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==Page 934==

==Page 935==

'''recursive''' 
capable of being used repeatedly

'''some creepy thing''' 
the creepy thing Gately and Fackelmann watch may be J.O Incandenza's ''Various Small Flames'', see Endnote 24

'''retsin''' 
the supposed active ingredient in Certs breath mints

'''Ciao Bello''' 
Italian: Goodbye, Beautiful ("Farewell, My Lovely")

==Page 936==

'''corrode''' 
to eat away at; to rust

'''ICBM''' 
intercontinental ballistic missile

'''boot''' 
junkie slang for injecting drugs

==Page 937==

'''imprimatur''' 
sanction or approval

'''bonded''' 
Sorkin had put up Gately's bail.

'''ruddled''' 
reddened

'''serration''' 
notches in the edges

==Page 938==

'''belled''' 
rang like a bell

=Joelle Talks About the Entertainment=

==Page 938==

==Page 939==

'''epicene''' 
androgynous

'''I assume you can Identify.''' 
Joelle is being interviewed by the cross-dressing Steeply.

'''bassinet''' 
an oblong basket for a baby

'''catadioptric''' 
produced by reflection and refraction simultaneously

'''nystagmus''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nystagmus condition] of voluntary or involuntary rapid and rhythmic oscillation of the eyes

==Page 940==

'''astigmatic''' 
failing to have light rays converge on a single point

==Page 941==

=Hal Narrates (Still)=
==Page 941==

'''slight tremble of something hanging from the tip of a pipette''' 
A pipette is a type of thin glass tube used in chemistry, and the something trembling would be a drop of some liquid, I suspect...

'''Thtithe fickn meth''' 
Coyle is probably trying to say, "Stice's fucking mess."

==Page 942==

'''panic-attack''' 
another term for an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_attack anxiety attack]

==Page 943==

==Page 944==

'''rank amateurs''' 
complete/total amateurs

'''pernicious''' 
harmful

'''Brecht''' 
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (1898-1956) was a German playwright, poet, and director.

'''Glen Riddle, Pennsylvania''' 
a suburb of Philadelphia, about twenty miles west

'''DeNiro''' 
Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. (born 1943), is an Academy Award-winning American actor, cast by Martin Scorsese in [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070379/ Mean Streets] and several times thereafter.

'''McLachlin''' 
a misspelling of Kyle MacLachlan (born 1959), an American actor whose second film was [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/ Blue Velvet]

'''Lynch''' 
David Keith Lynch (born 1946) is an American filmmaker.
David Lynch and Kyle MacLachlan worked together on the movies "Dune" (1984), "Blue Velvet" (1986), and the TV series ''Twin Peaks'' (1990-1991).

'''Allen to Allen''' 
a reference to American director Woody Allen (born 1935 as Allen Stewart Königsberg), who casts himself in many of his films

'''temporal-lobe''' 
the part of the brain involved in hearing, speeech, and vision

==Page 945==

'''familiar foil packet''' 
i.e., a condom

'''ascot''' 
a neck scarf

[[Image:FDR.jpg|thumb|caption|FDR and his filter|right|200px]]

'''long white FDR-style filter''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt], the 32nd President of the United States. He often used a cigarette holder as seen in the photo on the right.

'''canopied''' 
framed with curtains

'''boudoir''' 
a bedroom or private sitting room

'''ponce''' 
an effeminate man

[[Image:Single-edged Razor Blade.jpg|thumb|right|Single-edged razor blade]]

'''an old-fashioned one-sharp-sided razor blade''' 
still manufactured but perhaps more commonly used in certain kinds of box-cutters than in razors (see right)

==Page 946==

'''Pheromonic Musk''' 
a scent designed to emit pheromones, or a chemical that attracts the opposite sex

'''Kaposi's Sarcoma''' 
A tumor caused by Human herpesvirus-8. One of the most common symptoms of AIDS. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaposi%27s_sarcoma here]

'''chartreuse''' 
bright yellowish-green

'''500 seconds''' 
8 minutes and 20 seconds

==Page 947==

'''conundra''' 
insoluble questions; the plural of ''conundrum'' is disputed, with the OED apparently preferring ''conundrums'', as with ''stadiums''

'''VW-Bug''' 
nickname for the Volkswagen Beetle automobile model

'''sinkhole''' 
a depressed area into which waste collects

'''pratfall''' 
a fall on one's rear

==Page 948==

'''two-meter''' 
about 6.56 feet

'''Nor'easter''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nor%27easter type of storm] common to the Northeast U.S.

'''snorkels''' 
tubes for breathing

'''plucky''' 
having or showing courage and spirit in trying circumstances

'''pugnacious''' 
having a tendency to fistfight

==Page 949==

'''VA''' 
Veterans Affairs (formerly Veterans Administration)

'''snifter''' 
a piece of glass stemware with a wide bottom that narrows at the top, for drinking brandy; the "one-handed" variety can be easily palmed with two fingers astride the stem

'''twidgeling''' 
one of Hal's nonce words, meaning digital manipulation

'''Hancock tower''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_Tower skyscraper] in Boston

'''mimesis''' 
in art, the imitative representation of nature or human behavior; i.e., the radio was broadcasting nothing but audio static, or "snow"

==Page 950==

'''sinciput''' 
the upper part of the skull

'''convolutions''' 
folds on the surface of the brain

'''filigree''' 
intricate ornamentation usually consisting of twisted metal wire/ribbons on, say, a fence

'''Lindisfarne Gospels''' 
Richly decorated illuminated manuscipt ofthe Gospels, believed to have been produced around 700 AD in a monastery near Lindisfarne, Northumberland, UK. Some carpet pages from the Lindisfarne Gospels can be seen [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/lindisfarne/carpetpages.html here].

'''hyperfertilized''' 
given too much fertilizer

'''finial''' 
an architectural device used to top a gable

'''defile''' 
a narrow passage

'''neutered''' 
castrated

'''Noxzema''' 
A brand of skin cleanser

'''topiary''' 
a sculptured shrub or bush

'''gambrel''' 
here referring to a double-sloping roof, as often seen on barns and some churches

==Page 951==

[[File:Fritz_lang_directing_metropolis.jpg|thumb|right|The photo of Fritz Lang directing Metropolis. Also appeared on the copy of ''The Cinema Book'' that Wallace owned[http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/culturalcompass/2010/03/08/infinite-possibilities-a-first-glimpse-into-david-foster-wallace%E2%80%99s-library/][http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/fb/e8/0eb681b0c8a03b9679fea110._AA240_.L.jpg], and was one of the photographs Wallace considered using on the cover of ''Infinite Jest'' (mentioned in ''Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself'').]]

'''framed print of Lang directing Metropolis''' 
see photo at left

'''étagère''' 
a stand with a series of open shelves

'''delfts''' 
type of earthenware

'''claret''' 
red wine

==Page 952==

'''Hagia Sophia and S. Simeon''' 
Hagia Sophia is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia mosque] in Istanbul that had been a Byzantine basilica. S. Simeon refers to the ruins of a monastery named for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Stylites Simeon Stylites].

'''Qal'at Si'man''' 
Arabic for "Saint Simeon"

'''guilloche''' 
the most annular of the ornamental moldings used in interior decoration (see below)

[[Image: Guilloche molding.jpg]]

'''prurient''' 
inordinately interested in matters of sex; lascivious

'''Levirates''' 
men required to marry their brothers' widows

'''''maniera greca''''' 
a style of Italian painting ("Greek style") popular in the early Renaissance

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

'''hyperemic''' 
an unusual amount of blood in part of the body

'''seraglio''' 
the living quarters of a Turkish harem

'''fieldstone''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fieldstone construction material]

==Page 953==

'''varicotic''' 
having varicose veins

'''onyx''' 
a deep black form of quartz

'''kyphotic''' 
having abnormal curvature of the spine

==Page 954==

'''climacteric''' 
A period of decrease in reproductive capacity; in women, menopause.

'''Infantilist''' 
While the term can mean a type of paraphilia in which one dresses up like a baby, here Hal more likely means a pediatrician that treats patients like babies.

'''koans''' 
in Zen Buddhism, statements that defy rational explanation upon which to meditate

==Page 955==

'''misnomer''' 
a misapplied name or designation

'''''The Green Door''''' 
The full title of the 1972 film is [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068260/ "Behind the Green Door"].

'''''Deep Throat''''' 
another pornographic film from 1972, starring [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001483/ Linda Lovelace]

'''jism''' 
slang for semen

'''interrogatives''' 
questions

==Page 956==

==Page 957==

'''expatriates''' 
people living outside their countries of origin

'''Faulknerian''' 
recollecting the style or manner of William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897-1962), American novelist

'''aspirating''' 
inhaling

=After the Interview=

==Page 958==

'''She''' 
i.e., Joelle

'''Middlesex County''' 
a county comprising most of the suburbs northwest and west of Boston

=Hi, Mikey=

==Page 958==

==Page 959==

'''the hook''' 
presumably, the sister's hand

'''boatayouse''' 
i.e., "both of you"

==Page 960==

'''a hundred m.'s''' 
a little over 328 feet

=The Assistant District Attorney=

==Page 960==

'''easement''' 
a right of way across a plot of property owned by another

'''Suffolk County''' 
the county in Massachusetts where Boston is

'''McDonald's House''' 
a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_McDonald_House Ronald McDonald House Charities], which provides housing for the parents of children undergoing intensive medical care

==Page 961==

'''Tooty''' 
apparently the ADA's wife

'''Fourth- and Eighth-Step''' 
two of the original Twelve Steps of the Alcoholics Anonymous program: 4) "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves," and 8) "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all"

==Page 962==

'''weal''' 
welfare

'''peroxide''' 
hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), used as a bleach and whitener

==Page 963==

==Page 964==

'''NoCoat LinguaScraper''' 
Fictional product mentioned on [http://wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_127-156#Page_151 Page 151].

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=Gately and Fackelmann continued=

==Page 934==

==Page 935==

'''recursive''' 
capable of being used repeatedly

'''some creepy thing''' 
the creepy thing Gately and Fackelmann watch may be J.O Incandenza's ''Various Small Flames'', see Endnote 24

'''retsin''' 
the supposed active ingredient in Certs breath mints

'''Ciao Bello''' 
Italian: Goodbye, Beautiful ("Farewell, My Lovely")

==Page 936==

'''corrode''' 
to eat away at; to rust

'''ICBM''' 
intercontinental ballistic missile

'''boot''' 
junkie slang for injecting drugs

==Page 937==

'''imprimatur''' 
sanction or approval

'''bonded''' 
Sorkin had put up Gately's bail.

'''ruddled''' 
reddened

'''serration''' 
notches in the edges

==Page 938==

'''belled''' 
rang like a bell

=Joelle Talks About the Entertainment=

==Page 938==

==Page 939==

'''epicene''' 
androgynous

'''I assume you can Identify.''' 
Joelle is being interviewed by the cross-dressing Steeply.

'''bassinet''' 
an oblong basket for a baby

'''catadioptric''' 
produced by reflection and refraction simultaneously

'''nystagmus''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nystagmus condition] of voluntary or involuntary rapid and rhythmic oscillation of the eyes

==Page 940==

'''astigmatic''' 
failing to have light rays converge on a single point

==Page 941==

=Hal Narrates (Still)=
==Page 941==

'''slight tremble of something hanging from the tip of a pipette''' 
A pipette is a type of thin glass tube used in chemistry, and the something trembling would be a drop of some liquid, I suspect...

'''Thtithe fickn meth''' 
Coyle is probably trying to say, "Stice's fucking mess."

==Page 942==

'''panic-attack''' 
another term for an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_attack anxiety attack]

==Page 943==

==Page 944==

'''rank amateurs''' 
complete/total amateurs

'''pernicious''' 
harmful

'''Brecht''' 
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (1898-1956) was a German playwright, poet, and director.

'''Glen Riddle, Pennsylvania''' 
a suburb of Philadelphia, about twenty miles west

'''DeNiro''' 
Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. (born 1943), is an Academy Award-winning American actor, cast by Martin Scorsese in [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070379/ Mean Streets] and several times thereafter.

'''McLachlin''' 
a misspelling of Kyle MacLachlan (born 1959), an American actor whose second film was [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/ Blue Velvet]

'''Lynch''' 
David Keith Lynch (born 1946) is an American filmmaker.
David Lynch and Kyle MacLachlan worked together on the movies "Dune" (1984), "Blue Velvet" (1986), and the TV series ''Twin Peaks'' (1990-1991).

'''Allen to Allen''' 
a reference to American director Woody Allen (born 1935 as Allen Stewart Königsberg), who casts himself in many of his films

'''temporal-lobe''' 
the part of the brain involved in hearing, speeech, and vision

==Page 945==

'''familiar foil packet''' 
i.e., a condom

'''ascot''' 
a neck scarf

[[Image:FDR.jpg|thumb|caption|FDR and his filter|right|200px]]

'''long white FDR-style filter''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt], the 32nd President of the United States. He often used a cigarette holder as seen in the photo on the right.

'''canopied''' 
framed with curtains

'''boudoir''' 
a bedroom or private sitting room

'''ponce''' 
an effeminate man

[[Image:Single-edged Razor Blade.jpg|thumb|right|Single-edged razor blade]]

'''an old-fashioned one-sharp-sided razor blade''' 
still manufactured but perhaps more commonly used in certain kinds of box-cutters than in razors (see right)

==Page 946==

'''Pheromonic Musk''' 
a scent designed to emit pheromones, or a chemical that attracts the opposite sex

'''Kaposi's Sarcoma''' 
A tumor caused by Human herpesvirus-8. One of the most common symptoms of AIDS. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaposi%27s_sarcoma here]

'''chartreuse''' 
bright yellowish-green

'''500 seconds''' 
8 minutes and 20 seconds

==Page 947==

'''conundra''' 
insoluble questions; the plural of ''conundrum'' is disputed, with the OED apparently preferring ''conundrums'', as with ''stadiums''

'''VW-Bug''' 
nickname for the Volkswagen Beetle automobile model

'''sinkhole''' 
a depressed area into which waste collects

'''pratfall''' 
a fall on one's rear

==Page 948==

'''two-meter''' 
about 6.56 feet

'''Nor'easter''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nor%27easter type of storm] common to the Northeast U.S.

'''snorkels''' 
tubes for breathing

'''plucky''' 
having or showing courage and spirit in trying circumstances

'''pugnacious''' 
having a tendency to fistfight

==Page 949==

'''VA''' 
Veterans Affairs (formerly Veterans Administration)

'''snifter''' 
a piece of glass stemware with a wide bottom that narrows at the top, for drinking brandy; the "one-handed" variety can be easily palmed with two fingers astride the stem

'''twidgeling''' 
one of Hal's nonce words, meaning digital manipulation

'''Hancock tower''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_Tower skyscraper] in Boston

'''mimesis''' 
in art, the imitative representation of nature or human behavior; i.e., the radio was broadcasting nothing but audio static, or "snow"

==Page 950==

'''sinciput''' 
the upper part of the skull

'''convolutions''' 
folds on the surface of the brain

'''filigree''' 
intricate ornamentation usually consisting of twisted metal wire/ribbons on, say, a fence

'''Lindisfarne Gospels''' 
Richly decorated illuminated manuscipt ofthe Gospels, believed to have been produced around 700 AD in a monastery near Lindisfarne, Northumberland, UK. Some carpet pages from the Lindisfarne Gospels can be seen [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/lindisfarne/carpetpages.html here].

'''hyperfertilized''' 
given too much fertilizer

'''finial''' 
an architectural device used to top a gable

'''defile''' 
a narrow passage

'''neutered''' 
castrated

'''topiary''' 
a sculptured shrub or bush

'''gambrel''' 
here referring to a double-sloping roof, as often seen on barns and some churches

==Page 951==

[[File:Fritz_lang_directing_metropolis.jpg|thumb|right|The photo of Fritz Lang directing Metropolis. Also appeared on the copy of ''The Cinema Book'' that Wallace owned[http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/culturalcompass/2010/03/08/infinite-possibilities-a-first-glimpse-into-david-foster-wallace%E2%80%99s-library/][http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/fb/e8/0eb681b0c8a03b9679fea110._AA240_.L.jpg], and was one of the photographs Wallace considered using on the cover of ''Infinite Jest'' (mentioned in ''Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself'').]]

'''framed print of Lang directing Metropolis''' 
see photo at left

'''étagère''' 
a stand with a series of open shelves

'''delfts''' 
type of earthenware

'''claret''' 
red wine

==Page 952==

'''Hagia Sophia and S. Simeon''' 
Hagia Sophia is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia mosque] in Istanbul that had been a Byzantine basilica. S. Simeon refers to the ruins of a monastery named for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Stylites Simeon Stylites].

'''Qal'at Si'man''' 
Arabic for "Saint Simeon"

'''guilloche''' 
the most annular of the ornamental moldings used in interior decoration (see below)

[[Image: Guilloche molding.jpg]]

'''prurient''' 
inordinately interested in matters of sex; lascivious

'''Levirates''' 
men required to marry their brothers' widows

'''''maniera greca''''' 
a style of Italian painting ("Greek style") popular in the early Renaissance

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

'''hyperemic''' 
an unusual amount of blood in part of the body

'''seraglio''' 
the living quarters of a Turkish harem

'''fieldstone''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fieldstone construction material]

==Page 953==

'''varicotic''' 
having varicose veins

'''onyx''' 
a deep black form of quartz

'''kyphotic''' 
having abnormal curvature of the spine

==Page 954==

'''climacteric''' 
A period of decrease in reproductive capacity; in women, menopause.

'''Infantilist''' 
While the term can mean a type of paraphilia in which one dresses up like a baby, here Hal more likely means a pediatrician that treats patients like babies.

'''koans''' 
in Zen Buddhism, statements that defy rational explanation upon which to meditate

==Page 955==

'''misnomer''' 
a misapplied name or designation

'''''The Green Door''''' 
The full title of the 1972 film is [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068260/ "Behind the Green Door"].

'''''Deep Throat''''' 
another pornographic film from 1972, starring [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001483/ Linda Lovelace]

'''jism''' 
slang for semen

'''interrogatives''' 
questions

==Page 956==

==Page 957==

'''expatriates''' 
people living outside their countries of origin

'''Faulknerian''' 
recollecting the style or manner of William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897-1962), American novelist

'''aspirating''' 
inhaling

=After the Interview=

==Page 958==

'''She''' 
i.e., Joelle

'''Middlesex County''' 
a county comprising most of the suburbs northwest and west of Boston

=Hi, Mikey=

==Page 958==

==Page 959==

'''the hook''' 
presumably, the sister's hand

'''boatayouse''' 
i.e., "both of you"

==Page 960==

'''a hundred m.'s''' 
a little over 328 feet

=The Assistant District Attorney=

==Page 960==

'''easement''' 
a right of way across a plot of property owned by another

'''Suffolk County''' 
the county in Massachusetts where Boston is

'''McDonald's House''' 
a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_McDonald_House Ronald McDonald House Charities], which provides housing for the parents of children undergoing intensive medical care

==Page 961==

'''Tooty''' 
apparently the ADA's wife

'''Fourth- and Eighth-Step''' 
two of the original Twelve Steps of the Alcoholics Anonymous program: 4) "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves," and 8) "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all"

==Page 962==

'''weal''' 
welfare

'''peroxide''' 
hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), used as a bleach and whitener

==Page 963==

==Page 964==

'''NoCoat LinguaScraper''' 
Fictional product mentioned on [http://wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_127-156#Page_151 Page 151].

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=Gately and Fackelmann continued=

==Page 934==

==Page 935==

'''recursive''' 
capable of being used repeatedly

'''some creepy thing''' 
the creepy thing Gately and Fackelmann watch may be J.O Incandenza's ''Various Small Flames'', see Endnote 24

'''retsin''' 
the supposed active ingredient in Certs breath mints

'''Ciao Bello''' 
Italian: Goodbye, Beautiful ("Farewell, My Lovely")

==Page 936==

'''corrode''' 
to eat away at; to rust

'''ICBM''' 
intercontinental ballistic missile

'''boot''' 
junkie slang for injecting drugs

==Page 937==

'''imprimatur''' 
sanction or approval

'''bonded''' 
Sorkin had put up Gately's bail.

'''ruddled''' 
reddened

'''serration''' 
notches in the edges

==Page 938==

'''belled''' 
rang like a bell

=Joelle Talks About the Entertainment=

==Page 938==

==Page 939==

'''epicene''' 
androgynous

'''I assume you can Identify.''' 
Joelle is being interviewed by the cross-dressing Steeply.

'''bassinet''' 
an oblong basket for a baby

'''catadioptric''' 
produced by reflection and refraction simultaneously

'''nystagmus''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nystagmus condition] of voluntary or involuntary rapid and rhythmic oscillation of the eyes

==Page 940==

'''astigmatic''' 
failing to have light rays converge on a single point

==Page 941==

=Hal Narrates (Still)=
==Page 941==

'''slight tremble of something hanging from the tip of a pipette''' 
A pipette is a type of thin glass tube used in chemistry, and the something trembling would be a drop of some liquid, I suspect...

'''Thtithe fickn meth''' 
Coyle is probably trying to say, "Stice's fucking mess."

==Page 942==

'''panic-attack''' 
another term for an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_attack anxiety attack]

==Page 943==

==Page 944==

'''rank amateurs''' 
complete/total amateurs

'''pernicious''' 
harmful

'''Brecht''' 
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (1898-1956) was a German playwright, poet, and director.

'''Glen Riddle, Pennsylvania''' 
a suburb of Philadelphia, about twenty miles west

'''DeNiro''' 
Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. (born 1943), is an Academy Award-winning American actor, cast by Martin Scorsese in [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070379/ Mean Streets] and several times thereafter.

'''McLachlin''' 
a misspelling of Kyle MacLachlan (born 1959), an American actor whose second film was [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/ Blue Velvet]

'''Lynch''' 
David Keith Lynch (born 1946) is an American filmmaker.
David Lynch and Kyle MacLachlan worked together on the movies "Dune" (1984), "Blue Velvet" (1986), and the TV series ''Twin Peaks'' (1990-1991).

