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531 · Gately and Joelle

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'''boilermakers''' 
shots of whiskey chased with beer

'''keep''' 
i.e., the barkeep

==Page 532==

'''Cumberland''' 
This must refer to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_River Cumberland River], which flows into the Ohio near Paducah, in the western part of Kentucky, close to Joelle's home town of Shiny Prize (see page 237).

'''O.D.''' 
overdose

==Page 533==

'''metronome''' 
a time-keeping device for musicians, typically a pendulum-like machine that clicks to provide meter

'''caparison''' 
rich and sumptuous clothing or equipment

==Page 534==

'''a Type and a Symbol''' 
These words are used by Mr. Hooper to describe the veil he wears in Nathaniel Hawthorne's story, [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Minister's_Black_Veil "The Minister's Black Veil"].

==Page 535==

'''gregarious''' 
sociable

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'''slavering''' 
drooling

538* · Randy Lenz: Rats, Cats, and Dogs

==Page 538==

'''Duster''' 
the Plymouth Duster was a sporty compact available from 1970 to 1976

'''12-gauge blast''' 
as from as 12-gauge shotgun

==Page 539==

'''E.M.I.T.''' 
enzyme-multiplied immunoassay technique

==Page 540==

==Endnote 224==

'''EZC''' 
i.e., "easy see"

'''NAL''' 
New American Library

'''Ticknor, Fields''' 
Ticknor and Fields was a publishing house eventually bought by Houghton Mifflin in 1880.

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==Page 540 (cont'd)==

'''W-E''' 
west-east

'''Stegosaurus''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegosaurus dinosaur]

==Page 541==

'''verminal''' 
tending to breed vermin

'''cabbaging''' 
stealing

'''brisance''' 
the shattering effect of an explosive

==Page 542==

'''panoply''' 
a wide-ranging array of things

'''A Program of Attraction''' 
AA refers to itself as this, meaning that it doesn't need to advertise.

'''EST and Greenwich Mean''' 
Eastern Standard Time and Greenwich Mean Time, the latter of which is determined at the Prime Meridian, or 0º longitude

'''DOW''' 
probably the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average Dow Jones Industrial Average]

'''NIKEI''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikkei_225 Nikkei 225] index of the Japanese stock market

==Page 543==

'''winsome''' 
charming

'''diverticulitis''' 
inflammation of the pouches of the colon

'''gone rye''' 
i.e., gone awry

'''Principles of Psychology and the Gifford Lectures on Natural Philosophy''' 
"[http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=88 William James’s Gifford Lectures] of 1901–1902 have been heralded by some as the greatest lectures ever to be presented in the series and perhaps the most seminal of his works (alongside The Principles of Psychology). Published initially in 1902, [http://www.csp.org/experience/james-varieties/james-varieties.html The Varieties of Religions Experience: A Study in Human Nature] has stood the test of time and been republished thirty-six times."

'''20-gram''' 
About .70 ounces, this is a lot of cocaine.

'''bonerfied''' 
bona fide

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'''ten-kilo''' 
about 22 lbs

==Page 545==

'''phosphenes''' 
light sensations in the eyes when light is physically absent

'''apnea''' 
the tendency of mainly overweight people to stop breathing intermittently in their sleep

==Page 546==

'''R. Lauren''' 
Ralph Lauren

==Page 547==

'''tattlemount''' 
tantamount

==Page 548==

548 · Rodney Tine and the ''Samizdat''

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'''District''' 
the District of Columbia

==Endnote 228==

'''O.N.R.''' 
perhaps the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Naval_Research Office of Naval Research]

'''ambit''' 
sphere of operation or influence

==Page 548 (cont'd)==

'''twidgelling''' 
not a real word

'''NCA''' 
probably Northern California

'''Code-Five''' 
code for "stakeout in progress"

'''New Iberia LA''' 
a city about 50 miles southwest of Baton Rouge

'''pithed''' 
having had a needle stuck into the base of the skull

'''U.S.O.''' 
Undercover Special Operations

'''P.E.T.s''' 
positron emission tomography, a kind of medical imaging technique

553 · Lenz and Green Walking

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'''worsted''' 
firmly twisted yarn

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'''stepped on''' 
cut, as in weakened the potency of a drug by adding another substance

'''half-kilo''' 
about 1.1 pounds

==Endnote 231==

'''Manitol''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannitol mannitol]

==Page 555 (cont'd)==

'''"...go find a short pier..."''' 
and take a long walk, being the implication

'''aqua-line nose''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooknose aquiline nose]

==Page 556==

'''anileated''' 
annihilated

'''hemispasm''' 
spasm on half of the face

'''insousistent''' 
insouciant

'''parallaxing''' 
Normally a noun ("parallel") and referring to light, here it's used as a verb (gerund) and refers to sound.

'''crucifi''' 
Probably Lenz means "crucifixes."

'''threnody''' 
a funeral dirge

==Page 557==

'''To Project and to Swerve''' 
a pun on the police motto "To Protect and Serve"

'''hoovered''' 
inhaled

==Endnote 232==

'''benzoylecgonine''' 
the major metabolite of cocaine

'''ecgonine''' 
an organic chemical found naturally in coca leaves

'''benzoic acid''' 
the simplest of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboxylic_acid caroxylic acids]

'''spider angiomas''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_angioma benign tumor]

'''rhinorrhagia''' 
bleeding from the nose

'''blepharospecticity''' 
This means something like "seeing through one's eyelids."

'''ballism''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballism hemiballismus]

'''oral labia''' 
the lips of the mouth

'''Paliacci''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagliacci Pagliacci] (''Clowns''), an opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), an Italian composer

'''diuresis extremus''' 
extreme production of urine and, thus, need to urinate

'''phobophobia''' 
fear of fear

'''sociosis''' 
a neurosis that has to do with one's ability to deal with society

'''acne rosea''' 
also known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosacea rosacea]

'''rhinophyma''' 
a red nose caused by amassing of granulomas there

'''synergism''' 
the property of things working together

'''confabulation''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation formation of false memories]

'''lingual tendinitis''' 
inflammation of the muscles of the tongue

==Page 557 (cont'd)==

'''sangfroid''' 
coolness of the blood (from French)

'''fob''' 
an ornament attached to a pocket watch by a chain

'''chamois''' 
Pronounced "shammy," this is a cloth or piece of leather used to shine a surface.

'''''Track and Flange''''' 
not a real magazine

'''ergo''' 
Latin: therefore

'''''energois de vivre''''' 
something like "energy of living," although ''energois'' isn't a French work

==Page 558==

'''Estuarial crocodile''' 
the [http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Estuarine+crocodile estuarine (saltwater) crocodile]

'''A.D.A.''' 
American Dental Association

'''akido''' 
Lenz means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikido aikido].

'''valise''' 
a small piece of luggage

'''recurving''' 
i.e., recurring

'''t'ai-chi''' 
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiji Taiji]

==Page 559==

'''mescal''' 
an alcoholic beverage distilled from a cactus

'''cableyarrow''' 
''Caballero'' (Spanish for "gentleman") is what he means.

'''''in vitro''''' 
Latin for "in glass," this term is used to refer to experiments that happen in test tubes. Lenz means ''in vivo'', i.e., ''in utero''.

560 (1) · Hal Counts His Breaths

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'''photosynthesizing''' 
turning light into energy, as plants do

'''Baobab tree''' 
a [http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/baobab.htm tree] native to Africa and India

'''pride''' 
family of lions

560 (2) · Lenz and Green Continued

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'''septum''' 
the cartilage separating the nostrils

'''reguiles''' 
i.e., regales

'''Shrangi-la''' 
a misspelling of Shangri-La, the utopia of the novel ''Lost Horizon'' by James Hilton (1900-1954), a British author

'''kamasupra''' 
Lenz is referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra Kama Sutra].

==Page 561==

'''Fall River''' 
a city in Massachusetts about 50 miles south of Boston

'''poofta''' 
i.e., a poofter, a vulgar term for a male homosexual

'''intrepid''' 
fearless

'''fauna''' 
wildlife

'''Shawshine River''' 
also known as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawsheen_River Shawsheen]

'''ravacious''' 
This would seem to be a cross between "ravenous" and "rapacious."

==Page 562==

'''scat-piles''' 
piles of feces

'''feti''' 
plural of fetus

'''yrstruly''' 
yours truly

'''propitiating''' 
appeasing

'''diem''' 
Latin: day

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508 · Eschaton Fallout

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'''Antron''' 
a [http://antron.net/ real company]

'''lividity''' 
brightness of color

'''escutcheon''' 
a shield-shaped emblem

'''premie''' 
born prematurely

'''cumuli''' 
plural of "cumulus," a type of cloud

'''fluffy cumuli arrayed patternlessly against an overenhanced blue sky, incredibly disorienting ... makes him feel high-altitude and disoriented and sometimes plummeting''' 
this pattern appears on the cover of the book

'''D.D.S.''' 
Doctor of Dental Surgery

'''insouciant''' 
blithely unconcerned

==Endnote 209==

'''Brisbane''' 
the capital of the Australian state of Queensland

==Page 510==

'''Mannington''' 
a [http://www.mannington.com/ flooring company]

'''pro bono''' 
without pay

==Page 511==

'''distaff''' 
the female branch or side of the family, the 'family' in this case being ETA

'''Phielyism''' 
this is in reference to coach R. Bill ('Touchy') Phiely on the previous page

'''mnemonic''' 
having to do with memory

'''Brewster's Angle''' 
an angle of incidence at which light with a particular polarization is perfectly transmitted through a surface, with no reflection. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle[here]]

'''serrated''' 
having a jagged edge

'''tulle''' 
a fine, often starched net of silk, rayon, or nylon

==Page 512==

'''cyanosis''' 
blueness of the skin caused by deoxygenated blood

'''J.D.''' 
Juris Doctor, a law degree

'''Sinistral''' 
left-handed

'''Short Beach CT''' 
a suburb of New Haven, Conn., about seven miles to the southeast

==Page 513==

'''athwart''' 
side by side with

'''THIRD RAIL''' 
In many subway systems (notably New York's), the third rail is the electrified rail that powers the train(s).

