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=November 8th, YDAU - Interdependence Day - Boston AA=
(The longest chapter in the book)
==Page 343==

'''''GAUDEAMUS IGITUR''''' 
"Let us rejoice"

'''singular''' 
unique

'''polysterene''' 
styrofoam

'''ziggurats''' 
an ancient type of Mesopotamian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat temple tower]

'''fiberboard''' 
board made of small fibers of wood, plastic, or some combination of these and other materials

'''Concord''' 
Concord is about 20 miles northwest of Boston and is the site one of the first battles of the American Revolution.

==Page 344==

'''rotary''' 
a traffic circle or, in the U.K., a roundabout

'''plywood''' 
material made of thin layers of wood glued together

''''12th-Step Work'''' 
The twelfth and final step of AA is this: "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs."

'''epigrammatic''' 
of or pertaining to the use of short and pithy statements

'''pay it ''forward''''' 
thus the title of [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0223897/ this movie]

'''nip''' 
drink of alcohol

'''Dick Cavett and Truman Capote''' 
Richard Alva "Dick" Cavett (born 1936) is an Emmy-award-winning television talk-show host. Truman Capote (1924-1984) was an American writer and novelist, best known for writing ''In Cold Blood'' and ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''. Both men were remarkably short.

==Endnote 133==

'''variegated''' 
diverse

'''esoteric''' 
understood or recognized by few people

==Page 344 (cont'd)==

'''piping''' 
This is a tubular band of ornamental material; Nodie is probably a brand name.

'''imbricate''' 
overlapping in sequence

'''tailor's notch''' 
Notch in your tooth you get from repeatedly biting thread to cut it (or from holding a sewing needle between one's teeth)

'''incisors''' 
front top teeth

==Page 345==

'''insipid''' 
without interesting qualities

'''AA Preamble''' 
You can read it [http://www.serenityfound.org/preamble.html here].

'''empathy''' 
one's ability to feel the emotions of another person

'''what he is''' 
i.e., an alcoholic

==Endnote 134==

'''nonpunitive''' 
not intended as a punishment

'''nitro''' 
nitroglycerin, used for cardiac attacks

==Page 345 (cont'd)==

'''145 kph''' 
a hair over 90 miles per hour

'''litany''' 
a prolonged or tedious account

==Page 346==
'''self-regulations''' 
an allusion to a similar deliberately ludicrous list in Chapter 3 of the book ''Alcoholics Anonymous,'' read aloud at the start of many AA meetings

'''waxing''' 
growing in size, as for the first half of a lunar cycle

'''peritonitis''' 
inflammation of the serous membrane lining the abdomenal cavity

'''cirrhotic''' 
pertaining to hardening of liver tissue

'''nephritis''' 
inflammation of the kidneys

==Page 347==

'''compadre''' 
a close friend or companion, from the Spanish for "godfather"

'''ravening''' 
voracious

'''maw''' 
mouth

'''Black Mass''' 
a Satanic ritual based on ten Roman Catholic mass

==Page 348==

'''"...something whimpery instead of banging."''' 
a reference to the last line of T.S. Eliot's poem [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollow_Men The Hollow Men]

'''garish''' 
loud and flashy

'''Balaclavan''' 
a reference to Balaklava, Ukraine, and the suicidal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade Charge of the Light Brigade]

'''prognathous''' 
having one's lower jaw project beyond the upper part of one's face

'''thermal''' 
a warm, rising air current

'''arbitrage''' 
simultaneous purchase and sale of the same assets in different markets

'''compound''' 
i.e., a compound fracture, where the bone protrudes through the skin

'''Svce''' 
Service

'''Unitarian''' 
Though the term refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian Unitarianism], here it suggestsa kind of hippyesque, wishy-washyness.

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'''Hindenburg''' 
Named for Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg (1847-1934), the German field marshal, hero of World War I, and last President of the Weimar Republic, the ''Hindenburg'' was a hydrogen-filled zeppelin that exploded over Lakehurst, N.J., on May 6, 1937.

'''nonuremic''' 
so as not to appear in one's urine

'''foamer''' 
beer

==Page 350==

'''beatific''' 
blissful or angelic

'''Zippo''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippo brand] of lighter

'''saccharin''' 
A play on words. "Saccharin" is the artificial sweetener in Sweet & Low (coffee is being discussed); "saccharine" means "overly sweet."

'''flummoxed''' 
confused or perplexed

'''burnished''' 
rubbed smooth

'''squalid''' 
foul and repulsive

==Page 351==

'''terse''' 
using few words

'''imperative''' 
a tense of verb implicating a command or directive

'''zealotry''' 
fanaticism

'''green-card Irishman''' 
an Irishman who is a permanent resident non-citizen of the U.S.

'''meal''' 
ground grain

'''metal-pedalled''' 
i.e., "with the pedal to the metal," i.e., at top speed

'''chemical psychosis''' 
Psychosis (called "speed psychosisis") a not uncommon side effect of amphetamine abuse.

'''wax lyrical''' 
to speak poetically

'''"'d been a confarmed..."''' 
I'd been a confirmed bowl-splatterer for years beyond counting. I'd been barred from the facilities at all the truck stops betwixt here and New York for years. The wallpaper in the loo at home hung in these curled sheets from the wall, I tell you. But now one day . . . I'll remember it always. It were a week to the day after I stood up for my ninety-day chip. I were three months sober. I were there on the throne at home, you know. Not to put too fine a point on it, I produced as usual and . . . and I were so amazed as to not believing my ears. It was a sound so unfamiliar at the first I thought I'd dropped my wallet in the loo, do you know? I thought I'd dropped me wallet in the loo as god is my witness. So down I bend betwixt my knees and had a look in the dim of the loo and couldn't believe my eyes. So good people I do then I drop to my knees by the loo and had a ''real'' look. A lover's look, do you know? And friends it were a lovely past my poor powers to say. It were a ''turd'' in the loo. A ''real turd''. It were firm and tapered and ever so gently arched. It looked . . . ''constructed'' instead of sprayed. It look as I felt in my heart God himself made a turd to look. My friends, this turd of mine practically had a pulse. I stayed down on my knees and thanked my Higher Power, which I choose to call my Higher Power God, and I been thanking my Higher Power on my knees ever since, morning and nighttime and in the loo as well, ever since.

'''ninety-day chip''' 
In AA, medals, or chips, are awarded to commemorate certain lengths of sobriety

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'''Enuresis''' 
bed-wetting

'''Priapism''' 
an erection that won't go away

'''Projectile-incontinence''' 
inability to hold owns bowels to the extent that feces shoot out of the anus

'''Autocastration''' 
castration of one's self

'''fringe-Birchism''' 
Birchism is adherence to the principles of the [http://www.jbs.org/ John Birch Society], an ultra-right-wing political organization

'''National-Socialist-Bundtism''' 
The National Socialists were the Nazis, and ''bund'' is German for ''bunch'', but it's unclear why Wallace uses ''Bundtism'' with the ''t'' rather than simply ''Bundism''. This could refer to something like the German-American Bund of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Kuhn_(Nazi) Fritz Julius Kuhn].

'''Coprophilia and -phagia''' 
sexual excitement brought on by feces and eating of feces, respectively

'''candelabrum''' 
a holder for more than one candle

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'''vitriolic''' 
something highly caustic or severe, as criticism; the phrase ''prodigy of vitriolic spine'' must refer to someone with an impressive and courageous capacity (talent?) for scathing criticism

'''orevwar''' 
i.e., ''au revoir'', the French for "goodbye"

'''fremitic''' 
characterized by tremor vibrations in any part of the body

==Page 354==

'''verdant''' 
green with vegetation

'''varicose''' 
having veins that are visible through the skin

'''shamanistic fiat''' 
A shaman is a priest or religious official, usually of an indigenous religion. A fiat is an order, based on the Latin for the imperative form of the verb "to be."

