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=☽ Notes and Errata=
==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

==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

==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. 

==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''' 
C.T. is probably comparing the bee (which flies) to an airplane (which also flies) produced by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_Aircraft Sikorsky Aircraft].

'''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 "Marry Had a Little Lamb."

'''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

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'''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

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'''Gloeckner''' 
German for "ringer," taking that in either of the meanings it has in English

'''3-kilo''' 
a little over 7.25 pounds

'''Snuff''' 
chewing tobacco

'''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

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[[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)

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'''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 tended to be 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.

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'''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 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 high way. It could have been the same accident as the one Bain's referring to here.

'''J.O.I.''' 
James O. Incandenza

'''guile''' 
insidious cunning

'''larval''' 
immature in its kind

'''codpieces''' 
a pouch at the crotch 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.

'''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

'''cross-sectioned cow''' 
Cornell University apparently has a cow whose stomachs you can see in action.

'''anaclitic''' 
in psychology, dependence on other people or another person

===Page 1049===

'''prevarication''' 
lying

'''"...as if from the Rose Garden..."''' 
like the President of the U.S. answering a question from a reporter

mendacious 
untruthful

'''monilial''' 
relating to a fungus of the genus [http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/monilial Candida]

'''S. Johnson''' 
probably a reference to Dr. Samuel Johnson, the lexicographer

===Page 1050===

'''Steeples''' 
[sic] for "Steeply"

'''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.

'''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

'''albatross''' 
a burden, 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 "Fibber McGee and Molly." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibber_McGee_and_Molly Wikipedia])

'''smelling a rat in the woodpile''' 
Rats often use woodpiles as cover for their burrows.[http://unexco.com/Rat.html]

'''B.P.L. ArchFax database search''' 
Possibly: Boston Public Library Archival Facsimiles.

===Page 1056===

'''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 god of the Hindu Trimurti.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu]

'''''dasein''''' 
Being, existence.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasein]

===Page 1058===

'''geatalt''' 
Misprint of gestalt.

'''municipal fluoridation''' 
i.e. tap water fluoridation

===Page 1059===
'''les passages a niveau de voie ferree''' 
the level crossings of railway line

===Page 1060===

'''Bernard Wayne''' 
Most likely John "N.R." Wayne's brother.

==Endnote 321 · Hal's DMZ Dream==
===Page 1063===

'''Rise Over Run''' 
The rise (amount the line increases) of a line divided over the run (length of the line) give you the slope of the line, which is also equal 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

'''covers''' 
a recording or performance of a song that was first recorded or made popular by somebody else

===Page 1064===
'''Digestive-Flora''' 
bacteria that live in the intestine 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"

'''Human Hatchet''' 
i.e., Axford

'''impotence''' 
Probably means impetus

'''Blue Flames''' 
apparently some sort of drug
===Page 1065===
'''O2''' 
oxygen

'''Jiminy Cricket''' 
a character from [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032910/ Pinocchio]

==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"

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'''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

===Page 1070===

'''Bedouins''' 
certain Arabs of the deserts of Arabia and the Levant

'''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''' 
adenine and guanine, thymine and cytosine, the compounds that make up 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], 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 · DeLint slays the Peemster==

===Page 1073===

'''jury-rigged''' 
a corruption of "jerry-rigged" (a pejorative term about Germans), which basically means rigged in a makeshift, ad hod manner

===Page 1074===

'''nictitater''' 
the word meant here is probably "nictitate," which means to wink - so, in other words, a "wink" of stupidity-film on Watson's eyes, or just a hint

'''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

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'''incubus''' 
a male demon that seduces female humans

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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

==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

==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. 

==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''' 
C.T. is probably comparing the bee (which flies) to an airplane (which also flies) produced by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_Aircraft Sikorsky Aircraft].

'''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 "Marry Had a Little Lamb."

'''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''' 
chewing tobacco

'''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 tended to be 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 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 high way. It could have been the same accident as the one Bain's referring to here.

'''J.O.I.''' 
James O. Incandenza

'''guile''' 
insidious cunning

'''larval''' 
immature in its kind

'''codpieces''' 
a pouch at the crotch 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.

'''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

'''cross-sectioned cow''' 
Cornell University apparently has a cow whose stomachs you can see in action.

'''anaclitic''' 
in psychology, dependence on other people or another person

===Page 1049===

'''prevarication''' 
lying

'''"...as if from the Rose Garden..."''' 
like the President of the U.S. answering a question from a reporter

mendacious 
untruthful

'''monilial''' 
relating to a fungus of the genus [http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/monilial Candida]

'''S. Johnson''' 
probably a reference to Dr. Samuel Johnson, the lexicographer

===Page 1050===

'''Steeples''' 
[sic] for "Steeply"

'''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.

'''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

'''albatross''' 
a burden, 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 "Fibber McGee and Molly." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibber_McGee_and_Molly Wikipedia])

'''smelling a rat in the woodpile''' 
Rats often use woodpiles as cover for their burrows.[http://unexco.com/Rat.html]

'''B.P.L. ArchFax database search''' 
Possibly: Boston Public Library Archival Facsimiles.

===Page 1056===

'''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 god of the Hindu Trimurti.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu]

'''''dasein''''' 
Being, existence.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasein]

===Page 1058===

'''geatalt''' 
Misprint of gestalt.

'''municipal fluoridation''' 
i.e. tap water fluoridation

===Page 1059===
'''les passages a niveau de voie ferree''' 
the level crossings of railway line

===Page 1060===

'''Bernard Wayne''' 
Most likely John "N.R." Wayne's brother.

==Endnote 321 · Hal's DMZ Dream==
===Page 1063===

'''Rise Over Run''' 
The rise (amount the line increases) of a line divided over the run (length of the line) give you the slope of the line, which is also equal 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

'''covers''' 
a recording or performance of a song that was first recorded or made popular by somebody else

===Page 1064===
'''Digestive-Flora''' 
bacteria that live in the intestine 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"

'''Human Hatchet''' 
i.e., Axford

'''impotence''' 
Probably means impetus

'''Blue Flames''' 
apparently some sort of drug
===Page 1065===
'''O2''' 
oxygen

'''Jiminy Cricket''' 
a character from [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032910/ Pinocchio]

==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

===Page 1070===

'''Bedouins''' 
certain Arabs of the deserts of Arabia and the Levant

'''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''' 
adenine and guanine, thymine and cytosine, the compounds that make up 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], 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 Canto 1 of Dante's Divine Comedy.

''' "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 · DeLint slays the Peemster==

===Page 1073===

'''jury-rigged''' 
a corruption of "jerry-rigged" (a pejorative term about Germans), which basically means rigged in a makeshift, ad hod manner

===Page 1074===

'''nictitater''' 
the word meant here is probably "nictitate," which means to wink - so, in other words, a "wink" of stupidity-film on Watson's eyes, or just a hint

'''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

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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

==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

==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. 

==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''' 
C.T. is probably comparing the bee (which flies) to an airplane (which also flies) produced by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_Aircraft Sikorsky Aircraft].

'''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 "Marry Had a Little Lamb."

