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==Page 983==<br />
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===Endnote 3===<br />
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'''cardioid'''<br /><br />
In geometry, a cardioid is a plane curve produced by tracing the path of a chosen point of a circle which rolls around a fixed circle. The cardioid shape of E.T.A. has one cusp, i.e., a point on the curve that is not smooth. The ''r'' referred to by the narrator here is the radius of the moving circle.<br />
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'''Übermensch'''<br /><br />
German for "superhuman"<br />
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'''Brandeis'''<br /><br />
Brandeis is a Jewish-founded university in Waltham, Mass., about nine miles west of Boston, named for Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941) the first Jewish Supreme Court justice.<br />
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===Endnote 5===<br />
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'''N.B.'''<br /><br />
abbreviation for Latin ''nota bene'', i.e., "note well," stated before an important example or corollary point<br />
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===Endnote 5a===<br />
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'''nystagmus'''<br /><br />
involuntary eye movement<br />
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'''entrepôt'''<br /><br />
French for "warehouse," this is where foreign merchandise can be purchased duty-free<br />
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'''loquacity'''<br /><br />
talkativeness<br />
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===Endnote 6===<br />
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'''Halcion (still available in Canada, unbelievably, still)'''<br /><br />
It's also still available here, though the U.K. has banned it since 1991.<br />
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==Page 984==<br />
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===Endnote 7===<br />
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'''bevelling'''<br /><br />
Here meaning "smoothed out" and misspelled, beveling is the making of 45º angles where perpendiculars meet.<br />
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===Endnote 8===<br />
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===Endnote 8a===<br />
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'''Muscimole'''<br /><br />
another mushroom-based hallucinogen, like psilocybin<br />
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'''DDMS'''<br /><br />
dibromododecenyl methylsulfimide<br />
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'''DMSO'''<br /><br />
dimethylsulfoxide<br />
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===Endnote 8 (cont'd)===<br />
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'''dickies'''<br /><br />
As a dickie is designed to give the appearance of wearing a tie, Wallace uses this word here to deal with drugs that mimic the effects of other drugs.<br />
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'''MMDA, DMA, DMMM, 2CB, para-DOT I-VI'''<br /><br />
You can read about MMDA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMDA_%28psychedelic%29 here], DMA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethoxyamphetamine here], 2CB [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2CB here], DOT [http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_Chemical.jsp?Rec_Id=PC35343 here] (apparently). DMMM appears to be made up. <br />
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'''CNS'''<br /><br />
central nervous system<br />
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'''gamma hydroxybutric acid'''<br /><br />
now more commonly known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-Hydroxybutyric_acid GHB]<br />
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'''DMZ/M.P.'''<br /><br />
DMZ is another made-up drug. M.P. refers to its street name, Madame Psychosis.<br />
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===Endnote 12a===<br />
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'''"...Continental Controlled Substances Act of Y.T.M.P., O.N.A.N.D.E.A.'s hierarchy of analgesics/antipyretics/axiolytics..."'''<br /><br />
There is no such act, obviously. Y.T.M.P. is [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]. The second acronym is Organization of North American Nations Drug Enforcement Agency. Analgesics are painkillers. Antipyretics are fever-reducing drugs, and anxiolytics are anxiety-reducing drugs.<br />
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===Endnote 13===<br />
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'''Quo Vadis'''<br /><br />
Latin: Where are you going? Famously asked of Jesus by Peter when the former was on his way to be crucified. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quo_vadis here.] Also a novel and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043949/ film] by that name were made.<br />
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==Page 985==<br />
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===Endnote 17===<br />
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'''datum'''<br /><br />
piece of information<br />
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===Endnote 19===<br />
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French: A person of terrible importance<br />
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===Endnote 21===<br />
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'''Q.v.'''<br /><br />
Latin abbreviation for ''quod vide'' ("which see"), used to direct a reader elsewhere in a book. Here we are directed to...<br />
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===Endnote 23===<br />
'''U.S.D.D.'''<br /><br />
United States Department of Defense<br />
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===Endnote 24===<br />
'''meniscus'''<br/><br />
a lens with a crescent-shaped section<br />
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'''soliloquized'''<br/><br />
spoken to oneself<br />
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'''incunabular'''<br/><br />
early stages of something<br />
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'''D W Griffith'''<br /><br />
Film Director whose films include 'Tolerance' and 'Birth of a Nation'; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._W._Griffith Wikipedia entry]<br />
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'''Taka Limura'''<br /><br />
Japanese film maker - [http://research.yale.edu/eastasianstudies/iimura.chin.pdf see article] </br><br />
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'''Heliotrope'''<br /><br />
An arrangement of mirrors for reflecting sunlight from a distant point to an observation station.</br><br />
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===Endnote 82===<br />
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[[Image:Plaid.jpg|thumb|caption|Night Watch Plaid|150px|right]]<br />
'''Bean'''<br /><br />
as in L.L. Bean, a privately-held mail-order and retail company based in Freeport, Maine, United States, specializing in clothing and outdoor recreation equipment. <br />
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'''Night Watch plaid'''<br /><br />
A pattern of plaid. See right.<br />
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==Page 1004==<br />
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===Endnote 110 · Hal and Orin Discuss Québecois Politics===<br />
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'''Hush Puppy'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.hushpuppies.com/en-US/Main.aspx brand name] of shoes<br />
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'''squeegeed'''<br /><br />
cleaned with a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeegee squeegee]<br />
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'''truncated'''<br /><br />
cut short<br />
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==Page 1005==<br />
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'''R&R'''<br /><br />
Rest and Relaxation<br />
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'''ex officio'''<br /><br />
Latin: by virtue of one's office<br />
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''''The Yellow Rose (of Texas)''''<br /><br />
Dickinson's poems can also be read to the meter of "Mary Had a Little Lamb."<br />
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'''falsetto'''<br /><br />
a man's voice when he pitches it falsely high to sound like a woman<br />
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'''riffling'''<br /><br />
turning pages quickly<br />
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'''Ample make this bed'''<br /><br />
The full poem is [http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1337.html here].<br />
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==Page 1006==<br />
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'''quotidian'''<br /><br />
commonplace<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.-Q.M.D.]]<br />
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'''pistil'''<br /><br />
that part of a flower that is analogous to the female reproductive organs<br />
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'''Sikorski'''<br /><br />
C.T. is probably comparing the bee (which flies) to an airplane (which also flies) produced by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_Aircraft Sikorsky Aircraft].<br />
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'''paucity'''<br /><br />
scarcity<br />
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'''swotted'''<br /><br />
studied intensively<br />
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'''wakked'''<br /><br />
I have no idea.<br />
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'''unperspicous'''<br /><br />
not clearly expressed or presented<br />
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'''penultimate'''<br /><br />
second to last<br />
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'''whingeing'''<br /><br />
complaining (pronounced to rhyme with "jing")<br />
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'''xerophagy'''<br /><br />
eating of bread and water only<br />
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===Endnote 110d===<br />
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'''anti-sclerotic'''<br /><br />
tending to ward of hardening of tissues (as of arteries, here)<br />
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==Page 1006 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''maunder'''<br /><br />
to talk incoherently or aimlessly<br />
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'''Solecism'''<br /><br />
nonstandard or incorrect grammatical usage<br />
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'''and c.'''<br /><br />
et cetera<br />
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==Page 1007==<br />
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'''20 X 25 centimeter'''<br /><br />
very close to 8" x 10"<br />
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'''Jethro Bodine'''<br /><br />
a character on the television show [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055662/ The Beverly Hillbillies]<br />
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'''proviso'''<br /><br />
a clause, usually in a document, making a stipulation or qualification<br />
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'''"...isn't even iambic, much less quatrameter/trimeter..."'''<br /><br />
This is to say that the poetry of Dickinson is not in iambic pentameter, also known as verse. This is the style of poetry Shakespeare is written in ("Now is the winter of our discontent") -- ten syllables, and five iambs (feet, or beats) per line (thus pentameter). Quatrameter/trimeter would be the rhythm scheme of "Yellow Rose of Texas" and "Marry Had a Little Lamb."<br />
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'''dink'''<br /><br />
a synonym for a drop shot, which in tennis is a light tap just over the net<br />
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==Page 1008==<br />
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'''obverse'''<br /><br />
the more conspicuous of two possible choices<br />
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'''seraphic'''<br /><br />
like an angel<br />
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'''lascivious'''<br /><br />
appealing to sexual tastes<br />
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'''mesmerized'''<br /><br />
hypnotized<br />
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'''skitter'''<br /><br />
to move rapidly along a surface<br />
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'''knight-errant'''<br /><br />
a knight on a quest to prove his chivalry<br />
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==Page 1009==<br />
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'''Ainsi'''<br /><br />
French: so to speak<br />
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'''breviary'''<br /><br />
a prayer and hymn book<br />
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'''"Kitchens and heat..."'''<br /><br />
which is to say, if you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen<br />
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==Page 1010==<br />
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'''Gloeckner'''<br /><br />
German for "ringer," taking that in either of the meanings it has in English<br />
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'''3-kilo'''<br /><br />
a little over 7.25 pounds<br />
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'''Snuff'''<br /><br />
chewing tobacco<br />
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'''Andover'''<br /><br />
as in [http://www.boardingschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/5 Philips Academy Andover], alma mater of both presidents Bush<br />
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'''"Dickinson's about as Transcendalist as Poe."'''<br /><br />
which is to say, not at all<br />
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==Page 1011==<br />
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[[Image:Eddy.jpg|right]]<br />
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'''R.C.M.P.'''<br /><br />
Royal Canadian Mounted Police<br />
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'''Nelson Eddy'''<br /><br />
Nelson Ackerman Eddy (1901-1967) was an American singer and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0248904/ movie star]. As far as what he looked like, see right.<br />
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'''Droll'''<br /><br />
whimsically comic<br />
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==Page 1012==<br />
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'''nanomicroscopy'''<br /><br />
the looking at extremely small things (nano- being the prefix for "one-billionth") through a microscope<br />
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'''Thevet'''<br /><br />
