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'''yogic full lotus''' 
the cross-legged sitting position

'''crustacean''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean branch of animals] including lobsters, shrimp, and other similar shellfish

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'''''DEUS PROVIDEBIT''''' 
Latin: God will provide. The line appears in the Vulgate (Latin) version of the Bible at Genesis 22:8, where Abraham tell Isaac, whom he intends to sacrifice, that God will provide an animal for the sacrifice.

=yrstruly=

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'''crewed''' 
worked in a gang

'''boosting''' 
stealing

'''onnings''' 
awnings

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'''elemonade''' 
eliminate

'''map''' 
face

'''slope''' 
derogatory slang for a person of Asian descent

'''pernt''' 
point

'''Copley''' 
Copley Square, a neighborhood of Boston

'''personnel works''' 
(personal works) - personal equipment for injecting drugs

'''cop''' 
obtain drugs

'''aile''' 
aisle

'''Bow&Arrow''' 
a reference to the Bow and Arrow Pub at 1 Bow Street. Closed in 2000 due to a building renovation and the rent being raised.

'''foran''' 
foreign

'''Cheap-O Records''' 
a reference to Cheapo Records (no hyphen) in Central Square, Cambridge. It was located at 645 Mass Ave when the book was written, but the building has since been demolished. It now resides at 538 Mass Ave. http://www.cheaporecords.com/

'''trancemission''' 
transmission

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'''dopesick''' 
in withdrawal from opiates such as heroin

'''supperst''' 
supposed

'''petaled ass''' 
(peddled ass) prostituted himself

'''roll''' 
rob

'''legless on shots alone''' 
very drunk to the point of not being able to walk well

'''wet work''' 
sexual acts in exchange for drugs/money/etc.

'''pernts''' 
points

'''stifing''' 
(stiffing) They did not give the Santa any money.

'''feather snake''' 
feather boa - a feathered scarf

'''eat cheese''' 
be a rat

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'''pissboys''' 
people who administer urine drug tests

'''glass pipes''' 
for smoking crack

'''Crown Royal in purple bags''' 
Crown Royal is Canadian whisky that comes in a purple cloth bag

'''kwai9''' 
quinine 

'''p-dope''' 
heavily cut heroin

'''bunk''' 
poor quality, cut, or fake

'''bundles''' 
heroin

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'''stoal''' 
stole

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'''super statiously''' 
superstitiously

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'''Hotshots''' 
poisoned heroin so as to be lethal when injected

'''booted''' 
injected

'''thearized''' 
theorized

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'''true straight eating cheese''' 

'''Kicking the Bird''' 
eliminate the heroin habit (going thru withdrawal)

'''three squars''' 
three squares; i.e. three square meals

'''methadoan''' 
Methadone - used to help ease off a heroin addiction

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'''Phoenician''' 
Orin uses it to mean a native of Phoenix, but the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicians Phoenicians] were actually an ancient culture who founded the city of Carthage.

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'''Advent''' 
the four Sundays preceding Christmas

=Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House=

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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

'''Walpole''' 
a suburb of Boston about eighteen miles from the city

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'''mythopoeia''' 
the creating of a myth

=State Farm E-mail - my def. of a bad day.=

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

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'''blood-alcohol of .3+''' 
If "legally drunk" is now .08 in many states, it's fair to say this guy was hammered

'''900 kg''' 
fifteen pounds short of a ton

'''75 kg''' 
about 165.3 pounds

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'''30 kg''' 
a little over 66 pounds

=February 21st, YPWC - Hal's First Film Commentary=

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

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'''Viz.''' 
Latin abbreviation for ''videlicet'', meaning "that is to say"

'''Mirandized''' 
read his or her rights, from the Supreme Court case ''Miranda v. Arizona'' (1965)

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'''probity''' 
integrity

=August 10th, YDAU - Helen Steeply's Only Putative Published Article=

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'''Jarvik IX''' 
undoubtedly named for Robert Koffler Jarvik (born 1946), inventor of the first artificial heart placed in a human being 

'''restenosis''' 
stenosis is an abnormal narrowing of blood vessels; restenosis is a recurrence of stenosis

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'''Etienne Aigner''' 
a fashionable leather goods manufacturer

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'''Brigham and Women's City of Boston Hospital''' 
a [http://www.brighamandwomens.org/ real hospital], now affiliated with Harvard Medical School

=Tally of Sèparatisteur/Anti-O.N.A.N. Groups=

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'''''Les Fils de Montcalm''''' 
French: Sons of Montcalm. Probably referring to Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, Marquis de Saint-Veran (1712-1759), French general during the French and Indian War who presided over the fall of Québec.

=Decline of Videophony=

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'''homuncular''' 
of or pertaining to a diminutive human being

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'''straw boater''' 
a type of hat (a "boater") made of straw

'''tumescent''' 
swollen

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

'''Freddie-Mac''' 
common name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mac Federal Home Loan Mortgage Company]

'''trivalent''' 
having a chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valence_%28chemistry%29 valance] of three

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'''vectored''' 
To vector is to direct the position of (an airplane).

'''gumlet''' 
By context, it would seem this word is a synonym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglet aglet].