'''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''' 
chewing tobacco

'''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 tended to be 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 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 high way. It could have been the same accident as the one Bain's referring to here.

'''J.O.I.''' 
James O. Incandenza

'''guile''' 
insidious cunning

'''larval''' 
immature in its kind

'''codpieces''' 
a pouch at the crotch 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.

'''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

'''cross-sectioned cow''' 
Cornell University apparently has a cow whose stomachs you can see in action.

'''anaclitic''' 
in psychology, dependence on other people or another person

===Page 1049===

'''prevarication''' 
lying

'''"...as if from the Rose Garden..."''' 
like the President of the U.S. answering a question from a reporter

mendacious 
untruthful

'''monilial''' 
relating to a fungus of the genus [http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/monilial Candida]

'''S. Johnson''' 
probably a reference to Dr. Samuel Johnson, the lexicographer

===Page 1050===

'''Steeples''' 
[sic] for "Steeply"

'''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.

'''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

'''albatross''' 
a burden, 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 "Fibber McGee and Molly." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibber_McGee_and_Molly Wikipedia])

'''smelling a rat in the woodpile''' 
Rats often use woodpiles as cover for their burrows.[http://unexco.com/Rat.html]

'''B.P.L. ArchFax database search''' 
Possibly: Boston Public Library Archival Facsimiles.

===Page 1056===

'''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 god of the Hindu Trimurti.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu]

'''''dasein''''' 
Being, existence.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasein]

===Page 1058===

'''geatalt''' 
Misprint of gestalt.

'''municipal fluoridation''' 
i.e. tap water fluoridation

===Page 1059===
'''les passages a niveau de voie ferree''' 
the level crossings of railway line

===Page 1060===

'''Bernard Wayne''' 
Most likely John "N.R." Wayne's brother.

==Endnote 321 · Hal's DMZ Dream==
===Page 1063===

'''Rise Over Run''' 
The rise (amount the line increases) of a line divided over the run (length of the line) give you the slope of the line, which is also equal 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

'''covers''' 
a recording or performance of a song that was first recorded or made popular by somebody else

===Page 1064===
'''Digestive-Flora''' 
bacteria that live in the intestine 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"

'''Human Hatchet''' 
i.e., Axford

'''impotence''' 
Probably means impetus

'''Blue Flames''' 
apparently some sort of drug
===Page 1065===
'''O2''' 
oxygen

'''Jiminy Cricket''' 
a character from [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032910/ Pinocchio]

==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

===Page 1070===

'''Bedouins''' 
certain Arabs of the deserts of Arabia and the Levant

'''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''' 
adenine and guanine, thymine and cytosine, the compounds that make up 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], 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===

''' "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 · DeLint slays the Peemster==

===Page 1073===

'''jury-rigged''' 
a corruption of "jerry-rigged" (a pejorative term about Germans), which basically means rigged in a makeshift, ad hod manner

===Page 1074===

'''nictitater''' 
the word meant here is probably "nictitate," which means to wink - so, in other words, a "wink" of stupidity-film on Watson's eyes, or just a hint

'''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

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'''''GAUDEAMUS IGITUR''''' 
Latin: Let Us Rejoice

==Page 322==

'''Eschaton''' 
The name of the game is based on "eschatology" (from the Greek ἔσχατος, Eschatos meaning "last" and -logy meaning "the study of") which is a part of theology and philosophy concerned with what is believed to be the final events in the history of the world, or the ultimate destiny of humanity, commonly referred to as the end of the world. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatology Wikipedia]

'''frisson''' 
a sudden sense of excitement

'''puerile''' 
childish

'''Wilmington DE''' 
a city 30 miles southwest of Philadelphia

'''''vademecum''ish''' 
vade mecum - Latin for "go with me"; like a reference handbook intended to be carried everywhere.

[[Subsidized Time|Y.P.W]]

'''Bunyan''' 
John Bunyan (1628-1688) was an English-Calvinist preacher and writer. You can read ''Pilgrim's Progress'' [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Pilgrim%27s_Progress here].

'''Luger''' 
a German brand of handgun

'''''Anschluss''''' 
German for "union"; possibly forced annexation, involving occupation. ''Anschluss'' often refers to German annexation of Austria before WWII. [http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/bibliography/?lang=en&content=anschluss]

'''AMNAT''' 
The United States of America and other NATO nations

'''SOVWAR''' 
The Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations

'''REDCHI''' 
The People's Republic of China

'''LIBSYR''' 
Libya and Syria

'''IRLIBSYR''' 
LIBSYR plus Iran

'''INDPAK''' 
India and Pakistan

==Page 323==

'''Mean-Value Theorem for Integrals''' 
Read all about it [http://www.geocities.com/pkving4math2tor7/7_app_of_the_intgrl/7_01_the_mean_val_thrm_for_intgrl.htm here].

==Endnote 123==

'''Extreme Value Theorem''' 
This is explained [http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ExtremeValueTheorem.html here].

'''datums''' 
The proper plural is "data."

'''ordnance''' 
explosives

==Page 323 (cont'd)==

'''synoptic''' 
by way of summary

'''Yahtzee''' 
a popular [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahtzee parlor game] played with dice

==Endnote 124==

'''Aapps Inc.''' 
There is an actual company by this name, though whether this is the same company to which Wallace refers, I don't know.

==Page 323 (cont'd)==

'''three-prong''' 
a three-pronged outlet

'''Dürer's 'The Magnificent Beast'''' 
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was a German painter and mathematician. You can see the work cited [http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/pd--12367630/sp--A/Apocalypse_the_Great_Beast.htm here].

'''bellicosity''' 
a warlike disposition

'''Presque Isle ME''' 
a city of Maine about 20 miles west of the border with New Brunswick, Canada

'''Chyonskrg Kurgistan''' 
Assuming (a) the town is spelling correctly and (b) the country is [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/kg.html Kyrgyzstan], I can't find this town on a [http://www.fallingrain.com/world/KG/ directory of towns] in Kyrgyzstan.

'''Pliscu Romania''' 
There doesn't seem to be a real city by this name either, though ''pliscu'' seems to be a word pertaining to the nose.

==Page 324==

'''PCs''' 
Personal Computers

'''topspin''' 
spin given to a ball in tennis causing it to rotate forward

'''profligate''' 
recklessly extravagant

'''metastasizes''' 
spreads like cancer

'''EM''' 
electromagnetic

'''baroque''' 
extravagantly ornate

'''quorum''' 
the required minimum number of people required to carry forth a particular task

==Page 325==

'''DEFCON''' 
Defense Readiness Condition, i.e., the measure of the activation of the U.S. Armed Forces in reaction to a real or perceived threat. The higher the number, the lower the threat; the numbers as used in ''Infinite Jest'' are used incorrectly, i.e., the higher the DEFCON number, the higher the risk.

'''theater''' 
here used as a military term for an area in which warfare is carried out

==Endnote 125==

'''dilettantes''' 
people who (in this case) play tennis merely for amusement

==Page 325 (cont'd)==

'''Achilles' heel''' 
This denotes a single weakness, taken from Greek mythology and the warrior Achilles, hero of the ''Iliad,'' who was made invincible to weapons by his mother dipping him in the river Styx. However, because he was held by his heel, he was vulnerable in this single place; Paris was able to kill Achilles by wounding him in the heel with an arrow.

