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'''''Ethan From''''' 
Gately means [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]

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'''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.

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'''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.

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'''somnolent''' 
drowsy

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'''concentric circles''' 
circles within circles

'''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

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

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

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'''libido''' 
sex drive

'''ebubblient''' 
they mean "ebullient"

'''''hatbeat''''' 
i.e., heartbeat

'''tittymount''' 
tantamount

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'''scuttlebutt''' 
gossip, rumor

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

'''alacrity''' 
eagerness

'''mortification''' 
extreme embarrassment

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'''''Tosca''''' 
an opera by Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (1858-1924), an Italian composer

'''overcognitive''' 
thinking too much

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

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

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

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

'''197 cm.''' 
over 6'10"

'''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"

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'''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

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'''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";

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'''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''' 
this appears to mean "having teeth that are all of similar form"

'''bicuspid''' 
another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicuspid premolar] teeth

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'''sarcophagus''' 
coffin

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=More With Gately in the Hospital=

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'''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.

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'''phantasms''' 
apparitions or specters

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'''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.

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'''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])

'''''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

'''''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''''' 
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

'''''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'

'''''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 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.

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'''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.

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'''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

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'''''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

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

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

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

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'''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

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'''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).

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'''fencing''' 
to sell stolen goods

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

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'''lit''' 
landed

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'''''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.

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'''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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=☽ - Orin and Joelle=

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Endnote 95==

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

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

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

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'''inducement''' 
an incentive

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

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

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

'''patrician''' 
aristocratic

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''sedulous''' 
diligent or attentive

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

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[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland]]

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''PAC''' 
Political Action Committee

'''florid''' 
very red

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

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

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

'''MGM''' 
Militant Grammarians of Massachusetts

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

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

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

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

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

'''strabismic''' 
having improperly aligned eyes

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

'''OCD''' 
Obsessive-Compulsive Disoder

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

'''decapitated''' 
beheaded

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''decocted''' 
to extract the flavor of by boiling

'''avuncular''' 
characteristic of an uncle

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

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

'''lateral''' 
sideways

'''''mollygag''''' 
the exiled Oklahoman football coach appears to combine "lolly-gag" and "molly-coddle"

'''''bona fried''''' 
the exiled Oklahoman coach here appears to mean "bona fide"

'''dope-slaps''' 
a smack to the back of the head, designed to get attention rather than inflict pain; distinct from more familiar "bitch-slap"

'''adit''' 
entrance or passage

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

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

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

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

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

'''CNS''' 
Central Nervous System

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'''parabola''' 
a curve; more precisely a conic section formed by cutting a cone with a plane, where the plane is parallel to a line running along the cone's side from the vertex (point) to the circular base; see right

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

'''herbicide''' 
something that kills plants

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'''''Schmüberty''''' 
Technically speaking, this wouldn't rhyme with "puberty," because an umlaut over a "u" in German produces a high front rounded vowel (as in French ''tu'' "you") rather than the long /u/ phoneme.

'''kill it just by touching''' 
When a player on the punter's team touches the ball while it is still in the field of play, the play is whistled "dead" and the opposing team takes possession at that point

'''coffin-corner kicks''' 
Usually refers to a punt inside the opponent's 20 yard line that goes out of bounds and thus cannot be returned, as opposed to inside the 20-yard-line punts that remain in the field of play but are touched (killed) by a downfield runner

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

'''bilateral''' 
having two sides

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

'''wide receiver's number''' 
Punters are typically assigned a uniform with a number between 1 and 19, while wide receivers typically get a number in the 80s, though the NCAA has no hard and fast rules in this regard.

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

'''book-long''' 
The "book" length of a punt is not the same as its physical distance. Hal kicked the "baptismal competitive punt" 90 yards in the air, but was only credited with a 40-yard punt. Because the line of scrimmage was Syracuse's 40, and Hal kicked the ball through the end zone, the punt is recorded as 40 yards (the distance from the line of scrimmage to the end zone). The ball would be placed at Syracuse's 20, so the "net" on the punt would only have been 20 yards.

