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=☽ - Orin and Joelle=

==Page 283==

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

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

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

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

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

==Endnote 94==

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

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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.

==Page 285==

'''inducement''' 
an incentive

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

==Endnote 96==

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

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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]]

==Page 287==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''PAC''' 
Political Action Committee

'''florid''' 
very red

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

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

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

'''MGM''' 
Militant Grammarians of Massachusetts

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

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

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

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

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

'''strabismic''' 
having improperly aligned eyes

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

'''OCD''' 
Obsessive-Compulsive Disoder

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

'''decapitated''' 
beheaded

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''avuncular''' 
characteristic of an uncle

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

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

'''lateral''' 
sideways

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

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

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

'''adit''' 
entrance or passage

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

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

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

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

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

'''CNS''' 
Central Nervous System

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

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

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

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

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

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

[[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.

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

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

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

'''bilateral''' 
having two sides

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''USMC''' 
United States Marine Corps

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

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

'''extrication''' 
freedom from entanglement

'''lardy''' 
fat

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''hypertrophied''' 
overgrown anatomically

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''spectation''' 
aspect or appearance

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

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

[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.]]

'''rpm''' 
revolutions per minute

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''stave''' 
to break or crush

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

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

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

'''gluteal''' 
pertaining to the buttocks

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

==Page 299==

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

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

==Page 300==

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

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

'''cadge''' 
to obtain by begging

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

'''de-mapping''' 
murder

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

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

'''cop''' 
obtain drugs

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

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

'''portents''' 
omens

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''wan''' 
pale in color

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

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

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

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

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

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

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

'''hubris''' 
pride to a fault

'''cadences''' 
flows of events

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''loo''' 
British colloquialism for toilet

'''flatulence''' 
farting

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

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'''duplicitous''' 
deceptive in speech

'''hapless''' 
without luck

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

'''behemoth''' 
a large beast

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

'''dessicated''' 
dried out

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

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

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'''incongruous''' 
out of place

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

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

'''tumid''' 
swollen

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

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

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

'''flounces''' 
strips of decorative material

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==Page 283==

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

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

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

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

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

==Endnote 94==

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

==Page 284==

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

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

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

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

==Endnote 95==

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

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

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

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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.

==Page 285 (cont'd)==

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

'''patrician''' 
aristocratic

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

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

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

==Page 286==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''sedulous''' 
diligent or attentive

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

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

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

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

==Page 288==

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

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

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

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

'''PAC''' 
Political Action Committee

'''florid''' 
very red

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

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

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

'''MGM''' 
Militant Grammarians of Massachusetts

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

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

==Page 289==

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

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

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

'''strabismic''' 
having improperly aligned eyes

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

'''OCD''' 
Obsessive-Compulsive Disoder

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

'''decapitated''' 
beheaded

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

==Page 290==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''avuncular''' 
characteristic of an uncle

==Page 291==

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

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

'''lateral''' 
sideways

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 292==

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

'''CNS''' 
Central Nervous System

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

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

==Page 293==

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''herbicide''' 
something that kills plants

==Page 294==

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

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

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

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

'''bilateral''' 
having two sides

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 295==

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

'''USMC''' 
United States Marine Corps

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

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

'''extrication''' 
freedom from entanglement

'''lardy''' 
fat

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

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

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

==Page 296==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 297==

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

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

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

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

'''hypertrophied''' 
overgrown anatomically

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''spectation''' 
aspect or appearance

==Page 298==

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

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

[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.]]

'''rpm''' 
revolutions per minute

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''stave''' 
to break or crush

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

==Page 299==

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

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

'''gluteal''' 
pertaining to the buttocks

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

==Page 299==

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

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

==Page 300==

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

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

'''cadge''' 
to obtain by begging

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

'''de-mapping''' 
murder

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

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

'''cop''' 
obtain drugs

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

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

'''portents''' 
omens

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 301==

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

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

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

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

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

'''wan''' 
pale in color

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

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

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

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

==Page 302==

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

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

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

'''hubris''' 
pride to a fault

'''cadences''' 
flows of events

==Page 303==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''loo''' 
British colloquialism for toilet

'''flatulence''' 
farting

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

==Page 304==

'''duplicitous''' 
deceptive in speech

'''hapless''' 
without luck

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

'''behemoth''' 
a large beast

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

'''dessicated''' 
dried out

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

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

==Page 305==

'''incongruous''' 
out of place

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

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

'''tumid''' 
swollen

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

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

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

'''flounces''' 
strips of decorative material

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==Page 283==

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

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

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

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

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

==Endnote 94==

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

==Page 284==

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

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

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

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

==Endnote 95==

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

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

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

==Page 285==

'''inducement''' 
an incentive

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

==Endnote 96==

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

==Page 285 (cont'd)==

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

'''patrician''' 
aristocratic

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

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

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

==Page 286==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''sedulous''' 
diligent or attentive

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

==Page 287==

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

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

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

==Page 288==

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

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

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

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

'''PAC''' 
Political Action Committee

'''florid''' 
very red

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

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

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

'''MGM''' 
Militant Grammarians of Massachusetts

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

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

==Page 289==

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

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

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

'''strabismic''' 
having improperly aligned eyes

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

'''OCD''' 
Obsessive-Compulsive Disoder

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

'''decapitated''' 
beheaded

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

==Page 290==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''avuncular''' 
characteristic of an uncle

==Page 291==

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

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

'''lateral''' 
sideways

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 292==

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

'''CNS''' 
Central Nervous System

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

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

==Page 293==

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''herbicide''' 
something that kills plants

==Page 294==

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

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

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

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

'''bilateral''' 
having two sides

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 295==

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

'''USMC''' 
United States Marine Corps

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

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

'''extrication''' 
freedom from entanglement

'''lardy''' 
fat

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

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

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

==Page 296==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 297==

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

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

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

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

'''hypertrophied''' 
overgrown anatomically

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''spectation''' 
aspect or appearance

==Page 298==

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

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

[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.]]

'''rpm''' 
revolutions per minute

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''stave''' 
to break or crush

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

==Page 299==

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

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

'''gluteal''' 
pertaining to the buttocks

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

==Page 299==

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

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

==Page 300==

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

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

'''cadge''' 
to obtain by begging

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

'''de-mapping''' 
murder

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

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

'''cop''' 
obtain drugs

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

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

'''portents''' 
omens

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 301==

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

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

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

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

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

'''wan''' 
pale in color

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

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

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

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

==Page 302==

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

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

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

'''hubris''' 
pride to a fault

'''cadences''' 
flows of events

==Page 303==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''loo''' 
British colloquialism for toilet

'''flatulence''' 
farting

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

==Page 304==

'''duplicitous''' 
deceptive in speech

'''hapless''' 
without luck

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

'''behemoth''' 
a large beast

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

'''dessicated''' 
dried out

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

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

==Page 305==

'''incongruous''' 
out of place

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

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

'''tumid''' 
swollen

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

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

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

'''flounces''' 
strips of decorative material

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=☽ November 7th, YDAU - Joelle goes to Molly Notkin's party=

==Page 219==

[[Image:MIT.png|thumb|caption|MIT Seal|150px|right]]

'''striated''' 
marked with stripes or streaks

'''Cukor''' 
George Dewey Cukor (1899-1983) was an American [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002030/ film director].