'''goes tactical''' 
enters the phase of using tactical nuclear weapons

'''Sinkiang''' 
an alternate spelling for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinkiang Xinjiang province] of China

'''Aleutians''' 
an archipelago of Islands stretching west from the coast of Alaska toward (and over) the International Date Line

'''SS10s''' 
a type of Soviet surface-to-surface (SS) missile

'''El Al''' 
Israel's national airline

'''airbus''' 
a short- or medium-range passenger aircraft

'''both H'sseins''' 
Hussein I (1935-1999), king of Jordan, and Saddam Hussein (1937-2006), president of Iraq

'''Ft. Chimo''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Chimo Kuujjuaq, Québec], in the Arctic Circle

'''Labrador''' 
the mainland part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland

'''Volgograd''' 
Formerly known as Tsaritsyn and then Stalingrad, this is a city of Russia on the Volga River, downriver from Moscow.

'''Stolichnaya''' 
a Russian brand of vodka

==Endnote 126==

'''picayune''' 
small or trifling

'''TRISITs''' 
triggering situations

==Page 325 (cont'd)==

[[Image:Gorbachev.jpg|thumb|Mikhail Gorbachev|right]]

'''F16s''' 
American [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-16 fighter jets]

'''Cape Flattery Naval Base''' 
It's not clear whether there is a naval base at Cape Flattery currently, but the town itself is in the state of Washington, about 140 miles west-northwest of Seattle.

'''Irkutsk''' 
a large city in Russian Siberia

'''Dzhugdzhur Range''' 
a mountain range in far east Siberia

'''SOVWAR's bald and port-wine-stained premier''' 
This is no doubt a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorbachev Mikhail Gorbachev] (see right), the last head of state of the USSR, although he was never premier.

==Endnote 127==

'''Wolf-spiders''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_spider arachnid]

==Page 325 (cont'd)==

'''Prince albert in a can''' 
a really old, bad [http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Do_you_have_Prince_Albert_in_a_can phone gag]

'''Sakhalin''' 
a Russian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakhalin island] in the Pacific Ocean

==Page 326==

'''Portsmouth OH''' 
a town about 90 miles due south of Columbus, Ohio

'''four kilgrams''' 
about 8.8 pounds

'''Sixth Fleet''' 
the fleet of the U.S. Navy that patrols the Mediterranean

'''MiG25s''' 
Russian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25 aircraft]

'''apoplectic''' 
as if suffering from a stroke

'''"...only to be asked if his refrigerator's running..."''' 
another ancient, terrible [http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070328212331AA34OVT&show=7 phone gag]

'''Air Force One''' 
the official personal plane of the President of the U.S.

'''Abu Kenal''' 
probably meant to be the same as Abu Kemal referred to at 337

'''En Nebk''' 
a city in Syria, not far from Damascus

'''dip-mil''' 
diplomatic-military

'''sues for terms''' 
i.e., sues for peace

'''Tripoli''' 
a city in Lebanon

'''Médenine Tunisia''' 
a city in the far south of Tunisia

'''Ostrava''' 
a city in the Czech Republic about 200 miles east of Prague

'''Howitzer''' 
a large piece of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howitzer artillery]

'''NSA''' 
National Security Agency

'''Tientsin''' 
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tientsin Tianjin]

'''Air Force Two''' 
personal plane of the Vice President of the United States

'''Provo UT''' 
a city about 45 miles south of Salt Lake City

==Page 327==

'''advertorial''' 
Normally this word denotes an advertisement written to appear as if it's journalism, but here Wallace seems to mean bearing an ad.

'''thanatoptic''' 
contemplating death

'''adepts''' 
expert players

'''Talmudic''' 
Normally referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud Talmud], here it means making fine distinctions.

'''pique''' 
resentment

'''''Commentary''''' 
A public affairs magazine that describes itself as [http://www.commentarymagazine.com/abouthistory.cfm the flagship of neoconservatism]. It was founded by the American Jewish Committee and is still known for its coverage of Jewish issues.

'''Beersheba''' 
a major city of Israel at the northern end of the Negev desert

==Page 328==

'''probity''' 
integrity or honesty

'''1300-m.2''' 
a bit over 1554 square yards

'''purloined''' 
stolen

'''subterranean''' 
literally underground

'''Peoria IL''' 
a city around 160 miles southwest of Chicago

'''topographic''' 
descriptive of the altitudes of the land on a map

'''Interstate 74''' 
This road runs from Davenport, Iowa, to Cincinnati

'''Minuteman''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuteman_%28missile%29 missile]

'''''irregardless''''' 
not a real word, though a frequent usage mistake

'''2π''' 
used because we're dealing with circular and spherical areas of damage

==Page 329==

'''1,400,000 curies''' 
A curie (Ci) is a measure of radioactivity, defined as 3.7×1010 decays per second. The more commonly used measurement in science is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becquerel becquerel]. 1.4 million curies is equal to 59.2 million gigabecquerels.

'''microcephalic''' 
having a tiny head

'''Tenuate''' 
drug marketed as an appetite suppressant

'''left-eye-nystagmic''' 
Troeltsch's left eye is nystagmic. Nystagmia is an involuntary eye-movement characterised by the combination of a smooth pursuit, which usually acts to take the eye off the point of regard, interspersed with the saccadic movement that serves to bring the eye back on target.

'''cerebral''' 
oriented toward thinking

==Page 330==

'''Roentgens''' 
The roentgen (R) is a unit of measurement for ionizing radiation and uses the units charge divided by unit weight (C/kg). The preferred scientific unit is the gray (Gy), a unit of absorbed dose (of radiation).

'''Minsk''' 
the capital of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus Belarus]

'''extant''' 
still existing

'''Edina MN''' 
a suburb of Minneapolis-St. Paul about 3 miles southwest

'''arational''' 
not irrational, but also not rational -- rather lacking the ability to tell one from the other

'''cod''' 
a type of fish

'''EMP''' 
electromagnetic pulse

==Page 331==

'''gander''' 
A gander, as used here, is a look or peek.

'''SJOG''' 
St. John of God

'''obtuse''' 
difficult to understand

'''Decision Tree''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_tree tool] used in decision analysis

'''Imam'd''' 
Here used as a verb for "to lead," an Imam is a Muslim cleric.

==Page 332==

'''strip-mining''' 
According to Wikipedia, "Strip mining is the practice of mining a seam of mineral by first removing a long strip of overlying soil and rock." The implication here seems to be simply that Ingersoll is picking rather deeply.

'''ad service box''' 
the box to serve into when an odd number of points have been played (so when on player or the other has the advantage, i.e. is ahead in points); as opposed to the "deuce service box" where one serves when an even number of points have been played (in particular when the game is tied at deuce).

'''n.b.''' 
Nota bene

'''parley''' 
to hold a discussion

'''Sierra Leone''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone country] of West Africa

'''Nunhagen''' 
a real brand of aspirin

==Page 333==

'''Karachi''' 
the largest city in Pakistan and capital of its Sindh province

'''verisimilitude''' 
proximity to reality, "Truth likeness"

'''eminence grise''' 
French for "gray eminence," this is a powerful adviser or decision-maker.