'''30 kph''' 
18.6 miles per hour

'''talismanically''' 
in a way suggesting something having to do with a magic charm or amulet

'''Lord's Prayer''' 
from [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%206:9-13;&version=9; Matthew 20:9-13]

'''ballast''' 
meaning an electric ballast, which is used to regulate and stabilize the current in lights

==Page 355==

'''gnarled''' 
knotty and misshappen

'''Sixers''' 
the short name for the [http://www.nba.com/sixers/index_main.html Philadelphia 76ers]

'''MCI-Walpole''' 
This is the Massachusetts Correction Institute at Walpole, about 25 miles southwest of Boston.

'''raisin jack''' 
an alcoholic drink fermented from raisins, commonly made in prisons

'''spectral''' 
looking like a ghost

==Page 356==

'''LeSabre''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buick_LeSabre Buick LeSabre]

'''jack-legged''' 
a slang term meaning "always screwing up"

'''dash''' 
short for "dashboard"

'''abject''' 
sunken to a low position, as in "abject poverty"

'''regs''' 
regulations

'''sub-rosa''' 
The Latin phrase [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub_rosa sub rosa] means "under the rose" and is used in English to denote secrecy or confidentiality

'''autonomy''' 
control or rule over one's self

==Page 357==

'''fibrosis''' 
scarring

==Endnote 139==

'''entomologic''' 
Entomology is the study of insects.

==Page 357 (cont'd)==

'''Mr. Rogers''' 
The Reverend Frederick McFeely "Fred" Rogers (1928-2003) was an American minister and children's television show host.

'''rhapsodize''' 
speak in an extravagantly elegant manner

'''fisticuffery''' 
fist-fighting

'''invectives''' 
abusive expressions of opinion

'''Sergeant at Arms''' 
an officer appointed to keep order

==Page 358==

'''apothegm''' 
a short, pithy statement

'''head''' 
bathroom

'''spuds''' 
potatoes

'''nocturnal''' 
happening at night

'''crook''' 
a shepherd's staff

'''French-curled''' 
You can see French-curled jewelry [http://www.cqout.com/item.asp?id=3093801 here].

'''demurely''' 
in an effectedly modest way

==Page 359==

'''circumferences''' 
distances around the edge of a circle

'''cuticles''' 
dead skin at the bottom of the fingernails

'''astringent''' 
a chemical that tends to dry something else out

'''onionlight''' 
You can see onionlights [http://www.hammerworks.com/onionlights1.html here].

'''isopropyl''' 
a type of alcohol, found in rubbing alcohol

'''reek''' 
to smell very badly

'''A.D.A.''' 
Assistant District Attorney

==Page 360==

'''fumigated''' 
permeated with gas to kill insects

'''idiosyncrasy''' 
a peculiarity of personality

'''rattan''' 
material taken from the rattan plant, a climbing palm with very long stems

'''Big Book''' 
This is the AA "bible," so to speak, and can be found online [http://www.aa.org/bigbookonline/ here].

'''''As Bill Sees It''''' 
a book by Bill W., one of AA's founders, first published in 1967

'''''Came To Believe''''' 
another AA publication, this one published in 1973

==Page 361==

'''joggling''' 
shaking slightly

'''Demerol''' 
a brand name of pethidine, a painkiller

'''photic''' 
having to do with light

==Page 362==

'''copperheads''' 
one of five species of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agkistrodon_contortrix poisonous snake]

'''tongues''' 
The reference is to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossolalia glossolalia].

'''larynx''' 
voice box

'''requisite''' 
essential or necessary

'''venulated''' 
The word means "able to see the veins"; this condition of the nose is very common among advanced alcoholics.

''''Volare'''' 
This is a song whose title is from the Italian for "to fly." The song was written by Domenico Modugno and Franco Migliacci. Modugno went on to be a member of Italy's parliament

==Page 363==

'''pupil and iris''' 
The pupil is the black circle at the center of the eye, while the iris is the colored part (blue, green, brown).

'''cognito''' 
which is to say, in Lenz's case, unsuccessfully incognito

'''Ferragamos''' 
an Italian brand of shoes

'''periphery''' 
an external boundary

'''selvage''' 
the edge of woven fabric finished so as to prevent raveling, often in a narrow tape effect, different from the body of the fabric.

'''11-Step''' 
recalling the 12th step on page 344, UHID must lack this step, or perhaps one of the others

==Page 364==

'''Rémy''' 
Rémy-Martin, a brand of cognac

'''Tiparillo''' 
a brand name of [http://lfa.atu.edu/Brucker/advertisement%20presentation/sld005.htm cigar]

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

'''defib paddles''' 
the paddles used in defibrillation, the application of electric shocks to the heart to re-start it

'''divot''' 
Normally a golf term, a divot is the hole left by the dirt displaced when one strikes a golf ball.

'''rankness''' 
the quality of being offensive

'''proprietary''' 
Usually referring to an owner, here it refers to feeling as if one has a sense of ownership.

==Page 365==

'''rectum''' 
the very end of the large intestine

'''hubristic''' 
having exaggerated pride or self-confidence

'''7-iron''' 
a type of golf club

'''tenth rough''' 
off the fairway on the tenth hole of a golf course

==Page 366==

'''flats''' 
women's shoes without heels

'''subjunctive''' 
contingent on something else happening

'''counterfactual''' 
at variance with what really happened

'''indicative''' 
According to ''Merriam-Webster,'' "indicative" means "of, relating to, or constituting a verb form or set of verb forms that represents the denoted act or state as an objective fact."

'''transposition''' 
switching the position of two things

'''Radarange''' 
microwave

'''pass''' 
here used to mean "place"

'''allude''' 
here used to mean "give an impression of"

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'''velour''' 
a piled and nappy material resembling velvet

'''caparison''' 
an ornamental covering for a horse, or just rich clothing

'''gavel''' 
the type of hammer a judge uses to restore or maintain order

=NNYC's Statue of Liberty=

==Page 367==

'''huge photo album''' 
The book held by the statue reads, "JULY IV MDCCLXXVI [1776]."

'''product''' 
as opposed to the torch it currently holds

'''pitons''' 
spikes used by mountain climbers for support

=Boston AA, cont.=

==Page 367==

'''deprecate''' 
to express disapproval

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'''conundrum''' 
something puzzling

'''cunctations''' 
delays

'''chagrin''' 
embarrassment at having failed

'''aphasiac''' 
inability to speak

'''Filene's''' 
now owned by [http://www.macys.com/ Macy's]

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'''unironic''' 
i.e., totally expected and not at all a surprise

'''disingenuous''' 
lacking in sincerity, pretending to be naïve

'''schlepping''' 
carrying something awkwardly or slowly

'''deprogramming''' 
from the deprogrammer's point of view, reversing the brainwashing that induced someone to adhere to a religious cult

==Page 370==

'''Naked I Club''' 
a real strip club mentioned [http://www.totse.com/en/erotica/erotic_fiction_so_to_sz/striprv.html here]

'''Route 1''' 
U.S. 1 runs from Fort Kent, Maine, at the Canadian border, down to Key West, Florida, primarily through small towns.

'''Saugus MA''' 
a suburb of Boston about ten miles north of the city

'''etiology''' 
the cause or source of a medical problem

'''prolix''' 
extended to great, unnecessary, or tedious length; long and wordy.

'''Mud-Bug''' 
a Southern term for a crawfish

'''invertebrate''' 
an animal without a spine

'''chordate phylum''' 
the phylum of the animal kingdom containing all animals with spines

==Page 371==

'''Campfire Girls''' 
former name of [http://www.campfireusa.org/ youth organization] when it was just for girls

'''Lancôme''' 
one of France's largest cosmetics manufacturers

'''lurid''' 
gruesome or shocking

'''ubiquitousness''' 
the quality of always being present

'''Aetna''' 
a real [http://www.aetna.com/ insurance company]

'''Doric column''' 
columns of buildings built according to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doric_order Doric order]

'''pliability''' 
the ability to be easily bent

==Page 372==

'''''Ramparts'' and ''Commonweal''''' 
''Ramparts'' was a magazine founded for a Catholic leadership but eventually found its niche with the New Left. ''Commonweal'' was and still is a publication by and for lay Catholics.