'''Murnau in Méliès's fiberglass lap''' 
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (1888-1931) was a German expressionist filmmaker who later worked in Hollywood. He made the classic vampire film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013442/ Noferatu]. Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès (1861-1938) was a French filmmaker, famous for the silent [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000417/ A Voyage to the Moon].

'''cummerbund''' 
the band of fabric worn around the waist with a tuxedo

'''M.I.T.-crested''' 
see right

==Page 220==

'''low-pH chemist''' 
i.e., he worked with acids

'''piebald''' 
having patches of black and white

'''G.W. Pabst''' 
Georg Wilhelm Pabst (1885-1967) was a Bohemian-born Austrian filmmaker.

'''sorghum''' 
a type of widely eaten [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorghum grain]

'''tumefies''' 
swells

'''sororal''' 
another word for "sisterly"

'''sub-rosa''' 
From the Latin "under the rose," this word means secretly held.

==Page 221==

'''sienna-glazed''' 
glazed with an earth-based pigment

'''polyresin''' 
a resin compound used to make figurines, among other things

'''staccato''' 
in music, notes that are sounded in a detached and distinct manner

'''cataract''' 
In the non-ophthalmic sense, this word means "waterfall."

==Page 222==

'''NOTRE RAI PAYS''' 
''Notre pays'' is French for "our country." I don't know what "RAI" is supposed to mean; apparently, in French, it's a type of Algerian music.

'''.473-liter''' 
a pint

'''Big Red Soda Water''' 
apparently a [http://www.bigredltd.com/ real brand]

'''Chore Boy''' 
a brand of [http://www.choreboyscrubbers.com/ scrubbing pads]

'''two-k. square''' 
0.77 square miles

'''selvage''' 
the finished edge of a piece of fabric, so done to prevent fraying

'''delimits''' 
establishes the boundaries of

==Page 223==

=Chronology of O.N.A.N.'s Revenue-Enhancing Subsidized Time™=

==Page 223==

See [[Subsidized Time]].

==Endnote 78==

'''G.F.R. Co.''' 
perhaps [http://www.gfr.cc/ Global Food Resources]

'''Zanesville OH''' 
a town 55 miles east of Columbus

'''Vienna VA''' 
a suburb of Washington, D.C., about 15 miles due west of the city

=Joelle, cont.=

==Page 225==

'''tumbrel''' 
a cart for hauling manure or for hauling victims to the guillotine during the French Revolution

'''imprecated''' 
called down curses upon someone

'''Delphina''' 
name of a [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04701a.htm beatified Catholic virgin]

==Endnote 79==

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

==Page 225 (cont'd)==

'''Veedersburg, Indiana and Powell, Wyoming''' 
Veedersburg is about 70 miles west-northest of Indianapolis; Powell is about 90 miles south of Billings, Mont.

'''parallax''' 
This is "the difference between the view of an object as seen through the picture-taking lens of a camera and the view as seen through a separate viewfinder" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

==Page 226==

'''8-gram''' 
a bit over a quarter of an ounce

'''wildly carbuncular wife''' 
This is a reference to Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor (1879-1964), wife of Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor.

'''P.M.U.K.''' 
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

'''Lend-Lease''' 
a program between the beginning of World War II and U.S. entry after the bombing of Pearl Harbor whereby the U.S. government provided materiel to Britain (and later the Soviets) in return for military bases

'''scopophobic''' 
irrational fear or pornography [doubtful; fear of being looked at makes more sense]

=Helen P. Steeply's (putative) c.v.=

==Page 227==

'''1.98 M., 104 KG., A.B., M.J.A.''' 
1.98 meters is about 6'4" tall. 104 kg is around 230 lbs. She's enormous.

A.B. is an older abbreviation for B.A., i.e., Bachelor of Arts. M.J.A. is probably Master of Journalistic Arts.

'''''Decade Magazine''''' 
A list of articles from this publication can be found [http://www.caribouschools.org/secondary/chs/library/Social%20Studies/Decade%20Project/Decadeindex.htm here].

'''''Southwest Annual''''' 
probably not a real publication

'''''Ladies Day''''' 
also not a real publication

'''Erythema AZ''' 
not a real town, but erythema is a [http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9363881/erythema real disease]

=Joelle, cont.=

==Page 227==

'''A.B.D.''' 
"All But Dissertation," a term used to refer to people who have completed their doctoral studies with the exception of their dissertations.

[[Image:Homburg.jpg|thumb|caption|Homburg Hat|150px|right]]

'''Homburg''' 
A homburg is a stiff felt hat characterized by a single dent running down the center of the crown and a brim fixed in a tight, upwards curl. It is superficially similar to the trilby or fedora; trilbys and fedoras, however, have soft, "snappable" brims and can have various designs "pinched" into the crown, whereas the shape of a homburg is fixed. (see right) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homburg_(hat) Wikipedia]

'''Wiesbaden''' 
a city of Germany above 25 miles west of Frankfurt (Main)

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.S.D.B.]]

==Page 228==

'''the A.M.'s interruptus''' 
Presumably this means the end of the morning, although the only common English usage of "interruptus" is in the Latin phrase ''coitus interrruptus'', i.e., "pulling out."

'''Maya Deren''' 
Born Eleanora Derenkowsky, Maya Deren (1917-1961) was a Ukrainian-born American [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220305/ filmmmaker].

==Page 229==

'''glycine''' 
one of the 20 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycine amino acids] found in proteins

'''Rutherford Keck and Crosby Baum''' 
These both seem to be invented people....

'''Smothergill''' 
...as does this...

'''Miriam Prickett''' 
...and this.

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

'''Franciscan bald spot''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscan Orders of Friars Minor] were known to shave the tops of their heads in medieval and early modern times.

==Page 230==

'''paps''' 
breasts or nipples

'''diphthong''' 
In linguistics, a diphthong is a vowel combination involving a smooth transition from one vowel to another. English has three diphthongs: /ay/ as in "papaya," /oy/ as in "boy," and /au/ as in "Bauhaus." Technically "beautiful" doesn't have a diphthong.

'''febrile''' 
feverish

'''scopophiliac''' 
sexually attracted to pornography [ummm, let's get right with the scopophilia/-phobia, y'all—Merriam-Webster Medical online says "a desire to look at sexually stimulating scenes especially as a substitute for actual sexual participation"]

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.S.D.B.]]

'''Boaz''' 
the name of cities in both Alabama and West Virginia

==Page 231==

'''Vogelsong''' 
German: bird song

'''Emerson College''' 
a [http://www.emerson.edu/ college] in Boston

'''ectoplasm''' 
the supposed emanation of the soul from the body; here used as a metaphor for vomit

'''afflatus''' 
gas

'''dithers''' 
trembles or vibrates

'''jaundice''' 
yellowing of the skin caused by liver disease

'''b & w''' 
black and white

'''Bouvier''' 
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's unmarried name

'''''f''-stop''' 
This is "the ratio of the focal length (''f'')) of a lens or lens system to the effective diameter of its aperture" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition'').

