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=Joelle Cleans Her Room=

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'''B.Y.P.''' 
Brookline Young People's (a previously mentioned AA group)

'''YYY tapes''' 
apparently recordings of radio-station WYYY broadcasts

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'''Pokie''' 
apparently a childhood nickname for Joelle

'''fifth wall''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_wall "fourth wall"] is a term used in theater to describe the imaginary wall that separates the stage from the audience. The "fifth wall" could be an extrapolation of this concept, meaning a wall separating an actor from a critic, or separating two people sharing the same experience notably when viewing projected or broadcasted media. Or possibly simply a reference to the fact that rooms tend not to have fifth walls, meaning that his face was never there.

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'''futon''' 
a Japanese-style pallet or mattress that can be folded into a sofa or open like a bed; many futons have adjustable frames, but some simply fold up along a wall for seating until unfolded when needed for sleeping

'''amniotic''' 
taking place ''in utero''

'''greebles''' 
Here, Joelle means little wads of paper resulting from worrying the wet tissue. There is another use of [http://www.reference.com/search?r=13&q=Greeble ''greeble''], but she is not referring here to background treatments for films. The "little bits of sleepy goo you got in your eyes' corners" (two paragraphs following) are the thin mucous discharges ('eye boogers') known as ''rheum''.

'''basso''' 
having a very low voice

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'''Carefree''' 
a brand of sanitary pads

'''Chore-type supplies''' 
e.g., stainless-steel or copper [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chore_Boy scouring pads] now branded as Chore Boy, after some years as Chore Girl; ironically, the pads are often used in homemade crack-cocaine pipes (see note for page 222)

'''talking batons and low-pH chemistry 
''batons'' presumably in encouragement of Joelle's amateur career as a twirler and low-pH chemistry (the chemistry of acids) because of his work for the Dyne-Riney Proton Donor Reagent Corporation

'''disdain''' 
dislike or hatred

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[[Image:Stink Bug.jpg|thumb|right|Adult female brown marmorated stink bug
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'''rancid-cinnamon smell''' 
possibly the odor of the stink bug (see right); ironically, cinnamon itself can be used to dispel rancid odors; or, more likely, at least a way of covering up the odor of drugs, see, e.g., footnote 324, page 1067, where Permulis uses cayenne pepper to a similar purpose.

'''oeuvre''' 
body of work

'''Job-like protagonist''' 
referring to the title character in the Old Testament book

[[Image:Sitting Duck.jpg|right]]

'''dunk-tank''' 
a carnival attraction (see right) in which the participant pays to hurl one or more balls at a target that, if hit, will trigger a mechanism that unseats a victim into a receptacle of water

'''inbent''' 
directed inward

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'''s-boarded''' 
story-boarded

'''anality''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_retentiveness anal-retentiveness]

'''Everclear''' 
a brand of pure grain alcohol

'''Shoats''' 
young pigs

'''Boosters''' 
members of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booster_%28sports%29 booster club]

'''H.S.''' 
high school

'''YardGuard''' 
a brand name of [http://www.yardguardmosquito.com/ insect repellent]

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'''Vittorio's Bernini Room''' 
possibly a meeting room in the [http://www.nh-hotels.com/nh/en/hotels/italy/rome/nh-vittorio-veneto.html NH Vittorio Veneto] hotel in Rome; or it may refer to the Cornaro Chapel of Santa Maria della Vittoria [note the different spelling] in Rome, where Bernini's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstasy_of_St_Theresa ''Ecstasy of St. Teresa''] resides. Given the book's repeated allusions to the Bernini sculpture, probably the latter.

'''herring''' 
i.e., a red herring—a distraction

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'''Legal Seafood up in Brookline''' 
[http://www.legalseafoods.com Legal Sea Foods], a chain that got its start in Inman Square, has a restaurant at 43 Boylston St., at the border of Brookline and within five miles of ETA.

==Endnote 309==

'''boniface''' 
an innkeeper

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'''grouper''' 
a family of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grouper fish] including sea basses

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'''obtruding''' 
pushing something forward without invitation

'''tri-faceted''' 
three-sided

'''diphthong''' 
A sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves toward another

'''Albertan champagne''' 
an oxymoron — champagne comes only from the Champagne region of France

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'''Clift''' 
Edward Montgomery Clift (1920-1966) was an American actor.