'''Allen to Allen''' 
a reference to American director Woody Allen (born 1935 as Allen Stewart Königsberg), who casts himself in many of his films

'''temporal-lobe''' 
the part of the brain involved in hearing, speeech, and vision

==Page 945==

'''familiar foil packet''' 
i.e., a condom

'''ascot''' 
a neck scarf

[[Image:FDR.jpg|thumb|caption|FDR and his filter|right|200px]]

'''long white FDR-style filter''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt], the 32nd President of the United States. He often used a cigarette holder as seen in the photo on the right.

'''canopied''' 
framed with curtains

'''boudoir''' 
a bedroom or private sitting room

'''ponce''' 
an effeminate man

[[Image:Single-edged Razor Blade.jpg|thumb|right|Single-edged razor blade]]

'''an old-fashioned one-sharp-sided razor blade''' 
still manufactured but perhaps more commonly used in certain kinds of box-cutters than in razors (see right)

==Page 946==

'''Pheromonic Musk''' 
a scent designed to emit pheromones, or a chemical that attracts the opposite sex

'''Kaposi's Sarcoma''' 
A tumor caused by Human herpesvirus-8. One of the most common symptoms of AIDS. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaposi%27s_sarcoma here]

'''chartreuse''' 
bright yellowish-green

'''500 seconds''' 
8 minutes and 20 seconds

==Page 947==

'''conundra''' 
insoluble questions; the plural of ''conundrum'' is disputed, with the OED apparently preferring ''conundrums'', as with ''stadiums''

'''VW-Bug''' 
nickname for the Volkswagen Beetle automobile model

'''sinkhole''' 
a depressed area into which waste collects

'''pratfall''' 
a fall on one's rear

==Page 948==

'''two-meter''' 
about 6.56 feet

'''Nor'easter''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nor%27easter type of storm] common to the Northeast U.S.

'''snorkels''' 
tubes for breathing

'''plucky''' 
having or showing courage and spirit in trying circumstances

'''pugnacious''' 
having a tendency to fistfight

==Page 949==

'''VA''' 
Veterans Affairs (formerly Veterans Administration)

'''snifter''' 
a piece of glass stemware with a wide bottom that narrows at the top, for drinking brandy; the "one-handed" variety can be easily palmed with two fingers astride the stem

'''twidgeling''' 
one of Hal's nonce words, meaning digital manipulation

'''Hancock tower''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_Tower skyscraper] in Boston

'''mimesis''' 
in art, the imitative representation of nature or human behavior; i.e., the radio was broadcasting nothing but audio static, or "snow"

==Page 950==

'''sinciput''' 
the upper part of the skull

'''convolutions''' 
folds on the surface of the brain

'''filigree''' 
intricate ornamentation usually consisting of twisted metal wire/ribbons on, say, a fence

'''Lindisfarne Gospels''' 
Richly decorated illuminated manuscipt ofthe Gospels, believed to have been produced around 700 AD in a monastery near Lindisfarne, Northumberland, UK. Some carpet pages from the Lindisfarne Gospels canbe seen [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/lindisfarne/carpetpages.html here].

'''hyperfertilized''' 
given too much fertilizer

'''finial''' 
an architectural device used to top a gable

'''defile''' 
a narrow passage

'''neutered''' 
castrated

'''topiary''' 
a sculptured shrub or bush

'''gambrel''' 
here referring to a double-sloping roof, as often seen on barns and some churches

==Page 951==

[[File:Fritz_lang_directing_metropolis.jpg|thumb|right|The photo of Fritz Lang directing Metropolis. Also appeared on the copy of ''The Cinema Book'' that Wallace owned[http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/culturalcompass/2010/03/08/infinite-possibilities-a-first-glimpse-into-david-foster-wallace%E2%80%99s-library/][http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/fb/e8/0eb681b0c8a03b9679fea110._AA240_.L.jpg], and was one of the photographs Wallace considered using on the cover of ''Infinite Jest'' (mentioned in ''Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself'').]]

'''framed print of Lang directing Metropolis''' 
see photo at left

'''étagère''' 
a stand with a series of open shelves

'''delfts''' 
type of earthenware

'''claret''' 
red wine

==Page 952==

'''Hagia Sophia and S. Simeon''' 
Hagia Sophia is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia mosque] in Istanbul that had been a Byzantine basilica. S. Simeon refers to the ruins of a monastery named for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Stylites Simeon Stylites].

'''Qal'at Si'man''' 
Arabic for "Saint Simeon"

'''guilloche''' 
the most annular of the ornamental moldings used in interior decoration (see below)

[[Image: Guilloche molding.jpg]]

'''prurient''' 
inordinately interested in matters of sex; lascivious

'''Levirates''' 
men required to marry their brothers' widows

'''''maniera greca''''' 
a style of Italian painting ("Greek style") popular in the early Renaissance

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

'''hyperemic''' 
an unusual amount of blood in part of the body

'''seraglio''' 
the living quarters of a Turkish harem

'''fieldstone''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fieldstone construction material]

==Page 953==

'''varicotic''' 
having varicose veins

'''onyx''' 
a deep black form of quartz

'''kyphotic''' 
having abnormal curvature of the spine

==Page 954==

'''climacteric''' 
A period of decrease in reproductive capacity; in women, menopause.

'''Infantilist''' 
While the term can mean a type of paraphilia in which one dresses up like a baby, here Hal more likely means a pediatrician that treats patients like babies.

'''koans''' 
in Zen Buddhism, statements that defy rational explanation upon which to meditate

==Page 955==

'''misnomer''' 
a misapplied name or designation

'''''The Green Door''''' 
The full title of the 1972 film is [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068260/ "Behind the Green Door"].

'''''Deep Throat''''' 
another pornographic film from 1972, starring [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001483/ Linda Lovelace]

'''jism''' 
slang for semen

'''interrogatives''' 
questions

==Page 956==

==Page 957==

'''expatriates''' 
people living outside their countries of origin

'''Faulknerian''' 
recollecting the style or manner of William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897-1962), American novelist

'''aspirating''' 
inhaling

=After the Interview=

==Page 958==

'''She''' 
i.e., Joelle

'''Middlesex County''' 
a county comprising most of the suburbs northwest and west of Boston

=Hi, Mikey=

==Page 958==

==Page 959==

'''the hook''' 
presumably, the sister's hand

'''boatayouse''' 
i.e., "both of you"

==Page 960==

'''a hundred m.'s''' 
a little over 328 feet

=The Assistant District Attorney=

==Page 960==

'''easement''' 
a right of way across a plot of property owned by another

'''Suffolk County''' 
the county in Massachusetts where Boston is

'''McDonald's House''' 
a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_McDonald_House Ronald McDonald House Charities], which provides housing for the parents of children undergoing intensive medical care

==Page 961==

'''Tooty''' 
apparently the ADA's wife

'''Fourth- and Eighth-Step''' 
two of the original Twelve Steps of the Alcoholics Anonymous program: 4) "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves," and 8) "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all"

==Page 962==

'''weal''' 
welfare

'''peroxide''' 
hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), used as a bleach and whitener

==Page 963==

==Page 964==

'''NoCoat LinguaScraper''' 
Fictional product mentioned on [http://wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_127-156#Page_151 Page 151].

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'''Entrepôt''' 
a place where stolen goods are stored and sold from

'''frustum''' 
This is "the part of a conical solid left after cutting off a top portion with a plane parallel to the base" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

=More of Gately's Past=

==Page 916==

'''proclavity''' 
Gately means "proclivity"

==Page 917==

'''fuchsia''' 
hot pink

'''boot-knife''' 
defined [http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Boot_knife here]

'''highatus''' 
i.e., hiatus

==Page 918==

'''VO''' 
a type of whiskey by Seagram's, the VO standing for Seagram's '''V'''ery '''O'''wn family blend; for cognac, the same abbreviation is for '''V'''ery '''O'''ld, denoting a minimum aging time of at least four years (see more on [http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/vo-xo-deciphering-cognac-labels.html cognac labels]

'''32 mb²''' 
this would, presumably, be 1024 megabytes, or 1 gigabyte

'''pinwheel-eyed''' 
Gately is thinking of the spiraling eyes often seen in hypnotized or narcotized cartoon characters, a convention much like that of indicating a dead cartoon character with small crosses in the place of the eyes.

==Page 919==

'''''LISLE''''' 
a fine, hard-twisted cotton thread used for hose, gloves, etc.

'''''EMBRASURE''''' 
an opening in a thick wall for a window

'''lissome''' 
agile; nimble

==Page 920==

'''''CIRCUMAMBIENT''''' 
surrounding; encompassing

'''head''' 
toilet; bathroom

'''Pressburger''' 
Until the city was renamed Bratislava (currently the capital of Slovakia), a person from that Pressburg was called a ''Pressburger.''

==Page 921==

'''Something-with-six-syllables-that-started-with-''Sterno''''' 
possibilities: "Sternocleidomastoid," a muscle in the neck, or "Sternoclavicular," a joint where the clavicle, part of the sternum, and the cartilage of the first rib meet

'''16 mm. siphuncular''' 
0.63 inches; siphuncular basically means "tubular"

'''4 ml.''' 
The proper abbreviation for milliliters is mL.

==Endnote 373==

'''viscid''' 
sticky; adhesive

'''inspissated''' 
thickened by evaporation to become more dense

==Page 921 (cont.)==

'''scratch golfer''' 
one with a handicap of zero

'''edema''' 
swelling due to excess fluid

'''discreditated''' 
Presumably he means "discredited."

'''''Morbid Trauma Quarterly''''' 
not a real publication

'''hemoptysis''' 
coughing up blood

'''pertussive''' 
accompanied by coughing

==Page 922==

'''30 kg''' 
about 66.14 lbs

'''bupkis''' 
Yiddish for "absolutely nothing" (spelled "bupkus" on page 878)

'''''embrasure''''' 
an opening in a thick wall, mentioned earlier

'''woodie''' 
erection

'''myopic''' 
near-sighted

'''Turner''' 
probably a reference to Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), a British painter

'''innerdicted''' 
i.e., interdicted

==Page 923==

'''post-mortem''' 
Latin: after death

'''stucco''' 
Read about it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stucco here].

==Page 924==

'''''Night-Errand''''' 
i.e., knight-errant

'''papoose''' 
While the word technically means "baby," Gately's usage is probably closer to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papoose that explained here].

==Page 925==

'''W. T. Sherman''' 
William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) was an American army general, responsible for burning Atlanta during the U.S. Civil War.

'''dipsoid''' 
alcoholic

'''Margaret Thatcher''' 
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (born 1925), was Prime Minister of the U.K. from 1979 to 1990.

[[Image:Margaret_Thatcher_cropped1.png‎|thumb|caption|''Margaret Thatcher''|right|200px]]

'''cherry''' 
a term for a virgin

'''simper''' 
to smile self-consciously

'''highball''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highball_%28cocktail%29 family of mixed drinks]

==Page 926==

'''Carry Nation''' 
Carrie A. Nation (1846-1911) was an American proponent of prohibition of alcohol.

'''exoskeletally''' 
in a way so that it is outside the skeleton

'''Zegna''' 
a clothing company founded by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zegna Ermenegildo Zegna]

'''MILKEN''' 
Michael Robert Milken (born 1946) is a former stockbroker who served several years in prison for securities fraud.

'''Beamer''' 
a BMW

'''al''mo''meter''' 
i.e., Alma Mater

==Page 927==

'''septuagenarian''' 
in one's seventies

'''tiger's eyes''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger%27s_eye gemstone]

'''doublets''' 
tight-fitting jackets

'''Plasma spheres''' 
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_sphere plasma lamp]

'''involuted''' 
complex, intricate

'''howitzer''' 
a short type of cannon

'''Green-Cardless''' 
not having permanent resident status and, thus, an illegal alien

'''moll''' 
the girlfriend of a criminal

'''truncheon''' 
Baton caried by police officers in the United Kingdom from 1829 until the early 1990s. In Northern Ireland, however, all police officers carry firearms (more information [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_use_of_firearms_in_the_United_Kingdom here]).

'''Belfast Bobbie''' 
This is an oxymoron. 'Bobby' is an English slang term for a policeman (after [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Peel Robert Peel]), but the armed Northern Ireland police force (the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Ulster_Constabulary Royal Ulster Constabulary]) were never known as 'Bobbies'.

'''Old Sod''' 
A term for the "old country" among U.S. immigrants of Irish origin.

'''bagmen''' 
people who collect payments in organized crime

'''cervical massage''' 
neck massage to reduce muscle tension

'''wpm''' 
words per minute

'''shillelagh''' 
an Irish [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shillelagh_%28club%29 hand weapon]

==Page 928==

'''Bulldog''' 
mascot of Yale University

'''Post-Coital Vestibulitis''' 
Vestibulitis is inflammation of the vestibule, or vaginal opening, and thus a woman's affliction, although the related (but rare) pudendal neuralgia can occur in men; the more common symptom of the latter is pain when sitting.

'''vertiginous''' 
As in related to vertigo, the sensation of imbalance or dizziness

'''proprioception''' 
the sense of the relative position of neighbouring parts of the body. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception Wikipedia])

''''''debriefed'''''' 
i.e., had their briefs (or panties) removed

'''VLR''' 
visitor's locker room

'''pyrotechnic''' 
explosive, like fireworks ("pyrotechnic glandular atmosphere" must imply an orgasmic situation)

'''conoid''' 
conic; cone-like

'''vas deferens''' 
the male conduit for semen from the testis to the ejaculatory duct, from which it is propelled through the urethra

'''Bruins''' 
mascot of Brown University, though they actually just call themselves the "Bears"

==Page 929==

'''wrench in the ointment''' 
a mixup of "monkey wrench in the works" and "fly in the ointment," both meaning ruining someone's original plans

'''Phalanx''' 
a close-knit group of people

'''filigreed''' 
finely and elaborately ornamented work, usually made out of wire

'''N.O.W.''' 
National Organization of Women

'''power forward''' 
the one of the two forwards in basketball who more often will drive to the net

'''ursine''' 
pertaining to bears

'''ersatz''' 
an inferior substitute

'''assassination''' 
Obviously President Limbaugh was assassinated in the recent past.

==Page 930==

'''obsequity''' 
excessive compliance

'''Gaelic''' 
i.e., the Irish language

'''C-notes''' 
hundred dollar bills

'''375 sky-blue grams''' 
about 13.23 ounces

==Page 931==

==Endnote 376==

'''$660.00/g''' 
about $18,000 an ounce

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

==Page 931 (cont'd)==

'''adulterant''' 
an impurity

'''fillip''' 
to smack one's finger against by pressing the finger against the thumb and releasing

'''gigantism''' 
excessive growth

'''Ward-and-Wally''' 
referring to Theodore Cleaver's father and older brother in the CBS-ABC television series [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_It_to_Beaver ''Leave It to Beaver''] (1957-1963)

'''smack''' 
slang term for heroin

==Page 932==

'''beeline''' 
a direct route traveled quickly

'''craven''' 
cowardly

'''gloaming''' 
dusk

==Page 933==

'''entr'actes''' 
the periods between dramatic performances

'''"The wraith is back...except now with him is another, younger, way more physically fit wraith in kind of faggy biking shorts and U.S. tank top who's leaning way over Gately's railing and... fucking ''licking Gately's forehead'' with a rough little tongue..."''' 
It's Lyle. However, Lyle, being alive and well, must be able to achieve status as a wraith via meditation (this adds significance to the "Lyle Meditates" section on pg. 700).

==Page 934==

'''"...digging some dead guy's head up..."''' 
See ''Hamlet,'' Act V, Scene i.

See also pages 16-17, where Hal reflects: "I think of John N.R. Wayne...standing watch in a mask as Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head."

'''"...asks if they knew him..."''' 
"Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio..." (''Hamlet'').

=While Leaving St. Elizabeth's...=

==Page 934==

'''"...a grotesquely huge woman whose hose bulged..."''' 
It's Helen Steeply.

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==Page 916==

'''Entrepôt''' 
a place where stolen goods are stored and sold from

'''frustum''' 
This is "the part of a conical solid left after cutting off a top portion with a plane parallel to the base" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

=More of Gately's Past=

==Page 916==

'''proclavity''' 
Gately means "proclivity"

==Page 917==

'''fuchsia''' 
hot pink

'''boot-knife''' 
defined [http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Boot_knife here]

'''highatus''' 
i.e., hiatus

==Page 918==

'''VO''' 
a type of whiskey by Seagram's, the VO standing for Seagram's '''V'''ery '''O'''wn family blend; for cognac, the same abbreviation is for '''V'''ery '''O'''ld, denoting a minimum aging time of at least four years (see more on [http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/vo-xo-deciphering-cognac-labels.html cognac labels]

'''32 mb²''' 
this would, presumably, be 1024 megabytes, or 1 gigabyte

'''pinwheel-eyed''' 
Gately is thinking of the spiraling eyes often seen in hypnotized or narcotized cartoon characters, a convention much like that of indicating a dead cartoon character with small crosses in the place of the eyes.

==Page 919==

'''''LISLE''''' 
a fine, hard-twisted cotton thread used for hose, gloves, etc.

'''''EMBRASURE''''' 
an opening in a thick wall for a window

'''lissome''' 
agile; nimble

==Page 920==

'''''CIRCUMAMBIENT''''' 
surrounding; encompassing

'''head''' 
toilet; bathroom

'''Pressburger''' 
Until the city was renamed Bratislava (currently the capital of Slovakia), a person from that Pressburg was called a ''Pressburger.''

==Page 921==

'''Something-with-six-syllables-that-started-with-''Sterno''''' 
possibilities: "Sternocleidomastoid," a muscle in the neck, or "Sternoclavicular," a joint where the clavicle, part of the sternum, and the cartilage of the first rib meet

'''16 mm. siphuncular''' 
0.63 inches; siphuncular basically means "tubular"

'''4 ml.''' 
The proper abbreviation for milliliters is mL.

==Endnote 373==

'''viscid''' 
sticky; adhesive

'''inspissated''' 
thickened by evaporation to become more dense

==Page 921 (cont.)==

'''scratch golfer''' 
one with a handicap of zero

'''edema''' 
swelling due to excess fluid

'''discreditated''' 
Presumably he means "discredited."

'''''Morbid Trauma Quarterly''''' 
not a real publication

'''hemoptysis''' 
coughing up blood

'''pertussive''' 
accompanied by coughing

==Page 922==

'''30 kg''' 
about 66.14 lbs

'''bupkis''' 
Yiddish for "absolutely nothing" (spelled "bupkus" on page 878)

'''''embrasure''''' 
an opening in a thick wall, mentioned earlier

'''woodie''' 
erection

'''myopic''' 
near-sighted

'''Turner''' 
probably a reference to Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), a British painter

'''innerdicted''' 
i.e., interdicted

==Page 923==

'''post-mortem''' 
Latin: after death

'''stucco''' 
Read about it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stucco here].

==Page 924==

'''''Night-Errand''''' 
i.e., knight-errant

'''papoose''' 
While the word technically means "baby," Gately's usage is probably closer to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papoose that explained here].

==Page 925==

'''W. T. Sherman''' 
William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) was an American army general, responsible for burning Atlanta during the U.S. Civil War.

'''dipsoid''' 
alcoholic

'''Margaret Thatcher''' 
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (born 1925), was Prime Minister of the U.K. from 1979 to 1990.

[[Image:Margaret_Thatcher_cropped1.png‎|thumb|caption|''Margaret Thatcher''|right|200px]]

'''cherry''' 
a term for a virgin

'''simper''' 
to smile self-consciously

'''highball''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highball_%28cocktail%29 family of mixed drinks]

==Page 926==

'''Carry Nation''' 
Carrie A. Nation (1846-1911) was an American proponent of prohibition of alcohol.

'''exoskeletally''' 
in a way so that it is outside the skeleton

'''Zegna''' 
a clothing company founded by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zegna Ermenegildo Zegna]

'''MILKEN''' 
Michael Robert Milken (born 1946) is a former stockbroker who served several years in prison for securities fraud.

'''Beamer''' 
a BMW

'''al''mo''meter''' 
i.e., Alma Mater

==Page 927==

'''septuagenarian''' 
in one's seventies

'''tiger's eyes''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger%27s_eye gemstone]

'''doublets''' 
tight-fitting jackets

'''Plasma spheres''' 
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_sphere plasma lamp]

'''involuted''' 
complex, intricate

'''howitzer''' 
a short type of cannon

'''Green-Cardless''' 
not having permanent resident status and, thus, an illegal alien

'''moll''' 
the girlfriend of a criminal

'''truncheon''' 
Baton caried by police officers in the United Kingdom from 1889 until the early 1990s. In Northern Ireland, however, all police officers carry firearms (more information [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_use_of_firearms_in_the_United_Kingdom here]).

'''Belfast Bobbie''' 
This is an oxymoron. 'Bobby' is an English slang term for a policeman (after [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Peel Robert Peel]), but the armed Northern Ireland police force (the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Ulster_Constabulary Royal Ulster Constabulary]) were never known as 'Bobbies'.

'''Old Sod''' 
A term for the "old country" among U.S. immigrants of Irish origin.

'''bagmen''' 
people who collect payments in organized crime

'''cervical massage''' 
neck massage to reduce muscle tension

'''wpm''' 
words per minute

'''shillelagh''' 
an Irish [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shillelagh_%28club%29 hand weapon]

==Page 928==

'''Bulldog''' 
mascot of Yale University

'''Post-Coital Vestibulitis''' 
Vestibulitis is inflammation of the vestibule, or vaginal opening, and thus a woman's affliction, although the related (but rare) pudendal neuralgia can occur in men; the more common symptom of the latter is pain when sitting.

