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=November 19th, YDAU - AFR on the Move=

==Page 845==

'''gauche''' 
from the French for "left" but here meaning "crude" or "socially unacceptable"

=Gately Dreaming=

==Page 846==

'''change their bags''' 
i.e., their colostomy bags

'''''leur rai pays''''' 
cf. note ''supra''for '''NOTRE RAI PAYS''' on page 222; this would be idiomatic French for "their home away from home" or "their colony" (Québec)

==Page 847==

'''the sort of body Gately's only ever seen with a staple in its navel''' 
a centerfold nude in a magazine, such as ''Playboy''

'''fifth post''' 
You get the picture.

[[Image:Taj.jpg|thumb|caption|Taj Mahal|right|200px]]

'''Taj''' 
i.e., the Taj Mahal; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_mahal Wikipedia]

'''viscous''' 
very thick

==Page 848==

'''Twister''' 
see note ''supra'' for page 634

==Page 849==

==Page 850==

'''starkers''' 
i.e., stark naked

==Page 851==

=November 20th, YDAU; ''GAUDEAMUS IGITUR'' - Hal Narrates=

==Page 851==

'''''Gaudeamus Igitur''''' 
A traditional European graduation song that exhorts the listener to enjoy all that our brief lives have to offer--in particular, the recreations in which university undergraduates typically partake. The phrase comes from the opening Latin words of the lyric: "Let us rejoice therefore/
While we are young/After a pleasant youth/After a troublesome old age/The earth will have us."

==Page 852==

'''50 cm.''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''A formula for the temporal relation...''' 
To understand why Hal's insight is true, first take a look at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trammel_of_Archimedes Trammel of Archimedes]. Now imagine a system in which the two shuttles travel back and forth along their respective axes and flash each time they reach the ellipse before reversing direction. Both shuttles are confined to the ellipse, so that the shuttle on the major axis travels farther (and temporally longer) between its flashes than does its counterpart on the minor axis. There are two formulas for describing the [http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/Ellipse.topicArticleId-257309,articleId-257249.html ellipse], one for the major axis on the horizontal and the other for the major axis on the vertical.

'''conic sections''' 
These are studied in advanced trigonometry; they are geometric shapes forced by passing a plane through a double-naped cone at different angles and observing the cross-sections, i.e., circles, ellipses (see note ''supra''), parabolas, and hyperbolas.

==Page 853==

'''''terre-batu''''' 
French for "beaten earth," this is a reference to French clay courts.

'''Ethiopian spear chuckers''' 
Rference to the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, when Mussolini's heavily armed and mechanised Italian invading forces took on Haile Selassi's Army of the Ethiopian Empire. Despite the fact that many of the Abyssinians were equipped with little more than spears or bows they managed to give the Italians a good run for their money, but against tanks and aerial bombardments of mustard gas the result was inevitable.

==Page 854==

=Gately's Dreaming, cont.=

==Page 854==

'''effulgence''' 
shining brilliance

[[Image:Huipil.jpg|thumb|right|Contemporary huipil with typical square neckline]]

'''hulpil''' 
probably a misspelling of "huipil," a traditional Mayan dress

==Page 855==

'''''And Lo''''' 
the words used by Madame Psychosis to open her radio show (p. 184)

==Page 856==

[[Image:Huarache.jpg]]

'''huaraches''' 
Mexican sandals, the "uppers" of which are made from woven strips of leather

'''B.U.M.''' 
perhaps Boston University Multimedia - but more likely B.U.M. Equipment, a clothes manufacturer that can be read about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.U.M. here]

'''St. Columbkill''' 
this is actually spelled "St. Columbkille," one of the many names of St. Columba, who was also called "Colum Cille," meaning "dove of the church," and was one of the "Twelve Apostles of Ireland" who converted the native Irish - St. Columbkille Parish is a real Parish in Brighton, MA, as end note 348 mentions, the website of which is [http://www.brightoncatholic.org/ here].

==Page 857==

'''mush''' 
a cornmeal porridge, similar to grits but thicker

'''w.o.m.''' 
word of mouth

'''jimson''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimsonweed loco weed]

'''have to much to go on''' 
this appears to be a misprint of "have too much to go on"

==Page 859==

'''Evel Knievel''' 
Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel, Jr. (1938-2007), was an American motorcycle daredevil.

'''''As God is my fucking witness...''''' 
echoing Scarlett O'Hara's [http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=as+god+is+my+witness+i%27ll+never&view=detail&mid=75BCE76FF4D9CC87EF2F75BCE76FF4D9CC87EF2F&first=0&qpvt=as+god+is+my+witness+i%27ll+never climactic speech] in the 1939 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/ "Gone with the Wind"]

'''MCI/Billerica''' 
the '''M'''assachusetts '''C'''orrectional '''I'''nstitution in Billerica, a town about 20 miles northwest of Boston

'''Revere''' 
another Massachusetts town, about five miles northeast of Boston, on the Bay; named for Paul Revere

==Page 860==

'''Nuckslaughter''' 
i.e., killing a Canadian

==Page 861==

'''UPS''' 
United Parcel Service

'''Route 45''' 
U.S. Route 45 runs from US-98 in Mobile, Ala., to I-43/I-94 in Milwaukee. It passes through Kentucky.

==Page 863==

'''orchasm''' 
i.e., orgasm; an interesting gaffe considering it incorporates "chasm," meaning "abyss"

'''''Liebestod''''' 
German: love-death―this is the final aria sung by Isolde in Wagner's ''Tristan und Isolde''; see note ''supra'' for page 756

==Page 864==

=Hal's Narration, cont.=

'''Spiru-Tein''' 
a high-protein energy drink distributed, in powered form, in cans

'''guilloche''' 
Hal is referring to an ornamental molding of the kind shown below.

[[Image:Guilloche molding.jpg]]

'''parabolic dusting of snow''' and '''snow swirling in funnels and eddies''' 
Hal (or Wallace) is on a kind of annular jag with all this talk of ellipses, conic sections, parabolas, funnels and eddies, and even the guilloche pattern.

'''lee side''' 
nautical term meaning the side facing away from the wind

==Page 865==

'''ablutions''' 
ritualistic washings of the body

'''11-18-EST0456''' 
November 18, Eastern Standard Time, 04:56 a.m. (Despite the fact that it's apparently November 20th. Whether this is an error or not is unclear.)

'''furriners''' 
dialect pronunciation of "foreigners"

==Page 866==

'''Mount Auburn''' 
probably the [http://www.mountauburnclub.com/ Mount Auburn Club] in Watertown, Mass.

'''F.A.A.''' 
Federal Aviation Administration

'''skirling''' 
shrieking; playing of bagpipes

==Page 867==

'''duck blind''' 
a shelter for concealing duck hunters

'''Winchester double-aughts''' 
Winchester 00 shotguns file shells with 7-9 pellets of nominal diameter of 0.33" (8.4 mm).

'''''raisin-debt''''' 
''raison d'être'', French: reason for being

'''"We got him..."''' 
Obviously, the point of Stice's unfunny joke is that the statistical average of the first two shots would yield a shot that hit the duck.

