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=November 11th, YDAU - Gately and Joelle=

==Page 531==

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

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

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'''blotto''' 
extremely drunk

'''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

=☽ - 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==

'''loafer one''' 
presumably first step of the day, meaning Lenz never leaves Ennet House until after sunset

'''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.

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

==Page 540 (cont'd)==

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

'''trebled''' 
tripled in number or magnitude

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

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'''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

'''reseau''' 
a reference grid of fine lines forming uniform squares on a photographic plate or print, used to aid in measurement

'''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==
'''Eurotrochaic''' 
neologism: Euro[pean] + trochaic; here, describing the alternating two-note sound of a European emergency siren (trochaic being the adjectival form of "trochee," a metrical foot of poetry comprised of two feet, stressed and unstressed)

'''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 Religious 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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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Maytag Quietmaster]]

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

'''Caldor-brand''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldor chain] of discount department stores in the US Northeast. The chain closed its last store in 1999.

'''Scopophobic''' 
Of scopophobia; the fear of being seen or stared at.

==Page 545==
'''Bing''' 
cocaine, usually referring to a line of the substance

'''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

'''hone''' 
a whetstone used to sharpen blades

==Page 546==

'''R. Lauren''' 
Ralph Lauren

'''BYP''' 
Brookline Young People's AA group

==Page 547==

'''formulating''' 
forming

'''tattlemount''' 
tantamount

==Page 548==

=Early November, YDAU - Rodney Tine and the ''Samizdat''=

==Page 548==

'''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

'''apprised''' 
informed

'''pithed''' 
having had a needle stuck into the base of the skull to sever or destroy the brainstem

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

'''P.E.T.s''' 
P.E.T. is the acronym for positron emission tomography, a kind of medical imaging technique; these are more commonly called PET scans

'''retinue''' 
a group of attendants, advisers, etc.

=November 9th, YDAU - Pemulis wanders the E.T.A. offices at night=

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'''magical thinking''' 
the correlation of actions and events in the absence of scientific proof

'''pre-Oedipal''' 
occurring prior to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_complex Oedipus complex] typically experienced from ages 3-6

'''cathexis''' 
defined as the process of investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea

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'''exhortation''' 
a speech or discourse that encourages, incites, or earnestly advises

'''greeble''' 
a small piece of detailing added to break up the surface of an object to add visual interest

==Page 552==

'''Filene's''' 
a Boston-based [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filene%27s department store] (and chain), defunct since December 2011

'''chintzy''' 
cheap and low grade

'''Hal's Mumsly-Wumsly''' 
his mother, Avril Incandenza

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'''worsted''' 
firmly twisted yarn

=November 11th, YDAU - Lenz and Green Walking=

==Page 554==

'''RIJID-brand male hairspray''' 
appears to be a fictional brand of hairspray

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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)==

'''lineskers''' 
lines of powdered cocaine assembled for snorting

'''"...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, meaning indifferent

'''aplomb''' 
self-assurance

'''skirling''' 
shrilly wailing

'''hackles''' 
the erectile hairs on the back of a dog which rise up out of fear or aggression

'''plumb''' 
exactly

'''to the maximus''' 
maybe just "the maximum" (or "the max"), but also perhaps more Wallace wordplay, as in the ''gluteus maximus'' (the largest of the muscles in the buttocks), and so a pain in the ass

'''myriadly''' 
countlessly

'''parallaxing''' 
The noun [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax ''parallax''] is a visual term; the nonce participle "parallaxing" used to describe noises here, may be Lenz's way of referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_effect Doppler effect], analogous only in terms of issues of positional perspective, of the ''viewer'' of an object at some distance in the case of ''parallex'' and the ''hearer'' of a moving noisemaker (such as the siren on a speeding ambulance) in the case of the ''Doppler shift''.

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

'''crepuscular''' 
relating to twilight, or possibly the animals active at this time

'''threnody''' 
song of mourning for the dead

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'''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

'''nystagmus''' 
a rapid, involuntary, oscillatory motion of the eyeball

'''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"

'''M.A.O.-inhibiting''' 
monoamine oxidase inhibitor, a chemical in potent antidepressants.

'''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

'''priapism''' 
persistent, usually painful erection of the penis, especially as a consequence of disease and not related to sexual arousal

'''diuresis extremus''' 
Extreme production of urine and, thus, need to urinate. The correct Greek-Latin term should be ''diuresis extrema'', ''diuresis'' being a feminine noun.

'''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]

'''garrulousness''' 
propensity to ramble

'''phasece''' 
?

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

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'''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

'''flange''' 
a protruding rim, edge, rib, or collar, as on a wheel or a pipe shaft, used to strengthen an object, hold it in place, or attach it to another object

'''ergo''' 
Latin: therefore

'''''energois de vivre''''' 
Something like "life energy" or "life force;" although ''energois'' isn't a real French word, it might be pronounced like ''joie'' as in ''joie de vivre.''

==Page 558==

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

'''Bonwit's''' 
a reference to the now-defunct upscale department store [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonwit_Teller Bonwit Teller]

'''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

'''diphthongs''' 
occurrences of two adjacent vowel sounds in a word, e.g, poor, sour, coin

'''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''.

=Hal Counts His Breaths=

==Page 560==

'''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

=Lenz and Green, cont.=

==Page 560==

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

'''reguiles''' 
i.e., regales (and simultaneously beguiles)

'''Shrangi-la''' 
Lenz means 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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'''Antron''' 
a [http://antron.net/ real company]

'''lividity''' 
brightness of color

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

'''premie''' 
born prematurely

'''sprig''' 
small stem bearing leaves or flowers

'''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

'''jaunty''' 
cheerful and self confident

'''insouciant''' 
blithely unconcerned

==Endnote 209==

'''Pepperdine''' 
a private university near Malibu, California

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

'''kibbitzing''' 
looking on and offering unwelcome advice

==Page 510==

'''Jamaica Way six-laner''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaicaway parkway] in the Boston neighborhood of Jamaica Plain. It's an undivided road with four lanes of traffic, not six.

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

'''pro bono''' 
without pay

==Page 511==

'''Dr. Dolores Rusk''' 
Allusion to Vladamir Nabokov's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita Lolita], a novel about the long-term molestation of a 12-year-old girl named Dolores (also known as Dolly, Lolita, Lola, Lo and L). Phiely's 'disappearance into the Humboldt County hill country' on the previous page is probably a reference to the book's narrator, Humbert Humbert (though [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_County,_California Humboldt County] is a real place)

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

'''moppetish''' 
resembling a small, sweet and endearing child

'''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

==Endnote 211==

'''schelpp''' 
to move laboriously or clumsily

'''suborn''' 
to bribe or coerce into committing a crime

==Page 511 (cont'd)==

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

'''surreal''' 
bizarre

==Page 512==

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

'''Ward Boss''' 
leader of the political machine in a specific city ward

'''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==

'''sidled''' 
walked in a timid or furtive manner

'''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) and carries an extremely hazardous level of voltage.

'''from stage right''' 
in the other words, from the left (or "house left," which is equivalent to "stage right")

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

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'''fricatives''' 
consonants produced by forcing air through an occluded passage, e.g., ''f'' and ''s''

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

'''tousled''' 
untidied

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

'''Neponset''' 
a neighborhood of Boston

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

'''corporal''' 
relating to the body, e.g., corporal punishment

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

'''sub rosa''' 
Latin: below the rose, meaning hidden or secretly

'''amanuensis''' 
someone who writes from dictation

'''diction''' 
choice of words

'''booming lowering''' 
play on the phrase "lower the boom on" which means lay down severe punishment

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

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'''''qua''''' 
Latin: as being

'''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"

'''micological''' 
probably a misspelling of mycological, meaning having to do with the study of fungi

'''ballyhooed''' 
advertised in a sensationalist manner

'''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]

'''intransigence''' 
refusal to compromise

'''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

'''bluff''' 
good-natured and direct in speech or behavior

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'''Convocation''' 
assembly or act of assembling

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

'''microcephalic''' 
possessing an abnormally small head

'''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==

'''erumpent''' 
bursting forth''

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

==Page 520==

'''sumptuous''' 
magnificent and exuberant

'''vestibule''' 
lobby or entrance hall

'''comped by Fila''' 
provided for free (or complimentary)

==Page 521==

'''couching''' 
expressing

'''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

'''tamped''' 
packed down by striking repeatedly

==Page 523==

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

'''to tack body to soul''' 
play on the phrase "keep body and soul together" which means manage enough to get by

'''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==

'''M.M.P.I.''' 
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory: a common mental health personality test

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of dress shoes

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

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'''Slobodan''' 
Endnote 221 tells us that this student is Latvian, but this is a Slavic name, and Letts are not Slavs. A quarter of the population of Latvia are ethnically Russian, however.

'''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

'''dithering''' 
trembling

'''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

=Pre-dawn & dawn; May 1st, YDAU - Steeply & Marathe discuss myths of deadly pleasure=

==Page 528==

'''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," the s denoting a plural.

==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

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'''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]

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

'''payloader''' 
a, usually wheeled, heavy machine used to move or load construction materials similar to a bulldozer

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

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

'''drawn''' 
displaying fatigue or illness

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

'''lividity''' 
brightness of color

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

'''premie''' 
born prematurely

'''sprig''' 
small stem bearing leaves or flowers

'''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

'''jaunty''' 
cheerful and self confident

'''insouciant''' 
blithely unconcerned

==Endnote 209==

'''Pepperdine''' 
a private university near Malibu, California

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

'''kibbitzing''' 
looking on and offering unwelcome advice

==Page 510==

'''Jamaica Way six-laner''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaicaway parkway] in the Boston neighborhood of Jamaica Plain. It's an undivided road with four lanes of traffic, not six.

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

'''pro bono''' 
without pay

==Page 511==

'''Dr. Dolores Rusk''' 
Allusion to Vladamir Nabokov's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita Lolita], a novel about the long-term molestation of a 12-year-old girl named Dolores (also known as Dolly, Lolita, Lola, Lo and L). Phiely's 'disappearance into the Humboldt County hill country' on the previous page is probably a reference to the book's narrator, Humbert Humbert (though [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_County,_California Humboldt County] is a real place)

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

'''moppetish''' 
resembling a small, sweet and endearing child

'''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

==Endnote 211==

'''schelpp''' 
to move laboriously or clumsily

'''suborn''' 
to bribe or coerce into committing a crime

==Page 511 (cont'd)==

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

'''surreal''' 
bizarre

==Page 512==

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

'''Ward Boss''' 
leader of the political machine in a specific city ward

'''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==

'''sidled''' 
walked in a timid or furtive manner

'''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) and carries an extremely hazardous level of voltage.

'''from stage right''' 
in the other words, from the left (or "house left," which is equivalent to "stage right")

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

==Page 514==

'''fricatives''' 
consonants produced by forcing air through an occluded passage, e.g., ''f'' and ''s''

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

'''tousled''' 
untidied

'''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 ''quod vide'', meaning "which see"

'''corporal''' 
relating to the body, e.g., corporal punishment

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

'''sub rosa''' 
Latin: below the rose, meaning hidden or secretly

'''amanuensis''' 
someone who writes from dictation

'''diction''' 
choice of words

'''booming lowering''' 
play on the phrase "lower the boom on" which means lay down severe punishment

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

==Page 516==

'''''qua''''' 
Latin: as being

'''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"

'''micological''' 
probably a misspelling of mycological, meaning having to do with the study of fungi

'''ballyhooed''' 
advertised in a sensationalist manner

'''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]

'''intransigence''' 
refusal to compromise

'''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

'''bluff''' 
good-natured and direct in speech or behavior

==Page 518==

'''Convocation''' 
assembly or act of assembling

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

'''microcephalic''' 
possessing an abnormally small head

'''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==

'''erumpent''' 
bursting forth''

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

==Page 520==

'''sumptuous''' 
magnificent and exuberant

'''vestibule''' 
lobby or entrance hall

'''comped by Fila''' 
provided for free (or complimentary)

==Page 521==

'''couching''' 
expressing

'''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

'''tamped''' 
packed down by striking repeatedly

==Page 523==

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

'''to tack body to soul''' 
play on the phrase "keep body and soul together" which means manage enough to get by

'''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==

'''M.M.P.I.''' 
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory: a common mental health personality test

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of dress shoes

'''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. A quarter of the population of Latvia are ethnic Russians, however.

'''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

'''dithering''' 
trembling

'''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

=Pre-dawn & dawn; May 1st, YDAU - Steeply & Marathe discuss myths of deadly pleasure=

==Page 528==

'''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," the s denoting a plural.

==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

'''payloader''' 
a, usually wheeled, heavy machine used to move or load construction materials similar to a bulldozer

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

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

'''drawn''' 
displaying fatigue or illness

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==Page 508==

==Page 509==

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

'''lividity''' 
brightness of color

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

'''premie''' 
born prematurely

'''sprig''' 
small stem bearing leaves or flowers

'''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

'''jaunty''' 
cheerful and self confident

'''insouciant''' 
blithely unconcerned

==Endnote 209==

'''Pepperdine''' 
a private university near Malibu, California

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

'''kibbitzing''' 
looking on and offering unwelcome advice

==Page 510==

'''Jamaica Way six-laner''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaicaway parkway] in the Boston neighborhood of Jamaica Plain. It's an undivided road with four lanes of traffic, not six.

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

'''pro bono''' 
without pay

==Page 511==

'''Dr. Dolores Rusk''' 
Allusion to Vladamir Nabokov's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita Lolita], a novel about the long-term molestation of a 12-year-old girl named Dolores (also known as Dolly, Lolita, Lola, Lo and L). Phiely's 'disappearance into the Humboldt County hill country' on the previous page is probably a reference to the book's narrator, Humbert Humbert (though [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_County,_California Humboldt County] is a real place)

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

'''moppetish''' 
resembling a small, sweet and endearing child

'''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

==Endnote 211==

'''schelpp''' 
to move laboriously or clumsily

'''suborn''' 
to bribe or coerce into committing a crime

==Page 511 (cont'd)==

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

'''surreal''' 
bizarre

==Page 512==

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

'''Ward Boss''' 
leader of the political machine in a specific city ward

'''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==

'''sidled''' 
walked in a timid or furtive manner

'''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) and carries an extremely hazardous level of voltage.

'''from stage right''' 
in the other words, from the left (or "house left," which is equivalent to "stage right")

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

==Page 514==

'''fricatives''' 
consonants produced by forcing air through an occluded passage, e.g., ''f'' and ''s''

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

'''tousled''' 
untidied

'''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 ''quod vide'', meaning "which see"

'''corporal''' 
relating to the body, e.g., corporal punishment

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

'''sub rosa''' 
Latin: below the rose, meaning hidden or secretly

'''amanuensis''' 
someone who writes from dictation

'''diction''' 
choice of words

'''booming lowering''' 
play on the phrase "lower the boom on" which means lay down severe punishment

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

==Page 516==

'''''qua''''' 
Latin: as being

'''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"

'''micological''' 
probably a misspelling of mycological, meaning having to do with the study of fungi

'''ballyhooed''' 
advertised in a sensationalist manner

'''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]

'''intransigence''' 
refusal to compromise

'''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

'''bluff''' 
good-natured and direct in speech or behavior

==Page 518==

'''Convocation''' 
assembly or act of assembling

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

'''microcephalic''' 
possessing an abnormally small head

'''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==

'''erumpent''' 
bursting forth''

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

==Page 520==

'''sumptuous''' 
magnificent and exuberant

'''vestibule''' 
lobby or entrance hall

'''comped by Fila''' 
provided for free (or complimentary)

==Page 521==

'''couching''' 
expressing

'''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

'''tamped''' 
packed down by striking repeatedly

==Page 523==

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

'''to tack body to soul''' 
play on the phrase "keep body and soul together" which means manage enough to get by

'''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==

'''M.M.P.I.''' 
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory: a common mental health personality test

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of dress shoes

'''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

'''dithering''' 
trembling

'''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

=Pre-dawn & dawn; May 1st, YDAU - Steeply & Marathe discuss myths of deadly pleasure=

==Page 528==

'''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," the s denoting a plural.

==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

'''payloader''' 
a, usually wheeled, heavy machine used to move or load construction materials similar to a bulldozer

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

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

'''drawn''' 
displaying fatigue or illness

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==Page 470==

'''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.randomcollection.info/mcf/orli-01.htm here].

==Page 472 (cont'd)==

'''G.C.''' 
Government of Canada, perhaps. It may also mean some type of transmitter that can interfere with a pacemaker (which Marathe's father has).

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

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

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

'''weal''' 
well-being

'''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

'''pernicious''' 

subtly harmful

==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.

'''emery board''' 
nail file

==Page 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.

'''quiche''' 
a baked flan or tart with a savory filling thickened with eggs

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

==Page 476==

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

'''Rebel Yell''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_yell battle cry] used by Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War

'''CITGO''' 
one of the [http://www.citgo.com/Home.jsp major oil] companies. The neon [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citgo_sign#The_Citgo_sign Citgo sign] described here is an iconic landmark in Boston.

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

'''Father & Son Market...Riley's Roast Beef''' 
all of these are references to actual stores and clubs in Allston/Brighton, though many have closed or been renamed and some are on nearby streets and would not be visible to Gately as he drives down Comm. Ave.

'''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''' 

16oz cans of beer

'''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==

'''tonic machines''' 
"tonic" is a (rapidly disappearing) Boston area term for carbonated soft drinks.

==Endnote 202==

'''argot''' 
slang, jargon

'''Escherian''' 
referring to the work of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Escher Maurits Cornelis (M.C.) Escher] (1898-1972), a Dutch graphic artist famous for his illustrations of repeated patterns and impossible structures. "Escherian signs" would seem to indicate signs that are confusing or impossible to follow.

==Page 478 (cont'd)==

'''Bread & Circus in Inman Square''' 
a real health food store on Prospect Street in Cambridge between Central and Inman Squares. The Bread & Circus chain was bought by Whole Foods, so this store is now operating as a Whole Foods.

'''microbiotic''' 
probably an intentional misspelling of macrobiotic; a macrobiotic diet primarily consists of whole grains, beans, and vegetables based on the Taoist principles of yin and yang

'''slalom''' 
to zigzag between obstacles

==Page 479==

'''madonnas''' 
statues of the Virgin Mary

'''bodegas''' 
small grocery stores, usually in Spanish-speaking neighborhoods that are also usually owned and operated by Spanish-speaking people

'''crèche''' 
a nativity scene

'''propinquous''' 
Probably what's intended is "propinquitous," meaning "proximal" or "nearby."

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

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

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

'''tympanum''' 
a, usually decorative, semicircular or triangular wall face above an entrance

'''Sancta Something''' 
perhaps a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sancta_Sanctorum Sancta Sanctorum], a famous Italian side chapel

'''finials''' 
decorative ornaments placed on the apex of roofs

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

==Page 480==

'''MF''' 
Millennial Fizzy

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

==Endnote 203==

'''solecism''' 
nonstandard or ungrammatical usage

==Page 480 (cont'd)==

'''viz.''' 
abbreviation for ''videlicet'' (Latin), meaning "namely" or "specifically" or "in other words"

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

'''sterno''' 
a fuel made from denatured and jellied alcohol burned directly from the can

'''hobnail boots''' 
heavy-duty boots with hobnails, short, thick-headed nails used to protect footwear, on the soles to provide durability and traction on unfavorable terrain

'''monomitotic''' 
"Mitosis" is cell division, and Wallace is playing with words again: "monomitosis" could be the one-time-only splitting of a cell; in this case, the "cell" is a group of insurgents rather than the biological unit, and "monomitotic" might imply that once it splits (i.e., separates to accomplish its targeted task), it dissolves or disbands.

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

'''U.S.A. Civic War hero's Boylston St. statue''' 
probably a reference the Robert Gould Shaw statue that Joelle van Dyne passes on p. 223. DFW appears to have moved the Shaw memorial from Beacon Street to Boylston Street.

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

==Page 481==

'''interdicted''' 
prohibited with official authority

'''Van Buskirk of Montreal''' 
appears to be a fictional glass company

'''Provincial Autoroute 55''' 
Quebec north-south highway that runs from Shawinigan to Stanstead at the US border, where it connects with...

'''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.

'''credulous''' 
gullible

'''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

'''Ste.-Anne-des-Monts''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainte-Anne-des-Monts,_Quebec city] on the north shore of the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec

'''''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

'''notions''' 
miscellaneous small, useful items

==Page 483==

==Endnote 204==

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

'''treacly''' 
sweet or sentimental

==Page 483 (cont'd)==

'''illicit''' 
illegal

'''IL NE FAUT PLUS QU'ON PURSUIVE LE BONHEUR''' 
French: It is no longer necessary to pursue happiness. Note: "on", translating as the pronoun "one", is often used in colloquial Québécois to replace "nous" ("we"). Also, "il ne faut pas", translating word-for-word as "it is not necessary", is very often used imperatively to mean "one should/must not" or "do not". So, the line on the cartridge could also translate as "we must stop pursuing happiness".

==Page 484==

'''domestic''' 
a person hired to perform household tasks, e.g., cleaning

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

'''variegated''' 
streaked or patched with multiple colors

'''defile''' 
a line of soldiers

'''ROPAS''' 
Portuguese: CLOTHES

'''glyph''' 
a symbolic figure that is usually engraved or incised

==Page 485==

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

'''chiens''' 
French: dogs

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

==Page 486==

'''transperçant''' 
French: "stabbing or piercing," but also "transfixing"

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

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

'''teratoid''' 
resembling a monster; monstrous (from Greek teras, terat- "monster.")

'''supplicant's''' 
beggar's

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

''''''Malhereusement, ton collégue est décédé. Il faisait une excellente soupe aux 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?

==Page 487==

'''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''''' 
Frennch idiom: They'll pack up and head out.

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

'''repast''' 
meal

'''maxillofacial''' 
relating to the jaw and face

==Page 488==

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

'''leonine''' 
resembling a lion

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

'''aphonia''' 
loss of or inability to speak due to damage to or disease of the larynx

'''aphrasiac''' 
the inability to speak words in intelligible order

'''half-cellular''' 
half consisting of living cells, i.e., half-dead

'''Chic-Choc lakes''' 
the Chic-Choc mountains are in the Gaspé Peninsula

'''Cap-Chat''' 
a town in the Gaspé Peninsula

'''culcate''' 
neologism perhaps stemming off of inculcate, here meaning implanted. Another similar word is "calcate", meaning "To trample or stamp under the heel" (OED). So he might have intended it to mean "stamping".

'''inguinal canal''' 
a passage in the lower front part of the abdominal wall

'''sigmoid''' 
the sigmoid colon is the part of the large intestine closest to the rectum

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

==Page 489==

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==Page 470==

'''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.randomcollection.info/mcf/orli-01.htm here].

==Page 472 (cont'd)==

'''G.C.''' 
Government of Canada, perhaps. It may also mean some type of transmitter that can interfere with a pacemaker (which Marathe's father has).

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

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

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

'''weal''' 
well-being

'''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

'''pernicious''' 

subtly harmful

==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.

'''emery board''' 
nail file

==Page 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.

'''quiche''' 
a baked flan or tart with a savory filling thickened with eggs

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

==Page 476==

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

'''Rebel Yell''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_yell battle cry] used by Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War

'''CITGO''' 
one of the [http://www.citgo.com/Home.jsp major oil] companies. The neon [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citgo_sign#The_Citgo_sign Citgo sign] described here is an iconic landmark in Boston.

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

'''Father & Son Market...Riley's Roast Beef''' 
all of these are references to actual stores and clubs in Allston/Brighton, though many have closed or been renamed and some are on nearby streets and would not be visible to Gately as he drives down Comm. Ave.

'''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''' 

16oz cans of beer

'''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==

'''tonic machines''' 
"tonic" is a (rapidly disappearing) Boston area term for carbonated soft drinks.

==Endnote 202==

'''argot''' 
slang, jargon

'''Escherian''' 
referring to the work of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Escher Maurits Cornelis (M.C.) Escher] (1898-1972), a Dutch graphic artist famous for his illustrations of repeated patterns and impossible structures. "Escherian signs" would seem to indicate signs that are confusing or impossible to follow.

==Page 478 (cont'd)==

'''Bread & Circus in Inman Square''' 
a real health food store on Prospect Street in Cambridge between Central and Inman Squares. The Bread & Circus chain was bought by Whole Foods, so this store is now operating as a Whole Foods.

'''microbiotic''' 
probably an intentional misspelling of macrobiotic; a macrobiotic diet primarily consists of whole grains, beans, and vegetables based on the Taoist principles of yin and yang

'''slalom''' 
to zigzag between obstacles

==Page 479==

'''madonnas''' 
statues of the Virgin Mary

'''bodegas''' 
small grocery stores, usually in Spanish-speaking neighborhoods that are also usually owned and operated by Spanish-speaking people

'''crèche''' 
a nativity scene

'''propinquous''' 
Probably what's intended is "propinquitous," meaning "proximal" or "nearby."

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

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

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

'''tympanum''' 
a, usually decorative, semicircular or triangular wall face above an entrance

'''Sancta Something''' 
perhaps a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sancta_Sanctorum Sancta Sanctorum], a famous Italian side chapel

'''finials''' 
decorative ornaments placed on the apex of roofs

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

==Page 480==

'''MF''' 
Millennial Fizzy

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

==Endnote 203==

'''solecism''' 
nonstandard or ungrammatical usage

==Page 480 (cont'd)==

'''viz.''' 
abbreviation for ''videlicet'' (Latin), meaning "namely" or "specifically" or "in other words"

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

'''sterno''' 
a fuel made from denatured and jellied alcohol burned directly from the can

'''hobnail boots''' 
heavy-duty boots with hobnails, short, thick-headed nails used to protect footwear, on the soles to provide durability and traction on unfavorable terrain

'''monomitotic''' 
"Mitosis" is cell division, and Wallace is playing with words again: "monomitosis" could be the one-time-only splitting of a cell; in this case, the "cell" is a group of insurgents rather than the biological unit, and "monomitotic" might imply that once it splits (i.e., separates to accomplish its targeted task), it dissolves or disbands.

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

'''U.S.A. Civic War hero's Boylston St. statue''' 
probably a reference the Robert Gould Shaw statue that Joelle van Dyne passes on p. 223. DFW appears to have moved the Shaw memorial from Beacon Street to Boylston Street.

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

==Page 481==

'''interdicted''' 
prohibited with official authority

'''Van Buskirk of Montreal''' 
appears to be a fictional glass company

'''Provincial Autoroute 55''' 
Quebec north-south highway that runs from Shawinigan to Stanstead at the US border, where it connects with...

'''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.

'''credulous''' 
gullible

'''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

'''Ste.-Anne-des-Monts''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainte-Anne-des-Monts,_Quebec city] on the north shore of the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec

'''''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

'''notions''' 
miscellaneous small, useful items

==Page 483==

==Endnote 204==

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

'''treacly''' 
sweet or sentimental

==Page 483 (cont'd)==

'''illicit''' 
illegal

'''IL NE FAUT PLUS QU'ON PURSUIVE LE BONHEUR''' 
French: It is no longer necessary to pursue happiness. Note: "on", translating as the pronoun "one", is often used in colloquial Québécois to replace "nous" ("we"). Also, "il ne faut pas", translating word-for-word as "it is not necessary", is very often used imperatively to mean "one should/must not" or "do not". So, the line on the cartridge could also translate as "we must stop pursuing happiness".

==Page 484==

'''domestic''' 
a person hired to perform household tasks, e.g., cleaning

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

'''variegated''' 
streaked or patched with multiple colors

'''defile''' 
a line of soldiers

'''ROPAS''' 
Portuguese: CLOTHES

'''glyph''' 
a symbolic figure that is usually engraved or incised

==Page 485==

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

'''chiens''' 
French: dogs

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

==Page 486==

'''transperçant''' 
French: "stabbing or piercing," but also "transfixing"

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

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

'''teratoid''' 
resembling a monster; monstrous (from Greek teras, terat- "monster.")

'''supplicant's''' 
beggar's

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

''''''Malhereusement, ton collégue est décédé. Il faisait une excellente soupe aux 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?

==Page 487==

'''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''''' 
Frennch idiom: They'll pack up and head out.

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

'''repast''' 
meal

'''maxillofacial''' 
relating to the jaw and face

==Page 488==

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

'''leonine''' 
resembling a lion

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

'''aphonia''' 
loss of or inability to speak due to damage to or disease of the larynx

'''aphrasiac''' 
the inability to speak words in intelligible order

'''half-cellular''' 
half consisting of living cells, i.e., half-dead

'''Chic-Choc lakes''' 
the Chic-Choc mountains are in the Gaspé Peninsula

'''Cap-Chat''' 
a town in the Gaspé Peninsula

'''culcate''' 
neologism perhaps stemming off of inculcate, here meaning implanted

'''inguinal canal''' 
a passage in the lower front part of the abdominal wall

'''sigmoid''' 
the sigmoid colon is the part of the large intestine closest to the rectum

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

==Page 489==

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==Page 470==

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

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

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

'''weal''' 
well-being

'''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

'''pernicious''' 

subtly harmful

==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.

'''emery board''' 
nail file

==Page 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.

'''quiche''' 
a baked flan or tart with a savory filling thickened with eggs

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

==Page 476==

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

'''Rebel Yell''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_yell battle cry] used by Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War

'''CITGO''' 
one of the [http://www.citgo.com/Home.jsp major oil] companies. The neon [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citgo_sign#The_Citgo_sign Citgo sign] described here is an iconic landmark in Boston.

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

'''Father & Son Market...Riley's Roast Beef''' 
all of these are references to actual stores and clubs in Allston/Brighton, though many have closed or been renamed and some are on nearby streets and would not be visible to Gately as he drives down Comm. Ave.

'''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''' 

16oz cans of beer

'''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==

'''tonic machines''' 
"tonic" is a (rapidly disappearing) Boston area term for carbonated soft drinks.

==Endnote 202==

'''argot''' 
slang, jargon

'''Escherian''' 
referring to the work of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Escher Maurits Cornelis (M.C.) Escher] (1898-1972), a Dutch graphic artist famous for his illustrations of repeated patterns and impossible structures. "Escherian signs" would seem to indicate signs that are confusing or impossible to follow.

==Page 478 (cont'd)==

'''Bread & Circus in Inman Square''' 
a real health food store on Prospect Street in Cambridge between Central and Inman Squares. The Bread & Circus chain was bought by Whole Foods, so this store is now operating as a Whole Foods.

'''microbiotic''' 
probably an intentional misspelling of macrobiotic; a macrobiotic diet primarily consists of whole grains, beans, and vegetables based on the Taoist principles of yin and yang

'''slalom''' 
to zigzag between obstacles

==Page 479==

'''madonnas''' 
statues of the Virgin Mary

'''bodegas''' 
small grocery stores, usually in Spanish-speaking neighborhoods that are also usually owned and operated by Spanish-speaking people

'''crèche''' 
a nativity scene

'''propinquous''' 
Probably what's intended is "propinquitous," meaning "proximal" or "nearby."

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

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

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

'''tympanum''' 
a, usually decorative, semicircular or triangular wall face above an entrance

'''Sancta Something''' 
perhaps a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sancta_Sanctorum Sancta Sanctorum], a famous Italian side chapel

'''finials''' 
decorative ornaments placed on the apex of roofs

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

==Page 480==

'''MF''' 
Millennial Fizzy

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

==Endnote 203==

'''solecism''' 
nonstandard or ungrammatical usage

==Page 480 (cont'd)==

'''viz.''' 
abbreviation for ''videlicet'' (Latin), meaning "namely" or "specifically" or "in other words"

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

'''sterno''' 
a fuel made from denatured and jellied alcohol burned directly from the can

'''hobnail boots''' 
heavy-duty boots with hobnails, short, thick-headed nails used to protect footwear, on the soles to provide durability and traction on unfavorable terrain

'''monomitotic''' 
"Mitosis" is cell division, and Wallace is playing with words again: "monomitosis" could be the one-time-only splitting of a cell; in this case, the "cell" is a group of insurgents rather than the biological unit, and "monomitotic" might imply that once it splits (i.e., separates to accomplish its targeted task), it dissolves or disbands.

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

'''U.S.A. Civic War hero's Boylston St. statue''' 
probably a reference the Robert Gould Shaw statue that Joelle van Dyne passes on p. 223. DFW appears to have moved the Shaw memorial from Beacon Street to Boylston Street.

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

==Page 481==

'''interdicted''' 
prohibited with official authority

'''Van Buskirk of Montreal''' 
appears to be a fictional glass company

'''Provincial Autoroute 55''' 
Quebec north-south highway that runs from Shawinigan to Stanstead at the US border, where it connects with...

'''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.

'''credulous''' 
gullible

'''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

'''Ste.-Anne-des-Monts''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainte-Anne-des-Monts,_Quebec city] on the north shore of the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec

'''''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

'''notions''' 
miscellaneous small, useful items

==Page 483==

==Endnote 204==

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

'''treacly''' 
sweet or sentimental

==Page 483 (cont'd)==

'''illicit''' 
illegal

'''IL NE FAUT PLUS QU'ON PURSUIVE LE BONHEUR''' 
French: It is no longer necessary to pursue happiness. Note: "on", translating as the pronoun "one", is often used in colloquial Québécois to replace "nous" ("we"). Also, "il ne faut pas", translating word-for-word as "it is not necessary", is very often used imperatively to mean "one should/must not" or "do not". So, the line on the cartridge could also translate as "we must stop pursuing happiness".

==Page 484==

'''domestic''' 
a person hired to perform household tasks, e.g., cleaning

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

'''variegated''' 
streaked or patched with multiple colors

'''defile''' 
a line of soldiers

'''ROPAS''' 
Portuguese: CLOTHES

'''glyph''' 
a symbolic figure that is usually engraved or incised

==Page 485==

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

'''chiens''' 
French: dogs

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

==Page 486==

'''transperçant''' 
French: "stabbing or piercing," but also "transfixing"

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

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

'''teratoid''' 
resembling a monster; monstrous (from Greek teras, terat- "monster.")

'''supplicant's''' 
beggar's

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

''''''Malhereusement, ton collégue est décédé. Il faisait une excellente soupe aux 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?

==Page 487==

'''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''''' 
Frennch idiom: They'll pack up and head out.

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

'''repast''' 
meal

'''maxillofacial''' 
relating to the jaw and face

==Page 488==

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

'''leonine''' 
resembling a lion

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

'''aphonia''' 
loss of or inability to speak due to damage to or disease of the larynx

'''aphrasiac''' 
the inability to speak words in intelligible order

'''half-cellular''' 
half consisting of living cells, i.e., half-dead

'''Chic-Choc lakes''' 
the Chic-Choc mountains are in the Gaspé Peninsula

'''Cap-Chat''' 
a town in the Gaspé Peninsula

'''culcate''' 
neologism perhaps stemming off of inculcate, here meaning implanted

'''inguinal canal''' 
a passage in the lower front part of the abdominal wall

'''sigmoid''' 
the sigmoid colon is the part of the large intestine closest to the rectum

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

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==Page 419==

'''capricious''' 
subject to acting on a whim

'''Caillou Bay''' 
You can see a map of southern Louisiana [http://www.mobilegeographics.com/tideimages/tidesta5222.png here].

'''Cajun''' 
a French-speaking people dwelling in the woods of Louisiana, having emigrated there from French Canada two hundred years ago

'''Taurus PT9''' 
You can see this pistol [http://www.gunsamerica.com/976925959/Guns/Pistols/Taurus-Pistols-Revolvers/Pistols/Steel-Frame/Taurus_PT9_380.htm here].

'''unsafetied''' 
The gun's safety is off.

'''longshoremen''' 
Dock workers who load and unload ships.

'''caricaturesque''' 
pertaining to a depiction of someone that exaggerates certain facial or bodily characteristics

==Page 420==

'''subsumption''' 
the act of placing something under a more comprehensive category

'''''rôle''''' 
This is how we used to spell "role" in English and how it's still spelled in French.

'''Edmonton''' 
the capital of Alberta

==Page 421==

'''Ragheads''' 
derogatory term for people who wear keffiyehs or turbans

'''malice''' 
desire to do harm

'''delineatable''' 
exactly describable

==Page 422==

'''vacuous''' 
lacking in ideas or intelligence

'''Shining Path''' 
Maoist guerrilla group in Peru ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shining_Path Wikipedia])

'''Maxwell House''' 
a brand of coffee

'''M. Kemp''' 
as in Monsieur Kemp, i.e., Jack Kemp, implying he was assassinated with a bomb in his house

'''Very Large Satan''' 
or "Great Satan," if you will

==Page 423==

'''''utilitaire''''' 
utilitarian, i.e., providing the greatest good for the greatest number

'''Comme on dit''' 
French: Like they say

'''burning some ''k.'' down''' 
what is k.?? presumably kilometers

==Page 424==

'''sacrosanct''' 
inviolable

'''Bien sûr''' 
of course

'''chasm''' 
a gorge or deep cleft in the earth's surface

==Page 425==

'''Habitant ''soupe aux pois''''' 
''Habitant'' is Québecois French for "farmer," though it seems like a brand name here. ''Soupe aux pois'' is pea soup, very popular in Québec. Habitant is in fact a Canadian brand of soup made by the Campbell Company of Canada.

'''parodically''' 
in a sarcastic or mocking way

==Page 426==

'''Safeway''' 
a chain of supermarkets

'''burrs''' 
rough and prickly seed husks prone to sticking to hair or fur

==Page 427==

'''''ami''''' 
French: friend

'''''un autre''''' 
an other, i.e., an outsider

'''''pursuivre le bonheur''''' 
French: pursuit of happiness

'''declivity''' 
downward slope

'''idylls''' 
simple and tranquil scenes of nature

'''supine''' 
on one's back

==Page 428==

'''ponderous''' 
awkward or unwieldy

==Endnote 173==

==Endnote 304==

[[Notes_and_Errata_-_Pages_983-1079#Endnote_304_.C2.B7_The_Train_Game|Notes and Errata - Endnote 304]]

==Page 428 (cont'd)==

'''''Veuillez Recycler Ce Contenant''''' 
French: Please Recycle This Container

'''''en ce moment''''' 
French: at this moment

==Page 429==

'''''D'éclaisant''''' 
not a real French word 
"éclairer" is French for enlighten, so we can assume this is intended to mean enlightenment.

'''mafficking''' 
boisterous celebration

==Page 430==

'''''Entre nous''''' 
French: Between us

'''gendarmes''' 
usually denoting the police force of France or a formerly French nation, here simply meaning law enforcement agencies

=The Rest of the Eric Clipperton Story=

==Page 430==

'''perfunctory''' 
performed with minimal effort or care, done just out of routine or duty

==Page 431==

'''slider''' 
in tennis, a slider is a sliced serve with side spin. Refer [http://www.optimumtennis.net/tennis-slice-serve.htm here].

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

'''Forest Lawn NNY''' 
a town in New York state, on Lake Ontario

'''cuirass''' 
a piece of armor covering the heart

'''PowerBook''' 
an Apple brand of laptop computer, preceding the MacBook

'''vig''' 
the amount charged by a bookie for facilitating bets

==Page 432==

'''codicil''' 
a legal supplement or appendix

'''CPR''' 
cardiopulmonary resuscitation

'''Winchester''' 
a city in Massachusetts about 8.5 miles northwest of Boston

'''counsel''' 
purpose, plan, or design;
advice or guidance

'''whey''' 
the liquid remaining after milk has been curdled and strained

==Page 433==

'''green-gilled''' 
i.e., green about the gills, about to vomit

'''miasma''' 
a noxious atmosphere

'''cordite''' 
a propellant used in place of gunpowder in firearms

'''Crawfordsville, Indiana''' 
a town about 45 miles northwest of Indianapolis

'''Veedersburg IN''' 
this town lies 22 miles west of Crawfordsville on Route 74

'''brandykinetic''' 
with slowed movements due to neurologic dysfunction

==Page 434==

'''vicissitude''' 
a change or variation in the course of something;
or a hardship due to chance

'''votaried''' 
filled with devotion

=Gately's Other Job=

==Page 434==

'''Jamaica Plain''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_Plain,_Massachusetts section] of Boston

'''cab of his 4 X 4''' 
A 4 X 4 is a pick-up truck and the cab is where people sit.

'''sub-table''' 
under the table, i.e., off the books so that taxes don't have to be paid

'''yutzes''' 
plural of the Yiddish word "yutz" meaning fool (See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Yiddish_origin Wikipedia])

==Page 435==

'''colostomy''' 
a procedure by which feces exit the body via a hole in a person's side into a bag, rather than via the anus

'''Kaposi's Sarcoma''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaposi%27s_sarcoma type of viral cancer] that causes skin lesions

'''suppurating''' 
oozing pus

'''D.T.s''' 
shaking frenzy, from the Latin [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens ''delirium tremens'']

'''sperm''' 
actually, undoubtedly, semen with its attendant sperm

'''spermy''' 
see previous note

'''B&E''' 
Breaking and Entry, i.e., burglary

'''finski''' 
slang: $5 bill

'''Kools''' 
a brand of menthol cigarettes

==Page 436==

'''mobilely upward''' 
that is to say, upwardly mobile

'''witticism''' 
a funny remark

=More O.N.A.N.T.A. History=

==Page 436==

'''Davis''' 
a city in California about 15 miles west of Sacramento

'''Quik''' 
a powder mix used to make chocolate milk

==Page 437==

'''NaCN''' 
sodium cyanide

'''rivet''' 
a type of pin or bolt; DFW is likely playing off the phrase "dead as a doornail" here

'''acrostics''' 
Dr. Rusk might be composing acrostic poems, in which the first letters of each line, read sequentially, spell a word or phrase or create a mnemonic device, but it's more likely that she's solving [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrostic_(puzzle) acrostic puzzles], in which the letters comprising a quotation (typically 180-225) are scrambled into a set of clued entries (most commonly 22-26), the first letters of which spell out the name of the author of the quotation and the work in which it appears.

'''dewimpled''' 
like defrocked, except for a nun. The Carmelites being a Roman Catholic Order which puts an emphasis on contemplation.

==Page 438==

'''Benedict Arnold''' 
Benedict Arnold V (1741-1801) was an American general during the Revolutionary War who turned traitor for the British.

==Endnote 176==

'''Minister of Environment and Resource-Development Enterprises''' 
The initials spell ''merde'', which is French for "shit."