'''90-yard punt''' 
The record for a punt in both college and professional football is 99 yards. Presumably in each instance the punting team had the ball at its own 1 yard line and the punt, through the air and then with fortuitous bounces, came to rest in the opponent's end zone. Hal's punt is said to have traveled 90 yards in the air, which is a bit beyond the outer limits of what even a top pro can do on his best kicks.

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

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

'''USMC''' 
United States Marine Corps

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

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

'''extrication''' 
freedom from entanglement

'''lardy''' 
fat

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

'''30,0000''' 
This must refer to the attendance for the game at Boston College's Alumni Stadium, which has a capacity of 44,500 (see page 293 for schedule). Nickerson Field at BU has a capacity of less than 10,000 people. BU also played at Rhode Island in Hal's first four weeks, but its field has a capacity of only 5,180.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''hypertrophied''' 
overgrown anatomically

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''spectation''' 
aspect or appearance

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

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

[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.]]

'''rpm''' 
revolutions per minute

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''stave''' 
to break or crush

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

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

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

'''gluteal''' 
pertaining to the buttocks

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

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

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

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

'''cadge''' 
to obtain by begging

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

'''de-mapping''' 
murder

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

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

'''cop''' 
obtain drugs

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

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

'''portents''' 
omens

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''wan''' 
pale in color

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

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

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

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

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

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

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

'''hubris''' 
pride to a fault

'''cadences''' 
flows of events

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''loo''' 
British colloquialism for toilet

'''flatulence''' 
farting

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

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'''duplicitous''' 
deceptive in speech

'''hapless''' 
without luck

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

'''behemoth''' 
a large beast

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

'''dessicated''' 
dried out

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

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

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'''incongruous''' 
out of place

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

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

'''tumid''' 
swollen

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

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

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

'''flounces''' 
strips of decorative material

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''anticonfluential''' 
against things coming together

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

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

'''hypertrophied''' 
Grown exceeding large.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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==Endnote 26==

'''enkephalin''' 
A type of painkiller

==Page 67 (cont'd)==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''hemotoxicity''' 
Poisonous blood level.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''plangent''' 
Loud and resounding.

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

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

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

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

'''dentate''' 
Having teeth.

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

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

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

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

==Endnote 30==

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

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

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

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

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'''rictus''' 
A gaping grimace.

=Schtitt & Mario discuss the game=

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''discursive''' 
Rambling in speech.

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

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'''simpatico''' 
In agreement.

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

==Endnote 34==

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

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

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'''van der Meer''' 
Probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'''12°C''' 
~54°F

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

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

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==Page 63==

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

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

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

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

==Page 63 (cont'd)==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 64 (cont'd)==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 65==

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''anticonfluential''' 
against things coming together

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

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

'''hypertrophied''' 
Grown exceeding large.

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 66==

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

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

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

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

=☽ - Pemulis's lecture=
==Page 66==

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

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

==Page 67==

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

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

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

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

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

=Please Play=
==Page 67==

==Endnote 26==

'''enkephalin''' 
A type of painkiller

==Page 67 (cont'd)==

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

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

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

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

=☽ YDAU - Kate Gompert in the Psych Ward=

==Page 68==

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

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

==Page 69==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''hemotoxicity''' 
Poisonous blood level.

==Page 70==

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 71==

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

'''plangent''' 
Loud and resounding.

==Page 72==

==Page 73==

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

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

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==Page 75==

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

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

'''dentate''' 
Having teeth.

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

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

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

==Page 76==

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

==Endnote 30==

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

==Page 76 (cont'd)==

==Page 77==

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

==Page 78==

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

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

==Page 78==

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

==Page 79==

'''rictus''' 
A gaping grimace.

=Schtitt & Mario discuss the game=

==Page 79==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 80==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 81==

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

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

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

'''discursive''' 
Rambling in speech.