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'''furtive''' 
shifty or sneaky

'''''Physiognomic Dysphoria''''' 
Loosely, it means "feeling badly about how one looks."

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'''snafus''' 
plural of "snafu," a military acronym for "situation normal: all fucked up"

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'''ostentatious''' 
pretentious or showy

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'''verve''' 
enthusiasm or vigor

'''precipitant''' 
sudden, hasty, or rash

'''micro-econometrist''' 
An econometrist is an economist who uses statistical methods. A microeconomist is an economist who studies a smaller level of economics, i.e., firms and businesses rather than nations or international business.

'''Ludditism''' 
Named for Ned Ludd (born Ned Ludlam), the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite Luddites] were 19th century opposers of the Industrial Revolution.

'''retrograde''' 
moving backward

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'''electric zirconium jewelry''' 
Jewelry made of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zircon zircon]. Electricity can be applied to a zircon to make a lamp.

'''NoCoat LinguaScrapers''' 
tongue scrapers designed to remove a film coat

'''and c.''' 
''Et cetera'' or ''etc.'' is Latin for "and other things." Here Wallace has translated ''et'' and left ''c'' untranslated.

'''panagoraphobia''' 
fear of going outside (agoraphobia) in any place (pan-)

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'''agnate''' 
related or akin through males, as in a line of males and a line of females (coeds)

'''widow's peak''' 
a hairline that dips down to a V-shaped point in front when the hair is pulled back

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==Endnote 52==

'''spectrometer''' 
an optical instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum

'''E.M.I.T. and AbuScreen/RIA''' 
Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Technique; Abusecreen is a brand name of drug test, and RIA stands for radioimmunoassay, "a procedure that measures minute amounts of a substance, such as a hormone or drug, by quantitating the binding, or the inhibition of binding, of a radiolabeled substance to an antibody" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition'').

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'''cc''' 
cubic centimeter, equal to 0.001 liters

'''wienerman''' 
hot-dog salesman

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'''Yarmouth sail''' 
a type of boat sail, seen [http://www.ephotozine.com/photo/657716 here]

'''Pepperdine''' 
a [http://www.pepperdine.edu/ university] in Malibu, Calif.

'''derrick''' 
A derrick is "a jib crane having a boom hinged near the base of the mast so as to rotate about the mast, for moving a load toward or away from the mast by raising or lowering the boom" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''foot-treadle''' 
a lever worked by foot

'''f/x''' 
special effects in film

'''Bolex''' 
a Swiss [http://www.bolex.ch/NEW/index.php camera manufacturer]

'''undulating''' 
moving with a wave-like motion

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'''petrochemical''' 
a chemical derived from petroleum or natural gas

'''spronging''' 
''sprong'' is Dutch for "to leap or bound"

'''Eschatonic''' 
The name of the game is based on the same root as eschatology, i.e., the study of the end of the world.

'''''pünch''''' 
There is no such German word.

'''serpentine''' 
snake-like

'''dilettantish''' 
from "dilettante" - a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.

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'''dento-dermal''' 
by the skin of his teeth

'''brine''' 
salt water

'''emulsion''' 
Emulsion is colloidal suspension of one liquid in another.

'''differentials''' 
first derivatives in calculus

'''three Canadians copulating on a snowmobile''' 
One Website ([http://www.homegame.org/HG/a-c/beast20k.html x281 Beast From 20,000 Fathoms]) seems to give the answer as a "BBQ-ed Polar Bear," which, if correct, makes about as much sense as the question!

'''high-water''' 
pants hemmed too high

'''erumpent''' 
1. bursting forth.
2. (of fungi or algae) prominent; projecting from or bursting through host tissue.

'''gratis''' 
free of charge

'''''ex cathedra''''' 
Latin for "from the chair" and referring to the doctrine of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_infallibility papal infallibility] on matters of faith and morals

'''éclat''' 
great brilliance or conspicuous success

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'''dewy-eyed''' 
exhibiting childlike simplicity

'''''FIENDS IN HUMAN SHAPE''''' 
how a Memphis newspaper described Union soldiers during the Civil War

'''Feenian''' 
possibly "fenian", referring to a breed of horse or to both the Fenian Brotherhood and Irish Republican Brotherhood, two organizations dedicated to the establishment of an independent Irish republic

'''Brighton''' 
a section of Boston

'''natal''' 
of or pertaining to a person's birth

'''Brutus''' 
Marcus Junius Brutus (85-42 BC) was the most famous assassin of Julius Caesar (100-44 BC).

'''''vade mecum''''' 
Latin for "go with me," this is a book for quick reference

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

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'''c'etait la guerre'''

It was war.

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'''agnate''' 
Paternal, related on the father's side. In this case agnate seems to mean that the shadows come from the same source, the setting sun. 

'''Samizdat''' 
From the Russian verb "to publish on one's own" or "to self-publish." Originally used to denote underground publications in the Soviet Union, now used more generally for dissident activity[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat]

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'''stenographer-cum-''jeune-fille-de-Vendredi''''' 
secretary who takes diction AND devoted assistant. ''Jeune-fille-de-Vendredi'' is French for "young girl Friday." "Man Friday" (or "girl Friday") is a term that means a very competent and loyal servant or assistant, and originates from the Friday of ''Robinson Crusoe''.

