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'''LOVE CANAL''' 
an area near Buffalo, N.Y., famous for its high amount of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Canal toxic waste] and the effects it had on the residents there

'''EPA''' 
Environmental Protection Agency

'''Berlin, NH''' 
a town in New Hampshire very close to the Canadian border

'''Rumford, ME''' 
Rumford is in Maine, less than 50 miles due east of Berlin, N.H.

'''MONTPELIER''' 
the capital of Vermont

'''Lancaster NH''' 
a city about twenty miles west of Berlin, N.H.

'''INFARCTION''' 
heart attack

'''ANEURISM''' 
a misspelling of "aneurysm," it's a bursting of a weak blood vessel, if in the brain, usually causing a stroke

'''SALEM MA''' 
a city 15 miles up the coast from Boston

'''FROM SYRACUSE TO TICONDEROGA, NY''' 
This line would go right through [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adirondack_Park Adirondack Park] in New York.

'''FROM TICODEROGA, NY TO SALEM, MA''' 
The lower corner of Vermont lies below this line.

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'''claque''' 
a group of sycophants

'''hale''' 
healthy

'''Kevlar''' 
a synthetic substance used in, among other things, bulletproof vests

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'''aspersion''' 
a disparaging remark

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'''saprogenic''' 
causing or caused by putrefaction or decay

'''Bôf''' 
defined by the Cambridge Online French-English dictionary as an interjection "expressing a lack of interest or enthusiasm"

'''maroon''' 
i.e., a moron

'''benighted''' 
overtaken by darkness

'''cojones''' 
Spanish for "testicles"

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'''faute-de-mieux''' 
for lack of something better.

'''redemisement''' 
see discussion of "redemised" at [[Pages_306-321#Page_319|page 319]]

'''scenario''' 
"Scenarios" is the correct plural.

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

'''Tyrolean hats''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrolean_hat Tyrolean hat], named after the region of Tyrol, is associated with the Austrian Alps. Tyrolean hats have a cord wrapped around the base of the crown and a feather or brush on the side as trim. For an example, see right.

'''H.E.W.''' 
the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

'''rife''' 
abounding

'''Eminent nondomain''' 
"Eminent domain" is the right of the government to seize private property to serve a greater good. This would be the opposite, i.e., the right of the government to divest or cede private property to serve the greater good.

'''''bien sûr''''' 
French: of course

'''U.S.O.''' 
United States Organizations, an organization dedicated to entertaining troops at war

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'''coup de grâce''' 
French: death blow

'''recalcitrant''' 
hard to deal with or manage

'''''¿Qué?''' 
Spanish: What?

'''Yukon''' 
a territory of northwest Canada that borders Alaska's western border

'''Brinksmanship''' 
According to the ''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'', this is "the technique or practice of maneuvering a dangerous situation to the limits of tolerance or safety in order to secure the greatest advantage, esp. by creating diplomatic crises."

'''1/3-rpm''' 
This is one-third of a revolution per minute. LPs go literally 100 times faster.

''''Flight of the Bumblebee'''' 
an interlude in ''The Tale of Tsar Saltan'', an opera by Russian composer Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

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'''IMBROGLIO''' 
a misunderstanding or disagreement between persons or nations

'''SIN CITY''' 
Las Vegas

'''F.E.C.''' 
Federal Elections Commission

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

'''BK''' 
Burger King

'''catastatic''' 
of or pertaining to the climax of a play, movie, etc

'''puppet-à-clef''' 

A roman à clef is a novel based on a true story with the actual names of characters changed (similarly for film à clef). So, the puppet show has changed the names of the Clipperton story.

'''radon''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radon chemical element] that contaminates homes in gaseous form

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'''Maddox OH''' 
doesn't appear to be a real place

'''Hartford''' 
the capital of Connecticut

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'''Elmer's''' 
a brand of glue

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'''renumeration''' 
Context indicates that the word should be ''remuneration''.

==Endnote 159==

'''Durban''' 
the second most populous city in S. Africa, on the country's southeast coast

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'''Clipperton ''même''''' 
French: Clipperton himself

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'''transverse aberration''' 
this is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberration_of_light aberration of light] across a field

==Endnote 159==

'''testatory codicil''' 

A testator is someone who has a will, and a codicil is a supplement to a will.

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'''Sunkist''' 
a brand of fruit and fruit drinks

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'''incipient''' 
beginning to develop

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'''Szechuan''' 
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szechuan Sichuan]

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

'''Sherman statutes''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act anti-trust act] introduced by Sen. John Sherman of Ohio (1823-1900)

'''TCI''' 
Tele-Communications, Inc. (now defunct)

'''Malone''' 
John C. Malone (born 1941), now CEO of Liberty Media

'''TBS''' 
Turner Broadcasting System, founded by Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III (born 1938)

'''CBC''' 
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation Wikipedia])

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'''American Council of Disseminators of Cable''' 
Look at the first letters of the capitalized words.

'''HDTV''' 
High-Definition Television

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'''liposuction''' 
a surgical procedure whereby fat is literally sucked out of the body

'''P.T.A.s''' 
Parent-Teacher Associations

'''PACs''' 
Political Action Committees

'''REM''' 
Rapid Eye Movement

'''kabal''' 
an alternate spelling of "cabal," meaning a small group of secret plotters

'''spinal camel-straw''' 
the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back(bone)

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

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'''avuncular''' 
suggestive of an uncle

'''Preparation H''' 
a brand-name ointment for hemorrhoids

'''Überad''' 
a super advertisement, using the German ''über'' ("super") as a prefix

'''MLB''' 
Major League Baseball

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'''Ch. 11 protection''' 
Chapter 11, a section of the bankruptcy code under which one could file for protection from creditors

'''Dow turned Grizzly''' 
i.e., a bear (downward-moving) market environment began

''''Happy Days'''' 
a once-successful [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070992/ television series] on ABC

'''La Honda CA''' 
a tiny town in San Mateo County, California

'''Icarian''' 
In the manner of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus Icarus], who flew too close to the sun with wings crafted from feathers and wax by his father Daedalus. The heat from the sun melted the wax, whereupon Icarus fell into the sea and drowned.