'''vertiginous''' 
As in related to vertigo, the sensation of imbalance or dizziness

'''proprioception''' 
the sense of the relative position of neighbouring parts of the body. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception Wikipedia])

''''''debriefed'''''' 
i.e., had their briefs (or panties) removed

'''VLR''' 
visitor's locker room

'''pyrotechnic''' 
explosive, like fireworks ("pyrotechnic glandular atmosphere" must imply an orgasmic situation)

'''conoid''' 
conic; cone-like

'''vas deferens''' 
the male conduit for semen from the testis to the ejaculatory duct, from which it is propelled through the urethra

'''Bruins''' 
mascot of Brown University, though they actually just call themselves the "Bears"

==Page 929==

'''wrench in the ointment''' 
a mixup of "monkey wrench in the works" and "fly in the ointment," both meaning ruining someone's original plans

'''Phalanx''' 
a close-knit group of people

'''filigreed''' 
finely and elaborately ornamented work, usually made out of wire

'''N.O.W.''' 
National Organization of Women

'''power forward''' 
the one of the two forwards in basketball who more often will drive to the net

'''ursine''' 
pertaining to bears

'''ersatz''' 
an inferior substitute

'''assassination''' 
Obviously President Limbaugh was assassinated in the recent past.

==Page 930==

'''obsequity''' 
excessive compliance

'''Gaelic''' 
i.e., the Irish language

'''C-notes''' 
hundred dollar bills

'''375 sky-blue grams''' 
about 13.23 ounces

==Page 931==

==Endnote 376==

'''$660.00/g''' 
about $18,000 an ounce

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

==Page 931 (cont'd)==

'''adulterant''' 
an impurity

'''fillip''' 
to smack one's finger against by pressing the finger against the thumb and releasing

'''gigantism''' 
excessive growth

'''Ward-and-Wally''' 
referring to Theodore Cleaver's father and older brother in the CBS-ABC television series [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_It_to_Beaver ''Leave It to Beaver''] (1957-1963)

'''smack''' 
slang term for heroin

==Page 932==

'''beeline''' 
a direct route traveled quickly

'''craven''' 
cowardly

'''gloaming''' 
dusk

==Page 933==

'''entr'actes''' 
the periods between dramatic performances

'''"The wraith is back...except now with him is another, younger, way more physically fit wraith in kind of faggy biking shorts and U.S. tank top who's leaning way over Gately's railing and... fucking ''licking Gately's forehead'' with a rough little tongue..."''' 
It's Lyle. However, Lyle, being alive and well, must be able to achieve status as a wraith via meditation (this adds significance to the "Lyle Meditates" section on pg. 700).

==Page 934==

'''"...digging some dead guy's head up..."''' 
See ''Hamlet,'' Act V, Scene i.

See also pages 16-17, where Hal reflects: "I think of John N.R. Wayne...standing watch in a mask as Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head."

'''"...asks if they knew him..."''' 
"Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio..." (''Hamlet'').

=While Leaving St. Elizabeth's...=

==Page 934==

'''"...a grotesquely huge woman whose hose bulged..."''' 
It's Helen Steeply.

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==Page 916==

'''Entrepôt''' 
a place where stolen goods are stored and sold from

'''frustum''' 
This is "the part of a conical solid left after cutting off a top portion with a plane parallel to the base" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

=More of Gately's Past=

==Page 916==

'''proclavity''' 
Gately means "proclivity"

==Page 917==

'''fuchsia''' 
hot pink

'''boot-knife''' 
defined [http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Boot_knife here]

'''highatus''' 
i.e., hiatus

==Page 918==

'''VO''' 
a type of whiskey by Seagram's, the VO standing for Seagram's '''V'''ery '''O'''wn family blend; for cognac, the same abbreviation is for '''V'''ery '''O'''ld, denoting a minimum aging time of at least four years (see more on [http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/vo-xo-deciphering-cognac-labels.html cognac labels]

'''32 mb²''' 
this would, presumably, be 1024 megabytes, or 1 gigabyte

'''pinwheel-eyed''' 
Gately is thinking of the spiraling eyes often seen in hypnotized or narcotized cartoon characters, a convention much like that of indicating a dead cartoon character with small crosses in the place of the eyes.

==Page 919==

'''''LISLE''''' 
a fine, hard-twisted cotton thread used for hose, gloves, etc.

'''''EMBRASURE''''' 
an opening in a thick wall for a window

'''lissome''' 
agile; nimble

==Page 920==

'''''CIRCUMAMBIENT''''' 
surrounding; encompassing

'''head''' 
toilet; bathroom

'''Pressburger''' 
Until the city was renamed Bratislava (currently the capital of Slovakia), a person from that Pressburg was called a ''Pressburger.''

==Page 921==

'''Something-with-six-syllables-that-started-with-''Sterno''''' 
possibilities: "Sternocleidomastoid," a muscle in the neck, or "Sternoclavicular," a joint where the clavicle, part of the sternum, and the cartilage of the first rib meet

'''16 mm. siphuncular''' 
0.63 inches; siphuncular basically means "tubular"

'''4 ml.''' 
The proper abbreviation for milliliters is mL.

==Endnote 373==

'''viscid''' 
sticky; adhesive

'''inspissated''' 
thickened by evaporation to become more dense

==Page 921 (cont.)==

'''scratch golfer''' 
one with a handicap of zero

'''edema''' 
swelling due to excess fluid

'''discreditated''' 
Presumably he means "discredited."

'''''Morbid Trauma Quarterly''''' 
not a real publication

'''hemoptysis''' 
coughing up blood

'''pertussive''' 
accompanied by coughing

==Page 922==

'''30 kg''' 
about 66.14 lbs

'''bupkis''' 
Yiddish for "absolutely nothing" (spelled "bupkus" on page 878)

'''''embrasure''''' 
an opening in a thick wall, mentioned earlier

'''woodie''' 
erection

'''myopic''' 
near-sighted

'''Turner''' 
probably a reference to Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), a British painter

'''innerdicted''' 
i.e., interdicted

==Page 923==

'''post-mortem''' 
Latin: after death

'''stucco''' 
Read about it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stucco here].

==Page 924==

'''''Night-Errand''''' 
i.e., knight-errant

'''papoose''' 
While the word technically means "baby," Gately's usage is probably closer to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papoose that explained here].

==Page 925==

'''W. T. Sherman''' 
William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) was an American army general, responsible for burning Atlanta during the U.S. Civil War.

'''dipsoid''' 
alcoholic

'''Margaret Thatcher''' 
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (born 1925), was Prime Minister of the U.K. from 1979 to 1990.

[[Image:Margaret_Thatcher_cropped1.png‎|thumb|caption|''Margaret Thatcher''|right|200px]]

'''cherry''' 
a term for a virgin

'''simper''' 
to smile self-consciously

'''highball''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highball_%28cocktail%29 family of mixed drinks]

==Page 926==

'''Carry Nation''' 
Carrie A. Nation (1846-1911) was an American proponent of prohibition of alcohol.

'''exoskeletally''' 
in a way so that it is outside the skeleton

'''Zegna''' 
a clothing company founded by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zegna Ermenegildo Zegna]

'''MILKEN''' 
Michael Robert Milken (born 1946) is a former stockbroker who served several years in prison for securities fraud.

'''Beamer''' 
a BMW

'''al''mo''meter''' 
i.e., Alma Mater

==Page 927==

'''septuagenarian''' 
in one's seventies

'''tiger's eyes''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger%27s_eye gemstone]

'''doublets''' 
tight-fitting jackets

'''Plasma spheres''' 
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_sphere plasma lamp]

'''involuted''' 
complex, intricate

'''howitzer''' 
a short type of cannon

'''Green-Cardless''' 
not having permanent resident status and, thus, an illegal alien

'''moll''' 
the girlfriend of a criminal

'''truncheon''' 
Baton caried by police officers in the United Kingdom from the time of its inception until the early 1990s. In Northern Ireland, however, all police officers carry firearms (more information [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_use_of_firearms_in_the_United_Kingdom here]).

'''Belfast Bobbie''' 
This is an oxymoron. 'Bobby' is an English slang term for a policeman (after [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Peel Robert Peel]), but the armed Northern Ireland police force (the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Ulster_Constabulary Royal Ulster Constabulary]) were never known as 'Bobbies'.

'''Old Sod''' 
A term for the "old country" among U.S. immigrants of Irish origin.

'''bagmen''' 
people who collect payments in organized crime

'''cervical massage''' 
neck massage to reduce muscle tension

'''wpm''' 
words per minute

'''shillelagh''' 
an Irish [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shillelagh_%28club%29 hand weapon]

==Page 928==

'''Bulldog''' 
mascot of Yale University

'''Post-Coital Vestibulitis''' 
Vestibulitis is inflammation of the vestibule, or vaginal opening, and thus a woman's affliction, although the related (but rare) pudendal neuralgia can occur in men; the more common symptom of the latter is pain when sitting.

'''vertiginous''' 
As in related to vertigo, the sensation of imbalance or dizziness

'''proprioception''' 
the sense of the relative position of neighbouring parts of the body. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception Wikipedia])

''''''debriefed'''''' 
i.e., had their briefs (or panties) removed

'''VLR''' 
visitor's locker room

'''pyrotechnic''' 
explosive, like fireworks ("pyrotechnic glandular atmosphere" must imply an orgasmic situation)

'''conoid''' 
conic; cone-like

'''vas deferens''' 
the male conduit for semen from the testis to the ejaculatory duct, from which it is propelled through the urethra

'''Bruins''' 
mascot of Brown University, though they actually just call themselves the "Bears"

==Page 929==

'''wrench in the ointment''' 
a mixup of "monkey wrench in the works" and "fly in the ointment," both meaning ruining someone's original plans

'''Phalanx''' 
a close-knit group of people

'''filigreed''' 
finely and elaborately ornamented work, usually made out of wire

'''N.O.W.''' 
National Organization of Women

'''power forward''' 
the one of the two forwards in basketball who more often will drive to the net

'''ursine''' 
pertaining to bears

'''ersatz''' 
an inferior substitute

'''assassination''' 
Obviously President Limbaugh was assassinated in the recent past.

==Page 930==

'''obsequity''' 
excessive compliance

'''Gaelic''' 
i.e., the Irish language

'''C-notes''' 
hundred dollar bills

'''375 sky-blue grams''' 
about 13.23 ounces

==Page 931==

==Endnote 376==

'''$660.00/g''' 
about $18,000 an ounce

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

==Page 931 (cont'd)==

'''adulterant''' 
an impurity

'''fillip''' 
to smack one's finger against by pressing the finger against the thumb and releasing

'''gigantism''' 
excessive growth

'''Ward-and-Wally''' 
referring to Theodore Cleaver's father and older brother in the CBS-ABC television series [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_It_to_Beaver ''Leave It to Beaver''] (1957-1963)

'''smack''' 
slang term for heroin

==Page 932==

'''beeline''' 
a direct route traveled quickly

'''craven''' 
cowardly

'''gloaming''' 
dusk

==Page 933==

'''entr'actes''' 
the periods between dramatic performances

'''"The wraith is back...except now with him is another, younger, way more physically fit wraith in kind of faggy biking shorts and U.S. tank top who's leaning way over Gately's railing and... fucking ''licking Gately's forehead'' with a rough little tongue..."''' 
It's Lyle. However, Lyle, being alive and well, must be able to achieve status as a wraith via meditation (this adds significance to the "Lyle Meditates" section on pg. 700).

==Page 934==

'''"...digging some dead guy's head up..."''' 
See ''Hamlet,'' Act V, Scene i.

See also pages 16-17, where Hal reflects: "I think of John N.R. Wayne...standing watch in a mask as Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head."

'''"...asks if they knew him..."''' 
"Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio..." (''Hamlet'').

=While Leaving St. Elizabeth's...=

==Page 934==

'''"...a grotesquely huge woman whose hose bulged..."''' 
It's Helen Steeply.

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==Page 916==

'''Entrepôt''' 
a place where stolen goods are stored and sold from

'''frustum''' 
This is "the part of a conical solid left after cutting off a top portion with a plane parallel to the base" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

=More of Gately's Past=

==Page 916==

'''proclavity''' 
Gately means "proclivity"

==Page 917==

'''fuchsia''' 
hot pink

'''boot-knife''' 
defined [http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Boot_knife here]

'''highatus''' 
i.e., hiatus

==Page 918==

'''VO''' 
a type of whiskey by Seagram's, the VO standing for Seagram's '''V'''ery '''O'''wn family blend; for cognac, the same abbreviation is for '''V'''ery '''O'''ld, denoting a minimum aging time of at least four years (see more on [http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/vo-xo-deciphering-cognac-labels.html cognac labels]

'''32 mb²''' 
this would, presumably, be 1024 megabytes, or 1 gigabyte

'''pinwheel-eyed''' 
Gately is thinking of the spiraling eyes often seen in hypnotized or narcotized cartoon characters, a convention much like that of indicating a dead cartoon character with small crosses in the place of the eyes.

==Page 919==

'''''LISLE''''' 
a fine, hard-twisted cotton thread used for hose, gloves, etc.

'''''EMBRASURE''''' 
an opening in a thick wall for a window

'''lissome''' 
agile; nimble

==Page 920==

'''''CIRCUMAMBIENT''''' 
surrounding; encompassing

'''head''' 
toilet; bathroom

'''Pressburger''' 
Until the city was renamed Bratislava (currently the capital of Slovakia), a person from that Pressburg was called a ''Pressburger.''

==Page 921==

'''Something-with-six-syllables-that-started-with-''Sterno''''' 
possibilities: "Sternocleidomastoid," a muscle in the neck, or "Sternoclavicular," a joint where the clavicle, part of the sternum, and the cartilage of the first rib meet

'''16 mm. siphuncular''' 
0.63 inches; siphuncular basically means "tubular"

'''4 ml.''' 
The proper abbreviation for milliliters is mL.

==Endnote 373==

'''viscid''' 
sticky; adhesive

'''inspissated''' 
thickened by evaporation to become more dense

==Page 921 (cont.)==

'''scratch golfer''' 
one with a handicap of zero

'''edema''' 
swelling due to excess fluid

'''discreditated''' 
Presumably he means "discredited."

'''''Morbid Trauma Quarterly''''' 
not a real publication

'''hemoptysis''' 
coughing up blood

'''pertussive''' 
accompanied by coughing

==Page 922==

'''30 kg''' 
about 66.14 lbs

'''bupkis''' 
Yiddish for "absolutely nothing" (spelled "bupkus" on page 878)

'''''embrasure''''' 
an opening in a thick wall, mentioned earlier

'''woodie''' 
erection

'''myopic''' 
near-sighted

'''Turner''' 
probably a reference to Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), a British painter

'''innerdicted''' 
i.e., interdicted

==Page 923==

'''post-mortem''' 
Latin: after death

'''stucco''' 
Read about it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stucco here].

==Page 924==

'''''Night-Errand''''' 
i.e., knight-errant

'''papoose''' 
While the word technically means "baby," Gately's usage is probably closer to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papoose that explained here].

==Page 925==

'''W. T. Sherman''' 
William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) was an American army general, responsible for burning Atlanta during the U.S. Civil War.

'''dipsoid''' 
alcoholic

'''Margaret Thatcher''' 
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (born 1925), was Prime Minister of the U.K. from 1979 to 1990.

[[Image:Margaret_Thatcher_cropped1.png‎|thumb|caption|''Margaret Thatcher''|right|200px]]

'''cherry''' 
a term for a virgin

'''simper''' 
to smile self-consciously

'''highball''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highball_%28cocktail%29 family of mixed drinks]

==Page 926==

'''Carry Nation''' 
Carrie A. Nation (1846-1911) was an American proponent of prohibition of alcohol.

'''exoskeletally''' 
in a way so that it is outside the skeleton

'''Zegna''' 
a clothing company founded by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zegna Ermenegildo Zegna]

'''MILKEN''' 
Michael Robert Milken (born 1946) is a former stockbroker who served several years in prison for securities fraud.

'''Beamer''' 
a BMW

'''al''mo''meter''' 
i.e., Alma Mater

==Page 927==

'''septuagenarian''' 
in one's seventies

'''tiger's eyes''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger%27s_eye gemstone]

'''doublets''' 
tight-fitting jackets

'''Plasma spheres''' 
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_sphere plasma lamp]

'''involuted''' 
complex, intricate

'''howitzer''' 
a short type of cannon

'''Green-Cardless''' 
not having permanent resident status and, thus, an illegal alien

'''moll''' 
the girlfriend of a criminal

'''truncheon''' 
Baton caried by police officers in the United Kingdom from the time of its inception until the early 1990s. In Northern Ireland, however, all police officers carry firearms (more information [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_use_of_firearms_in_the_United_Kingdom here]).

'''Belfast Bobbie''' 
This is an oxymoron. 'Bobby' is an English slang term for policemen (after [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Peel Robert Peel]), but the armed Northern Ireland police force (the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Ulster_Constabulary Royal Ulster Constabulary]) were never known as 'Bobbies'.

'''Old Sod''' 
A term for the "old country" among U.S. immigrants of Irish origin.

'''bagmen''' 
people who collect payments in organized crime

'''cervical massage''' 
neck massage to reduce muscle tension

'''wpm''' 
words per minute

'''shillelagh''' 
an Irish [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shillelagh_%28club%29 hand weapon]

==Page 928==

'''Bulldog''' 
mascot of Yale University

'''Post-Coital Vestibulitis''' 
Vestibulitis is inflammation of the vestibule, or vaginal opening, and thus a woman's affliction, although the related (but rare) pudendal neuralgia can occur in men; the more common symptom of the latter is pain when sitting.

'''vertiginous''' 
As in related to vertigo, the sensation of imbalance or dizziness

'''proprioception''' 
the sense of the relative position of neighbouring parts of the body. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception Wikipedia])

''''''debriefed'''''' 
i.e., had their briefs (or panties) removed

'''VLR''' 
visitor's locker room

'''pyrotechnic''' 
explosive, like fireworks ("pyrotechnic glandular atmosphere" must imply an orgasmic situation)

'''conoid''' 
conic; cone-like

'''vas deferens''' 
the male conduit for semen from the testis to the ejaculatory duct, from which it is propelled through the urethra

'''Bruins''' 
mascot of Brown University, though they actually just call themselves the "Bears"

==Page 929==

'''wrench in the ointment''' 
a mixup of "monkey wrench in the works" and "fly in the ointment," both meaning ruining someone's original plans

'''Phalanx''' 
a close-knit group of people

'''filigreed''' 
finely and elaborately ornamented work, usually made out of wire

'''N.O.W.''' 
National Organization of Women

'''power forward''' 
the one of the two forwards in basketball who more often will drive to the net

'''ursine''' 
pertaining to bears

'''ersatz''' 
an inferior substitute

'''assassination''' 
Obviously President Limbaugh was assassinated in the recent past.

==Page 930==

'''obsequity''' 
excessive compliance

'''Gaelic''' 
i.e., the Irish language

'''C-notes''' 
hundred dollar bills

'''375 sky-blue grams''' 
about 13.23 ounces

==Page 931==

==Endnote 376==

'''$660.00/g''' 
about $18,000 an ounce

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

==Page 931 (cont'd)==

'''adulterant''' 
an impurity

'''fillip''' 
to smack one's finger against by pressing the finger against the thumb and releasing

'''gigantism''' 
excessive growth

'''Ward-and-Wally''' 
referring to Theodore Cleaver's father and older brother in the CBS-ABC television series [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_It_to_Beaver ''Leave It to Beaver''] (1957-1963)

'''smack''' 
slang term for heroin

==Page 932==

'''beeline''' 
a direct route traveled quickly

'''craven''' 
cowardly

'''gloaming''' 
dusk

==Page 933==

'''entr'actes''' 
the periods between dramatic performances

'''"The wraith is back...except now with him is another, younger, way more physically fit wraith in kind of faggy biking shorts and U.S. tank top who's leaning way over Gately's railing and... fucking ''licking Gately's forehead'' with a rough little tongue..."''' 
It's Lyle. However, Lyle, being alive and well, must be able to achieve status as a wraith via meditation (this adds significance to the "Lyle Meditates" section on pg. 700).

==Page 934==

'''"...digging some dead guy's head up..."''' 
See ''Hamlet,'' Act V, Scene i.

See also pages 16-17, where Hal reflects: "I think of John N.R. Wayne...standing watch in a mask as Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head."

'''"...asks if they knew him..."''' 
"Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio..." (''Hamlet'').

=While Leaving St. Elizabeth's...=

==Page 934==

'''"...a grotesquely huge woman whose hose bulged..."''' 
It's Helen Steeply.

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==Page 902==

'''cognomen''' 
a nickname

'''pre-infarcted''' 
an infarct is when a piece of organ tissue, usually in the brain or heart (stroke or heart attack, respectively), is deprived of oxygen for a period of time because of a blockage or thrombosis, and either dies or is significantly weakened

'''fullback''' 
the running back farthest from the line of scrimmage

'''outside linebacker''' 
a defensive player who plays a few yards behind the line of scrimmage and behind one end of the defensive line or the other (as opposed to inside or middle linebackers, who are behind the center of the line)

'''a 4.4 40''' 
He could run 40 meters in 4.4 seconds.

==Page 903==

'''"...in a flaming L.A...."''' 
This would make the year 1992.

'''"some Finest got home-movied..."''' 
This is a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King Rodney King] beating.

'''Orkin''' 
a large exterminator company

'''screwdrivers''' 
vodka and orange juice

'''brownshirts and jackboots''' 
things worn by Nazis; jackboots are combat boots that go to mid-calf

'''Zog''' 
i.e., ZOG, for Zionist Occupation Government, the acronym coined by American neo-Nazi Eric Thomson

'''''The Turner Diaries''''' 
Written by William Luther Pierce III (1933-2002), this is a neo-Nazi novel once called the "blueprint" for the Oklahoma City bombing.