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=Feral Hamsters=

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

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

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

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

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

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

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

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

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

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

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=YDAU - ETA Locker Room=

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

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

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

'''UHF''' 
Ultra High Frequency

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

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

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

'''quiescent''' 
still or at rest

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

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'''digitate''' 
having fingers

=ETA Locker Room, cont.=

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''louvered''' 
with angled slats

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

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

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

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'''cognomen''' 
a nickname

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

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

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

'''Brylcreemed''' 
Used as a verb here, [http://www.brylcreemusa.com/ Brylcreem] is a brand name of men's hair grooming product.

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

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

'''Johnny Mathis's "Chances Are"''' 
listen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEH3uqbpsm8 here] 

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

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

==Endnote 43==
'''Crohn's''' 
The disease is named for Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884-1983), American gastroenterologist.

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'''carminative''' 
antispasmodic

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

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

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

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Endnote 45==

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

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

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

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

'''dessicated''' 
dried out

==Endnote 46==

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

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

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

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

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

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

French: Ballet of (itself)

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

'''slog''' 
to drive with blows

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

'''hangdog''' 
browbeaten or intimidated

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'''croupiers''' 
attendants at gambling casinos

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

'''ancipitals''' 
double-edged

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

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

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

'''Orinda CA''' 
A small, wealthy city in Conta Costa County, immediately east of the Oakland-Berkeley metro area and about 18 miles northeast of San Francisco

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

'''kertwanging''' 
from context, this would seem to be when an opponent is intentionally making bad calls to win points.

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'''Mein kinder''' 
German: "My children". But wrong grammar! "Mein" is singular, "kinder" is plural. "My children" would be "Meine Kinder"

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'''Wagenknecht''' 
sort of a formal German word for "chauffeur." [No, as native speaker, I do not agree. It is a quiet family name, meaning something like "cart-worker", but nobody would call a chauffeur that way!]

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

[[Image:Guilloche molding.jpg]]

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

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

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'''aperçu''' 
an insight

=Mario Incandenza's romantic experience=
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'''post-prandial''' 
after a meal

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

'''Southpaw''' 
left-handed

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'''doffed''' 
doff is to take off or tip in salutation (don off)

'''coiffure''' 
hairdo

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

'''reticulate''' 
netted

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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=April 30th, YDAU - Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

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

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

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

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

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'''payloaders''' 
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'''c'etait la guerre'''

It was war.

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'''agnate''' 
Paternal, related on the father's side. In this case agnate seems to mean that the shadows come from the same source, the setting sun. 

'''Samizdat''' 
From the Russian verb "to publish on one's own" or "to self-publish." Originally used to denote underground publications in the Soviet Union, now used more generally for dissident activity[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat]

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'''stenographer-cum-''jeune-fille-de-Vendredi''''' 
secretary who takes diction AND devoted assistant. ''Jeune-fille-de-Vendredi'' is French for "young girl Friday." "Man Friday" (or "girl Friday") is a term that means a very competent and loyal servant or assistant, and originates from the Friday of ''Robinson Crusoe''.

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=Feral Hamsters=

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

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

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

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

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

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 93==

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

==Page 94==

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

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

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

==Page 95==

=YDAU - ETA Locker Room=

==Page 95==

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

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

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

'''UHF''' 
Ultra High Frequency

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

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

==Page 97==

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

'''quiescent''' 
still or at rest

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 97==

'''digitate''' 
having fingers

=ETA Locker Room, cont.=

==Page 97==

==Page 98==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 99==

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

'''louvered''' 
with angled slats

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

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

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

==Page 100==

'''cognomen''' 
a nickname

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

==Page 101==

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

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

'''Brylcreemed''' 
Used as a verb here, [http://www.brylcreemusa.com/ Brylcreem] is a brand name of men's hair grooming product.

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

==Page 102==

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

'''Johnny Mathis's "Chances Are"''' 
listen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEH3uqbpsm8 here] 

==Page 103==

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

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

==Endnote 43==
'''Crohn's''' 
The disease is named for Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884-1983), American gastroenterologist.

==Page 103, cont.==

'''carminative''' 
antispasmodic

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

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

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

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 105==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 106==

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

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

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

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

==Endnote 45==

==Endnote 304==

[[Notes_and_Errata_-_Pages_983-1079#Endnote_304_.C2.B7_The_Train_Game|Notes and Errata - Endnote 304]]

==Page 109==

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

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

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

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

'''dessicated''' 
dried out

==Endnote 46==

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

==Page 111==

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

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

==Page 112==

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

==Page 113==

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

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

French: Ballet of (itself)

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

'''slog''' 
to drive with blows

==Page 116==

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

'''hangdog''' 
browbeaten or intimidated

==Page 117==

'''croupiers''' 
attendants at gambling casinos

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

'''ancipitals''' 
double-edged

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

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

==Page 118==

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

'''Orinda CA''' 
A small, wealthy city in Conta Costa County, immediately east of the Oakland-Berkeley metro area and about 18 miles northeast of San Francisco

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

'''kertwanging''' 
from context, this would seem to be when an opponent is intentionally making bad calls to win points.