'''''Berliner''''' 
Technically, it's called the ''Berliner Pfannkuchen'' (doughnut).

==Page 232==

'''''Ich bein ein Berliner''''' 
''Bein'' is the wrong word. It's a noun in German and means "leg". The first-person singular of ''sein'' ("to be") is ''bin''.

'''TA''' 
Teaching Assistant

'''''À du nous avons foi au poison''''' 
French (roughly): We have faith in poison

'''Eve Plumb''' 
She played Jan Brady on ''The Brady Bunch''.

'''Henderson''' 
Florence Henderson, who played Carol Brady

'''Davis''' 
Ann B. Davis, who played Alice, the maid

'''Peter''' 
the middle son, played by Christopher Knight

'''Greg''' 
the eldest son, played by Barry Williams

'''''De gustibus non est disputandum''''' 
Latin: There's no accounting for taste

'''Eisenstein and Kurosawa and Michaux''' 
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (1898-1948) was a Latvian-born Russian-Jewish filmmaker, famous for his film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015648/ Battleship Potemkin]. Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) was perhaps the most prominent Japanese filmmaker of the twentieth century. Oscar Micheaux (1893-1951) was an African-American filmmaker whose ouevre can be viewed [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0584778/ here].

'''draw a bead''' 
slang for taking aim at a target with a rifle

'''ten m.''' 
Ten meters is equal to 32.8 feet.

==Page 233==

'''Heideggerian''' 
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) was a prominent twentieth-century German philosopher and proponent of existentialism.

'''''a priori''''' 
From the Latin for "from what comes first," these are assumptions made before observations are made.

'''wraith''' 
another word for "ghost"

'''labile''' 
unstable

'''''The Incision''''' 
I could locate no film by this name.

'''qua''' 
From the Latin ablative case of the word for "who," this word means "in the character of capacity of."

'''dopamine''' 
a neurotransmitter, primarily responsible for movement and cognition

'''blinis''' 
Russian crepes

'''tartines''' 
a type of French open-faced sandwich

'''sweetbreads''' 
thymus gland or pancreas of young animals (calf or lamb)

'''glacé''' 
French for "iced"

'''Morris Mini''' 
another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Minor Morris Minor]

'''ipecac''' 
derived from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipecacuanha ipecacuanha plant], a syrup produced to induce vomiting

'''clapper''' 
the tongue of a bell

'''Dishmaster''' 
see [[Subsidized Time]]

'''Makavajev''' 
Born in 1932, [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0538445/ Dusan Makavejev] (probably misspelled) is a Yugoslavian-born film director.

==Page 234==

'''Shiny Prize, Kentucky''' 
not a real town

'''1.7 meters tall''' 
a little over 5'6"

'''48 kilograms''' 
about 106 pounds

'''EZ-Widers''' 
a brand of cigarette rolling papers

'''Cyrillic''' 
employing the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_alphabet Cyrillic alphabet], as with Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Bulgarian, etc.

'''mollified''' 
softened in feeling and temper

'''soft rock's grim dental association''' 
which is to say, it's the kind of music you'd hear in a dentist's office

'''Kinski as Paganini''' 
Klaus Kinski (1926-1991), Danzig-born German-American actor, played Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840), the Italian violinist and composer, in his final film, [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098052/ Kinski Paganini].

'''Léaud as Doinel''' 
Jean-Pierre Léaud (born 1944), a French actor, played the fictional character Antoine Doinel in five [http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0027246/ films].

'''Peterson's ''The Lead Shoes''''' 
a 1949 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0279918/ film] by Sidney Peterson

'''pomander''' 
This is "a mixture of aromatic substances, often in the form of a ball, formerly carried on the person as a supposed guard against infection but now placed in closets, dressers, etc." (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

==Page 235==

'''dicky''' 
impaired

'''bathetic''' 
appealing to bathos, i.e., insincere pathos (emotion)

'''neat bourbon''' 
bourbon without ice

'''Vittoria''' 
a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_della_Vittoria Santa Maria della Vittoria], where the mentioned work by Bernini hangs

'''recumbent''' 
reclining

'''Gleem''' 
a brand of toothpaste

'''NoCoat scraper''' 
Presumably refers to NoCoat LinguaScrapers (tongue scrapers) mentioned on [http://wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_127-156#Page_151 Page 151].

'''NeGram''' 
a brand name of nalidixic acid, used to treat urinary tract infections

'''depilatory''' 
for removal of hair

'''Monostat''' 
brand name of a treatment for vaginal yeast infections

'''Parapectolin''' 
a mixture of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaolin kaolinite] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pectin pectin], used to treat diarrhea

==Page 236==

'''Kodachrome''' 
a brand name of camera film

'''Reynolds Wrap''' 
a brand name of aluminum foil

'''baking soda''' 
Joelle is making crack, as opposed to 'freebase cocaine' which requires ether. Crack production is procedurally distinct (and safer) from that of purer 'freebase cocaine,' but the freebase products are the same: the baking soda serves to ''free'' the cocaine ''base'' from the pure cocaine hydrochloride. Both methods produce crystals that can be smoked. The production method of Joelle's earlier "home made freebase cocaine" is uncertain, but conventional terminology suggests she makes the ether-based variety at home.

'''C knob''' 
the knob for cold water

==Page 237==

'''Paducah''' 
a city in Kentucky about 175 miles southeast of St. Louis, Mo.

'''Qantas''' 
an airline serving Australia and New Zealand

==Page 238==

'''fillips''' 
a sharp tap

'''mâché''' 
i.e., papier mâché

'''S.O.P.''' 
Standard Operating Procedure

'''imperial''' 
a case for luggage

'''"...darkness dance on the face of the deep..."''' 
a play on [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201:2;&version=9; Genesis 1:2]

'''"...that skull fragment out of the ''Hamlet'' graveyard scene..."''' 
i.e., "infinite jest"

'''Mad Stork''' 
the nickname for former NFL linebacker [http://www.profootballhof.com/history/release.jsp?release_id=1046 Ted Hendricks]

==Page 239==

'''banal''' 
hackneyed or trite

'''Prettiest G.O.A.T.''' 
Thought G.O.A.T. stands here for "Girl Of All Time," it's a pun (and an oxymoron) since "goat" is a slang term for an ugly person.

'''slew-footed''' 
with the foot turned on the axis of the ankle

==Page 240==

'''white- party-noise''' 
which is to say random noise generated by the party outside the bedroom

''''We've Only Just Begun'''' 
a song by Paul Williams and Roger Nichols first recorded by the [http://wc04.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:hifrxqw5ldfe Carpenters] in 1970

'''mercuric red''' 
red as the color made by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merbromin MercuroChrome]

=☽ - Enfield, MA=

==Page 240==

Note: Most of these places exist but there is no such town (anymore) as Enfield, Mass.

'''Dicalced''' 
Apparently there is a misspelling. The correct term would be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discalced_Carmelites Discalced Carmelites], which means they go barefoot or wear sandals.