'''terry''' 
a pile fabric used to make bath towels and robes

==Page 514==

'''schnauzer''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schnauzer breed of dog] notable for its beard-like facial hair

'''I-93''' 
Interstate 93, which runs from St. Johnsbury, Vt., to the suburbs of Boston

'''Neponset''' 
a neighborhood of Boston

==Page 515==

'''Q.v.''' 
abbreviation for the Latin ''quo vide'', meaning "which see"

'''VIII-Amendment''' 
The Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects citizens against cruel and unusual punishment.

'''diction''' 
choice of words

'''raison d'être''' 
French: reason for being

==Page 516==

'''O.N.A.N.F.L.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Football League

'''Coatlicue''' 
This is the name of an Aztec goddess, one who gave birth to the moon and stars. The reference here is perhaps to Avril.

'''fulcra''' 
plural of "fulcrum"

'''stadia''' 
plural of "stadium"

'''75-meter''' 
about 246 feet

==Page 517==

'''dot-matrix printer''' 
one of the earliest-generation [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot_matrix_printer computer printers]

'''Ludditism''' 
a philosophy that is strongly against advances in technology, named for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Ludd Ned Ludd]

'''needly sound''' 
Dot-matrix printers are very loud.

==Page 518==

'''Philo IL''' 
town about 150 miles south-southwest of Chicago

'''transverse colon''' 
the part of the large intestine that runs horizontal across the stomach, parallel to the ground

'''2 m.''' 
about 6.6 feet

==Page 519==

'''Dynamic Duo''' 
usually refers to Batman and Robin

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'''viscera''' 
internal organs

==Page 522==

'''100-mm. rodney''' 
A "rodney" is a cigarette. 100 millimeters is a standard length of a "long" cigarette, and is roughly 4 inches long

==Page 523==

'''Granny Smith''' 
a type of sour, green-skinned apple

'''distended''' 
swollen in the stomach

'''complicit''' 
involved in a plot or scheme

'''ital''' 
italic type

'''Pawtucket''' 
a town in Rhode Island 5 miles north-northeast of Providence

'''A.A.A. baseball''' 
a level of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_league_baseball#AAA minor-league] baseball

==Page 524==

'''Fuck the Core''' 
i.e., fuck the (Marine) Corps

==Page 525==

'''Slobodan''' 
Endnote 221 tells us that this student is Latvian, but this is a Slavic name, and Letts are not Slavs.

'''Auburndale''' 
a suburb about 10 miles west of Boston

'''"...best of British luck to you..."''' 
From ''Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable'' comes this definition: 'Best of British Luck' — an ironic expression of encouragement, implying that the required luck may not materialize... an elaborated form of 'the best of luck.'

'''''Sieg Heil''''' 
German for "Hail, Victory," this phrase was used by the Nazis, particularly with the right-handed upright salute particular to fascists.

==Page 526==

'''respire''' 
to breathe

'''mandible''' 
jawbone

==Page 527==

'''dais''' 
a raised platform, like a lectern, for speaking or presentation

'''seagrass''' 
seaweed that grows in shallow beds

'''ottoman''' 
a footrest that goes with a chair

'''laddered''' 
having a run (in a stocking)

'''sallet''' 
a light helmet, usually with a visor

'''dolefully''' 
in a sorrowful manner

528 · Steeply and Marathe as Dawn Breaks

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'''St-Rémi-d'Amherst''' 
a town in Québec about 80 miles northwest of Montreal

'''''M-o-r-t-s''''' 
''Morts'' is the French masculine plural for "dead."

==Page 529==

==Endnote 222==

'''cont. id.''' 
probably "contemporary idiomatic" as spelled out in the previous line

'''Basque''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_language Basque language], spoken in part of northern Spain and southwestern France, is unrelated to any other European language and possibly any other living language.

'''obstreperous''' 
noisy or hard to control

'''coeval''' 
contemporaneous or equally old

==Page 529 (cont'd)==

'''discomfit''' 
to confuse or disconcert

'''Circe''' 
a goddess from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circe Greek mythology]

'''pregnancy by rain''' 
referring to Zeus's seduction of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danae Danae]

'''rape by fowl''' 
and Zeus's seduction of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leda_%28mythology%29 Leda]

==Page 530==

'''saguaro cactus''' 
a large, tree-sized species of cactus native to the Sonoran Desert

'''phantom pains''' 
refers to pain common in amputees - also can refer to sensations that the amputated limb is still existent, and painful

'''wens''' 
a harmless cyst, especially on the scalp or face, containing the fatty secretion of a sebaceous gland

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470 · Steeply and Marathe on Mind Control

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'''stereotaxy''' 
also known as "stereotaxis," this is three-dimensional brain imaging

'''Elder, Elders''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Olds James Olds], co-discovered the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasure_center#Experiments_on_rodents "pleasure center"]

'''plutonium-239''' 
a fissile isotope of plutonium

'''ablative surgery''' 

a treatment for neurological disorders involving freezing or burning of brain tissue

==Page 471==

'''Q-dopa''' 
not a real neurotransmitter

==Page 472==

'''MK-Ultra''' 
an actual [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKULTRA CIA mind-control experiment] starting in the 1950s and continuing well into the 1960s and possibly 70s

==Endnote 198==

'''''Orlikow et al. v. United States of America''''' 
This was a real case, and you can read the proceedings [http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/orli-01.htm here].

==Page 472 (cont'd)==

'''G.C.''' 
Government of Canada, perhaps

'''M.M.P.I.''' 
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, a commonly administered psychological test designed to give an overview of personality, neuroses, etc.

==Page 473==

'''Millon's''' 
the [Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III http://millon.net/instruments/MCMI_III.htm], another psych inventory

'''Approception''' 
apparently not a real test

'''shiatsu''' 
a type of Asian massage

'''weal''' 
prosperity or happiness

'''Turner, Bush, Casey''' 
Admiral Stansfield Turner was head of the CIA from 1977 to 1981. George H.W. Bush (later President) was CIA head from 1976 to 1977. William J. Casey was head from 1981 to 1987.

'''Langley''' 
the town in Virginia where the CIA is headquartered

==Page 474==

'''divans''' 
couches or sofas

'''rutting''' 
heat, i.e., sexual excitement

'''N.S.A.''' 
National Security Agency

'''C7''' 
The C7 is a modified version of the American M-16 combat rifle. It's implied here that C7 was some kind of security apparatus, but there is no evidence that such a body existed.

==Page 475==

475 · Gately Driving / Antitoi Brothers

==Page 475==

'''princess-and-pea''' 
a reference to the fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea," wherein despite several mattresses, a princess can still feel a single pea below her

'''cluster migraines''' 
Cluster headaches and migraines are actually two distinct syndromes.

'''feldspar''' 
a rock-forming mineral

==Page 476==

'''E.R.''' 
Emergency Room

'''CITGO''' 
one of the [http://www.citgo.com/Home.jsp major oil] companies

'''70 kph.''' 
about 43.5 miles per hour

'''CVS''' 
a large chain of [http://www.cvs.com/ drugstores]

'''75 k''' 
about 46.6 miles per hour

'''ς''' 
the Greek letter ''sigma'' as it appears in lower case at the ends of words

'''mysticetously''' 
in the manner of a baleen whale

'''cognomen''' 
a descriptive nickname

==Page 477==

'''tallboys''' 
a long-necked bottle

'''80 kph''' 
almost 50 miles per hour

'''Berklee School of Music''' 
a real school, one of the highest-prestige [http://www.berklee.edu/ music schools] in the U.S.

==Page 478==

==Endnote 202==

'''Escherian''' 
referring to the work of Maurits Cornelis (M.C.) Escher (1898-1972), a Dutch graphic artist

==Page 478 (cont'd)==

'''slalom''' 
to zigzag between obstacles

==Page 479==

'''bodegas''' 
a Spanish-owned grocery

'''crèche''' 
a nativity scene

'''propinquous''' 
Probably what's intended is "propinquitous," meaning "proximity" or "nearness."

'''Chickens Fresh Killed Daily''' 
a reference to the prominent 'Live Poultry Fresh Killed' sign of the Mayflower Poultry Company at 621 Cambridge St, East Cambridge about a half a mile from Inman Square. http://bostonist.com/2007/09/07/mayflower_poult.php

'''Ryle's Jazz Club''' 
a reference to Ryles Jazz Club (no apostrophe) in Inman Square, Cambridge at 212 Hampshire Street. http://www.rylesjazz.com/

'''briar pipes''' 
a type of pipe for [http://www.tinderboxinternational.com/briar.htm smoking]

'''60 k''' 
about 37.3 miles per hour

==Page 480==

'''MF''' 
Millennial Fizzy

'''aerodyne''' 
a heavier-than-air aircraft deriving lift from motion

'''viz.''' 
abbreviation for ''videlicet'' (Latin)

'''CQBC''' 
not a real entity, but probably here denoting a French-Canadian radio station

'''monomitotic''' 
"Mitosis" is cell division; "monomitosis" would be the splitting of a cell into a single cell, i.e., not splitting.G

'''Gaspé Peninsula''' 
a [http://www.great-adventures.com/destinations/canada/gaspe.html region] in northern Québec

'''''chiens-courants''''' 
French: running dogs

==Page 481==

'''U.S.A. 91''' 
Interstate 91, which runs from New Haven, Conn, to Derby Line, Vt., at the Canadian border

'''Bellow's Falls VT''' 
a town off Route 91, about 70 miles west of Manchester, N.H.