'''Sally Jessy Raphael M.S.W.''' 
Sally Jessy Raphael (born Sally Lowenthal, 1938) is an American talk-show host. She does not hold an M.S.W., i.e., a Master's of Social Work

'''complicity''' 
the status of being an accomplice in a wrongdoing

'''Wounded, Hurting, Inadequately Nurtured but Ever-Recovering Survivors''' 
Look at the initials of the capitalized words.

'''auburn''' 
reddish-brown

'''perimeter''' 
the oustide edge of something

==Page 373==

'''vanity''' 
a dressing table

'''limbic system''' 
a complex system within the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbic_system brain]

'''gauntlet''' 
an attack from all sides

'''rasa the tabula''' 
This is a playful inversion of ''tabula rasa,'' Latin for "blank state" and used in the philosophy of John Locke (1632-1704). The sense here is to clean the slate.

'''bandanna''' 
a large printed handkerchief, typically red or blue with a white design

'''circumoral''' 
surrounding the mouth

'''vacuole and optica''' 
These are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuole parts] of a cell, the optica likely being some kind of "seeing" organ.

'''protozoan''' 
a single-celled organism

'''some Catholic statue''' 
The statue described strongly appears to be Bernini's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstasy_of_St_Theresa The Ecstasy of St Theresa]. This statue is also referred to by name at endnote 24, page 988 in the synopsis of James Incandenza's film ''Pre-Nuptial Agreement of Heaven and Hell.''

'''Hours''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liturgy_of_the_Hours Liturgy of the Hours] is the official set of daily prayers prescribed by the Catholic Church to be recited at the canonical hours by the clergy, religious orders, and laity

'''prurient''' 
causing lust

'''cherub''' 
Often this word is used to denote a baby angel, but the actual connotation of the original Hebrew is of a fearsome warrior angel. A cherub guards the Garden of Eden in Genesis so that Adam and Eve cannot go back in.

'''lolled''' 
dropped

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'''IV''' 
intravenous, i.e., directly into a vein

'''lucidity''' 
mental clarity

'''implicit''' 
unspoken but implied

'''Six Flags Over the Poconos''' 
Six Flags is a [http://www.sixflags.com/national/index.aspx chain] of amusement parks. There is not currently one in the Pocono Mountains.

'''labrynth''' 
This is the mythological spelling of "labyrinth," meaning generically a maze, but more specifically denoting the maze built by Daedalus of ancient Greek myth.

'''minotaurs''' 
Daedalus built his famous maze to house the Minotaur, a monster that was half man and half bull and the product of sexual congress between Europa, queen of Crete, and Zeus in the form of a bull.

'''aides de camp''' 
confidential assistants to a military officer

'''absconded''' 
departed suddenly and in secret

'''proto-Fascist''' 
Wallace really means "quasi-Fascist" rather than "proto-Fascist"; it's not as if the rules of AA are the harbinger of Fascism to come.

'''decamped''' 
a synonym of "absconded"

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

'''commode''' 
toilet

==Page 375==

==Endnote 143==

'''''Sic''''' 
This word means: "Thus; so. Used to indicate that a quoted passage, especially one containing an error or unconventional spelling, has been retained in its original form or written intentionally" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'').

=April 30th/May 1st, YDAU - More Marathe & Steeply=

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'''shelf''' 
a projecting ridge on a mountain

'''spangle''' 
a small bright spot

'''"...launching even one ship or vessel."''' 
unlike [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_of_Troy Helen of Troy], whose face "launched a thousand ships" according to Homer

=Himself and Lyle=

==Page 375==

'''blotto''' 
drunk

==Endnote 144==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Purdue Wonderchicken]]

==Page 376==

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote 145 · Found Drama|Endnote 145]]

=More Boston AA=

==Page 376==

'''brogue''' 
American slang term for an accent – usually Irish or Scottish – from the Irish word 'bróg', meaning 'shoe'.

'''Eightball''' 
an eighth of an ounce of cocaine

'''translucent''' 
capable of having light pass through

'''mucronate''' 
having an abruptly projecting point, as a feather or leaf.

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'''swaddled''' 
wrapped tightly in cloth strips

'''fuchsia''' 
brilliant ("hot") pink, the color of the flower of the same name

'''dysplasia''' 
abnormal growth of cells or tissue

'''remonstrances''' 
acts of protest

'''beat-cop''' 
a policeman who patrols the streets

'''abstruse''' 
difficult to understand; recondite

'''tungsten''' 
a metallic element described [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten here], also known as wolfram

==Page 378==

'''Chanel''' 
the fashion house known in long form as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanel House of Chanel]

'''reticence''' 
reluctance

'''D&C''' 
dilation (of the cervix) and curetage (scraping) of the uterus

'''placenta''' 
the tissue that nourishes a fetus and makes up the afterbirth

'''S.S.I.''' 
Social Security Insurance

==Page 379==

=Himself and Lyle, cont.=

==Page 379==

'''libations''' 
alcoholic drinks

'''injudicious''' 
showing lack of judgment

'''chyme''' 
This is "the semifluid mass into which food is converted by gastric secretion and which passes from the stomach into the small intestine" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

==Endnote 146==

'''L.M.P.''' 
Latrodectus Mactans Productions

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

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'''apotheosizing''' 
apotheosis is the glorifying of someone to a divine level

'''patricidal''' 
having a tendency to kill one's father

'''entomologist''' 
a person who studies insects scientifically

'''sephenoid''' 
a misspelling for [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sphenoid sphenoid], "a winged bone at the base of the cranium."
''Merriam-Webster Online. 25 May 2009''

'''Infundibular''' 
having the form of a funnel. The infundibular recess alluded to here is a part of the pituitary gland's structure. Cf. "chronosynclastic infundibulum" in Vonnegut's ''Sirens of Titan'', a fictional place were "all the different kinds of truths fit together."

'''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

'''laryngeally 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 or delineate

'''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. See also "tonic," p. 478.

'''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.

'''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 study of literature or language.

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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)

'''transuranial metallurgist.''' 

`transuranial' refers to the elements with an atomic number greater than 92.

'''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, most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0176227/ Voyage in Time], made with Antonioni.

'''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 her [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''''' 
A.Y. "Vector Field" Rickey, as first referenced back in Endnote 3 as the architect of the cardioid E.T.A. buildings. Possibly named after [http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/ V. Frederick Rickey], a prominent mathematician. It is notable that there is, in fact, no Student Union building at MIT.

The ''summum opus'' would be the "greatest work" while a ''magnum opus'' would be a "great 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

'''meatus''' 

a passage or opening leading to the interior of the body.

==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.''' 
Union of the Hideously 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.

==Page 188 (cont'd)==
'''''mens-sana'' pedagogy''' 
"healthy-mind" teaching

'''''ad valorem''''' 
Latin: by value

'''''corpore potis''''' 
Latin: able of body. The second part of the play on "Mens sana in corpore sano."

'''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 probably means having a bent penis (from ''Peyronies'' disease), while teratoidal means malformed.

'''phrenologically 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''' 
Having cellulite, i.e., deposits of subcutaneous fat within fibrous connective tissue (as in the thighs, hips, and buttocks) that give a puckered and dimpled appearance to the skin surface ([http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cellulite Merriam-Webster])

'''fatally pulchritudinous''' 
deadly good-looking

'''Actaeonizing''' 
Reference to the story of Actaeon - "In the version that was offered by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus (Hymn v), which has become the standard setting, Artemis was bathing in the woods when the hunter Actaeon stumbled across her, thus seeing her naked. He stopped and stared, amazed at her ravishing beauty. Once seen, Actaeon was punished by Artemis: she forbade him speech — if he tried to speak, he would be changed into a stag — for the unlucky profanation of her virginity's mystery. Upon hearing the call of his hunting party, he cried out to them and immediately was changed into a stag. His own hounds then turned upon him and tore him to pieces, not recognizing him." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actaeon Wikipedia])

'''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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[[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.

