ ''Gilligan's Island''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068098/ ''M*A*S*H''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054545/ ''Hazel''], and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055662/ ''The Beverly Hillbillies''].

==Page 601==

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

=Canadians chase Lenz to Ennet House=

==Page 601==

==Endnote 247==

'''the Hole''' 
prison slang for solitary confinement

==Page 602==

==Endnote 248==

'''Natick''' 
a town in Massachusetts about 20 miles west of Boston

'''third year of [[Subsidized Time]]''' 
i.e., the [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Trial-Sized Dove Bar]]

==Page 603==

'''skivvies''' 
underwear

'''per diem''' 
Latin: per day

'''klaxon''' 
a loud metal horn

==Page 604==

'''idolatry''' 
Gately probably doesn't intend to use this word.

==Page 605==

'''rack''' 
apparently a term for a bed

'''regentrifying''' 
Whereas this word would mean "gentrifying again," Lenz means "regenerating."

'''L-Dopa''' 
abbreviation for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-Dopa levadopa]

'''scrotum-tightening''' 
an epithet first used by James Joyce in ''Ulysses''

==Endnote 252==

'''boilerplate''' 
standard text entered identically, as into contracts

==Page 606==

'''Duster''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Duster Plymouth Duster]

'''lacteal''' 
milky

'''rear-mount engine''' 
all Volkswagen bugs have rear-mounted engines

'''prostrate''' 
lying flat on the ground (or, here, a bed)

'''kosher''' 
Here Gately means it as "OK," whereas this literally means, in Yiddish, "prepared according to Jewish Law" of food.

'''Daytona''' 
i.e., the Daytona 500, a yearly auto race

==Page 607==

'''Simonize''' 
to shine or polish to a high sheen

'''Premium''' 
high-octane gasoline

'''adtorsion''' 
outward rotation of a limb

'''Hoits''' 
i.e., "hurts"

==Page 608==

'''B#''' 
This is a key in music that does not exist. B# is actually C, as there is no black key between B and C on a piano.

==Page 609==

'''imprecating''' 
calling down curses on others

'''in tandem''' 
together as a unit

'''Weaver stance''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaver_stance popular technique] for firing a handgun

'''Made Guys''' 
members of the Mafia in full standing

'''at bay''' 
facing attackers

==Page 610==

'''wicks''' 
draws off (liquid) by capillary action

'''dum-dums''' 
bullets that mushroom on impact for maximum bodily damage

==Page 611==

'''Pomade''' 
a substance men used to use to style their hair

==Page 612==

'''''sans-Crist bâtard''''' 
French: Anti-Christ bastard

'''Pépé or Bébé''' 
apparently the name of the dog that Lenz just killed

'''''maricones''''' 
Spanish: homosexuals (note that Brazilians actually speak Portuguese, not Spanish)

'''two meters''' 
about 6.6 feet

'''Canadian''' 
i.e., Québecois French

==Page 613==

'''breezeblocked''' 
a breezeblock is a cinder block

==Page 614==

'''appointments''' 
furnishings

'''ailanthus''' 
a common form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ailanthus urban plant]

'''two meters''' 
an apparent exaggeration

==Page 615==

'''winged''' 
shot in the arm

'''three meters''' 
about 9.8 feet

'''Copernicanly''' 
in the manner of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Polish astronomer

'''Serenity Prayer''' 
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

==Page 616==

'''loafers''' 
shoes that slip on, rather than tie with laces

'''desisted''' 
stopped (but Wade McD. probably meant 'deceased')

==Page 617==

''''By doze is fide.'''' 
"My nose is fine" said by someone with a broken nose, i.e., Green

'''Clearasil''' 
a brand name of benzoyl peroxide, for acne

''''I'b dot touchig dothig, dud worry.'''' 
"I'm not touching nothing, don't worry," ditto

'''shock''' 
insufficient blood flow to the body's organs and tissues, often following an injury but sometimes following an emotional shock

==Page 618==

'''Shylock''' 
He means "Sherlock." Shylock is the Jewish "villain" in Shakespeare's ''The Merchant of Venice.''

'''Supervised''' 
on supervised probation

'''Madame Psychosis is in charge.''' 
This is the first time Joelle has been positively ID'ed as M.P.

'''Secyotty!''' 
"Security!" screamed with a thick Boston accent

'''chanties''' 
He means "shanties," i.e., songs.

==Page 619==

'''''oddering''''' 
i.e., ordering

'''collops''' 
rolls of fat

'''fish-eye lens''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish-eye_lens wide-angle lens]

'''And lo''' 
"And lo I am with you always, even unto the end of the world" Matthew 28:20

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