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=November 8th, YDAU - Interdependence Day - Boston AA=
(The longest chapter in the book)
==Page 343==

'''''GAUDEAMUS IGITUR''''' 
"Let us rejoice"

'''singular''' 
unique

'''polysterene''' 
styrofoam

'''ziggurats''' 
an ancient type of Mesopotamian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat temple tower]

'''fiberboard''' 
board made of small fibers of wood, plastic, or some combination of these and other materials

'''Concord''' 
Concord is about 20 miles northwest of Boston and is the site one of the first battles of the American Revolution.

==Page 344==

'''rotary''' 
a traffic circle or, in the U.K., a roundabout

'''plywood''' 
material made of thin layers of wood glued together

''''12th-Step Work'''' 
The twelfth and final step of AA is this: "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs."

'''epigrammatic''' 
of or pertaining to the use of short and pithy statements

'''pay it ''forward''''' 
thus the title of [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0223897/ this movie]

'''nip''' 
drink of alcohol

'''Dick Cavett and Truman Capote''' 
Richard Alva "Dick" Cavett (born 1936) is an Emmy-award-winning television talk-show host. Truman Capote (1924-1984) was an American writer and novelist, best known for writing ''In Cold Blood'' and ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''. Both men were remarkably short.

==Endnote 133==

'''variegated''' 
diverse

'''esoteric''' 
understood or recognized by few people

==Page 344 (cont'd)==

'''piping''' 
This is a tubular band of ornamental material; Nodie is probably a brand name.

'''imbricate''' 
overlapping in sequence

'''tailor's notch''' 
Notch in your tooth you get from repeatedly biting thread to cut it (or from holding a sewing needle between one's teeth)

'''incisors''' 
front top teeth

==Page 345==

'''insipid''' 
without interesting qualities

'''AA Preamble''' 
You can read it [http://www.serenityfound.org/preamble.html here].

'''empathy''' 
one's ability to feel the emotions of another person

'''what he is''' 
i.e., an alcoholic

==Endnote 134==

'''nonpunitive''' 
not intended as a punishment

'''nitro''' 
nitroglycerin, used for cardiac attacks

==Page 345 (cont'd)==

'''145 kph''' 
a hair over 90 miles per hour

'''litany''' 
a prolonged or tedious account

==Page 346==

'''waxing''' 
growing in size, as for the first half of a lunar cycle

'''peritonitis''' 
inflammation of the serous membrane lining the abdomenal cavity

'''cirrhotic''' 
pertaining to hardening of liver tissue

'''nephritis''' 
inflammation of the kidneys

==Page 347==

'''compadre''' 
a close friend or companion, from the Spanish for "godfather"

'''ravening''' 
voracious

'''maw''' 
mouth

'''Black Mass''' 
a Satanic ritual based on ten Roman Catholic mass

==Page 348==

'''"...something whimpery instead of banging."''' 
a reference to the last line of T.S. Eliot's poem [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollow_Men The Hollow Men]

'''garish''' 
loud and flashy

'''Balaclavan''' 
a reference to Balaklava, Ukraine, and the suicidal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade Charge of the Light Brigade]

'''prognathous''' 
having one's lower jaw project beyond the upper part of one's face

'''thermal''' 
a warm, rising air current

'''arbitrage''' 
simultaneous purchase and sale of the same assets in different markets

'''compound''' 
i.e., a compound fracture, where the bone protrudes through the skin

'''Svce''' 
Service

'''Unitarian''' 
Though the term refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian Unitarianism], here it suggestsa kind of hippyesque, wishy-washyness.

==Page 349==

'''Hindenburg''' 
Named for Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg (1847-1934), the German field marshal, hero of World War I, and last President of the Weimar Republic, the ''Hindenburg'' was a hydrogen-powered zeppelin that exploded over Lakehurst, N.J., on May 6, 1937.

'''nonuremic''' 
so as not to appear in one's urine

'''foamer''' 
beer

==Page 350==

'''beatific''' 
blissful or angelic

'''Zippo''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippo brand] of lighter

'''saccharin''' 
A play on words. "Saccharin" is the artificial sweetener in Sweet & Low (coffee is being discussed); "saccharine" means "overly sweet."

'''flummoxed''' 
confused or perplexed

'''burnished''' 
rubbed smooth

'''squalid''' 
foul and repulsive

==Page 351==

'''terse''' 
using few words

'''imperative''' 
a tense of verb implicating a command or directive

'''zealotry''' 
fanaticism

'''green-card Irishman''' 
an Irishman who is a permanent resident non-citizen of the U.S.

'''meal''' 
ground grain

'''metal-pedalled''' 
i.e., "with the pedal to the metal," i.e., at top speed

'''chemical psychosis''' 
Psychosis (called "speed psychosisis") a not uncommon side effect of amphetamine abuse.

'''wax lyrical''' 
to speak poetically

'''"'d been a confarmed..."''' 
I'd been a confirmed bowl-splatterer for years beyond counting. I'd been barred from the facilities at all the truck stops betwixt here and New York for years. The wallpaper in the loo at home hung in these curled sheets from the wall, I tell you. But now one day . . . I'll remember it always. It were a week to the day after I stood up for my ninety-day chip. I were three months sober. I were there on the throne at home, you know. Not to put too fine a point on it, I produced as usual and . . . and I were so amazed as to not believing my ears. It was a sound so unfamiliar at the first I thought I'd dropped my wallet in the loo, do you know? I thought I'd dropped me wallet in the loo as god is my witness. So down I bend betwixt my knees and had a look in the dim of the loo and couldn't believe my eyes. So good people I do then I drop to my knees by the loo and had a ''real'' look. A lover's look, do you know? And friends it were a lovely past my poor powers to say. It were a ''turd'' in the loo. A ''real turd''. It were firm and tapered and ever so gently arched. It looked . . . ''constructed'' instead of sprayed. It look as I felt in my heart God himself made a turd to look. My friends, this turd of mine practically had a pulse. I stayed down on my knees and thanked my Higher Power, which I choose to call my Higher Power God, and I been thanking my Higher Power on my knees ever since, morning and nighttime and in the loo as well, ever since.

'''ninety-day chip''' 
In AA, medals, or chips, are awarded to commemorate certain lengths of sobriety

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'''Enuresis''' 
bed-wetting

'''Priapism''' 
an erection that won't go away

'''Projectile-incontinence''' 
inability to hold owns bowels to the extent that feces shoot out of the anus

'''Autocastration''' 
castration of one's self

'''fringe-Birchism''' 
Birchism is adherence to the principles of the [http://www.jbs.org/ John Birch Society], an ultra-right-wing political organization

'''National-Socialist-Bundism''' 
probably something like the German-American Bund of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Kuhn_(Nazi) Fritz Julius Kuhn]

'''Coprophilia and -phagia''' 
sexual excitement brought on by feces and eating of feces, respectively

'''candelabrum''' 
a holder for more than one candle

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'''vitriol''' 
something highly caustic or severe, as criticism

'''orevwar''' 
They trying to say ''au revoir'', i.e., French for "goodbye."

'''fremitic''' 
characterized by tremor vibrations in any part of the body

==Page 354==

'''verdant''' 
green with vegetation

'''varicose''' 
having veins that are visible through the skin

'''shamanistic fiat''' 
A shaman is a priest or religious official, usually of an indigenous religion. A fiat is an order, based on the Latin for the imperative form of the verb "to be."

'''30 kph''' 
18.6 miles per hour

'''talismanically''' 
in a way suggesting something having to do with a magic charm or amulet

'''Lord's Prayer''' 
from [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%206:9-13;&version=9; Matthew 20:9-13]

'''ballast''' 
meaning an electric ballast, which is used to regulate and stabilize the current in lights

==Page 355==

'''gnarled''' 
knotty of misshappen

'''Sixers''' 
the short name for the [http://www.nba.com/sixers/index_main.html Philadelphia 76ers]

'''MCI-Walpole''' 
This is the Massachusetts Correction Institute at Walpole, about 25 miles southwest of Boston.

'''raisin jack''' 
an alcoholic drink fermented from raisins, commonly made in prisons

'''spectral''' 
looking like a ghost

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'''LeSabre''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buick_LeSabre Buick LeSabre]

'''jack-legged''' 
a slang term meaning "always screwing up"

'''dash''' 
short for "dashboard"

'''abject''' 
sunken to a low position, as in "abject poverty"

'''regs''' 
regulations

'''sub-rosa''' 
The Latin phrase [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub_rosa sub rosa] means "under the rose" and is used in English to denote secrecy or confidentiality

'''autonomy''' 
control or rule over one's self

==Page 357==

'''fibrosis''' 
scarring

==Endnote 139==

'''entomologic''' 
Entomology is the study of insects.

==Page 357 (cont'd)==

'''Mr. Rogers''' 
The Reverend Frederick McFeely "Fred" Rogers (1928-2003) was an American minister and children's television show host.

'''rhapsodize''' 
speak in an extravagantly elegant manner

'''fisticuffery''' 
fist-fighting

'''invectives''' 
abusive expressions of opinion

'''Sergeant at Arms''' 
an officer appointed to keep order

==Page 358==

'''apothegm''' 
a short, pithy statement

'''head''' 
bathroom

'''spuds''' 
potatoes

'''nocturnal''' 
happening at night

'''crook''' 
a shepherd's staff

'''French-curled''' 
You can see French-curled jewelry [http://www.cqout.com/item.asp?id=3093801 here]

'''demurely''' 
in an effectedly modest way

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'''circumferences''' 
distances around the edge of a circle

'''cuticles''' 
dead skin at the bottom of the fingernails

'''astringent''' 
a chemical that tends to dry something else out

'''onionlight''' 
You can see onionlights [http://www.hammerworks.com/onionlights1.html here].

'''isopropyl''' 
a type of alcohol, found in rubbing alcohol

'''reek''' 
to smell very badly

'''A.D.A.''' 
Assistant District Attorney

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'''fumigated''' 
permeated with gas to kill insects

'''idiosyncrasy''' 
a peculiarity of personality

'''rattan''' 
material taken from the rattan plant, a climbing palm with very long stems

'''Big Book''' 
This is the AA "bible," so to speak, and can be found online [http://www.aa.org/bigbookonline/ here].

'''''As Bill Sees It''''' 
a book by Bill W., one of AA's founders, first published in 1967

'''''Came To Believe''''' 
another AA publication, this one published in 1973

==Page 361==

'''joggling''' 
shaking slightly

'''Demerol''' 
a brand name of pethidine, a painkiller

'''photic''' 
having to do with light

==Page 362==

'''copperheads''' 
one of five species of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agkistrodon_contortrix poisonous snake]

'''tongues''' 
The reference is to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossolalia glossolalia].

'''larynx''' 
voice box

'''requisite''' 
essential or necessary

'''venulated''' 
The word means "able to see the veins"; this condition of the nose is very common among advanced alcoholics.

''''Volare'''' 
This is a song whose title is from the Italian for "to fly." The song was written by Domenico Modugno and Franco Migliacci. Modugno went on to be a member of Italy's parliament

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'''pupil and iris''' 
The pupil is the black circle at the center of the eye, while the iris is the colored part (blue, green, brown).

'''cognito''' 
which is to say, in Lenz's case, unsuccessfully incognito

'''Ferragamos''' 
an Italian brand of shoes

'''periphery''' 
an external boundary

'''11-Step''' 
recalling the 12th step on page 344, UHID must lack this step, or perhaps one of the others

==Page 364==

'''Rémy''' 
Rémy-Martin, a brand of cognac

'''Tiparillo''' 
a brand name of [http://lfa.atu.edu/Brucker/advertisement%20presentation/sld005.htm cigar]

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

'''defib paddles''' 
the paddles used in defibrillation, the application of electric shocks to the heart to re-start it

'''divot''' 
Normally a golf term, a divot is the hole left by the dirt displaced when one strikes a golf ball.

'''rankness''' 
the quality of being offensive

'''proprietary''' 
Usually referring to an owner, here it refers to feeling as if one has a sense of ownership.

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'''rectum''' 
the very end of the large intestine

'''hubristic''' 
having exaggerated pride or self-confidence

'''7-iron''' 
a type of golf club

'''tenth rough''' 
off the fairway on the tenth hole of a golf course

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'''flats''' 
women's shoes without heels

'''subjunctive''' 
contingent on something else happening

'''counterfactual''' 
at variance with what really happened

'''indicative''' 
According to ''Merriam-Webster,'' "indicative" means "of, relating to, or constituting a verb form or set of verb forms that represents the denoted act or state as an objective fact."

'''transposition''' 
switching the position of two things

'''Radarange''' 
microwave

'''pass''' 
here used to mean "place"

'''allude''' 
here used to mean "give an impression of"

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'''velour''' 
a piled and nappy material resembling velvet

'''caparison''' 
an ornamental covering for a horse, or just rich clothing

'''gavel''' 
the type of hammer a judge uses to restore or maintain order

=NNYC's Statue of Liberty=

==Page 367==

'''huge photo album''' 
The book held by the statue reads, "JULY IV MDCCLXXVI [1776]."

'''product''' 
as opposed to the torch it currently holds

'''pitons''' 
spikes used by mountain climbers for support

=Boston AA, cont.=

==Page 367==

'''deprecate''' 
to express disapproval

==Page 368==

'''conundrum''' 
something puzzling

'''cunctations''' 
delays

'''chagrin''' 
embarrassment

'''aphasiac''' 
inability to speak

'''Filene's''' 
now owned by [http://www.macys.com/ Macy's]

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'''unironic''' 
i.e., totally expected and not at all a surprise

'''disingenuous''' 
lacking in sincerity, pretending to be naïve

'''schlepping''' 
moving awkwardly or slowly

'''deprogramming''' 
from the deprogrammer's point of view, reversing the brainwashing that induced someone to adhere to a religious cult

==Page 370==

'''Naked I Club''' 
a real strip club mentioned [http://www.totse.com/en/erotica/erotic_fiction_so_to_sz/striprv.html here]

'''Route 1''' 
U.S. 1 runs from Fort Kent, Maine, at the Canadian border down to Key West, Fla., mainly through small towns.

'''Saugus MA''' 
a suburb of Boston about ten miles north of the city

'''etiology''' 
the cause or source of a medical problem

'''Mud-Bug''' 
a Southern term for a crawfish

'''invertebrate''' 
an animal with a spine

'''chordate phylum''' 
the phylum of the animal kingdom containing all animals with spines

==Page 371==

'''Campfire Girls''' 
former name of [http://www.campfireusa.org/ youth organization] when it was just for girls

'''Lancôme''' 
one of France's largest cosmetics manufacturers

'''lurid''' 
gruesome or shocking

'''ubiquitousness''' 
the quality of always being present

'''Aetna''' 
a real [http://www.aetna.com/ insurance company]

'''Doric column''' 
columns of buildings built according to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doric_order Doric order]

'''pliability''' 
the ability to be easily bent

==Page 372==

'''''Ramparts'' and ''Commonweal''''' 
''Ramparts'' was a magazine founded for a Catholic leadership but eventually found its niche with the New Left. ''Commonweal'' was and still is a publication by and for lay Catholics.

'''Sally Jessy Raphael M.S.W.''' 
Sally Jessy Raphael (born Sally Lowenthal, 1938) is an American talk-show host. She does not hold an M.S.W., i.e., a Master's of Social Work

'''complicity''' 
the status of being an accomplice in a wrongdoing

'''Wounded, Hurting, Inadequately Nurtured but Ever-Recovering Survivors''' 
Look at the initials of the capitalized words.

'''auburn''' 
reddish-brown

'''perimeter''' 
the oustide edge of something

==Page 373==

'''vanity''' 
a dressing table

'''limbic system''' 
a complex system within the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbic_system brain]

'''gauntlet''' 
an attack from all sides

'''rasa the tabula''' 
This is a pun on ''tabula rasa,'' Latin for "blank state" and used in the philosophy of John Locke (1632-1704). The sense here is the clean the slate.

'''bandanna''' 
a large printed handkerchief, typically red or blue with a white design

'''circumoral''' 
surrounding the mouth

'''vacuole and optica''' 
These are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuole parts] of a cell, the optica likely being some kind of "seeing" organ.

'''protozoan''' 
a single-celled organism

'''some Catholic statue''' 
The statue described strongly appears to be Bernini's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstasy_of_St_Theresa The Ecstasy of St Theresa]. This statue is also referred to by name at endnote 24, page 988 in the synopsis of James Incandenza's film ''Pre-Nuptial Agreement of Heaven and Hell.''

'''Hours''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liturgy_of_the_Hours Liturgy of the Hours] is the official set of daily prayers prescribed by the Catholic Church to be recited at the canonical hours by the clergy, religious orders, and laity

'''prurient''' 
causing lust

'''cherub''' 
Often this word is used to denote a baby angel, but the actual connotation of the original Hebrew is of a fearsome warrior angel. A cherub guards the Garden of Eden in Genesis so that Adam and Eve cannot go back in.

'''lolled''' 
dropped

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'''IV''' 
intravenous, i.e., directly into a vein

'''lucidity''' 
mental clarity

'''implicit''' 
unspoken but implied

'''Six Flags Over the Poconos''' 
Six Flags is a [http://www.sixflags.com/national/index.aspx chain] of amusement parks. There is not currently one in the Pocono Mountains.

'''labrynth''' 
This is the mythological spelling of "labyrinth," meaning generically a maze, but more specifically denoting the maze built by Daedalus of ancient Greek myth.

'''minotaurs''' 
Daedalus build his famous maze to house the minotaur, a monster that was half man and half bull and the product of sexual congress between Europa, queen of Crete, and Zeus in the form of a bull.

'''aides de camp''' 
a confidential assistant to a military officer

'''absconded''' 
departed suddenly and in secret

'''proto-Fascist''' 
Wallace really means "quasi-Fascist" rather than "proto-Fascist"; it's not as if the rules of AA are the harbinger of Fascism later to come.

'''decamped''' 
a synonym of "absconded"

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]

'''commode''' 
toilet

==Page 375==

==Endnote 143==

'''''Sic''''' 
This word means: "Thus; so. Used to indicate that a quoted passage, especially one containing an error or unconventional spelling, has been retained in its original form or written intentionally" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'').

=April 30th/May 1st, YDAU - More Marathe & Steeply=

==Page 375==

'''shelf''' 
a projecting ridge on a mountain

'''spangle''' 
a small bright spot

'''"...launching even one ship or vessel."''' 
unlike [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_of_Troy Helen of Troy], whose face "launched a thousand ships" according to Homer

=Himself and Lyle=

==Page 375==

'''blotto''' 
drunk

==Endnote 144==

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

==Page 376==

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote 145 · Found Drama|Endnote 145]]

=More Boston AA=

==Page 376==

'''brogue''' 
an accent, usually Irish

'''Eightball''' 
an eighth of an ounce of cocaine

'''translucent''' 
capable of having light pass through

==Page 377==

'''swaddled''' 
wrapped tightly in clothes

'''fuchsia''' 
hot pink

'''dysplasia''' 
abnormal growth of cells or tissue

'''remonstrances''' 
acts of protest

'''beat-cop''' 
a policeman who patrols the streets

'''tungsten''' 
a metalic element described [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten here], also known as wolfram

==Page 378==

'''Chanel''' 
the fashion house known in long form as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanel House of Chanel]

'''reticence''' 
reluctance

'''D&C''' 
dilation (of the cervix) and curetage (scraping) of the uterus

'''placenta''' 
the tissue that nourishes a fetus and makes up the afterbirth

'''S.S.I.''' 
Social Security Insurance

==Page 379==

=Himself and Lyle, cont.=

==Page 379==

'''libations''' 
alcoholic drinks

'''injudicious''' 
showing lack of judgment

'''chyme''' 
This is "the semifluid mass into which food is converted by gastric secretion and which passes from the stomach into the small intestine" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

==Endnote 146==

'''L.M.P.''' 
Latrodectus Mactans Productions

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=November 8th, YDAU - Interdependence Day - Boston AA=
(The longest chapter in the book)
==Page 343==

'''''GAUDEAMUS IGITUR''''' 
"Let us rejoice"

'''singular''' 
unique

'''polysterene''' 
styrofoam

'''ziggurats''' 
an ancient type of Mesopotamian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat temple tower]

'''fiberboard''' 
board made of small fibers of wood, plastic, or some combination of these and other materials

'''Concord''' 
Concord is about 20 miles northwest of Boston and is the site one of the first battles of the American Revolution.

==Page 344==

'''rotary''' 
a traffic circle or, in the U.K., a roundabout

'''plywood''' 
material made of thin layers of wood glued together

''''12th-Step Work'''' 
The twelfth and final step of AA is this: "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs."

'''epigrammatic''' 
of or pertaining to the use of short and pithy statements

'''pay it ''forward''''' 
thus the title of [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0223897/ this movie]

'''nip''' 
drink of alcohol

'''Dick Cavett and Truman Capote''' 
Richard Alva "Dick" Cavett (born 1936) is an Emmy-award-winning television talk-show host. Truman Capote (1924-1984) was an American writer and novelist, best known for writing ''In Cold Blood'' and ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''. Both men were remarkably short.

'''imbricate''' 
having adjacent edges overlapping

==Endnote 133==

'''variegated''' 
diverse

'''esoteric''' 
understood or recognized by few people

==Page 344 (cont'd)==

'''piping''' 
This is a tubular band of ornamental material; Nodie is probably a brand name.

'''imbricate''' 
overlapping in sequence

'''tailor's notch''' 
Notch in your tooth you get from repeatedly biting thread to cut it (or from holding a sewing needle between one's teeth)

'''incisors''' 
front top teeth

==Page 345==

'''insipid''' 
without interesting qualities

'''AA Preamble''' 
You can read it [http://www.serenityfound.org/preamble.html here].

'''empathy''' 
one's ability to feel the emotions of another person

'''what he is''' 
i.e., an alcoholic

==Endnote 134==

'''nonpunitive''' 
not intended as a punishment

'''nitro''' 
nitroglycerin, used for cardiac attacks

==Page 345 (cont'd)==

'''145 kph''' 
a hair over 90 miles per hour

'''litany''' 
a prolonged or tedious account

==Page 346==

'''waxing''' 
growing in size, as for the first half of a lunar cycle

'''peritonitis''' 
inflammation of the serous membrane lining the abdomenal cavity

'''cirrhotic''' 
pertaining to hardening of liver tissue

'''nephritis''' 
inflammation of the kidneys

==Page 347==

'''compadre''' 
a close friend or companion, from the Spanish for "godfather"

'''ravening''' 
voracious

'''maw''' 
mouth

'''Black Mass''' 
a Satanic ritual based on ten Roman Catholic mass

==Page 348==

'''"...something whimpery instead of banging."''' 
a reference to the last line of T.S. Eliot's poem [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollow_Men The Hollow Men]

'''garish''' 
loud and flashy

'''Balaclavan''' 
a reference to Balaklava, Ukraine, and the suicidal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade Charge of the Light Brigade]

'''prognathous''' 
having one's lower jaw project beyond the upper part of one's face

'''thermal''' 
a warm, rising air current

'''arbitrage''' 
simultaneous purchase and sale of the same assets in different markets

'''compound''' 
i.e., a compound fracture, where the bone protrudes through the skin

'''Svce''' 
Service

'''Unitarian''' 
Though the term refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian Unitarianism], here it suggestsa kind of hippyesque, wishy-washyness.

==Page 349==

'''Hindenburg''' 
Named for Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg (1847-1934), the German field marshal, hero of World War I, and last President of the Weimar Republic, the ''Hindenburg'' was a hydrogen-powered zeppelin that exploded over Lakehurst, N.J., on May 6, 1937.

'''nonuremic''' 
so as not to appear in one's urine

'''foamer''' 
beer

==Page 350==

'''beatific''' 
blissful or angelic

'''Zippo''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippo brand] of lighter

'''saccharin''' 
A play on words. "Saccharin" is the artificial sweetener in Sweet & Low (coffee is being discussed); "saccharine" means "overly sweet."

'''flummoxed''' 
confused or perplexed

'''burnished''' 
rubbed smooth

'''squalid''' 
foul and repulsive

==Page 351==

'''terse''' 
using few words

'''imperative''' 
a tense of verb implicating a command or directive

'''zealotry''' 
fanaticism

'''green-card Irishman''' 
an Irishman who is a permanent resident non-citizen of the U.S.

'''meal''' 
ground grain

'''metal-pedalled''' 
i.e., "with the pedal to the metal," i.e., at top speed

'''chemical psychosis''' 
Psychosis (called "speed psychosisis") a not uncommon side effect of amphetamine abuse.

'''wax lyrical''' 
to speak poetically

'''"'d been a confarmed..."''' 
I'd been a confirmed bowl-splatterer for years beyond counting. I'd been barred from the facilities at all the truck stops betwixt here and New York for years. The wallpaper in the loo at home hung in these curled sheets from the wall, I tell you. But now one day . . . I'll remember it always. It were a week to the day after I stood up for my ninety-day chip. I were three months sober. I were there on the throne at home, you know. Not to put too fine a point on it, I produced as usual and . . . and I were so amazed as to not believing my ears. It was a sound so unfamiliar at the first I thought I'd dropped my wallet in the loo, do you know? I thought I'd dropped me wallet in the loo as god is my witness. So down I bend betwixt my knees and had a look in the dim of the loo and couldn't believe my eyes. So good people I do then I drop to my knees by the loo and had a ''real'' look. A lover's look, do you know? And friends it were a lovely past my poor powers to say. It were a ''turd'' in the loo. A ''real turd''. It were firm and tapered and ever so gently arched. It looked . . . ''constructed'' instead of sprayed. It look as I felt in my heart God himself made a turd to look. My friends, this turd of mine practically had a pulse. I stayed down on my knees and thanked my Higher Power, which I choose to call my Higher Power God, and I been thanking my Higher Power on my knees ever since, morning and nighttime and in the loo as well, ever since.

'''ninety-day chip''' 
In AA, medals, or chips, are awarded to commemorate certain lengths of sobriety

==Page 352==

'''Enuresis''' 
bed-wetting

'''Priapism''' 
an erection that won't go away

'''Projectile-incontinence''' 
inability to hold owns bowels to the extent that feces shoot out of the anus

'''Autocastration''' 
castration of one's self

'''fringe-Birchism''' 
Birchism is adherence to the principles of the [http://www.jbs.org/ John Birch Society], an ultra-right-wing political organization

'''National-Socialist-Bundism''' 
probably something like the German-American Bund of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Kuhn_(Nazi) Fritz Julius Kuhn]

'''Coprophilia and -phagia''' 
sexual excitement brought on by feces and eating of feces, respectively

'''candelabrum''' 
a holder for more than one candle

==Page 353==

'''vitriol''' 
something highly caustic or severe, as criticism

'''orevwar''' 
They trying to say ''au revoir'', i.e., French for "goodbye."

'''fremitic''' 
characterized by tremor vibrations in any part of the body

==Page 354==

'''verdant''' 
green with vegetation

'''varicose''' 
having veins that are visible through the skin

'''shamanistic fiat''' 
A shaman is a priest or religious official, usually of an indigenous religion. A fiat is an order, based on the Latin for the imperative form of the verb "to be."

'''30 kph''' 
18.6 miles per hour

'''talismanically''' 
in a way suggesting something having to do with a magic charm or amulet

'''Lord's Prayer''' 
from [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%206:9-13;&version=9; Matthew 20:9-13]

'''ballast''' 
meaning an electric ballast, which is used to regulate and stabilize the current in lights

==Page 355==

'''gnarled''' 
knotty of misshappen

'''Sixers''' 
the short name for the [http://www.nba.com/sixers/index_main.html Philadelphia 76ers]

'''MCI-Walpole''' 
This is the Massachusetts Correction Institute at Walpole, about 25 miles southwest of Boston.

'''raisin jack''' 
an alcoholic drink fermented from raisins, commonly made in prisons

'''spectral''' 
looking like a ghost

==Page 356==

'''LeSabre''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buick_LeSabre Buick LeSabre]

'''jack-legged''' 
a slang term meaning "always screwing up"

'''dash''' 
short for "dashboard"

'''abject''' 
sunken to a low position, as in "abject poverty"

'''regs''' 
regulations

'''sub-rosa''' 
The Latin phrase [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub_rosa sub rosa] means "under the rose" and is used in English to denote secrecy or confidentiality

'''autonomy''' 
control or rule over one's self

==Page 357==

'''fibrosis''' 
scarring

==Endnote 139==

'''entomologic''' 
Entomology is the study of insects.

==Page 357 (cont'd)==

'''Mr. Rogers''' 
The Reverend Frederick McFeely "Fred" Rogers (1928-2003) was an American minister and children's television show host.

'''rhapsodize''' 
speak in an extravagantly elegant manner

'''fisticuffery''' 
fist-fighting

'''invectives''' 
abusive expressions of opinion

'''Sergeant at Arms''' 
an officer appointed to keep order

==Page 358==

'''apothegm''' 
a short, pithy statement

'''head''' 
bathroom

'''spuds''' 
potatoes

'''nocturnal''' 
happening at night

'''crook''' 
a shepherd's staff

'''French-curled''' 
You can see French-curled jewelry [http://www.cqout.com/item.asp?id=3093801 here]

'''demurely''' 
in an effectedly modest way

==Page 359==

'''circumferences''' 
distances around the edge of a circle

'''cuticles''' 
dead skin at the bottom of the fingernails

'''astringent''' 
a chemical that tends to dry something else out

'''onionlight''' 
You can see onionlights [http://www.hammerworks.com/onionlights1.html here].

'''isopropyl''' 
a type of alcohol, found in rubbing alcohol

'''reek''' 
to smell very badly

'''A.D.A.''' 
Assistant District Attorney

==Page 360==

'''fumigated''' 
permeated with gas to kill insects

'''idiosyncrasy''' 
a peculiarity of personality

'''rattan''' 
material taken from the rattan plant, a climbing palm with very long stems

'''Big Book''' 
This is the AA "bible," so to speak, and can be found online [http://www.aa.org/bigbookonline/ here].