==Page 868==

'''confected''' 
candied or covered in sugar

'''Schacht heard that joke down at the Cranial place''' 
"Schacht interns twice a week for a root-specialist over at the National Cranio-Facial Pain Foundation", Cf. Page 267

'''medials''' 
i.e., medians

==Page 869==

'''brang''' 
Stice's solecism for "brought"

==Page 870==

'''hyper-v'd''' 
hyperventilated

'''cantilevered''' 
having a "projecting structure, such as a beam, that is supported at one end and carries a load at the other end or along its length" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'')

'''Telekiniption''' 
i.e., telekinesis

'''Parabnormal''' 
another good one

'''occlusive''' 
descriptive of a bandage that closes a wound and keeps it from air

==Page 871==

'''Subhadronic''' 
making up the parts of the parts of an atom; very, very small; hadrons are particles made up of quarks, mainly baryons -- protons and neutrons, made of three quarks -- and mesons -- made of two quarks, so subhadronic particles may be quarks

'''Moët''' 
Moët & Chandon is a French champagne manufacturer

'''parotitic''' 
having the mumps

'''half a meter''' 
about 1.64 feet

'''dermis''' 
skin

==Page 872==

'''tacit''' 
unspoken

==Page 873==

==Endnote 352==

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

'''betel-nut extract''' 
This extract causes the teeth and gums to be stained red

'''internecine''' 
destructive to both sides (of a conflict, esp. within an organization)

==Page 873 (cont'd)==

'''naïf''' 
a naive male

'''dessicated''' 
dried up

'''S.-B. I.Q.''' 
'''S'''tanford-'''B'''inet '''I'''ntelligence '''Q''uotient

'''Submoronic-to-Moronic''' 
At one time, the term "moron" was used to describe a person who tested with an IQ of 50-69; "submoronic" by this reckoning would either be an "imbecile" (with an IQ of 20-49) or an "idiot" (with an IQ below 20). These terms came to be considered offensive and fell from use in the psychological community.

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

'''sinecure''' 
an office requiring little or no work

'''Ba'hai''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahai Bahá'í], a Middle-Eastern faith
==Page 874==

'''hypomanic''' 
not quite manic, but close

'''co-eval of venereal interface''' 
"Co-eval" can have the more specific meaning of "contemporary," i.e., having the same age (date of origin) or duration, but Kenkle is using periphrasis to say "equivalent of sex."

==Endnote 353==

'''Roxbury and Mattapan''' 
In fact, the Orange line continues through Roxbury to terminate at Forest Hills (on the south end of the line); the Red line goes to Mattapan (via transfer at Ashmont). Some branches of the Green line have stops in Brighton, the stand-in for Enfield in the novel.

'''joss''' 
luck

==Page 874==

'''fireman's carry''' 
to carry someone by draping them over your shoulder

'''Noh-style''' 
in the style of Noh (alternative romanization: "Nou"), which is the highly stylized, elaborately costumed classical drama of Japan

'''hawked''' 
spit

'''nihil''' 
Latin: nothing

==Page 875==

'''Good prince Hal''' 
Falstaff addresses the future King Henry V in this manner in Act II, scene ii, of ''I Henry IV''.

'''athe[-]ling''' 
Anglo-Saxon prince or royal heir

'''cachinated''' 
misspelling of cachinnated, i.e., laughed loudly

'''compadre''' 
Spanish term for "friend"

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=November 19th, YDAU - AFR on the Move=

==Page 845==

'''gauche''' 
from the French for "left" but here meaning "crude" or "socially unacceptable"

=Gately Dreaming=

==Page 846==

'''change their bags''' 
i.e., their colostomy bags

'''''leur rai pays''''' 
cf. note ''supra''for '''NOTRE RAI PAYS''' on page 222; this would be idiomatic French for "their home away from home" or "their colony" (Québec)

==Page 847==

'''the sort of body Gately's only ever seen with a staple in its navel''' 
a centerfold nude in a magazine, such as ''Playboy''

'''fifth post''' 
You get the picture.

[[Image:Taj.jpg|thumb|caption|Taj Mahal|right|200px]]

'''Taj''' 
i.e., the Taj Mahal; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_mahal Wikipedia]

'''viscous''' 
very thick

==Page 848==

'''Twister''' 
see note ''supra'' for page 634

==Page 849==

==Page 850==

'''starkers''' 
i.e., stark naked

==Page 851==

=November 20th, YDAU; ''GAUDEAMUS IGITUR'' - Hal Narrates=

==Page 851==

'''''Gaudeamus Igitur''''' 
A traditional European graduation song that exhorts the listener to enjoy all that our brief lives have to offer--in particular, the recreations in which university undergraduates typically partake. The phrase comes from the opening Latin words of the lyric: "Let us rejoice therefore/
While we are young/After a pleasant youth/After a troublesome old age/The earth will have us."

==Page 852==

'''50 cm.''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''A formula for the temporal relation...''' 
To understand why Hal's insight is true, first take a look at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trammel_of_Archimedes Trammel of Archimedes]. Now imagine a system in which the two shuttles travel back and forth along their respective axes and flash each time they reach the ellipse before reversing direction. Both shuttles are confined to the ellipse, so that the shuttle on the major axis travels farther (and temporally longer) between its flashes than does its counterpart on the minor axis. There are two formulas for describing the [http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/Ellipse.topicArticleId-257309,articleId-257249.html ellipse], one for the major axis on the horizontal and the other for the major axis on the vertical.

'''conic sections''' 
These are studied in advanced trigonometry; they are geometric shapes forced by passing a plane through a double-naped cone at different angles and observing the cross-sections, i.e., circles, ellipses (see note ''supra''), parabolas, and hyperbolas.

==Page 853==

'''''terre-batu''''' 
French for "beaten earth," this is a reference to French clay courts.

'''Ethiopian spear chuckers''' 
Rference to the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, when Mussolini's heavily armed and mechanised Italian invading forces took on Haile Selassi's Army of the Ethiopian Empire. Despite the fact that many of the Abyssinians were equipped with little more than spears or bows they managed to give the Italians a good run for their money, but against tanks and aerial bombardments of mustard gas the result was inevitable.

==Page 854==

=Gately's Dreaming, cont.=

==Page 854==

'''effulgence''' 
shining brilliance

[[Image:Huipil.jpg|thumb|right|Contemporary huipil with typical square neckline]]

'''hulpil''' 
probably a misspelling of "huipil," a traditional Mayan dress

==Page 855==

'''''And Lo''''' 
the words used by Madame Psychosis to open her radio show (p. 184)

==Page 856==

[[Image:Huarache.jpg]]

'''huaraches''' 
Mexican sandals, the "uppers" of which are made from woven strips of leather

'''B.U.M.''' 
perhaps Boston University Multimedia - but more likely B.U.M. Equipment, a clothes manufacturer that can be read about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.U.M. here]

'''St. Columbkill''' 
this is actually spelled "St. Columbkille," one of the many names of St. Columba, who was also called "Colum Cille," meaning "dove of the church," and was one of the "Twelve Apostles of Ireland" who converted the native Irish - St. Columbkille Parish is a real Parish in Brighton, MA, as end note 348 mentions, the website of which is [http://www.brightoncatholic.org/ here].

==Page 857==

'''mush''' 
a cornmeal porridge, similar to grits but thicker and often solidified.

'''w.o.m.''' 
word of mouth

'''jimson''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimsonweed loco weed]

'''have to much to go on''' 
this appears to be a misprint of "have too much to go on"

==Page 859==

'''Evel Knievel''' 
Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel, Jr. (1938-2007), was an American motorcycle daredevil.

'''''As God is my fucking witness...''''' 
echoing Scarlett O'Hara's [http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=as+god+is+my+witness+i%27ll+never&view=detail&mid=75BCE76FF4D9CC87EF2F75BCE76FF4D9CC87EF2F&first=0&qpvt=as+god+is+my+witness+i%27ll+never climactic speech] in the 1939 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/ "Gone with the Wind"]

'''MCI/Billerica''' 
the '''M'''assachusetts '''C'''orrectional '''I'''nstitution in Billerica, a town about 20 miles northwest of Boston

'''Revere''' 
another Massachusetts town, about five miles northeast of Boston, on the Bay; named for Paul Revere

==Page 860==

'''Nuckslaughter''' 
i.e., killing a Canadian

==Page 861==

'''UPS''' 
United Parcel Service

'''Route 45''' 
U.S. Route 45 runs from US-98 in Mobile, Ala., to I-43/I-94 in Milwaukee. It passes through Kentucky.

