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=Mario longs for M.P., goes for a walk=

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'''Revelation of John''' 
the last book of the New Testament

'''Dysautonomia''' 
any disease or malfunction of the central nervous system

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'''XL''' 
extra-large

'''preverbally''' 
before speaking

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'''''ONE DAY A''''' 
"One Day at a Time," an AA slogan

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Wonderchicken]]

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==Page 593==

'''Rindge and Latin School''' 
Cambridge Rindge and Latin School - the only public high school in Cambridge MA.

=Life as an Ennet House Staff Member=

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'''picayune''' 
petty

'''lithium''' 
used to treat bipolar disorder

'''Sylvia Plate''' 
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was an American poet and suicide.

==Page 594==

'''narc''' 
a narcotics officer

'''verbatim''' 
word for word

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==Page 596==

=Orin & the "Swiss" hand model, cont.=

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'''tamping''' 
packing down the tobacco

==Page 597==

'''cuckolds''' 
men whose wives cheat on them

'''zaftig''' 
a Yiddish word meaning, roughly, "voluptuous"

'''pectorals''' 
chest muscles

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''''Plus or minus three percent sample.'''' 
This is the margin of error on the supposed survey Orin is about to take.

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'''CO2''' 
a misprint, likely, for CO2, i.e., carbon dioxide

'''omnissent''' 
Orin means "omniscient."

'''Schmeisser GBF''' 
Schmeisser doesn't appear to be a gun manufacturer anymore, but it was in Germany until the fall of the Third Reich. GBF may stand for "German Battle Force."

'''retromandibular''' 
behind the lower jaw

'''Sermonette''' 
a short sermon

'''Evensong''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evening_Prayer_%28Anglican%29 evening prayer] of the Episcopal church

'''megahertz''' 
a measurement of cycles per second

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'''Actors' Guild''' 
a reference to the [http://www.sag.org/ Screen Actors Guild]

'''Jeannie, Samantha, Sam and Diane, Gilligan, Hawkeye, Hazel, Jed''' 
characters from, respectively, [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058815/ ''I Dream of Jeannie''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057733/ ''Bewitched''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083399/ ''Cheers''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057751/ ''Gilligan's Island''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068098/ ''M*A*S*H''], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054545/ ''Hazel''], and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055662/ ''The Beverly Hillbillies''].

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'''''comme on dit''''' 
French: as they say

=Canadians chase Lenz to Ennet House=

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==Endnote 247==

'''the Hole''' 
prison slang for solitary confinement

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==Endnote 248==

'''Natick''' 
a town in Massachusetts about 20 miles west of Boston

'''third year of [[Subsidized Time]]''' 
i.e., the [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Trial-Sized Dove Bar]]

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'''skivvies''' 
underwear

'''per diem''' 
Latin: per day

'''klaxon''' 
a loud metal horn

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'''B.U. or -C. students''' 
i.e., students of Boston University or (Boston) College

'''constitutionally''' 
meaning "psychologically" (or even "physiologically")

'''a kind of idolotry of uniqueness''' 
i.e., a worship of individuality

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'''rack''' 
bed (perhaps a bunk, here)

'''seventh sense''' 
implying that Gately also possesses the sixth sense (i.e., extrasensory perception or at least uncommonly keen intuition), and suggests an ability to recognize that someone else is under the influence (although some of the first five could probably tell him that)

'''Sergeant at Arms''' 
a figurative use, probably suggesting that the drugs Lenz took have commanded him to keep moving (in the manner of a drill sergeant)

'''incognitoizing''' 
Gately's mental neologism for "rendering incognito," i.e., disguising

'''regentrifying''' 
Lenz means "regenerating" rather than "refurbishing (again)"

'''L-Dopa''' 
abbreviation for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-Dopa levadopa]

'''scrotum-tightening''' 
An epithet first used by James Joyce in Chapter 1 of his 1922 novel ''Ulysses''. Buck Mulligan is gazing at the Dublin Bay: "--God, he said quietly. Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a grey sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea. Epi oinopa ponton. Ah, Dedalus, the Greeks. I must teach you. You must read them in the original. Thalatta! Thalatta! She is our great sweet mother. Come and look." (''Epi oinopa ponton'' is Homer's famous descriptor for the Aegean Sea from ''The Odyssey'': the wine-dark sea.)