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

==Page 82==

'''simpatico''' 
In agreement.

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

==Endnote 34==

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

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

==Page 82 (cont'd)==

'''van der Meer''' 
Probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics.

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 83==

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

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

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

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

==Page 84==

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

==Page 85==

=YDAU - Tiny Ewell in Detox=

==Page 85==

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

==Page 86==

'''12°C''' 
~54°F

==Page 87==

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

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

==Page 87==

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

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=☽ - Orin and Joelle=

==Page 283==

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

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

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

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

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

==Endnote 94==

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

==Page 284==

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

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

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

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

==Endnote 95==

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

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

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

==Page 285==

'''inducement''' 
an incentive

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

==Endnote 96==

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

==Page 285 (cont'd)==

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

'''patrician''' 
aristocratic

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

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

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

==Page 286==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''sedulous''' 
diligent or attentive

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

==Page 287==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland]]

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

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

==Page 288==

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

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

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

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

'''PAC''' 
Political Action Committee

'''florid''' 
very red

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

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

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

'''MGM''' 
Militant Grammarians of Massachusetts

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

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

==Page 289==

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

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

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

'''strabismic''' 
having improperly aligned eyes

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

'''OCD''' 
Obsessive-Compulsive Disoder

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

'''decapitated''' 
beheaded

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

==Page 290==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''decocted''' 
to extract the flavor of by boiling

'''avuncular''' 
characteristic of an uncle

==Page 291==

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

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

'''lateral''' 
sideways

'''''mollygag''''' 
the exiled Oklahoman football coach appears to combine "lolly-gag" and "molly-coddle"

'''''bona fried''''' 
the exiled Oklahoman coach here appears to mean "bona fide"

'''dope-slaps''' 
a smack to the back of the head, designed to get attention rather than inflict pain; distinct from more familiar "bitch-slap"

'''adit''' 
entrance or passage

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

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

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

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

==Page 292==

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

'''CNS''' 
Central Nervous System

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

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

==Page 293==

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''herbicide''' 
something that kills plants

==Page 294==

'''''Schmüberty''''' 
Technically speaking, this wouldn't rhyme with "puberty," because an umlaut over a "u" in German produces a high front rounded vowel (as in French ''tu'' "you") rather than the long /u/ phoneme.

'''kill it just by touching''' 
When a player on the punter's team touches the ball while it is still in the field of play, the play is whistled "dead" and the opposing team takes possession at that point

'''coffin-corner kicks''' 
Usually refers to a punt inside the opponent's 20 yard line that goes out of bounds and thus cannot be returned, as opposed to inside the 20-yard-line punts that remain in the field of play but are touched (killed) by a downfield runner

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

'''bilateral''' 
having two sides

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

'''wide receiver's number''' 
Punters are typically assigned a uniform with a number between 1 and 19, while wide receivers typically get a number in the 80s, though the NCAA has no hard and fast rules in this regard.

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

'''book-long''' 
The "book" length of a punt is not the same as its physical distance. Hal kicked the "baptismal competitive punt" 90 yards in the air, but was only credited with a 40-yard punt. Because the line of scrimmage was Syracuse's 40, and Hal kicked the ball through the end zone, the punt is recorded as 40 yards (the distance from the line of scrimmage to the end zone). The ball would be placed at Syracuse's 20, so the "net" on the punt would only have been 20 yards.

'''90-yard punt''' 
The record for a punt in both college and professional football is 99 yards. Presumably in each instance the punting team had the ball at its own 1 yard line and the punt, through the air and then with fortuitous bounces, came to rest in the opponent's end zone. Hal's punt is said to have traveled 90 yards in the air, which is a bit beyond the outer limits of what even a top pro can do on his best kicks.