'''Miles Penn''' 
a combination of the names of two early British settlers of America: William Penn and Miles Standish (1584-1656), the military commander of Plymouth colony who traveled to Massachusetts on the ''Mayflower''.

''''It's snowing on the goddamn ''map,'' not the ''territory''...'''' 
This is a reference to the statement "the map is not the territory," i.e., the thing representing some other thing is not that other thing in reality -- just a representation of it. Count Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski (1879-1950), the founder of [http://www.time-binding.org/ general semantics], coined the phrase. It's interesting that the term "map" appears so often in ''Infinite Jest'', as in reference to suicide (eliminating one's own map) or when one of anhedonia's symptoms is described thus: "The world becomes a map of the world." (p.693) Clearly Wallace is doing something with this general idea.

==Page 334==

'''contrite''' 
apologetic

'''rugby-scrum''' 
a way of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(rugby) restarting a game] of rugby after a point has been scored

'''Arabian Sea''' 
the part of the Indian into which the Persian Gulf (or Arabian Gulf) leads

'''metatheoretical''' 
regarding a theory devised to analyze a previous theory

'''El Greco''' 
El Greco (Spanish for "the Greek") was the byname of Doménicos Theotokópoulos (1541-1614), a Greek-Spanish painter. Presumably a "bad" El Greco, i.e., a bad piece of art by El Greco, would have the characteristics Hal considers in Pemulis's face.

==Page 335==

'''paralytic thought-helix''' 
Paralytic would imply that this "thought-helix" stops everything else both physical and mental in Hal's actions/thoughts. A helix is a spiral, so a thought-helix is a thought-spiral, which goes on and on but never really gets anywhere.

'''1.3 m.''' 
about 4.25 feet

'''utility''' 
In economics or statistics, this is a quantity/quality to be maximized in decision making.

'''haunches''' 
the hips, buttocks, and upper thighs

'''cerebrate''' 
to think about something

==Page 336==

'''Toltec''' 
a catch-all term for the pre-Columbian cultures of what is now Mexico

'''Ivory Coast''' 
the English name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory_Coast Côte d'Ivoire]

'''Senegal''' 
another [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegal nation] in west Africa

'''metadecision''' 
a decision about a previous decision

'''solander''' 
a case for maps or plates made to look like a book

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'''aggregate''' 
total, e.g., the aggregate IQ of the people in a room would be all their individual IQs added together

'''equivocationary''' 
not a real word

'''Abu Kemal and Es Suweida''' 
Abu Kamal is in eastern Syria, near the Iraqi border. As-Suwayda is also in Syria, near its border with Jordan. This is to say that Ingersoll is patrolling Syria's eastern frontier.

'''Charleston''' 
This is the third mention of characters dancing or pretending to dance the Charleston, the others being Steeply at page 94 and the Vaught twins at page 218.

'''hoofer's cane''' 
the cane of a tap dancer (which is what a hoofer is)

'''de facto''' 
As opposed to ''de jure,'' which would mean legally, ''de facto'' implies a situation is true even if not legally true.

'''One True Faith''' 
Islam

'''vacillation''' 
inability to stick with a choice

==Page 338==

'''boat-wake''' 
water made to rise by the motion of a boat

'''compromise Eschaton's map''' 
which here would seem to mean that Lord may just kill Eschaton as a game

==Page 339==

'''something anatomically impossible''' 
i.e., to go fuck himself

'''tripartite''' 
having three parts

'''thiamine''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiamine vitamin B1]

'''Nigeria and Chad''' 
bordering nations in North Africa, just south of the Sahara

==Page 340==

'''triangulating''' 
dividing into triangles

'''on point''' 
furthest up front, as in military formation

'''pincer movement''' 
a military maneuver whereby an enemy is attacked not from the front, but at both sides or flanks

==Page 341==

'''contact-bursts''' 
a type of nuclear strike

'''left cross''' 
According to a [http://ezinearticles.com/?Boxing-Techniques---The-Right-Cross&id=290419 boxing Web site], "the right cross is thrown in a straight line to the target and comes back in a straight line to the chin." The left cross is delivered with left hand.

'''accreting''' 
gathering increasing amounts

'''''doze''''' 
Todd is trying to say "nose."

'''equivocation''' 
ambiguity

'''Asian subcontinent''' 
Better known as the Indian subcontinent, it includes India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

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'''Indochina''' 
The colonial name for what is now Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.

'''baseline''' 
the line at the end of a tennis court, parallel to the net, that marks the boundary of play

'''hasp''' 
a clasp for a door or lid

'''modem''' 
An acronym for modulation-demodulation, it is a data-transfer device.

'''chassis''' 
the construction forming the sides, top, and back of a piece of equipment

'''y-axis''' 
the vertical axis

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==Page 321==

'''''GAUDEAMUS IGITUR''''' 
Latin: Let Us Rejoice

==Page 322==

'''Eschaton''' 
The name of the game is based on "eschatology" (from the Greek ἔσχατος, Eschatos meaning "last" and -logy meaning "the study of") which is a part of theology and philosophy concerned with what is believed to be the final events in the history of the world, or the ultimate destiny of humanity, commonly referred to as the end of the world. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatology Wikipedia]

'''frisson''' 
a sudden sense of excitement

'''puerile''' 
childish

'''Wilmington DE''' 
a city 30 miles southwest of Philadelphia

'''''vademecum''ish''' 
vade mecum - Latin for "go with me"; like a reference handbook intended to be carried everywhere.

[[Subsidized Time|Y.P.W]]

'''Bunyan''' 
John Bunyan (1628-1688) was an English-Calvinist preacher and writer. You can read ''Pilgrim's Progress'' [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Pilgrim%27s_Progress here].

'''Luger''' 
a German brand of handgun

'''''Anschluss''''' 
German for "union"; possibly forced annexation, involving occupation. ''Anschluss'' often refers to German annexation of Austria before WWII. [http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/bibliography/?lang=en&content=anschluss]

'''AMNAT''' 
The United States of America and other NATO nations

'''SOVWAR''' 
The Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations

'''REDCHI''' 
The People's Republic of China

'''LIBSYR''' 
Libya and Syria

'''IRLIBSYR''' 
LIBSYR plus Iran

'''INDPAK''' 
India and Pakistan

==Page 323==

'''Mean-Value Theorem for Integrals''' 
Read all about it [http://www.geocities.com/pkving4math2tor7/7_app_of_the_intgrl/7_01_the_mean_val_thrm_for_intgrl.htm here].

==Endnote 123==

'''Extreme Value Theorem''' 
This is explained [http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ExtremeValueTheorem.html here].

'''datums''' 
The proper plural is "data."

'''ordnance''' 
explosives

==Page 323 (cont'd)==

'''synoptic''' 
by way of summary

'''Yahtzee''' 
a popular [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahtzee parlor game] played with dice

==Endnote 124==

'''Aapps Inc.''' 
There is an actual company by this name, though whether this is the same company to which Wallace refers, I don't know.