==Endnote 252==

'''boilerplate''' 
standard text entered identically, as into contracts

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'''Duster''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Duster Plymouth Duster]

'''lacteal''' 
milky

'''rear-mount engine''' 
all Volkswagen bugs have rear-mounted engines

'''prostrate''' 
lying flat on the ground (or, here, a bed)

'''kosher''' 
Here Gately means "OK," whereas this literally, in Yiddish, refers to food "prepared according to Jewish Law."

'''Daytona''' 
i.e., the Daytona 500, a yearly auto race

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'''Simonize''' 
to shine or polish to a high sheen

'''Premium''' 
high-octane gasoline

'''adtorsion''' 
outward rotation of a limb

'''Hoits''' 
i.e., "hurts"

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'''high-B#''' 
Equivalent to the pitch of C, and vocally, the high C is two octaves above middle C.

'''SHUCO-MIST M.P.S.''' 
Shuco-Mist Medical Pressure Systems (mentioned on page 198) is perhaps the fictional manufacturer a brand of nebulizer (actually spelled "Schuco Mist") for use by asthma patients.

==Page 609==

'''imprecating''' 
calling down curses on others

'''in tandem''' 
together as a unit

'''Weaver stance''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaver_stance popular technique] for firing a handgun

'''Made Guys''' 
members of the Mafia in full standing

'''at bay''' 
facing attackers

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'''wicks''' 
draws off (liquid) by capillary action

'''dum-dums''' 
bullets that mushroom on impact for maximum bodily damage

'''lending weight to another cliché''' 
presumably E.M. Security is "never there when you need them."

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'''Pomade''' 
a substance men used to use to style their hair

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'''''sans-Crist bâtard''''' 
French: Anti-Christ bastard

'''Pépé or Bébé''' 
apparently the name of the dog that Lenz just killed

'''''maricones''''' 
Spanish: homosexuals (note that Brazilians actually speak Portuguese, not Spanish)

'''two meters''' 
about 6.6 feet

'''Canadian''' 
i.e., Québecois French

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'''breezeblocked''' 
a breezeblock is a cinder block

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'''appointments''' 
furnishings

'''ailanthus''' 
a common form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ailanthus urban plant]

'''two meters''' 
an apparent exaggeration

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'''winged''' 
shot in the arm

'''three meters''' 
about 9.8 feet

'''Copernicanly''' 
Apparently in the manner of Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), famed for theorizing that the Earth orbits the Sun rather than vice versa, but this raises the question of ''why'' or ''how'' in the manner of Copernicus. It does not seem that Erdedy has a telescope, but perhaps he is "staring...up her [the veiled girl's] flapping robe" looking for the center of the universe.

'''Serenity Prayer''' 
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

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'''loafers''' 
shoes that slip on, rather than tie with laces

'''desisted''' 
stopped (but Wade McD. probably meant 'deceased')

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''''By doze is fide.'''' 
"My nose is fine" said by someone with a broken nose, i.e., Green

'''Clearasil''' 
a brand name of benzoyl peroxide, for acne

''''I'b dot touchig dothig, dud worry.'''' 
Again, Green speaking with his broken nose: "I'm not touching nothing, don't worry."

'''shock''' 
insufficient blood flow to the body's organs and tissues, often following an injury but sometimes following an emotional shock

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'''Shylock''' 
He means "Sherlock." Shylock is the Jewish "villain" in Shakespeare's ''The Merchant of Venice.''

'''Supervised''' 
on supervised probation

'''Madame Psychosis is in charge.''' 
This is the first time Joelle has been positively ID'ed as M.P. (She is referred to as "a.k.a. Madame P." much earlier on page 225)

'''Secyotty!''' 
"Security!" screamed with a thick Boston accent

'''chanties''' 
He means "shanties," i.e., songs.

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'''''oddering''''' 
i.e., ordering

'''collops''' 
rolls of fat

'''fish-eye lens''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish-eye_lens wide-angle lens]

'''And lo''' 
a reference to the opening of the M.P. radio show

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