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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

=Layout of the Enfield Marine Public Health Hospital complex=

==Page 193==

'''VA''' 
the U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs

==Page 194==

'''solvent''' 
i.e., financially solvent

'''methadone''' 
a drug used to wean heroin addicts off that drug and onto methadone, which is equally addictive but produces no "high"

'''methedrine''' 
the brand name of methamphetamine

'''New Bedford''' 
a city of Massachusetts, about 50 miles south of Boston

==Page 195==

''''Vette''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvette Chevrolet Corvette]

'''ornithology''' 
the study of birds

'''aminating''' 
introducing an amino acid into something

'''shiv''' 
an improvised prison weapon used for stabbing

==Page 196==

'''LTIs''' 
Long-Term Illnesses

==Endnote 67==

'''The Unexamined Life tavern''' 
Socrates said that the unexamined life is not worth living in ''Apology''.

'''parasolled''' 
having an umbrella on or in it

'''Mudslides''' 
a type of [http://drinkoftheweek.com/archive/m/mudslide.htm drink]

''''objay darts'''' 
a bastardized form of ''objets d'arts'', French for "objects of art"

'''catatonic''' 
relating to catatonia, a neurogenic motor immobility arising from a disturbed mental state (resulting in little or no movement in the sufferer)

==Page 197==

'''mansard''' 
This is "a hip roof, each face of which has a steeper lower part and a shallower upper part" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

[[Image:mansard.png|'Mansard Roof| thumbnail|right]]

'''Clorets''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clorets popular gum]

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

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'''apotheosizing''' 
apotheosis is the glorifying of someone to a divine level

'''patricidal''' 
having a tendency to kill one's father

'''entomologist''' 
a person who studies insects scientifically

'''sephenoid''' 
a misspelling for [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sphenoid sphenoid], "a winged bone at the base of the cranium."
''Merriam-Webster Online. 25 May 2009''

'''Infundibular''' 
having the form of a funnel. The infundibular recess alluded to here is a part of the pituitary gland's structure. Cf. "chronosynclastic infundibulum" in Vonnegut's ''Sirens of Titan'', a fictional place were "all the different kinds of truths fit together."

'''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

'''laryngeally 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 or delineate

'''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.

'''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 study of literature or language.

==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)

'''transuranial metallurgist.''' 

`transuranial' refers to the elements with an atomic number greater than 92.

'''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, most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0176227/ Voyage in Time], made with Antonioni.

'''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 her [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''''' 
A.Y. "Vector Field" Rickey, as first referenced back in Endnote 3 as the architect of the cardioid E.T.A. buildings. Possibly named after [http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/ V. Frederick Rickey], a prominent mathematician. It is notable that there is, in fact, no Student Union building at MIT.

The ''summum opus'' would be the "greatest work" while a ''magnum opus'' would be a "great 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

'''meatus''' 

a passage or opening leading to the interior of the body.

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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.''' 
Union of the Hideously 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.

==Page 188 (cont'd)==
'''''mens-sana'' pedagogy''' 
"healthy-mind" teaching

'''''ad valorem''''' 
Latin: by value

'''''corpore potis''''' 
Latin: able of body. The second part of the play on "Mens sana in corpore sano."

'''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 probably means having a bent penis (from ''Peyronies'' disease), while teratoidal means malformed.

'''phrenologically 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''' 
Having cellulite, i.e., deposits of subcutaneous fat within fibrous connective tissue (as in the thighs, hips, and buttocks) that give a puckered and dimpled appearance to the skin surface ([http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cellulite Merriam-Webster])

'''fatally pulchritudinous''' 
deadly good-looking

'''Actaeonizing''' 
Reference to the story of Actaeon - "In the version that was offered by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus (Hymn v), which has become the standard setting, Artemis was bathing in the woods when the hunter Actaeon stumbled across her, thus seeing her naked. He stopped and stared, amazed at her ravishing beauty. Once seen, Actaeon was punished by Artemis: she forbade him speech — if he tried to speak, he would be changed into a stag — for the unlucky profanation of her virginity's mystery. Upon hearing the call of his hunting party, he cried out to them and immediately was changed into a stag. His own hounds then turned upon him and tore him to pieces, not recognizing him." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actaeon Wikipedia])

'''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].

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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

==Page 193==

'''les bâtiments sanctifíes''' 
French: the holy buildings

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

=Layout of the Enfield Marine Public Health Hospital complex=

==Page 193==

'''VA''' 
the U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs

==Page 194==

'''solvent''' 
i.e., financially solvent

'''methadone''' 
a drug used to wean heroin addicts off that drug and onto methadone, which is equally addictive but produces no "high"

'''methedrine''' 
the brand name of methamphetamine

'''New Bedford''' 
a city of Massachusetts, about 50 miles south of Boston

==Page 195==

''''Vette''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvette Chevrolet Corvette]

'''ornithology''' 
the study of birds

'''aminating''' 
introducing an amino acid into something

'''shiv''' 
an improvised prison weapon used for stabbing

==Page 196==

'''LTIs''' 
Long-Term Illnesses

==Endnote 67==

'''The Unexamined Life tavern''' 
Socrates said that the unexamined life is not worth living in ''Apology''.

'''parasolled''' 
having an umbrella on or in it

'''Mudslides''' 
a type of [http://drinkoftheweek.com/archive/m/mudslide.htm drink]

''''objay darts'''' 
a bastardized form of ''objets d'arts'', French for "objects of art"

'''catatonic''' 
relating to catatonia, a neurogenic motor immobility arising from a disturbed mental state (resulting in little or no movement in the sufferer)

==Page 197==

'''mansard''' 
This is "a hip roof, each face of which has a steeper lower part and a shallower upper part" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

[[Image:mansard.png|'Mansard Roof| thumbnail|right]]

'''Clorets''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clorets popular gum]

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

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'''apotheosizing''' 
apotheosis is the glorifying of someone to a divine level

'''patricidal''' 
having a tendency to kill one's father

'''entomologist''' 
a person who studies insects scientifically

'''sephenoid''' 
a misspelling for [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sphenoid sphenoid], "a winged bone at the base of the cranium."
''Merriam-Webster Online. 25 May 2009''

'''Infundibular''' 
having the form of a funnel. The infundibular recess alluded to here is a part of the pituitary gland's structure. Cf. "chronosynclastic infundibulum" in Vonnegut's ''Sirens of Titan'', an fictional place were "all the different kinds of truths fit together."

'''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

'''laryngeally 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 or delineate

'''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.

'''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 study of literature or language.

==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)

'''transuranial metallurgist.''' 

`transuranial' refers to the elements with an atomic number greater than 92.

'''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, most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0176227/ Voyage in Time], made with Antonioni.

'''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 her [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''''' 
A.Y. "Vector Field" Rickey, as first referenced back in Endnote 3 as the architect of the cardioid E.T.A. buildings. Possibly named after [http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/ V. Frederick Rickey], a prominent mathematician. It is notable that there is, in fact, no Student Union building at MIT.

The ''summum opus'' would be the "greatest work" while a ''magnum opus'' would be a "great 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

'''meatus''' 

a passage or opening leading to the interior of the body.

==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.''' 
Union of the Hideously 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.

==Page 188 (cont'd)==
'''''mens-sana'' pedagogy''' 
"healthy-mind" teaching

'''''ad valorem''''' 
Latin: by value

'''''corpore potis''''' 
Latin: able of body. The second part of the play on "Mens sana in corpore sano."

'''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 probably means having a bent penis (from ''Peyronies'' disease), while teratoidal means malformed.

'''phrenologically 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''' 
Having cellulite, i.e., deposits of subcutaneous fat within fibrous connective tissue (as in the thighs, hips, and buttocks) that give a puckered and dimpled appearance to the skin surface ([http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cellulite Merriam-Webster])

'''fatally pulchritudinous''' 
deadly good-looking

'''Actaeonizing''' 
Reference to the story of Actaeon - "In the version that was offered by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus (Hymn v), which has become the standard setting, Artemis was bathing in the woods when the hunter Actaeon stumbled across her, thus seeing her naked. He stopped and stared, amazed at her ravishing beauty. Once seen, Actaeon was punished by Artemis: she forbade him speech — if he tried to speak, he would be changed into a stag — for the unlucky profanation of her virginity's mystery. Upon hearing the call of his hunting party, he cried out to them and immediately was changed into a stag. His own hounds then turned upon him and tore him to pieces, not recognizing him." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actaeon Wikipedia])

'''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

=Layout of the Enfield Marine Public Health Hospital complex=

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'''VA''' 
the U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs

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'''solvent''' 
i.e., financially solvent

'''methadone''' 
a drug used to wean heroin addicts off that drug and onto methadone, which is equally addictive but produces no "high"

'''methedrine''' 
the brand name of methamphetamine

'''New Bedford''' 
a city of Massachusetts, about 50 miles south of Boston

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''''Vette''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvette Chevrolet Corvette]

'''ornithology''' 
the study of birds

'''aminating''' 
introducing an amino acid into something

'''shiv''' 
an improvised prison weapon used for stabbing

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'''LTIs''' 
Long-Term Illnesses

==Endnote 67==

'''The Unexamined Life tavern''' 
Socrates said that the unexamined life is not worth living in ''Apology''.

