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

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

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

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

'''puerile''' 
childish

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''LIBSYR''' 
Libya and Syria

'''IRLIBSYR''' 
LIBSYR plus Iran

'''INDPAK''' 
India and Pakistan

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

==Endnote 123==

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

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

'''ordnance''' 
explosives

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'''synoptic''' 
by way of summary

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

==Endnote 124==

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

==Page 323 (cont'd)==

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

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

'''bellicosity''' 
a warlike disposition

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

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

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

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'''PCs''' 
Personal Computers

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

'''profligate''' 
recklessly extravagant

'''metastasizes''' 
spreads like cancer

'''EM''' 
electromagnetic

'''baroque''' 
extravagantly ornate

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

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

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

==Endnote 125==

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

==Page 325 (cont'd)==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Endnote 126==

'''picayune''' 
small or trifling

'''TRISITs''' 
triggering situations

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[[Image:Gorbachev.jpg|right]]

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

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

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

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

'''SOVWAR's bald and port-wine-stained premier''' 
no doubt a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorbachev Gorbachev] (see right)

==Endnote 127==

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

==Page 325 (cont'd)==

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

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

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

'''four kilgrams''' 
about 8.8 pounds

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

'''MiG25s''' 
a Russian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiG plane manufacturer]

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

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

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

'''Abu Kenal''' 
apparently not a real place

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

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

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

'''Tripoli''' 
a city in Lebanon

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

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

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

'''NSA''' 
National Security Agency

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

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

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

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'''advertorial''' 
Normally this word denotes an advertisement written to appear as if it's journalism. Its use here is cryptic.

'''thanatoptic''' 
contemplating death

'''adepts''' 
expert players

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

'''pique''' 
resentment

'''''Commmentary''''' 
the flagship publication of neoconservative Jews

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

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'''probity''' 
integrity or honesty

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

'''purloined''' 
stolen

'''subterranean''' 
literally underground

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''microcephalic''' 
having a tiny head

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

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

'''cerebral''' 
oriented toward thinking

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

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

'''extant''' 
still existing

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

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

'''cod''' 
a type of fish

'''EMP''' 
electromagnetic pulse

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

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

'''obtuse''' 
difficult to understand

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

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

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

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

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

'''parley''' 
to hold a discussion

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

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

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

'''verisimilitude''' 
proximity to reality

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

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

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

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'''contrite''' 
apologetic

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''cerebrate''' 
to think about something

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''equivocationary''' 
not a real word

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

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

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

'''One True Faith''' 
Islam

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

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

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

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

'''tripartite''' 
having three parts

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

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

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'''triangulating''' 
dividing into triangles

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

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

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

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

'''accreting''' 
gathering increasing amounts

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

'''equivocation''' 
ambiguity

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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==Page 321==

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

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

==Page 322==

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

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

'''puerile''' 
childish

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''LIBSYR''' 
Libya and Syria

'''IRLIBSYR''' 
LIBSYR plus Iran

'''INDPAK''' 
India and Pakistan

==Page 323==

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

==Endnote 123==

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

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

'''ordnance''' 
explosives

==Page 323 (cont'd)==

'''synoptic''' 
by way of summary

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

==Endnote 124==

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

==Page 323 (cont'd)==

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

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

'''bellicosity''' 
a warlike disposition

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

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

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

==Page 324==

'''PCs''' 
Personal Computers

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

'''profligate''' 
recklessly extravagant

'''metastasizes''' 
spreads like cancer

'''EM''' 
electromagnetic

'''baroque''' 
extravagantly ornate

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

==Page 325==

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

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

==Endnote 125==

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

==Page 325 (cont'd)==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Endnote 126==

'''picayune''' 
small or trifling

'''TRISITs''' 
triggering situations

==Page 325 (cont'd)==

[[Image:Gorbachev.jpg|right]]

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

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

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

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

'''SOVWAR's bald and port-wine-stained premier''' 
no doubt a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorbachev Gorbachev] (see right)

==Endnote 127==

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

==Page 325 (cont'd)==

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

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

==Page 326==

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

'''four kilgrams''' 
about 8.8 pounds

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

'''MiG25s''' 
a Russian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiG plane manufacturer]

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

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

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

'''Abu Kenal''' 
apparently not a real place

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

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

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

'''Tripoli''' 
a city in Lebanon

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

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

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

'''NSA''' 
National Security Agency

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

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

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

==Page 327==

'''advertorial''' 
Normally this word denotes an advertisement written to appear as if it's journalism. Its use here is cryptic.

'''thanatoptic''' 
contemplating death

'''adepts''' 
expert players

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

'''pique''' 
resentment

'''''Commmentary''''' 
the flagship publication of neoconservative Jews

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

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'''probity''' 
integrity or honesty

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

'''purloined''' 
stolen

'''subterranean''' 
literally underground

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 329==

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

'''microcephalic''' 
having a tiny head

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

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

'''cerebral''' 
oriented toward thinking

==Page 330==

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

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

'''extant''' 
still existing

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

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

'''cod''' 
a type of fish

'''EMP''' 
electromagnetic pulse

==Page 331==

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

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

'''obtuse''' 
difficult to understand

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

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

==Page 332==

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

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

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

'''parley''' 
to hold a discussion

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

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

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

'''verisimilitude''' 
proximity to reality

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

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

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

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'''contrite''' 
apologetic

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''cerebrate''' 
to think about something

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''equivocationary''' 
not a real word

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

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

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

'''One True Faith''' 
Islam

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

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

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

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

'''tripartite''' 
having three parts

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

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

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'''triangulating''' 
dividing into triangles

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

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

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

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

'''accreting''' 
gathering increasing amounts

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

'''equivocation''' 
ambiguity

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'''Kornspan''' 
German: corn chip

'''isometrics''' 
While this is just another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isometric_exercise isometric exercise], it's not clear how Pemulis would be making his face stronger.

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'''like one of Bacon's popes''' 
Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was an Irish artist. His portrait of Pope Innocent X can be seen to the right.

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'''rosin''' 
another spelling of "resin," this resin being used to provide a better grip in weightlifting

'''mesomorphic''' 
having a muscular, study body

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'''D.S.S.''' 
Department of Social Services

'''papular''' 
having papules, i.e., inflamed, raised elevations on the skin not filled with pus

'''''tecato gusano''''' 
a worm from Tecate, Mexico, a small city in Baja California, bordering the U.S.

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'''Flents''' 
a brand name of [http://earplugstore.stores.yahoo.net/flents.html earplugs]

'''subsonic''' 
of a speed less than that of sound

'''arpeggio''' 
in music, a chord played in parts (i.e., one note at a time) rather than together

'''''pace''''' 
a very loose translation from Latin would be "with due reference to"

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'''Human Immuno-Virus''' 
HIV, i.e., the virus that causes AIDS

'''datum''' 
a piece of information; usually used in its plural, i.e., data

'''nexus''' 
a means of connection

'''glans''' 
the end of the penis

'''D.E.C.''' 
Digital Equipment Corporation, now a part of [http://www.dec.com/ Hewlitt-Packard]

==Endnote 70==

'''N.R.A.''' 
National Rifle Association

'''including 12-Step fellowships themselves''' 
See Chuck Palahniuk's novel ''Fight Club''.