'''Candida albicans''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candida_albicans a fungus] associated with yeast infections in humans

'''macrocartographic''' 
immense and involved with maps

==Page 438 (cont'd)==

'''Sino-temporal-endorsement''' 
Chinese-style-time-sponsorship; a reference to China's use of animal signs to date the years (Year of the Dog, Pig, Rat, etc.); the obvious inspiration or model for [[Subsidized Time]].

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

'''orts''' 
scraps of food

'''CONCORD''' 
the capital of New Hampshire

'''CLEMSON''' 
a [http://www.clemson.edu/ university] in South Carolina

'''Rantoul IL''' 
a town 125 miles south-southwest of Chicago

'''ACROMEGALIC''' 
suffering from acromegaly, a chronic disease characterized by enlarged bones of the extremities, face, and jaw, caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone by the pituitary gland

'''Ithaca NY''' 
a town in upstate New York, home to [http://www.cornell.edu/ Cornell University]

==Page 439==

'''camp''' 
deliberately artificial or vulgar -- sometimes referring specifically to gay humor

'''robber-baron''' 
Wikipedia defines robber-barons as "businessmen and bankers who dominated their respective industries and amassed huge personal fortunes, typically as a direct result of pursuing various allegedly anti-competitive or unfair business practices."

'''Ollster''' 
a nickname for Oliver, like "Ollie"

'''"...one slim cat with an outsized leg..."''' 
i.e., Orin Incandenza

==Page 440==

'''placative''' 
intending to pacify or calm

'''quadrennial''' 
occurring every four years

'''pulchritudinous''' 
good-looking

'''chapeau''' 
hat

==Page 441==

'''cheri''' 
French: my dear

'''"look into my eyes: no new enhancements"''' 
Cf. George H. W. Bush saying "Read my lips: no new taxes" during his 1988 election campaign (See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read_my_lips:_no_new_taxes Wikipedia]).

'''Cerberus''' 
In Greek mythology, this the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus three-headed dog] that guards the entrance to Hades. President Gentle is mixing his mythological metaphors here: Cerberus's three heads were not horned, as was that of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minotaur Minotaur], with its bull's head on the body of a man.

'''Achilles' tendon''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles%27_tendon tendon] in the back of the leg, near the foot, named for the great Greek hero of the Trojan War. But Achilles was mortally wounded by Paris's poisoned arrow, not by a thorn, which instead figures prominently in Aesop's tale of [http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0156.html Androcles and the Lion].

==Page 442==

'''canter''' 
an easy gallop

'''Ixnayish''' 
Remove -ish, and you have Pig Latin for "nix."

'''H.U.D.''' 
Housing and Urban Development

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==Page 419==

'''capricious''' 
subject to acting on a whim

'''Caillou Bay''' 
You can see a map of southern Louisiana [http://www.mobilegeographics.com/tideimages/tidesta5222.png here].

'''Cajun''' 
a French-speaking people dwelling in the woods of Louisiana, having emigrated there from French Canada two hundred years ago

'''Taurus PT9''' 
You can see this pistol [http://www.gunsamerica.com/976925959/Guns/Pistols/Taurus-Pistols-Revolvers/Pistols/Steel-Frame/Taurus_PT9_380.htm here].

'''unsafetied''' 
The gun's safety is off.

'''longshoremen''' 
Dock workers who load and unload ships.

'''caricaturesque''' 
pertaining to a depiction of someone that exaggerates certain facial or bodily characteristics

==Page 420==

'''subsumption''' 
the act of placing something under a more comprehensive category

'''''rôle''''' 
This is how we used to spell "role" in English and how it's still spelled in French.

'''Edmonton''' 
the capital of Alberta

==Page 421==

'''Ragheads''' 
derogatory term for people who wear keffiyehs or turbans

'''malice''' 
desire to do harm

'''delineatable''' 
exactly describable

==Page 422==

'''vacuous''' 
lacking in ideas or intelligence

'''Shining Path''' 
Maoist guerrilla group in Peru ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shining_Path Wikipedia])

'''Maxwell House''' 
a brand of coffee

'''M. Kemp''' 
as in Monsieur Kemp, i.e., Jack Kemp, implying he was assassinated with a bomb in his house

'''Very Large Satan''' 
or "Great Satan," if you will

==Page 423==

'''''utilitaire''''' 
utilitarian, i.e., providing the greatest good for the greatest number

'''Comme on dit''' 
French: Like they say

'''burning some ''k.'' down''' 
what is k.?? presumably kilometers

==Page 424==

'''sacrosanct''' 
inviolable

'''Bien sûr''' 
of course

'''chasm''' 
a gorge or deep cleft in the earth's surface

==Page 425==

'''Habitant ''soupe aux pois''''' 
''Habitant'' is Québecois French for "farmer," though it seems like a brand name here. ''Soupe aux pois'' is pea soup, very popular in Québec. Habitant is in fact a Canadian brand of soup made by the Campbell Company of Canada.

'''parodically''' 
in a sarcastic or mocking way

==Page 426==

'''Safeway''' 
a chain of supermarkets

'''burrs''' 
rough and prickly seed husks prone to sticking to hair or fur

==Page 427==

'''''ami''''' 
French: friend

'''''un autre''''' 
an other, i.e., an outsider

'''''pursuivre le bonheur''''' 
French: pursuit of happiness

'''declivity''' 
downward slope

'''idylls''' 
simple and tranquil scenes of nature

'''supine''' 
on one's back

==Page 428==

'''ponderous''' 
awkward or unwieldy

==Endnote 173==

==Endnote 304==

[[Notes_and_Errata_-_Pages_983-1079#Endnote_304_.C2.B7_The_Train_Game|Notes and Errata - Endnote 304]]

==Page 428 (cont'd)==

'''''Veuillez Recycler Ce Contenant''''' 
French: Please Recycle This Container

'''''en ce moment''''' 
French: at this moment

==Page 429==

'''''D'éclaisant''''' 
not a real French word 
"éclairer" is French for enlighten, so we can assume this is intended to mean enlightenment.

'''mafficking''' 
boisterous celebration

==Page 430==

'''''Entre nous''''' 
French: Between us

'''gendarmes''' 
usually denoting the police force of France or a formerly French nation, here simply meaning law enforcement agencies

=The Rest of the Eric Clipperton Story=

==Page 430==

'''perfunctory''' 
performed with minimal effort or care, done just out of routine or duty

==Page 431==

'''slider''' 
in tennis, a slider is a sliced serve with side spin. Refer [http://www.optimumtennis.net/tennis-slice-serve.htm here].

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

'''Forest Lawn NNY''' 
a town in New York state, on Lake Ontario

'''cuirass''' 
a piece of armor covering the heart

'''PowerBook''' 
an Apple brand of laptop computer, preceding the MacBook

'''vig''' 
the amount charged by a bookie for facilitating bets

==Page 432==

'''codicil''' 
a legal supplement or appendix

'''CPR''' 
cardiopulmonary resuscitation

'''Winchester''' 
a city in Massachusetts about 8.5 miles northwest of Boston

'''counsel''' 
purpose, plan, or design;
advice or guidance

'''whey''' 
the liquid remaining after milk has been curdled and strained

==Page 433==

'''green-gilled''' 
i.e., green about the grills, about to vomit

'''miasma''' 
a noxious atmosphere

'''cordite''' 
a propellant used in place of gunpowder in firearms

'''Crawfordsville, Indiana''' 
a town about 45 miles northwest of Indianapolis

'''Veedersburg IN''' 
this town lies 22 miles west of Crawfordsville on Route 74

'''brandykinetic''' 
with slowed movements due to neurologic dysfunction

==Page 434==

'''vicissitude''' 
a change or variation in the course of something;
or a hardship due to chance

'''votaried''' 
filled with devotion

=Gately's Other Job=

==Page 434==

'''Jamaica Plain''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_Plain,_Massachusetts section] of Boston

'''cab of his 4 X 4''' 
A 4 X 4 is a pick-up truck and the cab is where people sit.

'''sub-table''' 
under the table, i.e., off the books so that taxes don't have to be paid

'''yutzes''' 
plural of the Yiddish word "yutz" meaning fool (See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Yiddish_origin Wikipedia])

==Page 435==

'''colostomy''' 
a procedure by which feces exit the body via a hole in a person's side into a bag, rather than via the anus

'''Kaposi's Sarcoma''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaposi%27s_sarcoma type of viral cancer] that causes skin lesions

'''suppurating''' 
oozing pus

'''D.T.s''' 
shaking frenzy, from the Latin [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens ''delirium tremens'']

'''sperm''' 
actually, undoubtedly, semen with its attendant sperm

'''spermy''' 
see previous note

'''B&E''' 
Breaking and Entry, i.e., burglary

'''finski''' 
slang: $5 bill

'''Kools''' 
a brand of menthol cigarettes

==Page 436==

'''mobilely upward''' 
that is to say, upwardly mobile

'''witticism''' 
a funny remark

=More O.N.A.N.T.A. History=

==Page 436==

'''Davis''' 
a city in California about 15 miles west of Sacramento

'''Quik''' 
a powder mix used to make chocolate milk

==Page 437==

'''NaCN''' 
sodium cyanide

'''rivet''' 
a type of pin or bolt; DFW is likely playing off the phrase "dead as a doornail" here

'''acrostics''' 
Dr. Rusk might be composing acrostic poems, in which the first letters of each line, read sequentially, spell a word or phrase or create a mnemonic device, but it's more likely that she's solving [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrostic_(puzzle) acrostic puzzles], in which the letters comprising a quotation (typically 180-225) are scrambled into a set of clued entries (most commonly 22-26), the first letters of which spell out the name of the author of the quotation and the work in which it appears.

'''dewimpled''' 
like defrocked, except for a nun. The Carmelites being a Roman Catholic Order which puts an emphasis on contemplation.

==Page 438==

'''Benedict Arnold''' 
Benedict Arnold V (1741-1801) was an American general during the Revolutionary War who turned traitor for the British.

==Endnote 176==

'''Minister of Environment and Resource-Development Enterprises''' 
The initials spell ''merde'', which is French for "shit."

'''Candida albicans''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candida_albicans a fungus] associated with yeast infections in humans

'''macrocartographic''' 
immense and involved with maps

==Page 438 (cont'd)==

'''Sino-temporal-endorsement''' 
Chinese-style-time-sponsorship; a reference to China's use of animal signs to date the years (Year of the Dog, Pig, Rat, etc.); the obvious inspiration or model for [[Subsidized Time]].

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

'''orts''' 
scraps of food

'''CONCORD''' 
the capital of New Hampshire

'''CLEMSON''' 
a [http://www.clemson.edu/ university] in South Carolina

'''Rantoul IL''' 
a town 125 miles south-southwest of Chicago

'''ACROMEGALIC''' 
suffering from acromegaly, a chronic disease characterized by enlarged bones of the extremities, face, and jaw, caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone by the pituitary gland

'''Ithaca NY''' 
a town in upstate New York, home to [http://www.cornell.edu/ Cornell University]

==Page 439==

'''camp''' 
deliberately artificial or vulgar -- sometimes referring specifically to gay humor

'''robber-baron''' 
Wikipedia defines robber-barons as "businessmen and bankers who dominated their respective industries and amassed huge personal fortunes, typically as a direct result of pursuing various allegedly anti-competitive or unfair business practices."

'''Ollster''' 
a nickname for Oliver, like "Ollie"

'''"...one slim cat with an outsized leg..."''' 
i.e., Orin Incandenza

==Page 440==

'''placative''' 
intending to pacify or calm

'''quadrennial''' 
occurring every four years

'''pulchritudinous''' 
good-looking

'''chapeau''' 
hat

==Page 441==

'''cheri''' 
French: my dear

'''"look into my eyes: no new enhancements"''' 
Cf. George H. W. Bush saying "Read my lips: no new taxes" during his 1988 election campaign (See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read_my_lips:_no_new_taxes Wikipedia]).

'''Cerberus''' 
In Greek mythology, this the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus three-headed dog] that guards the entrance to Hades. President Gentle is mixing his mythological metaphors here: Cerberus's three heads were not horned, as was that of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minotaur Minotaur], with its bull's head on the body of a man.

'''Achilles' tendon''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles%27_tendon tendon] in the back of the leg, near the foot, named for the great Greek hero of the Trojan War. But Achilles was mortally wounded by Paris's poisoned arrow, not by a thorn, which instead figures prominently in Aesop's tale of [http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0156.html Androcles and the Lion].

==Page 442==

'''canter''' 
an easy gallop

'''Ixnayish''' 
Remove -ish, and you have Pig Latin for "nix."

'''H.U.D.''' 
Housing and Urban Development

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'''fiat''' 
official sanction

'''sucrotically''' 
referring to sucrose, i.e. sugar

==Endnote 147==

'''pluck''' 
courage or resolution in the face of difficulty

'''qua''' 
in the capacity or character of

==Page 380 (cont'd)==

[[Image:preachers.jpg|thumb|caption|Preacher's Hat|right|200px]]

'''toque''' 
a kind of brimless hat

'''aigrette''' 
decorative feather or plume

==Endnote 148==

'''sallet''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallet helmet], the forerunner of the modern combat helmets

'''calpac''' 
a high-crowned felt or sheepskin hat worn in Turkey, Iran, and Central Asia

'''calotte''' 
A skullcap, especially one worn by Roman Catholic priests

'''topography''' 
a detailed description of something, usually a place or region.

'''escudo''' 
Spanish for shield

'''shako''' 
tall, cylindrical military cap, usually with a visor and sometimes tapered at the top

<gallery>
Image:sallet.jpg|Sallet
Image:calpac.jpg|Calpac
Image:calotte.jpg|Calotte
Image:shako.gif|Shako
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==Page 380 (cont'd)==

'''maraschino''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marasca_cherry marasca cherry]

'''Redi-Whip''' 
actually Reddi-wip, a brand name of pressurized whipped cream in a can

'''tendentiously''' 
in a manner showing a definite bias or prejudice

==Page 381==

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

'''amanuentic''' 
secretarial

'''fedoras''' 
A fedora is a soft felt hat that is creased lengthwise down the crown and pinched in the front on both sides. Similar hats with a C-crown (with an indentation for the head in the top of the crown) are occasionally called fedoras. (see right) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora Wikipedia]

'''baklava''' 
a Near Eastern dessert made from filo dough, honey, nuts, and spices

'''Echt''' 
German for "bona fide"

'''linotype''' 
short form name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linotype_machine linotype machine]

''''Let the call go forth . . . generation of Americans...'''' 
Compare John F. Kennedy's [http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres56.html inaugural address]

'''né''' 
French for "born," the feminine ''née'' being more common to denote one's birth name

'''Joyner''' 
not the real Johnny Gentle, who was born with the surname Askew and in the U.K.

'''retentive''' 
here short for "anal-retentive"

'''Dermalatix''' 
not a real product

'''Hypospectral''' 
a neologism that would mean "below the [visible] spectrum [of light]," i.e., invisible

'''epidermal''' 
of or pertaining to the outermost layer of skin

'''schmaltz''' 
rendered chicken fat, used in cooking by Jews who keep kosher (among others), who cannot use lard or other rendered pork fat; in this context, it means sentimental or corny music

==Endnote 149==

'''Frankies and Tonies''' 
likely a reference to crooners of the Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett ilk

==Page 382 (cont'd)==

'''scab''' 
a derogatory word for a worker who replaces a union worker on strike

'''GE/RCA''' 
General Electric/Radio Company of America

'''fulcrum''' 
a support or point of rest

'''lap-dissolves''' 
According to Wikipedia, a lap dissolve "is a technical term in film editing, most often used in the United States, applying to the process whereby the fading last shot of a preceding scene is superimposed over the emerging first shot (fade in) of the next scene..."

'''prescient''' 
having previous knowledge

'''jingoist''' 
patriotic to an extreme

'''macrobiotic''' 
regarding a diet designed largely of whole grains and beans, designed to prolong life

'''Rush L.''' 
Rush Limbaugh, the conservative host of a popular political radio talk-show

'''Hillary R.C.''' 
Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former First Lady, and Secretary of State under President Obama

'''LaRoucheishly''' 
a reference to Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr. (born 1922), a political extremist and cult leader

==Endnote 150==

'''dioxins''' 
highly toxic by-products of pesticide manufacturing

'''high-R-waste''' 
probably refers to high radioactivity; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roentgen_%28unit%29 Roentgen] (R) is a standard for measuring radiation.

==Page 382 (cont'd)==

'''post-Perot''' 
i.e., after the immediate era of Texan [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot H. Ross Perot], founder of Electronic Data Systems and twice an indepedent U.S. presidential candidate (in 1992 and in 1996, as the leader of his Reform Party)

'''white-gloved finger''' 
implying that the finger is on the hand in a white glove, used to draw one's hand over a recently cleaned surface to see if any residual dirt remains

'''U.W.S.A.''' 
United We Stand America, Perot's political movement

'''G.O.P.s''' 
Republicans, G.O.P. standing for "Grand Old Party"

'''Jihad''' 
an Arabic word meaning "struggle" but often translated as "holy war"

'''redolent''' 
extremely fragrant

'''retinue''' 
a body of attendants to a powerful person

'''psychosphere''' 
sort of a synonym for collective consciousness

==Page 383==

'''"majestic ambers and purple fruits"''' 
words, slightly jumbled, from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_the_Beautiful "America, the Beautiful"]

'''effluvia''' 
invisible exhalations of noxious vapors

'''CO''' 
carbon monoxide

'''Uno''' 
as in ''numero uno,'' number one

'''dandling''' 
bouncing a baby up and down, as on one's knee

'''mufti''' 
civilian clothes

'''adipose''' 
adipose tissue, i.e., fat

'''fractious''' 
unruly or angry

==Page 384==

'''Seal''' 
the [http://www.greatseal.com/ Great Seal] of the U.S.

'''Teutons''' 
The President seems to be using this as a place name (perhaps a malapropism of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetons Tetons]), but Teutons is an ancient term for German-speaking people.

'''imbricate-sequin dresses''' 
dresses decorated with overlapping sequins

'''wavered''' 
quavering in sound

'''Wurlitzer''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurlitzer Rudolf Wurlitzer Company], a producer of organs

'''dusky''' 
dark-skinned

'''entr' acte''' 
French: between acts

==Page 385==

'''glycemically''' 
in a manner that is motivated or caused by the level of sugar in the blood

'''cannolis''' 
a type of Italian dessert pastry, stuffed with sweetened ricotta cheese

'''absolution''' 
forgiveness of sins

'''jejune''' 
childish or juvenile

'''Experialism''' 
apparently another Wallace neologism, presumably the antonym of ''imperialism'', and thus perhaps "empire-dismantling" as opposed to "empire-building"

'''J.J.J.C.''' 
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien

'''sympatico''' 
in agreement

'''inexorable''' 
unyielding

'''prandial''' 
(for) eating

'''NATO''' 
North Atlantic Treaty Organization

'''EEC''' 
European Economic Community

'''oown''' 
mock-Canadian pronunciation

'''NAFTA''' 
North American Free Trade Agreement

'''butter and guns''' 
These are the typical goods used in certain economic models because they are non-competing goods.

'''infraternal''' 
not a real word, but perhaps a Wallace (or Gentle) portmanteau of ''internal'' and ''fraternal'' (as "within the brotherhood"?)

==Page 386==

'''''frappeurs''''' 
apparently a French expression for something that strikes something else; literally it means 'strikers', but it seems it's usually used to refer to batters in baseball and cricket

'''ICBM''' 
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

'''maple leaf''' 
the national emblem of Canada

'''toot sweet''' 
i.e., ''tout de suite'', French for "right away" (which is pronounced very close to 'toot sweet')

''''It's a Small World After All'''' 
the song heard ''ad nauseam'' at a [http://disneyland.disney.go.com/disneyland/its-a-small-world/ Disneyland boat-ride attraction]

'''enjambment''' 
the breaking of a line at the end of a verse (in a poem, song, etc.)

=Meanwhile, in the Weight Room=

==Page 386==

'''purling''' 
flowing or rippling

==Page 387==

'''gurutical''' 
not a real word, but apparently having to do with gurus

'''fulgurant''' 
flashing like lightning

==Page 388==

'''glabrous''' 
smooth, hairless

'''wunderkind''' 
German: child prodigy

'''I/SPN''' 
probably meant to be a follow-up television channel to ESPN

'''M. Chang''' 
Michael Chang (born 1972) is an American former, but still-living, professional tennis player. Wallace misguessed Chang's early demise.

'''Mephistophelan''' 
referring to Mephistopheles, the devil character in Goethe's ''Faust'' and Marlowe's ''Doctor Faustus'', to whom Faust sells his soul

'''assuasive''' 
soothing, calming

==Page 389==

'''hagiography''' 
the biography of a saint

''''The truth will set you free...'''' 
Lyle is paraphrasing [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%208:32;&version=9; John 8:32].

'''alfresco''' 
''Al fresco'' in Italian means "outside."

==Page 390==

'''Seventh-Day Adventists''' 
a Protestant sect of Christianity marked by its observance of the weekly sabbath on Saturdays

'''turpitude''' 
depravity

'''dire''' 
indicating trouble

'''C.F.D.C.''' 
Caffeine-Free Diet Coke

=''The ONANtiad'', cont.=

==Page 391==

'''Benson & Hedges''' 
a brand of cigarettes

'''high-lipid''' 
high-fat

'''''auteur''''' 
creator, author

'''UKRAINE, TWO MORE BALTIC STATES APPLY FOR NATO INCLUSION''' 
Ukraine did not begin application for NATO membership until 2006, while the Baltic States were all admitted in 2004.

'''THERMS''' 
thermonuclear warheads

'''twelve out of fifteen NATO nations''' 
The last time NATO had fifteen members was in 1982, when Spain was admitted.

'''Finlandization''' 
This is defined as "the influence that one powerful country may have on the policies of a smaller neighboring country" and refers to Finland's relations with the USSR following WWII.

==Page 392==

''''BIG STICKS'''' 
Jean Chrétien admits that the issues were used here as the "big stick" in the T. Roosevelt-era "speak softly and carry a big stick" foreign policy of President Gentle.

'''TURTLE MTN. INDIAN RESERVATION''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_Mountain_Indian_Reservation reservation] for Chippewa Indians

==Page 393==

'''GI-X-Ray-Grade Colonic Purgative''' 
the kind of laxatives given to people about to undergo colonoscopies

'''Pruritis''' 
very bad itching

'''U.N.L.V.''' 
University of Nevada at Las Vegas

'''D.O.E.''' 
Department of Energy

'''METHUEN''' 
a city of Massachusetts about 30 miles north of Boston

'''Scorcese''' 
Martin Scorsese (b. 1942), American film director.

==Page 394==

=Meanwhile, in the Weight Room, cont.=

==Page 394==

'''Patridge KS''' 
a city in Kansas about 60 miles northwest of Wichita

'''telekinetic''' 
able to moves things with one's mind

'''somnambulist''' 
sleepwalker

==Page 395==

'''calotte''' 
a skullcap, typically worn by Roman Catholic acolytes

'''M.O.''' 
''Modus operandi'', a Latin phrase meaning the way in which a criminal operates out of habit

'''DMV''' 
Department of Motor Vehicles

'''oncologist''' 
a physician who treats cancer

=Some of Himself's Movies=

==Page 395==

'''masochistic''' 
tending to enjoy pain to the point of sexual response; cf. ''sadistic'', tending to derive sexual pleasure from the infliction of pain on another

==Page 396==

'''sucrose''' 
table sugar

'''siren''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirens Sirens] of Greek mythology

'''56-gram''' 
about two ounces

'''Ford's Theater''' 
This is the theater where President Lincoln was assassinated.

'''muttonchops''' 
very thick sideburns

'''involuted''' 
complicated; abstruse.

'''petrification''' 
the process of turning into stone

'''Ste. Thérèse''' 
Her full name [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_de_Lisieux Thérèse de Lisieux]

==Page 397==

'''cottoned''' 
took a liking to

'''marquees''' 
the lighted signs on which theaters announce what is playing

'''dirndls''' 
women's dresses with close fitting bodices and full skirts

==Page 398==

'''loo''' 
the British word for "bathroom"

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==Page 380==

'''fiat''' 
official sanction

'''sucrotically''' 
referring to sucrose, i.e. sugar

==Endnote 147==

'''pluck''' 
courage or resolution in the face of difficulty

'''qua''' 
in the capacity or character of

==Page 380 (cont'd)==

[[Image:preachers.jpg|thumb|caption|Preacher's Hat|right|200px]]

'''toque''' 
a kind of brimless hat

'''aigrette''' 
decorative feather or plume

==Endnote 148==

'''sallet''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallet helmet], the forerunner of the modern combat helmets

'''calpac''' 
a high-crowned felt or sheepskin hat worn in Turkey, Iran, and Central Asia

'''calotte''' 
A skullcap, especially one worn by Roman Catholic priests

'''topography''' 
a detailed description of something, usually a place or region.

'''escudo''' 
Spanish for shield

'''shako''' 
tall, cylindrical military cap, usually with a visor and sometimes tapered at the top

<gallery>
Image:sallet.jpg|Sallet
Image:calpac.jpg|Calpac
Image:calotte.jpg|Calotte
Image:shako.gif|Shako
</gallery>

==Page 380 (cont'd)==

'''maraschino''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marasca_cherry marasca cherry]

'''Redi-Whip''' 
actually Reddi-wip, a brand name of pressurized whipped cream in a can

'''tendentiously''' 
in a manner showing a definite bias or prejudice

==Page 381==

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

'''amanuentic''' 
secretarial

'''fedoras''' 
A fedora is a soft felt hat that is creased lengthwise down the crown and pinched in the front on both sides. Similar hats with a C-crown (with an indentation for the head in the top of the crown) are occasionally called fedoras. (see right) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora Wikipedia]

'''baklava''' 
a Near Eastern dessert made from filo dough, honey, nuts, and spices

'''Echt''' 
German for "bona fide"

'''linotype''' 
short form name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linotype_machine linotype machine]

''''Let the call go forth . . . generation of Americans...'''' 
Compare John F. Kennedy's [http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres56.html inaugural address]

'''né''' 
French for "born," the feminine ''née'' being more common to denote one's birth name

'''Joyner''' 
not the real Johnny Gentle, who was born with the surname Askew and in the U.K.

'''retentive''' 
here short for "anal-retentive"

'''Dermalatix''' 
not a real product

'''Hypospectral''' 
a neologism that would mean "below the [visible] spectrum [of light]," i.e., invisible

'''epidermal''' 
of or pertaining to the outermost layer of skin

'''schmaltz''' 
rendered chicken fat, used in cooking by Jews who keep kosher (among others), who cannot use lard or other rendered pork fat; in this context, it means sentimental or corny music

==Endnote 149==

'''Frankies and Tonies''' 
likely a reference to crooners of the Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett ilk

==Page 382 (cont'd)==

'''scab''' 
a derogatory word for a worker who replaces a union worker on strike

'''GE/RCA''' 
General Electric/Radio Company of America

'''fulcrum''' 
a support or point of rest

'''lap-dissolves''' 
According to Wikipedia, a lap dissolve "is a technical term in film editing, most often used in the United States, applying to the process whereby the fading last shot of a preceding scene is superimposed over the emerging first shot (fade in) of the next scene..."

'''prescient''' 
having previous knowledge

'''jingoist''' 
patriotic to an extreme

'''macrobiotic''' 
regarding a diet designed largely of whole grains and beans, designed to prolong life

'''Rush L.''' 
Rush Limbaugh, the conservative host of a popular political radio talk-show

'''Hillary R.C.''' 
Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former First Lady, and Secretary of State under President Obama

'''LaRoucheishly''' 
a reference to Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr. (born 1922), a political extremist and cult leader

==Endnote 150==

'''dioxins''' 
highly toxic by-products of pesticide manufacturing

'''high-R-waste''' 
probably refers to high radioactivity; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roentgen_%28unit%29 Roentgen] (R) is a standard for measuring radiation.

==Page 382 (cont'd)==

'''post-Perot''' 
i.e., after the immediate era of Texan [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot H. Ross Perot], founder of Electronic Data Systems and twice an indepedent U.S. presidential candidate (in 1992 and in 1996, as the leader of his Reform Party)

'''white-gloved finger''' 
implying that the finger is on the hand in a white glove, used to draw one's hand over a recently cleaned surface to see if any residual dirt remains

'''U.W.S.A.''' 
United We Stand America, Perot's political movement

'''G.O.P.s''' 
Republicans, G.O.P. standing for "Grand Old Party"

'''Jihad''' 
an Arabic word meaning "struggle" but often translated as "holy war"

'''redolent''' 
extremely fragrant

'''retinue''' 
a body of attendants to a powerful person

'''psychosphere''' 
sort of a synonym for collective consciousness

==Page 383==

'''"majestic ambers and purple fruits"''' 
words, slightly jumbled, from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_the_Beautiful "America, the Beautiful"]

'''effluvia''' 
invisible exhalations of noxious vapors

'''CO''' 
carbon monoxide

'''Uno''' 
as in ''numero uno,'' number one

'''dandling''' 
bouncing a baby up and down, as on one's knee

'''mufti''' 
civilian clothes

'''adipose''' 
adipose tissue, i.e., fat

'''fractious''' 
unruly or angry

==Page 384==

'''Seal''' 
the [http://www.greatseal.com/ Great Seal] of the U.S.

'''Teutons''' 
The President seems to be using this as a place name (perhaps a malapropism of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetons Tetons]), but Teutons is an ancient term for German-speaking people.

'''imbricate-sequin dresses''' 
dresses decorated with overlapping sequins

'''wavered''' 
quavering in sound

'''Wurlitzer''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurlitzer Rudolf Wurlitzer Company], a producer of organs

'''dusky''' 
dark-skinned

'''entr' acte''' 
French: between acts

==Page 385==

'''glycemically''' 
in a manner that is motivated or caused by the level of sugar in the blood

'''cannolis''' 
a type of Italian dessert pastry, stuffed with sweetened ricotta cheese

'''absolution''' 
forgiveness of sins

'''jejune''' 
childish or juvenile

'''Experialism''' 
apparently another Wallace neologism, presumably the antonym of ''imperialism'', and thus perhaps "empire-dismantling" as opposed to "empire-building"

'''J.J.J.C.''' 
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien

'''sympatico''' 
in agreement

'''inexorable''' 
unyielding

'''prandial''' 
(for) eating

'''NATO''' 
North Atlantic Treaty Organization

'''EEC''' 
European Economic Community

'''oown''' 
mock-Canadian pronunciation

'''NAFTA''' 
North American Free Trade Agreement

'''butter and guns''' 
These are the typical goods used in certain economic models because they are non-competing goods.

'''infraternal''' 
not a real word, but perhaps a Wallace (or Gentle) portmanteau of ''internal'' and ''fraternal'' (as "within the brotherhood"?)

==Page 386==

'''''frappeurs''''' 
apparently a French expression for something that strikes something else

'''ICBM''' 
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

'''maple leaf''' 
the national emblem of Canada

'''toot sweet''' 
i.e., ''tout de suite'', French for "right away"

''''It's a Small World After All'''' 
the song heard ''ad nauseam'' at a [http://disneyland.disney.go.com/disneyland/its-a-small-world/ Disneyland boat-ride attraction]

'''enjambment''' 
the breaking of a line at the end of a verse (in a poem, song, etc.)

=Meanwhile, in the Weight Room=

==Page 386==

'''purling''' 
flowing or rippling

==Page 387==

'''gurutical''' 
not a real word, but apparently having to do with gurus

'''fulgurant''' 
flashing like lightning

==Page 388==

'''glabrous''' 
smooth, hairless

'''wunderkind''' 
German: child prodigy

'''I/SPN''' 
probably meant to be a follow-up television channel to ESPN

'''M. Chang''' 
Michael Chang (born 1972) is an American former, but still-living, professional tennis player. Wallace misguessed Chang's early demise.

'''Mephistophelan''' 
referring to Mephistopheles, the devil character in Goethe's ''Faust'' and Marlowe's ''Doctor Faustus'', to whom Faust sells his soul

'''assuasive''' 
soothing, calming

==Page 389==

'''hagiography''' 
the biography of a saint

''''The truth will set you free...'''' 
Lyle is paraphrasing [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%208:32;&version=9; John 8:32].

'''alfresco''' 
''Al fresco'' in Italian means "outside."

==Page 390==

'''Seventh-Day Adventists''' 
a Protestant sect of Christianity marked by its observance of the weekly sabbath on Saturdays

'''turpitude''' 
depravity

'''dire''' 
indicating trouble

'''C.F.D.C.''' 
Caffeine-Free Diet Coke

=''The ONANtiad'', cont.=

==Page 391==

'''Benson & Hedges''' 
a brand of cigarettes

'''high-lipid''' 
high-fat

'''''auteur''''' 
creator, author

'''UKRAINE, TWO MORE BALTIC STATES APPLY FOR NATO INCLUSION''' 
Ukraine did not begin application for NATO membership until 2006, while the Baltic States were all admitted in 2004.

'''THERMS''' 
thermonuclear warheads

'''twelve out of fifteen NATO nations''' 
The last time NATO had fifteen members was in 1982, when Spain was admitted.

'''Finlandization''' 
This is defined as "the influence that one powerful country may have on the policies of a smaller neighboring country" and refers to Finland's relations with the USSR following WWII.

==Page 392==

''''BIG STICKS'''' 
Jean Chrétien admits that the issues were used here as the "big stick" in the T. Roosevelt-era "speak softly and carry a big stick" foreign policy of President Gentle.

'''TURTLE MTN. INDIAN RESERVATION''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_Mountain_Indian_Reservation reservation] for Chippewa Indians

==Page 393==

'''GI-X-Ray-Grade Colonic Purgative''' 
the kind of laxatives given to people about to undergo colonoscopies

'''Pruritis''' 
very bad itching

'''U.N.L.V.''' 
University of Nevada at Las Vegas

'''D.O.E.''' 
Department of Energy

'''METHUEN''' 
a city of Massachusetts about 30 miles north of Boston

'''Scorcese''' 
Martin Scorsese (b. 1942), American film director.

==Page 394==

=Meanwhile, in the Weight Room, cont.=

==Page 394==

'''Patridge KS''' 
a city in Kansas about 60 miles northwest of Wichita

'''telekinetic''' 
able to moves things with one's mind

'''somnambulist''' 
sleepwalker

==Page 395==

'''calotte''' 
a skullcap, typically worn by Roman Catholic acolytes

'''M.O.''' 
''Modus operandi'', a Latin phrase meaning the way in which a criminal operates out of habit

'''DMV''' 
Department of Motor Vehicles

'''oncologist''' 
a physician who treats cancer

=Some of Himself's Movies=

==Page 395==

'''masochistic''' 
tending to enjoy pain to the point of sexual response; cf. ''sadistic'', tending to derive sexual pleasure from the infliction of pain on another

==Page 396==

'''sucrose''' 
table sugar

'''siren''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirens Sirens] of Greek mythology

'''56-gram''' 
about two ounces

'''Ford's Theater''' 
This is the theater where President Lincoln was assassinated.

'''muttonchops''' 
very thick sideburns

'''involuted''' 
complicated; abstruse.

'''petrification''' 
the process of turning into stone

'''Ste. Thérèse''' 
Her full name [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_de_Lisieux Thérèse de Lisieux]

==Page 397==

'''cottoned''' 
took a liking to

'''marquees''' 
the lighted signs on which theaters announce what is playing

'''dirndls''' 
women's dresses with close fitting bodices and full skirts

==Page 398==

'''loo''' 
the British word for "bathroom"

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==Page 380==

'''fiat''' 
official sanction

'''sucrotically''' 
referring to sucrose, i.e. sugar

==Endnote 147==

'''pluck''' 
courage or resolution in the face of difficulty

'''qua''' 
in the capacity or character of

==Page 380 (cont'd)==

[[Image:preachers.jpg|thumb|caption|Preacher's Hat|right|200px]]

'''toque''' 
a kind of brimless hat

'''aigrette''' 
decorative feather or plume

==Endnote 148==

'''sallet''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallet helmet], the forerunner of the modern combat helmets

'''calpac''' 
a high-crowned felt or sheepskin hat worn in Turkey, Iran, and Central Asia

'''calotte''' 
A skullcap, especially one worn by Roman Catholic priests

'''topography''' 
a detailed description of something, usually a place or region.

'''escudo''' 
Spanish for shield

'''shako''' 
tall, cylindrical military cap, usually with a visor and sometimes tapered at the top

<gallery>
Image:sallet.jpg|Sallet
Image:calpac.jpg|Calpac
Image:calotte.jpg|Calotte
Image:shako.gif|Shako
</gallery>

==Page 380 (cont'd)==

'''maraschino''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marasca_cherry marasca cherry]

'''Redi-Whip''' 
actually Reddi-wip, a brand name of pressurized whipped cream in a can

'''tendentiously''' 
in a manner showing a definite bias or prejudice

==Page 381==

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

'''amanuentic''' 
secretarial

'''fedoras''' 
A fedora is a soft felt hat that is creased lengthwise down the crown and pinched in the front on both sides. Similar hats with a C-crown (with an indentation for the head in the top of the crown) are occasionally called fedoras. (see right) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora Wikipedia]

'''baklava''' 
a Near Eastern dessert made from filo dough, honey, nuts, and spices

'''Echt''' 
German for "bona fide"

'''linotype''' 
short form name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linotype_machine linotype machine]

''''Let the call go forth . . . generation of Americans...'''' 
Compare John F. Kennedy's [http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres56.html inaugural address]

'''né''' 
French for "born," the feminine ''née'' being more common to denote one's birth name

'''Joyner''' 
not the real Johnny Gentle, who was born with the surname Askew and in the U.K.

'''retentive''' 
here short for "anal-retentive"

'''Dermalatix''' 
not a real product

'''Hypospectral''' 
a neologism that would mean "below the [visible] spectrum [of light]," i.e., invisible

'''epidermal''' 
of or pertaining to the outermost layer of skin

'''schmaltz''' 
rendered chicken fat, used in cooking by Jews who keep kosher (among others), who cannot use lard or other rendered pork fat; in this context, it means sentimental or corny music

==Endnote 149==

'''Frankies and Tonies''' 
likely a reference to crooners of the Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett ilk

==Page 382 (cont'd)==

'''scab''' 
a derogatory word for a worker who replaces a union worker on strike

'''GE/RCA''' 
General Electric/Radio Company of America

'''fulcrum''' 
a support or point of rest

'''lap-dissolves''' 
According to Wikipedia, a lap dissolve "is a technical term in film editing, most often used in the United States, applying to the process whereby the fading last shot of a preceding scene is superimposed over the emerging first shot (fade in) of the next scene..."

'''prescient''' 
having previous knowledge

'''jingoist''' 
patriotic to an extreme

'''macrobiotic''' 
regarding a diet designed largely of whole grains and beans, designed to prolong life

'''Rush L.''' 
Rush Limbaugh, the conservative host of a popular political radio talk-show

'''Hillary R.C.''' 
Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former First Lady, and Secretary of State under President Obama

'''LaRoucheishly''' 
a reference to Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr. (born 1922), a political extremist and cult leader

==Endnote 150==

'''dioxins''' 
highly toxic by-products of pesticide manufacturing

'''high-R-waste''' 
probably refers to high radioactivity; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roentgen_%28unit%29 Roentgen] (R) is a standard for measuring radiation.

==Page 382 (cont'd)==

'''post-Perot''' 
i.e., after the immediate era of Texan [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot H. Ross Perot], founder of Electronic Data Systems and twice an indepedent U.S. presidential candidate (in 1992 and in 1996, as the leader of his Reform Party)

'''white-gloved finger''' 
implying that the finger is on the hand in a white glove, used to draw one's hand over a recently cleaned surface to see if any residual dirt remains

'''U.W.S.A.''' 
United We Stand America, Perot's political movement

'''G.O.P.s''' 
Republicans, G.O.P. standing for "Grand Old Party"

'''Jihad''' 
an Arabic word meaning "struggle" but often translated as "holy war"

'''redolent''' 
extremely fragrant

'''retinue''' 
a body of attendants to a powerful person

'''psychosphere''' 
sort of a synonym for collective consciousness

==Page 383==

'''"majestic ambers and purple fruits"''' 
words, slightly jumbled, from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_the_Beautiful "America, the Beautiful"]

'''effluvia''' 
invisible exhalations of noxious vapors

'''CO''' 
carbon monoxide

'''Uno''' 
as in ''numero uno,'' number one

'''dandling''' 
bouncing a baby up and down, as on one's knee

'''mufti''' 
civilian clothes

'''adipose''' 
adipose tissue, i.e., fat

'''fractious''' 
unruly or angry

==Page 384==

'''Seal''' 
the [http://www.greatseal.com/ Great Seal] of the U.S.

'''Teutons''' 
The President seems to be using this as a place name (perhaps a malapropism of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetons Tetons]), but Teutons is an ancient term for German-speaking people.

'''imbricate-sequin dresses''' 
dresses decorated with overlapping sequins

'''wavered''' 
quavering in sound

'''Wurlitzer''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurlitzer Rudolf Wurlitzer Company], a producer of organs

'''dusky''' 
dark-skinned

'''entr' acte''' 
French: between acts

==Page 385==

'''glycemically''' 
in a manner that is motivated or caused by the level of sugar in the blood

'''cannolis''' 
a type of Italian dessert pastry, stuffed with sweetened ricotta cheese

'''absolution''' 
forgiveness of sins

'''jejune''' 
childish or juvenile

'''Experialism''' 
apparently another Wallace neologism, presumably the antonym of ''imperialism'', and thus perhaps "empire-dismantling" as opposed to "empire-building"

'''J.J.J.C.''' 
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien

'''sympatico''' 
in agreement

'''inexorable''' 
unyielding

'''prandial''' 
(for) eating

'''NATO''' 
North Atlantic Treaty Organization

'''EEC''' 
European Economic Community

'''oown''' 
Canadian pronunciation

'''NAFTA''' 
North American Free Trade Agreement

'''butter and guns''' 
These are the typical goods used in certain economic models because they are non-competing goods.

'''infraternal''' 
not a real word, but perhaps a Wallace (or Gentle) portmanteau of ''internal'' and ''fraternal'' (as "within the brotherhood"?)

==Page 386==

'''''frappeurs''''' 
apparently a French expression for something that strikes something else

'''ICBM''' 
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

'''maple leaf''' 
the national emblem of Canada

'''toot sweet''' 
i.e., ''tout de suite'', French for "right away"

''''It's a Small World After All'''' 
the song heard ''ad nauseam'' at a [http://disneyland.disney.go.com/disneyland/its-a-small-world/ Disneyland boat-ride attraction]

'''enjambment''' 
the breaking of a line at the end of a verse (in a poem, song, etc.)