'''paisley''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paisley_%28design%29 popular design] originating in Scotland

'''Nehru jacket''' 
A collarless jacket named for Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), first Prime Minister of India and father of Indira Gandhi

'''''école-spéciale''''' 
French: special school

'''''Va chier, putain!''''' 
French: Piss off, whore!

'''trop formidable''' 
French: too strong

==Page 482==

'''Basel''' 
a city of Switzerland about 50 miles north of the capital of Bern

'''''tu-sais-quoi''''' 
French: you know what

'''impost''' 
something imposed, as a tax or duty

==Page 483==

==Endnote 204==

'''Saprogenic''' 
of or pertaining to putrefaction or rotting

==Page 483 (cont'd)==

'''illicit''' 
illegal

'''IL NE FAUT PLUS QU'ON PURSUIVE LE BONHEUR''' 
French: It is no longer necessary to pursue happiness

==Page 484==

'''125-kilo''' 
about 276 lbs

'''ROPAS''' 
Spanish: CLOTHES

==Page 485==

'''union-suit underwear''' 
one-piece long undergarments

'''stelliform''' 
in the form of a star

==Page 486==

'''baguette''' 
a long roll of French bread

'''cerise''' 
deep red to purple in color

''''''n soir, 'sieur''''' 
an elision of ''bon soir, monsieur,'' i.e., "Goodnight, sir" in French

''''''Malhereusement, ton collégue est décedé. It faisait une excellente soupe aus pois.'''''' 
French: Sadly, your friend is dead. He made an excellent pea soup.

on p. 425, Marathe outlined a hypothetical in which two people both wanted a Habitant ''soupe aus pois'' that belonged to someone who had recently died

''''''Non? Ou c'était toi, faisait-elle?'''''' 
French: No? Or was it you that made it?

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'''wangs''' 
slaps or bangs against

'''''frère''''' 
French: brother

'''sphincter''' 
Any muscle in ring form, here it means the anus, which has failed Lucien by allowing him to soil himself

'''''ne pas plaisanter''''' 
French: not pleasure

'''''iront paître''''' 
French: they will go to eat

'''''entend-il?''''' 
French: Does he hear?

==Page 488==

'''''inutile''''' 
French: useless

'''natal''' 
like a baby's

'''aphonia''' 
absence of sound

'''muskie''' 
short for "muskellunge," a type of fish

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442* · Gately at Braintree AA

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'''Braintree''' 
a town in Massachusetts about 13 miles south-southeast of Boston

==Page 443==

'''easement''' 
An easement is a right to use part of someone else's land for a limited purpose, often a right to cross it on a defined pathway. Thus the Higher Power as a cheese-easement refers to Gately's analogy to a lab rat who's learned one route through a maze to the cheese.

'''rote''' 
repetition

==Page 444==

'''Probie''' 
probation officer

'''10-cm.''' 
a little under 4 inches

'''Our Father''' 
the Lord's Prayer

'''hawgs''' 
"Hog" is a slang term for a Harley-Davidson

'''mantis''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praying_mantis praying mantis]

==Page 445==

'''spats''' 
a covering for the uppers of shoes

'''Quincy''' 
a suburb of Boston about 9 miles south-southeast of the city; pronounced "Quinzy"

'''affable''' 
showing warmth and friendliness

'''Hennessey''' 
a brand of cognac

==Page 446==

'''sampler''' 
a piece of cloth embroidered with stitches, sometimes incorporating platitudes

'''Estonian''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonians native population] of Estonia

'''wrought-iron''' 
iron in nearly carbon-free form, making it readily forged

'''M.P.''' 
military policeman

'''brig''' 
prison on a Navy ship

==Page 447==

'''Bulat''' 
actually a common Kazakh first name

==Page 448==

'''filial''' 
pertaining to a son or daughter

'''Nimitz''' 
Chester William Nimitz (1885-1966) was a U.S. admiral and commander of Naval forces in the Pacific during WWII.

'''afghan''' 
a type of blanket

==Page 449==

==Endnote 179==

'''chivalric''' 
considerate and courteous to women

==Page 449 (cont'd)==

'''Sir Osis of Thuliver''' 
i.e., cirrhosis of the liver

'''vessels''' 
He means "vassals."

449 · Incandenza Family Update — Hal & Mario

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'''shale''' 
the most common [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shale sedimentary rock]

==Page 450==

'''alto''' 
having a lower female voice

'''Horkheimer and Adorno''' 
Max Horkheimer (1895-1973) was a German philosopher and sociologist, a founder and guiding thinker of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School Frankfurt School] of critical theory. Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969) was a German sociologist and fellow member of the Frankfurt School.

'''Patridge Family''' 
the band featured on the [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065333/ television series] of the same name

'''narcotized''' 
drugged

'''timbre''' 
tone of voice

==Endnote 180==

'''Rectus Bulbi''' 
short name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_rectus_muscle superior rectus muscle]

==Page 450 (cont'd)==

'''sarcophagally''' 
in a way suggesting a coffin

450 · Morning Drills

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

==Page 451==

'''permutations''' 
arrangements of the same items in different sequences

'''"...the thing it's not entirely impossible he may have fathered..."''' 
This is to say that C.T. may have been Mario's father and not James O. Incandenza. Given that C.T. and Avril are blood relatives, this would explain Mario's profound birth defects.

'''anodized''' 
coated with metal

'''perk''' 
i.e., perquisite, a special benefit

==Page 452==

'''alpaca''' 
wool taken from an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpaca animal] closely related to the camel and llama

'''Kaopectate''' 
brand name of parapectolin. A pink, clay-like antidiarrheal; believed to work by adsorbing the bacteria or germ that may be causing the diarrhea.

'''canted''' 
put in an oblique position

'''reveille''' 
the trumpet call played in the morning to awaken sleeping soldiers

'''corona''' 
crown or halo

==Page 453==

'''muzzle''' 
the barrel of a gun

'''bratwursts''' 
This is a small German sausage composed of pork and beef; the name is German for "chopped meat sausage."

==Page 454==

'''Puker''' 
a punitive run designed to make one vomit

'''American Twist''' 
another name for a kick serve

'''2 m.''' 
over 6'6" tall

==Page 455==

'''low 10's C''' 
10º C is equal to 50º Fahrenheit.

==Page 456==

'''picric''' 
Picric acid is an explosive, so the word "picric" w/r/t clouds probably implies an explosive (or about to explode) quality.

==Page 457==

'''fungoes''' 
In baseball a fungo is a pop fly deliberately hit to train players in fielding. Presumably here, in tennis, these balls are thrown in a deliberate place in a deliberate manner to exercise a particular skill.

'''quarter''' 
here meaning "mercy"

==Page 458==

'''''forvart''''' 
German: forward (Actually, it's only meant to look/sound German. The actual German word for "forward" is "vorwärts" or "voran".)

==Page 459==

'''23.8 meters, 8 I think .2 meters''' 
close to 80 feet by nearly 27 feet

==Page 460==

'''Gymnasium Kaiserlautern''' 
The Web site is [http://asg.region-kl.de/ here]. ''Kaiserlautern'' means something like "Emperor acclamation" in German and is a city in southwest Germany.

'''Raggedy Andy''' 
a popular doll seen [http://www.backtobasicstoys.com/images/6391.jpg here]

'''z coordinate''' 
the measurement of depth

'''Gaugin''' 
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a French artist who lived in Tahiti.

==Page 461==

'''morendo''' 
a musical term meaning "a gradual decrescendo at the end of a strain or cadence" (''Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary'')

461 · More on Gately at Ennet House

==Page 461==

'''1964 Ford Aventura''' 
There is no such car.

==Page 462==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whisper-Quiet Maytag Dishmaster]]

'''DUI''' 
Driving Under the Influence

'''Possession With Intent''' 
i.e., with intent to distribute

'''D.S.A.S.''' 
Division of Substance Abuse Services

'''constabulary''' 
a body of peace officers

==Page 463==

'''Murder-2''' 
second-degree murder, or murder without premeditation

'''Deer Island''' 
an island in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer_Island_%28Massachusetts%29 Boston Harbor], and until 1991 the site of the Suffolk County House of Correction

'''hinked''' 
According to the ''OED'', hink as a verb means "to halt" or "to falter." The implication here is that 90 days in jail isn't much to Gately since he'd already served 17 months in another sentence.

==Page 464==

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

==Page 465==

'''women's leg-shaver thing''' 
i.e., Epi-Lady

'''misprision''' 
contempt against the government or courts

'''Cape''' 
i.e., Cape Cod

==Page 466==

'''J.C.''' 
Jesus Christ

==Page 467==

==Page 468==

'''Korean-War-vintage''' 
The Korean War (1950–53) was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and People's Republic of China, with air support from the Soviet Union.

'''Nixon administration''' 
January 1969 to August 1974

==Page 469==

'''188 cm. and 128 kg.''' 
Gately is a hair over 6'2" and weights over 282 lbs.

'''Ashland KY''' 
a city on the Ohio River about 120 miles south of Columbus, Ohio

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==Page 442==

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

'''Braintree''' 
a town in Massachusetts about 13 miles south-southeast of Boston

==Page 443==

'''easement''' 
An easement is a right to use part of someone else's land for a limited purpose, often a right to cross it on a defined pathway. Thus the Higher Power as a cheese-easement refers to Gately's analogy to a lab rat who's learned one route through a maze to the cheese.