==Page 241==

'''RCC''' 
Roman Catholic Church

'''''les trebuchets noirs''''' 
French: the black catapults

'''5 km''' 
about 16,400 feet

'''brachiform''' 
in the shape of an arm

'''75 hectares''' 
almost 900,000 square yards

'''palisades''' 
fences

'''guano''' 
feces, particularly of birds or bats

'''four-km.''' 
almost 2.5 miles

'''coaxial''' 
having common axes

==Page 242==

'''Ø's''' 
zeros

'''A.D.E.''' 
Air Delivery Equipment

=November 5th, YDAU - Hal and Orin discuss Himself's suicide=

==Page 242==

==Endnote 82==
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote 82|Endnote 82]]

==Page 243==

'''caroms''' 
rebounds

'''1100 meters''' 
a little over 3,600 feet

'''Superstition mountains''' 
a real range east of Phoenix

'''precipice''' 
a cliff with a vertical face

'''''propitiate''''' 
to make favorably inclined

'''apotropaic''' 
intended to ward off evil

'''Popogatapec''' 
probably a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popocat%C3%A9petl Popocatépetl]

'''Ahts of Vancouver''' 
another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuu-chah-nulth Nuu-chah-nulth], the indigenous peoples of Vancouver Island, Canada

'''Micturation''' 
urination

==Page 244==

'''200-kilo''' 
about 441 pounds

'''apposite''' 
pertinent

==Page 245==

'''decamp''' 
to depart secretly

'''domino-mask''' 
This is "a large, hooded cloak with a mask covering the eyes, worn at masquerades" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''lacuna''' 
a missing part

==Page 246==

'''rodneys''' 
obviously some kind of impulse buy, but I can't figure out what kind

'''refracted''' 
illuminated indirectly

'''Cardinal Stadium''' 
The Arizona Cardinals now play in the University of Phoenix Stadium.

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'''Royal Victoria''' 
This is the name of one of the docks of east London, but probably not what's being referred to here. Victoria is also the capital of British Columbia, and an island in the Pacific off the B.C. coast.

==Page 248==

''''20 for 28 is what, 65%?'''' 
It's a little over 71%.

==Page 249==

'''telemetry''' 
the transmission of something automatically and at a distance -- here, Hal's toenails to the wastebasket

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'''magnitron''' 
a misspelling of "magnetron," which is "a two-element vacuum tube in which the flow of electrons is under the influence of an external magnetic field, used to generate extremely short radio waves" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''kg.s.cm.''' 
kilograms per square centimeter, as a measurement of pressure, like pounds per square inch

==Page 252==

'''Adriatic''' 
the sea between the west coast of Italy and the Balkan peninsula

==Page 253==

'''StairMaster''' 
a brand name of exercise machines

'''Kübler-Ross, Hinton''' 
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. (1926-2004) was a Swiss-born American psychiatrist and specialist on death and dying. John Hinton is a British contemporary expert in the field.

'''Kastenbaum and Kastenbaum''' 
Robert J. Kastenbaum is another prominent scholar in the field of death and dying. I can't find another person by that name, so perhaps Hal is referring to multiple volumes by the same Kastenbaum.

'''Elizabeth Harper Neeld's ''Seven Choices: Taking the Steps to New Life After Losing Someone You Love''''' 
A real book, it's actually 343 pages.

'''Wyclif and 14th-century ''langue-d'oc'' French''' 
John Wyclif was a 14th century English theologian. He made the first translation of the Bible into English, thus his importance to etymology in general. ''Langue d'oc'' is another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langue_d%27oc Occitan] language. The ''OED'' actually dates the word's (acceptance) earliest usage to 1596 by Shakespeare in ''The Merchant of Venice''.

'''Hindi''' 
a national language of India and one of the most widely spoken

'''Gila monster''' 
a venomous lizard native to the Southwest U.S. and Mexico, known for its tenacious bite

'''hypertensive''' 
having high blood pressure

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'''''Leaves of Grass''''' 
the most famous volume of poetry by Walt Whitman

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'''unfazable''' 
incapable of being disturbed

'''paroxysmic''' 
characteristic of an outburst of violent emotion

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

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'''dewlaps''' 
loose flesh as under the jaw of a cow

'''"...when Luke removes his high-tech targeting helmet..."''' 
Hal is referring to a scene from [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/ Star Wars]; Luke is Luke Skywalker.

'''coccyges''' 
plural of coccyx, i.e., the tailbone

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'''jonquil-yellow''' 
another name for the flower known as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonquil narcissus] or daffodil

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==Page 3==

'''Uncle Charles''' 
See ''C.T.''

'''Remington-hung''' 
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].

'''Half-Windsors''' 
A type of knot used to tie a necktie. Picture of a half-Windsor [http://www.sutree.com/upload/ymxxpnyqiuyiggefhkbsq/captured.jpg here].

'''prorector''' 
See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prorector prorector]. Possibly an originally German term. Also see [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=P prorector index entry].

'''A. deLint''' 
See [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=D deLint index entry]; p. 4.

'''C.T.''' 
Uncle Charles, mentioned previously. See [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_27-63 Page 50].

'''periphery''' 
fringe; outer boundary

'''Harold Incandenza''' 
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.

'''Enfield''' 
A fictional town just west of Boston, where parts of the real town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.

'''court-shaped''' 
like a tennis court, presumably

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<div id="onancaa">'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.''' </div>
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Athletic Association -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.

'''Wen''' 
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''Aubrey F. deLint''' 
Enfield Tennis Academy prorector. See [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=D deLint index entry].

'''avers''' 
Asserts as true or alleges.

'''among the very cream''' 
as in, among the cream of the crop, or among the very best.

'''Randolph Tennis Center''' 
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tucson, Ariz. and the main campus of the University of Arizona.

'''El Con Marriott''' 
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquistador Hotel in Tucson, the Marriot has a different name.

'''top-hole''' 
British exclamation meaning first-rate or excellent

'''WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational''' 
A fictional junior tennis tournament, sponsored by Whataburger®, a real fast-food chain in the southwest U.S. See p. 14.

==Page 5==

'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."''' 
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.

'''62.5%''' 
Out of eight people in the room (including Hal, three deans, the Director of Composition, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are not looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.

'''Edmonton''' 
Presumably Edmonton, Alberta.

'''mottle''' 
Spots of color.

'''circumflex''' 
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb être (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.

'''Pac 10''' 
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.
 
'''"I stare carefully into the Kekuléan knot of the middle Dean's necktie."''' [[image:wiki.png|frame|August Kekulé (left), the self-consuming snake (middle) and the benzene molecular structure it inspired (right)]]
"Kekuléan" is not a type of knot. To Hal, the knot he is focusing on resembles the self-consuming, annular shape of the snake that inspired August Kekulé's discovery of benzene's molecular structure. August Kekule (1829-1896), a renowned German organic chemist, was the principal founder of the theory of chemical structure. His most famous work, the discovery of benzene molecule's structure, is said to be inspired by a dream. "Kekulé's Dream" was that of a self-devouring snake, the shape of which he used to describe the benzene ring. Hal's intense focus on this annular, or ring-like, part of the tie is the first reference to annular shapes.

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'''aviarian''' 
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.

'''phonetic perspective''' 
Judging from the way the words sound when spoken.