This is probably a reference to André de Thevet (1502-1590), a French priest and explorer. Though never in Canada, he relied on French-Canadian explorers' work for his own voyages to South America.<br />
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'''"...the 5 on the French Achievement boards..."'''<br /><br />
The highest possible score on the French Advanced Placement Exam (for which one can receive college credit) is 5.<br />
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'''Boswell'''<br /><br />
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (1740-1795), was the Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson.<br />
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'''E cup'''<br /><br />
a very large breast size<br />
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'''acuity'''<br /><br />
acuteness of perception<br />
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'''in utero'''<br /><br />
in the womb<br />
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'''thalidomide'''<br /><br />
a drug developed to treat morning sickness in pregnant women that ended up causing babies to be born missing limbs<br />
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'''Condé Nast'''<br /><br />
one of the largest magazine publishers in the country, owned by Advance Publications (the Newhouse family) and founded by Condé Montrose Nast (1873-1942), an American publisher<br />
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'''deform'''<br /><br />
here meaning simply "to spoil"<br />
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'''persona'''<br /><br />
a fictional identity created for a person, narrator in a book, etc.<br />
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'''''du'''''<br /><br />
French: of the (masculine)<br />
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==Page 1013==<br />
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'''Meech Lake'''<br /><br />
a lake in Gatineau Park, near Chelsea, Québec<br />
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'''Parizeau'''<br /><br />
This is probably Jacques Parizeau (born 1930), a former Premier of Québec and proponent of Québecois sovereignty.<br />
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'''Charlottetown'''<br /><br />
the capital of the Canadian province of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island Prince Edward Island]<br />
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'''Crétien assassination'''<br /><br />
This is probably a misspelling of the surname of Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien (born 1934), Prime Minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003.<br />
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'''Francophonic'''<br /><br />
French-speaking<br />
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'''Acadian Zionism'''<br /><br />
Acadia is the traditional name for what is now (in part) eastern Québec. Zionism is used here as a synonym for nationalism, rather than with its specific Jewish connotations<br />
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'''Toujours'''<br /><br />
French: always<br />
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'''"On ne parle d'Anglais ici."'''<br /><br />
French: English is not spoken here<br />
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'''Ottawa'''<br /><br />
the capital of Canada<br />
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'''"Permettez Nous Partir, Permettez Nous Être."'''<br /><br />
French: Allow us to leave, allow us to be.<br />
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'''Winnipeg'''<br /><br />
the capital of Canadian province of Manitoba<br />
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'''flux'''<br /><br />
frequent change<br />
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'''appalled'''<br /><br />
dismayed<br />
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'''UV-booth'''<br /><br />
UV standing for ultraviolet (as in light), this is probably a tanning booth.<br />
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==Page 1014==<br />
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'''"Nous v. La Plupart Toujours"'''<br /><br />
French: Us versus the majority always<br />
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'''Lesotho'''<br /><br />
a kingdom of southern Africa, existing as an enclave entirely within the Republic of South Africa<br />
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'''SOUTHAF'''<br /><br />
This is the Union of South Africa, which was formed in 1910 as a British colony and tried to annex Lesotho to it. Because of the imposition of ''apartheid'' laws in S. Africa, the annexation failed.<br />
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'''antebellum'''<br /><br />
before the war, here the U.S. Civil War<br />
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===Endnote 110h===<br />
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'''Gallic'''<br /><br />
French<br />
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==Page 1014 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''Anglophone'''<br /><br />
English-speaking<br />
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'''Plains of Abraham'''<br /><br />
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains_of_Abraham Battle of the Plains of Abraham], part of the French and Indian Wars, which ended in a decisive British victory of the French<br />
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===Endnote 110i===<br />
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''''La Guerre des Britanniques et des Sauvages''''<br /><br />
French: The War of the British and the Savages<br />
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'''Ticonderoga'''<br /><br />
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Carillon Battle of Carillon], fought at Fort Ticonderoga<br />
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==Page 1014 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''Booty'''<br /><br />
treasure taken from a defeated party<br />
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'''1759'''<br /><br />
On September 13, 1759, Québec fell to the British.<br />
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'''NAFTA'''<br /><br />
North American Free Trade Agreement<br />
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'''Rubensian'''<br /><br />
The word more often used is "Rubenesque," but this refers to the women in paintings by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the Flemish artist. His women tended to be plump.<br />
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'''retardate'''<br /><br />
more often used as a noun, offensively referring to a retarded person<br />
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'''rapacious'''<br /><br />
ravenous<br />
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==Page 1015==<br />
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'''lissome'''<br /><br />
supple<br />
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'''Rubensophile'''<br /><br />
See above, Rubensian.<br />
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'''gulag'''<br /><br />
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GULAG GULAG] prison system of the Soviet Union<br />
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''''ce pas?'''<br /><br />
French elision of "n'est-ce pas?" i.e., "right?"<br />
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'''Anbesol'''<br /><br />
a brand name of benzocaine used for tooth pain<br />
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'''flanges'''<br /><br />
Orin probably means to say "phalanges."<br />
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'''Rue Sherbrooke'''<br /><br />
a road in Montreal<br />
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'''St. Jean-Baptiste Day'''<br /><br />
another name for la [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%AAte_nationale_du_Qu%C3%A9bec fête nationale du Québec]<br />
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'''anaerobic'''<br /><br />
thriving without oxygen<br />
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==Page 1016==<br />
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'''weedy'''<br /><br />
scrawny; Hal is probably using it to mean "thin," as in a line of argumentation<br />
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'''Brazilian ''Nuevo Contras'''''<br /><br />
These would be "new" ''contras'', the old ones having been U.S.-funded anti-communist guerrillas in Nicaragua in the 1980s.<br />
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'''The ''Noie Störkraft'''s? Shining Path's? The Belgian CCC's?'''<br /><br />
''Noie Störkraft'' is Swedish "New Great Power"; it does not appear to be a new organization, though Störkraft is the name of a skinhead band from Sweden. The Shining Path (''Sendero Luminoso'' in Spanish) is the Communist Party of Peru, which has waged guerrilla warfare against the Peruvian government since 1980. CCC is a French acronym for Communist Combatant Cells; they were eliminated as a terrorist group in 1986.<br />
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'''''Ez-ed-Dean-el-Qassan'''''<br /><br />
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izz_ad-Din_al-Qassam_Brigades alternate spelling] of a Palestinian militant group affiliated with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas Hamas]<br />
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'''P.E.T.A.'''<br /><br />
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals<br />
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[[Image:Munch.jpg|right|100px]]<br />
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'''wobbled shrieking figure in the Munch lithograph'''<br /><br />
See right.<br />
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==Page 1017==<br />
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'''subjoin'''<br /><br />
to append to the end of something<br />
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'''attendant'''<br /><br />
consequent or concomitant<br />
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'''cloracne'''<br /><br />
probably a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloracne chloracne]<br />
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'''olfactory hallucinations'''<br /><br />
hallucinations wherein one smells things that aren't there<br />
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'''machete'''<br /><br />
a large cleaver-like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machete cutting tool]<br />
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'''Infant-depredations'''<br /><br />
preying on babies<br />
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'''phenols'''<br /><br />
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenol carbolic acid]<br />
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'''Fundy'''<br /><br />
probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Fundy Bay of Fundy]<br />
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'''straw-and-camel'''<br /><br />
i.e., the straw that broke the camel's back<br />
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==Page 1018==<br />
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'''Docksider'''<br /><br />
a type of boat shoe<br />
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'''full-toll'''<br /><br />
i.e., it takes its full toll on you<br />
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'''Constantine'''<br /><br />
perhaps [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_I Constantine I], by tradition first Christian emperor of Rome<br />
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'''merde'''<br /><br />
French for "shit"<br />
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'''cartographic'''<br /><br />
having to do with maps<br />
<br />
'''parliamentary wigs'''<br /><br />
Canadian MPs don't wear wigs, though barristers (lawyers) and judges do.<br />
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==Page 1019==<br />
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'''bone of dissension'''<br /><br />
Orin means "bone of contention."<br />
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'''desmirched'''<br /><br />
probably a malapropism, although it could mean "to un-besmirch"<br />
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'''re-gerrymandered'''<br /><br />
To gerrymander is to divide an area into electoral districts favorable to one party over another.<br />
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'''Cuibono'''<br /><br />
more properly ''cui bono'', Latin for "who benefits?"<br />
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'''swivet'''<br /><br />
a state of nervous excitement<br />
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'''D-bases'''<br /><br />
databases<br />
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'''falcate'''<br /><br />
to curve like a sickle<br />
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'''Albertan ultra-rightists'''<br /><br />
There is a tradition of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Separatism separatism] in Alberta.<br />
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'''Duluth'''<br /><br />
a town in Minnesota and home to Bob Dylan, on Lake Superior about 150 miles north of the Twin Cities<br />
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==Page 1020==<br />
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'''Vichified'''<br /><br />
i.e., as Vichy France, which was a puppet government to the Nazis<br />
<br />
'''Anschluss'''<br /><br />
German for "annexation," it most often refers to Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria in 1938.<br />
<br />
'''mayhi'''<br /><br />
Orin seems to be using this term as a plural of "mayhem."<br />
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'''P.Q.s'''<br /><br />
members of the Parti Québecois<br />
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'''P.M.'''<br /><br />
Prime Minister (of Canada)<br />
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'''''aller, partir'''''<br /><br />
French: to go, to leave<br />
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==Page 1021==<br />
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'''hapless'''<br /><br />
here meaning haphazard<br />
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'''botulizing'''<br /><br />
infecting with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulism botulism]<br />
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'''jaunty'''<br /><br />
smartly trim<br />
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'''toggle'''<br /><br />
a type of switch<br />
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'''anapestic'''<br /><br />
An anapest is a three-syllable word where the emphasis is one last syllable. "Anapest" is an anapest.<br />
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===Endnote 145 · Found Drama===<br />
<br />
An invented, non-existent faux-academic style of film on which James O. Incandenza lectured and received artistic grants, created to lampoon the academic film theory community. Found Drama was not captured on film; rather, Incandenza and close friends "got out a Boston metro phone book and tore a White Pages page out at random and thumbtacked it to the wall and then [Incandenza] would throw a dart at it from across the room. ... And the name it hit becomes the subject of the Found Drama. And whatever happens to the protagonist with the name you hit with the dart for ... the next hour and a half is the Drama."<br />