'''rote''' 
repetition

==Page 444==

'''Probie''' 
probation officer

'''10-cm.''' 
a little under 4 inches

'''Our Father''' 
the Lord's Prayer

'''hawgs''' 
"Hog" is a slang term for a Harley-Davidson

'''mantis''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praying_mantis praying mantis]

==Page 445==

'''spats''' 
a covering for the uppers of shoes

'''Quincy''' 
a suburb of Boston about 9 miles south-southeast of the city; pronounced "Quinzy"

'''affable''' 
showing warmth and friendliness

'''Hennessey''' 
a brand of cognac

==Page 446==

'''sampler''' 
a piece of cloth embroidered with stitches, sometimes incorporating platitudes

'''Estonian''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonians native population] of Estonia

'''wrought-iron''' 
iron in nearly carbon-free form, making it readily forged

'''M.P.''' 
military policeman

'''brig''' 
prison on a Navy ship

==Page 447==

'''Bulat''' 
actually a common Kazakh first name

==Page 448==

'''filial''' 
pertaining to a son or daughter

'''Nimitz''' 
Chester William Nimitz (1885-1966) was a U.S. admiral and commander of Naval forces in the Pacific during WWII.

'''afghan''' 
a type of blanket

==Page 449==

==Endnote 179==

'''chivalric''' 
considerate and courteous to women

==Page 449 (cont'd)==

'''Sir Osis of Thuliver''' 
i.e., cirrhosis of the liver

'''vessels''' 
He means "vassals."

449 · Incandenza Family Update — Hal & Mario

==Page 449==

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

'''shale''' 
the most common [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shale sedimentary rock]

==Page 450==

'''alto''' 
having a lower female voice

'''Horkheimer and Adorno''' 
Max Horkheimer (1895-1973) was a German philosopher and sociologist, a founder and guiding thinker of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School Frankfurt School] of critical theory. Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969) was a German sociologist and fellow member of the Frankfurt School.

'''Patridge Family''' 
the band featured on the [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065333/ television series] of the same name

'''narcotized''' 
drugged

'''timbre''' 
tone of voice

==Endnote 180==

'''Rectus Bulbi''' 
short name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_rectus_muscle superior rectus muscle]

==Page 450 (cont'd)==

'''sarcophagally''' 
in a way suggesting a coffin

450 · Morning Drills

==Page 450==

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

==Page 451==

'''permutations''' 
arrangements of the same items in different sequences

'''"...the thing it's not entirely impossible he may have fathered..."''' 
This is to say that C.T. may have been Mario's father and not James O. Incandenza. Given that C.T. and Avril are blood relatives, this would explain Mario's profound birth defects.

'''anodized''' 
coated with metal

'''perk''' 
i.e., perquisite, a special benefit

==Page 452==

'''alpaca''' 
wool taken from an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpaca animal] closely related to the camel and llama

'''Kaopectate''' 
brand name of parapectolin. A pink, clay-like antidiarrheal; believed to work by adsorbing the bacteria or germ that may be causing the diarrhea.

'''canted''' 
put in an oblique position

'''reveille''' 
the trumpet call played in the morning to awaken sleeping soldiers

'''corona''' 
crown or halo

==Page 453==

'''muzzle''' 
the barrel of a gun

'''bratwursts''' 
This is a small German sausage composed of pork and beef; the name is German for "chopped meat sausage."

==Page 454==

'''Puker''' 
a punitive run designed to make one vomit

'''American Twist''' 
another name for a kick serve

'''2 m.''' 
over 6'6" tall

==Page 455==

'''low 10's C''' 
10º C is equal to 50º Fahrenheit.

==Page 456==

'''picric''' 
Picric acid is an explosive, so the word "picric" w/r/t clouds probably implies an explosive (or about to explode) quality.

==Page 457==

'''fungoes''' 
In baseball a fungo is a pop fly deliberately hit to train players in fielding. Presumably here, in tennis, these balls are thrown in a deliberate place in a deliberate manner to exercise a particular skill.

'''quarter''' 
here meaning "mercy"

==Page 458==

'''''forvart''''' 
German: forward (Actually, it's only meant to look/sound German. The actual German word for "forward" is "vorwärts" or "voran".)

==Page 459==

'''23.8 meters, 8 I think .2 meters''' 
close to 80 feet by nearly 27 feet

==Page 460==

'''Gymnasium Kaiserlautern''' 
The Web site is [http://asg.region-kl.de/ here]. ''Kaiserlautern'' means something like "Emperor acclamation" in German and is a city in southwest Germany.

'''Raggedy Andy''' 
a popular doll seen [http://www.backtobasicstoys.com/images/6391.jpg here]

'''z coordinate''' 
the measurement of depth

'''Gaugin''' 
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a French artist who lived in Tahiti.

==Page 461==

'''morendo''' 
a musical term meaning "a gradual decrescendo at the end of a strain or cadence" (''Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary'')

461 · More on Gately at Ennet House

==Page 461==

'''1964 Ford Aventura''' 
There is no such car.

==Page 462==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whisper-Quiet Maytag Dishmaster]]

'''DUI''' 
Driving Under the Influence

'''Possession With Intent''' 
i.e., with intent to distribute

'''D.S.A.S.''' 
Division of Substance Abuse Services

'''constabulary''' 
a body of peace officers

==Page 463==

'''Murder-2''' 
second-degree murder, or murder without premeditation

'''Deer Island''' 
an island in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer_Island_%28Massachusetts%29 Boston Harbor], and until 1991 the site of the Suffolk County House of Correction

'''hinked''' 
According to the ''OED'', hink as a verb means "to halt" or "to falter." The implication here is that 90 days in jail isn't much to Gately since he'd already served 17 months in another sentence.

==Page 464==

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

==Page 465==

'''women's leg-shaver thing''' 
i.e., Epi-Lady

'''misprision''' 
contempt against the government or courts

'''Cape''' 
i.e., Cape Cod

==Page 466==

'''J.C.''' 
Jesus Christ

==Page 467==

==Page 468==

'''Nixon administration''' 
January 1969 to August 1974

==Page 469==

'''188 cm. and 128 kg.''' 
Gately is a hair over 6'2" and weights over 282 lbs.

'''Ashland KY''' 
a city on the Ohio River about 120 miles south of Columbus, Ohio

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==Page 283==

'''C.U.S.P.''' 
Stands for Clean United States Party, i.e. Johnny Gentle's pro-hygiene political platform. In reality, though it was created after ''Infinite Jest'' was published, there is an organization called [http://geo.international.gc.ca/can-am/main/border/creating_cusp-en.asp CUSP].

'''Johnny Gentle''' 
the name of a [http://www.johnnygentle.co.uk/ real musician] from the U.K.

'''O.N.A.N.ism''' 
Onanism is another word for masturbation in the English language

'''cholera and amoebic-dysentery''' 
Cholera is extreme diarrhea brought on by unsanitary conditions. Amoebic dysentery is also extreme diarrhea, this time brought on by the acquisition of a parasitic infection.

'''diasporic''' 
here denoting being in exile

==Endnote 94==

'''''Lebensgefährtin''''' 
German: female romantic companion (rather, "significant other" or "longtime companion")

==Page 284==

'''Palmer Academy''' 
There is a [http://www.privateschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/6794 Palmer Academy] in Florida, but it's in Haines City, sixty miles east of Tampa.

'''ROTC''' 
Reserve Officer Training Corps, which recruits future officers in the U.S. Armed Forces from universities

'''A.P.''' 
Advanced Placement

'''Croate''' 
French for "Croat" but probably just a misspelling

==Endnote 95==

'''post-Windows DOS''' 
A DOS is a Disk Operating System, the programming by which a computer runs other programs. Microsoft has not issued a new DOS after Windows as of late 2007.

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

'''recompile''' 
Some programs needed to be "compiled" before they run, depending on the computer language in which they're written. Recompiling would be compiling over again.

==Page 285==

'''inducement''' 
an incentive

'''Dodge''' 
A reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_City Dodge City, Kansas], to "get out of Dodge" is to disappear because of some kind of perceived or real threat.

==Endnote 96==

'''Fredericton, N.B.''' 
Fredericton is the capital of the Canadian province of New Brunswick (N.B.) about 175 miles as the crow flies (much longer if you drive it) from Halifax, Nova Scotia, the nearest "big city" in that part of Canada.

==Page 285 (cont'd)==

'''septuagenaric''' 
in one's seventies

'''patrician''' 
aristocratic

'''vault the net''' 
It used to be a tradition in tennis for one player to jump ("vault") over the net to congratulate or console his/her opponent after a match.

'''round-robins''' 
This is a type of tournament in which each player plays every other player once, the winner being the person/team/etc. with the most wins. Compare this to a single-elimination tournament like the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.

'''deck-sneakers''' 
You can see examples [http://sneakers.pair.com/m-deck.htm here].

==Page 286==

'''Lacoste''' 
a French apparel company, known for producing [http://www.izod.com/ Izod]

'''levantine''' 
from the Near East, particularly Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, or Israel, i.e., the Levant

'''kohl''' 
a powder used to darken the eyelids

'''Terriers''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhett_the_Boston_Terrier Rhett the Boston Terrier] is the mascot of Boston University.

'''plum''' 
an excellent or desirable thing

'''hiati''' 
the plural of "hiatus"

'''Blue Cross''' 
an health insurance company

'''felo de se''' 
Latin for "felony against one's self," this is a term for suicide.

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

'''sedulous''' 
diligent or attentive

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

==Page 287==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dary PRoducts from the American Heartland]]

'''jugular''' 
the largest vein in the neck

''''''Tenebrae Factae Sunt,''' sotto v.''' 
Latin for "There Was Darkness," ''Tenebrae Factae Sunt'' is a hymn traditionally sung on Good Friday, the day on which Jesus was crucified. "Sotto v." is shorthand for the Latin ''sotto voce,'' which means "in a low voice."