==Page 323 (cont'd)==

'''three-prong''' 
a three-pronged outlet

'''Dürer's 'The Magnificent Beast'''' 
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was a German painter and mathematician. You can see the work cited [http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/pd--12367630/sp--A/Apocalypse_the_Great_Beast.htm here].

'''bellicosity''' 
a warlike disposition

'''Presque Isle ME''' 
a city of Maine about 20 miles west of the border with New Brunswick, Canada

'''Chyonskrg Kurgistan''' 
Assuming (a) the town is spelling correctly and (b) the country is [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/kg.html Kyrgyzstan], I can't find this town on a [http://www.fallingrain.com/world/KG/ directory of towns] in Kyrgyzstan.

'''Pliscu Romania''' 
There doesn't seem to be a real city by this name either, though ''pliscu'' seems to be a word pertaining to the nose.

==Page 324==

'''PCs''' 
Personal Computers

'''topspin''' 
spin given to a ball in tennis causing it to rotate forward

'''profligate''' 
recklessly extravagant

'''metastasizes''' 
spreads like cancer

'''EM''' 
electromagnetic

'''baroque''' 
extravagantly ornate

'''quorum''' 
the required minimum number of people required to carry forth a particular task

==Page 325==

'''DEFCON''' 
Defense Readiness Condition, i.e., the measure of the activation of the U.S. Armed Forces in reaction to a real or perceived threat. The higher the number, the lower the threat; the numbers as used in ''Infinite Jest'' are used incorrectly, i.e., the higher the DEFCON number, the higher the risk.

'''theater''' 
here used as a military term for an area in which warfare is carried out

==Endnote 125==

'''dilettantes''' 
people who (in this case) play tennis merely for amusement

==Page 325 (cont'd)==

'''Achilles' heel''' 
This denotes a single weakness, taken from Greek mythology and the warrior Achilles, hero of the ''Iliad,'' who was made invincible to weapons by his mother dipping him in the river Styx. However, because he was held by his heel, he was vulnerable in this single place; Paris was able to kill Achilles by wounding him in the heel with an arrow.

'''goes tactical''' 
enters the phase of using tactical nuclear weapons

'''Sinkiang''' 
an alternate spelling for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinkiang Xinjiang province] of China

'''Aleutians''' 
an archipelago of Islands stretching west from the coast of Alaska toward (and over) the International Date Line

'''SS10s''' 
a type of Soviet surface-to-surface (SS) missile

'''El Al''' 
Israel's national airline

'''airbus''' 
a short- or medium-range passenger aircraft

'''both H'sseins''' 
Hussein I (1935-1999), king of Jordan, and Saddam Hussein (1937-2006), president of Iraq

'''Ft. Chimo''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Chimo Kuujjuaq, Québec], in the Arctic Circle

'''Labrador''' 
the mainland part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland

'''Volgograd''' 
Formerly known as Tsaritsyn and then Stalingrad, this is a city of Russia on the Volga River, downriver from Moscow.

'''Stolichnaya''' 
a Russian brand of vodka

==Endnote 126==

'''picayune''' 
small or trifling

'''TRISITs''' 
triggering situations

==Page 325 (cont'd)==

[[Image:Gorbachev.jpg|thumb|Mikhail Gorbachev|right]]

'''F16s''' 
American [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-16 fighter jets]

'''Cape Flattery Naval Base''' 
It's not clear whether there is a naval base at Cape Flattery currently, but the town itself is in the state of Washington, about 140 miles west-northwest of Seattle.

'''Irkutsk''' 
a large city in Russian Siberia

'''Dzhugdzhur Range''' 
a mountain range in far east Siberia

'''SOVWAR's bald and port-wine-stained premier''' 
This is no doubt a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorbachev Mikhail Gorbachev] (see right), the last head of state of the USSR, although he was never premier.

==Endnote 127==

'''Wolf-spiders''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_spider arachnid]

==Page 325 (cont'd)==

'''Prince albert in a can''' 
a really old, bad [http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Do_you_have_Prince_Albert_in_a_can phone gag]

'''Sakhalin''' 
a Russian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakhalin island] in the Pacific Ocean

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'''Portsmouth OH''' 
a town about 90 miles due south of Columbus, Ohio

'''four kilgrams''' 
about 8.8 pounds

'''Sixth Fleet''' 
the fleet of the U.S. Navy that patrols the Mediterranean

'''MiG25s''' 
Russian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25 aircraft]

'''apoplectic''' 
as if suffering from a stroke

'''"...only to be asked if his refrigerator's running..."''' 
another ancient, terrible [http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070328212331AA34OVT&show=7 phone gag]

'''Air Force One''' 
the official personal plane of the President of the U.S.

'''Abu Kenal''' 
probably meant to be the same as Abu Kemal referred to at 337

'''En Nebk''' 
a city in Syria, not far from Damascus

'''dip-mil''' 
diplomatic-military

'''sues for terms''' 
i.e., sues for peace

'''Tripoli''' 
a city in Lebanon

'''Médenine Tunisia''' 
a city in the far south of Tunisia

'''Ostrava''' 
a city in the Czech Republic about 200 miles east of Prague

'''Howitzer''' 
a large piece of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howitzer artillery]

'''NSA''' 
National Security Agency

'''Tientsin''' 
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tientsin Tianjin]

'''Air Force Two''' 
personal plane of the Vice President of the United States

'''Provo UT''' 
a city about 45 miles south of Salt Lake City

==Page 327==

'''advertorial''' 
Normally this word denotes an advertisement written to appear as if it's journalism, but here Wallace seems to mean bearing an ad.

'''thanatoptic''' 
contemplating death

'''adepts''' 
expert players

'''Talmudic''' 
Normally referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud Talmud], here it means making fine distinctions.

'''pique''' 
resentment

'''''Commentary''''' 
A public affairs magazine that describes itself as [http://www.commentarymagazine.com/abouthistory.cfm the flagship of neoconservatism]. It was founded by the American Jewish Committee and is still known for its coverage of Jewish issues.

'''Beersheba''' 
a major city of Israel at the northern end of the Negev desert

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'''probity''' 
integrity or honesty

'''1300-m.2''' 
a bit over 1554 square yards

'''purloined''' 
stolen

'''subterranean''' 
literally underground

'''Peoria IL''' 
a city around 160 miles southwest of Chicago

'''topographic''' 
descriptive of the altitudes of the land on a map

'''Interstate 74''' 
This road runs from Davenport, Iowa, to Cincinnati

'''Minuteman''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuteman_%28missile%29 missile]

'''''irregardless''''' 
not a real word, though a frequent usage mistake

'''2π''' 
used because we're dealing with circular and spherical areas of damage

==Page 329==

'''1,400,000 curies''' 
A curie (Ci) is a measure of radioactivity, defined as 3.7×1010 decays per second. The more commonly used measurement in science is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becquerel becquerel]. 1.4 million curies is equal to 59.2 million gigabecquerels.

'''microcephalic''' 
having a tiny head

'''Tenuate''' 
drug marketed as an appetite suppressant

'''left-eye-nystagmic''' 
Troeltsch's left eye is nystagmic. Nystagmia is an involuntary eye-movement characterised by the combination of a smooth pursuit, which usually acts to take the eye off the point of regard, interspersed with the saccadic movement that serves to bring the eye back on target.