'''''As Bill Sees It''''' 
a book by Bill W., one of AA's founders, first published in 1967

'''''Came To Believe''''' 
another AA publication, this one published in 1973

==Page 361==

'''joggling''' 
shaking slightly

'''Demerol''' 
a brand name of pethidine, a painkiller

'''photic''' 
having to do with light

==Page 362==

'''copperheads''' 
one of five species of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agkistrodon_contortrix poisonous snake]

'''tongues''' 
The reference is to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossolalia glossolalia].

'''larynx''' 
voice box

'''requisite''' 
essential or necessary

'''venulated''' 
The word means "able to see the veins"; this condition of the nose is very common among advanced alcoholics.

''''Volare'''' 
This is a song whose title is from the Italian for "to fly." The song was written by Domenico Modugno and Franco Migliacci. Modugno went on to be a member of Italy's parliament

==Page 363==

'''pupil and iris''' 
The pupil is the black circle at the center of the eye, while the iris is the colored part (blue, green, brown).

'''cognito''' 
which is to say, in Lenz's case, unsuccessfully incognito

'''Ferragamos''' 
an Italian brand of shoes

'''periphery''' 
an external boundary

'''11-Step''' 
recalling the 12th step on page 344, UHID must lack this step, or perhaps one of the others

==Page 364==

'''Rémy''' 
Rémy-Martin, a brand of cognac

'''Tiparillo''' 
a brand name of [http://lfa.atu.edu/Brucker/advertisement%20presentation/sld005.htm cigar]

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

'''defib paddles''' 
the paddles used in defibrillation, the application of electric shocks to the heart to re-start it

'''divot''' 
Normally a golf term, a divot is the hole left by the dirt displaced when one strikes a golf ball.

'''rankness''' 
the quality of being offensive

'''proprietary''' 
Usually referring to an owner, here it refers to feeling as if one has a sense of ownership.

==Page 365==

'''rectum''' 
the very end of the large intestine

'''hubristic''' 
having exaggerated pride or self-confidence

'''7-iron''' 
a type of golf club

'''tenth rough''' 
off the fairway on the tenth hole of a golf course

==Page 366==

'''flats''' 
women's shoes without heels

'''subjunctive''' 
contingent on something else happening

'''counterfactual''' 
at variance with what really happened

'''indicative''' 
According to ''Merriam-Webster,'' "indicative" means "of, relating to, or constituting a verb form or set of verb forms that represents the denoted act or state as an objective fact."

'''transposition''' 
switching the position of two things

'''Radarange''' 
microwave

'''pass''' 
here used to mean "place"

'''allude''' 
here used to mean "give an impression of"

==Page 367==

'''velour''' 
a piled and nappy material resembling velvet

'''caparison''' 
an ornamental covering for a horse, or just rich clothing

'''gavel''' 
the type of hammer a judge uses to restore or maintain order

=NNYC's Statue of Liberty=

==Page 367==

'''huge photo album''' 
The book held by the statue reads, "JULY IV MDCCLXXVI [1776]."

'''product''' 
as opposed to the torch it currently holds

'''pitons''' 
spikes used by mountain climbers for support

=Boston AA, cont.=

==Page 367==

'''deprecate''' 
to express disapproval

==Page 368==

'''conundrum''' 
something puzzling

'''cunctations''' 
delays

'''chagrin''' 
embarrassment

'''aphasiac''' 
inability to speak

'''Filene's''' 
now owned by [http://www.macys.com/ Macy's]

==Page 369==

'''unironic''' 
i.e., totally expected and not at all a surprise

'''disingenuous''' 
lacking in sincerity, pretending to be naïve

'''schlepping''' 
moving awkwardly or slowly

'''deprogramming''' 
from the deprogrammer's point of view, reversing the brainwashing that induced someone to adhere to a religious cult

==Page 370==

'''Naked I Club''' 
a real strip club mentioned [http://www.totse.com/en/erotica/erotic_fiction_so_to_sz/striprv.html here]

'''Route 1''' 
U.S. 1 runs from Fort Kent, Maine, at the Canadian border down to Key West, Fla., mainly through small towns.

'''Saugus MA''' 
a suburb of Boston about ten miles north of the city

'''etiology''' 
the cause or source of a medical problem

'''Mud-Bug''' 
a Southern term for a crawfish

'''invertebrate''' 
an animal with a spine

'''chordate phylum''' 
the phylum of the animal kingdom containing all animals with spines

==Page 371==

'''Campfire Girls''' 
former name of [http://www.campfireusa.org/ youth organization] when it was just for girls

'''Lancôme''' 
one of France's largest cosmetics manufacturers

'''lurid''' 
gruesome or shocking

'''ubiquitousness''' 
the quality of always being present

'''Aetna''' 
a real [http://www.aetna.com/ insurance company]

'''Doric column''' 
columns of buildings built according to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doric_order Doric order]

'''pliability''' 
the ability to be easily bent

==Page 372==

'''''Ramparts'' and ''Commonweal''''' 
''Ramparts'' was a magazine founded for a Catholic leadership but eventually found its niche with the New Left. ''Commonweal'' was and still is a publication by and for lay Catholics.

'''Sally Jessy Raphael M.S.W.''' 
Sally Jessy Raphael (born Sally Lowenthal, 1938) is an American talk-show host. She does not hold an M.S.W., i.e., a Master's of Social Work

'''complicity''' 
the status of being an accomplice in a wrongdoing

'''Wounded, Hurting, Inadequately Nurtured but Ever-Recovering Survivors''' 
Look at the initials of the capitalized words.

'''auburn''' 
reddish-brown

'''perimeter''' 
the oustide edge of something

==Page 373==

'''vanity''' 
a dressing table

'''limbic system''' 
a complex system within the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbic_system brain]

'''gauntlet''' 
an attack from all sides

'''rasa the tabula''' 
This is a pun on ''tabula rasa,'' Latin for "blank state" and used in the philosophy of John Locke (1632-1704). The sense here is the clean the slate.

'''bandanna''' 
a large printed handkerchief, typically red or blue with a white design

'''circumoral''' 
surrounding the mouth

'''vacuole and optica''' 
These are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuole parts] of a cell, the optica likely being some kind of "seeing" organ.

'''protozoan''' 
a single-celled organism

'''some Catholic statue''' 
The statue described strongly appears to be Bernini's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstasy_of_St_Theresa The Ecstasy of St Theresa]. This statue is also referred to by name at endnote 24, page 988 in the synopsis of James Incandenza's film ''Pre-Nuptial Agreement of Heaven and Hell.''

'''Hours''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liturgy_of_the_Hours Liturgy of the Hours] is the official set of daily prayers prescribed by the Catholic Church to be recited at the canonical hours by the clergy, religious orders, and laity

'''prurient''' 
causing lust

'''cherub''' 
Often this word is used to denote a baby angel, but the actual connotation of the original Hebrew is of a fearsome warrior angel. A cherub guards the Garden of Eden in Genesis so that Adam and Eve cannot go back in.

'''lolled''' 
dropped

==Page 374==

'''IV''' 
intravenous, i.e., directly into a vein

'''lucidity''' 
mental clarity

'''implicit''' 
unspoken but implied

'''Six Flags Over the Poconos''' 
Six Flags is a [http://www.sixflags.com/national/index.aspx chain] of amusement parks. There is not currently one in the Pocono Mountains.

'''labrynth''' 
This is the mythological spelling of "labyrinth," meaning generically a maze, but more specifically denoting the maze built by Daedalus of ancient Greek myth.

'''minotaurs''' 
Daedalus build his famous maze to house the minotaur, a monster that was half man and half bull and the product of sexual congress between Europa, queen of Crete, and Zeus in the form of a bull.

'''aides de camp''' 
a confidential assistant to a military officer

'''absconded''' 
departed suddenly and in secret

'''proto-Fascist''' 
Wallace really means "quasi-Fascist" rather than "proto-Fascist"; it's not as if the rules of AA are the harbinger of Fascism later to come.

'''decamped''' 
a synonym of "absconded"

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]

'''commode''' 
toilet

==Page 375==

==Endnote 143==

'''''Sic''''' 
This word means: "Thus; so. Used to indicate that a quoted passage, especially one containing an error or unconventional spelling, has been retained in its original form or written intentionally" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'').

=April 30th/May 1st, YDAU - More Marathe & Steeply=

==Page 375==

'''shelf''' 
a projecting ridge on a mountain

'''spangle''' 
a small bright spot

'''"...launching even one ship or vessel."''' 
unlike [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_of_Troy Helen of Troy], whose face "launched a thousand ships" according to Homer

=Himself and Lyle=

==Page 375==

'''blotto''' 
drunk

==Endnote 144==

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

==Page 376==

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote 145 · Found Drama|Endnote 145]]

=More Boston AA=

==Page 376==

'''brogue''' 
an accent, usually Irish

'''Eightball''' 
an eighth of an ounce of cocaine

'''translucent''' 
capable of having light pass through

==Page 377==

'''swaddled''' 
wrapped tightly in clothes

'''fuchsia''' 
hot pink

'''dysplasia''' 
abnormal growth of cells or tissue

'''remonstrances''' 
acts of protest

'''beat-cop''' 
a policeman who patrols the streets

'''tungsten''' 
a metalic element described [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten here], also known as wolfram

==Page 378==

'''Chanel''' 
the fashion house known in long form as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanel House of Chanel]

'''reticence''' 
reluctance

'''D&C''' 
dilation (of the cervix) and curetage (scraping) of the uterus

'''placenta''' 
the tissue that nourishes a fetus and makes up the afterbirth

'''S.S.I.''' 
Social Security Insurance

==Page 379==

=Himself and Lyle, cont.=

==Page 379==

'''libations''' 
alcoholic drinks

'''injudicious''' 
showing lack of judgment

'''chyme''' 
This is "the semifluid mass into which food is converted by gastric secretion and which passes from the stomach into the small intestine" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

==Endnote 146==

'''L.M.P.''' 
Latrodectus Mactans Productions

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==Page 321==

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

==Page 322==

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

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

'''puerile''' 
childish

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

'''''vademecum''ish''' 
vade mecum - Latin for "go with me"; like a reference handbook intended to be carried everywhere.

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

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

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

'''''Anschluss''''' 
German for "union"; possibly forced annexation, involving occupation. ''Anschluss'' often refers to German annexation of Austria before WWII. [http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/bibliography/?lang=en&content=anschluss]

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

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

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

'''LIBSYR''' 
Libya and Syria

'''IRLIBSYR''' 
LIBSYR plus Iran

'''INDPAK''' 
India and Pakistan

==Page 323==

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

==Endnote 123==

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

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

'''ordnance''' 
explosives

==Page 323 (cont'd)==

'''synoptic''' 
by way of summary

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

==Endnote 124==

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

==Page 323 (cont'd)==

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

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

'''bellicosity''' 
a warlike disposition

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

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

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

==Page 324==

'''PCs''' 
Personal Computers

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

'''profligate''' 
recklessly extravagant

'''metastasizes''' 
spreads like cancer

'''EM''' 
electromagnetic

'''baroque''' 
extravagantly ornate

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

==Page 325==

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

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

==Endnote 125==

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

==Page 325 (cont'd)==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Endnote 126==

'''picayune''' 
small or trifling

'''TRISITs''' 
triggering situations

==Page 325 (cont'd)==

[[Image:Gorbachev.jpg|thumb|Mikhail Gorbachev|right]]

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

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

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

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

'''SOVWAR's bald and port-wine-stained premier''' 
This is no doubt a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorbachev Mikhail Gorbachev] (see right), the last head of state of the USSR, although he was never premier.

==Endnote 127==

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

==Page 325 (cont'd)==

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

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

==Page 326==

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

'''four kilgrams''' 
about 8.8 pounds

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

'''MiG25s''' 
Russian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25 aircraft]

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

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

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

'''Abu Kenal''' 
probably meant to be the same as Abu Kemal referred to at 337

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

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

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

'''Tripoli''' 
a city in Lebanon

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

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

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

'''NSA''' 
National Security Agency

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

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

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

==Page 327==

'''advertorial''' 
Normally this word denotes an advertisement written to appear as if it's journalism, but here Wallace seems to mean bearing an ad.

'''thanatoptic''' 
contemplating death

'''adepts''' 
expert players

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

'''pique''' 
resentment

'''''Commentary''''' 
A public affairs magazine that describes itself as [http://www.commentarymagazine.com/abouthistory.cfm the flagship of neoconservatism]. It was founded by the American Jewish Committee and is still known for its coverage of Jewish issues.

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

==Page 328==

'''probity''' 
integrity or honesty

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

'''purloined''' 
stolen

'''subterranean''' 
literally underground

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 329==

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

'''microcephalic''' 
having a tiny head

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

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

'''cerebral''' 
oriented toward thinking

==Page 330==

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

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

'''extant''' 
still existing

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

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

'''cod''' 
a type of fish

'''EMP''' 
electromagnetic pulse

==Page 331==

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

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

'''obtuse''' 
difficult to understand

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

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

==Page 332==

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

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

'''n.b.''' 
Nota bene [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nota_bene Wikipedia]

'''parley''' 
to hold a discussion

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

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

==Page 333==

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

'''verisimilitude''' 
proximity to reality, "Truth likeness"

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

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

''''It's snowing on the goddamn ''map,'' not the ''territory''...'''' 
This is a reference to the statement "the map is not the territory," i.e., the thing representing some other thing is not that other thing in reality -- just a representation of it. Count Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski (1879-1950), the founder of [http://www.time-binding.org/ general semantics], coined the phrase. It's interesting that the term "map" appears so often in ''Infinite Jest'', as in reference to suicide (eliminating one's own map) or when one of anhedonia's symptoms is described thus: "The world becomes a map of the world." (p.693) Clearly Wallace is doing something with this general idea.

==Page 334==

'''contrite''' 
apologetic

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

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

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

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

==Page 335==

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

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

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

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

'''cerebrate''' 
to think about something

==Page 336==

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 337==

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

'''equivocationary''' 
not a real word

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

'''Charleston''' 
This is the third mention of characters dancing or pretending to dance the Charleston, the others being Steeply at page 94 and the Vaught twins at page 218.

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

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

'''One True Faith''' 
Islam

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

==Page 338==

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

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

==Page 339==

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

'''tripartite''' 
having three parts

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

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

==Page 340==

'''triangulating''' 
dividing into triangles

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

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

==Page 341==

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

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

'''accreting''' 
gathering increasing amounts

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

'''equivocation''' 
ambiguity

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

==Page 342==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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==Page 283==

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

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

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

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

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

==Endnote 94==

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

==Page 284==

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

'''deafflatusized''' 
uninspired. afflatus is inspiration, divine communication of knowledge, literally to blow upon. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afflatus Wikipedia])

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

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

'''Croate''' 
French for "Croat" (Croatian) but probably just a misspelling,
OR indicative that the magazine is a French-Quebecois publication

==Endnote 95==

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

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

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

==Page 285==

'''inducement''' 
an incentive

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

==Endnote 96==

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

==Page 285 (cont'd)==

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

'''patrician''' 
aristocratic

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

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

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

==Page 286==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''sedulous''' 
diligent or attentive

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

==Page 287==

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

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

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

==Page 288==

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

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

'''Salic law''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salic_law Salic Law] was a legal code of medieval Central Europe. The phrase is sometimes used simply to refer to its best-known tenet: agnatic succession, or the inheritance of the throne only by male heirs.

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

'''PAC''' 
Political Action Committee

'''florid''' 
flowery in style 

'''trilled r's''' 
as pronounced in a Spanish word such as ''perro'' ("dog") 
The French trilled r can be uvular (on the back of the tongue) or aveolar (front of the tongue, like the Spanish ''perro'' example).

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

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

'''MGM''' 
Militant Grammarians of Massachusetts

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

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

==Page 289==

'''"...had a poster of Bill Tilden in his office..."''' 
which implies that the coach was either gay (as was Tilden) or very old-fashioned, since Tilden's career was far in the past 
This is more likely a comment on the coach being terribly out of date - Tilden was considered the world's best tennis player from 1920 - 1934. His sexuality likely does not matter, but he seems to be very attracted to Avril Incandenza (p. 286).
(Also of interest is that Bill Tilden was inspiration for a character in Nabokov's Lolita, who was hired to coach the girl without worry that he would seduce her, since he was gay.)

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

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

'''strabismic''' 
having improperly aligned eyes

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

'''OCD''' 
Obsessive-Compulsive Disoder

'''drawn idle little sideways 8's''' 
with his fingers or another body part or fluid??? was there a similar line in ''Brief Interviews with Hideous Men''?

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

'''decapitated''' 
beheaded

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

==Page 290==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''avuncular''' 
characteristic of an uncle

==Page 291==

'''strabismic''' 
squinty or improperly aligned eyes

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

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

'''lateral''' 
sideways

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

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

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

'''adit''' 
entrance or passage

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

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

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

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

==Page 292==

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

'''CNS''' 
Central Nervous System

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

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

==Page 293==

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''herbicide''' 
something that kills plants

==Page 294==

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

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

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

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

'''bilateral''' 
having two sides

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 295==

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

'''USMC''' 
United States Marine Corps

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

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

'''extrication''' 
freedom from entanglement

'''lardy''' 
fat

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

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

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

==Page 296==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 297==

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

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

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

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

'''hypertrophied''' 
overgrown anatomically

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''spectation''' 
aspect or appearance

==Page 298==

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

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

[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.]]

'''rpm''' 
revolutions per minute

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''stave''' 
to break or crush

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

==Page 299==

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

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

'''gluteal''' 
pertaining to the buttocks

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

==Page 299==

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

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

==Page 300==

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

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

'''cadge''' 
to obtain by begging

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

'''de-mapping''' 
murder

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

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

'''cop''' 
obtain drugs

'''rough-trade''' 
homosexual prostitution - trading sexual activity for money or drugs, frequently associated with violence [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/rough+trade FreeDictionary]

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

'''portents''' 
omens

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 301==

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

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

'''chignon''' 
hair tied into a knot worn at the back of the head, similar to a bun.

'''troughs and nodes''' 
deep furrows and swollen areas, respectively 
more likely: lows and data points or vertices between changes in symptoms.

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

'''wan''' 
pale in color

'''neurasthenic''' 
suffering from nervous exhaustion (with no apparent physical cause)

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

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

'''[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]'''

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

==Page 302==

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

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

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

'''hubris''' 
pride to a fault

'''cadences''' 
flows of events

==Page 303==

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

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

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

'''''Zuckung''''' 
German: convulsion, jerk or twitch

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

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

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

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

'''loo''' 
British colloquialism for toilet

'''flatulence''' 
farting

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

==Page 304==

'''duplicitous''' 
deceptive in speech

'''hapless''' 
without luck

'''formicating''' 
moving like ants

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

'''behemoth''' 
a large beast

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

'''dessicated''' 
dried out

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

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

==Page 305==

'''incongruous''' 
out of place

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

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

'''tumid''' 
swollen

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

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

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

'''flounces''' 
strips of decorative material

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==Page 283==

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

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

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

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

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

==Endnote 94==

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

==Page 284==

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

'''deafflatusized''' 
uninspired. afflatus is inspiration, divine communication of knowledge, literally to blow upon. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afflatus Wikipedia])

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

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

'''Croate''' 
French for "Croat" (Croatian) but probably just a misspelling,
OR indicative that the magazine is a French-Quebecois publication

==Endnote 95==

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

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

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

==Page 285==

'''inducement''' 
an incentive

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

==Endnote 96==

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

==Page 285 (cont'd)==

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

'''patrician''' 
aristocratic

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

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

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

==Page 286==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''sedulous''' 
diligent or attentive

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

==Page 287==

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

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

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

==Page 288==

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

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

'''Salic law''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salic_law Salic Law] was a legal code of medieval Central Europe. The phrase is sometimes used simply to refer to its best-known tenet: agnatic succession, or the inheritance of the throne only by male heirs.

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

'''PAC''' 
Political Action Committee

'''florid''' 
flowery in style 

'''trilled r's''' 
as pronounced in a Spanish word such as ''perro'' ("dog") 
The French trilled r can be uvular (on the back of the tongue) or aveolar (front of the tongue, like the Spanish ''perro'' example).

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

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

'''MGM''' 
Militant Grammarians of Massachusetts

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

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

==Page 289==

'''"...had a poster of Bill Tilden in his office..."''' 
which implies that the coach was either gay (as was Tilden) or very old-fashioned, since Tilden's career was far in the past 
This is more likely a comment on the coach being terribly out of date - Tilden was considered the world's best tennis player from 1920 - 1934. His sexuality likely does not matter, but he seems to be very attracted to Avril Incandenza (p. 286).
(Also of interest is that Bill Tilden was inspiration for a character in Nabokov's Lolita, who was hired to coach the girl without worry that he would seduce her, since he was gay.)

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

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

'''strabismic''' 
having improperly aligned eyes

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

'''OCD''' 
Obsessive-Compulsive Disoder

'''drawn idle little sideways 8's''' 
with his fingers or another body part or fluid??? was there a similar line in ''Brief Interviews with Hideous Men''?

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

'''decapitated''' 
beheaded

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

==Page 290==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''avuncular''' 
characteristic of an uncle

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'''strabismic''' 
squinty or improperly aligned eyes

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

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

'''lateral''' 
sideways

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

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

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

'''adit''' 
entrance or passage

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

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

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

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

==Page 292==

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

'''CNS''' 
Central Nervous System

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

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

==Page 293==

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''herbicide''' 
something that kills plants

==Page 294==

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

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

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

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

'''bilateral''' 
having two sides

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 295==

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

'''USMC''' 
United States Marine Corps

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

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

'''extrication''' 
freedom from entanglement

'''lardy''' 
fat

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

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

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

==Page 296==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 297==

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

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

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

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

'''hypertrophied''' 
overgrown anatomically

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''spectation''' 
aspect or appearance

==Page 298==

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

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

[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.]]

'''rpm''' 
revolutions per minute

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''stave''' 
to break or crush

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

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

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

'''gluteal''' 
pertaining to the buttocks

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

==Page 299==

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

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

==Page 300==

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

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

'''cadge''' 
to obtain by begging

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

'''de-mapping''' 
murder

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

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

'''cop''' 
obtain drugs

'''rough-trade''' 
homosexual prostitution - trading sexual activity for money or drugs, frequently associated with violence [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/rough+trade FreeDictionary]

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

'''portents''' 
omens

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''chignon''' 
hair tied into a knot worn at the back of the head, similar to a bun.

'''troughs and nodes''' 
deep furrows and swollen areas, respectively 
more likely: lows and data points or vertices between changes in symptoms.

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

'''wan''' 
pale in color

'''neurasthenic''' 
suffering from nervous exhaustion (with no apparent physical cause)

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

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

'''[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]'''

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

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

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

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

'''hubris''' 
pride to a fault

'''cadences''' 
flows of events

==Page 303==

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

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

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

'''''Zuckung''''' 
German: convulsion, jerk or twitch

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

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

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

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

'''loo''' 
British colloquialism for toilet

'''flatulence''' 
farting

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

==Page 304==

'''duplicitous''' 
deceptive in speech

'''hapless''' 
without luck

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

'''behemoth''' 
a large beast

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

'''dessicated''' 
dried out

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

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

==Page 305==

'''incongruous''' 
out of place

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

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

'''tumid''' 
swollen

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

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

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

'''flounces''' 
strips of decorative material

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''tumefies''' 
swells

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

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

==Page 221==

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Big Red Soda Water''' 
a [http://www.bigredltd.com/ real brand] similar to cream soda, only red. This was originally only sold in Central/South Texas and Kentucky and is still popular in that region, though available elsewhere.

'''Chore Boy''' 
a brand of [http://www.choreboyscrubbers.com/ scrubbing pads]. The copper version of these pads can be used as a filter for smoking crack.

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

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

'''delimits''' 
establishes the boundaries of

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

==Page 223==

See [[Subsidized Time]].

==Endnote 78==

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

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

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

=Joelle, cont.=

==Page 225==

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

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

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

==Endnote 79==

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

==Page 225 (cont'd)==

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

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

==Page 226==

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

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

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

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

'''scopophobic''' 
scopophobia is the morbid fear of being seen or stared at by others

'''he was indeed inebriated...while she...would tomorrow still be hideously and improbably deformed.''' 
Many versions of this witty exchange between Winston Churchill and a woman have been propagated over the the years. It may or may not have actually occurred.

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

==Page 227==

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

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

'''''Decade Magazine''''' 
probably not a real publication 

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

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

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

=Joelle, cont.=

==Page 227==

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 228==

'''the A.M.'s interruptus''' 
Presumably this means the end of the morning, although the only common English usage of "interruptus" is in the Latin phrase ''coitus interrruptus'', i.e., "pulling out." (See the [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_157-181#Page_171 Consummation of the Levirates].)

The A.M.'s interruptus could refer to her "quitting" her drug use that morning.

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

==Page 229==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'''paps''' 
breasts or nipples

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

'''febrile''' 
feverish

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

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

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

==Page 231==

'''Vogelsong''' 
"Vogel" = German for "bird", i.e. something like: bird song ("song" is not German)

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

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

'''afflatus''' 
gas

'''dithers''' 
trembles or vibrates

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 232==

'''''Ich bein ein Berliner''''' 
''Bein'' is the wrong word. It's a noun in German and means "leg". The first-person singular of ''sein'' ("to be") is ''bin''. Still, the wrong spelling may be related to Kennedy's wrong pronounciation of this sentence. And yes, it's true "Berliner" is a German word for a special kind of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_%28pastry%29 pastry]. [You find a quite interesting episode related to this topic in Pychon's "Against the Day"...]

'''TA''' 
Teaching Assistant

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''''De gustibus non est disputandum''''' 
Latin: There's no accounting for taste (literally, "tastes are not disputable")

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

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

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

==Page 233==

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

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

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

'''labile''' 
unstable

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

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

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

'''blinis''' 
Russian crepes

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

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

'''glacé''' 
French for "iced"

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 234==

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

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

'''48 kilograms''' 
about 106 pounds (This makes her about 15-30 pounds below her ideal weight.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 235==

'''dicky''' 
impaired

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

'''neat bourbon''' 
bourbon without ice

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

'''recumbent''' 
reclining

'''Gleem''' 
a brand of toothpaste

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

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

'''depilatory''' 
for removal of hair

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

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

==Page 236==

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

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

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

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

==Page 237==

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

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

==Page 238==

'''fillips''' 
a sharp tap

'''mâché''' 
i.e., papier mâché

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

'''imperial''' 
a case for luggage

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

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

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

==Page 239==

'''banal''' 
hackneyed or trite

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

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

==Page 240==

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

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

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

=☽ - Enfield, MA=

==Page 240==

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

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

==Page 241==

'''RCC''' 
Roman Catholic Church

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

'''5 km''' 
about 3.1 miles

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

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

'''palisades''' 
fences

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

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

'''coaxial''' 
having common axes

==Page 242==

'''Ø's''' 
zeros [Actually, I believe this is a reference to signs warning you "not to do" something. As in a red circle with a red line though it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_symbol]

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

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

==Page 242==

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

==Page 243==

'''caroms''' 
rebounds

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

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

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

'''''propitiate''''' 
to conciliate, appease or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit

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

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

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

'''Micturation''' 
urination

==Page 244==

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

'''apposite''' 
pertinent

==Page 245==

'''decamp''' 
to depart secretly

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

'''lacuna''' 
a missing part

'''frothy biblical saw''' 
a trifling or empty biblical proverb

==Page 246==

'''rodneys''' 
obviously some kind of impulse buy: cigarettes

'''refracted''' 
illuminated indirectly

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

==Page 247==

'''Royal Victoria''' 
This is the name of one of the docks of east London, but probably not what's being referred to here. Victoria is also the capital of British Columbia, and an island in the Pacific off the B.C. coast. The Royal Victoria College was a women's college created as part of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.

==Page 248==

'''Rog and Wilc,O.''' 
"Roger Wilco, Orin" - Roger Wilco is a radio communication meaning Roger - "I received your message./" and Wilco - "I will comply."

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

==Page 249==

'''telemachry''' 
Maybe not the word Hal was looking for, but Telemachus was a monk who tried to stop the Roman gladiator fights and told the Romans to stop worshiping false idols instead of Christ. He was stoned to death, though his death is sometimes said to have ended the Gladiatorial games. So, "telemachry" could be interpreted to be trust in a higher power.

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

==Page 250==

==Page 251==

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

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

==Page 252==

'''synclinal''' 
sloping downward from opposite directions to meet in a common point or line

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

==Page 253==

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

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

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

'''Elizabeth Harper Neeld's ''Seven Choices: Taking the Steps to New Life After Losing Someone You Love''''' 
A real book, it's actually 343 pages. (The 1997 edition is 343 pages, but an earlier publishing may have been 352.)

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

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

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

'''hypertensive''' 
having high blood pressure

==Page 254==

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

==Page 255==

'''unfazable''' 
incapable of being disturbed

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

==Page 256==

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

==Page 257==

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

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

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

==Page 258==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 220==

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

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

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

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

'''tumefies''' 
swells

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

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

==Page 221==

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

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

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

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

==Page 222==

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

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

'''Big Red Soda Water''' 
a [http://www.bigredltd.com/ real brand] similar to cream soda, only red. This was originally only sold in Central/South Texas and Kentucky and is still popular in that region, though available elsewhere.

'''Chore Boy''' 
a brand of [http://www.choreboyscrubbers.com/ scrubbing pads]. The copper version of these pads can be used as a filter for smoking crack.

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

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

'''delimits''' 
establishes the boundaries of

==Page 223==

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

==Page 223==

See [[Subsidized Time]].