==Page 863==

'''orchasm''' 
i.e., orgasm; an interesting gaffe considering it incorporates "chasm," meaning "abyss"

'''''Liebestod''''' 
German: love-death―this is the final aria sung by Isolde in Wagner's ''Tristan und Isolde''; see note ''supra'' for page 756

==Page 864==

=Hal's Narration, cont.=

'''Spiru-Tein''' 
a high-protein energy drink distributed, in powered form, in cans

'''guilloche''' 
Hal is referring to an ornamental molding of the kind shown below.

[[Image:Guilloche molding.jpg]]

'''parabolic dusting of snow''' and '''snow swirling in funnels and eddies''' 
Hal (or Wallace) is on a kind of annular jag with all this talk of ellipses, conic sections, parabolas, funnels and eddies, and even the guilloche pattern.

'''lee side''' 
nautical term meaning the side facing away from the wind

==Page 865==

'''ablutions''' 
ritualistic washings of the body

'''11-18-EST0456''' 
November 18, Eastern Standard Time, 04:56 a.m. (Despite the fact that it's apparently November 20th. Whether this is an error or not is unclear.)

'''furriners''' 
dialect pronunciation of "foreigners"

==Page 866==

'''Mount Auburn''' 
probably the [http://www.mountauburnclub.com/ Mount Auburn Club] in Watertown, Mass.

'''F.A.A.''' 
Federal Aviation Administration

'''skirling''' 
shrieking; playing of bagpipes

==Page 867==

'''duck blind''' 
a shelter for concealing duck hunters

'''Winchester double-aughts''' 
Winchester 00 shotguns file shells with 7-9 pellets of nominal diameter of 0.33" (8.4 mm).

'''''raisin-debt''''' 
''raison d'être'', French: reason for being

'''"We got him..."''' 
Obviously, the point of Stice's unfunny joke is that the statistical average of the first two shots would yield a shot that hit the duck.

==Page 868==

'''confected''' 
candied or covered in sugar

'''Schacht heard that joke down at the Cranial place''' 
"Schacht interns twice a week for a root-specialist over at the National Cranio-Facial Pain Foundation", Cf. Page 267

'''medials''' 
i.e., medians

==Page 869==

'''brang''' 
Stice's solecism for "brought"

==Page 870==

'''hyper-v'd''' 
hyperventilated

'''cantilevered''' 
having a "projecting structure, such as a beam, that is supported at one end and carries a load at the other end or along its length" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'')

'''Telekiniption''' 
i.e., telekinesis

'''Parabnormal''' 
another good one

'''occlusive''' 
descriptive of a bandage that closes a wound and keeps it from air

==Page 871==

'''Subhadronic''' 
making up the parts of the parts of an atom; very, very small; hadrons are particles made up of quarks, mainly baryons -- protons and neutrons, made of three quarks -- and mesons -- made of two quarks, so subhadronic particles may be quarks

'''Moët''' 
Moët & Chandon is a French champagne manufacturer

'''parotitic''' 
having the mumps

'''half a meter''' 
about 1.64 feet

'''dermis''' 
skin

==Page 872==

'''tacit''' 
unspoken

==Page 873==

==Endnote 352==

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

'''betel-nut extract''' 
This extract causes the teeth and gums to be stained red

'''internecine''' 
destructive to both sides (of a conflict, esp. within an organization)

==Page 873 (cont'd)==

'''naïf''' 
a naive male

'''dessicated''' 
dried up

'''S.-B. I.Q.''' 
'''S'''tanford-'''B'''inet '''I'''ntelligence '''Q''uotient

'''Submoronic-to-Moronic''' 
At one time, the term "moron" was used to describe a person who tested with an IQ of 50-69; "submoronic" by this reckoning would either be an "imbecile" (with an IQ of 20-49) or an "idiot" (with an IQ below 20). These terms came to be considered offensive and fell from use in the psychological community.

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

'''sinecure''' 
an office requiring little or no work

'''Ba'hai''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahai Bahá'í], a Middle-Eastern faith
==Page 874==

'''hypomanic''' 
not quite manic, but close

'''co-eval of venereal interface''' 
"Co-eval" can have the more specific meaning of "contemporary," i.e., having the same age (date of origin) or duration, but Kenkle is using periphrasis to say "equivalent of sex."

==Endnote 353==

'''Roxbury and Mattapan''' 
In fact, the Orange line continues through Roxbury to terminate at Forest Hills (on the south end of the line); the Red line goes to Mattapan (via transfer at Ashmont). Some branches of the Green line have stops in Brighton, the stand-in for Enfield in the novel.

'''joss''' 
luck

==Page 874==

'''fireman's carry''' 
to carry someone by draping them over your shoulder

'''Noh-style''' 
in the style of Noh (alternative romanization: "Nou"), which is the highly stylized, elaborately costumed classical drama of Japan

'''hawked''' 
spit

'''nihil''' 
Latin: nothing

==Page 875==

'''Good prince Hal''' 
Falstaff addresses the future King Henry V in this manner in Act II, scene ii, of ''I Henry IV''.

'''athe[-]ling''' 
Anglo-Saxon prince or royal heir

'''cachinated''' 
misspelling of cachinnated, i.e., laughed loudly

'''compadre''' 
Spanish term for "friend"

==Page 876==

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=November 19th, YDAU - AFR on the Move=

==Page 845==

'''gauche''' 
from the French for "left" but here meaning "crude" or "socially unacceptable"

=Gately Dreaming=

==Page 846==

'''change their bags''' 
i.e., their colostomy bags

'''''leur rai pays''''' 
cf. note ''supra''for '''NOTRE RAI PAYS''' on page 222; this would be idiomatic French for "their home away from home" or "their colony" (Québec)

==Page 847==

'''the sort of body Gately's only ever seen with a staple in its navel''' 
a centerfold nude in a magazine, such as ''Playboy''

'''fifth post''' 
You get the picture.

[[Image:Taj.jpg|thumb|caption|Taj Mahal|right|200px]]

'''Taj''' 
i.e., the Taj Mahal; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_mahal Wikipedia]

'''viscous''' 
very thick

==Page 848==

'''Twister''' 
see note ''supra'' for page 634

==Page 849==

==Page 850==

'''starkers''' 
i.e., stark naked

==Page 851==

=November 20th, YDAU; ''GAUDEAMUS IGITUR'' - Hal Narrates=

==Page 851==

'''''Gaudeamus Igitur''''' 
A traditional European graduation song that exhorts the listener to enjoy all that our brief lives have to offer--in particular, the recreations in which university undergraduates typically partake. The phrase comes from the opening Latin words of the lyric: "Let us rejoice therefore/
While we are young/After a pleasant youth/After a troublesome old age/The earth will have us."

==Page 852==

'''50 cm.''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''A formula for the temporal relation...''' 
To understand why Hal's insight is true, first take a look at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trammel_of_Archimedes Trammel of Archimedes]. Now imagine a system in which the two shuttles travel back and forth along their respective axes and flash each time they reach the ellipse before reversing direction. Both shuttles are confined to the ellipse, so that the shuttle on the major axis travels farther (and temporally longer) between its flashes than does its counterpart on the minor axis. There are two formulas for describing the [http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/Ellipse.topicArticleId-257309,articleId-257249.html ellipse], one for the major axis on the horizontal and the other for the major axis on the vertical.

'''conic sections''' 
These are studied in advanced trigonometry; they are geometric shapes forced by passing a plane through a double-naped cone at different angles and observing the cross-sections, i.e., circles, ellipses (see note ''supra''), parabolas, and hyperbolas.