==Page 7==

'''lapidary''' 
"Marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression: lapidary prose" (''thefreedictionary.com''). The original meaning refers to the cutting and polishing of precious stones. Wallace favored this word to describe well-wrought prose, and used it often himself in interviews and readings.

'''effete''' 
Overrefined.

'''Prescriptive Grammar''' 
This term describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace wrote at length about the thorny questions surrounding this subject in the famous essay, "Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage," which can be found at http://www.harpers.org/archive/2001/04/0070913

'''Post-Fourier Transformations''' 
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.

'''Holographically Mimetic''' 
Approximating reality using holograms.

'''Stasis''' 
Inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing forces [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stasis]. 

'''Montague Grammar''' 
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.

'''Physical Modality''' 
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.

'''Tertiary''' 
Third-level, after primary and secondary.

'''Justinian''' 
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565).

'''sotto''' 
Italian for "below." Particularly when used in the phrase, "sotto voce," it means speaking in a low voice, under one's breath.

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'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium''' 
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

'''hypertrophied''' 
Growth of tissue, especially muscle. Although there are many causes, the most common is exercise. (see, contra, ''atrophied''.)

==Page 9==

'''insigniated''' 
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia).

'''N.A.A.U.P.''' 
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.

'''de moi''' 
French: from me.

'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."''' 
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word. Hal is saying that the Deans, even with their limited grammatical abilities, would find the recent essays appalling.

'''hip-shot''' 
one hip lower than the other.

'''capillary webs''' 
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins.

'''defacatory''' 
As if eliminating solid bodily waste.

'''Don''' 
A mafia boss.

'''RICO''' 
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.

=Account of young Hal eating the mold=
==Page 10==

'''vortexing''' 
whirling

'''nepotistic''' 
relating to the practice of favoring relatives or friends

'''Brewster's-Angle light''' 
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].

'''Weston''' 
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city

'''Orin''' 
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."

'''Rototiller''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]

'''Pooh-wear''' 
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance

[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

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'''presbyopic''' 
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older

'''Rototrembling''' 
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller

'''caustic''' 
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic

'''plumb''' 
adj., straight or true; in line with

'''martial''' 
war-like

'''ideogram''' 
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration

=Hal at the University, cont.=
==Page 12==

'''ROM-drives''' 
ROM is an acronym for "Read Only Memory", a class of computer data storage. In the real world, best known in the name of the non-music version of Compact Discs (CD-ROM). CD-ROMs were becoming a popular way to distribute software (and pre-Internet computerized encyclopedias and atlases) when Infinite Jest was written, and even then it was predicted that DVD-ROMs or some other video/data disk would eventually supplant them. In more technical contexts, ROM refers to a specific variety of computer chips, but since Hal is talking about "drives", it seems likely that he means something more like a CD.

'''Kirkegaard''' 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy

'''Camus''' 
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.

'''Dennis Gabor''' 
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."''' 
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of Leviathan. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.

'''Hegel''' 
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.

'''creatus''' 
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."

'''pinion''' 
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''parquet''' 
An in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring. Also, in France, the branch of the law that deals with the persecution of crime.

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.

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'''half nelson''' 
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind

'''Heimlich''' 
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.

'''roil''' 
To move about in whirling manner.

'''pases''' 
This is the plural of pase, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.

'''supine''' 
lying on one's back

'''enfilade''' 
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.

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<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thumb|100px|Whataburger logo|right]]
Synecdoche for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational," an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson, AZ. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Pheonix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)

'''viscous''' 
Sticky, thick and liquid.

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'''espadrilles''' 
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles

'''savant''' 
Mentally handicapped but brilliant in one specific way.

'''shunt''' 
To shove.

'''kangaroo-interview''' 
Alludes to kangaroo-court, a sham legal proceeding.

'''leonine''' 
lion-like

'''cirri''' 
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud

'''vectors''' 
Direct paths to desired locations

'''martinet''' 
a strict disciplinarian

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'''ultra-mach''' 
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.

'''barnwood''' 
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''starboard list''' 
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.

'''gigantism''' 
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''

'''parodic''' 
having the qualities of a parody

'''infantophile''' 
one subject to infantophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia]), but may simply reference the earlier Inner Infant group

'''incisionish''' 
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"

'''hypophalangial''' 
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands

'''Himself's''' 
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel

'''antenna''' 
Referring here to the portable phone's antenna.

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'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."''' 
See Hamlet, Act Five, Scene One.

'''Venus Williams''' 
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.

'''Dymphna''' 
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.

'''Petropolis Kahn''' 
Petropolis is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.

"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., kohen.

'''etiology''' 
the cause of a disease

'''Socratic method'''
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece

'''O.E.D. VI's count''' 
This is a reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition.

'''nonarchaic''' 
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language

'''Latinate''' 
deriving from Latin

'''Saxonic''' 
deriving from Old English

'''quick-bit''' 
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips

'''jou''' 
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"

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'''girder''' 
An upright beam

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'''200 grams''' 
a little over seven ounces

'''"...using just audio..."''' 
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.

'''Allston''' 
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.

'''high-resin dope''' 
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced

'''harelip''' 
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]

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'''TP''' 
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.

'''"own marijuana"''' 
To physically possess marijuana.

'''modem''' 
used as a verb, communicating with the office via modem, an early but ubiquitous tool for transmitting data between servers and client/servers.

'''e-note''' 
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, conceived in the pre-Internet era

==Page 20==

'''Mountie''' 
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI

'''Porter Square, Cambridge''' 
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border

==Page 21==

'''convulsive''' 
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking

'''Wedekind festival''' 
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.

'''rapacious''' 
Aggressively greedy.

==Page 22==

'''pleurisy''' 
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs

'''Interlace viewer''' 
A television-based home entertainment system, ubiquitous in the time the novel is set, which plays copy-protected "cartridges" custom-ordered by viewers, invented by [[L#"Lace"|Noreen Lace-Forché]]

'''raptly''' 
with intense attention to

'''cartridge''' 
See ''Interlace viewer'', above

'''debauch''' 
an episode of debauchery, engaging in excessive, pleasure-seeking, often sexual- or drug/alcohol-related

'''120 grams''' 
about 4.2 ounces

'''debased''' 
of low character and lacking integrity

'''Tito Puente''' 
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.

'''Marlborough Street''' 
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.

==Page 23==

'''appropriation''' 
taking something as one's own, without permission

'''methamphetamine hydrochloride''' 
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that Infinite Jest was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.

==Page 24==

'''pastiche''' 
a mixture of varying style or content

'''magisculed''' 
typo or intentional misspelling of ''majuscule'', an initial capital letter, often large-type to introduce a section of written material; Wallace's use of the noun in a verb form is likely a neologism (especially if the alternate spelling is retained)

'''50 grams''' 
about 1.75 ounces

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water without soil

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'''stein''' 
a drinking mug

'''E.W.D. land barge''' 
acronym for "Empire Waste Disposal"; a garbage truck

'''phallocentric''' 
biased from a male point of view

'''half a meter''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''carb''' 
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carburetor on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.