'''parasolled''' 
having an umbrella on or in it

'''Mudslides''' 
a type of [http://drinkoftheweek.com/archive/m/mudslide.htm drink]

''''objay darts'''' 
a bastardized form of ''objets d'arts'', French for "objects of art"

'''catatonic''' 
relating to catatonia, a neurogenic motor immobility arising from a disturbed mental state (resulting in little or no movement in the sufferer)

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'''mansard''' 
This is "a hip roof, each face of which has a steeper lower part and a shallower upper part" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

[[Image:mansard.png|'Mansard Roof| thumbnail|right]]

'''Clorets''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clorets popular gum]

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'''Kornspan''' 
German: corn chip ["Korn" means corn or grain, "Span" means chip or flake, but "Kornspan" makes no sense in German]

'''isometrics''' 
While this is just another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isometric_exercise isometric exercise], it's not clear how Pemulis would be making his face stronger. ...Perhaps he is just making faces as a result of his trying to eavesdrop and in response to the other shouts in the weight room.

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'''like one of Bacon's popes''' 
Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was an Irish artist. His portrait of Pope Innocent X can be seen to the right.

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'''rosin''' 
another spelling of "resin," this resin being used to provide a better grip in weightlifting

'''mesomorphic''' 
having a muscular, husky body type

=Facts About Addiction and Tattoos=

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'''D.S.S.''' 
Department of Social Services

'''papular''' 
having papules, i.e., inflamed, raised elevations on the skin not filled with pus

'''''tecato gusano''''' 
a worm from Tecate, Mexico, a small city in Baja California, bordering the U.S.

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'''Flents''' 
a brand name of [http://earplugstore.stores.yahoo.net/flents.html earplugs]

'''subsonic''' 
of a speed less than that of sound

'''arpeggio''' 
in music, a chord played in parts (i.e., one note at a time) rather than together

'''''pace''''' 
a very loose translation from Latin would be "with due reference to"

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'''Human Immuno-Virus''' 
HIV, i.e., the virus that causes AIDS

'''datum''' 
a piece of information; usually used in its plural, i.e., data

'''nexus''' 
a means of connection

'''glans''' 
the end of the penis

'''D.E.C.''' 
Digital Equipment Corporation, now a part of [http://www.dec.com/ Hewlitt-Packard]

==Endnote 70==

'''N.R.A.''' 
National Rifle Association

'''including 12-Step fellowships themselves''' 
See Chuck Palahniuk's novel ''Fight Club''.

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''''Texas Catheter'''' 
This is "a condom-like device with a plug where the condom's reservoir tip would be, and an adhesive at the base. This device allows for urinary catheterization without the insertion of a true catheter" (Wikipedia).

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'''colloquia''' 
Plural for "colloquium," these are akin to academic conferences, albeit slightly less formal.

'''50 proof''' 
i.e., 25 percent alcohol

'''unalloyed''' 
pure

'''O.C.D.''' 
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

'''epiphanic''' 
adjective form of "epiphany," a moment of sudden and great revelation or realization (Oxford Dictionary of English).

'''insipid''' 
without any interesting qualities

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'''Billerica''' 
a town in Massachusetts, about 25 miles northwest of Boston

'''''vig''''' 
short for "vigorish" (the bookie's fee for his services; see also p. 912)

'''argot''' 
slang

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'''pancreatitis''' 
inflammation of the pancreas

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'''Scrofulous''' 
Morally degenerate; corrupt.

'''Sauvignon''' 
one of two types of wine made from two related sorts of grapes

'''Purple-Hearted''' 
A soldier receives a Purple Heart when s/he is wounded

'''Store 24''' 
A New England chain of convenience stores that often include both self-service gasoline and a deli, the website of which is [http://www.tedeschifoodshops.com/our-history.php here].

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'''200 kilos''' 
over 440 pounds

'''Scooter Puppies''' 
This is likely a term that DFW coined, although Spin magazine used it in a blurb in 1996. I suspect that they were inspired by DFW. ?? Spin does provide one of the reviews in the front of the 2006 edition.

'''Gothic script''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rudolf_Koch_gebrochene_Schriften.png Click here] to see examples.

'''undulating''' 
moving in a wavelike motion

'''necrotic''' 
dead

'''White Flag group''' 
A white flag is a military signal for "surrender." Many AA groups' names quote or allude to phrases or concepts from the AA program; this name alludes to the concept of surrender/abandon/acceptance or "turning over [one's] life and will to the care of God."

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'''magiscule''' 
A misspelling of "majuscule," meaning a script in which all letters are the same hight

'''hyperemic''' 
erect

'''palmate''' 
having four or more leaves emanating from a single point

'''Watertown''' 
a suburb of Boston, ten miles to the west

'''half-m.-long''' 
a half-meter, or nearly 20 inches

'''gonfalonish''' 
resembling a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonfalon gonfalon]

'''mucronate''' 
having a projecting point

'''St. Vitus's dance''' 
a nickname for the disease [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorea_%28disease%29 chorea]

'''''HOW DO YOU LIK YOUR BLUEYED BOY NOW MR DETH!?''''' 
Misspelling and slight misquotation of the last line of the poem "Buffalo Bill's/defunct," by e.e. cummings: "how do you like your blueeyed boy/Mister Death". The full poem appears here: [http://www.madeinwyoming.net/profiles/extras/BBPoemCummings.pdf]

'''gestalt''' 
Gestalt is "a configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that cannot be derived from the summation of its component parts" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

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'''crocodilic''' 
White Flag reference to senior AA members, who sit under a picture of crocodiles sunbathing on a riverbank

'''St. Columbkill''' 
a place name here, named for an actual Irish saint. There is a real Roman Catholic parish in Brighton called St. Columbkille.

'''St. Elizabeth's Hospital''' 
St. Elizabeth's Medical Center is a real hospital in Brighton. Its Web site is [http://www.caritasstelizabeths.org/ here].

'''cantankerous''' 
disagreeable, argumentative

'''Rita Hayworth''' 
The era of [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000028/ Rita Hayworth] would be the '30s and '40s.

'''''SUBIKBAY'62USN4-07''''' 
SUBIKBAY is probably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subic_Bay Subic Bay]. USN would be U.S. Navy.

'''''SEMPER FI''''' 
Short for ''Semper fidelis'' ("always faithful"), motto of the U.S. Marine Corps

'''autolyzed''' 
having undergone autolysis, i.e., the breakdown of tissue over time

'''BLTN''' 
Better Late Than Never

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'''phylum''' 
A taxonomical term just below Kingdom (in humans, Animal), the phylum of mammals is ''Chordata'', which means they have a spinal cord.

'''foment''' 
To foment is to instigate or stir up but the proper word here would be "ferment"

'''M.D.C.''' 
Massachusetts Department of Corrections

'''Talwin''' 
brand name of pentazocine, a narcotic painkiller

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'''cribbage''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cribbage card game]

'''canted''' 
set at an oblique angle

=The Incredibly Potent DMZ=

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'''film-noir''' 
According to Wikipedia, ''film noir'' (French for "dark film") is "a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize moral ambiguity and sexual motivation. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940s to the late 1950s."

'''psychosensual''' 
Whereas ''psychosensual'' would have a more sexual connotation...