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==Page 1026==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]<br />
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==Page 1027==<br />
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'''ne pas à la mode'''<br /><br />
French: not in style<br />
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'''New Wave'''<br /><br />
When this term is used w/r/t Himself's work, it is probably referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_New_Wave French New Wave], although there were several other "New Waves" in film.<br />
<br />
'''Dick'''<br /><br />
I'm unable to identify whether this person is real or not.<br />
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'''art-gesture films'''<br /><br />
apparently a created genre<br />
<br />
'''isness'''<br /><br />
i.e., being<br />
<br />
'''stasis'''<br /><br />
inactivity caused by equal opposing forces<br />
<br />
'''tenure-jockeys'''<br /><br />
i.e., junior faculty at universities who are on tenure track<br />
<br />
'''Orthochromatic'''<br /><br />
According to the ''Random House Unabridged Dictionary,'' this word means "representing correctly the relations of colors as found in a subject; isochromatic."<br />
<br />
'''retrogradism'''<br /><br />
This neologism would seem to have the sense of the study or condition of moving backward.<br />
<br />
'''McLean Hospital'''<br /><br />
a real [http://mcleanhospital.org/ psychiatric hospital] in Belmont, Mass., about eight miles west-northwest of Boston<br />
<br />
'''Duquette at M.I.T.'''<br /><br />
There is no such person at M.I.T.<br />
<br />
'''Posener'''<br /><br />
There is no such person at Brandeis.<br />
<br />
==Page 1035==<br />
<br />
===Endnote 211===<br />
<br />
'''suborn'''<br /><br />
to bribe or induce someone to commit a crime or misdeed<br />
<span class="marker">Endnote 234 · Excerpts From Orin's Interview With ''Moment''</span><br />
<br />
==Page 1038==<br />
<br />
'''Rafferty'''<br /><br />
Terrence Rafferty was a film critic for the ''New Yorker'' magazine.<br />
<br />
'''NPR'''<br /><br />
National Public Radio<br />
<br />
==Page 1039==<br />
<br />
'''dun'''<br /><br />
make repeated demands on<br />
<br />
'''Madison Avenue'''<br /><br />
the street in New York famous for its advertising firms<br />
<br />
'''traversion'''<br /><br />
Orin probably means "introversion."<br />
<br />
'''T-square'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-square drafting tool]<br />
<br />
==Page 1040==<br />
<br />
'''Prussian'''<br /><br />
here used to mean "very strict"<br />
<br />
'''schizogenic'''<br /><br />
produced or formed by fission<br />
<br />
'''pathogenic'''<br /><br />
capable of producing disease<br />
<br />
==Page 1041==<br />
<br />
'''antidote'''<br /><br />
Orin means "anecdote."<br />
<br />
'''Quelquechose'''<br /><br />
French: something<br />
<br />
==Page 1042==<br />
<br />
'''pièce'''<br /><br />
as in "pièce de resistance," the punchline or main point<br />
<br />
==Page 1043==<br />
<br />
'''four horsemen'''<br /><br />
as in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse] from the Book of Revelation<br />
<br />
'''BPL'''<br /><br />
Boston Public Library<br />
<br />
==Page 1044==<br />
<br />
==Page 1047==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]<br />
<br />
''' 'After my own parents were horribly killed on the Jamaica Way commuter road one morning in the freak crash of a radio traffic-report helicopter . . .' '''<br /><br />
<br />
Lateral Alice Moore was handicapped when the news helicopter she flew in crashed onto a high way. It could have been the same accident as the one Bain's referring to here.<br />
<br />
'''J.O.I.'''<br /><br />
James O. Incandenza<br />
<br />
'''guile'''<br /><br />
insidious cunning<br />
<br />
'''larval'''<br /><br />
immature in its kind<br />
<br />
'''codpieces'''<br /><br />
a pouch at the crotch of tight-fitting breeches, popular during the Renaissance<br />
<br />
'''Swinburne'''<br /><br />
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was a British poet whose work had themes of homosexuality and sadomasochism.<br />
<br />
'''prenominate'''<br /><br />
aforementioned<br />
<br />
'''apposite'''<br /><br />
relevant<br />
<br />
==Page 1048==<br />
<br />
'''fairly high-sodium way'''<br /><br />
i.e., with a grain (or more) of salt<br />
<br />
'''purposive'''<br /><br />
serving some purpose<br />
<br />
'''cross-sectioned cow'''<br /><br />
Cornell University apparently has a cow whose stomachs you can see in action.<br />
<br />
'''anaclitic'''<br /><br />
denoting psychologic dependence<br />
<br />
==Page 1049==<br />
<br />
'''prevarication'''<br /><br />
lying<br />
<br />
'''"...as if from the Rose Garden..."'''<br /><br />
like the President of the U.S. answering a question from a reporter<br />
<br />
mendacious<br /><br />
untruthful<br />
<br />
'''monilial'''<br /><br />
having to do with vaginal yeast infection<br />
<br />
'''S. Johnson'''<br /><br />
probably a reference to Dr. Samuel Johnson, the lexicographer<br />
<br />
==Page 1050==<br />
<br />
'''Steeples'''<br /><br />
Bain has become to get Steeply's name wrong.<br />
<br />
'''Steeley'''<br /><br />
ditto<br />
<br />
'''ACOAs'''<br /><br />
Adult Children of Alcoholics<br />
<br />
'''AlaTeens'''<br /><br />
a support group for teenage children of alcoholics<br />
<br />
'''ACONAs'''<br /><br />
Adult Children of Narcotics Anonymous<br />
<br />
'''ACOGs'''<br /><br />
ACOG is most commonly the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, but in this context it probably stands for Adult Children of Gamblers.<br />
<br />
'''aspic'''<br /><br />
meat jelly<br />
<br />
'''profligate'''<br /><br />
extravagant<br />
<br />
'''loquacious'''<br /><br />
very talkative<br />
<br />
==Page 1051==<br />
<br />
'''Starkly'''<br /><br />
Bain gets Steeply's name wrong yet again.<br />
<br />
'''univocal'''<br /><br />
unambiguous<br />
<br />
'''furcated'''<br /><br />
branching or forking<br />
<br />
'''albatross'''<br /><br />
a burden, from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner''<br />
<br />
'''Starksaddle'''<br /><br />
another mistake with Steeply's name<br />
<br />
'''perspicuous'''<br /><br />
clearly expressed<br />
<br />
==Page 1052==<br />
<br />
'''multivalent'''<br /><br />
having various meanings<br />
<br />
'''Bainbridge'''<br /><br />
This isn't even close to Steeply's name.<br />
<br />
===Endnote 321===<br />
<br />
'''(1063-1066)'''<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]<br />
<br />
'''Rise Over Run'''<br /><br />
The rise (amount the line increases) of a line divided over the run (length of the line) give you the slope of the line, which is also equal in calculus to the first derivative.<br />
<br />
'''tangent'''<br /><br />
This concept is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangent#Trigonometry here].<br />
<br />
'''Differentiation'''<br /><br />
the process by which one determines the first derivative of a mathematical function<br />
<br />
'''inexorably'''<br /><br />
relentlessly<br />
<br />
'''covers'''<br /><br />
songs written by other people than yourself<br />
<br />
'''Digestive-Flora'''<br /><br />
bacteria that live in the intestine and aid in digestion<br />
<br />
'''Verdun Protestant Hospital'''<br /><br />
now called [http://www.douglas.qc.ca/ Douglas Mental Health Institute]<br />
<br />
'''''tu-sais-qué'''''<br /><br />
really bad French for "you know what"<br />
<br />
'''Human Hatchet'''<br /><br />
i.e., Axford<br />
<br />
'''impotence'''<br /><br />
Probably means impetus<br />
<br />
'''Blue Flames'''<br /><br />
apparently some sort of drug<br />
<br />
'''O<sub>2</sub>'''<br /><br />
oxygen<br />
<br />
'''Jiminy Cricket'''<br /><br />
a character from [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032910/ Pinocchio]<br />
<br />
===Endnote 324===<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
==Page 1066==<br />
<br />
'''moon'''<br /><br />
to spend time idly<br />
<br />
'''camphonated'''<br /><br />
more like "camphorated," i.e., contained camphor<br />
<br />
===Endnote 324a===<br />
<br />
'''loamy'''<br /><br />
consisting of rich, arable soil<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]<br />
<br />
==Page 1066 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''whorl'''<br /><br />
a circular arrangement<br />
<br />
'''funiculi'''<br /><br />
plural of "funiculus," i.e., part of the spinal cord<br />
<br />
==Page 1067==<br />
<br />
'''gonions'''<br /><br />
the outer points on either side of the lower jaw at which the jawbone angles upward<br />
<br />
'''uncolloped'''<br /><br />
having no fat<br />
<br />
'''latissimal'''<br /><br />
referring to the [http://www.reference.com/search?r=13&q=Latissimus lattissimus dorsi] muscles<br />
<br />
'''profligate'''<br /><br />
wasteful<br />
<br />
'''Nordicular'''<br /><br />
i.e., Nordic, which is to say blond-haired and blue-eyed<br />
<br />
'''armamentarium'''<br /><br />
an arsenal, particularly used by physicians to refer to drugs or treatments<br />
<br />
'''callow'''<br /><br />
immature; inexperienced<br />
<br />
'''entrepôt'''<br /><br />
a place for storing and dispensing goods<br />
<br />
'''dinkle'''<br /><br />
a euphemism for "penis"<br />
<br />
==Page 1068==<br />
<br />
'''welching'''<br /><br />
swindling by not paying a debt or wager<br />
<br />
'''three-setter'''<br /><br />
a tennis game ending in three sets, rather than five, because one player has gone up 3 to 0<br />
<br />
'''cavalier'''<br /><br />
disdainful; unceremonious<br />
<br />
'''burr'''<br /><br />
here used to mean "irritant"<br />
<br />
==Page 1069==<br />
<br />
'''canvas restraint-wrap'''<br /><br />
straitjacket<br />
<br />
'''catgut'''<br /><br />
This is "a strong cord made by twisting the dried intestines of animals, as sheep, used in stringing musical instruments and tennis rackets, for surgical sutures, etc." (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''"...his late great Da's..."'''<br /><br />
Clearly Pemulis has no idea that his brother was molested by their father.<br />
<br />
'''rheumy'''<br /><br />
full of thin mucous<br />
<br />
==Page 1070==<br />
<br />
'''Bedouins'''<br /><br />
certain Arabs of the deserts of Arabia and the Levant<br />
<br />
'''buggered'''<br /><br />
being on the receiving end of anal sex<br />
<br />
'''b/w'''<br /><br />
Black and white<br />
<br />
'''J. Gleason'''<br /><br />
Jackie Gleason (1916-1987) was [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001276/ one of the great comic actors] of the 20th century.<br />
<br />
'''Zoltan'''<br /><br />
actually a Hungarian name, which means "ruler"<br />
<br />
'''cretinous'''<br /><br />
stupid<br />
<br />
==Page 1071==<br />
<br />
===Endnote 324f===<br />
<br />
'''Orly'''<br /><br />
one of the airports serving Paris<br />
<br />
==Page 1071 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''redoubted'''<br /><br />
formidable<br />
<br />
'''Modus Tollens'''<br /><br />
a Latin logical term, meaning, roughly, "the means of denying"<br />
<br />
'''Nucleic acids'''<br /><br />
DNA and RNA<br />
<br />
'''A and G, T and C'''<br /><br />
adenine and guanine, thymine and cytosine, the compounds that make up DNA<br />
<br />
<br />
'''When the boulder's slipped all the way back to the bottom'''<br /><br />
a reference to the myth of [http://www.reference.com/search?q=Sisyphus Sisyphus]<br />
<br />
'''When the headless are blaming'''<br /><br />
a reference to [http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if/ If], by Rudyard Kipling: "If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you"<br />
<br />
'''Csíkszentmihályi'''<br /><br />
The name may be taken from Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (born 1934), a prominent Hungarian-American psychologist. His son Christopher is on the faculty at MIT.<br />
<br />
'''lemma'''<br /><br />
a proven statement used as a step in a mathematical proof<br />
<br />
'''Boardman MN'''<br /><br />
a town about 40 miles west-northwest of the Twin Cities<br />
<br />
==Page 1072==<br />
<br />
''' "Leap like a knight of faith . . ." '''<br /><br />
<br />
A reference to Soren Kierkegaard's knight of faith. Kierkegaard, a theologian and philosopher, didn't think there could be any logical justification for believing in God. Instead the believer is required to take a leap of faith, so called because he (the believer) has no evidence for his convictions and thus must always, on some rational level, doubt them. In fact to Kierkegaard doubt defines faith, because if there were no doubt no leap of faith would be required in the first place, much like it doesn't require a leap of faith for you to believe you're actually reading this wikipedia entry right now, or that I'm not an alien sub rosa manipulating your mind for my own purposes.<br />
<br />
'''"...Peano, Leibniz, Hilbert..."'''<br /><br />
Giuseppe Peano (1858-1932) was an Italian mathematician. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a German polymath and one of the creators of calculus. David Hilbert (1862-1943) was a German mathematician. <br />
<br />
'''"...Fourier, Gauss, LaPlace, Rickey..."'''<br /><br />
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) was a French mathematician and physicist. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) was a German mathematician. Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (1749-1827) was a French mathematician and astronomer. Rickey would seem to refer to [http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/ V. Frederick Rickey], though he is contemporary while the other named men are not.<br />
<br />
'''"...Wiener, Reimann, Frege, Green..."'''<br /><br />
Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) was an American mathematician. Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) was a German mathematician. Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a German mathematician and logician. Green is probably George Green (1793-1841), English mathematician and physicist.<br />
<br />
===Endnote 332===<br />
<br />
==Page 1073==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]<br />
<br />
'''jury-rigged'''<br /><br />
a corruption of "jerry-rigged" (a pejorative term about Germans), which basically means rigged in a makeshift, ad hod manner<br />
<br />
==Page 1074==<br />
<br />
'''nictitater'''<br /><br />
the word meant here is probably "nictitate," which means to wink - so, in other words, a "wink" of stupidity-film on Watson's eyes, or just a hint<br />
<br />
'''castigations'''<br /><br />
criticisms; reprimands<br />
<br />
==Page 1075==<br />
<br />
'''loupes'''<br /><br />
eyepiece magnifying glasses used by jewellers<br />
<br />
'''"may the road rise up to meet you..."'''<br /><br />
part of an old Irish blessing<br />
<br />
==Page 1076==<br />
<br />
'''incubus'''<br /><br />
a male demon that seduces female humans<br />
<br />
'''glycerine'''<br /><br />