=Meanwhile, in the Weight Room=

==Page 386==

'''purling''' 
flowing or rippling

==Page 387==

'''gurutical''' 
not a real word, but apparently having to do with gurus

'''fulgurant''' 
flashing like lightning

==Page 388==

'''glabrous''' 
smooth, hairless

'''wunderkind''' 
German: child prodigy

'''I/SPN''' 
probably meant to be a follow-up television channel to ESPN

'''M. Chang''' 
Michael Chang (born 1972) is an American former, but still-living, professional tennis player. Wallace misguessed Chang's early demise.

'''Mephistophelan''' 
referring to Mephistopheles, the devil character in Goethe's ''Faust'' and Marlowe's ''Doctor Faustus'', to whom Faust sells his soul

'''assuasive''' 
soothing, calming

==Page 389==

'''hagiography''' 
the biography of a saint

''''The truth will set you free...'''' 
Lyle is paraphrasing [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%208:32;&version=9; John 8:32].

'''alfresco''' 
''Al fresco'' in Italian means "outside."

==Page 390==

'''Seventh-Day Adventists''' 
a Protestant sect of Christianity marked by its observance of the weekly sabbath on Saturdays

'''turpitude''' 
depravity

'''dire''' 
indicating trouble

'''C.F.D.C.''' 
Caffeine-Free Diet Coke

=''The ONANtiad'', cont.=

==Page 391==

'''Benson & Hedges''' 
a brand of cigarettes

'''high-lipid''' 
high-fat

'''''auteur''''' 
creator, author

'''UKRAINE, TWO MORE BALTIC STATES APPLY FOR NATO INCLUSION''' 
Ukraine did not begin application for NATO membership until 2006, while the Baltic States were all admitted in 2004.

'''THERMS''' 
thermonuclear warheads

'''twelve out of fifteen NATO nations''' 
The last time NATO had fifteen members was in 1982, when Spain was admitted.

'''Finlandization''' 
This is defined as "the influence that one powerful country may have on the policies of a smaller neighboring country" and refers to Finland's relations with the USSR following WWII.

==Page 392==

''''BIG STICKS'''' 
Jean Chrétien admits that the issues were used here as the "big stick" in the T. Roosevelt-era "speak softly and carry a big stick" foreign policy of President Gentle.

'''TURTLE MTN. INDIAN RESERVATION''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_Mountain_Indian_Reservation reservation] for Chippewa Indians

==Page 393==

'''GI-X-Ray-Grade Colonic Purgative''' 
the kind of laxatives given to people about to undergo colonoscopies

'''Pruritis''' 
very bad itching

'''U.N.L.V.''' 
University of Nevada at Las Vegas

'''D.O.E.''' 
Department of Energy

'''METHUEN''' 
a city of Massachusetts about 30 miles north of Boston

'''Scorcese''' 
Martin Scorsese (b. 1942), American film director.

==Page 394==

=Meanwhile, in the Weight Room, cont.=

==Page 394==

'''Patridge KS''' 
a city in Kansas about 60 miles northwest of Wichita

'''telekinetic''' 
able to moves things with one's mind

'''somnambulist''' 
sleepwalker

==Page 395==

'''calotte''' 
a skullcap, typically worn by Roman Catholic acolytes

'''M.O.''' 
''Modus operandi'', a Latin phrase meaning the way in which a criminal operates out of habit

'''DMV''' 
Department of Motor Vehicles

'''oncologist''' 
a physician who treats cancer

=Some of Himself's Movies=

==Page 395==

'''masochistic''' 
tending to enjoy pain to the point of sexual response; cf. ''sadistic'', tending to derive sexual pleasure from the infliction of pain on another

==Page 396==

'''sucrose''' 
table sugar

'''siren''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirens Sirens] of Greek mythology

'''56-gram''' 
about two ounces

'''Ford's Theater''' 
This is the theater where President Lincoln was assassinated.

'''muttonchops''' 
very thick sideburns

'''involuted''' 
complicated; abstruse.

'''petrification''' 
the process of turning into stone

'''Ste. Thérèse''' 
Her full name [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_de_Lisieux Thérèse de Lisieux]

==Page 397==

'''cottoned''' 
took a liking to

'''marquees''' 
the lighted signs on which theaters announce what is playing

'''dirndls''' 
women's dresses with close fitting bodices and full skirts

==Page 398==

'''loo''' 
the British word for "bathroom"

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(The longest chapter in the book)
==Page 343==

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

'''singular''' 
unique

'''polysterene''' 
styrofoam

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

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

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

==Page 344==

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

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

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

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

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

'''nip''' 
drink of alcohol

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

==Endnote 133==

'''variegated''' 
diverse

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

==Page 344 (cont'd)==

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

'''imbricate''' 
overlapping in sequence

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

'''incisors''' 
front top teeth

==Page 345==

'''insipid''' 
without interesting qualities

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

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

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

==Endnote 134==

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

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

==Page 345 (cont'd)==

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''nephritis''' 
inflammation of the kidneys

==Page 347==

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

'''ravening''' 
voracious

'''maw''' 
mouth

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

==Page 348==

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

'''garish''' 
loud and flashy

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

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

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

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

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

'''Svce''' 
Service

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

==Page 349==

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

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

'''foamer''' 
beer

==Page 350==

'''beatific''' 
blissful or angelic

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

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

'''flummoxed''' 
confused or perplexed

'''burnished''' 
rubbed smooth

'''squalid''' 
foul and repulsive

==Page 351==

'''terse''' 
using few words

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

'''zealotry''' 
fanaticism

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

'''meal''' 
ground grain

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

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

'''wax lyrical''' 
to speak poetically

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

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

==Page 352==

'''Enuresis''' 
bed-wetting

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 353==

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

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

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

==Page 354==

'''verdant''' 
green with vegetation

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 355==

'''gnarled''' 
knotty and misshappen

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

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

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

'''spectral''' 
looking like a ghost

==Page 356==

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

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

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

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

'''regs''' 
regulations

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

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

==Page 357==

'''fibrosis''' 
scarring

==Endnote 139==

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

==Page 357 (cont'd)==

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

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

'''fisticuffery''' 
fist-fighting

'''invectives''' 
abusive expressions of opinion

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

==Page 358==

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

'''head''' 
bathroom

'''spuds''' 
potatoes

'''nocturnal''' 
happening at night

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

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

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

==Page 359==

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

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

'''astringent''' 
a chemical that tends to dry something else out; here it probably means "severe, austere, stern" (OED)

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

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

'''reek''' 
to smell very badly

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

==Page 360==

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

'''idiosyncrasy''' 
a peculiarity of personality

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

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

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

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

==Page 361==

'''joggling''' 
shaking slightly

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

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

==Page 362==

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

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

'''larynx''' 
voice box

'''requisite''' 
essential or necessary

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

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

==Page 363==

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

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

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

'''periphery''' 
an external boundary

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

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

==Page 364==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 365==

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

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

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

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

==Page 366==

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

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

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

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

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

'''Radarange''' 
microwave

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

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

==Page 367==

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

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

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

=NNYC's Statue of Liberty=

==Page 367==

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

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

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

=Boston AA, cont.=

==Page 367==

'''deprecate''' 
to express disapproval

==Page 368==

'''conundrum''' 
something puzzling

'''cunctations''' 
delays

'''chagrin''' 
embarrassment at having failed

'''aphasiac''' 
inability to speak

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

==Page 369==

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

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

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

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

==Page 370==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 371==

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

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

'''lurid''' 
gruesome or shocking

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

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

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

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

==Page 372==

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

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

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

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

'''auburn''' 
reddish-brown

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

==Page 373==

'''vanity''' 
a dressing table

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

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

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

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

'''circumoral''' 
surrounding the mouth

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

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

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

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

'''prurient''' 
causing lust

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

'''lolled''' 
dropped

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

'''lucidity''' 
mental clarity

'''implicit''' 
unspoken but implied

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''commode''' 
toilet

==Page 375==

==Endnote 143==

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

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

==Page 375==

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

'''spangle''' 
a small bright spot

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

=Himself and Lyle=

==Page 375==

'''blotto''' 
drunk

==Endnote 144==

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

==Page 376==

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

=More Boston AA=

==Page 376==

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

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

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

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

==Page 377==

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

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

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

'''remonstrances''' 
acts of protest

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

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

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

==Page 378==

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

'''reticence''' 
reluctance

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

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

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

==Page 379==

=Himself and Lyle, cont.=

==Page 379==

'''libations''' 
alcoholic drinks

'''injudicious''' 
showing lack of judgment

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

==Endnote 146==

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

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

'''candent''' 
glowing with heat

'''Orion''' 
one of the more famous [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28constellation%29 constellations] in the night sky

'''Lay''' 
non-professional

'''Anthracite''' 
a type of coal

==Page 307==

'''crop-and-epaulette''' 
crop being a riding crop, this would suggest a certain militaristic disposition

'''Winter Park FL''' 
a city in Florida about five miles north-northeast of Orlando

'''grange''' 
shorthand for the [http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0821549.html Granger movement], here used in the generic sense of organizing, as of labor

==Endnote 105==

'''Dworkinite''' 
The word refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Dworkin Andrea Dworkin] (1946-2005), an American radical lesbian feminist

'''Pizzitola''' 
probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzitola_Sports_Center Pizzitola Sports Center] in Providence, R.I.

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==Page 308==

'''eustacian-crumbling''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustachian Eustachian tube] connects the inner ear to the throat; this compound adjective would mean "deafeningly loud."

'''fin''' 
a slang term for a $5 bill

'''SPN''' 
Shared Processing Network

'''joe''' 
coffee

'''Ulcerative colitis''' 
a form of inflammatory bowel disease (Wikipedia)

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

==Page 309==

'''Vivian, Utah''' 
a city about 30 miles southeast of Salt Lake City

'''Hempstead, Long Island''' 
a town in New York about 25 miles into Long Island, about halfway between the North and South shores

'''Sonora, Mexico''' 
a state of northern Mexico, bordering Arizona

'''Junebug''' 
a genus of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllophaga_%28genus%29 beetles] found, among elsewhere, in the Eastern U.S.

'''moonballed''' 
Here used as a past-tense verb, a moonball is a very high lob.

'''détente''' 
a relaxation of tensions

'''Frontenac''' 
probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Frontenac Battle of Fort Frontenac] during the French and Indian Wars, where the British defeated the French

'''Canadianism''' 
presumably this is a political movement of some kind, probably based on separation from the U.S.

'''rub''' 
obstacle or impediment

'''real-French''' 
as opposed to Québecois French

'''Pléaide Classics''' 
better known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioth%C3%A8que_de_la_Pl%C3%A9iade Bibliothèque de la Pléaide]

'''glottal''' 
involving the epiglottis in pronunication

==Page 310==

'''thorax''' 
chest

'''prenatal dentition''' 
growth of teeth before birth

'''Cartier and Roberval and Cap Rouge and Champlain''' 
Jacques Cartier (1491-1557) was a French explorer who first mapped the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and who coined the name "Canada." Jean-François de la Roque de Roberval (1500-1560) was a French pirate and first lieutenant general of New France (i.e., French Canada, i.e., Québec). Cap-Rouge is a section of present-day Québec City, where Cartier tried to place his first French settlement. Samuel de Champlain (1567-1635) was the French founder of Québec City

'''Ursuline nuns''' 
the Order of St. Ursula, the members of which teach young girls

'''wimples''' 
the head coverings that nuns wear

'''U.N. Day''' 
October 24

'''wig-and-jerkin''' 
A jerkin is a close-fitting men's jacket. With the wig, this is the costume of the early Modern warrior.

'''Amherst''' 
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717-1797), was a British field marshal and veteran of the French and Indian Wars. Town in Massachusetts named after him also gave its name to Wallace's alma mater. The story of Lord Jeffery Amherst discussing coating blankets with smallpox and distributing them to Native Americans is well-known at Amherst College.

'''Hurons''' 
More properly called the Wyandot or Wendat, these are an indigenous people of North America originally inhabiting Québec before the French arrived.

'''''variola''''' 
the Latin word for "smallpox"

'''SACPOP''' 
Strike Against Civilian Population

'''toadstool''' 
a poisonous mushroom

'''Steinkamp''' 
German: stone enclosure

'''Saluki''' 
a breed of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saluki dog]

'''ROM''' 
Read-Only Memory

'''Levesque-Parti-and-Bloc Québecois and Fronte de la Libération Nationale''' 
René Lévesque (1922-1987) was a Québecois government minister and founder of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parti_Qu%C3%A9b%C3%A9cois Parti Québécois]. Bloc Québécois promotes sovereignty for Québec while the Parti promotes independence. The Fronte mentioned above is probably a misnomer or early form of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLQ FLQ].

'''convolved''' 
wound together

==Page 311==

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==Page 311 (cont'd)==

'''U.S. Interstate 87''' 
It runs from Champlain, NY, on the Canadian border, to the Bronx.

'''empiricist''' 
describing drivers orienting themselves by experience, rather than paying close attention; 'naively empiricist' probably means that they are reacting to their immediate experience without thinking

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

'''diabolic''' 
devilishly evil

==Page 312==

'''benzodioxane''' 
a metabolite of benzodiazepines

=Mario's birth, early development=

==Page 312==

'''pica''' 
craving to eat things that are not foods, occasionally occurring in pregnant women ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_(disorder) Wikipedia])

'''Vermeer''' 
Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) was a Dutch painter.

'''Toronto's Skydome''' 
Now known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skydome Rogers Centre], this is the home field of the Toronto Blue Jays.

==Page 313==

'''contractured''' 
having shortened muscle tissue

'''Green Valley AZ''' 
a city in Arizona about 22.5 miles due south of Tucson

'''saguaro''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saguaro cactus]

'''bradyauxetic''' 
slow in cell development

==Endnote 115==

'''Volkmann''' 
Richard von Volkmann (1830-1889) was a prominent German surgeon who described Volkmann's contracture in 1881. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Volkmann Wikipedia])

'''gerontologic''' 
having to do with the study of old age

'''lentissimo''' 
a musical term that is Italian for "very, very slowly"

==Page 313 (cont'd)==

'''inebriate''' 
as a noun, a drunkard

==Page 314==

'''blepharoplasty''' 
surgical reshaping of the eyelid

'''corticate''' 
having an outer layer

'''mucronate''' 
having abruptly projecting points

'''nonprehensile''' 
unable to grab

'''yarmulke''' 
the Yiddish word for the skullcap that observant Jewish men wear

'''Stanford-Binet''' 
a type of IQ test

'''bradyphrenic''' 
slow witted

'''more like refracted''' 
Refraction occurs when light slows down when it enters a new medium. The change of speed also causes a change in direction of travel. Although light travels at a constant speed in a vacuum, it travels more slowly in matter.

'''joint of beef''' 
a piece of beef of a good size for roasting

==Page 315==

'''NNYC''' 
New New York City

'''.7-meter''' 
about 2.3 feet

'''Marino lamps''' 
shorthand for a San Marino floor lamp

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

'''codicil''' 
an addition to a legal will

==Endnote 116==

'''hyperfloriated''' 
overdecorated with floral designs

==Page 315 (cont'd)==

'''juvenilia''' 
art created by a child or teenager

'''attenuates''' 
lessens

==Page 316==

'''à clef''' 
French for "by key," the term is usually given as ''roman à clef'', i.e., a novel for which one needs a key to understand.

'''canted''' 
sloped at an angle

'''saurian''' 
lizard-like (especially, here, with respect to the skin)

'''homodontic''' 
having teeth of all one type (see endnote 119; in Mario's case, all his teeth are bicuspids, the two-pronged sort normally found between the canines and the molars)

'''tangrams''' 
a type of Chinese puzzle

==Page 317==

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

==Page 317==

==Page 318==

'''''l'aine des Etats Unis''''' 
French: the groin of the United States

==Page 319==

'''redemised''' 
"Demise" is a legal term meaning to convey or lease land. Redemised title would normally refer to an interest returned to the original owner, as in a sale and lease-back, but may here just refer to a second transfer of title, or regifting as we say at Christmas time.

'''Sans-Christe''' 
French: Without Christ

'''''Un ennemi commun''''' 
French: a common enemy

==Page 320==

'''''L'état protecteur''''' 
French: the protector-state

'''lume nacreous''' 
pearly light

==Page 321==

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==Page 306==

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

'''candent''' 
glowing with heat

'''Orion''' 
one of the more famous [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28constellation%29 constellations] in the night sky

'''Lay''' 
non-professional

'''Anthracite''' 
a type of coal

==Page 307==

'''crop-and-epaulette''' 
crop being a riding crop, this would suggest a certain militaristic disposition

'''Winter Park FL''' 
a city in Florida about five miles north-northeast of Orlando

'''grange''' 
shorthand for the [http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0821549.html Granger movement], here used in the generic sense of organizing, as of labor

==Endnote 105==

'''Dworkinite''' 
The word refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Dworkin Andrea Dworkin] (1946-2005), an American radical lesbian feminist

'''Pizzitola''' 
probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzitola_Sports_Center Pizzitola Sports Center] in Providence, R.I.

[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.-Q.M.D.]]

==Page 308==

'''eustacian-crumbling''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustachian Eustachian tube] connects the inner ear to the throat; this compound adjective would mean "deafeningly loud."

'''fin''' 
a slang term for a $5 bill

'''SPN''' 
Shared Processing Network

'''joe''' 
coffee

'''Ulcerative colitis''' 
a form of inflammatory bowel disease (Wikipedia)

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

==Page 309==

'''Vivian, Utah''' 
a city about 30 miles southeast of Salt Lake City

'''Hempstead, Long Island''' 
a town in New York about 25 miles into Long Island, about halfway between the North and South shores

'''Sonora, Mexico''' 
a state of northern Mexico, bordering Arizona

'''Junebug''' 
a genus of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllophaga_%28genus%29 beetles] found, among elsewhere, in the Eastern U.S.

'''moonballed''' 
Here used as a past-tense verb, a moonball is a very high lob.

'''détente''' 
a relaxation of tensions

'''Frontenac''' 
probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Frontenac Battle of Fort Frontenac] during the French and Indian Wars, where the British defeated the French

'''Canadianism''' 
presumably this is a political movement of some kind, probably based on separation from the U.S.

'''rub''' 
obstacle or impediment

'''real-French''' 
as opposed to Québecois French

'''Pléaide Classics''' 
better known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioth%C3%A8que_de_la_Pl%C3%A9iade Bibliothèque de la Pléaide]

'''glottal''' 
involving the epiglottis in pronunication

==Page 310==

'''thorax''' 
chest

'''prenatal dentition''' 
growth of teeth before birth

'''Cartier and Roberval and Cap Rouge and Champlain''' 
Jacques Cartier (1491-1557) was a French explorer who first mapped the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and who coined the name "Canada." Jean-François de la Roque de Roberval (1500-1560) was a French pirate and first lieutenant general of New France (i.e., French Canada, i.e., Québec). Cap-Rouge is a section of present-day Québec City, where Cartier tried to place his first French settlement. Samuel de Champlain (1567-1635) was the French founder of Québec City

'''Ursuline nuns''' 
the Order of St. Ursula, the members of which teach young girls

'''wimples''' 
the head coverings that nuns wear

'''U.N. Day''' 
October 24

'''wig-and-jerkin''' 
A jerkin is a close-fitting men's jacket. With the wig, this is the costume of the early Modern warrior.

'''Amherst''' 
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717-1797), was a British field marshal and veteran of the French and Indian Wars. Town in Massachusetts named after him also gave its name to Wallace's alma mater. The story of Lord Jeffery Amherst discussing coating blankets with smallpox and distributing them to Native Americans is well-known at Amherst College.

'''Hurons''' 
More properly called the Wyandot or Wendat, these are an indigenous people of North America originally inhabiting Québec before the French arrived.

'''''variola''''' 
the Latin word for "smallpox"

'''SACPOP''' 
Strike Against Civilian Population

'''toadstool''' 
a poisonous mushroom

'''Steinkamp''' 
German: stone enclosure

'''Saluki''' 
a breed of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saluki dog]

'''ROM''' 
Read-Only Memory

'''Levesque-Parti-and-Bloc Québecois and Fronte de la Libération Nationale''' 
René Lévesque (1922-1987) was a Québecois government minister and founder of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parti_Qu%C3%A9b%C3%A9cois Parti Québécois]. Bloc Québécois promotes sovereignty for Québec while the Parti promotes independence. The Fronte mentioned above is probably a misnomer or early form of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLQ FLQ].

'''convolved''' 
wound together

==Page 311==

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote 110 · Hal and Orin Discuss Québecois Politics|Endnote 110]]

==Page 311 (cont'd)==

'''U.S. Interstate 87''' 
It runs from Champlain, NY, on the Canadian border, to the Bronx.

'''empiricist''' 
describing drivers orienting themselves by experience, rather than paying close attention; 'naively empiricist' probably means that they are reacting to their immediate experience without thinking

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

'''diabolic''' 
devilishly evil

==Page 312==

'''benzodioxane''' 
a metabolite of benzodiazepines

=Mario's birth, early development=

==Page 312==

'''pica''' 
abnormal appetite

'''Vermeer''' 
Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) was a Dutch painter.

'''Toronto's Skydome''' 
Now known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skydome Rogers Centre], this is the home field of the Toronto Blue Jays.

==Page 313==

'''contractured''' 
having shortened muscle tissue

'''Green Valley AZ''' 
a city in Arizona about 22.5 miles due south of Tucson

'''saguaro''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saguaro cactus]

'''bradyauxetic''' 
slow in cell development

==Endnote 115==

'''Volkmann''' 
Richard von Volkmann (1830-1889) was a prominent German surgeon who described Volkmann's contracture in 1881. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Volkmann Wikipedia])

'''gerontologic''' 
having to do with the study of old age

'''lentissimo''' 
a musical term that is Italian for "very, very slowly"

==Page 313 (cont'd)==

'''inebriate''' 
as a noun, a drunkard

==Page 314==

'''blepharoplasty''' 
surgical reshaping of the eyelid

'''corticate''' 
having an outer layer

'''mucronate''' 
having abruptly projecting points

'''nonprehensile''' 
unable to grab

'''yarmulke''' 
the Yiddish word for the skullcap that observant Jewish men wear

'''Stanford-Binet''' 
a type of IQ test

'''bradyphrenic''' 
slow witted

'''more like refracted''' 
Refraction occurs when light slows down when it enters a new medium. The change of speed also causes a change in direction of travel. Although light travels at a constant speed in a vacuum, it travels more slowly in matter.

'''joint of beef''' 
a piece of beef of a good size for roasting

==Page 315==

'''NNYC''' 
New New York City

'''.7-meter''' 
about 2.3 feet

'''Marino lamps''' 
shorthand for a San Marino floor lamp

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

'''codicil''' 
an addition to a legal will

==Endnote 116==

'''hyperfloriated''' 
overdecorated with floral designs

==Page 315 (cont'd)==

'''juvenilia''' 
art created by a child or teenager

'''attenuates''' 
lessens

==Page 316==

'''à clef''' 
French for "by key," the term is usually given as ''roman à clef'', i.e., a novel for which one needs a key to understand.

'''canted''' 
sloped at an angle

'''saurian''' 
lizard-like (especially, here, with respect to the skin)

'''homodontic''' 
having teeth of all one type (see endnote 119; in Mario's case, all his teeth are bicuspids, the two-pronged sort normally found between the canines and the molars)

'''tangrams''' 
a type of Chinese puzzle

==Page 317==

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

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

==Page 317==

==Page 318==

'''''l'aine des Etats Unis''''' 
French: the groin of the United States

==Page 319==

'''redemised''' 
"Demise" is a legal term meaning to convey or lease land. Redemised title would normally refer to an interest returned to the original owner, as in a sale and lease-back, but may here just refer to a second transfer of title, or regifting as we say at Christmas time.

'''Sans-Christe''' 
French: Without Christ

'''''Un ennemi commun''''' 
French: a common enemy

==Page 320==

'''''L'état protecteur''''' 
French: the protector-state

'''lume nacreous''' 
pearly light

==Page 321==

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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''' 
scattered; dispersed (from one's homeland)

==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.

'''deafflatusized''' 
uninspired. afflatus is inspiration, divine communication of knowledge, literally to blow upon. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afflatus Wikipedia])

'''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" (Croatian) but probably just a misspelling,
OR indicative that the magazine is a French-Québecois publication

==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 Dairy 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 Italian ''sotto voce,'' which means "in a low voice."

==Page 288==

'''locusts''' 
Given the noise they're 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salic_law Salic Law] was a legal code of medieval Central Europe. The phrase is sometimes used simply to refer to its best-known tenet: agnatic succession, or the inheritance of the throne only by male heirs.

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

'''PAC''' 
Political Action Committee

'''florid''' 
flowery in style 

'''trilled r's''' 
as pronounced in a Spanish word such as ''perro'' ("dog") 
The French trilled r can be uvular (on the back of the tongue) or aveolar (front of the tongue, like the Spanish ''perro'' example).

''''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 
This is more likely a comment on the coach being terribly out of date - Tilden was considered the world's best tennis player from 1920 - 1934. His sexuality likely does not matter, but he seems to be very attracted to Avril Incandenza (p. 286).
(Also of interest is that Bill Tilden was inspiration for a character in Nabokov's Lolita, who was hired to coach the girl without worry that he would seduce her, since he was gay.)

'''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

'''drawn idle little sideways 8's''' 
with his fingers or another body part or fluid??? was there a similar line in ''Brief Interviews with Hideous Men''? a sideways eight is a symbol for infinity

'''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

'''decocted''' 
to extract the flavor of by boiling

'''avuncular''' 
characteristic of an uncle

==Page 291==

'''strabismic''' 
squinty or improperly aligned eyes

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

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

'''lateral''' 
sideways

'''''mollygag''''' 
the exiled Oklahoman football coach appears to combine "lolly-gag" and "molly-coddle"

'''''bona fried''''' 
the exiled Oklahoman coach here appears to mean "bona fide"

'''dope-slaps''' 
a smack to the back of the head, designed to get attention rather than inflict pain; distinct from more familiar "bitch-slap"

'''adit''' 
entrance or passage

'''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 high front rounded vowel (as in French ''tu'' "you") rather than the long /u/ phoneme.

'''kill it just by touching''' 
When a player on the punter's team touches the ball while it is still in the field of play, the play is whistled "dead" and the opposing team takes possession at that point

'''coffin-corner kicks''' 
Usually refers to a punt inside the opponent's 20 yard line that goes out of bounds and thus cannot be returned, as opposed to inside the 20-yard-line punts that remain in the field of play but are touched (killed) by a downfield runner

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

'''bilateral''' 
having two sides

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

'''wide receiver's number''' 
Punters are typically assigned a uniform with a number between 1 and 19, while wide receivers typically get a number in the 80s, though the NCAA has no hard and fast rules in this regard.

'''"...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''' 
The "book" length of a punt is not the same as its physical distance. Hal kicked the "baptismal competitive punt" 90 yards in the air, but was only credited with a 40-yard punt. Because the line of scrimmage was Syracuse's 40, and Hal kicked the ball through the end zone, the punt is recorded as 40 yards (the distance from the line of scrimmage to the end zone). The ball would be placed at Syracuse's 20, so the "net" on the punt would only have been 20 yards.

'''90-yard punt''' 
The record for a punt in both college and professional football is 99 yards. Presumably in each instance the punting team had the ball at its own 1 yard line and the punt, through the air and then with fortuitous bounces, came to rest in the opponent's end zone. Orins's punt is said to have traveled 90 yards in the air, which is a bit beyond the outer limits of what even a top pro can do on his best kicks.

'''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 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''' 
This must refer to the attendance for the game at Boston College's Alumni Stadium, which has a capacity of 44,500 (see page 293 for schedule). Nickerson Field at BU has a capacity of less than 10,000 people. BU also played at Rhode Island in Hal's first four weeks, but its field has a capacity of only 5,180.

'''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  short story "Twirling at Ole Miss" 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 unlikely 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''' 
watching

==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; Wallace might also mean to ward off or keep away, but the more commmon phrase for that is "stave off".

'''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

=November 14th, YDAU - Poor Tony Goes Cold Turkey=

==Page 299==

[[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.

==Page 300==

'''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 prostitution - trading sexual activity for money or drugs, frequently associated with violence [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/rough+trade FreeDictionary]

'''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''' 
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

==Page 301==

'''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''' 
hair tied into a knot worn at the back of the head, similar to a bun.

'''troughs and nodes''' 
deep furrows and swollen areas, respectively 
more likely: lows and data points or vertices between changes in symptoms.

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

'''wan''' 
pale in color

'''neurasthenic''' 
suffering from nervous exhaustion (with no apparent physical cause)

'''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?]

==Page 302==

'''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

==Page 303==

'''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, jerk or twitch

'''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."

==Page 304==

'''duplicitous''' 
deceptive in speech

'''hapless''' 
without luck

'''formicating''' 
moving like ants

'''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

==Page 305==

'''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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=☽ - Orin and Joelle=

==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''' 
scattered; dispersed (from one's homeland)

==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.

'''deafflatusized''' 
uninspired. afflatus is inspiration, divine communication of knowledge, literally to blow upon. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afflatus Wikipedia])

'''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" (Croatian) but probably just a misspelling,
OR indicative that the magazine is a French-Québecois publication

==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 Dairy 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 Italian ''sotto voce,'' which means "in a low voice."

==Page 288==

'''locusts''' 
Given the noise they're 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salic_law Salic Law] was a legal code of medieval Central Europe. The phrase is sometimes used simply to refer to its best-known tenet: agnatic succession, or the inheritance of the throne only by male heirs.

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

'''PAC''' 
Political Action Committee

'''florid''' 
flowery in style 

'''trilled r's''' 
as pronounced in a Spanish word such as ''perro'' ("dog") 
The French trilled r can be uvular (on the back of the tongue) or aveolar (front of the tongue, like the Spanish ''perro'' example).

''''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 
This is more likely a comment on the coach being terribly out of date - Tilden was considered the world's best tennis player from 1920 - 1934. His sexuality likely does not matter, but he seems to be very attracted to Avril Incandenza (p. 286).
(Also of interest is that Bill Tilden was inspiration for a character in Nabokov's Lolita, who was hired to coach the girl without worry that he would seduce her, since he was gay.)

'''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

'''drawn idle little sideways 8's''' 
with his fingers or another body part or fluid??? was there a similar line in ''Brief Interviews with Hideous Men''? a sideways eight is a symbol for infinity

'''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

'''decocted''' 
to extract the flavor of by boiling

'''avuncular''' 
characteristic of an uncle

==Page 291==

'''strabismic''' 
squinty or improperly aligned eyes

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

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

'''lateral''' 
sideways

'''''mollygag''''' 
the exiled Oklahoman football coach appears to combine "lolly-gag" and "molly-coddle"

'''''bona fried''''' 
the exiled Oklahoman coach here appears to mean "bona fide"

'''dope-slaps''' 
a smack to the back of the head, designed to get attention rather than inflict pain; distinct from more familiar "bitch-slap"

'''adit''' 
entrance or passage

'''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 high front rounded vowel (as in French ''tu'' "you") rather than the long /u/ phoneme.

'''kill it just by touching''' 
When a player on the punter's team touches the ball while it is still in the field of play, the play is whistled "dead" and the opposing team takes possession at that point

'''coffin-corner kicks''' 
Usually refers to a punt inside the opponent's 20 yard line that goes out of bounds and thus cannot be returned, as opposed to inside the 20-yard-line punts that remain in the field of play but are touched (killed) by a downfield runner

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

'''bilateral''' 
having two sides

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

'''wide receiver's number''' 
Punters are typically assigned a uniform with a number between 1 and 19, while wide receivers typically get a number in the 80s, though the NCAA has no hard and fast rules in this regard.

'''"...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''' 
The "book" length of a punt is not the same as its physical distance. Hal kicked the "baptismal competitive punt" 90 yards in the air, but was only credited with a 40-yard punt. Because the line of scrimmage was Syracuse's 40, and Hal kicked the ball through the end zone, the punt is recorded as 40 yards (the distance from the line of scrimmage to the end zone). The ball would be placed at Syracuse's 20, so the "net" on the punt would only have been 20 yards.

'''90-yard punt''' 
The record for a punt in both college and professional football is 99 yards. Presumably in each instance the punting team had the ball at its own 1 yard line and the punt, through the air and then with fortuitous bounces, came to rest in the opponent's end zone. Orins's punt is said to have traveled 90 yards in the air, which is a bit beyond the outer limits of what even a top pro can do on his best kicks.

'''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 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''' 
This must refer to the attendance for the game at Boston College's Alumni Stadium, which has a capacity of 44,500 (see page 293 for schedule). Nickerson Field at BU has a capacity of less than 10,000 people. BU also played at Rhode Island in Hal's first four weeks, but its field has a capacity of only 5,180.

'''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

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'''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  short story "Twirling at Ole Miss" 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 unlikely 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''' 
watching

==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

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'''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

=November 14th, YDAU - Poor Tony Goes Cold Turkey=

==Page 299==

[[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.

==Page 300==

'''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 prostitution - trading sexual activity for money or drugs, frequently associated with violence [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/rough+trade FreeDictionary]

'''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''' 
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''' 
hair tied into a knot worn at the back of the head, similar to a bun.

'''troughs and nodes''' 
deep furrows and swollen areas, respectively 
more likely: lows and data points or vertices between changes in symptoms.

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

'''wan''' 
pale in color

'''neurasthenic''' 
suffering from nervous exhaustion (with no apparent physical cause)

'''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?]

==Page 302==

'''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

==Page 303==

'''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, jerk or twitch

'''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."

==Page 304==

'''duplicitous''' 
deceptive in speech

'''hapless''' 
without luck

'''formicating''' 
moving like ants

'''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

==Page 305==

'''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]]

'''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/ "Nosferatu"] (1922). Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès (1861-1938) was a French filmmaker, famous for the 1902 silent [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000417/ "A Trip to the Moon"] (featured in Martin Scorsese's 2011 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970179/ "Hugo"]).

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

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

==Page 220==

'''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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorghum grain] used in the production of molasses, alcholic beverages, and animal feed

'''tumefies''' 
swells

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

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

==Page 221==

'''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."

==Page 222==

'''NOTRE RAI PAYS''' 
perhaps idiomatic French (literally "our spoke [''or'' ray] country") for "our home away from home," indicating Québec's colonial status with respect to motherland France; potentially meant to be translated as "our shining land".

'''.473-liter''' 
16 ounces, a pint

'''Big Red Soda Water''' 
a [http://www.bigredltd.com/ real brand] similar to cream soda, only red. This was originally only sold in Central/South Texas and Kentucky and is still popular in that region, though available elsewhere.

'''Chore Boy''' 
a brand of [http://www.choreboyscrubbers.com/ scrubbing pads]. The copper version of these pads can be used as a filter for smoking crack.

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

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

'''The afternoon's meshes.''' 
recalls an experimental film by Maya Deren and her husband Alexander Hammid, "Meshes of the Afternoon" (1943)

'''delimits''' 
establishes the boundaries of

==Page 223==

=Chronology of O.N.A.N.'s Revenue-Enhancing 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

=Joelle, cont.=

==Page 223==

'''Colonel Shaw and the MA 54th''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw Robert Gould Shaw] was a Bostonian killed in the Civil War while commanding the all-black Massachusetts 54th Regiment. A relief sculpture [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_Memorial memorial] to him is located on Beacon Street (not Boylston Street) in front of the Massachusetts State House.

==Page 225==

'''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]

==Endnote 79==

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

==Page 225 (cont'd)==

'''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'').

==Page 226==

'''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''' 
scopophobia is the morbid fear of being seen or stared at by others

'''he was indeed inebriated...while she...would tomorrow still be hideously and improbably deformed.''' 
Many versions of this witty exchange between Winston Churchill and a woman have been propagated over the the years. It may or may not have actually occurred.

=Helen P. Steeply's (putative) c.v.=

==Page 227==

'''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 the older Latin equivalent (''Artium Baccalaureus'' or ''Artium Baccalaureatus'') of B.A., i.e., Bachelor of Arts. M.J.A. is Master of Justice Administration.

'''''Decade Magazine''''' 
probably not a real publication 

'''''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]

=Joelle, cont.=

==Page 227==

'''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.]]

==Page 228==

'''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." (See the [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_157-181#Page_171 Consummation of the Levirates].)

The A.M.'s interruptus could refer to her "quitting" her drug use that morning.

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

==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.... Continuing with the optics theme, Keck is a major observatory on the big island of Hawaii. Rutherford could refer to a British nuclear physicist who pioneered an erroneous model of the atom and discovered the concept of radioactive half-life.

'''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.

==Page 230==

'''paps''' 
breasts or nipples

'''diphthong''' 
In linguistics, a diphthong is a vowel combination involving a smooth transition from one vowel to another in the same syllable. "Splitting the diphthong" in "beautiful" is pronouncing it bee-yoo-ti-ful.

'''febrile''' 
feverish

'''scopophiliac''' 
An individual affected with the desire to look at sexually stimulating scenes especially as a substitute for actual sexual participation. From the translation of the Freudian notion of Schaulust, "pleasure in looking," in the sense of both seeing and being seen, as well as "curiosity." Freud distinguished between two frequently encountered forms of this partial drive: one active, "voyeurism," and the other passive, "exhibitionism," neither of which he would necessarily rank among perversions. [cf. scopophobic (p.226) & scopophilia (p.832)]

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

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

==Page 231==

'''Vogelsong''' 
"Vogel" = German for "bird", i.e. something like: bird song ("song" is not German)

'''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''' 
inspiration; a divine imparting of knowledge or power

'''dithers''' 
behaves in a nervous or agitated way

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

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

'''Bouvier''' 
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's maiden surname

'''''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).

==Page 232==

'''''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''. Still, the wrong spelling may be related to Kennedy's wrong pronounciation of this sentence. And yes, it's true "Berliner" is a German word for a special kind of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_%28pastry%29 pastry]. [You find a quite interesting episode related to this topic in Pychon's "Against the Day"...]

'''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 (literally, "tastes are not disputable")

'''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.

==Page 233==

'''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. In the context of Heidegger, it refers to things that can be known without any experience of the world, usually because they involve the structure of the mind or of concepts.

'''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.

==Page 234==

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

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

'''48 kilograms''' 
about 106 pounds (This makes her about 15-30 pounds below her ideal weight.)

'''phalloneurotic''' 
a portmanteau of ''phallus'' and ''neurotic'', probably intended to mean a mental disorder involving obsession with one's penis, or perhaps with penes more generally; uncertain as to which "phalloneurotic" New Yorker this refers

'''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''''' 
An 18-minute [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgMdkslzAC0 film] by Sidney Peterson (1949), preceded by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's great [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040725/ ''The Red Shoes''](1948) with Moira Shearer. (Cf. the color in the title of the fictitious monograph in endnote 81.)

'''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'').

==Page 235==

'''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 scraper''' 
Presumably refers to NoCoat LinguaScrapers (tongue scrapers) mentioned on [http://wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_127-156#Page_151 Page 151].

'''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

==Page 236==

'''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

==Page 237==

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

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

==Page 238==

'''fillips''' 
a sharp tap, "made by bending the last joint of a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing it (so as to propel some small object, or merely as a gesture)" (OED)

'''mâché''' 
French for "chewed" indicating here bits and pieces of the material. e.g., 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]

==Page 239==

'''banal''' 
hackneyed or trite

'''Prettiest G.O.A.T.''' 
Though G.O.A.T. stands here for "Girl Of All Time," it's an oxymoron, because "goat" is a slang term for an ugly person.

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

==Page 240==

'''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]

=☽ - Enfield, MA=

==Page 240==

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.

==Page 241==

'''RCC''' 
Roman Catholic Church

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

'''5 km''' 
about 3.1 miles

'''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

==Page 242==

'''Ø's''' 
This could refer to all the zeros in the presumably large number of amps in the warning signs, but it may also refer (in plural) to the internationally recognized graphic prohibition sign, i.e., the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ No symbol], although the graphic incorporates a red circle with a backslash (from top left to bottom right, rather than bottom left to top right), as for the zero symbol. The numerical symbol incorporates the forward slash to distinguish it from the capital letter O.

'''A.D.E.''' 
one of ATSHCME's Air-Displacement Effectuators

=November 5th, YDAU - Hal and Orin discuss Himself's suicide=

==Page 242==

==Endnote 82==
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote 82|Endnote 82]]

==Page 243==

'''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 conciliate, appease or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit

'''apotropaic barn-signs''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_sign Hex signs] commonly seen in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, ostensibly intended to ward off evil, but now probably used more as a decorative element

'''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

==Page 244==

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

'''apposite''' 
pertinent

==Page 245==

'''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

'''frothy biblical saw''' 
a trifling or empty biblical proverb

==Page 246==

'''rodneys''' 
obviously some kind of impulse buy: cigarettes

'''refracted''' 
bent or twisted by a change in medium. An optics term, so this is an oblique reference to filming.

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

==Page 247==

'''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. The Royal Victoria College was a women's college created as part of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.

==Page 248==

'''Rog and Wilc,O.''' 
"Roger Wilco, Orin" - Roger Wilco is a radio communication meaning Roger - "I received your message./" and Wilco - "I will comply."

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

==Page 249==

'''telemachry''' 
Maybe not the word Hal was looking for, but Telemachus was a monk who tried to stop the Roman gladiator fights and told the Romans to stop worshiping false idols instead of Christ. He was stoned to death, though his death is sometimes said to have ended the Gladiatorial games. So, "telemachry" could be interpreted to be trust in a higher power.

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

==Page 250==
'''asphyxuated''' 
There's no clear reason for Orin's mispronunciation of ''asphyxiated''. Perhaps he's combining ''asphyxia'' and ''evacuated''.

==Page 251==

'''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

==Page 252==

'''synclinal''' 
sloping downward from opposite directions to meet in a common point or line

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

==Page 253==

'''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. (The 1997 edition is 343 pages, but an earlier publishing may have been 352.)

'''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

==Page 254==

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

==Page 255==

'''unfazable''' 
incapable of being disturbed

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

==Page 256==

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

==Page 257==

'''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

==Page 258==

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

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'''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/ "Nosferatu"] (1922). Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès (1861-1938) was a French filmmaker, famous for the 1902 silent [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000417/ "A Trip to the Moon"] (featured in Martin Scorsese's 2011 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970179/ "Hugo"]).

