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==Page 964==

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'''claret-colored''' 
A deep purplish red. Claret is also the name of a wine that is produced in the Bordeaux region of France and slang for 'blood'.[http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fuller's+earth]

'''fuller's earth or sawdust''' 
Fuller's earth is an absorbent clay that is used in talcum powder. Sawdust and chalk (talcum) are used by tennis players to keep their grip dry.
[http://www.usta.com/USTA/Global/Archive/News/Lessons/Lessons/444102_The_Final_Word_Chalking_Up.aspx]

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'''pigeon-toed''' 
having toes that point inward, like this: / \

'''shifted antigens''' 
An antigenic shift generally refers to the medical term that explains how two strains of the influenza virus join together to form a new subtype and, in turn, become more virile. The new subtype has a mixture of the antigens from the originals. An antigen is the substance that stimulates the immune system. [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/926623/antigenic-shift]

It's used here to refer to rumors about severe weather and the Quebec Junior Team. These rumors undergo an antigenic shift as they circulate around the locker room. They combine and are reconstituted as a new, more virile, rumor before being returned to the rumor's originator. 

'''the Csikszentmihalyi kid was doing a kind of piaffer''' 
A piaffer is a trot in place where the legs are lifted high. This type of trot is usually done by a horse, but it's part of the 'Csikszentmihalyi kid's' pre-game ritual to stretch his hip flexors. 

The name Csikszentmihalyi may be a humorous nod to the Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi who is noted for his work in happiness and creativity. He is known as the world's leading researcher on positive psychology and proposed the concept of Flow. Flow is the mental state whereby a person is fully immersed and focused on an activity (such as Tennis). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi] 

'''hip-flexors''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_flexor muscles] that move the hip

'''an ascot or a very fey tie''' 
An ascot is a scarf or tie with broad ends typically worn for formal occasions[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascot_tie]. If the tie very fey, it is excessively refined [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fey] or fancy to the point that it could be confused with an ascot.

'''invoking Camilla, goddess of speed and light step''' 
Camilla of Volsci, a heroine from Roman Mythology, found in Virgil's prose and ancient pottery paintings. Virgil claimed Camilla was so fast that she could run across the ocean without wetting her feet and across fields of grain without bending the grass. [http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Camilla_(mythology)] To 'invoke' is to petition for help with an incantation.[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/invoking]

As part of their pre-match ritual, the female players, Thode and Donni Stott, can be heard praying to or otherwise petitioning Camilla whose light footed speed may translate to success on the court.

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'''Frankenstein''' 
or, more correctly, Frankenstein's monster

'''Hal''' 
who is clearly not narrating anymore, unless he is speaking of himself in the third person

'''malleolus''' 
a bony lump on the side of the ankle

'''Joni Mitchell''' 
Joni Mitchell (born Roberta Joan Anderson in 1943) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter and painter. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_Mitchell Wikipedia Entry].

'''occluded''' 
Closed off, shut in, or blocked off [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/occlude]

'''they all in here existed basically as Fourier Transforms of postures and little routines''' 

A Fourier transform is a mathematical operation that transforms one function into another. This type of transform is named in honour of Joseph Fourier. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fourier] To exist basically as Fourier Transforms of postures and routines is to exist as an abstraction where a student is trained in postures and routines is transformed into tennis player capable of executing a variation of those postures and routines.

'''ingenuish''' 
in the manner of an innocent young woman

'''moribund''' 
nearing death or in a terminal decline [http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/moribund?view=uk]

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'''ciquatoxic''' 
an alternate or mispelling of 'ciguatoxic'. Reef fish can carry ciguatoxins, which cause ciguatera food poisoning [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciguatera] in humans who consume the contaminated fish. These toxins may be specific to certain reefs, are concentrated up the food chain and as such are more likely to be present in larger reef fish, and cannot be destroyed by cooking and freezing [http://www.livefoodfishtrade.org/definitions.htm]

'''P.O.''' 
philharmonic orchestra

'''R.C. clergy''' 
Roman Catholic priesthood

'''Jesuit seminary'''
Theological training for the Society of Jesus Roman Catholic religious order of clerks, known as Jesuits. Jesuits are known for for their missionary work, social justice and human rights. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Jesus]

==Page 968==

'''Sanger-Brown's ataxia''' 
another name for [http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/1672.html Marie's ataxia]

'''practicum''' 
the student-teaching portion of a teaching education

'''spiritually necrotic''' 
Necrosis usually refers to the localized death of cells within healthy tissue. To be spiritually necrotic is akin to having a dead spirit in an otherwise healthy body.