'''desBois''' 
the plural of ''duBois''

'''sinsemilla''' 
cultivated high potency marijuana

==Page 904==

'''Hefenreffer''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haffenreffer_Brewery Haffenreffer], a Boston brewery

'''B.M.S.''' 
Beverly Middle School

'''tapir''' 
a very long-nosed animal; see a picture [http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/sexsf/tapir10609.jpg here]

'''Erlenmeyer Flasks''' 
Read about them [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlenmeyer_flask here].T

'''"...to cyclize OH..."''' 
To cyclize something is to have it form rings. OH is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxyl_radical hydroxy radical].

==Endnote 364==

'''Love Boat''' 
actually commonly used as a nickname for marijuana laced with PCP

==Page 904 (cont'd)==

'''Farberware''' 
a brand name of pots and pans

'''tetrahydrofuran''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahydrofuran solvent]

'''PVC''' 
polyvinyl chloride

'''48 contigs''' 
48 continguous United States (excludes Alaska and Hawaii)

'''6 provinces''' 
presumably the six Canadian provinces that border the contiguous 48 states, i.e., British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Quebec

'''Sominex''' 
a brand name of antihistamine sleeping aid

'''H3C''' 
methyl group

'''mnemonic brown-out''' 
a sort of memory lapse short of a blackout

'''droogs''' 
a word from Anthony Burgess's invented [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadsat Nadsat language] from the novel 'A Clockwork Orange'; it means 'friends'

==Page 905==

'''truancy''' 
skipping school

'''A.D.D.''' 
Attention Deficit Disorder

'''strabysmic''' 
cross-eyed

'''''sieg-heil''''' 
German for "hail victory," the reference is to the Nazis.

'''aveil''' 
i.e., avail

'''Water Lou''' 
i.e., Waterloo

'''''Ethan From''''' 
see note ''supra'' for page 884

==Page 906==

'''''Howl''''' 
a famous [http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15308 poem] by Irwin Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), American poet

'''Chaucerian English''' 
You can read an example [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Canterbury_Tales/General_Prologue here].

'''enervated''' 
weakened

'''M.S.''' 
multiple sclerosis

'''Lou Gehrig's''' 
the more common name for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which the famous New York Yankee suffered from

'''Salem State U.''' 
There is a [http://www.salemstate.edu/ Salem State College], but not a university.

=Hal Wakes Up (Maybe?)=

==Page 906==

==Page 907==

'''Javol''' 
It's unclear how Hal is pronouncing this word, but he likely means ''Jawohl'', German for an emphatic "yes."

==Page 908==

'''''tu-savez-quoi''''' 
(bad) French: You know what

'''bacchanal''' 
a wild party or orgy

'''M.M.''' 
Michael Matthew

'''Shi'ite Moslems''' 
Muslims who believe that Ali was the rightful successor to the Prophet Muhammad

'''mullah''' 
a title of respect for one educated in Islamic law

'''unitard''' 
a bodysuit or one-piece leotard

==Page 909==

[[Image:Zorro.jpg|right|200px|Guy Williams as Zorro]]

'''something out of Zorro''' 
referring to Stice's mask-like face bandage; see right for a picture of Guy Williams as Disney's television Zorro (originally aired 1957-1959)

'''porcine''' 
like a swine

'''vantage''' 
point of view

'''mano-à-tête''' 
combination of "mano-a-mano" (Spanish: hand to hand) and "tête-à-tête" (French: head-to-head)

==Page 910==

'''50 kilos''' 
over 110 pounds

'''tam-o'-shanter''' 
a Scottish style hat sometimes with a tassel, feather, or pompon in the center

'''Ocean Spray''' 
a brand name of cranberry juice

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'''hydrophobia''' 
fear of water; a manifestation of the disease rabies

'''pandemic''' 
an epidemic that spreads through human populations across a large region (for example a continent), or even worldwide

'''Peterson's ''The Cage''''' 
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440309/ "The Cage"], a 28-minute surrealistic film from 1947, directed by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Peterson Sidney Peterson]

'''teleologic''' 
regarding a final cause

==Endnote 366==

'''Professor H. Bloom''' 
Harold Bloom (born 1930) is a prominent American literary critic.

'''artistic ''influenza''''' 
not actually one of Bloom's concepts

'''peripatetic''' 
walking around

==Page 911 (cont'd)==

'''''clinamen''''' 
an unpredictable swerve; see more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinamen here]

'''''tessera''''' 
can have several [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessera_(disambiguation) meanings]; it's unclear which (if any) applies here

'''''kenosis''''' 
the emptying of one's will to become receptive to God's will; see more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenosis here]

'''''daemonization''''' 
also "demonization;" essentially the repudiation of polytheistic deities by the teachings of monotheistic (or henotheistic) religions; see more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonization here]

'''''askesis''''' 
from the Greek for asceticism, characterised by exercise and/or training to develop self-discipline and self-control for religious or meditative purposes

=More Gately History=

==Page 911==

'''Saugus''' 
a suburb about 10 miles north of Boston

==Page 912==

'''B&E''' 
breaking and entering

'''prenominate''' 
named beforehand

'''priapistic''' 
having priapisms, or painful, long-lasting erections

'''Teddibly Soddy''' 
terribly sorry

'''Point Shirley''' 
a neighborhood on Deer Island, south of Winthrop, Massachusetts, in the Massachusetts Bay east of Boston

'''L.T.I.''' 
Long-term institution (glossed in note 365).

==Endnote 367==

'''Pen Registers''' 
an electronic device that records the phone numbers of outgoing calls on a particular line

==Page 912 (cont'd)==

'''vigorish''' 
the bookie's fee for his services (see "vig" later on the page and the note for page 204)

==Page 913==

'''skeet''' 
the principal borrowed amount

'''Cafergot''' 
A medication named after its combination of caffeine and ergotamine titrate, the chemical precursor to LSD; used to treat migraine headaches. Read about it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafergot here].

'''National Cranio-Facial Pain Foundation''' 
presumably fictitious, although there is a Craniofacial Pain Center in Boise, Idaho

'''hole''' 
total outstanding debt

==Endnote 368==

'''Cimetidine''' 
actually an antacid―strange that Wallace would make such an error, so perhaps it's deliberate

==Page 914==

==Endnote 369==

'''Mace''' 
a brand name of pepper spray

==Page 914 (cont'd)==

'''Osco''' 
a pharmacy chain

'''the Virus''' 
i.e., HIV

==Page 915==

'''diabetes mellitus''' 
more commonly known simply as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetes_mellitus "diabetes"]

'''respiritic''' 
presumably having to do with breathing

'''laminating''' 
sealing in plastic

==Page 916==

'''The B.U. punter''' 
a.k.a. Orin Incandenza

'''Billerica Minimum''' 
the minimum-security Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Billerica, Massachusetts

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==Page 884==

'''''Ethan From''''' 
Gately means American author Edith Wharton's 1911 novel [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Frome ''Ethan Frome''].

'''''OMMATOPHORIC''''' 
having eyes at the ends of stalks

'''''ghostwords''''' 
a word that has come into existence by error rather than by normal linguistic transmission, as through the mistaken reading of a manuscript, a scribal error, or a misprint. ([http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Ghost+words Dictionary.com])

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'''cuneiform''' 
the writing of ancient Sumer, made by digging a wedge into clay

'''Marshall Plan''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan plan] to rebuild Germany after WWII

'''Shane''' 
a reference to a [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046303/ popular western film]

==Page 886==

'''Synovial''' 
of or pertaining to the fluid that lubricates the joints

'''renal calculus''' 
kidney stones

'''ectopic labor''' 
pregnancy in the fallopian tube

'''ibuprofen''' 
the generic name for Advil

'''antipyretic''' 
designed to combat fever

'''SR''' 
Usually in drug names, this stands for "sustained release."

'''Dilaudid''' 
brand name for hydromorphone hydrochloride

'''bayou''' 
a marshy arm of a lake

'''C-II''' 
These drugs are highly addictive. Cocaine is in this class, as it is still used legally in dentistry.

==Page 887==

'''Hydrocodone''' 
also the active ingredient in Vicodin

'''Oxycodone-nalaxone''' 
Oxycodone also the active ingredient in Oxycontin. Naloxone blocks (partially, one must guess) the effects of opioids, probably to reduce abuse potential.

==Endnote 358==

'''NX''' 
Attached to a drug name, this means it contains Naloxone.

==Page 888==

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'''somnolent''' 
drowsy

==Page 891==

'''concentric circles''' 
circles within circles (and more annularity)

'''chintz''' 
printed, glazed fabric, usually of bright colors

'''the lobsters' eyes' stalks''' 
see ''OMMATOPHORIC'' earlier on pg. 884

'''Ipswich''' 
a town in northern Massachusetts about 40 miles east of Nashua, N.H.

'''intra-ocular''' 
within the eye

==Page 892==

'''Bufferin''' 
a brand of aspirin with a protectant for the stomach

'''JFK Library''' 
the Kennedy [http://www.jfklibrary.org/ Presidential library], located in Boston

'''Banfis''' 
expensive Italian shoes

==Page 893==

'''libido''' 
sex drive

'''ebubblient''' 
i.e., "ebullient" (with bubbles)

'''''hatbeat''''' 
i.e., "heartbeat" with a Boston accent ("Ya can't pak ya ca in Havid Yad.")

'''tittymount''' 
i.e., "tantamount"

==Page 894==

'''sombrero w/ balls''' 
two possibilities (see below)

[[Image:Sombrero with Dingle Balls.jpg]][[Image:Sunbather with Sombreros.jpg]]

'''maroon''' 
a cartoonish pronunciation (''à la'' Bugs Bunny) of "moron;" (see note for page 302 ''supra'')

'''scuttlebutt''' 
gossip, rumor

==Page 895==

'''''FLEET''''' 
a brand of enema

'''alacrity''' 
eagerness

'''mortification''' 
extreme embarrassment

==Page 896==

=Hal Continues Narrating=

==Page 896==

'''''Tosca''''' 
Opera by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) that premiered in 1900. Hal's "protracted death aria" is probably Cavaradossi's final aria 'E lucevan le stelle' ('And the stars shone'). Full lyrics and a recording can be found [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_lucevan_le_stelle here].

'''overcognitive''' 
thinking too much

==Page 897==

'''megagram''' 
a million grams, or slightly over 2,200 pounds

'''vivisected''' 
slaughtered, yes, but not cut apart while still living

==Page 898==

'''''Yale Journal of Alcohol Studies''''' 
There is no such journal.

'''183.6 cm.''' 
a little over six feet tall

'''recumbency''' 
perhaps a chaise longue

[[Image:Husband Pillow.jpg|thumb|right|"Husband" pillow]]

'''spectation-pillows''' 
"husband" pillows like the one shown at right

'''mylar''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PET_film_(biaxially_oriented) PET film]

'''197 cm.''' 
over 6'5"

'''Vaipassana''' 
a type of Buddhist meditation ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipassanā Wikipedia])

'''"...etymology of the word ''blizzard''..."''' 
While Hal believes the etymology is unknown, there is one offered [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/blizzard here].

'''lumiphobia''' 
probably fear of light, although the proper term is "photophobia"

'''sausage-analog''' 
something similar in appearance to a breakfast sausage link, but perhaps made of textured vegetable protein rather than pork or other meat

==Page 899==

'''averred''' 
asserted with confidence

'''neologism''' 
a newly coined word

'''"...corruption of the French ''blesser,''..."''' 
''Blesser'' is French for "to injure or wound."

'''''Northern Vindicator''''' 
the name of several real publications

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

==Page 900==

'''Sitney and Schneewind's'' Dictionary of Environmental Sciences''''' 
There is no such book, but the name Schneewind is German for "snow wind."

'''12 cm.''' 
about 4.73 inches

'''60 kph.''' 
about 38.3 miles per hour

'''500 meters''' 
a little over 1,650 feet

'''perspicacity''' 
keenness of perception

'''topology''' 
the mathematical study of sets

'''philately''' 
stamp collecting

'''gerundives''' 
the verbal adjective or present participle―in English, these end in "ing";

'''Hamlet''' 
Hal confronts his sausage-analog in Shakespeare.

==Page 901==

'''phocomelic''' 
having extremely short limbs

'''Brattleboro''' 
a town in Vermont about 75 miles west of Manchester, N.H.

'''achondroplastic''' 
having dwarfism as a result of a disorder of bone and cartilage

'''homodontic''' 
having teeth that are all of similar form (see page 316 and endnote 119)

'''bicuspid''' 
another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicuspid premolar] teeth (see note for page 316)

==Page 902==

'''sarcophagus''' 
coffin

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==Page 828==

'''Spam''' 
a brand of spiced ham

'''holding his cheek and jaw when he talks like cutout photos of the late J. Benny''' 
Comedian Jack Benny (1894-1974) would often hold his chin with his hand while addressing an audience. See Benny's statue in Cucamonga where he is holding his cheek and jaw [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bennystatue.jpg].

'''tallly insubstantial ghostish figure''' 
'tall' used adverbially with 3 successive "L"s. cute.

==Page 829==

==Page 830==

'''phantasms''' 
apparitions or specters

==Page 831==

'''quanta''' 
plural of quantum, an indivisible entity of energy

'''Heisenbergian''' 
Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901-1976) was a German physicist and one of the fathers of quantum mechanics.

==Page 832==

'''velour''' 
a felt that looks like velvet

'''''ACCIACCATURA''''' 
Comes from the Italian verb acciaccare, "to crush". The acciaccatura (sometimes called ''short appoggiatura'') is perhaps best thought of as a shorter, less melodically significant, variant of the ''long appoggiatura'', where the delay of the principal note is scarcely perceptible – theoretically subtracting no time at all." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acciaccatura#Acciaccatura Wikipedia])

'''''ALEMBIC''''' 
a device used for distillation made up of a tube connecting two containers

'''''LATRODECTUS MACTANS''''' 
"'''''Latrodectus mactans''''', the '''(southern) Black widow''', is a highly venomous species of spider in the genus Latrodectus. They are well known for the distinctive black and red coloring of the female of the species and for the fact that she will occasionally eat her mate after reproduction. The species is native to the United States of America and Mexico. The female black widow's venom is particularly harmful to humans (males almost never bite humans). The injection of venom from these species is a comparatively dangerous or lethal bite." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectus_mactans Wikipedia])

Latrodectus Mactans Productions was the name of one of the production companies James O. Incandenza did some of his film cartridges with (see filmography).

'''''NEUTRAL DENSITY POINT''''' 
it's not clear what this refers to, but it's quite possible it refers to a concept in optics similar to the concept applied in a Neutral Density Filter, given ''Infinite Jest'''s optics motif. 
"In photography and optics, a neutral density filter or ND filter can be colorless (clear) or grey filter. An ideal neutral density filter reduces and/or modifies intensity of all wavelengths or colors of light equally, giving no changes in hue of color rendition. 
The purpose of standard photographic neutral density filters is to allow the photographer greater flexibility to change the aperture, exposure time and/or blur of subject in different situations and atmospheric conditions." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_density_filter Wikipedia])

'''''CHIAROSCURO''''' 
A term originally used in drawing and painting, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiaroscuro chiaroscuro] is also used in photography and cinematography for techniques of contrasting light and dark

'''''PROPRIOCEPTION''''' 
The sense of the relative position of the parts of the body

'''''TESTUDO''''' 
Latin for "tortoise." May refer to a genus of tortoises, a type of harp, or a military formation.

'''''ANNULATE''''' 
Having or consisting of rings or ringlike segments.

'''''BRICOLAGE''''' 
The creation of an artistic work from a diverse range of things that are around

'''''CATALEPT''''' 
A person suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalepsy catalepsy], a condition of rigidity and unresponsiveness

'''''GERRYMANDER''''' 
The breaking up of territory into electoral districts so that one political party has a majority in as many districts as possible. On the other hand, gerrymandering has a broader meaning: creation of any irregularly-shaped electoral districts for any reason, including partisan political advantage or ensuring minority representation.

'''''SCOPOPHILIA''''' 
Translation of the Freudian notion of ''Schaulust'', "pleasure in looking," in the sense of both seeing and being seen, as well as "curiosity." Freud distinguished between two frequently encountered forms of this partial drive: one active, "voyeurism," and the other passive, "exhibitionism," neither of which he would necessarily rank among perversions. [cf. scopophobic (p.226) & scopophiliac (p.230)]

'''''LAERTES''''' 
(1) A character from ''Hamlet'' who blames Hamlet for the deaths of his father (Polonius) and sister (Ophelia) and seeks to avenge them by killing Hamlet with a poisoned sword.
(2) In Greek mythology, one of the Argonauts and the father of Odysseus.

'''''EXTRUDING''''' 
To push or thrust out

'''''STRIGIL''''' 
"A strigil was a small, curved, metal tool used in ancient Greece and Rome to scrape dirt and sweat from the body before effective soaps became available." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strigil Wikipedia])

'''''LORDOSIS''''' 
A condition where a person has a forward-curving spine

'''''IMPOST''''' 
A tax or duty that is imposed - this word was use by Tiny Ewell while he was speaking to (or rather, at) Gately on page 815

'''''SINISTRAL''''' 
Left-handed

'''''MENISCUS''''' 
A concavo-convex lens, or other crescent-shaped body.

'''''CHRONAXY''''' 
"In the mathematical description of the functioning of the nervous system, the chronaxie (or chronaxy) is the minimum time over which an electric current double the strength of the rheobase needs to be applied, in order to stimulate a muscle fiber or nerve cell." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronaie Wikipedia])

'''''POOR YORICK''''' 

The (dead) jester in Hamlet. The quote referred to is by Hamlet, holding Yorick's skull after Yorick's remains are uncovered: 'Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest'

Poor Yorik Entertainment is the other main production company used by the late auteur.

'''''LUCULUS''''' 
Lucullus (two l's) was a Roman general of antiquity ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucullus Wikipedia])

'''''MONTCLAIR''''' 
the model of car owned by James Incandenza's father, Mario

'''''DE SICA''''' 
Vittorio De Sica (1902-1974) was an Italian neorealist filmmaker, probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040522/ The Bicycle Thief].

'''''NEO-REAL''''' 
"Italian neorealism is a style of film characterized by stories set amongst the poor and working class, filmed on location, frequently using nonprofessional actors. Italian neorealist films mostly contend with the difficult economical and moral conditions of post-World War II Italy, reflecting the changes in the Italian psyche and the conditions of everyday life: poverty and desperation." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_neorealism Wikipedia])

'''''CRANE DOLLY''''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_dolly camera dolly] with a crane that holds the camera.

'''''CIRCUMAMBIENTFOUNDDRAMALEVIRATEMARRIAGE''''' 
Circumambient means walking around. "Found Drama" was one of James Incandenza's contributions to film artistic history. Levirate marriage is a tradition in several cultures whereby the younger brother of a deceased man marries the dead brother's widow. (See also ''Consummation of the Levirates'' on [[Pages_157-181#Page_171|p. 171]])

'''''HELIATED''''' 
When someone inhales helium, their voice becomes high-pitched.

Regarding ghostwords, recall also pg. 303, with Poor Tony: "He was haunted by the word ''Zuckung'', a foreign and possibly Yiddish word he did not recall ever before hearing."

==Page 833==

'''shinola''' 
a now-defunct brand of mid-20th century shoe polish, preserved in the expression, "You don't know shit from Shinola."

'''epiphanyish''' 
An [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epiphany epiphany] is a divine manifestation, or by extension, a sudden, deep insight.

==Page 834==

'''Vertical Hold''' 
refers to a setting on a television that adjusts the picture's vertical stabilization

''''Ren and Stimpy'''' 
the main characters in a once-popular [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_and_Stimpy animated television series]

''''Oo Is 'E When 'E's at 'Ome'''' 
"Who Is He When He's at Home?" This is a common Irish expression; if person A mentions a name in conversation that person B is unfamiliar with, person B might respond, 'And who's he when he's at home?'. The dropping of an initial 'h' is characteristic of speech in the north-of-England, rather than in Ireland.

''''Exposed Northerners'''' 
Wallace is punning on the name of the once-popular television show [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098878/ Northern Exposure].

'''Nom''' 
Gatley means "Norm," as in the ''Cheers'' character "Norm Peterson" played by George Wendt; "Nom" is how a North Shore native such as Gately might pronounce the name.

'''fractional''' 
comparatively small or insignificant

==Page 835==

'''''figurants''''' 
performers with no spoken lines

'''''The Sorrow and the Pity''''' 
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066904/ ''The Sorrow and the Pity''] (Marcel Ophüls, 1969) is a lengthy documentary about the operations of the French Resistance and Vichy Government during the Second World War. The film was nominated for an Academy Award in 1971 and plays a significant part in ''Annie Hall'' (Woody Allen, 1977).

'''Heineken Maneuver''' 
Gately means "Heimlich Maneuver."

'''Schwulst''' 
The only Schwulst I can find is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0778002/ Lance Schwulst], who is probably not the person referred to.

'''Altman''' 
Robert Bernard Altman (1925-2006) was an American filmmaker noted for his use of ensemble casts, multiple plotlines and overlapping dialogue. His major films include ''Nashville'' (1975), ''The Player'' (1992) and ''Short Cuts'' (1993). The TV series ''M*A*S*H,'' frequently referenced in ''Infinite Jest'', is based on his groundbreaking 1970 film.

'''agora''' 
a place of congregation, originally marketplaces in Ancient Greece

==Page 836==

'''''DEXTRAL''''' 
right-handed

'''Unitary''' 
having the nature of a unit; whole

==Page 837==

'''acerbic''' 
acidic; sharp or biting

==Page 838==

'''shell-game''' 
a con game

==Page 839==

'''Mennonite''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabaptist Anabaptist] denomination named for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menno_Simons Menno Simons] (1496-1561), a Frisian religious leader

'''avers''' 
declares

'''vapid''' 
lacking liveliness or spirit

==Page 840==

'''packy''' 
short for "package store," a Massachusetts euphemism for "liquor store"

'''pre-metric''' 
in the alternate timeline of ''Infinite Jest'', it's obvious that U.S. Customary systems of measurement are finally abandoned, at some point (perhaps during Reconfiguration), for the global standard of the Metric System (''ed.'': optimism on Wallace's part, one might say) - the weights the M.P. used were marked with U.S. "pounds" (lbs) instead of Metric kilograms (kg).