==Endnote 78==

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

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

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

=Joelle, cont.=

==Page 225==

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

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

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

==Endnote 79==

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

==Page 225 (cont'd)==

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

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

==Page 226==

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

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

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

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

'''scopophobic''' 
scopophobia is the morbid fear of being seen or stared at by others

'''he was indeed inebriated...while she...would tomorrow still be hideously and improbably deformed.''' 
Many versions of this witty exchange between Winston Churchill and a woman have been propagated over the the years. It may or may not have actually occurred.

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

==Page 227==

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

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

'''''Decade Magazine''''' 
probably not a real publication 

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

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

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

=Joelle, cont.=

==Page 227==

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 228==

'''the A.M.'s interruptus''' 
Presumably this means the end of the morning, although the only common English usage of "interruptus" is in the Latin phrase ''coitus interrruptus'', i.e., "pulling out." (See the [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_157-181#Page_171 Consummation of the Levirates].)

The A.M.'s interruptus could refer to her "quitting" her drug use that morning.

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

==Page 229==

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 230==

'''paps''' 
breasts or nipples

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

'''febrile''' 
feverish

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

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

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

==Page 231==

'''Vogelsong''' 
"Vogel" = German for "bird", i.e. something like: bird song ("song" is not German)

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

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

'''afflatus''' 
gas

'''dithers''' 
trembles or vibrates

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 232==

'''''Ich bein ein Berliner''''' 
''Bein'' is the wrong word. It's a noun in German and means "leg". The first-person singular of ''sein'' ("to be") is ''bin''. Still, the wrong spelling may be related to Kennedy's wrong pronounciation of this sentence. And yes, it's true "Berliner" is a German word for a special kind of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_%28pastry%29 pastry]. [You find a quite interesting episode related to this topic in Pychon's "Against the Day"...]

'''TA''' 
Teaching Assistant

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''''De gustibus non est disputandum''''' 
Latin: There's no accounting for taste (literally, "tastes are not disputable")

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''labile''' 
unstable

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

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

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

'''blinis''' 
Russian crepes

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

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

'''glacé''' 
French for "iced"

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 234==

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

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

'''48 kilograms''' 
about 106 pounds (This makes her about 15-30 pounds below her ideal weight.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'''dicky''' 
impaired

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

'''neat bourbon''' 
bourbon without ice

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

'''recumbent''' 
reclining

'''Gleem''' 
a brand of toothpaste

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

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

'''depilatory''' 
for removal of hair

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

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

==Page 236==

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

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

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

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

==Page 237==

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

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

==Page 238==

'''fillips''' 
a sharp tap

'''mâché''' 
i.e., papier mâché

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

'''imperial''' 
a case for luggage

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

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

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

==Page 239==

'''banal''' 
hackneyed or trite

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

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

==Page 240==

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

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

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

=☽ - Enfield, MA=

==Page 240==

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

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

==Page 241==

'''RCC''' 
Roman Catholic Church

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

'''5 km''' 
about 3.1 miles

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

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

'''palisades''' 
fences

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

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

'''coaxial''' 
having common axes

==Page 242==

'''Ø's''' 
zeros [Actually, I believe this is a reference to signs warning you "not to do" something. As in a red circle with a red line though it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_symbol]

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

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

==Page 242==

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

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'''caroms''' 
rebounds

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

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

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

'''''propitiate''''' 
to conciliate, appease or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit

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

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

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

'''Micturation''' 
urination

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

'''apposite''' 
pertinent

==Page 245==

'''decamp''' 
to depart secretly

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

'''lacuna''' 
a missing part

'''frothy biblical saw''' 
a trifling or empty biblical proverb

==Page 246==

'''rodneys''' 
obviously some kind of impulse buy: cigarettes

'''refracted''' 
illuminated indirectly

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

==Page 247==

'''Royal Victoria''' 
This is the name of one of the docks of east London, but probably not what's being referred to here. Victoria is also the capital of British Columbia, and an island in the Pacific off the B.C. coast. The Royal Victoria College was a women's college created as part of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.

==Page 248==

'''Rog and Wilc,O.''' 
"Roger Wilco, Orin" - Roger Wilco is a radio communication meaning Roger - "I received your message./" and Wilco - "I will comply."

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

==Page 249==

'''telemachry''' 
Maybe not the word Hal was looking for, but Telemachus was a monk who tried to stop the Roman gladiator fights and told the Romans to stop worshiping false idols instead of Christ. He was stoned to death, though his death is sometimes said to have ended the Gladiatorial games. So, "telemachry" could be interpreted to be trust in a higher power.

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

==Page 250==

==Page 251==

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

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

==Page 252==

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

==Page 253==

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

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

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

'''Elizabeth Harper Neeld's ''Seven Choices: Taking the Steps to New Life After Losing Someone You Love''''' 
A real book, it's actually 343 pages. (The 1997 edition is 343 pages, but an earlier publishing may have been 352.)

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

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

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

'''hypertensive''' 
having high blood pressure

==Page 254==

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

==Page 255==

'''unfazable''' 
incapable of being disturbed

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

==Page 256==

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

==Page 257==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''tumefies''' 
swells

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

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

==Page 221==

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

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

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

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

==Page 222==

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

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

'''Big Red Soda Water''' 
a [http://www.bigredltd.com/ real brand] similar to cream soda, only red. This was originally only sold in Central/South Texas and Kentucky and is still popular in that region, though available elsewhere.

'''Chore Boy''' 
a brand of [http://www.choreboyscrubbers.com/ scrubbing pads]. The copper version of these pads can be used as a filter for smoking crack.

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

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

'''delimits''' 
establishes the boundaries of

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

==Page 223==

See [[Subsidized Time]].

==Endnote 78==

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

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

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

=Joelle, cont.=

==Page 225==

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

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

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

==Endnote 79==

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

==Page 225 (cont'd)==

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

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

==Page 226==

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

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

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

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

'''scopophobic''' 
scopophobia is the morbid fear of being seen or stared at by others

'''he was indeed inebriated...while she...would tomorrow still be hideously and improbably deformed.''' 
Many versions of this witty exchange between Winston Churchill and a woman have been propagated over the the years. It may or may not have actually occurred.

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

==Page 227==

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

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

'''''Decade Magazine''''' 
probably not a real publication 

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

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

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

=Joelle, cont.=

==Page 227==

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

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

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

'''Wiesbaden''' 
a city of Germany above 25 miles west of Frankfurt (Main)

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.S.D.B.]]

==Page 228==

'''the A.M.'s interruptus''' 
Presumably this means the end of the morning, although the only common English usage of "interruptus" is in the Latin phrase ''coitus interrruptus'', i.e., "pulling out." (See the [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_157-181#Page_171 Consummation of the Levirates].)

The A.M.'s interruptus could refer to her "quitting" her drug use that morning.

'''Maya Deren''' 
Born Eleanora Derenkowsky, Maya Deren (1917-1961) was a Ukrainian-born American director [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220305/].

==Page 229==

'''glycine''' 
one of the 20 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycine amino acids] found in proteins

'''Rutherford Keck and Crosby Baum''' 
These both seem to be invented people....

'''Smothergill''' 
...as does this...

'''Miriam Prickett''' 
...and this.

[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]

'''Franciscan bald spot''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscan Orders of Friars Minor] were known to shave the tops of their heads in medieval and early modern times.

==Page 230==

'''paps''' 
breasts or nipples

'''diphthong''' 
In linguistics, a diphthong is a vowel combination involving a smooth transition from one vowel to another. English has three diphthongs: /ay/ as in "papaya," /oy/ as in "boy," and /au/ as in "Bauhaus." Technically "beautiful" doesn't have a diphthong.

'''febrile''' 
feverish

'''scopophiliac''' 
sexually attracted to pornography [ummm, let's get right with the scopophilia/-phobia, y'all—Merriam-Webster Medical online says "a desire to look at sexually stimulating scenes especially as a substitute for actual sexual participation"]

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.S.D.B.]]

'''Boaz''' 
the name of cities in both Alabama and West Virginia

==Page 231==

'''Vogelsong''' 
"Vogel" = German for "bird", i.e. something like: bird song ("song" is not German)

'''Emerson College''' 
a [http://www.emerson.edu/ college] in Boston

'''ectoplasm''' 
the supposed emanation of the soul from the body; here used as a metaphor for vomit

'''afflatus''' 
gas

'''dithers''' 
trembles or vibrates

'''jaundice''' 
yellowing of the skin caused by liver disease

'''b & w''' 
black and white

'''Bouvier''' 
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's unmarried name

'''''f''-stop''' 
This is "the ratio of the focal length (''f'')) of a lens or lens system to the effective diameter of its aperture" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition'').

'''''Berliner''''' 
Technically, it's called the ''Berliner Pfannkuchen'' (doughnut).

==Page 232==

'''''Ich bein ein Berliner''''' 
''Bein'' is the wrong word. It's a noun in German and means "leg". The first-person singular of ''sein'' ("to be") is ''bin''. Still, the wrong spelling may be related to Kennedy's wrong pronounciation of this sentence. And yes, it's true "Berliner" is a German word for a special kind of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_%28pastry%29 pastry]. [You find a quite interesting episode related to this topic in Pychon's "Against the Day"...]

'''TA''' 
Teaching Assistant

'''''À du nous avons foi au poison''''' 
French (roughly): We have faith in poison

'''Eve Plumb''' 
She played Jan Brady on ''The Brady Bunch''.

'''Henderson''' 
Florence Henderson, who played Carol Brady

'''Davis''' 
Ann B. Davis, who played Alice, the maid

'''Peter''' 
the middle son, played by Christopher Knight

'''Greg''' 
the eldest son, played by Barry Williams

'''''De gustibus non est disputandum''''' 
Latin: There's no accounting for taste (literally, "tastes are not disputable")

'''Eisenstein and Kurosawa and Michaux''' 
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (1898-1948) was a Latvian-born Russian-Jewish filmmaker, famous for his film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015648/ Battleship Potemkin]. Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) was perhaps the most prominent Japanese filmmaker of the twentieth century. Oscar Micheaux (1893-1951) was an African-American filmmaker whose ouevre can be viewed [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0584778/ here].

'''draw a bead''' 
slang for taking aim at a target with a rifle

'''ten m.''' 
Ten meters is equal to 32.8 feet.

==Page 233==

'''Heideggerian''' 
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) was a prominent twentieth-century German philosopher and proponent of existentialism.

'''''a priori''''' 
From the Latin for "from what comes first," these are assumptions made before observations are made.

'''wraith''' 
another word for "ghost"

'''labile''' 
unstable

'''''The Incision''''' 
I could locate no film by this name.

'''qua''' 
From the Latin ablative case of the word for "who," this word means "in the character of capacity of."

'''dopamine''' 
a neurotransmitter, primarily responsible for movement and cognition

'''blinis''' 
Russian crepes

'''tartines''' 
a type of French open-faced sandwich

'''sweetbreads''' 
thymus gland or pancreas of young animals (calf or lamb)

'''glacé''' 
French for "iced"

'''Morris Mini''' 
another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Minor Morris Minor]

'''ipecac''' 
derived from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipecacuanha ipecacuanha plant], a syrup produced to induce vomiting

'''clapper''' 
the tongue of a bell

'''Dishmaster''' 
see [[Subsidized Time]]

'''Makavajev''' 
Born in 1932, [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0538445/ Dusan Makavejev] (probably misspelled) is a Yugoslavian-born film director.

==Page 234==

'''Shiny Prize, Kentucky''' 
not a real town

'''1.7 meters tall''' 
a little over 5'6"

'''48 kilograms''' 
about 106 pounds (This makes her about 15-30 pounds below her ideal weight.)

'''EZ-Widers''' 
a brand of cigarette rolling papers

'''Cyrillic''' 
employing the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_alphabet Cyrillic alphabet], as with Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Bulgarian, etc.

'''mollified''' 
softened in feeling and temper

'''soft rock's grim dental association''' 
which is to say, it's the kind of music you'd hear in a dentist's office

'''Kinski as Paganini''' 
Klaus Kinski (1926-1991), Danzig-born German-American actor, played Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840), the Italian violinist and composer, in his final film, [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098052/ Kinski Paganini].

'''Léaud as Doinel''' 
Jean-Pierre Léaud (born 1944), a French actor, played the fictional character Antoine Doinel in five [http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0027246/ films].

'''Peterson's ''The Lead Shoes''''' 
a 1949 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0279918/ film] by Sidney Peterson

'''pomander''' 
This is "a mixture of aromatic substances, often in the form of a ball, formerly carried on the person as a supposed guard against infection but now placed in closets, dressers, etc." (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

==Page 235==

'''dicky''' 
impaired

'''bathetic''' 
appealing to bathos, i.e., insincere pathos (emotion)

'''neat bourbon''' 
bourbon without ice

'''Vittoria''' 
a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_della_Vittoria Santa Maria della Vittoria], where the mentioned work by Bernini hangs

'''recumbent''' 
reclining

'''Gleem''' 
a brand of toothpaste

'''NoCoat scraper''' 
Presumably refers to NoCoat LinguaScrapers (tongue scrapers) mentioned on [http://wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_127-156#Page_151 Page 151].

'''NeGram''' 
a brand name of nalidixic acid, used to treat urinary tract infections

'''depilatory''' 
for removal of hair

'''Monostat''' 
brand name of a treatment for vaginal yeast infections

'''Parapectolin''' 
a mixture of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaolin kaolinite] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pectin pectin], used to treat diarrhea

==Page 236==

'''Kodachrome''' 
a brand name of camera film

'''Reynolds Wrap''' 
a brand name of aluminum foil

'''baking soda''' 
Joelle is making crack, as opposed to 'freebase cocaine' which requires ether. Crack production is procedurally distinct (and safer) from that of purer 'freebase cocaine,' but the freebase products are the same: the baking soda serves to ''free'' the cocaine ''base'' from the pure cocaine hydrochloride. Both methods produce crystals that can be smoked. The production method of Joelle's earlier "home made freebase cocaine" is uncertain, but conventional terminology suggests she makes the ether-based variety at home.

'''C knob''' 
the knob for cold water

==Page 237==

'''Paducah''' 
a city in Kentucky about 175 miles southeast of St. Louis, Mo.

'''Qantas''' 
an airline serving Australia and New Zealand

==Page 238==

'''fillips''' 
a sharp tap

'''mâché''' 
i.e., papier mâché

'''S.O.P.''' 
Standard Operating Procedure

'''imperial''' 
a case for luggage

'''"...darkness dance on the face of the deep..."''' 
a play on [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201:2;&version=9; Genesis 1:2]

'''"...that skull fragment out of the ''Hamlet'' graveyard scene..."''' 
i.e., "infinite jest"

'''Mad Stork''' 
the nickname for former NFL linebacker [http://www.profootballhof.com/history/release.jsp?release_id=1046 Ted Hendricks]

==Page 239==

'''banal''' 
hackneyed or trite

'''Prettiest G.O.A.T.''' 
Thought G.O.A.T. stands here for "Girl Of All Time," it's a pun (and an oxymoron) since "goat" is a slang term for an ugly person.

'''slew-footed''' 
with the foot turned on the axis of the ankle

==Page 240==

'''white- party-noise''' 
which is to say random noise generated by the party outside the bedroom

''''We've Only Just Begun'''' 
a song by Paul Williams and Roger Nichols first recorded by the [http://wc04.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:hifrxqw5ldfe Carpenters] in 1970

'''mercuric red''' 
red as the color made by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merbromin MercuroChrome]

=☽ - Enfield, MA=

==Page 240==

Note: Most of these places exist but there is no such town (anymore) as Enfield, Mass.

'''Dicalced''' 
Apparently there is a misspelling. The correct term would be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discalced_Carmelites Discalced Carmelites], which means they go barefoot or wear sandals.

==Page 241==

'''RCC''' 
Roman Catholic Church

'''''les trebuchets noirs''''' 
French: the black catapults

'''5 km''' 
about 3.1 miles

'''brachiform''' 
in the shape of an arm

'''75 hectares''' 
almost 900,000 square yards

'''palisades''' 
fences

'''guano''' 
feces, particularly of birds or bats

'''four-km.''' 
almost 2.5 miles

'''coaxial''' 
having common axes

==Page 242==

'''Ø's''' 
zeros [Actually, I believe this is a reference to signs warning you "not to do" something. As in a red circle with a red line though it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_symbol]

'''A.D.E.''' 
Air Delivery Equipment

=November 5th, YDAU - Hal and Orin discuss Himself's suicide=

==Page 242==

==Endnote 82==
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote 82|Endnote 82]]

==Page 243==

'''caroms''' 
rebounds

'''1100 meters''' 
a little over 3,600 feet

'''Superstition mountains''' 
a real range east of Phoenix

'''precipice''' 
a cliff with a vertical face

'''''propitiate''''' 
to make favorably inclined

'''apotropaic''' 
intended to ward off evil

'''Popogatapec''' 
probably a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popocat%C3%A9petl Popocatépetl]

'''Ahts of Vancouver''' 
another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuu-chah-nulth Nuu-chah-nulth], the indigenous peoples of Vancouver Island, Canada

'''Micturation''' 
urination

==Page 244==

'''200-kilo''' 
about 441 pounds

'''apposite''' 
pertinent

==Page 245==

'''decamp''' 
to depart secretly

'''domino-mask''' 
This is "a large, hooded cloak with a mask covering the eyes, worn at masquerades" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''lacuna''' 
a missing part

'''frothy biblical saw''' 
a trifling or empty biblical proverb

==Page 246==

'''rodneys''' 
obviously some kind of impulse buy: cigarettes

'''refracted''' 
illuminated indirectly

'''Cardinal Stadium''' 
The Arizona Cardinals now play in the University of Phoenix Stadium.

==Page 247==

'''Royal Victoria''' 
This is the name of one of the docks of east London, but probably not what's being referred to here. Victoria is also the capital of British Columbia, and an island in the Pacific off the B.C. coast. The Royal Victoria College was a women's college created as part of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.

==Page 248==

'''Rog and Wilc,O.''' 
"Roger Wilco, Orin" - Roger Wilco is a radio communication meaning Roger - "I received your message./" and Wilco - "I will comply."

''''20 for 28 is what, 65%?'''' 
It's a little over 71%.

==Page 249==

'''telemachry''' 
Maybe not the word Hal was looking for, but Telemachus was a monk who tried to stop the Roman gladiator fights and told the Romans to stop worshiping false idols instead of Christ. He was stoned to death, though his death is sometimes said to have ended the Gladiatorial games. So, "telemachry" could be interpreted to be trust in a higher power.

'''telemetry''' 
the transmission of something automatically and at a distance -- here, Hal's toenails to the wastebasket

==Page 250==

==Page 251==

'''magnitron''' 
a misspelling of "magnetron," which is "a two-element vacuum tube in which the flow of electrons is under the influence of an external magnetic field, used to generate extremely short radio waves" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''kg.s.cm.''' 
kilograms per square centimeter, as a measurement of pressure, like pounds per square inch

==Page 252==

'''Adriatic''' 
the sea between the west coast of Italy and the Balkan peninsula

==Page 253==

'''StairMaster''' 
a brand name of exercise machines

'''Kübler-Ross, Hinton''' 
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. (1926-2004) was a Swiss-born American psychiatrist and specialist on death and dying. John Hinton is a British contemporary expert in the field.

'''Kastenbaum and Kastenbaum''' 
Robert J. Kastenbaum is another prominent scholar in the field of death and dying. I can't find another person by that name, so perhaps Hal is referring to multiple volumes by the same Kastenbaum.

'''Elizabeth Harper Neeld's ''Seven Choices: Taking the Steps to New Life After Losing Someone You Love''''' 
A real book, it's actually 343 pages. (The 1997 edition is 343 pages, but an earlier publishing may have been 352.)

'''Wyclif and 14th-century ''langue-d'oc'' French''' 
John Wyclif was a 14th century English theologian. He made the first translation of the Bible into English, thus his importance to etymology in general. ''Langue d'oc'' is another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langue_d%27oc Occitan] language. The ''OED'' actually dates the word's (acceptance) earliest usage to 1596 by Shakespeare in ''The Merchant of Venice''.

'''Hindi''' 
a national language of India and one of the most widely spoken

'''Gila monster''' 
a venomous lizard native to the Southwest U.S. and Mexico, known for its tenacious bite

'''hypertensive''' 
having high blood pressure

==Page 254==

'''''Leaves of Grass''''' 
the most famous volume of poetry by Walt Whitman

==Page 255==

'''unfazable''' 
incapable of being disturbed

'''paroxysmic''' 
characteristic of an outburst of violent emotion

==Page 256==

'''half a meter''' 
about 1.64 feet

==Page 257==

'''dewlaps''' 
loose flesh as under the jaw of a cow

'''"...when Luke removes his high-tech targeting helmet..."''' 
Hal is referring to a scene from [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/ Star Wars]; Luke is Luke Skywalker.

'''coccyges''' 
plural of coccyx, i.e., the tailbone

==Page 258==

'''jonquil-yellow''' 
another name for the flower known as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonquil narcissus] or daffodil

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[[Image:MIT.png|thumb|caption|MIT Seal|150px|right]]

'''striated''' 
marked with stripes or streaks

'''Cukor''' 
George Dewey Cukor (1899-1983) was an American [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002030/ film director].

'''Murnau in Méliès's fiberglass lap''' 
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (1888-1931) was a German expressionist filmmaker who later worked in Hollywood. He made the classic vampire film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013442/ Noferatu]. Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès (1861-1938) was a French filmmaker, famous for the silent [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000417/ A Voyage to the Moon].

'''cummerbund''' 
the band of fabric worn around the waist with a tuxedo

'''M.I.T.-crested''' 
see right

==Page 220==

'''low-pH chemist''' 
i.e., he worked with acids

'''piebald''' 
having patches of black and white

'''G.W. Pabst''' 
Georg Wilhelm Pabst (1885-1967) was a Bohemian-born Austrian filmmaker.

'''sorghum''' 
a type of widely eaten [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorghum grain]

'''tumefies''' 
swells

'''sororal''' 
another word for "sisterly"

'''sub-rosa''' 
From the Latin "under the rose," this word means secretly held.

==Page 221==

'''sienna-glazed''' 
glazed with an earth-based pigment

'''polyresin''' 
a resin compound used to make figurines, among other things

'''staccato''' 
in music, notes that are sounded in a detached and distinct manner

'''cataract''' 
In the non-ophthalmic sense, this word means "waterfall."

==Page 222==

'''NOTRE RAI PAYS''' 
''Notre pays'' is French for "our country." I don't know what "RAI" is supposed to mean; apparently, in French, it's a type of Algerian music.

'''.473-liter''' 
a pint

'''Big Red Soda Water''' 
a [http://www.bigredltd.com/ real brand] similar to cream soda, only red. This was originally only sold in Central/South Texas and Kentucky and is still popular in that region, though available elsewhere.

'''Chore Boy''' 
a brand of [http://www.choreboyscrubbers.com/ scrubbing pads]. The copper version of these pads can be used as a filter for smoking crack.

'''two-k. square''' 
0.77 square miles

'''selvage''' 
the finished edge of a piece of fabric, so done to prevent fraying

'''delimits''' 
establishes the boundaries of

==Page 223==

=Chronology of O.N.A.N.'s Revenue-Enhancing Subsidized Time™=

==Page 223==

See [[Subsidized Time]].

==Endnote 78==

'''G.F.R. Co.''' 
perhaps [http://www.gfr.cc/ Global Food Resources]

'''Zanesville OH''' 
a town 55 miles east of Columbus

'''Vienna VA''' 
a suburb of Washington, D.C., about 15 miles due west of the city

=Joelle, cont.=

==Page 225==

'''tumbrel''' 
a cart for hauling manure or for hauling victims to the guillotine during the French Revolution

'''imprecated''' 
called down curses upon someone

'''Delphina''' 
name of a [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04701a.htm beatified Catholic virgin]

==Endnote 79==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Trial-Sized Dove Bar]]

==Page 225 (cont'd)==

'''Veedersburg, Indiana and Powell, Wyoming''' 
Veedersburg is about 70 miles west-northest of Indianapolis; Powell is about 90 miles south of Billings, Mont.

'''parallax''' 
This is "the difference between the view of an object as seen through the picture-taking lens of a camera and the view as seen through a separate viewfinder" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

==Page 226==

'''8-gram''' 
a bit over a quarter of an ounce

'''wildly carbuncular wife''' 
This is a reference to Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor (1879-1964), wife of Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor.

'''P.M.U.K.''' 
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

'''Lend-Lease''' 
a program between the beginning of World War II and U.S. entry after the bombing of Pearl Harbor whereby the U.S. government provided materiel to Britain (and later the Soviets) in return for military bases

'''scopophobic''' 
scopophobia is the morbid fear of being seen or stared at by others

'''he was indeed inebriated...while she...would tomorrow still be hideously and improbably deformed.''' 
Many versions of this witty exchange between Winston Churchill and a woman have been propagated over the the years. It may or may not have actually occurred.

=Helen P. Steeply's (putative) c.v.=

==Page 227==

'''1.98 M., 104 KG., A.B., M.J.A.''' 
1.98 meters is about 6'4" tall. 104 kg is around 230 lbs. She's enormous.

A.B. is an older abbreviation for B.A., i.e., Bachelor of Arts. M.J.A. is probably Master of Journalistic Arts.

'''''Decade Magazine''''' 
probably not a real publication 

'''''Southwest Annual''''' 
probably not a real publication

'''''Ladies Day''''' 
also not a real publication

'''Erythema AZ''' 
not a real town, but erythema is a [http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9363881/erythema real disease]

=Joelle, cont.=

==Page 227==

'''A.B.D.''' 
"All But Dissertation," a term used to refer to people who have completed their doctoral studies with the exception of their dissertations.

[[Image:Homburg.jpg|thumb|caption|Homburg Hat|150px|right]]

'''Homburg''' 
A homburg is a stiff felt hat characterized by a single dent running down the center of the crown and a brim fixed in a tight, upwards curl. It is superficially similar to the trilby or fedora; trilbys and fedoras, however, have soft, "snappable" brims and can have various designs "pinched" into the crown, whereas the shape of a homburg is fixed. (see right) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homburg_(hat) Wikipedia]

'''Wiesbaden''' 
a city of Germany above 25 miles west of Frankfurt (Main)

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.S.D.B.]]

==Page 228==

'''the A.M.'s interruptus''' 
Presumably this means the end of the morning, although the only common English usage of "interruptus" is in the Latin phrase ''coitus interrruptus'', i.e., "pulling out." (See the [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_157-181#Page_171 Consummation of the Levirates].)

The A.M.'s interruptus could refer to her "quitting" her drug use that morning.

'''Maya Deren''' 
Born Eleanora Derenkowsky, Maya Deren (1917-1961) was a Ukrainian-born American director [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220305/].

==Page 229==

'''glycine''' 
one of the 20 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycine amino acids] found in proteins

'''Rutherford Keck and Crosby Baum''' 
These both seem to be invented people....

'''Smothergill''' 
...as does this...

'''Miriam Prickett''' 
...and this.

[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]

'''Franciscan bald spot''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscan Orders of Friars Minor] were known to shave the tops of their heads in medieval and early modern times.

==Page 230==

'''paps''' 
breasts or nipples

'''diphthong''' 
In linguistics, a diphthong is a vowel combination involving a smooth transition from one vowel to another. English has three diphthongs: /ay/ as in "papaya," /oy/ as in "boy," and /au/ as in "Bauhaus." Technically "beautiful" doesn't have a diphthong.

'''febrile''' 
feverish

'''scopophiliac''' 
sexually attracted to pornography [ummm, let's get right with the scopophilia/-phobia, y'all—Merriam-Webster Medical online says "a desire to look at sexually stimulating scenes especially as a substitute for actual sexual participation"]

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.S.D.B.]]

'''Boaz''' 
the name of cities in both Alabama and West Virginia

==Page 231==

'''Vogelsong''' 
"Vogel" = German for "bird", i.e. something like: bird song ("song" is not German)

'''Emerson College''' 
a [http://www.emerson.edu/ college] in Boston

'''ectoplasm''' 
the supposed emanation of the soul from the body; here used as a metaphor for vomit

'''afflatus''' 
gas

'''dithers''' 
trembles or vibrates

'''jaundice''' 
yellowing of the skin caused by liver disease

'''b & w''' 
black and white

'''Bouvier''' 
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's unmarried name

'''''f''-stop''' 
This is "the ratio of the focal length (''f'')) of a lens or lens system to the effective diameter of its aperture" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition'').

'''''Berliner''''' 
Technically, it's called the ''Berliner Pfannkuchen'' (doughnut).

==Page 232==

'''''Ich bein ein Berliner''''' 
''Bein'' is the wrong word. It's a noun in German and means "leg". The first-person singular of ''sein'' ("to be") is ''bin''. Still, the wrong spelling may be related to Kennedy's wrong pronounciation of this sentence. And yes, it's true "Berliner" is a German word for a special kind of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_%28pastry%29 pastry]. [You find a quite interesting episode related to this topic in Pychon's "Against the Day"...]

'''TA''' 
Teaching Assistant

'''''À du nous avons foi au poison''''' 
French (roughly): We have faith in poison

'''Eve Plumb''' 
She played Jan Brady on ''The Brady Bunch''.

'''Henderson''' 
Florence Henderson, who played Carol Brady

'''Davis''' 
Ann B. Davis, who played Alice, the maid

'''Peter''' 
the middle son, played by Christopher Knight

'''Greg''' 
the eldest son, played by Barry Williams

'''''De gustibus non est disputandum''''' 
Latin: There's no accounting for taste (literally, "tastes are not disputable")

'''Eisenstein and Kurosawa and Michaux''' 
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (1898-1948) was a Latvian-born Russian-Jewish filmmaker, famous for his film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015648/ Battleship Potemkin]. Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) was perhaps the most prominent Japanese filmmaker of the twentieth century. Oscar Micheaux (1893-1951) was an African-American filmmaker whose ouevre can be viewed [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0584778/ here].