'''cerebral''' 
oriented toward thinking

==Page 330==

'''Roentgens''' 
The roentgen (R) is a unit of measurement for ionizing radiation and uses the units charge divided by unit weight (C/kg). The preferred scientific unit is the gray (Gy), a unit of absorbed dose (of radiation).

'''Minsk''' 
the capital of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus Belarus]

'''extant''' 
still existing

'''Edina MN''' 
a suburb of Minneapolis-St. Paul about 3 miles southwest

'''arational''' 
not irrational, but also not rational -- rather lacking the ability to tell one from the other

'''cod''' 
a type of fish

'''EMP''' 
electromagnetic pulse

==Page 331==

'''gander''' 
A gander, as used here, is a look or peek.

'''SJOG''' 
St. John of God

'''obtuse''' 
difficult to understand

'''Decision Tree''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_tree tool] used in decision analysis

'''Imam'd''' 
Here used as a verb for "to lead," an Imam is a Muslim cleric.

==Page 332==

'''strip-mining''' 
According to Wikipedia, "Strip mining is the practice of mining a seam of mineral by first removing a long strip of overlying soil and rock." The implication here seems to be simply that Ingersoll is picking rather deeply.

'''ad service box''' 
the box to serve into when an odd number of points have been played (so when on player or the other has the advantage, i.e. is ahead in points); as opposed to the "deuce service box" where one serves when an even number of points have been played (in particular when the game is tied at deuce).

'''n.b.''' 
Nota bene

'''parley''' 
to hold a discussion

'''Sierra Leone''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone country] of West Africa

'''Nunhagen''' 
a real brand of aspirin

==Page 333==

'''Karachi''' 
the largest city in Pakistan and capital of its Sindh province

'''verisimilitude''' 
proximity to reality, "Truth likeness"

'''eminence grise''' 
French for "gray eminence," this is a powerful adviser or decision-maker.

'''Miles Penn''' 
a combination of the names of two early British settlers of America: William Penn and Miles Standish (1584-1656), the military commander of Plymouth colony who traveled to Massachusetts on the ''Mayflower''.

''''It's snowing on the goddamn ''map,'' not the ''territory''...'''' 
This is a reference to the statement "the map is not the territory," i.e., the thing representing some other thing is not that other thing in reality -- just a representation of it. Count Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski (1879-1950), the founder of [http://www.time-binding.org/ general semantics], coined the phrase. It's interesting that the term "map" appears so often in ''Infinite Jest'', as in reference to suicide (eliminating one's own map) or when the one of anhedonia's symptoms is described thus: "The world becomes a map of the world." (p.693) Clearly Wallace is doing something with this general idea.

==Page 334==

'''contrite''' 
apologetic

'''rugby-scrum''' 
a way of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(rugby) restarting a game] of rugby after a point has been scored

'''Arabian Sea''' 
the part of the Indian into which the Persian Gulf (or Arabian Gulf) leads

'''metatheoretical''' 
regarding a theory devised to analyze a previous theory

'''El Greco''' 
El Greco (Spanish for "the Greek") was the byname of Doménicos Theotokópoulos (1541-1614), a Greek-Spanish painter. Presumably a "bad" El Greco, i.e., a bad piece of art by El Greco, would have the characteristics Hal considers in Pemulis's face.

==Page 335==

'''paralytic thought-helix''' 
Paralytic would imply that this "thought-helix" stops everything else both physical and mental in Hal's actions/thoughts. A helix is a spiral, so a thought-helix is a thought-spiral, which goes on and on but never really gets anywhere.

'''1.3 m.''' 
about 4.25 feet

'''utility''' 
In economics or statistics, this is a quantity/quality to be maximized in decision making.

'''haunches''' 
the hips, buttocks, and upper thighs

'''cerebrate''' 
to think about something

==Page 336==

'''Toltec''' 
a catch-all term for the pre-Columbian cultures of what is now Mexico

'''Ivory Coast''' 
the English name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory_Coast Côte d'Ivoire]

'''Senegal''' 
another [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegal nation] in west Africa

'''metadecision''' 
a decision about a previous decision

'''solander''' 
a case for maps or plates made to look like a book

==Page 337==

'''aggregate''' 
total, e.g., the aggregate IQ of the people in a room would be all their individual IQs added together

'''equivocationary''' 
not a real word

'''Abu Kemal and Es Suweida''' 
Abu Kamal is in eastern Syria, near the Iraqi border. As-Suwayda is also in Syria, near its border with Jordan. This is to say that Ingersoll is patrolling Syria's eastern frontier.

'''Charleston''' 
This is the third mention of characters dancing or pretending to dance the Charleston, the others being Steeply at page 94 and the Vaught twins at page 218.

'''hoofer's cane''' 
the cane of a tap dancer (which is what a hoofer is)

'''de facto''' 
As opposed to ''de jure,'' which would mean legally, ''de facto'' implies a situation is true even if not legally true.

'''One True Faith''' 
Islam

'''vacillation''' 
inability to stick with a choice

==Page 338==

'''boat-wake''' 
water made to rise by the motion of a boat

'''compromise Eschaton's map''' 
which here would seem to mean that Lord may just kill Eschaton as a game

==Page 339==

'''something anatomically impossible''' 
i.e., to go fuck himself

'''tripartite''' 
having three parts

'''thiamine''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiamine vitamin B1]

'''Nigeria and Chad''' 
bordering nations in North Africa, just south of the Sahara

==Page 340==

'''triangulating''' 
dividing into triangles

'''on point''' 
furthest up front, as in military formation

'''pincer movement''' 
a military maneuver whereby an enemy is attacked not from the front, but at both sides or flanks

==Page 341==

'''contact-bursts''' 
a type of nuclear strike

'''left cross''' 
According to a [http://ezinearticles.com/?Boxing-Techniques---The-Right-Cross&id=290419 boxing Web site], "the right cross is thrown in a straight line to the target and comes back in a straight line to the chin." The left cross is delivered with left hand.

'''accreting''' 
gathering increasing amounts

'''''doze''''' 
Todd is trying to say "nose."

'''equivocation''' 
ambiguity

'''Asian subcontinent''' 
Better known as the Indian subcontinent, it includes India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

==Page 342==

'''Indochina''' 
The colonial name for what is now Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.

'''baseline''' 
the line at the end of a tennis court, parallel to the net, that marks the boundary of play

'''hasp''' 
a clasp for a door or lid

'''modem''' 
An acronym for modulation-demodulation, it is a data-transfer device.

'''chassis''' 
the construction forming the sides, top, and back of a piece of equipment

'''y-axis''' 
the vertical axis

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

'''lividity''' 
brightness of color

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

'''premie''' 
born prematurely

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

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

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

'''insouciant''' 
blithely unconcerned

==Endnote 209==

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

==Page 510==

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

'''pro bono''' 
without pay

==Page 511==

'''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).