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

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

==Page 220==

'''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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorghum grain] used in the production of molasses, alcholic beverages, and animal feed

'''tumefies''' 
swells

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

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

==Page 221==

'''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."

==Page 222==

'''NOTRE RAI PAYS''' 
perhaps idiomatic French (literally "our spoke [''or'' ray] country") for "our home away from home," indicating Québec's colonial status with respect to motherland France; potentially meant to be translated as "our shining land".

'''.473-liter''' 
16 ounces, a pint

'''Big Red Soda Water''' 
a [http://www.bigredltd.com/ real brand] similar to cream soda, only red. This was originally only sold in Central/South Texas and Kentucky and is still popular in that region, though available elsewhere.

'''Chore Boy''' 
a brand of [http://www.choreboyscrubbers.com/ scrubbing pads]. The copper version of these pads can be used as a filter for smoking crack.

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

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

'''The afternoon's meshes.''' 
recalls an experimental film by Maya Deren and her husband Alexander Hammid, "Meshes of the Afternoon" (1943)

'''delimits''' 
establishes the boundaries of

==Page 223==

=Chronology of O.N.A.N.'s Revenue-Enhancing 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

=Joelle, cont.=

==Page 223==

'''Colonel Shaw and the MA 54th''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw Robert Gould Shaw] was a Bostonian killed in the Civil War while commanding the all-black Massachusetts 54th Regiment. A relief sculpture [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_Memorial memorial] to him is located on Beacon Street (not Boylston Street) in front of the Massachusetts State House.

==Page 225==

'''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]

==Endnote 79==

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

==Page 225 (cont'd)==

'''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'').

==Page 226==

'''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''' 
scopophobia is the morbid fear of being seen or stared at by others

'''he was indeed inebriated...while she...would tomorrow still be hideously and improbably deformed.''' 
Many versions of this witty exchange between Winston Churchill and a woman have been propagated over the the years. It may or may not have actually occurred.

=Helen P. Steeply's (putative) c.v.=

==Page 227==

'''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 the older Latin equivalent (''Artium Baccalaureus'' or ''Artium Baccalaureatus'') of B.A., i.e., Bachelor of Arts. M.J.A. is Master of Justice Administration.

'''''Decade Magazine''''' 
probably not a real publication 

'''''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]

=Joelle, cont.=

==Page 227==

'''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.]]

==Page 228==

'''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." (See the [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_157-181#Page_171 Consummation of the Levirates].)

The A.M.'s interruptus could refer to her "quitting" her drug use that morning.

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

==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.... Continuing with the optics theme, Keck is a major observatory on the big island of Hawaii. Rutherford could refer to a British nuclear physicist who pioneered an erroneous model of the atom and discovered the concept of radioactive half-life.

'''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.

==Page 230==

'''paps''' 
breasts or nipples

'''diphthong''' 
In linguistics, a diphthong is a vowel combination involving a smooth transition from one vowel to another in the same syllable. "Splitting the diphthong" in "beautiful" is pronouncing it bee-yoo-ti-ful.

'''febrile''' 
feverish

'''scopophiliac''' 
An individual affected with the desire to look at sexually stimulating scenes especially as a substitute for actual sexual participation. From the translation of the Freudian notion of Schaulust, "pleasure in looking," in the sense of both seeing and being seen, as well as "curiosity." Freud distinguished between two frequently encountered forms of this partial drive: one active, "voyeurism," and the other passive, "exhibitionism," neither of which he would necessarily rank among perversions. [cf. scopophobic (p.226) & scopophilia (p.832)]

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

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

==Page 231==

'''Vogelsong''' 
"Vogel" = German for "bird", i.e. something like: bird song ("song" is not German)

'''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''' 
inspiration; a divine imparting of knowledge or power

'''dithers''' 
behaves in a nervous or agitated way

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

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

'''Bouvier''' 
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's maiden surname

'''''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).

==Page 232==

'''''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''. Still, the wrong spelling may be related to Kennedy's wrong pronounciation of this sentence. And yes, it's true "Berliner" is a German word for a special kind of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_%28pastry%29 pastry]. [You find a quite interesting episode related to this topic in Pychon's "Against the Day"...]

'''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 (literally, "tastes are not disputable")

'''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.

==Page 233==

'''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. In the context of Heidegger, it refers to things that can be known without any experience of the world, usually because they involve the structure of the mind or of concepts.

'''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.

==Page 234==

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

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

'''48 kilograms''' 
about 106 pounds (This makes her about 15-30 pounds below her ideal weight.)

'''phalloneurotic''' 
a portmanteau of ''phallus'' and ''neurotic'', probably intended to mean a mental disorder involving obsession with one's penis, or perhaps with penes more generally; uncertain as to which "phalloneurotic" New Yorker this refers

'''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''''' 
An 18-minute [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgMdkslzAC0 film] by Sidney Peterson (1949), preceded by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's great [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040725/ ''The Red Shoes''](1948) with Moira Shearer. (Cf. the color in the title of the fictitious monograph in endnote 81.)

'''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'').

==Page 235==

'''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 scraper''' 
Presumably refers to NoCoat LinguaScrapers (tongue scrapers) mentioned on [http://wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_127-156#Page_151 Page 151].

'''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

==Page 236==

'''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

==Page 237==

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

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

==Page 238==

'''fillips''' 
a sharp tap

'''mâché''' 
French for "chewed" indicating here bits and pieces of the material. e.g., 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]

==Page 239==

'''banal''' 
hackneyed or trite

'''Prettiest G.O.A.T.''' 
Though G.O.A.T. stands here for "Girl Of All Time," it's an oxymoron, because "goat" is a slang term for an ugly person.

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

==Page 240==

'''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]

=☽ - Enfield, MA=

==Page 240==

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.

==Page 241==

'''RCC''' 
Roman Catholic Church

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

'''5 km''' 
about 3.1 miles

'''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

==Page 242==

'''Ø's''' 
This could refer to all the zeros in the presumably large number of amps in the warning signs, but it may also refer (in plural) to the internationally recognized graphic prohibition sign, i.e., the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ No symbol], although the graphic incorporates a red circle with a backslash (from top left to bottom right, rather than bottom left to top right), as for the zero symbol. The numerical symbol incorporates the forward slash to distinguish it from the capital letter O.

'''A.D.E.''' 
one of ATSHCME's Air-Displacement Effectuators

=November 5th, YDAU - Hal and Orin discuss Himself's suicide=

==Page 242==

==Endnote 82==
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote 82|Endnote 82]]

==Page 243==

'''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 conciliate, appease or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit

'''apotropaic barn-signs''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_sign Hex signs] commonly seen in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, ostensibly intended to ward off evil, but now probably used more as a decorative element

'''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

==Page 244==

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

'''apposite''' 
pertinent

==Page 245==

'''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

'''frothy biblical saw''' 
a trifling or empty biblical proverb

==Page 246==

'''rodneys''' 
obviously some kind of impulse buy: cigarettes

'''refracted''' 
bent or twisted by a change in medium. An optics term, so this is an oblique reference to filming.

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

==Page 247==

'''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. The Royal Victoria College was a women's college created as part of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.

==Page 248==

'''Rog and Wilc,O.''' 
"Roger Wilco, Orin" - Roger Wilco is a radio communication meaning Roger - "I received your message./" and Wilco - "I will comply."

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

==Page 249==

'''telemachry''' 
Maybe not the word Hal was looking for, but Telemachus was a monk who tried to stop the Roman gladiator fights and told the Romans to stop worshiping false idols instead of Christ. He was stoned to death, though his death is sometimes said to have ended the Gladiatorial games. So, "telemachry" could be interpreted to be trust in a higher power.

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

==Page 250==
'''asphyxuated''' 
There's no clear reason for Orin's mispronunciation of ''asphyxiated''. Perhaps he's combining ''asphyxia'' and ''evacuated''.

==Page 251==

'''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

==Page 252==

'''synclinal''' 
sloping downward from opposite directions to meet in a common point or line

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

==Page 253==

'''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. (The 1997 edition is 343 pages, but an earlier publishing may have been 352.)

'''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

==Page 254==

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

==Page 255==

'''unfazable''' 
incapable of being disturbed

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

==Page 256==

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

==Page 257==

'''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

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'''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/ "Nosferatu"] (1922). Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès (1861-1938) was a French filmmaker, famous for the 1902 silent [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000417/ "A Trip to the Moon"] (featured in Martin Scorsese's 2011 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970179/ "Hugo"]).

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

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

==Page 220==

'''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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorghum grain] used in the production of molasses, alcholic beverages, and animal feed

'''tumefies''' 
swells

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

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

==Page 221==

'''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."

==Page 222==

'''NOTRE RAI PAYS''' 
perhaps idiomatic French (literally "our spoke [''or'' ray] country") for "our home away from home," indicating Québec's colonial status with respect to motherland France; potentially meant to be translated as "our shining land".

'''.473-liter''' 
16 ounces, a pint

'''Big Red Soda Water''' 
a [http://www.bigredltd.com/ real brand] similar to cream soda, only red. This was originally only sold in Central/South Texas and Kentucky and is still popular in that region, though available elsewhere.

'''Chore Boy''' 
a brand of [http://www.choreboyscrubbers.com/ scrubbing pads]. The copper version of these pads can be used as a filter for smoking crack.

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

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

'''The afternoon's meshes.''' 
recalls an experimental film by Maya Deren and her husband Alexander Hammid, "Meshes of the Afternoon" (1943)

'''delimits''' 
establishes the boundaries of

==Page 223==

=Chronology of O.N.A.N.'s Revenue-Enhancing 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

=Joelle, cont.=

==Page 223==

'''Colonel Shaw and the MA 54th''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw Robert Gould Shaw] was a Bostonian killed in the Civil War while commanding the all-black Massachusetts 54th Regiment. A relief sculpture [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_Memorial memorial] to him is located on Beacon Street (not Boylston Street) in front of the Massachusetts State House.

==Page 225==

'''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]

==Endnote 79==

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

==Page 225 (cont'd)==

'''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'').

==Page 226==

'''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''' 
scopophobia is the morbid fear of being seen or stared at by others

'''he was indeed inebriated...while she...would tomorrow still be hideously and improbably deformed.''' 
Many versions of this witty exchange between Winston Churchill and a woman have been propagated over the the years. It may or may not have actually occurred.

=Helen P. Steeply's (putative) c.v.=

==Page 227==

'''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 the older Latin equivalent (''Artium Baccalaureus'' or ''Artium Baccalaureatus'') of B.A., i.e., Bachelor of Arts. M.J.A. is Master of Justice Administration.

'''''Decade Magazine''''' 
probably not a real publication 

'''''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]

=Joelle, cont.=

==Page 227==

'''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.]]

==Page 228==

'''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." (See the [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_157-181#Page_171 Consummation of the Levirates].)

The A.M.'s interruptus could refer to her "quitting" her drug use that morning.

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

==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.... Continuing with the optics theme, Keck is a major observatory on the big island of Hawaii. Rutherford could refer to a British nuclear physicist who pioneered an erroneous model of the atom and discovered the concept of radioactive half-life.

'''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.

==Page 230==

'''paps''' 
breasts or nipples

'''diphthong''' 
In linguistics, a diphthong is a vowel combination involving a smooth transition from one vowel to another in the same syllable. "Splitting the diphthong" in "beautiful" is pronouncing it bee-yoo-ti-ful.

'''febrile''' 
feverish

'''scopophiliac''' 
An individual affected with the desire to look at sexually stimulating scenes especially as a substitute for actual sexual participation. From the translation of the Freudian notion of Schaulust, "pleasure in looking," in the sense of both seeing and being seen, as well as "curiosity." Freud distinguished between two frequently encountered forms of this partial drive: one active, "voyeurism," and the other passive, "exhibitionism," neither of which he would necessarily rank among perversions. [cf. scopophobic (p.226) & scopophilia (p.832)]

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

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

==Page 231==

'''Vogelsong''' 
"Vogel" = German for "bird", i.e. something like: bird song ("song" is not German)

'''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''' 
inspiration; a divine imparting of knowledge or power

'''dithers''' 
behaves in a nervous or agitated way

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

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

'''Bouvier''' 
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's maiden surname

'''''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).

==Page 232==

'''''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''. Still, the wrong spelling may be related to Kennedy's wrong pronounciation of this sentence. And yes, it's true "Berliner" is a German word for a special kind of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_%28pastry%29 pastry]. [You find a quite interesting episode related to this topic in Pychon's "Against the Day"...]

'''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 (literally, "tastes are not disputable")

'''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.

==Page 233==

'''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.

==Page 234==

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

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

'''48 kilograms''' 
about 106 pounds (This makes her about 15-30 pounds below her ideal weight.)

'''phalloneurotic''' 
a portmanteau of ''phallus'' and ''neurotic'', probably intended to mean a mental disorder involving obsession with one's penis, or perhaps with penes more generally; uncertain as to which "phalloneurotic" New Yorker this refers

'''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''''' 
An 18-minute [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgMdkslzAC0 film] by Sidney Peterson (1949), preceded by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's great [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040725/ ''The Red Shoes''](1948) with Moira Shearer. (Cf. the color in the title of the fictitious monograph in endnote 81.)

'''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'').

==Page 235==

'''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 scraper''' 
Presumably refers to NoCoat LinguaScrapers (tongue scrapers) mentioned on [http://wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_127-156#Page_151 Page 151].

'''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

==Page 236==

'''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

==Page 237==

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

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

==Page 238==

'''fillips''' 
a sharp tap

'''mâché''' 
French for "chewed" indicating here bits and pieces of the material. e.g., 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]

==Page 239==

'''banal''' 
hackneyed or trite

'''Prettiest G.O.A.T.''' 
Though G.O.A.T. stands here for "Girl Of All Time," it's an oxymoron, because "goat" is a slang term for an ugly person.

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

==Page 240==

'''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]

=☽ - Enfield, MA=

==Page 240==

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.

==Page 241==

'''RCC''' 
Roman Catholic Church

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

'''5 km''' 
about 3.1 miles

'''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

==Page 242==

'''Ø's''' 
This could refer to all the zeros in the presumably large number of amps in the warning signs, but it may also refer (in plural) to the internationally recognized graphic prohibition sign, i.e., the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ No symbol], although the graphic incorporates a red circle with a backslash (from top left to bottom right, rather than bottom left to top right), as for the zero symbol. The numerical symbol incorporates the forward slash to distinguish it from the capital letter O.

'''A.D.E.''' 
one of ATSHCME's Air-Displacement Effectuators

=November 5th, YDAU - Hal and Orin discuss Himself's suicide=

==Page 242==

==Endnote 82==
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote 82|Endnote 82]]

==Page 243==

'''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 conciliate, appease or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit

'''apotropaic barn-signs''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_sign Hex signs] commonly seen in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, ostensibly intended to ward off evil, but now probably used more as a decorative element

'''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

==Page 244==

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

'''apposite''' 
pertinent

==Page 245==

'''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

'''frothy biblical saw''' 
a trifling or empty biblical proverb

==Page 246==

'''rodneys''' 
obviously some kind of impulse buy: cigarettes

'''refracted''' 
bent or twisted by a change in medium. An optics term, so this is an oblique reference to filming.

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

==Page 247==

'''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. The Royal Victoria College was a women's college created as part of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.

==Page 248==

'''Rog and Wilc,O.''' 
"Roger Wilco, Orin" - Roger Wilco is a radio communication meaning Roger - "I received your message./" and Wilco - "I will comply."

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

==Page 249==

'''telemachry''' 
Maybe not the word Hal was looking for, but Telemachus was a monk who tried to stop the Roman gladiator fights and told the Romans to stop worshiping false idols instead of Christ. He was stoned to death, though his death is sometimes said to have ended the Gladiatorial games. So, "telemachry" could be interpreted to be trust in a higher power.

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

==Page 250==
'''asphyxuated''' 
There's no clear reason for Orin's mispronunciation of ''asphyxiated''. Perhaps he's combining ''asphyxia'' and ''evacuated''.

==Page 251==

'''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

==Page 252==

'''synclinal''' 
sloping downward from opposite directions to meet in a common point or line

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

==Page 253==

'''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. (The 1997 edition is 343 pages, but an earlier publishing may have been 352.)

'''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

==Page 255==

'''unfazable''' 
incapable of being disturbed

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

==Page 256==

'''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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 201==

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

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

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

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

==Page 202==

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

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

'''nexus''' 
a means of connection

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

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

==Endnote 70==

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

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

==Page 202 (cont'd)==

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

==Page 203==

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

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

'''unalloyed''' 
pure

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

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

'''insipid''' 
without any interesting qualities

==Page 204==

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

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

'''argot''' 
slang

==Page 205==

'''pancreatitis''' 
inflammation of the pancreas

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

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

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

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

==Page 207==

'''200 kilos''' 
over 440 pounds

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

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

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

'''necrotic''' 
dead

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

==Page 208==

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

'''hyperemic''' 
engorged with blood

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

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

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

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

'''mucronate''' 
having a projecting point

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''cantankerous''' 
disagreeable, argumentative

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

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

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

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

'''BLTN''' 
Better Late Than Never

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

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

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

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

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

'''canted''' 
set at an oblique angle; this can also mean having rounded corners

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Decoct''' 
to extract soluble parts by boiling

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 215==

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 216==

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

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

[[Image:Quaker.jpg|right]]

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

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

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

'''stolid''' 
unemotional or impassive

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

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

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

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

'''arachnodactylic''' 
having fingers like spiders

==Page 217==

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 218==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Endnote 76==

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

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

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

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

'''RAM''' 
Random Access Memory

==Page 218 (cont'd)==

'''halcyon''' 
prosperous, happy

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

==Page 219==

==Endnote 77==

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

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

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

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

==Page 199==

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

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

==Page 200==

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

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

=Facts About Addiction and Tattoos=

==Page 200==

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

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

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

==Page 201==

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

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

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

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

==Page 202==

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

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

'''nexus''' 
a means of connection

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

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

==Endnote 70==

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

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

==Page 202 (cont'd)==

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

==Page 203==

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

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

'''unalloyed''' 
pure

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

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

'''insipid''' 
without any interesting qualities

==Page 204==

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

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

'''argot''' 
slang

==Page 205==

'''pancreatitis''' 
inflammation of the pancreas

==Page 206==

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

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

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

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

==Page 207==

'''200 kilos''' 
over 440 pounds

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

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

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

'''necrotic''' 
dead

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

==Page 208==

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

'''hyperemic''' 
engorged with blood

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

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

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

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

'''mucronate''' 
having a projecting point

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

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

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

==Page 209==

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

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

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

'''cantankerous''' 
disagreeable, argumentative

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

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

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

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

'''BLTN''' 
Better Late Than Never

==Page 210==

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

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

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

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

==Page 211==

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

'''canted''' 
set at an oblique angle; this can also mean having rounded corners

=The Incredibly Potent DMZ=

==Page 211==

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

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

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

==Page 212==

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 213==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 215==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[[Image:Quaker.jpg|right]]

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

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

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

'''stolid''' 
unemotional or impassive

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

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

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

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

'''arachnodactylic''' 
having fingers like spiders

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Endnote 76==

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

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

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

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

'''RAM''' 
Random Access Memory

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'''halcyon''' 
prosperous, happy

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

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

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

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=November 6th, YDAU - ETA Weight Room=

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

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

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

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

==Page 200==

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

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

=Facts About Addiction and Tattoos=

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

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

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

==Page 201==

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

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

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

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

==Page 202==

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

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

'''nexus''' 
a means of connection

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

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

==Endnote 70==

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

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

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

==Page 203==

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

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

'''unalloyed''' 
pure

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

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

'''insipid''' 
without any interesting qualities

==Page 204==

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

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

'''argot''' 
slang

==Page 205==

'''pancreatitis''' 
inflammation of the pancreas

==Page 206==

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

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

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

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

==Page 207==

'''200 kilos''' 
over 440 pounds

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

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

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

'''necrotic''' 
dead

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

==Page 208==

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

'''hyperemic''' 
engorged with blood

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

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

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

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

'''mucronate''' 
having a projecting point

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

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

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

==Page 209==

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

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

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

'''cantankerous''' 
disagreeable, argumentative

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

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

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

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

'''BLTN''' 
Better Late Than Never

==Page 210==

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

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

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

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

==Page 211==

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

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

=The Incredibly Potent DMZ=

==Page 211==

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

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

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

==Page 212==

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 213==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 214==

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

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

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

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

==Page 215==

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 216==

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

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

[[Image:Quaker.jpg|right]]

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

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

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

'''stolid''' 
unemotional or impassive

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

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

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

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

'''arachnodactylic''' 
having fingers like spiders

==Page 217==

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 218==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Endnote 76==

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

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

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

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

'''RAM''' 
Random Access Memory

==Page 218 (cont'd)==

'''halcyon''' 
prosperous, happy

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

==Page 219==

==Endnote 77==

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

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

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==Page 181==

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''epiglottal''' 
having to do with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiglottis epiglottis]

'''Hillel''' 
a nationwide (worldwide?) Jewish student union present on several campuses

'''corpus callosum''' 
the part of the brain connecting the left and right hemispheres

'''laryngeally fissured''' 
having ridges like the human [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larynx larynx]

'''work-study''' 
receiving funding from the university in exchange for work rendered to the university

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'''chiffon''' 
a lightweight, balanced, plain-woven fabric

'''limned''' 
To limn means to describe or delineate

'''parietal''' 
referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parietal_lobe parietal lobe] of the brain, responsible for sensory memory and response

'''pop''' 
Midwesterners in the U.S. use this word to denote what others call "soda," i.e., Coca-Cola, 7-Up, etc. See also "tonic," p. 478.

'''Dow''' 
a pun on the Chinese word ''tao,'' ("the way") and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJIA Dow Jones Industrial Average]

'''gasper''' 
cigarette

'''E.S.T.''' 
Eastern Standard Time

'''medulla''' 
literally that part of the brain responsible for autonomic functions like heartbeat, organ activity, etc.

==Page 184==

'''I. M. Pei''' 
Ieoh Ming Pei (born 1917) is a Chinese-born American architect who designed, among other famous buildings, MIT's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Building_%28MIT%29 Green Building].

==Endnote 60==

'''J. A. Stratton''' 
Julius Adams Stratton (1901-1994) was an American educator and president of MIT between 1959 and 1965.

==Page 184 (cont'd)==

'''cerebral cortex''' 
that part of the brain responsible for higher-order thinking

'''"...what she's said for three years of midnights..."''' 
Up until 'Look at that fucker ''Dance,''' the rest of her introduction is from [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201&version=9 Genesis 1].

'''Largest Whole Prime On The FM Band''' 
109 is a prime number, i.e., divisible only by itself and by 1. Actually the highest number you can get on FM is 108.

'''EM''' 
probably denoting "electromagnetic"

'''centrifugal''' 
that force in a spinning object that tends to push away objects from the angle of rotation

'''Hundt Act''' 
Reed E. Hundt (born 1948) was chairman of the Federal Communications Committee in 1996, when the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was passed. Wallace may be riffing on that, as it appears there was no equivalent legislation in 1966.

'''spatter's center''' 
The spatter referred to here is probably the small amount of FM bands that can be sent out.

'''inelastic''' 
When used with regard to demand, this term means tending not to change.

'''3-km. cannon''' 
The range is about 1.86 miles.

'''P.E.''' 
Physical Education

'''Philology''' 
The study of literature or language.

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'''hypogonadism''' 
lack of function of the ovaries or testicles

'''Nodular leprosy with leonine facies''' 
a form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprosy leprosy] that generates lesions made of nodes and that produces lion-like facial expressions (i.e., "leonine facies")

'''The acromegalic and hyperkeratosistic. The enuretic.''' 
Arcomegaly is a disorder of the pituitary gland whereby it produces too much human growth hormone, resulting in giantism. Hyperkeratosistic means that one is suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperkeratosis hyperkeratosis]. Enuresis is the inability to urinate.

'''The spasmodically torticollic.''' 
having a head tilted to one side (torticollis) involving convulsions (spasmodic)

'''transuranial metallurgist.''' 

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

'''G.S.L.''' 
Guaranteed Student Loan

'''treillage''' 
latticework

'''interneural''' 
between nerves

'''semitic ideograms''' 
Semitic languages actually tend to be written uses alphabets, where a symbol denotes a phoneme, rather than in ideograms, like Chinese and Korean are. The oldest alphabet is the Phoenician, which was Semitic.0

'''rostral lamina''' 
in biology, a beaklike or snoutlike (rostral) layer of tissue (lamina)

'''neuroform''' 
Neuroform is actually the brand-name of a type of stent.

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

'''neorealist''' 
adhering to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_neorealism Italian neorealism]

'''Peterson/Broughton and Dali/Buñuel''' 
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0677403/ Sidney Peterson] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0112687/ James Broughton] collaborated on [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038855/ The Potted Psalm] (1946), an experimental film.

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Púbol (1904-1989) and Luis Buñuel Portolés (1900-1983) were both Spanish artists. They collaborated on ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020530/ Un chien andalou]'' (''An Andalusian Dog'', 1929), another experimental film.

'''Deren/Hammid''' 
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220305/ Maya Deren] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0352413/ Alexander Hammid] codirected [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036154/ Meshes of the Afternoon]

'''Antonioni''' 
Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007) was an Italian filmmaker probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060176/ Blowup].

'''Tarkovsky''' 
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (1932-1986) was a Soviet-Russian filmmaker, most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0176227/ Voyage in Time], made with Antonioni.

'''Sometimes Ozu and Bresson''' 
Yasujirō Ozu (1903-1963) was a Japanese filmmaker. Robert Bresson (1901-1999) was a French filmmaker.

'''hoary dramaturgy''' 
According to Wikipedia, dramaturgy is "the art of dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage." To call it "hoary" would be to imply it's old.

'''Sir Herbert Tree''' 
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852-1917) was a British actor and manager. You can hear his performances of ''Hamlet'' [http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/playhamlet.html here].

'''Kaelesque''' 
In the style of Pauline Kael (1919-2001), an American film critic for ''New Yorker'' magazine.

'''De Palma, Tarantino''' 
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000361/ Brian De Palma] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000233/ Quentin Tarantino]

==Endnote 61==

'''dissociative formalism''' 
presumably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formalist_film_theory formalism] that focuses too much on form and not enough on character and other aspects of filmmaking

'''Stan Brakhage and Hollis Frampton''' 
Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) and Hollis Frampton (1936-1984) were American avant-garde filmmakers.

'''Beth B.''' 
You can read about her [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0044579/ here].

'''the Snow brothers, Vigdis Simpson''' 
One of the Snow brothers would have to be Michael Snow (born 1929), a Canadian-American filmmaker, principally known for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength_%281966_film%29 Wavelength]. Vigdis Simpson seems created.

==Page 185 (cont'd)==

'''Brutalism, Found Drama''' 
Brutalism may refer to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalism brutalist architecture]. Found Drama is the cinematic extension of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_art Found Art].

'''dissonant''' 
inharmonious with other things (here, aspects of Madame Psychosis's taste)

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'''Baraka''' 
Imamu Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones, 1934) is an African-American poet, playwright, author, and political activist.

'''piamater''' 
actually two words: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pia_mater Pia mater]

'''sulci''' 
plural of "sulcus," a furrow or groove, particularly between sections of the brain

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

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

'''parietooccipital''' 
referring to both the parietal lobe of the brain, as well as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occipital_lobe occipital] lobe, which is where vision is processed

'''Pons and abducent''' 
The Pons is a structure on the brain stem, while the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abducent_nerve abducens nerve] is a nerve in the muscles of the eye.

'''basilar-stem artery''' 
a stem of an artery that carries blood to the brain

'''oblongata''' 
the second half of the full name of the medulla

'''meatus''' 

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

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'''FHC''' 
acronym for "fluorohydrocarbon," this is a type of [http://www.polymerplastics.com/fluoro_overview.shtml fluroplastic], known to give off poisonous fumes

'''Heathkit''' 
The company's Web site is [http://www.heathkit-museum.com/ here].

'''10ºC''' 
fifty degrees Fahrenheit

'''five m.''' 
almost 16.5 feet

'''vascularly hued''' 
colored like a blood vessel

'''mercuric''' 
employing the element [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element) mercury]

'''wooferless''' 
lacking the larger speaker (i.e., the "woofer") found in multi-speaker systems

'''saddle-noses''' 
noses having a collapsed nasal bridge

'''atrophic''' 
shrinking in size

'''Scleredema adultorum''' 
a [http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic385.htm disease] characterized by non-pitting induration of the skin

'''serodermatotic''' 
suffering from serodermatosis, a skin disease with serous effusion into the skin

'''hydrocephalic''' 
having water on the brain

'''tabescent and chachetic''' 
Tabescent refers to a person with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabes tabes dorsalis], and chachetic (probably misspelled) apparently refers to a person with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cachexia cachexia].

'''Brag's-Diseased''' 
This would seem to be a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glioma glioma], though it is mentioned almost nowhere.

'''carbuncular or steatocryptotic''' 
Carbuncular means "pimply," while steatocryptotic refers to a person suffering from steatocryptosis, which is derangement of the sebaceous glands.

'''Marin-Amat Syndrome''' 
This is involuntary closure on one eye, named for Manuel Marin Amat, an early 20th century Spanish ophthalmologist.

'''scrofulodermic''' 
suffering from [http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic434.htm cutaneous tuberculosis]

'''Bell-shaped steatopygiacs''' 
A steatopygiac is a person suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steatopygia steatopygia]; if you're bell-shaped, it just means the fat is closer to the bottom than the top

'''Pityriasis Rosea''' 
a skin disease marked by patches of pink, oval rash

'''"Blessed are the poor in body, for they."''' 
This is not one of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatitude Beatitudes].

'''U.H.I.D.''' 
Union of the Hideously and Improbably Deformed

'''probability waves for subhadronics''' 
Probability waves are a concept in quantum physics that expresses the probability that "a particle or particles in a particular state will be measured to have a given position and momentum" (Wikipedia). Subhadronic refers to a particle smaller than a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadron hadron].

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'''Radcliffe's Bunting Institute''' 
Radcliffe is the women's college at Harvard University. According to the Harvard [http://www.harvard.edu/ Web site], "The Bunting Institute is a mutidisciplinary center for women scholars, writers, artists, and activists of demonstrated achievement and promise. Each year, approximately 40 women pursue projects that make significant contributions to their fields, working in a community that fosters interdisciplinary discourse, and creative and intellectual leadership. Some describe their experience as "the Bunting transformation."

'''L.A.S. tradition''' 
Liberal Arts and Sciences

==Endnote 64==

'''Samuel Johnson''' 
Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1709-1784), was a British poet, essayist, novelist, literary critic, and lexicographer.

'''Beesley''' 
Patricia Beesley, an early 20th century American educator who did author the book named.

'''cornup3.COM''' 
There is no such Web site.

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'''''mens-sana'' pedagogy''' 
"healthy-mind" teaching

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

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

'''Thorp's Trigonometry of Cubes''' 
Edward Oakley Thorp (born 1932) is an American mathematician, but he seems not to have created a "trigonometry of cubes," which would be, frankly, impossible.

'''aphotic to apochromatic''' 
Aphotic means without light, while apochromatic means not altering the colour of the light passing through it.

'''Best Boy''' 
a member of a film crew, assistant to either the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaffer_%28motion_picture_industry%29 gaffer] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_grip key grip]

'''Cambridgeport''' 
an area of Cambridge, Mass.

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'''leukodermatic''' 
probably referring to leukoderma, having patches of skin that are missing pigment

'''xanthodantic''' 
misspelling of xanthodontic, which means yellow-toothed

'''basilisk-breathed and pyorrheic''' 
A basilisk is a type of dragon, and pyorrhea is the condition of having gum disease.

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

'''phrenologically malformed''' 
malformed in the shape of the skull

'''supuratively lesioned''' 
having lesions that ooze pus

'''acervulus-nosed''' 
having blisters on the nose

'''radically -ectomied''' 
-having to do with body-part removal (think radical mastectomy)

'''diaphoretic''' 
perspiring

'''granulomatous''' 
having masses of ulcerated infections of the skin

'''lazarettes and oubliettes''' 
A lazarette is a hospital that treats infectious diseases, while an oubliette is a dungeon accessible only by trapdoor.

'''kyphotic and lordotic''' 
Kyphotic means having abnormal rear curvature of the spine (i.e., hunchbacked), while lordotic having abnormal forward curvature of the spine.

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

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

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

'''Medusoid''' 
looking like a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon gorgon]

'''papuled, the macular, the albinic''' 
Papules are inflammatory elevations of the skin. Macular means having opaque spots on the cornea. Albinic is having no melanin.

'''''odalisques''''' 
a concubine or slave in a harem

'''ital''' 
italics, used for emphasis

'''crosiers''' 
a crosier is a type of French roll

'''lager''' 
a type of beer, medium in darkness

'''vin blanc''' 
French: white wine

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

'''''Good Morning, Midnight'' and ''Maggie: A Girl of the Streets'' and ''Giovanni's Room'' and ''Under the Volcano''''' 
''Good Morning, Midnight'' is a novel by Jean Rhys (1890-1979), born Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams, a Caribbean novelist, on the topic of a woman forced to confront her own loneliness and despair. ''Maggie: A Girl of the Streets'' is a novel by Stephen Crane (1871-1900), an American novelist, on the topic of a child prostitute. ''Giovanni's Room'' by African-American expatriate author James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987) is a novel on the topic of a young man coming to terms with his homosexuality. ''Under the Volcano'' is a novel by Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957), a British writer, on the topic of alcoholism.

'''Bret Ellis''' 
Bret Easton Ellis (born 1965) is an American novelist probably best known for ''Less Than Zero'' (1985), about a drug addict who turns to prostitution, and ''American Psycho'' (1991), about a serial killer.

'''van der Rohe''' 
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) was a German-born American architect.

==Endnote 66==

'''R.E.M. and Pearl Jam''' 
R.E.M.'s lead singer, Michael Stipe, was famous for his unintelligible lyrics until around 1987's ''Document''. Pearl Jam's vocalist, Eddie Vedder, is as cryptic now as he was fifteen years ago, when they released their first record.

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'''wall- and cross-eyed''' 
To be wall-eyed is to suffer from exotropia, which is a form of ocular paralysis in which one or both eyes turn outward.

'''ergotic of St. Anthony''' 
An old name for ergot poisoning is "St. Anthony's fire," which is ergot poisoning. However, given the context, Wallace may be referring here to shingles.

'''varicelliformally eruptive''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eczema_herpeticum eczema due to herpes].

'''sarcoma'd of Kaposi''' 
Karposi's sarcoma is a usually benign skin cancer common in elderly Mediterranean men that has become the most easily identifiable visible symptom of AIDS.

'''M. Hamilton as Oz's West Witch''' 
Referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/ The Wizard of Oz], the Wicked Witch of the West (and East) was played by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002121/ Margaret Hamilton].

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[[Image:RCA.jpg|right]]

'''RCA-Victorish''' 
The image can be seen to the right.

'''snaggle-toothed''' 
having a broken or projecting tooth

'''wattled''' 
having flesh hanging from one's chin, like a turkey

'''lycanthropically''' 
in a way suggesting a werewolf

'''Tourettic''' 
suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourette%27s_Syndrome Tourette's syndrome]

'''teratoid''' 
resembling a monster

'''halitotic''' 
having bad breath

'''saurian- and equine-looking''' 
looking like a lizard or horse, respectively

'''invaginate''' 
sheathed

'''Cushing's Disease''' 
Named for Harvey Williams Cushing (1869-1939), an American neurologist, this disease is an endocrine disorder resulting in rapid weight gain, sweating, thinning of skin, and other negative side effects.

'''Rhinoplasty''' 
nose job

'''subdural''' 
below the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dura_mater dura mater] in the skull

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

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

=Layout of the Enfield Marine Public Health Hospital complex=

==Page 193==

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

==Page 194==

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

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

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

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

==Page 195==

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

'''ornithology''' 
the study of birds

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

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

==Page 196==

'''LTIs''' 
Long-Term Illnesses

==Endnote 67==

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 197==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''epiglottal''' 
having to do with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiglottis epiglottis]

'''Hillel''' 
a nationwide (worldwide?) Jewish student union present on several campuses

'''corpus callosum''' 
the part of the brain connecting the left and right hemispheres

'''laryngeally fissured''' 
having ridges like the human [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larynx larynx]

'''work-study''' 
receiving funding from the university in exchange for work rendered to the university

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'''chiffon''' 
a lightweight, balanced, plain-woven fabric

'''limned''' 
To limn means to describe or delineate

'''parietal''' 
referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parietal_lobe parietal lobe] of the brain, responsible for sensory memory and response

'''pop''' 
Midwesterners in the U.S. use this word to denote what others call "soda," i.e., Coca-Cola, 7-Up, etc. See also "tonic," p. 478.

'''Dow''' 
a pun on the Chinese word ''tao,'' ("the way") and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJIA Dow Jones Industrial Average]

'''gasper''' 
cigarette

'''E.S.T.''' 
Eastern Standard Time

'''medulla''' 
literally that part of the brain responsible for autonomic functions like heartbeat, organ activity, etc.

==Page 184==

'''I. M. Pei''' 
Ieoh Ming Pei (born 1917) is a Chinese-born American architect who designed, among other famous buildings, MIT's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Building_%28MIT%29 Green Building].

==Endnote 60==

'''J. A. Stratton''' 
Julius Adams Stratton (1901-1994) was an American educator and president of MIT between 1959 and 1965.

==Page 184 (cont'd)==

'''cerebral cortex''' 
that part of the brain responsible for higher-order thinking

'''"...what she's said for three years of midnights..."''' 
Up until 'Look at that fucker ''Dance,''' the rest of her introduction is from [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201&version=9 Genesis 1].

'''Largest Whole Prime On The FM Band''' 
109 is a prime number, i.e., divisible only by itself and by 1. Actually the highest number you can get on FM is 108.

'''EM''' 
probably denoting "electromagnetic"

'''centrifugal''' 
that force in a spinning object that tends to push away objects from the angle of rotation

'''Hundt Act''' 
Reed E. Hundt (born 1948) was chairman of the Federal Communications Committee in 1996, when the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was passed. Wallace may be riffing on that, as it appears there was no equivalent legislation in 1966.

'''spatter's center''' 
The spatter referred to here is probably the small amount of FM bands that can be sent out.

'''inelastic''' 
When used with regard to demand, this term means tending not to change.

'''3-km. cannon''' 
The range is about 1.86 miles.

'''P.E.''' 
Physical Education

'''Philology''' 
The study of literature or language.

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'''hypogonadism''' 
lack of function of the ovaries or testicles

'''Nodular leprosy with leonine facies''' 
a form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprosy leprosy] that generates lesions made of nodes and that produces lion-like facial expressions (i.e., "leonine facies")

'''The acromegalic and hyperkeratosistic. The enuretic.''' 
Arcomegaly is a disorder of the pituitary gland whereby it produces too much human growth hormone, resulting in giantism. Hyperkeratosistic means that one is suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperkeratosis hyperkeratosis]. Enuresis is the inability to urinate.

'''The spasmodically torticollic.''' 
having a head tilted to one side (torticollis) involving convulsions (spasmodic)

'''transuranial metallurgist.''' 

`transuranial' refers to the elements with an atomic number greater than 92.

'''G.S.L.''' 
Guaranteed Student Loan

'''treillage''' 
latticework

'''interneural''' 
between nerves

'''semitic ideograms''' 
Semitic languages actually tend to be written uses alphabets, where a symbol denotes a phoneme, rather than in ideograms, like Chinese and Korean are. The oldest alphabet is the Phoenician, which was Semitic.0

'''rostral lamina''' 
in biology, a beaklike or snoutlike (rostral) layer of tissue (lamina)

'''neuroform''' 
Neuroform is actually the brand-name of a type of stent.

'''S.O.P.''' 
Standard Operating Procedure

'''neorealist''' 
adhering to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_neorealism Italian neorealism]

'''Peterson/Broughton and Dali/Buñuel''' 
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0677403/ Sidney Peterson] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0112687/ James Broughton] collaborated on [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038855/ The Potted Psalm] (1946), an experimental film.

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Púbol (1904-1989) and Luis Buñuel Portolés (1900-1983) were both Spanish artists. They collaborated on ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020530/ Un chien andalou]'' (''An Andalusian Dog'', 1929), another experimental film.

'''Deren/Hammid''' 
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220305/ Maya Deren] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0352413/ Alexander Hammid] codirected [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036154/ Meshes of the Afternoon]

'''Antonioni''' 
Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007) was an Italian filmmaker probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060176/ Blowup].

'''Tarkovsky''' 
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (1932-1986) was a Soviet-Russian filmmaker, most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0176227/ Voyage in Time], made with Antonioni.

'''Sometimes Ozu and Bresson''' 
Yasujirō Ozu (1903-1963) was a Japanese filmmaker. Robert Bresson (1901-1999) was a French filmmaker.

'''hoary dramaturgy''' 
According to Wikipedia, dramaturgy is "the art of dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage." To call it "hoary" would be to imply it's old.

'''Sir Herbert Tree''' 
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852-1917) was a British actor and manager. You can hear his performances of ''Hamlet'' [http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/playhamlet.html here].

'''Kaelesque''' 
In the style of Pauline Kael (1919-2001), an American film critic for ''New Yorker'' magazine.

'''De Palma, Tarantino''' 
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000361/ Brian De Palma] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000233/ Quentin Tarantino]

==Endnote 61==

'''dissociative formalism''' 
presumably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formalist_film_theory formalism] that focuses too much on form and not enough on character and other aspects of filmmaking

'''Stan Brakhage and Hollis Frampton''' 
Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) and Hollis Frampton (1936-1984) were American avant-garde filmmakers.

'''Beth B.''' 
You can read about her [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0044579/ here].

'''the Snow brothers, Vigdis Simpson''' 
One of the Snow brothers would have to be Michael Snow (born 1929), a Canadian-American filmmaker, principally known for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength_%281966_film%29 Wavelength]. Vigdis Simpson seems created.

==Page 185 (cont'd)==

'''Brutalism, Found Drama''' 
Brutalism may refer to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalism brutalist architecture]. Found Drama is the cinematic extension of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_art Found Art].