'''draw a bead''' 
slang for taking aim at a target with a rifle

'''ten m.''' 
Ten meters is equal to 32.8 feet.

==Page 233==

'''Heideggerian''' 
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) was a prominent twentieth-century German philosopher and proponent of existentialism.

'''''a priori''''' 
From the Latin for "from what comes first," these are assumptions made before observations are made.

'''wraith''' 
another word for "ghost"

'''labile''' 
unstable

'''''The Incision''''' 
I could locate no film by this name.

'''qua''' 
From the Latin ablative case of the word for "who," this word means "in the character of capacity of."

'''dopamine''' 
a neurotransmitter, primarily responsible for movement and cognition

'''blinis''' 
Russian crepes

'''tartines''' 
a type of French open-faced sandwich

'''sweetbreads''' 
thymus gland or pancreas of young animals (calf or lamb)

'''glacé''' 
French for "iced"

'''Morris Mini''' 
another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Minor Morris Minor]

'''ipecac''' 
derived from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipecacuanha ipecacuanha plant], a syrup produced to induce vomiting

'''clapper''' 
the tongue of a bell

'''Dishmaster''' 
see [[Subsidized Time]]

'''Makavajev''' 
Born in 1932, [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0538445/ Dusan Makavejev] (probably misspelled) is a Yugoslavian-born film director.

==Page 234==

'''Shiny Prize, Kentucky''' 
not a real town

'''1.7 meters tall''' 
a little over 5'6"

'''48 kilograms''' 
about 106 pounds (This makes her about 15-30 pounds below her ideal weight.)

'''EZ-Widers''' 
a brand of cigarette rolling papers

'''Cyrillic''' 
employing the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_alphabet Cyrillic alphabet], as with Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Bulgarian, etc.

'''mollified''' 
softened in feeling and temper

'''soft rock's grim dental association''' 
which is to say, it's the kind of music you'd hear in a dentist's office

'''Kinski as Paganini''' 
Klaus Kinski (1926-1991), Danzig-born German-American actor, played Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840), the Italian violinist and composer, in his final film, [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098052/ Kinski Paganini].

'''Léaud as Doinel''' 
Jean-Pierre Léaud (born 1944), a French actor, played the fictional character Antoine Doinel in five [http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0027246/ films].

'''Peterson's ''The Lead Shoes''''' 
a 1949 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0279918/ film] by Sidney Peterson

'''pomander''' 
This is "a mixture of aromatic substances, often in the form of a ball, formerly carried on the person as a supposed guard against infection but now placed in closets, dressers, etc." (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

==Page 235==

'''dicky''' 
impaired

'''bathetic''' 
appealing to bathos, i.e., insincere pathos (emotion)

'''neat bourbon''' 
bourbon without ice

'''Vittoria''' 
a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_della_Vittoria Santa Maria della Vittoria], where the mentioned work by Bernini hangs

'''recumbent''' 
reclining

'''Gleem''' 
a brand of toothpaste

'''NoCoat scraper''' 
Presumably refers to NoCoat LinguaScrapers (tongue scrapers) mentioned on [http://wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_127-156#Page_151 Page 151].

'''NeGram''' 
a brand name of nalidixic acid, used to treat urinary tract infections

'''depilatory''' 
for removal of hair

'''Monostat''' 
brand name of a treatment for vaginal yeast infections

'''Parapectolin''' 
a mixture of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaolin kaolinite] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pectin pectin], used to treat diarrhea

==Page 236==

'''Kodachrome''' 
a brand name of camera film

'''Reynolds Wrap''' 
a brand name of aluminum foil

'''baking soda''' 
Joelle is making crack, as opposed to 'freebase cocaine' which requires ether. Crack production is procedurally distinct (and safer) from that of purer 'freebase cocaine,' but the freebase products are the same: the baking soda serves to ''free'' the cocaine ''base'' from the pure cocaine hydrochloride. Both methods produce crystals that can be smoked. The production method of Joelle's earlier "home made freebase cocaine" is uncertain, but conventional terminology suggests she makes the ether-based variety at home.

'''C knob''' 
the knob for cold water

==Page 237==

'''Paducah''' 
a city in Kentucky about 175 miles southeast of St. Louis, Mo.

'''Qantas''' 
an airline serving Australia and New Zealand

==Page 238==

'''fillips''' 
a sharp tap

'''mâché''' 
i.e., papier mâché

'''S.O.P.''' 
Standard Operating Procedure

'''imperial''' 
a case for luggage

'''"...darkness dance on the face of the deep..."''' 
a play on [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201:2;&version=9; Genesis 1:2]

'''"...that skull fragment out of the ''Hamlet'' graveyard scene..."''' 
i.e., "infinite jest"

'''Mad Stork''' 
the nickname for former NFL linebacker [http://www.profootballhof.com/history/release.jsp?release_id=1046 Ted Hendricks]

==Page 239==

'''banal''' 
hackneyed or trite

'''Prettiest G.O.A.T.''' 
Thought G.O.A.T. stands here for "Girl Of All Time," it's a pun (and an oxymoron) since "goat" is a slang term for an ugly person.

'''slew-footed''' 
with the foot turned on the axis of the ankle

==Page 240==

'''white- party-noise''' 
which is to say random noise generated by the party outside the bedroom

''''We've Only Just Begun'''' 
a song by Paul Williams and Roger Nichols first recorded by the [http://wc04.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:hifrxqw5ldfe Carpenters] in 1970

'''mercuric red''' 
red as the color made by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merbromin MercuroChrome]

=☽ - Enfield, MA=

==Page 240==

Note: Most of these places exist but there is no such town (anymore) as Enfield, Mass.

'''Dicalced''' 
Apparently there is a misspelling. The correct term would be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discalced_Carmelites Discalced Carmelites], which means they go barefoot or wear sandals.

==Page 241==

'''RCC''' 
Roman Catholic Church

'''''les trebuchets noirs''''' 
French: the black catapults

'''5 km''' 
about 16,400 feet

'''brachiform''' 
in the shape of an arm

'''75 hectares''' 
almost 900,000 square yards

'''palisades''' 
fences

'''guano''' 
feces, particularly of birds or bats

'''four-km.''' 
almost 2.5 miles

'''coaxial''' 
having common axes

==Page 242==

'''Ø's''' 
zeros [Actually, I believe this is a reference to signs warning you "not to do" something. As in a red circle with a red line though it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_symbol]

'''A.D.E.''' 
Air Delivery Equipment

=November 5th, YDAU - Hal and Orin discuss Himself's suicide=

==Page 242==

==Endnote 82==
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote 82|Endnote 82]]

==Page 243==

'''caroms''' 
rebounds

'''1100 meters''' 
a little over 3,600 feet

'''Superstition mountains''' 
a real range east of Phoenix

'''precipice''' 
a cliff with a vertical face

'''''propitiate''''' 
to make favorably inclined

'''apotropaic''' 
intended to ward off evil

'''Popogatapec''' 
probably a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popocat%C3%A9petl Popocatépetl]

'''Ahts of Vancouver''' 
another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuu-chah-nulth Nuu-chah-nulth], the indigenous peoples of Vancouver Island, Canada

'''Micturation''' 
urination

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'''200-kilo''' 
about 441 pounds

'''apposite''' 
pertinent

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'''decamp''' 
to depart secretly

'''domino-mask''' 
This is "a large, hooded cloak with a mask covering the eyes, worn at masquerades" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''lacuna''' 
a missing part

'''frothy biblical saw''' 
a trifling or empty biblical proverb

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'''rodneys''' 
obviously some kind of impulse buy: cigarettes

'''refracted''' 
illuminated indirectly

'''Cardinal Stadium''' 
The Arizona Cardinals now play in the University of Phoenix Stadium.

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'''Royal Victoria''' 
This is the name of one of the docks of east London, but probably not what's being referred to here. Victoria is also the capital of British Columbia, and an island in the Pacific off the B.C. coast. The Royal Victoria College was a women's college created as part of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.

==Page 248==

'''Rog and Wilc,O.''' 
"Roger Wilco, Orin" - Roger Wilco is a radio communication meaning Roger - "I received your message./" and Wilco - "I will comply."

''''20 for 28 is what, 65%?'''' 
It's a little over 71%.

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'''telemachry''' 
Maybe not the word Hal was looking for, but Telemachus was a monk who tried to stop the Roman gladiator fights and told the Romans to stop worshiping false idols instead of Christ. He was stoned to death, though his death is sometimes said to have ended the Gladiatorial games. So, "telemachry" could be interpreted to be trust in a higher power.

'''telemetry''' 
the transmission of something automatically and at a distance -- here, Hal's toenails to the wastebasket

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'''magnitron''' 
a misspelling of "magnetron," which is "a two-element vacuum tube in which the flow of electrons is under the influence of an external magnetic field, used to generate extremely short radio waves" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''kg.s.cm.''' 
kilograms per square centimeter, as a measurement of pressure, like pounds per square inch

==Page 252==

'''Adriatic''' 
the sea between the west coast of Italy and the Balkan peninsula

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'''StairMaster''' 
a brand name of exercise machines

'''Kübler-Ross, Hinton''' 
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. (1926-2004) was a Swiss-born American psychiatrist and specialist on death and dying. John Hinton is a British contemporary expert in the field.

'''Kastenbaum and Kastenbaum''' 
Robert J. Kastenbaum is another prominent scholar in the field of death and dying. I can't find another person by that name, so perhaps Hal is referring to multiple volumes by the same Kastenbaum.

'''Elizabeth Harper Neeld's ''Seven Choices: Taking the Steps to New Life After Losing Someone You Love''''' 
A real book, it's actually 343 pages. (The 1997 edition is 343 pages, but an earlier publishing may have been 352.)

'''Wyclif and 14th-century ''langue-d'oc'' French''' 
John Wyclif was a 14th century English theologian. He made the first translation of the Bible into English, thus his importance to etymology in general. ''Langue d'oc'' is another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langue_d%27oc Occitan] language. The ''OED'' actually dates the word's (acceptance) earliest usage to 1596 by Shakespeare in ''The Merchant of Venice''.

'''Hindi''' 
a national language of India and one of the most widely spoken

'''Gila monster''' 
a venomous lizard native to the Southwest U.S. and Mexico, known for its tenacious bite

'''hypertensive''' 
having high blood pressure

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'''''Leaves of Grass''''' 
the most famous volume of poetry by Walt Whitman

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'''unfazable''' 
incapable of being disturbed

'''paroxysmic''' 
characteristic of an outburst of violent emotion

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'''half a meter''' 
about 1.64 feet

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'''dewlaps''' 
loose flesh as under the jaw of a cow

'''"...when Luke removes his high-tech targeting helmet..."''' 
Hal is referring to a scene from [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/ Star Wars]; Luke is Luke Skywalker.

'''coccyges''' 
plural of coccyx, i.e., the tailbone

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'''jonquil-yellow''' 
another name for the flower known as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonquil narcissus] or daffodil

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'''striated''' 
marked with stripes or streaks

'''Cukor''' 
George Dewey Cukor (1899-1983) was an American [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002030/ film director].

'''Murnau in Méliès's fiberglass lap''' 
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (1888-1931) was a German expressionist filmmaker who later worked in Hollywood. He made the classic vampire film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013442/ Noferatu]. Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès (1861-1938) was a French filmmaker, famous for the silent [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000417/ A Voyage to the Moon].

'''cummerbund''' 
the band of fabric worn around the waist with a tuxedo

'''M.I.T.-crested''' 
see right

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'''low-pH chemist''' 
i.e., he worked with acids

'''piebald''' 
having patches of black and white

'''G.W. Pabst''' 
Georg Wilhelm Pabst (1885-1967) was a Bohemian-born Austrian filmmaker.

'''sorghum''' 
a type of widely eaten [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorghum grain]

'''tumefies''' 
swells

'''sororal''' 
another word for "sisterly"

'''sub-rosa''' 
From the Latin "under the rose," this word means secretly held.

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'''sienna-glazed''' 
glazed with an earth-based pigment

'''polyresin''' 
a resin compound used to make figurines, among other things

'''staccato''' 
in music, notes that are sounded in a detached and distinct manner

'''cataract''' 
In the non-ophthalmic sense, this word means "waterfall."

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'''NOTRE RAI PAYS''' 
''Notre pays'' is French for "our country." I don't know what "RAI" is supposed to mean; apparently, in French, it's a type of Algerian music.

'''.473-liter''' 
a pint

'''Big Red Soda Water''' 
a [http://www.bigredltd.com/ real brand] similar to cream soda, only red. This was originally only sold in Central/South Texas and Kentucky and is still popular in that region, though available elsewhere.

'''Chore Boy''' 
a brand of [http://www.choreboyscrubbers.com/ scrubbing pads]. The copper version of these pads can be used as a filter for smoking crack.

'''two-k. square''' 
0.77 square miles

'''selvage''' 
the finished edge of a piece of fabric, so done to prevent fraying

'''delimits''' 
establishes the boundaries of

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See [[Subsidized Time]].

==Endnote 78==

'''G.F.R. Co.''' 
perhaps [http://www.gfr.cc/ Global Food Resources]

'''Zanesville OH''' 
a town 55 miles east of Columbus

'''Vienna VA''' 
a suburb of Washington, D.C., about 15 miles due west of the city

=Joelle, cont.=

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'''tumbrel''' 
a cart for hauling manure or for hauling victims to the guillotine during the French Revolution

'''imprecated''' 
called down curses upon someone

'''Delphina''' 
name of a [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04701a.htm beatified Catholic virgin]

==Endnote 79==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Trial-Sized Dove Bar]]

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'''Veedersburg, Indiana and Powell, Wyoming''' 
Veedersburg is about 70 miles west-northest of Indianapolis; Powell is about 90 miles south of Billings, Mont.

'''parallax''' 
This is "the difference between the view of an object as seen through the picture-taking lens of a camera and the view as seen through a separate viewfinder" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

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'''8-gram''' 
a bit over a quarter of an ounce

'''wildly carbuncular wife''' 
This is a reference to Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor (1879-1964), wife of Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor.

'''P.M.U.K.''' 
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

'''Lend-Lease''' 
a program between the beginning of World War II and U.S. entry after the bombing of Pearl Harbor whereby the U.S. government provided materiel to Britain (and later the Soviets) in return for military bases

'''scopophobic''' 
scopophobia is the morbid fear of being seen or stared at by others

'''he was indeed inebriated...while she...would tomorrow still be hideously and improbably deformed.''' 
Many versions of this witty exchange between Winston Churchill and a woman have been propagated over the the years. It may or may not have actually occurred.

=Helen P. Steeply's (putative) c.v.=

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'''1.98 M., 104 KG., A.B., M.J.A.''' 
1.98 meters is about 6'4" tall. 104 kg is around 230 lbs. She's enormous.

A.B. is an older abbreviation for B.A., i.e., Bachelor of Arts. M.J.A. is probably Master of Journalistic Arts.

'''''Decade Magazine''''' 
probably not a real publication 

'''''Southwest Annual''''' 
probably not a real publication

'''''Ladies Day''''' 
also not a real publication

'''Erythema AZ''' 
not a real town, but erythema is a [http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9363881/erythema real disease]

=Joelle, cont.=

==Page 227==

'''A.B.D.''' 
"All But Dissertation," a term used to refer to people who have completed their doctoral studies with the exception of their dissertations.

[[Image:Homburg.jpg|thumb|caption|Homburg Hat|150px|right]]

'''Homburg''' 
A homburg is a stiff felt hat characterized by a single dent running down the center of the crown and a brim fixed in a tight, upwards curl. It is superficially similar to the trilby or fedora; trilbys and fedoras, however, have soft, "snappable" brims and can have various designs "pinched" into the crown, whereas the shape of a homburg is fixed. (see right) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homburg_(hat) Wikipedia]

'''Wiesbaden''' 
a city of Germany above 25 miles west of Frankfurt (Main)

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.S.D.B.]]

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'''the A.M.'s interruptus''' 
Presumably this means the end of the morning, although the only common English usage of "interruptus" is in the Latin phrase ''coitus interrruptus'', i.e., "pulling out." (See the [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_157-181#Page_171 Consummation of the Levirates].)

The A.M.'s interruptus could refer to her "quitting" her drug use that morning.

'''Maya Deren''' 
Born Eleanora Derenkowsky, Maya Deren (1917-1961) was a Ukrainian-born American director [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220305/].

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'''glycine''' 
one of the 20 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycine amino acids] found in proteins

'''Rutherford Keck and Crosby Baum''' 
These both seem to be invented people....

'''Smothergill''' 
...as does this...

'''Miriam Prickett''' 
...and this.

[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]

'''Franciscan bald spot''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscan Orders of Friars Minor] were known to shave the tops of their heads in medieval and early modern times.

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'''paps''' 
breasts or nipples

'''diphthong''' 
In linguistics, a diphthong is a vowel combination involving a smooth transition from one vowel to another. English has three diphthongs: /ay/ as in "papaya," /oy/ as in "boy," and /au/ as in "Bauhaus." Technically "beautiful" doesn't have a diphthong.

'''febrile''' 
feverish

'''scopophiliac''' 
sexually attracted to pornography [ummm, let's get right with the scopophilia/-phobia, y'all—Merriam-Webster Medical online says "a desire to look at sexually stimulating scenes especially as a substitute for actual sexual participation"]

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.S.D.B.]]

'''Boaz''' 
the name of cities in both Alabama and West Virginia

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'''Vogelsong''' 
"Vogel" = German for "bird", i.e. something like: bird song ("song" is not German)

'''Emerson College''' 
a [http://www.emerson.edu/ college] in Boston

'''ectoplasm''' 
the supposed emanation of the soul from the body; here used as a metaphor for vomit

'''afflatus''' 
gas

'''dithers''' 
trembles or vibrates

'''jaundice''' 
yellowing of the skin caused by liver disease

'''b & w''' 
black and white

'''Bouvier''' 
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's unmarried name

'''''f''-stop''' 
This is "the ratio of the focal length (''f'')) of a lens or lens system to the effective diameter of its aperture" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition'').

'''''Berliner''''' 
Technically, it's called the ''Berliner Pfannkuchen'' (doughnut).

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'''''Ich bein ein Berliner''''' 
''Bein'' is the wrong word. It's a noun in German and means "leg". The first-person singular of ''sein'' ("to be") is ''bin''. Still, the wrong spelling may be related to Kennedy's wrong pronounciation of this sentence. And yes, it's true "Berliner" is a German word for a special kind of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_%28pastry%29 pastry]. [You find a quite interesting episode related to this topic in Pychon's "Against the Day"...]

'''TA''' 
Teaching Assistant

'''''À du nous avons foi au poison''''' 
French (roughly): We have faith in poison

'''Eve Plumb''' 
She played Jan Brady on ''The Brady Bunch''.

'''Henderson''' 
Florence Henderson, who played Carol Brady

'''Davis''' 
Ann B. Davis, who played Alice, the maid

'''Peter''' 
the middle son, played by Christopher Knight

'''Greg''' 
the eldest son, played by Barry Williams

'''''De gustibus non est disputandum''''' 
Latin: There's no accounting for taste

'''Eisenstein and Kurosawa and Michaux''' 
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (1898-1948) was a Latvian-born Russian-Jewish filmmaker, famous for his film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015648/ Battleship Potemkin]. Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) was perhaps the most prominent Japanese filmmaker of the twentieth century. Oscar Micheaux (1893-1951) was an African-American filmmaker whose ouevre can be viewed [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0584778/ here].

'''draw a bead''' 
slang for taking aim at a target with a rifle

'''ten m.''' 
Ten meters is equal to 32.8 feet.

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'''Heideggerian''' 
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) was a prominent twentieth-century German philosopher and proponent of existentialism.

'''''a priori''''' 
From the Latin for "from what comes first," these are assumptions made before observations are made.

'''wraith''' 
another word for "ghost"

'''labile''' 
unstable

'''''The Incision''''' 
I could locate no film by this name.

'''qua''' 
From the Latin ablative case of the word for "who," this word means "in the character of capacity of."

'''dopamine''' 
a neurotransmitter, primarily responsible for movement and cognition

'''blinis''' 
Russian crepes

'''tartines''' 
a type of French open-faced sandwich

'''sweetbreads''' 
thymus gland or pancreas of young animals (calf or lamb)

'''glacé''' 
French for "iced"

'''Morris Mini''' 
another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Minor Morris Minor]

'''ipecac''' 
derived from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipecacuanha ipecacuanha plant], a syrup produced to induce vomiting

'''clapper''' 
the tongue of a bell

'''Dishmaster''' 
see [[Subsidized Time]]

'''Makavajev''' 
Born in 1932, [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0538445/ Dusan Makavejev] (probably misspelled) is a Yugoslavian-born film director.

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'''Shiny Prize, Kentucky''' 
not a real town

'''1.7 meters tall''' 
a little over 5'6"

'''48 kilograms''' 
about 106 pounds (This makes her about 15-30 pounds below her ideal weight.)

'''EZ-Widers''' 
a brand of cigarette rolling papers

'''Cyrillic''' 
employing the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_alphabet Cyrillic alphabet], as with Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Bulgarian, etc.

'''mollified''' 
softened in feeling and temper

'''soft rock's grim dental association''' 
which is to say, it's the kind of music you'd hear in a dentist's office

'''Kinski as Paganini''' 
Klaus Kinski (1926-1991), Danzig-born German-American actor, played Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840), the Italian violinist and composer, in his final film, [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098052/ Kinski Paganini].

'''Léaud as Doinel''' 
Jean-Pierre Léaud (born 1944), a French actor, played the fictional character Antoine Doinel in five [http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0027246/ films].

'''Peterson's ''The Lead Shoes''''' 
a 1949 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0279918/ film] by Sidney Peterson

'''pomander''' 
This is "a mixture of aromatic substances, often in the form of a ball, formerly carried on the person as a supposed guard against infection but now placed in closets, dressers, etc." (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

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'''dicky''' 
impaired

'''bathetic''' 
appealing to bathos, i.e., insincere pathos (emotion)

'''neat bourbon''' 
bourbon without ice

'''Vittoria''' 
a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_della_Vittoria Santa Maria della Vittoria], where the mentioned work by Bernini hangs

'''recumbent''' 
reclining

'''Gleem''' 
a brand of toothpaste

'''NoCoat scraper''' 
Presumably refers to NoCoat LinguaScrapers (tongue scrapers) mentioned on [http://wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_127-156#Page_151 Page 151].

'''NeGram''' 
a brand name of nalidixic acid, used to treat urinary tract infections

'''depilatory''' 
for removal of hair

'''Monostat''' 
brand name of a treatment for vaginal yeast infections

'''Parapectolin''' 
a mixture of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaolin kaolinite] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pectin pectin], used to treat diarrhea

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'''Kodachrome''' 
a brand name of camera film

'''Reynolds Wrap''' 
a brand name of aluminum foil

'''baking soda''' 
Joelle is making crack, as opposed to 'freebase cocaine' which requires ether. Crack production is procedurally distinct (and safer) from that of purer 'freebase cocaine,' but the freebase products are the same: the baking soda serves to ''free'' the cocaine ''base'' from the pure cocaine hydrochloride. Both methods produce crystals that can be smoked. The production method of Joelle's earlier "home made freebase cocaine" is uncertain, but conventional terminology suggests she makes the ether-based variety at home.

'''C knob''' 
the knob for cold water

==Page 237==

'''Paducah''' 
a city in Kentucky about 175 miles southeast of St. Louis, Mo.

'''Qantas''' 
an airline serving Australia and New Zealand

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'''fillips''' 
a sharp tap

'''mâché''' 
i.e., papier mâché

'''S.O.P.''' 
Standard Operating Procedure

'''imperial''' 
a case for luggage

'''"...darkness dance on the face of the deep..."''' 
a play on [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201:2;&version=9; Genesis 1:2]

'''"...that skull fragment out of the ''Hamlet'' graveyard scene..."''' 
i.e., "infinite jest"

'''Mad Stork''' 
the nickname for former NFL linebacker [http://www.profootballhof.com/history/release.jsp?release_id=1046 Ted Hendricks]

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'''banal''' 
hackneyed or trite

'''Prettiest G.O.A.T.''' 
Thought G.O.A.T. stands here for "Girl Of All Time," it's a pun (and an oxymoron) since "goat" is a slang term for an ugly person.

'''slew-footed''' 
with the foot turned on the axis of the ankle

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'''white- party-noise''' 
which is to say random noise generated by the party outside the bedroom

''''We've Only Just Begun'''' 
a song by Paul Williams and Roger Nichols first recorded by the [http://wc04.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:hifrxqw5ldfe Carpenters] in 1970

'''mercuric red''' 
red as the color made by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merbromin MercuroChrome]

=☽ - Enfield, MA=

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Note: Most of these places exist but there is no such town (anymore) as Enfield, Mass.

'''Dicalced''' 
Apparently there is a misspelling. The correct term would be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discalced_Carmelites Discalced Carmelites], which means they go barefoot or wear sandals.

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'''RCC''' 
Roman Catholic Church

'''''les trebuchets noirs''''' 
French: the black catapults

'''5 km''' 
about 16,400 feet

'''brachiform''' 
in the shape of an arm

'''75 hectares''' 
almost 900,000 square yards

'''palisades''' 
fences

'''guano''' 
feces, particularly of birds or bats

'''four-km.''' 
almost 2.5 miles

'''coaxial''' 
having common axes

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'''Ø's''' 
zeros [Actually, I believe this is a reference to signs warning you "not to do" something. As in a red circle with a red line though it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_symbol]

'''A.D.E.''' 
Air Delivery Equipment

=November 5th, YDAU - Hal and Orin discuss Himself's suicide=

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==Endnote 82==
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote 82|Endnote 82]]

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'''caroms''' 
rebounds

'''1100 meters''' 
a little over 3,600 feet

'''Superstition mountains''' 
a real range east of Phoenix

'''precipice''' 
a cliff with a vertical face

'''''propitiate''''' 
to make favorably inclined

'''apotropaic''' 
intended to ward off evil

'''Popogatapec''' 
probably a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popocat%C3%A9petl Popocatépetl]

'''Ahts of Vancouver''' 
another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuu-chah-nulth Nuu-chah-nulth], the indigenous peoples of Vancouver Island, Canada

'''Micturation''' 
urination

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'''200-kilo''' 
about 441 pounds

'''apposite''' 
pertinent

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'''decamp''' 
to depart secretly

'''domino-mask''' 
This is "a large, hooded cloak with a mask covering the eyes, worn at masquerades" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''lacuna''' 
a missing part

'''frothy biblical saw''' 
a trifling or empty biblical proverb

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'''rodneys''' 
obviously some kind of impulse buy: cigarettes

'''refracted''' 
illuminated indirectly

'''Cardinal Stadium''' 
The Arizona Cardinals now play in the University of Phoenix Stadium.

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'''Royal Victoria''' 
This is the name of one of the docks of east London, but probably not what's being referred to here. Victoria is also the capital of British Columbia, and an island in the Pacific off the B.C. coast. The Royal Victoria College was a women's college created as part of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.

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'''Rog and Wilc,O.''' 
"Roger Wilco, Orin" - Roger Wilco is a radio communication meaning Roger - "I received your message./" and Wilco - "I will comply."

''''20 for 28 is what, 65%?'''' 
It's a little over 71%.

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'''telemachry''' 
Maybe not the word Hal was looking for, but Telemachus was a monk who tried to stop the Roman gladiator fights and told the Romans to stop worshiping false idols instead of Christ. He was stoned to death, though his death is sometimes said to have ended the Gladiatorial games. So, "telemachry" could be interpreted to be trust in a higher power.

'''telemetry''' 
the transmission of something automatically and at a distance -- here, Hal's toenails to the wastebasket

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'''magnitron''' 
a misspelling of "magnetron," which is "a two-element vacuum tube in which the flow of electrons is under the influence of an external magnetic field, used to generate extremely short radio waves" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''kg.s.cm.''' 
kilograms per square centimeter, as a measurement of pressure, like pounds per square inch

==Page 252==

'''Adriatic''' 
the sea between the west coast of Italy and the Balkan peninsula

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'''StairMaster''' 
a brand name of exercise machines

'''Kübler-Ross, Hinton''' 
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. (1926-2004) was a Swiss-born American psychiatrist and specialist on death and dying. John Hinton is a British contemporary expert in the field.

'''Kastenbaum and Kastenbaum''' 
Robert J. Kastenbaum is another prominent scholar in the field of death and dying. I can't find another person by that name, so perhaps Hal is referring to multiple volumes by the same Kastenbaum.

'''Elizabeth Harper Neeld's ''Seven Choices: Taking the Steps to New Life After Losing Someone You Love''''' 
A real book, it's actually 343 pages. (The 1997 edition is 343 pages, but an earlier publishing may have been 352.)

'''Wyclif and 14th-century ''langue-d'oc'' French''' 
John Wyclif was a 14th century English theologian. He made the first translation of the Bible into English, thus his importance to etymology in general. ''Langue d'oc'' is another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langue_d%27oc Occitan] language. The ''OED'' actually dates the word's (acceptance) earliest usage to 1596 by Shakespeare in ''The Merchant of Venice''.

'''Hindi''' 
a national language of India and one of the most widely spoken

'''Gila monster''' 
a venomous lizard native to the Southwest U.S. and Mexico, known for its tenacious bite

'''hypertensive''' 
having high blood pressure

==Page 254==

'''''Leaves of Grass''''' 
the most famous volume of poetry by Walt Whitman

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'''unfazable''' 
incapable of being disturbed

'''paroxysmic''' 
characteristic of an outburst of violent emotion

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'''half a meter''' 
about 1.64 feet

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'''dewlaps''' 
loose flesh as under the jaw of a cow

'''"...when Luke removes his high-tech targeting helmet..."''' 
Hal is referring to a scene from [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/ Star Wars]; Luke is Luke Skywalker.

