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=November 14th, YDAU - Randy Lenz, back on the streets=

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'''Bishop Allen''' 
Bishop Richard Allen was a former slave and American abolitionist.

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'''promoted''' 
i.e., stolen

'''otiose''' 
of no use

'''chop''' 
helicopter

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'''nonchalant''' 
coolly unconcerned

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'''Yellow Brick Road''' 
a reference to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/ The Wizard of Oz]

'''''abeyant''''' 
dormant, temporarily inactive

=Two Ways of Going=

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'''technical interview''' 
i.e., torture

'''''abeyant''''' 
Not a real French word, it's used here to mean "in abeyance," i.e., suspension of activity

=November 14th, YDAU - Poor Tony runs from Ruth van Cleeve, cont.=

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'''careered''' 
ran at full speed

'''veronica''' 
a bullfighting maneuver where the matador swings his cape away from the charging bull

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'''jay-ran''' 
punning on "jaywalk," it means running across the street not at a corner

'''feinted''' 
acted in a way to cause a diversion

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'''''zuckung''''' 
German: convulsion

'''Aigners''' 
a Parisian brand of fine shoes, handbags, etc. - in this case it appears to be in reference to shoes

'''stitch''' 
the very least bit

'''ON PARLE LE PORTUGAIS ICI''' 
French: Portuguese spoken here

'''chignon''' 
a roll of hair at the back of the head or nape of the neck

=AFR at Antitoi's=

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'''sartorially''' 
with regard to dress

==Endnote 300==

'''café au lait''' 
hot coffee served with an equal amount of hot milk

==Page 722==

'''Glen Almond''' 
a section of Québec City

'''''coffre d'amas''''' 
French: waste basket

'''RELACHE''' 
French: relax

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

'''Tassigny''' 
This character's name is perhaps taken from Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny (1889-1952), a French military hero of WWII.

'''EEG''' 
electroencephalogram

'''''Donc. D'accord.''''' 
French: So. Okay.

==Endnote 301==

'''M.B.A.''' 
Master's of Business Administration''' 
'''litigatory''' 
having to do with legal proceedings

'''OS''' 
operating system

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'''''frappe''''' 
French: punch or kick

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'''U.S.B.S.S.''' 
An abbreviation for the name given to the U.S. Office of Unspecified Services by the Québecois Sepératiste Left, the U.S. "Bureau des Services sans Spécificité" (see page 89).

=A Moment With Fortier=

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'''perambulation''' 
walking

=November 14th, YDAU - Joelle's Teeth=

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'''selvage''' 
the edge of a fabric

'''lampblack''' 
A pigment taken from oil resin, football players wear it below their eyes.

'''canines''' 
the eye teeth

=A.F.R. at Antitoi's, after locating the copy=

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'''embossed''' 
decorated with a raised design

==Page 725==

'''Desjardins''' 
A fairly popular French surname, it may have been inspired here by Gabriel-Alphonse Desjardins (1854-1920), Québecois founder of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desjardins_Group Desjardins Group].

'''''Bôf''''' 
an interjection in French expressing lack of interest

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'''"...an employee at the Academy of Tennis..."''' 
This would very likely be Poutrincourt.

'''Mlle. Luria P----''' 
This would very likely be the "Swiss" Girl Orin is sleeping with.

'''alacrity''' 
willingness; quickness

'''''demi-maisons''''' 
French: a created word for half-way houses.

'''25-km.''' 
about 15.5 miles

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'''orthopedic saw''' 
a saw used to cut bones

'''econometrics''' 
the application of quantitative and statistical methods to the study of economics

'''''de coeur''''' 
French: of the heart

'''''c'est ça''''' 
French: that's that

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'''sybaritically''' 
in the manner of one who engages in sensual pleasure

=Lenz Still on the Prowl=

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'''Sterno''' 
a brand of denatured and jellied alcohol used for cooking, as well as drinking by many street alcoholics

'''Kryptonite''' 
either a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptonite_lock Kryptonite lock] or a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptonite Kryptonite] of ''Superman'' fame

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'''extruding''' 
i.e., exuding

'''agnate''' 
Maybe he means "argot"?

'''fence''' 
to sell stolen goods

'''devroid''' 
devoid

=Marathe at Ennet House=

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'''thrift''' 
frugality

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'''''de l'infere''''' 
probably a Québecois expression, it sounds like the French for "from Hell"

'''''inutile''''' 
useless

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'''cheesecloth''' 
lightweight cotton of open texture

'''velour''' 
a felt made to resemble velvet

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'''I-93''' 
Interstate 93 runs from St. Johnsbury, Vt., to Canton, Mass., just outside Boston.