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

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

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

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

'''serrated''' 
having a jagged edge

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

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

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

'''Sinistral''' 
left-handed

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

==Page 513==

'''athwart''' 
side by side with

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

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

==Page 514==

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

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

'''Neponset''' 
a neighborhood of Boston

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

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

'''diction''' 
choice of words

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

==Page 516==

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 517==

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

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

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

==Page 518==

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

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

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

==Page 519==

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

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==Page 521==

'''viscera''' 
internal organs

==Page 522==

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

==Page 523==

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

'''distended''' 
swollen in the stomach

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

'''ital''' 
italic type

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

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

==Page 524==

'''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

'''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

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==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."

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==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]

==Page 530==

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

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

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

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=☽ November 6th, YDAU - Port Washington Tournament=

==Page 258==

'''White halogen''' 
i.e., the light from a halogen lamp

'''the color of sour apples''' 
i.e., light green

==Page 259==

'''2^27''' 
2^27 (2 to the 27th power) = 134,217,728

'''Montcerf, Québec''' 
a city of Québec about 82.5 miles due north of Ottawa

'''Mercier Dam''' 
You can read more about it [http://www.hydroquebec.com/generation/projets/pop/pop_mercier.html here].

'''Pompano Beach''' 
a town in Florida about 10 miles north of Fort Lauderdale

'''a sepulchral Czech kid named Lendl''' 
Sepulchral implies the grave and can mean "hollow;" syn. "cadaverous." The Czech kid is probably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Lendl Ivan Lendl], although Lendl has not committed suicide.

==Page 260==

'''Kimberly-Clark''' 
an American [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly-Clark corporation] based in Wisconsin

'''"His Unforced-Error stats look like a decimal-error."''' 
which is to say that the percentage expressed as a a decimal has so many leading zeros that it looks as if someone made a mistake transcribing the number

'''attrition''' 
The wearing down of the enemy's strength and morale by unremitting harassment. "War of attrition" (OED)

==Endnote 86==

[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.Q.M.D.]]

==Page 260 (cont'd)==

'''revenant''' 
a person who returns, may refer to an undead (see below p263)

'''transom''' 
a window above a door

'''thespio-historical''' 
regarding the history of acting

'''"...had the word ''Homo'' in the title..."''' 
The film is James O. Incandenza's ''Homo Duplex''.

'''quad-function''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_function quadratic function], which produces a parabolic graph result

==Page 261==

'''pirouette''' 
a spin, in ballet terminology

==Page 262==

[[Image:I-beam.jpg|thumb|caption|I-beam|right|120px]]

'''I-beams''' 
standard construction beams made of metal (see right)

'''reticulate''' 
adj., resembling a net or network (Merriam-Webster)

'''hypertonic''' 
having rigid, tense muscles

==Page 263==

'''undead''' 
the state of several unnatural beings (vampires, mummies, zombies, etc.), which is in a state neither live nor dead

'''kibitzing''' 
chatting or conversing

==Page 264==

'''whippet''' 
a one-inhalation dose of nitrous oxide (laughing gas)

==Page 265==

[[Image:YinYang.png|thumb|caption|Yin/Yang symbol|right|120px]]
'''Taoist paraboloid logo''' 
referring to the yin/yang symbol (seen right). In Chinese philosophy, the concept of yin yang is used to describe how seemingly disjunct or opposing forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, giving rise to each other in turn. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_yang Wikipedia])

'''ten m.''' 
32.8 feet

'''VAPS''' 
an air traffic control acronym for visual approaches.

==Page 266==

'''effete''' 
degenerate or decadent

'''Sinn Fein''' 
Irish for "ourselves alone," this is the political wing of the Irish Republican Army.

'''cruciform''' 
in the form of a cross

'''cuffs''' 
rotator cuffs

'''polybutylene''' 
This is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybutylene polymerized butlyene].

==Page 267==

'''neurasthenic''' 
regarding a syndrome of anxiety, fatigue, pain, etc., caused by exhaustion of the central nervous system

'''Preludin''' 
brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preludin phenmetrazine]

'''Inv.''' 
Invitational

'''40º C''' 
104 degrees Fahrenheit

==Page 268==

'''pregnable''' 
open to attack; capable of being won by force

'''nacelle''' 
the car of a balloon or blimp

'''corrugated''' 
bent into folds

'''leaf-cutter-ant''' 
a type of [http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/learning/animals/invertebrates/ant North American ant]

'''Gore-Tex''' 
[http://www.gore-tex.com/remote/Satellite/content/what-is-gore-tex brand name] of material

==Page 269==

'''AC''' 
Alternating Current

'''low-lipid''' 
i.e., low-fat

==Endnote 89==

'''reductive statistics''' 
Wallace is talking either about the process in statistics of reducing variables or Schtitt's use of statistics being reductive, i.e., being simplistic

==Page 269 (cont'd)==

'''equanimity''' 
mental or emotional stability

'''laissez-faire''' 
French for "to let to do," this is a term usually applied to conservative economics but here generally gives a sense of not caring very much.

==Page 270==

'''erumpent''' 
bursting forth

'''Boards''' 
college entrance examinations

'''ad''' 
a tennis term meaning "advantage" for one or the other player

=Day gives Gately a lesson in patience=

==Page 270==

'''Montesian''' 
also the name of a [http://oh.lake-link.com/lakes/lake.cfm?LakeID=1515&RegionID=749 lake] in Wisconsin

'''Lenz''' 
Very old-fashion German for "springtime". But also a family name, e.g. from the 19th century playwright [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Michael_Reinhold_Lenz J. M. R. Lenz]:

'''Goodwill''' 
a [http://www.goodwill.org/page/guest/about charity] that redistributes donated goods and clothing

==Page 271==

'''non sequiturs''' 
From the Latin for "it does not follow," a non sequitur is a statement with no connection to what comes before or what follows it.

'''butter wouldn't melt''' 
which is to say, with a certain, probably faked, coolness

'''macramé''' 
a type of fabric-making done by knotting rather than knitting

'''Paul Harvey''' 
Born Paul Harvey Aurandt, Paul Harvey (born 1918) is an American radio broadcaster known for his platitudes.

==Page 272==

'''nictitated''' 
winking

'''Quaalude''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methaqualone methaqualone]

'''Malden''' 
a northern suburb of Boston, about 7 miles north of the city

'''egregulous''' 
not a real word (possibly egregious + ridiculous)

==Endnote 90==

'''ephebe''' 
a young man between the ages of 18 and 20

'''redolent''' 
smelling badly

'''main''' 
here meaning "physical strength"

'''interdicted''' 
prohibited

'''sally''' 
a clever remark

'''mild sedatives''' 
Quaaludes are more like a sledgehammer to the head than a "mild sedative."

'''reductia ad absurdum''' 
a misstatement or misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum reductio ad absurdum]

'''"Simply open wide for the spoon."''' 
This is perhaps a reference to a line from William S. Burroughs's ''Naked Lunch'', regarding the time when one realizes "what is at the end of that long newspaper spoon."