'''dissonant''' 
inharmonious with other things (here, aspects of Madame Psychosis's taste)

==Page 186==

'''Baraka''' 
Imamu Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones, 1934) is an African-American poet, playwright, author, and political activist.

'''piamater''' 
actually two words: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pia_mater Pia mater]

'''sulci''' 
plural of "sulcus," a furrow or groove, particularly between sections of the brain

'''A.Y. ('V.F.') Rickey's ''summum opus''''' 
A.Y. "Vector Field" Rickey, as first referenced back in Endnote 3 as the architect of the cardioid E.T.A. buildings. Possibly named after [http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/ V. Frederick Rickey], a prominent mathematician. It is notable that there is, in fact, no Student Union building at MIT.

The ''summum opus'' would be the "greatest work" while a ''magnum opus'' would be a "great work."

'''parietooccipital''' 
referring to both the parietal lobe of the brain, as well as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occipital_lobe occipital] lobe, which is where vision is processed

'''Pons and abducent''' 
The Pons is a structure on the brain stem, while the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abducent_nerve abducens nerve] is a nerve in the muscles of the eye.

'''basilar-stem artery''' 
a stem of an artery that carries blood to the brain

'''oblongata''' 
the second half of the full name of the medulla

'''meatus''' 

a passage or opening leading to the interior of the body.

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'''FHC''' 
acronym for "fluorohydrocarbon," this is a type of [http://www.polymerplastics.com/fluoro_overview.shtml fluroplastic], known to give off poisonous fumes

'''Heathkit''' 
The company's Web site is [http://www.heathkit-museum.com/ here].

'''10ºC''' 
fifty degrees Fahrenheit

'''five m.''' 
almost 16.5 feet

'''vascularly hued''' 
colored like a blood vessel

'''mercuric''' 
employing the element [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element) mercury]

'''wooferless''' 
lacking the larger speaker (i.e., the "woofer") found in multi-speaker systems

'''saddle-noses''' 
noses having a collapsed nasal bridge

'''atrophic''' 
shrinking in size

'''Scleredema adultorum''' 
a [http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic385.htm disease] characterized by non-pitting induration of the skin

'''serodermatotic''' 
suffering from serodermatosis, a skin disease with serous effusion into the skin

'''hydrocephalic''' 
having water on the brain

'''tabescent and chachetic''' 
Tabescent refers to a person with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabes tabes dorsalis], and chachetic (probably misspelled) apparently refers to a person with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cachexia cachexia].

'''Brag's-Diseased''' 
This would seem to be a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glioma glioma], though it is mentioned almost nowhere.

'''carbuncular or steatocryptotic''' 
Carbuncular means "pimply," while steatocryptotic refers to a person suffering from steatocryptosis, which is derangement of the sebaceous glands.

'''Marin-Amat Syndrome''' 
This is involuntary closure on one eye, named for Manuel Marin Amat, an early 20th century Spanish ophthalmologist.

'''scrofulodermic''' 
suffering from [http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic434.htm cutaneous tuberculosis]

'''Bell-shaped steatopygiacs''' 
A steatopygiac is a person suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steatopygia steatopygia]; if you're bell-shaped, it just means the fat is closer to the bottom than the top

'''Pityriasis Rosea''' 
a skin disease marked by patches of pink, oval rash

'''"Blessed are the poor in body, for they."''' 
This is not one of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatitude Beatitudes].

'''U.H.I.D.''' 
Union of the Hideously and Improbably Deformed

'''probability waves for subhadronics''' 
Probability waves are a concept in quantum physics that expresses the probability that "a particle or particles in a particular state will be measured to have a given position and momentum" (Wikipedia). Subhadronic refers to a particle smaller than a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadron hadron].

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'''Radcliffe's Bunting Institute''' 
Radcliffe is the women's college at Harvard University. According to the Harvard [http://www.harvard.edu/ Web site], "The Bunting Institute is a mutidisciplinary center for women scholars, writers, artists, and activists of demonstrated achievement and promise. Each year, approximately 40 women pursue projects that make significant contributions to their fields, working in a community that fosters interdisciplinary discourse, and creative and intellectual leadership. Some describe their experience as "the Bunting transformation."

'''L.A.S. tradition''' 
Liberal Arts and Sciences

==Endnote 64==

'''Samuel Johnson''' 
Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1709-1784), was a British poet, essayist, novelist, literary critic, and lexicographer.

'''Beesley''' 
Patricia Beesley, an early 20th century American educator who did author the book named.

'''cornup3.COM''' 
There is no such Web site.

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'''''mens-sana'' pedagogy''' 
"healthy-mind" teaching

'''''ad valorem''''' 
Latin: by value

'''''corpore potis''''' 
Latin: able of body. The second part of the play on "Mens sana in corpore sano."

'''Thorp's Trigonometry of Cubes''' 
Edward Oakley Thorp (born 1932) is an American mathematician, but he seems not to have created a "trigonometry of cubes," which would be, frankly, impossible.

'''aphotic to apochromatic''' 
Aphotic means without light, while apochromatic means not altering the colour of the light passing through it.

'''Best Boy''' 
a member of a film crew, assistant to either the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaffer_%28motion_picture_industry%29 gaffer] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_grip key grip]

'''Cambridgeport''' 
an area of Cambridge, Mass.

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'''leukodermatic''' 
white-skinned

'''xanthodantic''' 
misspelling of xanthodontic, which means yellow-toothed

'''basilisk-breathed and pyorrheic''' 
A basilisk is a type of dragon, and pyorrhea is the condition of having gum disease.

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'''peronic or teratoidal''' 
Peronic probably means having a bent penis (from ''Peyronies'' disease), while teratoidal means malformed.

'''phrenologically malformed''' 
malformed in the shape of the skull

'''supuratively lesioned''' 
having lesions that ooze pus

'''acervulus-nosed''' 
having blisters on the nose

'''radically -ectomied''' 
-having to do with body-part removal (think radical mastectomy)

'''diaphoretic''' 
perspiring

'''granulomatous''' 
having masses of ulcerated infections of the skin

'''lazarettes and oubliettes''' 
A lazarette is a hospital that treats infectious diseases, while an oubliette is a dungeon accessible only by trapdoor.

'''kyphotic and lordotic''' 
Kyphotic means having abnormal rear curvature of the spine (i.e., hunchbacked), while lordotic having abnormal forward curvature of the spine.

'''cellulitic''' 
Having cellulite, i.e., deposits of subcutaneous fat within fibrous connective tissue (as in the thighs, hips, and buttocks) that give a puckered and dimpled appearance to the skin surface ([http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cellulite Merriam-Webster])

'''fatally pulchritudinous''' 
deadly good-looking

'''Actaeonizing''' 
Reference to the story of Actaeon - "In the version that was offered by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus (Hymn v), which has become the standard setting, Artemis was bathing in the woods when the hunter Actaeon stumbled across her, thus seeing her naked. He stopped and stared, amazed at her ravishing beauty. Once seen, Actaeon was punished by Artemis: she forbade him speech — if he tried to speak, he would be changed into a stag — for the unlucky profanation of her virginity's mystery. Upon hearing the call of his hunting party, he cried out to them and immediately was changed into a stag. His own hounds then turned upon him and tore him to pieces, not recognizing him." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actaeon Wikipedia])

'''Medusoid''' 
looking like a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon gorgon]

'''papuled, the macular, the albinic''' 
Papules are inflammatory elevations of the skin. Macular means having opaque spots on the cornea. Albinic is having no melanin.

'''''odalisques''''' 
a concubine or slave in a harem

'''ital''' 
italics, used for emphasis

'''crosiers''' 
a crosier is a type of French roll

'''lager''' 
a type of beer, medium in darkness

'''vin blanc''' 
French: white wine

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'''''Good Morning, Midnight'' and ''Maggie: A Girl of the Streets'' and ''Giovanni's Room'' and ''Under the Volcano''''' 
''Good Morning, Midnight'' is a novel by Jean Rhys (1890-1979), born Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams, a Caribbean novelist, on the topic of a woman forced to confront her own loneliness and despair. ''Maggie: A Girl of the Streets'' is a novel by Stephen Crane (1871-1900), an American novelist, on the topic of a child prostitute. ''Giovanni's Room'' by African-American expatriate author James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987) is a novel on the topic of a young man coming to terms with his homosexuality. ''Under the Volcano'' is a novel by Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957), a British writer, on the topic of alcoholism.

'''Bret Ellis''' 
Bret Easton Ellis (born 1965) is an American novelist probably best known for ''Less Than Zero'' (1985), about a drug addict who turns to prostitution, and ''American Psycho'' (1991), about a serial killer.

'''van der Rohe''' 
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) was a German-born American architect.

==Endnote 66==

'''R.E.M. and Pearl Jam''' 
R.E.M.'s lead singer, Michael Stipe, was famous for his unintelligible lyrics until around 1987's ''Document''. Pearl Jam's vocalist, Eddie Vedder, is as cryptic now as he was fifteen years ago, when they released their first record.

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'''wall- and cross-eyed''' 
To be wall-eyed is to suffer from exotropia, which is a form of ocular paralysis in which one or both eyes turn outward.

'''ergotic of St. Anthony''' 
An old name for ergot poisoning is "St. Anthony's fire," which is ergot poisoning. However, given the context, Wallace may be referring here to shingles.

'''varicelliformally eruptive''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eczema_herpeticum eczema due to herpes].

'''sarcoma'd of Kaposi''' 
Karposi's sarcoma is a usually benign skin cancer common in elderly Mediterranean men that has become the most easily identifiable visible symptom of AIDS.

'''M. Hamilton as Oz's West Witch''' 
Referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/ The Wizard of Oz], the Wicked Witch of the West (and East) was played by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002121/ Margaret Hamilton].

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[[Image:RCA.jpg|right]]

'''RCA-Victorish''' 
The image can be seen to the right.

'''snaggle-toothed''' 
having a broken or projecting tooth

'''wattled''' 
having flesh hanging from one's chin, like a turkey

'''lycanthropically''' 
in a way suggesting a werewolf

'''Tourettic''' 
suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourette%27s_Syndrome Tourette's syndrome]

'''teratoid''' 
resembling a monster

'''halitotic''' 
having bad breath

'''saurian- and equine-looking''' 
looking like a lizard or horse, respectively

'''invaginate''' 
sheathed

'''Cushing's Disease''' 
Named for Harvey Williams Cushing (1869-1939), an American neurologist, this disease is an endocrine disorder resulting in rapid weight gain, sweating, thinning of skin, and other negative side effects.

'''Rhinoplasty''' 
nose job

'''subdural''' 
below the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dura_mater dura mater] in the skull

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'''les bâtiments sanctifíes''' 
French: the holy buildings

'''''Metropolis''''' 
a 1927 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136/ film] directed by Fritz Lang

=Layout of the Enfield Marine Public Health Hospital complex=

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'''VA''' 
the U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs

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'''solvent''' 
i.e., financially solvent

'''methadone''' 
a drug used to wean heroin addicts off that drug and onto methadone, which is equally addictive but produces no "high"

'''methedrine''' 
the brand name of methamphetamine

'''New Bedford''' 
a city of Massachusetts, about 50 miles south of Boston

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''''Vette''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvette Chevrolet Corvette]

'''ornithology''' 
the study of birds

'''aminating''' 
introducing an amino acid into something

'''shiv''' 
an improvised prison weapon used for stabbing

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'''LTIs''' 
Long-Term Illnesses

==Endnote 67==

'''The Unexamined Life tavern''' 
Socrates said that the unexamined life is not worth living in ''Apology''.

'''parasolled''' 
having an umbrella on or in it

'''Mudslides''' 
a type of [http://drinkoftheweek.com/archive/m/mudslide.htm drink]

''''objay darts'''' 
a bastardized form of ''objets d'arts'', French for "objects of art"

'''catatonic''' 
relating to catatonia, a neurogenic motor immobility arising from a disturbed mental state (resulting in little or no movement in the sufferer)

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'''mansard''' 
This is "a hip roof, each face of which has a steeper lower part and a shallower upper part" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

[[Image:mansard.png|'Mansard Roof| thumbnail|right]]

'''Clorets''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clorets popular gum]

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'''swinishest''' 
most swinish, i.e., most pig-like

'''sodding''' 
a pejorative intensifier, chiefly British in usage

'''fingerling''' 
something very small

'''the Beats''' 
members of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beats Beat generation]

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'''1956 Mercury Montclair''' 
See right, though Incandenza's father's car is "bit-lip red."

'''nubbly''' 
full of small protuberances

'''sinew''' 
another word for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinew tendon] or ligament

'''parping''' 
According to the ''OED'', a parp is a honking sound; parping is defined as causing something (as a car horn) to parp.

'''Head is body.''' 
Incandenza's father is expressing a non-Cartesian point of view. René Descartes (1596-1650), the French polymath, separated the mind (''res cogitans'') from the body (''res extensa'').

'''rutilant''' 
gleaming red

'''''Latrodectus mactans''''' 
Southern black widow, a highly venomous species of spider

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'''actuating''' 
putting into action

'''Nein?''' 
German: No?

'''tiller''' 
what turns the rudder to steer a boat

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'''pronator teres''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronator_teres_muscle muscle] of the forearm

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'''whorled''' 
having whorls, i.e., coiled and spiral shapes

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'''flying sod''' 
He's referring to divots, i.e., bits of the fairway that get torn up when a golf ball is hit.

'''anal rage''' 
He's probably referring to anal-retentive rage, rather than rage specifically located in the anus.

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'''DeSotos''' 
a brand of automobile, examples of which can be seen [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSoto_%28automobile%29 here]

'''hove''' 
past tense of heave

'''lox''' 
possibly abbreviated form of lummox ("clumsy or stupid person") as neither "smoked salmon" or "liquid oxygen" fit

'''gregariously''' 
in a sociable manner

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'''Himself''' 
Note that Incandenza's father calls his own father by the same nickname as Incandenza's children call him.

'''''senza errori''''' 
Italian: Without errors

'''veldt''' 
From Afrikaans, this is a word for an open field with grass, bushes, etc.

'''deft''' 
quick and skillful

'''President''' 
here referring to Franklin Roosevelt

'''lattice''' 
This is "a structure of crossed wooden or metal strips usually arranged to form a diagonal pattern of open spaces between the strips" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

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'''Bisbee''' 
a city of Arizona, 82 miles south of Tucson

'''Dean''' 
probably referring to [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000015/ James Dean]

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'''inertia''' 
resistance of an object to a change in its state of motion or rest.

'''scabrous''' 
having a rough surface because of minute points or projections

'''mortified''' 
having undergone mortification of the flesh, i.e., abuse of the body by oneself as a form of penance''

'''USC''' 
the [http://www.usc.edu/ University of Southern California]

'''Avalon''' 
probably [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000811/ Frankie Avalon]

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'''Latinate''' 
suggestive in style of the ancient Romans

'''Inman Square''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inman_Square square] in Cambridge named for colonial merchant Ralph Inman

'''Brioni''' 
a high-fashion clothes company

'''Mr. Howell''' 
''Gilligan's Island'' character [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurston_Howell Thurston J. Howell, III]

'''rakish''' 
jaunty or dashing

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'''oxfords''' 
formal shoes with laces

'''nacelle''' 
the enclosed part of an airplane, where the engine is housed

'''DMZ''' 
Most commonly, this acronym stands for "demilitarized zone," as in the area between North and South Korea. Here it is a made-up drug name.

'''MED.COM''' 
not a real Web site

'''mescaline''' 
Mescaline is the active ingredient in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyote peyote].

'''TMA''' 
an acronym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimethoxyamphetamine trimethoxyamphetamine]

'''DOM or STP''' 
STP stands for "serenity, tranquity, and peace," and it's a pseudonym for DOM, which stands for dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine.

'''DMT''' 
acronym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyltryptamine dimethyltryptamine

'''Ololiuqui or datura's scopolamine, or Fluothane, or Bufotenine (a.k.a. 'Jackie-O.'), or Ebene''' 
Ololiuqui is a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ololiuqui morning glory] plants, the seeds of which are known to be hallucinogenic. Datura's scopolamine is another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopolamine hyoscine]. Fluothane is an inhaled general anesthetic. Bufotenine is an alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufotenine bufotenin] and is the active ingredient in the skin of toads that cause hallucinations when licked. (I have no idea why it's called "Jackie-O.") Ebene is a South American tree that yields a hallucinogen used in rituals.

'''miscegenation''' 
interbreeding between different races

==Endnote 56==

'''PMA''' 
acronym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Para-Methoxyamphetamine paramethoxyamphetamine]

'''myristicin''' 
Found in the essential oil of nutmeg. In addition to a semi-conscious state, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myristicin#Uses myristicin] also has been known to induce psychoactive effects such as visual distortions.

'''ergine''' 
Also called LSA, it's found in morning glory seeds

'''ibogaine''' 
Ibogaine is a naturally occurring psychoactive substance found in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabernanthe_iboga Tabernanthe iboga]. Ibogaine-containing preparations have a history of medicinal and ritual use within Africa and are controversially used to treat narcotics addiction.

'''yagé's harmaline''' 
Yagé is the native name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banisteriopsis_caapi banisteria]. Harmaline is the active ingredient.

'''fitviavi''' 
apparently a coined word

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'''''Tibetan-Dead-Book''''' 
better known as the [http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/dead/ Tibetan Book of the Dead]

'''Futurist''' 
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism_%28art%29 Italian Futurism], an art movement on the early 20th century

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'''chemist at Sandoz Pharm.''' 
This would be Albert Hoffman (born 1906), a Swiss scientist best known for first synthesizing LSD.

'''Alan Watts''' 
Alan Wilson Watts (1915-1973) was a British-born philosopher and writer in the field of comparative religion.

'''T. Leary''' 
Timothy Francis Leary (1920-1996) was an American writer and psychologist best known as an advocate for regular LSD use.

'''Millbrook NY''' 
a town in New York state, about 90 miles north of New York City

'''WYYY''' 
actually a radio station in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYYY Syracuse, New York]

==Page 171==

'''Riverside ''Hamlet''''' 
The ''Riverside Shakespeare'' is one of the better-known editions of Shakespeare's work. Note that Hal, who is based on the character Hamlet, is reading ''Hamlet''.

'''the minor and soft-core Alexandrian mosaic''' 
i.e. Byzantine erotica (cf. 29, 36)

'''''Consummation of the Levirates''''' 
A levirate is a man called up to marry his elder brother's childless widow, in accordance with Jewish Law. In the Bible, Onan was punished for not consummating his Levirate marriage (he pulled out and spilled his seed).[http://infinitesummer.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=302]

'''''Baron's''''' 
a (probably deliberate) misspelling of [http://online.barrons.com/public/main Barron's]

'''''Tilden on Spin''''' 
The book by William Tatem "Big Bill" Tilden II (1893-1953), American tennis giant, is actually entitled ''Match Play and the Spin of the Ball''.

=April, YY2007MRCVMETIUFIITP SFH,O,OM (s) - ''TENNIS AND THE FERAL PRODIGY''=

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'''bafflegab''' 
intentionally misleading language

'''stevedore''' 
a person who loads and unloads cargo from boats

'''40 km.''' 
almost 25 miles

'''''Schnell''''' 
German: Quickly (or more likely in this case: "Hustle")

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'''formants and fricatives, trochaically stressed''' 
A formant is, according to Wikipedia, "a peak in an acoustic frequency spectrum which results from the resonant frequencies of any acoustic system." A fricative is a phoneme produced by forcing air through tight lips. In English, fricatives are /s/, /z/, /th/, and /zh/. Trochaically means spoken in trochees, or a metrical foot on two syllables with the stress on the first (the word "trochee" is a trochee).

'''aperture''' 
An aperture is an opening through which light travels. A tight aperture means better focus.

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'''''8 1/2''''' 
a film by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000019/ Federico Fellini]

'''intensile''' 
incapable of being stretched

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'''Noxzema''' 
a skin cleaner marketed by Procter & Gamble

'''Contracol''' 
not a drug currently marketed in the U.S.

'''Epsom salts''' 
Magnesium sulfate, used to relieve pain, among other uses.

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'''Higher Power''' 
Most twelve-step drug or alcohol recovery programs teach a belief in God or a "Higher Power" (the latter to soften the blow to atheists).

'''Kemp and Limbaugh''' 
Jack French Kemp, Jr. (1935-2009), was a conservative American politician, former member of the House of Representative, former Secretary for Housing and Urban Development, and 1996 Republican candidate for Vice President.

Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (born 1951) is a conservative radio talk-show host.

'''formication''' 
medical term for the sensation of insects crawling on or under the skin

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'''magnaminously''' 
a (probably deliberate) misspelling of "magnanimously," i.e., generously

'''the Fenway''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenway-Kenmore Fenway-Kenmore] section of Boston

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'''septum''' 
more specifically, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_septum nasal septum]

'''harelip''' 
also known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harelip cleft lip] or cleft palate

'''doocy''' 
As in the same Tommy Doocey already introduced; the harelipped pot dealer in the trailer park with the smelly snakes.

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'''2% proof''' 
Redundant because "proof" is an expression of alcohol content. Doubling the alcohol percentage gives you proof, i.e., 2% alcohol is 4 proof.

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'''payloaders''' 
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]

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'''Brockengespenst'''

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken_spectre.

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'''c'etait la guerre'''

It was war.

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'''agnate''' 
Paternal, related on the father's side. In this case agnate seems to mean that the shadows come from the same source, the setting sun. 

'''Samizdat''' 
From the Russian verb "to publish on one's own" or "to self-publish." Originally used to denote underground publications in the Soviet Union, now used more generally for dissident activity[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat]

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'''stenographer-cum-''jeune-fille-de-Vendredi''''' 
secretary who takes diction AND devoted assistant. ''Jeune-fille-de-Vendredi'' is French for "young girl Friday." "Man Friday" (or "girl Friday") is a term that means a very competent and loyal servant or assistant, and originates from the Friday of ''Robinson Crusoe''.

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'''uremic''' 

of or involving excess nitrogenous waste products in the urine

'''somatic''' 

of or relating to the body, esp. as distinct from the mind.

'''Champaign IL''' 
He probably attends the [http://www.uiuc.edu/ University of Illinois] main campus.

'''Ward and June''' 
The mother's and father's names on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_It_To_Beaver ''Leave It to Beaver'']

'''pedalferrous''' 
pedalfer is a soil type composed of aluminum and iron oxides. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedalfer apparently a neologism, the word would mean "of or pertaining to foot metal," i.e., fast driving

'''fallow''' 

plowed and harrowed but left unsown for a period in order to restore its fertility as part of a crop rotation or to avoid surplus production

'''fulvous''' 
in color, yellow-gray to yellowish-brown

'''teratogenic''' 
having an ill effect on the development of a fetus

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''''''n sûr''''' 
An elision of ''bien sûr'', French for "of course"

'''electrolysis''' 

the removal of hair roots or small blemishes on the skin by the application of heat using an electric current.

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'''Sterling UL35 9 mm machine pistol with Mag Na Port silencer''' 
Sterling is a real British gun manufacturer and [http://www.magnaport.com/ Mag-Na-Port] is real also, but this particular gun model is apparently made-up.

'''Charleston''' 
a dance popular in the 1920s

'''mesquite''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesquite mesquite] plant

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'''Barbicide''' 
a brand name of disinfectant used for combs and hairbrushes

'''Tolstoy's sentence''' 
The question probably referred to the opening lines of Leo Tolstoy's ''Anna Karenina:'' "HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

'''No cathode gun. No phosphenic screen.''' 
A cathode gun is an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_gun electron gun] used in a cathode ray tube. "Phosphenic" refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene phosphenes].

'''UHF''' 
Ultra High Frequency

'''acutance''' 
the edge contrast of an image. Hal appears to be correct insofar as contrast is more or less the same as resolution. Acutance is related to a pulse's slope and height. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acutance

'''Michael Pemulis, ..., clear his throat deeply''' 
this grammatical error appears shortly after a discussion of a class on grammar

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'''halation''' 
blurring of a visual image by glare

'''quiescent''' 
still or at rest

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'''digitate''' 
“having deep radiating divisions” (OED)

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'''Zoltan''' 
Zoltán was a 10th century ruler of Hungary.

'''Csikzentmihalyi''' 
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (''sic'') is a psychologist best known for his concept of "flow", a psychological state where one "is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity", e.g. "being in the zone" while playing sports.

'''Idris Arslanian, new this year, ethnically vague''' 
Idris is an Arabic name, corresponding in the Qur'an to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch%2C_ancestor_of_Noah Enoch] in the Bible. The last name Arslanian sounds Armenian, though ''Arslan'' is a Turkish word for "lion."

'''R.A.''' 
Resident Assistant

'''Tex Watson''' 
Besides a character in ''Infinite Jest,'' Tex Watson was the nickname of Charles Watson, one of the chief murderers in the Charles Manson Family.

'''ephebes''' 
An ephebe is an adolescent male.

'''suppliants''' 
A suppliant is a petitioner.

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'''sienna''' 
yellowish- to reddish-brown

'''louvered''' 
with angled slats

'''thoracic''' 
having to do with the chest

'''atavistically''' 
Atavism means reversion to an earlier evolutionary type; i.e., Hal's complexion resembles his grandparents or earlier ancestors more than his parents

'''piebald''' 
having patches of different colors

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'''cognomen''' 
a nickname

'''inflation-generative grammar''' 
i.e. a set of rules to generate phrases of increasing emphasis

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'''semion''' 
A semion is technically part of an anyon, the latter of which is defined in the ''OED'' as "a particle having characteristics intermediate between those of fermions and bosons in two-dimensional space." However, it seems Wallace uses the word as a form closer to "semiotics." A later search reveals that ''semion'' is Greek for "sign."

'''Umbrian''' 
From the Italian ''reggione'' of Umbria, in central Italy. Hal is Italian on his father's side, as well as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pima Pima] Native American. His mother, of course, is French-Canadian.

'''Brylcreemed''' 
Used as a verb here, [http://www.brylcreemusa.com/ Brylcreem] is a brand name of men's hair grooming product.

'''zygomatics''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygomatics zygomatic bones] of the face

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'''haul ashes''' 
For a history of this term, click [http://www.wordwizard.com/ch_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6859 here]. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=haul%20your%20ashes

'''Johnny Mathis's "Chances Are"''' 
listen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEH3uqbpsm8 here] 

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'''Luther's 16th-century shoes, awaiting epiphany''' 
Martin Luther (1483-1546), German father of the Reformation, was a notorious sufferer of constipation.

'''hobnailed boots''' 
boots assembled with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobnail hobnails]

==Endnote 43==
'''Crohn's''' 
The disease is named for Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884-1983), American gastroenterologist.

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'''carminative''' 
combatting or expelling flatulence

'''gout''' 
a disease characterized by the collection of uric acid in the joints

'''Port Washington''' 
There are three cities by this name in the U.S.: In New York, Wisconsin, and Ohio.

==Page 104==

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'''woppsed up''' 
a created word, apparently something like "wadded up"

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 105==

'''Tristan and Isolde''' 
star-crossed lovers from Arthurian myth

'''Lancelot and what's-her-name''' 
Guinevere

'''Agamemnon and Helen''' 
Steeply has this one wrong.

'''Dante and Beatrice''' 
Beatrice is Dante's guide through heaven in the third part of the ''Divine Comedy'', ''Paradiso''

'''Narcissus and Echo''' 
The story of these doomed lovers from Greek mythology is [http://thanasis.com/echo.htm here].

'''Kierkegaard and Regina''' 
Regina Olsen was the short-term fiancée of Kierkegaard.

'''Kafka and that poor girl afraid to go the postbox for the mail''' 
The story being referred to can be read [http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.jsp?what=KafkaDoll here].

'''Menelaus was husband, him of Sparta''' 
Menelaus, King of Sparta, was the husband of Helen. Agamemnon was the King of Argos and Menelaus's brother.

'''Helen and Paris. He of Troy.''' 
Paris, a Trojan prince, kidnapped Helen from Menelaus, precipitating the Trojan War.

'''The horse: the gift which was not a gift''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Horse Trojan horse]

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'''electrolysistic''' 
resulting from electrolysis, the removal of hair using electric shocks

'''sangfroid''' 
From French for "cold blood," this word means "coolness," as in composure under pressure

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'''creosote''' 
There are several types of creosote, described [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creosote here].

'''Crepuscular''' 
active in the twilight, as bats

==Endnote 45==

==Endnote 304==

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'''gibbous''' 
bulging outwards: the shape of the moon when it is neither full, nor crescent, nor half, i.e., when it is more than half full

'''Quonsets''' 
short form for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut Quonset huts]

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'''Stan Smith''' 
Born in 1946, Smith is a retired professional tennis player, having won Wimbledon and the U.S. Open once each.

'''dessicated''' 
dried out

==Endnote 46==

'''corticatization''' 
probably a misspelling of [http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?query=corticalization&action=Search+OMD corticalization]

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'''E.N.T. oncologist''' 
ear, nose, and throat; an oncologist is a cancer physician

'''violas''' 
A viola is a like a violin, only slightly larger and deeper in tone.

==Page 112==

'''''E Unibus Pluram''''' 
A Latin pun on ''E pluribus unum'' ("From many, one"), the U.S. motto. This would mean "From one, many." Note that the correct Latin would be something like ''Ex uno plures'' or ''Ex uno plura'' (depending on what "many" is meant to refer to).

==Page 113==

'''Solipsism''' 
a kind of narcissism based on the idea that one's own mind is all one can ever truly know to exist

'''''ballet de se''''' 

French: Ballet of (itself)

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'''plateaux''' 
the proper French plural of "plateau," rather than "plateaus"

'''slog''' 
to work with sustained effort against a natural resistance over a period of time

==Page 116==

'''Banzai!''' 
a Japanese battle cry

'''hangdog''' 
browbeaten or intimidated

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'''croupiers''' 
attendants at gambling casinos

'''plasticene''' 
misspelling of Plasticine, a brand name of plastic used for making molds

'''ancipitals''' 
double-edged

'''accretive''' 
of or pertaining to the process of natural growth

'''autonomical''' 
of or pertaining to the reflexive nervous system

==Page 118==

'''machine-language''' 
a coding system for computers that requires no compiling before running

'''Orinda CA''' 
A small, wealthy city in Conta Costa County, immediately east of the Oakland-Berkeley metro area and about 18 miles northeast of San Francisco

'''me droogies''' 
Struck is speaking in Nadsat, the language of Anthony Burgess's novel ''A Clockwork Orange'', which is based on Russian. ''Droogies'' is Nadsat for "friends."

'''kertwanging''' 
from context, this would seem to be when an opponent is intentionally making bad calls to win points.

==Page 119==

'''Mein kinder''' 
German: "My children". But wrong grammar! "Mein" is singular, "kinder" is plural. "My children" would be "Meine Kinder"

==Page 120==

'''Wagenknecht''' 
sort of a formal German word for "chauffeur." [No, as native speaker, I do not agree. It is a quiet family name, meaning something like "cart-worker", but nobody would call a chauffeur that way!]

'''guilloche''' 
"an ornamental pattern or border, as in architecture, consisting of paired ribbons or lines flowing in interlaced curves around a series of circular voids" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary''); see below

[[Image:Guilloche molding.jpg]]

'''A la contraire''' 
A French mistake: Should be ''au contraire'' (masculine)

'''gingival mound''' 
mound of gum tissue

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'''aperçu''' 
an insight

=Mario Incandenza's romantic experience=
==Page 121==

'''post-prandial''' 
after a meal

'''two hundred kilos''' 
over 440 pounds

'''Southpaw''' 
left-handed

==Page 122==

'''doffed''' 
doff is to take off or tip in salutation (don off)

'''coiffure''' 
hairdo

'''osseously''' 
Osseous means "bone-like."

'''reticulate''' 
netted

'''chill dusk''' 
George Eliot (born Mary Anne Evans; 1819-1880), the British novelist, uses the expression in her novel [http://www.fullbooks.com/Adam-Bede.html Adam Bede].

'''easement''' 
Literally meaning the use of something legally not one's own, here it's used to mean a new path beaten through a thicket.

'''kliegs''' 
short form for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klieg Klieg light]

==Page 123==

'''Betty Stove''' 
Betty Stöve (born 1945) is a Dutch former professional tennis player and winner of ten Grand Slam titles

'''Montclair NJ''' 
a suburb about twenty miles west-northwest of New York City

'''Con-Edison''' 
Consolidated Edison, the utilities company serving New York

'''three meters tall''' 
about nine feet, ten inches tall

==Page 124==

'''Weber Grill''' 
a real brand, you can see examples [http://www.weberstuff.com/?gclid=CK71gtmRyI8CFQIQFQodpCUq9A here]

'''Passaic NJ''' 
near Montclair, Passaic is another western suburb of New York

'''capering''' 
To caper is to skip about in a playful manner.

'''rondelling''' 
To rondel (more properly, roundel) is to dance in a circle

'''simpering''' 
To simper is to smile coyly.

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

'''boscages''' 
masses of trees or shrubs

'''jetéed''' 
To jeté is to jump ballet-style.

==Page 125==

'''lamé''' 
an ornamental fabric incorporating threads of gold or silver

'''Titian''' 
Tiziano Vecellio (1485-1576) was a Venetian painter.

'''poison sumac''' 
a tall shrub containing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urushiol urushiol], which causes a rash similar to poison ivy

'''ambient''' 
of or pertaining to the surrounding environment

==Page 126==

=April 30th, YDAU - Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

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'''les salles de danser''' 
French: dancing rooms

'''Val d'Or, Québec''' 
city of northern Québec, 325 miles northwest of Montreal

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'''eidetic''' 
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_memory photographic memory]

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'''murated''' 
a rarely used English word (found in ''OED'') meaning "surrounded by walls", from French: 'mur' = wall

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'''payloaders''' 
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]

==Page 88==

'''Brockengespenst'''

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken_spectre.

==Page 89==
'''c'etait la guerre'''

It was war.

==Page 90==
==Page 91==
'''agnate''' 
Paternal, related on the father's side. In this case agnate seems to mean that the shadows come from the same source, the setting sun. 

'''Samizdat''' 
From the Russian verb "to publish on one's own" or "to self-publish." Originally used to denote underground publications in the Soviet Union, now used more generally for dissident activity[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat]

==Page 92==
'''stenographer-cum-''jeune-fille-de-Vendredi''''' 
secretary who takes diction AND devoted assistant. ''Jeune-fille-de-Vendredi'' is French for "young girl Friday." "Man Friday" (or "girl Friday") is a term that means a very competent and loyal servant or assistant, and originates from the Friday of ''Robinson Crusoe''.

==Page 93==

=Feral Hamsters=

==Page 93==

'''uremic''' 

of or involving excess nitrogenous waste products in the urine

'''somatic''' 

of or relating to the body, esp. as distinct from the mind.

'''Champaign IL''' 
He probably attends the [http://www.uiuc.edu/ University of Illinois] main campus.

'''Ward and June''' 
The mother's and father's names on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_It_To_Beaver ''Leave It to Beaver'']

'''pedalferrous''' 
pedalfer is a soil type composed of aluminum and iron oxides. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedalfer apparently a neologism, the word would mean "of or pertaining to foot metal," i.e., fast driving

'''fallow''' 

plowed and harrowed but left unsown for a period in order to restore its fertility as part of a crop rotation or to avoid surplus production

'''fulvous''' 
in color, yellow-gray to yellowish-brown

'''teratogenic''' 
having an ill effect on the development of a fetus

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 93==

''''''n sûr''''' 
An elision of ''bien sûr'', French for "of course"

'''electrolysis''' 

the removal of hair roots or small blemishes on the skin by the application of heat using an electric current.

==Page 94==

'''Sterling UL35 9 mm machine pistol with Mag Na Port silencer''' 
Sterling is a real British gun manufacturer and [http://www.magnaport.com/ Mag-Na-Port] is real also, but this particular gun model is apparently made-up.

'''Charleston''' 
a dance popular in the 1920s

'''mesquite''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesquite mesquite] plant

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=YDAU - ETA Locker Room=

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'''Barbicide''' 
a brand name of disinfectant used for combs and hairbrushes

'''Tolstoy's sentence''' 
The question probably referred to the opening lines of Leo Tolstoy's ''Anna Karenina:'' "HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

'''No cathode gun. No phosphenic screen.''' 
A cathode gun is an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_gun electron gun] used in a cathode ray tube. "Phosphenic" refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene phosphenes].

'''UHF''' 
Ultra High Frequency

'''acutance''' 
the edge contrast of an image. Hal appears to be correct insofar as contrast is more or less the same as resolution. Acutance is related to a pulse's slope and height. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acutance

'''Michael Pemulis, ..., clear his throat deeply''' 
this grammatical error appears shortly after a discussion of a class on grammar

==Page 97==

'''halation''' 
blurring of a visual image by glare

'''quiescent''' 
still or at rest

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 97==

'''digitate''' 
“having deep radiating divisions” (OED)

=ETA Locker Room, cont.=

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==Page 98==

'''Zoltan''' 
Zoltán was a 10th century ruler of Hungary.

'''Csikzentmihalyi''' 
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (''sic'') is a psychologist best known for his concept of "flow", a psychological state where one "is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity", e.g. "being in the zone" while playing sports.

'''Idris Arslanian, new this year, ethnically vague''' 
Idris is an Arabic name, corresponding in the Qur'an to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch%2C_ancestor_of_Noah Enoch] in the Bible. The last name Arslanian sounds Armenian, though ''Arslan'' is a Turkish word for "lion."

'''R.A.''' 
Resident Assistant

'''Tex Watson''' 
Besides a character in ''Infinite Jest,'' Tex Watson was the nickname of Charles Watson, one of the chief murderers in the Charles Manson Family.

'''ephebes''' 
An ephebe is an adolescent male.

'''suppliants''' 
A suppliant is a petitioner.

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'''sienna''' 
yellowish- to reddish-brown

'''louvered''' 
with angled slats

'''thoracic''' 
having to do with the chest

'''atavistically''' 
Atavism means reversion to an earlier evolutionary type; i.e., Hal's complexion resembles his grandparents or earlier ancestors more than his parents

'''piebald''' 
having patches of different colors

==Page 100==

'''cognomen''' 
a nickname

'''inflation-generative grammar''' 
i.e. a set of rules to generate phrases of increasing emphasis

==Page 101==

'''semion''' 
A semion is technically part of an anyon, the latter of which is defined in the ''OED'' as "a particle having characteristics intermediate between those of fermions and bosons in two-dimensional space." However, it seems Wallace uses the word as a form closer to "semiotics." A later search reveals that ''semion'' is Greek for "sign."

'''Umbrian''' 
From the Italian ''reggione'' of Umbria, in central Italy. Hal is Italian on his father's side, as well as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pima Pima] Native American. His mother, of course, is French-Canadian.

'''Brylcreemed''' 
Used as a verb here, [http://www.brylcreemusa.com/ Brylcreem] is a brand name of men's hair grooming product.

'''zygomatics''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygomatics zygomatic bones] of the face

==Page 102==

'''haul ashes''' 
For a history of this term, click [http://www.wordwizard.com/ch_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6859 here]. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=haul%20your%20ashes

'''Johnny Mathis's "Chances Are"''' 
listen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEH3uqbpsm8 here] 

==Page 103==

'''Luther's 16th-century shoes, awaiting epiphany''' 
Martin Luther (1483-1546), German father of the Reformation, was a notorious sufferer of constipation.

'''hobnailed boots''' 
boots assembled with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobnail hobnails]

==Endnote 43==
'''Crohn's''' 
The disease is named for Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884-1983), American gastroenterologist.

==Page 103, cont.==

'''carminative''' 
antispasmodic

'''gout''' 
a disease characterized by the collection of uric acid in the joints

'''Port Washington''' 
There are three cities by this name in the U.S.: In New York, Wisconsin, and Ohio.

==Page 104==

==Page 105==

'''woppsed up''' 
a created word, apparently something like "wadded up"

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 105==

'''Tristan and Isolde''' 
star-crossed lovers from Arthurian myth

'''Lancelot and what's-her-name''' 
Guinevere

'''Agamemnon and Helen''' 
Steeply has this one wrong.

'''Dante and Beatrice''' 
Beatrice is Dante's guide through heaven in the third part of the ''Divine Comedy'', ''Paradiso''

'''Narcissus and Echo''' 
The story of these doomed lovers from Greek mythology is [http://thanasis.com/echo.htm here].

'''Kierkegaard and Regina''' 
Regina Olsen was the short-term fiancée of Kierkegaard.

'''Kafka and that poor girl afraid to go the postbox for the mail''' 
The story being referred to can be read [http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.jsp?what=KafkaDoll here].

'''Menelaus was husband, him of Sparta''' 
Menelaus, King of Sparta, was the husband of Helen. Agamemnon was the King of Argos and Menelaus's brother.

'''Helen and Paris. He of Troy.''' 
Paris, a Trojan prince, kidnapped Helen from Menelaus, precipitating the Trojan War.

'''The horse: the gift which was not a gift''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Horse Trojan horse]

==Page 106==

'''electrolysistic''' 
resulting from electrolysis, the removal of hair using electric shocks

'''sangfroid''' 
From French for "cold blood," this word means "coolness," as in composure under pressure

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==Page 108==

'''creosote''' 
There are several types of creosote, described [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creosote here].

'''Crepuscular''' 
active in the twilight, as bats

==Endnote 45==

==Endnote 304==

[[Notes_and_Errata_-_Pages_983-1079#Endnote_304_.C2.B7_The_Train_Game|Notes and Errata - Endnote 304]]

==Page 109==

'''gibbous''' 
bulging outwards: the shape of the moon when it is neither full, nor crescent, nor half, i.e., when it is more than half full

'''Quonsets''' 
short form for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut Quonset huts]

=November 3rd, YDAU - Advice to Little Brothers=

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==Page 110==

'''Stan Smith''' 
Born in 1946, Smith is a retired professional tennis player, having won Wimbledon and the U.S. Open once each.

'''dessicated''' 
dried out

==Endnote 46==

'''corticatization''' 
probably a misspelling of [http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?query=corticalization&action=Search+OMD corticalization]

==Page 111==

'''E.N.T. oncologist''' 
ear, nose, and throat; an oncologist is a cancer physician

'''violas''' 
A viola is a like a violin, only slightly larger and deeper in tone.

==Page 112==

'''''E Unibus Pluram''''' 
A Latin pun on ''E pluribus unum'' ("From many, one"), the U.S. motto. This would mean "From one, many." Note that the correct Latin would be something like ''Ex uno plures'' or ''Ex uno plura'' (depending on what "many" is meant to refer to).