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

==Page 295==

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

'''USMC''' 
United States Marine Corps

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

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

'''extrication''' 
freedom from entanglement

'''lardy''' 
fat

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

'''30,0000''' 
This must refer to the attendance for the game at Boston College's Alumni Stadium, which has a capacity of 44,500 (see page 293 for schedule). Nickerson Field at BU has a capacity of less than 10,000 people. BU also played at Rhode Island in Hal's first four weeks, but its field has a capacity of only 5,180.

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

==Page 296==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 297==

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

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

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

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

'''hypertrophied''' 
overgrown anatomically

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''spectation''' 
aspect or appearance

==Page 298==

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

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

[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.]]

'''rpm''' 
revolutions per minute

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''stave''' 
to break or crush

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

==Page 299==

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

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

'''gluteal''' 
pertaining to the buttocks

=November 14th, YDAU - Poor Tony Goes Cold Turkey=

==Page 299==

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

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

==Page 300==

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

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

'''cadge''' 
to obtain by begging

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

'''de-mapping''' 
murder

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

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

'''cop''' 
obtain drugs

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

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

'''portents''' 
omens

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 301==

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

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

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

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

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

'''wan''' 
pale in color

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

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

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

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

==Page 302==

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

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

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

'''hubris''' 
pride to a fault

'''cadences''' 
flows of events

==Page 303==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''loo''' 
British colloquialism for toilet

'''flatulence''' 
farting

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

==Page 304==

'''duplicitous''' 
deceptive in speech

'''hapless''' 
without luck

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

'''behemoth''' 
a large beast

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

'''dessicated''' 
dried out

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

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

==Page 305==

'''incongruous''' 
out of place

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

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

'''tumid''' 
swollen

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

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

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

'''flounces''' 
strips of decorative material

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=November 11th, YDAU - Gately and Joelle=

==Page 531==

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

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

==Page 532==

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

'''O.D.''' 
overdose

==Page 533==

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

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

==Page 534==

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

==Page 535==

'''gregarious''' 
sociable

==Page 536==

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==Page 538==

'''slavering''' 
drooling

=☽ - Randy Lenz: Rats, Cats, and Dogs=

==Page 538==

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

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

==Page 539==

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

==Page 540==

==Endnote 224==

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

'''NAL''' 
New American Library

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

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

==Page 540 (cont'd)==

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

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

==Page 541==

'''verminal''' 
tending to breed vermin

'''cabbaging''' 
stealing

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

==Page 542==

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 543==

'''winsome''' 
charming

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

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

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

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

'''bonerfied''' 
bona fide

==Page 544==

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

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

==Page 545==

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

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

==Page 546==

'''R. Lauren''' 
Ralph Lauren

==Page 547==

'''tattlemount''' 
tantamount

==Page 548==

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

==Page 548==

'''District''' 
the District of Columbia

==Endnote 228==

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

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

==Page 548 (cont'd)==

'''twidgelling''' 
not a real word

'''NCA''' 
probably Northern California

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 549==

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

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

==Page 553==

'''worsted''' 
firmly twisted yarn

==Page 555==

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

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

==Endnote 231==

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

==Page 555 (cont'd)==

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

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

==Page 556==

'''anileated''' 
annihilated

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

'''insousistent''' 
insouciant

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

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

'''threnody''' 
a funeral dirge

==Page 557==

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

'''hoovered''' 
inhaled

==Endnote 232==

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

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

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

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

'''rhinorrhagia''' 
bleeding from the nose

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

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

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

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

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

'''phobophobia''' 
fear of fear

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 557 (cont'd)==

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

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

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

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

'''ergo''' 
Latin: therefore

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

==Page 558==

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 559==

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

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

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

=Hal Counts His Breaths=

==Page 560==

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

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

'''pride''' 
family of lions

=Lenz and Green, cont.=

==Page 560==

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

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

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

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

==Page 561==

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

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

'''intrepid''' 
fearless

'''fauna''' 
wildlife

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

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

==Page 562==

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

'''feti''' 
plural of fetus

'''yrstruly''' 
yours truly

'''propitiating''' 
appeasing

'''diem''' 
Latin: day

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==Page 87==

'''payloaders''' 
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]

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'''c'etait la guerre'''

It was war.