==Page 288==

'''locusts''' 
Given the noise their making, Wallace is probably referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada cicadas].

'''trundle''' 
Used here, it means an impulse that causes something to move.

'''Salic law''' 
The Salic Law was a legal code of medieval Central Europe that, among other things, prevented accession to a monarchy on the basis of female relationship.

'''anthracnose''' 
another name for the plant disease known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthracnose canker]

'''PAC''' 
Political Action Committee

'''florid''' 
very red

'''trilled ''r'''s''' 
as pronounced in a Spanish word such as ''perro'' ("dog")

''''Politics and the English Language'''' 
You can read Orwell's essay [http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79e/part42.html here].

'''Tactical Phalanx''' 
Normally a military term, this would be a phalanx (from the Latin word for "fingers") or row of soldiers deployed for tactical purposes.

'''MGM''' 
Militant Grammarians of Massachusetts

'''tiller''' 
a nautical term for the device attached to a boat's rudder to assist in steering

'''sinecure''' 
a job requiring little or no work

==Page 289==

'''"...had a poster of Bill Tilden in his office..."''' 
which implies that the coach was either gay (as was Tilden) or very old-fashioned, since Tilden's career was far in the past

'''schizoid''' 
here meaning "erratic"

'''refraction''' 
here referring to the splitting of white light into a spectrum of color

'''strabismic''' 
having improperly aligned eyes

'''diffraction''' 
the bending or stretching of waves, assuming light is a wave and not a particle

'''OCD''' 
Obsessive-Compulsive Disoder

'''postcoital flanks''' 
Postcoital denotes after sexual intercourse. The flank would be the side of the body between the ribs and hip.

'''decapitated''' 
beheaded

'''epithet''' 
a word or phrase applied to a person, often derisively

==Page 290==

'''Actaeon Complex''' 
This is not a real psychiatric disorder. Actaeon was a figure from Greek mythology who fell in love with the goddess of the hunt, Artemis, only to anger her and then be changed into a deer, which was then hunted unto death — all of which perhaps suggests an underlying reluctance in the men to pursue Joelle because she might pursue them in return.

'''phylogenic''' 
regarding the evolution of an organism

'''ascapartic''' 
A word coined by Wallace, it means gigantic, as Ascapart was a giant depicted in the fiction of, among other people, J.R.R. Tolkien.

'''elisions and apical lapses''' 
Elisions are the droppings of phonemes from words. Apical refers to sounds made using the tip of the tongue; lapses would be absences of such sounds.

'''four meters''' 
a little over thirteen feet.

'''zygomatics''' 
arches on the outer borders of the eyes

'''HD''' 
high-definition, like a television

'''pungently''' 
in a way that sharply affects the organs of sense

'''attar''' 
a perfume extracted from flowers

'''avuncular''' 
characteristic of an uncle

==Page 291==

'''Facsmile''' 
probably a misspelling of "facsimile"

'''three-meter''' 
almost ten feet

'''lateral''' 
sideways

'''''bona fried''''' 
the other players mean to say "bona fide"

'''dope-slaps''' 
more commonly known as "bitch-slaps"

'''orthopedic''' 
denoting an anomaly in the bones

'''180-kilo''' 
almost 400 pounds

'''Special Teams''' 
These are the squads responsible in football for tactics that are neither offensive or defensive, e.g., returning kick-offs, kicking field goals or extra points, and, of course, punting.

'''femur to tarsus''' 
The femur is the bone running from the hip to the knee — the largest bone in the body. The tarsi (plural of tarsus) are the bones of the foot. In between are the tibia and fibula — the bones of the lower leg — and the patella, or kneecap. All of these were apparently broken.

==Page 292==

'''caromed''' 
To carom is to strike and rebound; caromed is the past tense.

'''CNS''' 
Central Nervous System

'''Gauloise''' 
a French brand of cigarettes

'''draconian''' 
Derived from Draco, the 7th century BC first lawgiver of Athens, the word means unusually harsh or severe.

==Page 293==

'''SUNY''' 
State University of New York

'''kick serve''' 
a serve in tennis with so much spin that the ball bounces high and to the left (if right-handed) or right (if left-handed) of the receiver

'''Rockette''' 
Named for the Rockefeller family and nearby Rockefeller Center, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockette Rockettes] are the Radio City Music Hall-based dancers famous for high kicks.

'''preternatural''' 
out of the ordinary course or nature

[[Image:Parabola.png|thumb|caption|parabola|right|125px]]
'''parabola''' 
a curve; more precisely a conic section formed by cutting a cone with a plane, where the plane is parallel to a line running along the cone's side from the vertex (point) to the circular base; see right

'''factota''' 
plural for factotum, which is a word for a servant or assistant

'''herbicide''' 
something that kills plants

==Page 294==

'''''Schmüberty''''' 
Technically speaking, this wouldn't rhyme with "puberty," because an umlaut over a "u" in German produces a diphthong rather than the long /u/ phoneme.

'''aegis''' 
sponsorship or auspices; from the Greek for "shield"

'''bilateral''' 
having two sides

'''S.T.''' 
Special Teams

'''wide receiver's number''' 
Kickers can only be assigned numbers 1 through 19, while wide receivers get numbers in the 80s.

'''"...it was in its last season of representing an American university..."''' 
Presumably under the constitution of O.N.A.N., Syracuse, N.Y., became part of Canada.

'''book-long''' 
This is a bit confusing, since the sense would seem to imply that the "book" is a record book, but the record for a punt in both college and professional football is 99 yards.

'''Orangemen''' 
the Syracuse football team's name

==Page 295==

'''podiatric''' 
having to do with the foot

'''USMC''' 
United States Marine Corps

'''Rolling Thunder's big-bellied Berthas''' 
Rolling Thunder was the bombing campaign on North Vietnam carried out by South Vietnam and the U.S. military between 1965 and 1968. A A Bertha is probably just a really big gun, like the famous [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bertha Big Bertha] used by Germany during WWI.

'''sousaphone''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousaphone tuba] developed by John Philip Sousa (1854-1932), American composer, for easier carrying with a marching band

'''extrication''' 
freedom from entanglement

'''lardy''' 
fat

'''tête-à-tête''' 
From the French for "head to head," this term denotes a private conversation between two people.

'''30,0000''' 
The game against Syracuse is a home game, so the audience couldn't have been 30,000 because Nickerson Field has a capacity of less than 10,000 people.

'''amniotic''' 
pertaining to the fluid that surrounds a fetus ''in utero''

==Page 296==

'''cathedran''' 
Presumably Wallace means "like a cathedral," but this is not a real word. The proper word would be cathedrarian.

'''Yankee Conference''' 
Ironically, in 1997 (a year after ''Infinite Jest'' was published), Boston University dropped its football program.

'''K-L-RMKI/Forsythia Bowl''' 
This is not a real bowl game, but the letters stand for Ken-L-Ration-Magnavox-Kemper-Insurance Forsythia Bowl.

'''fealty''' 
faithfulness, here to a sports team

'''4WD''' 
four-wheel-drive vehicle

'''kudzu''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudzu climbing vine] indigenous to the U.S. South

'''pointers''' 
a breed of hunting dog

'''Pyrex''' 
a brand name of heat-resistant glass

'''turn blue litmus paper red''' 
presumably something highly acidic

'''star-fated''' 
as opposed to star-crossed, i.e., predestined for disaster, as Romeo and Juliet

==Page 297==

'''dailies''' 
Also called "rushes," these are the pieces of raw film recorded during a single day, including cuts, takes, prints, etc.

'''turtle-headed''' 
implying that Orin's neck is covered entirely but visible, as with a turtleneck sweater

'''fireman-carrying''' 
carrying a person over one's shoulder

'''Dixie Baton-Twirling Institute in Oxford MS''' 
Wallace has taken this idea from a [http://louisville.edu/a-s/english/subcultures/ideas/buzzpounds/pountwirl.html short story] by [http://www.terrysouthern.com/ Terry Southern]. Oxford, Miss., is the home of "Ole Miss," i.e., the [http://www.olemiss.edu/ University of Mississippi] and is about 60 miles southeast of Memphis, Tenn.

'''hypertrophied''' 
overgrown anatomically

'''quadriceps''' 
one of the muscles in front of the thigh

'''P.T.s''' 
Physical Therapists

'''thespian''' 
having to do with acting

'''BTL''' 
the initials of several telecommunications and television companies

'''Angenieux''' 
a [http://www.angenieux.com/ company] that produces high-technology optics devices

'''half-disk-sector''' 
an indication of the amount of digital memory used

'''#78''' 
This is Orin's jersey number — why he didn't get a changed number is uncertain, as is why it said he had gotten a receiver's number. A number in the 70s would be an offensive or defensive lineman — someone unlike to have contact with the ball.

'''mattes''' 
This is shorthand for a matte shot, which is "a shot in which parts of the background and sometimes the foreground are masked so that a different background, foreground, image, etc., can be substituted during printing" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''spectation''' 
aspect or appearance

==Page 298==

'''rheostat''' 
This is "an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''Jiffy Pop''' 
a brand name of home popping corn

[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.]]

'''rpm''' 
revolutions per minute

'''Storrow 500''' 
a local nickname for Storrow Drive in Boston

'''barney''' 
a heavy padded cover for a camera to reduce the amount of noise from the camera's moving parts getting onto the soundtrack

'''Pilotone blooper''' 
Pilotone is an old brand of film equipment, and a blooper is, according to the ''Random House Unabridged Dictionary,'' "a receiving set that generates from its antenna radio-frequency signals that interfere with other nearby receivers."

'''auracopia''' 
a Wallace neologism based on "aura" (sound) and "copia" (plenty) and based on cornucopia (horn of plenty)

'''Delaware''' 
The Yankee Conference, by the way, ceased to exist in 1997.