==Page 853==

'''''terre-batu''''' 
French for "beaten earth," this is a reference to French clay courts.

'''Ethiopian spear chuckers''' 
Rference to the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, when Mussolini's heavily armed and mechanised Italian invading forces took on Haile Selassi's Army of the Ethiopian Empire. Despite the fact that many of the Abyssinians were equipped with little more than spears or bows they managed to give the Italians a good run for their money, but against tanks and aerial bombardments of mustard gas the result was inevitable.

==Page 854==

=Gately's Dreaming, cont.=

==Page 854==

'''effulgence''' 
shining brilliance

[[Image:Huipil.jpg|thumb|right|Contemporary huipil with typical square neckline]]

'''hulpil''' 
probably a misspelling of "huipil," a traditional Mayan dress

==Page 855==

'''''And Lo''''' 
the words used by Madame Psychosis to open her radio show (p. 184)

==Page 856==

[[Image:Huarache.jpg]]

'''huaraches''' 
Mexican sandals, the "uppers" of which are made from woven strips of leather

'''B.U.M.''' 
perhaps Boston University Multimedia - but more likely B.U.M. Equipment, a clothes manufacturer that can be read about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.U.M. here]

'''St. Columbkill''' 
this is actually spelled "St. Columbkille," one of the many names of St. Columba, who was also called "Colum Cille," meaning "dove of the church," and was one of the "Twelve Apostles of Ireland" who converted the native Irish - St. Columbkille Parish is a real Parish in Brighton, MA, as end note 348 mentions, the website of which is [http://www.brightoncatholic.org/ here].

==Page 857==

'''w.o.m.''' 
word of mouth

'''jimson''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimsonweed loco weed]

'''have to much to go on''' 
this appears to be a misprint of "have too much to go on"

==Page 859==

'''Evel Knievel''' 
Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel, Jr. (1938-2007), was an American motorcycle daredevil.

'''''As God is my fucking witness...''''' 
echoing Scarlett O'Hara's [http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=as+god+is+my+witness+i%27ll+never&view=detail&mid=75BCE76FF4D9CC87EF2F75BCE76FF4D9CC87EF2F&first=0&qpvt=as+god+is+my+witness+i%27ll+never climactic speech] in the 1939 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/ "Gone with the Wind"]

'''MCI/Billerica''' 
the '''M'''assachusetts '''C'''orrectional '''I'''nstitution in Billerica, a town about 20 miles northwest of Boston

'''Revere''' 
another Massachusetts town, about five miles northeast of Boston, on the Bay; named for Paul Revere

==Page 860==

'''Nuckslaughter''' 
i.e., killing a Canadian

==Page 861==

'''UPS''' 
United Parcel Service

'''Route 45''' 
U.S. Route 45 runs from US-98 in Mobile, Ala., to I-43/I-94 in Milwaukee. It passes through Kentucky.

==Page 863==

'''orchasm''' 
i.e., orgasm; an interesting gaffe considering it incorporates "chasm," meaning "abyss"

'''''Liebestod''''' 
German: love-death―this is the final aria sung by Isolde in Wagner's ''Tristan und Isolde''; see note ''supra'' for page 756

==Page 864==

=Hal's Narration, cont.=

'''Spiru-Tein''' 
a high-protein energy drink distributed, in powered form, in cans

'''guilloche''' 
Hal is referring to an ornamental molding of the kind shown below.

[[Image:Guilloche molding.jpg]]

'''parabolic dusting of snow''' and '''snow swirling in funnels and eddies''' 
Hal (or Wallace) is on a kind of annular jag with all this talk of ellipses, conic sections, parabolas, funnels and eddies, and even the guilloche pattern.

'''lee side''' 
nautical term meaning the side facing away from the wind

==Page 865==

'''ablutions''' 
ritualistic washings of the body

'''11-18-EST0456''' 
November 18, Eastern Standard Time, 04:56 a.m. (Despite the fact that it's apparently November 20th. Whether this is an error or not is unclear.)

'''furriners''' 
dialect pronunciation of "foreigners"

==Page 866==

'''Mount Auburn''' 
probably the [http://www.mountauburnclub.com/ Mount Auburn Club] in Watertown, Mass.

'''F.A.A.''' 
Federal Aviation Administration

'''skirling''' 
shrieking; playing of bagpipes

==Page 867==

'''duck blind''' 
a shelter for concealing duck hunters

'''Winchester double-aughts''' 
Winchester 00 shotguns file shells with 7-9 pellets of nominal diameter of 0.33" (8.4 mm).

'''''raisin-debt''''' 
''raison d'être'', French: reason for being

'''"We got him..."''' 
Obviously, the point of Stice's unfunny joke is that the statistical average of the first two shots would yield a shot that hit the duck.

==Page 868==

'''confected''' 
candied or covered in sugar

'''Schacht heard that joke down at the Cranial place''' 
"Schacht interns twice a week for a root-specialist over at the National Cranio-Facial Pain Foundation", Cf. Page 267

'''medials''' 
i.e., medians

==Page 869==

'''brang''' 
Stice's solecism for "brought"

==Page 870==

'''hyper-v'd''' 
hyperventilated

'''cantilevered''' 
having a "projecting structure, such as a beam, that is supported at one end and carries a load at the other end or along its length" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'')

'''Telekiniption''' 
i.e., telekinesis

'''Parabnormal''' 
another good one

'''occlusive''' 
descriptive of a bandage that closes a wound and keeps it from air

==Page 871==

'''Subhadronic''' 
making up the parts of the parts of an atom; very, very small; hadrons are particles made up of quarks, mainly baryons -- protons and neutrons, made of three quarks -- and mesons -- made of two quarks, so subhadronic particles may be quarks

'''Moët''' 
Moët & Chandon is a French champagne manufacturer

'''parotitic''' 
having the mumps

'''half a meter''' 
about 1.64 feet

'''dermis''' 
skin

==Page 872==

'''tacit''' 
unspoken

==Page 873==

==Endnote 352==

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

'''betel-nut extract''' 
This extract causes the teeth and gums to be stained red

'''internecine''' 
destructive to both sides (of a conflict, esp. within an organization)

==Page 873 (cont'd)==

'''naïf''' 
a naive male

'''dessicated''' 
dried up

'''S.-B. I.Q.''' 
'''S'''tanford-'''B'''inet '''I'''ntelligence '''Q''uotient

'''Submoronic-to-Moronic''' 
At one time, the term "moron" was used to describe a person who tested with an IQ of 50-69; "submoronic" by this reckoning would either be an "imbecile" (with an IQ of 20-49) or an "idiot" (with an IQ below 20). These terms came to be considered offensive and fell from use in the psychological community.

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

'''sinecure''' 
an office requiring little or no work

'''Ba'hai''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahai Bahá'í], a Middle-Eastern faith
==Page 874==

'''hypomanic''' 
not quite manic, but close

'''co-eval of venereal interface''' 
"Co-eval" can have the more specific meaning of "contemporary," i.e., having the same age (date of origin) or duration, but Kenkle is using periphrasis to say "equivalent of sex."

==Endnote 353==

'''Roxbury and Mattapan''' 
In fact, the Orange line continues through Roxbury to terminate at Forest Hills (on the south end of the line); the Red line goes to Mattapan (via transfer at Ashmont). Some branches of the Green line have stops in Brighton, the stand-in for Enfield in the novel.

'''joss''' 
luck

==Page 874==

'''fireman's carry''' 
to carry someone by draping them over your shoulder

'''Noh-style''' 
in the style of Noh (alternative romanization: "Nou"), which is the highly stylized, elaborately costumed classical drama of Japan

'''hawked''' 
spit

'''nihil''' 
Latin: nothing

==Page 875==

'''Good prince Hal''' 
Falstaff addresses the future King Henry V in this manner in Act II, scene ii, of ''I Henry IV''.