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'''agnate''' 
paternal, related on the father's side 
'''Samizdat''' 
dissident activity [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat]

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=Feral Hamsters=

==Page 93==

'''Champaign IL''' 
He probably attends the [http://www.uiuc.edu/ University of Illinois] main campus.

'''Ward and June''' 
The mother and father's names on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_It_To_Beaver Leave It to Beaver]

'''pedalferrous''' 
apparently a neologism, the word would mean "of or pertaining to foot metal," i.e., fast driving

'''fulvous''' 
in color, yellow-gray to yellowish-brown

'''teratogenic''' 
having an effect on the development of a fetus

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 93==

''''''n sûr''''' 
An elision of ''bien sûr'', French for "of course"

==Page 94==

'''Sterling UL35 9 mm machine pistol with Mag Na Port silencer''' 
Sterling is a real British gun manufacturer and [http://www.oegmag.com/Magnaport.asp Mag-Na-Port] is real also, but this particular gun model is apparently made-up.

'''Charleston''' 
a dance popular in the 1920s

'''mesquite''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesquite mesquite] plant

==Page 95==

=YDAU - ETA Locker Room=

==Page 95==

'''Barbicide''' 
a brand name of disinfectant used for combs and hairbrushes

'''Tolstoy's sentence''' 
The question probably referred to the opening lines of Leo Tolstoy's ''Anna Karenina:'' "HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

'''No cathode gun. No phosphenic screen.''' 
A cathode gun is an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_gun electron gun] used in a cathode ray tube. "Phosphenic" refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene phosphenes].

'''UHF''' 
Ultra High Frequency

'''acutance''' 
the edge contrast of an image

'''Michael Pemulis, ..., clear his throat deeply''' 
this grammatical error appears shortly after a discussion of a class on grammar

==Page 97==

'''halation''' 
blurring of a visual image by glare

'''quiescent''' 
still or at rest

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 97==

'''digitate''' 
having fingers

=ETA Locker Room, cont.=

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==Page 98==

'''Zoltan''' 
Zoltán was a 10th century ruler of Hungary.

'''Csikzentmihalyi''' 
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (''sic'') is a psychologist best known for his concept of "flow", a psychological state where one "is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity", e.g. "being in the zone" while playing sports.

'''Idris Arslanian, new this year, ethnically vague''' 
Idris is an Arabic name, corresponding in the Qur'an to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch%2C_ancestor_of_Noah Enoch] in the Bible. The last name Arslanian sounds Armenian, though ''Arslan'' is a Turkish word for "lion."

'''R.A.''' 
Resident Assistant

'''Tex Watson''' 
Besides a character in ''Infinite Jest,'' Tex Watson was the nickname of Charles Watson, one of the chief murderers in the Charles Manson Family.

'''ephebes''' 
An ephebe is an adolescent male.

'''suppliants''' 
A suppliant is a petitioner.

==Page 99==

'''sienna''' 
yellowish- to reddish-brown

'''louvered''' 
with angled slats

'''thoracic''' 
having to do with the chest

'''atavistically''' 
Atavism means reversion to an earlier evolutionary type.

'''piebald''' 
having patches of different colors

==Page 100==

'''cognomen''' 
a nickname

'''inflation-generative grammar''' 
i.e. a set of rules to generates phrases of increasing emphasis

==Page 101==

'''semion''' 
A semion is technically part of an anyon, the latter of which is defined in the ''OED'' as "a particle having characteristics intermediate between those of fermions and bosons in two-dimensional space." However, it seems Wallace uses the word as a form closer to "semiotics." A later search reveals that ''semion'' is Greek for "sign."

