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==Page 883==

==Page 884==

'''''Ethan From''''' 
Gately means American author Edith Wharton's 1911 novel [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Frome ''Ethan Frome''].

'''''OMMATOPHORIC''''' 
having eyes at the ends of stalks

'''''ghostwords''''' 
a word that has come into existence by error rather than by normal linguistic transmission, as through the mistaken reading of a manuscript, a scribal error, or a misprint. ([http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Ghost+words Dictionary.com])

==Page 885==

'''cuneiform''' 
the writing of ancient Sumer, made by digging a wedge into clay

'''Marshall Plan''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan plan] to rebuild Germany after WWII

'''Shane''' 
a reference to a [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046303/ popular western film]

==Page 886==

'''Synovial''' 
of or pertaining to the fluid that lubricates the joints

'''renal calculus''' 
kidney stones

'''ectopic labor''' 
pregnancy in the fallopian tube

'''ibuprofen''' 
the generic name for Advil

'''antipyretic''' 
designed to combat fever

'''SR''' 
Usually in drug names, this stands for "sustained release."

'''Dilaudid''' 
brand name for hydromorphone hydrochloride

'''bayou''' 
a marshy arm of a lake

'''C-II''' 
These drugs are highly addictive. Cocaine is in this class, as it is still used legally in dentistry.

==Page 887==

'''Hydrocodone''' 
also the active ingredient in Vicodin

'''Oxycodone-nalaxone''' 
Oxycodone also the active ingredient in Oxycontin. Naloxone blocks (partially, one must guess) the effects of opioids, probably to reduce abuse potential.

==Endnote 358==

'''NX''' 
Attached to a drug name, this means it contains Naloxone.

==Page 888==

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==Page 890==

'''somnolent''' 
drowsy

==Page 891==

'''concentric circles''' 
circles within circles (and more annularity)

'''chintz''' 
printed, glazed fabric, usually of bright colors

'''the lobsters' eyes' stalks''' 
see ''OMMATOPHORIC'' earlier on pg. 884

'''Ipswich''' 
a town in northern Massachusetts about 40 miles east of Nashua, N.H.

'''intra-ocular''' 
within the eye

==Page 892==

'''Bufferin''' 
a brand of aspirin with a protectant for the stomach

'''JFK Library''' 
the Kennedy [http://www.jfklibrary.org/ Presidential library], located in Boston

'''Banfis''' 
expensive Italian shoes

==Page 893==

'''libido''' 
sex drive

'''ebubblient''' 
i.e., "ebullient" (with bubbles)

'''''hatbeat''''' 
i.e., "heartbeat" with a Boston accent ("Ya can't pak ya ca in Havid Yad.")

'''tittymount''' 
i.e., "tantamount"

==Page 894==

'''sombrero w/ balls''' 
two possibilities (see below)

[[Image:Sombrero with Dingle Balls.jpg]][[Image:Sunbather with Sombreros.jpg]]

'''maroon''' 
a cartoonish pronunciation (''à la'' Bugs Bunny) of "moron;" (see note for page 302 ''supra'')

'''scuttlebutt''' 
gossip, rumor

==Page 895==

'''''FLEET''''' 
a brand of enema

'''alacrity''' 
eagerness

'''mortification''' 
extreme embarrassment

==Page 896==

=Hal Continues Narrating=

==Page 896==

'''''Tosca''''' 
Opera by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) that premiered in 1900. Hal's "protracted death aria" is probably Cavaradossi's final aria 'E lucevan le stelle' ('And the stars shone'). Full lyrics and a recording can be found [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_lucevan_le_stelle here].

'''overcognitive''' 
thinking too much

==Page 897==

'''megagram''' 
a million grams, or slightly over 2,200 pounds

'''vivisected''' 
slaughtered, yes, but not cut apart while still living

==Page 898==

'''''Yale Journal of Alcohol Studies''''' 
There is no such journal.

'''183.6 cm.''' 
a little over six feet tall

'''recumbency''' 
perhaps a chaise longue

[[Image:Husband Pillow.jpg|thumb|right|"Husband" pillow]]

'''spectation-pillows''' 
"husband" pillows like the one shown at right

'''mylar''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PET_film_(biaxially_oriented) PET film]

'''197 cm.''' 
over 6'5"

'''Vaipassana''' 
a type of Buddhist meditation ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipassanā Wikipedia])

'''"...etymology of the word ''blizzard''..."''' 
While Hal believes the etymology is unknown, there is one offered [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/blizzard here].