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''''Texas Catheter'''' 
This is "a condom-like device with a plug where the condom's reservoir tip would be, and an adhesive at the base. This device allows for urinary catheterization without the insertion of a true catheter" (Wikipedia).

==Page 203==

'''colloquia''' 
Plural for "colloquium," these are akin to academic conferences, albeit slightly less formal.

'''50 proof''' 
i.e., 25 percent alcohol

'''unalloyed''' 
pure

'''O.C.D.''' 
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

'''insipid''' 
without any interesting qualities

==Page 204==

'''Billerica''' 
a town in Massachusetts, about 25 miles northwest of Boston

'''''vig''''' 
short for "vigorish"

'''argot''' 
slang

==Page 205==

'''pancreatitis''' 
inflammation of the pancreas

==Page 206==

'''Sauvignon''' 
one of two types of wine made from two related sorts of grapes

'''Purple-Hearted''' 
A soldier receives a Purple Heart when s/he is wounded

==Page 207==

'''200 kilos''' 
over 440 pounds

'''Gothic script''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rudolf_Koch_gebrochene_Schriften.png Click here] to see examples.

'''undulating''' 
moving in a wavelike motion

'''necrotic''' 
dead

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'''hyperemic''' 
erect

'''palmate''' 
having four or more leaves emanating from a single point

'''Watertown''' 
a suburb of Boston, ten miles to the west

'''half-m.-long''' 
a half-meter, or nearly 20 inches

'''gonfalonish''' 
resembling a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonfalon gonfalon]

'''mucronate''' 
having a projecting point

'''St. Vitus's dance''' 
a nickname for the disease [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorea_%28disease%29 chorea]

'''''HOW DO YOU LIK YOUR BLUEYED BOY NOW MR DETH!?''''' 
Misspelling and slight misquotation of the last line of the poem "Buffalo Bill's/defunct," by e.e. cummings: "how do you like your blueeyed boy/Mister Death". The full poem appears here: [http://www.madeinwyoming.net/profiles/extras/BBPoemCummings.pdf]

'''gestalt''' 
Gestalt is "a configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that cannot be derived from the summation of its component parts" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

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'''crocodilic''' 
presumably resembling a crocodile, probably due to wrinkled skin

'''St. Columbkill''' 
a place name here, named for an actual Irish saint

'''St. Elizabeth's Hospital''' 
Its Web site is [http://www.caritas-semc.org/home/default.asp here].

'''cantankerous''' 
disagreeable, argumentative

'''Rita Hayworth''' 
The era of [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000028/ Rita Hayworth] would be the '30s and '40s.

'''''SUBIKBAY'62USN4-07''''' 
SUBIKBAY is probably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subic_Bay Subic Bay]. USN would be U.S. Navy.

'''''SEMPER FI''''' 
Short for ''Semper fidelis'' ("always faithful"), motto of the U.S. Marine Corps

'''autolyzed''' 
having undergone autolysis, i.e., the breakdown of tissue over time

'''BLTN''' 
Better Late That Never

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'''phylum''' 
A taxonomical term just below Kingdom (in humans, Animal), the phylum of mammals is ''Chordata'', which means they have a spinal cord.

'''foment''' 
the proper word would be "ferment"

'''M.D.C.''' 
Massachusetts Department of Corrections

'''Talwin''' 
brand name of pentazocine, a narcotic painkiller

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'''cribbage''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cribbage card game]

'''canted''' 
set at an oblique angle

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'''film-noir''' 
According to Wikipedia, ''film noir'' (French for "dark film") is "a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize moral ambiguity and sexual motivation. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940s to the late 1950s."

'''psychosensual''' 
Where as psychosensual would have a more sexual connotation...

'''psychosensory''' 
...psychosensory would be the more correct word, as it would apply to sensory stimulation, not necessarily sexual.

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'''CIA-era military experiments''' 
probably a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MK-ULTRA MKULTRA]

'''hydrangea''' 
several species of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrangea flowering plants]

'''gistless''' 
having no essential heart of the matter

'''Decoct''' 
as opposed to "concoct"

'''spectrometer''' 
an optical instrument used to conduct spectroscopic analysis on matter to determine its constituent elements

'''Ram Das''' 
This is probably a reference to Baba Ram Dass (born 1931 as Richard Alpert), an American-Jewish spiritual leader, author of ''Be Here Now'', and large influence on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Townshend Pete Townshend].

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

'''Lamb's Breath cannabis''' 
a type of potent marijuana

'''20-g.''' 
a 20-gram amount (about .7 ounces)

'''Sierpinski gasket''' 
Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński (1882-1969) was a Polish mathematician and one of the innovators of set theory. The Sierpinski gasket is a fractal, also called the Sierpinski triangle. See picture at right. [[Image:Sierpinski_Triangle.jpg|caption|Sierpinski gasket|right|150px]]

'''mullioned''' 
having separate panes, when used for a window

'''philatelic forceps, a loupe''' 
Philatelic refers to stamp collecting. A loupe is used primarily by a jeweler to view flaws in diamonds.

'''Bunsen burner''' 
a laboratory [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunsen_burner burner] invented in part by Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (1811-1899), a German chemist.

'''titration''' 
the process of determining the strength of a compound

'''WATS''' 
Wide Area Telecommunications Service: "bulk-rate telephone service that enables a subscriber to make an unlimited number of long-distance telephone calls within a given service area for a fixed monthly charge or to receive calls from given areas with no charge to the caller" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'')

'''cross-key''' 
to type in at the same time as search terms on a computer

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'''monograph''' 
a scholarly study on a particular subject, usually published as a book

'''Leavenworth''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Disciplinary_Barracks U.S. Disciplinary Barracks] at Leavenworth, Kan.

'''Ethel Merman''' 
an American [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0581062/ actress], also known for Broadway roles

'''AWOL''' 
Absent Without Leave, a military term

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'''Motrinish''' 
I.e., like Motrin, the original brand name of ibuprofen

'''fools-rush-in''' 
A reference to ''An Essay on Man'', a length poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744), a British poet of great renown:
No Place so Sacred from such Fops is barr'd, Nor is Paul's Church more safe than Paul's Church-yard:
Nay, fly to Altars; there they'll talk you dead; '''For Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.

Zen''' 
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen Buddhism] ultimately, although here is applies more to perfection or transcendence

'''Nuck''' 
a pejorative term for a French-Canadian, presumably shortened from "Canuck"

'''dumbshow''' 
Here it means sign language or mime, but the term has a longer history in theater, where it refers to a preview of a part of a play done without lines.

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'''Tenuate Dospan''' 
Tenuate is a brand name of diethylcathinone, an appetite suppressant and mild amphetamine; Dospan is used for the time-release pills.