'''Umbrian''' 
From the Italian ''reggione'' of Umbria, in central Italy. Hal is Italian on his father's side, as well as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pima Pima] Native American. His mother, of course, is French-Canadian.

'''Brylcreemed''' 
Used as a verb here, Brylcreem was a brand name of men's hair grooming product.

'''zygomatics''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygomatics zygomatic bones] of the face

==Page 102==

'''haul ashes''' 
For a history of this term, click [http://www.wordwizard.com/ch_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6859 here].

'''Johnny Mathis's "Chances Are"''' 
available on [http://wm01.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=33:d95txqehldfe these recordings]

==Page 103==

'''Luther's 16th-century shoes, awaiting epiphany''' 
Martin Luther (1483-1546), German father of the Reformation, was a notorious sufferer of constipation.

'''hobnailed boots''' 
boots assembled with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobnail hobnails]

==Endnote 43==

The disease is named for Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884-1983), American gastroenterologist.

==Page 103, cont.==

'''carminative''' 
antispasmodic

'''gout''' 
a disease characterized by the collection of uric acid in the joints

'''Port Washington''' 
There are three cities by this name in the U.S.: In New York, Wisconsin, and Ohio.

==Page 104==

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'''woppsed up''' 
a created word, apparently something like "wadded up"

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 105==

'''Tristan and Isolde''' 
star-crossed lovers from Arthurian myth

'''Lancelot and what's-her-name''' 
Guinevere

'''Agamemnon and Helen''' 
Steeply has this one wrong.

'''Dante and Beatrice''' 
Beatrice is Dante's guide through heaven in the third part of the ''Divine Comedy'', ''Paradiso''

'''Narcissus and Echo''' 
The story of these doomed lovers from Greek mythology is [http://thanasis.com/echo.htm here].

'''Kierkegaard and Regina''' 
Regina Olsen was the short-term fiancée of Kierkegaard.

'''Kafka and that poor girl afraid to go the postbox for the mail''' 
The story being referred to can be read [http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.jsp?what=KafkaDoll here].

'''Menelaus was husband, him of Sparta''' 
Menelaus, King of Sparta, was the husband of Helen. Agamemnon was the King of Argos and Menelaus's brother.

'''Helen and Paris. He of Troy.''' 
Paris, a Trojan prince, kidnapped Helen from Menelaus, precipitating the Trojan War.

'''The horse: the gift which was not a gift''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Horse Trojan horse]

==Page 106==

'''electrolysistic''' 
resulting from electrolysis, the removal of hair using electric shocks

'''sangfroid''' 
From French for "cold blood," this word means "coolness."

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'''creosote''' 
There are several types of creosote, described [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creosote here].

'''Crepuscular''' 
active in the twilight, as bats

==Endnote 45==

==Endnote 304==

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==Page 109==

'''gibbous''' 
the shape of the moon when it is neither full, nor crescent, nor half, i.e., when it is more than half full

'''Quonsets''' 
short form for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut Quonset huts]

=November 3rd, YDAU - Advice to Little Brothers=

==Page 109==

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'''Stan Smith''' 
Born in 1946, Smith is a retired professional tennis player, having won Wimdledon and the U.S. Open once each.

'''dessicated''' 
dried out

==Endnote 46==

'''corticatization''' 
probably a misspelling of [http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?query=corticalization&action=Search+OMD corticalization]

==Page 111==

'''E.N.T. oncologist''' 
ear, nose, and throat; an oncologist is a cancer physician

'''violas''' 
A viola is a like a violin, only slightly larger and deeper in tone.

==Page 112==

'''''E Unibus Pluram''''' 
A Latin pun on ''E pluribus unum'' ("From many, one"), the U.S. motto. This would mean "From one, many." Note that the correct Latin would be something like ''Ex uno plures'' or ''Ex uno plura'' (depending on what "many" is meant to refer to).