'''psychosensory''' 
...''psychosensory'' would be more nearly precise, as it would apply to sensory stimulation, not necessarily sexual.

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'''CIA-era military experiments''' 
probably a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MK-ULTRA MKULTRA]

'''hydrangea''' 
several species of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrangea flowering plants]

'''gistless''' 
having no essential heart of the matter

'''Decoct''' 
as opposed to "concoct"

'''spectrometer''' 
an optical instrument used to conduct spectroscopic analysis on matter to determine its constituent elements

'''Ram Das''' 
This is probably a reference to Baba Ram Dass (born 1931 as Richard Alpert), an American-Jewish spiritual leader, author of ''Be Here Now'', and large influence on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Townshend Pete Townshend].

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'''frustum''' 
A frustum is a truncated cone or pyramid, or specifically "the part of a conical solid left after cutting off a top portion with a plane parallel to the base" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''Lamb's Breath cannabis''' 
a type of potent marijuana

'''20-g.''' 
a 20-gram amount (about .7 ounces)

'''Sierpinski gasket''' 
Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński (1882-1969) was a Polish mathematician and one of the innovators of set theory. The Sierpinski gasket is a fractal, also called the Sierpinski triangle. See picture at right. [[Image:Sierpinski_Triangle.jpg|caption|Sierpinski gasket|right|150px]]

'''mullioned''' 
having separate panes, when used for a window

'''philatelic forceps, a loupe''' 
Philatelic refers to stamp collecting. A loupe is used primarily by a jeweler to view flaws in diamonds.

'''Bunsen burner''' 
a laboratory [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunsen_burner burner] invented in part by Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (1811-1899), a German chemist.

'''titration''' 
the process of determining the strength of a compound

'''WATS''' 
Wide Area Telecommunications Service: "bulk-rate telephone service that enables a subscriber to make an unlimited number of long-distance telephone calls within a given service area for a fixed monthly charge or to receive calls from given areas with no charge to the caller" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'')

'''cross-key''' 
to type in at the same time as search terms on a computer

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'''monograph''' 
a scholarly study on a particular subject, usually published as a book

'''Leavenworth''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Disciplinary_Barracks U.S. Disciplinary Barracks] at Leavenworth, Kan.

'''Ethel Merman''' 
an American [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0581062/ actress], primarily known for her roles in Broadway musicals [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Merman wikipedia]

'''AWOL''' 
Absent Without Leave, a military term

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'''Motrinish''' 
I.e., like Motrin, the original brand name of ibuprofen

'''fools-rush-in''' 
A reference to ''An Essay on Man'', a lengthy poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744), a British poet of great renown:
No Place so Sacred from such Fops is barr'd, Nor is Paul's Church more safe than Paul's Church-yard:
Nay, fly to Altars; there they'll talk you dead; '''For Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.

'''Zen''' 
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen Buddhism] ultimately, although here it applies more to perfection or transcendence

'''Nuck''' 
a pejorative term for a French-Canadian, presumably shortened from "Canuck"

'''dumbshow''' 
Here it means sign language or mime, but the term has a longer history in theater, where it refers to a preview of a part of a play done without lines.

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'''Tenuate Dospan''' 
Tenuate is a brand name of diethylcathinone, an appetite suppressant and mild amphetamine; Dospan is used for the time-release pills.

'''otiose''' 
idle, superfluous or useless

[[Image:Quaker.jpg|right]]

'''"... the way W. Penn in his Quaker Oats hat in like the 16th century must have felt trading a few trinkets to babe-in-the-woods Natives for New Jersey..."''' 
William Penn (1644-1718) was the British-born founder of the colony (and later state) of Pennsylvania. For the hat, see right. Penn obviously lived later than the 16th century and he had no involvement in the founding of New Jersey, which Pemulis seems to be conflating with the purchase of Manhattan by the Dutch for about $24 worth of jewelry.

'''opportunity-cost''' 
In economics, this is what one loses in income, pleasure, etc., from engaging in another activity rather than the one that would have paid said income, pleasure, etc. Wallace (or Pemulis) is using the term incorrectly.

'''rotator cuff''' 
the group of muscles and tendons that stabilize the shoulder

'''stolid''' 
unemotional or impassive

'''''contre-pied''''' 
Literally French for "against-foot," this term is used to apply to a direction taken (mistakenly) by dogs in pursuit of an animal who has taken a different direction.

'''purgatorial''' 
referring neither to heaven nor hell

'''128-256 Alphabetville''' 
Because of his injury, Schacht was ranked in the lower 128 seeds in the tournament just after his hurt his knee. Alphabetville could refer to a ranking convention. A common 'Equal Point Score' guideline for when two or several players have the same Ranking point score decides the position according to the player with most tournament participation within four years, and if these conditions should apply with both or several players then the Ranking position is arranged alphabetically after the surname.

'''11/5''' 
November 5th, [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

'''arachnodactylic''' 
having fingers like spiders

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'''Order but not the same Family''' 
Like "phylum," these are also taxonomical terms. Human beings are ''Homo sapiens'', with ''Homo'' being the genus and ''sapiens'' being the species. Dogs and cats are in the same order: ''Carnivora'' (meat-eaters); but they are in different families: Dogs are in ''Canidae'' and cats in ''Felidae''. However, the hyena, which resembles a dog, is actually in the ''Felidae'' family. Q.e.d.

'''Acton''' 
town in Massachusetts about 25 miles west-northwest of Boston

'''the Xerox Inc. of North American tennis academies''' 
This demonstrates that Port Washington Academy is big, but Xerox is far from the biggest corporation in the U.S.

'''Port Washington''' 
It's made clear here that this is the town on Long Island. This is the "East Egg" of F. Scott Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby,'' in Nassau County on the north shore of Long Island, very close to New York City.

'''vivisected''' 
cut apart while still alive

'''the weekend right before Thanksgiving week and the Whataburger Invitational''' 
Hal and Permulis set a date for a 'window of opportunity' to take DMZ. Compare Page 16, where Hal says that the only other emergency room he has ever been in was exactly one year back from November, Year of Glad.

==Page 218==

'''twins Siamese''' 
The Vaught twin-sister tennis players are actually conjoined at the head.

'''Akron''' 
a city in Ohio and rubber capital of the world

'''Charleston''' 
the dance, not the city

'''bell-lap''' 
a term from track, this is the final lap of a race

'''12/12's Boards''' 
probably SATs or something like them

'''meninges''' 
the tissues that encase the brain

'''glade''' 
a clearing in a forest

==Endnote 76==

'''Attention Deficit Disorder''' 
old terminology for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD. Hal's objective symptoms describe the Inattentive Type.

'''port or starboard''' 
left or right

'''bell curve''' 
the curve formed by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution normal distribution] of IQs -- a concept fraught with problems of political correctness, racism or racialism, and different concepts of what "intelligence" is

'''glabrous''' 
having a surface devoid of hair

'''RAM''' 
Random Access Memory

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'''halcyon''' 
prosperous, happy

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken]]

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==Endnote 77==

[[Subsidized Time|Y.P.W.]]

'''H. Bosch's triptych ''The Garden of Earthly Delights''''' 
Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) was a Dutch painter. You can view the aforementioned triptych [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights here].

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'''Kornspan''' 
German: corn chip ["Korn" means corn or grain, "Span" means chip or flake, but "Kornspan" makes no sense in German]

'''isometrics''' 
While this is just another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isometric_exercise isometric exercise], it's not clear how Pemulis would be making his face stronger. ...Perhaps he is just making faces as a result of his trying to eavesdrop and in response to the other shouts in the weight room.

==Page 199==

[[Image:Bacon.jpg|thumb|caption|Bacon's ''Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X''|right|150px]]

'''like one of Bacon's popes''' 
Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was an Irish artist. His portrait of Pope Innocent X can be seen to the right.

==Page 200==

'''rosin''' 
another spelling of "resin," this resin being used to provide a better grip in weightlifting

'''mesomorphic''' 
having a muscular, husky body type

=Facts About Addiction and Tattoos=

==Page 200==

'''D.S.S.''' 
Department of Social Services

'''papular''' 
having papules, i.e., inflamed, raised elevations on the skin not filled with pus

'''''tecato gusano''''' 
a worm from Tecate, Mexico, a small city in Baja California, bordering the U.S.