'''otiose''' 
superfluous or useless

[[Image:Quaker.png|right]]

'''"... the way W. Penn in his Quaker Oats hat in like the 16th century must have felt trading a few trinkets to babe-in-the-woods Natives for New Jersey..."''' 
William Penn (1644-1718) was the British-born founder of the colony (and later state) of Pennsylvania. For the hat, see right. Penn obviously lived later than the 16th century and he had no involvement in the founding of New Jersey, which Pemulis seems to be conflating with the purchase of Manhattan by the Dutch for about $24 worth of jewelry.

'''opportunity-cost''' 
In economics, this is what one loses in income, pleasure, etc., from engaging in another activity rather than the one that would have paid said income, pleasure, etc. Wallace (or Pemulis) is using the term incorrectly.

'''rotator cuff''' 
the group of muscles and tendons that stabilize the shoulder

'''stolid''' 
unemotional or impassive

'''''contre-pied''''' 
Literally French for "against-foot," this term is used to apply to a direction taken by dogs in pursuit of an animal they are no longer chasing.

'''purgatorial''' 
referring neither to heaven nor hell

'''128-256 Alphabetville''' 
Because of his injury, Schacht was ranked in the lower 128 seeds in the tournament just after his hurt his knee. Alphabetville could refer to a ranking convention. A common 'Equal Point Score' guideline for when two or several players have the same Ranking point score decides the position according to the player with most tournament participation within four years, and if these conditions should apply with both or several players then the Ranking position is arranged alphabetically after the surname.

'''11/5''' 
November 5th, [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

'''arachnodactylic''' 
having fingers like spiders

==Page 217==

'''Order but not the same Family''' 
Like "phylum," these are also taxonomical terms. Human beings are ''Homo sapiens'', with ''Homo'' being the genus and ''sapiens'' being the species. Dogs and cats are in the same order: ''Carnivora'' (meat-eaters); but they are in difference families: Dogs are in ''Canidae'' and cats in ''Felidae''. However, the hyena, which resembles a dog, is actually in the ''Felidae'' family. Q.e.d.

'''Acton''' 
town in Massachusetts about 25 miles west-northwest of Boston

'''the Xerox Inc. of North American tennis academies''' 
This demonstrates that Port Washington Academy is big, but Xerox is far from the biggest corporation in the U.S.

'''Port Washington''' 
It's made clear here that this is the town on Long Island. This is the "East Egg" of F. Scott Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby,'' in Nassau County on the north shore of Long Island, very close to New York City.

'''vivisected''' 
cut apart while still alive

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'''twins Siamese''' 
The Vaught twin-sister tennis players are actually conjoined at the head.

'''Akron''' 
a city in Ohio and rubber capital of the world

'''Charleston''' 
the dance, not the city

'''bell-lap''' 
a term from track, this is the final lap of a race

'''12/12's Boards''' 
probably SATs or something like them

'''meninges''' 
the tissues that encase the brain

'''glade''' 
a clearing in a forest

==Endnote 76==

'''Attention Deficit Disorder''' 
old terminology for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD. Hal's objective symptoms describe the Inattentive Type.

'''port or starboard''' 
left or right

'''bell curve''' 
the curve formed by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution normal distribution] of IQs -- a concept fraught with problems of political correctness, racism or racialism, and different concepts of what "intelligence" is

'''glabrous''' 
having a surface devoid of hair

'''RAM''' 
Random Access Memory

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'''halcyon''' 
prosperous, happy

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'''H. Bosch's triptych ''The Garden of Earthly Delights''''' 
Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) was a Dutch painter. You can view the aforementioned triptych [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights here].

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'''Kornspan''' 
German: corn chip

'''isometrics''' 
While this is just another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isometric_exercise isometric exercise], it's not clear how Pemulis would be making his face stronger.

==Page 199==

[[Image:Bacon.jpg|thumb|caption|Bacon's ''Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X''|right|150px]]

'''like one of Bacon's popes''' 
Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was an Irish artist. His portrait of Pope Innocent X can be seen to the right.

==Page 200==

'''rosin''' 
another spelling of "resin," this resin being used to provide a better grip in weightlifting

'''mesomorphic''' 
having a muscular, study body

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'''D.S.S.''' 
Department of Social Services

'''papular''' 
having papules, i.e., inflamed, raised elevations on the skin not filled with pus

'''''tecato gusano''''' 
a worm from Tecate, Mexico, a small city in Baja California, bordering the U.S.

==Page 201==

'''Flents''' 
a brand name of [http://earplugstore.stores.yahoo.net/flents.html earplugs]

'''subsonic''' 
of a speed less than that of sound

'''arpeggio''' 
in music, a chord played in parts (i.e., one note at a time) rather than together

'''''pace''''' 
a very loose translation from Latin would be "with due reference to"

==Page 202==

'''Human Immuno-Virus''' 
HIV, i.e., the virus that causes AIDS

'''datum''' 
a piece of information; usually used in its plural, i.e., data

'''nexus''' 
a means of connection

'''glans''' 
the end of the penis

'''D.E.C.''' 
Digital Equipment Corporation, now a part of [http://www.dec.com/ Hewlitt-Packard]

==Endnote 70==

'''N.R.A.''' 
National Rifle Association

'''including 12-Step fellowships themselves''' 
See Chuck Palahniuk's novel ''Fight Club''.

==Page 202 (cont'd)==

''''Texas Catheter'''' 
This is "a condom-like device with a plug where the condom's reservoir tip would be, and an adhesive at the base. This device allows for urinary catheterization without the insertion of a true catheter" (Wikipedia).

==Page 203==

'''colloquia''' 
Plural for "colloquium," these are akin to academic conferences, albeit slightly less formal.

'''50 proof''' 
i.e., 25 percent alcohol

'''unalloyed''' 
pure

'''O.C.D.''' 
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

'''insipid''' 
without any interesting qualities

==Page 204==

'''Billerica''' 
a town in Massachusetts, about 25 miles northwest of Boston

'''''vig''''' 
short for "vigorish"

'''argot''' 
slang

==Page 205==

'''pancreatitis''' 
inflammation of the pancreas

==Page 206==

'''Sauvignon''' 
one of two types of wine made from two related sorts of grapes

'''Purple-Hearted''' 
A soldier receives a Purple Heart when s/he is wounded

==Page 207==

'''200 kilos''' 
over 440 pounds

'''Gothic script''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rudolf_Koch_gebrochene_Schriften.png Click here] to see examples.

'''undulating''' 
moving in a wavelike motion

'''necrotic''' 
dead

==Page 208==

'''hyperemic''' 
erect

'''palmate''' 
having four or more leaves emanating from a single point

'''Watertown''' 
a suburb of Boston, ten miles to the west

'''half-m.-long''' 
a half-meter, or nearly 20 inches

'''gonfalonish''' 
resembling a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonfalon gonfalon]

'''mucronate''' 
having a projecting point

'''St. Vitus's dance''' 
a nickname for the disease [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorea_%28disease%29 chorea]

'''''HOW DO YOU LIK YOUR BLUEYED BOY NOW MR DETH!?''''' 
Misspelling and slight misquotation of the last line of the poem "Buffalo Bill's/defunct," by e.e. cummings: "how do you like your blueeyed boy/Mister Death". The full poem appears here: [http://www.madeinwyoming.net/profiles/extras/BBPoemCummings.pdf]

'''gestalt''' 
Gestalt is "a configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that cannot be derived from the summation of its component parts" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

==Page 209==

'''crocodilic''' 
presumably resembling a crocodile, probably due to wrinkled skin

'''St. Columbkill''' 
a place name here, named for an actual Irish saint

'''St. Elizabeth's Hospital''' 
Its Web site is [http://www.caritas-semc.org/home/default.asp here].