'''penultimate''' 
next-to-last

'''mogulette''' 
a minor mogul, or perhaps a female mogul

'''Blockbuster's Huizenga''' 
the entrepreneurial company founder [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Huizenga H. Wayne Huizenga]

'''half-gainer''' 
a type of dive

'''Tobin Bridge''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobin_Bridge bridge] that connects Charleston and Chelsea, Massachusetts, over the Mystic River

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'''ken''' 
range of sight or vision

'''vox- and digitus-populi''' 
''Vox populi'' means "voice of the people" in Latin. ''Digitus populi'' would be "finger of the people."

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'''CPU''' 
Central Processing Unit

'''tentacularly''' 
as with tentacles

'''Baby Bells''' 
the seven Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) that came out of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_System_divestiture Bell System divestiture], a result of the outcome of an antitrust lawsuit (1974) against the monopolistic AT&T

'''GTE''' 
General Telephone and Electronics

'''Hobbesianly''' 
in a way suggesting that people are very much in a state of nature, i.e., without rules or laws; derived from English philosopher [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes Thomas Hobbes]

'''!''' 
Used in the 2 times the square root of area formula, the exclamation point denotes a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial factorial]. 
This formula becomes very complicated, if the factorial's argument is not an integer, which is likely to be the case when taking the square root of a random number (area).

'''mimetic''' 
used here, meaning as close to reality as possible

'''equatorial''' 
lying on the Equator

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'''mycological''' 
regarding the study of mushrooms

'''ennui''' 
listlessness or dissatisfaction through a lack of occupation or excitement

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'''Wagnerian''' 
in the style or manner of Richard Wagner, the German operatic composer

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'''fiat''' 
official sanction

'''sucrotically''' 
referring to sucrose, i.e. sugar

==Endnote 147==

'''pluck''' 
courage or resolution in the face of difficulty

'''qua''' 
in the capacity or character of

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[[Image:preachers.jpg|thumb|caption|Preacher's Hat|right|200px]]

'''toque''' 
a kind of brimless hat

'''aigrette''' 
decorative feather or plume

==Endnote 148==

'''sallet''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallet helmet], the forerunner of the modern combat helmets

'''calpac''' 
a high-crowned felt or sheepskin hat worn in Turkey, Iran, and Central Asia

'''calotte''' 
A skullcap, especially one worn by Roman Catholic priests

'''topography''' 
a detailed description of something, usually a place or region.

'''escudo''' 
Spanish for shield

'''shako''' 
tall, cylindrical military cap, usually with a visor and sometimes tapered at the top

<gallery>
Image:sallet.jpg|Sallet
Image:calpac.jpg|Calpac
Image:calotte.jpg|Calotte
Image:shako.gif|Shako
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'''maraschino''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marasca_cherry marasca cherry]

'''Redi-Whip''' 
actually Reddi-wip, a brand name of pressurized whipped cream in a can

'''tendentiously''' 
in a manner showing a definite bias or prejudice

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[[Image:Fedora.jpg|thumb|caption|Fedora|right|200px]]

'''amanuentic''' 
secretarial

'''fedoras''' 
A fedora is a soft felt hat that is creased lengthwise down the crown and pinched in the front on both sides. Similar hats with a C-crown (with an indentation for the head in the top of the crown) are occasionally called fedoras. (see right) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora Wikipedia]

'''baklava''' 
a Near Eastern dessert made from filo dough, honey, nuts, and spices

'''Echt''' 
German for "bona fide"

'''linotype''' 
short form name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linotype_machine linotype machine]

''''Let the call go forth . . . generation of Americans...'''' 
Compare John F. Kennedy's [http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres56.html inaugural address]

'''né''' 
French for "born," the feminine ''née'' being more common to denote one's birth name

'''Joyner''' 
not the real Johnny Gentle, who was born with the surname Askew and in the U.K.

'''retentive''' 
here short for "anal-retentive"

'''Dermalatix''' 
not a real product

'''Hypospectral''' 
a neologism that would mean "below the [visible] spectrum [of light]," i.e., invisible

'''epidermal''' 
of or pertaining to the outermost layer of skin

'''schmaltz''' 
rendered chicken fat, used in cooking by Jews who keep kosher (among others), who cannot use lard or other rendered pork fat; in this context, it means sentimental or corny music

==Endnote 149==

'''Frankies and Tonies''' 
likely a reference to crooners of the Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett ilk

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'''scab''' 
a derogatory word for a worker who replaces a union worker on strike

'''GE/RCA''' 
General Electric/Radio Company of America

'''fulcrum''' 
a support or point of rest

'''lap-dissolves''' 
According to Wikipedia, a lap dissolve "is a technical term in film editing, most often used in the United States, applying to the process whereby the fading last shot of a preceding scene is superimposed over the emerging first shot (fade in) of the next scene..."

'''prescient''' 
having previous knowledge

'''jingoist''' 
patriotic to an extreme

'''macrobiotic''' 
regarding a diet designed largely of whole grains and beans, designed to prolong life

'''Rush L.''' 
Rush Limbaugh, the conservative host of a popular political radio talk-show

'''Hillary R.C.''' 
Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former First Lady, and Secretary of State under President Obama

'''LaRoucheishly''' 
a reference to Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr. (born 1922), a political extremist and cult leader

==Endnote 150==

'''dioxins''' 
highly toxic by-products of pesticide manufacturing

'''high-R-waste''' 
probably refers to high radioactivity; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roentgen_%28unit%29 Roentgen] (R) is a standard for measuring radiation.