'''coccyges''' 
plural of coccyx, i.e., the tailbone

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'''jonquil-yellow''' 
another name for the flower known as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonquil narcissus] or daffodil

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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

'''Kornspan''' 
German: corn chip ["Korn" means corn or grain, "Span" means chip or flake, but "Kornspan" makes no sense in German]

'''isometrics''' 
While this is just another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isometric_exercise isometric exercise], it's not clear how Pemulis would be making his face stronger. ...Perhaps he is just making faces as a result of his trying to eavesdrop and in response to the other shouts in the weight room.

==Page 199==

[[Image:Bacon.jpg|thumb|caption|Bacon's ''Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X''|right|150px]]

'''like one of Bacon's popes''' 
Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was an Irish artist. His portrait of Pope Innocent X can be seen to the right.

==Page 200==

'''rosin''' 
another spelling of "resin," this resin being used to provide a better grip in weightlifting

'''mesomorphic''' 
having a muscular, study body

=Facts About Addiction and Tattoos=

==Page 200==

'''D.S.S.''' 
Department of Social Services

'''papular''' 
having papules, i.e., inflamed, raised elevations on the skin not filled with pus

'''''tecato gusano''''' 
a worm from Tecate, Mexico, a small city in Baja California, bordering the U.S.

==Page 201==

'''Flents''' 
a brand name of [http://earplugstore.stores.yahoo.net/flents.html earplugs]

'''subsonic''' 
of a speed less than that of sound

'''arpeggio''' 
in music, a chord played in parts (i.e., one note at a time) rather than together

'''''pace''''' 
a very loose translation from Latin would be "with due reference to"

==Page 202==

'''Human Immuno-Virus''' 
HIV, i.e., the virus that causes AIDS

'''datum''' 
a piece of information; usually used in its plural, i.e., data

'''nexus''' 
a means of connection

'''glans''' 
the end of the penis

'''D.E.C.''' 
Digital Equipment Corporation, now a part of [http://www.dec.com/ Hewlitt-Packard]

==Endnote 70==

'''N.R.A.''' 
National Rifle Association

'''including 12-Step fellowships themselves''' 
See Chuck Palahniuk's novel ''Fight Club''.

==Page 202 (cont'd)==

''''Texas Catheter'''' 
This is "a condom-like device with a plug where the condom's reservoir tip would be, and an adhesive at the base. This device allows for urinary catheterization without the insertion of a true catheter" (Wikipedia).

==Page 203==

'''colloquia''' 
Plural for "colloquium," these are akin to academic conferences, albeit slightly less formal.

'''50 proof''' 
i.e., 25 percent alcohol

'''unalloyed''' 
pure

'''O.C.D.''' 
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

'''epiphanic''' 
adjective form of "epiphany," a moment of sudden and great revelation or realization (Oxford Dictionary of English).

'''insipid''' 
without any interesting qualities

==Page 204==

'''Billerica''' 
a town in Massachusetts, about 25 miles northwest of Boston

'''''vig''''' 
short for "vigorish"

'''argot''' 
slang

==Page 205==

'''pancreatitis''' 
inflammation of the pancreas

==Page 206==

'''Scrofulous''' 
Morally degenerate; corrupt.

'''Sauvignon''' 
one of two types of wine made from two related sorts of grapes

'''Purple-Hearted''' 
A soldier receives a Purple Heart when s/he is wounded

'''Store 24''' 
A New England chain of convenience stores that often include both self-service gasoline and a deli, the website of which is [http://www.tedeschifoodshops.com/our-history.php here].

==Page 207==

'''200 kilos''' 
over 440 pounds

'''Scooter Puppies''' 
This is likely a term that DFW coined, although Spin magazine used it in a blurb in 1996. I suspect that they were inspired by DFW. ?? Spin does provide one of the reviews in the front of the 2006 edition.

'''Gothic script''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rudolf_Koch_gebrochene_Schriften.png Click here] to see examples.

'''undulating''' 
moving in a wavelike motion

'''necrotic''' 
dead

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'''hyperemic''' 
erect

'''palmate''' 
having four or more leaves emanating from a single point

'''Watertown''' 
a suburb of Boston, ten miles to the west

'''half-m.-long''' 
a half-meter, or nearly 20 inches

'''gonfalonish''' 
resembling a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonfalon gonfalon]

'''mucronate''' 
having a projecting point

'''St. Vitus's dance''' 
a nickname for the disease [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorea_%28disease%29 chorea]

'''''HOW DO YOU LIK YOUR BLUEYED BOY NOW MR DETH!?''''' 
Misspelling and slight misquotation of the last line of the poem "Buffalo Bill's/defunct," by e.e. cummings: "how do you like your blueeyed boy/Mister Death". The full poem appears here: [http://www.madeinwyoming.net/profiles/extras/BBPoemCummings.pdf]

'''gestalt''' 
Gestalt is "a configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that cannot be derived from the summation of its component parts" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

==Page 209==

'''crocodilic''' 
White Flag reference to senior AA members, who sit under a picture of crocodiles sunbathing on a riverbank

'''St. Columbkill''' 
a place name here, named for an actual Irish saint. There is a real Roman Catholic parish in Brighton called St. Columbkille.

'''St. Elizabeth's Hospital''' 
St. Elizabeth's Medical Center is a real hospital in Brighton. Its Web site is [http://www.caritasstelizabeths.org/ here].

'''cantankerous''' 
disagreeable, argumentative

'''Rita Hayworth''' 
The era of [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000028/ Rita Hayworth] would be the '30s and '40s.

'''''SUBIKBAY'62USN4-07''''' 
SUBIKBAY is probably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subic_Bay Subic Bay]. USN would be U.S. Navy.

'''''SEMPER FI''''' 
Short for ''Semper fidelis'' ("always faithful"), motto of the U.S. Marine Corps

'''autolyzed''' 
having undergone autolysis, i.e., the breakdown of tissue over time

'''BLTN''' 
Better Late That Never

==Page 210==

'''phylum''' 
A taxonomical term just below Kingdom (in humans, Animal), the phylum of mammals is ''Chordata'', which means they have a spinal cord.

'''foment''' 
the proper word would be "ferment"

'''M.D.C.''' 
Massachusetts Department of Corrections

'''Talwin''' 
brand name of pentazocine, a narcotic painkiller

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'''cribbage''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cribbage card game]

'''canted''' 
set at an oblique angle

=The Incredibly Potent DMZ=

==Page 211==

'''film-noir''' 
According to Wikipedia, ''film noir'' (French for "dark film") is "a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize moral ambiguity and sexual motivation. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940s to the late 1950s."

'''psychosensual''' 
Where as psychosensual would have a more sexual connotation...

'''psychosensory''' 
...psychosensory would be the more correct word, as it would apply to sensory stimulation, not necessarily sexual.

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'''CIA-era military experiments''' 
probably a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MK-ULTRA MKULTRA]

'''hydrangea''' 
several species of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrangea flowering plants]

'''gistless''' 
having no essential heart of the matter

'''Decoct''' 
as opposed to "concoct"

'''spectrometer''' 
an optical instrument used to conduct spectroscopic analysis on matter to determine its constituent elements

'''Ram Das''' 
This is probably a reference to Baba Ram Dass (born 1931 as Richard Alpert), an American-Jewish spiritual leader, author of ''Be Here Now'', and large influence on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Townshend Pete Townshend].

==Page 213==

'''frustum''' 
A frustrum is "the part of a conical solid left after cutting off a top portion with a plane parallel to the base" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''Lamb's Breath cannabis''' 
a type of potent marijuana

'''20-g.''' 
a 20-gram amount (about .7 ounces)

'''Sierpinski gasket''' 
Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński (1882-1969) was a Polish mathematician and one of the innovators of set theory. The Sierpinski gasket is a fractal, also called the Sierpinski triangle. See picture at right. [[Image:Sierpinski_Triangle.jpg|caption|Sierpinski gasket|right|150px]]

'''mullioned''' 
having separate panes, when used for a window

'''philatelic forceps, a loupe''' 
Philatelic refers to stamp collecting. A loupe is used primarily by a jeweler to view flaws in diamonds.

'''Bunsen burner''' 
a laboratory [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunsen_burner burner] invented in part by Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (1811-1899), a German chemist.

'''titration''' 
the process of determining the strength of a compound

'''WATS''' 
Wide Area Telecommunications Service: "bulk-rate telephone service that enables a subscriber to make an unlimited number of long-distance telephone calls within a given service area for a fixed monthly charge or to receive calls from given areas with no charge to the caller" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'')

'''cross-key''' 
to type in at the same time as search terms on a computer

==Page 214==

'''monograph''' 
a scholarly study on a particular subject, usually published as a book

'''Leavenworth''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Disciplinary_Barracks U.S. Disciplinary Barracks] at Leavenworth, Kan.

'''Ethel Merman''' 
an American [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0581062/ actress], primarily known for her roles in Broadway musicals [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Merman wikipedia]

'''AWOL''' 
Absent Without Leave, a military term

==Page 215==

'''Motrinish''' 
I.e., like Motrin, the original brand name of ibuprofen

'''fools-rush-in''' 
A reference to ''An Essay on Man'', a length poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744), a British poet of great renown:
No Place so Sacred from such Fops is barr'd, Nor is Paul's Church more safe than Paul's Church-yard:
Nay, fly to Altars; there they'll talk you dead; '''For Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.

'''Zen''' 
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen Buddhism] ultimately, although here is applies more to perfection or transcendence

'''Nuck''' 
a pejorative term for a French-Canadian, presumably shortened from "Canuck"

'''dumbshow''' 
Here it means sign language or mime, but the term has a longer history in theater, where it refers to a preview of a part of a play done without lines.

==Page 216==

'''Tenuate Dospan''' 
Tenuate is a brand name of diethylcathinone, an appetite suppressant and mild amphetamine; Dospan is used for the time-release pills.

'''otiose''' 
superfluous or useless

[[Image:Quaker.png|right]]

'''"... the way W. Penn in his Quaker Oats hat in like the 16th century must have felt trading a few trinkets to babe-in-the-woods Natives for New Jersey..."''' 
William Penn (1644-1718) was the British-born founder of the colony (and later state) of Pennsylvania. For the hat, see right. Penn obviously lived later than the 16th century and he had no involvement in the founding of New Jersey, which Pemulis seems to be conflating with the purchase of Manhattan by the Dutch for about $24 worth of jewelry.

'''opportunity-cost''' 
In economics, this is what one loses in income, pleasure, etc., from engaging in another activity rather than the one that would have paid said income, pleasure, etc. Wallace (or Pemulis) is using the term incorrectly.

'''rotator cuff''' 
the group of muscles and tendons that stabilize the shoulder

'''stolid''' 
unemotional or impassive

'''''contre-pied''''' 
Literally French for "against-foot," this term is used to apply to a direction taken (mistakenly) by dogs in pursuit of an animal who has taken a different direction.

'''purgatorial''' 
referring neither to heaven nor hell

'''128-256 Alphabetville''' 
Because of his injury, Schacht was ranked in the lower 128 seeds in the tournament just after his hurt his knee. Alphabetville could refer to a ranking convention. A common 'Equal Point Score' guideline for when two or several players have the same Ranking point score decides the position according to the player with most tournament participation within four years, and if these conditions should apply with both or several players then the Ranking position is arranged alphabetically after the surname.

'''11/5''' 
November 5th, [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

'''arachnodactylic''' 
having fingers like spiders

==Page 217==

'''Order but not the same Family''' 
Like "phylum," these are also taxonomical terms. Human beings are ''Homo sapiens'', with ''Homo'' being the genus and ''sapiens'' being the species. Dogs and cats are in the same order: ''Carnivora'' (meat-eaters); but they are in difference families: Dogs are in ''Canidae'' and cats in ''Felidae''. However, the hyena, which resembles a dog, is actually in the ''Felidae'' family. Q.e.d.

'''Acton''' 
town in Massachusetts about 25 miles west-northwest of Boston

'''the Xerox Inc. of North American tennis academies''' 
This demonstrates that Port Washington Academy is big, but Xerox is far from the biggest corporation in the U.S.

'''Port Washington''' 
It's made clear here that this is the town on Long Island. This is the "East Egg" of F. Scott Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby,'' in Nassau County on the north shore of Long Island, very close to New York City.

'''vivisected''' 
cut apart while still alive

==Page 218==

'''twins Siamese''' 
The Vaught twin-sister tennis players are actually conjoined at the head.

'''Akron''' 
a city in Ohio and rubber capital of the world

'''Charleston''' 
the dance, not the city

'''bell-lap''' 
a term from track, this is the final lap of a race

'''12/12's Boards''' 
probably SATs or something like them

'''meninges''' 
the tissues that encase the brain

'''glade''' 
a clearing in a forest

==Endnote 76==

'''Attention Deficit Disorder''' 
old terminology for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD. Hal's objective symptoms describe the Inattentive Type.

'''port or starboard''' 
left or right

'''bell curve''' 
the curve formed by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution normal distribution] of IQs -- a concept fraught with problems of political correctness, racism or racialism, and different concepts of what "intelligence" is

'''glabrous''' 
having a surface devoid of hair

'''RAM''' 
Random Access Memory

==Page 218 (cont'd)==

'''halcyon''' 
prosperous, happy

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken]]

==Page 219==

==Endnote 77==

[[Subsidized Time|Y.P.W.]]

'''H. Bosch's triptych ''The Garden of Earthly Delights''''' 
Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) was a Dutch painter. You can view the aforementioned triptych [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights here].

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'''Madame Psychosis''' 
not just a byname for DMZ, but also a radio show host

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'''apotheosizing''' 
apotheosis is the glorifying of someone to a divine level

'''patricidal''' 
having a tendency to kill one's father

'''entomologist''' 
a person who studies insects scientifically

'''sephenoid''' 
a misspelling for [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sphenoid sphenoid], "a winged bone at the base of the cranium."
''Merriam-Webster Online. 25 May 2009''

'''Infundibular''' 
having the form of a funnel

'''epiglottal''' 
having to do with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiglottis epiglottis]

'''Hillel''' 
a nationwide (worldwide?) Jewish student union present on several campuses

'''corpus callosum''' 
the part of the brain connecting the left and right hemispheres

'''laryngeally fissured''' 
having ridges like the human [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larynx larynx]

'''work-study''' 
receiving funding from the university in exchange for work rendered to the university

==Page 183==

'''chiffon''' 
a lightweight, balanced, plain-woven fabric

'''limned''' 
To limn means to describe or delineate

'''parietal''' 
referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parietal_lobe parietal lobe] of the brain, responsible for sensory memory and response

'''pop''' 
Midwesterners in the U.S. use this word to denote what others call "soda," i.e., Coca-Cola, 7-Up, etc.

'''Dow''' 
a pun on the Chinese word ''tao,'' ("the way") and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJIA Dow Jones Industrial Average]

'''gasper''' 
cigarette

'''E.S.T.''' 
Eastern Standard Time

'''medulla''' 
literally that part of the brain responsible for autonomic functions like heartbeat, organ activity, etc.

==Page 184==

'''I. M. Pei''' 
Ieoh Ming Pei (born 1917) is a Chinese-born American architect who designed, among other famous buildings, MIT's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Building_%28MIT%29 Green Building].

==Endnote 60==

'''J. A. Stratton''' 
Julius Adams Stratton (1901-1994) was an American educator and president of MIT between 1959 and 1965.

==Page 184 (cont'd)==

'''cerebral cortex''' 
that part of the brain responsible for higher-order thinking

'''"...what she's said for three years of midnights..."''' 
Up until 'Look at that fucker ''Dance,''' the rest of her introduction is from [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201&version=9 Genesis 1].

'''Largest Whole Prime On The FM Band''' 
109 is a prime number, i.e., divisible only by itself and by 1. Actually the highest number you can get on FM is 108, and there are no whole numbers in FM radio in the U.S.

'''EM''' 
probably denoting "electromagnetic"

'''centrifugal''' 
that force in a spinning object that tends to push away objects from the angle of rotation

'''Hundt Act''' 
Reed E. Hundt (born 1948) was chairman of the Federal Communications Committee in 1996, when the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was passed. Wallace may be riffing on that, as it appears there was no equivalent legislation in 1966.

'''spatter's center''' 
The spatter referred to here is probably the small amount of FM bands that can be sent out.

'''inelastic''' 
When used with regard to demand, this term means tending not to change.

'''3-km. cannon''' 
The range is about 1.86 miles.

'''P.E.''' 
Physical Education

'''Philology''' 
The study of literature or language.

==Page 185==

'''hypogonadism''' 
lack of function of the ovaries or testicles

'''Nodular leprosy with leonine facies''' 
a form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprosy leprosy] that generates lesions made of nodes and that produces lion-like facial expressions (i.e., "leonine facies")

'''The acromegalic and hyperkeratosistic. The enuretic.''' 
Arcomegaly is a disorder of the pituitary gland whereby it produces too much human growth hormone, resulting in giantism. Hyperkeratosistic means that one is suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperkeratosis hyperkeratosis]. Enuresis is the inability to urinate.

'''The spasmodically torticollic.''' 
having a head tilted to one side (torticollis) involving convulsions (spasmodic)

'''G.S.L.''' 
Guaranteed Student Loan

'''treillage''' 
latticework

'''interneural''' 
between nerves

'''semitic ideograms''' 
Semitic languages actually tend to be written uses alphabets, where a symbol denotes a phoneme, rather than in ideograms, like Chinese and Korean are. The oldest alphabet is the Phoenician, which was Semitic.0

'''rostral lamina''' 
in biology, a beaklike or snoutlike (rostral) layer of tissue (lamina)

'''neuroform''' 
Neuroform is actually the brand-name of a type of stent.

'''S.O.P.''' 
Standard Operating Procedure

'''neorealist''' 
adhering to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_neorealism Italian neorealism]

'''Peterson/Broughton and Dali/Buñuel''' 
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0677403/ Sidney Peterson] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0112687/ James Broughton] collaborated on [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038855/ The Potted Psalm] (1946), an experimental film.

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Púbol (1904-1989) and Luis Buñuel Portolés (1900-1983) were both Spanish artists. They collaborated on ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020530/ Un chien andalou]'' (''An Andalusian Dog'', 1929), another experimental film.

'''Deren/Hammid''' 
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220305/ Maya Deren] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0352413/ Alexander Hammid] codirected [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036154/ Meshes of the Afternoon]

'''Antonioni''' 
Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007) was an Italian filmmaker probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060176/ Blowup].

'''Tarkovsky''' 
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (1932-1986) was a Soviet-Russian filmmaker, most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0176227/ Voyage in Time], made with Antonioni.

'''Sometimes Ozu and Bresson''' 
Yasujirō Ozu (1903-1963) was a Japanese filmmaker. Robert Bresson (1901-1999) was a French filmmaker.

'''hoary dramaturgy''' 
According to Wikipedia, dramaturgy is "the art of dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage." To call it "hoary" would be to imply it's old.

'''Sir Herbert Tree''' 
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852-1917) was a British actor and manager. You can hear his performances of ''Hamlet'' [http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/playhamlet.html here].

'''Kaelesque''' 
In the style of Pauline Kael (1919-2001), an American film critic for ''New Yorker'' magazine.

'''De Palma, Tarantino''' 
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000361/ Brian De Palma] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000233/ Quentin Tarantino]

==Endnote 61==

'''dissociative formalism''' 
presumably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formalist_film_theory formalism] that focuses too much on form and not enough on character and other aspects of filmmaking

'''Stan Brakhage and Hollis Frampton''' 
Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) and Hollis Frampton (1936-1984) were American avant-garde filmmakers.

'''Beth B.''' 
You can read about here [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0044579/ here].

'''the Snow brothers, Vigdis Simpson''' 
One of the Snow brothers would have to be Michael Snow (born 1929), a Canadian-American filmmaker, principally known for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength_%281966_film%29 Wavelength]. Vigdis Simpson seems created.

==Page 185 (cont'd)==

'''Brutalism, Found Drama''' 
Brutalism may refer to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalism brutalist architecture]. Found Drama is the cinematic extension of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_art Found Art].

'''dissonant''' 
inharmonious with other things (here, aspects of Madame Psychosis's taste)

==Page 186==

'''Baraka''' 
Imamu Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones, 1934) is an African-American poet, playwright, author, and political activist.

'''piamater''' 
actually two words: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pia_mater Pia mater]

'''sulci''' 
plural of "sulcus," a furrow or groove, particularly between sections of the brain

'''A.Y. ('V.F.') Rickey's ''summum opus''''' 
A.Y. "Vector Field" Rickey, as first referenced back in Endnote 3 as the architect of the cardioid E.T.A. buildings. Possibly named after [http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/ V. Frederick Rickey], a prominent mathematician. It is notable that there is, in fact, no Student Union building at MIT.

''Summum opus'' would be a "great work" while ''magnum opus'' would be the "best work."

'''parietooccipital''' 
referring to both the parietal lobe of the brain, as well as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occipital_lobe occipital] lobe, which is where vision is processed

'''Pons and abducent''' 
The Pons is a structure on the brain stem, while the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abducent_nerve abducens nerve] is a nerve in the muscles of the eye.

'''basilar-stem artery''' 
a stem of an artery that carries blood to the brain

'''oblongata''' 
the second half of the full name of the medulla

==Page 187==

'''FHC''' 
acronym for "fluorohydrocarbon," this is a type of [http://www.polymerplastics.com/fluoro_overview.shtml fluroplastic], known to give off poisonous fumes

'''Heathkit''' 
The company's Web site is [http://www.heathkit-museum.com/ here].

'''10ºC''' 
fifty degrees Fahrenheit

'''five m.''' 
almost 16.5 feet

'''vascularly hued''' 
colored like a blood vessel

'''mercuric''' 
employing the element [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element) mercury]

'''wooferless''' 
lacking the larger speaker (i.e., the "woofer") found in multi-speaker systems

'''saddle-noses''' 
noses having a collapsed nasal bridge

'''atrophic''' 
shrinking in size

'''Scleredema adultorum''' 
a [http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic385.htm disease] characterized by non-pitting induration of the skin

'''serodermatotic''' 
suffering from serodermatosis, a skin disease with serous effusion into the skin

'''hydrocephalic''' 
having water on the brain

'''tabescent and chachetic''' 
Tabescent refers to a person with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabes tabes dorsalis], and chachetic (probably misspelled) apparently refers to a person with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cachexia cachexia].

'''Brag's-Diseased''' 
This would seem to be a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glioma glioma], though it is mentioned almost nowhere.

'''carbuncular or steatocryptotic''' 
Carbuncular means "pimply," while steatocryptotic refers to a person suffering from steatocryptosis, which is derangement of the sebaceous glands.

'''Marin-Amat Syndrome''' 
This is involuntary closure on one eye, named for Manuel Marin Amat, an early 20th century Spanish ophthalmologist.

'''scrofulodermic''' 
suffering from [http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic434.htm cutaneous tuberculosis]

'''Bell-shaped steatopygiacs''' 
A steatopygiac is a person suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steatopygia steatopygia]; if you're bell-shaped, it just means the fat is closer to the bottom than the top

'''Pityriasis Rosea''' 
a skin disease marked by patches of pink, oval rash

'''"Blessed are the poor in body, for they."''' 
This is not one of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatitude Beatitudes].

'''U.H.I.D.''' 
Union of the Hideously and Improbably Deformed

'''probability waves for subhadronics''' 
Probability waves are a concept in quantum physics that expresses the probability that "a particle or particles in a particular state will be measured to have a given position and momentum" (Wikipedia). Subhadronic refers to a particle smaller than a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadron hadron].

==Page 188==

'''Radcliffe's Bunting Institute''' 
Radcliffe is the women's college at Harvard University. According to the Harvard [http://www.harvard.edu/ Web site], "The Bunting Institute is a mutidisciplinary center for women scholars, writers, artists, and activists of demonstrated achievement and promise. Each year, approximately 40 women pursue projects that make significant contributions to their fields, working in a community that fosters interdisciplinary discourse, and creative and intellectual leadership. Some describe their experience as "the Bunting transformation."

'''L.A.S. tradition''' 
Liberal Arts and Sciences

==Endnote 64==

'''Samuel Johnson''' 
Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1709-1784), was a British poet, essayist, novelist, literary critic, and lexicographer.

'''Beesley''' 
Patricia Beesley, an early 20th century American educator who did author the book named.

'''cornup3.COM''' 
There is no such Web site.

==Page 188 (cont'd)==
'''''mens-sana'' pedagogy''' 
"healthy-mind" teaching

'''''ad valorem''''' 
Latin: by value

'''''corpore potis''''' 
Latin: able of body

'''Thorp's Trigonometry of Cubes''' 
Edward Oakley Thorp (born 1932) is an American mathematician, but he seems not to have created a "trigonometry of cubes," which would be, frankly, impossible.

'''aphotic to apochromatic''' 
Aphotic means without light, while apochromatic means developing color.

'''Best Boy''' 
a member of a film crew, assistant to either the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaffer_%28motion_picture_industry%29 gaffer] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_grip key grip]

'''Cambridgeport''' 
an area of Cambridge, Mass.

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'''leukodermatic''' 
white-skinned

'''xanthodantic''' 
misspelling of xanthodontic, which means yellow-toothed

'''basilisk-breathed and pyorrheic''' 
A basilisk is a type of dragon, and pyorrhea is the condition of having gum disease.

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'''peronic or teratoidal''' 
Peronic means having a bent penis[source needed], while teratoidal means malformed.

'''phrenologically malformed''' 
malformed in the shape of the skull

'''supuratively lesioned''' 
having lesions that ooze pus

'''acervulus-nosed''' 
having blisters on the nose

'''radically -ectomied''' 
-having to do with body-part removal (think radical mastectomy)

'''diaphoretic''' 
perspiring

'''granulomatous''' 
having masses of ulcerated infections of the skin

'''lazarettes and oubliettes''' 
A lazarette is a hospital that treats infectious diseases, while an oubliette is a dungeon accessible only by trapdoor.

'''kyphotic and lordotic''' 
Kyphotic means having abnormal rear curvature of the spine (i.e., hunchbacked), while lordotic having abnormal forward curvature of the spine.

'''cellulitic''' 
deposits of subcutaneous fat within fibrous connective tissue (as in the thighs, hips, and buttocks) that give a puckered and dimpled appearance to the skin surface ([http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cellulite Merriam-Webster])

'''fatally pulchritudinous''' 
deadly good-looking

'''Actaeonizing''' 
Reference to the story of Actaeon - "In the version that was offered by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus (Hymn v), which has become the standard setting, Artemis was bathing in the woods when the hunter Actaeon stumbled across her, thus seeing her naked. He stopped and stared, amazed at her ravishing beauty. Once seen, Actaeon was punished by Artemis: she forbade him speech — if he tried to speak, he would be changed into a stag — for the unlucky profanation of her virginity's mystery. Upon hearing the call of his hunting party, he cried out to them and immediately was changed into a stag. His own hounds then turned upon him and tore him to pieces, not recognizing him." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actaeon Wikipedia])

'''Medusoid''' 
looking like a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon gorgon]

'''papuled, the macular, the albinic''' 
Papules are inflammatory elevations of the skin. Macular means having opaque spots on the cornea. Albinic is having no melanin.

'''''odalisques''''' 
a concubine or slave in a harem

'''ital''' 
italics, used for emphasis

'''crosiers''' 
a crosier is a type of French roll

'''lager''' 
a type of beer, medium in darkness

'''vin blanc''' 
French: white wine

==Page 191==

[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.P.A.U.]]

'''''Good Morning, Midnight'' and ''Maggie: A Girl of the Streets'' and ''Giovanni's Room'' and ''Under the Volcano''''' 
''Good Morning, Midnight'' is a novel by Jean Rhys (1890-1979), born Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams, a Caribbean novelist, on the topic of a woman forced to confront her own loneliness and despair. ''Maggie: A Girl of the Streets'' is a novel by Stephen Crane (1871-1900), an American novelist, on the topic of a child prostitute. ''Giovanni's Room'' by African-American expatriate author James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987) is a novel on the topic of a young man coming to terms with his homosexuality. ''Under the Volcano'' is a novel by Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957), a British writer, on the topic of alcoholism.

'''Bret Ellis''' 
Bret Easton Ellis (born 1965) is an American novelist probably best known for ''Less Than Zero'' (1985), about a drug addict who turns to prostitution, and ''American Psycho'' (1991), about a serial killer.

'''van der Rohe''' 
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) was a German-born American architect.

==Endnote 66==

'''R.E.M. and Pearl Jam''' 
R.E.M.'s lead singer, Michael Stipe, was famous for his unintelligible lyrics until around 1987's ''Document''. Pearl Jam's vocalist, Eddie Vedder, is as cryptic now as he was fifteen years ago, when they released their first record.

==Page 191 (cont'd)==

'''wall- and cross-eyed''' 
To be wall-eyed is to suffer from exotropia, which is a form of ocular paralysis in which one or both eyes turn outward.

'''ergotic of St. Anthony''' 
An old name for ergot poisoning is "St. Anthony's fire," which is ergot poisoning. However, given the context, Wallace may be referring here to shingles.

'''varicelliformally eruptive''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eczema_herpeticum eczema due to herpes].

'''sarcoma'd of Kaposi''' 
Karposi's sarcoma is a usually benign skin cancer common in elderly Mediterranean men that has become the most easily identifiable visible symptom of AIDS.

'''M. Hamilton as Oz's West Witch''' 
Referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/ The Wizard of Oz], the Wicked Witch of the West (and East) was played by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002121/ Margaret Hamilton].

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[[Image:RCA.jpg|right]]

'''RCA-Victorish''' 
The image can be seen to the right.