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

'''U. Vermont and UNH now history''' 
This implies that Vermont and New Hampshire were also annexed to Canada. However, the University of Vermont had not been in the conference since 1974.

'''four-point stances''' 
with both hands and both feet on the ground

'''chuff''' 
to blow hard and loudly

'''stave''' 
to break or crush

'''scrimmage''' 
the scrimmage line, i.e., where the offense currently has the ball

==Page 299==

'''a bright noncontact white''' 
Orin's helmet is white because he hasn't been tackled.

'''pendular 180-arc of Orin's leg''' 
meaning Orin's leg moves the full length of half a circle around the center that is his hip, in a motion similar to that of a pendulum

'''gluteal''' 
pertaining to the buttocks

299 · Poor Tony Goes Cold Turkey

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

'''Armenian Foundation Library in horrid central Watertown MA''' 
This is probably the same as the [http://www.almainc.org/ Armenian Library and Museum of America]. Watertown is a suburb of Boston nine miles west of the city, and it has a very large Armenian population.

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'''Equus Reese''' 
''Equus'' is Latin for "horse."

'''Donegal cap''' 
You can see one [http://irishop.com/dontweedcap.html here].

'''cadge''' 
to obtain by begging

'''Antitoi''' 
French for "against you"

'''de-mapping''' 
murder

'''''non grata''''' 
Latin: not welcome

'''Aigner accessory''' 
Etienne Aigner is a designer of women's handbags & leather goods.

'''cop''' 
obtain drugs

'''rough-trade''' 
homosexual sexual activity between a gay man and a straight man, sometimes for money or drugs

'''Brockton''' 
a city in Massachusetts about 25 miles south of Boston

'''portents''' 
omens

'''Fort Point''' 
a section of Boston named for a colonial-era fort of the same name

'''hepatitis-G''' 
This [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis#Hepatitis_G disease] had been identified the same year that Wallace published ''Infinite Jest''. It's unclear whether he was aware of this.

'''chip''' 
to use enough heroin to stave off withdrawal

'''wigless head''' 
which probably means he "flipped his wig" during withdrawal; doubtful—Tony is carrying his auburn wig and red leather coat in a shopping bag

'''The Old Cold Bird''' 
a variation on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_turkey cold turkey]

'''fifty kilos''' 
a little over 110 pounds

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'''color of summer squash''' 
The colors of summer squashes vary, but Wallace probably is implying that Poor Tony looks yellow.

'''sty''' 
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stye stye]

'''chignon''' 
a type of hair extension worn at the back of the head

'''troughs and nodes''' 
deep furrows and swollen areas, respectively

'''habilements''' 
misspelling of habiliments, i.e., clothing

'''wan''' 
pale in color

'''gender-dysphoric''' 
a person suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria gender identity disorder]

'''shiva''' 
the Jewish ritual of mourning for seven days, tearing one's clothes, sitting on the floor, covering mirrors, etc.

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

'''412 Mount Auburn Street''' 
This is a real address in Watertown. You can see the house [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=%22412+Mount+Auburn+Street%22+Watertown,+MA&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=51.488837,67.412109&ie=UTF8&ll=42.370023,-71.166751&spn=0.00148,0.002057&t=k&z=19&om=1 here]. It doesn't look like a residence. [Google street view suggests otherwise?]

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'''Codinex Plus''' 
a brand name of cough syrup

'''C17-morphine''' 
regular old morphine, which has the chemical composition C17H19NO3

'''Bonwit's''' 
a department store in Boston

'''hubris''' 
pride to a fault

'''cadences''' 
flows of events

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'''Merry Widow''' 
a woman's undergarment consisting of a strapless bra and short corset

'''Amalfo''' 
apparently a misspelling of Amalfi, a brand of shoes

'''45 kg''' 
a little over 99 pounds

'''''Zuckung''''' 
German: convulsion

'''pebbled glass''' 
a drinking glass having a rough surface

'''filial''' 
pertaining to a son or daughter

'''Mount Auburn Cemetery''' 
the first [http://www.mountauburn.org/ landscaped cemetery] in the U.S.

'''A.F.L.''' 
Armenian Foundation Library

'''loo''' 
British colloquialism for toilet

'''flatulence''' 
farting

'''demethylated''' 
with a methyl group (CH3) removed. Technically, this is incorrect; to go from codeine (C18H21NO3) to morphine (C17H19NO3) requires the removal of a methyl''ene'' group (CH2). The accurate term would be "demethyl''en''ated."

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'''duplicitous''' 
deceptive in speech

'''hapless''' 
without luck

'''bilirubin''' 
the compound that makes urine yellow

'''behemoth''' 
a large beast

'''synaptic''' 
pertaining to the spaces between brain cells

'''dessicated''' 
dried out

'''Eighty-Proof''' 
40 percent alcohol

'''augur''' 
to serve as an omen

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'''incongruous''' 
out of place

'''obstretric''' 
of or relating to childbirth

'''dirigibles''' 
blimps or zeppelins (airships)

'''tumid''' 
swollen

'''Red Sox of Rice and Lynn''' 
Jim Rice (1974-1989) and Fred Lynn (1974-1980) both played in the 1975 World Series.

'''taffeta''' 
a crisp, smooth, woven fabric, often made from silk, used in gowns

'''gaffed fish''' 
caught with a very large hook

'''flounces''' 
strips of decorative material

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[[Image:MIT.png|thumb|caption|MIT Seal|150px|right]]

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

'''striated''' 
marked with stripes or streaks

'''Cukor''' 
George Dewey Cukor (1899-1983) was an American [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002030/ film director].

'''Murnau in Méliès's fiberglass lap''' 
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (1888-1931) was a German expressionist filmmaker who later worked in Hollywood. He made the classic vampire film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013442/ Noferatu]. Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès (1861-1938) was a French filmmaker, famous for the silent [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000417/ A Voyage to the Moon].

'''cummerbund''' 
the band of fabric worn around the waist with a tuxedo

'''M.I.T.-crested''' 
see right

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'''low-pH chemist''' 
i.e., he worked with acids

'''piebald''' 
having patches of black and white

'''G.W. Pabst''' 
Georg Wilhelm Pabst (1885-1967) was a Bohemian-born Austrian filmmaker.

'''sorghum''' 
a type of widely eaten [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorghum grain]

'''tumefies''' 
swells

'''sororal''' 
another word for "sisterly"

'''sub-rosa''' 
From the Latin "under the rose," this word means secretly held.

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'''sienna-glazed''' 
glazed with an earth-based pigment

'''polyresin''' 
a resin compound used to make figurines, among other things

'''staccato''' 
in music, notes that are sounded in a detached and distinct manner

'''cataract''' 
In the non-ophthalmic sense, this word means "waterfall."

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'''NOTRE RAI PAYS''' 
''Notre pays'' is French for "our country." I don't know what "RAI" is supposed to mean; apparently, in French, it's a type of Algerian music.

'''.473-liter''' 
a pint

'''Big Red Soda Water''' 
apparently a [http://www.bigredltd.com/ real brand]

'''Chore Boy''' 
a brand of [http://www.choreboyscrubbers.com/ scrubbing pads]

'''two-k. square''' 
0.77 square miles

'''selvage''' 
the finished edge of a piece of fabric, so done to prevent fraying

'''delimits''' 
establishes the boundaries of

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223 (1) · Chronology of Subsidized Time

==Page 223==

See [[Subsidized Time]].

==Endnote 78==

'''G.F.R. Co.''' 
perhaps [http://www.gfr.cc/ Global Food Resources]

'''Zanesville OH''' 
a town 55 miles east of Columbus

'''Vienna VA''' 
a suburb of Washington, D.C., about 15 miles due west of the city

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==Endnote 79==

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

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'''Veedersburg, Indiana and Powell, Wyoming''' 
Veedersburg is about 70 miles west-northest of Indianapolis; Powell is about 90 miles south of Billings, Mont.

'''parallax''' 
This is "the difference between the view of an object as seen through the picture-taking lens of a camera and the view as seen through a separate viewfinder" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

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'''8-gram''' 
a bit over a quarter of an ounce

'''wildly carbuncular wife''' 
This is a reference to Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor (1879-1964), wife of Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor.

'''P.M.U.K.''' 
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

'''Lend-Lease''' 
a program between the beginning of World War II and U.S. entry after the bombing of Pearl Harbor whereby the U.S. government provided materiel to Britain (and later the Soviets) in return for military bases

'''scopophobic''' 
irrational fear or pornography [doubtful; fear of being looked at makes more sense]

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'''1.98 M., 104 KG., A.B., M.J.A.''' 
1.98 meters is about 6'4" tall. 104 kg is around 230 lbs. She's enormous.

A.B. is an older abbreviation for B.A., i.e., Bachelor of Arts. M.J.A. is probably Master of Journalistic Arts.

'''''Decade Magazine''''' 
A list of articles from this publication can be found [http://www.caribouschools.org/secondary/chs/library/Social%20Studies/Decade%20Project/Decadeindex.htm here].

'''''Southwest Annual''''' 
probably not a real publication

'''''Ladies Day''''' 
also not a real publication

'''Erythema AZ''' 
not a real town, but erythema is a [http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9363881/erythema real disease]

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'''A.B.D.''' 
"All But Dissertation," a term used to refer to people who have completed their doctoral studies with the exception of their dissertations.

[[Image:Homburg.jpg|thumb|caption|Homburg Hat|150px|right]]

'''Homburg''' 
A homburg is a stiff felt hat characterized by a single dent running down the center of the crown and a brim fixed in a tight, upwards curl. It is superficially similar to the trilby or fedora; trilbys and fedoras, however, have soft, "snappable" brims and can have various designs "pinched" into the crown, whereas the shape of a homburg is fixed. (see right) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homburg_(hat) Wikipedia]

'''Wiesbaden''' 
a city of Germany above 25 miles west of Frankfurt (Main)

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.S.D.B.]]