'''cantankerous''' 
disagreeable, argumentative

'''Rita Hayworth''' 
The era of [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000028/ Rita Hayworth] would be the '30s and '40s.

'''''SUBIKBAY'62USN4-07''''' 
SUBIKBAY is probably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subic_Bay Subic Bay]. USN would be U.S. Navy.

'''''SEMPER FI''''' 
Short for ''Semper fidelis'' ("always faithful"), motto of the U.S. Marine Corps

'''autolyzed''' 
having undergone autolysis, i.e., the breakdown of tissue over time

'''BLTN''' 
Better Late That Never

==Page 210==

'''phylum''' 
A taxonomical term just below Kingdom (in humans, Animal), the phylum of mammals is ''Chordata'', which means they have a spinal cord.

'''foment''' 
the proper word would be "ferment"

'''M.D.C.''' 
Massachusetts Department of Corrections

'''Talwin''' 
brand name of pentazocine, a narcotic painkiller

==Page 211==

'''cribbage''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cribbage card game]

'''canted''' 
set at an oblique angle

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==Page 211==

'''film-noir''' 
According to Wikipedia, ''film noir'' (French for "dark film") is "a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize moral ambiguity and sexual motivation. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940s to the late 1950s."

'''psychosensual''' 
Where as psychosensual would have a more sexual connotation...

'''psychosensory''' 
...psychosensory would be the more correct word, as it would apply to sensory stimulation, not necessarily sexual.

==Page 212==

'''CIA-era military experiments''' 
probably a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MK-ULTRA MKULTRA]

'''hydrangea''' 
several species of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrangea flowering plants]

'''gistless''' 
having no essential heart of the matter

'''Decoct''' 
as opposed to "concoct"

'''spectrometer''' 
an optical instrument used to conduct spectroscopic analysis on matter to determine its constituent elements

'''Ram Das''' 
This is probably a reference to Baba Ram Dass (born 1931 as Richard Alpert), an American-Jewish spiritual leader, author of ''Be Here Now'', and large influence on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Townshend Pete Townshend].

==Page 213==

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

'''Lamb's Breath cannabis''' 
a type of potent marijuana

'''20-g.''' 
a 20-gram amount (about .7 ounces)

'''Sierpinski gasket''' 
Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński (1882-1969) was a Polish mathematician and one of the innovators of set theory. The Sierpinski gasket is a fractal, also called the Sierpinski triangle. See picture at right. [[File:Sierpinski_Triangle.jpg]]

'''mullioned''' 
having separate panes, when used for a window

'''philatelic forceps, a loupe''' 
Philatelic refers to stamp collecting. A loupe is used primarily by a jeweler to view flaws in diamonds.

'''Bunsen burner''' 
a laboratory [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunsen_burner burner] invented in part by Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (1811-1899), a German chemist.

'''titration''' 
the process of determining the strength of a compound

'''WATS''' 
Wide Area Telecommunications Service: "bulk-rate telephone service that enables a subscriber to make an unlimited number of long-distance telephone calls within a given service area for a fixed monthly charge or to receive calls from given areas with no charge to the caller" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'')

'''cross-key''' 
to type in at the same time as search terms on a computer

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'''monograph''' 
a scholarly study on a particular subject, usually published as a book

'''Leavenworth''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Disciplinary_Barracks U.S. Disciplinary Barracks] at Leavenworth, Kan.

'''Ethel Merman''' 
an American [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0581062/ actress], also known for Broadway roles

'''AWOL''' 
Absent Without Leave, a military term

==Page 215==

'''Motrinish''' 
I.e., like Motrin, the original brand name of ibuprofen

'''fools-rush-in''' 
A reference to ''An Essay on Man'', a length poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744), a British poet of great renown:
No Place so Sacred from such Fops is barr'd, Nor is Paul's Church more safe than Paul's Church-yard:
Nay, fly to Altars; there they'll talk you dead; '''For Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.

Zen''' 
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen Buddhism] ultimately, although here is applies more to perfection or transcendence

'''Nuck''' 
a pejorative term for a French-Canadian, presumably shortened from "Canuck"

'''dumbshow''' 
Here it means sign language or mime, but the term has a longer history in theater, where it refers to a preview of a part of a play done without lines.

==Page 216==

'''Tenuate Dospan''' 
Tenuate is a brand name of diethylcathinone, an appetite suppressant and mild amphetamine; Dospan is used for the time-release pills.

'''otiose''' 
superfluous or useless

[[Image:Quaker.png|right]]

'''"... the way W. Penn in his Quaker Oats hat in like the 16th century must have felt trading a few trinkets to babe-in-the-woods Natives for New Jersey..."''' 
William Penn (1644-1718) was the British-born founder of the colony (and later state) of Pennsylvania. For the hat, see right. Penn obviously lived later than the 16th century and he had no involvement in the founding of New Jersey, which Pemulis seems to be conflating with the purchase of Manhattan by the Dutch for about $24 worth of jewelry.

'''opportunity-cost''' 
In economics, this is what one loses in income, pleasure, etc., from engaging in another activity rather than the one that would have paid said income, pleasure, etc. Wallace (or Pemulis) is using the term incorrectly.

'''rotator cuff''' 
the group of muscles and tendons that stabilize the shoulder

'''stolid''' 
unemotional or impassive

'''''contre-pied''''' 
Literally French for "against-foot," this term is used to apply to a direction taken by dogs in pursuit of an animal they are no longer chasing.

'''purgatorial''' 
referring neither to heaven nor hell

'''128-256 Alphabetville''' 
Because of his injury, Schacht was ranked in the lower 128 seeds in the tournament just after his hurt his knee. Alphabetville could refer to a ranking convention. A common 'Equal Point Score' guideline for when two or several players have the same Ranking point score decides the position according to the player with most tournament participation within four years, and if these conditions should apply with both or several players then the Ranking position is arranged alphabetically after the surname.

'''11/5''' 
November 5th, [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

'''arachnodactylic''' 
having fingers like spiders

==Page 217==

'''Order but not the same Family''' 
Like "phylum," these are also taxonomical terms. Human beings are ''Homo sapiens'', with ''Homo'' being the genus and ''sapiens'' being the species. Dogs and cats are in the same order: ''Carnivora'' (meat-eaters); but they are in difference families: Dogs are in ''Canidae'' and cats in ''Felidae''. However, the hyena, which resembles a dog, is actually in the ''Felidae'' family. Q.e.d.

'''Acton''' 
town in Massachusetts about 25 miles west-northwest of Boston

'''the Xerox Inc. of North American tennis academies''' 
This demonstrates that Port Washington Academy is big, but Xerox is far from the biggest corporation in the U.S.