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'''post-Perot''' 
i.e., after the immediate era of Texan [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot H. Ross Perot], founder of Electronic Data Systems and twice an indepedent U.S. presidential candidate (in 1992 and in 1996, as the leader of his Reform Party)

'''white-gloved finger''' 
implying that the finger is on the hand in a white glove, used to draw one's hand over a recently cleaned surface to see if any residual dirt remains

'''U.W.S.A.''' 
United We Stand America, Perot's political movement

'''G.O.P.s''' 
Republicans, G.O.P. standing for "Grand Old Party"

'''Jihad''' 
an Arabic word meaning "struggle" but often translated as "holy war"

'''redolent''' 
extremely fragrant

'''retinue''' 
a body of attendants to a powerful person

'''psychosphere''' 
sort of a synonym for collective consciousness

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'''"majestic ambers and purple fruits"''' 
words, slightly jumbled, from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_the_Beautiful "America, the Beautiful"]

'''effluvia''' 
invisible exhalations of noxious vapors

'''CO''' 
carbon monoxide

'''Uno''' 
as in ''numero uno,'' number one

'''dandling''' 
bouncing a baby up and down, as on one's knee

'''mufti''' 
civilian clothes

'''adipose''' 
adipose tissue, i.e., fat

'''fractious''' 
unruly or angry

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'''Seal''' 
the [http://www.greatseal.com/ Great Seal] of the U.S.

'''Teutons''' 
The President seems to be using this as a place name (perhaps a malapropism of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetons Tetons]), but Teutons is an ancient term for German-speaking people.

'''imbricate-sequin dresses''' 
dresses decorated with overlapping sequins

'''wavered''' 
quavering in sound

'''Wurlitzer''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurlitzer Rudolf Wurlitzer Company], a producer of organs

'''dusky''' 
dark-skinned

'''entr' acte''' 
French: between acts

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'''glycemically''' 
in a manner that is motivated or caused by the level of sugar in the blood

'''cannolis''' 
a type of Italian dessert pastry, stuffed with sweetened ricotta cheese

'''absolution''' 
forgiveness of sins

'''jejune''' 
childish or juvenile

'''Experialism''' 
apparently another Wallace neologism, presumably the antonym of ''imperialism'', and thus perhaps "empire-dismantling" as opposed to "empire-building"

'''J.J.J.C.''' 
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien

'''sympatico''' 
in agreement

'''inexorable''' 
unyielding

'''prandial''' 
(for) eating

'''NATO''' 
North Atlantic Treaty Organization

'''EEC''' 
European Economic Community

'''oown''' 
mock-Canadian pronunciation

'''NAFTA''' 
North American Free Trade Agreement

'''butter and guns''' 
These are the typical goods used in certain economic models because they are non-competing goods. A reference to the choice between military spending and spending on the general welfare.

'''infraternal''' 
not a real word, but perhaps a Wallace (or Gentle) portmanteau of ''internal'' and ''fraternal'' (as "within the brotherhood"?)

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'''''frappeurs''''' 
apparently a French expression for something that strikes something else; literally it means 'strikers', but it seems it's usually used to refer to batters in baseball and cricket

'''ICBM''' 
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

'''maple leaf''' 
the national emblem of Canada

'''toot sweet''' 
i.e., ''tout de suite'', French for "right away" (which is pronounced very close to 'toot sweet')

''''It's a Small World After All'''' 
the song heard ''ad nauseam'' at a [http://disneyland.disney.go.com/disneyland/its-a-small-world/ Disneyland boat-ride attraction]

'''enjambment''' 
the breaking of a line at the end of a verse (in a poem, song, etc.)

=Meanwhile, in the Weight Room=

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'''purling''' 
flowing or rippling

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'''gurutical''' 
not a real word, but apparently having to do with gurus

'''fulgurant''' 
flashing like lightning

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'''glabrous''' 
smooth, hairless

'''wunderkind''' 
German: child prodigy

'''I/SPN''' 
probably meant to be a follow-up television channel to ESPN

'''M. Chang''' 
Michael Chang (born 1972) is an American former, but still-living, professional tennis player. Wallace misguessed Chang's early demise.

'''Mephistophelan''' 
referring to Mephistopheles, the devil character in Goethe's ''Faust'' and Marlowe's ''Doctor Faustus'', to whom Faust sells his soul

'''assuasive''' 
soothing, calming

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'''hagiography''' 
the biography of a saint

''''The truth will set you free...'''' 
Lyle is paraphrasing [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%208:32;&version=9; John 8:32].

'''alfresco''' 
''Al fresco'' in Italian means "outside."

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'''Seventh-Day Adventists''' 
a Protestant sect of Christianity marked by its observance of the weekly sabbath on Saturdays

'''turpitude''' 
depravity

'''dire''' 
indicating trouble

'''C.F.D.C.''' 
Caffeine-Free Diet Coke

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'''Benson & Hedges''' 
a brand of cigarettes

'''high-lipid''' 
high-fat

'''''auteur''''' 
creator, author

'''UKRAINE, TWO MORE BALTIC STATES APPLY FOR NATO INCLUSION''' 
Ukraine did not begin application for NATO membership until 2006, while the Baltic States were all admitted in 2004.

'''THERMS''' 
thermonuclear warheads

'''twelve out of fifteen NATO nations''' 
The last time NATO had fifteen members was in 1982, when Spain was admitted.

'''Finlandization''' 
This is defined as "the influence that one powerful country may have on the policies of a smaller neighboring country" and refers to Finland's relations with the USSR following WWII.

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''''BIG STICKS'''' 
Jean Chrétien admits that the issues were used here as the "big stick" in the T. Roosevelt-era "speak softly and carry a big stick" foreign policy of President Gentle.

'''TURTLE MTN. INDIAN RESERVATION''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_Mountain_Indian_Reservation reservation] for Chippewa Indians

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'''GI-X-Ray-Grade Colonic Purgative''' 
the kind of laxatives given to people about to undergo colonoscopies (GI meaning Gastro-intestinal)

'''Pruritis''' 
very bad itching

'''U.N.L.V.''' 
University of Nevada at Las Vegas

'''D.O.E.''' 
Department of Energy

'''METHUEN''' 
a city of Massachusetts about 30 miles north of Boston

'''Scorcese''' 
Martin Scorsese (b. 1942), American film director.