'''oblique''' 
slanted, like an acute or obtuse angle, not a right-angle

'''teleputer''' 
Combination television and computer, generic term for an Interlace player, see also [[T#"TP"|TP]]

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'''jibe''' 
correspond with; match up

'''oblique''' 
indirect or dishonest

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'''desiccated''' 
dried out

'''convulsively''' 
As if struck by a convulsion; moving suddenly and without coordination.

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==Page 3==

'''Uncle Charles''' 
See ''C.T.''

'''Remington-hung''' 
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].

'''Half-Windsors''' 
A type of knot used to tie a necktie. Picture of a half-Windsor [http://www.sutree.com/upload/ymxxpnyqiuyiggefhkbsq/captured.jpg here].

'''prorector''' 
See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prorector prorector]. Possibly an originally German term. Also see [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=P prorector index entry].

'''A. deLint''' 
See [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=D deLint index entry]; p. 4.

'''C.T.''' 
Uncle Charles, mentioned previously. See [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_27-63 Page 50].

'''periphery''' 
fringe; outer boundary

'''Harold Incandenza''' 
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.

'''Enfield''' 
A fictional town just west of Boston, where parts of the real town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.

'''court-shaped''' 
like a tennis court, presumably

==Page 4==

<div id="onancaa">'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.''' </div>
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Athletic Association -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.

'''Wen''' 
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''Aubrey F. deLint''' 
Enfield Tennis Academy prorector. See [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=D deLint index entry].

'''avers''' 
Asserts as true or alleges.

'''among the very cream''' 
as in, among the cream of the crop, or among the very best.

'''Randolph Tennis Center''' 
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tucson, Ariz. and the main campus of the University of Arizona.

'''El Con Marriott''' 
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquistador Hotel in Tucson, the Marriot has a different name.

'''top-hole''' 
British exclamation meaning first-rate or excellent

'''WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational''' 
A fictional junior tennis tournament, sponsored by Whataburger®, a real fast-food chain in the southwest U.S. See p. 14.

==Page 5==

'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."''' 
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.

'''62.5%''' 
Out of eight people in the room (including Hal, three deans, the Director of Composition, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are not looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.

'''Edmonton''' 
Presumably Edmonton, Alberta.

'''mottle''' 
Spots of color.

'''circumflex''' 
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb être (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.

'''Pac 10''' 
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.
 
'''"I stare carefully into the Kekuléan knot of the middle Dean's necktie."''' [[image:wiki.png|frame|August Kekulé (left), the self-consuming snake (middle) and the benzene molecular structure it inspired (right)]]
"Kekuléan" is not a type of knot. To Hal, the knot he is focusing on resembles the self-consuming, annular shape of the snake that inspired August Kekulé's discovery of benzene's molecular structure. August Kekule (1829-1896), a renowned German organic chemist, was the principal founder of the theory of chemical structure. His most famous work, the discovery of benzene molecule's structure, is said to be inspired by a dream. "Kekulé's Dream" was that of a self-devouring snake, the shape of which he used to describe the benzene ring. Hal's intense focus on this annular, or ring-like, part of the tie is the first reference to annular shapes.

==Page 6==

'''aviarian''' 
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.

'''phonetic perspective''' 
Judging from the way the words sound when spoken.

==Page 7==

'''lapidary''' 
"Marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression: lapidary prose" (''thefreedictionary.com''). The original meaning refers to the cutting and polishing of precious stones. Wallace favored this word to describe well-wrought prose, and used it often himself in interviews and readings.

'''effete''' 
Overrefined.

'''Prescriptive Grammar''' 
This term describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace wrote at length about the thorny questions surrounding this subject in the famous essay, "Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage," which can be found at http://www.harpers.org/archive/2001/04/0070913

'''Post-Fourier Transformations''' 
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.

'''Holographically Mimetic''' 
Approximating reality using holograms.

'''Stasis''' 
Inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing forces [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stasis]. 

'''Montague Grammar''' 
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.

'''Physical Modality''' 
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.

'''Tertiary''' 
Third-level, after primary and secondary.

'''Justinian''' 
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565).

'''sotto''' 
Italian for "below." Particularly when used in the phrase, "sotto voce," it means speaking in a low voice, under one's breath.

==Page 8==

'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium''' 
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

'''hypertrophied''' 
Growth of tissue, especially muscle. Although there are many causes, the most common is exercise. (see, contra, ''atrophied''.)

==Page 9==

'''insigniated''' 
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia).

'''N.A.A.U.P.''' 
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.

'''de moi''' 
French: from me.

'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."''' 
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word. Hal is saying that the Deans, even with their limited grammatical abilities, would find the recent essays appalling.

'''hip-shot''' 
one hip lower than the other.

'''capillary webs''' 
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins.

'''defacatory''' 
As if eliminating solid bodily waste.

'''Don''' 
A mafia boss.

'''RICO''' 
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.

=Account of young Hal eating the mold=
==Page 10==

'''vortexing''' 
whirling

'''nepotistic''' 
relating to the practice of favoring relatives or friends

'''Brewster's-Angle light''' 
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].

'''Weston''' 
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city

'''Orin''' 
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."

'''Rototiller''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]

'''Pooh-wear''' 
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance

[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

==Page 11==

'''presbyopic''' 
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older

'''Rototrembling''' 
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller

'''caustic''' 
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic

'''plumb''' 
adj., straight or true; in line with

'''martial''' 
war-like

'''ideogram''' 
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration

=Hal at the University, cont.=
==Page 12==

'''ROM-drives''' 
ROM is an acronym for "Read Only Memory", a class of computer data storage. In the real world, best known in the name of the non-music version of Compact Discs (CD-ROM). CD-ROMs were becoming a popular way to distribute software (and pre-Internet computerized encyclopedias and atlases) when Infinite Jest was written, and even then it was predicted that DVD-ROMs or some other video/data disk would eventually supplant them. In more technical contexts, ROM refers to a specific variety of computer chips, but since Hal is talking about "drives", it seems likely that he means something more like a CD.

'''Kirkegaard''' 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy

'''Camus''' 
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.

'''Dennis Gabor''' 
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."''' 
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of Leviathan. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.

'''Hegel''' 
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.

'''creatus''' 
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."

'''pinion''' 
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''parquet''' 
An in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring. Also, in France, the branch of the law that deals with the persecution of crime.

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.

==Page 13==

'''half nelson''' 
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind

'''Heimlich''' 
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.

'''roil''' 
To move about in whirling manner.

'''pases''' 
This is the plural of pase, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.

'''supine''' 
lying on one's back

'''enfilade''' 
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.

==Page 14==

<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thumb|100px|Whataburger logo|right]]
Synecdoche for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational," an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson, AZ. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Pheonix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)

'''viscous''' 
Sticky, thick and liquid.

==Page 15==

'''espadrilles''' 
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles

'''savant''' 
Mentally handicapped but brilliant in one specific way.

'''shunt''' 
To shove.

'''kangaroo-interview''' 
Alludes to kangaroo-court, a sham legal proceeding.