==Page 841==

'''fencing''' 
to sell stolen goods

'''beeswax''' 
i.e., business

==Page 842==

'''lit''' 
landed

==Page 843==

==Page 844==

'''''ü''''' 
German letter representing a high front rounded vowel, as in French ''tu'' "you". It is pronounced by producing the i-sound e.g. in "beet" with rounded lips (like for the u-sound in "boot").

'''''Al-Anon''''' 
Al-Anon/Alateen, Al-Anon Family Groups - support group for families/friends of alcoholics.

[[Image:Stetson.jpg|thumb|caption|Stetson with feather|right|140px]]
'''Stetson w/ feather''' 
Stetson hats or Stetsons refers to the brand of hat manufactered by the John B. Stetson Company of St. Joseph, Missouri. The word 'Stetson' is sometimes used as a genericized term for a cowboy hat. Although the Stetson company makes other styles of brimmed hat, the Stetson name has become synonymous with a style it pioneered, featuring a high crown and wide brim, popularly known as a Cowboy hat. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stetson Wikipedia]

'''penchant''' 
a predilection

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==Page 827==

==Page 828==

'''Spam''' 
a brand of spiced ham

'''holding his cheek and jaw when he talks like cutout photos of the late J. Benny''' 
Comedian Jack Benny (1894-1974) would often hold his chin with his hand while addressing an audience. See Benny's statue in Cucamonga where he is holding his cheek and jaw [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bennystatue.jpg].

'''tallly insubstantial ghostish figure''' 
'tall' used adverbially with 3 successive "L"s. cute.

==Page 829==

==Page 830==

'''phantasms''' 
apparitions or specters

==Page 831==

'''quanta''' 
plural of quantum, an indivisible entity of energy

'''Heisenbergian''' 
Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901-1976) was a German physicist and one of the fathers of quantum mechanics.

==Page 832==

'''velour''' 
a felt that looks like velvet

'''''ACCIACCATURA''''' 
Comes from the Italian verb acciaccare, "to crush". The acciaccatura (sometimes called ''short appoggiatura'') is perhaps best thought of as a shorter, less melodically significant, variant of the ''long appoggiatura'', where the delay of the principal note is scarcely perceptible – theoretically subtracting no time at all." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acciaccatura#Acciaccatura Wikipedia])

'''''ALEMBIC''''' 
a device used for distillation made up of a tube connecting two containers

'''''LATRODECTUS MACTANS''''' 
"'''''Latrodectus mactans''''', the '''(southern) Black widow''', is a highly venomous species of spider in the genus Latrodectus. They are well known for the distinctive black and red coloring of the female of the species and for the fact that she will occasionally eat her mate after reproduction. The species is native to the United States of America and Mexico. The female black widow's venom is particularly harmful to humans (males almost never bite humans). The injection of venom from these species is a comparatively dangerous or lethal bite." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectus_mactans Wikipedia])

Latrodectus Mactans Productions was the name of one of the production companies James O. Incandenza did some of his film cartridges with (see filmography).

'''''NEUTRAL DENSITY POINT''''' 
it's not clear what this refers to, but it's quite possible it refers to a concept in optics similar to the concept applied in a Neutral Density Filter, given ''Infinite Jest'''s optics motif. 
"In photography and optics, a neutral density filter or ND filter can be colorless (clear) or grey filter. An ideal neutral density filter reduces and/or modifies intensity of all wavelengths or colors of light equally, giving no changes in hue of color rendition. 
The purpose of standard photographic neutral density filters is to allow the photographer greater flexibility to change the aperture, exposure time and/or blur of subject in different situations and atmospheric conditions." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_density_filter Wikipedia])

'''''CHIAROSCURO''''' 
A term originally used in drawing and painting, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiaroscuro chiaroscuro] is also used in photography and cinematography for techniques of contrasting light and dark

'''''PROPRIOCEPTION''''' 
The sense of the relative position of the parts of the body

'''''TESTUDO''''' 
Latin for "tortoise." May refer to a genus of tortoises, a type of harp, or a military formation.

'''''ANNULATE''''' 
Having or consisting of rings or ringlike segments.

'''''BRICOLAGE''''' 
The creation of an artistic work from a diverse range of things that are around

'''''CATALEPT''''' 
A person suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalepsy catalepsy], a condition of rigidity and unresponsiveness

'''''GERRYMANDER''''' 
The breaking up of territory into electoral districts so that one political party has a majority in as many districts as possible. On the other hand, gerrymandering has a broader meaning: creation of any irregularly-shaped electoral districts for any reason, including partisan political advantage or ensuring minority representation.

'''''SCOPOPHILIA''''' 
Translation of the Freudian notion of ''Schaulust'', "pleasure in looking," in the sense of both seeing and being seen, as well as "curiosity." Freud distinguished between two frequently encountered forms of this partial drive: one active, "voyeurism," and the other passive, "exhibitionism," neither of which he would necessarily rank among perversions. [cf. scopophobic (p.226) & scopophiliac (p.230)]

'''''LAERTES''''' 
(1) A character from ''Hamlet'' who blames Hamlet for the deaths of his father (Polonius) and sister (Ophelia) and seeks to avenge them by killing Hamlet with a poisoned sword.
(2) In Greek mythology, one of the Argonauts and the father of Odysseus.

'''''EXTRUDING''''' 
To push or thrust out

'''''STRIGIL''''' 
"A strigil was a small, curved, metal tool used in ancient Greece and Rome to scrape dirt and sweat from the body before effective soaps became available." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strigil Wikipedia])

'''''LORDOSIS''''' 
A condition where a person has a forward-curving spine

'''''IMPOST''''' 
A tax or duty that is imposed - this word was use by Tiny Ewell while he was speaking to (or rather, at) Gately on page 815

'''''SINISTRAL''''' 
Left-handed

'''''MENISCUS''''' 
A concavo-convex lens, or other crescent-shaped body.

'''''CHRONAXY''''' 
"In the mathematical description of the functioning of the nervous system, the chronaxie (or chronaxy) is the minimum time over which an electric current double the strength of the rheobase needs to be applied, in order to stimulate a muscle fiber or nerve cell." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronaie Wikipedia])

'''''POOR YORICK''''' 

The (dead) jester in Hamlet. The quote referred to is by Hamlet, holding Yorick's skull after Yorick's remains are uncovered: 'Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest'

Poor Yorik Entertainment is the other main production company used by the late auteur.

'''''LUCULUS''''' 
Lucullus (two l's) was a Roman general of antiquity ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucullus Wikipedia])

'''''MONTCLAIR''''' 
the model of car owned by James Incandenza's father, Mario

'''''DE SICA''''' 
Vittorio De Sica (1902-1974) was an Italian neorealist filmmaker, probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040522/ The Bicycle Thief].

'''''NEO-REAL''''' 
"Italian neorealism is a style of film characterized by stories set amongst the poor and working class, filmed on location, frequently using nonprofessional actors. Italian neorealist films mostly contend with the difficult economical and moral conditions of post-World War II Italy, reflecting the changes in the Italian psyche and the conditions of everyday life: poverty and desperation." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_neorealism Wikipedia])

'''''CRANE DOLLY''''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_dolly camera dolly] with a crane that holds the camera.

'''''CIRCUMAMBIENTFOUNDDRAMALEVIRATEMARRIAGE''''' 
Circumambient means walking around. "Found Drama" was one of James Incandenza's contributions to film artistic history. Levirate marriage is a tradition in several cultures whereby the younger brother of a deceased man marries the dead brother's widow. (See also ''Consummation of the Levirates'' on [[Pages_157-181#Page_171|p. 171]])

'''''HELIATED''''' 
When someone inhales helium, their voice becomes high-pitched.

Regarding ghostwords, recall also pg. 303, with Poor Tony: "He was haunted by the word ''Zuckung'', a foreign and possibly Yiddish word he did not recall ever before hearing."

==Page 833==

'''shinola''' 
a now-defunct brand of mid-20th century shoe polish, preserved in the expression, "You don't know shit from Shinola."

'''epiphanyish''' 
An [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epiphany epiphany] is a divine manifestation, or by extension, a sudden, deep insight.

==Page 834==

'''Vertical Hold''' 
refers to a setting on a television that adjusts the picture's vertical stabilization

''''Ren and Stimpy'''' 
the main characters in a once-popular [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_and_Stimpy animated television series]

''''Oo Is 'E When 'E's at 'Ome'''' 
"Who Is He When He's at Home?" This is a common Irish expression; if person A mentions a name in conversation that person B is unfamiliar with, person B might respond, 'And who's he when he's at home?'. The dropping of an initial 'h' is characteristic of speech in the north-of-England, rather than in Ireland.

''''Exposed Northerners'''' 
Wallace is punning on the name of the once-popular television show [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098878/ Northern Exposure].

'''Nom''' 
Gatley means "Norm," as in the ''Cheers'' character "Norm Peterson" played by George Wendt; "Nom" is how a North Shore native such as Gately might pronounce the name.

'''fractional''' 
comparatively small or insignificant

==Page 835==

'''''figurants''''' 
performers with no spoken lines

'''''The Sorrow and the Pity''''' 
a [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066904/ film] about the Nazi occupation of France

'''Heineken Maneuver''' 
Gately means "Heimlich Maneuver."

'''Schwulst or Altman''' 
The only Schwulst I can find is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0778002/ Lance Schwulst], who is probably not the person referred to. Robert Bernard Altman (1925-2006) was an American filmmaker.

'''agora''' 
a place of congregation, originally marketplaces in Ancient Greece

==Page 836==

'''''DEXTRAL''''' 
right-handed

'''Unitary''' 
having the nature of a unit; whole

==Page 837==

'''acerbic''' 
acidic; sharp or biting

==Page 838==

'''shell-game''' 
a con game

==Page 839==

'''Mennonite''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabaptist Anabaptist] denomination named for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menno_Simons Menno Simons] (1496-1561), a Frisian religious leader

'''avers''' 
declares

'''vapid''' 
lacking liveliness or spirit

==Page 840==

'''packy''' 
short for "package store," a Massachusetts euphemism for "liquor store"

'''pre-metric''' 
in the alternate timeline of ''Infinite Jest'', it's obvious that U.S. Customary systems of measurement are finally abandoned, at some point (perhaps during Reconfiguration), for the global standard of the Metric System (''ed.'': optimism on Wallace's part, one might say) - the weights the M.P. used were marked with U.S. "pounds" (lbs) instead of Metric kilograms (kg).

==Page 841==

'''fencing''' 
to sell stolen goods

'''beeswax''' 
i.e., business

==Page 842==

'''lit''' 
landed

==Page 843==

==Page 844==

'''''ü''''' 
German letter representing a high front rounded vowel, as in French ''tu'' "you". It is pronounced by producing the i-sound e.g. in "beet" with rounded lips (like for the u-sound in "boot").

'''''Al-Anon''''' 
Al-Anon/Alateen, Al-Anon Family Groups - support group for families/friends of alcoholics.

[[Image:Stetson.jpg|thumb|caption|Stetson with feather|right|140px]]
'''Stetson w/ feather''' 
Stetson hats or Stetsons refers to the brand of hat manufactered by the John B. Stetson Company of St. Joseph, Missouri. The word 'Stetson' is sometimes used as a genericized term for a cowboy hat. Although the Stetson company makes other styles of brimmed hat, the Stetson name has become synonymous with a style it pioneered, featuring a high crown and wide brim, popularly known as a Cowboy hat. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stetson Wikipedia]

'''penchant''' 
a predilection

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==Page 827==

==Page 828==

'''Spam''' 
a brand of spiced ham

'''holding his cheek and jaw when he talks like cutout photos of the late J. Benny''' 
Comedian Jack Benny (1894-1974) would often hold his chin with his hand while addressing an audience. See Benny's statue in Cucamonga where he is holding his cheek and jaw [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bennystatue.jpg].

'''tallly insubstantial ghostish figure''' 
'tall' used adverbially with 3 successive "L"s. cute.

==Page 829==

==Page 830==

'''phantasms''' 
apparitions or specters

==Page 831==

'''quanta''' 
plural of quantum, an indivisible entity of energy

'''Heisenbergian''' 
Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901-1976) was a German physicist and one of the fathers of quantum mechanics.

==Page 832==

'''velour''' 
a felt that looks like velvet

'''''ACCIACCATURA''''' 
Comes from the Italian verb acciaccare, "to crush". The acciaccatura (sometimes called ''short appoggiatura'') is perhaps best thought of as a shorter, less melodically significant, variant of the ''long appoggiatura'', where the delay of the principal note is scarcely perceptible – theoretically subtracting no time at all." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acciaccatura#Acciaccatura Wikipedia])

'''''ALEMBIC''''' 
a device used for distillation made up of a tube connecting two containers

'''''LATRODECTUS MACTANS''''' 
"'''''Latrodectus mactans''''', the '''(southern) Black widow''', is a highly venomous species of spider in the genus Latrodectus. They are well known for the distinctive black and red coloring of the female of the species and for the fact that she will occasionally eat her mate after reproduction. The species is native to the United States of America and Mexico. The female black widow's venom is particularly harmful to humans (males almost never bite humans). The injection of venom from these species is a comparatively dangerous or lethal bite." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectus_mactans Wikipedia])

Latrodectus Mactans Productions was the name of one of the production companies James O. Incandenza did some of his film cartridges with (see filmography).

'''''NEUTRAL DENSITY POINT''''' 
it's not clear what this refers to, but it's quite possible it refers to a concept in optics similar to the concept applied in a Neutral Density Filter, given ''Infinite Jest'''s optics motif. 
"In photography and optics, a neutral density filter or ND filter can be colorless (clear) or grey filter. An ideal neutral density filter reduces and/or modifies intensity of all wavelengths or colors of light equally, giving no changes in hue of color rendition. 
The purpose of standard photographic neutral density filters is to allow the photographer greater flexibility to change the aperture, exposure time and/or blur of subject in different situations and atmospheric conditions." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_density_filter Wikipedia])

'''''CHIAROSCURO''''' 
A term originally used in drawing and painting, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiaroscuro chiaroscuro] is also used in photography and cinematography for techniques of contrasting light and dark

'''''PROPRIOCEPTION''''' 
The sense of the relative position of the parts of the body

'''''TESTUDO''''' 
Latin for "tortoise." May refer to a genus of tortoises, a type of harp, or a military formation.

'''''ANNULATE''''' 
Having or consisting of rings or ringlike segments.

'''''BRICOLAGE''''' 
The creation of an artistic work from a diverse range of things that are around

'''''CATALEPT''''' 
A person suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalepsy catalepsy], a condition of rigidity and unresponsiveness

'''''GERRYMANDER''''' 
The breaking up of territory into electoral districts so that one political party has a majority in as many districts as possible. On the other hand, gerrymandering has a broader meaning: creation of any irregularly-shaped electoral districts for any reason, including partisan political advantage or ensuring minority representation.

'''''SCOPOPHILIA''''' 
Translation of the Freudian notion of ''Schaulust'', "pleasure in looking," in the sense of both seeing and being seen, as well as "curiosity." Freud distinguished between two frequently encountered forms of this partial drive: one active, "voyeurism," and the other passive, "exhibitionism," neither of which he would necessarily rank among perversions. [cf. scopophobic (p.226) & scopophiliac (p.230)]

'''''LAERTES''''' 
(1) A character from ''Hamlet'' who blames Hamlet for the deaths of his father (Polonius) and sister (Ophelia) and seeks to avenge them by killing Hamlet with a poisoned sword.
(2) In Greek mythology, one of the Argonauts and the father of Odysseus.

'''''EXTRUDING''''' 
To push or thrust out

'''''STRIGIL''''' 
"A strigil was a small, curved, metal tool used in ancient Greece and Rome to scrape dirt and sweat from the body before effective soaps became available." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strigil Wikipedia])

'''''LORDOSIS''''' 
A condition where a person has a forward-curving spine

'''''IMPOST''''' 
A tax or duty that is imposed - this word was use by Tiny Ewell while he was speaking to (or rather, at) Gately on page 815

'''''SINISTRAL''''' 
Left-handed

'''''MENISCUS''''' 
A concavo-convex lens, or other crescent-shaped body.

'''''CHRONAXY''''' 
"In the mathematical description of the functioning of the nervous system, the chronaxie (or chronaxy) is the minimum time over which an electric current double the strength of the rheobase needs to be applied, in order to stimulate a muscle fiber or nerve cell." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronaie Wikipedia])

'''''POOR YORICK''''' 

The (dead) jester in Hamlet. The quote referred to is by Hamlet, holding Yorick's skull after Yorick's remains are uncovered: 'Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest'

Poor Yorik Entertainment is the other main production company used by the late auteur.

'''''LUCULUS''''' 
Lucullus (two l's) was a Roman general of antiquity ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucullus Wikipedia])

'''''MONTCLAIR''''' 
the model of car owned by James Incandenza's father, Mario

'''''DE SICA''''' 
Vittorio De Sica (1902-1974) was an Italian neorealist filmmaker, probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040522/ The Bicycle Thief].

'''''NEO-REAL''''' 
"Italian neorealism is a style of film characterized by stories set amongst the poor and working class, filmed on location, frequently using nonprofessional actors. Italian neorealist films mostly contend with the difficult economical and moral conditions of post-World War II Italy, reflecting the changes in the Italian psyche and the conditions of everyday life: poverty and desperation." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_neorealism Wikipedia])

'''''CRANE DOLLY''''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_dolly camera dolly] with a crane that holds the camera.

'''''CIRCUMAMBIENTFOUNDDRAMALEVIRATEMARRIAGE''''' 
Circumambient means walking around. "Found Drama" was one of James Incandenza's contributions to film artistic history. Levirate marriage is a tradition in several cultures whereby the younger brother of a deceased man marries the dead brother's widow. (See also ''Consummation of the Levirates'' on [[Pages_157-181#Page_171|p. 171]])

'''''HELIATED''''' 
When someone inhales helium, their voice becomes high-pitched.

Regarding ghostwords, recall also pg. 303, with Poor Tony: "He was haunted by the word ''Zuckung'', a foreign and possibly Yiddish word he did not recall ever before hearing."

==Page 833==

'''shinola''' 
a now-defunct brand of mid-20th century shoe polish, preserved in the expression, "You don't know shit from Shinola."

'''epiphanyish''' 
An [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epiphany epiphany] is a divine manifestation, or by extension, a sudden, deep insight.

==Page 834==

'''Vertical Hold''' 
refers to a setting on a television that adjusts the picture's vertical stabilization

''''Ren and Stimpy'''' 
the main characters in a once-popular [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_and_Stimpy animated television series]

''''Oo Is 'E When 'E's at 'Ome'''' 
or "Who Is He When He's at Home?", which is apparently a common Irish saying

''''Exposed Northerners'''' 
Wallace is punning on the name of the once-popular television show [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098878/ Northern Exposure].

'''Nom''' 
Gatley means "Norm," as in the ''Cheers'' character "Norm Peterson"; "Nom" is how a North Shore native such as Gately might pronounce the name.

'''fractional''' 
comparatively small or insignificant

==Page 835==

'''''figurants''''' 
performers with no spoken lines

'''''The Sorrow and the Pity''''' 
a [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066904/ film] about the Nazi occupation of France

'''Heineken Maneuver''' 
Gately means "Heimlich Maneuver."

'''Schwulst or Altman''' 
The only Schwulst I can find is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0778002/ Lance Schwulst], who is probably not the person referred to. Robert Bernard Altman (1925-2006) was an American filmmaker.

'''agora''' 
a place of congregation, originally marketplaces in Ancient Greece

==Page 836==

'''''DEXTRAL''''' 
right-handed

'''Unitary''' 
having the nature of a unit; whole

==Page 837==

'''acerbic''' 
acidic; sharp or biting

==Page 838==

'''shell-game''' 
a con game

==Page 839==

'''Mennonite''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabaptist Anabaptist] denomination named for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menno_Simons Menno Simons] (1496-1561), a Frisian religious leader

'''avers''' 
declares

'''vapid''' 
lacking liveliness or spirit

==Page 840==

'''packy''' 
short for "package store," a Massachusetts euphemism for "liquor store"

'''pre-metric''' 
in the alternate timeline of ''Infinite Jest'', it's obvious that U.S. Customary systems of measurement are finally abandoned, at some point (perhaps during Reconfiguration), for the global standard of the Metric System (''ed.'': optimism on Wallace's part, one might say) - the weights the M.P. used were marked with U.S. "pounds" (lbs) instead of Metric kilograms (kg).

==Page 841==

'''fencing''' 
to sell stolen goods

'''beeswax''' 
i.e., business

==Page 842==

'''lit''' 
landed

==Page 843==

==Page 844==

'''''ü''''' 
German letter representing a high front rounded vowel, as in French ''tu'' "you". It is pronounced by producing the i-sound e.g. in "beet" with rounded lips (like for the u-sound in "boot").

'''''Al-Anon''''' 
Al-Anon/Alateen, Al-Anon Family Groups - support group for families/friends of alcoholics.

[[Image:Stetson.jpg|thumb|caption|Stetson with feather|right|140px]]
'''Stetson w/ feather''' 
Stetson hats or Stetsons refers to the brand of hat manufactered by the John B. Stetson Company of St. Joseph, Missouri. The word 'Stetson' is sometimes used as a genericized term for a cowboy hat. Although the Stetson company makes other styles of brimmed hat, the Stetson name has become synonymous with a style it pioneered, featuring a high crown and wide brim, popularly known as a Cowboy hat. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stetson Wikipedia]

'''penchant''' 
a predilection

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==Page 827==

==Page 828==

'''Spam''' 
a brand of spiced ham

'''holding his cheek and jaw when he talks like cutout photos of the late J. Benny''' 
Comedian Jack Benny (1894-1974) would often hold his chin with his hand while addressing an audience. See Benny's statue in Cucamonga where he is holding his cheek and jaw [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bennystatue.jpg].