'''Lac de Deux Montaignes''' 
French: Lake of Two Mountains — near Montreal

'''''Le Culte du Prochain Train''''' 
French: Cult of the Next Train

==Endnote 304==

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

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'''Levi #501''' 
once-popular button-fly jeans by Levi Strauss

'''Trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid''' 
Apparently this acid is indeed higher in the sweat of schizophrenics.

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'''''Potable''''' 
It does mean "drinkable" in English.

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=☽ (AS OF) YDAU - The Enfield Tennis Academy=
==Page 63==

'''Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment''' 
Which is to say, as of 2009

'''pre-Method actor''' 
He was an actor before the dawn of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_acting the Method].

'''dipsomaniacal''' 
Characterized by an uncontrollable urge to consume alcohol, describing James O. Incandenza's father

==Endnote 23==
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_23|Notes and Errata - Endnote 23]]

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'''G. Ford - early G. Bush''' 
Roughly 1974 to 1989.

'''S.A.C.''' 
Strategic Air Command.

'''neutron''' 
A subatomic particle with no charge.

'''gamma-refractive''' 
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.

'''lithium-adonized''' 
Made more beautiful with lithium.

==Page 64==

'''cold annular fusion''' 
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a taurus (donut).

'''Tableaux''' 
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.

'''homolosine-cartography''' 
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].

'''optative''' 
Expressing a wish or choice.

'''U.S.T.A.''' 
United States Tennis Association.

'''après-garde''' 
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''

==Endnote 24 - JOI's Filmography==
See [[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_24_.C2.B7_JAMES_O._INCANDENZA:_A_FILMOGRAPHY|Notes and Errata - Endnote 24]]

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'''Macdonald Chair''' 
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic.

'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University''' 
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal.

'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems''' 
These are two systems of cognition, the latter is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the former is rule-based and thus slower.

'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement''''' 
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.

'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada''' 
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.

'''recondite''' 
dealing with complex subject matter.

'''mordantly''' 
in a caustic manner.

'''feck''' 
efficacy; force; value.

==Page 65==

'''F.C.''' 
Perhaps "formerly Canadian."

'''A.E.C.''' 
Atomic Energy Commission.

'''ARPA-NET''' 
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.

'''L'Islet County''' 
A county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains.

'''hyperfloration''' 
Overgrowth of flowers or plants.

'''festschrift''' 
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.

'''anticonfluential''' 
against things coming together

'''chiaroscuro''' 
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting.

'''annulation''' 
The formation of rings.

'''hypertrophied''' 
Grown exceeding large.

=November 1st, YDAU - Denver, CO - The Cardinals=
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'''tacks''' 
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.

'''Mile-High''' 
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos played until 2001.

'''100 meters over the 40''' 
''I.e.'', the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.

'''nongarish''' 
Not garish, ''i.e.'', not excessively ornate.

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'''zither''' 
A harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels.

'''water-drops''' 
Being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks.

'''Oiler''' 
The former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans.

'''Brown''' 
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.

=☽ - Pemulis's lecture=
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'''organopsychedelic''' 
An organic molecule which, when ingested, produces a psychedelic effect.

'''isoxazole-alkaloid''' 
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.

''' ''Amanita muscaria'', a.k.a. the fly agaric mushroom''' 
a poisonous and psychoactive fungus, usually red with white spots. It was used as an entheogen in Siberia. It has also been proposed that this is the "Soma" of the ''Rig Veda''. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria Wikipedia])

'''synesthesia''' 
A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color. ([http://www.thefreedictionary.com/synesthesia thefreedictionary])

==Page 67==

'''methoxylated''' 
Addition of a methoxy group. Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."

'''phenylkylamine''' 
Possibly a made-up substance.

'''rock and bob Hasidically''' 
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim (and some Jews of other traditions) do when praying or studying religious texts.

'''titrated''' 
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (''e.g.'' one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD, test shot of heroin).

=Please Play=
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==Endnote 26==

'''enkephalin''' 
A type of painkiller

==Page 67 (cont'd)==

'''psychodysleptic''' 
A drug that negative effects the take psychologically.

'''''in medias''''' 
Latin: in the middle of. Probably an intended short form for ''in medias res'' "right into the middle (of a story)". Without ''res'' the feminine plural of ''medias'' doesn't make any sense. (Cf. note on 701 s.v. ''in violent medias res'')

'''oblique''' 
Neither perpendicular nor parallel.