==Page 119==

'''Mein kinder''' 
German: "My children". But wrong grammar! "Mein" is singular, "kinder" is plural. "My children" would be "Meine Kinder"

==Page 120==

'''Wagenknecht''' 
sort of a formal German word for "chauffeur." [No, as native speaker, I do not agree. It is a quiet family name, meaning something like "cart-worker", but nobody would call a chauffeur that way!]

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

[[Image:Guilloche molding.jpg]]

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

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

==Page 121==

'''aperçu''' 
an insight

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

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

'''Southpaw''' 
left-handed

==Page 122==

'''doffed''' 
doff is to take off or tip in salutation (don off)

'''coiffure''' 
hairdo

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

'''reticulate''' 
netted

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

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

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

==Page 123==

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

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

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

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

==Page 124==

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

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

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

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

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

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

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

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

==Page 125==

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

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

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

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

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=April 30th, YDAU - Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 126==

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

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

==Page 127==

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

=April 30th, YDAU - Still More Marathe & Steeply=

==Page 127==

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

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==Page 63==

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

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

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

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

==Page 63 (cont'd)==

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

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

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

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

'''lithium-anodized''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anodizing Anodizing] is the process of making something electrically passive via electrolytic chemical deposition, or oxidation of the surface layer. Presumably lithium-anodized implies this process is done with the alkali metal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium lithium].

==Page 64==

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''recondite''' 
Esoteric, arcane.

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

==Page 64 (cont'd)==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''CNS-rendingly''' 
A play on the term 'heart-rending'. CNS is an acronym for central nervous system.

==Page 65==

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''anticonfluential''' 
against things coming together

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

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

'''hypertrophied''' 
Grown exceedingly large.

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 66==

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

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

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

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

=☽ - Pemulis's lecture=
==Page 66==

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

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

''' ''Amanita muscaria'', a.k.a. the fly agaric mushroom''' 
a poisonous and psychoactive fungus, usually red with white spots. It was used as an entheogen in Siberia. It has also been proposed that this is the "Soma" of the ''Rig Veda''. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria Wikipedia])

'''synesthesia''' 
A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color. ([http://www.thefreedictionary.com/synesthesia thefreedictionary])

==Page 67==

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

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

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

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

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

=Please Play=
==Page 67==

==Endnote 26==

'''enkephalin''' 
A type of painkiller

==Page 67 (cont'd)==

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

'''Sominex''' 
Over the counter sleep aid.

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

'''convolved''' 
rolled or coiled together.

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

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

=☽ YDAU - Kate Gompert in the Psych Ward=

==Page 68==

'''hale''' 
free from disease or infirmity.

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

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

==Page 69==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''hemotoxicity''' 
Poisonous blood level.

==Page 70==

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

'''B.P.''' 
Blood pressure.

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 71==

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

'''plangent''' 
Loud and resounding.

'''wasn’t an M.D. yet but a resident''' 
On the contrary, a resident is an M.D. in the first years after medical school. Residents have an M.D. degree but are undergoing advanced training.

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

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

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

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

'''dentate''' 
Having teeth.

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

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

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

==Page 76==

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

==Endnote 30==

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

==Page 76 (cont'd)==

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

==Page 78==

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

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

==Page 78==

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

==Page 79==

'''rictus''' 
A gaping grimace.

=Schtitt & Mario discuss the game=

==Page 79==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 81==

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

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

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

'''discursive''' 
Rambling in speech.

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

==Page 82==

'''simpatico''' 
In agreement.

==Endnote 34==

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

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

==Page 82 (cont'd)==

'''Hopman and van der Meer and Bollettieri''' 
Harry Hopman, Dennis van der Meer, and Nick Bollettieri, highly regarded tennis instructors. Bollettieri and van der Meer each founded tennis boarding schools in the United States.

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 83==

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

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

'''''Verstiegenheit''''' 
Literally German for "eccentricity." But this word is really old-fashioned and would be not used by a contemporary German speaker.

'''''Platz''''' 
German: a public square. But also just "place".

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

==Page 85==

=YDAU - Tiny Ewell in Detox=

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

==Page 86==

'''12°C''' 
~54°F

==Page 87==
'''screaming meemies''' 
used to describe anxiety or aprehension (i.e., the "heebie-jeebies" or the "willies"); originally a nickname for a type of German rocket used in WWII, which emitted a high-pitched noise as it flew. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebelwerfer Wikipedia])

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

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

==Page 87==

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

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==Page 63==

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

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

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

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

==Page 63 (cont'd)==

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

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

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

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

'''lithium-anodized''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anodizing Anodizing] is the process of making something electrically passive via electrolytic chemical deposition, or oxidation of the surface layer. Presumably lithium-anodized implies this process is done with the alkali metal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium lithium].

==Page 64==

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''recondite''' 
Esoteric, arcane.

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

==Page 64 (cont'd)==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''CNS-rendingly''' 
A play on the term 'heart-rending'. CNS is an acronym for central nervous system.

==Page 65==

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''anticonfluential''' 
against things coming together

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

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

'''hypertrophied''' 
Grown exceedingly large.