'''snaggle-toothed''' 
having a broken or projecting tooth

'''wattled''' 
having flesh hanging from one's chin, like a turkey

'''lycanthropically''' 
in a way suggesting a werewolf

'''Tourettic''' 
suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourette%27s_Syndrome Tourette's syndrome]

'''teratoid''' 
resembling a monster

'''halitotic''' 
having bad breath

'''saurian- and equine-looking''' 
looking like a lizard or horse, respectively

'''invaginate''' 
sheathed

'''Cushing's Disease''' 
Named for Harvey Williams Cushing (1869-1939), an American neurologist, this disease is an endocrine disorder resulting in rapid weight gain, sweating, thinning of skin, and other negative side effects.

'''Rhinoplasty''' 
nose job

'''subdural''' 
below the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dura_mater dura mater] in the skull

==Page 193==

'''les bâtiments sanctifíes''' 
French: the holy buildings

'''''Metropolis''''' 
a 1927 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136/ film] directed by Fritz Lang

=Layout of the Enfield Marine Public Health Hospital complex=

==Page 193==

'''VA''' 
the U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs

==Page 194==

'''solvent''' 
i.e., financially solvent

'''methadone''' 
a drug used to wean heroin addicts off that drug and onto methadone, which is equally addictive but produces no "high"

'''methedrine''' 
the brand name of methamphetamine

'''New Bedford''' 
a city of Massachusetts, about 50 miles south of Boston

==Page 195==

'''Vette''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvette Chevrolet Corvette]

'''ornithology''' 
the study of birds

'''aminating''' 
introducing an amino acid into something

'''shiv''' 
an improvised prison weapon

==Page 196==

'''LTIs''' 
Long-Term Illnesses

==Endnote 67==

'''The Unexamined Life tavern''' 
Socrates said that the unexamined life is not worth living in ''Apology''.

'''parasolled''' 
having an umbrella on or in it

'''Mudslides''' 
a type of [http://drinkoftheweek.com/archive/m/mudslide.htm drink]

''''objay darts'''' 
a bastardized form of ''objets d'arts'', French for "objects of art

'''catatonic''' 
not moving at all

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'''mansard''' 
This is "a hip roof, each face of which has a steeper lower part and a shallower upper part" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''Clorets''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clorets popular gum]

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'''Madame Psychosis''' 
not just a byname for DMZ, but also a radio show host

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'''apotheosizing''' 
apotheosis is the glorifying of someone to a divine level

'''patricidal''' 
having a tendency to kill one's father

'''entomologist''' 
a person who studies insects scientifically

'''sephenoid''' 
a misspelling for [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sphenoid sphenoid], "a winged bone at the base of the cranium."
''Merriam-Webster Online. 25 May 2009''

'''Infundibular''' 
having the form of a funnel

'''epiglottal''' 
having to do with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiglottis epiglottis]

'''Hillel''' 
a nationwide (worldwide?) Jewish student union present on several campuses

'''corpus callosum''' 
the part of the brain connecting the left and right hemispheres

'''laryngeally fissured''' 
having ridges like the human [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larynx larynx]

'''work-study''' 
receiving funding from the university in exchange for work rendered to the university

==Page 183==

'''chiffon''' 
a lightweight, balanced, plain-woven fabric

'''limned''' 
To limn means to describe

'''parietal''' 
referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parietal_lobe parietal lobe] of the brain, responsible for sensory memory and response

'''pop''' 
Midwesterners in the U.S. use this word to denote what others call "soda," i.e., Coca-Cola, 7-Up, etc.

'''Dow''' 
a pun on the Chinese word ''tao,'' ("the way") and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJIA Dow Jones Industrial Average]

'''gasper''' 
cigarette

'''E.S.T.''' 
Eastern Standard Time

'''medulla''' 
literally that part of the brain responsible for autonomic functions like heartbeat, organ activity, etc.

==Page 184==

'''I. M. Pei''' 
Ieoh Ming Pei (born 1917) is a Chinese-born American architect who designed, among other famous buildings, MIT's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Building_%28MIT%29 Green Building].

==Endnote 60==

'''J. A. Stratton''' 
Julius Adams Stratton (1901-1994) was an American educator and president of MIT between 1959 and 1965.

==Page 184 (cont'd)==

'''cerebral cortex''' 
that part of the brain responsible for higher-order thinking

'''"...what she's said for three years of midnights..."''' 
Up until 'Look at that fucker ''Dance,''' the rest of her introduction is from [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201&version=9 Genesis 1].

'''Largest Whole Prime On The FM Band''' 
109 is a prime number, i.e., divisible only by itself and by 1. Actually the highest number you can get on FM is 108, and there are no whole numbers in FM radio in the U.S.

'''EM''' 
probably denoting "electromagnetic"

'''centrifugal''' 
that force in a spinning object that tends to push away objects from the angle of rotation

'''Hundt Act''' 
Reed E. Hundt (born 1948) was chairman of the Federal Communications Committee in 1996, when the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was passed. Wallace may be riffing on that, as it appears there was no equivalent legislation in 1966.

'''spatter's center''' 
The spatter referred to here is probably the small amount of FM bands that can be sent out.

'''inelastic''' 
When used with regard to demand, this term means tending not to change.

'''3-km. cannon''' 
The range is about 1.86 miles.

'''P.E.''' 
Physical Education

'''Philology''' 
The study of literature or language.

==Page 185==

'''hypogonadism''' 
lack of function of the ovaries or testicles

'''Nodular leprosy with leonine facies''' 
a form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprosy leprosy] that generates lesions made of nodes and that produces lion-like facial expressions (i.e., "leonine facies")

'''The acromegalic and hyperkeratosistic. The enuretic.''' 
Arcomegaly is a disorder of the pituitary gland whereby it produces too much human growth hormone, resulting in giantism. Hyperkeratosistic means that one is suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperkeratosis hyperkeratosis]. Enuresis is the inability to urinate.

'''The spasmodically torticollic.''' 
having a head tilted to one side (torticollis) involving convulsions (spasmodic)

'''G.S.L.''' 
Guaranteed Student Loan

'''treillage''' 
latticework

'''interneural''' 
between nerves

'''semitic ideograms''' 
Semitic languages actually tend to be written uses alphabets, where a symbol denotes a phoneme, rather than in ideograms, like Chinese and Korean are. The oldest alphabet is the Phoenician, which was Semitic.0

'''rostral lamina''' 
in biology, a beaklike or snoutlike (rostral) layer of tissue (lamina)

'''neuroform''' 
Neuroform is actually the brand-name of a type of stent.

'''S.O.P.''' 
Standard Operating Procedure

'''neorealist''' 
adhering to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_neorealism Italian neorealism]

'''Peterson/Broughton and Dali/Buñuel''' 
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0677403/ Sidney Peterson] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0112687/ James Broughton] collaborated on [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038855/ The Potted Psalm] (1946), an experimental film.

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Púbol (1904-1989) and Luis Buñuel Portolés (1900-1983) were both Spanish artists. They collaborated on ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020530/ Un chien andalou]'' (''An Andalusian Dog'', 1929), another experimental film.

'''Deren/Hammid''' 
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220305/ Maya Deren] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0352413/ Alexander Hammid] codirected [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036154/ Meshes of the Afternoon]

'''Antonioni''' 
Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007) was an Italian filmmaker probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060176/ Blowup].

'''Tarkovsky''' 
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (1932-1986) was a Soviet-Russian filmmaker, most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0176227/ Voyage in Time], made with Antonioni.

'''Sometimes Ozu and Bresson''' 
Yasujirō Ozu (1903-1963) was a Japanese filmmaker. Robert Bresson (1901-1999) was a French filmmaker.

'''hoary dramaturgy''' 
According to Wikipedia, dramaturgy is "the art of dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage." To call it "hoary" would be to imply it's old.

'''Sir Herbert Tree''' 
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852-1917) was a British actor and manager. You can hear his performances of ''Hamlet'' [http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/playhamlet.html here].

'''Kaelesque''' 
In the style of Pauline Kael (1919-2001), an American film critic for ''New Yorker'' magazine.

'''De Palma, Tarantino''' 
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000361/ Brian De Palma] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000233/ Quentin Tarantino]

==Endnote 61==

'''dissociative formalism''' 
presumably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formalist_film_theory formalism] that focuses too much on form and not enough on character and other aspects of filmmaking

'''Stan Brakhage and Hollis Frampton''' 
Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) and Hollis Frampton (1936-1984) were American avant-garde filmmakers.

'''Beth B.''' 
You can read about here [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0044579/ here].

'''the Snow brothers, Vigdis Simpson''' 
One of the Snow brothers would have to be Michael Snow (born 1929), a Canadian-American filmmaker, principally known for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength_%281966_film%29 Wavelength]. Vigdis Simpson seems created.

==Page 185 (cont'd)==

'''Brutalism, Found Drama''' 
Brutalism may refer to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalism brutalist architecture]. Found Drama is the cinematic extension of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_art Found Art].

'''dissonant''' 
inharmonious with other things (here, aspects of Madame Psychosis's taste)

==Page 186==

'''Baraka''' 
Imamu Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones, 1934) is an African-American poet, playwright, author, and political activist.

'''piamater''' 
actually two words: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pia_mater Pia mater]

'''sulci''' 
plural of "sulcus," a furrow or groove, particularly between sections of the brain

'''A.Y. ('V.F.') Rickey's ''summum opus''''' 
A.Y. "Vector Field" Rickey, as first referenced back in Endnote 3 as the architect of the cardioid E.T.A. buildings. Possibly named after [http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/ V. Frederick Rickey], a prominent mathematician. It is notable that there is, in fact, no Student Union building at MIT.

''Summum opus'' would be a "great work" while ''magnum opus'' would be the "best work."

'''parietooccipital''' 
referring to both the parietal lobe of the brain, as well as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occipital_lobe occipital] lobe, which is where vision is processed

'''Pons and abducent''' 
The Pons is a structure on the brain stem, while the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abducent_nerve abducens nerve] is a nerve in the muscles of the eye.

'''basilar-stem artery''' 
a stem of an artery that carries blood to the brain

'''oblongata''' 
the second half of the full name of the medulla

==Page 187==

'''FHC''' 
acronym for "fluorohydrocarbon," this is a type of [http://www.polymerplastics.com/fluoro_overview.shtml fluroplastic], known to give off poisonous fumes

'''Heathkit''' 
The company's Web site is [http://www.heathkit-museum.com/ here].

'''10ºC''' 
fifty degrees Fahrenheit

'''five m.''' 
almost 16.5 feet

'''vascularly hued''' 
colored like a blood vessel

'''mercuric''' 
employing the element [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element) mercury]

'''wooferless''' 
lacking the larger speaker (i.e., the "woofer") found in multi-speaker systems

'''saddle-noses''' 
noses having a collapsed nasal bridge

'''atrophic''' 
shrinking in size

'''Scleredema adultorum''' 
a [http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic385.htm disease] characterized by non-pitting induration of the skin

'''serodermatotic''' 
suffering from serodermatosis, a skin disease with serous effusion into the skin

'''hydrocephalic''' 
having water on the brain

'''tabescent and chachetic''' 
Tabescent refers to a person with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabes tabes dorsalis], and chachetic (probably misspelled) apparently refers to a person with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cachexia cachexia].

'''Brag's-Diseased''' 
This would seem to be a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glioma glioma], though it is mentioned almost nowhere.

'''carbuncular or steatocryptotic''' 
Carbuncular means "pimply," while steatocryptotic refers to a person suffering from steatocryptosis, which is derangement of the sebaceous glands.

'''Marin-Amat Syndrome''' 
This is involuntary closure on one eye, named for Manuel Marin Amat, an early 20th century Spanish ophthalmologist.

'''scrofulodermic''' 
suffering from [http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic434.htm cutaneous tuberculosis]

'''Bell-shaped steatopygiacs''' 
A steatopygiac is a person suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steatopygia steatopygia]; if you're bell-shaped, it just means the fat is closer to the bottom than the top

'''Pityriasis Rosea''' 
a skin disease marked by patches of pink, oval rash

'''"Blessed are the poor in body, for they."''' 
This is not one of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatitude Beatitudes].

'''U.H.I.D.''' 
Union of the Hideously and Improbably Deformed

'''probability waves for subhadronics''' 
Probability waves are a concept in quantum physics that expresses the probability that "a particle or particles in a particular state will be measured to have a given position and momentum" (Wikipedia). Subhadronic refers to a particle smaller than a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadron hadron].

==Page 188==

'''Radcliffe's Bunting Institute''' 
Radcliffe is the women's college at Harvard University. According to the Harvard [http://www.harvard.edu/ Web site], "The Bunting Institute is a mutidisciplinary center for women scholars, writers, artists, and activists of demonstrated achievement and promise. Each year, approximately 40 women pursue projects that make significant contributions to their fields, working in a community that fosters interdisciplinary discourse, and creative and intellectual leadership. Some describe their experience as "the Bunting transformation."

'''L.A.S. tradition''' 
Liberal Arts and Sciences

==Endnote 64==

'''Samuel Johnson''' 
Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1709-1784), was a British poet, essayist, novelist, literary critic, and lexicographer.

'''Beesley''' 
Patricia Beesley, an early 20th century American educator who did author the book named.

'''cornup3.COM''' 
There is no such Web site.

==Page 188 (cont'd)==
'''''mens-sana'' pedagogy''' 
"healthy-mind" teaching

'''''ad valorem''''' 
Latin: by value

'''''corpore potis''''' 
Latin: able of body

'''Thorp's Trigonometry of Cubes''' 
Edward Oakley Thorp (born 1932) is an American mathematician, but he seems not to have created a "trigonometry of cubes," which would be, frankly, impossible.

'''aphotic to apochromatic''' 
Aphotic means without light, while apochromatic means developing color.

'''Best Boy''' 
a member of a film crew, assistant to either the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaffer_%28motion_picture_industry%29 gaffer] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_grip key grip]

'''Cambridgeport''' 
an area of Cambridge, Mass.

==Page 189==

'''leukodermatic''' 
white-skinned

'''xanthodantic''' 
misspelling of xanthodontic, which means yellow-toothed

'''basilisk-breathed and pyorrheic''' 
A basilisk is a type of dragon, and pyorrhea is the condition of having gum disease.

==Page 190==

'''peronic or teratoidal''' 
Peronic means having a bent penis[source needed], while teratoidal means malformed.

'''phrenologically malformed''' 
malformed in the shape of the skull

'''supuratively lesioned''' 
having lesions that ooze pus

'''acervulus-nosed''' 
having blisters on the nose

'''radically -ectomied''' 
-having to do with body-part removal (think radical mastectomy)

'''diaphoretic''' 
perspiring

'''granulomatous''' 
having masses of ulcerated infections of the skin

'''lazarettes and oubliettes''' 
A lazarette is a hospital that treats infectious diseases, while an oubliette is a dungeon accessible only by trapdoor.

'''kyphotic and lordotic''' 
Kyphotic means having abnormal rear curvature of the spine (i.e., hunchbacked), while lordotic having abnormal forward curvature of the spine.

'''cellulitic''' 
deposits of subcutaneous fat within fibrous connective tissue (as in the thighs, hips, and buttocks) that give a puckered and dimpled appearance to the skin surface ([http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cellulite Merriam-Webster])

'''fatally pulchritudinous''' 
deadly good-looking

'''Actaeonizing''' 
Reference to the story of Actaeon - "In the version that was offered by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus (Hymn v), which has become the standard setting, Artemis was bathing in the woods when the hunter Actaeon stumbled across her, thus seeing her naked. He stopped and stared, amazed at her ravishing beauty. Once seen, Actaeon was punished by Artemis: she forbade him speech — if he tried to speak, he would be changed into a stag — for the unlucky profanation of her virginity's mystery. Upon hearing the call of his hunting party, he cried out to them and immediately was changed into a stag. His own hounds then turned upon him and tore him to pieces, not recognizing him." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actaeon Wikipedia])

'''Medusoid''' 
looking like a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon gorgon]

'''papuled, the macular, the albinic''' 
Papules are inflammatory elevations of the skin. Macular means having opaque spots on the cornea. Albinic is having no melanin.

'''''odalisques''''' 
a concubine or slave in a harem

'''ital''' 
italics, used for emphasis

'''crosiers''' 
a crosier is a type of French roll

'''lager''' 
a type of beer, medium in darkness

'''vin blanc''' 
French: white wine

==Page 191==

[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.P.A.U.]]

'''''Good Morning, Midnight'' and ''Maggie: A Girl of the Streets'' and ''Giovanni's Room'' and ''Under the Volcano''''' 
''Good Morning, Midnight'' is a novel by Jean Rhys (1890-1979), born Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams, a Caribbean novelist, on the topic of a woman forced to confront her own loneliness and despair. ''Maggie: A Girl of the Streets'' is a novel by Stephen Crane (1871-1900), an American novelist, on the topic of a child prostitute. ''Giovanni's Room'' by African-American expatriate author James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987) is a novel on the topic of a young man coming to terms with his homosexuality. ''Under the Volcano'' is a novel by Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957), a British writer, on the topic of alcoholism.

'''Bret Ellis''' 
Bret Easton Ellis (born 1965) is an American novelist probably best known for ''Less Than Zero'' (1985), about a drug addict who turns to prostitution, and ''American Psycho'' (1991), about a serial killer.

'''van der Rohe''' 
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) was a German-born American architect.

==Endnote 66==

'''R.E.M. and Pearl Jam''' 
R.E.M.'s lead singer, Michael Stipe, was famous for his unintelligible lyrics until around 1987's ''Document''. Pearl Jam's vocalist, Eddie Vedder, is as cryptic now as he was fifteen years ago, when they released their first record.

==Page 191 (cont'd)==

'''wall- and cross-eyed''' 
To be wall-eyed is to suffer from exotropia, which is a form of ocular paralysis in which one or both eyes turn outward.

'''ergotic of St. Anthony''' 
An old name for ergot poisoning is "St. Anthony's fire," which is ergot poisoning. However, given the context, Wallace may be referring here to shingles.

'''varicelliformally eruptive''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eczema_herpeticum eczema due to herpes].

'''sarcoma'd of Kaposi''' 
Karposi's sarcoma is a usually benign skin cancer common in elderly Mediterranean men that has become the most easily identifiable visible symptom of AIDS.

'''M. Hamilton as Oz's West Witch''' 
Referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/ The Wizard of Oz], the Wicked Witch of the West (and East) was played by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002121/ Margaret Hamilton].

==Page 192==

[[Image:RCA.jpg|right]]

'''RCA-Victorish''' 
The image can be seen to the right.

'''snaggle-toothed''' 
having a broken or projecting tooth

'''wattled''' 
having flesh hanging from one's chin, like a turkey

'''lycanthropically''' 
in a way suggesting a werewolf

'''Tourettic''' 
suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourette%27s_Syndrome Tourette's syndrome]

'''teratoid''' 
resembling a monster

'''halitotic''' 
having bad breath

'''saurian- and equine-looking''' 
looking like a lizard or horse, respectively

'''invaginate''' 
sheathed

'''Cushing's Disease''' 
Named for Harvey Williams Cushing (1869-1939), an American neurologist, this disease is an endocrine disorder resulting in rapid weight gain, sweating, thinning of skin, and other negative side effects.

'''Rhinoplasty''' 
nose job

'''subdural''' 
below the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dura_mater dura mater] in the skull

==Page 193==

'''les bâtiments sanctifíes''' 
French: the holy buildings

'''''Metropolis''''' 
a 1927 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136/ film] directed by Fritz Lang

=Layout of the Enfield Marine Public Health Hospital complex=

==Page 193==

'''VA''' 
the U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs

==Page 194==

'''solvent''' 
i.e., financially solvent

'''methadone''' 
a drug used to wean heroin addicts off that drug and onto methadone, which is equally addictive but produces no "high"

'''methedrine''' 
the brand name of methamphetamine

'''New Bedford''' 
a city of Massachusetts, about 50 miles south of Boston

==Page 195==

'''Vette''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvette Chevrolet Corvette]

'''ornithology''' 
the study of birds

'''aminating''' 
introducing an amino acid into something

'''shiv''' 
an improvised prison weapon

==Page 196==

'''LTIs''' 
Long-Term Illnesses

==Endnote 67==

'''The Unexamined Life tavern''' 
Socrates said that the unexamined life is not worth living in ''Apology''.

'''parasolled''' 
having an umbrella on or in it

'''Mudslides''' 
a type of [http://drinkoftheweek.com/archive/m/mudslide.htm drink]

''''objay darts'''' 
a bastardized form of ''objets d'arts'', French for "objects of art

'''catatonic''' 
not moving at all

==Page 197==

'''mansard''' 
This is "a hip roof, each face of which has a steeper lower part and a shallower upper part" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''Clorets''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clorets popular gum]

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==Page 157==

==Page 158==

'''swinishest''' 
most swinish, i.e., most pig-like

'''sodding''' 
a pejorative intensifier, chiefly British in usage

'''fingerling''' 
something very small

'''the Beats''' 
members of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beats Beat generation]

==Page 159==

[[Image:Mercury.jpg|right]]

'''1956 Mercury Montclair''' 
See right, though Incandenza's father's car is "bit-lip red."

'''nubbly''' 
full of small protuberances

'''sinew''' 
another word for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinew tendon]

'''parping''' 
According to the ''OED'', a parp is a honking sound; parping is defined as causing something (as a car horn) to parp.

'''Head is body.''' 
Incandenza's father is expressing a non-Cartesian point of view. René Descartes (1596-1650), the French polymath, separated the mind (''res cogitans'') from the body (''res extensa'').

'''rutilant''' 
bright red

'''''Latrodectus mactans''''' 
Southern black widow, a highly venomous species of spider

==Page 160==

'''actuating''' 
putting into action

'''Nein?''' 
German: No?

'''tiller''' 
what turns the rudder to steer a boat

==Page 161==

'''pronator teres''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronator_teres_muscle muscle] of the forearm

==Page 162==

'''whorled''' 
having whorls, i.e., coiled and spiral shapes

==Page 163==

'''flying sod''' 
He's referring to divots, i.e., bits of the fairway that get torn up when a golf ball is hit.

'''anal rage''' 
He's probably referring to anal-retentive rage, rather than rage specifically located in the anus.

==Page 164==

'''DeSotos''' 
a brand of automobile, examples of which can be seen [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSoto_%28automobile%29 here]

'''hove''' 
past tense of heave

'''lox''' 
smoked salmon

'''gregariously''' 
in a sociable manner

==Page 165==

'''Himself''' 
Note that Incandenza's father calls his own father by the same nickname as Incandenza's children call him.

'''''senza errori''''' 
Italian: Without errors

'''veldt''' 
From Afrikaans, this is a word for an open field with grass, bushes, etc.

'''deft''' 
quick and skillful

'''President''' 
here referring to Franklin Roosevelt

'''lattice''' 
This is "a structure of crossed wooden or metal strips usually arranged to form a diagonal pattern of open spaces between the strips" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

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==Page 167==

'''Bisbee''' 
a city of Arizona, 82 miles south of Tucson

'''Dean''' 
probably referring to [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000015/ James Dean]

==Page 168==

'''inertia''' 
resistance of an object to a change in its state of motion or rest.

'''scabrous''' 
having a rough surface because of minute points or projections

'''mortified''' 
having undergone mortification of the flesh, i.e., abuse of the body by one's self as a form of penance''

'''USC''' 
the [http://www.usc.edu/ University of Southern California]

'''Avalon''' 
probably [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000811/ Frankie Avalon]

==Page 169==

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'''Latinate''' 
suggestive in style of the ancient Romans

'''Inman Square''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inman_Square square] in Cambridge named for colonial merchant Ralph Inman

'''Brioni''' 
a high-fashion clothes company

'''Mr. Howell''' 
''Gilligan's Island'' character [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurston_Howell Thurston J. Howell, III]

'''rakish''' 
jaunty or dashing

==Page 170==

'''oxfords''' 
formal shoes with laces

'''nacelle''' 
the enclosed part of an airplane, where the engine is housed

'''DMZ''' 
Most commonly, this acronym stands for "demilitarized zone," as in the area between North and South Korea. Here it is a made-up drug name.

'''MED.COM''' 
not a real Web site

'''mescaline''' 
Mescaline is the active ingredient in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyote peyote].

'''TMA''' 
an acronym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimethoxyamphetamine trimethoxyamphetamine]

'''DOM or STP''' 
STP stands for "serenity, tranquity, and peace," and it's a pseudonym for DOM, which stands for dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine.

'''DMT''' 
acronym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyltryptamine dimethyltryptamine

'''Ololiuqui or datura's scopolamine, or Fluothane, or Bufotenine (a.k.a. 'Jackie-O.'), or Ebene''' 
Ololiuqui is a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ololiuqui morning glory] plants, the seeds of which are known to be hallucinogenic. Datura's scopolamine is another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopolamine hyoscine]. Fluothane is an inhaled general anesthetic. Bufotenine is an alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufotenine bufotenin] and is the active ingredient in the skin of toads that cause hallucinations when licked. (I have no idea why it's called "Jackie-O.") Ebene is a South American tree that yields a hallucinogen used in rituals.

'''miscegenation''' 
interbreeding between different races

==Endnote 56==

'''PMA''' 
acronym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Para-Methoxyamphetamine paramethoxyamphetamine]

'''myristicin''' 
Found in the essential oil of nutmeg. In addition to a semi-conscious state, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myristicin#Uses myristicin] also has been known to induce psychoactive effects such as visual distortions.

'''ergine''' 
Also called LSA, it's found in morning glory seeds

'''ibogaine''' 
Ibogaine is a naturally occurring psychoactive substance found in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabernanthe_iboga Tabernanthe iboga]. Ibogaine-containing preparations have a history of medicinal and ritual use within Africa and are controversially used to treat narcotics addiction.

'''yagé's harmaline''' 
Yagé is the native name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banisteriopsis_caapi banisteria]. Harmaline is the active ingredient.

'''fitviavi''' 
apparently a coined word

==Page 170 (cont'd)==

==Endnote 57==

'''''Tibetan-Dead-Book''''' 
better known as the [http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/dead/ Tibetan Book of the Dead]

'''Futurist''' 
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism_%28art%29 Italian Futurism], an art movement on the early 20th century

==Page 170 (cont'd)==

'''chemist at Sandoz Pharm.''' 
This would be Albert Hoffman (born 1906), a Swiss scientist best known for first synthesizing LSD.

'''Alan Watts''' 
Alan Wilson Watts (1915-1973) was a British-born philosopher and writer in the field of comparative religion.

'''T. Leary''' 
Timothy Francis Leary (1920-1996) was an American writer and psychologist best known as an advocate for regular LSD use.

'''Millbrook NY''' 
a town in New York state, about 90 miles north of New York City

'''WYYY''' 
actually a radio station in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYYY Syracuse, New York]

==Page 171==

'''Riverside ''Hamlet''''' 
The ''Riverside Shakespeare'' is one of the better-known editions of Shakespeare's work. Note that Hal, who is based on the character Hamlet, is reading ''Hamlet''.

'''the minor and soft-core Alexandrian mosaic''' 
i.e. Byzantine erotica (cf. 29, 36)

'''''Consummation of the Levirates''''' 
A levirate is a man called up to marry his elder brother's childless widow, in accordance with Jewish Law. In the Bible, Onan was punished for not consummating his Levirate marriage (he pulled out and spilled his seed).[http://infinitesummer.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=302]

'''''Baron's''''' 
a (probably deliberate) misspelling of [http://online.barrons.com/public/main Barron's]

'''''Tilden on Spin''''' 
The book by William Tatem "Big Bill" Tilden II (1893-1953), American tennis giant, is actually entitled ''Match Play and the Spin of the Ball''.

=April, YY2007MRCVMETIUFIITP SFH,O,OM (s) - ''TENNIS AND THE FERAL PRODIGY''=

==Page 172==

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==Page 173==

'''bafflegab''' 
intentionally misleading language

'''stevedore''' 
a person who loads and unloads cargo from boats

'''40 km.''' 
almost 25 miles

'''''Schnell''''' 
German: Quickly (or more likely in this case: "Hustle")

==Page 174==

'''formants and fricatives, trochaically stressed''' 
A formant is, according to Wikipedia, "a peak in an acoustic frequency spectrum which results from the resonant frequencies of any acoustic system." A fricative is a phoneme produced by forcing air through tight lips. In English, fricatives are /s/, /z/, /th/, and /zh/. Trochaically means spoken in trochees, or a metrical foot on two syllables with the stress on the first (the word "trochee" is a trochee).

'''aperture''' 
An aperture is an opening; here it is probably referring to the anus.

==Page 175==

'''''8 1/2''''' 
a film by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000019/ Federico Fellini]

'''intensile''' 
incapable of being stretched

==Page 176==

'''Noxzema''' 
a skin cleaner marketed by Procter & Gamble

'''Contracol''' 
not a drug currently marketed in the U.S.

'''Epsom salts''' 
Magnesium sulfate, used to relieve pain, among other uses.

=November 4th, YDAU - Pat Montesian's Drop-in-hours=

==Page 176==

==Page 177==

'''Higher Power''' 
Most twelve-step drug or alcohol recovery programs teach a belief in God or a "Higher Power" (the latter to soften the blow to atheists).

'''Kemp and Limbaugh''' 
Jack French Kemp, Jr. (1935-2009), was a conservative American politician, former member of the House of Representative, former Secretary for Housing and Urban Development, and 1996 Republican candidate for Vice President.

Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (born 1951) is a conservative radio talk-show host.

'''formication''' 
medical term for the sensation of insects crawling on or under the skin

==Page 178==

'''magnaminously''' 
a (probably deliberate) misspelling of "magnanimously," i.e., generously

'''the Fenway''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenway-Kenmore Fenway-Kenmore] section of Boston

==Page 179==

'''septum''' 
more specifically, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_septum nasal septum]

'''harelip''' 
also known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harelip cleft lip] or cleft palate

'''doocy''' 
As in the same Tommy Doocey already introduced; the harelipped pot dealer in the trailer park with the smelly snakes.