'''leonine''' 
lion-like

'''cirri''' 
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud

'''vectors''' 
Direct paths to desired locations

'''martinet''' 
a strict disciplinarian

==Page 16==

'''ultra-mach''' 
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.

'''barnwood''' 
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''starboard list''' 
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.

'''gigantism''' 
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''

'''parodic''' 
having the qualities of a parody

'''infantophile''' 
one subject to infantophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia]), but may simply reference the earlier Inner Infant group

'''incisionish''' 
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"

'''hypophalangial''' 
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands

'''Himself's''' 
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel

'''antenna''' 
Referring here to the portable phone's antenna.

==Page 17==

'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."''' 
See Hamlet, Act Five, Scene One.

'''Venus Williams''' 
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.

'''Dymphna''' 
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.

'''Petropolis Kahn''' 
Petropolis is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.

"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., kohen.

'''etiology''' 
the cause of a disease

'''Socratic method'''
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece

'''O.E.D. VI's count''' 
This is a reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition.

'''nonarchaic''' 
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language

'''Latinate''' 
deriving from Latin

'''Saxonic''' 
deriving from Old English

'''quick-bit''' 
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips

'''jou''' 
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"

=☽ YDAU - Erdedy's double bind=

==Page 17==
'''girder''' 
An upright beam

==Page 18==

'''200 grams''' 
a little over seven ounces

'''"...using just audio..."''' 
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.

'''Allston''' 
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.

'''high-resin dope''' 
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced

'''harelip''' 
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]

==Page 19==

'''TP''' 
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.

'''"own marijuana"''' 
To physically posses marijuana.

'''modem''' 
used as a verb, communicating with the office via modem, an early but ubiquitous tool for transmitting data between servers and client/servers.

'''e-note''' 
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, conceived in the pre-Internet era

==Page 20==

'''Mountie''' 
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI

'''Porter Square, Cambridge''' 
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border

==Page 21==

'''convulsive''' 
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking

'''Wedekind festival''' 
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.

'''rapacious''' 
Aggressively greedy.

==Page 22==

'''pleurisy''' 
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs

'''Interlace viewer''' 
A television-based home entertainment system, ubiquitous in the time the novel is set, which plays copy-protected "cartridges" custom-ordered by viewers, invented by [[L#"Lace"|Noreen Lace-Forché]]

'''raptly''' 
with intense attention to

'''cartridge''' 
See ''Interlace viewer'', above

'''debauch''' 
an episode of debauchery, engaging in excessive, pleasure-seeking, often sexual- or drug/alcohol-related

'''120 grams''' 
about 4.2 ounces

'''debased''' 
of low character and lacking integrity

'''Tito Puente''' 
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.

'''Marlborough Street''' 
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.

==Page 23==

'''appropriation''' 
taking something as one's own, without permission

'''methamphetamine hydrochloride''' 
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that Infinite Jest was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.

==Page 24==

'''pastiche''' 
a mixture of varying style or content

'''magisculed''' 
typo or intentional misspelling of ''majuscule'', an initial capital letter, often large-type to introduce a section of written material; Wallace's use of the noun in a verb form is likely a neologism (especially if the alternate spelling is retained)

'''50 grams''' 
about 1.75 ounces

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water without soil

==Page 25==

'''stein''' 
a drinking mug

'''E.W.D. land barge''' 
acronym for "Empire Waste Disposal"; a garbage truck

'''phallocentric''' 
biased from a male point of view

'''half a meter''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''carb''' 
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carburetor on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.

'''oblique''' 
slanted, like an acute or obtuse angle, not a right-angle

'''teleputer''' 
Combination television and computer, generic term for an Interlace player, see also [[T#"TP"|TP]]

==Page 26==

'''jibe''' 
correspond with; match up

'''oblique''' 
indirect or dishonest

==Page 27==

'''desiccated''' 
dried out

'''convulsively''' 
As if struck by a convulsion; moving suddenly and without coordination.

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=☽ Year of Glad - Hal at the University of Arizona=
==Page 3==

'''Uncle Charles''' 
See ''C.T.''

'''Remington-hung''' 
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].

'''Half-Windsors''' 
A type of knot used to tie a necktie. Picture of a half-Windsor [http://www.sutree.com/upload/ymxxpnyqiuyiggefhkbsq/captured.jpg here].

'''prorector''' 
See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prorector prorector]. Possibly an originally German term. Also see [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=P prorector index entry].

'''A. deLint''' 
See [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=D deLint index entry]; p. 4.

'''C.T.''' 
Uncle Charles, mentioned previously. See [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_27-63 Page 50].

'''periphery''' 
fringe; outer boundary

'''Harold Incandenza''' 
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.

'''Enfield''' 
A fictional town just west of Boston, where parts of the real town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.

'''court-shaped''' 
like a tennis court, presumably

==Page 4==

<div id="onancaa">'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.''' </div>
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Athletic Association -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.

'''Wen''' 
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''Aubrey F. deLint''' 
Enfield Tennis Academy prorector. See [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=D deLint index entry].

'''avers''' 
Asserts as true or alleges.

'''among the very cream''' 
as in, among the cream of the crop, or among the very best.

'''Randolph Tennis Center''' 
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tucson, Ariz. and the main campus of the University of Arizona.

'''El Con Marriott''' 
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquistador Hotel in Tucson, the Marriot has a different name.

'''top-hole''' 
British exclamation meaning first-rate or excellent

'''WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational''' 
A fictional junior tennis tournament, sponsored by Whataburger®, a real fast-food chain in the southwest U.S. See p. 14.

==Page 5==

'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."''' 
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.

'''62.5%''' 
Out of eight people in the room (including Hal, three deans, the Director of Composition, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are not looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.

'''Edmonton''' 
Presumably Edmonton, Alberta.

'''mottle''' 
Spots of color.

'''circumflex''' 
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb être (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.

'''Pac 10''' 
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.
 
'''"I stare carefully into the Kekuléan knot of the middle Dean's necktie."''' [[image:wiki.png|frame|August Kekulé (left), the self-consuming snake (middle) and the benzene molecular structure it inspired (right)]]
"Kekuléan" is not a type of knot. To Hal, the knot he is focusing on resembles the self-consuming, annular shape of the snake that inspired August Kekulé's discovery of benzene's molecular structure. August Kekule (1829-1896), a renowned German organic chemist, was the principal founder of the theory of chemical structure. His most famous work, the discovery of benzene molecule's structure, is said to be inspired by a dream. "Kekulé's Dream" was that of a self-devouring snake, the shape of which he used to describe the benzene ring. Hal's intense focus on this annular, or ring-like, part of the tie is the first reference to annular shapes.

==Page 6==

'''aviarian''' 
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.

'''phonetic perspective''' 
Judging from the way the words sound when spoken.

==Page 7==

'''lapidary''' 
"Marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression: lapidary prose" (''thefreedictionary.com''). The original meaning refers to the cutting and polishing of precious stones. Wallace favored this word to describe well-wrought prose, and used it often himself in interviews and readings.

'''effete''' 
Overrefined.

'''Prescriptive Grammar''' 
This term describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace wrote at length about the thorny questions surrounding this subject in the famous essay, "Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage," which can be found at http://www.harpers.org/archive/2001/04/0070913

'''Post-Fourier Transformations''' 
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.