'''Port Washington''' 
It's made clear here that this is the town on Long Island. This is the "East Egg" of F. Scott Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby,'' in Nassau County on the north shore of Long Island, very close to New York City.

'''vivisected''' 
cut apart while still alive

==Page 218==

'''twins Siamese''' 
The Vaught twin-sister tennis players are actually conjoined at the head.

'''Akron''' 
a city in Ohio and rubber capital of the world

'''Charleston''' 
the dance, not the city

'''bell-lap''' 
a term from track, this is the final lap of a race

'''12/12's Boards''' 
probably SATs or something like them

'''meninges''' 
the tissues that encase the brain

'''glade''' 
a clearing in a forest

==Endnote 76==

'''Attention Deficit Disorder''' 
old terminology for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD. Hal's objective symptoms describe the Inattentive Type.

'''port or starboard''' 
left or right

'''bell curve''' 
the curve formed by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution normal distribution] of IQs -- a concept fraught with problems of political correctness, racism or racialism, and different concepts of what "intelligence" is

'''glabrous''' 
having a surface devoid of hair

'''RAM''' 
Random Access Memory

==Page 218 (cont'd)==

'''halcyon''' 
prosperous, happy

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken]]

==Page 219==

==Endnote 77==

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

'''H. Bosch's triptych ''The Garden of Earthly Delights''''' 
Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) was a Dutch painter. You can view the aforementioned triptych [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights here].

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'''Kornspan''' 
German: corn chip

'''isometrics''' 
While this is just another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isometric_exercise isometric exercise], it's not clear how Pemulis would be making his face stronger.

==Page 199==

[[Image:Bacon.jpg|thumb|caption|Bacon's ''Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X''|right|150px]]

'''like one of Bacon's popes''' 
Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was an Irish artist. His portrait of Pope Innocent X can be seen to the right.

==Page 200==

'''rosin''' 
another spelling of "resin," this resin being used to provide a better grip in weightlifting

'''mesomorphic''' 
having a muscular, study body

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'''D.S.S.''' 
Department of Social Services

'''papular''' 
having papules, i.e., inflamed, raised elevations on the skin not filled with pus

'''''tecato gusano''''' 
a worm from Tecate, Mexico, a small city in Baja California, bordering the U.S.

==Page 201==

'''Flents''' 
a brand name of [http://earplugstore.stores.yahoo.net/flents.html earplugs]

'''subsonic''' 
of a speed less than that of sound

'''arpeggio''' 
in music, a chord played in parts (i.e., one note at a time) rather than together

'''''pace''''' 
a very loose translation from Latin would be "with due reference to"

==Page 202==

'''Human Immuno-Virus''' 
HIV, i.e., the virus that causes AIDS

'''datum''' 
a piece of information; usually used in its plural, i.e., data

'''nexus''' 
a means of connection

'''glans''' 
the end of the penis

'''D.E.C.''' 
Digital Equipment Corporation, now a part of [http://www.dec.com/ Hewlitt-Packard]

==Endnote 70==

'''N.R.A.''' 
National Rifle Association

'''including 12-Step fellowships themselves''' 
See Chuck Palahniuk's novel ''Fight Club''.

==Page 202 (cont'd)==

''''Texas Catheter'''' 
This is "a condom-like device with a plug where the condom's reservoir tip would be, and an adhesive at the base. This device allows for urinary catheterization without the insertion of a true catheter" (Wikipedia).

==Page 203==

'''colloquia''' 
Plural for "colloquium," these are akin to academic conferences, albeit slightly less formal.

'''50 proof''' 
i.e., 25 percent alcohol

'''unalloyed''' 
pure

'''O.C.D.''' 
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

'''insipid''' 
without any interesting qualities

==Page 204==

'''Billerica''' 
a town in Massachusetts, about 25 miles northwest of Boston

'''''vig''''' 
short for "vigorish"

'''argot''' 
slang

==Page 205==

'''pancreatitis''' 
inflammation of the pancreas

==Page 206==

'''Sauvignon''' 
one of two types of wine made from two related sorts of grapes

'''Purple-Hearted''' 
A soldier receives a Purple Heart when s/he is wounded

==Page 207==

'''200 kilos''' 
over 440 pounds

'''Gothic script''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rudolf_Koch_gebrochene_Schriften.png Click here] to see examples.

'''undulating''' 
moving in a wavelike motion

'''necrotic''' 
dead

==Page 208==

'''hyperemic''' 
erect

'''palmate''' 
having four or more leaves emanating from a single point

'''Watertown''' 
a suburb of Boston, ten miles to the west

'''half-m.-long''' 
a half-meter, or nearly 20 inches

'''gonfalonish''' 
resembling a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonfalon gonfalon]

'''mucronate''' 
having a projecting point

'''St. Vitus's dance''' 
a nickname for the disease [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorea_%28disease%29 chorea]

'''''HOW DO YOU LIK YOUR BLUEYED BOY NOW MR DETH!?''''' 
Misspelling and slight misquotation of the last line of the poem "Buffalo Bill's/defunct," by e.e. cummings: "how do you like your blueeyed boy/Mister Death". The full poem appears here: [http://www.madeinwyoming.net/profiles/extras/BBPoemCummings.pdf]

'''gestalt''' 
Gestalt is "a configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that cannot be derived from the summation of its component parts" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

==Page 209==

'''crocodilic''' 
presumably resembling a crocodile, probably due to wrinkled skin

'''St. Columbkill''' 
a place name here, named for an actual Irish saint

'''St. Elizabeth's Hospital''' 
Its Web site is [http://www.caritas-semc.org/home/default.asp here].

'''cantankerous''' 
disagreeable, argumentative

'''Rita Hayworth''' 
The era of [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000028/ Rita Hayworth] would be the '30s and '40s.

'''''SUBIKBAY'62USN4-07''''' 
SUBIKBAY is probably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subic_Bay Subic Bay]. USN would be U.S. Navy.

'''''SEMPER FI''''' 
Short for ''Semper fidelis'' ("always faithful"), motto of the U.S. Marine Corps

'''autolyzed''' 
having undergone autolysis, i.e., the breakdown of tissue over time

'''BLTN''' 
Better Late That Never

==Page 210==

'''phylum''' 
A taxonomical term just below Kingdom (in humans, Animal), the phylum of mammals is ''Chordata'', which means they have a spinal cord.

'''foment''' 
the proper word would be "ferment"

'''M.D.C.''' 
Massachusetts Department of Corrections

'''Talwin''' 
brand name of pentazocine, a narcotic painkiller

==Page 211==

'''cribbage''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cribbage card game]

'''canted''' 
set at an oblique angle

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==Page 211==

'''film-noir''' 
According to Wikipedia, ''film noir'' (French for "dark film") is "a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize moral ambiguity and sexual motivation. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940s to the late 1950s."

'''psychosensual''' 
Where as psychosensual would have a more sexual connotation...

'''psychosensory''' 
...psychosensory would be the more correct word, as it would apply to sensory stimulation, not necessarily sexual.