==Page 113==

'''Solipsism''' 
a kind of narcissism based on the idea that one's own mind is all one can ever truly know

'''''ballet de se''''' 

French: Ballet of (itself)

==Page 114==

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'''plateaux''' 
the proper French plural of "plateau," rather than "plateaus"

'''slog''' 
to drive with blows

==Page 116==

'''Banzai!''' 
a Japanese battle cry

'''hangdog''' 
browbeaten or intimidated

==Page 117==

'''croupiers''' 
attendants at gambling casinos

'''plasticene''' 
misspelling of Plasticine, a brand name of plastic used for making molds

'''ancipitals''' 
double-edged

'''accretive''' 
of or pertaining to the process of natural growth

'''autonomical''' 
of or pertaining to the reflexive nervous system

==Page 118==

'''machine-language''' 
a coding system for computers that requires no compiling before running

'''Orinda CA''' 
city of northern California, in the Bay Area, about 18 miles east-northeast of San Francisco

'''me droogies''' 
Struck is speaking in Nadsat, the language of Anthony Burgess's novel ''A Clockwork Orange'', which is based on Russian. ''Droogies'' is Nadsat for "friends."

'''kertwanging''' 
from context, this would seem to be a thrashing (at tennis), particularly hitting the ball at your opponent

==Page 119==

'''Mein kinder''' 
German: My children

==Page 120==

'''Wagenknecht''' 
sort of a formal German word for "chauffeur."

'''guilloche''' 
This is "an ornamental pattern or border, as in architecture, consisting of paired ribbons or lines flowing in interlaced curves around a series of circular voids" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''A la contraire''' 
A French mistake: Should be ''au contraire'' (masculine)

'''gingival mound''' 
mound of gum tissue

==Page 121==

'''aperçu''' 
an insight

=Mario Incandenza's romantic experience=
==Page 121==

'''two hundred kilos''' 
over 440 pounds

'''Southpaw''' 
left-handed

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'''coiffure''' 
hairdo

'''osseously''' 
Osseous means "bone-like."

'''reticulate''' 
netted

'''chill dusk''' 
George Eliot (born Mary Anne Evans; 1819-1880), the British novelist, uses the expression in her novel [http://www.fullbooks.com/Adam-Bede.html Adam Bede].

'''easement''' 
Literally meaning the use of something legally not one's own, here it's used to mean a new path beaten through a thicket.

'''kliegs''' 
short form for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klieg Klieg light]

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'''Betty Stove''' 
Betty Stöve (born 1945) is a Dutch former professional tennis player and winner of ten Grand Slam titles

'''Montclair NJ''' 
a suburb about twenty miles west-northwest of New York City

'''Con-Edison''' 
Consolidated Edison, the utilities company serving New York

'''three meters tall''' 
about nine feet, ten inches tall

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'''Weber Grill''' 
a real brand, you can see examples [http://www.weberstuff.com/?gclid=CK71gtmRyI8CFQIQFQodpCUq9A here]

'''Passaic NJ''' 
near Montclair, Passaic is another western suburb of New York

'''capering''' 
To caper is to skip about in a playful manner.

'''rondelling''' 
To rondel (more properly, roundel) is to dance in a circle

'''simpering''' 
To simper is to smile coyly.

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

'''boscages''' 
masses of trees or shrubs

'''jetéed''' 
To jeté is to jump ballet-style.

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'''lamé''' 
an ornamental fabric incorporating threads of gold or silver

'''Titian''' 
Tiziano Vecellio (1485-1576) was a Venetian painter.

'''poison sumac''' 
a tall shrub containing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urushiol urushiol], which causes a rash similar to poison ivy

'''ambient''' 
of or pertaining to the surrounding environment

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'''les salles de danser''' 
French: dancing rooms

'''Val d'Or, Québec''' 
city of northern Québec, 325 miles northwest of Montreal

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'''eidetic''' 
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_memory photographic memory]

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'''murated''' 
a rarely used English word (found in ''OED'') meaning "surrounded by walls"

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