==Page 201==

'''Flents''' 
a brand name of [http://earplugstore.stores.yahoo.net/flents.html earplugs]

'''subsonic''' 
of a speed less than that of sound

'''arpeggio''' 
in music, a chord played in parts (i.e., one note at a time) rather than together

'''''pace''''' 
a very loose translation from Latin would be "with due reference to"

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'''Human Immuno-Virus''' 
HIV, i.e., the virus that causes AIDS

'''datum''' 
a piece of information; usually used in its plural, i.e., data

'''nexus''' 
a means of connection

'''glans''' 
the end of the penis

'''D.E.C.''' 
Digital Equipment Corporation, now a part of [http://www.dec.com/ Hewlitt-Packard]

==Endnote 70==

'''N.R.A.''' 
National Rifle Association

'''including 12-Step fellowships themselves''' 
See Chuck Palahniuk's novel ''Fight Club''.

==Page 202 (cont'd)==

''''Texas Catheter'''' 
This is "a condom-like device with a plug where the condom's reservoir tip would be, and an adhesive at the base. This device allows for urinary catheterization without the insertion of a true catheter" (Wikipedia).

==Page 203==

'''colloquia''' 
Plural for "colloquium," these are akin to academic conferences, albeit slightly less formal.

'''50 proof''' 
i.e., 25 percent alcohol

'''unalloyed''' 
pure

'''O.C.D.''' 
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

'''epiphanic''' 
adjective form of "epiphany," a moment of sudden and great revelation or realization (Oxford Dictionary of English).

'''insipid''' 
without any interesting qualities

==Page 204==

'''Billerica''' 
a town in Massachusetts, about 25 miles northwest of Boston

'''''vig''''' 
short for "vigorish"

'''argot''' 
slang

==Page 205==

'''pancreatitis''' 
inflammation of the pancreas

==Page 206==

'''Scrofulous''' 
Morally degenerate; corrupt.

'''Sauvignon''' 
one of two types of wine made from two related sorts of grapes

'''Purple-Hearted''' 
A soldier receives a Purple Heart when s/he is wounded

'''Store 24''' 
A New England chain of convenience stores that often include both self-service gasoline and a deli, the website of which is [http://www.tedeschifoodshops.com/our-history.php here].

==Page 207==

'''200 kilos''' 
over 440 pounds

'''Scooter Puppies''' 
This is likely a term that DFW coined, although Spin magazine used it in a blurb in 1996. I suspect that they were inspired by DFW. ?? Spin does provide one of the reviews in the front of the 2006 edition.

'''Gothic script''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rudolf_Koch_gebrochene_Schriften.png Click here] to see examples.

'''undulating''' 
moving in a wavelike motion

'''necrotic''' 
dead

'''White Flag group''' 
A white flag is a military signal for "surrender." Many AA groups' names quote or allude to phrases or concepts from the AA program; this name alludes to the concept of surrender/abandon/acceptance or "turning over [one's] life and will to the care of God."

==Page 208==

'''magiscule''' 
A misspelling of "majuscule," meaning a script in which all letters are the same hight

'''hyperemic''' 
erect

'''palmate''' 
having four or more leaves emanating from a single point

'''Watertown''' 
a suburb of Boston, ten miles to the west

'''half-m.-long''' 
a half-meter, or nearly 20 inches

'''gonfalonish''' 
resembling a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonfalon gonfalon]

'''mucronate''' 
having a projecting point

'''St. Vitus's dance''' 
a nickname for the disease [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorea_%28disease%29 chorea]

'''''HOW DO YOU LIK YOUR BLUEYED BOY NOW MR DETH!?''''' 
Misspelling and slight misquotation of the last line of the poem "Buffalo Bill's/defunct," by e.e. cummings: "how do you like your blueeyed boy/Mister Death". The full poem appears here: [http://www.madeinwyoming.net/profiles/extras/BBPoemCummings.pdf]

'''gestalt''' 
Gestalt is "a configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that cannot be derived from the summation of its component parts" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

==Page 209==

'''crocodilic''' 
White Flag reference to senior AA members, who sit under a picture of crocodiles sunbathing on a riverbank

'''St. Columbkill''' 
a place name here, named for an actual Irish saint. There is a real Roman Catholic parish in Brighton called St. Columbkille.

'''St. Elizabeth's Hospital''' 
St. Elizabeth's Medical Center is a real hospital in Brighton. Its Web site is [http://www.caritasstelizabeths.org/ here].

'''cantankerous''' 
disagreeable, argumentative

'''Rita Hayworth''' 
The era of [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000028/ Rita Hayworth] would be the '30s and '40s.

'''''SUBIKBAY'62USN4-07''''' 
SUBIKBAY is probably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subic_Bay Subic Bay]. USN would be U.S. Navy.

'''''SEMPER FI''''' 
Short for ''Semper fidelis'' ("always faithful"), motto of the U.S. Marine Corps

'''autolyzed''' 
having undergone autolysis, i.e., the breakdown of tissue over time

'''BLTN''' 
Better Late Than Never

==Page 210==

'''phylum''' 
A taxonomical term just below Kingdom (in humans, Animal), the phylum of mammals is ''Chordata'', which means they have a spinal cord.

'''foment''' 
To foment is to instigate or stir up but the proper word here would be "ferment"

'''M.D.C.''' 
Massachusetts Department of Corrections

'''Talwin''' 
brand name of pentazocine, a narcotic painkiller

==Page 211==

'''cribbage''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cribbage card game]

'''canted''' 
set at an oblique angle

=The Incredibly Potent DMZ=

==Page 211==

'''film-noir''' 
According to Wikipedia, ''film noir'' (French for "dark film") is "a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize moral ambiguity and sexual motivation. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940s to the late 1950s."

'''psychosensual''' 
Whereas ''psychosensual'' would have a more sexual connotation...

'''psychosensory''' 
...''psychosensory'' would be more nearly precise, as it would apply to sensory stimulation, not necessarily sexual.

==Page 212==

'''CIA-era military experiments''' 
probably a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MK-ULTRA MKULTRA]

'''hydrangea''' 
several species of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrangea flowering plants]

'''gistless''' 
having no essential heart of the matter

'''Decoct''' 
as opposed to "concoct"

'''spectrometer''' 
an optical instrument used to conduct spectroscopic analysis on matter to determine its constituent elements

'''Ram Das''' 
This is probably a reference to Baba Ram Dass (born 1931 as Richard Alpert), an American-Jewish spiritual leader, author of ''Be Here Now'', and large influence on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Townshend Pete Townshend].

==Page 213==

'''frustum''' 
A frustum is a truncated cone or pyramid, or specifically "the part of a conical solid left after cutting off a top portion with a plane parallel to the base" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''Lamb's Breath cannabis''' 
a type of potent marijuana

'''20-g.''' 
a 20-gram amount (about .7 ounces)

'''Sierpinski gasket''' 
Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński (1882-1969) was a Polish mathematician and one of the innovators of set theory. The Sierpinski gasket is a fractal, also called the Sierpinski triangle. See picture at right. [[Image:Sierpinski_Triangle.jpg|caption|Sierpinski gasket|right|150px]]

'''mullioned''' 
having separate panes, when used for a window

'''philatelic forceps, a loupe''' 
Philatelic refers to stamp collecting. A loupe is used primarily by a jeweler to view flaws in diamonds.

'''Bunsen burner''' 
a laboratory [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunsen_burner burner] invented in part by Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (1811-1899), a German chemist.

'''titration''' 
the process of determining the strength of a compound

'''WATS''' 
Wide Area Telecommunications Service: "bulk-rate telephone service that enables a subscriber to make an unlimited number of long-distance telephone calls within a given service area for a fixed monthly charge or to receive calls from given areas with no charge to the caller" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'')

'''cross-key''' 
to type in at the same time as search terms on a computer

==Page 214==

'''monograph''' 
a scholarly study on a particular subject, usually published as a book

'''Leavenworth''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Disciplinary_Barracks U.S. Disciplinary Barracks] at Leavenworth, Kan.