==Page 212==

'''CIA-era military experiments''' 
probably a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MK-ULTRA MKULTRA]

'''hydrangea''' 
several species of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrangea flowering plants]

'''gistless''' 
having no essential heart of the matter

'''Decoct''' 
as opposed to "concoct"

'''spectrometer''' 
an optical instrument used to conduct spectroscopic analysis on matter to determine its constituent elements

'''Ram Das''' 
This is probably a reference to Baba Ram Dass (born 1931 as Richard Alpert), an American-Jewish spiritual leader, author of ''Be Here Now'', and large influence on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Townshend Pete Townshend].

==Page 213==

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

'''Lamb's Breath cannabis''' 
a type of potent marijuana

'''20-g.''' 
a 20-gram amount (about .7 ounces)

'''Sierpinski gasket''' 
Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński (1882-1969) was a Polish mathematician and one of the innovators of set theory. The Sierpinski gasket is a fractal, also called the Sierpinski triangle.

'''mullioned''' 
having separate panes, when used for a window

'''philatelic forceps, a loupe''' 
Philatelic refers to stamp collecting. A loupe is used primarily by a jeweler to view flaws in diamonds.

'''Bunsen burner''' 
a laboratory [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunsen_burner burner] invented in part by Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (1811-1899), a German chemist.

'''titration''' 
the process of determining the strength of a compound

'''WATS''' 
Wide Area Telecommunications Service: "bulk-rate telephone service that enables a subscriber to make an unlimited number of long-distance telephone calls within a given service area for a fixed monthly charge or to receive calls from given areas with no charge to the caller" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'')

'''cross-key''' 
to type in at the same time as search terms on a computer

==Page 214==

'''monograph''' 
a scholarly study on a particular subject, usually published as a book

'''Leavenworth''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Disciplinary_Barracks U.S. Disciplinary Barracks] at Leavenworth, Kan.

'''Ethel Merman''' 
an American [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0581062/ actress], also known for Broadway roles

'''AWOL''' 
Absent Without Leave, a military term

==Page 215==

'''Motrinish''' 
I.e., like Motrin, the original brand name of ibuprofen

'''fools-rush-in''' 
A reference to ''An Essay on Man'', a length poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744), a British poet of great renown:
No Place so Sacred from such Fops is barr'd, Nor is Paul's Church more safe than Paul's Church-yard:
Nay, fly to Altars; there they'll talk you dead; '''For Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.

Zen''' 
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen Buddhism] ultimately, although here is applies more to perfection or transcendence

'''Nuck''' 
a pejorative term for a French-Canadian, presumably shortened from "Canuck"

'''dumbshow''' 
Here it means sign language or mime, but the term has a longer history in theater, where it refers to a preview of a part of a play done without lines.

==Page 216==

'''Tenuate Dospan''' 
Tenuate is a brand name of diethylcathinone, an appetite suppressant and mild amphetamine; Dospan is used for the time-release pills.

'''otiose''' 
superfluous or useless

[[Image:Quaker.png|right]]

'''"... the way W. Penn in his Quaker Oats hat in like the 16th century must have felt trading a few trinkets to babe-in-the-woods Natives for New Jersey..."''' 
William Penn (1644-1718) was the British-born founder of the colony (and later state) of Pennsylvania. For the hat, see right. Penn obviously lived later than the 16th century and he had no involvement in the founding of New Jersey, which Pemulis seems to be conflating with the purchase of Manhattan by the Dutch for about $24 worth of jewelry.

'''opportunity-cost''' 
In economics, this is what one loses in income, pleasure, etc., from engaging in another activity rather than the one that would have paid said income, pleasure, etc. Wallace (or Pemulis) is using the term incorrectly.

'''rotator cuff''' 
the group of muscles and tendons that stabilize the shoulder

'''stolid''' 
unemotional or impassive

'''''contre-pied''''' 
Literally French for "against-foot," this term is used to apply to a direction taken by dogs in pursuit of an animal they are no longer chasing.

'''purgatorial''' 
referring neither to heaven nor hell

'''128-256 Alphabetville''' 
Because of his injury, Schacht was ranked in the lower 128 seeds in the tournament just after his hurt his knee. Alphabetville could refer to a ranking convention. A common 'Equal Point Score' guideline for when two or several players have the same Ranking point score decides the position according to the player with most tournament participation within four years, and if these conditions should apply with both or several players then the Ranking position is arranged alphabetically after the surname.

'''11/5''' 
November 5th, [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

'''arachnodactylic''' 
having fingers like spiders

==Page 217==

'''Order but not the same Family''' 
Like "phylum," these are also taxonomical terms. Human beings are ''Homo sapiens'', with ''Homo'' being the genus and ''sapiens'' being the species. Dogs and cats are in the same order: ''Carnivora'' (meat-eaters); but they are in difference families: Dogs are in ''Canidae'' and cats in ''Felidae''. However, the hyena, which resembles a dog, is actually in the ''Felidae'' family. Q.e.d.

'''Acton''' 
town in Massachusetts about 25 miles west-northwest of Boston

'''the Xerox Inc. of North American tennis academies''' 
This demonstrates that Port Washington Academy is big, but Xerox is far from the biggest corporation in the U.S.

'''Port Washington''' 
It's made clear here that this is the town on Long Island. This is the "East Egg" of F. Scott Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby,'' in Nassau County on the north shore of Long Island, very close to New York City.

'''vivisected''' 
cut apart while still alive

==Page 218==

'''twins Siamese''' 
The Vaught twin-sister tennis players are actually conjoined at the head.

'''Akron''' 
a city in Ohio and rubber capital of the world

'''Charleston''' 
the dance, not the city

'''bell-lap''' 
a term from track, this is the final lap of a race

'''12/12's Boards''' 
probably SATs or something like them

'''meninges''' 
the tissues that encase the brain

'''glade''' 
a clearing in a forest

==Endnote 76==

'''Attention Deficit Disorder''' 
old terminology for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD. Hal's objective symptoms describe the Inattentive Type.

'''port or starboard''' 
left or right

'''bell curve''' 
the curve formed by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution normal distribution] of IQs -- a concept fraught with problems of political correctness, racism or racialism, and different concepts of what "intelligence" is

'''glabrous''' 
having a surface devoid of hair

'''RAM''' 
Random Access Memory

==Page 218 (cont'd)==

'''halcyon''' 
prosperous, happy

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken]]

==Page 219==

==Endnote 77==

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

'''H. Bosch's triptych ''The Garden of Earthly Delights''''' 
Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) was a Dutch painter. You can view the aforementioned triptych [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights here].

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==Page 198==

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

'''Kornspan''' 
German: corn chip

'''isometrics''' 
While this is just another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isometric_exercise isometric exercise], it's not clear how Pemulis would be making his face stronger.

==Page 199==

[[Image:Bacon.jpg|thumb|caption|Bacon's ''Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X''|right|150px]]

'''like one of Bacon's popes''' 
Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was an Irish artist. His portrait of Pope Innocent X can be seen to the right.