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycerine glycerol]<br />
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==Page 620==<br />
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'''carpal neuralgia, phospenic migraine, gluteal hyperadiposity, lumbar stressae'''<br /><br />
hand pain, migraines with flashing lights, fat buttocks, and lower back pain<br />
<br />
'''"...all three O.N.A.N. time zones..."'''<br /><br />
Three is considerably fewer time zones than the five the U.S. (including Alaska and Hawaii) currently span, plus the Atlantic Time Zone, in which some of Canada can be found.<br />
<br />
'''genuflecting'''<br /><br />
bending the knee<br />
<br />
'''Gapers' Blocks'''<br /><br />
traffic delays caused by rubbernecking<br />
<br />
==Page 621==<br />
<br />
'''apotheosis'''<br /><br />
the process of being raised to godlike status<br />
<br />
'''coprolaliac'''<br /><br />
abnormally disposed to using profanity<br />
<br />
'''nucleic'''<br /><br />
pertaining to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_force nuclear force], which binds protons and neutrons into atomic nuclei <br />
<br />
'''PAs'''<br /><br />
public-address sytems<br />
<br />
'''nostrums'''<br /><br />
patent medicines<br />
<br />
'''bunting'''<br /><br />
loosely woven fabric in a generally half-circle shape; red-white-and-blue ones can be seen hung on podiums, porches, baseball stadiums, etc, especially on the 4th of July and other patriotic holidays.<br />
<br />
'''c.'''<br /><br />
circa<br />
<br />
'''sylvan'''<br /><br />
woodsy<br />
<br />
==Page 622==<br />
<br />
'''möbiusizing'''<br /><br />
a neologism for taking on the shape of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip Möbius strip]<br />
<br />
'''scopophile'''<br /><br />
someone who derives pleasure (usually sexual) from looking at something<br />
<br />
'''dun'''<br /><br />
grayish brown<br />
<br />
'''Gregg pen'''<br /><br />
See one [http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?s=2eae74b99300ac6261751443db9182fa&showtopic=33208&st=0&p=305917&#entry305917 here]<br />
<br />
'''purview'''<br /><br />
scope of vision<br />
<br />
==Page 623==<br />
<br />
'''verdigrised'''<br /><br />
covered with grayish-green rust<br />
<br />
'''Robert McCloskey'''<br /><br />
Robert McCloskey (1914-2003) was an American author and illustrator of children's books.<br />
<br />
'''''Make Way for Ducklings'''''<br /><br />
Read about this book [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Way_for_Ducklings here].<br />
<br />
'''greensward'''<br /><br />
stretch of grassy turf<br />
<br />
'''5º C'''<br /><br />
41º Fahrenheit<br />
<br />
'''appurtenances'''<br /><br />
apparatus or instruments<br />
<br />
'''sepia'''<br /><br />
dark brown, as in the pigment used to make very early photographs<br />
<br />
==Page 624==<br />
<br />
'''metallurgy'''<br /><br />
the making and conducting of alloys<br />
<br />
'''Mass Comm.'''<br /><br />
mass communications<br />
<br />
==Page 625==<br />
<br />
'''ICU'''<br /><br />
Intensive Care Unit<br />
<br />
'''swart'''<br /><br />
swarthy, i.e., dark-skinned<br />
<br />
'''half a house'''<br /><br />
a half-way house<br />
<br />
'''M.D.C.'''<br /><br />
Metropolitan District Commission<br />
<br />
'''hackysackers'''<br /><br />
players of a game (hackeysack) where people in a circle kick a small leather bag around to one another<br />
<br />
==Page 626==<br />
<br />
'''Autoteller'''<br /><br />
an ATM<br />
<br />
'''moguls'''<br /><br />
bumps<br />
<br />
'''coruscant'''<br /><br />
glittering<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">627 · Mealtime at ETA</span><br />
<br />
==Page 627==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''fenestrated'''<br /><br />
having windows<br />
<br />
'''R.H.I.P.'''<br /><br />
Rank Has Its Privileges<br />
<br />
'''mastication'''<br /><br />
chewing<br />
<br />
==Page 628==<br />
<br />
'''P.O.W.'''<br /><br />
Prisoner of War<br />
<br />
'''Liberal KS'''<br /><br />
To be exact, it's three miles via Route 83 to the Oklahoma border.<br />
<br />
'''C/W'''<br /><br />
Country & Western<br />
<br />
'''Beefeater'''<br /><br />
a British brand of gin<br />
<br />
'''clapboard'''<br /><br />
a long, thin board, thicker along one edge than the other, used in covering the outer walls of buildings (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'')<br />
<br />
'''nuptial'''<br /><br />
marital<br />
<br />
==Page 629==<br />
<br />
'''toilet-eau'''<br /><br />
eau de toilette, sort of like perfume<br />
<br />
'''connubial'''<br /><br />
marital<br />
<br />
'''Birkenstock'''<br /><br />
a German brand of sandals and shoes<br />
<br />
'''glutens'''<br /><br />
a mixture of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten wheat proteins]<br />
<br />
'''torpor'''<br /><br />
sluggishness<br />
<br />
'''turrets'''<br /><br />
projections from a building where guns are placed<br />
<br />
==Page 630==<br />
<br />
'''"...like Roosevelt at Yalta..."'''<br /><br />
a reference to the supposed bullying by Stalin of FDR at the conference at Yalta in 1945 to cede Eastern Europe to Soviet control<br />
<br />
'''saltpeter'''<br /><br />
potassium nitrate, commonly believed to cause erectile dysfunction<br />
<br />
'''Seldane'''<br /><br />
a brand-name of non-drowsy antihistamine<br />
<br />
'''carminative'''<br /><br />
expelling gas<br />
<br />
==Page 631==<br />
<br />
'''mammarial'''<br /><br />
resembling or having to do with breasts<br />
<br />
'''lecithin'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecithin mixture of fats] found in milk and other foods<br />
<br />
'''semicolonized'''<br /><br />
otherwise, it's a comma splice<br />
<br />
'''buttinskis'''<br /><br />
i.e., the right to butt into line<br />
<br />
'''scooters'''<br /><br />
apparently a slang term for "dollars"<br />
<br />
'''déjà vu'''<br /><br />
From French for "already seen," it's the sense that you're re-experiencing something.<br />
<br />
==Page 632==<br />
<br />
'''saltire'''<br /><br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltire Cross of St. Andrew]<br />
<br />
'''tektitic'''<br /><br />
referring to fossils formed by meteoric impacts<br />
<br />
'''foist'''<br /><br />
to insert deceitfully<br />
<br />
==Page 633==<br />
<br />
'''Grant's Tomb'''<br /><br />
The trick answer to the question is "no one." As the tomb is above ground, Ulysses S. Grant is technically "entombed" and not "buried." The obvious answer is Grant.<br />
<br />
'''the one about what do Canadian girls put behind their ears to attract boys'''<br /><br />
Presumably a reference to Q: What does a blonde put behind her ears to make her more attractive? A: Her ankles.<br />
<br />
==Page 634==<br />
<br />
==Endnote 261==<br />
<br />
'''offal'''<br /><br />
garbage, particularly rotting meat<br />
<br />
==Page 634 (cont.)==<br />
<br />
'''tantric'''<br /><br />
referring to a particular branch of Hinduism, but very particularly to the sexual aspect of this branch, which emphasizes long sessions of sexual intercourse<br />
<br />
'''Twister'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twister_%28game%29 parlor game] produced by Hasbro that involves contorting the body<br />
<br />
'''cataract'''<br /><br />
waterfall<br />
<br />
'''reticent'''<br /><br />
the tendency to keep one's thoughts to oneself<br />
<br />
'''colposcope'''<br /><br />
a scope used to examine the internal female reproductive organs<br />
<br />
'''Combat Zone'''<br /><br />
an area of Boston known for prostitution and sex shops<br />
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'''bussed'''<br /><br />
cleaned up<br />
<br />
'''B.B.'''<br /><br />
Big Brother<br />
<br />
'''asexual'''<br /><br />
not sexually active or not attracted to either sex<br />
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'''nascent'''<br /><br />
beginning to develop<br />
<br />
'''Sapphic'''<br /><br />
i.e., lesbian, the reference being to Sappho, the ancient Greek poet from Lesbos<br />
<br />
'''Penal Matron'''<br /><br />
in other words, a female prison warden<br />
<br />
'''Polycleitos'''<br /><br />
a Greek sculptor of the fifth century BC<br />
<br />
'''Hermes'''<br /><br />
the messenger god of Greek mythology<br />
<br />
'''Theseus'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theseus hero] of Greek mythology<br />
<br />
'''swart'''<br /><br />
i.e. swarthy - of dark complexion or color<br />
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'''staccato'''<br /><br />
in music, notes sounded in a detached manner<br />
<br />
'''acerbic'''<br /><br />
sharp or biting<br />
<br />
'''hick'''<br /><br />
a person from a rural area<br />
<br />
'''spitter'''<br /><br />
a spitball, in baseball<br />
<br />
'''tsunami'''<br /><br />
tidal wave<br />
<br />
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'''olla'''<br /><br />
a pot for making stew, or stew itself<br />
<br />
'''tsimmes'''<br /><br />
a fruit and vegetable casserole<br />
<br />
'''riches nouveaux'''<br /><br />
French: new riches; here an inversion of ''nouveaux riches'', i.e., "newly rich"<br />
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'''acronym'''<br /><br />
MASH stands for "Mobile Army Surgical Hospital."<br />
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'''prima facie'''<br /><br />
Latin: at first sight<br />
<br />
'''Troy, New York'''<br /><br />
a college town about ten miles from the state capital of Albany<br />
<br />
'''wens'''<br /><br />
a harmless cyst on the scalp or face<br />
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'''Canadiens of the N.L. of H.'''<br /><br />
the Montreal Canadiens, a team in the National Hockey League<br />
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==Page 641==<br />
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'''canned'''<br /><br />
pre-recorded<br />
<br />
'''''Bröckengespenstphänom'''''<br /><br />
German: Boulder-ghost-phenomenon, as best I can tell; the umlauts are incorrect<br />
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==Page 642==<br />
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'''Marsh or Swamp'''<br /><br />
The principal male characters in ''M*A*S*H*'' lived in the same tent, which they called "the Swamp."<br />
<br />
==Endnote 263==<br />
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'''Betamax'''<br /><br />
the smaller format of videotape that was eventually pushed out of the market by VHS<br />
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==Page 642 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''''transperçant'''''<br /><br />
French: penetrating across<br />
<br />
'''Major Burns'''<br /><br />
a "villain" character played by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0513271/?fr=c2M9MXxsbT01MDB8ZmI9dXx4PTB8eT0wfG14PTIwfGh0bWw9MXxzaXRlPWRmfHE9TGFycnkgTGludmlsbGV8bm09MXxwbj0w;fc=1;ft=20 Larry Linville]<br />
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'''inveterate'''<br /><br />
habitual<br />
<br />
'''Maury Linville'''<br /><br />
There is no such actor.<br />
<br />
''''In the South Korea of history.''''<br /><br />
sort of implying that in the time of the novel, there's only one Korea again<br />
<br />
''''You are not meaning your sister was a goat.''''<br /><br />
bearing in mind that "kid" also means a baby goat<br />
<br />
==Page 644==<br />
<br />
'''Korean Police Action of the U.N.'''<br />
<br />
this in reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War Korean War], which involved military support from (in defense of South Korea from the invading North) United Nations member nations. The war actually lasted three full years.<br />
<br />
'''baroquoco'''<br /><br />
This would seem to be a mix between "baroque" and "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo rococo]."<br />
<br />
'''augured'''<br /><br />
predicted for the future<br />
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==Page 645==<br />
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==Page 646==<br />
<br />
'''Alda'''<br /><br />
a reference to ''M*A*S*H'' star [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000257/ Alan Alda]<br />
<br />
'''transmural infarction'''<br /><br />
heart attack<br />
<br />
'''ventricle'''<br /><br />
one of two of the four chambers of the heart<br />
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'''mesquite'''<br /><br />
a spiny shrub with bean pods<br />
<br />
'''Dick Willis'''<br /><br />
There was a spy named Richard Willis (1613-1690) active during the English Civil War (1642-1660). This is also the name of a professional peer of Steeply in the novel, first mentioned earlier.<br />
<br />
'''Ossified'''<br /><br />
turned to stone<br />
<br />
'''plura'''<br /><br />
a misspelling (likely) of "pleura," which is a thin membrane enclosing the lungs<br />
<br />
==Page 648==<br />
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==Page 649==<br />
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'''benign'''<br /><br />
harmless<br />
<br />
'''anomaly'''<br /><br />
something like nothing else<br />
<br />
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'''malevolent'''<br /><br />
intending harm<br />
<br />
'''''magna cum laude'''''<br /><br />
Latin: with very high honors<br />
<br />
==Page 651==<br />
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'''130-kilo'''<br /><br />
286.6 pounds<br />
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==Page 620==<br />
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'''carpal neuralgia, phospenic migraine, gluteal hyperadiposity, lumbar stressae'''<br /><br />
hand pain, migraines with flashing lights, fat buttocks, and lower back pain<br />
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'''"...all three O.N.A.N. time zones..."'''<br /><br />
Three is considerably fewer time zones than the five the U.S. (including Alaska and Hawaii) currently span, plus the Atlantic Time Zone, in which some of Canada can be found.<br />
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'''genuflecting'''<br /><br />
bending the knee<br />
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'''Gapers' Blocks'''<br /><br />
traffic delays caused by rubbernecking<br />
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==Page 621==<br />
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'''apotheosis'''<br /><br />
the process of being raised to godlike status<br />
<br />
'''coprolaliac'''<br /><br />
abnormally disposed to using profanity<br />
<br />
'''nucleic'''<br /><br />
pertaining to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_force nuclear force], which binds protons and neutrons into atomic nuclei <br />
<br />
'''PAs'''<br /><br />
public-address sytems<br />
<br />
'''nostrums'''<br /><br />
patent medicines<br />
<br />
'''bunting'''<br /><br />
loosely woven fabric in a generally half-circle shape; red-white-and-blue ones can be seen hung on podiums, porches, baseball stadiums, etc, especially on the 4th of July and other patriotic holidays.<br />
<br />
'''c.'''<br /><br />
circa<br />
<br />
'''sylvan'''<br /><br />
woodsy<br />
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==Page 622==<br />
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'''möbiusizing'''<br /><br />