==Page 180==

'''2% proof''' 
Redundant because "proof" is an expression of alcohol content. Doubling the alcohol percentage gives you proof, i.e., 2% alcohol is 4 proof.

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==Page 157==

==Page 158==

'''swinishest''' 
most swinish, i.e., most pig-like

'''sodding''' 
a pejorative intensifier, chiefly British in usage

'''fingerling''' 
something very small

'''the Beats''' 
members of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beats Beat generation]

==Page 159==

[[Image:Mercury.jpg|right]]

'''1956 Mercury Montclair''' 
See right, though Incandenza's father's car is "bit-lip red."

'''nubbly''' 
full of small protuberances

'''sinew''' 
another word for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinew tendon]

'''parping''' 
According to the ''OED'', a parp is a honking sound; parping is defined as causing something (as a car horn) to parp.

'''Head is body.''' 
Incandenza's father is expressing a non-Cartesian point of view. René Descartes (1596-1650), the French polymath, separated the mind (''res cogitans'') from the body (''res extensa'').

'''rutilant''' 
bright red

'''''Latrodectus mactans''''' 
Southern black widow, a highly venomous species of spider

==Page 160==

'''actuating''' 
putting into action

'''Nein?''' 
German: No?

'''tiller''' 
what turns the rudder to steer a boat

==Page 161==

'''pronator teres''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronator_teres_muscle muscle] of the forearm

==Page 162==

'''whorled''' 
having whorls, i.e., coiled and spiral shapes

==Page 163==

'''flying sod''' 
He's referring to divots, i.e., bits of the fairway that get torn up when a golf ball is hit.

'''anal rage''' 
He's probably referring to anal-retentive rage, rather than rage specifically located in the anus.

==Page 164==

'''DeSotos''' 
a brand of automobile, examples of which can be seen [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSoto_%28automobile%29 here]

'''hove''' 
past tense of heave

'''lox''' 
smoked salmon

'''gregariously''' 
in a sociable manner

==Page 165==

'''Himself''' 
Note that Incandenza's father calls his own father by the same nickname as Incandenza's children call him.

'''''senza errori''''' 
Italian: Without errors

'''veldt''' 
From Afrikaans, this is a word for an open field with grass, bushes, etc.

'''deft''' 
quick and skillful

'''President''' 
here referring to Franklin Roosevelt

'''lattice''' 
This is "a structure of crossed wooden or metal strips usually arranged to form a diagonal pattern of open spaces between the strips" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

==Page 166==

==Page 167==

'''Bisbee''' 
a city of Arizona, 82 miles south of Tucson

'''Dean''' 
probably referring to [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000015/ James Dean]

==Page 168==

'''inertia''' 
resistance of an object to a change in its state of motion or rest.

'''scabrous''' 
having a rough surface because of minute points or projections

'''mortified''' 
having undergone mortification of the flesh, i.e., abuse of the body by one's self as a form of penance''

'''USC''' 
the [http://www.usc.edu/ University of Southern California]

'''Avalon''' 
probably [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000811/ Frankie Avalon]

==Page 169==

=November 4th, YDAU - Pemulis Scores DMZ=

==Page 169==

'''Latinate''' 
suggestive in style of the ancient Romans

'''Inman Square''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inman_Square square] in Cambridge named for colonial merchant Ralph Inman

'''Brioni''' 
a high-fashion clothes company

'''Mr. Howell''' 
''Gilligan's Island'' character [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurston_Howell Thurston J. Howell, III]

'''rakish''' 
jaunty or dashing

==Page 170==

'''oxfords''' 
formal shoes with laces

'''nacelle''' 
the enclosed part of an airplane, where the engine is housed

'''DMZ''' 
Most commonly, this acronym stands for "demilitarized zone," as in the area between North and South Korea. Here it is a made-up drug name.

'''MED.COM''' 
not a real Web site

'''mescaline''' 
Mescaline is the active ingredient in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyote peyote].

'''TMA''' 
an acronym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimethoxyamphetamine trimethoxyamphetamine]

'''DOM or STP''' 
STP stands for "serenity, tranquity, and peace," and it's a pseudonym for DOM, which stands for dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine.

'''DMT''' 
acronym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyltryptamine dimethyltryptamine

'''Ololiuqui or datura's scopolamine, or Fluothane, or Bufotenine (a.k.a. 'Jackie-O.'), or Ebene''' 
Ololiuqui is a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ololiuqui morning glory] plants, the seeds of which are known to be hallucinogenic. Datura's scopolamine is another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopolamine hyoscine]. Fluothane is an inhaled general anesthetic. Bufotenine is an alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufotenine bufotenin] and is the active ingredient in the skin of toads that cause hallucinations when licked. (I have no idea why it's called "Jackie-O.") Ebene is a South American tree that yields a hallucinogen used in rituals.

'''miscegenation''' 
interbreeding between different races

==Endnote 56==

'''PMA''' 
acronym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Para-Methoxyamphetamine paramethoxyamphetamine]

'''myristicin''' 
Found in the essential oil of nutmeg. In addition to a semi-conscious state, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myristicin#Uses myristicin] also has been known to induce psychoactive effects such as visual distortions.

'''ergine''' 
Also called LSA, it's found in morning glory seeds

'''ibogaine''' 
Ibogaine is a naturally occurring psychoactive substance found in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabernanthe_iboga Tabernanthe iboga]. Ibogaine-containing preparations have a history of medicinal and ritual use within Africa and are controversially used to treat narcotics addiction.

'''yagé's harmaline''' 
Yagé is the native name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banisteriopsis_caapi banisteria]. Harmaline is the active ingredient.

'''fitviavi''' 
apparently a coined word

==Page 170 (cont'd)==

==Endnote 57==

'''''Tibetan-Dead-Book''''' 
better known as the [http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/dead/ Tibetan Book of the Dead]

'''Futurist''' 
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism_%28art%29 Italian Futurism], an art movement on the early 20th century

==Page 170 (cont'd)==

'''chemist at Sandoz Pharm.''' 
This would be Albert Hoffman (born 1906), a Swiss scientist best known for first synthesizing LSD.

'''Alan Watts''' 
Alan Wilson Watts (1915-1973) was a British-born philosopher and writer in the field of comparative religion.

'''T. Leary''' 
Timothy Francis Leary (1920-1996) was an American writer and psychologist best known as an advocate for regular LSD use.

'''Millbrook NY''' 
a town in New York state, about 90 miles north of New York City

'''WYYY''' 
actually a radio station in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYYY Syracuse, New York]

==Page 171==

'''Riverside ''Hamlet''''' 
The ''Riverside Shakespeare'' is one of the better-known editions of Shakespeare's work. Note that Hal, who is based on the character Hamlet, is reading ''Hamlet''.

'''the minor and soft-core Alexandrian mosaic''' 
i.e. Byzantine erotica (cf. 29, 36)

'''''Consummation of the Levirates''''' 
A levirate is a man called up to marry his elder brother's childless widow, in accordance with Jewish Law. In the Bible, Onan was punished for not consummating his Levirate marriage (he pulled out and spilled his seed).[http://infinitesummer.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=302]

'''''Baron's''''' 
a (probably deliberate) misspelling of [http://online.barrons.com/public/main Barron's]

'''''Tilden on Spin''''' 
The book by William Tatem "Big Bill" Tilden II (1893-1953), American tennis giant, is actually entitled ''Match Play and the Spin of the Ball''.

=April, YY2007MRCVMETIUFIITP SFH,O,OM (s) - ''TENNIS AND THE FERAL PRODIGY''=

==Page 172==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Yushityu...]]

==Page 173==

'''bafflegab''' 
intentionally misleading language

'''stevedore''' 
a person who loads and unloads cargo from boats

'''40 km.''' 
almost 25 miles

'''''Schnell''''' 
German: Quickly (or more likely in this case: "Hustle")

==Page 174==

'''formants and fricatives, trochaically stressed''' 
A formant is, according to Wikipedia, "a peak in an acoustic frequency spectrum which results from the resonant frequencies of any acoustic system." A fricative is a phoneme produced by forcing air through tight lips. In English, fricatives are /s/, /z/, /th/, and /zh/. Trochaically means spoken in trochees, or a metrical foot on two syllables with the stress on the first (the word "trochee" is a trochee).

'''aperture''' 
An aperture is an opening; here it is probably referring to the anus.

==Page 175==

'''''8 1/2''''' 
a film by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000019/ Federico Fellini]

'''intensile''' 
incapable of being stretched

==Page 176==

'''Noxzema''' 
a skin cleaner marketed by Procter & Gamble

'''Contracol''' 
not a drug currently marketed in the U.S.

'''Epsom salts''' 
Magnesium sulfate, used to relieve pain, among other uses.

=November 4th, YDAU - Pat Montesian's Drop-in-hours=

==Page 176==

==Page 177==

'''Higher Power''' 
Most twelve-step drug or alcohol recovery programs teach a belief in God or a "Higher Power" (the latter to soften the blow to atheists).

'''Kemp and Limbaugh''' 
Jack French Kemp, Jr. (1935-2009), was a conservative American politician, former member of the House of Representative, former Secretary for Housing and Urban Development, and 1996 Republican candidate for Vice President.

Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (born 1951) is a conservative radio talk-show host.

'''formicate''' 
to crawl like ants

==Page 178==

'''magnaminously''' 
a (probably deliberate) misspelling of "magnanimously," i.e., generously

'''the Fenway''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenway-Kenmore Fenway-Kenmore] section of Boston

==Page 179==

'''septum''' 
more specifically, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_septum nasal septum]

'''harelip''' 
also known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harelip cleft lip] or cleft palate

'''doocy''' 
As in the same Tommy Doocey already introduced; the harelipped pot dealer in the trailer park with the smelly snakes.

==Page 180==

'''2% proof''' 
Redundant because "proof" is an expression of alcohol content. Doubling the alcohol percentage gives you proof, i.e., 2% alcohol is 4 proof.

==Page 181==

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==Page 157==

==Page 158==

'''swinishest''' 
most swinish, i.e., most pig-like

'''sodding''' 
a pejorative intensifier, chiefly British in usage

'''fingerling''' 
something very small

'''the Beats''' 
members of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beats Beat generation]

==Page 159==

[[Image:Mercury.jpg|right]]

'''1956 Mercury Montclair''' 
See right, though Incandenza's father's car is "bit-lip red."

'''nubbly''' 
full of small protuberances

'''sinew''' 
another word for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinew tendon]

'''parping''' 
According to the ''OED'', a parp is a honking sound; parping is defined as causing something (as a car horn) to parp.

'''Head is body.''' 
Incandenza's father is expressing a non-Cartesian point of view. René Descartes (1596-1650), the French polymath, separated the mind (''res cogitans'') from the body (''res extensa'').

'''rutilant''' 
bright red

'''''Latrodectus mactans''''' 
Southern black widow, a highly venomous species of spider

==Page 160==

'''actuating''' 
putting into action

'''Nein?''' 
German: No?

'''tiller''' 
what turns the rudder to steer a boat

==Page 161==

'''pronator teres''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronator_teres_muscle muscle] of the forearm

==Page 162==

'''whorled''' 
having whorls, i.e., coiled and spiral shapes

==Page 163==

'''flying sod''' 
He's referring to divots, i.e., bits of the fairway that get torn up when a golf ball is hit.

'''anal rage''' 
He's probably referring to anal-retentive rage, rather than rage specifically located in the anus.

==Page 164==

'''DeSotos''' 
a brand of automobile, examples of which can be seen [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSoto_%28automobile%29 here]

'''hove''' 
past tense of heave

'''lox''' 
smoked salmon

'''gregariously''' 
in a sociable manner

==Page 165==

'''Himself''' 
Note that Incandenza's father calls his own father by the same nickname as Incandenza's children call him.

'''''senza errori''''' 
Italian: Without errors

'''veldt''' 
From Afrikaans, this is a word for an open field with grass, bushes, etc.

'''deft''' 
quick and skillful

'''President''' 
here referring to Franklin Roosevelt

'''lattice''' 
This is "a structure of crossed wooden or metal strips usually arranged to form a diagonal pattern of open spaces between the strips" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

==Page 166==

==Page 167==

'''Bisbee''' 
a city of Arizona, 82 miles south of Tucson

'''Dean''' 
probably referring to [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000015/ James Dean]

==Page 168==

'''inertia''' 
resistance of an object to a change in its state of motion or rest.

'''scabrous''' 
having a rough surface because of minute points or projections

'''mortified''' 
having undergone mortification of the flesh, i.e., abuse of the body by one's self as a form of penance''

'''USC''' 
the [http://www.usc.edu/ University of Southern California]

'''Avalon''' 
probably [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000811/ Frankie Avalon]

==Page 169==

=November 4th, YDAU - Pemulis Scores DMZ=

==Page 169==

'''Latinate''' 
suggestive in style of the ancient Romans

'''Inman Square''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inman_Square square] in Cambridge named for colonial merchant Ralph Inman

'''Brioni''' 
a high-fashion clothes company

'''Mr. Howell''' 
''Gilligan's Island'' character [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurston_Howell Thurston J. Howell, III]

'''rakish''' 
jaunty or dashing

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'''oxfords''' 
formal shoes with laces

'''nacelle''' 
the enclosed part of an airplane, where the engine is housed

'''DMZ''' 
Most commonly, this acronym stands for "demilitarized zone," as in the area between North and South Korea. Here it is a made-up drug name.

'''MED.COM''' 
not a real Web site

'''mescaline''' 
Mescaline is the active ingredient in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyote peyote].

'''TMA''' 
an acronym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimethoxyamphetamine trimethoxyamphetamine]

'''DOM or STP''' 
STP stands for "serenity, tranquity, and peace," and it's a pseudonym for DOM, which stands for dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine.

'''DMT''' 
acronym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyltryptamine dimethyltryptamine

'''Ololiuqui or datura's scopolamine, or Fluothane, or Bufotenine (a.k.a. 'Jackie-O.'), or Ebene''' 
Ololiuqui is a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ololiuqui morning glory] plants, the seeds of which are known to be hallucinogenic. Datura's scopolamine is another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopolamine hyoscine]. Fluothane is an inhaled general anesthetic. Bufotenine is an alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufotenine bufotenin] and is the active ingredient in the skin of toads that cause hallucinations when licked. (I have no idea why it's called "Jackie-O.") Ebene is a South American tree that yields a hallucinogen used in rituals.

'''miscegenation''' 
interbreeding between different races

==Endnote 56==

'''PMA''' 
acronym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Para-Methoxyamphetamine paramethoxyamphetamine]

'''myristicin''' 
Found in the essential oil of nutmeg. In addition to a semi-conscious state, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myristicin#Uses myristicin] also has been known to induce psychoactive effects such as visual distortions.

'''ergine''' 
Also called LSA, it's found in morning glory seeds

'''ibogaine''' 
Ibogaine is a naturally occurring psychoactive substance found in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabernanthe_iboga Tabernanthe iboga]. Ibogaine-containing preparations have a history of medicinal and ritual use within Africa and are controversially used to treat narcotics addiction.

'''yagé's harmaline''' 
Yagé is the native name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banisteriopsis_caapi banisteria]. Harmaline is the active ingredient.

'''fitviavi''' 
apparently a coined word

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'''''Tibetan-Dead-Book''''' 
better known as the [http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/dead/ Tibetan Book of the Dead]

'''Futurist''' 
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism_%28art%29 Italian Futurism], an art movement on the early 20th century

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'''chemist at Sandoz Pharm.''' 
This would be Albert Hoffman (born 1906), a Swiss scientist best known for first synthesizing LSD.

'''Alan Watts''' 
Alan Wilson Watts (1915-1973) was a British-born philosopher and writer in the field of comparative religion.

'''T. Leary''' 
Timothy Francis Leary (1920-1996) was an American writer and psychologist best known as an advocate for regular LSD use.

'''Millbrook NY''' 
a town in New York state, about 90 miles north of New York City

'''WYYY''' 
actually a radio station in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYYY Syracuse, New York]

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'''Riverside ''Hamlet''''' 
The ''Riverside Shakespeare'' is one of the better-known editions of Shakespeare's work. Note that Hal, who is based on the character Hamlet, is reading ''Hamlet''.

'''the minor and soft-core Alexandrian mosaic''' 
i.e. Byzantine erotica (cf. 29, 36)

'''''Consummation of the Levirates''''' 
A levirate is a man called up to marry his elder brother's childless widow, in accordance with Jewish Law. In the Bible, Onan was punished for not consummating his Levirate marriage (he pulled out and spilled his seed).[http://infinitesummer.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=302]

'''''Baron's''''' 
a (probably deliberate) misspelling of [http://online.barrons.com/public/main Barron's]

'''''Tilden on Spin''''' 
The book by William Tatem "Big Bill" Tilden II (1893-1953), American tennis giant, is actually entitled ''Match Play and the Spin of the Ball''.

=April, YY2007MRCVMETIUFIITP SFH,O,OM (s) - ''TENNIS AND THE FERAL PRODIGY''=

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'''stevedore''' 
a person who loads and unloads cargo from boats

'''40 km.''' 
almost 25 miles

'''''Schnell''''' 
German: Quickly (or more likely in this case: "Hustle")

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'''formants and fricatives, trochaically stressed''' 
A formant is, according to Wikipedia, "a peak in an acoustic frequency spectrum which results from the resonant frequencies of any acoustic system." A fricative is a phoneme produced by forcing air through tight lips. In English, fricatives are /s/, /z/, /th/, and /zh/. Trochaically means spoken in trochees, or a metrical foot on two syllables with the stress on the first (the word "trochee" is a trochee).

'''aperture''' 
An aperture is an opening; here it is probably referring to the anus.

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'''''8 1/2''''' 
a film by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000019/ Federico Fellini]

'''intensile''' 
incapable of being stretched

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'''Noxzema''' 
a skin cleaner marketed by Procter & Gamble

'''Contracol''' 
not a drug currently marketed in the U.S.

'''Epsom salts''' 
Magnesium sulfate, used to relieve pain, among other uses.

=November 4th, YDAU - Pat Montesian's Drop-in-hours=

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'''Higher Power''' 
Most twelve-step drug or alcohol recovery programs teach a belief in God or a "Higher Power" (the latter to soften the blow to atheists).

'''Kemp and Limbaugh''' 
Jack French Kemp, Jr. (1935-2009), was a conservative American politician, former member of the House of Representative, former Secretary for Housing and Urban Development, and 1996 Republican candidate for Vice President.

Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (born 1951) is a conservative radio talk-show host.

'''formicate''' 
to crawl like ants

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'''magnaminously''' 
a (probably deliberate) misspelling of "magnanimously," i.e., generously

'''the Fenway''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenway-Kenmore Fenway-Kenmore] section of Boston

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'''septum''' 
more specifically, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_septum nasal septum]

'''harelip''' 
also known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harelip cleft lip] or cleft palate

'''doocy''' 
As in the same Tommy Doocey already introduced; the harelipped pot dealer in the trailer park with the smelly snakes.

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'''2% proof''' 
Redundant because "proof" is an expression of alcohol content. Doubling the alcohol percentage gives you proof, i.e., 2% alcohol is 4 proof.

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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''' 
(pedaled 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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==Page 136==

'''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

==Page 138==

'''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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'''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

==Page 145==

'''straw boater''' 
a type of hat (a "boater") made of straw

'''tumescent''' 
swollen

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

'''Freddie-Mac''' 
common name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mac Federal Home Loan Mortgage Company]

'''trivalent''' 
having a chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valence_%28chemistry%29 valance] of three

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'''vectored''' 
To vector is to direct the position of (an airplane).

'''gumlet''' 
By context, it would seem this word is a synonym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglet aglet].

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'''furtive''' 
shifty or sneaky

'''''Physiognomic Dysphoria''''' 
Loosely, it means "feeling badly about how one looks."

==Page 148==

'''snafus''' 
plural of "snafu," a military acronym for "situation normal: all fucked up"

==Page 149==

'''ostentatious''' 
pretentious or showy

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'''verve''' 
enthusiasm or vigor

'''precipitant''' 
sudden, hasty, or rash

'''micro-econometrist''' 
An econometrist is an economist who uses statistical methods. A microeconomist is an economist who studies a smaller level of economics, i.e., firms and businesses rather than nations or international business.

'''Ludditism''' 
Named for Ned Ludd (born Ned Ludlam), the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite Luddites] were 19th century opposers of the Industrial Revolution.

'''retrograde''' 
moving backward

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'''electric zirconium jewelry''' 
Jewelry made of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zircon zircon]. Electricity can be applied to a zircon to make a lamp.

'''NoCoat LinguaScrapers''' 
tongue scrapers designed to remove a film coat

'''and c.''' 
''Et cetera'' or ''etc.'' is Latin for "and other things." Here Wallace has translated ''et'' and left ''c'' untranslated.

'''panagoraphobia''' 
fear of going outside (agoraphobia) in any place (pan-)

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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

'''agnate''' 
related or akin through males, as in a line of males and a line of females (coeds)

'''widow's peak''' 
a hairline that dips down to a V-shaped point in front when the hair is pulled back

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==Endnote 52==

'''spectrometer''' 
an optical instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum

'''E.M.I.T. and AbuScreen/RIA''' 
Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Technique; Abusecreen is a brand name of drug test, and RIA stands for radioimmunoassay, "a procedure that measures minute amounts of a substance, such as a hormone or drug, by quantitating the binding, or the inhibition of binding, of a radiolabeled substance to an antibody" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition'').

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'''cc''' 
cubic centimeter, equal to 0.001 liters

'''wienerman''' 
hot-dog salesman

==Page 153==

'''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 level 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.

==Page 155==

'''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''' 

'''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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'''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

==Page 128==

'''''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=

==Page 128==

'''crewed''' 
worked in a gang

'''boosting''' 
stealing

'''onnings''' 
awnings

==Page 129==

'''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

==Page 130==

'''dopesick''' 
in withdrawal from opiates such as heroin

'''supperst''' 
supposed

'''petaled ass''' 
(pedaled 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

==Page 131==

'''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

==Page 132==

'''stoal''' 
stole

==Page 133==

'''super statiously''' 
superstitiously

==Page 134==

'''Hotshots''' 
poisoned heroin so as to be lethal when injected

'''booted''' 
injected

'''thearized''' 
theorized

==Page 135==

'''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

=☽ November 3rd, YDAU - Orin calls Hal (about Separatism)=

==Page 135==

==Page 136==

'''Phoenician''' 
Orin uses it to mean a native of Phoenix, but the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicians Phoenicians] were actually an ancient culture who founded the city of Carthage.

==Page 137==

'''Advent''' 
the four Sundays preceding Christmas

=Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House=

==Page 137==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

'''Walpole''' 
a suburb of Boston about eighteen miles from the city

==Page 138==

'''mythopoeia''' 
the creating of a myth

=State Farm E-mail - my def. of a bad day.=

==Page 138==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland]]

==Page 139==

'''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

==Page 140==

'''30 kg''' 
a little over 66 pounds

=February 21st, YPWC - Hal's First Film Commentary=

==Page 140==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken]]

==Page 141==

'''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)

==Page 142==

'''probity''' 
integrity

=August 10th, YDAU - Helen Steeply's Only Putative Published Article=

==Page 142==

'''Jarvik IX''' 
undoubtedly named for Robert Koffler Jarvik (born 1946), inventor of the first artificial heart placed in a human being 

'''restenosis''' 
stenosis is an abnormal narrowing of blood vessels; restenosis is a recurrence of stenosis

==Page 143==

'''Etienne Aigner''' 
a fashionable leather goods manufacturer

==Page 144==

'''Brigham and Women's City of Boston Hospital''' 
a [http://www.brighamandwomens.org/ real hospital], now affiliated with Harvard Medical School

=Tally of Sèparatisteur/Anti-O.N.A.N. Groups=

==Page 144==

'''''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=

==Page 144==

'''homuncular''' 
of or pertaining to a diminutive human being

==Page 145==

'''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

==Page 146==

'''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].

==Page 147==

'''furtive''' 
shifty or sneaky

'''''Physiognomic Dysphoria''''' 
Loosely, it means "feeling badly about how one looks."

==Page 148==

'''snafus''' 
plural of "snafu," a military acronym for "situation normal: all fucked up"

==Page 149==

'''ostentatious''' 
pretentious or showy

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'''verve''' 
enthusiasm or vigor

'''precipitant''' 
sudden, hasty, or rash

'''micro-econometrist''' 
An econometrist is an economist who uses statistical methods. A microeconomist is an economist who studies a smaller level of economics, i.e., firms and businesses rather than nations or international business.

'''Ludditism''' 
Named for Ned Ludd (born Ned Ludlam), the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite Luddites] were 19th century opposers of the Industrial Revolution.

'''retrograde''' 
moving backward

==Page 151==

'''electric zirconium jewelry''' 
Jewelry made of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zircon zircon]. Electricity can be applied to a zircon to make a lamp.

'''NoCoat LinguaScrapers''' 
tongue scrapers designed to remove a film coat

'''and c.''' 
''Et cetera'' or ''etc.'' is Latin for "and other things." Here Wallace has translated ''et'' and left ''c'' untranslated.

'''panagoraphobia''' 
fear of going outside (agoraphobia) in any place (pan-)

=☽ - Urine Testing=

==Page 151==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

'''agnate''' 
related or akin through males, as in a line of males and a line of females (coeds)

'''widow's peak''' 
a hairline that dips down to a V-shaped point in front when the hair is pulled back

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==Endnote 52==

'''spectrometer''' 
an optical instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum

'''E.M.I.T. and AbuScreen/RIA''' 
Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Technique; Abusecreen is a brand name of drug test, and RIA stands for radioimmunoassay, "a procedure that measures minute amounts of a substance, such as a hormone or drug, by quantitating the binding, or the inhibition of binding, of a radiolabeled substance to an antibody" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition'').

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'''cc''' 
cubic centimeter, equal to 0.001 liters

'''wienerman''' 
hot-dog salesman

==Page 153==

'''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 level 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

==Page 154==

'''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.

==Page 155==

'''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''' 

'''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

==Page 156==

'''dewy-eyed''' 
exhibiting childlike simplicity

'''''FIENDS IN HUMAN SHAPE''''' 
how a Memphis newspaper described Union soldiers during the Civil War

'''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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'''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

==Page 128==

'''''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=

==Page 128==

'''crewed''' 
worked in a gang

'''boosting''' 
stealing

'''onnings''' 
awnings

==Page 129==

'''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

==Page 130==

'''dopesick''' 
in withdrawal from opiates such as heroin

'''supperst''' 
supposed

'''petaled ass''' 
(pedaled 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

==Page 131==

'''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

==Page 132==

'''stoal''' 
stole

==Page 133==

'''super statiously''' 
superstitiously

==Page 134==

'''Hotshots''' 
poisoned heroin so as to be lethal when injected

'''booted''' 
injected

'''thearized''' 
theorized

==Page 135==

'''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

=☽ November 3rd, YDAU - Orin calls Hal (about Separatism)=

==Page 135==

==Page 136==

'''Phoenician''' 
Orin uses it to mean a native of Phoenix, but the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicians Phoenicians] were actually an ancient culture who founded the city of Carthage.

==Page 137==

'''Advent''' 
the four Sundays preceding Christmas

=Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House=

==Page 137==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

'''Walpole''' 
a suburb of Boston about eighteen miles from the city

==Page 138==

'''mythopoeia''' 
the creating of a myth

=State Farm E-mail - my def. of a bad day.=

==Page 138==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland]]

==Page 139==

'''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

==Page 140==

'''30 kg''' 
a little over 66 pounds

=February 21st, YPWC - Hal's First Film Commentary=

==Page 140==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken]]

==Page 141==

'''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)

==Page 142==

'''probity''' 
integrity

=August 10th, YDAU - Helen Steeply's Only Putative Published Article=

==Page 142==

'''Jarvik IX''' 
undoubtedly named for Robert Koffler Jarvik (born 1946), inventor of the first artificial heart placed in a human being 

'''restenosis''' 
stenosis is an abnormal narrowing of blood vessels; restenosis is a recurrence of stenosis

==Page 143==

'''Etienne Aigner''' 
a fashionable leather goods manufacturer

==Page 144==

'''Brigham and Women's City of Boston Hospital''' 
a [http://www.brighamandwomens.org/ real hospital], now affiliated with Harvard Medical School

=Tally of Sèparatisteur/Anti-O.N.A.N. Groups=

==Page 144==

'''''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=

==Page 144==

'''homuncular''' 
of or pertaining to a diminutive human being

==Page 145==

'''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

==Page 146==

'''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].

==Page 147==

'''furtive''' 
shifty or sneaky

'''''Physiognomic Dysphoria''''' 
Loosely, it means "feeling badly about how one looks."

==Page 148==

'''snafus''' 
plural of "snafu," a military acronym for "situation normal: all fucked up"

==Page 149==

'''ostentatious''' 
pretentious or showy

==Page 150==

'''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

==Page 151==

'''electric zirconium jewelry''' 
Jewelry made of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zircon zircon]. Electricity can be applied to a zircon to make a lamp.

'''NoCoat LinguaScrapers''' 
tongue scrapers designed to remove a film coat

'''and c.''' 
''Et cetera'' or ''etc.'' is Latin for "and other things." Here Wallace has translated ''et'' and left ''c'' untranslated.