'''athe[-]ling''' 
Anglo-Saxon prince or royal heir

'''cachinated''' 
misspelling of cachinnated, i.e., laughed loudly

'''compadre''' 
Spanish term for "friend"

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==Page 845==

'''gauche''' 
from the French for "left" but here meaning "crude" or "socially unacceptable"

=Gately Dreaming=

==Page 846==

'''change their bags''' 
i.e., their colostomy bags

'''''leur rai pays''''' 
cf. note ''supra''for '''NOTRE RAI PAYS''' on page 222; this would be idiomatic French for "their home away from home" or "their colony" (Québec)

==Page 847==

'''the sort of body Gately's only ever seen with a staple in its navel''' 
a centerfold nude in a magazine, such as ''Playboy''

'''fifth post''' 
You get the picture.

[[Image:Taj.jpg|thumb|caption|Taj Mahal|right|200px]]

'''Taj''' 
i.e., the Taj Mahal; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_mahal Wikipedia]

'''viscous''' 
very thick

==Page 848==

'''Twister''' 
see note ''supra'' for page 634

==Page 849==

==Page 850==

'''starkers''' 
i.e., stark naked

==Page 851==

=November 20th, YDAU; ''GAUDEAMUS IGITUR'' - Hal Narrates=

==Page 851==

'''''Gaudeamus Igitur''''' 
A traditional European graduation song that exhorts the listener to enjoy all that our brief lives have to offer--in particular, the recreations in which university undergraduates typically partake. The phrase comes from the opening Latin words of the lyric: "Let us rejoice therefore/
While we are young/After a pleasant youth/After a troublesome old age/The earth will have us."

==Page 852==

'''50 cm.''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''A formula for the temporal relation...''' 
To understand why Hal's insight is true, first take a look at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trammel_of_Archimedes Trammel of Archimedes]. Now imagine a system in which the two shuttles travel back and forth along their respective axes and flash each time they reach the ellipse before reversing direction. Both shuttles are confined to the ellipse, so that the shuttle on the major axis travels farther (and temporally longer) between its flashes than does its counterpart on the minor axis. There are two formulas for describing the [http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/Ellipse.topicArticleId-257309,articleId-257249.html ellipse], one for the major axis on the horizontal and the other for the major axis on the vertical.

'''conic sections''' 
These are studied in advanced trigonometry; they are geometric shapes forced by passing a plane through a double-naped cone at different angles and observing the cross-sections, i.e., circles, ellipses (see note ''supra''), parabolas, and hyperbolas.

==Page 853==

'''''terre-batu''''' 
French for "beaten earth," this is a reference to French clay courts.

'''Ethiopian spear chuckers''' 
Rference to the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, when Mussolini's heavily armed and mechanised Italian invading forces took on Haile Selassi's Army of the Ethiopian Empire. Despite the fact that many of the Abyssinians were equipped with little more than spears or bows they managed to give the Italians a good run for their money, but against tanks and aerial bombardments of mustard gas the result was inevitable.

'''M.I.A.-D'Orval''' 
Montréal-Dorval International Airport (D'Orval is misspelled). It is now known as Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport.

==Page 854==

=Gately's Dreaming, cont.=

==Page 854==

'''effulgence''' 
shining brilliance

[[Image:Huipil.jpg|thumb|right|Contemporary huipil with typical square neckline]]

'''hulpil''' 
probably a misspelling of "huipil," a traditional Mayan dress

==Page 855==

'''''And Lo''''' 
the words used by Madame Psychosis to open her radio show (p. 184)

==Page 856==

[[Image:Huarache.jpg]]

'''huaraches''' 
Mexican sandals, the "uppers" of which are made from woven strips of leather

'''B.U.M.''' 
perhaps Boston University Multimedia - but more likely B.U.M. Equipment, a clothes manufacturer that can be read about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.U.M. here]

'''St. Columbkill''' 
this is actually spelled "St. Columbkille," one of the many names of St. Columba, who was also called "Colum Cille," meaning "dove of the church," and was one of the "Twelve Apostles of Ireland" who converted the native Irish - St. Columbkille Parish is a real Parish in Brighton, MA, as end note 348 mentions, the website of which is [http://www.brightoncatholic.org/ here].

==Page 857==

'''w.o.m.''' 
word of mouth

'''jimson''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimsonweed loco weed]

'''have to much to go on''' 
this appears to be a misprint of "have too much to go on"

==Page 859==

'''Evel Knievel''' 
Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel, Jr. (1938-2007), was an American motorcycle daredevil.

'''''As God is my fucking witness...''''' 
echoing Scarlett O'Hara's [http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=as+god+is+my+witness+i%27ll+never&view=detail&mid=75BCE76FF4D9CC87EF2F75BCE76FF4D9CC87EF2F&first=0&qpvt=as+god+is+my+witness+i%27ll+never climactic speech] in the 1939 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/ "Gone with the Wind"]

'''MCI/Billerica''' 
the '''M'''assachusetts '''C'''orrectional '''I'''nstitution in Billerica, a town about 20 miles northwest of Boston

'''Revere''' 
another Massachusetts town, about five miles northeast of Boston, on the Bay; named for Paul Revere

==Page 860==

'''Nuckslaughter''' 
i.e., killing a Canadian

==Page 861==

'''UPS''' 
United Parcel Service

'''Route 45''' 
U.S. Route 45 runs from US-98 in Mobile, Ala., to I-43/I-94 in Milwaukee. It passes through Kentucky.

==Page 863==

'''orchasm''' 
i.e., orgasm; an interesting gaffe considering it incorporates "chasm," meaning "abyss"

'''''Liebestod''''' 
German: love-death―this is the final aria sung by Isolde in Wagner's ''Tristan und Isolde''; see note ''supra'' for page 756

==Page 864==

=Hal's Narration, cont.=

'''Spiru-Tein''' 
a high-protein energy drink distributed, in powered form, in cans

'''guilloche''' 
Hal is referring to an ornamental molding of the kind shown below.

[[Image:Guilloche molding.jpg]]

'''parabolic dusting of snow''' and '''snow swirling in funnels and eddies''' 
Hal (or Wallace) is on a kind of annular jag with all this talk of ellipses, conic sections, parabolas, funnels and eddies, and even the guilloche pattern.

'''lee side''' 
nautical term meaning the side facing away from the wind

==Page 865==

'''ablutions''' 
ritualistic washings of the body

'''11-18-EST0456''' 
November 18, Eastern Standard Time, 04:56 a.m. (Despite the fact that it's apparently November 20th. Whether this is an error or not is unclear.)

'''furriners''' 
dialect pronunciation of "foreigners"

==Page 866==

'''Mount Auburn''' 
probably the [http://www.mountauburnclub.com/ Mount Auburn Club] in Watertown, Mass.

'''F.A.A.''' 
Federal Aviation Administration

'''skirling''' 
shrieking; playing of bagpipes

==Page 867==

'''duck blind''' 
a shelter for concealing duck hunters

'''Winchester double-aughts''' 
Winchester 00 shotguns file shells with 7-9 pellets of nominal diameter of 0.33" (8.4 mm).

'''''raisin-debt''''' 
''raison d'être'', French: reason for being

'''"We got him..."''' 
Obviously, the point of Stice's unfunny joke is that the statistical average of the first two shots would yield a shot that hit the duck.