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 66==

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

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

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

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

=☽ - Pemulis's lecture=
==Page 66==

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

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

''' ''Amanita muscaria'', a.k.a. the fly agaric mushroom''' 
a poisonous and psychoactive fungus, usually red with white spots. It was used as an entheogen in Siberia. It has also been proposed that this is the "Soma" of the ''Rig Veda''. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria Wikipedia])

'''synesthesia''' 
A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color. ([http://www.thefreedictionary.com/synesthesia thefreedictionary])

==Page 67==

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

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

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

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

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

=Please Play=
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==Endnote 26==

'''enkephalin''' 
A type of painkiller

==Page 67 (cont'd)==

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

'''Sominex''' 
Over the counter sleep aid.

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

'''convolved''' 
rolled or coiled together.

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

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

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==Page 68==

'''hale''' 
free from disease or infirmity.

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

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

==Page 69==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''hemotoxicity''' 
Poisonous blood level.

==Page 70==

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 71==

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

'''plangent''' 
Loud and resounding.

'''wasn’t an M.D. yet but a resident''' 
On the contrary, a resident is an M.D. in the first years after medical school. Residents have an M.D. degree but are undergoing advanced training.

==Page 72==

==Page 73==

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

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

==Page 74==

==Page 75==

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

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

'''dentate''' 
Having teeth.

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

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

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

==Page 76==

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

==Endnote 30==

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

==Page 76 (cont'd)==

==Page 77==

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

==Page 78==

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

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

==Page 78==

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

==Page 79==

'''rictus''' 
A gaping grimace.

=Schtitt & Mario discuss the game=

==Page 79==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 81==

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

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

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

'''discursive''' 
Rambling in speech.

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

==Page 82==

'''simpatico''' 
In agreement.

==Endnote 34==

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

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

==Page 82 (cont'd)==

'''Hopman and van der Meer and Bollettieri''' 
Harry Hopman, Dennis van der Meer, and Nick Bollettieri, highly regarded tennis instructors. Bollettieri and van der Meer each founded tennis boarding schools in the United States.

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 83==

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

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

'''''Verstiegenheit''''' 
Literally German for "eccentricity." But this word is really old-fashioned and would be not used by a contemporary German speaker.

'''''Platz''''' 
German: a public square. But also just "place".

==Page 84==

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

==Page 85==

=YDAU - Tiny Ewell in Detox=

==Page 85==

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

==Page 86==

'''12°C''' 
~54°F

==Page 87==
'''screaming meemies''' 
used to describe anxiety or aprehension (i.e., the "heebie-jeebies" or the "willies"); originally a nickname for a type of German rocket used in WWII, which emitted a high-pitched noise as it flew. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebelwerfer Wikipedia])

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

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

==Page 87==

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

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==Page 63==

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

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

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

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

==Page 63 (cont'd)==

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

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

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

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

'''lithium-anodized''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anodizing Anodizing] is the process of making something electrically passive via electrolytic chemical deposition, or oxidation of the surface layer. Presumably lithium-anodized implies this process is done with the alkali metal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium lithium].

==Page 64==

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''recondite''' 
Esoteric, arcane.

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

==Page 64 (cont'd)==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''CNS-rendingly''' 
A play on the term 'heart-rending'. CNS is an acronym for central nervous system.

==Page 65==

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''anticonfluential''' 
against things coming together

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

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

'''hypertrophied''' 
Grown exceedingly large.

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 66==

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

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

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

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

=☽ - Pemulis's lecture=
==Page 66==

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

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

''' ''Amanita muscaria'', a.k.a. the fly agaric mushroom''' 
a poisonous and psychoactive fungus, usually red with white spots. It was used as an entheogen in Siberia. It has also been proposed that this is the "Soma" of the ''Rig Veda''. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria Wikipedia])

'''synesthesia''' 
A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color. ([http://www.thefreedictionary.com/synesthesia thefreedictionary])

==Page 67==

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

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

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

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

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

=Please Play=
==Page 67==

==Endnote 26==

'''enkephalin''' 
A type of painkiller

==Page 67 (cont'd)==

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

'''Sominex''' 
Over the counter sleep aid.

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

'''convolved''' 
rolled or coiled together.

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

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

=☽ YDAU - Kate Gompert in the Psych Ward=

==Page 68==

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

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

==Page 69==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''hemotoxicity''' 
Poisonous blood level.

==Page 70==

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 71==

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

'''plangent''' 
Loud and resounding.

'''wasn’t an M.D. yet but a resident''' 
On the contrary, a resident is an M.D. in the first years after medical school. Residents have an M.D. degree but are undergoing advanced training.

==Page 72==

==Page 73==

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

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

==Page 74==

==Page 75==

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

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

'''dentate''' 
Having teeth.

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

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

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

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

==Endnote 30==

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

==Page 76 (cont'd)==

==Page 77==

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

==Page 78==

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

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

==Page 78==

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

==Page 79==

'''rictus''' 
A gaping grimace.

=Schtitt & Mario discuss the game=

==Page 79==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 80==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 81==

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

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

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

'''discursive''' 
Rambling in speech.

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

==Page 82==

'''simpatico''' 
In agreement.

==Endnote 34==

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

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

==Page 82 (cont'd)==

'''Hopman and van der Meer and Bollettieri''' 
Harry Hopman, Dennis van der Meer, and Nick Bollettieri, highly regarded tennis instructors. Bollettieri and van der Meer each founded tennis boarding schools in the United States.