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'''the A.M.'s interruptus''' 
Presumably this means the end of the morning, although the only common English usage of "interruptus" is in the Latin phrase ''coitus interrruptus'', i.e., "pulling out."

'''Maya Deren''' 
Born Eleanora Derenkowsky, Maya Deren (1917-1961) was a Ukrainian-born American [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220305/ filmmmaker].

==Page 229==

'''glycine''' 
one of the 20 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycine amino acids] found in proteins

'''Rutherford Keck and Crosby Baum''' 
These both seem to be invented people....

'''Smothergill''' 
...as does this...

'''Miriam Prickett''' 
...and this.

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

'''Franciscan bald spot''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscan Orders of Friars Minor] were known to shave the tops of their heads in medieval and early modern times.

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'''paps''' 
breasts or nipples

'''diphthong''' 
In linguistics, a diphthong is a vowel combination involving a smooth transition from one vowel to another. English has three diphthongs: /ay/ as in "papaya," /oy/ as in "boy," and /au/ as in "Bauhaus." Technically "beautiful" doesn't have a diphthong.

'''febrile''' 
feverish

'''scopophiliac''' 
sexually attracted to pornography [ummm, let's get right with the scopophilia/-phobia, y'all—Merriam-Webster Medical online says "a desire to look at sexually stimulating scenes especially as a substitute for actual sexual participation"]

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.S.D.B.]]

'''Boaz''' 
the name of cities in both Alabama and West Virginia

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'''Vogelsong''' 
German: bird song

'''Emerson College''' 
a [http://www.emerson.edu/ college] in Boston

'''ectoplasm''' 
the supposed emanation of the soul from the body; here used as a metaphor for vomit

'''afflatus''' 
gas

'''dithers''' 
trembles or vibrates

'''jaundice''' 
yellowing of the skin caused by liver disease

'''b & w''' 
black and white

'''Bouvier''' 
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's unmarried name

'''''f''-stop''' 
This is "the ratio of the focal length (''f'')) of a lens or lens system to the effective diameter of its aperture" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition'').

'''''Berliner''''' 
Technically, it's called the ''Berliner Pfannkuchen'' (doughnut).

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'''''Ich bein ein Berliner''''' 
''Bein'' is the wrong word. It's a noun in German and means "leg". The first-person singular of ''sein'' ("to be") is ''bin''.

'''TA''' 
Teaching Assistant

'''''À du nous avons foi au poison''''' 
French (roughly): We have faith in poison

'''Eve Plumb''' 
She played Jan Brady on ''The Brady Bunch''.

'''Henderson''' 
Florence Henderson, who played Carol Brady

'''Davis''' 
Ann B. Davis, who played Alice, the maid

'''Peter''' 
the middle son, played by Christopher Knight

'''Greg''' 
the eldest son, played by Barry Williams

'''''De gustibus non est disputandum''''' 
Latin: There's no accounting for taste

'''Eisenstein and Kurosawa and Michaux''' 
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (1898-1948) was a Latvian-born Russian-Jewish filmmaker, famous for his film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015648/ Battleship Potemkin]. Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) was perhaps the most prominent Japanese filmmaker of the twentieth century. Oscar Micheaux (1893-1951) was an African-American filmmaker whose ouevre can be viewed [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0584778/ here].

'''draw a bead''' 
slang for taking aim at a target with a rifle

'''ten m.''' 
Ten meters is equal to 32.8 feet.

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'''Heideggerian''' 
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) was a prominent twentieth-century German philosopher and proponent of existentialism.

'''''a priori''''' 
From the Latin for "from what comes first," these are assumptions made before observations are made.

'''wraith''' 
another word for "ghost"

'''labile''' 
unstable

'''''The Incision''''' 
I could locate no film by this name.

'''qua''' 
From the Latin ablative case of the word for "who," this word means "in the character of capacity of."

'''dopamine''' 
a neurotransmitter, primarily responsible for movement and cognition

'''blinis''' 
Russian crepes

'''tartines''' 
a type of French open-faced sandwich

'''sweetbreads''' 
thymus gland or pancreas of young animals (calf or lamb)

'''glacé''' 
French for "iced"

'''Morris Mini''' 
another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Minor Morris Minor]

'''ipecac''' 
derived from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipecacuanha ipecacuanha plant], a syrup produced to induce vomiting

'''clapper''' 
the tongue of a bell

'''Dishmaster''' 
see [[Subsidized Time]]

'''Makavajev''' 
Born in 1932, [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0538445/ Dusan Makavejev] (probably misspelled) is a Yugoslavian-born film director.

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'''Shiny Prize, Kentucky''' 
not a real town

'''1.7 meters tall''' 
a little over 5'6"

'''48 kilograms''' 
about 106 pounds

'''EZ-Widers''' 
a brand of cigarette rolling papers

'''Cyrillic''' 
employing the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_alphabet Cyrillic alphabet], as with Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Bulgarian, etc.

'''mollified''' 
softened in feeling and temper

'''soft rock's grim dental association''' 
which is to say, it's the kind of music you'd hear in a dentist's office

'''Kinski as Paganini''' 
Klaus Kinski (1926-1991), Danzig-born German-American actor, played Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840), the Italian violinist and composer, in his final film, [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098052/ Kinski Paganini].

'''Léaud as Doinel''' 
Jean-Pierre Léaud (born 1944), a French actor, played the fictional character Antoine Doinel in five [http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0027246/ films].

'''Peterson's ''The Lead Shoes''''' 
a 1949 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0279918/ film] by Sidney Peterson

'''pomander''' 
This is "a mixture of aromatic substances, often in the form of a ball, formerly carried on the person as a supposed guard against infection but now placed in closets, dressers, etc." (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

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'''dicky''' 
impaired

'''bathetic''' 
appealing to bathos, i.e., insincere pathos (emotion)

'''neat bourbon''' 
bourbon without ice

'''Vittoria''' 
a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_della_Vittoria Santa Maria della Vittoria], where the mentioned work by Bernini hangs

'''recumbent''' 
reclining

'''Gleem''' 
a brand of toothpaste

'''NoCoat''' 
NoCoat is a brand of drywall materials.

'''NeGram''' 
a brand name of nalidixic acid, used to treat urinary tract infections

'''depilatory''' 
for removal of hair

'''Monostat''' 
brand name of a treatment for vaginal yeast infections

'''Parapectolin''' 
a mixture of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaolin kaolinite] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pectin pectin], used to treat diarrhea

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'''Kodachrome''' 
a brand name of camera film

'''Reynolds Wrap''' 
a brand name of aluminum foil

'''baking soda''' 
Joelle is making crack, as opposed to 'freebase cocaine' which requires ether. Crack production is procedurally distinct (and safer) from that of purer 'freebase cocaine,' but the freebase products are the same: the baking soda serves to ''free'' the cocaine ''base'' from the pure cocaine hydrochloride. Both methods produce crystals that can be smoked. The production method of Joelle's earlier "home made freebase cocaine" is uncertain, but conventional terminology suggests she makes the ether-based variety at home.

'''C knob''' 
the knob for cold water

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'''Paducah''' 
a city in Kentucky about 175 miles southeast of St. Louis, Mo.

'''Qantas''' 
an airline serving Australia and New Zealand

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'''fillips''' 
a sharp tap

'''mâché''' 
i.e., papier mâché

'''S.O.P.''' 
Standard Operating Procedure

'''imperial''' 
a case for luggage

'''"...darkness dance on the face of the deep..."''' 
a play on [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201:2;&version=9; Genesis 1:2]

'''"...that skull fragment out of the ''Hamlet'' graveyard scene..."''' 
i.e., "infinite jest"

'''Mad Stork''' 
the nickname for former NFL linebacker [http://www.profootballhof.com/history/release.jsp?release_id=1046 Ted Hendricks]

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'''banal''' 
hackneyed or trite

'''Prettiest G.O.A.T.''' 
Thought G.O.A.T. stands here for "Girl Of All Time," it's a pun (and an oxymoron) since "goat" is a slang term for an ugly person.

'''slew-footed''' 
with the foot turned on the axis of the ankle

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'''white- party-noise''' 
which is to say random noise generated by the party outside the bedroom

''''We've Only Just Begun'''' 
a song by Paul Williams and Roger Nichols first recorded by the [http://wc04.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:hifrxqw5ldfe Carpenters] in 1970

'''mercuric red''' 
red as the color made by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merbromin MercuroChrome]

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Note: Most of these places exist but there is no such town (anymore) as Enfield, Mass.

'''Dicalced''' 
Apparently there is a misspelling. The correct term would be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discalced_Carmelites Discalced Carmelites], which means they go barefoot or wear sandals.

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'''RCC''' 
Roman Catholic Church

'''''les trebuchets noirs''''' 
French: the black catapults

'''5 km''' 
about 16,400 feet

'''brachiform''' 
in the shape of an arm

'''75 hectares''' 
almost 900,000 square yards

'''palisades''' 
fences

'''guano''' 
feces, particularly of birds or bats

'''four-km.''' 
almost 2.5 miles

'''coaxial''' 
having common axes

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'''Ø's''' 
zeros

'''A.D.E.''' 
Air Delivery Equipment

242 · Hal and Orin on Himself

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'''caroms''' 
rebounds

'''1100 meters''' 
a little over 3,600 feet

'''Superstition mountains''' 
a real range east of Phoenix

'''precipice''' 
a cliff with a vertical face

'''''propitiate''''' 
to make favorably inclined

'''apotropaic''' 
intended to ward off evil

'''Popogatapec''' 
probably a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popocat%C3%A9petl Popocatépetl]

'''Ahts of Vancouver''' 
another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuu-chah-nulth Nuu-chah-nulth], the indigenous peoples of Vancouver Island, Canada

'''Micturation''' 
urination

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'''200-kilo''' 
about 441 pounds

'''apposite''' 
pertinent

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'''decamp''' 
to depart secretly

'''domino-mask''' 
This is "a large, hooded cloak with a mask covering the eyes, worn at masquerades" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''lacuna''' 
a missing part

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'''rodneys''' 
obviously some kind of impulse buy, but I can't figure out what kind

'''refracted''' 
illuminated indirectly

'''Cardinal Stadium''' 
The Arizona Cardinals now play in the University of Phoenix Stadium.