'''deliquesce''' 
To become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.

=☽ YDAU - Kate Gompert in the Psych Ward=

==Page 68==

'''Watteau''' 
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.

'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States''''' 
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.

==Page 69==

'''hypocapnia''' 
Reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation.

'''emery board''' 
A disposable nail file.

'''Wellesley Hills''' 
A section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston.

'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital''' 
A real hospital.

'''Parnate''' 
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.

'''dysphoria''' 
A mental state of feeling horrible.

'''diurnal''' 
During the day. Opposite of nocturnal.

'''w/w/o''' 
With and without.

'''CO''' 
Carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide.

'''hemotoxicity''' 
Poisonous blood level.

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'''Librium''' 
Brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal.

'''Dretske''' 
Perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind.

'''Mydol''' 
A misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol].

'''trepidation''' 
Hesitancy caused by fear.

'''facial affect''' 
Emotions expressed on the face.

'''Lithonate''' 
A brand name of lithium.

==Page 71==

'''plestor''' 
Another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter].

'''plangent''' 
Loud and resounding.

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'''carpopedal''' 
Involving both the hands and feet.

'''tetanic''' 
Pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually.

==Page 74==

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'''circumorals''' 
Muscles around the mouth.

'''thigmotactic''' 
Having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus.

'''dentate''' 
Having teeth.

'''synclinal''' 
Sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /.

'''Sinse''' 
Short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana.

'''duBois''' 
Fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette.

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'''uremic''' 
Smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood.

==Endnote 30==

'''boric acid''' 
Also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects.

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'''the T''' 
Local public transit in the Boston metro area.

==Page 78==

'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."''' 
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].

=(April 2nd, YDAU) - Medical Attaché Update #3=

==Page 78==

'''0145h.''' 
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.

==Page 79==

'''rictus''' 
A gaping grimace.

=Schtitt & Mario discuss the game=

==Page 79==

'''Nick Bolletieri''' 
A [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach].

'''epaulets''' 
Military shoulder decorations on clothing.

'''a philosopher instead of a king''' 
Although Plato stresses, in the ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.

'''Lebensgefährtins''' 
Wallace's endnote 31(p. 994) claims this "means technically 'soulmate' or 'spouse'", but a more accurate translation would be 'life partner'. NB: 'Lebensgefährtin' is the feminine form of the noun. NB2: Schtitt's use of '-s' to indicate plural is incorrect for 'real' German; it is difficult to claim whether or not it is intentional on Wallace's part.

'''F.R.G.''' 
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989).

'''leptosomatic''' 
Having a slender, frail build.

'''pedagogical''' 
Having to do with teaching.

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'''post-prandial''' 
Following a meal.

'''calliopsis''' 
Another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis].

'''quincunx''' 
The arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right).[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]

'''briers' yeasty musk''' 
The yeasty smell arising from the brier patches.

'''bradykinetic''' 
Describing abnormally slow movement.

'''varicocele''' 
a varicose condition of the spermatic veins of the scrotum

'''plosivity''' 
Referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, ''etc.''.

'''Euclid''' 
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."

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'''tympana''' 
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.

'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST''''' 

The euphemistic translation aside, this literally means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.

'''discursive''' 
Rambling in speech.

'''wonk''' 
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

==Page 82==

'''simpatico''' 
In agreement.

==Endnote 34==

'''Mandelbrotian''' 
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.

'''post-Gödelian''' 
Coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher.

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'''Hopman and van der Meer and Bollettieri''' 
Harry Hopman, Dennis van der Meer, and Nick Bollettieri, highly regarded tennis instructors. Bollettieri and van der Meer each founded tennis boarding schools in the United States.

'''fractal''' 
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary''). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractals Wikipedia entry...]

'''aleatory''' 
Of or pertaining to accidental causes.

'''''Lieber Gott nein''''' 
German: ''Dear God, no''.

'''''Gymanasium''''' 
The equivalent of a U.S. college-preparatory high school.

'''appetitive will''' 
That part of the will that desires physical things.

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'''''palestra''''' 
An ancient Greek school of wrestling.

'''experialist''' 
Like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste.

'''''Verstiegenheit''''' 
Literally German for "eccentricity."

'''''Platz''''' 
German: a public square.

==Page 84==

'''pirouetting''' 
Whirling on the toes.