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 83==

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

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

'''''Verstiegenheit''''' 
Literally German for "eccentricity." But this word is really old-fashioned and would be not used by a contemporary German speaker.

'''''Platz''''' 
German: a public square. But also just "place".

==Page 84==

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

==Page 85==

=YDAU - Tiny Ewell in Detox=

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

==Page 86==

'''12°C''' 
~54°F

==Page 87==
'''screaming meemies''' 
used to describe anxiety or aprehension (i.e., the "heebie-jeebies" or the "willies"); originally a nickname for a type of German rocket used in WWII, which emitted a high-pitched noise as it flew. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebelwerfer Wikipedia])

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

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==Page 87==

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

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==Page 63==

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

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

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

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

==Page 63 (cont'd)==

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

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

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

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

'''lithium-anodized''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anodizing Anodizing] is the process of making something electrically passive via electrolytic chemical deposition, or oxidation of the surface layer. Presumably lithium-anodized implies this process is done with the alkali metal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium lithium].

==Page 64==

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''recondite''' 
Esoteric, arcane.

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

==Page 64 (cont'd)==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''CNS-rendingly''' 
A play on the term 'heart-rending'. CNS is an acronym for central nervous system.

==Page 65==

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''anticonfluential''' 
against things coming together

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

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

'''hypertrophied''' 
Grown exceedingly large.

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 66==

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

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

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

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

=☽ - Pemulis's lecture=
==Page 66==

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

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

''' ''Amanita muscaria'', a.k.a. the fly agaric mushroom''' 
a poisonous and psychoactive fungus, usually red with white spots. It was used as an entheogen in Siberia. It has also been proposed that this is the "Soma" of the ''Rig Veda''. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria Wikipedia])

'''synesthesia''' 
A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color. ([http://www.thefreedictionary.com/synesthesia thefreedictionary])

==Page 67==

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

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

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

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

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

=Please Play=
==Page 67==

==Endnote 26==

'''enkephalin''' 
A type of painkiller

==Page 67 (cont'd)==

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

'''Sominex''' 
Over the counter sleep aid.

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

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

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

=☽ YDAU - Kate Gompert in the Psych Ward=

==Page 68==

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

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

==Page 69==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''hemotoxicity''' 
Poisonous blood level.

==Page 70==

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 71==

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

'''plangent''' 
Loud and resounding.

'''wasn’t an M.D. yet but a resident''' 
On the contrary, a resident is an M.D. in the first years after medical school. Residents have an M.D. degree but are undergoing advanced training.

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==Page 73==

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

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

==Page 74==

==Page 75==

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

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

'''dentate''' 
Having teeth.

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

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

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

==Page 76==

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

==Endnote 30==

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

==Page 76 (cont'd)==

==Page 77==

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

==Page 78==

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

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

==Page 78==

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

==Page 79==

'''rictus''' 
A gaping grimace.

=Schtitt & Mario discuss the game=

==Page 79==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 80==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 81==

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

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

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

'''discursive''' 
Rambling in speech.

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

==Page 82==

'''simpatico''' 
In agreement.

==Endnote 34==

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

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

==Page 82 (cont'd)==

'''Hopman and van der Meer and Bollettieri''' 
Harry Hopman, Dennis van der Meer, and Nick Bollettieri, highly regarded tennis instructors. Bollettieri and van der Meer each founded tennis boarding schools in the United States.

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 83==

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

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

'''''Verstiegenheit''''' 
Literally German for "eccentricity." But this word is really old-fashioned and would be not used by a contemporary German speaker.

'''''Platz''''' 
German: a public square. But also just "place".

==Page 84==

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

==Page 85==

=YDAU - Tiny Ewell in Detox=

==Page 85==

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

==Page 86==

'''12°C''' 
~54°F

==Page 87==
'''screaming meemies''' 
used to describe anxiety or aprehension (i.e., the "heebie-jeebies" or the "willies"); originally a nickname for a type of German rocket used in WWII, which emitted a high-pitched noise as it flew. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebelwerfer Wikipedia])

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

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

==Page 87==

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

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==Page 63==

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

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

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

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

==Page 63 (cont'd)==

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

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

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

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

'''lithium-anodized''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anodizing Anodizing] is the process of making something electrically passive via electrolytic chemical deposition, or oxidation of the surface layer. Presumably lithium-anodized implies this process is done with the alkali metal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium lithium].

==Page 64==

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''recondite''' 
Esoteric, arcane.

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

==Page 64 (cont'd)==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''CNS-rendingly''' 
A play on the term 'heart-rending'. CNS is an acronym for central nervous system.

==Page 65==

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''anticonfluential''' 
against things coming together

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

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

'''hypertrophied''' 
Grown exceedingly large.