==Page 200==

'''rosin''' 
another spelling of "resin," this resin being used to provide a better grip in weightlifting

'''mesomorphic''' 
having a muscular, study body

200 · Facts About Addiction and Tattoos

==Page 200==

'''D.S.S.''' 
Department of Social Services

'''papular''' 
having papules, i.e., inflamed, raised elevations on the skin not filled with pus

'''''tecato gusano''''' 
a worm from Tecate, Mexico, a small city in Baja California, bordering the U.S.

==Page 201==

'''Flents''' 
a brand name of [http://earplugstore.stores.yahoo.net/flents.html earplugs]

'''subsonic''' 
of a speed less than that of sound

'''arpeggio''' 
in music, a chord played in parts (i.e., one note at a time) rather than together

'''''pace''''' 
a very loose translation from Latin would be "with due reference to"

==Page 202==

'''Human Immuno-Virus''' 
HIV, i.e., the virus that causes AIDS

'''datum''' 
a piece of information; usually used in its plural, i.e., data

'''nexus''' 
a means of connection

'''glans''' 
the end of the penis

'''D.E.C.''' 
Digital Equipment Corporation, now a part of [http://www.dec.com/ Hewlitt-Packard]

==Endnote 70==

'''N.R.A.''' 
National Rifle Association

'''including 12-Step fellowships themselves''' 
See Chuck Palahniuk's novel ''Fight Club''.

==Page 202 (cont'd)==

''''Texas Catheter'''' 
This is "a condom-like device with a plug where the condom's reservoir tip would be, and an adhesive at the base. This device allows for urinary catheterization without the insertion of a true catheter" (Wikipedia).

==Page 203==

'''colloquia''' 
Plural for "colloquium," these are akin to academic conferences, albeit slightly less formal.

'''50 proof''' 
i.e., 25 percent alcohol

'''unalloyed''' 
pure

'''O.C.D.''' 
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

'''insipid''' 
without any interesting qualities

==Page 204==

'''Billerica''' 
a town in Massachusetts, about 25 miles northwest of Boston

'''''vig''''' 
short for "vigorish"

'''argot''' 
slang

==Page 205==

'''pancreatitis''' 
inflammation of the pancreas

==Page 206==

'''Sauvignon''' 
one of two types of wine made from two related sorts of grapes

'''Purple-Hearted''' 
A soldier receives a Purple Heart when s/he is wounded

==Page 207==

'''200 kilos''' 
over 440 pounds

'''Gothic script''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rudolf_Koch_gebrochene_Schriften.png Click here] to see examples.

'''undulating''' 
moving in a wavelike motion

'''necrotic''' 
dead

==Page 208==

'''hyperemic''' 
erect

'''palmate''' 
having four or more leaves emanating from a single point

'''Watertown''' 
a suburb of Boston, ten miles to the west

'''half-m.-long''' 
a half-meter, or nearly 20 inches

'''gonfalonish''' 
resembling a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonfalon gonfalon]

'''mucronate''' 
having a projecting point

'''St. Vitus's dance''' 
a nickname for the disease [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorea_%28disease%29 chorea]

'''''HOW DO YOU LIK YOUR BLUEYED BOY NOW MR DETH!?''''' 
Misspelling and slight misquotation of the last line of the poem "Buffalo Bill's/defunct," by e.e. cummings: "how do you like your blueeyed boy/Mister Death". The full poem appears here: [http://www.madeinwyoming.net/profiles/extras/BBPoemCummings.pdf]

'''gestalt''' 
Gestalt is "a configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that cannot be derived from the summation of its component parts" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

==Page 209==

'''crocodilic''' 
presumably resembling a crocodile, probably due to wrinkled skin

'''St. Columbkill''' 
a place name here, named for an actual Irish saint

'''St. Elizabeth's Hospital''' 
Its Web site is [http://www.caritas-semc.org/home/default.asp here].

'''cantankerous''' 
disagreeable, argumentative

'''Rita Hayworth''' 
The era of [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000028/ Rita Hayworth] would be the '30s and '40s.

'''''SUBIKBAY'62USN4-07''''' 
SUBIKBAY is probably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subic_Bay Subic Bay]. USN would be U.S. Navy.

'''''SEMPER FI''''' 
Short for ''Semper fidelis'' ("always faithful"), motto of the U.S. Marine Corps

'''autolyzed''' 
having undergone autolysis, i.e., the breakdown of tissue over time

'''BLTN''' 
Better Late That Never

==Page 210==

'''phylum''' 
A taxonomical term just below Kingdom (in humans, Animal), the phylum of mammals is ''Chordata'', which means they have a spinal cord.

'''foment''' 
the proper word would be "ferment"

'''M.D.C.''' 
Massachusetts Department of Corrections

'''Talwin''' 
brand name of pentazocine, a narcotic painkiller

==Page 211==

'''cribbage''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cribbage card game]

'''canted''' 
set at an oblique angle

211 · The Incredibly Potent DMZ

==Page 211==

'''film-noir''' 
According to Wikipedia, ''film noir'' (French for "dark film") is "a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize moral ambiguity and sexual motivation. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940s to the late 1950s."

'''psychosensual''' 
Where as psychosensual would have a more sexual connotation...

'''psychosensory''' 
...psychosensory would be the more correct word, as it would apply to sensory stimulation, not necessarily sexual.

==Page 212==

'''CIA-era military experiments''' 
probably a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MK-ULTRA MKULTRA]

'''hydrangea''' 
several species of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrangea flowering plants]

'''gistless''' 
having no essential heart of the matter

'''Decoct''' 
as opposed to "concoct"

'''spectrometer''' 
an optical instrument used to conduct spectroscopic analysis on matter to determine its constituent elements

'''Ram Das''' 
This is probably a reference to Baba Ram Dass (born 1931 as Richard Alpert), an American-Jewish spiritual leader, author of ''Be Here Now'', and large influence on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Townshend Pete Townshend].

==Page 213==

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

'''Lamb's Breath cannabis''' 
a type of potent marijuana

'''20-g.''' 
a 20-gram amount (about .7 ounces)

'''Sierpinski gasket''' 
Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński (1882-1969) was a Polish mathematician and one of the innovators of set theory. The Sierpinski gasket is a fractal, also called the Sierpinski triangle. See right. [[File:Sierpinski_Triangle.png]]

'''mullioned''' 
having separate panes, when used for a window

'''philatelic forceps, a loupe''' 
Philatelic refers to stamp collecting. A loupe is used primarily by a jeweler to view flaws in diamonds.

'''Bunsen burner''' 
a laboratory [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunsen_burner burner] invented in part by Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (1811-1899), a German chemist.

'''titration''' 
the process of determining the strength of a compound

'''WATS''' 
Wide Area Telecommunications Service: "bulk-rate telephone service that enables a subscriber to make an unlimited number of long-distance telephone calls within a given service area for a fixed monthly charge or to receive calls from given areas with no charge to the caller" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'')

'''cross-key''' 
to type in at the same time as search terms on a computer

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'''monograph''' 
a scholarly study on a particular subject, usually published as a book

'''Leavenworth''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Disciplinary_Barracks U.S. Disciplinary Barracks] at Leavenworth, Kan.