'''"...To interdict a fundamental doctrinal question by invoking a doctrine against questioning? Wasn't this the very horror the Madisonians were horrified of in 1791? Amendments I and IX? My Grievance is disallowed because my Petition for Redress is a priori interdicted by the inadvisability of all Petitioning?"''' 
Day is referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment#Text First Amendment] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Text Ninth Amendment] to the U.S. Constitution, drafted by James Madison (though he personally thought them unnecessary, referring to them as "politic, if not obligatory"). Day is apparently suggesting that without those amendments, Congress could pass a law prohibiting attempts to get them to change the law, thereby making the law forever impervious to attempts to change it, since any such attempt would be prohibited by the law itself. This doesn't sound like the kind of thing the Madisonians were actually worried about; the right to petition dates back to the Magna Carta (where it referred to petitioning the King) and the Ninth Amendment was added to make it clear that just because some rights were explicitly spelled out in the Bill of Rights didn't mean that other rights didn't exist too (Madison believed "the people have those rights in their own hands", which is why he didn't think a Bill of them was necessary in the first place).

'''lapped''' 
a reference to track and field, in which a runner is so far ahead of another runner on a circular court that he has "lapped" him, i.e., is now a lap ahead of him

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'''iona''' 
Iona is an island off the west coast of Scotland. Gately means iota.

'''bunko artists''' 
con artists

'''jonesing''' 
an addict term for the desire for one's substance of choice

'''mokus''' 
1) Loneliness or depression. Oddly, this term could not be found in a U.S. dictionary, but is referred to in the ''OED'' as "US slang." 2) More often spelled as "mocus," common American 12-Step term for a hazy, unfocused state of mind, especially in early sobriety. Said to come from "mind out of focus." Mokus is also Hungarian for squirrel, raising the possibility of a pun on "feeling squirrelly."

==Page 274==

'''Guy That Didn't Even Use His First Name''' 
a joke based on the fact that in recovery programs like AA, people do not use their last names

'''Spont-Dissem''' 
Spontaneous Dissemination, i.e., live as opposed to pre-recorded

'''R.C.''' 
presumably Roman Catholic

==Endnote 91==

'''''f''-term''' 
i.e., "fag"

==Page 275 ==

'''Morris Code''' 
a misstatement of Morse Code

'''XSive''' 
excessive

'''cook-and-shoot''' 
i.e. cooking and shooting up drugs

==Page 276==

'''east of Atlantic City, NJ''' 
which would be either in Europe on the Atlantic Ocean somewhere -- or nowhere

'''Borderline''' 
suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_Personality_Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder]

'''organic-coke''' 
an oxymoronic term, since cocaine is a chemical

'''Charlestown''' 
a suburb to the north of Boston, right over the Charles River

'''100 grams''' 
About 3.5 ounces. The street value of 100 grams of cocaine is enormous -- after cutting on the order of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

-I would argue that street value would be more on the order of (low) tens of thousands of dollars, assuming prices around $100/gram and purity around 55%. See this excerpt from the [http://www.unodc.org/pdf/WDR_2004/Chap5_coca.pdf United Nations World Drug Report 2004].

'''D.E.A.''' 
Drug Enforcement Agency

'''MP''' 
Military Police

'''queer a square beef''' 
spoil the chances of success of a fair complaint/argument

'''Cesar Romero''' 
Cesar Romero (1907-1994) was a Cuban-American [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003110/ actor and entertainer], best known to a generation of television viewers as the man who played the Joker on the television live-action series of [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059968/ Batman].

==Page 277==

[[Image:Easter.jpg|thumb|caption|Easter Island statues|right|125px]]
'''Easter Island statue''' 
Easter Island is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian triangle. The island is a special territory of Chile. Easter Island is famous for its monumental statues, called ''moai'', created by the Rapanui people. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_island Wikipedia]

[[Image:Prince.jpg|thumb|caption|Prince Valiant|right|125px]]

'''Prince Valiantish haircut''' 
''Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur'', or simply ''Prince Valiant'', is a comic strip created by Hal Foster, which began running in 1937. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Valiant Wikipedia]] Prince Valiant's haircut was your basic "bowl" cut, as seen at right.

==Page 278==

'''pince-nez''' 
From the French for "pinch-nose," these are glasses without temples to go over the ears.

'''2F and 1M''' 
2 females and 1 male

'''suppurating''' 
oozing pus

'''Grand Mall epilepsy''' 
Gately means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_mal grand mal].

'''(4)''' 
Notice that after listing points (a), (b), and (c) about clichés, Gately moves on to (4) rather than (d).

==Page 279==

'''dun''' 
grayish-brown

==Page 280==

'''Spiro Agnew''' 
Spiro Theodore Agnew (1918-1996) was vice president of the U.S. under Richard Nixon until forced to resign after pleading no contest to charges of charges of tax evasion and money laundering.

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=Home from Port Washington=

==Page 281==

'''"...bearing their shields rather than upon them..."''' 
The reference is from ''Quotes from Spartan Women'' by Mestrius Plutarchus (Plutarch; AD 45-120), the Greek historian. One translation (from ''On Sparta'' translated by Richard Talbert) cites the source as follows: "Another woman, handing over the shield to her son as he was going off on campaign said: 'Your father always used to keep this safe for you. So you must either keep it safe too, or cease to exist" (p. 187).

'''distaffs''' 
women's groups

'''dubs''' 
doubles

'''V.D.''' 
alternately this could stand for Venereal Disease

'''nystagmic''' 
suffering from involuntary eye movement

'''Stockhausen''' 
German for "stick houses"; not really: "-hausen" functions like "-burg" or "-stadt" – in town names, meaning "town" – as in "Oberhausen" or "Bad Ricklinghausen"; could be a nod to Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music" (Hewett 2007). He is known for his ground-breaking work in electronic music, aleatory (controlled chance) in serial composition, and musical spatialization. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockhausen Wikipedia]

'''E. A. Abbott''' 
Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926) was a British author and theologians best known for having written ''Flatland,'' which can be read [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=umhistmath;idno=ABR0624.0001.001 here]. The book tries to dramatize dimensionality by telling the story of shapes that live 2D and their interaction with 1D and 3D shapes. It's very popular with aspiring math-physics-computer-science students.

==Page 282==

'''Disciplinary Lit.''' 
a joke on the more common "interdisciplinary" academic classes

'''Goncharov's ''Oblomov''''' 
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (1812-1891) was a Russian novelist and author of ''Oblomov,'' which can be read [http://www.oblomovka.com/eldritch/iag/oblomov.htm here]. The book is about a young man too lazy to act or decide; he doesn't leave his bed for the first 150 pages.

'''listing to port''' 
a nautical term meaning "leaning leftward"

'''feeling punk''' 
Defined as "weak in spirits or health" in the ''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.''

'''tincture of benzoin''' 
A tincture is a mixture of a drug dissolved in alcohol. Benzoin is a balsamic resin used as an antiseptic and expectorant.

'''Xing''' 
presumably a synonym for copulating with someone

==Endnote 92==

'''Perth Amboy NJ''' 
a town in northern NJ, about 30 miles southwest of New York

==Page 282 (cont'd)==

'''Pierre Trudeau''' 
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau (commonly called Pierre-Elliot Trudeau; 1919-2000) was the Prime Minister of Canada for most of the 1970s and from 1980 to 1984.

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