==Page 868==

'''confected''' 
candied or covered in sugar

'''Schacht heard that joke down at the Cranial place''' 
"Schacht interns twice a week for a root-specialist over at the National Cranio-Facial Pain Foundation", Cf. Page 267

'''medials''' 
i.e., medians

==Page 869==

'''brang''' 
Stice's solecism for "brought"

==Page 870==

'''hyper-v'd''' 
hyperventilated

'''cantilevered''' 
having a "projecting structure, such as a beam, that is supported at one end and carries a load at the other end or along its length" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'')

'''Telekiniption''' 
i.e., telekinesis

'''Parabnormal''' 
another good one

'''occlusive''' 
descriptive of a bandage that closes a wound and keeps it from air

==Page 871==

'''Subhadronic''' 
making up the parts of the parts of an atom; very, very small; hadrons are particles made up of quarks, mainly baryons -- protons and neutrons, made of three quarks -- and mesons -- made of two quarks, so subhadronic particles may be quarks

'''Moët''' 
Moët & Chandon is a French champagne manufacturer

'''parotitic''' 
having the mumps

'''half a meter''' 
about 1.64 feet

'''dermis''' 
skin

==Page 872==

'''tacit''' 
unspoken

==Page 873==

==Endnote 352==

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

'''betel-nut extract''' 
This extract causes the teeth and gums to be stained red

'''internecine''' 
destructive to both sides (of a conflict, esp. within an organization)

==Page 873 (cont'd)==

'''naïf''' 
a naive male

'''dessicated''' 
dried up

'''S.-B. I.Q.''' 
'''S'''tanford-'''B'''inet '''I'''ntelligence '''Q''uotient

'''Submoronic-to-Moronic''' 
At one time, the term "moron" was used to describe a person who tested with an IQ of 50-69; "submoronic" by this reckoning would either be an "imbecile" (with an IQ of 20-49) or an "idiot" (with an IQ below 20). These terms came to be considered offensive and fell from use in the psychological community.

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

'''sinecure''' 
an office requiring little or no work

'''Ba'hai''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahai Bahá'í], a Middle-Eastern faith
==Page 874==

'''hypomanic''' 
not quite manic, but close

'''co-eval of venereal interface''' 
"Co-eval" can have the more specific meaning of "contemporary," i.e., having the same age (date of origin) or duration, but Kenkle is using periphrasis to say "equivalent of sex."

==Endnote 353==

'''Roxbury and Mattapan''' 
In fact, the Orange line continues through Roxbury to terminate at Forest Hills (on the south end of the line); the Red line goes to Mattapan (via transfer at Ashmont). Some branches of the Green line have stops in Brighton, the stand-in for Enfield in the novel.

'''joss''' 
luck

==Page 874==

'''fireman's carry''' 
to carry someone by draping them over your shoulder

'''Noh-style''' 
in the style of Noh (alternative romanization: "Nou"), which is the highly stylized, elaborately costumed classical drama of Japan

'''hawked''' 
spit

'''nihil''' 
Latin: nothing

==Page 875==

'''Good prince Hal''' 
Falstaff addresses the future King Henry V in this manner in Act II, scene ii, of ''I Henry IV''.

'''athe[-]ling''' 
Anglo-Saxon prince or royal heir

'''cachinated''' 
misspelling of cachinnated, i.e., laughed loudly

'''compadre''' 
Spanish term for "friend"

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==Page 809==

'''vacuole''' 
used here generically to mean a hole

'''subsonic''' 
i.e., noiseless

==Page 810==

'''circadian rhythm''' 
Have a look at this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Biological_clock_human.svg chart].

'''Eldred''' 
This was the last name of the first Eagle Scout, Arthur Rose Eldred (1895-1951).

'''Dewar's''' 
a brand name of whiskey

'''President's Physical Fitness Test''' 
You can read about this program [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%27s_Council_on_Physical_Fitness_and_Sports here].

[[Image:Flat Cap.jpg|thumb|right|A flat cap or skallycap]]

'''skallycap''' 
see example at right

'''Chock Full O'Nuts''' 
a brand name of coffee

==Page 811==

'''P.E.''' 
Physical Education, i.e., gym class

'''dugout''' 
where the teams during a baseball game sit while not actually playing

'''Franklin W. Dixon''' 
the pseudonym of the author of the Hardy Boys mysteries

==Page 812==

'''bear-market''' 
a downward-moving stock market (characterized by more selling than buying)

'''Advent''' 
the month-long period before Christmas

==Page 813==

'''aide-de-camp''' 
assistant to a general or other high-ranking officer

'''Belfast''' 
the capital of Northern Ireland

'''speculum party''' 
a pelvic examination?

'''I.B.E.W.''' 
the '''I'''nternational '''B'''rotherhood of '''E'''lectrical '''W'''orkers union (for which Wallace supplies endnote 339 on page 815)

==Page 814==

'''cubed''' 
multiplied by itself twice; taken to the third power

==Endnote 337==

'''V.i.9''' 
The line is "It must be 'se offendendo;' it cannot be else." The reference is to Ophelia, who killed herself. Notably, Act V, scene i of ''Hamlet'' is where Yorick is mentioned.

==Page 814 (cont'd)==

'''perfidy''' 
treachery

'''Gately's Humorous ball and Scalpula socket''' 
referring to the humerus (largest bone of the arm, between the shoulder and elbow) and the ball and socket joint of the shoulder, the blade of which is called the scapula

'''IM''' 
intramuscular

==Page 815==

'''toxemia''' 
a bacterial infection of the blood

'''Ninth Step''' 
The ninth of the original Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous is, "Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others."

'''Weld''' 
William Floyd Weld (born 1945) was governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997. Even the prescient Wallace could probably not have predicted Mitt Romney, who held the post from 2003 to 2007.

'''Alsace''' 
a region of France bordering the Rhine border with Germany

'''impost''' 
a tax or duty imposed on some one

==Endnote 338==

There is a potention for confusion in order here, because doxycycline hyclate can be given in preparations other than intravenous, which Gately is getting.

==Page 816==

'''Dr. Dentons''' 
a trade name of children's blanket sleeper (pajamas); Gately's are XXL, extra extra large

'''imago''' 
psychological term for an idealized image, usually of a parent, formed in childhood and continuing into adulthood subconsciously

==Page 817==

'''''catheterized''''' 
Gately has had a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_catheter Foley catheter] inserted.

==Page 818==

'''objay dart''' 
Gately's version of ''objet d'art'' (French: art object)

==Endnote 341==

'''acetaminophen''' 
the generic name of the pain-reliever Tylenol

==Page 819==

'''codeine''' 
an opiate used as a painkiler; a habit-forming, Schedule III narcotic

'''shiners''' 
black eyes

'''Oreida''' 
Or "Ore-Ida", maker of potato products and originator of Tater Tots; Thrust may be thinking "iota" at the same time

==Page 820==

'''turnipcut''' 
i.e., tourniquet

'''''medecins''''' 
French: doctors (physicians)

'''solenoid''' 
a current-carrying coil of wire

==Page 821==

'''fishtailing''' 
having the back end of one's car spinning

==Page 822==

'''''GQ''''' 
''Gentlemen's Quarterly''

'''embryoglio''' 
i.e., imbroglio

'''fleen''' 
Thrust's past tense of ''flee'' (à la "flown")

==Page 823==

'''ballast''' 
heavy material placed on the bottom of ships to provide balance and stability

'''prosfeces''' 
i.e., prostheses

'''freakas''' 
fracas

==Page 824==

'''Wellfleet Circuit Court''' 
Wellfleet is a town on Cape Cod about 10 miles south of Provincetown.

'''Met State''' 
Metropolitan State Hospital; a defunct public mental health facility in Waltham, MA. It was operating during Wallace's stay at nearby McLean Hospital but closed before Infinite Jest's publication.

'''Cuerva''' 
Thrust means "Cuervo," a brand of tequila.