'''lumiphobia''' 
probably fear of light, although the proper term is "photophobia"

'''sausage-analog''' 
something similar in appearance to a breakfast sausage link, but perhaps made of textured vegetable protein rather than pork or other meat

==Page 899==

'''averred''' 
asserted with confidence

'''neologism''' 
a newly coined word

'''"...corruption of the French ''blesser,''..."''' 
''Blesser'' is French for "to injure or wound."

'''''Northern Vindicator''''' 
the name of several real publications

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

==Page 900==

'''Sitney and Schneewind's'' Dictionary of Environmental Sciences''''' 
There is no such book, but the name Schneewind is German for "snow wind."

'''12 cm.''' 
about 4.73 inches

'''60 kph.''' 
about 38.3 miles per hour

'''500 meters''' 
a little over 1,650 feet

'''perspicacity''' 
keenness of perception

'''topology''' 
the mathematical study of sets

'''philately''' 
stamp collecting

'''gerundives''' 
the verbal adjective or present participle―in English, these end in "ing";

'''Hamlet''' 
Hal confronts his sausage-analog in Shakespeare.

==Page 901==

'''phocomelic''' 
having extremely short limbs

'''Brattleboro''' 
a town in Vermont about 75 miles west of Manchester, N.H.

'''achondroplastic''' 
having dwarfism as a result of a disorder of bone and cartilage

'''homodontic''' 
having teeth that are all of similar form (see page 316 and endnote 119)

'''bicuspid''' 
another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicuspid premolar] teeth (see note for page 316)

'''Kevlon''' 
Possibly a portmanteau-word combining Kevlar and Teflon, meaning a substance that is tough and slippery ([http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=kevlon Urbandictionary.com]).

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'''sarcophagus''' 
coffin

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=November 19th, YDAU - AFR on the Move=

==Page 845==

'''gauche''' 
from the French for "left" but here meaning "crude" or "socially unacceptable"

=Gately Dreaming=

==Page 846==

'''change their bags''' 
i.e., their colostomy bags

'''''leur rai pays''''' 
cf. note ''supra''for '''NOTRE RAI PAYS''' on page 222; this would be idiomatic French for "their home away from home" or "their colony" (Québec)

==Page 847==

'''the sort of body Gately's only ever seen with a staple in its navel''' 
a centerfold nude in a magazine, such as ''Playboy''

'''fifth post''' 
You get the picture.

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

'''Taj''' 
i.e., the Taj Mahal; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_mahal Wikipedia]

'''viscous''' 
very thick

==Page 848==

'''Twister''' 
see note ''supra'' for page 634

==Page 849==

==Page 850==

'''starkers''' 
i.e., stark naked

==Page 851==

=November 20th, YDAU; ''GAUDEAMUS IGITUR'' - Hal Narrates=

==Page 851==

'''''Gaudeamus Igitur''''' 
A traditional European graduation song that exhorts the listener to enjoy all that our brief lives have to offer--in particular, the recreations in which university undergraduates typically partake. The phrase comes from the opening Latin words of the lyric: "Let us rejoice therefore/
While we are young/After a pleasant youth/After a troublesome old age/The earth will have us."

==Page 852==

'''50 cm.''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''A formula for the temporal relation...''' 
To understand why Hal's insight is true, first take a look at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trammel_of_Archimedes Trammel of Archimedes]. Now imagine a system in which the two shuttles travel back and forth along their respective axes and flash each time they reach the ellipse before reversing direction. Both shuttles are confined to the ellipse, so that the shuttle on the major axis travels farther (and temporally longer) between its flashes than does its counterpart on the minor axis. There are two formulas for describing the [http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/Ellipse.topicArticleId-257309,articleId-257249.html ellipse], one for the major axis on the horizontal and the other for the major axis on the vertical.

'''conic sections''' 
These are studied in advanced trigonometry; they are geometric shapes forced by passing a plane through a double-naped cone at different angles and observing the cross-sections, i.e., circles, ellipses (see note ''supra''), parabolas, and hyperbolas.

==Page 853==

'''''terre-batu''''' 
French for "beaten earth," this is a reference to French clay courts.

'''Ethiopian spear chuckers''' 
Rference to the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, when Mussolini's heavily armed and mechanised Italian invading forces took on Haile Selassi's Army of the Ethiopian Empire. Despite the fact that many of the Abyssinians were equipped with little more than spears or bows they managed to give the Italians a good run for their money, but against tanks and aerial bombardments of mustard gas the result was inevitable.