==Page 113==

'''Solipsism''' 
a kind of narcissism based on the idea that one's own mind is all one can ever truly know to exist

'''''ballet de se''''' 

French: Ballet of (itself)

==Page 114==

==Page 115==

'''plateaux''' 
the proper French plural of "plateau," rather than "plateaus"

'''slog''' 
to work with sustained effort against a natural resistance over a period of time

==Page 116==

'''Banzai!''' 
a Japanese battle cry

'''hangdog''' 
browbeaten or intimidated

==Page 117==

'''croupiers''' 
attendants at gambling casinos

'''plasticene''' 
misspelling of Plasticine, a brand name of plastic used for making molds

'''ancipitals''' 
double-edged

'''accretive''' 
of or pertaining to the process of natural growth

'''autonomical''' 
of or pertaining to the reflexive nervous system

==Page 118==

'''machine-language''' 
a coding system for computers that requires no compiling before running

'''Orinda CA''' 
A small, wealthy city in Conta Costa County, immediately east of the Oakland-Berkeley metro area and about 18 miles northeast of San Francisco

'''me droogies''' 
Struck is speaking in Nadsat, the language of Anthony Burgess's novel ''A Clockwork Orange'', which is based on Russian. ''Droogies'' is Nadsat for "friends."

'''kertwanging''' 
from context, this would seem to be when an opponent is intentionally making bad calls to win points.

==Page 119==

'''Mein kinder''' 
German: "My children". But wrong grammar! "Mein" is singular, "kinder" is plural. "My children" would be "Meine Kinder"

==Page 120==

'''Wagenknecht''' 
sort of a formal German word for "chauffeur." [No, as native speaker, I do not agree. It is a quiet family name, meaning something like "cart-worker", but nobody would call a chauffeur that way!]

'''guilloche''' 
"an ornamental pattern or border, as in architecture, consisting of paired ribbons or lines flowing in interlaced curves around a series of circular voids" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary''); see below

[[Image:Guilloche molding.jpg]]

'''A la contraire''' 
A French mistake: Should be ''au contraire'' (masculine)

'''gingival mound''' 
mound of gum tissue

==Page 121==

'''aperçu''' 
an insight

=Mario Incandenza's romantic experience=
==Page 121==

'''post-prandial''' 
after a meal

'''two hundred kilos''' 
over 440 pounds

'''Southpaw''' 
left-handed

==Page 122==

'''doffed''' 
doff is to take off or tip in salutation (don off)

'''coiffure''' 
hairdo

'''osseously''' 
Osseous means "bone-like."

'''reticulate''' 
netted

'''chill dusk''' 
George Eliot (born Mary Anne Evans; 1819-1880), the British novelist, uses the expression in her novel [http://www.fullbooks.com/Adam-Bede.html Adam Bede].

'''easement''' 
Literally meaning the use of something legally not one's own, here it's used to mean a new path beaten through a thicket.

'''kliegs''' 
short form for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klieg Klieg light]

==Page 123==

'''Betty Stove''' 
Betty Stöve (born 1945) is a Dutch former professional tennis player and winner of ten Grand Slam titles

'''Montclair NJ''' 
a suburb about twenty miles west-northwest of New York City

'''Con-Edison''' 
Consolidated Edison, the utilities company serving New York

'''three meters tall''' 
about nine feet, ten inches tall

==Page 124==

'''Weber Grill''' 
a real brand, you can see examples [http://www.weberstuff.com/?gclid=CK71gtmRyI8CFQIQFQodpCUq9A here]

'''Passaic NJ''' 
near Montclair, Passaic is another western suburb of New York

'''capering''' 
To caper is to skip about in a playful manner.

'''rondelling''' 
To rondel (more properly, roundel) is to dance in a circle

'''simpering''' 
To simper is to smile coyly.

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

'''boscages''' 
masses of trees or shrubs

'''jetéed''' 
To jeté is to jump ballet-style.

==Page 125==

'''lamé''' 
an ornamental fabric incorporating threads of gold or silver

'''Titian''' 
Tiziano Vecellio (1485-1576) was a Venetian painter.

'''poison sumac''' 
a tall shrub containing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urushiol urushiol], which causes a rash similar to poison ivy

'''ambient''' 
of or pertaining to the surrounding environment

==Page 126==

=April 30th, YDAU - Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 126==

'''les salles de danser''' 
French: dancing rooms

'''Val d'Or, Québec''' 
city of northern Québec, 325 miles northwest of Montreal

==Page 127==

'''eidetic''' 
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_memory photographic memory]

=April 30th, YDAU - Still More Marathe & Steeply=

==Page 127==

'''murated''' 
a rarely used English word (found in ''OED'') meaning "surrounded by walls", from French: 'mur' = wall

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==Page 87==

'''payloaders''' 
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]

==Page 88==

'''Brockengespenst'''

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken_spectre.

==Page 89==
'''c'etait la guerre'''

It was war.

==Page 90==
==Page 91==
'''agnate''' 
Paternal, related on the father's side. In this case agnate seems to mean that the shadows come from the same source, the setting sun. 

'''Samizdat''' 
From the Russian verb "to publish on one's own" or "to self-publish." Originally used to denote underground publications in the Soviet Union, now used more generally for dissident activity[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat]

==Page 92==
'''stenographer-cum-''jeune-fille-de-Vendredi''''' 
secretary who takes diction AND devoted assistant. ''Jeune-fille-de-Vendredi'' is French for "young girl Friday." "Man Friday" (or "girl Friday") is a term that means a very competent and loyal servant or assistant, and originates from the Friday of ''Robinson Crusoe''.

==Page 93==

=Feral Hamsters=

==Page 93==

'''uremic''' 

of or involving excess nitrogenous waste products in the urine

'''somatic''' 

of or relating to the body, esp. as distinct from the mind.

'''Champaign IL''' 
He probably attends the [http://www.uiuc.edu/ University of Illinois] main campus.

'''Ward and June''' 
The mother's and father's names on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_It_To_Beaver ''Leave It to Beaver'']

'''pedalferrous''' 
pedalfer is a soil type composed of aluminum and iron oxides. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedalfer apparently a neologism, the word would mean "of or pertaining to foot metal," i.e., fast driving

'''fallow''' 

plowed and harrowed but left unsown for a period in order to restore its fertility as part of a crop rotation or to avoid surplus production

'''fulvous''' 
in color, yellow-gray to yellowish-brown

'''teratogenic''' 
having an ill effect on the development of a fetus

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 93==

''''''n sûr''''' 
An elision of ''bien sûr'', French for "of course"

'''electrolysis''' 

the removal of hair roots or small blemishes on the skin by the application of heat using an electric current.

==Page 94==

'''Sterling UL35 9 mm machine pistol with Mag Na Port silencer''' 
Sterling is a real British gun manufacturer and [http://www.magnaport.com/ Mag-Na-Port] is real also, but this particular gun model is apparently made-up.

'''Charleston''' 
a dance popular in the 1920s

'''mesquite''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesquite mesquite] plant

==Page 95==

=YDAU - ETA Locker Room=

==Page 95==

'''Barbicide''' 
a brand name of disinfectant used for combs and hairbrushes

'''Tolstoy's sentence''' 
The question probably referred to the opening lines of Leo Tolstoy's ''Anna Karenina:'' "HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

'''No cathode gun. No phosphenic screen.''' 
A cathode gun is an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_gun electron gun] used in a cathode ray tube. "Phosphenic" refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene phosphenes].

'''UHF''' 
Ultra High Frequency

'''acutance''' 
the edge contrast of an image. Hal appears to be correct insofar as contrast is more or less the same as resolution. Acutance is related to a pulse's slope and height. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acutance

'''Michael Pemulis, ..., clear his throat deeply''' 
this grammatical error appears shortly after a discussion of a class on grammar

==Page 97==

'''halation''' 
blurring of a visual image by glare

'''quiescent''' 
still or at rest

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 97==

'''digitate''' 
“having deep radiating divisions” (OED)

=ETA Locker Room, cont.=

==Page 97==

==Page 98==

'''Zoltan''' 
Zoltán was a 10th century ruler of Hungary.

'''Csikzentmihalyi''' 
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (''sic'') is a psychologist best known for his concept of "flow", a psychological state where one "is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity", e.g. "being in the zone" while playing sports.

'''Idris Arslanian, new this year, ethnically vague''' 
Idris is an Arabic name, corresponding in the Qur'an to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch%2C_ancestor_of_Noah Enoch] in the Bible. The last name Arslanian sounds Armenian, though ''Arslan'' is a Turkish word for "lion."

'''R.A.''' 
Resident Assistant

'''Tex Watson''' 
Besides a character in ''Infinite Jest,'' Tex Watson was the nickname of Charles Watson, one of the chief murderers in the Charles Manson Family.

'''ephebes''' 
An ephebe is an adolescent male.

'''suppliants''' 
A suppliant is a petitioner.

==Page 99==

'''sienna''' 
yellowish- to reddish-brown

'''louvered''' 
with angled slats

'''thoracic''' 
having to do with the chest

'''atavistically''' 
Atavism means reversion to an earlier evolutionary type.

'''piebald''' 
having patches of different colors

==Page 100==

'''cognomen''' 
a nickname

'''inflation-generative grammar''' 
i.e. a set of rules to generate phrases of increasing emphasis

==Page 101==

'''semion''' 
A semion is technically part of an anyon, the latter of which is defined in the ''OED'' as "a particle having characteristics intermediate between those of fermions and bosons in two-dimensional space." However, it seems Wallace uses the word as a form closer to "semiotics." A later search reveals that ''semion'' is Greek for "sign."

'''Umbrian''' 
From the Italian ''reggione'' of Umbria, in central Italy. Hal is Italian on his father's side, as well as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pima Pima] Native American. His mother, of course, is French-Canadian.

'''Brylcreemed''' 
Used as a verb here, [http://www.brylcreemusa.com/ Brylcreem] is a brand name of men's hair grooming product.

'''zygomatics''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygomatics zygomatic bones] of the face

==Page 102==

'''haul ashes''' 
For a history of this term, click [http://www.wordwizard.com/ch_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6859 here]. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=haul%20your%20ashes

'''Johnny Mathis's "Chances Are"''' 
listen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEH3uqbpsm8 here] 

==Page 103==

'''Luther's 16th-century shoes, awaiting epiphany''' 
Martin Luther (1483-1546), German father of the Reformation, was a notorious sufferer of constipation.

'''hobnailed boots''' 
boots assembled with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobnail hobnails]

==Endnote 43==
'''Crohn's''' 
The disease is named for Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884-1983), American gastroenterologist.

==Page 103, cont.==

'''carminative''' 
antispasmodic

'''gout''' 
a disease characterized by the collection of uric acid in the joints

'''Port Washington''' 
There are three cities by this name in the U.S.: In New York, Wisconsin, and Ohio.

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'''woppsed up''' 
a created word, apparently something like "wadded up"

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 105==

'''Tristan and Isolde''' 
star-crossed lovers from Arthurian myth

'''Lancelot and what's-her-name''' 
Guinevere

'''Agamemnon and Helen''' 
Steeply has this one wrong.

'''Dante and Beatrice''' 
Beatrice is Dante's guide through heaven in the third part of the ''Divine Comedy'', ''Paradiso''

'''Narcissus and Echo''' 
The story of these doomed lovers from Greek mythology is [http://thanasis.com/echo.htm here].

'''Kierkegaard and Regina''' 
Regina Olsen was the short-term fiancée of Kierkegaard.

'''Kafka and that poor girl afraid to go the postbox for the mail''' 
The story being referred to can be read [http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.jsp?what=KafkaDoll here].

'''Menelaus was husband, him of Sparta''' 
Menelaus, King of Sparta, was the husband of Helen. Agamemnon was the King of Argos and Menelaus's brother.

'''Helen and Paris. He of Troy.''' 
Paris, a Trojan prince, kidnapped Helen from Menelaus, precipitating the Trojan War.

'''The horse: the gift which was not a gift''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Horse Trojan horse]

==Page 106==

'''electrolysistic''' 
resulting from electrolysis, the removal of hair using electric shocks

'''sangfroid''' 
From French for "cold blood," this word means "coolness," as in composure under pressure

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'''creosote''' 
There are several types of creosote, described [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creosote here].

'''Crepuscular''' 
active in the twilight, as bats

==Endnote 45==

==Endnote 304==

[[Notes_and_Errata_-_Pages_983-1079#Endnote_304_.C2.B7_The_Train_Game|Notes and Errata - Endnote 304]]

==Page 109==

'''gibbous''' 
bulging outwards: the shape of the moon when it is neither full, nor crescent, nor half, i.e., when it is more than half full

'''Quonsets''' 
short form for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut Quonset huts]

=November 3rd, YDAU - Advice to Little Brothers=

==Page 109==

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'''Stan Smith''' 
Born in 1946, Smith is a retired professional tennis player, having won Wimbledon and the U.S. Open once each.

'''dessicated''' 
dried out

==Endnote 46==

'''corticatization''' 
probably a misspelling of [http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?query=corticalization&action=Search+OMD corticalization]

==Page 111==

'''E.N.T. oncologist''' 
ear, nose, and throat; an oncologist is a cancer physician

'''violas''' 
A viola is a like a violin, only slightly larger and deeper in tone.

==Page 112==

'''''E Unibus Pluram''''' 
A Latin pun on ''E pluribus unum'' ("From many, one"), the U.S. motto. This would mean "From one, many." Note that the correct Latin would be something like ''Ex uno plures'' or ''Ex uno plura'' (depending on what "many" is meant to refer to).

==Page 113==

'''Solipsism''' 
a kind of narcissism based on the idea that one's own mind is all one can ever truly know to exist

'''''ballet de se''''' 

French: Ballet of (itself)

==Page 114==

==Page 115==

'''plateaux''' 
the proper French plural of "plateau," rather than "plateaus"

'''slog''' 
to work with sustained effort against a natural resistance over a period of time

==Page 116==

'''Banzai!''' 
a Japanese battle cry

'''hangdog''' 
browbeaten or intimidated

==Page 117==

'''croupiers''' 
attendants at gambling casinos

'''plasticene''' 
misspelling of Plasticine, a brand name of plastic used for making molds

'''ancipitals''' 
double-edged

'''accretive''' 
of or pertaining to the process of natural growth

'''autonomical''' 
of or pertaining to the reflexive nervous system

==Page 118==

'''machine-language''' 
a coding system for computers that requires no compiling before running

'''Orinda CA''' 
A small, wealthy city in Conta Costa County, immediately east of the Oakland-Berkeley metro area and about 18 miles northeast of San Francisco

'''me droogies''' 
Struck is speaking in Nadsat, the language of Anthony Burgess's novel ''A Clockwork Orange'', which is based on Russian. ''Droogies'' is Nadsat for "friends."

'''kertwanging''' 
from context, this would seem to be when an opponent is intentionally making bad calls to win points.

==Page 119==

'''Mein kinder''' 
German: "My children". But wrong grammar! "Mein" is singular, "kinder" is plural. "My children" would be "Meine Kinder"

==Page 120==

'''Wagenknecht''' 
sort of a formal German word for "chauffeur." [No, as native speaker, I do not agree. It is a quiet family name, meaning something like "cart-worker", but nobody would call a chauffeur that way!]

'''guilloche''' 
"an ornamental pattern or border, as in architecture, consisting of paired ribbons or lines flowing in interlaced curves around a series of circular voids" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary''); see below

[[Image:Guilloche molding.jpg]]

'''A la contraire''' 
A French mistake: Should be ''au contraire'' (masculine)

'''gingival mound''' 
mound of gum tissue

==Page 121==

'''aperçu''' 
an insight

=Mario Incandenza's romantic experience=
==Page 121==

'''post-prandial''' 
after a meal

'''two hundred kilos''' 
over 440 pounds

'''Southpaw''' 
left-handed

==Page 122==

'''doffed''' 
doff is to take off or tip in salutation (don off)

'''coiffure''' 
hairdo

'''osseously''' 
Osseous means "bone-like."

'''reticulate''' 
netted

'''chill dusk''' 
George Eliot (born Mary Anne Evans; 1819-1880), the British novelist, uses the expression in her novel [http://www.fullbooks.com/Adam-Bede.html Adam Bede].

'''easement''' 
Literally meaning the use of something legally not one's own, here it's used to mean a new path beaten through a thicket.

'''kliegs''' 
short form for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klieg Klieg light]

==Page 123==

'''Betty Stove''' 
Betty Stöve (born 1945) is a Dutch former professional tennis player and winner of ten Grand Slam titles

'''Montclair NJ''' 
a suburb about twenty miles west-northwest of New York City

'''Con-Edison''' 
Consolidated Edison, the utilities company serving New York

'''three meters tall''' 
about nine feet, ten inches tall

==Page 124==

'''Weber Grill''' 
a real brand, you can see examples [http://www.weberstuff.com/?gclid=CK71gtmRyI8CFQIQFQodpCUq9A here]

'''Passaic NJ''' 
near Montclair, Passaic is another western suburb of New York

'''capering''' 
To caper is to skip about in a playful manner.

'''rondelling''' 
To rondel (more properly, roundel) is to dance in a circle

'''simpering''' 
To simper is to smile coyly.

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

'''boscages''' 
masses of trees or shrubs

'''jetéed''' 
To jeté is to jump ballet-style.

==Page 125==

'''lamé''' 
an ornamental fabric incorporating threads of gold or silver

'''Titian''' 
Tiziano Vecellio (1485-1576) was a Venetian painter.

'''poison sumac''' 
a tall shrub containing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urushiol urushiol], which causes a rash similar to poison ivy

'''ambient''' 
of or pertaining to the surrounding environment

==Page 126==

=April 30th, YDAU - Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 126==

'''les salles de danser''' 
French: dancing rooms

'''Val d'Or, Québec''' 
city of northern Québec, 325 miles northwest of Montreal

==Page 127==

'''eidetic''' 
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_memory photographic memory]

=April 30th, YDAU - Still More Marathe & Steeply=

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'''murated''' 
a rarely used English word (found in ''OED'') meaning "surrounded by walls", from French: 'mur' = wall

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==Page 3==

'''Uncle Charles''' 
Hal's Uncle, Charles Tavis, is head of the Enfield Tennis Academy.

'''Remington-hung''' 
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter whose work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].

'''Half-Windsors''' 
A type of knot used to tie a necktie. Picture of a half-Windsor [http://www.sutree.com/upload/ymxxpnyqiuyiggefhkbsq/captured.jpg here].

'''prorector''' 
See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prorector prorector]. Possibly an originally German term. Also see [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=P prorector index entry].

'''A. deLint''' 
See [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=D deLint index entry]; p. 4.

'''C.T.''' 
Uncle Charles, mentioned previously. See [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_27-63 Page 50].

'''periphery''' 
fringe; outer boundary

'''Harold Incandenza''' 
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.

'''Enfield''' 
A fictional town just west of Boston, where parts of the real Boston neighborhoods of Brighton and Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938 and flooded by the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir.

'''court-shaped''' 
like a tennis court, presumably

==Page 4==

<div id="onancaa">'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.''' </div>
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Athletic Association -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.

'''wen''' 
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''Aubrey F. deLint''' 
Enfield Tennis Academy prorector. See [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=D deLint index entry].

'''avers''' 
Asserts as true or alleges.

'''among the very cream''' 
as in, among the cream of the crop, or among the very best.

'''Randolph Tennis Center''' 
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tucson, Ariz. and the main campus of the University of Arizona.

'''El Con Marriott''' 
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquistador Hotel in Tucson, the Marriot has a different name.

'''top-hole''' 
British exclamation meaning first-rate or excellent

'''WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational''' 
A fictional junior tennis tournament, sponsored by Whataburger®, a real fast-food chain in the southwest U.S. See p. 14.

==Page 5==

'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."''' 
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.

'''62.5%''' 
Out of eight people in the room (including Hal, three deans, the Director of Composition, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are not looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.

'''Edmonton''' 
Presumably Edmonton, Alberta.

'''mottle''' 
Spots of color.

'''circumflex''' 
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb être (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.

'''Pac 10''' 
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.
 
'''"I stare carefully into the Kekuléan knot of the middle Dean's necktie."''' [[image:wiki.png|frame|August Kekulé (left), the self-consuming snake (middle) and the benzene molecular structure it inspired (right)]]
"Kekuléan" is not a type of knot. To Hal, the knot he is focusing on resembles the self-consuming, annular shape of the snake that inspired August Kekulé's discovery of benzene's molecular structure. August Kekule (1829-1896), a renowned German organic chemist, was the principal founder of the theory of chemical structure. His most famous work, the discovery of benzene molecule's structure, is said to be inspired by a dream. "Kekulé's Dream" was that of a self-devouring snake, the shape of which he used to describe the benzene ring. Hal's intense focus on this annular, or ring-like, part of the tie is the first reference to annular shapes.

==Page 6==

'''aviarian''' 
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.

'''phonetic perspective''' 
Judging from the way the words sound when spoken.

==Page 7==

'''lapidary''' 
"Marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression: lapidary prose" (''thefreedictionary.com''). The OED defines it as “Characteristic of or suitable for monumental inscriptions”. The original meaning refers to the cutting and polishing of precious stones. Wallace favored this word to describe well-wrought prose, and used it often himself in interviews and readings.

'''effete''' 
Overrefined.

'''Prescriptive Grammar''' 
This term describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace wrote at length about the thorny questions surrounding this subject in the famous essay, "Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage," which can be found at http://www.harpers.org/archive/2001/04/0070913

'''Post-Fourier Transformations''' 
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.

'''Holographically Mimetic''' 
Approximating reality using holograms.

'''Stasis''' 
Inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing forces [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stasis]. 

'''Montague Grammar''' 
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.

'''Physical Modality''' 
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.

'''Tertiary''' 
Third-level, after primary and secondary.

'''Justinian''' 
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565).

'''sotto''' 
Italian for "below." Particularly when used in the phrase, "sotto voce," it means speaking in a low voice, under one's breath.

==Page 8==

'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium''' 
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

'''hypertrophied''' 
Growth of tissue, especially muscle. Although there are many causes, the most common is exercise. (see, contra, ''atrophied''.)

==Page 9==

'''insigniated''' 
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia).

'''N.A.A.U.P.''' 
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.

'''de moi''' 
French: from me.

'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."''' 
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word. Hal is saying that the Deans, even with their limited grammatical abilities, would find the recent essays appalling.

'''hip-shot''' 
one hip lower than the other.

'''capillary webs''' 
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins.

'''defacatory''' 
As if eliminating solid bodily waste.

'''Don''' 
A mafia boss.

'''RICO''' 
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.

=Account of young Hal eating the mold=
==Page 10==

'''vortexing''' 
whirling

'''nepotistic''' 
relating to the practice of favoring relatives or friends

'''Brewster's-Angle light''' 
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].

'''Weston''' 
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city

'''Orin''' 
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."

'''Rototiller''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]

'''Pooh-wear''' 
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance

[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

==Page 11==

'''presbyopic''' 
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older

'''Rototrembling''' 
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller

'''caustic''' 
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic

'''plumb''' 
adj., straight or true; in line with

'''martial''' 
war-like

'''ideogram''' 
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration

=Hal at the University, cont.=
==Page 12==

'''ROM-drives''' 
ROM is an acronym for "Read Only Memory", a class of computer data storage. In the real world, best known in the name of the non-music version of Compact Discs (CD-ROM). CD-ROMs were becoming a popular way to distribute software (and pre-Internet computerized encyclopedias and atlases) when Infinite Jest was written, and even then it was predicted that DVD-ROMs or some other video/data disk would eventually supplant them. In more technical contexts, ROM refers to a specific variety of computer chips, but since Hal is talking about "drives", it seems likely that he means something more like a CD.

'''Kierkegaard''' 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy

'''Camus''' 
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.

'''Dennis Gabor''' 
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."''' 
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of Leviathan. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.

'''Hegel''' 
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.

'''creatus''' 
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is long and pronounced as in "father" rather than in "hate."

'''pinion''' 
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''parquet''' 
An in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring. Also, in France, the branch of the law that deals with the persecution of crime.

'''"God! Help!"''' 
Note: The same words used by the Moms when Hal ate the mold.

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.

==Page 13==

'''half nelson''' 
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind

'''Heimlich''' 
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.

'''roil''' 
To move about in whirling manner.

'''pases''' 
This is the plural of pase, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.

'''supine''' 
lying on one's back

'''enfilade''' 
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.

==Page 14==

<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thumb|100px|Whataburger logo|right]]
Synecdoche for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational," an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson, AZ. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Phoenix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)

'''viscous''' 
Sticky, thick and liquid.

==Page 15==

'''espadrilles''' 
shoes popular in Latin America with rope for soles

'''savant''' 
a savant is a person of learning, particularly specialized knowledge of a particular field. 
This definition: "Mentally handicapped but brilliant in one specific way." refers to an "idiot savant"

'''shunt''' 
To shove.

'''kangaroo-interview''' 
Alludes to kangaroo-court, a sham legal proceeding.

'''leonine''' 
lion-like

'''cirri''' 
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud

'''vectors''' 
Direct paths to desired locations

'''martinet''' 
a strict disciplinarian

==Page 16==

'''ultra-mach''' 
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.

'''barnwood''' 
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''starboard list''' 
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.

'''gigantism''' 
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''

'''parodic''' 
having the qualities of a parody

'''infantophile''' 
one subject to infantophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia]), but may simply reference the earlier Inner Infant group

'''incisionish''' 
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"

'''hypophalangial''' 
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands

'''Himself's''' 
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel

'''antenna''' 
Referring here to the portable phone's antenna.

==Page 17==

'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."''' 
See Hamlet, Act Five, Scene One.

'''Venus Williams''' 
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.

'''Dymphna''' 
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epileptics, and the mentally ill, among others.

'''Petropolis Kahn''' 
Petropolis is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.

"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., kohen.

'''etiology''' 
the cause of a disease

'''Socratic method'''
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece

'''O.E.D. VI's count''' 
This is a reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition.

'''nonarchaic''' 
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language

'''Latinate''' 
deriving from Latin

'''Saxonic''' 
deriving from Old English

'''quick-bit''' 
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips

'''jou''' 
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"

=☽ YDAU - Erdedy's double bind=

==Page 17==
'''girder''' 
An upright beam

==Page 18==

'''200 grams''' 
a little over seven ounces

'''"...using just audio..."''' 
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.

'''Allston''' 
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.

'''high-resin dope''' 
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced

'''harelip''' 
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]

==Page 19==

'''TP''' 
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.

'''"own marijuana"''' 
To physically possess marijuana.

'''modem''' 
used as a verb, communicating with the office via modem, an early but ubiquitous tool for transmitting data between servers and client/servers.

'''e-note''' 
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, conceived in the pre-Internet era

==Page 20==

'''Mountie''' 
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI

'''Porter Square, Cambridge''' 
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border

==Page 21==

'''convulsive''' 
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking

'''Wedekind festival''' 
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.

'''rapacious''' 
Aggressively greedy.

==Page 22==

'''pleurisy''' 
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs

'''Interlace viewer''' 
A television-based home entertainment system, ubiquitous in the time the novel is set, which plays copy-protected "cartridges" custom-ordered by viewers, invented by [[L#"Lace"|Noreen Lace-Forché]]

'''raptly''' 
with intense attention to

'''cartridge''' 
See ''Interlace viewer'', above

'''debauch''' 
an episode of debauchery, engaging in excessive, pleasure-seeking, often sexual- or drug/alcohol-related

'''120 grams''' 
about 4.2 ounces

'''debased''' 
of low character and lacking integrity

'''Tito Puente''' 
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.

'''Marlborough Street''' 
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.

==Page 23==

'''appropriation''' 
taking something as one's own, without permission

'''methamphetamine hydrochloride''' 
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that Infinite Jest was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.

==Page 24==

'''pastiche''' 
describing a work that imitates the style of another work, artist, movement or period

'''magisculed''' 
typo or intentional misspelling of ''majuscule'', an initial capital letter, often large-type to introduce a section of written material; Wallace's use of the noun in a verb form is likely a neologism (especially if the alternate spelling is retained)

'''50 grams''' 
about 1.75 ounces

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water without soil

==Page 25==

'''stein''' 
a drinking mug

'''E.W.D. land barge''' 
acronym for "Empire Waste Disposal"; a garbage truck

'''phallocentric''' 
biased from a male point of view

'''half a meter''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''carb''' 
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carburetor on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.

'''oblique''' 
slanted, like an acute or obtuse angle, not a right-angle

'''teleputer''' 
Combination television and computer, generic term for an Interlace player, see also [[T#"TP"|TP]]

==Page 26==

'''jibe''' 
correspond with; match up

'''oblique''' 
indirect or dishonest

==Page 27==

'''desiccated''' 
dried out

'''convulsively''' 
As if struck by a convulsion; moving suddenly and without coordination.

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==Endnote 3==

'''cardioid''' 
In geometry, a cardioid is a plane curve produced by tracing the path of a chosen point of a circle which rolls around a fixed circle. The cardioid shape of E.T.A. has one cusp, i.e., a point on the curve that is not smooth. The ''r'' referred to by the narrator here is the radius of the moving circle.

'''Übermensch''' 
German for "superhuman"

'''Brandeis''' 
Brandeis is a Jewish-founded university in Waltham, Mass., about nine miles west of Boston, named for Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941) the first Jewish Supreme Court justice.

==Endnote 5==

'''N.B.''' 
abbreviation for Latin ''nota bene'', i.e., "note well," stated before an important example or corollary point

==Endnote 5a==

'''nystagmus''' 
involuntary eye movement

'''entrepôt''' 
French for "warehouse," this is where foreign merchandise can be purchased duty-free

'''loquacity''' 
talkativeness

==Endnote 6==

'''Halcion (still available in Canada, unbelievably, still)''' 
It's also still available here, though the U.K. has banned it since 1991.

==Endnote 7==

'''bevelling''' 
Here meaning "smoothed out" and misspelled, beveling is the making of 45º angles where perpendiculars meet.

==Endnote 8==

'''dickies''' 
As a dickie is designed to give the appearance of wearing a tie, Wallace uses this word here to deal with drugs that mimic the effects of other drugs.

'''MMDA, DMA, DMMM, 2CB, para-DOT I-VI''' 
You can read about MMDA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMDA_%28psychedelic%29 here], DMA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethoxyamphetamine here], 2CB [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2CB here], DOT [http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_Chemical.jsp?Rec_Id=PC35343 here] (apparently). DMMM appears to be made up.

'''CNS''' 
central nervous system

'''gamma hydroxybutric acid''' 
now more commonly known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-Hydroxybutyric_acid GHB]

'''DMZ/M.P.''' 
DMZ is another made-up drug. M.P. refers to its street name, Madame Psychosis.

===Endnote 8a===

'''Muscimole''' 
another mushroom-based hallucinogen, like psilocybin

'''DDMS''' 
dibromododecenyl methylsulfimide

'''DMSO''' 
dimethylsulfoxide, a common solvent used in many laboratories. It is readily absorbed through the skin, taking with it whatever it has dissolved.

==Endnote 12a==

'''"...Continental Controlled Substances Act of Y.T.M.P., O.N.A.N.D.E.A.'s hierarchy of analgesics/antipyretics/axiolytics..."''' 
There is no such act, obviously. Y.T.M.P. is [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]. The second acronym is Organization of North American Nations Drug Enforcement Agency. Analgesics are painkillers. Antipyretics are fever-reducing drugs, and anxiolytics are anxiety-reducing drugs.

==Endnote 13==

'''Quo Vadis''' 
Latin: Where are you going? Famously asked of Jesus by Peter when the former was on his way to be crucified. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quo_vadis here.] Also a novel and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043949/ film] by that name were made.

==Endnote 17==

'''datum''' 
piece of information, the singular form of the word "data"

==Endnote 19==

French: A person of terrible importance

==Endnote 21==

'''Q.v.''' 
Latin abbreviation for ''quod vide'' ("which see"), used to direct a reader elsewhere in a book. Here we are directed to...

==Endnote 23==
'''U.S.D.D.''' 
United States Department of Defense

==Endnote 24 · JAMES O. INCANDENZA: A FILMOGRAPHY==
===Page 986===
'''meniscus''' 
a lens with a crescent-shaped section

'''soliloquized''' 
spoken to oneself

'''incunabular''' 
early stages of something

'''D W Griffith''' 
Film Director whose films include 'Tolerance' and 'Birth of a Nation'; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._W._Griffith Wikipedia entry]

'''Taka Limura''' 
Japanese film maker - [http://research.yale.edu/eastasianstudies/iimura.chin.pdf see article] 

'''Heliotrope''' 
An arrangement of mirrors for reflecting sunlight from a distant point to an observation station. 

===Page 987===
'''Latrodectus Mactans''' 
Latin name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectus_mactans Black Widow] spider

'''neuralgia''' 
A form of chronic pain where pain is felt in a nerve without stimulation of pain receptors. Difficult to diagnose and treat.

===Page 992===

'''çoncupiscence''' 

Strong sexual desire

===Page 988===
'''Godbout''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Godbout Jacques Godbout], a French-Canadian filmmaker and documentarian.

==Endnote 82==

[[Image:Plaid.jpg|thumb|caption|Night Watch Plaid|150px|right]]
'''Bean''' 
as in L.L. Bean, a privately-held mail-order and retail company based in Freeport, Maine, United States, specializing in clothing and outdoor recreation equipment.

'''Night Watch plaid''' 
A pattern of plaid. See right.

==Endnote 110 · Hal and Orin Discuss Québecois Politics==

===Page 1004===
'''Hush Puppy''' 
a [http://www.hushpuppies.com/en-US/Main.aspx brand name] of shoes

'''squeegeed''' 
cleaned with a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeegee squeegee]

'''truncated''' 
cut short

===Page 1005===

'''R&R''' 
Rest and Relaxation

'''ex officio''' 
Latin: by virtue of one's office

''''The Yellow Rose (of Texas)'''' 
Dickinson's poems can also be read to the meter of "Mary Had a Little Lamb."

'''falsetto''' 
a man's voice when he pitches it falsely high to sound like a woman

'''riffling''' 
turning pages quickly

'''Ample make this bed''' 
The full poem is [http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1337.html here].

===Page 1006===

'''quotidian''' 
commonplace

[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.-Q.M.D.]]

'''pistil''' 
that part of a flower that is analogous to the female reproductive organs

'''Sikorski-sized''' 
helicopter-sized; the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_R-4 Sikorsky R-4] was the first mass-produced helicopter

'''paucity''' 
scarcity

'''swotted''' 
studied intensively

'''wakked''' 
I have no idea.

'''unperspicous''' 
not clearly expressed or presented

'''penultimate''' 
second to last

'''whingeing''' 
complaining (pronounced to rhyme with "jing")

'''xerophagy''' 
eating of bread and water only

===Endnote 110d===

'''anti-sclerotic''' 
tending to ward of hardening of tissues (as of arteries, here)

===Page 1006 (cont'd)===

'''maunder''' 
to talk incoherently or aimlessly

'''Solecism''' 
nonstandard or incorrect grammatical usage

'''and c.''' 
et cetera

===Page 1007===

'''20 X 25 centimeter''' 
very close to 8" x 10"

'''Jethro Bodine''' 
a character on the television show [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055662/ The Beverly Hillbillies]

'''proviso''' 
a clause, usually in a document, making a stipulation or qualification

'''"...isn't even iambic, much less quatrameter/trimeter..."''' 
This is to say that the poetry of Dickinson is not in iambic pentameter, also known as verse. This is the style of poetry Shakespeare is written in ("Now is the winter of our discontent") -- ten syllables, and five iambs (feet, or beats) per line (thus pentameter). Quatrameter/trimeter would be the rhythm scheme of "Yellow Rose of Texas" and "Mary Had a Little Lamb" (although note that the first foot of the latter is incomplete).

'''dink''' 
a synonym for a drop shot, which in tennis is a light tap just over the net

===Page 1008===

'''obverse''' 
the more conspicuous of two possible choices

'''seraphic''' 
like an angel

'''lascivious''' 
appealing to sexual tastes

'''mesmerized''' 
hypnotized

'''skitter''' 
to move rapidly along a surface

'''knight-errant''' 
a knight on a quest to prove his chivalry

===Page 1009===

'''Ainsi''' 
French: so to speak

'''breviary''' 
a prayer and hymn book

'''"Kitchens and heat..."''' 
which is to say, if you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen

===Page 1010===

'''Gloeckner''' 
German for "ringer," taking that in either of the meanings it has in English

'''3-kilo''' 
a little over 7.25 pounds

'''Snuff''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuff ground tobacco], which is inhaled rather than smoked or chewed

'''Andover''' 
as in [http://www.boardingschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/5 Philips Academy Andover], alma mater of both Presidents Bush

'''"Dickinson's about as Transcendalist as Poe."''' 
which is to say, not at all

===Page 1011===

[[Image:Eddy.jpg|right]]

'''R.C.M.P.''' 
Royal Canadian Mounted Police

'''Nelson Eddy''' 
Nelson Ackerman Eddy (1901-1967) was an American singer and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0248904/ movie star]. As far as what he looked like, see right.

'''Droll''' 
whimsically comic

===Page 1012===

'''nanomicroscopy''' 
the looking at extremely small things (nano- being the prefix for "one-billionth") through a microscope

'''Thevet''' 
This is probably a reference to André de Thevet (1502-1590), a French priest and explorer. Though never in Canada, he relied on French-Canadian explorers' work for his own voyages to South America.

'''"...the 5 on the French Achievement boards..."''' 
The highest possible score on the French Advanced Placement Exam (for which one can receive college credit) is 5.

'''Boswell''' 
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (1740-1795), was the Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson.

'''E cup''' 
a very large breast size

'''acuity''' 
acuteness of perception

'''in utero''' 
in the womb

'''thalidomide''' 
a drug developed to treat morning sickness in pregnant women that ended up causing babies to be born missing limbs

'''Condé Nast''' 
one of the largest magazine publishers in the country, owned by Advance Publications (the Newhouse family) and founded by Condé Montrose Nast (1873-1942), an American publisher

'''deform''' 
here meaning simply "to spoil"

'''persona''' 
a fictional identity created for a person, narrator in a book, etc.

'''''du''''' 
French: of the (masculine)

===Page 1013===

'''Meech Lake''' 
a lake in Gatineau Park, near Chelsea, Québec

'''Parizeau''' 
This is probably Jacques Parizeau (born 1930), a former Premier of Québec and proponent of Québecois sovereignty.

'''Charlottetown''' 
the capital of the Canadian province of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island Prince Edward Island]

'''Crétien assassination''' 
This is probably a misspelling of the surname of Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien (born 1934), Prime Minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003.

'''Francophonic''' 
French-speaking

'''Acadian Zionism''' 
Acadia is the traditional name for what is now (in part) eastern Québec. Zionism is used here as a synonym for nationalism, rather than with its specific Jewish connotations

'''Toujours''' 
French: always

'''"On ne parle d'Anglais ici."''' 
French: English is not spoken here

'''Ottawa''' 
the capital of Canada

'''"Permettez Nous Partir, Permettez Nous Être."''' 
French: Allow us to leave, allow us to be.

'''Winnipeg''' 
the capital of Canadian province of Manitoba

'''flux''' 
frequent change

'''appalled''' 
dismayed

'''UV-booth''' 
UV standing for ultraviolet (as in light), this is probably a tanning booth.

===Page 1014===

'''"Nous v. La Plupart Toujours"''' 
French: Us versus the majority always

'''Lesotho''' 
a kingdom of southern Africa, existing as an enclave entirely within the Republic of South Africa

'''SOUTHAF''' 
This is the Union of South Africa, which was formed in 1910 as a British colony and tried to annex Lesotho to it. Because of the imposition of ''apartheid'' laws in S. Africa, the annexation failed.

'''antebellum''' 
before the war, here the U.S. Civil War

===Endnote 110h===

'''Gallic''' 
French

===Page 1014 (cont'd)===

'''Anglophone''' 
English-speaking

'''Plains of Abraham''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains_of_Abraham Battle of the Plains of Abraham], part of the French and Indian Wars, which ended in a decisive British victory of the French

===Endnote 110i===

''''La Guerre des Britanniques et des Sauvages'''' 
French: The War of the British and the Savages

'''Ticonderoga''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Carillon Battle of Carillon], fought at Fort Ticonderoga

===Page 1014 (cont'd)===

'''Booty''' 
treasure taken from a defeated party

'''1759''' 
On September 13, 1759, Québec fell to the British.

'''NAFTA''' 
North American Free Trade Agreement

'''Rubensian''' 
The word more often used is "Rubenesque," but this refers to the women in paintings by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the Flemish artist. His women were usually voluptuous, not to say plump.

'''retardate''' 
more often used as a noun, offensively referring to a retarded person

'''rapacious''' 
ravenous

===Page 1015===

'''lissome''' 
supple

'''Rubensophile''' 
See above, Rubensian.

'''gulag''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GULAG GULAG] prison system of the Soviet Union

''''ce pas?''' 
French elision of "n'est-ce pas?" i.e., "right?"

'''Anbesol''' 
a brand name of benzocaine used for tooth pain

'''flanges''' 
Orin probably means to say "phalanges."

'''Rue Sherbrooke''' 
a road in Montreal

'''St. Jean-Baptiste Day''' 
another name for la [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%AAte_nationale_du_Qu%C3%A9bec fête nationale du Québec]

'''anaerobic''' 
thriving without oxygen

===Page 1016===

'''weedy''' 
scrawny; Hal is probably using it to mean "thin," as in a line of argumentation

'''Brazilian ''Nuevo Contras''''' 
These would be "new" ''contras'', the old ones having been U.S.-funded anti-communist guerrillas in Nicaragua in the 1980s.

'''The ''Noie Störkraft'''s? Shining Path's? The Belgian CCC's?''' 
''Noie Störkraft'' is Swedish "New Great Power"; it does not appear to be a new organization, though Störkraft is the name of a skinhead band from Sweden. The Shining Path (''Sendero Luminoso'' in Spanish) is the Communist Party of Peru, which has waged guerrilla warfare against the Peruvian government since 1980. CCC is a French acronym for Communist Combatant Cells; they were eliminated as a terrorist group in 1986.