'''Ethel Merman''' 
an American [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0581062/ actress], also known for Broadway roles

'''AWOL''' 
Absent Without Leave, a military term

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'''Motrinish''' 
I.e., like Motrin, the original brand name of ibuprofen

'''fools-rush-in''' 
A reference to ''An Essay on Man'', a length poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744), a British poet of great renown:
No Place so Sacred from such Fops is barr'd, Nor is Paul's Church more safe than Paul's Church-yard:
Nay, fly to Altars; there they'll talk you dead; '''For Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.

Zen''' 
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen Buddhism] ultimately, although here is applies more to perfection or transcendence

'''Nuck''' 
a pejorative term for a French-Canadian, presumably shortened from "Canuck"

'''dumbshow''' 
Here it means sign language or mime, but the term has a longer history in theater, where it refers to a preview of a part of a play done without lines.

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'''Tenuate Dospan''' 
Tenuate is a brand name of diethylcathinone, an appetite suppressant and mild amphetamine; Dospan is used for the time-release pills.

'''otiose''' 
superfluous or useless

[[Image:Quaker.png|right]]

'''"... the way W. Penn in his Quaker Oats hat in like the 16th century must have felt trading a few trinkets to babe-in-the-woods Natives for New Jersey..."''' 
William Penn (1644-1718) was the British-born founder of the colony (and later state) of Pennsylvania. For the hat, see right. Penn obviously lived later than the 16th century and he had no involvement in the founding of New Jersey, which Pemulis seems to be conflating with the purchase of Manhattan by the Dutch for about $24 worth of jewelry.

'''opportunity-cost''' 
In economics, this is what one loses in income, pleasure, etc., from engaging in another activity rather than the one that would have paid said income, pleasure, etc. Wallace (or Pemulis) is using the term incorrectly.

'''rotator cuff''' 
the group of muscles and tendons that stabilize the shoulder

'''stolid''' 
unemotional or impassive

'''''contre-pied''''' 
Literally French for "against-foot," this term is used to apply to a direction taken by dogs in pursuit of an animal they are no longer chasing.

'''purgatorial''' 
referring neither to heaven nor hell

'''128-256 Alphabetville''' 
Because of his injury, Schacht was ranked in the lower 128 seeds in the tournament just after his hurt his knee. Alphabetville could refer to a ranking convention. A common 'Equal Point Score' guideline for when two or several players have the same Ranking point score decides the position according to the player with most tournament participation within four years, and if these conditions should apply with both or several players then the Ranking position is arranged alphabetically after the surname.

'''11/5''' 
November 5th, [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

'''arachnodactylic''' 
having fingers like spiders

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'''Order but not the same Family''' 
Like "phylum," these are also taxonomical terms. Human beings are ''Homo sapiens'', with ''Homo'' being the genus and ''sapiens'' being the species. Dogs and cats are in the same order: ''Carnivora'' (meat-eaters); but they are in difference families: Dogs are in ''Canidae'' and cats in ''Felidae''. However, the hyena, which resembles a dog, is actually in the ''Felidae'' family. Q.e.d.

'''Acton''' 
town in Massachusetts about 25 miles west-northwest of Boston

'''the Xerox Inc. of North American tennis academies''' 
This demonstrates that Port Washington Academy is big, but Xerox is far from the biggest corporation in the U.S.

'''Port Washington''' 
It's made clear here that this is the town on Long Island. This is the "East Egg" of F. Scott Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby,'' in Nassau County on the north shore of Long Island, very close to New York City.

'''vivisected''' 
cut apart while still alive

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'''twins Siamese''' 
The Vaught twin-sister tennis players are actually conjoined at the head.

'''Akron''' 
a city in Ohio and rubber capital of the world

'''Charleston''' 
the dance, not the city

'''bell-lap''' 
a term from track, this is the final lap of a race

'''12/12's Boards''' 
probably SATs or something like them

'''meninges''' 
the tissues that encase the brain

'''glade''' 
a clearing in a forest

==Endnote 76==

'''Attention Deficit Disorder''' 
old terminology for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD. Hal's objective symptoms describe the Inattentive Type.

'''port or starboard''' 
left or right

'''bell curve''' 
the curve formed by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution normal distribution] of IQs -- a concept fraught with problems of political correctness, racism or racialism, and different concepts of what "intelligence" is

'''glabrous''' 
having a surface devoid of hair

'''RAM''' 
Random Access Memory

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'''halcyon''' 
prosperous, happy

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken]]

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

'''H. Bosch's triptych ''The Garden of Earthly Delights''''' 
Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) was a Dutch painter. You can view the aforementioned triptych [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights here].

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'''C.U.S.P.''' 
This could stand for several different things — perhaps Canadian-United States Party. 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

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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.

==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.

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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 Dary 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."

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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

'''avuncular''' 
characteristic of an uncle

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

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

'''lateral''' 
sideways

'''''bona fried''''' 
the other players mean to say "bona fide"

'''dope-slaps''' 
more commonly known as "bitch-slaps"

'''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

[[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

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'''''Schmüberty''''' 
Technically speaking, this wouldn't rhyme with "puberty," because an umlaut over a "u" in German produces a diphthong rather than the long /u/ phoneme.

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

'''bilateral''' 
having two sides

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

'''wide receiver's number''' 
Kickers can only be assigned numbers 1 through 19, while wide receivers get numbers in the 80s.

'''"...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''' 
This is a bit confusing, since the sense would seem to imply that the "book" is a record book, but the record for a punt in both college and professional football is 99 yards.

'''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''' 
The game against Syracuse is a home game, so the audience couldn't have been 30,000 because Nickerson Field has a capacity of less than 10,000 people.

'''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]]

'''American 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

'''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.''' 
American Federation of Labor

'''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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==Page 283==

'''C.U.S.P.''' 
This could stand for several different things — perhaps Canadian-United States Party. 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

==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.

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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.

==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.

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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 Dary 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."

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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

'''avuncular''' 
characteristic of an uncle

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

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

'''lateral''' 
sideways

'''''bona fried''''' 
the other players mean to say "bona fide"

'''dope-slaps''' 
more commonly known as "bitch-slaps"

'''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

[[Image:Parabola.png|thumb|caption|parabola|right|125px]]
'''parabola''' 
a conic section made by the cutting of a cone from top to bottom; 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 diphthong rather than the long /u/ phoneme.

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

'''bilateral''' 
having two sides

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

'''wide receiver's number''' 
Kickers can only be assigned numbers 1 through 19, while wide receivers get numbers in the 80s.

'''"...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''' 
This is a bit confusing, since the sense would seem to imply that the "book" is a record book, but the record for a punt in both college and professional football is 99 yards.

'''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''' 
The game against Syracuse is a home game, so the audience couldn't have been 30,000 because Nickerson Field has a capacity of less than 10,000 people.

'''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

299 · Poor Tony Goes Cold Turkey

==Page 299==

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

'''American 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

'''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.''' 
American Federation of Labor

'''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

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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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