a neologism for taking on the shape of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip Möbius strip]<br />
<br />
'''scopophile'''<br /><br />
someone who derives pleasure (usually sexual) from looking at something<br />
<br />
'''dun'''<br /><br />
grayish brown<br />
<br />
'''Gregg pen'''<br /><br />
See one [http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?s=2eae74b99300ac6261751443db9182fa&showtopic=33208&st=0&p=305917&#entry305917 here]<br />
<br />
'''purview'''<br /><br />
scope of vision<br />
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'''verdigrised'''<br /><br />
covered with grayish-green rust<br />
<br />
'''Robert McCloskey'''<br /><br />
Robert McCloskey (1914-2003) was an American author and illustrator of children's books.<br />
<br />
'''''Make Way for Ducklings'''''<br /><br />
Read about this book [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Way_for_Ducklings here].<br />
<br />
'''greensward'''<br /><br />
stretch of grassy turf<br />
<br />
'''5º C'''<br /><br />
41º Fahrenheit<br />
<br />
'''appurtenances'''<br /><br />
apparatus or instruments<br />
<br />
'''sepia'''<br /><br />
dark brown, as in the pigment used to make very early photographs<br />
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'''metallurgy'''<br /><br />
the making and conducting of alloys<br />
<br />
'''Mass Comm.'''<br /><br />
mass communications<br />
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==Page 625==<br />
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'''ICU'''<br /><br />
Intensive Care Unit<br />
<br />
'''swart'''<br /><br />
swarthy, i.e., dark-skinned<br />
<br />
'''half a house'''<br /><br />
a half-way house<br />
<br />
'''M.D.C.'''<br /><br />
Metropolitan District Commission<br />
<br />
'''hackysackers'''<br /><br />
players of a game (hackeysack) where people in a circle kick a small leather bag around to one another<br />
<br />
==Page 626==<br />
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'''Autoteller'''<br /><br />
an ATM<br />
<br />
'''moguls'''<br /><br />
bumps<br />
<br />
'''coruscant'''<br /><br />
glittering<br />
<br />
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==Page 627==<br />
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'''fenestrated'''<br /><br />
having windows<br />
<br />
'''R.H.I.P.'''<br /><br />
Rank Has Its Privileges<br />
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'''mastication'''<br /><br />
chewing<br />
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==Page 628==<br />
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'''P.O.W.'''<br /><br />
Prisoner of War<br />
<br />
'''Liberal KS'''<br /><br />
To be exact, it's three miles via Route 83 to the Oklahoma border.<br />
<br />
'''C/W'''<br /><br />
Country & Western<br />
<br />
'''Beefeater'''<br /><br />
a British brand of gin<br />
<br />
'''clapboard'''<br /><br />
a long, thin board, thicker along one edge than the other, used in covering the outer walls of buildings (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'')<br />
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'''nuptial'''<br /><br />
marital<br />
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'''toilet-eau'''<br /><br />
eau de toilette, sort of like perfume<br />
<br />
'''connubial'''<br /><br />
marital<br />
<br />
'''Birkenstock'''<br /><br />
a German brand of sandals and shoes<br />
<br />
'''glutens'''<br /><br />
a mixture of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten wheat proteins]<br />
<br />
'''torpor'''<br /><br />
sluggishness<br />
<br />
'''turrets'''<br /><br />
projections from a building where guns are placed<br />
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'''"...like Roosevelt at Yalta..."'''<br /><br />
a reference to the supposed bullying by Stalin of FDR at the conference at Yalta in 1945 to cede Eastern Europe to Soviet control<br />
<br />
'''saltpeter'''<br /><br />
potassium nitrate, commonly believed to cause erectile dysfunction<br />
<br />
'''Seldane'''<br /><br />
a brand-name of non-drowsy antihistamine<br />
<br />
'''carminative'''<br /><br />
expelling gas<br />
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'''mammarial'''<br /><br />
resembling or having to do with breasts<br />
<br />
'''lecithin'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecithin mixture of fats] found in milk and other foods<br />
<br />
'''semicolonized'''<br /><br />
otherwise, it's a comma splice<br />
<br />
'''buttinskis'''<br /><br />
i.e., the right to butt into line<br />
<br />
'''scooters'''<br /><br />
apparently a slang term for "dollars"<br />
<br />
'''déjà vu'''<br /><br />
From French for "already seen," it's the sense that you're re-experiencing something.<br />
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'''saltire'''<br /><br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltire Cross of St. Andrew]<br />
<br />
'''tektitic'''<br /><br />
referring to fossils formed by meteoric impacts<br />
<br />
'''foist'''<br /><br />
to insert deceitfully<br />
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'''Grant's Tomb'''<br /><br />
The trick answer to the question is "no one." As the tomb is above ground, Ulysses S. Grant is technically "entombed" and not "buried." The obvious answer is Grant.<br />
<br />
'''the one about what do Canadian girls put behind their ears to attract boys'''<br /><br />
Presumably a reference to: Q: What does a blonde put behind her ears to make her more attractive? A: Her ankles.<br />
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==Endnote 261==<br />
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'''offal'''<br /><br />
garbage, particularly rotting meat<br />
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'''tantric'''<br /><br />
referring to a particular branch of Hinduism, but very particularly to the sexual aspect of this branch, which emphasizes long sessions of sexual intercourse<br />
<br />
'''Twister'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twister_%28game%29 parlor game] produced by Hasbro that involves contorting the body<br />
<br />
'''cataract'''<br /><br />
waterfall<br />
<br />
'''reticent'''<br /><br />
the tendency to keep one's thoughts to oneself<br />
<br />
'''colposcope'''<br /><br />
a scope used to examine the internal female reproductive organs<br />
<br />
'''Combat Zone'''<br /><br />
an area of Boston known for prostitution and sex shops<br />
<br />
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'''bussed'''<br /><br />
cleaned up<br />
<br />
'''B.B.'''<br /><br />
Big Brother<br />
<br />
'''asexual'''<br /><br />
not sexually active or not attracted to either sex<br />
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'''nascent'''<br /><br />
beginning to develop<br />
<br />
'''Sapphic'''<br /><br />
i.e., lesbian, the reference being to Sappho, the ancient Greek poet from Lesbos<br />
<br />
'''Penal Matron'''<br /><br />
in other words, a female prison warden<br />
<br />
'''Polycleitos'''<br /><br />
a Greek sculptor of the fifth century BC<br />
<br />
'''Hermes'''<br /><br />
the messenger god of Greek mythology<br />
<br />
'''Theseus'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theseus hero] of Greek mythology<br />
<br />
'''swart'''<br /><br />
i.e. swarthy - of dark complexion or color<br />
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'''staccato'''<br /><br />
in music, notes sounded in a detached manner<br />
<br />
'''acerbic'''<br /><br />
sharp or biting<br />
<br />
'''hick'''<br /><br />
a person from a rural area<br />
<br />
'''spitter'''<br /><br />
a spitball, in baseball<br />
<br />
'''tsunami'''<br /><br />
tidal wave<br />
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'''olla'''<br /><br />
a pot for making stew, or stew itself<br />
<br />
'''tsimmes'''<br /><br />
a fruit and vegetable casserole<br />
<br />
'''riches nouveaux'''<br /><br />
French: new riches; here an inversion of ''nouveaux riches'', i.e., "newly rich"<br />
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==Page 638==<br />
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'''acronym'''<br /><br />
MASH stands for "Mobile Army Surgical Hospital."<br />
<br />
'''prima facie'''<br /><br />
Latin: at first sight<br />
<br />
'''Troy, New York'''<br /><br />
a college town about ten miles from the state capital of Albany<br />
<br />
'''wens'''<br /><br />
a harmless cyst on the scalp or face<br />
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'''Canadiens of the N.L. of H.'''<br /><br />
the Montreal Canadiens, a team in the National Hockey League<br />
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'''canned'''<br /><br />
pre-recorded<br />
<br />
'''''Bröckengespenstphänom'''''<br /><br />
German: Boulder-ghost-phenomenon, as best I can tell; the umlauts are incorrect<br />
<br />
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'''Marsh or Swamp'''<br /><br />
The principal male characters in ''M*A*S*H*'' lived in the same tent, which they called "the Swamp."<br />
<br />
==Endnote 263==<br />
<br />
'''Betamax'''<br /><br />
the smaller format of videotape that was eventually pushed out of the market by VHS<br />
<br />
==Page 642 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''''transperçant'''''<br /><br />
French: penetrating across<br />
<br />
'''Major Burns'''<br /><br />
a "villain" character played by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0513271/?fr=c2M9MXxsbT01MDB8ZmI9dXx4PTB8eT0wfG14PTIwfGh0bWw9MXxzaXRlPWRmfHE9TGFycnkgTGludmlsbGV8bm09MXxwbj0w;fc=1;ft=20 Larry Linville]<br />
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'''inveterate'''<br /><br />
habitual<br />
<br />
'''Maury Linville'''<br /><br />
There is no such actor.<br />
<br />
''''In the South Korea of history.''''<br /><br />
sort of implying that in the time of the novel, there's only one Korea again<br />
<br />
''''You are not meaning your sister was a goat.''''<br /><br />
bearing in mind that "kid" also means a baby goat<br />
<br />
==Page 644==<br />
<br />
'''Korean Police Action of the U.N.'''<br />
<br />
this in reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War Korean War], which involved military support from (in defense of South Korea from the invading North) United Nations member nations. The war actually lasted three full years.<br />
<br />
'''baroquoco'''<br /><br />
This would seem to be a mix between "baroque" and "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo rococo]."<br />
<br />
'''augured'''<br /><br />
predicted for the future<br />
<br />
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==Page 646==<br />
<br />
'''Alda'''<br /><br />
a reference to ''M*A*S*H'' star [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000257/ Alan Alda]<br />
<br />
'''transmural infarction'''<br /><br />
heart attack<br />
<br />
'''ventricle'''<br /><br />
one of two of the four chambers of the heart<br />
<br />
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'''mesquite'''<br /><br />
a spiny shrub with bean pods<br />
<br />
'''Dick Willis'''<br /><br />
There was a spy named Richard Willis (1613-1690) active during the English Civil War (1642-1660). This is also the name of a professional peer of Steeply in the novel, first mentioned earlier.<br />
<br />
'''Ossified'''<br /><br />
turned to stone<br />
<br />
'''plura'''<br /><br />
a misspelling (likely) of "pleura," which is a thin membrane enclosing the lungs<br />
<br />
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==Page 648==<br />
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==Page 649==<br />
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'''benign'''<br /><br />
harmless<br />
<br />
'''anomaly'''<br /><br />
something like nothing else<br />
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'''malevolent'''<br /><br />
intending harm<br />
<br />
'''''magna cum laude'''''<br /><br />
Latin: with very high honors<br />
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'''130-kilo'''<br /><br />
286.6 pounds<br />
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'''Antron'''<br /><br />
a [http://antron.net/ real company]<br />
<br />
'''lividity'''<br /><br />
brightness of color<br />
<br />
'''escutcheon'''<br /><br />
a shield-shaped emblem<br />
<br />
'''premie'''<br /><br />
born prematurely<br />
<br />
'''cumuli'''<br /><br />
plural of "cumulus," a type of cloud<br />
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'''fluffy cumuli arrayed patternlessly against an overenhanced blue sky, incredibly disorienting ... makes him feel high-altitude and disoriented and sometimes plummeting'''<br /><br />
this pattern appears on the cover of the book<br />
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'''D.D.S.'''<br /><br />
Doctor of Dental Surgery<br />
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'''insouciant'''<br /><br />
blithely unconcerned<br />
<br />
==Endnote 209==<br />
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'''Brisbane'''<br /><br />
the capital of the Australian state of Queensland<br />
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'''Mannington'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.mannington.com/ flooring company]<br />
<br />
'''pro bono'''<br /><br />
without pay<br />
<br />
==Page 511==<br />
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'''distaff'''<br /><br />
the female branch or side of the family, the 'family' in this case being ETA<br />
<br />
'''Phielyism'''<br /><br />
this is in reference to coach R. Bill ('Touchy') Phiely on the previous page<br />
<br />
'''mnemonic'''<br /><br />
having to do with memory<br />
<br />
'''Brewster's Angle'''<br /><br />
an angle of incidence at which light with a particular polarization is perfectly transmitted through a surface, with no reflection. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle[here]]<br />
<br />
'''serrated'''<br /><br />
having a jagged edge<br />
<br />
'''tulle'''<br /><br />
a fine, often starched net of silk, rayon, or nylon<br />
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'''cyanosis'''<br /><br />
blueness of the skin caused by deoxygenated blood<br />
<br />
'''J.D.'''<br /><br />
Juris Doctor, a law degree<br />
<br />
'''Sinistral'''<br /><br />
left-handed<br />
<br />
'''Short Beach CT'''<br /><br />
a suburb of New Haven, Conn., about seven miles to the southeast<br />
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'''athwart'''<br /><br />
side by side with<br />
<br />
'''THIRD RAIL'''<br /><br />
In many subway systems (notably New York's), the third rail is the electrified rail that powers the train(s).<br />
<br />
'''terry'''<br /><br />
a pile fabric used to make bath towels and robes<br />
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<br />
'''schnauzer'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schnauzer breed of dog] notable for its beard-like facial hair<br />
<br />
'''I-93'''<br /><br />
Interstate 93, which runs from St. Johnsbury, Vt., to the suburbs of Boston<br />
<br />
'''Neponset'''<br /><br />
a neighborhood of Boston<br />
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==Page 515==<br />
<br />
'''Q.v.'''<br /><br />
abbreviation for the Latin ''quo vide'', meaning "which see"<br />
<br />
'''VIII-Amendment'''<br /><br />
The Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects citizens against cruel and unusual punishment.<br />
<br />
'''diction'''<br /><br />
choice of words<br />
<br />
'''raison d'être'''<br /><br />
French: reason for being<br />
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'''O.N.A.N.F.L.'''<br /><br />
Organization of North American Nations Football League<br />
<br />
'''Coatlicue'''<br /><br />
This is the name of an Aztec goddess, one who gave birth to the moon and stars. The reference here is perhaps to Avril.<br />
<br />
'''fulcra'''<br /><br />
plural of "fulcrum"<br />
<br />
'''stadia'''<br /><br />
plural of "stadium"<br />
<br />
'''75-meter'''<br /><br />
about 246 feet<br />
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'''dot-matrix printer'''<br /><br />
one of the earliest-generation [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot_matrix_printer computer printers]<br />
<br />
'''Ludditism'''<br /><br />
a philosophy that is strongly against advances in technology, named for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Ludd Ned Ludd]<br />
<br />
'''needly sound'''<br /><br />
Dot-matrix printers are very loud.<br />
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<br />
'''Philo IL'''<br /><br />
town about 150 miles south-southwest of Chicago<br />
<br />
'''transverse colon'''<br /><br />
the part of the large intestine that runs horizontal across the stomach, parallel to the ground<br />
<br />
'''2 m.'''<br /><br />
about 6.6 feet<br />
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==Page 519==<br />
<br />
'''Dynamic Duo'''<br /><br />
usually refers to Batman and Robin<br />
<br />
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'''viscera'''<br /><br />
internal organs<br />
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==Page 522==<br />
<br />
'''100-mm. rodney'''<br /><br />
A "rodney" is a cigarette. 100 millimeters is a standard length of a "long" cigarette, and is roughly 4 inches long<br />
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<br />
'''Granny Smith'''<br /><br />
a type of sweet, green-skinned apple<br />
<br />
'''distended'''<br /><br />
swollen in the stomach<br />
<br />
'''complicit'''<br /><br />
involved in a plot or scheme<br />
<br />
'''ital'''<br /><br />
italic type<br />
<br />
'''Pawtucket'''<br /><br />
a town in Rhode Island 5 miles north-northeast of Providence<br />
<br />
'''A.A.A. baseball'''<br /><br />
a level of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_league_baseball#AAA minor-league] baseball<br />
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==Page 524==<br />
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'''Fuck the Core'''<br /><br />
i.e., fuck the (Marine) Corps<br />
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==Page 525==<br />
<br />
'''Slobodan'''<br /><br />
Endnote 221 tells us that this student is Latvian, but this is a Slavic name, and Letts are not Slavs.<br />
<br />
'''Auburndale'''<br /><br />
a suburb about 10 miles west of Boston<br />
<br />
'''"...best of British luck to you..."'''<br /><br />
From ''Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable'' comes this definition: 'Best of British Luck' — an ironic expression of encouragement, implying that the required luck may not materialize... an elaborated form of 'the best of luck.'<br />
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'''''Sieg Heil'''''<br /><br />
German for "Hail, Victory," this phrase was used by the Nazis, particularly with the right-handed upright salute particular to fascists.<br />
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==Page 526==<br />
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'''respire'''<br /><br />
to breathe<br />
<br />
'''mandible'''<br /><br />
jawbone<br />
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<br />
'''dais'''<br /><br />
a raised platform, like a lectern, for speaking or presentation<br />
<br />
'''seagrass'''<br /><br />
seaweed that grows in shallow beds<br />
<br />
'''ottoman'''<br /><br />
a footrest that goes with a chair<br />
<br />
'''laddered'''<br /><br />
having a run (in a stocking)<br />
<br />
'''sallet'''<br /><br />
a light helmet, usually with a visor<br />
<br />
'''dolefully'''<br /><br />
in a sorrowful manner<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]<br />
<br />
'''St-Rémi-d'Amherst'''<br /><br />
a town in Québec about 80 miles northwest of Montreal<br />
<br />
'''''M-o-r-t-s'''''<br /><br />
''Morts'' is the French masculine plural for "dead."<br />
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==Endnote 222==<br />
<br />
'''cont. id.'''<br /><br />
probably "continental idiomatic"<br />
<br />
'''obstreperous'''<br /><br />
noisy or hard to control<br />
<br />
'''coeval'''<br /><br />
contemporaneous or equally old<br />
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'''discomfit'''<br /><br />
to confuse or disconcert<br />
<br />
'''Circe'''<br /><br />
a goddess from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circe Greek mythology]<br />
<br />
'''pregnancy by rain'''<br /><br />
referring to Zeus's seduction of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danae Danae]<br />
<br />
'''rape by fowl'''<br /><br />
and Zeus's seduction of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leda_%28mythology%29 Leda]<br />
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'''saguaro cactus'''<br /><br />
a large, tree-sized species of cactus native to the Sonoran Desert<br />
<br />
'''phantom pains'''<br /><br />
refers to pain common in amputees - also can refer to sensations that the amputated limb is still existent, and painful<br />
<br />
'''wens'''<br /><br />
a harmless cyst, especially on the scalp or face, containing the fatty secretion of a sebaceous gland<br />
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==Page 508==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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==Page 509==<br />
<br />
'''Antron'''<br /><br />
a [http://antron.net/ real company]<br />
<br />
'''lividity'''<br /><br />
brightness of color<br />
<br />
'''escutcheon'''<br /><br />
a shield-shaped emblem<br />
<br />
'''premie'''<br /><br />
born prematurely<br />
<br />
'''cumuli'''<br /><br />
plural of "cumulus," a type of cloud<br />
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'''fluffy cumuli arrayed patternlessly against an overenhanced blue sky, incredibly disorienting'''<br /><br />
this pattern appears on the cover of the book<br />
<br />
'''D.D.S.'''<br /><br />
Doctor of Dental Surgery<br />
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'''insouciant'''<br /><br />
blithely unconcerned<br />
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==Endnote 209==<br />
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'''Brisbane'''<br /><br />
the capital of the Australian state of Queensland<br />
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==Page 510==<br />
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'''Mannington'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.mannington.com/ flooring company]<br />
<br />
'''pro bono'''<br /><br />
without pay<br />
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==Page 511==<br />
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'''distaff'''<br /><br />
the female branch or side of the family, the 'family' in this case being ETA<br />
<br />
'''Phielyism'''<br /><br />
this is in reference to coach R. Bill ('Touchy') Phiely on the previous page<br />
<br />
'''mnemonic'''<br /><br />
having to do with memory<br />
<br />
'''Brewster's Angle'''<br /><br />
an angle of incidence at which light with a particular polarization is perfectly transmitted through a surface, with no reflection. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle[here]]<br />
<br />
'''serrated'''<br /><br />
having a jagged edge<br />
<br />
'''tulle'''<br /><br />
a fine, often starched net of silk, rayon, or nylon<br />
<br />
==Page 512==<br />
<br />
'''cyanosis'''<br /><br />
blueness of the skin caused by deoxygenated blood<br />
<br />
'''J.D.'''<br /><br />
Juris Doctor, a law degree<br />
<br />
'''Sinistral'''<br /><br />
left-handed<br />
<br />
'''Short Beach CT'''<br /><br />
a suburb of New Haven, Conn., about seven miles to the southeast<br />
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==Page 513==<br />
<br />
'''athwart'''<br /><br />
side by side with<br />
<br />
'''THIRD RAIL'''<br /><br />
In many subway systems (notably New York's), the third rail is the electrified rail that powers the train(s).<br />
<br />
'''terry'''<br /><br />
a pile fabric used to make bath towels and robes<br />
<br />
==Page 514==<br />
<br />
'''schnauzer'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schnauzer breed of dog] notable for its beard-like facial hair<br />
<br />
'''I-93'''<br /><br />
Interstate 93, which runs from St. Johnsbury, Vt., to the suburbs of Boston<br />
<br />
'''Neponset'''<br /><br />
a neighborhood of Boston<br />
<br />
==Page 515==<br />
<br />
'''Q.v.'''<br /><br />
abbreviation for the Latin ''quo vide'', meaning "which see"<br />
<br />
'''VIII-Amendment'''<br /><br />
The Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects citizens against cruel and unusual punishment.<br />
<br />
'''diction'''<br /><br />
choice of words<br />
<br />
'''raison d'être'''<br /><br />
French: reason for being<br />
<br />
==Page 516==<br />
<br />
'''O.N.A.N.F.L.'''<br /><br />
Organization of North American Nations Football League<br />
<br />
'''Coatlicue'''<br /><br />
This is the name of an Aztec goddess, one who gave birth to the moon and stars. The reference here is perhaps to Avril.<br />
<br />
'''fulcra'''<br /><br />
plural of "fulcrum"<br />
<br />
'''stadia'''<br /><br />
plural of "stadium"<br />
<br />
'''75-meter'''<br /><br />
about 246 feet<br />
<br />
==Page 517==<br />
<br />
'''dot-matrix printer'''<br /><br />
one of the earliest-generation [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot_matrix_printer computer printers]<br />
<br />
'''Ludditism'''<br /><br />
a philosophy that is strongly against advances in technology, named for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Ludd Ned Ludd]<br />
<br />
'''needly sound'''<br /><br />
Dot-matrix printers are very loud.<br />
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==Page 518==<br />
<br />
'''Philo IL'''<br /><br />
town about 150 miles south-southwest of Chicago<br />
<br />
'''transverse colon'''<br /><br />
the part of the large intestine that runs horizontal across the stomach, parallel to the ground<br />
<br />
'''2 m.'''<br /><br />
about 6.6 feet<br />
<br />
==Page 519==<br />
<br />
'''Dynamic Duo'''<br /><br />
usually refers to Batman and Robin<br />
<br />
==Page 520==<br />
<br />
==Page 521==<br />
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'''viscera'''<br /><br />
internal organs<br />
<br />
==Page 522==<br />
<br />
'''100-mm. rodney'''<br /><br />
A "rodney" is a cigarette. 100 millimeters is a standard length of a "long" cigarette, and is roughly 4 inches long<br />
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==Page 523==<br />
<br />
'''Granny Smith'''<br /><br />
a type of sweet, green-skinned apple<br />
<br />
'''distended'''<br /><br />
swollen in the stomach<br />
<br />
'''complicit'''<br /><br />
involved in a plot or scheme<br />
<br />
'''ital'''<br /><br />
italic type<br />
<br />
'''Pawtucket'''<br /><br />
a town in Rhode Island 5 miles north-northeast of Providence<br />
<br />
'''A.A.A. baseball'''<br /><br />
a level of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_league_baseball#AAA minor-league] baseball<br />
<br />
==Page 524==<br />
<br />
'''Fuck the Core'''<br /><br />
i.e., fuck the (Marine) Corps<br />
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==Page 525==<br />
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'''Slobodan'''<br /><br />
Endnote 221 tells us that this student is Latvian, but this is a Slavic name, and Letts are not Slavs.<br />
<br />
'''Auburndale'''<br /><br />
a suburb about 10 miles west of Boston<br />
<br />
'''"...best of British luck to you..."'''<br /><br />
From ''Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable'' comes this definition: 'Best of British Luck' — an ironic expression of encouragement, implying that the required luck may not materialize... an elaborated form of 'the best of luck.'<br />
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'''''Sieg Heil'''''<br /><br />
German for "Hail, Victory," this phrase was used by the Nazis, particularly with the right-handed upright salute particular to fascists.<br />
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==Page 526==<br />
<br />
'''respire'''<br /><br />
to breathe<br />
<br />
'''mandible'''<br /><br />
jawbone<br />
<br />
==Page 527==<br />
<br />
'''dais'''<br /><br />
a raised platform, like a lectern, for speaking or presentation<br />
<br />
'''seagrass'''<br /><br />
seaweed that grows in shallow beds<br />
<br />
'''ottoman'''<br /><br />
a footrest that goes with a chair<br />
<br />
'''laddered'''<br /><br />
having a run (in a stocking)<br />
<br />
'''sallet'''<br /><br />
a light helmet, usually with a visor<br />
<br />
'''dolefully'''<br /><br />
in a sorrowful manner<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]<br />
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'''St-Rémi-d'Amherst'''<br /><br />
a town in Québec about 80 miles northwest of Montreal<br />
<br />
'''''M-o-r-t-s'''''<br /><br />
''Morts'' is the French masculine plural for "dead."<br />
<br />
==Page 529==<br />
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==Endnote 222==<br />
<br />
'''cont. id.'''<br /><br />
probably "continental idiomatic"<br />
<br />
'''obstreperous'''<br /><br />
noisy or hard to control<br />
<br />
'''coeval'''<br /><br />
contemporaneous or equally old<br />
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'''discomfit'''<br /><br />
to confuse or disconcert<br />
<br />
'''Circe'''<br /><br />
a goddess from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circe Greek mythology]<br />
<br />
'''pregnancy by rain'''<br /><br />
referring to Zeus's seduction of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danae Danae]<br />
<br />
'''rape by fowl'''<br /><br />
and Zeus's seduction of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leda_%28mythology%29 Leda]<br />
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==Page 530==<br />
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'''saguaro cactus'''<br /><br />
a large, tree-sized species of cactus native to the Sonoran Desert<br />
<br />
'''phantom pains'''<br /><br />
refers to pain common in amputees - also can refer to sensations that the amputated limb is still existent, and painful<br />
<br />
'''wens'''<br /><br />
a harmless cyst, especially on the scalp or face, containing the fatty secretion of a sebaceous gland<br />
<br />
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'''agnate'''<br><br />
paternal, related on the father's side<br />
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'''Champaign IL'''<br><br />
He probably attends the [http://www.uiuc.edu/ University of Illinois] main campus.<br />