'''''Ez-ed-Dean-el-Qassan''''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izz_ad-Din_al-Qassam_Brigades alternate spelling] of a Palestinian militant group affiliated with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas Hamas]

'''P.E.T.A.''' 
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

[[Image:Munch.jpg|right|100px]]

'''wobbled shrieking figure in the Munch lithograph''' 
See right.

===Page 1017===

'''subjoin''' 
to append to the end of something

'''attendant''' 
consequent or concomitant

'''cloracne''' 
probably a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloracne chloracne]

'''olfactory hallucinations''' 
hallucinations wherein one smells things that aren't there

'''machete''' 
a large cleaver-like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machete cutting tool]

'''Infant-depredations''' 
attacks and pillaging by feral infants (see footnote 304, pp. 1055ff, about them)

'''phenols''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenol carbolic acid]

'''Fundy''' 
probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Fundy Bay of Fundy]

'''straw-and-camel''' 
i.e., the straw that broke the camel's back

===Page 1018===

'''Docksider''' 
a type of boat shoe

'''full-toll''' 
i.e., it takes its full toll on you

'''Constantine''' 
perhaps [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_I Constantine I], by tradition first Christian emperor of Rome

'''merde''' 
French for "shit"

'''cartographic''' 
having to do with maps

'''parliamentary wigs''' 
Canadian MPs don't wear wigs, though barristers (lawyers) and judges do.

===Page 1019===

'''bone of dissension''' 
Orin means "bone of contention."

'''desmirched''' 
probably a malapropism, although it could mean "to un-besmirch"

'''re-gerrymandered''' 
To gerrymander is to divide an area into electoral districts favorable to one party over another.

'''Cuibono''' 
more properly ''cui bono'', Latin for "who benefits?"

'''swivet''' 
a state of nervous excitement

'''D-bases''' 
databases

'''falcate''' 
to curve like a sickle

'''Albertan ultra-rightists''' 
There is a tradition of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Separatism separatism] in Alberta.

'''Duluth''' 
a town in Minnesota and home to Bob Dylan, on Lake Superior about 150 miles north of the Twin Cities

===Page 1020===

'''Vichified''' 
i.e., as Vichy France, which was a puppet government to the Nazis

'''Anschluss''' 
German for "annexation," it most often refers to Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria in 1938.

'''mayhi''' 
Orin seems to be using this term as a plural of "mayhem."

'''P.Q.s''' 
members of the Parti Québecois

'''P.M.''' 
Prime Minister (of Canada)

'''''aller, partir''''' 
French: to go, to leave

===Page 1021===

'''hapless''' 
here meaning haphazard

'''botulizing''' 
infecting with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulism botulism]

'''jaunty''' 
smartly trim

'''toggle''' 
a type of switch

'''anapestic''' 
In poetry, an anapest is a trisyllable metrical foot of the following pattern: two unstressed syllables, followed by one long or stressed syllable. (Eg the line "'Twas the ''night'' before ''Christ''mas, and ''all'' through the ''house''" contains four anapestic feet.)

===Page 1022===

==Endnote 145 · Found Drama==

An invented, non-existent faux-academic style of film on which James O. Incandenza lectured and received artistic grants, created to lampoon the academic film theory community. Found Drama was not captured on film; rather, Incandenza and close friends "got out a Boston metro phone book and tore a White Pages page out at random and thumbtacked it to the wall and then [Incandenza] would throw a dart at it from across the room. ... And the name it hit becomes the subject of the Found Drama. And whatever happens to the protagonist with the name you hit with the dart for ... the next hour and a half is the Drama."

===Page 1026===

[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]

===Page 1027===

'''ne pas à la mode''' 
French: not in style

'''New Wave''' 
When this term is used w/r/t Himself's work, it is probably referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_New_Wave French New Wave], although there were several other "New Waves" in film.

'''Dick''' 
I'm unable to identify whether this person is real or not.

'''art-gesture films''' 
apparently a created genre

'''isness''' 
i.e., being

'''stasis''' 
inactivity caused by equal opposing forces

'''tenure-jockeys''' 
i.e., junior faculty at universities who are on tenure track

'''Orthochromatic''' 
According to the ''Random House Unabridged Dictionary,'' this word means "representing correctly the relations of colors as found in a subject; isochromatic."

'''retrogradism''' 
This neologism would seem to have the sense of the study or condition of moving backward.

'''McLean Hospital''' 
a real [http://mcleanhospital.org/ psychiatric hospital] in Belmont, Mass., about eight miles west-northwest of Boston

'''Duquette at M.I.T.''' 
There is no such person at M.I.T.

'''Posener''' 
There is no such person at Brandeis.

===Page 1028===

===Page 1031===

==Endnote 162==

[[Image:Francis bacon head VI.jpg|thumb|caption|Head VI (1949), Francis Bacon|150px|right]]
'''a Baconian pope with his hat on fire''' 
Referring to the work of 20th century figurative painter [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon_(artist) Francis Bacon] and his "screaming pope" paintings.

===Page 1035===

==Endnote 211==

'''suborn''' 
to bribe or induce someone to commit a crime or misdeed
==Endnote 234 · Excerpts From Orin's Interview With ''Moment''==

===Page 1038===

'''Rafferty''' 
Terrence Rafferty was a film critic for the ''New Yorker'' magazine.

'''NPR''' 
National Public Radio

===Page 1039===

'''dun''' 
make repeated demands on

'''Madison Avenue''' 
the street in New York famous for its advertising firms

'''traversion''' 
Orin probably means "introversion."

'''T-square''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-square drafting tool]

===Page 1040===

'''Prussian''' 
here used to mean "very strict"

'''schizogenic''' 
produced or formed by fission

'''pathogenic''' 
capable of producing disease

===Page 1041===

'''antidote''' 
Orin means "anecdote."

'''Quelquechose''' 
French: something

===Page 1042===

'''pièce''' 
as in "pièce de resistance," the punchline or main point

===Page 1043===

'''four horsemen''' 
as in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse] from the Book of Revelation

'''BPL''' 
Boston Public Library

==Endnote 269 · Steeply-Bain Correspondence==
===Page 1047===

''''After my own parents were horribly killed on the Jamaica Way commuter road one morning in the freak crash of a radio traffic-report helicopter...'''' 

Lateral Alice Moore was handicapped when the news helicopter she flew in crashed onto a highway. It could have been the same accident as the one to which Bain refers here.

'''J.O.I.''' 
James O. Incandenza

'''guile''' 
insidious cunning

'''methoxy-psychedelic''' 
probably referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMDA_%28drug%29 MMDA]

'''larval''' 
immature in its kind

'''codpieces''' 
a codpiece is a pouch at the crotch (covering the male genetalia) of tight-fitting breeches, popular during the Renaissance

'''Swinburne''' 
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was a British poet whose work had themes of homosexuality and sadomasochism.

'''Boston's Roxbury and Mattapan districts''' 
two lower-income, primarily African American and Hispanic neighborhoods in Boston

'''prenominate''' 
aforementioned

'''apposite''' 
appropriate with regard to the current circumstances

===Page 1048===

'''fairly high-sodium way''' 
i.e., with a grain (or more) of salt

'''purposive''' 
serving some purpose

'''Gretel the Cross-Sectioned Dairy Cow''' 
Cornell University apparently has a cow whose stomachs you can see in action.

'''consummate''' 
highly skilled

'''anaclitic''' 
in psychology, dependence on other people or another person

===Page 1049===

'''prevarication''' 
avoiding the truth by not directly answering a question

'''"...as if from the Rose Garden..."''' 
like the President of the U.S. answering a question from a reporter

'''exploded''' 
shown to be false or unfounded

'''mendacious''' 
untruthful

'''monilial''' 
relating to a fungus of the genus [http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/monilial Candida]

'''nubbin''' 
a small lump or residual part

'''S. Johnson''' 
probably a reference to Dr. Samuel Johnson, the lexicographer

'''piteously''' 
pitifully

===Page 1050===

'''Steeples''' 
[sic] for "Steeply"

'''vacuous''' 
unintelligent, foolish, empty

'''Steeley''' 
[sic] for "Steeply"

'''ACOAs''' 
Adult Children of Alcoholics

'''AlaTeens''' 
a support group for teenage children of alcoholics

'''ACONAs''' 
Adult Children of Narcotics Anonymous

'''ACOGs''' 
ACOG is most commonly the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, but in this context it probably stands for Adult Children of Gamblers.

'''neurasthenic''' 
chronically fatigued and weak

'''aspic''' 
meat jelly

'''profligate''' 
extravagant

'''loquacious''' 
very talkative

===Page 1051===

'''Starkly''' 
Bain gets Steeply's name wrong yet again.

'''univocal''' 
unambiguous

'''furcated''' 
branching or forking

'''solicitous''' 
concerned

'''appurtenances''' 
accessories or equipment

'''pique''' 
feeling of resentment

'''albatross''' 
a burden, literally a large seabird, from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner''

'''Starksaddle''' 
another mistake with Steeply's name

'''perspicuous''' 
clearly expressed

===Page 1052===

'''multivalent''' 
having various meanings

'''Bainbridge''' 
This isn't even close to Steeply's name.

==Endnote 304 · The Train Game==

===Page 1055===

'''McGee-like chaos''' 
An overflowing closet was a running gag on the old-time radio show [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibber_McGee_and_Molly ''Fibber McGee and Molly''].

'''smelling a rat in the woodpile''' 
Rats often use woodpiles as cover for their burrows, as discussed [http://unexco.com/Rat.html here].

'''B.P.L. ArchFax database search''' 
Possibly: Boston Public Library Archival Facsimiles.

===Page 1056===

'''murated''' 

Walled. From the Latin murare - to wall off.

'''QUOI?''' 
WHAT?

'''Sudetenlandization''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudetenland Wikipedia - Sudetenland]

'''G. T. Day, M.S.''' 
Geoffrey Day, of Ennet House, who claims to have "manned the helm of a Scholarly Quarterly" at "some jr. college up the Expressway in Medford" (272). Before the author is mentioned, the article is said to have come from "someplace called Bayside Community College up I-93 in Medford." Wild Conceits, the publication, is said to be edited by the author of the article Struck is ripping off.

===Page 1057===
'''vishnu''' 
Vishnu is the preserver/maintainer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu god]
of the Hindu Trimurti.

'''''dasein''''' 
German: being there (lit)., [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasein existence]; a cornerstone of the philosophy of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger Martin Heidegger] (1889-1976).

===Page 1058===

'''''cui bono''''' 
Latin: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_Bono To whose benefit?]

'''geatalt''' 
a misprint of ''gestalt''

'''municipal fluoridation''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation addition of fluoride] to public drinking- (tap-)water supplies to reduce tooth decay among the population; home filtration systems (such as Brita manufactures) can remove the flouride and thus eliminate the benefit

===Page 1059===
'''''les passages à niveau de voie ferrée''''' 
the level crossings of railway line

'''Two hundred sixteen''' 
216 is the cube of 6; thus the preliminary round would yield ''Les Trente-Six'' (36) semifinalists and the second round would produce six finalists ''attendants longtemps ses tours'' (French: "waiting a long time for their turns

'''''Le Culte de Baiser Sans Fin''''' 
French: the cult of the kiss without end, or (as translated in the following paragraph), "the Cult of the Endless Kiss"

===Page 1060===

'''Bernard Wayne''' 
Most likely John "N.R." Wayne's brother.

==Endnote 321 · Hal's DMZ Dream==
===Page 1063===

'''Rise Over Run''' 
[[Image:Slope Forumla.png]] The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slope slope] (''m'') of a line, expressed as its "rise" (variance along the ''y'' axis) divided by its run (variance along the ''x'' axis); equivalent in calculus to the first derivative.

'''tangent''' 
This concept is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangent#Trigonometry here].

'''Differentiation''' 
the process by which one determines the first derivative of a mathematical function

'''inexorably''' 
relentlessly

'''Function x, exponent n, the derivative's going to be nx + x(n-1)''' 
Permulis appears to have misspoken. The derivative of x to the nth power is n times x to the (n - 1) power, not nx plus x to the (n - 1)th power.

'''covers''' 
a recording or performance of a song that was first recorded or made popular by somebody else

===Page 1064===
'''G.C./M.S.''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_chromatography-mass_spectrometry '''G'''as '''C'''hromatography - '''M'''ass '''S'''pectrometry], a means of drug detection

'''Digestive-Flora''' 
bacteria that live in the intestines and aid in digestion

'''Verdun Protestant Hospital''' 
now called [http://www.douglas.qc.ca/ Douglas Mental Health Institute]

'''''tu-sais-qué''''' 
really bad French for "you know what"

'''Nutter Butters''' 
Nabisco's peanut-butter sandwich [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutter_Butter cookies]

'''Human Hatchet''' 
i.e., Axford

'''impotence''' 
a malapropism; he means ''impetus''

'''Blue Flames''' 
probably some sort of depressants

===Page 1065===
'''O2''' 
dioxygen, or oxygen gas as it exists in its natural state; ozone is O3

'''Jiminy Cricket''' 
the talking (and singing) cricket in the 1940 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032910/ "Pinocchio"], adapted from Carlo Collodi's serial for children, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Pinocchio ''The Adventures of Pinocchio''] (1881-1883)

==Endnote 324 · John Wayne loses it==

===Page 1066===

'''moon''' 
to spend time idly

'''camphonated''' 
more like "camphorated," i.e., contained camphor

===Endnote 324a===

'''loamy''' 
consisting of rich, arable soil

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]

===Page 1066 (cont'd)===

'''whorl''' 
a circular arrangement

'''funiculi''' 
plural of "funiculus," i.e., part of the spinal cord

===Page 1067===

'''gonions''' 
the outer points on either side of the lower jaw at which the jawbone angles upward

'''uncolloped''' 
having no fat

'''latissimal''' 
referring to the [http://www.reference.com/search?r=13&q=Latissimus lattissimus dorsi] muscles

'''profligate''' 
wasteful

'''Nordicular''' 
i.e., Nordic, which is to say blond-haired and blue-eyed

'''armamentarium''' 
an arsenal, particularly used by physicians to refer to drugs or treatments

'''callow''' 
immature; inexperienced

'''entrepôt''' 
a place for storing and dispensing goods

'''dinkle''' 
a euphemism for "penis"

===Page 1068===

'''welching''' 
swindling by not paying a debt or wager

'''three-setter''' 

a tennis game ending in three sets, rather than two. So Pemulis needs to win a set against Freer to make it to the tournament.

'''cavalier''' 
disdainful; unceremonious

'''burr''' 
here used to mean "irritant"

===Page 1069===

'''canvas restraint-wrap''' 
straitjacket

'''catgut''' 
This is "a strong cord made by twisting the dried intestines of animals, as sheep, used in stringing musical instruments and tennis rackets, for surgical sutures, etc." (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''"...his late great Da's..."''' 
Clearly Pemulis has no idea that his brother was molested by their father.

'''rheumy''' 
full of thin mucous

'''how 17 can actually go into 56 way more than 3.294 times''' 
This recalls Bette Midler's anecdote (recorded on her 1977 album ''Live at Last'', told while channeling the late [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Tucker Sophie Tucker]:

"I will never forget it. It was on the occasion of Ernie's eightieth birthday and in honor of the occasion he married a twenty-year-old girl. And he rang me up the very next day and he said to me, 'Soph, Soph, I have just married myself a twenty-year-old girl! What do you think of that?!' And I said to him, 'Ernie, when I am eighty years old, I shall marry myself a twenty-year-old boy, and let me tell you something, Ernie! Twenty goes into eighty a hell of a lot more than eighty goes into twenty!'"

Recall that John (N.R.) Wayne is 17, while Avril Incandenza is 56, and the young tennis stud has obviously X'd the Academy matron more than three (or four) times.

===Page 1070===

'''Bedouins''' 
certain Arabs of the deserts of Arabia and the Levant

'''being...buggered''' 
being on the receiving end of anal sex

'''b/w''' 
black and white

'''J. Gleason''' 
Jackie Gleason (1916-1987) was [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001276/ one of the great comic actors] of the 20th century.

'''Zoltan''' 
actually a Hungarian name, which means "ruler"

'''cretinous''' 
stupid

===Page 1071===

===Endnote 324f===

'''Orly''' 
one of the airports serving Paris

===Page 1071 (cont'd)===

'''redoubted''' 
formidable

'''Modus Tollens''' 
a Latin logical term, meaning, roughly, "the means of denying"

'''Nucleic acids''' 
DNA and RNA

'''A and G, T and C''' 
'''a'''denine and '''g'''uanine, '''t'''hymine and '''c'''ytosine, the neucleobase molecules that combine to form neucleotides, the building blocks of DNA

'''When the boulder's slipped all the way back to the bottom''' 
a reference to the myth of [http://www.reference.com/search?q=Sisyphus Sisyphus]

'''When the headless are blaming''' 
a reference to [http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if/ "If,"] the poem by Rudyard Kipling: "If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you..."

'''Csíkszentmihályi''' 
The name may be taken from Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (born 1934), a prominent Hungarian-American psychologist. His son Christopher is on the faculty at MIT.

'''lemma''' 
a proven statement used as a step in a mathematical proof

'''Boardman MN''' 
a town about 40 miles west-northwest of the Twin Cities

===Page 1072===

''' "directionless in a dark wood" ''' 

A reference to Dante's "Divine Comedy"'s first Canto of the Inferno.

''' "Leap like a knight of faith . . ." ''' 

A reference to Soren Kierkegaard's knight of faith. Kierkegaard, a theologian and philosopher, didn't think there could be any logical justification for believing in God. Instead the believer is required to take a leap of faith, so called because he (the believer) has no evidence for his convictions and thus must always, on some rational level, doubt them. In fact to Kierkegaard doubt defines faith, because if there were no doubt no leap of faith would be required in the first place, much like it doesn't require a leap of faith for you to believe you're actually reading this wikipedia entry right now, or that I'm not an alien sub rosa manipulating your mind for my own purposes.

'''"...Peano, Leibniz, Hilbert..."''' 
Giuseppe Peano (1858-1932) was an Italian mathematician. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a German polymath and one of the creators of calculus. David Hilbert (1862-1943) was a German mathematician.

'''"...Fourier, Gauss, LaPlace, Rickey..."''' 
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) was a French mathematician and physicist. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) was a German mathematician. Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (1749-1827) was a French mathematician and astronomer. Rickey would seem to refer to [http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/ V. Frederick Rickey], though he is contemporary while the other named men are not.

'''"...Wiener, Reimann, Frege, Green..."''' 
Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) was an American mathematician. Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) was a German mathematician. Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a German mathematician and logician. Green is probably George Green (1793-1841), English mathematician and physicist.

==Endnote 332 · Pemulis just slays deLint==

===Page 1073===

'''jury-rigged''' 
a corruption of "jerry-rigged" (a pejorative term about Germans), which basically means rigged in a makeshift, ad hoc manner

===Page 1074===

'''nictitater''' 
the word meant here is probably "nictitate," which means to wink―so, in other words, a "wink" or just a hint of stupidity-film on Watson's eyes

'''deviant division''' 
56/17 (see note ''supra'' for page 1069)

'''17-into-56 leaflet''' 
"the leaflet about Wayne and Mrs. I." referred to earlier on the page (with the "deviant division")

'''castigations''' 
criticisms; reprimands

===Page 1075===

'''loupes''' 
eyepiece magnifying glasses used by jewellers

'''"may the road rise up to meet you..."''' 
part of an old Irish blessing

===Page 1076===

'''incubus''' 
a male demon that seduces female humans

===Page 1077===

===Page 1078===

'''n.b.''' 
Latin: nota bene, meaning "note well"

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==Endnote 3==

'''cardioid''' 
In geometry, a cardioid is a plane curve produced by tracing the path of a chosen point of a circle which rolls around a fixed circle. The cardioid shape of E.T.A. has one cusp, i.e., a point on the curve that is not smooth. The ''r'' referred to by the narrator here is the radius of the moving circle.

'''Übermensch''' 
German for "superhuman"

'''Brandeis''' 
Brandeis is a Jewish-founded university in Waltham, Mass., about nine miles west of Boston, named for Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941) the first Jewish Supreme Court justice.

==Endnote 5==

'''N.B.''' 
abbreviation for Latin ''nota bene'', i.e., "note well," stated before an important example or corollary point

==Endnote 5a==

'''nystagmus''' 
involuntary eye movement

'''entrepôt''' 
French for "warehouse," this is where foreign merchandise can be purchased duty-free

'''loquacity''' 
talkativeness

==Endnote 6==

'''Halcion (still available in Canada, unbelievably, still)''' 
It's also still available here, though the U.K. has banned it since 1991.

==Endnote 7==

'''bevelling''' 
Here meaning "smoothed out" and misspelled, beveling is the making of 45º angles where perpendiculars meet.

==Endnote 8==

'''dickies''' 
As a dickie is designed to give the appearance of wearing a tie, Wallace uses this word here to deal with drugs that mimic the effects of other drugs.

'''MMDA, DMA, DMMM, 2CB, para-DOT I-VI''' 
You can read about MMDA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMDA_%28psychedelic%29 here], DMA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethoxyamphetamine here], 2CB [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2CB here], DOT [http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_Chemical.jsp?Rec_Id=PC35343 here] (apparently). DMMM appears to be made up.

'''CNS''' 
central nervous system

'''gamma hydroxybutric acid''' 
now more commonly known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-Hydroxybutyric_acid GHB]

'''DMZ/M.P.''' 
DMZ is another made-up drug. M.P. refers to its street name, Madame Psychosis.

===Endnote 8a===

'''Muscimole''' 
another mushroom-based hallucinogen, like psilocybin

'''DDMS''' 
dibromododecenyl methylsulfimide

'''DMSO''' 
dimethylsulfoxide, a common solvent used in many laboratories. It is readily absorbed through the skin, taking with it whatever it has dissolved.

==Endnote 12a==

'''"...Continental Controlled Substances Act of Y.T.M.P., O.N.A.N.D.E.A.'s hierarchy of analgesics/antipyretics/axiolytics..."''' 
There is no such act, obviously. Y.T.M.P. is [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]. The second acronym is Organization of North American Nations Drug Enforcement Agency. Analgesics are painkillers. Antipyretics are fever-reducing drugs, and anxiolytics are anxiety-reducing drugs.

==Endnote 13==

'''Quo Vadis''' 
Latin: Where are you going? Famously asked of Jesus by Peter when the former was on his way to be crucified. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quo_vadis here.] Also a novel and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043949/ film] by that name were made.

==Endnote 17==

'''datum''' 
piece of information, the singular form of the word "data"

==Endnote 19==

French: A person of terrible importance

==Endnote 21==

'''Q.v.''' 
Latin abbreviation for ''quod vide'' ("which see"), used to direct a reader elsewhere in a book. Here we are directed to...

==Endnote 23==
'''U.S.D.D.''' 
United States Department of Defense

==Endnote 24 · JAMES O. INCANDENZA: A FILMOGRAPHY==
===Page 986===
'''meniscus''' 
a lens with a crescent-shaped section

'''soliloquized''' 
spoken to oneself

'''incunabular''' 
early stages of something

'''D W Griffith''' 
Film Director whose films include 'Tolerance' and 'Birth of a Nation'; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._W._Griffith Wikipedia entry]

'''Taka Limura''' 
Japanese film maker - [http://research.yale.edu/eastasianstudies/iimura.chin.pdf see article] 

'''Heliotrope''' 
An arrangement of mirrors for reflecting sunlight from a distant point to an observation station. 

===Page 987===
'''Latrodectus Mactans''' 
Latin name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectus_mactans Black Widow] spider

'''neuralgia''' 
A form of chronic pain where pain is felt in a nerve without stimulation of pain receptors. Difficult to diagnose and treat.

===Page 992===

'''çoncupiscence''' 

Strong sexual desire

===Page 988===
'''Godbout''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Godbout Jacques Godbout], a French-Canadian filmmaker and documentarian.

==Endnote 82==

[[Image:Plaid.jpg|thumb|caption|Night Watch Plaid|150px|right]]
'''Bean''' 
as in L.L. Bean, a privately-held mail-order and retail company based in Freeport, Maine, United States, specializing in clothing and outdoor recreation equipment.

'''Night Watch plaid''' 
A pattern of plaid. See right.

==Endnote 110 · Hal and Orin Discuss Québecois Politics==

===Page 1004===
'''Hush Puppy''' 
a [http://www.hushpuppies.com/en-US/Main.aspx brand name] of shoes

'''squeegeed''' 
cleaned with a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeegee squeegee]

'''truncated''' 
cut short

===Page 1005===

'''R&R''' 
Rest and Relaxation

'''ex officio''' 
Latin: by virtue of one's office

''''The Yellow Rose (of Texas)'''' 
Dickinson's poems can also be read to the meter of "Mary Had a Little Lamb."

'''falsetto''' 
a man's voice when he pitches it falsely high to sound like a woman

'''riffling''' 
turning pages quickly

'''Ample make this bed''' 
The full poem is [http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1337.html here].

===Page 1006===

'''quotidian''' 
commonplace

[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.-Q.M.D.]]

'''pistil''' 
that part of a flower that is analogous to the female reproductive organs

'''Sikorski-sized''' 
helicopter-sized; the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_R-4 Sikorsky R-4] was the first mass-produced helicopter

'''paucity''' 
scarcity

'''swotted''' 
studied intensively

'''wakked''' 
I have no idea.

'''unperspicous''' 
not clearly expressed or presented

'''penultimate''' 
second to last

'''whingeing''' 
complaining (pronounced to rhyme with "jing")

'''xerophagy''' 
eating of bread and water only

===Endnote 110d===

'''anti-sclerotic''' 
tending to ward of hardening of tissues (as of arteries, here)

===Page 1006 (cont'd)===

'''maunder''' 
to talk incoherently or aimlessly

'''Solecism''' 
nonstandard or incorrect grammatical usage

'''and c.''' 
et cetera

===Page 1007===

'''20 X 25 centimeter''' 
very close to 8" x 10"

'''Jethro Bodine''' 
a character on the television show [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055662/ The Beverly Hillbillies]

'''proviso''' 
a clause, usually in a document, making a stipulation or qualification

'''"...isn't even iambic, much less quatrameter/trimeter..."''' 
This is to say that the poetry of Dickinson is not in iambic pentameter, also known as verse. This is the style of poetry Shakespeare is written in ("Now is the winter of our discontent") -- ten syllables, and five iambs (feet, or beats) per line (thus pentameter). Quatrameter/trimeter would be the rhythm scheme of "Yellow Rose of Texas" and "Mary Had a Little Lamb" (although note that the first foot of the latter is incomplete).

'''dink''' 
a synonym for a drop shot, which in tennis is a light tap just over the net

===Page 1008===

'''obverse''' 
the more conspicuous of two possible choices

'''seraphic''' 
like an angel

'''lascivious''' 
appealing to sexual tastes

'''mesmerized''' 
hypnotized

'''skitter''' 
to move rapidly along a surface

'''knight-errant''' 
a knight on a quest to prove his chivalry

===Page 1009===

'''Ainsi''' 
French: so to speak

'''breviary''' 
a prayer and hymn book

'''"Kitchens and heat..."''' 
which is to say, if you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen

===Page 1010===

'''Gloeckner''' 
German for "ringer," taking that in either of the meanings it has in English

'''3-kilo''' 
a little over 7.25 pounds

'''Snuff''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuff ground tobacco], which is inhaled rather than smoked or chewed

'''Andover''' 
as in [http://www.boardingschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/5 Philips Academy Andover], alma mater of both Presidents Bush

'''"Dickinson's about as Transcendalist as Poe."''' 
which is to say, not at all

===Page 1011===

[[Image:Eddy.jpg|right]]

'''R.C.M.P.''' 
Royal Canadian Mounted Police

'''Nelson Eddy''' 
Nelson Ackerman Eddy (1901-1967) was an American singer and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0248904/ movie star]. As far as what he looked like, see right.

'''Droll''' 
whimsically comic

===Page 1012===

'''nanomicroscopy''' 
the looking at extremely small things (nano- being the prefix for "one-billionth") through a microscope

'''Thevet''' 
This is probably a reference to André de Thevet (1502-1590), a French priest and explorer. Though never in Canada, he relied on French-Canadian explorers' work for his own voyages to South America.

'''"...the 5 on the French Achievement boards..."''' 
The highest possible score on the French Advanced Placement Exam (for which one can receive college credit) is 5.

'''Boswell''' 
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (1740-1795), was the Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson.

'''E cup''' 
a very large breast size

'''acuity''' 
acuteness of perception

'''in utero''' 
in the womb

'''thalidomide''' 
a drug developed to treat morning sickness in pregnant women that ended up causing babies to be born missing limbs

'''Condé Nast''' 
one of the largest magazine publishers in the country, owned by Advance Publications (the Newhouse family) and founded by Condé Montrose Nast (1873-1942), an American publisher

'''deform''' 
here meaning simply "to spoil"

'''persona''' 
a fictional identity created for a person, narrator in a book, etc.

'''''du''''' 
French: of the (masculine)

===Page 1013===

'''Meech Lake''' 
a lake in Gatineau Park, near Chelsea, Québec

'''Parizeau''' 
This is probably Jacques Parizeau (born 1930), a former Premier of Québec and proponent of Québecois sovereignty.

'''Charlottetown''' 
the capital of the Canadian province of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island Prince Edward Island]

'''Crétien assassination''' 
This is probably a misspelling of the surname of Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien (born 1934), Prime Minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003.

'''Francophonic''' 
French-speaking

'''Acadian Zionism''' 
Acadia is the traditional name for what is now (in part) eastern Québec. Zionism is used here as a synonym for nationalism, rather than with its specific Jewish connotations

'''Toujours''' 
French: always

'''"On ne parle d'Anglais ici."''' 
French: English is not spoken here

'''Ottawa''' 
the capital of Canada

'''"Permettez Nous Partir, Permettez Nous Être."''' 
French: Allow us to leave, allow us to be.

'''Winnipeg''' 
the capital of Canadian province of Manitoba

'''flux''' 
frequent change

'''appalled''' 
dismayed

'''UV-booth''' 
UV standing for ultraviolet (as in light), this is probably a tanning booth.

===Page 1014===

'''"Nous v. La Plupart Toujours"''' 
French: Us versus the majority always

'''Lesotho''' 
a kingdom of southern Africa, existing as an enclave entirely within the Republic of South Africa

'''SOUTHAF''' 
This is the Union of South Africa, which was formed in 1910 as a British colony and tried to annex Lesotho to it. Because of the imposition of ''apartheid'' laws in S. Africa, the annexation failed.

'''antebellum''' 
before the war, here the U.S. Civil War

===Endnote 110h===

'''Gallic''' 
French

===Page 1014 (cont'd)===

'''Anglophone''' 
English-speaking

'''Plains of Abraham''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains_of_Abraham Battle of the Plains of Abraham], part of the French and Indian Wars, which ended in a decisive British victory of the French

===Endnote 110i===

''''La Guerre des Britanniques et des Sauvages'''' 
French: The War of the British and the Savages

'''Ticonderoga''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Carillon Battle of Carillon], fought at Fort Ticonderoga

===Page 1014 (cont'd)===

'''Booty''' 
treasure taken from a defeated party

'''1759''' 
On September 13, 1759, Québec fell to the British.

'''NAFTA''' 
North American Free Trade Agreement

'''Rubensian''' 
The word more often used is "Rubenesque," but this refers to the women in paintings by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the Flemish artist. His women were usually voluptuous, not to say plump.

'''retardate''' 
more often used as a noun, offensively referring to a retarded person

'''rapacious''' 
ravenous

===Page 1015===

'''lissome''' 
supple

'''Rubensophile''' 
See above, Rubensian.

'''gulag''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GULAG GULAG] prison system of the Soviet Union

''''ce pas?''' 
French elision of "n'est-ce pas?" i.e., "right?"

'''Anbesol''' 
a brand name of benzocaine used for tooth pain

'''flanges''' 
Orin probably means to say "phalanges."

'''Rue Sherbrooke''' 
a road in Montreal

'''St. Jean-Baptiste Day''' 
another name for la [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%AAte_nationale_du_Qu%C3%A9bec fête nationale du Québec]

'''anaerobic''' 
thriving without oxygen

===Page 1016===

'''weedy''' 
scrawny; Hal is probably using it to mean "thin," as in a line of argumentation

'''Brazilian ''Nuevo Contras''''' 
These would be "new" ''contras'', the old ones having been U.S.-funded anti-communist guerrillas in Nicaragua in the 1980s.

'''The ''Noie Störkraft'''s? Shining Path's? The Belgian CCC's?''' 
''Noie Störkraft'' is Swedish "New Great Power"; it does not appear to be a new organization, though Störkraft is the name of a skinhead band from Sweden. The Shining Path (''Sendero Luminoso'' in Spanish) is the Communist Party of Peru, which has waged guerrilla warfare against the Peruvian government since 1980. CCC is a French acronym for Communist Combatant Cells; they were eliminated as a terrorist group in 1986.

'''''Ez-ed-Dean-el-Qassan''''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izz_ad-Din_al-Qassam_Brigades alternate spelling] of a Palestinian militant group affiliated with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas Hamas]

'''P.E.T.A.''' 
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

[[Image:Munch.jpg|right|100px]]

'''wobbled shrieking figure in the Munch lithograph''' 
See right.

===Page 1017===

'''subjoin''' 
to append to the end of something

'''attendant''' 
consequent or concomitant

'''cloracne''' 
probably a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloracne chloracne]

'''olfactory hallucinations''' 
hallucinations wherein one smells things that aren't there

'''machete''' 
a large cleaver-like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machete cutting tool]

'''Infant-depredations''' 
ravages of feral infants (see footnote 304, pp. 1055ff, about them)

'''phenols''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenol carbolic acid]

'''Fundy''' 
probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Fundy Bay of Fundy]

'''straw-and-camel''' 
i.e., the straw that broke the camel's back

===Page 1018===

'''Docksider''' 
a type of boat shoe

'''full-toll''' 
i.e., it takes its full toll on you

'''Constantine''' 
perhaps [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_I Constantine I], by tradition first Christian emperor of Rome

'''merde''' 
French for "shit"

'''cartographic''' 
having to do with maps

'''parliamentary wigs''' 
Canadian MPs don't wear wigs, though barristers (lawyers) and judges do.

===Page 1019===

'''bone of dissension''' 
Orin means "bone of contention."

'''desmirched''' 
probably a malapropism, although it could mean "to un-besmirch"

'''re-gerrymandered''' 
To gerrymander is to divide an area into electoral districts favorable to one party over another.

'''Cuibono''' 
more properly ''cui bono'', Latin for "who benefits?"

'''swivet''' 
a state of nervous excitement

'''D-bases''' 
databases

'''falcate''' 
to curve like a sickle

'''Albertan ultra-rightists''' 
There is a tradition of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Separatism separatism] in Alberta.

'''Duluth''' 
a town in Minnesota and home to Bob Dylan, on Lake Superior about 150 miles north of the Twin Cities

===Page 1020===

'''Vichified''' 
i.e., as Vichy France, which was a puppet government to the Nazis

'''Anschluss''' 
German for "annexation," it most often refers to Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria in 1938.

'''mayhi''' 
Orin seems to be using this term as a plural of "mayhem."

'''P.Q.s''' 
members of the Parti Québecois

'''P.M.''' 
Prime Minister (of Canada)

'''''aller, partir''''' 
French: to go, to leave

===Page 1021===

'''hapless''' 
here meaning haphazard

'''botulizing''' 
infecting with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulism botulism]

'''jaunty''' 
smartly trim

'''toggle''' 
a type of switch

'''anapestic''' 
In poetry, an anapest is a trisyllable metrical foot of the following pattern: two unstressed syllables, followed by one long or stressed syllable. (Eg the line "'Twas the ''night'' before ''Christ''mas, and ''all'' through the ''house''" contains four anapestic feet.)

===Page 1022===

==Endnote 145 · Found Drama==

An invented, non-existent faux-academic style of film on which James O. Incandenza lectured and received artistic grants, created to lampoon the academic film theory community. Found Drama was not captured on film; rather, Incandenza and close friends "got out a Boston metro phone book and tore a White Pages page out at random and thumbtacked it to the wall and then [Incandenza] would throw a dart at it from across the room. ... And the name it hit becomes the subject of the Found Drama. And whatever happens to the protagonist with the name you hit with the dart for ... the next hour and a half is the Drama."

===Page 1026===

[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]

===Page 1027===

'''ne pas à la mode''' 
French: not in style

'''New Wave''' 
When this term is used w/r/t Himself's work, it is probably referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_New_Wave French New Wave], although there were several other "New Waves" in film.

'''Dick''' 
I'm unable to identify whether this person is real or not.

'''art-gesture films''' 
apparently a created genre

'''isness''' 
i.e., being

'''stasis''' 
inactivity caused by equal opposing forces

'''tenure-jockeys''' 
i.e., junior faculty at universities who are on tenure track

'''Orthochromatic''' 
According to the ''Random House Unabridged Dictionary,'' this word means "representing correctly the relations of colors as found in a subject; isochromatic."

'''retrogradism''' 
This neologism would seem to have the sense of the study or condition of moving backward.

'''McLean Hospital''' 
a real [http://mcleanhospital.org/ psychiatric hospital] in Belmont, Mass., about eight miles west-northwest of Boston

'''Duquette at M.I.T.''' 
There is no such person at M.I.T.

'''Posener''' 
There is no such person at Brandeis.

===Page 1028===

===Page 1031===

==Endnote 162==

[[Image:Francis bacon head VI.jpg|thumb|caption|Head VI (1949), Francis Bacon|150px|right]]
'''a Baconian pope with his hat on fire''' 
Referring to the work of 20th century figurative painter [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon_(artist) Francis Bacon] and his "screaming pope" paintings.

===Page 1035===

==Endnote 211==

'''suborn''' 
to bribe or induce someone to commit a crime or misdeed
==Endnote 234 · Excerpts From Orin's Interview With ''Moment''==

===Page 1038===

'''Rafferty''' 
Terrence Rafferty was a film critic for the ''New Yorker'' magazine.

'''NPR''' 
National Public Radio

===Page 1039===

'''dun''' 
make repeated demands on

'''Madison Avenue''' 
the street in New York famous for its advertising firms

'''traversion''' 
Orin probably means "introversion."

'''T-square''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-square drafting tool]

===Page 1040===

'''Prussian''' 
here used to mean "very strict"

'''schizogenic''' 
produced or formed by fission

'''pathogenic''' 
capable of producing disease

===Page 1041===

'''antidote''' 
Orin means "anecdote."

'''Quelquechose''' 
French: something

===Page 1042===

'''pièce''' 
as in "pièce de resistance," the punchline or main point

===Page 1043===

'''four horsemen''' 
as in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse] from the Book of Revelation

'''BPL''' 
Boston Public Library

==Endnote 269 · Steeply-Bain Correspondence==
===Page 1047===

''''After my own parents were horribly killed on the Jamaica Way commuter road one morning in the freak crash of a radio traffic-report helicopter...'''' 

Lateral Alice Moore was handicapped when the news helicopter she flew in crashed onto a highway. It could have been the same accident as the one to which Bain refers here.

'''J.O.I.''' 
James O. Incandenza

'''guile''' 
insidious cunning

'''methoxy-psychedelic''' 
probably referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMDA_%28drug%29 MMDA]

'''larval''' 
immature in its kind

'''codpieces''' 
a codpiece is a pouch at the crotch (covering the male genetalia) of tight-fitting breeches, popular during the Renaissance

'''Swinburne''' 
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was a British poet whose work had themes of homosexuality and sadomasochism.

'''Boston's Roxbury and Mattapan districts''' 
two lower-income, primarily African American and Hispanic neighborhoods in Boston

'''prenominate''' 
aforementioned

'''apposite''' 
appropriate with regard to the current circumstances

===Page 1048===

'''fairly high-sodium way''' 
i.e., with a grain (or more) of salt

'''purposive''' 
serving some purpose

'''Gretel the Cross-Sectioned Dairy Cow''' 
Cornell University apparently has a cow whose stomachs you can see in action.

'''consummate''' 
highly skilled

'''anaclitic''' 
in psychology, dependence on other people or another person

===Page 1049===

'''prevarication''' 
avoiding the truth by not directly answering a question

'''"...as if from the Rose Garden..."''' 
like the President of the U.S. answering a question from a reporter

'''exploded''' 
shown to be false or unfounded

'''mendacious''' 
untruthful

'''monilial''' 
relating to a fungus of the genus [http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/monilial Candida]

'''nubbin''' 
a small lump or residual part

'''S. Johnson''' 
probably a reference to Dr. Samuel Johnson, the lexicographer

'''piteously''' 
pitifully

===Page 1050===

'''Steeples''' 
[sic] for "Steeply"

'''vacuous''' 
unintelligent, foolish, empty

'''Steeley''' 
[sic] for "Steeply"

'''ACOAs''' 
Adult Children of Alcoholics

'''AlaTeens''' 
a support group for teenage children of alcoholics

'''ACONAs''' 
Adult Children of Narcotics Anonymous

'''ACOGs''' 
ACOG is most commonly the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, but in this context it probably stands for Adult Children of Gamblers.

'''neurasthenic''' 
chronically fatigued and weak

'''aspic''' 
meat jelly

'''profligate''' 
extravagant

'''loquacious''' 
very talkative

===Page 1051===

'''Starkly''' 
Bain gets Steeply's name wrong yet again.

'''univocal''' 
unambiguous

'''furcated''' 
branching or forking

'''solicitous''' 
concerned

'''appurtenances''' 
accessories or equipment

'''pique''' 
feeling of resentment

'''albatross''' 
a burden, literally a large seabird, from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner''

'''Starksaddle''' 
another mistake with Steeply's name

'''perspicuous''' 
clearly expressed

===Page 1052===

'''multivalent''' 
having various meanings

'''Bainbridge''' 
This isn't even close to Steeply's name.

==Endnote 304 · The Train Game==

===Page 1055===

'''McGee-like chaos''' 
An overflowing closet was a running gag on the old-time radio show [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibber_McGee_and_Molly ''Fibber McGee and Molly''].

'''smelling a rat in the woodpile''' 
Rats often use woodpiles as cover for their burrows, as discussed [http://unexco.com/Rat.html here].

'''B.P.L. ArchFax database search''' 
Possibly: Boston Public Library Archival Facsimiles.

===Page 1056===

'''murated''' 

Walled. From the Latin murare - to wall off.

'''QUOI?''' 
WHAT?