==Page 854==

=Gately's Dreaming, cont.=

==Page 854==

'''effulgence''' 
shining brilliance

[[Image:Huipil.jpg|thumb|right|Contemporary huipil with typical square neckline]]

'''hulpil''' 
probably a misspelling of "huipil," a traditional Mayan dress

==Page 855==

'''''And Lo''''' 
the words used by Madame Psychosis to open her radio show (p. 184)

==Page 856==

[[Image:Huarache.jpg]]

'''huaraches''' 
Mexican sandals, the "uppers" of which are made from woven strips of leather

'''B.U.M.''' 
perhaps Boston University Multimedia - but more likely B.U.M. Equipment, a clothes manufacturer that can be read about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.U.M. here]

'''St. Columbkill''' 
this is actually spelled "St. Columbkille," one of the many names of St. Columba, who was also called "Colum Cille," meaning "dove of the church," and was one of the "Twelve Apostles of Ireland" who converted the native Irish - St. Columbkille Parish is a real Parish in Brighton, MA, as end note 348 mentions, the website of which is [http://www.brightoncatholic.org/ here].

==Page 857==

'''w.o.m.''' 
word of mouth

'''jimson''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimsonweed loco weed]

'''have to much to go on''' 
this appears to be a misprint of "have too much to go on"

==Page 859==

'''Evel Knievel''' 
Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel, Jr. (1938-2007), was an American motorcycle daredevil.

'''''As God is my fucking witness...''''' 
echoing Scarlett O'Hara's [http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=as+god+is+my+witness+i%27ll+never&view=detail&mid=75BCE76FF4D9CC87EF2F75BCE76FF4D9CC87EF2F&first=0&qpvt=as+god+is+my+witness+i%27ll+never climactic speech] in the 1939 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/ "Gone with the Wind"]

'''MCI/Billerica''' 
the '''M'''assachusetts '''C'''orrectional '''I'''nstitution in Billerica, a town about 20 miles northwest of Boston

'''Revere''' 
another Massachusetts town, about five miles northeast of Boston, on the Bay; named for Paul Revere

==Page 860==

'''Nuckslaughter''' 
i.e., killing a Canadian

==Page 861==

'''UPS''' 
United Parcel Service

'''Route 45''' 
U.S. Route 45 runs from US-98 in Mobile, Ala., to I-43/I-94 in Milwaukee. It passes through Kentucky.

==Page 863==

'''orchasm''' 
i.e., orgasm; an interesting gaffe considering it incorporates "chasm," meaning "abyss"

'''''Liebestod''''' 
German: love-death―this is the final aria sung by Isolde in Wagner's ''Tristan und Isolde''; see note ''supra'' for page 756

==Page 864==

=Hal's Narration, cont.=

'''Spiru-Tein''' 
a high-protein energy drink distributed, in powered form, in cans

'''guilloche''' 
Hal is referring to an ornamental molding of the kind shown below.

[[Image:Guilloche molding.jpg]]

'''parabolic dusting of snow''' and '''snow swirling in funnels and eddies''' 
Hal (or Wallace) is on a kind of annular jag with all this talk of ellipses, conic sections, parabolas, funnels and eddies, and even the guilloche pattern.

'''lee side''' 
nautical term meaning the side facing away from the wind

==Page 865==

'''ablutions''' 
ritualistic washings of the body

'''11-18-EST0456''' 
November 18, Eastern Standard Time, 04:56 a.m. (Despite the fact that it's apparently November 20th. Whether this is an error or not is unclear.)

'''furriners''' 
dialect pronunciation of "foreigners"

==Page 866==

'''Mount Auburn''' 
probably the [http://www.mountauburnclub.com/ Mount Auburn Club] in Watertown, Mass.

'''F.A.A.''' 
Federal Aviation Administration

'''skirling''' 
shrieking; playing of bagpipes

==Page 867==

'''duck blind''' 
a shelter for concealing duck hunters

'''Winchester double-aughts''' 
Winchester 00 shotguns file shells with 7-9 pellets of nominal diameter of 0.33" (8.4 mm).

'''''raisin-debt''''' 
''raison d'être'', French: reason for being

'''"We got him..."''' 
Obviously, the point of Stice's unfunny joke is that the statistical average of the first two shots would yield a shot that hit the duck.