'''tallly insubstantial ghostish figure''' 
'tall' used adverbially with 3 successive "L"s. cute.

==Page 829==

==Page 830==

'''phantasms''' 
apparitions or specters

==Page 831==

'''quanta''' 
plural of quantum, an indivisible entity of energy

'''Heisenbergian''' 
Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901-1976) was a German physicist and one of the fathers of quantum mechanics.

==Page 832==

'''velour''' 
a felt that looks like velvet

'''''ACCIACCATURA''''' 
Comes from the Italian verb acciaccare, "to crush". The acciaccatura (sometimes called ''short appoggiatura'') is perhaps best thought of as a shorter, less melodically significant, variant of the ''long appoggiatura'', where the delay of the principal note is scarcely perceptible – theoretically subtracting no time at all." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acciaccatura#Acciaccatura Wikipedia])

'''''ALEMBIC''''' 
a device used for distillation made up of a tube connecting two containers

'''''LATRODECTUS MACTANS''''' 
"'''''Latrodectus mactans''''', the '''(southern) Black widow''', is a highly venomous species of spider in the genus Latrodectus. They are well known for the distinctive black and red coloring of the female of the species and for the fact that she will occasionally eat her mate after reproduction. The species is native to the United States of America and Mexico. The female black widow's venom is particularly harmful to humans (males almost never bite humans). The injection of venom from these species is a comparatively dangerous or lethal bite." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectus_mactans Wikipedia])

Latrodectus Mactans Productions was the name of one of the production companies James O. Incandenza did some of his film cartridges with (see filmography).

'''''NEUTRAL DENSITY POINT''''' 
it's not clear what this refers to, but it's quite possible it refers to a concept in optics similar to the concept applied in a Neutral Density Filter, given ''Infinite Jest'''s optics motif. 
"In photography and optics, a neutral density filter or ND filter can be colorless (clear) or grey filter. An ideal neutral density filter reduces and/or modifies intensity of all wavelengths or colors of light equally, giving no changes in hue of color rendition. 
The purpose of standard photographic neutral density filters is to allow the photographer greater flexibility to change the aperture, exposure time and/or blur of subject in different situations and atmospheric conditions." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_density_filter Wikipedia])

'''''CHIAROSCURO''''' 
A term originally used in drawing and painting, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiaroscuro chiaroscuro] is also used in photography and cinematography for techniques of contrasting light and dark

'''''PROPRIOCEPTION''''' 
The sense of the relative position of the parts of the body

'''''TESTUDO''''' 
Latin for "tortoise." May refer to a genus of tortoises, a type of harp, or a military formation.

'''''ANNULATE''''' 
Having or consisting of rings or ringlike segments.

'''''BRICOLAGE''''' 
The creation of an artistic work from a diverse range of things that are around

'''''CATALEPT''''' 
A person suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalepsy catalepsy], a condition of rigidity and unresponsiveness

'''''GERRYMANDER''''' 
The breaking up of territory into electoral districts so that one political party has a majority in as many districts as possible. On the other hand, gerrymandering has a broader meaning: creation of any irregularly-shaped electoral districts for any reason, including partisan political advantage or ensuring minority representation.

'''''SCOPOPHILIA''''' 
Translation of the Freudian notion of ''Schaulust'', "pleasure in looking," in the sense of both seeing and being seen, as well as "curiosity." Freud distinguished between two frequently encountered forms of this partial drive: one active, "voyeurism," and the other passive, "exhibitionism," neither of which he would necessarily rank among perversions. [cf. scopophobic (p.226) & scopophiliac (p.230)]

'''''LAERTES''''' 
(1) A character from ''Hamlet'' who blames Hamlet for the deaths of his father and sister (Polonius and Ophelia), and seeks to avenge them by killing Hamlet with a poisoned sword. (2) In Greek mythology, one of the Argonauts and the father of Odysseus.

'''''EXTRUDING''''' 
To push or thrust out

'''''STRIGIL''''' 
"A strigil was a small, curved, metal tool used in ancient Greece and Rome to scrape dirt and sweat from the body before effective soaps became available." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strigil Wikipedia])

'''''LORDOSIS''''' 
A condition where a person has a forward-curving spine

'''''IMPOST''''' 
A tax or duty that is imposed - this word was use by Tiny Ewell while he was speaking to (or rather, at) Gately on page 815

'''''SINISTRAL''''' 
Left-handed

'''''MENISCUS''''' 
A concavo-convex lens, or other crescent-shaped body.

'''''CHRONAXY''''' 
"In the mathematical description of the functioning of the nervous system, the chronaxie (or chronaxy) is the minimum time over which an electric current double the strength of the rheobase needs to be applied, in order to stimulate a muscle fiber or nerve cell." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronaie Wikipedia])

'''''POOR YORICK''''' 

The (dead) jester in Hamlet. The quote referred to is by Hamlet, holding Yorick's skull after Yorick's remains are uncovered: 'Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest'

Poor Yorik Entertainment is the other main production company used by the late auteur.

'''''LUCULUS''''' 
Lucullus (two l's) was a Roman general of antiquity ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucullus Wikipedia])

'''''MONTCLAIR''''' 
the model of car owned by James Incandenza's father, Mario

'''''DE SICA''''' 
Vittorio De Sica (1902-1974) was an Italian neorealist filmmaker, probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040522/ The Bicycle Thief].

'''''NEO-REAL''''' 
"Italian neorealism is a style of film characterized by stories set amongst the poor and working class, filmed on location, frequently using nonprofessional actors. Italian neorealist films mostly contend with the difficult economical and moral conditions of post-World War II Italy, reflecting the changes in the Italian psyche and the conditions of everyday life: poverty and desperation." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_neorealism Wikipedia])

'''''CRANE DOLLY''''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_dolly camera dolly] with a crane that holds the camera.

'''''CIRCUMAMBIENTFOUNDDRAMALEVIRATEMARRIAGE''''' 
Circumambient means walking around. "Found Drama" was one of James Incandenza's contributions to film artistic history. Levirate marriage is a tradition in several cultures whereby the younger brother of a deceased man marries the dead brother's widow. (See also ''Consummation of the Levirates'' on [[Pages_157-181#Page_171|p. 171]])

'''''HELIATED''''' 
When someone inhales helium, their voice becomes high-pitched.

Regarding ghostwords, recall also pg. 303, with Poor Tony: "He was haunted by the word ''Zuckung'', a foreign and possibly Yiddish word he did not recall ever before hearing."

==Page 833==

'''shinola''' 
a now-defunct brand of mid-20th century shoe polish, preserved in the expression, "You don't know shit from Shinola."

'''epiphanyish''' 
An [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epiphany epiphany] is a divine manifestation, or by extension, a sudden, deep insight.

==Page 834==

'''Vertical Hold''' 
refers to a setting on a television that adjusts the picture's vertical stabilization

''''Ren and Stimpy'''' 
the main characters in a once-popular [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_and_Stimpy animated television series]

''''Oo Is 'E When 'E's at 'Ome'''' 
or "Who Is He When He's at Home?", which is apparently a common Irish saying

''''Exposed Northerners'''' 
Wallace is punning on the name of the once-popular television show [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098878/ Northern Exposure].

'''Nom''' 
Gatley means "Norm," as in the ''Cheers'' character "Norm Peterson"; "Nom" is how a North Shore native such as Gately might pronounce the name.

'''fractional''' 
comparatively small or insignificant

==Page 835==

'''''figurants''''' 
performers with no spoken lines

'''''The Sorrow and the Pity''''' 
a [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066904/ film] about the Nazi occupation of France

'''Heineken Maneuver''' 
Gately means "Heimlich Maneuver."

'''Schwulst or Altman''' 
The only Schwulst I can find is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0778002/ Lance Schwulst], who is probably not the person referred to. Robert Bernard Altman (1925-2006) was an American filmmaker.

'''agora''' 
a place of congregation, originally marketplaces in Ancient Greece

==Page 836==

'''''DEXTRAL''''' 
right-handed

'''Unitary''' 
having the nature of a unit; whole

==Page 837==

'''acerbic''' 
acidic; sharp or biting

==Page 838==

'''shell-game''' 
a con game

==Page 839==

'''Mennonite''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabaptist Anabaptist] denomination named for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menno_Simons Menno Simons] (1496-1561), a Frisian religious leader

'''avers''' 
declares

'''vapid''' 
lacking liveliness or spirit

==Page 840==

'''packy''' 
short for "package store," a Massachusetts euphemism for "liquor store"

'''pre-metric''' 
in the alternate timeline of ''Infinite Jest'', it's obvious that U.S. Customary systems of measurement are finally abandoned, at some point (perhaps during Reconfiguration), for the global standard of the Metric System (''ed.'': optimism on Wallace's part, one might say) - the weights the M.P. used were marked with U.S. "pounds" (lbs) instead of Metric kilograms (kg).

==Page 841==

'''fencing''' 
to sell stolen goods

'''beeswax''' 
i.e., business

==Page 842==

'''lit''' 
landed

==Page 843==

==Page 844==

'''''ü''''' 
German letter representing a high front rounded vowel, as in French ''tu'' "you". It is pronounced by producing the i-sound e.g. in "beet" with rounded lips (like for the u-sound in "boot").

'''''Al-Anon''''' 
Al-Anon/Alateen, Al-Anon Family Groups - support group for families/friends of alcoholics.

[[Image:Stetson.jpg|thumb|caption|Stetson with feather|right|140px]]
'''Stetson w/ feather''' 
Stetson hats or Stetsons refers to the brand of hat manufactered by the John B. Stetson Company of St. Joseph, Missouri. The word 'Stetson' is sometimes used as a genericized term for a cowboy hat. Although the Stetson company makes other styles of brimmed hat, the Stetson name has become synonymous with a style it pioneered, featuring a high crown and wide brim, popularly known as a Cowboy hat. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stetson Wikipedia]

'''penchant''' 
a predilection

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==Page 380==

'''fiat''' 
official sanction

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

==Endnote 147==

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

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

==Page 380 (cont'd)==

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

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

'''aigrette''' 
decorative feather or plume

==Endnote 148==

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

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

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

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

'''escudo''' 
Spanish for shield

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

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

==Page 380 (cont'd)==

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

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

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

==Page 381==

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

'''amanuentic''' 
secretarial

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Dermalatix''' 
not a real product

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

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

'''schmaltz''' 
rendered chicken fat, used in cooking by Jews who keep kosher (among others), who cannot use lard or other rendered pork fat

==Endnote 149==

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

==Page 382 (cont'd)==

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

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

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

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

'''prescient''' 
having previous knowledge

'''jingoist''' 
patriotic to an extreme

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

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

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

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

==Endnote 150==

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

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

==Page 382 (cont'd)==

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

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

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

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

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

'''redolent''' 
extremely fragrant

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

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

==Page 383==

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

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

'''CO''' 
carbon monoxide

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

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

'''mufti''' 
civilian clothes

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

'''fractious''' 
unruly or angry

==Page 384==

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

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

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

'''wavered''' 
quavering in sound

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

'''dusky''' 
dark-skinned

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

==Page 385==

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

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

'''absolution''' 
forgiveness of sins

'''jejune''' 
childish or juvenile

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

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

'''sympatico''' 
in agreement

'''inexorable''' 
unyielding

'''prandial''' 
(for) eating

'''NATO''' 
North Atlantic Treaty Organization

'''EEC''' 
European Economic Community

'''oown''' 
Canadian pronunciation

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

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

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

==Page 386==

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

'''ICBM''' 
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

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

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

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

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

=Meanwhile, in the Weight Room=

==Page 386==

'''purling''' 
flowing or rippling

==Page 387==

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

'''fulgurant''' 
flashing like lightning

==Page 388==

'''glabrous''' 
smooth, hairless

'''wunderkind''' 
German: child prodigy

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

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

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

'''assuasive''' 
soothing, calming

==Page 389==

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

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

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

==Page 390==

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

'''turpitude''' 
depravity

'''dire''' 
indicating trouble

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

=''The ONANtiad'', cont.=

==Page 391==

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

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

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

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

'''THERMS''' 
thermonuclear warheads

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

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

==Page 392==

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

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

==Page 393==

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

'''Pruritis''' 
very bad itching

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

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

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

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

==Page 394==

=Meanwhile, in the Weight Room, cont.=

==Page 394==

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

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

'''somnambulist''' 
sleepwalker

==Page 395==

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

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

'''DMV''' 
Department of Motor Vehicles

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

=Some of Himself's Movies=

==Page 395==

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

==Page 396==

'''sucrose''' 
table sugar

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

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

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

'''muttonchops''' 
very thick sideburns

'''involuted''' 
complicated; abstruse.

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

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

==Page 397==

'''cottoned''' 
took a liking to

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

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

==Page 398==

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

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(The longest chapter in the book)
==Page 343==

'''''GAUDEAMUS IGITUR''''' 
"Let us rejoice"

'''singular''' 
unique

'''polysterene''' 
styrofoam

'''ziggurats''' 
an ancient type of Mesopotamian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat temple tower]

'''fiberboard''' 
board made of small fibers of wood, plastic, or some combination of these and other materials

'''Concord''' 
Concord is about 20 miles northwest of Boston and is the site one of the first battles of the American Revolution.

==Page 344==

'''rotary''' 
a traffic circle or, in the U.K., a roundabout

'''plywood''' 
material made of thin layers of wood glued together

''''12th-Step Work'''' 
The twelfth and final step of AA is this: "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs."

'''epigrammatic''' 
of or pertaining to the use of short and pithy statements

'''pay it ''forward''''' 
thus the title of [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0223897/ this movie]

'''nip''' 
drink of alcohol

'''Dick Cavett and Truman Capote''' 
Richard Alva "Dick" Cavett (born 1936) is an Emmy-award-winning television talk-show host. Truman Capote (1924-1984) was an American writer and novelist, best known for writing ''In Cold Blood'' and ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''. Both men were remarkably short.

==Endnote 133==

'''variegated''' 
diverse

'''esoteric''' 
understood or recognized by few people

==Page 344 (cont'd)==

'''piping''' 
This is a tubular band of ornamental material; Nodie is probably a brand name.

'''imbricate''' 
overlapping in sequence

'''tailor's notch''' 
Notch in your tooth you get from repeatedly biting thread to cut it (or from holding a sewing needle between one's teeth)

'''incisors''' 
front top teeth

==Page 345==

'''insipid''' 
without interesting qualities

'''AA Preamble''' 
You can read it [http://www.serenityfound.org/preamble.html here].

'''empathy''' 
one's ability to feel the emotions of another person

'''what he is''' 
i.e., an alcoholic

==Endnote 134==

'''nonpunitive''' 
not intended as a punishment

'''nitro''' 
nitroglycerin, used for cardiac attacks

==Page 345 (cont'd)==

'''145 kph''' 
a hair over 90 miles per hour

'''litany''' 
a prolonged or tedious account

==Page 346==

'''waxing''' 
growing in size, as for the first half of a lunar cycle

'''peritonitis''' 
inflammation of the serous membrane lining the abdomenal cavity

'''cirrhotic''' 
pertaining to hardening of liver tissue

'''nephritis''' 
inflammation of the kidneys

==Page 347==

'''compadre''' 
a close friend or companion, from the Spanish for "godfather"

'''ravening''' 
voracious

'''maw''' 
mouth

'''Black Mass''' 
a Satanic ritual based on ten Roman Catholic mass

==Page 348==

'''"...something whimpery instead of banging."''' 
a reference to the last line of T.S. Eliot's poem [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollow_Men The Hollow Men]

'''garish''' 
loud and flashy

'''Balaclavan''' 
a reference to Balaklava, Ukraine, and the suicidal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade Charge of the Light Brigade]

'''prognathous''' 
having one's lower jaw project beyond the upper part of one's face

'''thermal''' 
a warm, rising air current

'''arbitrage''' 
simultaneous purchase and sale of the same assets in different markets

'''compound''' 
i.e., a compound fracture, where the bone protrudes through the skin

'''Svce''' 
Service

'''Unitarian''' 
Though the term refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian Unitarianism], here it suggestsa kind of hippyesque, wishy-washyness.

==Page 349==

'''Hindenburg''' 
Named for Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg (1847-1934), the German field marshal, hero of World War I, and last President of the Weimar Republic, the ''Hindenburg'' was a hydrogen-filled zeppelin that exploded over Lakehurst, N.J., on May 6, 1937.

'''nonuremic''' 
so as not to appear in one's urine

'''foamer''' 
beer

==Page 350==

'''beatific''' 
blissful or angelic

'''Zippo''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippo brand] of lighter

'''saccharin''' 
A play on words. "Saccharin" is the artificial sweetener in Sweet & Low (coffee is being discussed); "saccharine" means "overly sweet."

'''flummoxed''' 
confused or perplexed

'''burnished''' 
rubbed smooth

'''squalid''' 
foul and repulsive

==Page 351==

'''terse''' 
using few words

'''imperative''' 
a tense of verb implicating a command or directive

'''zealotry''' 
fanaticism

'''green-card Irishman''' 
an Irishman who is a permanent resident non-citizen of the U.S.

'''meal''' 
ground grain

'''metal-pedalled''' 
i.e., "with the pedal to the metal," i.e., at top speed

'''chemical psychosis''' 
Psychosis (called "speed psychosisis") a not uncommon side effect of amphetamine abuse.

'''wax lyrical''' 
to speak poetically

'''"'d been a confarmed..."''' 
I'd been a confirmed bowl-splatterer for years beyond counting. I'd been barred from the facilities at all the truck stops betwixt here and New York for years. The wallpaper in the loo at home hung in these curled sheets from the wall, I tell you. But now one day . . . I'll remember it always. It were a week to the day after I stood up for my ninety-day chip. I were three months sober. I were there on the throne at home, you know. Not to put too fine a point on it, I produced as usual and . . . and I were so amazed as to not believing my ears. It was a sound so unfamiliar at the first I thought I'd dropped my wallet in the loo, do you know? I thought I'd dropped me wallet in the loo as god is my witness. So down I bend betwixt my knees and had a look in the dim of the loo and couldn't believe my eyes. So good people I do then I drop to my knees by the loo and had a ''real'' look. A lover's look, do you know? And friends it were a lovely past my poor powers to say. It were a ''turd'' in the loo. A ''real turd''. It were firm and tapered and ever so gently arched. It looked . . . ''constructed'' instead of sprayed. It look as I felt in my heart God himself made a turd to look. My friends, this turd of mine practically had a pulse. I stayed down on my knees and thanked my Higher Power, which I choose to call my Higher Power God, and I been thanking my Higher Power on my knees ever since, morning and nighttime and in the loo as well, ever since.

'''ninety-day chip''' 
In AA, medals, or chips, are awarded to commemorate certain lengths of sobriety

==Page 352==

'''Enuresis''' 
bed-wetting

'''Priapism''' 
an erection that won't go away

'''Projectile-incontinence''' 
inability to hold owns bowels to the extent that feces shoot out of the anus

'''Autocastration''' 
castration of one's self

'''fringe-Birchism''' 
Birchism is adherence to the principles of the [http://www.jbs.org/ John Birch Society], an ultra-right-wing political organization

'''National-Socialist-Bundtism''' 
The National Socialists were the Nazis, and ''bund'' is German for ''bunch'', but it's unclear why Wallace uses ''Bundtism'' with the ''t'' rather than simply ''Bundism''. This could refer to something like the German-American Bund of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Kuhn_(Nazi) Fritz Julius Kuhn].

'''Coprophilia and -phagia''' 
sexual excitement brought on by feces and eating of feces, respectively

'''candelabrum''' 
a holder for more than one candle

==Page 353==

'''vitriolic''' 
something highly caustic or severe, as criticism; the phrase ''prodigy of vitriolic spine'' must refer to someone with an impressive and courageous capacity (talent?) for scathing criticism

'''orevwar''' 
i.e., ''au revoir'', the French for "goodbye"

'''fremitic''' 
characterized by tremor vibrations in any part of the body

==Page 354==

'''verdant''' 
green with vegetation

'''varicose''' 
having veins that are visible through the skin

'''shamanistic fiat''' 
A shaman is a priest or religious official, usually of an indigenous religion. A fiat is an order, based on the Latin for the imperative form of the verb "to be."

'''30 kph''' 
18.6 miles per hour

'''talismanically''' 
in a way suggesting something having to do with a magic charm or amulet

'''Lord's Prayer''' 
from [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%206:9-13;&version=9; Matthew 20:9-13]

'''ballast''' 
meaning an electric ballast, which is used to regulate and stabilize the current in lights

==Page 355==

'''gnarled''' 
knotty and misshappen

'''Sixers''' 
the short name for the [http://www.nba.com/sixers/index_main.html Philadelphia 76ers]

'''MCI-Walpole''' 
This is the Massachusetts Correction Institute at Walpole, about 25 miles southwest of Boston.

'''raisin jack''' 
an alcoholic drink fermented from raisins, commonly made in prisons

'''spectral''' 
looking like a ghost

==Page 356==

'''LeSabre''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buick_LeSabre Buick LeSabre]

'''jack-legged''' 
a slang term meaning "always screwing up"

'''dash''' 
short for "dashboard"

'''abject''' 
sunken to a low position, as in "abject poverty"

'''regs''' 
regulations

'''sub-rosa''' 
The Latin phrase [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub_rosa sub rosa] means "under the rose" and is used in English to denote secrecy or confidentiality

'''autonomy''' 
control or rule over one's self

==Page 357==

'''fibrosis''' 
scarring

==Endnote 139==

'''entomologic''' 
Entomology is the study of insects.

==Page 357 (cont'd)==

'''Mr. Rogers''' 
The Reverend Frederick McFeely "Fred" Rogers (1928-2003) was an American minister and children's television show host.