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'''Ward and June'''<br><br />
The mother and father's names on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_It_To_Beaver Leave It to Beaver]<br />
<br />
'''pedalferrous'''<br><br />
apparently a neologism, the word would mean "of or pertaining to foot metal," i.e., fast driving<br />
<br />
'''fulvous'''<br><br />
in color, yellow-gray to yellowish-brown<br />
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'''teratogenic'''<br><br />
having an effect on the development of a fetus<br />
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''''''n sûr'''''<br><br />
An elision of ''bien sûr'', French for "of course"<br />
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==Page 94==<br />
<br />
'''Sterling UL35 9 mm machine pistol with Mag Na Port silencer'''<br><br />
Sterling is a real British gun manufacturer and [http://www.oegmag.com/Magnaport.asp Mag-Na-Port] is real also, but this particular gun model is apparently made-up.<br />
<br />
'''Charleston'''<br><br />
a dance popular in the 1920s<br />
<br />
'''mesquite'''<br><br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesquite mesquite] plant<br />
<br />
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==Page 95==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''Barbicide'''<br><br />
a brand name of disinfectant used for combs and hairbrushes<br />
<br />
'''Tolstoy's sentence'''<br><br />
The question probably referred to the opening lines of Leo Tolstoy's ''Anna Karenina:'' "HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."<br />
<br />
'''No cathode gun. No phosphenic screen.'''<br><br />
A cathode gun is an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_gun electron gun] used in a cathode ray tube. "Phosphenic" refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene phosphenes].<br />
<br />
'''UHF'''<br><br />
Ultra High Frequency<br />
<br />
'''acutance'''<br><br />
the edge contrast of an image<br />
<br />
'''Michael Pemulis, ..., clear his throat deeply'''<br /><br />
this grammatical error appears shortly after a discussion of a class on grammar<br />
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'''halation'''<br><br />
blurring of a visual image by glare<br />
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'''quiescent'''<br><br />
still or at rest<br />
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'''digitate'''<br><br />
having fingers<br />
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==Page 98==<br />
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'''Zoltan'''<br><br />
Zoltán was a 10th century ruler of Hungary.<br />
<br />
'''Csikzentmihalyi'''<br /><br />
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (''sic'') is a psychologist best known for his concept of "flow", a psychological state where one "is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity", e.g. "being in the zone" while playing sports.<br />
<br />
'''Idris Arslanian, new this year, ethnically vague'''<br><br />
Idris is an Arabic name, corresponding in the Qur'an to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch%2C_ancestor_of_Noah Enoch] in the Bible. The last name Arslanian sounds Armenian, though ''Arslan'' is a Turkish word for "lion."<br />
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'''R.A.'''<br><br />
Resident Assistant<br />
<br />
'''Tex Watson'''<br><br />
Besides a character in ''Infinite Jest,'' Tex Watson was the nickname of Charles Watson, one of the chief murderers in the Charles Manson Family.<br />
<br />
'''ephebes'''<br><br />
An ephebe is an adolescent male.<br />
<br />
'''suppliants'''<br><br />
A suppliant is a petitioner.<br />
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'''sienna'''<br><br />
yellowish- to reddish-brown<br />
<br />
'''louvered'''<br /><br />
with angled slats<br />
<br />
'''thoracic'''<br><br />
having to do with the chest<br />
<br />
'''atavistically'''<br><br />
Atavism means reversion to an earlier evolutionary type.<br />
<br />
'''piebald'''<br><br />
having patches of different colors<br />
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'''cognomen'''<br><br />
a nickname<br />
<br />
'''inflation-generative grammar'''<br><br />
i.e. a set of rules to generates phrases of increasing emphasis<br />
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'''semion'''<br><br />
A semion is technically part of an anyon, the latter of which is defined in the ''OED'' as "a particle having characteristics intermediate between those of fermions and bosons in two-dimensional space." However, it seems Wallace uses the word as a form closer to "semiotics." A later search reveals that ''semion'' is Greek for "sign."<br />
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'''Umbrian'''<br><br />
From the Italian ''reggione'' of Umbria, in central Italy. Hal is Italian on his father's side, as well as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pima Pima] Native American. His mother, of course, is French-Canadian.<br />
<br />
'''Brylcreemed'''<br><br />
Used as a verb here, Brylcreem was a brand name of men's hair grooming product.<br />
<br />
'''zygomatics'''<br><br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygomatics zygomatic bones] of the face<br />
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'''haul ashes'''<br><br />
For a history of this term, click [http://www.wordwizard.com/ch_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6859 here].<br />
<br />
'''Johnny Mathis's "Chances Are"'''<br><br />
available on [http://wm01.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=33:d95txqehldfe these recordings]<br />
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==Page 103==<br />
<br />
'''Luther's 16th-century shoes, awaiting epiphany'''<br><br />
Martin Luther (1483-1546), German father of the Reformation, was a notorious sufferer of constipation.<br />
<br />
'''hobnailed boots'''<br><br />
boots assembled with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobnail hobnails]<br />
<br />
==Endnote 43==<br />
<br />
The disease is named for Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884-1983), American gastroenterologist.<br />
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==Page 103 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''carminative'''<br><br />
antispasmodic<br />
<br />
'''gout'''<br><br />
a disease characterized by the collection of uric acid in the joints<br />
<br />
'''Port Washington'''<br><br />
There are three cities by this name in the U.S.: In New York, Wisconsin, and Ohio.<br />
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==Page 105==<br />
<br />
'''woppsed up'''<br><br />
a created word, apparently something like "wadded up"<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">105 · Marathe & Steeply (cont'd)</span><br />
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==Page 105==<br />
<br />
'''Tristan and Isolde'''<br><br />
star-crossed lovers from Arthurian myth<br />
<br />
'''Lancelot and what's-her-name'''<br><br />
Guinevere<br />
<br />
'''Agamemnon and Helen'''<br><br />
Steeply has this one wrong.<br />
<br />
'''Dante and Beatrice'''<br><br />
Beatrice is Dante's guide through heaven in the third part of the ''Divine Comedy'', ''Paradiso''<br />
<br />
'''Narcissus and Echo'''<br><br />
The story of these doomed lovers from Greek mythology is [http://thanasis.com/echo.htm here].<br />
<br />
'''Kierkegaard and Regina'''<br><br />
Regina Olsen was the short-term fiancée of Kierkegaard.<br />
<br />
'''Kafka and that poor girl afraid to go the postbox for the mail'''<br><br />
The story being referred to can be read [http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.jsp?what=KafkaDoll here].<br />
<br />
'''Menelaus was husband, him of Sparta'''<br><br />
Menelaus, King of Sparta, was the husband of Helen. Agamemnon was the King of Argos and Menelaus's brother.<br />
<br />
'''Helen and Paris. He of Troy.'''<br><br />
Paris, a Trojan prince, kidnapped Helen from Menelaus, precipitating the Trojan War.<br />
<br />
'''The horse: the gift which was not a gift'''<br><br />
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Horse Trojan horse]<br />
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'''electrolysistic'''<br><br />
resulting from electrolysis, the removal of hair using electric shocks<br />
<br />
'''sangfroid'''<br><br />
From French for "cold blood," this word means "coolness."<br />
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<br />
'''creosote'''<br><br />
There are several types of creosote, described [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creosote here].<br />
<br />
'''Crepuscular'''<br><br />
active in the twilight, as bats<br />
<br />
==Endnote 45==<br />
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==[[IJE304|Endnote 304]]==<br />
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==Page 109==<br />
<br />
'''gibbous'''<br><br />
the shape of the moon when it is neither full, nor crescent, nor half, i.e., when it is more than half full<br />
<br />
'''Quonsets'''<br><br />
short form for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut Quonset huts]<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">109 · Advice to Little Brothers</span><br />
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==Page 109==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]<br />
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==Page 110==<br />
<br />
'''Stan Smith'''<br><br />
Born in 1946, Smith is a retired professional tennis player, having won Wimdledon and the U.S. Open once each.<br />
<br />
'''dessicated'''<br><br />
dried out<br />
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==Endnote 46==<br />
<br />
'''corticatization'''<br><br />
probably a misspelling of [http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?query=corticalization&action=Search+OMD corticalization]<br />
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==Page 111==<br />
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'''E.N.T. oncologist'''<br><br />
ear, nose, and throat; an oncologist is a cancer physician<br />
<br />
'''violas'''<br><br />
A viola is a like a violin, only slightly larger and deeper in tone.<br />
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==Page 112==<br />
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'''''E Unibus Pluram'''''<br><br />
A Latin pun on ''E pluribus unum'' ("From many, one"), the U.S. motto. This would mean "From one, many."<br />
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<br />
'''Solipsism'''<br><br />
a kind of narcissism based on the idea that one's own mind is all one can ever truly know<br />
<br />
'''''ballet de se'''''<br><br />
<br />
French: Ballet of (itself)<br />
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==Page 115==<br />
<br />
'''plateaux'''<br><br />
the proper French plural of "plateau," rather than "plateaus"<br />
<br />
'''slog'''<br><br />
to drive with blows<br />
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==Page 116==<br />
<br />
'''Banzai!'''<br><br />
a Japanese battle cry<br />
<br />
'''hangdog'''<br><br />
browbeaten or intimidated<br />
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==Page 117==<br />
<br />
'''croupiers'''<br><br />
attendants at gambling casinos<br />
<br />
'''plasticene'''<br><br />
misspelling of Plasticine, a brand name of plastic used for making molds<br />
<br />
'''ancipitals'''<br><br />
double-edged<br />
<br />
'''accretive'''<br><br />
of or pertaining to the process of natural growth<br />
<br />
'''autonomical'''<br><br />
of or pertaining to the reflexive nervous system<br />
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==Page 118==<br />
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'''machine-language'''<br><br />
a coding system for computers that requires no compiling before running<br />
<br />
'''Orinda CA'''<br><br />
city of northern California, in the Bay Area, about 18 miles east-northeast of San Francisco<br />
<br />
'''me droogies'''<br><br />
Struck is speaking in Nadsat, the language of Anthony Burgess's novel ''A Clockwork Orange'', which is based on Russian. ''Droogies'' is Nadsat for "friends."<br />
<br />
'''kertwanging'''<br><br />
from context, this would seem to be a thrashing (at tennis), particularly hitting the ball at your opponent<br />
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==Page 119==<br />
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'''Mein kinder'''<br><br />
German: My children<br />
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==Page 120==<br />
<br />
'''Wagenknecht'''<br><br />
sort of a formal German word for "chauffeur."<br />
<br />
'''guilloche'''<br><br />
This is "an ornamental pattern or border, as in architecture, consisting of paired ribbons or lines flowing in interlaced curves around a series of circular voids" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''A la contraire'''<br><br />
A French mistake: Should be ''au contraire'' (masculine)<br />
<br />
'''gingival mound'''<br><br />
mound of gum tissue<br />
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'''aperçu'''<br><br />
an insight<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]<br />
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'''two hundred kilos'''<br><br />
over 440 pounds<br />
<br />
'''Southpaw'''<br><br />
left-handed<br />
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'''coiffure'''<br><br />
hairdo<br />
<br />
'''osseously'''<br><br />
Osseous means "bone-like."<br />
<br />
'''reticulate'''<br><br />
netted<br />
<br />
'''chill dusk'''<br><br />
George Eliot (born Mary Anne Evans; 1819-1880), the British novelist, uses the expression in her novel [http://www.fullbooks.com/Adam-Bede.html Adam Bede].<br />
<br />
'''easement'''<br><br />
Literally meaning the use of something legally not one's own, here it's used to mean a new path beaten through a thicket.<br />
<br />
'''kliegs'''<br><br />
short form for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klieg Klieg light]<br />
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==Page 123==<br />
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'''Betty Stove'''<br><br />
Betty Stöve (born 1945) is a Dutch former professional tennis player and winner of ten Grand Slam titles<br />
<br />
'''Montclair NJ'''<br><br />
a suburb about twenty miles west-northwest of New York City<br />
<br />
'''Con-Edison'''<br><br />
Consolidated Edison, the utilities company serving New York<br />
<br />
'''three meters tall'''<br><br />
about nine feet, ten inches tall<br />
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==Page 124==<br />
<br />
'''Weber Grill'''<br><br />
a real brand, you can see examples [http://www.weberstuff.com/?gclid=CK71gtmRyI8CFQIQFQodpCUq9A here]<br />
<br />
'''Passaic NJ'''<br><br />
near Montclair, Passaic is another western suburb of New York<br />
<br />
'''capering'''<br><br />
To caper is to skip about in a playful manner.<br />
<br />
'''rondelling'''<br><br />
To rondel (more properly, roundel) is to dance in a circle<br />
<br />
'''simpering'''<br><br />
To simper is to smile coyly.<br />
<br />
'''hirsute'''<br><br />
hairy<br />
<br />
'''boscages'''<br><br />
masses of trees or shrubs<br />
<br />
'''jetéed'''<br><br />