'''Jesuitical Endeavors''' 
An endeavor is a purposeful undertaking that requires boldness. Jesuitical endeavors are those undertaken as part of a Jesuit ministry.

'''Numero Uno''' 
Spanish for ''Number One'', used here as an expression to mean concern about only oneself.

'''ineluctable''' 
incapable of being avoided or changed

'''Apologia''' 
An Apologia is a defense of one's beliefs, religious or other. Here, Barry is out of his league in his ability to put up a good defense of the religious beliefs that may help get his brother out of his own spiritual funk.

==Page 969==

'''self-mimetic''' 
imitating one's self

'''...not that much unlike Alyosha and Ivan's conversations in the good old ''Brothers K''.''' 
''The Brother's Karamazov'' is a novel by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881). Ivan and Alyosha, main characters in the novel, are siblings. Alyosha has a faith in God that manifests in a love of mankind and Ivan is a rationalist who is burdened by his inability or unwillingness to believe in a God that could preside over an unjust world. In the novel the brother's, Ivan and Alyosha discuss their opposing beliefs.

'''erudite''' 
scholarly

'''carcinogenic''' 
causing cancer

'''acerbity''' 
acidity

'''Ivan's Grand Inquisitor scenario''' 
Read this portion [http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/philosophy/existentialism/dostoevsky/grand.html here].

'''lumpen''' 
disenfrancished

'''solar plexus''' 
a complex of nerves in the abdomen

'''verminousness''' 
resembling vermin

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'''alms''' 
charity

'''silt''' 
very small grains of rock or sand

==Page 971==

'''fuliginous''' 
smoky or sooty

'''50° C''' 
122° Fahrenheit

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'''ham''' 
an actor who is bad by virtue of over-acting

972 · Final Chapter

==Page 972==

'''confiteor''' 
a prayer of confession of sins

''''Do it to her!''' '''''Do it to her!'''''' 
a reference to George Orwell's 1984. Winston Smith shouts 'Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia!' under similar circumstances.

==Page 973==

'''"...look down her shirt and spell ''attic''..."''' 
and thus saying, "A-T-T-I-C" or "a titty I see"

==Page 974==

'''vertical hold''' 
the control on a television that prevents the picture from rolling bottom to top

==Page 975==

'''Weejuns''' 
a type of shoe, see [http://www.bassweejuns.com/ here]

==Page 976==

'''Jack Daniels''' 
a famous brand of bourbon whiskey

==Page 977==

'''S&W''' 
Smith & Wesson

'''2500-IU ampule''' 
IUs are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_unit international units], which converts to metric depending on the substance.

'''transvestals''' 
i.e., transvestites

==Page 978==

==Endnote 386==

'''Exocet''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exocet missile]

'''antagonists''' 
a drug that acts against an agonist, i.e., a drug that stimulates a certain receptor

==Page 978 (cont'd)==

'''Linda McCartney''' 
Linda Louise, Lady McCartney (1941-1998) was an American photographer and wife of Beatle Paul McCartney (born 1943).