==Page 85==

=YDAU - Tiny Ewell in Detox=

==Page 85==

'''D.T.''' 
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].

==Page 86==

'''12°C''' 
~54°F

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'''screaming meemies''' 
used to describe anxiety or aprehension (i.e., the "heebie-jeebies" or the "willies"); originally a nickname for a type of German rocket used in WWII, which emitted a high-pitched noise as it flew. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebelwerfer Wikipedia])

'''skallycap''' 
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]

=(April 2nd, YDAU) - Medical Attaché Update #4=

==Page 87==

'''Seventh Day Adventist''' 
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"

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==Page 63==

'''Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment''' 
Which is to say, as of 2009

'''pre-Method actor''' 
He was an actor before the dawn of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_acting the Method].

'''dipsomaniacal''' 
Characterized by an uncontrollable urge to consume alcohol, describing James O. Incandenza's father

==Endnote 23==
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_23|Notes and Errata - Endnote 23]]

==Page 63 (cont'd)==

'''G. Ford - early G. Bush''' 
Roughly 1974 to 1989.

'''S.A.C.''' 
Strategic Air Command.

'''neutron''' 
A subatomic particle with no charge.

'''gamma-refractive''' 
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.

'''lithium-adonized''' 
Made more beautiful with lithium.

==Page 64==

'''cold annular fusion''' 
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a taurus (donut).

'''Tableaux''' 
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.

'''homolosine-cartography''' 
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].

'''optative''' 
Expressing a wish or choice.

'''U.S.T.A.''' 
United States Tennis Association.

'''après-garde''' 
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''

==Endnote 24 - JOI's Filmography==
See [[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_24_.C2.B7_JAMES_O._INCANDENZA:_A_FILMOGRAPHY|Notes and Errata - Endnote 24]]

==Page 64 (cont'd)==

'''Macdonald Chair''' 
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic.

'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University''' 
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal.

'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems''' 
These are two systems of cognition, the latter is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the former is rule-based and thus slower.

'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement''''' 
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.

'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada''' 
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.

'''recondite''' 
dealing with complex subject matter.

'''mordantly''' 
in a caustic manner.

'''feck''' 
efficacy; force; value.

==Page 65==

'''F.C.''' 
Perhaps "formerly Canadian."

'''A.E.C.''' 
Atomic Energy Commission.

'''ARPA-NET''' 
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.

'''L'Islet County''' 
A county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains.

'''hyperfloration''' 
Overgrowth of flowers or plants.

'''festschrift''' 
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.

'''anticonfluential''' 
against things coming together

'''chiaroscuro''' 
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting.

'''annulation''' 
The formation of rings.

'''hypertrophied''' 
Grown exceeding large.

=November 1st, YDAU - Denver, CO - The Cardinals=
==Page 65==

'''tacks''' 
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.

'''Mile-High''' 
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos played until 2001.

'''100 meters over the 40''' 
''I.e.'', the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.

'''nongarish''' 
Not garish, ''i.e.'', not excessively ornate.

==Page 66==

'''zither''' 
A harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels.

'''water-drops''' 
Being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks.

'''Oiler''' 
The former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans.

'''Brown''' 
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.

=☽ - Pemulis's lecture=
==Page 66==

'''organopsychedelic''' 
An organic molecule which, when ingested, produces a psychedelic effect.

'''isoxazole-alkaloid''' 
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.

''' ''Amanita muscaria'', a.k.a. the fly agaric mushroom''' 
a poisonous and psychoactive fungus, usually red with white spots. It was used as an entheogen in Siberia. It has also been proposed that this is the "Soma" of the ''Rig Veda''. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria Wikipedia])

'''synesthesia''' 
A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color. ([http://www.thefreedictionary.com/synesthesia thefreedictionary])

==Page 67==

'''methoxylated''' 
Addition of a methoxy group. Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."

'''phenylkylamine''' 
Possibly a made-up substance.

'''rock and bob Hasidically''' 
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim (and some Jews of other traditions) do when praying or studying religious texts.

'''titrated''' 
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (''e.g.'' one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD, test shot of heroin).

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'''enkephalin''' 
A type of painkiller

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'''psychodysleptic''' 
A drug that negative effects the take psychologically.

'''''in medias''''' 
Latin: in the middle of. Probably an intended short form for ''in medias res'' "right into the middle (of a story)". Without ''res'' the feminine plural of ''medias'' doesn't make any sense. (Cf. note on 701 s.v. ''in violent medias res'')

'''oblique''' 
Neither perpendicular nor parallel.