==Page 825==

'''batorial ammonia''' 
Thrust must mean bacterial pneumonia

'''''Nightmare on Elm Street XXII: The Senescence''''' 
a joke concerning the horror films of [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000127/ Wes Craven]; senescence is the process of growing old

'''embryoglio''' 
probably meaning ''imbroglio'': an extremely confused, complicated, or embarrassing situation

==Page 826==

'''prolix''' 
tediously long or wordy

'''señorio''' 
i.e., scenario

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==Page 809==

'''vacuole''' 
used here generically to mean a hole

'''subsonic''' 
i.e., noiseless

==Page 810==

'''circadian rhythm''' 
Have a look at this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Biological_clock_human.svg chart].

'''Eldred''' 
This was the last name of the first Eagle Scout, Arthur Rose Eldred (1895-1951).

'''Dewar's''' 
a brand name of whiskey

'''President's Physical Fitness Test''' 
You can read about this program [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%27s_Council_on_Physical_Fitness_and_Sports here].

[[Image:Flat Cap.jpg|thumb|right|A flat cap or skallycap]]

'''skallycap''' 
see example at right

'''Chock Full O'Nuts''' 
a brand name of coffee

==Page 811==

'''P.E.''' 
Physical Education, i.e., gym class

'''dugout''' 
where the teams during a baseball game sit while not actually playing

'''Franklin W. Dixon''' 
the pseudonym of the author of the Hardy Boys mysteries

==Page 812==

'''bear-market''' 
a downward-moving stock market (characterized by more selling than buying)

'''Advent''' 
the month-long period before Christmas

==Page 813==

'''aide-de-camp''' 
assistant to a general or other high-ranking officer

'''Belfast''' 
the capital of Northern Ireland

'''speculum party''' 
a pelvic examination?

'''I.B.E.W.''' 
the '''I'''nternational '''B'''rotherhood of '''E'''lectrical '''W'''orkers union (for which Wallace supplies endnote 339 on page 815)

==Page 814==

'''cubed''' 
multiplied by itself twice; taken to the third power

==Endnote 337==

'''V.i.9''' 
The line is "It must be 'se offendendo;' it cannot be else." The reference is to Ophelia, who killed herself. Notably, Act V, scene i of ''Hamlet'' is where Yorick is mentioned.

==Page 814 (cont'd)==

'''perfidy''' 
treachery

'''Gately's Humorous ball and Scalpula socket''' 
referring to the humerus (largest bone of the arm, between the shoulder and elbow) and the ball and socket joint of the shoulder, the blade of which is called the scapula

'''IM''' 
intramuscular

==Page 815==

'''toxemia''' 
a bacterial infection of the blood

'''Ninth Step''' 
The ninth of the original Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous is, "Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others."

'''Weld''' 
William Floyd Weld (born 1945) was governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997. Even the prescient Wallace could probably not have predicted Mitt Romney, who held the post from 2003 to 2007.

'''Alsace''' 
a region of France bordering the Rhine border with Germany

'''impost''' 
a tax or duty imposed on some one

==Endnote 338==

There is a potention for confusion in order here, because doxycycline hyclate can be given in preparations other than intravenous, which Gately is getting.

==Page 816==

'''Dr. Dentons''' 
a trade name of children's blanket sleeper (pajamas); Gately's are XXL, extra extra large

'''imago''' 
psychological term for an idealized image, usually of a parent, formed in childhood and continuing into adulthood subconsciously

==Page 817==

'''''catheterized''''' 
Gately has had a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_catheter Foley catheter] inserted.

==Page 818==

'''objay dart''' 
Gately's version of ''objet d'art'' (French: art object)

==Endnote 341==

'''acetaminophen''' 
the generic name of the pain-reliever Tylenol

==Page 819==

'''codeine''' 
an opiate used as a painkiler; a habit-forming, Schedule III narcotic

'''shiners''' 
black eyes

'''Oreida''' 
Or "Ore-Ida", maker of potato products and originator of Tater Tots; Thrust may be thinking "iota" at the same time

==Page 820==

'''turnipcut''' 
i.e., tourniquet

'''''medecins''''' 
French: doctors (physicians)

'''solenoid''' 
a current-carrying coil of wire

==Page 821==

'''fishtailing''' 
having the back end of one's car spinning

==Page 822==

'''''GQ''''' 
''Gentlemen's Quarterly''

'''embryoglio''' 
i.e., imbroglio

'''fleen''' 
Thrust's past tense of ''flee'' (à la "flown")

==Page 823==

'''ballast''' 
heavy material placed on the bottom of ships to provide balance and stability

'''prosfeces''' 
i.e., prostheses

'''freakas''' 
fracas

==Page 824==

'''Wellfleet Circuit Court''' 
Wellfleet is a town on Cape Cod about 10 miles south of Provincetown.

'''Met State''' 
Metropolitan State Hospital; a defunct public mental health facility in Waltham, MA. It was operating during Wallace's stay at nearby McLean Hospital but closed before Infinite Jest's publication.

'''Cuerva''' 
Thrust means "Cuervo," a brand of tequila.

==Page 825==

'''batorial ammonia''' 
bacterial pneumonia

'''''Nightmare on Elm Street XXII: The Senescence''''' 
a joke concerning the horror films of [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000127/ Wes Craven]; senescence is the process of growing old

'''embryoglio''' 
probably meaning ''imbroglio'': an extremely confused, complicated, or embarrassing situation

==Page 826==

'''prolix''' 
tediously long or wordy

'''señorio''' 
i.e., scenario

==Page 827==

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==Page 809==

'''vacuole''' 
used here generically to mean a hole

'''subsonic''' 
i.e., noiseless

==Page 810==

'''circadian rhythm''' 
Have a look at this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Biological_clock_human.svg chart].

'''Eldred''' 
This was the last name of the first Eagle Scout, Arthur Rose Eldred (1895-1951).

'''Dewar's''' 
a brand name of whiskey

'''President's Physical Fitness Test''' 
You can read about this program [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%27s_Council_on_Physical_Fitness_and_Sports here].

[[Image:Flat Cap.jpg|thumb|right|A flat cap or skallycap]]

'''skallycap''' 
see example at right

'''Chock Full O'Nuts''' 
a brand name of coffee

==Page 811==

'''P.E.''' 
Physical Education, i.e., gym class

'''dugout''' 
where the teams during a baseball game sit while not actually playing

'''Franklin W. Dixon''' 
the pseudonym of the author of the Hardy Boys mysteries

==Page 812==

'''bear-market''' 
a downward-moving stock market (characterized by more selling than buying)

'''Advent''' 
the month-long period before Christmas

==Page 813==

'''aide-de-camp''' 
assistant to a general or other high-ranking officer

'''Belfast''' 
the capital of Northern Ireland

'''speculum party''' 
a pelvic examination?

'''I.B.E.W.''' 
the '''I'''nternational '''B'''rotherhood of '''E'''lectrical '''W'''orkers union (for which Wallace supplies endnote 339 on page 815)

==Page 814==

'''cubed''' 
multiplied by itself twice; taken to the third power

==Endnote 337==

'''V.i.9''' 
The line is "It must be 'se offendendo;' it cannot be else." The reference is to Ophelia, who killed herself. Notably, Act V, scene i of ''Hamlet'' is where Yorick is mentioned.

==Page 814 (cont'd)==

'''perfidy''' 
treachery

'''Gately's Humorous ball and Scalpula socket''' 
referring to the humerus (largest bone of the arm, between the shoulder and elbow) and the ball and socket joint of the shoulder, the blade of which is called the scapula

'''IM''' 
intramuscular

==Page 815==

'''toxemia''' 
a bacterial infection of the blood

'''Ninth Step''' 
The ninth of the original Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous is, "Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others."