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'''Patridge KS''' 
a city in Kansas about 60 miles northwest of Wichita

'''telekinetic''' 
able to moves things with one's mind

'''somnambulist''' 
sleepwalker

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'''calotte''' 
a skullcap, typically worn by Roman Catholic acolytes

'''M.O.''' 
''Modus operandi'', a Latin phrase meaning the way in which a criminal operates out of habit
[[Discussion Subject|'''DISCUSSION''']] Or more generally, way of operating

'''DMV''' 
Department of Motor Vehicles

'''oncologist''' 
a physician who treats cancer

=Some of Himself's Movies=

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'''masochistic''' 
tending to enjoy pain to the point of sexual response; cf. ''sadistic'', tending to derive sexual pleasure from the infliction of pain on another

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'''sucrose''' 
table sugar

'''siren''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirens Sirens] of Greek mythology

'''56-gram''' 
about two ounces

'''Ford's Theater''' 
This is the theater where President Lincoln was assassinated.

'''muttonchops''' 
very thick sideburns

'''involuted''' 
complicated; abstruse.

'''petrification''' 
the process of turning into stone

'''Ste. Thérèse''' 
Her full name [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_de_Lisieux Thérèse de Lisieux]

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'''cottoned''' 
took a liking to

'''marquees''' 
the lighted signs on which theaters announce what is playing

'''dirndls''' 
women's dresses with close fitting bodices and full skirts

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'''loo''' 
the British word for "bathroom"

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'''''GAUDEAMUS IGITUR''''' 
Latin: Let Us Rejoice. The first line of (and alternative title for) the student song [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaudeamus_igitur 'De Brevitate Vitae'], often sung at graduation ceremonies.

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

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

'''puerile''' 
childish

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

'''''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 and Iraq

'''INDPAK''' 
India and Pakistan

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'''Mean-Value Theorem for Integrals''' 
Learn it [https://www.khanacademy.org/math/integral-calculus/solid_revolution_topic/function-average-value/v/mean-value-theorem-integrals here]. It should be noted that Wallace does not actually explain the theorem.

==Endnote 123==

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

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

'''ordnance''' 
explosives

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'''synoptic''' 
by way of summary

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

==Endnote 124==

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

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

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

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'''PCs''' 
Personal Computers

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

'''profligate''' 
recklessly extravagant

'''metastasizes''' 
spreads like cancer

'''EM''' 
electromagnetic

'''baroque''' 
extravagantly ornate

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Endnote 126==

'''picayune''' 
small or trifling

'''TRISITs''' 
triggering situations

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'''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]

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'''Prince Albert in a can''' 
An old phone gag explained in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Albert_tobacco Wikipedia entry] for the popular pipe tobacco sold in the distinctive red tin can with its portrait of Prince Albert (later King Edward VII) on its obverse side.

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

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'''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''' 
Overcome with anger; extremely indignant, so much so that it could induce a stroke

'''"...only to be asked if his refrigerator's running..."''' 
Another ancient [http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070328212331AA34OVT&show=7 phone gag]: Prankster: "Can you check to see if your refrigerator is running?" Dupe (after a pause to check): "Yes, it is." Prankster: "Well, you'd better go catch it!"

'''Air Force One''' 
technically, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_force_one any United States Air Force aircraft] carrying 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; or the capital of Libya

'''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''' 
the designation of any aircraft carrying the Vice President of the United States

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

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'''advertorial''' 
Normally this word denotes an advertisement written to appear as if it's journalism, 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

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'''probity''' 
integrity or honesty

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

'''purloined''' 
stolen

'''subterranean''' 
literally underground

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''microcephalic''' 
having a tiny head

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

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

'''cerebral''' 
oriented toward thinking

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

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

'''extant''' 
still existing

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

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

'''cod''' 
a type of fish

'''EMP''' 
electromagnetic pulse

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

'''finski'''
undoubtedly a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_five-dollar_bill five-dollar bill], from its old nickname ''fin''

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

'''obtuse''' 
Annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand

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

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

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

'''ad service box''' 
the box to serve into when an odd number of points have been played (so when one 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

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'''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 [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/map ''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.

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'''contrite''' 
apologetic

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

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

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

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

==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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''equivocationary''' 
not a real word; but of course equivocate means to deceive, so, perhaps "deceptive"?

'''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

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

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

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

'''tripartite''' 
having three parts

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

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

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'''triangulating''' 
dividing into triangles
[More likely, homing in by successive approximation]

'''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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'''candent''' 
glowing with heat

'''Orion''' 
one of the more famous [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28constellation%29 constellations] in the night sky

'''Lay''' 
non-professional

'''Anthracite''' 
a type of coal

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'''crop-and-epaulette''' 
crop being a riding crop, this would suggest a certain militaristic disposition

'''Winter Park FL''' 
a city in Florida about five miles north-northeast of Orlando

'''grange''' 
shorthand for the [http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0821549.html Granger movement], here used in the generic sense of organizing, as of labor

==Endnote 105==

'''Dworkinite''' 
The word refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Dworkin Andrea Dworkin] (1946-2005), an American radical lesbian feminist

'''Pizzitola''' 
probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzitola_Sports_Center Pizzitola Sports Center] in Providence, R.I.

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'''eustacian-crumbling''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustachian Eustachian tube] connects the inner ear to the throat; this compound adjective would mean "deafeningly loud."

'''fin''' 
a slang term for a $5 bill

'''SPN''' 
Shared Processing Network

'''joe''' 
coffee

'''Ulcerative colitis''' 
a form of inflammatory bowel disease (Wikipedia)

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'''Vivian, Utah''' 
a city about 30 miles southeast of Salt Lake City

'''Hempstead, Long Island''' 
a town in New York about 25 miles into Long Island, about halfway between the North and South shores

'''Tapio Martti''' 
"Tapio" and "Martti" are both Finnish first names. Tapio is also the Finnish pagan god of forests.

'''Sonora, Mexico''' 
a state of northern Mexico, bordering Arizona

'''Junebug''' 
a genus of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllophaga_%28genus%29 beetles] found, among elsewhere, in the Eastern U.S.

'''moonballed''' 
Here used as a past-tense verb, a moonball is a very high lob.

'''détente''' 
a relaxation of tensions

'''Frontenac''' 
probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Frontenac Battle of Fort Frontenac] during the French and Indian Wars, where the British defeated the French

'''Canadianism''' 
presumably this is a political movement of some kind, probably based on separation from the U.S.