'''rhapsodize''' 
speak in an extravagantly elegant manner

'''fisticuffery''' 
fist-fighting

'''invectives''' 
abusive expressions of opinion

'''Sergeant at Arms''' 
an officer appointed to keep order

==Page 358==

'''apothegm''' 
a short, pithy statement

'''head''' 
bathroom

'''spuds''' 
potatoes

'''nocturnal''' 
happening at night

'''crook''' 
a shepherd's staff

'''French-curled''' 
You can see French-curled jewelry [http://www.cqout.com/item.asp?id=3093801 here].

'''demurely''' 
in an effectedly modest way

==Page 359==

'''circumferences''' 
distances around the edge of a circle

'''cuticles''' 
dead skin at the bottom of the fingernails

'''astringent''' 
a chemical that tends to dry something else out

'''onionlight''' 
You can see onionlights [http://www.hammerworks.com/onionlights1.html here].

'''isopropyl''' 
a type of alcohol, found in rubbing alcohol

'''reek''' 
to smell very badly

'''A.D.A.''' 
Assistant District Attorney

==Page 360==

'''fumigated''' 
permeated with gas to kill insects

'''idiosyncrasy''' 
a peculiarity of personality

'''rattan''' 
material taken from the rattan plant, a climbing palm with very long stems

'''Big Book''' 
This is the AA "bible," so to speak, and can be found online [http://www.aa.org/bigbookonline/ here].

'''''As Bill Sees It''''' 
a book by Bill W., one of AA's founders, first published in 1967

'''''Came To Believe''''' 
another AA publication, this one published in 1973

==Page 361==

'''joggling''' 
shaking slightly

'''Demerol''' 
a brand name of pethidine, a painkiller

'''photic''' 
having to do with light

==Page 362==

'''copperheads''' 
one of five species of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agkistrodon_contortrix poisonous snake]

'''tongues''' 
The reference is to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossolalia glossolalia].

'''larynx''' 
voice box

'''requisite''' 
essential or necessary

'''venulated''' 
The word means "able to see the veins"; this condition of the nose is very common among advanced alcoholics.

''''Volare'''' 
This is a song whose title is from the Italian for "to fly." The song was written by Domenico Modugno and Franco Migliacci. Modugno went on to be a member of Italy's parliament

==Page 363==

'''pupil and iris''' 
The pupil is the black circle at the center of the eye, while the iris is the colored part (blue, green, brown).

'''cognito''' 
which is to say, in Lenz's case, unsuccessfully incognito

'''Ferragamos''' 
an Italian brand of shoes

'''periphery''' 
an external boundary

'''selvage''' 
the edge of woven fabric finished so as to prevent raveling, often in a narrow tape effect, different from the body of the fabric.

'''11-Step''' 
recalling the 12th step on page 344, UHID must lack this step, or perhaps one of the others

==Page 364==

'''Rémy''' 
Rémy-Martin, a brand of cognac

'''Tiparillo''' 
a brand name of [http://lfa.atu.edu/Brucker/advertisement%20presentation/sld005.htm cigar]

[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland]]

'''defib paddles''' 
the paddles used in defibrillation, the application of electric shocks to the heart to re-start it

'''divot''' 
Normally a golf term, a divot is the hole left by the dirt displaced when one strikes a golf ball.

'''rankness''' 
the quality of being offensive

'''proprietary''' 
Usually referring to an owner, here it refers to feeling as if one has a sense of ownership.

==Page 365==

'''rectum''' 
the very end of the large intestine

'''hubristic''' 
having exaggerated pride or self-confidence

'''7-iron''' 
a type of golf club

'''tenth rough''' 
off the fairway on the tenth hole of a golf course

==Page 366==

'''flats''' 
women's shoes without heels

'''subjunctive''' 
contingent on something else happening

'''counterfactual''' 
at variance with what really happened

'''indicative''' 
According to ''Merriam-Webster,'' "indicative" means "of, relating to, or constituting a verb form or set of verb forms that represents the denoted act or state as an objective fact."

'''transposition''' 
switching the position of two things

'''Radarange''' 
microwave

'''pass''' 
here used to mean "place"

'''allude''' 
here used to mean "give an impression of"

==Page 367==

'''velour''' 
a piled and nappy material resembling velvet

'''caparison''' 
an ornamental covering for a horse, or just rich clothing

'''gavel''' 
the type of hammer a judge uses to restore or maintain order

=NNYC's Statue of Liberty=

==Page 367==

'''huge photo album''' 
The book held by the statue reads, "JULY IV MDCCLXXVI [1776]."

'''product''' 
as opposed to the torch it currently holds

'''pitons''' 
spikes used by mountain climbers for support

=Boston AA, cont.=

==Page 367==

'''deprecate''' 
to express disapproval

==Page 368==

'''conundrum''' 
something puzzling

'''cunctations''' 
delays

'''chagrin''' 
embarrassment

'''aphasiac''' 
inability to speak

'''Filene's''' 
now owned by [http://www.macys.com/ Macy's]

==Page 369==

'''unironic''' 
i.e., totally expected and not at all a surprise

'''disingenuous''' 
lacking in sincerity, pretending to be naïve

'''schlepping''' 
carrying something awkwardly or slowly

'''deprogramming''' 
from the deprogrammer's point of view, reversing the brainwashing that induced someone to adhere to a religious cult

==Page 370==

'''Naked I Club''' 
a real strip club mentioned [http://www.totse.com/en/erotica/erotic_fiction_so_to_sz/striprv.html here]

'''Route 1''' 
U.S. 1 runs from Fort Kent, Maine, at the Canadian border, down to Key West, Florida, primarily through small towns.

'''Saugus MA''' 
a suburb of Boston about ten miles north of the city

'''etiology''' 
the cause or source of a medical problem

'''prolix''' 
extended to great, unnecessary, or tedious length; long and wordy.

'''Mud-Bug''' 
a Southern term for a crawfish

'''invertebrate''' 
an animal without a spine

'''chordate phylum''' 
the phylum of the animal kingdom containing all animals with spines

==Page 371==

'''Campfire Girls''' 
former name of [http://www.campfireusa.org/ youth organization] when it was just for girls

'''Lancôme''' 
one of France's largest cosmetics manufacturers

'''lurid''' 
gruesome or shocking

'''ubiquitousness''' 
the quality of always being present

'''Aetna''' 
a real [http://www.aetna.com/ insurance company]

'''Doric column''' 
columns of buildings built according to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doric_order Doric order]

'''pliability''' 
the ability to be easily bent

==Page 372==

'''''Ramparts'' and ''Commonweal''''' 
''Ramparts'' was a magazine founded for a Catholic leadership but eventually found its niche with the New Left. ''Commonweal'' was and still is a publication by and for lay Catholics.

'''Sally Jessy Raphael M.S.W.''' 
Sally Jessy Raphael (born Sally Lowenthal, 1938) is an American talk-show host. She does not hold an M.S.W., i.e., a Master's of Social Work

'''complicity''' 
the status of being an accomplice in a wrongdoing

'''Wounded, Hurting, Inadequately Nurtured but Ever-Recovering Survivors''' 
Look at the initials of the capitalized words.

'''auburn''' 
reddish-brown

'''perimeter''' 
the oustide edge of something

==Page 373==

'''vanity''' 
a dressing table

'''limbic system''' 
a complex system within the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbic_system brain]

'''gauntlet''' 
an attack from all sides

'''rasa the tabula''' 
This is a playful inversion of ''tabula rasa,'' Latin for "blank state" and used in the philosophy of John Locke (1632-1704). The sense here is to clean the slate.

'''bandanna''' 
a large printed handkerchief, typically red or blue with a white design

'''circumoral''' 
surrounding the mouth

'''vacuole and optica''' 
These are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuole parts] of a cell, the optica likely being some kind of "seeing" organ.

'''protozoan''' 
a single-celled organism

'''some Catholic statue''' 
The statue described strongly appears to be Bernini's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstasy_of_St_Theresa The Ecstasy of St Theresa]. This statue is also referred to by name at endnote 24, page 988 in the synopsis of James Incandenza's film ''Pre-Nuptial Agreement of Heaven and Hell.''

'''Hours''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liturgy_of_the_Hours Liturgy of the Hours] is the official set of daily prayers prescribed by the Catholic Church to be recited at the canonical hours by the clergy, religious orders, and laity

'''prurient''' 
causing lust

'''cherub''' 
Often this word is used to denote a baby angel, but the actual connotation of the original Hebrew is of a fearsome warrior angel. A cherub guards the Garden of Eden in Genesis so that Adam and Eve cannot go back in.

'''lolled''' 
dropped

==Page 374==

'''IV''' 
intravenous, i.e., directly into a vein

'''lucidity''' 
mental clarity

'''implicit''' 
unspoken but implied

'''Six Flags Over the Poconos''' 
Six Flags is a [http://www.sixflags.com/national/index.aspx chain] of amusement parks. There is not currently one in the Pocono Mountains.

'''labrynth''' 
This is the mythological spelling of "labyrinth," meaning generically a maze, but more specifically denoting the maze built by Daedalus of ancient Greek myth.

'''minotaurs''' 
Daedalus built his famous maze to house the Minotaur, a monster that was half man and half bull and the product of sexual congress between Europa, queen of Crete, and Zeus in the form of a bull.

'''aides de camp''' 
confidential assistants to a military officer

'''absconded''' 
departed suddenly and in secret

'''proto-Fascist''' 
Wallace really means "quasi-Fascist" rather than "proto-Fascist"; it's not as if the rules of AA are the harbinger of Fascism to come.

'''decamped''' 
a synonym of "absconded"

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

'''commode''' 
toilet

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==Endnote 143==

'''''Sic''''' 
This word means: "Thus; so. Used to indicate that a quoted passage, especially one containing an error or unconventional spelling, has been retained in its original form or written intentionally" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'').

=April 30th/May 1st, YDAU - More Marathe & Steeply=

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'''shelf''' 
a projecting ridge on a mountain

'''spangle''' 
a small bright spot

'''"...launching even one ship or vessel."''' 
unlike [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_of_Troy Helen of Troy], whose face "launched a thousand ships" according to Homer

=Himself and Lyle=

==Page 375==

'''blotto''' 
drunk

==Endnote 144==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Purdue Wonderchicken]]

==Page 376==

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote 145 · Found Drama|Endnote 145]]

=More Boston AA=

==Page 376==

'''brogue''' 
American slang term for an accent – usually Irish or Scottish – from the Irish word 'bróg', meaning 'shoe'.

'''Eightball''' 
an eighth of an ounce of cocaine

'''translucent''' 
capable of having light pass through

'''mucronate''' 
having an abruptly projecting point, as a feather or leaf.

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'''swaddled''' 
wrapped tightly in cloth strips

'''fuchsia''' 
brilliant ("hot") pink, the color of the flower of the same name

'''dysplasia''' 
abnormal growth of cells or tissue

'''remonstrances''' 
acts of protest

'''beat-cop''' 
a policeman who patrols the streets

'''abstruse''' 
difficult to understand; recondite

'''tungsten''' 
a metallic element described [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten here], also known as wolfram

==Page 378==

'''Chanel''' 
the fashion house known in long form as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanel House of Chanel]

'''reticence''' 
reluctance

'''D&C''' 
dilation (of the cervix) and curetage (scraping) of the uterus

'''placenta''' 
the tissue that nourishes a fetus and makes up the afterbirth

'''S.S.I.''' 
Social Security Insurance

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=Himself and Lyle, cont.=

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'''libations''' 
alcoholic drinks

'''injudicious''' 
showing lack of judgment

'''chyme''' 
This is "the semifluid mass into which food is converted by gastric secretion and which passes from the stomach into the small intestine" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

==Endnote 146==

'''L.M.P.''' 
Latrodectus Mactans Productions

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'''''GAUDEAMUS IGITUR''''' 
Latin: Let Us Rejoice. The first line of (and alternative title for) the student song [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaudeamus_igitur 'De Brevitate Vitae'], often sung at graduation ceremonies.

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'''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

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'''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

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'''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 that (a) the name of the town is spelled 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.

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'''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

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'''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]

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'''Prince Albert in a can''' 
An old phone gag explained in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Albert_tobacco Wikipedia entry] for the popular pipe tobacco sold in the distinctive red tin can with its portrait of Prince Albert (later King Edward VII) on its obverse side.

'''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''' 
Overcome with anger; extremely indignant

'''"...only to be asked if his refrigerator's running..."''' 
Another ancient [http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070328212331AA34OVT&show=7 phone gag]: Prankster: "Can you check to see if your refrigerator is running?" Dupe (after a pause to check): "Yes, it is." Prankster: "Well, you'd better go catch it!"

'''Air Force One''' 
technically, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_force_one any United States Air Force aircraft] carrying 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''' 
the designation of any aircraft carrying the Vice President of the United States

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

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'''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

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'''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

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'''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.

'''finski'''
undoubtedly a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_five-dollar_bill five-dollar bill], from its old nickname ''fin''

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

'''obtuse''' 
Annoyingly insensitive or slow 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.

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'''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 one 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nota_bene Wikipedia]

'''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 [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/map ''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

==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

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'''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

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'''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

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'''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

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'''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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'''yogic full lotus''' 
the cross-legged sitting position

'''crustacean''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean branch of animals] including lobsters, shrimp, and other similar shellfish

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'''''DEUS PROVIDEBIT''''' 
Latin: God will provide. The line appears in the Vulgate (Latin) version of the Bible at Genesis 22:8, where Abraham tell Isaac, whom he intends to sacrifice, that God will provide an animal for the sacrifice.

=yrstruly=

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'''crewed''' 
worked in a gang

'''boosting''' 
stealing

'''onnings''' 
awnings

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'''elemonade''' 
eliminate

'''map''' 
face

'''slope''' 
derogatory slang for a person of Asian descent

'''pernt''' 
point

'''Copley''' 
Copley Square, a neighborhood of Boston

'''personnel works''' 
(personal works) - personal equipment for injecting drugs

'''cop''' 
obtain drugs

'''aile''' 
aisle

'''Bow&Arrow''' 
a reference to the Bow and Arrow Pub at 1 Bow Street. Closed in 2000 due to a building renovation and the rent being raised.

'''foran''' 
foreign

'''Cheap-O Records''' 
a reference to Cheapo Records (no hyphen) in Central Square, Cambridge. It was located at 645 Mass Ave when the book was written, but the building has since been demolished. It now resides at 538 Mass Ave. http://www.cheaporecords.com/

'''trancemission''' 
transmission

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'''dopesick''' 
in withdrawal from opiates such as heroin

'''supperst''' 
supposed

'''petaled ass''' 
(peddled ass) prostituted himself

'''roll''' 
rob

'''legless on shots alone''' 
very drunk to the point of not being able to walk well

'''wet work''' 
sexual acts in exchange for drugs/money/etc.

'''pernts''' 
points

'''stifing''' 
(stiffing) They did not give the Santa any money.

'''feather snake''' 
feather boa - a feathered scarf

'''eat cheese''' 
be a rat

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'''pissboys''' 
people who administer urine drug tests

'''glass pipes''' 
for smoking crack

'''Crown Royal in purple bags''' 
Crown Royal is Canadian whisky that comes in a purple cloth bag

'''kwai9''' 
quinine 

'''p-dope''' 
heavily cut heroin

'''bunk''' 
poor quality, cut, or fake

'''bundles''' 
heroin

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'''stoal''' 
stole

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'''super statiously''' 
superstitiously

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'''Hotshots''' 
poisoned heroin so as to be lethal when injected

'''booted''' 
injected

'''thearized''' 
theorized

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'''true straight eating cheese''' 

'''Kicking the Bird''' 
eliminate the heroin habit (going thru withdrawal)

'''three squars''' 
three squares; i.e. three square meals

'''methadoan''' 
Methadone - used to help ease off a heroin addiction

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'''Phoenician''' 
Orin uses it to mean a native of Phoenix, but the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicians Phoenicians] were actually an ancient culture who founded the city of Carthage.

==Page 137==

'''Advent''' 
the four Sundays preceding Christmas

=Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House=

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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

'''Walpole''' 
a suburb of Boston about eighteen miles from the city

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'''mythopoeia''' 
the creating of a myth

=State Farm E-mail - my def. of a bad day.=

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[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland]]

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'''blood-alcohol of .3+''' 
If "legally drunk" is now .08 in many states, it's fair to say this guy was hammered

'''bricklayer''' 
The story of the barrel of bricks is thought to have originated in British music halls of the 1920s, and was printed as a story in a 1937 issue of Readers Digest. The story's most famous iterations are probably the speech given by German-British musician and humourist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Hoffnung Gerard Hoffnung] at the Oxford Union in 1958 (later released as an LP) and the comic song 'The Sick Note', written by Pat Cooksey in 1969.

'''900 kg''' 
fifteen pounds short of a ton

'''75 kg''' 
about 165.3 pounds

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'''30 kg''' 
a little over 66 pounds

=February 21st, YPWC - Hal's First Film Commentary=

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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken]]

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'''Viz.''' 
Latin abbreviation for ''videlicet'', meaning "that is to say"

'''Mirandized''' 
read his or her rights, from the Supreme Court case ''Miranda v. Arizona'' (1965)

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'''probity''' 
integrity

=August 10th, YDAU - Helen Steeply's Only Putative Published Article=

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'''Jarvik IX''' 
undoubtedly named for Robert Koffler Jarvik (born 1946), inventor of the first artificial heart placed in a human being 

'''restenosis''' 
stenosis is an abnormal narrowing of blood vessels; restenosis is a recurrence of stenosis

==Page 143==

'''Etienne Aigner''' 
a fashionable leather goods manufacturer

==Page 144==

'''Brigham and Women's City of Boston Hospital''' 
a [http://www.brighamandwomens.org/ real hospital], now affiliated with Harvard Medical School

=Tally of Sèparatisteur/Anti-O.N.A.N. Groups=

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'''''Les Fils de Montcalm''''' 
French: Sons of Montcalm. Probably referring to Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, Marquis de Saint-Veran (1712-1759), French general during the French and Indian War who presided over the fall of Québec.

=Decline of Videophony=

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'''homuncular''' 
of or pertaining to a diminutive human being

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'''straw boater''' 
a type of hat (a "boater") made of straw

'''tumescent''' 
swollen

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

'''Freddie-Mac''' 
common name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mac Federal Home Loan Mortgage Company]

'''trivalent''' 
having a chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valence_%28chemistry%29 valance] of three

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'''vectored''' 
To vector is to direct the position of (an airplane).

'''gumlet''' 
By context, it would seem this word is a synonym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglet aglet].

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'''furtive''' 
shifty or sneaky

'''''Physiognomic Dysphoria''''' 
Loosely, it means "feeling badly about how one looks."

==Page 148==

'''snafus''' 
plural of "snafu," a military acronym for "situation normal: all fucked up"

==Page 149==

'''ostentatious''' 
pretentious or showy

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'''verve''' 
enthusiasm or vigor

'''precipitant''' 
sudden, hasty, or rash

'''micro-econometrist''' 
An econometrist is an economist who uses statistical methods. A microeconomist is an economist who studies a smaller level of economics, i.e., firms and businesses rather than nations or international business.

'''Ludditism''' 
Named for Ned Ludd (born Ned Ludlam), the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite Luddites] were 19th century opposers of the Industrial Revolution.

'''retrograde''' 
moving backward

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'''electric zirconium jewelry''' 
Jewelry made of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zircon zircon]. Electricity can be applied to a zircon to make a lamp.

'''NoCoat LinguaScrapers''' 
tongue scrapers designed to remove a film coat

'''and c.''' 
''Et cetera'' or ''etc.'' is Latin for "and other things." Here Wallace has translated ''et'' and left ''c'' untranslated.

'''panagoraphobia''' 
fear of going outside (agoraphobia) in any place (pan-)

=☽ - Urine Testing=

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

'''agnate''' 
related or akin through males, as in a line of males and a line of females (coeds)

'''widow's peak''' 
a hairline that dips down to a V-shaped point in front when the hair is pulled back

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==Endnote 52==

'''spectrometer''' 
an optical instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum

'''E.M.I.T. and AbuScreen/RIA''' 
Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Technique; Abusecreen is a brand name of drug test, and RIA stands for radioimmunoassay, "a procedure that measures minute amounts of a substance, such as a hormone or drug, by quantitating the binding, or the inhibition of binding, of a radiolabeled substance to an antibody" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition'').

==Page 152 (cont'd)==

'''cc''' 
cubic centimeter, equal to 0.001 liters

'''wienerman''' 
hot-dog salesman

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'''Yarmouth sail''' 
a type of boat sail, seen [http://www.ephotozine.com/photo/657716 here]

'''Pepperdine''' 
a [http://www.pepperdine.edu/ university] in Malibu, Calif.

'''derrick''' 
A derrick is "a jib crane having a boom hinged near the base of the mast so as to rotate about the mast, for moving a load toward or away from the mast by raising or lowering the boom" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''foot-treadle''' 
a lever worked by foot

'''f/x''' 
special effects in film

'''Bolex''' 
a Swiss [http://www.bolex.ch/NEW/index.php camera manufacturer]

'''undulating''' 
moving with a wave-like motion

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'''petrochemical''' 
a chemical derived from petroleum or natural gas

'''spronging''' 
''sprong'' is Dutch for "to leap or bound"

'''Eschatonic''' 
The name of the game is based on the same root as eschatology, i.e., the study of the end of the world.

'''''pünch''''' 
There is no such German word.

'''serpentine''' 
snake-like

'''dilettantish''' 
from "dilettante" - a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.

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'''dento-dermal''' 
by the skin of his teeth

'''brine''' 
salt water

'''emulsion''' 
Emulsion is colloidal suspension of one liquid in another.

'''differentials''' 
first derivatives in calculus

'''three Canadians copulating on a snowmobile''' 
One Website ([http://www.homegame.org/HG/a-c/beast20k.html x281 Beast From 20,000 Fathoms]) seems to give the answer as a "BBQ-ed Polar Bear," which, if correct, makes about as much sense as the question!