'''Ethel Merman''' 
an American [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0581062/ actress], primarily known for her roles in Broadway musicals [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Merman wikipedia]

'''AWOL''' 
Absent Without Leave, a military term

==Page 215==

'''Motrinish''' 
I.e., like Motrin, the original brand name of ibuprofen

'''fools-rush-in''' 
A reference to ''An Essay on Man'', a lengthy poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744), a British poet of great renown:
No Place so Sacred from such Fops is barr'd, Nor is Paul's Church more safe than Paul's Church-yard:
Nay, fly to Altars; there they'll talk you dead; '''For Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.

'''Zen''' 
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen Buddhism] ultimately, although here it applies more to perfection or transcendence

'''Nuck''' 
a pejorative term for a French-Canadian, presumably shortened from "Canuck"

'''dumbshow''' 
Here it means sign language or mime, but the term has a longer history in theater, where it refers to a preview of a part of a play done without lines.

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'''Tenuate Dospan''' 
Tenuate is a brand name of diethylcathinone, an appetite suppressant and mild amphetamine; Dospan is used for the time-release pills.

'''otiose''' 
idle, superfluous or useless

[[Image:Quaker.jpg|right]]

'''"... the way W. Penn in his Quaker Oats hat in like the 16th century must have felt trading a few trinkets to babe-in-the-woods Natives for New Jersey..."''' 
William Penn (1644-1718) was the British-born founder of the colony (and later state) of Pennsylvania. For the hat, see right. Penn obviously lived later than the 16th century and he had no involvement in the founding of New Jersey, which Pemulis seems to be conflating with the purchase of Manhattan by the Dutch for about $24 worth of jewelry.

'''opportunity-cost''' 
In economics, this is what one loses in income, pleasure, etc., from engaging in another activity rather than the one that would have paid said income, pleasure, etc. Wallace (or Pemulis) is using the term incorrectly.

'''rotator cuff''' 
the group of muscles and tendons that stabilize the shoulder

'''stolid''' 
unemotional or impassive

'''''contre-pied''''' 
Literally French for "against-foot," this term is used to apply to a direction taken (mistakenly) by dogs in pursuit of an animal who has taken a different direction.

'''purgatorial''' 
referring neither to heaven nor hell

'''128-256 Alphabetville''' 
Because of his injury, Schacht was ranked in the lower 128 seeds in the tournament just after his hurt his knee. Alphabetville could refer to a ranking convention. A common 'Equal Point Score' guideline for when two or several players have the same Ranking point score decides the position according to the player with most tournament participation within four years, and if these conditions should apply with both or several players then the Ranking position is arranged alphabetically after the surname.

'''11/5''' 
November 5th, [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

'''arachnodactylic''' 
having fingers like spiders

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'''Order but not the same Family''' 
Like "phylum," these are also taxonomical terms. Human beings are ''Homo sapiens'', with ''Homo'' being the genus and ''sapiens'' being the species. Dogs and cats are in the same order: ''Carnivora'' (meat-eaters); but they are in different families: Dogs are in ''Canidae'' and cats in ''Felidae''. However, the hyena, which resembles a dog, is actually in the ''Felidae'' family. Q.e.d.

'''Acton''' 
town in Massachusetts about 25 miles west-northwest of Boston

'''the Xerox Inc. of North American tennis academies''' 
This demonstrates that Port Washington Academy is big, but Xerox is far from the biggest corporation in the U.S.

'''Port Washington''' 
It's made clear here that this is the town on Long Island. This is the "East Egg" of F. Scott Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby,'' in Nassau County on the north shore of Long Island, very close to New York City.

'''vivisected''' 
cut apart while still alive

'''the weekend right before Thanksgiving week and the Whataburger Invitational''' 
Hal and Permulis set a date for a 'window of opportunity' to take DMZ. Compare Page 16, where Hal says that the only other emergency room he has ever been in was exactly one year back from November, Year of Glad.

==Page 218==

'''twins Siamese''' 
The Vaught twin-sister tennis players are actually conjoined at the head.

'''Akron''' 
a city in Ohio and rubber capital of the world

'''Charleston''' 
the dance, not the city

'''bell-lap''' 
a term from track, this is the final lap of a race

'''12/12's Boards''' 
probably SATs or something like them

'''meninges''' 
the tissues that encase the brain

'''glade''' 
a clearing in a forest

==Endnote 76==

'''Attention Deficit Disorder''' 
old terminology for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD. Hal's objective symptoms describe the Inattentive Type.

'''port or starboard''' 
left or right

'''bell curve''' 
the curve formed by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution normal distribution] of IQs -- a concept fraught with problems of political correctness, racism or racialism, and different concepts of what "intelligence" is

'''glabrous''' 
having a surface devoid of hair

'''RAM''' 
Random Access Memory

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'''halcyon''' 
prosperous, happy

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken]]

==Page 219==

==Endnote 77==

[[Subsidized Time|Y.P.W.]]

'''H. Bosch's triptych ''The Garden of Earthly Delights''''' 
Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) was a Dutch painter. You can view the aforementioned triptych [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights here].

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==Page 884==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''renal calculus''' 
kidney stones

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

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

'''antipyretic''' 
designed to combat fever

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Endnote 358==

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

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'''somnolent''' 
drowsy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Banfis''' 
expensive Italian shoes

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'''libido''' 
sex drive

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

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

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

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

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'''sombrero w/ balls''' 

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

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

'''scuttlebutt''' 
gossip, rumor

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

'''alacrity''' 
eagerness

'''mortification''' 
extreme embarrassment

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=Hal Continues Narrating=

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

'''overcognitive''' 
thinking too much

==Page 897==

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

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

==Page 898==

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

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

'''recumbency''' 
perhaps a chaise longue

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'''averred''' 
asserted with confidence

'''neologism''' 
a newly coined word

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

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

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

==Page 900==

'''Sitney and Schneewind's'' Dictionary of Environmental Sciences''''' 
There is no such book, but the name Schneewind is German for "snow wind." There are two contemporary academics with those surnames, though they are not scientists: P. Adams Sitney (b. 1944) is a scholar of avant-garde film; J.B. Schneewind (b. 1930) is a philosopher and an authority on Kant and the history of ethics

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

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

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

'''perspicacity''' 
keenness of perception

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

'''philately''' 
stamp collecting

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

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

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'''phocomelic''' 
having extremely short limbs

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

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

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

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

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

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'''sarcophagus''' 
coffin

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==Page 884==

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

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

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

==Page 885==

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

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

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

==Page 886==

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

'''renal calculus''' 
kidney stones

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

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

'''antipyretic''' 
designed to combat fever

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

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

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

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

==Page 887==

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

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

==Endnote 358==

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

==Page 888==

==Page 889==

==Page 890==

'''somnolent''' 
drowsy

==Page 891==

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 892==

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

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

'''Banfis''' 
expensive Italian shoes

==Page 893==

'''libido''' 
sex drive

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

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

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

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

==Page 894==

'''sombrero w/ balls''' 

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

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

'''scuttlebutt''' 
gossip, rumor

==Page 895==

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

'''alacrity''' 
eagerness

'''mortification''' 
extreme embarrassment

==Page 896==

=Hal Continues Narrating=

==Page 896==

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

'''overcognitive''' 
thinking too much

==Page 897==

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

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

==Page 898==

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

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

'''recumbency''' 
perhaps a chaise longue

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 899==

'''averred''' 
asserted with confidence

'''neologism''' 
a newly coined word

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

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

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

==Page 900==

'''Sitney and Schneewind's'' Dictionary of Environmental Sciences''''' 
There is no such book, but the name Schneewind is German for "snow wind." There are two contemporary academics with those surnames, though they are not scientists: P. Adams Sitney (b. 1944) is a scholar of avant-garde film; J.B. Schneewind (b. 1930) is a philosopher and an authority on Kant and the history of ethics

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

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

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

'''perspicacity''' 
keenness of perception

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

'''philately''' 
stamp collecting

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

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

==Page 901==

'''phocomelic''' 
having extremely short limbs

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 902==

'''sarcophagus''' 
coffin

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