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'''Royal Victoria''' 
This is the name of one of the docks of east London, but probably not what's being referred to here. Victoria is also the capital of British Columbia, and an island in the Pacific off the B.C. coast.

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''''20 for 28 is what, 65%?'''' 
It's a little over 71%.

==Page 249==

'''telemetry''' 
the transmission of something automatically and at a distance -- here, Hal's toenails to the wastebasket

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'''magnitron''' 
a misspelling of "magnetron," which is "a two-element vacuum tube in which the flow of electrons is under the influence of an external magnetic field, used to generate extremely short radio waves" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''kg.s.cm.''' 
kilograms per square centimeter, as a measurement of pressure, like pounds per square inch

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'''Adriatic''' 
the sea between the west coast of Italy and the Balkan peninsula

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'''StairMaster''' 
a brand name of exercise machines

'''Kübler-Ross, Hinton''' 
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. (1926-2004) was a Swiss-born American psychiatrist and specialist on death and dying. John Hinton is a British contemporary expert in the field.

'''Kastenbaum and Kastenbaum''' 
Robert J. Kastenbaum is another prominent scholar in the field of death and dying. I can't find another person by that name, so perhaps Hal is referring to multiple volumes by the same Kastenbaum.

'''Elizabeth Harper Neeld's ''Seven Choices: Taking the Steps to New Life After Losing Someone You Love''''' 
A real book, it's actually 343 pages.

'''Wyclif and 14th-century ''langue-d'oc'' French''' 
John Wyclif was a 14th century English theologian. He made the first translation of the Bible into English, thus his importance to etymology in general. ''Langue d'oc'' is another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langue_d%27oc Occitan] language. The ''OED'' actually dates the word's (acceptance) earliest usage to 1596 by Shakespeare in ''The Merchant of Venice''.

'''Hindi''' 
a national language of India and one of the most widely spoken

'''Gila monster''' 
a venomous lizard native to the Southwest U.S. and Mexico, known for its tenacious bite

'''hypertensive''' 
having high blood pressure

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'''''Leaves of Grass''''' 
the most famous volume of poetry by Walt Whitman

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'''unfazable''' 
incapable of being disturbed

'''paroxysmic''' 
characteristic of an outburst of violent emotion

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

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'''dewlaps''' 
loose flesh as under the jaw of a cow

'''"...when Luke removes his high-tech targeting helmet..."''' 
Hal is referring to a scene from [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/ Star Wars]; Luke is Luke Skywalker.

'''coccyges''' 
plural of coccyx, i.e., the tailbone

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'''jonquil-yellow''' 
another name for the flower known as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonquil narcissus] or daffodil

'''tumbrel''' 
a cart for hauling manure or for hauling victims to the guillotine during the French Revolution

'''imprecated''' 
called down curses upon someone

'''Delphina''' 
name of a [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04701a.htm beatified Catholic virgin]

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

'''Braintree''' 
a town in Massachusetts about 13 miles south-southeast of Boston

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'''easement''' 
An easement is a right to use part of someone else's land for a limited purpose, often a right to cross it on a defined pathway. Thus the Higher Power as a cheese-easement refers to Gately's analogy to a lab rat who's learned one route through a maze to the cheese.

'''rote''' 
repetition

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'''Probie''' 
probation officer

'''10-cm.''' 
a little under 4 inches

'''Our Father''' 
the Lord's Prayer

'''hawgs''' 
"Hog" is a slang term for a Harley-Davidson

'''mantis''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praying_mantis praying mantis]

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'''spats''' 
a covering for the uppers of shoes

'''Quincy''' 
a suburb of Boston about 9 miles south-southeast of the city; pronounced "Quinzy"

'''affable''' 
showing warmth and friendliness

'''Hennessey''' 
a brand of cognac

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'''sampler''' 
a piece of cloth embroidered with stitches, sometimes incorporating platitudes

'''Estonian''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonians native population] of Estonia

'''wrought-iron''' 
iron in nearly carbon-free form, making it readily forged

'''M.P.''' 
military policeman

'''brig''' 
prison on a Navy ship

==Page 447==

'''Bulat''' 
actually a common Kazakh first name

==Page 448==

'''filial''' 
pertaining to a son or daughter

'''Nimitz''' 
Chester William Nimitz (1885-1966) was a U.S. admiral and commander of Naval forces in the Pacific during WWII.

'''afghan''' 
a type of blanket

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==Endnote 179==

'''chivalric''' 
considerate and courteous to women

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'''Sir Osis of Thuliver''' 
i.e., cirrhosis of the liver

'''vessels''' 
He means "vassals."

449 · Incandenza Family Update — Hal & Mario

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

'''shale''' 
the most common [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shale sedimentary rock]

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'''alto''' 
having a lower female voice

'''Horkheimer and Adorno''' 
Max Horkheimer (1895-1973) was a German philosopher and sociologist, a founder and guiding thinker of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School Frankfurt School] of critical theory. Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969) was a German sociologist and fellow member of the Frankfurt School.

'''Patridge Family''' 
the band featured on the [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065333/ television series] of the same name

'''narcotized''' 
drugged

'''timbre''' 
tone of voice

==Endnote 180==

'''Rectus Bulbi''' 
short name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_rectus_muscle superior rectus muscle]

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'''sarcophagally''' 
in a way suggesting a coffin

450 · Morning Drills

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

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'''permutations''' 
arrangements of the same items in different sequences

'''"...the thing it's not entirely impossible he may have fathered..."''' 
This is to say that C.T. may have been Mario's father and not James O. Incandenza. Given that C.T. and Avril are blood relatives, this would explain Mario's profound birth defects.

'''anodized''' 
coated with metal

'''perk''' 
i.e., perquisite, a special benefit

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'''alpaca''' 
wool taken from an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpaca animal] closely related to the camel and llama

'''Kaopectate''' 
brand name of parapectolin. A pink, clay-like antidiarrheal; believed to work by adsorbing the bacteria or germ that may be causing the diarrhea.

'''canted''' 
put in an oblique position

'''reveille''' 
the trumpet call played in the morning to awaken sleeping soldiers

'''corona''' 
crown or halo

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'''muzzle''' 
the barrel of a gun

'''bratwursts''' 
This is a small German sausage composed of pork and beef; the name is German for "chopped meat sausage."

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'''Puker''' 
a punitive run designed to make one vomit

'''American Twist''' 
another name for a kick serve

'''2 m.''' 
over 6'6" tall

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'''low 10's C''' 
10º C is equal to 50º Fahrenheit.

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'''picric''' 
Picric acid is an explosive, so the word "picric" w/r/t clouds probably implies an explosive (or about to explode) quality.

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'''fungoes''' 
In baseball a fungo is a pop fly deliberately hit to train players in fielding. Presumably here, in tennis, these balls are thrown in a deliberate place in a deliberate manner to exercise a particular skill.

'''quarter''' 
here meaning "mercy"

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'''''forvart''''' 
German: forward (Actually, it's only meant to look/sound German. The actual German word for "forward" is "vorwärts" or "voran".)

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'''23.8 meters, 8 I think .2 meters''' 
close to 80 feet by nearly 27 feet

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'''Gymnasium Kaiserlautern''' 
The Web site is [http://asg.region-kl.de/ here]. ''Kaiserlautern'' means something like "Emperor acclamation" in German.

'''Raggedy Andy''' 
a popular doll seen [http://www.backtobasicstoys.com/images/6391.jpg here]

'''z coordinate''' 
the measurement of depth

'''Gaugin''' 
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a French artist who lived in Tahiti.

==Page 461==

'''morendo''' 
a musical term meaning "a gradual decrescendo at the end of a strain or cadence" (''Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary'')

461 · More on Gately at Ennet House

==Page 461==

'''1964 Ford Aventura''' 
There is no such car.

==Page 462==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whisper-Quiet Maytag Dishmaster]]

'''DUI''' 
Driving Under the Influence

'''Possession With Intent''' 
i.e., with intent to distribute

'''D.S.A.S.''' 
Division of Substance Abuse Services

'''constabulary''' 
a body of peace officers

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'''Murder-2''' 
second-degree murder, or murder without premeditation

'''Deer Island''' 
an island in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer_Island_%28Massachusetts%29 Boston Harbor], and until 1991 the site of the Suffolk County House of Correction

'''hinked''' 
According to the ''OED'', hink as a verb means "to halt" or "to falter." The implication here is that 90 days in jail isn't much to Gately since he'd already served 17 months in another sentence.

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

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'''women's leg-shaver thing''' 
i.e., Epi-Lady

'''misprision''' 
contempt against the government or courts

'''Cape''' 
i.e., Cape Cod

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'''J.C.''' 
Jesus Christ

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'''Nixon administration''' 
January 1969 to August 1974

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'''188 cm. and 128 kg.''' 
Gately is a hair over 6'2" and weights over 282 lbs.

'''Ashland KY''' 
a city on the Ohio River about 120 miles south of Columbus, Ohio

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