==Page 868==

'''confected''' 
candied or covered in sugar

'''Schacht heard that joke down at the Cranial place''' 
"Schacht interns twice a week for a root-specialist over at the National Cranio-Facial Pain Foundation", Cf. Page 267

'''medials''' 
i.e., medians

==Page 869==

'''brang''' 
Stice's solecism for "brought"

==Page 870==

'''hyper-v'd''' 
hyperventilated

'''cantilevered''' 
having a "projecting structure, such as a beam, that is supported at one end and carries a load at the other end or along its length" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'')

'''Telekiniption''' 
i.e., telekinesis

'''Parabnormal''' 
another good one

'''occlusive''' 
descriptive of a bandage that closes a wound and keeps it from air

==Page 871==

'''Subhadronic''' 
making up the parts of the parts of an atom; very, very small; hadrons are particles made up of quarks, mainly baryons -- protons and neutrons, made of three quarks -- and mesons -- made of two quarks, so subhadronic particles may be quarks

'''Moët''' 
Moët & Chandon is a French champagne manufacturer

'''parotitic''' 
having the mumps

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

'''dermis''' 
skin

==Page 872==

'''tacit''' 
unspoken

==Page 873==

==Endnote 352==

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

'''betel-nut extract''' 
This extract causes the teeth and gums to be stained red

'''internecine''' 
destructive to both sides (of a conflict, esp. within an organization)

==Page 873 (cont'd)==

'''naïf''' 
a naive male

'''dessicated''' 
dried up

'''S.-B. I.Q.''' 
'''S'''tanford-'''B'''inet '''I'''ntelligence '''Q''uotient

'''Submoronic-to-Moronic''' 
At one time, the term "moron" was used to describe a person who tested with an IQ of 50-69; "submoronic" by this reckoning would either be an "imbecile" (with an IQ of 20-49) or an "idiot" (with an IQ below 20). These terms came to be considered offensive and fell from use in the psychological community.

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

'''sinecure''' 
an office requiring little or no work

'''Ba'hai''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahai Bahá'í], a Middle-Eastern faith
==Page 874==

'''hypomanic''' 
not quite manic, but close

'''co-eval of venereal interface''' 
"Co-eval" can have the more specific meaning of "contemporary," i.e., having the same age (date of origin) or duration, but Kenkle is using periphrasis to say "equivalent of sex."

==Endnote 353==

'''Roxbury and Mattapan''' 
In fact, the Orange line continues through Roxbury to terminate at Forest Hills (on the south end of the line); the Red line goes to Mattapan (via transfer at Ashmont). Some branches of the Green line have stops in Brighton, the stand-in for Enfield in the novel.

'''joss''' 
luck

==Page 874==

'''fireman's carry''' 
to carry someone by draping them over your shoulder

'''Noh-style''' 
in the style of Noh (alternative romanization: "Nou"), which is the highly stylized, elaborately costumed classical drama of Japan

'''hawked''' 
spit

'''nihil''' 
Latin: nothing

==Page 875==

'''Good prince Hal''' 
Falstaff addresses the future King Henry V in this manner in Act II, scene ii, of ''I Henry IV''.

'''athe[-]ling''' 
Anglo-Saxon prince or royal heir

'''cachinated''' 
misspelling of cachinnated, i.e., laughed loudly

'''compadre''' 
Spanish term for "friend"

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==Page 845==

'''gauche''' 
from the French for "left" but here meaning "crude" or "socially unacceptable"

=Gately Dreaming=

==Page 846==

'''change their bags''' 
i.e., their colostomy bags

'''''leur rai pays''''' 
cf. note ''supra''for '''NOTRE RAI PAYS''' on page 222; this would be idiomatic French for "their home away from home" or "their colony" (Québec)

==Page 847==

'''the sort of body Gately's only ever seen with a staple in its navel''' 
a centerfold nude in a magazine, such as ''Playboy''

'''fifth post''' 
You get the picture.

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

'''Taj''' 
i.e., the Taj Mahal; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_mahal Wikipedia]

'''viscous''' 
very thick

==Page 848==

'''Twister''' 
see note ''supra'' for page 634

==Page 849==

==Page 850==

'''starkers''' 
i.e., stark naked

==Page 851==

=November 20th, YDAU; ''GAUDEAMUS IGITUR'' - Hal Narrates=

==Page 851==

'''''Gaudeamus Igitur''''' 
A traditional European graduation song that exhorts the listener to enjoy all that our brief lives have to offer--in particular, the recreations in which university undergraduates typically partake. The phrase comes from the opening Latin words of the lyric: "Let us rejoice therefore/
While we are young/After a pleasant youth/After a troublesome old age/The earth will have us."