'''rub''' 
obstacle or impediment

'''real-French''' 
as opposed to Québecois French

'''Pléaide Classics''' 
better known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioth%C3%A8que_de_la_Pl%C3%A9iade Bibliothèque de la Pléaide]

'''glottal''' 
involving the epiglottis in pronunication

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'''thorax''' 
chest

'''prenatal dentition''' 
growth of teeth before birth

'''Cartier and Roberval and Cap Rouge and Champlain''' 
Jacques Cartier (1491-1557) was a French explorer who first mapped the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and who coined the name "Canada." Jean-François de la Roque de Roberval (1500-1560) was a French pirate and first lieutenant general of New France (i.e., French Canada, i.e., Québec). Cap-Rouge is a section of present-day Québec City, where Cartier tried to place his first French settlement. Samuel de Champlain (1567-1635) was the French founder of Québec City

'''Ursuline nuns''' 
the Order of St. Ursula, the members of which teach young girls

'''wimples''' 
the head coverings that nuns wear

'''U.N. Day''' 
October 24

'''wig-and-jerkin''' 
A jerkin is a close-fitting men's jacket. With the wig, this is the costume of the early Modern warrior.

'''Amherst''' 
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717-1797), was a British field marshal and veteran of the French and Indian Wars. Town in Massachusetts named after him also gave its name to Wallace's alma mater. The story of Lord Jeffery Amherst discussing coating blankets with smallpox and distributing them to Native Americans is well-known at Amherst College.

'''Hurons''' 
More properly called the Wyandot or Wendat, these are an indigenous people of North America originally inhabiting Québec before the French arrived.

'''''variola''''' 
the Latin word for "smallpox"

'''SACPOP''' 
Strike Against Civilian Population

'''toadstool''' 
a poisonous mushroom

'''Steinkamp''' 
German: stone enclosure

'''Saluki''' 
a breed of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saluki dog]

'''ROM''' 
Read-Only Memory

'''Levesque-Parti-and-Bloc Québecois and Fronte de la Libération Nationale''' 
René Lévesque (1922-1987) was a Québecois government minister and founder of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parti_Qu%C3%A9b%C3%A9cois Parti Québécois]. Bloc Québécois promotes sovereignty for Québec while the Parti promotes independence. The Fronte mentioned above is probably a misnomer or early form of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLQ FLQ].

'''convolved''' 
wound together

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'''U.S. Interstate 87''' 
It runs from Champlain, NY, on the Canadian border, to the Bronx.

'''empiricist''' 
describing drivers orienting themselves by experience, rather than paying close attention; 'naively empiricist' probably means that they are reacting to their immediate experience without thinking

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

'''diabolic''' 
devilishly evil

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'''benzodioxane''' 
a metabolite of benzodiazepines

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'''pica''' 
craving to eat things that are not foods, occasionally occurring in pregnant women ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_(disorder) Wikipedia])

'''Vermeer''' 
Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) was a Dutch painter.

'''Toronto's Skydome''' 
Now known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skydome Rogers Centre], this is the home field of the Toronto Blue Jays.

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'''contractured''' 
having shortened muscle tissue

'''Green Valley AZ''' 
a city in Arizona about 22.5 miles due south of Tucson

'''saguaro''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saguaro cactus]

'''bradyauxetic''' 
slow in cell development

==Endnote 115==

'''Volkmann''' 
Richard von Volkmann (1830-1889) was a prominent German surgeon who described Volkmann's contracture in 1881. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Volkmann Wikipedia])

'''gerontologic''' 
having to do with the study of old age

'''lentissimo''' 
a musical term that is Italian for "very, very slowly"

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'''inebriate''' 
as a noun, a drunkard

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'''blepharoplasty''' 
surgical reshaping of the eyelid

'''corticate''' 
having an outer layer

'''mucronate''' 
having abruptly projecting points

'''nonprehensile''' 
unable to grab

'''yarmulke''' 
the Yiddish word for the skullcap that observant Jewish men wear

'''Stanford-Binet''' 
a type of IQ test

'''bradyphrenic''' 
slow witted

'''more like refracted''' 
Refraction occurs when light slows down when it enters a new medium. The change of speed also causes a change in direction of travel. Although light travels at a constant speed in a vacuum, it travels more slowly in matter.

'''joint of beef''' 
a piece of beef of a good size for roasting

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'''NNYC''' 
New New York City

'''.7-meter''' 
about 2.3 feet

'''Marino lamps''' 
shorthand for a San Marino floor lamp

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

'''codicil''' 
an addition to a legal will

==Endnote 116==

'''hyperfloriated''' 
overdecorated with floral designs

==Page 315 (cont'd)==

'''juvenilia''' 
art created by a child or teenager

'''attenuates''' 
lessens

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'''à clef''' 
French for "by key," the term is usually given as ''roman à clef'', i.e., a novel for which one needs a key to understand.

'''canted''' 
sloped at an angle

'''saurian''' 
lizard-like (especially, here, with respect to the skin)

'''homodontic''' 
having teeth of all one type (see endnote 119; in Mario's case, all his teeth are bicuspids, the two-pronged sort normally found between the canines and the molars)

'''tangrams''' 
a type of Chinese puzzle

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'''''l'aine des Etats Unis''''' 
French: the groin of the United States

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'''redemised''' 
"Demise" is a legal term meaning to convey or lease land. Redemised title would normally refer to an interest returned to the original owner, as in a sale and lease-back, but may here just refer to a second transfer of title, or regifting as we say at Christmas time.

'''Sans-Christe''' 
French: Without Christ

'''''Un ennemi commun''''' 
French: a common enemy

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'''''L'état protecteur''''' 
French: the protector-state

'''lume nacreous''' 
pearly light

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'''White halogen''' 
i.e., the light from a halogen lamp

'''pallor''' 
an unhealthy pale appearance.

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'''2^27''' 
2^27 (2 to the 27th power) = 134,217,728

Wallace's math is completely wrong, though -- assuming each match has a 50% chance of victory for each team, which is what seems implied by the text. The actual probability for 108 matches is about 7.6% (or about 1 in 13 times).