'''two meters''' 
about 6.6 feet

[[Image:Heliotrope Plant.jpg|right|200px|Heliotrope Plant]]

'''heliotropes''' 
flowering plants of the genus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliotrope_(plant) ''heliotropium''] (sample at right), so-named because their blossoms turn toward the sun

'''Candela''' 
From the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units International System of Units] (SI): The candela is the luminous intensity, in a given direction, of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540×1012 hertz and that has a radiant intensity in that direction of 1/683 watt per steradian.

'''freezing point of platinum''' 
If the melting point of platinum is 3214.9 ° F, then at any temperature below this, it will be solid, i.e., frozen.

'''Bazin''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Bazin André Bazin] (1918– 1958) was an influential French film critic and film theorist.

'''Thomist''' 
ascribing to the philosophy of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquinas St. Thomas Aquinas]

'''''personalistes''''' 
One of the main currents of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-conformists_of_the_1930s non-conformist movement] in France in the 1930s, the ''personalistes'' school's main organ was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Mounier Emmanuel Mounier's] jouranl ''Esprit'', in which Bazin published film criticism. The aesthetic theory of the ''personalistes'' was formulated by [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/maritain/#Aest Jacques Maritain]. For a discussion of Bazin's relation to Mounier see [http://www.horschamp.qc.ca/new_offscreen/bazin_intro2.html this article].

'''Sagan''' 
Carl Edward Sagan (1934-1996) was an American astronomer and host of a television show called ''Cosmos''.

'''Haplology''' 
in speech, the elision of one of two consecutive, identical syllables, e.g., "probly" for "probably" (see the Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplology entry] for further examples, including "haplogy," the kind of in-joke that philologists enjoy)

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''''the vapors'''' 
a euphemism for hysteria

'''Spielberg's old computer-enhanced celluloid dinosaur things''' 
Steven Spielberg directed "Jurassic Park" (1993) and its sequel "The Lost World" (1997); it's unclear, of course, whether Wallace could have anticipated "Jurassic Park III" (2001), for which Spielberg was executive producer. (He is taking the same role on "Jurassic Park IV," announced for 2014.)

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'''Kahlua''' 
a coffee-flavored [http://www.kahlua.com/ liqueur]

'''blancmange''' 
a thick milk pudding

'''chickory''' 
usually spelled [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicory chicory], is used as a coffee substitute or additive in some places

'''thymus''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thymus bodily organ] that plays a role in immune function

=Marathe at Ennet House, cont.=

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'''subaltern''' 
a subordinate

'''"He had the great fatigue..."''' 
A less literal translation would be: "He was very tired..."

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'''"...to smack, to scag, and to H..."''' 
all the same thing, being street names for heroin

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'''bolt of death''' 
i.e., a deadbolt lock

'''Chit Chat Farms''' 
This is a real detox in Wernersville, Pa., about 70 miles northwest of Philadelphia.

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'''chez''' 
a French preposition meaning "at the home of"

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'''''comment-on-dit?''''' 
French: How do you say?

'''45 kph''' 
almost 28 miles per hour

'''''Caisse de Dépôt et Placement''''' 
French: Fund for Registration and Placement

=Joelle Continues to Clean=

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'''katexia''' 
Just like when Joelle referred to CA newcomers as "catexic" on pg 707, there's no word "katexia" in any American dictionary, although Freud used "katexis" to refer to the process by means of which libido energy is tied or placed into the mental representation of a personality, idea, or thing." What would make more sense in context is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cachexia cachexia], the weight loss and muscle atrophy caused by some chronic diseases.

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'''''Feeling Good''''' 
One of the key books on cognitive therapy for depression by David D. Burns, M.D., an American psychiatrist.

=Marathe's Intake, cont.=

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'''volubly''' 
to speak readily

'''M./Mlle.''' 
French: Monsieur/Mademoiselle, i.e., Mr./Ms., used because of Steeply's disguise

'''restenotic''' 
refers to restenosis, or the re-narrowing of blood vessels after initial stenosis

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'''spire''' 
steeple

'''''manche à balai''''' 
French: broom handle

'''''chanteur-fou''''' 
French: crazy singer

'''calculus''' 
here meaning simply "calculation"

'''Lopate''' 
The name is perhaps taken from Philip Lopate (born 1943), an American film critic.

'''''transpercé''''' 
pierced through

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==Endnote 315==

'''malentendu''' 
mishearing

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