==Page 979==

==Endnote 387==

'''pentazocine''' 
a synethetic opioid painkiller

==Endnote 387a==

'''dysmenorrhea''' 
pre-menstrual syndrome and/or painful periods

'''hot shot''' 
an injection intended to kill

'''PX''' 
with a pharmaceutical as part of the name, it means it contains pentazocine

==Page 980==

'''ditty''' 
a little song

==Page 981==

'''"...the one about ultraviolence and sadism."''' 
Gately is thinking of Kubrick's [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/ A Clockwork Orange]

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964 · Pre-Exhibition Fête

==Page 964==

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

'''claret-colored''' 
A deep purplish red. Claret is also the name of a wine that is produced in the Bordeaux region of France and slang for 'blood'.[http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fuller's+earth]

'''fuller's earth or sawdust''' 
Fuller's earth is an absorbent clay that is used in talcum powder. Sawdust and chalk (talcum) are used by tennis players to keep their grip dry.
[http://www.usta.com/USTA/Global/Archive/News/Lessons/Lessons/444102_The_Final_Word_Chalking_Up.aspx]

==Page 965==

'''pigeon-toed''' 
having toes that point inward, like this: / \

'''shifted antigens''' 
An antigenic shift generally refers to the medical term that explains how two strains of the influenza virus join together to form a new subtype and, in turn, become more virile. The new subtype has a mixture of the antigens from the originals. An antigen is the substance that stimulates the immune system. [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/926623/antigenic-shift]

It's used here to refer to rumors about severe weather and the Quebec Junior Team. These rumors undergo an antigenic shift as they circulate around the locker room. They combine and are reconstituted as a new, more virile, rumor before being returned to the rumor's originator. 

'''the Csikszentmihalyi kid was doing a kind of piaffer''' 
A piaffer is a trot in place where the legs are lifted high. This type of trot is usually done by a horse, but it's part of the 'Csikszentmihalyi kid's' pre-game ritual to stretch his hip flexors. 

The name Csikszentmihalyi may be a humorous nod to the Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi who is noted for his work in happiness and creativity. He is known as the world's leading researcher on positive psychology and proposed the concept of Flow. Flow is the mental state whereby a person is fully immersed and focused on an activity (such as Tennis). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi] 

'''hip-flexors''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_flexor muscles] that move the hip

'''an ascot or a very fey tie''' 
An ascot is a scarf or tie with broad ends typically worn for formal occasions[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascot_tie]. If the tie very fey, it is excessively refined [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fey] or fancy to the point that it could be confused with an ascot.

'''invoking Camilla, goddess of speed and light step''' 
Camilla of Volsci, a heroine from Roman Mythology, found in Virgil's prose and ancient pottery paintings. Virgil claimed Camilla was so fast that she could run across the ocean without wetting her feet and across fields of grain without bending the grass. [http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Camilla_(mythology)] To 'invoke' is to petition for help with an incantation.[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/invoking]

As part of their pre-match ritual, the female players, Thode and Donni Stott, can be heard praying to or otherwise petitioning Camilla whose light footed speed may translate to success on the court.

==Page 966==

'''Frankenstein''' 
or, more correctly, Frankenstein's monster

'''Hal''' 
who is clearly not narrating anymore, unless he is speaking of himself in the third person

'''malleolus''' 
a bony lump on the side of the ankle

'''Joni Mitchell''' 
Joni Mitchell (born Roberta Joan Anderson in 1943) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter and painter. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_Mitchell Wikipedia Entry].

'''occluded''' 
Closed off, shut in, or blocked off [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/occlude]

'''they all in here existed basically as Fourier Transforms of postures and little routines''' 

A Fourier transform is a mathematical operation that transforms one function into another. This type of transform is named in honour of Joseph Fourier. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fourier] To exist basically as Fourier Transforms of postures and routines is to exist as an abstraction where a student is trained in postures and routines is transformed into tennis player capable of executing a variation of those postures and routines.

'''ingenuish''' 
in the manner of an innocent young woman

'''moribund''' 
nearing death or in a terminal decline [http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/moribund?view=uk]

==Page 967==

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P. - Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]

'''ciquatoxic''' 
an alternate or mispelling of 'ciguatoxic'. Reef fish can carry ciguatoxins, which cause ciguatera food poisoning [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciguatera] in humans who consume the contaminated fish. These toxins may be specific to certain reefs, are concentrated up the food chain and as such are more likely to be present in larger reef fish, and cannot be destroyed by cooking and freezing [http://www.livefoodfishtrade.org/definitions.htm]

'''P.O.''' 
philharmonic orchestra

'''R.C. clergy''' 
Roman Catholic priesthood

'''Jesuit seminary'''
Theological training for the Society of Jesus Roman Catholic religious order of clerks, known as Jesuits. Jesuits are known for for their missionary work, social justice and human rights. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Jesus]

==Page 968==

'''Sanger-Brown's ataxia''' 
another name for [http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/1672.html Marie's ataxia]

'''practicum''' 
the student-teaching portion of a teaching education

'''spiritually necrotic''' 
Necrosis usually refers to the localized death of cells within healthy tissue. To be spiritually necrotic is akin to having a dead spirit in an otherwise healthy body.