'''Holographically Mimetic''' 
Approximating reality using holograms.

'''Stasis''' 
Inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing forces [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stasis]. 

'''Montague Grammar''' 
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.

'''Physical Modality''' 
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.

'''Tertiary''' 
Third-level, after primary and secondary.

'''Justinian''' 
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565).

'''sotto''' 
Italian for "below." Particularly when used in the phrase, "sotto voce," it means speaking in a low voice, under one's breath.

==Page 8==

'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium''' 
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

'''hypertrophied''' 
Growth of tissue, especially muscle. Although there are many causes, the most common is exercise. (see, contra, ''atrophied''.)

==Page 9==

'''insigniated''' 
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia).

'''N.A.A.U.P.''' 
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.

'''de moi''' 
French: from me.

'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."''' 
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word. Hal is saying that the Deans, even with their limited grammatical abilities, would find the recent essays appalling.

'''hip-shot''' 
one hip lower than the other.

'''capillary webs''' 
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins.

'''defacatory''' 
As if eliminating solid bodily waste.

'''Don''' 
A mafia boss.

'''RICO''' 
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.

=Account of young Hal eating the mold=
==Page 10==

'''vortexing''' 
whirling

'''nepotistic''' 
relating to the practice of favoring relatives or friends

'''Brewster's-Angle light''' 
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].

'''Weston''' 
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city

'''Orin''' 
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."

'''Rototiller''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]

'''Pooh-wear''' 
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance

[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

==Page 11==

'''presbyopic''' 
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older

'''Rototrembling''' 
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller

'''caustic''' 
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic

'''plumb''' 
adj., straight or true; in line with

'''martial''' 
war-like

'''ideogram''' 
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration

=Hal at the University, cont.=
==Page 12==

'''ROM-drives''' 
ROM is an acronym for "Read Only Memory", a class of computer data storage. In the real world, best known in the name of the non-music version of Compact Discs (CD-ROM). CD-ROMs were becoming a popular way to distribute software (and pre-Internet computerized encyclopedias and atlases) when Infinite Jest was written, and even then it was predicted that DVD-ROMs or some other video/data disk would eventually supplant them. In more technical contexts, ROM refers to a specific variety of computer chips, but since Hal is talking about "drives", it seems likely that he means something more like a CD.

'''Kirkegaard''' 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy

'''Camus''' 
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.

'''Dennis Gabor''' 
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."''' 
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of Leviathan. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.

'''Hegel''' 
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.

'''creatus''' 
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."

'''pinion''' 
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''parquet''' 
An in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring. Also, in France, the branch of the law that deals with the persecution of crime.

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.

==Page 13==

'''half nelson''' 
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind

'''Heimlich''' 
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.

'''roil''' 
To move about in whirling manner.

'''pases''' 
This is the plural of pase, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.

'''supine''' 
lying on one's back

'''enfilade''' 
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.

==Page 14==

<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thumb|100px|Whataburger logo|right]]
Synechdoche for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational," an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson, AZ. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Pheonix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)

'''viscous''' 
Sticky, thick and liquid.

==Page 15==

'''espadrilles''' 
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles

'''savant''' 
Mentally handicapped but brilliant in one specific way.

'''shunt''' 
To shove.

'''kangaroo-interview''' 
Alludes to kangaroo-court, a sham legal proceeding.

'''leonine''' 
lion-like

'''cirri''' 
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud

'''vectors''' 
Direct paths to desired locations

'''martinet''' 
a strict disciplinarian

==Page 16==

'''ultra-mach''' 
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.

'''barnwood''' 
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''starboard list''' 
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.

'''gigantism''' 
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''

'''parodic''' 
having the qualities of a parody

'''infantophile''' 
one subject to infantophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia]), but may simply reference the earlier Inner Infant group

'''incisionish''' 
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"

'''hypophalangial''' 
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands

'''Himself's''' 
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel

'''antenna''' 
Referring here to the portable phone's antenna.

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'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."''' 
See Hamlet, Act Five, Scene One.

'''Venus Williams''' 
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.

'''Dymphna''' 
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.

'''Petropolis Kahn''' 
Petropolis is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.

"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., kohen.

'''etiology''' 
the cause of a disease

'''Socratic method'''
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece

'''O.E.D. VI's count''' 
This is a reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition.

'''nonarchaic''' 
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language

'''Latinate''' 
deriving from Latin

'''Saxonic''' 
deriving from Old English

'''quick-bit''' 
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips

'''jou''' 
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"

=☽ YDAU - Erdedy's double bind=

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'''girder''' 
An upright beam

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'''200 grams''' 
a little over seven ounces

'''"...using just audio..."''' 
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.

'''Allston''' 
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.

'''high-resin dope''' 
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced

'''harelip''' 
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]

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'''TP''' 
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.

'''"own marijuana"''' 
To physically posses marijuana.

'''modem''' 
used as a verb, communicating with the office via modem, an early but ubiquitous tool for transmitting data between servers and client/servers.

'''e-note''' 
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, conceived in the pre-Internet era

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'''Mountie''' 
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI

'''Porter Square, Cambridge''' 
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border

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'''convulsive''' 
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking

'''Wedekind festival''' 
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.

'''rapacious''' 
Aggressively greedy.

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'''pleurisy''' 
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs

'''Interlace viewer''' 
A television-based home entertainment system, ubiquitous in the time the novel is set, which plays copy-protected "cartridges" custom-ordered by viewers, invented by [[L#"Lace"|Noreen Lace-Forché]]

'''raptly''' 
with intense attention to

'''cartridge''' 
See ''Interlace viewer'', above

'''debauch''' 
an episode of debauchery, engaging in excessive, pleasure-seeking, often sexual- or drug/alcohol-related

'''120 grams''' 
about 4.2 ounces

'''debased''' 
of low character and lacking integrity

'''Tito Puente''' 
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.

'''Marlborough Street''' 
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.

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'''appropriation''' 
taking something as one's own, without permission

'''methamphetamine hydrochloride''' 
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that Infinite Jest was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.

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'''pastiche''' 
a mixture of varying style or content

'''magisculed''' 
typo or intentional misspelling of ''majuscule'', an initial capital letter, often large-type to introduce a section of written material; Wallace's use of the noun in a verb form is likely a neologism (especially if the alternate spelling is retained)

'''50 grams''' 
about 1.75 ounces

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water without soil

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'''stein''' 
a drinking mug

'''E.W.D. land barge''' 
acronym for "Empire Waste Disposal"; a garbage truck

'''phallocentric''' 
biased from a male point of view

'''half a meter''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''carb''' 
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carburetor on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.

'''oblique''' 
slanted, like an acute or obtuse angle, not a right-angle

'''teleputer''' 
Combination television and computer, generic term for an Interlace player, see also [[T#"TP"|TP]]

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'''jibe''' 
correspond with; match up

'''oblique''' 
indirect or dishonest

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'''desiccated''' 
dried out

'''convulsively''' 
As if struck by a convulsion; moving suddenly and without coordination.

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