'''high-water''' 
pants hemmed too high

'''erumpent''' 
1. bursting forth.
2. (of fungi or algae) prominent; projecting from or bursting through host tissue.

'''gratis''' 
free of charge

'''''ex cathedra''''' 
Latin for "from the chair" and referring to the doctrine of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_infallibility papal infallibility] on matters of faith and morals

'''éclat''' 
great brilliance or conspicuous success

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'''dewy-eyed''' 
exhibiting childlike simplicity

'''''FIENDS IN HUMAN SHAPE''''' 
how a Memphis newspaper described Union soldiers during the Civil War

'''Feenian''' 
possibly "fenian", referring to a breed of horse or to both the Fenian Brotherhood and Irish Republican Brotherhood, two organizations dedicated to the establishment of an independent Irish republic

'''Brighton''' 
a section of Boston

'''natal''' 
of or pertaining to a person's birth

'''Brutus''' 
Marcus Junius Brutus (85-42 BC) was the most famous assassin of Julius Caesar (100-44 BC).

'''''vade mecum''''' 
Latin for "go with me," this is a book for quick reference

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'''caries''' 
tooth decay, leading to a cavity (always used in plural form)

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'''"...a regular verb, transitive..."''' 
In English, ''regular'' verbs end in -ed (or -d, for infinitives that end in -e) in the past simple or the past participle. An irregular verb does not follow this rule. For example, "implore," a regular verb, is "implored" in the past simple tense. "Fall," an irregular verb, becomes "fell" in the past simple tense.

A ''transitive'' verb is able to take a direct object. For example, "I implore you." Intransitive verbs generally necessitate a preposition: "I look at you."

'''continentally ranked''' 
ranking of players in North America, see, e.g., [[Pages_3-27#onancaa|O.N.A.N.C.A.A.]]

'''supplication''' 
The act of asking earnestly; begging; making an entreaty.

'''OED''' 
The abbreviation for "Oxford English Dictionary."

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'''Webster's 7th''' 
Webster's Dictionary, 7th edition.

'''moniker''' 
nickname

'''apprised''' 
informed

'''consummate''' 
Highly skilled; perfect.

'''Byzantine erotica''' 
The Byzantine Empire was the continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle Ages. A cursory google search for "Byzantine Erotica" reveals not very much at all. The topic is either as esoteric as it seems or a DFW invention.

'''fly-by-night''' 
Untrustworthy.

'''pejorative''' 
derogatory, disparaging (Hal indicating that the phrase "my reputation preceded me" is generally used in a pejorative sense)

'''Alexandrian''' 
Referring to the reign of the Byzantine emperor Alexander who ruled from 879-913 c.e.

'''Constantinian''' 
Presumably referring to the reign of Constantine "the Great", Byzantine emperor from 306–337 c.e.

'''"...intra-provincial crisis..."''' 
A crisis occurring within a province.

'''racy mosaics''' 
Referring to aforementioned Byzantine Erotica. Mosaics are detailed pictures created with very small pieces of stone.

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'''sordid liaison''' 
A distasteful or morally wrong secret sexual relationship.

'''amanuensis-cum-operative''' 
The professional conversationalist is saying that Luria P----- is both an amanuensis--a secretary who takes dictation--and a secret agent.

'''lexical prodigy''' 
A child who is exceptionally talented with words.

'''avant-garde''' 
Marked by unusual, cutting-edge artistic ideas.

'''Der Spiegel''' 
A German news-weekly magazine, known for investigative journalism; literally, ''The Mirror''.

'''Wild Turkey''' 
[http://www.wildturkeybourbon.com/ Bourbon.]

'''malevolent''' 
evil

'''Ottawan papparazzo''' 
A photo-journalist from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa Ottawa] who seeks out impromptu unauthorized shots of the rich and famous.

'''alpenstock''' 
a metal-tipped staff used by mountaineers

'''Bavarian''' 
Originating from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavaria Bavaria.]

'''"...ill-swallowed cocktail onion..."''' 
The editor choked on a cocktail onion.

'''Albertan''' 
From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta Alberta.]

'''countenance''' 
Admit as possible.

'''assignation''' 
a meeting between lovers; tryst

'''blithe''' 
casually indifferent

'''cavortings''' 
sexual pursuits

'''near-eastern''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_East Ambiguous.]

'''medical attaches''' 
Here, a medical attache is a specialist who assists a wealthy or powerful person's personal physician.

'''"...stereochemically not dissimilar..."''' 
similar, based on the spatial arrangement of atoms

'''hypodermic''' 
injected

'''Jivaro''' 
Jivaro Indians are native to eastern Ecuador and Peru. They are associated with shrunken heads.

'''South-Central L.A.''' 
An area of Los Angeles known for extreme crime and violence.

'''Basin''' 
A natural depression in the earth. Used often in geological and anthropological contexts.

'''Ralston''' 
breakfast cereal

==Page 31==
'''priapistic-entertainment cartridge''' 
priapistic: Persistent, usually painful erection of the penis, especially as a consequence of disease and not related to sexual arousal.

'''fifth wall''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_wall "fourth wall"] is a term used in theater to describe the imaginary wall that separates the stage from the audience. The "fifth wall" could be an extrapolation of this concept, meaning a wall separating an actor from a critic or separating two people sharing the same experience.

=☽ May 9th, YDAU - Orin calls Hal=
==Page 32==

'''locutions''' 
Sayings; phrases.

'''"I want to tell you...My head is filled with things to say."''' 
These are the first lines of the Beatles song "I Want to Tell You," written by George Harrison (1943-2001).

'''"I don't mind...I could wait forever."''' 
more lyrics from "I Want to Tell You," though not the very next ones

'''Brandt''' 
Another German name, most famously the nom de guerre of the future mayor of West Berlin and Kanzler of Germany, Willy Brandt, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm (1913-1922). 
Literally translated,, "Brandt" means "fire".

==Page 33==

=☽ April 1st, YDAU - HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!=

'''Saudi''' 
Of [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/SA.html Saudi Arabia.]

'''diplomatic immunity''' 
Diplomats are granted [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_immunity freedom] from prosecution under a host country's laws.

'''legation''' 
a diplomatic office lower than an embassy

'''idolatrous''' 
Worships idols instead a God.

'''Libertine Statue''' 
I.e., the Statue of Liberty, though calling it this implies sexual promiscuity, even if she is wearing a diaper

'''Montreal''' 
A French-speaking [http://www.tourisme-montreal.org/ city] in the Canadian province of Quebec.

'''apposite''' 
suitable or well adapted

'''Rub' al Khali''' 
Arabic for ''Empty Quarter,'' another name for the Arabian Desert.

'''residency''' 
A stage of specialized medical training in a hospital after graduation from medical school.

'''retinue''' 
A group of advisers accompanying an important person; an entourage.

'''E.N.T.''' 
Abbreviation for "ear-nose-throat."

'''Toblerone''' 
A Swiss-made [http://www.toblerone.com/ chocolate bar].

In the 1990 essay "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction", DFW uses Toblerone to point out that treats are acceptable in small amounts but harmful if consumed in large amounts. "One can only guess at what volume of gin or poundage of Toblerone six hours of Special Treat a day would convert to." ''(" E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction." A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. (1997): 37.)''

'''maxillofacial''' 
pertaining to or affecting the jaws and face

'''''Candida albicans''''' 
the Latin name for a fungus that causes, among other disorders, thrush

'''intestinal flora''' 
Referring to ''Candida albacans'', one of the microorganisms that lives in the human mouth and intestines.

'''monilial sinusitis''' 
Inflammation of the nasal sinus caused by fungus of the genus ''Monila''.

'''thrush''' 
A fungal infection caused by (here) ''Candida albicans''. Sort of a yeast infection of the mouth.

'''DeBakey''' 
Michael Ellis DeBakey (1908-2008) is a world-famous heart surgeon.

'''''ad valorem''''' 
Latin: according to the value

'''nauseous''' 
Correctly used here. This word means "tending to cause nausea." If one has nausea, they are "nauseated."

'''veritable''' 
Genuine

'''nonpareil''' 
unrivaled

'''sumptuous''' 
splendid; expensive

==Page 34==

'''Scottsdale''' 
a suburb about 19 miles east-northeast of Phoenix

'''sufism''' 
a mystic strain of Islam

'''Pir Valayat''' 
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1916-2004) was a British-born Sufi.

'''kif''' 
Arabic for marijuana in leaf form, as opposed to hashish

'''''shari'a-halal''''' 
An Arabic term akin to the Jewish ''kosher,'' this means that food has been prepared in accordance with Islamic law.

'''Back Bay Hilton''' 
This is a real hotel, with a Web site [http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/BOSBHHH-Hilton-Boston-Back-Bay-Massachusetts/index.do here].

'''nystatin''' 
an anti-fungal drug

'''stiptics''' 
A styptic is a chemical that stops bleeding.

'''promulgated''' 
make widely known

'''imperial''' 
a small pointed beard.

'''detritus''' 
debris

'''silk-analog''' 
molecularly similar to silk

'''recursive''' 
repetitive

'''dyspeptic''' 
irritable

'''penitent''' 
showing regret for having done wrong

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'''necrosis''' 
a term for death of bodily tissue

==Page 36==

'''triptych''' 
a three-part art display

'''O.N.A.N.M.A.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Medical Assocation

'''actinomycete-class antibiotics''' 
antibiotics effective against Gram-positive bacteria called actinobacteria

'''CBC/PATHÉ''' 
CBC is the Canadian Broadcasting Company. PATHÉ is probably the French entertainment company Pathé Frères (Pathé Brothers).

'''''Nass''''' 
Arabic for "text"

=YTSDB - Wardine & Roy Tony=

==Page 37==
'''double dutch''' 
a type of rope jumping where two ropes are used

==Page 38==

'''Brighton Projects''' 
presumably high-rise, low-income housing in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton,_Boston,_Massachusetts Brighton]

'''Shedd Spread''' 
a brand of [http://www.countrycrock.com/products.asp margarine]

'''wraithlike''' 
A wraith is a type of ghost.

==Page 39==

'''nocturnal emitter''' 
a boy who has a wet dream

'''anfractuous''' 
full of twists and turns

=☽ YDAU - Mario and Hal talk before sleep=

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'''petulant''' 
unreasonably irritable

==Page 41==

'''''Tosca''''' 
The title of an opera by Italian composer Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (1858-1924), which premiered in 1900.

==Page 42==

'''agoraphobic''' 
suffering from an irrational fear of going outside

'''portcullis''' 
This is "a strong grating, as of iron, made to slide along vertical grooves at the sides of a gateway of a fortified place and let down to prevent passage" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

==Page 42==

'''2010h. on 1 April''' 
The medical attaché has been watching for forty-three minutes.

==Page 42==

=HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! cont.=
=October, YDAU - Orin in Phoenix, AZ=
==Page 43==

'''Ambush''' 
a [http://www.100perfumes.com/forums/Perfume/m12442.htm real perfume]

Ambush: To attack from a concealed position. Orin's fear of commitment, fear that the "subject" is trying to entrap him i.e marriage.

'''Home with the team''' 
It's already been mentioned that Orin plays professional football. He must play for the Arizona Cardinals.

==Page 44==

'''''Blattaria implacblus''''' 
''Blattaria'' is the order that contains the several genus and species of cockroaches. The Latin phrase really means "implacable cockroach."

==Page 45==

'''fantods''' 
"a state of fidgetiness, uneasiness, or unreasonableness... nervous depression or apprehension, the fidgets, 'the creeps'." Cited from The Oxford English Dictionary [http://research-writing-techniques.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_importance_of_word_choice#ixzz0vkZGJpBa/ here]

'''Chalmette''' 
an eastern suburb of New Orleans

==Page 46==

'''kippers''' 
cured herring

'''Mrs. Avril M. T. Incandenza''' 
Hal's mother is named for the first time.

'''phylacteryish''' 
Remove "-ish" and you have the English word for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefillin tefillin].

'''imprimatur''' 
sanction or approval

==Page 48==

'''Positron-Emission Topography''' 
According to Wikipedia, this is "a nuclear medicine medical imaging technique that produces a three-dimensional image or map of functional processes in the body."

'''positrons''' 
the sub-atomic particles that are the opposite of electrons

'''Fritz Lang''' 
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (1890-1976) was a Viennese-born Austrian-American director. His science fiction film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136 Metropolis] (1927) presents a dystopian future where people are oppressed by technology.

'''''Moment'' magazine''' 
This is a Jewish-interest [http://www.momentmag.com/ magazine].

==Page 49==

'''Pandora's box of worms''' 
a mixed metaphor of "Pandora's box" and "can of worms," neither of which can be shut again once they're opened

=☽ YDAU - Hal getting covertly high=
==Page 49==

'''one-hitter''' 
a small marijuana pipe that will provide one "hit" of marijuana per packing

==Page 50==

'''Partridge, KS''' 
A town in Kansas about 55 miles north-northwest of Wichita

'''Charles Tavis''' 
I.e., C.T.

'''gizzard''' 
the digestive organ of a bird

==Page 51==

'''Bob Hope''' 
Cockney rhyming slang for "dope"

'''neo-Georgian''' 
modern-day architecture that approximates that of the Georgian period, from 1714 (accession of George I of the U.K.) to 1830 (death of George III)

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_3|Endnote 3]]
==Page 51 (cont'd)==

'''spherocubular''' 
Another neologism, presumably meaning having characteristics of both a sphere and cube -- a three-dimension "squircle".

'''Leith''' 
A homonym of Lethe, the name of the river in Greek mythology whose water, if drunk, will erase one's memory.

'''Dr. James O. Incandenza''' 
Hal's father's full name is given for the first time.

==Page 52==

'''dendriurethane''' 
This substance does not actually exist. An educated guess is that it is a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyurethane polyurethane] that comes from trees, ''dendri'' being Greek for "tree."

'''twenty meters''' 
almost twenty-two yards

'''unfenestrated''' 
having no windows

'''two meter''' 
a little over 6.5 ft

'''banshee''' 
In Irish mythology, the banshee is female spirit, who acts as an omen of death. They are known for "keening," i.e., shrieking.

'''flange''' 
a plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe

==Page 53==

'''post-latency''' 
after the latency period that Freud posited in his four-stage theory of psychosexual development in children

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_5|Endnote 5]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_5a|Endnote 5a]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_6|Endnote 6]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_7|Endnote 7]]

==Page 53 (cont'd)==

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_8|Endnote 8]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_8a|Endnote 8a]]

'''mushrooms or X''' 
psilocybin mushrooms or MDMA (called ecstasy)

==Page 53 (cont'd)==

'''Interdependent regions''' 
I.e., Canada

'''prorectors''' 
members of a management body of a university, each managing his/her specific area

'''the Show''' 
professional tennis

==Page 54==

'''Kodiak''' 
a brand of chewing tobacco

'''quail''' 
to shrink back in fear

==Page 54==
=HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! cont.=
'''0020h''' 
The medical attaché has now been watching for four hours and fifty-three minutes.

=Mario's designated function around ETA=
==Page 54==
'''filmic''' 
having to do with motion pictures

==Page 55==
=Autumn, YDPAH - Gately's crime=

==Page 55==

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_12a|Endnote 12a]]

'''élan''' 
enthusiastic vigor or liveliness

'''Revere Holding''' 
a jail, obviously -- probably the jail for Revere, Mass., just north of Boston

'''P.D.''' 
public defender

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_13|Endnote 13]]

==Page 55 (cont'd)==

'''dictum''' 
a maxim or saying

==Page 56==

'''''Globe''''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boston_Globe ''Boston Globe.''] The main daily newspaper of Boston, MA.

'''Marblehead''' 
A town in Essex County, Mass., home to a yachting resort. It's about 15 miles northeast of the city on the water.

==Page 57==

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_17|Endnote 17]]

'''''International Affairs'' and ''Interdependent Affairs''''' 
The first magazine is real; the second is not.

'''teak chiffonier''' 
a piece of furniture, one of which you can see [http://www.artfact.com/catalog/viewLot.cfm?lotCode=4xRrS2JB here]

'''Berkshires''' 
the mountainous region in the westernmost portion of Massachusetts, a popular vacation spot

'''adenoidal''' 
sounding as if the nose were pinched due to enlarged lymphatic tissue in the throat behind the uvula

'''van Dyke''' 
a goatee

'''rheumy''' 
watery and unhealthy

'''apocopes''' 
losses of syllables from words, particularly unstressed vowels

'''Café au Lait''' 
half coffee and half milk in a large cup, as drunk in France

'''gangrenously tight''' 
I.e., so tight as to cause gangrene, i.e., death of tissue due to lack of blood

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'''grippe''' 
flu

'''pre-British-takeover Québecois''' 
The British took over Quebec on September 8, 1760.

'''grackles''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passerine passernine] birds native to North America

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[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_19|Endnote 19]]

'''intercostal''' 
pertaining to the ribs or the muscles around them

'''Montreal Tulip Fest''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival Canadian Tulip Festival] actually takes place in Ottawa, Ontario, and Gatineau, Quebec, which border each other.

'''Guillaume DuPlessis''' 
A man by this name was one of the first French Calvinist settlers on the island of St. Kitts in the 17th century.

'''250 clicks due east''' 
Clicks are kilometers. Two hundred fifty km is about 155 miles.

'''lividity''' 
the change of color in skin brought on by livor mortis, an after-death phenomenon when blood settles in the body at low points of gravity

'''comme-il-faut''' 
French: As is necessary

==Page 60==

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

'''932/1864''' 
I don't know what the numbers mean, but the first is half of the second.

'''R.I.S.C.''' 
reduced instruction set computer, i.e., a computer that takes a limited set of commands

'''Primestar''' 
a direct broadcast satellite network active in the 1990s

'''D.S.S.''' 
digital satellite system

'''pixel-free''' 
smooth and not pixelated

'''baud''' 
a unit equal to bits per second; a baud rate is the number of bits per second a modem can send/receive

'''''couture''''' 
French for "fashion"

'''nanoprocessors''' 
very small processors -- smaller than microprocessors

'''chromotography''' 
Here misspelled, chromatography is "any of various techniques for the separation of complex mixtures that rely on the differential affinities of substances for a gas or liquid mobile medium and for a stationary adsorbing medium through which they pass, such as paper, gelatin, or magnesia" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'').

'''carpal neuralgia''' 
nerve pain in the bones of the hand

'''phosphenic migraine''' 
the phenomenon of seeing lights accompanying a migraine

'''gluteal hyperadiposity''' 
excessive fat in the buttocks

'''lumbar stressae''' 
back stress

=November 3rd, YDAU - Troeltsch's illness=
==Page 60==

'''Jim Troeltsch''' 
The most famous person with this surname is [http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/WeirdWildWeb/courses/mwt/dictionary/mwt_themes_705_troeltsch.htm Ernst Troeltsch] (1865-1923), a German Protestant theologian and philosopher of religion and history.

'''Narberth PA''' 
A wealthy, 1 square-mile borough west of Philadelphia and part of the larger "Main Line" suburban area running from Philadelphia to Malvern.

'''meatus''' 
a natural bodily opening

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_21|Endnote 21]]

'''OTC''' 
over the counter

'''expectorants''' 
drugs that induce phlegm-producing coughing

'''pertussives''' 
cough suppressants

'''megaspansules''' 
a combination of mega + span + capsule, these would be large, time-released capsules

==Endnote 22==

'''mucoid dessicators''' 
drugs that dry up phlegm

==Page 60 (cont'd)==

'''Rader''' 
If the name is pronounced with a "long a," as in the Oakland football team, a famous person with this last name was Erich Johann Albert Raeder (1876-1960), a World War II-era German grand admiral, sentenced to life at Nuremberg but served only nine years.

==Page 61==

'''nebulizer''' 
something that turns a liquid into a spray

'''fugue-state''' 
According to Wikipedia, a fugue state is "a state of mind characterized by abandonment of personal identity, along with the memories, personality and other identifying characteristics of individuality."

'''prolix''' 
extended to a great, unneedy length

=Nightmares=
==Page 61==

'''rhinoviri''' 
Wallace's plural for rhinovirus, one of dozens of variations of the virus that causes the common cold, also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus rhinoviruses]

'''mucosa''' 
An absorptive/secretive tissue layer in the body; here, in Troeltsch's throat or nose

==Page 62==

'''matte''' 
as an adjective, having a dull or lusterless finish

'''bolections''' 
mouldings that cover joints

'''snuff-white''' 
Snuff is grayish to yellowish brown in color; snuff-white must be that color, but lighter.

'''reglets''' 
narrow, flat moldings

'''rheostats''' 
continuously variable electronic resistors

'''shank''' 
part of the leg between the knee and ankle

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==Page 258==

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

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

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'''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.]]

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'''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 "let do," or, more idiomatically, "leave alone," 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 (1918-2009) was an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Harvey 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). See the blog post at [http://infinitedetox.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/the-good-word-egregulous/ Infinite Detox].

==Endnote 90==

'''ephebe''' 
a young man between the ages of 18 and 20 undergoing training, especially for combat

'''redolent''' 
exuding fragrance (in this case, apparently an unpleasant one)

'''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''' 
If, as it appears, Geoffrey wants to pluralize [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum reductio ad absurdum], he wants ''reductiones''.

'''"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.''' 
Roman Catholic

==Endnote 91==

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

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

'''XSive''' 
excessive

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

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

'''Hester Thrale''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hester_Thrale Hester Thrale] was a literary figure of the 18th century. An associate and early biographer of Dr Samuel Johnson, her Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson (1786) was criticised by James Boswell as inaccurate. Her connection with the nail-biter and putative borderline personality is unclear.

'''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 neighborhood in the northernmost part of Boston, right over the Charles River from downtown

'''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].

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[[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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Valiant ''Prince Valiant''], is a comic strip created by Hal Foster, which began running in 1937. Prince Valiant's haircut is a pageboy with long tresses in back, as seen at right.

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'''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).

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'''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 theologian 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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