'''panagoraphobia''' 
fear of going outside (agoraphobia) in any place (pan-)

=☽ - Urine Testing=

==Page 151==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

'''agnate''' 
related or akin through males, as in a line of males and a line of females (coeds)

'''widow's peak''' 
a hairline that dips down to a V-shaped point in front when the hair is pulled back

==Page 152==

==Endnote 52==

'''spectrometer''' 
an optical instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum

'''E.M.I.T. and AbuScreen/RIA''' 
Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Technique; Abusecreen is a brand name of drug test, and RIA stands for radioimmunoassay, "a procedure that measures minute amounts of a substance, such as a hormone or drug, by quantitating the binding, or the inhibition of binding, of a radiolabeled substance to an antibody" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition'').

==Page 152 (cont'd)==

'''cc''' 
cubic centimeter, equal to 0.001 liters

'''wienerman''' 
hot-dog salesman

==Page 153==

'''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 level 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

==Page 154==

'''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.

==Page 155==

'''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''' 

'''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

==Page 156==

'''dewy-eyed''' 
exhibiting childlike simplicity

'''''FIENDS IN HUMAN SHAPE''''' 
how a Memphis newspaper described Union soldiers during the Civil War

'''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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==Page 127==

'''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

==Page 128==

'''''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=

==Page 128==

'''crewed''' 
worked in a gang

'''boosting''' 
stealing

'''onnings''' 
awnings

==Page 129==

'''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

==Page 130==

'''dopesick''' 
in withdrawal from opiates such as heroin

'''supperst''' 
supposed

'''petaled ass''' 
(pedaled 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

==Page 131==

'''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

==Page 132==

'''stoal''' 
stole

==Page 133==

'''super statiously''' 
superstitiously

==Page 134==

'''Hotshots''' 
poisoned heroin so as to be lethal when injected

'''booted''' 
injected

'''thearized''' 
theorized

==Page 135==

'''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

=☽ November 3rd, YDAU - Orin calls Hal (about Separatism)=

==Page 135==

==Page 136==

'''Phoenician''' 
Orin uses it to mean a native of Phoenix, but the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicians Phoenicians] were actually an ancient culture who founded the city of Carthage.

==Page 137==

'''Advent''' 
the four Sundays preceding Christmas

=Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House=

==Page 137==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

'''Walpole''' 
a suburb of Boston about eighteen miles from the city

==Page 138==

'''mythopoeia''' 
the creating of a myth

=State Farm E-mail - my def. of a bad day.=

==Page 138==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland]]

==Page 139==

'''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

==Page 140==

'''30 kg''' 
a little over 66 pounds

=February 21st, YPWC - Hal's First Film Commentary=

==Page 140==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken]]

==Page 141==

'''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)

==Page 142==

'''probity''' 
integrity

=August 10th, YDAU - Helen Steeply's Only Putative Published Article=

==Page 142==

'''Jarvik IX''' 
undoubtedly named for Robert Koffler Jarvik (born 1946), inventor of the first artificial heart placed in a human being 

'''restenosis''' 
stenosis is an abnormal narrowing of blood vessels; restenosis is a recurrence of stenosis

==Page 143==

'''Etienne Aigner''' 
a fashionable leather goods manufacturer

==Page 144==

'''Brigham and Women's City of Boston Hospital''' 
a [http://www.brighamandwomens.org/ real hospital], now affiliated with Harvard Medical School

=Tally of Sèparatisteur/Anti-O.N.A.N. Groups=

==Page 144==

'''''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=

==Page 144==

'''homuncular''' 
of or pertaining to a diminutive human being

==Page 145==

'''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

==Page 146==

'''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].

==Page 147==

'''furtive''' 
shifty or sneaky

'''''Physiognomic Dysphoria''''' 
Loosely, it means "feeling badly about how one looks."

==Page 148==

'''snafus''' 
plural of "snafu," a military acronym for "situation normal: all fucked up"

==Page 149==

'''ostentatious''' 
pretentious or showy

==Page 150==

'''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

==Page 151==

'''electric zirconium jewelry''' 
Jewelry made of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zircon zircon]. Electricity can be applied to a zircon to make a lamp.

'''NoCoat LinguaScrapers''' 
tongue scrapers designed to remove a film coat

'''and c.''' 
''Et cetera'' or ''etc.'' is Latin for "and other things." Here Wallace has translated ''et'' and left ''c'' untranslated.

'''panagoraphobia''' 
fear of going outside (agoraphobia) in any place (pan-)

=☽ - Urine Testing=

==Page 151==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

'''agnate''' 
related or akin through males, as in a line of males and a line of females (coeds)

'''widow's peak''' 
a hairline that dips down to a V-shaped point in front when the hair is pulled back

==Page 152==

==Endnote 52==

'''spectrometer''' 
an optical instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum

'''E.M.I.T. and AbuScreen/RIA''' 
Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Technique; Abusecreen is a brand name of drug test, and RIA stands for radioimmunoassay, "a procedure that measures minute amounts of a substance, such as a hormone or drug, by quantitating the binding, or the inhibition of binding, of a radiolabeled substance to an antibody" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition'').

==Page 152 (cont'd)==

'''cc''' 
cubic centimeter, equal to 0.001 liters

'''wienerman''' 
hot-dog salesman

==Page 153==

'''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 level 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

==Page 154==

'''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.

==Page 155==

'''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''' 

'''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

==Page 156==

'''dewy-eyed''' 
exhibiting childlike simplicity

'''''FIENDS IN HUMAN SHAPE''''' 
how a Memphis newspaper described Union soldiers during the Civil War

'''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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==Page 127==

'''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

==Page 128==

'''''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=

==Page 128==

'''crewed''' 
worked in a gang

'''boosting''' 
stealing

'''onnings''' 
awnings

==Page 129==

'''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

==Page 130==

'''dopesick''' 
in withdrawal from opiates such as heroin

'''supperst''' 
supposed

'''petaled ass''' 
(pedaled 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

==Page 131==

'''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

==Page 132==

'''stoal''' 
stole

==Page 133==

'''super statiously''' 
superstitiously

==Page 134==

'''Hotshots''' 
poisoned heroin so as to be lethal when injected

'''booted''' 
injected

'''thearized''' 
theorized

==Page 135==

'''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

=☽ November 3rd, YDAU - Orin calls Hal (about Separatism)=

==Page 135==

==Page 136==

'''Phoenician''' 
Orin uses it to mean a native of Phoenix, but the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicians Phoenicians] were actually an ancient culture who founded the city of Carthage.

==Page 137==

'''Advent''' 
the four Sundays preceding Christmas

=Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House=

==Page 137==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

'''Walpole''' 
a suburb of Boston about eighteen miles from the city

==Page 138==

'''mythopoeia''' 
the creating of a myth

=State Farm E-mail - my def. of a bad day.=

==Page 138==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland]]

==Page 139==

'''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

==Page 140==

'''30 kg''' 
a little over 66 pounds

=February 21st, YPWC - Hal's First Film Commentary=

==Page 140==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken]]

==Page 141==

'''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)

==Page 142==

'''probity''' 
integrity

=August 10th, YDAU - Helen Steeply's Only Putative Published Article=

==Page 142==

'''Jarvik IX''' 
undoubtedly named for Robert Koffler Jarvik (born 1946), inventor of the first artificial heart placed in a human being

==Page 143==

'''Etienne Aigner''' 
a fashionable leather goods manufacturer

==Page 144==

'''Brigham and Women's City of Boston Hospital''' 
a [http://www.brighamandwomens.org/ real hospital], now affiliated with Harvard Medical School

=Tally of Sèparatisteur/Anti-O.N.A.N. Groups=

==Page 144==

'''''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=

==Page 144==

'''homuncular''' 
of or pertaining to a diminutive human being

==Page 145==

'''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

==Page 146==

'''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].

==Page 147==

'''furtive''' 
shifty or sneaky

'''''Physiognomic Dysphoria''''' 
Loosely, it means "feeling badly about how one looks."

==Page 148==

'''snafus''' 
plural of "snafu," a military acronym for "situation normal: all fucked up"

==Page 149==

'''ostentatious''' 
pretentious or showy

==Page 150==

'''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

==Page 151==

'''electric zirconium jewelry''' 
Jewelry made of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zircon zircon]. Electricity can be applied to a zircon to make a lamp.

'''NoCoat LinguaScrapers''' 
tongue scrapers designed to remove a film coat

'''and c.''' 
''Et cetera'' or ''etc.'' is Latin for "and other things." Here Wallace has translated ''et'' and left ''c'' untranslated.

'''panagoraphobia''' 
fear of going outside (agoraphobia) in any place (pan-)

=☽ - Urine Testing=

==Page 151==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

'''agnate''' 
related or akin through males, as in a line of males and a line of females (coeds)

'''widow's peak''' 
a hairline that dips down to a V-shaped point in front when the hair is pulled back

==Page 152==

==Endnote 52==

'''spectrometer''' 
an optical instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum

'''E.M.I.T. and AbuScreen/RIA''' 
Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Technique; Abusecreen is a brand name of drug test, and RIA stands for radioimmunoassay, "a procedure that measures minute amounts of a substance, such as a hormone or drug, by quantitating the binding, or the inhibition of binding, of a radiolabeled substance to an antibody" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition'').

==Page 152 (cont'd)==

'''cc''' 
cubic centimeter, equal to 0.001 liters

'''wienerman''' 
hot-dog salesman

==Page 153==

'''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 level 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

==Page 154==

'''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.

==Page 155==

'''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''' 

'''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

==Page 156==

'''dewy-eyed''' 
exhibiting childlike simplicity

'''''FIENDS IN HUMAN SHAPE''''' 
how a Memphis newspaper described Union soldiers during the Civil War

'''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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==Page 127==

'''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

==Page 128==

'''''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=

==Page 128==

'''crewed''' 
worked in a gang

'''boosting''' 
stealing

'''onnings''' 
awnings

==Page 129==

'''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

==Page 130==

'''dopesick''' 
in withdrawal from opiates such as heroin

'''supperst''' 
supposed

'''petaled ass''' 
(pedaled 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

==Page 131==

'''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

==Page 132==

'''stoal''' 
stole

==Page 133==

'''super statiously''' 
superstitiously

==Page 134==

'''Hotshots''' 
poisoned heroin so as to be lethal when injected

'''booted''' 
injected

'''thearized''' 
theorized

==Page 135==

'''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

=☽ November 3rd, YDAU - Orin calls Hal (about Separatism)=

==Page 135==

==Page 136==

'''Phoenician''' 
Orin uses it to mean a native of Phoenix, but the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicians Phoenicians] were actually an ancient culture who founded the city of Carthage.

==Page 137==

'''Advent''' 
the four Sundays preceding Christmas

=Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House=

==Page 137==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

'''Walpole''' 
a suburb of Boston about eighteen miles from the city

==Page 138==

'''mythopoeia''' 
the creating of a myth

=State Farm E-mail - my def. of a bad day.=

==Page 138==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland]]

==Page 139==

'''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

==Page 140==

'''30 kg''' 
a little over 66 pounds

=February 21st, YPWC - Hal's First Film Commentary=

==Page 140==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken]]

==Page 141==

'''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)

==Page 142==

'''Probity''' 
integrity

=August 10th, YDAU - Helen Steeply's Only Putative Published Article=

==Page 142==

'''Jarvik IX''' 
undoubtedly named for Robert Koffler Jarvik (born 1946), inventor of the first artificial heart placed in a human being

==Page 143==

'''Etienne Aigner''' 
a fashionable leather goods manufacturer

==Page 144==

'''Brigham and Women's City of Boston Hospital''' 
a [http://www.brighamandwomens.org/ real hospital], now affiliated with Harvard Medical School

=Tally of Sèparatisteur/Anti-O.N.A.N. Groups=

==Page 144==

'''''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=

==Page 144==

'''homuncular''' 
of or pertaining to a diminutive human being

==Page 145==

'''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

==Page 146==

'''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].

==Page 147==

'''furtive''' 
shifty or sneaky

'''''Physiognomic Dysphoria''''' 
Loosely, it means "feeling badly about how one looks."

==Page 148==

'''snafus''' 
plural of "snafu," a military acronym for "situation normal: all fucked up"

==Page 149==

'''ostentatious''' 
pretentious or showy

==Page 150==

'''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

==Page 151==

'''electric zirconium jewelry''' 
Jewelry made of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zircon zircon]. Electricity can be applied to a zircon to make a lamp.

'''NoCoat LinguaScrapers''' 
tongue scrapers designed to remove a film coat

'''and c.''' 
''Et cetera'' or ''etc.'' is Latin for "and other things." Here Wallace has translated ''et'' and left ''c'' untranslated.

'''panagoraphobia''' 
fear of going outside (agoraphobia) in any place (pan-)

=☽ - Urine Testing=

==Page 151==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

'''agnate''' 
related or akin through males, as in a line of males and a line of females (coeds)

'''widow's peak''' 
a hairline that dips down to a V-shaped point in front when the hair is pulled back

==Page 152==

==Endnote 52==

'''spectrometer''' 
an optical instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum

'''E.M.I.T. and AbuScreen/RIA''' 
Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Technique; Abusecreen is a brand name of drug test, and RIA stands for radioimmunoassay, "a procedure that measures minute amounts of a substance, such as a hormone or drug, by quantitating the binding, or the inhibition of binding, of a radiolabeled substance to an antibody" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition'').

==Page 152 (cont'd)==

'''cc''' 
cubic centimeter, equal to 0.001 liters

'''wienerman''' 
hot-dog salesman

==Page 153==

'''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 level 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

==Page 154==

'''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.

==Page 155==

'''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''' 

'''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

==Page 156==

'''dewy-eyed''' 
exhibiting childlike simplicity

'''''FIENDS IN HUMAN SHAPE''''' 
how a Memphis newspaper described Union soldiers during the Civil War

'''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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==Page 127==

'''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

==Page 128==

'''''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=

==Page 128==

'''crewed''' 
worked in a gang

'''boosting''' 
stealing

'''onnings''' 
awnings

==Page 129==

'''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

==Page 130==

'''dopesick''' 
in withdrawal from opiates such as heroin

'''supperst''' 
supposed

'''petaled ass''' 
(pedaled 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

==Page 131==

'''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

==Page 132==

'''stoal''' 
stole

==Page 133==

'''super statiously''' 
superstitiously

==Page 134==

'''Hotshots''' 
poisoned heroin so as to be lethal when injected

'''booted''' 
injected

'''thearized''' 
theorized

==Page 135==

'''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

=☽ November 3rd, YDAU - Orin calls Hal (about Separatism)=

==Page 135==

==Page 136==

'''Phoenician''' 
Orin uses it to mean a native of Phoenix, but the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicians Phoenicians] were actually an ancient culture who founded the city of Carthage.

==Page 137==

'''Advent''' 
the four Sundays preceding Christmas

=Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House=

==Page 137==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

'''Walpole''' 
a suburb of Boston about eighteen miles from the city

==Page 138==

'''mythopoeia''' 
the creating of a myth

=State Farm E-mail - my def. of a bad day.=

==Page 138==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland]]

==Page 139==

'''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

==Page 140==

'''30 kg''' 
a little over 66 pounds

=February 21st, YPWC - Hal's First Film Commentary=

==Page 140==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken]]

==Page 141==

'''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)

==Page 142==

=August 10th, YDAU - Helen Steeply's Only Putative Published Article=

==Page 142==

'''Jarvik IX''' 
undoubtedly named for Robert Koffler Jarvik (born 1946), inventor of the first artificial heart placed in a human being

==Page 143==

'''Etienne Aigner''' 
a fashionable leather goods manufacturer

==Page 144==

'''Brigham and Women's City of Boston Hospital''' 
a [http://www.brighamandwomens.org/ real hospital], now affiliated with Harvard Medical School

=Tally of Sèparatisteur/Anti-O.N.A.N. Groups=

==Page 144==

'''''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=

==Page 144==

'''homuncular''' 
of or pertaining to a diminutive human being

==Page 145==

'''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

==Page 146==

'''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].

==Page 147==

'''furtive''' 
shifty or sneaky

'''''Physiognomic Dysphoria''''' 
Loosely, it means "feeling badly about how one looks."

==Page 148==

'''snafus''' 
plural of "snafu," a military acronym for "situation normal: all fucked up"

==Page 149==

'''ostentatious''' 
pretentious or showy

==Page 150==

'''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

==Page 151==

'''electric zirconium jewelry''' 
Jewelry made of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zircon zircon]. Electricity can be applied to a zircon to make a lamp.

'''NoCoat LinguaScrapers''' 
tongue scrapers designed to remove a film coat

'''and c.''' 
''Et cetera'' or ''etc.'' is Latin for "and other things." Here Wallace has translated ''et'' and left ''c'' untranslated.

'''panagoraphobia''' 
fear of going outside (agoraphobia) in any place (pan-)

=☽ - Urine Testing=

==Page 151==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

'''agnate''' 
related or akin through males, as in a line of males and a line of females (coeds)

'''widow's peak''' 
a hairline that dips down to a V-shaped point in front when the hair is pulled back

==Page 152==

==Endnote 52==

'''spectrometer''' 
an optical instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum

'''E.M.I.T. and AbuScreen/RIA''' 
Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Technique; Abusecreen is a brand name of drug test, and RIA stands for radioimmunoassay, "a procedure that measures minute amounts of a substance, such as a hormone or drug, by quantitating the binding, or the inhibition of binding, of a radiolabeled substance to an antibody" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition'').

==Page 152 (cont'd)==

'''cc''' 
cubic centimeter, equal to 0.001 liters

'''wienerman''' 
hot-dog salesman

==Page 153==

'''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 level 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

==Page 154==

'''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''' 

'''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

'''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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'''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''' 
(pedaled 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=

==Page 137==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

'''Walpole''' 
a suburb of Boston about eighteen miles from the city

==Page 138==

=State Farm E-mail - my def. of a bad day.=

==Page 138==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland]]

==Page 139==

'''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=

==Page 140==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken]]

==Page 141==

'''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)

==Page 142==

=August 10th, YDAU - Helen Steeply's Only Putative Published Article=

==Page 142==

'''Jarvik IX''' 
undoubtedly named for Robert Koffler Jarvik (born 1946), inventor of the first artificial heart placed in a human being

==Page 143==

'''Etienne Aigner''' 
a fashionable leather goods manufacturer

==Page 144==

'''Brigham and Women's City of Boston Hospital''' 
a [http://www.brighamandwomens.org/ real hospital], now affiliated with Harvard Medical School

=Tally of Sèparatisteur/Anti-O.N.A.N. Groups=

==Page 144==

'''''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=

==Page 144==

'''homuncular''' 
of or pertaining to a diminutive human being

==Page 145==

'''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

==Page 146==

'''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].

==Page 147==

'''furtive''' 
shifty or sneaky

'''''Physiognomic Dysphoria''''' 
Loosely, it means "feeling badly about how one looks."

==Page 148==

'''snafus''' 
plural of "snafu," a military acronym for "situation normal: all fucked up"

==Page 149==

'''ostentatious''' 
pretentious or showy

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'''verve''' 
enthusiasm or vigor

'''precipitant''' 
sudden, hasty, or rash

'''micro-econometrist''' 
An econometrist is an economist who uses statistical methods. A microeconomist is an economist who studies a smaller level of economics, i.e., firms and businesses rather than nations or international business.

'''Ludditism''' 
Named for Ned Ludd (born Ned Ludlam), the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite Luddites] were 19th century opposers of the Industrial Revolution.

'''retrograde''' 
moving backward

==Page 151==

'''electric zirconium jewelry''' 
Jewelry made of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zircon zircon]. Electricity can be applied to a zircon to make a lamp.

'''NoCoat LinguaScrapers''' 
tongue scrapers designed to remove a film coat

'''and c.''' 
''Et cetera'' or ''etc.'' is Latin for "and other things." Here Wallace has translated ''et'' and left ''c'' untranslated.

'''panagoraphobia''' 
fear of going outside (agoraphobia) in any place (pan-)

=☽ - Urine Testing=

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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

'''agnate''' 
related or akin through males, as in a line of males and a line of females (coeds)

'''widow's peak''' 
a hairline that dips down to a V-shaped point in front when the hair is pulled back

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==Endnote 52==

'''spectrometer''' 
an optical instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum

'''E.M.I.T. and AbuScreen/RIA''' 
Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Technique; Abusecreen is a brand name of drug test, and RIA stands for radioimmunoassay, "a procedure that measures minute amounts of a substance, such as a hormone or drug, by quantitating the binding, or the inhibition of binding, of a radiolabeled substance to an antibody" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition'').

==Page 152 (cont'd)==

'''cc''' 
cubic centimeter, equal to 0.001 liters

'''wienerman''' 
hot-dog salesman

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'''Yarmouth sail''' 
a type of boat sail, seen [http://www.ephotozine.com/photo/657716 here]

'''Pepperdine''' 
a [http://www.pepperdine.edu/ university] in Malibu, Calif.

'''derrick''' 
A derrick is "a jib crane having a boom hinged near the base of the mast so as to rotate about the mast, for moving a load toward or away from the mast by raising or lowering the boom" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''foot-treadle''' 
a level 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.

==Page 155==

'''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''' 

'''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

==Page 156==

'''dewy-eyed''' 
exhibiting childlike simplicity

'''''FIENDS IN HUMAN SHAPE''''' 
how a Memphis newspaper described Union soldiers during the Civil War

'''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 

'''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 competant 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 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.oegmag.com/Magnaport.asp Mag-Na-Port] is real also, but this particular gun model is apparently made-up.

'''Charleston''' 
a dance popular in the 1920s

'''mesquite''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesquite mesquite] plant

==Page 95==

=YDAU - ETA Locker Room=

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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.=

==Page 97==

'''digitate''' 
having fingers

=ETA Locker Room, cont.=

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==Page 98==

'''Zoltan''' 
Zoltán was a 10th century ruler of Hungary.

'''Csikzentmihalyi''' 
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (''sic'') is a psychologist best known for his concept of "flow", a psychological state where one "is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity", e.g. "being in the zone" while playing sports.

'''Idris Arslanian, new this year, ethnically vague''' 
Idris is an Arabic name, corresponding in the Qur'an to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch%2C_ancestor_of_Noah Enoch] in the Bible. The last name Arslanian sounds Armenian, though ''Arslan'' is a Turkish word for "lion."

'''R.A.''' 
Resident Assistant

'''Tex Watson''' 
Besides a character in ''Infinite Jest,'' Tex Watson was the nickname of Charles Watson, one of the chief murderers in the Charles Manson Family.

'''ephebes''' 
An ephebe is an adolescent male.

'''suppliants''' 
A suppliant is a petitioner.

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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

==Page 100==

'''cognomen''' 
a nickname

'''inflation-generative grammar''' 
i.e. a set of rules to generates phrases of increasing emphasis

==Page 101==

'''semion''' 
A semion is technically part of an anyon, the latter of which is defined in the ''OED'' as "a particle having characteristics intermediate between those of fermions and bosons in two-dimensional space." However, it seems Wallace uses the word as a form closer to "semiotics." A later search reveals that ''semion'' is Greek for "sign."

'''Umbrian''' 
From the Italian ''reggione'' of Umbria, in central Italy. Hal is Italian on his father's side, as well as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pima Pima] Native American. His mother, of course, is French-Canadian.

'''Brylcreemed''' 
Used as a verb here, Brylcreem was a brand name of men's hair grooming product.

'''zygomatics''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygomatics zygomatic bones] of the face

==Page 102==

'''haul ashes''' 
For a history of this term, click [http://www.wordwizard.com/ch_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6859 here].

'''Johnny Mathis's "Chances Are"''' 
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==

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==

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'''gibbous''' 
the shape of the moon when it is neither full, nor crescent, nor half, i.e., when it is more than half full

'''Quonsets''' 
short form for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut Quonset huts]

=November 3rd, YDAU - Advice to Little Brothers=

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'''Stan Smith''' 
Born in 1946, Smith is a retired professional tennis player, having won Wimdledon and the U.S. Open once each.

'''dessicated''' 
dried out

==Endnote 46==

'''corticatization''' 
probably a misspelling of [http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?query=corticalization&action=Search+OMD corticalization]

==Page 111==

'''E.N.T. oncologist''' 
ear, nose, and throat; an oncologist is a cancer physician

'''violas''' 
A viola is a like a violin, only slightly larger and deeper in tone.

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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).

==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

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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 a thrashing (at tennis), particularly hitting the ball at your opponent

==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 quite family name, meaning something like "cart worker", but nobody would call a chauffeur that way!]

'''guilloche''' 
This is "an ornamental pattern or border, as in architecture, consisting of paired ribbons or lines flowing in interlaced curves around a series of circular voids" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''A la contraire''' 
A French mistake: Should be ''au contraire'' (masculine)

'''gingival mound''' 
mound of gum tissue

==Page 121==

'''aperçu''' 
an insight

=Mario Incandenza's romantic experience=
==Page 121==

'''two hundred kilos''' 
over 440 pounds

'''Southpaw''' 
left-handed

==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.=

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'''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=

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'''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==
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'''G. Ford - early G. Bush''' 
Roughly 1974 to 1989.

'''S.A.C.''' 
Strategic Air Command.

'''neutron''' 
A subatomic particle with no charge.

'''gamma-refractive''' 
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.

'''lithium-adonized''' 
Made more beautiful with lithium.

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'''cold annular fusion''' 
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a taurus (donut).

'''Tableaux''' 
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.

'''homolosine-cartography''' 
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].

'''optative''' 
Expressing a wish or choice.

'''U.S.T.A.''' 
United States Tennis Association.

'''après-garde''' 
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''

==Endnote 24 - JOI's Filmography==
See [[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_24_.C2.B7_JAMES_O._INCANDENZA:_A_FILMOGRAPHY|Notes and Errata - Endnote 24]]

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'''Macdonald Chair''' 
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic.

'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University''' 
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal.

'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems''' 
These are two systems of cognition, the 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.

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'''F.C.''' 
Perhaps "formerly Canadian."

'''A.E.C.''' 
Atomic Energy Commission.

'''ARPA-NET''' 
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.

'''L'Islet County''' 
A county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains.

'''hyperfloration''' 
Overgrowth of flowers or plants.

'''festschrift''' 
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.

'''anticonfluential''' 
against things coming together

'''chiaroscuro''' 
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting.

'''annulation''' 
The formation of rings.

'''hypertrophied''' 
Grown exceeding large.

=November 1st, YDAU - Denver, CO - The Cardinals=
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'''tacks''' 
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.

'''Mile-High''' 
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos played until 2001.

'''100 meters over the 40''' 
''I.e.'', the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.

'''nongarish''' 
Not garish, ''i.e.'', not excessively ornate.

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'''zither''' 
A harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels.

'''water-drops''' 
Being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks.

'''Oiler''' 
The former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans.

'''Brown''' 
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.

=☽ - Pemulis's lecture=
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'''organopsychedelic''' 
An organic molecule which, when ingested, produces a psychedelic effect.

'''isoxazole-alkaloid''' 
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.

''' ''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])

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'''methoxylated''' 
Addition of a methoxy group. Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."

'''phenylkylamine''' 
Possibly a made-up substance.

'''rock and bob Hasidically''' 
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim (and some Jews of other traditions) do when praying or studying religious texts.

'''titrated''' 
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (''e.g.'' one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD, test shot of heroin).

=Please Play=
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==Endnote 26==

'''enkephalin''' 
A type of painkiller

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'''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=

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'''Watteau''' 
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.

'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States''''' 
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.

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'''hypocapnia''' 
Reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation.

'''emery board''' 
A disposable nail file.

'''Wellesley Hills''' 
A section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston.

'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital''' 
A real hospital.

'''Parnate''' 
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.

'''dysphoria''' 
A mental state of feeling horrible.

'''diurnal''' 
During the day. Opposite of nocturnal.

'''w/w/o''' 
With and without.

'''CO''' 
Carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide.

'''hemotoxicity''' 
Poisonous blood level.

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'''Librium''' 
Brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal.

'''Dretske''' 
Perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind.

'''Mydol''' 
A misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol].

'''trepidation''' 
Hesitancy caused by fear.

'''facial affect''' 
Emotions expressed on the face.

'''Lithonate''' 
A brand name of lithium.

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'''plestor''' 
Another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter].

'''plangent''' 
Loud and resounding.

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'''carpopedal''' 
Involving both the hands and feet.

'''tetanic''' 
Pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually.

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'''circumorals''' 
Muscles around the mouth.

'''thigmotactic''' 
Having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus.

'''dentate''' 
Having teeth.

'''synclinal''' 
Sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /.

'''Sinse''' 
Short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana.

'''duBois''' 
Fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette.

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'''uremic''' 
Smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood.

==Endnote 30==

'''boric acid''' 
Also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects.

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'''the T''' 
Local public transit in the Boston metro area.

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'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."''' 
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].

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'''0145h.''' 
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.

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'''rictus''' 
A gaping grimace.

=Schtitt & Mario discuss the game=

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'''Nick Bolletieri''' 
A [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach].

'''epaulets''' 
Military shoulder decorations on clothing.

'''a philosopher instead of a king''' 
Although Plato stresses, in the ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.

'''Lebensgefährtins''' 
Wallace's endnote 31(p. 994) claims this "means technically 'soulmate' or 'spouse'", but a more accurate translation would be 'life partner'. NB: 'Lebensgefährtin' is the feminine form of the noun. NB2: Schtitt's use of '-s' to indicate plural is incorrect for 'real' German (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."

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'''tympana''' 
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.

'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST''''' 

The euphemistic translation aside, this literally means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.

'''discursive''' 
Rambling in speech.

'''wonk''' 
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

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'''simpatico''' 
In agreement.

==Endnote 34==

'''Mandelbrotian''' 
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.

'''post-Gödelian''' 
Coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher.

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'''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.

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'''''palestra''''' 
An ancient Greek school of wrestling.

'''experialist''' 
Like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste.

'''''Verstiegenheit''''' 
Literally German for "eccentricity." But this word is really old-fashion 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.

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'''D.T.''' 
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].

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'''12°C''' 
~54°F

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'''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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'''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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