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 66==

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

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

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

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

=☽ - Pemulis's lecture=
==Page 66==

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

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

''' ''Amanita muscaria'', a.k.a. the fly agaric mushroom''' 
a poisonous and psychoactive fungus, usually red with white spots. It was used as an entheogen in Siberia. It has also been proposed that this is the "Soma" of the ''Rig Veda''. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria Wikipedia])

'''synesthesia''' 
A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color. ([http://www.thefreedictionary.com/synesthesia thefreedictionary])

==Page 67==

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

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

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

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

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

=Please Play=
==Page 67==

==Endnote 26==

'''enkephalin''' 
A type of painkiller

==Page 67 (cont'd)==

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

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

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

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

=☽ YDAU - Kate Gompert in the Psych Ward=

==Page 68==

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

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

==Page 69==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''hemotoxicity''' 
Poisonous blood level.

==Page 70==

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 71==

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

'''plangent''' 
Loud and resounding.

'''wasn’t an M.D. yet but a resident''' 
On the contrary, a resident is an M.D. in the first years after medical school. Residents have an M.D. degree but are undergoing advanced training.

==Page 72==

==Page 73==

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

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

==Page 74==

==Page 75==

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

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

'''dentate''' 
Having teeth.

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

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

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

==Page 76==

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

==Endnote 30==

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

==Page 76 (cont'd)==

==Page 77==

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

==Page 78==

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

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

==Page 78==

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

==Page 79==

'''rictus''' 
A gaping grimace.

=Schtitt & Mario discuss the game=

==Page 79==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 80==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 81==

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

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

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

'''discursive''' 
Rambling in speech.

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

==Page 82==

'''simpatico''' 
In agreement.

==Endnote 34==

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

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

==Page 82 (cont'd)==

'''Hopman and van der Meer and Bollettieri''' 
Harry Hopman, Dennis van der Meer, and Nick Bollettieri, highly regarded tennis instructors. Bollettieri and van der Meer each founded tennis boarding schools in the United States.

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 83==

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

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

'''''Verstiegenheit''''' 
Literally German for "eccentricity." But this word is really old-fashioned and would be not used by a contemporary German speaker.

'''''Platz''''' 
German: a public square. But also just "place".

==Page 84==

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

==Page 85==

=YDAU - Tiny Ewell in Detox=

==Page 85==

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

==Page 86==

'''12°C''' 
~54°F

==Page 87==
'''screaming meemies''' 
used to describe anxiety or aprehension (i.e., the "heebie-jeebies" or the "willies"); originally a nickname for a type of German rocket used in WWII, which emitted a high-pitched noise as it flew. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebelwerfer Wikipedia])

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

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

==Page 87==

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

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=☽ (AS OF) YDAU - The Enfield Tennis Academy=
==Page 63==

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

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

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

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

==Page 63 (cont'd)==

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

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

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

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

'''lithium-anodized''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anodizing Anodizing] is the process of making something electrically passive via electrolytic chemical deposition, or oxidation of the surface layer. Presumably lithium-anodized implies this process is done with the alkali metal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium lithium].

==Page 64==

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''recondite''' 
Esoteric, arcane.

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

==Page 64 (cont'd)==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''CNS-rendingly''' 
CNS is an acronym for central nervous system. A play on the term 'heart-rending'.

==Page 65==

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''anticonfluential''' 
against things coming together

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

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

'''hypertrophied''' 
Grown exceedingly large.

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

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

'''Mile-High''' 
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos played until 2001.

'''100 meters over the 40''' 
''I.e.'', the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.

'''nongarish''' 
Not garish, ''i.e.'', not excessively ornate.

==Page 66==

'''zither''' 
A harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels.

'''water-drops''' 
Being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks.

'''Oiler''' 
The former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans.

'''Brown''' 
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.

=☽ - Pemulis's lecture=
==Page 66==

'''organopsychedelic''' 
An organic molecule which, when ingested, produces a psychedelic effect.

'''isoxazole-alkaloid''' 
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.

''' ''Amanita muscaria'', a.k.a. the fly agaric mushroom''' 
a poisonous and psychoactive fungus, usually red with white spots. It was used as an entheogen in Siberia. It has also been proposed that this is the "Soma" of the ''Rig Veda''. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria Wikipedia])

'''synesthesia''' 
A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color. ([http://www.thefreedictionary.com/synesthesia thefreedictionary])

==Page 67==

'''methoxylated''' 
Addition of a methoxy group. Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."

'''phenylkylamine''' 
Possibly a made-up substance.

'''rock and bob Hasidically''' 
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim (and some Jews of other traditions) do when praying or studying religious texts.

'''titrated''' 
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (''e.g.'' one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD, test shot of heroin).

=Please Play=
==Page 67==

==Endnote 26==

'''enkephalin''' 
A type of painkiller

==Page 67 (cont'd)==

'''psychodysleptic''' 
A drug that negative effects the take psychologically.

'''''in medias''''' 
Latin: in the middle of. Probably an intended short form for ''in medias res'' "right into the middle (of a story)". Without ''res'' the feminine plural of ''medias'' doesn't make any sense. (Cf. note on 701 s.v. ''in violent medias res'')

'''oblique''' 
Neither perpendicular nor parallel.

'''deliquesce''' 
To become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.

=☽ YDAU - Kate Gompert in the Psych Ward=

==Page 68==

'''Watteau''' 
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.

'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States''''' 
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.

==Page 69==

'''hypocapnia''' 
Reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation.

'''emery board''' 
A disposable nail file.