'''deliquesce''' 
To become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.

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'''Watteau''' 
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.

'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States''''' 
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.

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'''hypocapnia''' 
Reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation.

'''emery board''' 
A disposable nail file.

'''Wellesley Hills''' 
A section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston.

'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital''' 
A real hospital.

'''Parnate''' 
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.

'''dysphoria''' 
A mental state of feeling horrible.

'''diurnal''' 
During the day. Opposite of nocturnal.

'''w/w/o''' 
With and without.

'''CO''' 
Carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide.

'''hemotoxicity''' 
Poisonous blood level.

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'''Librium''' 
Brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal.

'''Dretske''' 
Perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind.

'''Mydol''' 
A misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol].

'''trepidation''' 
Hesitancy caused by fear.

'''facial affect''' 
Emotions expressed on the face.

'''Lithonate''' 
A brand name of lithium.

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'''plestor''' 
Another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter].

'''plangent''' 
Loud and resounding.

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'''carpopedal''' 
Involving both the hands and feet.

'''tetanic''' 
Pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually.

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'''circumorals''' 
Muscles around the mouth.

'''thigmotactic''' 
Having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus.

'''dentate''' 
Having teeth.

'''synclinal''' 
Sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /.

'''Sinse''' 
Short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana.

'''duBois''' 
Fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette.

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'''uremic''' 
Smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood.

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'''boric acid''' 
Also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects.

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'''the T''' 
Local public transit in the Boston metro area.

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'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."''' 
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].

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'''0145h.''' 
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.

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'''rictus''' 
A gaping grimace.

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'''Nick Bolletieri''' 
A [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach].

'''epaulets''' 
Military shoulder decorations on clothing.

'''a philosopher instead of a king''' 
Although Plato stresses, in the ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.

'''Lebensgefährtins''' 
Wallace's endnote 31(p. 994) claims this "means technically 'soulmate' or 'spouse'", but a more accurate translation would be 'life partner'. NB: 'Lebensgefährtin' is the feminine form of the noun. NB2: Schtitt's use of '-s' to indicate plural is incorrect for 'real' German; it is difficult to claim whether or not it is intentional on Wallace's part.

'''F.R.G.''' 
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989).

'''leptosomatic''' 
Having a slender, frail build.

'''pedagogical''' 
Having to do with teaching.

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'''post-prandial''' 
Following a meal.

'''calliopsis''' 
Another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis].

'''quincunx''' 
The arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right).[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]

'''briers' yeasty musk''' 
The yeasty smell arising from the brier patches.

'''bradykinetic''' 
Describing abnormally slow movement.

'''varicocele''' 
a varicose condition of the spermatic veins of the scrotum

'''plosivity''' 
Referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, ''etc.''.

'''Euclid''' 
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."

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'''tympana''' 
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.

'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST''''' 

The euphemistic translation aside, this literally means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.

'''discursive''' 
Rambling in speech.

'''wonk''' 
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

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'''simpatico''' 
In agreement.

'''Hopman''' 
Either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman].

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'''Mandelbrotian''' 
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.

'''post-Gödelian''' 
Coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher.

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'''Hopman and van der Meer and Bollettieri''' 
Harry Hopman, Dennis van der Meer, and Nick Bollettieri, highly regarded tennis instructors. Bollettieri and van der Meer each founded tennis boarding schools in the United States.

'''fractal''' 
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary''). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractals Wikipedia entry...]

'''aleatory''' 
Of or pertaining to accidental causes.

'''''Lieber Gott nein''''' 
German: ''Dear God, no''.

'''''Gymanasium''''' 
The equivalent of a U.S. college-preparatory high school.

'''appetitive will''' 
That part of the will that desires physical things.

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'''''palestra''''' 
An ancient Greek school of wrestling.

'''experialist''' 
Like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste.

'''''Verstiegenheit''''' 
Literally German for "eccentricity."

'''''Platz''''' 
German: a public square.

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'''pirouetting''' 
Whirling on the toes.

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'''D.T.''' 
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].

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'''12°C''' 
~54°F

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'''screaming meemies''' 
used to describe anxiety or aprehension (i.e., the "heebie-jeebies" or the "willies"); originally a nickname for a type of German rocket used in WWII, which emitted a high-pitched noise as it flew. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebelwerfer Wikipedia])

'''skallycap''' 
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]

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'''Seventh Day Adventist''' 
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"

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