Think of it as tossing a fair coin 108 times. The odds of, say, the first 54 tosses to be heads and the last 54 tosses to be tails is very small indeed (1 in 2^108). But there are many other ways to get 54 heads and 54 tails -- all combinations of 54 in 108, which is (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combination) 54!/(54!*(108-54)!). Multiplying these two numbers (one very small and one very large http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=fact%28x%29%2F%28%28fact%28x%2F2%29%5E2%29*2%5Ex%29+for+x%3D108 gives us to the actual probability.

'''Montcerf, Québec''' 
a city of Québec about 82.5 miles due north of Ottawa

'''Mercier Dam''' 
You can read more about it [http://www.hydroquebec.com/generation/projets/pop/pop_mercier.html here].

'''Pompano Beach''' 
a town in Florida about 10 miles north of Fort Lauderdale

'''a sepulchral Czech kid named Lendl''' 
Sepulchral implies the grave and can mean "hollow;" syn. "cadaverous." The Czech kid is probably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Lendl Ivan Lendl], although Lendl has not committed suicide.

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'''Kimberly-Clark''' 
Depend's parent [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly-Clark corporation] also Kleenex's

'''"His Unforced-Error stats look like a decimal-error."''' 
which is to say that the percentage expressed as a a decimal has so many leading zeros that it looks as if someone made a mistake transcribing the number

'''attrition''' 
The wearing down of the enemy's strength and morale by unremitting harassment. "War of attrition" (OED)

==Endnote 86==

'''Embolism '''
A sudden blocking of an artery.

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'''revenant''' 
a person who returns, may refer to an undead (see below p263)

'''transom''' 
a window above a door

'''thespio-historical''' 
regarding the history of acting

'''"...had the word ''Homo'' in the title..."''' 
The film is James O. Incandenza's ''Homo Duplex''.

'''quad-function''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_function quadratic function], which produces a parabolic graph result

==Page 261==

'''pirouette''' 
a spin, in ballet terminology

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[[Image:I-beam.jpg|thumb|caption|I-beam|right|120px]]

'''I-beams''' 
standard construction beams made of metal (see right)

'''odd-numbered game''' 
Changes are after odd-numbered games because in tennis, a set is won by the first player to reach six, if ahead by two games. If the score were 4-4, the player with his back to the sun, for example, would have the advantage for two games if changes were after even-numbered games.

'''reticulate''' 
adj., resembling a net or network (Merriam-Webster)

'''hypertonic''' 
having rigid, tense muscles

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'''undead''' 
the state of several unnatural beings (vampires, mummies, zombies, etc.), which is in a state neither live nor dead

'''liniment''' 
a liquid or lotion, especially one made with oil, for rubbing on the body to relieve pain.

'''gut strung''' 
tennis rackets were originally strung with cat gut.

'''kibitzing''' 
chatting or conversing, or offering unwanted comment

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'''whippet''' 
a one-inhalation dose of nitrous oxide (laughing gas)

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[[Image:YinYang.png|thumb|caption|Yin/Yang symbol|right|120px]]
'''Taoist paraboloid logo''' 
referring to the yin/yang symbol (seen right). In Chinese philosophy, the concept of yin yang is used to describe how seemingly disjunct or opposing forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, giving rise to each other in turn. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_yang Wikipedia])

'''ten m.''' 
32.8 feet

'''Marino 350''' 
Not a camera but a [http://masscases.com/cases/sjc/350/350mass534.html|legal case] from Massachusetts in 1966. Plaintiff wanted a private drive on his land to be denied to defendant so that defendant could no longer reach his own property. The defendant won.

'''diffusion filter''' 
A diffusion filter is a translucent photographic filter used for a special effect. When used in front of the camera lens, a diffusion filter softens subjects and generates a dreamy haze.

'''fast film''' 
maybe he means a [[wikipedia:fast lens|fast lens]] it has a larger max aperture making it able to have a faster shutter speed with less light. Faster shutter speed means the movement will blur less.

'''low exposure''' 
maybe he means short exposure. The fast lens would allow for a faster shutter speed and the diffusion filter would blur things out. Pemulis's idea can be understood but he seems confused about film/photography in general.

'''VAPS''' 
an air traffic control acronym for visual approaches.

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'''effete''' 
degenerate or decadent

'''NNE''' 
Northern New England

'''Sinn Fein''' 
Irish for "We ourselves" this is the political wing of the Irish Republican Army.

'''cruciform''' 
in the form of a cross

'''cuffs''' 
rotator cuffs - group of muscles and their tendons that act to stabilize the shoulder.

'''polybutylene''' 
This is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybutylene polymerized butlyene].

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'''neurasthenic''' 
regarding a syndrome of anxiety, fatigue, pain, etc., caused by exhaustion of the central nervous system

''''drines''' 
Guide to [http://humancomplex.blogspot.com/2009/06/illustrated-addicts-guide-to-infinite.html 'drines]

'''Tenuate''' 
[[wikipedia:Amfepramone| Tenuate]] is an appetite suppressant and amphetamine

'''Preludin''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preludin Preludin] is also an appetite suppressant and amphetamine with much more abuse and addiction potential.

'''Inv.''' 
Invitational

'''40º C''' 
104 degrees Fahrenheit

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'''pregnable''' 
open to attack; capable of being won by force

'''nacelle''' 
the car of a balloon or blimp

'''corrugated''' 
bent into folds

'''leaf-cutter-ant''' 
a type of [http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/learning/animals/invertebrates/ant North American ant]

'''Gore-Tex''' 
[http://www.gore-tex.com/remote/Satellite/content/what-is-gore-tex brand name] of material

'''pneumatic''' 
1.using air pressure to move or work 
2.filled with air 
3.of a woman : having a body with full, pleasing curves 
''mirriam-webster''

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'''AC''' 
Alternating Current

'''low-lipid''' 
i.e., low-fat

==Endnote 89==

'''reductive statistics''' 
Wallace is talking either about the process in statistics of reducing variables or Schtitt's use of statistics being reductive, i.e., being simplistic

==Page 269 (cont'd)==

'''equanimity''' 
mental or emotional stability

'''laissez-faire''' 
French for "let do," or, more idiomatically, "leave alone," this is a term usually applied to conservative economics but here generally gives a sense of not caring very much.