==Page 852==

'''50 cm.''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''A formula for the temporal relation...''' 
To understand why Hal's insight is true, first take a look at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trammel_of_Archimedes Trammel of Archimedes]. Now imagine a system in which the two shuttles travel back and forth along their respective axes and flash each time they reach the ellipse before reversing direction. Both shuttles are confined to the ellipse, so that the shuttle on the major axis travels farther (and temporally longer) between its flashes than does its counterpart on the minor axis. There are two formulas for describing the [http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/Ellipse.topicArticleId-257309,articleId-257249.html ellipse], one for the major axis on the horizontal and the other for the major axis on the vertical.

'''conic sections''' 
These are studied in advanced trigonometry; they are geometric shapes forced by passing a plane through a double-naped cone at different angles and observing the cross-sections, i.e., circles, ellipses (see note ''supra''), parabolas, and hyperbolas.

==Page 853==

'''''terre-batu''''' 
French for "beaten earth," this is a reference to French clay courts.

'''''Ethiopian spear chuckers''''' 
Rference to the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, when Mussolini's heavily armed and mechanised Italian invading forces took on Haile Selassi's Army of the Ethiopian Empire. Despite the fact that many of the Abyssinians were equipped with little more than spears or bows they managed to give the Italians a good run for their money, but against tanks and aerial bombardments of mustard gas the result was inevitable.

==Page 854==

=Gately's Dreaming, cont.=

==Page 854==

'''effulgence''' 
shining brilliance

[[Image:Huipil.jpg|thumb|right|Contemporary huipil with typical square neckline]]

'''hulpil''' 
probably a misspelling of "huipil," a traditional Mayan dress

==Page 855==

'''''And Lo''''' 
the words used by Madame Psychosis to open her radio show (p. 184)

==Page 856==

[[Image:Huarache.jpg]]

'''huaraches''' 
Mexican sandals, the "uppers" of which are made from woven strips of leather

'''B.U.M.''' 
perhaps Boston University Multimedia - but more likely B.U.M. Equipment, a clothes manufacturer that can be read about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.U.M. here]

'''St. Columbkill''' 
this is actually spelled "St. Columbkille," one of the many names of St. Columba, who was also called "Colum Cille," meaning "dove of the church," and was one of the "Twelve Apostles of Ireland" who converted the native Irish - St. Columbkille Parish is a real Parish in Brighton, MA, as end note 348 mentions, the website of which is [http://www.brightoncatholic.org/ here].

==Page 857==

'''w.o.m.''' 
word of mouth

'''jimson''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimsonweed loco weed]

'''have to much to go on''' 
this appears to be a misprint of "have too much to go on"

==Page 859==

'''Evel Knievel''' 
Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel, Jr. (1938-2007), was an American motorcycle daredevil.

'''''As God is my fucking witness...''''' 
echoing Scarlett O'Hara's [http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=as+god+is+my+witness+i%27ll+never&view=detail&mid=75BCE76FF4D9CC87EF2F75BCE76FF4D9CC87EF2F&first=0&qpvt=as+god+is+my+witness+i%27ll+never climactic speech] in the 1939 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/ "Gone with the Wind"]

'''MCI/Billerica''' 
the '''M'''assachusetts '''C'''orrectional '''I'''nstitution in Billerica, a town about 20 miles northwest of Boston

'''Revere''' 
another Massachusetts town, about five miles northeast of Boston, on the Bay; named for Paul Revere

==Page 860==

'''Nuckslaughter''' 
i.e., killing a Canadian

==Page 861==

'''UPS''' 
United Parcel Service

'''Route 45''' 
U.S. Route 45 runs from US-98 in Mobile, Ala., to I-43/I-94 in Milwaukee. It passes through Kentucky.

==Page 863==

'''orchasm''' 
i.e., orgasm; an interesting gaffe considering it incorporates "chasm," meaning "abyss"

'''''Liebestod''''' 
German: love-death―this is the final aria sung by Isolde in Wagner's ''Tristan und Isolde''; see note ''supra'' for page 756

==Page 864==

=Hal's Narration, cont.=

'''Spiru-Tein''' 
a high-protein energy drink distributed, in powered form, in cans

'''guilloche''' 
Hal is referring to an ornamental molding of the kind shown below.

[[Image:Guilloche molding.jpg]]

'''parabolic dusting of snow''' and '''snow swirling in funnels and eddies''' 
Hal (or Wallace) is on a kind of annular jag with all this talk of ellipses, conic sections, parabolas, funnels and eddies, and even the guilloche pattern.