'''Jesuitical Endeavors''' 
An endeavor is a purposeful undertaking that requires boldness. Jesuitical endeavors are those undertaken as part of a Jesuit ministry.

'''Numero Uno''' 
Spanish for ''Number One'', used here as an expression to mean concern about only oneself.

'''ineluctable''' 
incapable of being avoided or changed

'''Apologia''' 
An Apologia is a defense of one's beliefs, religious or other. Here, Barry is out of his league in his ability to put up a good defense of the religious beliefs that may help get his brother out of his own spiritual funk.

==Page 969==

'''self-mimetic''' 
imitating one's self

'''...not that much unlike Alyosha and Ivan's conversations in the good old ''Brothers K''.''' 
''The Brother's Karamazov'' is a novel by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881). Ivan and Alyosha, main characters in the novel, are siblings. Alyosha has a faith in God that manifests in a love of mankind and Ivan is a rationalist who is burdened by his inability or unwillingness to believe in a God that could preside over an unjust world. In the novel the brother's, Ivan and Alyosha discuss their opposing beliefs.

'''erudite''' 
scholarly

'''carcinogenic''' 
causing cancer

'''acerbity''' 
acidity

'''Ivan's Grand Inquisitor scenario''' 
Read this portion [http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/philosophy/existentialism/dostoevsky/grand.html here].

'''lumpen''' 
disenfrancished

'''solar plexus''' 
a complex of nerves in the abdomen

'''verminousness''' 
resembling vermin

==Page 970==

'''alms''' 
charity

'''silt''' 
very small grains of rock or sand

==Page 971==

'''fuliginous''' 
smoky or sooty

'''50° C''' 
122° Fahrenheit

==Page 972==

'''ham''' 
an actor who is bad by virtue of over-acting

972 · Final Chapter

==Page 972==

'''confiteor''' 
a prayer of confession of sins

''''Do it to her!''' '''''Do it to her!'''''' 
a reference to George Orwell's 1984. Winston Smith shouts 'Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia' under similar circumstances.

==Page 973==

'''"...look down her shirt and spell ''attic''..."''' 
and thus saying, "A-T-T-I-C" or "a titty I see"

==Page 974==

'''vertical hold''' 
the control on a television that prevents the picture from rolling bottom to top

==Page 975==

'''Weejuns''' 
a type of shoe, see [http://www.bassweejuns.com/ here]

==Page 976==

'''Jack Daniels''' 
a famous brand of bourbon whiskey

==Page 977==

'''S&W''' 
Smith & Wesson

'''2500-IU ampule''' 
IUs are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_unit international units], which converts to metric depending on the substance.

'''transvestals''' 
i.e., transvestites

==Page 978==

==Endnote 386==

'''Exocet''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exocet missile]

'''antagonists''' 
a drug that acts against an agonist, i.e., a drug that stimulates a certain receptor

==Page 978 (cont'd)==

'''Linda McCartney''' 
Linda Louise, Lady McCartney (1941-1998) was an American photographer and wife of Beatle Paul McCartney (born 1943).

==Page 979==

==Endnote 387==

'''pentazocine''' 
a synethetic opioid painkiller

==Endnote 387a==

'''dysmenorrhea''' 
pre-menstrual syndrome and/or painful periods

'''hot shot''' 
an injection intended to kill

'''PX''' 
with a pharmaceutical as part of the name, it means it contains pentazocine

==Page 980==

'''ditty''' 
a little song

==Page 981==

'''"...the one about ultraviolence and sadism."''' 
Gately is thinking of Kubrick's [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/ A Clockwork Orange]

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