==Page 270==

'''erumpent''' 
bursting forth

'''Boards''' 
college entrance examinations

'''ad''' 
a tennis term meaning "advantage" for one or the other player

=Day gives Gately a lesson in patience=

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'''Montesian''' 
also the name of a [http://oh.lake-link.com/lakes/lake.cfm?LakeID=1515&RegionID=749 lake] in Wisconsin

'''Lenz''' 
Very old-fashion German for "springtime". But also a family name, e.g. from the 19th century playwright [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Michael_Reinhold_Lenz J. M. R. Lenz]:

'''Goodwill''' 
a [http://www.goodwill.org/page/guest/about charity] that redistributes donated goods and clothing

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'''imbibe''' 
1.drink (alcohol).
2.absorb or assimilate (ideas or knowledge).
3.(especially of seeds) absorb (water) into ultramicroscopic spaces or pores.

'''non sequiturs''' 
From the Latin for "it does not follow," a non sequitur is a statement with no connection to what comes before or what follows it.

'''look as if butter wouldn't melt''' 
''Look as if butter wouldn't melt in his mouth''
Appear gentle or innocent while typically being the opposite. - ''OED''

'''Assiduous''' 
showing great care and perseverance.

'''Sedulous''' 
(of a person or action) showing dedication and diligence.
"he watched himself with the most sedulous care"

'''subordinate clause''' 
A subordinate clause is a subject and a verb (a clause) that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence ''because it does not express a complete thought''.
italicized part of the explanation is itself a subordinate clause

'''polyslyable''' 
not a word.
polysyllabic means consisting of several, especially four or more, syllables, as a word.

'''macramé''' 
a type of fabric-making done by knotting rather than knitting

'''Paul Harvey''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Harvey Paul Harvey] (1918-2009) was an American radio broadcaster known for his platitudes.

'''inflection''' 
a rise or fall in the sound of a person's voice : a change in the pitch or tone of a person's voice
for grammer: a change in the form of a word that occurs when it has a particular use
“Gone” and “went” are inflections of the verb “go.”
The wrong inflections are used in the next sentence.

==Page 272==

'''Denial is not just a river in Egypt.''' 
The Nile river

'''Roxbury''' 
The city asserts that this [[wikipedia:Roxbury,_Boston|neighborhood]] "serves as the heart of Black culture in Boston."

[http://www.dimock.org/behavioral-health/detox The Dimock Center] is a medical complex that offers Detoxification Services

'''nictitated''' 
winking

'''Quaalude''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methaqualone methaqualone]

'''Malden''' 
a northern suburb of Boston, about 7 miles north of the city

'''Librium''' 
Chlordiazepoxide (Librium) Treats anxiety, symptoms of alcohol withdrawal, and tremor. This medicine is a [[wikipedia:benzodiazepine|benzodiazepine]].

'''DT''' 
Delirium tremens
a psychotic condition typical of withdrawal in chronic alcoholics, involving tremors, hallucinations, anxiety, and disorientation.

'''10+ clicks''' 
a click is US military for a Kilometer (so 10+ is over 6.2 miles)

'''egregulous''' 
Not a real word (possibly egregious(outstandingly bad or shocking) + ridiculous). See the blog post at [http://infinitedetox.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/the-good-word-egregulous/ Infinite Detox].

==Endnote 90==

'''ephebe''' 
a young man between the ages of 18 and 20 undergoing training, especially for combat

'''redolent''' 
exuding fragrance (in this case, apparently an unpleasant one)

'''main''' 
here meaning "physical strength"

'''Yalie''' 
Yale student

'''sally''' 
a clever remark

'''mild sedatives''' 
Quaaludes are more like a sledgehammer to the head than a "mild sedative."

'''chianti''' 
is any wine produced in the Chianti region, in central Tuscany, Italy.

'''reductia ad absurdum''' 
If, as it appears, Geoffrey wants to pluralize [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum reductio ad absurdum],(Latin: argument to absurdity) he wants ''reductiones''.
reductio ad absurdum is a common form of argument which seeks to demonstrate that a statement is true by showing that a false, untenable, or absurd result follows from its denial.



'''"...To interdict a fundamental doctrinal question by invoking a doctrine against questioning? Wasn't this the very horror the Madisonians were horrified of in 1791? Amendments I and IX? My Grievance is disallowed because my Petition for Redress is a priori interdicted by the inadvisability of all Petitioning?"''' 
Day is referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment#Text First Amendment] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Text Ninth Amendment] to the U.S. Constitution, drafted by James Madison (though he personally thought them unnecessary, referring to them as "politic, if not obligatory"). Day is apparently suggesting that without those amendments, Congress could pass a law prohibiting attempts to get them to change the law, thereby making the law forever impervious to attempts to change it, since any such attempt would be prohibited by the law itself. This doesn't sound like the kind of thing the Madisonians were actually worried about; the right to petition dates back to the Magna Carta (where it referred to petitioning the King) and the Ninth Amendment was added to make it clear that just because some rights were explicitly spelled out in the Bill of Rights didn't mean that other rights didn't exist too (Madison believed "the people have those rights in their own hands", which is why he didn't think a Bill of them was necessary in the first place).

'''lapped''' 
a reference to track and field, in which a runner is so far ahead of another runner on a circular court that he has "lapped" him, i.e., is now a lap ahead of him

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'''iona''' 
Iona is an island off the west coast of Scotland. Gately means iota.

'''bunko artists''' 
con artists

'''jonesing''' 
an addict term for the desire for one's substance of choice

'''mokus''' 
1) Loneliness or depression. Oddly, this term could not be found in a U.S. dictionary, but is referred to in the ''OED'' as "US slang." 2) More often spelled as "mocus," common American 12-Step term for a hazy, unfocused state of mind, especially in early sobriety. Said to come from "mind out of focus." Mokus is also Hungarian for squirrel, raising the possibility of a pun on "feeling squirrelly."