'''Weld''' 
William Floyd Weld (born 1945) was governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997. Even the prescient Wallace could probably not have predicted Mitt Romney, who held the post from 2003 to 2007.

'''Alsace''' 
a region of France bordering the Rhine border with Germany

'''impost''' 
a tax or duty imposed on some one

==Endnote 338==

There is a potention for confusion in order here, because doxycycline hyclate can be given in preparations other than intravenous, which Gately is getting.

==Page 816==

'''Dr. Dentons''' 
a trade name of children's blanket sleeper (pajamas); Gately's are XXL, extra extra large

'''imago''' 
psychological term for an idealized image, usually of a parent, formed in childhood and continuing into adulthood subconsciously

==Page 817==

'''''catheterized''''' 
Gately has had a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_catheter Foley catheter] inserted.

==Page 818==

'''objay dart''' 
Gately's version of ''objet d'art'' (French: art object)

==Endnote 341==

'''acetaminophen''' 
the generic name of the pain-reliever Tylenol

==Page 819==

'''codeine''' 
an opiate used as a painkiler; a habit-forming, Schedule III narcotic

'''shiners''' 
black eyes

'''Oreida''' 
Or "Ore-Ida", maker of potato products and originator of Tater Tots; Thrust may be thinking "iota" at the same time

==Page 820==

'''turnipcut''' 
i.e., tourniquet

'''''medecins''''' 
French: doctors (physicians)

'''solenoid''' 
a current-carrying coil of wire

==Page 821==

'''fishtailing''' 
having the back end of one's car spinning

==Page 822==

'''''GQ''''' 
''Gentlemen's Quarterly''

'''embryoglio''' 
i.e., imbroglio

'''fleen''' 
Thrust's past tense of ''flee'' (à la "flown")

==Page 823==

'''ballast''' 
heavy material placed on the bottom of ships to provide balance and stability

'''prosfeces''' 
i.e., prostheses

'''freakas''' 
fracas

==Page 824==

'''Wellfleet Circuit Court''' 
Wellfleet is a town on Cape Cod about 10 miles south of Provincetown.

'''Met State''' 
Metropolitan State Hospital; a defunct public mental health facility in Waltham, MA. It was operating during Wallace's stay at nearby McLean Hospital but closed before Infinite Jest's publication.

'''Cuerva''' 
Thrust means "Cuervo," a brand of tequila.

==Page 825==

'''''Nightmare on Elm Street XXII: The Senescence''''' 
a joke concerning the horror films of [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000127/ Wes Craven]; senescence is the process of growing old

'''embryoglio''' 
probably meaning ''imbroglio'': an extremely confused, complicated, or embarrassing situation

==Page 826==

'''prolix''' 
tediously long or wordy

'''señorio''' 
i.e., scenario

==Page 827==

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==Page 809==

'''vacuole''' 
used here generically to mean a hole

'''subsonic''' 
i.e., noiseless

==Page 810==

'''circadian rhythm''' 
Have a look at this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Biological_clock_human.svg chart].

'''Eldred''' 
This was the last name of the first Eagle Scout, Arthur Rose Eldred (1895-1951).

'''Dewar's''' 
a brand name of whiskey

'''President's Physical Fitness Test''' 
You can read about this program [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%27s_Council_on_Physical_Fitness_and_Sports here].

[[Image:Flat Cap.jpg|thumb|right|A flat cap or skallycap]]

'''skallycap''' 
see example at right

'''Chock Full O'Nuts''' 
a brand name of coffee

==Page 811==

'''P.E.''' 
Physical Education, i.e., gym class

'''dugout''' 
where the teams during a baseball game sit while not actually playing

'''Franklin W. Dixon''' 
the pseudonym of the author of the Hardy Boys mysteries

==Page 812==

'''bear-market''' 
a downward-moving stock market (characterized by more selling than buying)

'''Advent''' 
the month-long period before Christmas

==Page 813==

'''aide-de-camp''' 
assistant to a general or other high-ranking officer

'''Belfast''' 
the capital of Northern Ireland

'''speculum party''' 
a pelvic examination?

'''I.B.E.W.''' 
the '''I'''nternational '''B'''rotherhood of '''E'''lectrical '''W'''orkers union (for which Wallace supplies endnote 339 on page 815)

==Page 814==

'''cubed''' 
multiplied by itself twice; taken to the third power

==Endnote 337==

'''V.i.9''' 
The line is "It must be 'se offendendo;' it cannot be else." The reference is to Ophelia, who killed herself. Notably, Act V, scene i of ''Hamlet'' is where Yorick is mentioned.

==Page 814 (cont'd)==

'''perfidy''' 
treachery

'''Gately's Humorous ball and Scalpula socket''' 
referring to the humerus (largest bone of the arm, between the shoulder and elbow) and the ball and socket joint of the shoulder, the blade of which is called the scapula

'''IM''' 
intramuscular

==Page 815==

'''toxemia''' 
a bacterial infection of the blood

'''Ninth Step''' 
The ninth of the original Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous is, "Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others."

'''Weld''' 
William Floyd Weld (born 1945) was governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997. Even the prescient Wallace could probably not have predicted Mitt Romney, who held the post from 2003 to 2007.

'''Alsace''' 
a region of France bordering the Rhine border with Germany

'''impost''' 
a tax or duty imposed on some one

==Endnote 338==

There is a potention for confusion in order here, because doxycycline hyclate can be given in preparations other than intravenous, which Gately is getting.

==Page 816==

'''Dr. Dentons''' 
a trade name of children's blanket sleeper (pajamas); Gately's are XXL, extra extra large

'''imago''' 
psychological term for an idealized image, usually of a parent, formed in childhood and continuing into adulthood subconsciously

==Page 817==

'''''catheterized''''' 
Gately has had a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_catheter Foley catheter] inserted.

==Page 818==

'''objay dart''' 
Gately's version of ''objet d'art'' (French: art object)

==Endnote 341==

'''acetaminophen''' 
the generic name of the pain-reliever Tylenol

==Page 819==

'''codeine''' 
an opiate used as a painkiler; a habit-forming, Schedule III narcotic

'''shiners''' 
black eyes

'''Oreida''' 
Or "Ore-Ida", maker of potato products and originator of Tater Tots; Thrust may be thinking "iota" at the same time

==Page 820==

'''turnipcut''' 
i.e., tourniquet

'''''medecins''''' 
French: doctors (physicians)

'''solenoid''' 
a current-carrying coil of wire

==Page 821==

'''fishtailing''' 
having the back end of one's car spinning

==Page 822==

'''''GQ''''' 
''Gentlemen's Quarterly''

'''embryoglio''' 
i.e., imbroglio

'''fleen''' 
Thrust's past tense of ''flee'' (à la "flown")

==Page 823==

'''ballast''' 
heavy material placed on the bottom of ships to provide balance and stability

'''prosfeces''' 
i.e., prostheses

'''freakas''' 
fracas

==Page 824==

'''Wellfleet Circuit Court''' 
Wellfleet is a town on Cape Cod about 10 miles south of Provincetown.

'''Met State''' 
A defunct public mental health facility in Waltham, MA. It was operating during Wallace's stay at nearby McLean Hospital but closed before Infinite Jest's publication.

'''Cuerva''' 
Thrust means "Cuervo," a brand of tequila.

==Page 825==

'''''Nightmare on Elm Street XXII: The Senescence''''' 
a joke concerning the horror films of [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000127/ Wes Craven]; senescence is the process of growing old

'''embryoglio''' 
probably meaning ''imbroglio'': an extremely confused, complicated, or embarrassing situation

==Page 826==

'''prolix''' 
tediously long or wordy

'''señorio''' 
i.e., scenario

==Page 827==

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