'''Wellesley Hills''' 
A section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston.

'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital''' 
A real hospital.

'''Parnate''' 
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.

'''dysphoria''' 
A mental state of feeling horrible.

'''diurnal''' 
During the day. Opposite of nocturnal.

'''w/w/o''' 
With and without.

'''CO''' 
Carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide.

'''hemotoxicity''' 
Poisonous blood level.

==Page 70==

'''Librium''' 
Brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal.

'''Dretske''' 
Perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind.

'''Mydol''' 
A misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol].

'''trepidation''' 
Hesitancy caused by fear.

'''facial affect''' 
Emotions expressed on the face.

'''Lithonate''' 
A brand name of lithium.

==Page 71==

'''plestor''' 
Another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter].

'''plangent''' 
Loud and resounding.

'''wasn’t an M.D. yet but a resident''' 
On the contrary, a resident is an M.D. in the first years after medical school. Residents have an M.D. degree but are undergoing advanced training.

==Page 72==

==Page 73==

'''carpopedal''' 
Involving both the hands and feet.

'''tetanic''' 
Pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually.

==Page 74==

==Page 75==

'''circumorals''' 
Muscles around the mouth.

'''thigmotactic''' 
Having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus.

'''dentate''' 
Having teeth.

'''synclinal''' 
Sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /.

'''Sinse''' 
Short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana.

'''duBois''' 
Fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette.

==Page 76==

'''uremic''' 
Smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood.

==Endnote 30==

'''boric acid''' 
Also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects.

==Page 76 (cont'd)==

==Page 77==

'''the T''' 
Local public transit in the Boston metro area.

==Page 78==

'''"That old cartridge, Nichols and the big Indian..."''' 
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].

=(April 2nd, YDAU) - Medical Attaché Update #3=

==Page 78==

'''0145h.''' 
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.

==Page 79==

'''rictus''' 
A gaping grimace.

=Schtitt & Mario discuss the game=

==Page 79==

'''Nick Bolletieri''' 
A [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach].

'''epaulets''' 
Military shoulder decorations on clothing.

'''a philosopher instead of a king''' 
Although Plato stresses, in the ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.

'''Lebensgefährtins''' 
Wallace's endnote 31(p. 994) claims this "means technically 'soulmate' or 'spouse'", but a more accurate translation would be 'life partner'. NB: 'Lebensgefährtin' is the feminine form of the noun. NB2: Schtitt's use of '-s' to indicate plural is incorrect for 'real' German (the correct form being ''Lebensgefährtinnen''); it is difficult to claim whether or not it is intentional on Wallace's part.

'''F.R.G.''' 
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989).

'''leptosomatic''' 
Having a slender, frail build.

'''pedagogical''' 
Having to do with teaching.

==Page 80==

'''post-prandial''' 
Following a meal.

'''calliopsis''' 
Another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis].

'''quincunx''' 
The arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right).[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]

'''briers' yeasty musk''' 
The yeasty smell arising from the brier patches.

'''bradykinetic''' 
Describing abnormally slow movement.

'''varicocele''' 
a varicose condition of the spermatic veins of the scrotum

'''plosivity''' 
Referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, ''etc.''.

'''Euclid''' 
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."

==Page 81==

'''tympana''' 
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.

'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST''''' 

The euphemistic translation aside, this literally means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.

'''discursive''' 
Rambling in speech.

'''wonk''' 
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

==Page 82==

'''simpatico''' 
In agreement.

==Endnote 34==

'''Mandelbrotian''' 
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.

'''post-Gödelian''' 
Coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher.

==Page 82 (cont'd)==

'''Hopman and van der Meer and Bollettieri''' 
Harry Hopman, Dennis van der Meer, and Nick Bollettieri, highly regarded tennis instructors. Bollettieri and van der Meer each founded tennis boarding schools in the United States.

'''fractal''' 
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary''). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractals Wikipedia entry...]

'''aleatory''' 
Of or pertaining to accidental causes.

'''''Lieber Gott nein''''' 
German: ''Dear God, no''.

'''''Gymanasium''''' 
The equivalent of a U.S. college-preparatory high school.

'''appetitive will''' 
That part of the will that desires physical things.

==Page 83==

'''''palestra''''' 
An ancient Greek school of wrestling.

'''experialist''' 
Like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste.

'''''Verstiegenheit''''' 
Literally German for "eccentricity." But this word is really old-fashioned and would be not used by a contemporary German speaker.

'''''Platz''''' 
German: a public square. But also just "place".

==Page 84==

'''pirouetting''' 
Whirling on the toes.

==Page 85==

=YDAU - Tiny Ewell in Detox=

==Page 85==

'''D.T.''' 
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].

==Page 86==

'''12°C''' 
~54°F

==Page 87==
'''screaming meemies''' 
used to describe anxiety or aprehension (i.e., the "heebie-jeebies" or the "willies"); originally a nickname for a type of German rocket used in WWII, which emitted a high-pitched noise as it flew. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebelwerfer Wikipedia])

'''skallycap''' 
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]

=(April 2nd, YDAU) - Medical Attaché Update #4=

==Page 87==

'''Seventh Day Adventist''' 
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"

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