==Page 274==

'''Guy That Didn't Even Use His First Name''' 
a joke based on the fact that in recovery programs like AA, people do not use their last names

'''Spont-Dissem''' 
Spontaneous Dissemination, i.e., live as opposed to pre-recorded

'''R.C.''' 
Roman Catholic

==Endnote 91==

'''''f''-term''' 
i.e., "fag"

==Page 275 ==

'''Morris Code''' 
a misstatement of Morse Code

'''XSive''' 
excessive

'''cook-and-shoot''' 
i.e. cooking and shooting up drugs

==Page 276==

'''east of Atlantic City, NJ''' 
which would be either in Europe on the Atlantic Ocean somewhere -- or nowhere

'''Hester Thrale''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hester_Thrale Hester Thrale] was a literary figure of the 18th century. An associate and early biographer of Dr Samuel Johnson, her Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson (1786) was criticised by James Boswell as inaccurate. Her connection with the nail-biter and putative borderline personality is unclear.

'''Borderline''' 
suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_Personality_Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder]

'''organic-coke''' 
an oxymoronic term, since cocaine is a chemical

'''Charlestown''' 
a neighborhood in the northernmost part of Boston, right over the Charles River from downtown

'''100 grams''' 
About 3.5 ounces. The street value of 100 grams of cocaine is enormous -- after cutting on the order of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

-I would argue that street value would be more on the order of (low) tens of thousands of dollars, assuming prices around $100/gram and purity around 55%. See this excerpt from the [http://www.unodc.org/pdf/WDR_2004/Chap5_coca.pdf United Nations World Drug Report 2004].

'''D.E.A.''' 
Drug Enforcement Agency

'''MP''' 
Military Police

'''queer a square beef''' 
spoil the chances of success of a fair complaint/argument

'''Cesar Romero''' 
Cesar Romero (1907-1994) was a Cuban-American [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003110/ actor and entertainer], best known to a generation of television viewers as the man who played the Joker on the television live-action series of [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059968/ Batman].

==Page 277==

[[Image:Easter.jpg|thumb|caption|Easter Island statues|right|125px]]
'''Easter Island statue''' 
Easter Island is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian triangle. The island is a special territory of Chile. Easter Island is famous for its monumental statues, called ''moai'', created by the Rapanui people. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_island Wikipedia]

[[Image:Prince.jpg|thumb|caption|Prince Valiant|right|125px]]

'''Prince Valiantish haircut''' 
''Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur'', or simply [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Valiant ''Prince Valiant''], is a comic strip created by Hal Foster, which began running in 1937. Prince Valiant's haircut is a pageboy with long tresses in back, as seen at right.

==Page 278==

'''pince-nez''' 
From the French for "pinch-nose," these are glasses without temples to go over the ears.

'''2F and 1M''' 
2 females and 1 male

'''suppurating''' 
oozing pus

'''Grand Mall epilepsy''' 
Gately means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_mal grand mal].

'''(4)''' 
Notice that after listing points (a), (b), and (c) about clichés, Gately moves on to (4) rather than (d).

==Page 279==

'''dun''' 
grayish-brown

==Page 280==

'''Talwin''' 
Pentazocine (Talwin)
Prescription drug.
Treats moderate to severe pain. Is sometimes given before or after a surgery. May also be given with a general anesthesia before an operation. Belongs to a class of drugs called narcotic analgesics.

'''Spiro Agnew''' 
Spiro Theodore Agnew (1918-1996) was vice president of the U.S. under Richard Nixon until forced to resign after pleading no contest to charges of charges of tax evasion and money laundering.

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=Home from Port Washington=

==Page 281==

'''"...bearing their shields rather than upon them..."''' 
Spartans were carried back on their shields when killed in battle.

'''distaffs''' 
women's groups

'''dubs''' 
doubles

'''V.D.''' 
alternately this could stand for Venereal Disease

'''nystagmic''' 
suffering from involuntary eye movement

'''Stockhausen''' 
German for "stick houses"; not really: "-hausen" functions like "-burg" or "-stadt" – in town names, meaning "town" – as in "Oberhausen" or "Bad Ricklinghausen"; could be a nod to Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music" (Hewett 2007). He is known for his ground-breaking work in electronic music, aleatory (controlled chance) in serial composition, and musical spatialization. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockhausen Wikipedia]

'''E. A. Abbott''' 
Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926) was a British author and theologian best known for having written ''Flatland,'' which can be read [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=umhistmath;idno=ABR0624.0001.001 here]. The book tries to dramatize dimensionality by telling the story of shapes that live 2D and their interaction with 1D and 3D shapes. It's very popular with aspiring math-physics-computer-science students.

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'''sodium light''' 
There are two kinds of sodium lights: Low Pressure (LPS) and High Pressure (HPS). These lamps are mostly used for street lighting as well as industrial uses. The lamp works by creating an electric arc through vaporized sodium metal.

'''Disciplinary Lit.''' 
a joke on the more common ''interdisciplinary'' (of or relating to more than one branch of knowledge) academic classes

'''Goncharov's ''Oblomov''''' 
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (1812-1891) was a Russian novelist and author of ''Oblomov,'' which can be read [http://www.oblomovka.com/eldritch/iag/oblomov.htm here]. The book is about a young man too lazy to act or decide; he doesn't leave his bed for the first 150 pages.

'''listing to port''' 
a nautical term meaning "leaning leftward"

'''feeling punk''' 
Defined as "weak in spirits or health" in the ''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.''

'''tincture of benzoin''' 
A tincture is a mixture of a drug dissolved in alcohol. Benzoin is a balsamic resin used as an antiseptic and expectorant.

'''Xing''' 
presumably a synonym for copulating with someone

==Endnote 92==

'''Perth Amboy NJ''' 
a town in northern NJ, about 30 miles southwest of New York

==Page 282 (cont'd)==

'''Pierre Trudeau''' 
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau (commonly called Pierre-Elliot Trudeau; 1919-2000) was the Prime Minister of Canada for most of the 1970s and from 1980 to 1984.

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