'''Sudetenlandization''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudetenland Wikipedia - Sudetenland]

'''G. T. Day, M.S.''' 
Geoffrey Day, of Ennet House, who claims to have "manned the helm of a Scholarly Quarterly" at "some jr. college up the Expressway in Medford" (272). Before the author is mentioned, the article is said to have come from "someplace called Bayside Community College up I-93 in Medford." Wild Conceits, the publication, is said to be edited by the author of the article Struck is ripping off.

===Page 1057===
'''vishnu''' 
Vishnu is the preserver/maintainer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu god]
of the Hindu Trimurti.

'''''dasein''''' 
German: being there (lit)., [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasein existence]; a cornerstone of the philosophy of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger Martin Heidegger] (1889-1976).

===Page 1058===

'''''cui bono''''' 
Latin: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_Bono To whose benefit?]

'''geatalt''' 
a misprint of ''gestalt''

'''municipal fluoridation''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation addition of fluoride] to public drinking- (tap-)water supplies to reduce tooth decay among the population; home filtration systems (such as Brita manufactures) can remove the flouride and thus eliminate the benefit

===Page 1059===
'''''les passages à niveau de voie ferrée''''' 
the level crossings of railway line

'''Two hundred sixteen''' 
216 is the cube of 6; thus the preliminary round would yield ''Les Trente-Six'' (36) semifinalists and the second round would produce six finalists ''attendants longtemps ses tours'' (French: "waiting a long time for their turns

'''''Le Culte de Baiser Sans Fin''''' 
French: the cult of the kiss without end, or (as translated in the following paragraph), "the Cult of the Endless Kiss"

===Page 1060===

'''Bernard Wayne''' 
Most likely John "N.R." Wayne's brother.

==Endnote 321 · Hal's DMZ Dream==
===Page 1063===

'''Rise Over Run''' 
[[Image:Slope Forumla.png]] The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slope slope] (''m'') of a line, expressed as its "rise" (variance along the ''y'' axis) divided by its run (variance along the ''x'' axis); equivalent in calculus to the first derivative.

'''tangent''' 
This concept is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangent#Trigonometry here].

'''Differentiation''' 
the process by which one determines the first derivative of a mathematical function

'''inexorably''' 
relentlessly

'''Function x, exponent n, the derivative's going to be nx + x(n-1)''' 
Permulis appears to have misspoken. The derivative of x to the nth power is n times x to the (n - 1) power, not nx plus x to the (n - 1)th power.

'''covers''' 
a recording or performance of a song that was first recorded or made popular by somebody else

===Page 1064===
'''G.C./M.S.''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_chromatography-mass_spectrometry '''G'''as '''C'''hromatography - '''M'''ass '''S'''pectrometry], a means of drug detection

'''Digestive-Flora''' 
bacteria that live in the intestines and aid in digestion

'''Verdun Protestant Hospital''' 
now called [http://www.douglas.qc.ca/ Douglas Mental Health Institute]

'''''tu-sais-qué''''' 
really bad French for "you know what"

'''Nutter Butters''' 
Nabisco's peanut-butter sandwich [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutter_Butter cookies]

'''Human Hatchet''' 
i.e., Axford

'''impotence''' 
a malapropism; he means ''impetus''

'''Blue Flames''' 
probably some sort of depressants

===Page 1065===
'''O2''' 
dioxygen, or oxygen gas as it exists in its natural state; ozone is O3

'''Jiminy Cricket''' 
the talking (and singing) cricket in the 1940 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032910/ "Pinocchio"], adapted from Carlo Collodi's serial for children, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Pinocchio ''The Adventures of Pinocchio''] (1881-1883)

==Endnote 324 · John Wayne loses it==

===Page 1066===

'''moon''' 
to spend time idly

'''camphonated''' 
more like "camphorated," i.e., contained camphor

===Endnote 324a===

'''loamy''' 
consisting of rich, arable soil

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]

===Page 1066 (cont'd)===

'''whorl''' 
a circular arrangement

'''funiculi''' 
plural of "funiculus," i.e., part of the spinal cord

===Page 1067===

'''gonions''' 
the outer points on either side of the lower jaw at which the jawbone angles upward

'''uncolloped''' 
having no fat

'''latissimal''' 
referring to the [http://www.reference.com/search?r=13&q=Latissimus lattissimus dorsi] muscles

'''profligate''' 
wasteful

'''Nordicular''' 
i.e., Nordic, which is to say blond-haired and blue-eyed

'''armamentarium''' 
an arsenal, particularly used by physicians to refer to drugs or treatments

'''callow''' 
immature; inexperienced

'''entrepôt''' 
a place for storing and dispensing goods

'''dinkle''' 
a euphemism for "penis"

===Page 1068===

'''welching''' 
swindling by not paying a debt or wager

'''three-setter''' 

a tennis game ending in three sets, rather than two. So Pemulis needs to win a set against Freer to make it to the tournament.

'''cavalier''' 
disdainful; unceremonious

'''burr''' 
here used to mean "irritant"

===Page 1069===

'''canvas restraint-wrap''' 
straitjacket

'''catgut''' 
This is "a strong cord made by twisting the dried intestines of animals, as sheep, used in stringing musical instruments and tennis rackets, for surgical sutures, etc." (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''"...his late great Da's..."''' 
Clearly Pemulis has no idea that his brother was molested by their father.

'''rheumy''' 
full of thin mucous

'''how 17 can actually go into 56 way more than 3.294 times''' 
This recalls Bette Midler's anecdote (recorded on her 1977 album ''Live at Last'', told while channeling the late [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Tucker Sophie Tucker]:

"I will never forget it. It was on the occasion of Ernie's eightieth birthday and in honor of the occasion he married a twenty-year-old girl. And he rang me up the very next day and he said to me, 'Soph, Soph, I have just married myself a twenty-year-old girl! What do you think of that?!' And I said to him, 'Ernie, when I am eighty years old, I shall marry myself a twenty-year-old boy, and let me tell you something, Ernie! Twenty goes into eighty a hell of a lot more than eighty goes into twenty!'"

Recall that John (N.R.) Wayne is 17, while Avril Incandenza is 56, and the young tennis stud has obviously X'd the Academy matron more than three (or four) times.

===Page 1070===

'''Bedouins''' 
certain Arabs of the deserts of Arabia and the Levant

'''being...buggered''' 
being on the receiving end of anal sex

'''b/w''' 
black and white

'''J. Gleason''' 
Jackie Gleason (1916-1987) was [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001276/ one of the great comic actors] of the 20th century.

'''Zoltan''' 
actually a Hungarian name, which means "ruler"

'''cretinous''' 
stupid

===Page 1071===

===Endnote 324f===

'''Orly''' 
one of the airports serving Paris

===Page 1071 (cont'd)===

'''redoubted''' 
formidable

'''Modus Tollens''' 
a Latin logical term, meaning, roughly, "the means of denying"

'''Nucleic acids''' 
DNA and RNA

'''A and G, T and C''' 
'''a'''denine and '''g'''uanine, '''t'''hymine and '''c'''ytosine, the neucleobase molecules that combine to form neucleotides, the building blocks of DNA

'''When the boulder's slipped all the way back to the bottom''' 
a reference to the myth of [http://www.reference.com/search?q=Sisyphus Sisyphus]

'''When the headless are blaming''' 
a reference to [http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if/ "If,"] the poem by Rudyard Kipling: "If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you..."

'''Csíkszentmihályi''' 
The name may be taken from Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (born 1934), a prominent Hungarian-American psychologist. His son Christopher is on the faculty at MIT.

'''lemma''' 
a proven statement used as a step in a mathematical proof

'''Boardman MN''' 
a town about 40 miles west-northwest of the Twin Cities

===Page 1072===

''' "directionless in a dark wood" ''' 

A reference to Dante's "Divine Comedy"'s first Canto of the Inferno.

''' "Leap like a knight of faith . . ." ''' 

A reference to Soren Kierkegaard's knight of faith. Kierkegaard, a theologian and philosopher, didn't think there could be any logical justification for believing in God. Instead the believer is required to take a leap of faith, so called because he (the believer) has no evidence for his convictions and thus must always, on some rational level, doubt them. In fact to Kierkegaard doubt defines faith, because if there were no doubt no leap of faith would be required in the first place, much like it doesn't require a leap of faith for you to believe you're actually reading this wikipedia entry right now, or that I'm not an alien sub rosa manipulating your mind for my own purposes.

'''"...Peano, Leibniz, Hilbert..."''' 
Giuseppe Peano (1858-1932) was an Italian mathematician. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a German polymath and one of the creators of calculus. David Hilbert (1862-1943) was a German mathematician.

'''"...Fourier, Gauss, LaPlace, Rickey..."''' 
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) was a French mathematician and physicist. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) was a German mathematician. Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (1749-1827) was a French mathematician and astronomer. Rickey would seem to refer to [http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/ V. Frederick Rickey], though he is contemporary while the other named men are not.

'''"...Wiener, Reimann, Frege, Green..."''' 
Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) was an American mathematician. Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) was a German mathematician. Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a German mathematician and logician. Green is probably George Green (1793-1841), English mathematician and physicist.

==Endnote 332 · Pemulis just slays deLint==

===Page 1073===

'''jury-rigged''' 
a corruption of "jerry-rigged" (a pejorative term about Germans), which basically means rigged in a makeshift, ad hoc manner

===Page 1074===

'''nictitater''' 
the word meant here is probably "nictitate," which means to wink―so, in other words, a "wink" or just a hint of stupidity-film on Watson's eyes

'''deviant division''' 
56/17 (see note ''supra'' for page 1069)

'''17-into-56 leaflet''' 
"the leaflet about Wayne and Mrs. I." referred to earlier on the page (with the "deviant division")

'''castigations''' 
criticisms; reprimands

===Page 1075===

'''loupes''' 
eyepiece magnifying glasses used by jewellers

'''"may the road rise up to meet you..."''' 
part of an old Irish blessing

===Page 1076===

'''incubus''' 
a male demon that seduces female humans

===Page 1077===

===Page 1078===

'''n.b.''' 
Latin: nota bene, meaning "note well"

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==Endnote 3==

'''cardioid''' 
In geometry, a cardioid is a plane curve produced by tracing the path of a chosen point of a circle which rolls around a fixed circle. The cardioid shape of E.T.A. has one cusp, i.e., a point on the curve that is not smooth. The ''r'' referred to by the narrator here is the radius of the moving circle.

'''Übermensch''' 
German for "superhuman"

'''Brandeis''' 
Brandeis is a Jewish-founded university in Waltham, Mass., about nine miles west of Boston, named for Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941) the first Jewish Supreme Court justice.

==Endnote 5==

'''N.B.''' 
abbreviation for Latin ''nota bene'', i.e., "note well," stated before an important example or corollary point

==Endnote 5a==

'''nystagmus''' 
involuntary eye movement

'''entrepôt''' 
French for "warehouse," this is where foreign merchandise can be purchased duty-free

'''loquacity''' 
talkativeness

==Endnote 6==

'''Halcion (still available in Canada, unbelievably, still)''' 
It's also still available here, though the U.K. has banned it since 1991.

==Endnote 7==

'''bevelling''' 
Here meaning "smoothed out" and misspelled, beveling is the making of 45º angles where perpendiculars meet.

==Endnote 8==

'''dickies''' 
As a dickie is designed to give the appearance of wearing a tie, Wallace uses this word here to deal with drugs that mimic the effects of other drugs.

'''MMDA, DMA, DMMM, 2CB, para-DOT I-VI''' 
You can read about MMDA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMDA_%28psychedelic%29 here], DMA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethoxyamphetamine here], 2CB [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2CB here], DOT [http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_Chemical.jsp?Rec_Id=PC35343 here] (apparently). DMMM appears to be made up.

'''CNS''' 
central nervous system

'''gamma hydroxybutric acid''' 
now more commonly known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-Hydroxybutyric_acid GHB]

'''DMZ/M.P.''' 
DMZ is another made-up drug. M.P. refers to its street name, Madame Psychosis.

===Endnote 8a===

'''Muscimole''' 
another mushroom-based hallucinogen, like psilocybin

'''DDMS''' 
dibromododecenyl methylsulfimide

'''DMSO''' 
dimethylsulfoxide, a common solvent used in many laboratories. It is readily absorbed through the skin, taking with it whatever it has dissolved.

==Endnote 12a==

'''"...Continental Controlled Substances Act of Y.T.M.P., O.N.A.N.D.E.A.'s hierarchy of analgesics/antipyretics/axiolytics..."''' 
There is no such act, obviously. Y.T.M.P. is [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]. The second acronym is Organization of North American Nations Drug Enforcement Agency. Analgesics are painkillers. Antipyretics are fever-reducing drugs, and anxiolytics are anxiety-reducing drugs.

==Endnote 13==

'''Quo Vadis''' 
Latin: Where are you going? Famously asked of Jesus by Peter when the former was on his way to be crucified. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quo_vadis here.] Also a novel and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043949/ film] by that name were made.

==Endnote 17==

'''datum''' 
piece of information, the singular form of the word "data"

==Endnote 19==

French: A person of terrible importance

==Endnote 21==

'''Q.v.''' 
Latin abbreviation for ''quod vide'' ("which see"), used to direct a reader elsewhere in a book. Here we are directed to...

==Endnote 23==
'''U.S.D.D.''' 
United States Department of Defense

==Endnote 24 · JAMES O. INCANDENZA: A FILMOGRAPHY==
===Page 986===
'''meniscus''' 
a lens with a crescent-shaped section

'''soliloquized''' 
spoken to oneself

'''incunabular''' 
early stages of something

'''D W Griffith''' 
Film Director whose films include 'Tolerance' and 'Birth of a Nation'; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._W._Griffith Wikipedia entry]

'''Taka Limura''' 
Japanese film maker - [http://research.yale.edu/eastasianstudies/iimura.chin.pdf see article] 

'''Heliotrope''' 
An arrangement of mirrors for reflecting sunlight from a distant point to an observation station. 

===Page 987===
'''Latrodectus Mactans''' 
Latin name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectus_mactans Black Widow] spider

'''neuralgia''' 
A form of chronic pain where pain is felt in a nerve without stimulation of pain receptors. Difficult to diagnose and treat.

===Page 992===

'''çoncupiscence''' 

Strong sexual desire

===Page 988===
'''Godbout''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Godbout Jacques Godbout], a French-Canadian filmmaker and documentarian.

==Endnote 82==

[[Image:Plaid.jpg|thumb|caption|Night Watch Plaid|150px|right]]
'''Bean''' 
as in L.L. Bean, a privately-held mail-order and retail company based in Freeport, Maine, United States, specializing in clothing and outdoor recreation equipment.

'''Night Watch plaid''' 
A pattern of plaid. See right.

==Endnote 110 · Hal and Orin Discuss Québecois Politics==

===Page 1004===
'''Hush Puppy''' 
a [http://www.hushpuppies.com/en-US/Main.aspx brand name] of shoes

'''squeegeed''' 
cleaned with a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeegee squeegee]

'''truncated''' 
cut short

===Page 1005===

'''R&R''' 
Rest and Relaxation

'''ex officio''' 
Latin: by virtue of one's office

''''The Yellow Rose (of Texas)'''' 
Dickinson's poems can also be read to the meter of "Mary Had a Little Lamb."

'''falsetto''' 
a man's voice when he pitches it falsely high to sound like a woman

'''riffling''' 
turning pages quickly

'''Ample make this bed''' 
The full poem is [http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1337.html here].

===Page 1006===

'''quotidian''' 
commonplace

[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.-Q.M.D.]]

'''pistil''' 
that part of a flower that is analogous to the female reproductive organs

'''Sikorski-sized''' 
helicopter-sized; the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_R-4 Sikorsky R-4] was the first mass-produced helicopter

'''paucity''' 
scarcity

'''swotted''' 
studied intensively

'''wakked''' 
I have no idea.

'''unperspicous''' 
not clearly expressed or presented

'''penultimate''' 
second to last

'''whingeing''' 
complaining (pronounced to rhyme with "jing")

'''xerophagy''' 
eating of bread and water only

===Endnote 110d===

'''anti-sclerotic''' 
tending to ward of hardening of tissues (as of arteries, here)

===Page 1006 (cont'd)===

'''maunder''' 
to talk incoherently or aimlessly

'''Solecism''' 
nonstandard or incorrect grammatical usage

'''and c.''' 
et cetera

===Page 1007===

'''20 X 25 centimeter''' 
very close to 8" x 10"

'''Jethro Bodine''' 
a character on the television show [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055662/ The Beverly Hillbillies]

'''proviso''' 
a clause, usually in a document, making a stipulation or qualification

'''"...isn't even iambic, much less quatrameter/trimeter..."''' 
This is to say that the poetry of Dickinson is not in iambic pentameter, also known as verse. This is the style of poetry Shakespeare is written in ("Now is the winter of our discontent") -- ten syllables, and five iambs (feet, or beats) per line (thus pentameter). Quatrameter/trimeter would be the rhythm scheme of "Yellow Rose of Texas" and "Mary Had a Little Lamb" (although note that the first foot of the latter is incomplete).

'''dink''' 
a synonym for a drop shot, which in tennis is a light tap just over the net

===Page 1008===

'''obverse''' 
the more conspicuous of two possible choices

'''seraphic''' 
like an angel

'''lascivious''' 
appealing to sexual tastes

'''mesmerized''' 
hypnotized

'''skitter''' 
to move rapidly along a surface

'''knight-errant''' 
a knight on a quest to prove his chivalry

===Page 1009===

'''Ainsi''' 
French: so to speak

'''breviary''' 
a prayer and hymn book

'''"Kitchens and heat..."''' 
which is to say, if you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen

===Page 1010===

'''Gloeckner''' 
German for "ringer," taking that in either of the meanings it has in English

'''3-kilo''' 
a little over 7.25 pounds

'''Snuff''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuff ground tobacco], which is inhaled rather than smoked or chewed

'''Andover''' 
as in [http://www.boardingschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/5 Philips Academy Andover], alma mater of both Presidents Bush

'''"Dickinson's about as Transcendalist as Poe."''' 
which is to say, not at all

===Page 1011===

[[Image:Eddy.jpg|right]]

'''R.C.M.P.''' 
Royal Canadian Mounted Police

'''Nelson Eddy''' 
Nelson Ackerman Eddy (1901-1967) was an American singer and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0248904/ movie star]. As far as what he looked like, see right.

'''Droll''' 
whimsically comic

===Page 1012===

'''nanomicroscopy''' 
the looking at extremely small things (nano- being the prefix for "one-billionth") through a microscope

'''Thevet''' 
This is probably a reference to André de Thevet (1502-1590), a French priest and explorer. Though never in Canada, he relied on French-Canadian explorers' work for his own voyages to South America.

'''"...the 5 on the French Achievement boards..."''' 
The highest possible score on the French Advanced Placement Exam (for which one can receive college credit) is 5.

'''Boswell''' 
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (1740-1795), was the Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson.

'''E cup''' 
a very large breast size

'''acuity''' 
acuteness of perception

'''in utero''' 
in the womb

'''thalidomide''' 
a drug developed to treat morning sickness in pregnant women that ended up causing babies to be born missing limbs

'''Condé Nast''' 
one of the largest magazine publishers in the country, owned by Advance Publications (the Newhouse family) and founded by Condé Montrose Nast (1873-1942), an American publisher

'''deform''' 
here meaning simply "to spoil"

'''persona''' 
a fictional identity created for a person, narrator in a book, etc.

'''''du''''' 
French: of the (masculine)

===Page 1013===

'''Meech Lake''' 
a lake in Gatineau Park, near Chelsea, Québec

'''Parizeau''' 
This is probably Jacques Parizeau (born 1930), a former Premier of Québec and proponent of Québecois sovereignty.

'''Charlottetown''' 
the capital of the Canadian province of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island Prince Edward Island]

'''Crétien assassination''' 
This is probably a misspelling of the surname of Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien (born 1934), Prime Minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003.

'''Francophonic''' 
French-speaking

'''Acadian Zionism''' 
Acadia is the traditional name for what is now (in part) eastern Québec. Zionism is used here as a synonym for nationalism, rather than with its specific Jewish connotations

'''Toujours''' 
French: always

'''"On ne parle d'Anglais ici."''' 
French: English is not spoken here

'''Ottawa''' 
the capital of Canada

'''"Permettez Nous Partir, Permettez Nous Être."''' 
French: Allow us to leave, allow us to be.

'''Winnipeg''' 
the capital of Canadian province of Manitoba

'''flux''' 
frequent change

'''appalled''' 
dismayed

'''UV-booth''' 
UV standing for ultraviolet (as in light), this is probably a tanning booth.

===Page 1014===

'''"Nous v. La Plupart Toujours"''' 
French: Us versus the majority always

'''Lesotho''' 
a kingdom of southern Africa, existing as an enclave entirely within the Republic of South Africa

'''SOUTHAF''' 
This is the Union of South Africa, which was formed in 1910 as a British colony and tried to annex Lesotho to it. Because of the imposition of ''apartheid'' laws in S. Africa, the annexation failed.

'''antebellum''' 
before the war, here the U.S. Civil War

===Endnote 110h===

'''Gallic''' 
French

===Page 1014 (cont'd)===

'''Anglophone''' 
English-speaking

'''Plains of Abraham''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains_of_Abraham Battle of the Plains of Abraham], part of the French and Indian Wars, which ended in a decisive British victory of the French

===Endnote 110i===

''''La Guerre des Britanniques et des Sauvages'''' 
French: The War of the British and the Savages

'''Ticonderoga''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Carillon Battle of Carillon], fought at Fort Ticonderoga

===Page 1014 (cont'd)===

'''Booty''' 
treasure taken from a defeated party

'''1759''' 
On September 13, 1759, Québec fell to the British.

'''NAFTA''' 
North American Free Trade Agreement

'''Rubensian''' 
The word more often used is "Rubenesque," but this refers to the women in paintings by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the Flemish artist. His women were usually voluptuous, not to say plump.

'''retardate''' 
more often used as a noun, offensively referring to a retarded person

'''rapacious''' 
ravenous

===Page 1015===

'''lissome''' 
supple

'''Rubensophile''' 
See above, Rubensian.

'''gulag''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GULAG GULAG] prison system of the Soviet Union

''''ce pas?''' 
French elision of "n'est-ce pas?" i.e., "right?"

'''Anbesol''' 
a brand name of benzocaine used for tooth pain

'''flanges''' 
Orin probably means to say "phalanges."

'''Rue Sherbrooke''' 
a road in Montreal

'''St. Jean-Baptiste Day''' 
another name for la [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%AAte_nationale_du_Qu%C3%A9bec fête nationale du Québec]

'''anaerobic''' 
thriving without oxygen

===Page 1016===

'''weedy''' 
scrawny; Hal is probably using it to mean "thin," as in a line of argumentation

'''Brazilian ''Nuevo Contras''''' 
These would be "new" ''contras'', the old ones having been U.S.-funded anti-communist guerrillas in Nicaragua in the 1980s.

'''The ''Noie Störkraft'''s? Shining Path's? The Belgian CCC's?''' 
''Noie Störkraft'' is Swedish "New Great Power"; it does not appear to be a new organization, though Störkraft is the name of a skinhead band from Sweden. The Shining Path (''Sendero Luminoso'' in Spanish) is the Communist Party of Peru, which has waged guerrilla warfare against the Peruvian government since 1980. CCC is a French acronym for Communist Combatant Cells; they were eliminated as a terrorist group in 1986.

'''''Ez-ed-Dean-el-Qassan''''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izz_ad-Din_al-Qassam_Brigades alternate spelling] of a Palestinian militant group affiliated with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas Hamas]

'''P.E.T.A.''' 
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

[[Image:Munch.jpg|right|100px]]

'''wobbled shrieking figure in the Munch lithograph''' 
See right.

===Page 1017===

'''subjoin''' 
to append to the end of something

'''attendant''' 
consequent or concomitant

'''cloracne''' 
probably a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloracne chloracne]

'''olfactory hallucinations''' 
hallucinations wherein one smells things that aren't there

'''machete''' 
a large cleaver-like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machete cutting tool]

'''Infant-depredations''' 
preying on babies

'''phenols''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenol carbolic acid]

'''Fundy''' 
probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Fundy Bay of Fundy]

'''straw-and-camel''' 
i.e., the straw that broke the camel's back

===Page 1018===

'''Docksider''' 
a type of boat shoe

'''full-toll''' 
i.e., it takes its full toll on you

'''Constantine''' 
perhaps [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_I Constantine I], by tradition first Christian emperor of Rome

'''merde''' 
French for "shit"

'''cartographic''' 
having to do with maps

'''parliamentary wigs''' 
Canadian MPs don't wear wigs, though barristers (lawyers) and judges do.

===Page 1019===

'''bone of dissension''' 
Orin means "bone of contention."

'''desmirched''' 
probably a malapropism, although it could mean "to un-besmirch"

'''re-gerrymandered''' 
To gerrymander is to divide an area into electoral districts favorable to one party over another.

'''Cuibono''' 
more properly ''cui bono'', Latin for "who benefits?"

'''swivet''' 
a state of nervous excitement

'''D-bases''' 
databases

'''falcate''' 
to curve like a sickle

'''Albertan ultra-rightists''' 
There is a tradition of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Separatism separatism] in Alberta.

'''Duluth''' 
a town in Minnesota and home to Bob Dylan, on Lake Superior about 150 miles north of the Twin Cities

===Page 1020===

'''Vichified''' 
i.e., as Vichy France, which was a puppet government to the Nazis

'''Anschluss''' 
German for "annexation," it most often refers to Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria in 1938.

'''mayhi''' 
Orin seems to be using this term as a plural of "mayhem."

'''P.Q.s''' 
members of the Parti Québecois

'''P.M.''' 
Prime Minister (of Canada)

'''''aller, partir''''' 
French: to go, to leave

===Page 1021===

'''hapless''' 
here meaning haphazard

'''botulizing''' 
infecting with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulism botulism]

'''jaunty''' 
smartly trim

'''toggle''' 
a type of switch

'''anapestic''' 
In poetry, an anapest is a trisyllable metrical foot of the following pattern: two unstressed syllables, followed by one long or stressed syllable. (Eg the line "'Twas the ''night'' before ''Christ''mas, and ''all'' through the ''house''" contains four anapestic feet.)

===Page 1022===

==Endnote 145 · Found Drama==

An invented, non-existent faux-academic style of film on which James O. Incandenza lectured and received artistic grants, created to lampoon the academic film theory community. Found Drama was not captured on film; rather, Incandenza and close friends "got out a Boston metro phone book and tore a White Pages page out at random and thumbtacked it to the wall and then [Incandenza] would throw a dart at it from across the room. ... And the name it hit becomes the subject of the Found Drama. And whatever happens to the protagonist with the name you hit with the dart for ... the next hour and a half is the Drama."

===Page 1026===

[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]

===Page 1027===

'''ne pas à la mode''' 
French: not in style

'''New Wave''' 
When this term is used w/r/t Himself's work, it is probably referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_New_Wave French New Wave], although there were several other "New Waves" in film.

'''Dick''' 
I'm unable to identify whether this person is real or not.

'''art-gesture films''' 
apparently a created genre

'''isness''' 
i.e., being

'''stasis''' 
inactivity caused by equal opposing forces

'''tenure-jockeys''' 
i.e., junior faculty at universities who are on tenure track

'''Orthochromatic''' 
According to the ''Random House Unabridged Dictionary,'' this word means "representing correctly the relations of colors as found in a subject; isochromatic."

'''retrogradism''' 
This neologism would seem to have the sense of the study or condition of moving backward.

'''McLean Hospital''' 
a real [http://mcleanhospital.org/ psychiatric hospital] in Belmont, Mass., about eight miles west-northwest of Boston

'''Duquette at M.I.T.''' 
There is no such person at M.I.T.

'''Posener''' 
There is no such person at Brandeis.

===Page 1028===

===Page 1031===

==Endnote 162==

[[Image:Francis bacon head VI.jpg|thumb|caption|Head VI (1949), Francis Bacon|150px|right]]
'''a Baconian pope with his hat on fire''' 
Referring to the work of 20th century figurative painter [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon_(artist) Francis Bacon] and his "screaming pope" paintings.

===Page 1035===

==Endnote 211==

'''suborn''' 
to bribe or induce someone to commit a crime or misdeed
==Endnote 234 · Excerpts From Orin's Interview With ''Moment''==

===Page 1038===

'''Rafferty''' 
Terrence Rafferty was a film critic for the ''New Yorker'' magazine.

'''NPR''' 
National Public Radio

===Page 1039===

'''dun''' 
make repeated demands on

'''Madison Avenue''' 
the street in New York famous for its advertising firms

'''traversion''' 
Orin probably means "introversion."

'''T-square''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-square drafting tool]

===Page 1040===

'''Prussian''' 
here used to mean "very strict"

'''schizogenic''' 
produced or formed by fission

'''pathogenic''' 
capable of producing disease

===Page 1041===

'''antidote''' 
Orin means "anecdote."

'''Quelquechose''' 
French: something

===Page 1042===

'''pièce''' 
as in "pièce de resistance," the punchline or main point

===Page 1043===

'''four horsemen''' 
as in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse] from the Book of Revelation

'''BPL''' 
Boston Public Library

==Endnote 269 · Steeply-Bain Correspondence==
===Page 1047===

''''After my own parents were horribly killed on the Jamaica Way commuter road one morning in the freak crash of a radio traffic-report helicopter...'''' 

Lateral Alice Moore was handicapped when the news helicopter she flew in crashed onto a highway. It could have been the same accident as the one to which Bain refers here.

'''J.O.I.''' 
James O. Incandenza

'''guile''' 
insidious cunning

'''methoxy-psychedelic''' 
probably referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMDA_%28drug%29 MMDA]

'''larval''' 
immature in its kind

'''codpieces''' 
a codpiece is a pouch at the crotch (covering the male genetalia) of tight-fitting breeches, popular during the Renaissance

'''Swinburne''' 
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was a British poet whose work had themes of homosexuality and sadomasochism.

'''Boston's Roxbury and Mattapan districts''' 
two lower-income, primarily African American and Hispanic neighborhoods in Boston

'''prenominate''' 
aforementioned

'''apposite''' 
appropriate with regard to the current circumstances

===Page 1048===

'''fairly high-sodium way''' 
i.e., with a grain (or more) of salt

'''purposive''' 
serving some purpose

'''Gretel the Cross-Sectioned Dairy Cow''' 
Cornell University apparently has a cow whose stomachs you can see in action.

'''consummate''' 
highly skilled

'''anaclitic''' 
in psychology, dependence on other people or another person

===Page 1049===

'''prevarication''' 
avoiding the truth by not directly answering a question

'''"...as if from the Rose Garden..."''' 
like the President of the U.S. answering a question from a reporter

'''exploded''' 
shown to be false or unfounded

'''mendacious''' 
untruthful

'''monilial''' 
relating to a fungus of the genus [http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/monilial Candida]

'''nubbin''' 
a small lump or residual part

'''S. Johnson''' 
probably a reference to Dr. Samuel Johnson, the lexicographer

'''piteously''' 
pitifully

===Page 1050===

'''Steeples''' 
[sic] for "Steeply"

'''vacuous''' 
unintelligent, foolish, empty

'''Steeley''' 
[sic] for "Steeply"

'''ACOAs''' 
Adult Children of Alcoholics

'''AlaTeens''' 
a support group for teenage children of alcoholics

'''ACONAs''' 
Adult Children of Narcotics Anonymous

'''ACOGs''' 
ACOG is most commonly the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, but in this context it probably stands for Adult Children of Gamblers.

'''neurasthenic''' 
chronically fatigued and weak

'''aspic''' 
meat jelly

'''profligate''' 
extravagant

'''loquacious''' 
very talkative

===Page 1051===

'''Starkly''' 
Bain gets Steeply's name wrong yet again.

'''univocal''' 
unambiguous

'''furcated''' 
branching or forking

'''solicitous''' 
concerned

'''appurtenances''' 
accessories or equipment

'''pique''' 
feeling of resentment

'''albatross''' 
a burden, literally a large seabird, from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner''

'''Starksaddle''' 
another mistake with Steeply's name

'''perspicuous''' 
clearly expressed

===Page 1052===

'''multivalent''' 
having various meanings

'''Bainbridge''' 
This isn't even close to Steeply's name.

==Endnote 304 · The Train Game==

===Page 1055===

'''McGee-like chaos''' 
An overflowing closet was a running gag on the old-time radio show [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibber_McGee_and_Molly ''Fibber McGee and Molly''].

'''smelling a rat in the woodpile''' 
Rats often use woodpiles as cover for their burrows, as discussed [http://unexco.com/Rat.html here].

'''B.P.L. ArchFax database search''' 
Possibly: Boston Public Library Archival Facsimiles.

===Page 1056===

'''murated''' 

Walled. From the Latin murare - to wall off.

'''QUOI?''' 
WHAT?

'''Sudetenlandization''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudetenland Wikipedia - Sudetenland]

'''G. T. Day, M.S.''' 
Geoffrey Day, of Ennet House, who claims to have "manned the helm of a Scholarly Quarterly" at "some jr. college up the Expressway in Medford" (272). Before the author is mentioned, the article is said to have come from "someplace called Bayside Community College up I-93 in Medford." Wild Conceits, the publication, is said to be edited by the author of the article Struck is ripping off.

===Page 1057===
'''vishnu''' 
Vishnu is the preserver/maintainer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu god]
of the Hindu Trimurti.

'''''dasein''''' 
German: being there (lit)., [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasein existence]; a cornerstone of the philosophy of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger Martin Heidegger] (1889-1976).

===Page 1058===

'''''cui bono''''' 
Latin: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_Bono To whose benefit?]

'''geatalt''' 
a misprint of ''gestalt''

'''municipal fluoridation''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation addition of fluoride] to public drinking- (tap-)water supplies to reduce tooth decay among the population; home filtration systems (such as Brita manufactures) can remove the flouride and thus eliminate the benefit

===Page 1059===
'''''les passages à niveau de voie ferrée''''' 
the level crossings of railway line

'''Two hundred sixteen''' 
216 is the cube of 6; thus the preliminary round would yield ''Les Trente-Six'' (36) semifinalists and the second round would produce six finalists ''attendants longtemps ses tours'' (French: "waiting a long time for their turns

'''''Le Culte de Baiser Sans Fin''''' 
French: the cult of the kiss without end, or (as translated in the following paragraph), "the Cult of the Endless Kiss"

===Page 1060===

'''Bernard Wayne''' 
Most likely John "N.R." Wayne's brother.

==Endnote 321 · Hal's DMZ Dream==
===Page 1063===

'''Rise Over Run''' 
[[Image:Slope Forumla.png]] The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slope slope] (''m'') of a line, expressed as its "rise" (variance along the ''y'' axis) divided by its run (variance along the ''x'' axis); equivalent in calculus to the first derivative.

'''tangent''' 
This concept is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangent#Trigonometry here].

'''Differentiation''' 
the process by which one determines the first derivative of a mathematical function

'''inexorably''' 
relentlessly

'''Function x, exponent n, the derivative's going to be nx + x(n-1)''' 
Permulis appears to have misspoken. The derivative of x to the nth power is n times x to the (n - 1) power, not nx plus x to the (n - 1)th power.

'''covers''' 
a recording or performance of a song that was first recorded or made popular by somebody else

===Page 1064===
'''G.C./M.S.''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_chromatography-mass_spectrometry '''G'''as '''C'''hromatography - '''M'''ass '''S'''pectrometry], a means of drug detection

'''Digestive-Flora''' 
bacteria that live in the intestines and aid in digestion

'''Verdun Protestant Hospital''' 
now called [http://www.douglas.qc.ca/ Douglas Mental Health Institute]

'''''tu-sais-qué''''' 
really bad French for "you know what"

'''Nutter Butters''' 
Nabisco's peanut-butter sandwich [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutter_Butter cookies]

'''Human Hatchet''' 
i.e., Axford

'''impotence''' 
a malapropism; he means ''impetus''

'''Blue Flames''' 
probably some sort of depressants

===Page 1065===
'''O2''' 
dioxygen, or oxygen gas as it exists in its natural state; ozone is O3

'''Jiminy Cricket''' 
the talking (and singing) cricket in the 1940 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032910/ "Pinocchio"], adapted from Carlo Collodi's serial for children, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Pinocchio ''The Adventures of Pinocchio''] (1881-1883)

==Endnote 324 · John Wayne loses it==

===Page 1066===

'''moon''' 
to spend time idly

'''camphonated''' 
more like "camphorated," i.e., contained camphor

===Endnote 324a===

'''loamy''' 
consisting of rich, arable soil

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]

===Page 1066 (cont'd)===

'''whorl''' 
a circular arrangement

'''funiculi''' 
plural of "funiculus," i.e., part of the spinal cord

===Page 1067===

'''gonions''' 
the outer points on either side of the lower jaw at which the jawbone angles upward

'''uncolloped''' 
having no fat

'''latissimal''' 
referring to the [http://www.reference.com/search?r=13&q=Latissimus lattissimus dorsi] muscles

'''profligate''' 
wasteful

'''Nordicular''' 
i.e., Nordic, which is to say blond-haired and blue-eyed

'''armamentarium''' 
an arsenal, particularly used by physicians to refer to drugs or treatments

'''callow''' 
immature; inexperienced

'''entrepôt''' 
a place for storing and dispensing goods

'''dinkle''' 
a euphemism for "penis"

===Page 1068===

'''welching''' 
swindling by not paying a debt or wager

'''three-setter''' 

a tennis game ending in three sets, rather than two. So Pemulis needs to win a set against Freer to make it to the tournament.

'''cavalier''' 
disdainful; unceremonious

'''burr''' 
here used to mean "irritant"

===Page 1069===

'''canvas restraint-wrap''' 
straitjacket

'''catgut''' 
This is "a strong cord made by twisting the dried intestines of animals, as sheep, used in stringing musical instruments and tennis rackets, for surgical sutures, etc." (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''"...his late great Da's..."''' 
Clearly Pemulis has no idea that his brother was molested by their father.

'''rheumy''' 
full of thin mucous

'''how 17 can actually go into 56 way more than 3.294 times''' 
This recalls Bette Midler's anecdote (recorded on her 1977 album ''Live at Last'', told while channeling the late [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Tucker Sophie Tucker]:

"I will never forget it. It was on the occasion of Ernie's eightieth birthday and in honor of the occasion he married a twenty-year-old girl. And he rang me up the very next day and he said to me, 'Soph, Soph, I have just married myself a twenty-year-old girl! What do you think of that?!' And I said to him, 'Ernie, when I am eighty years old, I shall marry myself a twenty-year-old boy, and let me tell you something, Ernie! Twenty goes into eighty a hell of a lot more than eighty goes into twenty!'"

Recall that John (N.R.) Wayne is 17, while Avril Incandenza is 56, and the young tennis stud has obviously X'd the Academy matron more than three (or four) times.

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'''Bedouins''' 
certain Arabs of the deserts of Arabia and the Levant

'''being...buggered''' 
being on the receiving end of anal sex

'''b/w''' 
black and white

'''J. Gleason''' 
Jackie Gleason (1916-1987) was [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001276/ one of the great comic actors] of the 20th century.

'''Zoltan''' 
actually a Hungarian name, which means "ruler"

'''cretinous''' 
stupid

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'''Orly''' 
one of the airports serving Paris

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'''redoubted''' 
formidable

'''Modus Tollens''' 
a Latin logical term, meaning, roughly, "the means of denying"

'''Nucleic acids''' 
DNA and RNA

'''A and G, T and C''' 
'''a'''denine and '''g'''uanine, '''t'''hymine and '''c'''ytosine, the neucleobase molecules that combine to form neucleotides, the building blocks of DNA

'''When the boulder's slipped all the way back to the bottom''' 
a reference to the myth of [http://www.reference.com/search?q=Sisyphus Sisyphus]

'''When the headless are blaming''' 
a reference to [http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if/ "If,"] the poem by Rudyard Kipling: "If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you..."

'''Csíkszentmihályi''' 
The name may be taken from Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (born 1934), a prominent Hungarian-American psychologist. His son Christopher is on the faculty at MIT.

'''lemma''' 
a proven statement used as a step in a mathematical proof

'''Boardman MN''' 
a town about 40 miles west-northwest of the Twin Cities

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''' "directionless in a dark wood" ''' 

A reference to Dante's "Divine Comedy"'s first Canto of the Inferno.

''' "Leap like a knight of faith . . ." ''' 

A reference to Soren Kierkegaard's knight of faith. Kierkegaard, a theologian and philosopher, didn't think there could be any logical justification for believing in God. Instead the believer is required to take a leap of faith, so called because he (the believer) has no evidence for his convictions and thus must always, on some rational level, doubt them. In fact to Kierkegaard doubt defines faith, because if there were no doubt no leap of faith would be required in the first place, much like it doesn't require a leap of faith for you to believe you're actually reading this wikipedia entry right now, or that I'm not an alien sub rosa manipulating your mind for my own purposes.

'''"...Peano, Leibniz, Hilbert..."''' 
Giuseppe Peano (1858-1932) was an Italian mathematician. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a German polymath and one of the creators of calculus. David Hilbert (1862-1943) was a German mathematician.

'''"...Fourier, Gauss, LaPlace, Rickey..."''' 
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) was a French mathematician and physicist. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) was a German mathematician. Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (1749-1827) was a French mathematician and astronomer. Rickey would seem to refer to [http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/ V. Frederick Rickey], though he is contemporary while the other named men are not.

'''"...Wiener, Reimann, Frege, Green..."''' 
Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) was an American mathematician. Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) was a German mathematician. Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a German mathematician and logician. Green is probably George Green (1793-1841), English mathematician and physicist.

==Endnote 332 · Pemulis just slays deLint==

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'''jury-rigged''' 
a corruption of "jerry-rigged" (a pejorative term about Germans), which basically means rigged in a makeshift, ad hoc manner

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'''nictitater''' 
the word meant here is probably "nictitate," which means to wink―so, in other words, a "wink" or just a hint of stupidity-film on Watson's eyes

'''deviant division''' 
56/17 (see note ''supra'' for page 1069)

'''17-into-56 leaflet''' 
"the leaflet about Wayne and Mrs. I." referred to earlier on the page (with the "deviant division")

'''castigations''' 
criticisms; reprimands

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'''loupes''' 
eyepiece magnifying glasses used by jewellers

'''"may the road rise up to meet you..."''' 
part of an old Irish blessing

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'''incubus''' 
a male demon that seduces female humans

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'''n.b.''' 
Latin: nota bene, meaning "note well"

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