'''lee side''' 
nautical term meaning the side facing away from the wind

==Page 865==

'''ablutions''' 
ritualistic washings of the body

'''11-18-EST0456''' 
November 18, Eastern Standard Time, 04:56 a.m. (Despite the fact that it's apparently November 20th. Whether this is an error or not is unclear.)

'''furriners''' 
dialect pronunciation of "foreigners"

==Page 866==

'''Mount Auburn''' 
probably the [http://www.mountauburnclub.com/ Mount Auburn Club] in Watertown, Mass.

'''F.A.A.''' 
Federal Aviation Administration

'''skirling''' 
shrieking; playing of bagpipes

==Page 867==

'''duck blind''' 
a shelter for concealing duck hunters

'''Winchester double-aughts''' 
Winchester 00 shotguns file shells with 7-9 pellets of nominal diameter of 0.33" (8.4 mm).

'''''raisin-debt''''' 
''raison d'être'', French: reason for being

'''"We got him..."''' 
Obviously, the point of Stice's unfunny joke is that the statistical average of the first two shots would yield a shot that hit the duck.

==Page 868==

'''confected''' 
candied or covered in sugar

'''Schacht heard that joke down at the Cranial place''' 
"Schacht interns twice a week for a root-specialist over at the National Cranio-Facial Pain Foundation", Cf. Page 267

'''medials''' 
i.e., medians

==Page 869==

'''brang''' 
Stice's solecism for "brought"

==Page 870==

'''hyper-v'd''' 
hyperventilated

'''cantilevered''' 
having a "projecting structure, such as a beam, that is supported at one end and carries a load at the other end or along its length" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'')

'''Telekiniption''' 
i.e., telekinesis

'''Parabnormal''' 
another good one

'''occlusive''' 
descriptive of a bandage that closes a wound and keeps it from air

==Page 871==

'''Subhadronic''' 
making up the parts of the parts of an atom; very, very small; hadrons are particles made up of quarks, mainly baryons -- protons and neutrons, made of three quarks -- and mesons -- made of two quarks, so subhadronic particles may be quarks

'''Moët''' 
Moët & Chandon is a French champagne manufacturer

'''parotitic''' 
having the mumps

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

'''dermis''' 
skin

==Page 872==

'''tacit''' 
unspoken

==Page 873==

==Endnote 352==

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

'''betel-nut extract''' 
This extract causes the teeth and gums to be stained red

'''internecine''' 
destructive to both sides (of a conflict, esp. within an organization)

==Page 873 (cont'd)==

'''naïf''' 
a naive male

'''dessicated''' 
dried up

'''S.-B. I.Q.''' 
'''S'''tanford-'''B'''inet '''I'''ntelligence '''Q''uotient

'''Submoronic-to-Moronic''' 
At one time, the term "moron" was used to describe a person who tested with an IQ of 50-69; "submoronic" by this reckoning would either be an "imbecile" (with an IQ of 20-49) or an "idiot" (with an IQ below 20). These terms came to be considered offensive and fell from use in the psychological community.

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

'''sinecure''' 
an office requiring little or no work

'''Ba'hai''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahai Bahá'í], a Middle-Eastern faith
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'''hypomanic''' 
not quite manic, but close

'''co-eval of venereal interface''' 
"Co-eval" can have the more specific meaning of "contemporary," i.e., having the same age (date of origin) or duration, but Kenkle is using periphrasis to say "equivalent of sex."

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'''Roxbury and Mattapan''' 
In fact, the Orange line continues through Roxbury to terminate at Forest Hills (on the south end of the line); the Red line goes to Mattapan (via transfer at Ashmont). Some branches of the Green line have stops in Brighton, the stand-in for Enfield in the novel.

'''joss''' 
luck

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'''fireman's carry''' 
to carry someone by draping them over your shoulder

'''Noh-style''' 
in the style of Noh (alternative romanization: "Nou"), which is the highly stylized, elaborately costumed classical drama of Japan

'''hawked''' 
spit

'''nihil''' 
Latin: nothing

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'''Good prince Hal''' 
Falstaff addresses the future King Henry V in this manner in Act II, scene ii, of ''I Henry IV''.

'''athe[-]ling''' 
Anglo-Saxon prince or royal heir

'''cachinated''' 
misspelling of cachinnated, i.e., laughed loudly

'''compadre''' 
Spanish term for "friend"

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