To jeté is to jump ballet-style.<br />
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'''lamé'''<br><br />
an ornamental fabric incorporating threads of gold or silver<br />
<br />
'''Titian'''<br><br />
Tiziano Vecellio (1485-1576) was a Venetian painter.<br />
<br />
'''poison sumac'''<br><br />
a tall shrub containing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urushiol urushiol], which causes a rash similar to poison ivy<br />
<br />
'''ambient'''<br><br />
of or pertaining to the surrounding environment<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''les salles de danser'''<br><br />
French: dancing rooms<br />
<br />
'''Val d'Or, Québec'''<br><br />
city of northern Québec, 325 miles northwest of Montreal<br />
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'''eidetic'''<br><br />
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_memory photographic memory]<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''murated'''<br><br />
a rarely used English word (found in ''OED'') meaning "surrounded by walls"<br />
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'''yogic full lotus'''<br><br />
the cross-legged sitting position<br />
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'''crustacean'''<br><br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean branch of animals] including lobsters, shrimp, and other similar shellfish<br />
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'''''DEUS PROVIDEBIT'''''<br><br />
Latin: God will provide. The line appears in the Vulgate (Latin) version of the Bible at Genesis 22:8, where Abraham tell Isaac, whom he intends to sacrifice, that God will provide an animal for the sacrifice.<br />
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'''agnate'''<br><br />
paternal, related on the father's side<br />
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'''Champaign IL'''<br><br />
He probably attends the [http://www.uiuc.edu/ University of Illinois] main campus.<br />
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'''Ward and June'''<br><br />
The mother and father's names on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_It_To_Beaver Leave It to Beaver]<br />
<br />
'''pedalferrous'''<br><br />
apparently a neologism, the word would mean "of or pertaining to foot metal," i.e., fast driving<br />
<br />
'''fulvous'''<br><br />
in color, yellow-gray to yellowish-brown<br />
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'''teratogenic'''<br><br />
having an effect on the development of a fetus<br />
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''''''n sûr'''''<br><br />
An elision of ''bien sûr'', French for "of course"<br />
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==Page 94==<br />
<br />
'''Sterling UL35 9 mm machine pistol with Mag Na Port silencer'''<br><br />
Sterling is a real British gun manufacturer and [http://www.oegmag.com/Magnaport.asp Mag-Na-Port] is real also, but this particular gun model is apparently made-up.<br />
<br />
'''Charleston'''<br><br />
a dance popular in the 1920s<br />
<br />
'''mesquite'''<br><br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesquite mesquite] plant<br />
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==Page 95==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''Barbicide'''<br><br />
a brand name of disinfectant used for combs and hairbrushes<br />
<br />
'''Tolstoy's sentence'''<br><br />
The question probably referred to the opening lines of Leo Tolstoy's ''Anna Karenina:'' "HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."<br />
<br />
'''No cathode gun. No phosphenic screen.'''<br><br />
A cathode gun is an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_gun electron gun] used in a cathode ray tube. "Phosphenic" refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene phosphenes].<br />
<br />
'''UHF'''<br><br />
Ultra High Frequency<br />
<br />
'''acutance'''<br><br />
the edge contrast of an image<br />
<br />
'''Michael Pemulis, ..., clear his throat deeply'''<br /><br />
this grammatical error appears shortly after a discussion of a class on grammar<br />
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'''halation'''<br><br />
blurring of a visual image by glare<br />
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'''quiescent'''<br><br />
still or at rest<br />
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'''digitate'''<br><br />
having fingers<br />
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'''Zoltan'''<br><br />
Zoltán was a 10th century ruler of Hungary.<br />
<br />
'''Csikzentmihalyi'''<br /><br />
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (''sic'') is a psychologist best known for his concept of "flow", a psychological state where one "is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity", e.g. "being in the zone" while playing sports.<br />
<br />
'''Idris Arslanian, new this year, ethnically vague'''<br><br />
Idris is an Arabic name, corresponding in the Qur'an to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch%2C_ancestor_of_Noah Enoch] in the Bible. The last name Arslanian sounds Armenian, though ''Arslan'' is a Turkish word for "lion."<br />
<br />
'''R.A.'''<br><br />
Resident Assistant<br />
<br />
'''Tex Watson'''<br><br />
Besides a character in ''Infinite Jest,'' Tex Watson was the nickname of Charles Watson, one of the chief murderers in the Charles Manson Family.<br />
<br />
'''ephebes'''<br><br />
An ephebe is an adolescent male.<br />
<br />
'''suppliants'''<br><br />
A suppliant is a petitioner.<br />
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'''sienna'''<br><br />
yellowish- to reddish-brown<br />
<br />
'''louvered'''<br /><br />
with angled slats<br />
<br />
'''thoracic'''<br><br />
having to do with the chest<br />
<br />
'''atavistically'''<br><br />
Atavism means reversion to an earlier evolutionary type.<br />
<br />
'''piebald'''<br><br />
having patches of different colors<br />
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'''cognomen'''<br><br />
a nickname<br />
<br />
'''inflation-generative grammar'''<br><br />
a grammar that generates air<br />
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<br />
'''semion'''<br><br />
A semion is technically part of an anyon, the latter of which is defined in the ''OED'' as "a particle having characteristics intermediate between those of fermions and bosons in two-dimensional space." However, it seems Wallace uses the word as a form closer to "semiotics." A later search reveals that ''semion'' is Greek for "sign."<br />
<br />
'''Umbrian'''<br><br />
From the Italian ''reggione'' of Umbria, in central Italy. Hal is Italian on his father's side, as well as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pima Pima] Native American. His mother, of course, is French-Canadian.<br />
<br />
'''Brylcreemed'''<br><br />
Used as a verb here, Brylcreem was a brand name of men's hair grooming product.<br />
<br />
'''zygomatics'''<br><br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygomatics zygomatic bones] of the face<br />
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'''haul ashes'''<br><br />
For a history of this term, click [http://www.wordwizard.com/ch_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6859 here].<br />
<br />
'''Johnny Mathis's "Chances Are"'''<br><br />
available on [http://wm01.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=33:d95txqehldfe these recordings]<br />
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==Page 103==<br />
<br />
'''Luther's 16th-century shoes, awaiting epiphany'''<br><br />
Martin Luther (1483-1546), German father of the Reformation, was a notorious sufferer of constipation.<br />
<br />
'''hobnailed boots'''<br><br />
boots assembled with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobnail hobnails]<br />
<br />
==Endnote 43==<br />
<br />
The disease is named for Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884-1983), American gastroenterologist.<br />
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==Page 103 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''carminative'''<br><br />
antispasmodic<br />
<br />
'''gout'''<br><br />
a disease characterized by the collection of uric acid in the joints<br />
<br />
'''Port Washington'''<br><br />
There are three cities by this name in the U.S.: In New York, Wisconsin, and Ohio.<br />
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<br />
'''woppsed up'''<br><br />
a created word, apparently something like "wadded up"<br />
<br />
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==Page 105==<br />
<br />
'''Tristan and Isolde'''<br><br />
star-crossed lovers from Arthurian myth<br />
<br />
'''Lancelot and what's-her-name'''<br><br />
Guinevere<br />
<br />
'''Agamemnon and Helen'''<br><br />
Steeply has this one wrong.<br />
<br />
'''Dante and Beatrice'''<br><br />
Beatrice is Dante's guide through heaven in the third part of the ''Divine Comedy'', ''Paradiso''<br />
<br />
'''Narcissus and Echo'''<br><br />
The story of these doomed lovers from Greek mythology is [http://thanasis.com/echo.htm here].<br />
<br />
'''Kierkegaard and Regina'''<br><br />
Regina Olsen was the short-term fiancée of Kierkegaard.<br />
<br />
'''Kafka and that poor girl afraid to go the postbox for the mail'''<br><br />
The story being referred to can be read [http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.jsp?what=KafkaDoll here].<br />
<br />
'''Menelaus was husband, him of Sparta'''<br><br />
Menelaus, King of Sparta, was the husband of Helen. Agamemnon was the King of Argos and Menelaus's brother.<br />
<br />
'''Helen and Paris. He of Troy.'''<br><br />
Paris, a Trojan prince, kidnapped Helen from Menelaus, precipitating the Trojan War.<br />
<br />
'''The horse: the gift which was not a gift'''<br><br />
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Horse Trojan horse]<br />
<br />
==Page 106==<br />
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'''electrolysistic'''<br><br />
resulting from electrolysis, the removal of hair using electric shocks<br />
<br />
'''sangfroid'''<br><br />
From French for "cold blood," this word means "coolness."<br />
<br />
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==Page 108==<br />
<br />
'''creosote'''<br><br />
There are several types of creosote, described [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creosote here].<br />
<br />
'''Crepuscular'''<br><br />
active in the twilight, as bats<br />
<br />
==Endnote 45==<br />
<br />
==[[IJE304|Endnote 304]]==<br />
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==Page 109==<br />
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'''gibbous'''<br><br />
the shape of the moon when it is neither full, nor crescent, nor half, i.e., when it is more than half full<br />
<br />
'''Quonsets'''<br><br />
short form for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut Quonset huts]<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">109 · Advice to Little Brothers</span><br />
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==Page 109==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]<br />
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==Page 110==<br />
<br />
'''Stan Smith'''<br><br />
Born in 1946, Smith is a retired professional tennis player, having won Wimdledon and the U.S. Open once each.<br />
<br />
'''dessicated'''<br><br />
dried out<br />
<br />
==Endnote 46==<br />
<br />
'''corticatization'''<br><br />
probably a misspelling of [http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?query=corticalization&action=Search+OMD corticalization]<br />
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<br />
'''E.N.T. oncologist'''<br><br />
ear, nose, and throat; an oncologist is a cancer physician<br />
<br />
'''violas'''<br><br />
A viola is a like a violin, only slightly larger and deeper in tone.<br />
<br />
==Page 112==<br />
<br />
'''''E Unibus Pluram'''''<br><br />
A Latin pun on ''E pluribus unum'' ("From many, one"), the U.S. motto. This would mean "From one, many."<br />
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<br />
'''Solipsism'''<br><br />
a kind of narcissism based on the idea that one's own mind is all one can ever truly know<br />
<br />
'''''ballet de se'''''<br><br />
<br />
French: Ballet of (itself)<br />
<br />
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==Page 115==<br />
<br />
'''plateaux'''<br><br />
the proper French plural of "plateau," rather than "plateaus"<br />
<br />
'''slog'''<br><br />
to drive with blows<br />
<br />
==Page 116==<br />
<br />
'''Banzai!'''<br><br />
a Japanese battle cry<br />
<br />
'''hangdog'''<br><br />
browbeaten or intimidated<br />
<br />
==Page 117==<br />
<br />
'''croupiers'''<br><br />
attendants at gambling casinos<br />
<br />
'''plasticene'''<br><br />
misspelling of Plasticine, a brand name of plastic used for making molds<br />
<br />
'''ancipitals'''<br><br />
double-edged<br />
<br />
'''accretive'''<br><br />
of or pertaining to the process of natural growth<br />
<br />
'''autonomical'''<br><br />
of or pertaining to the reflexive nervous system<br />
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'''machine-language'''<br><br />
a coding system for computers that requires no compiling before running<br />
<br />
'''Orinda CA'''<br><br />
city of northern California, in the Bay Area, about 18 miles east-northeast of San Francisco<br />
<br />
'''me droogies'''<br><br />
Struck is speaking in Nadsat, the language of Anthony Burgess's novel ''A Clockwork Orange'', which is based on Russian. ''Droogies'' is Nadsat for "friends."<br />
<br />
'''kertwanging'''<br><br />
from context, this would seem to be a thrashing (at tennis), particularly hitting the ball at your opponent<br />
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==Page 119==<br />
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'''Mein kinder'''<br><br />
German: My children<br />
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==Page 120==<br />
<br />
'''Wagenknecht'''<br><br />
sort of a formal German word for "chauffeur."<br />
<br />
'''guilloche'''<br><br />
This is "an ornamental pattern or border, as in architecture, consisting of paired ribbons or lines flowing in interlaced curves around a series of circular voids" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''A la contraire'''<br><br />
A French mistake: Should be ''au contraire'' (masculine)<br />
<br />
'''gingival mound'''<br><br />
mound of gum tissue<br />
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'''aperçu'''<br><br />
an insight<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]<br />
<br />
'''two hundred kilos'''<br><br />
over 440 pounds<br />
<br />
'''Southpaw'''<br><br />
left-handed<br />
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'''coiffure'''<br><br />
hairdo<br />
<br />
'''osseously'''<br><br />
Osseous means "bone-like."<br />
<br />
'''reticulate'''<br><br />
netted<br />
<br />
'''chill dusk'''<br><br />
George Eliot (born Mary Anne Evans; 1819-1880), the British novelist, uses the expression in her novel [http://www.fullbooks.com/Adam-Bede.html Adam Bede].<br />
<br />
'''easement'''<br><br />
Literally meaning the use of something legally not one's own, here it's used to mean a new path beaten through a thicket.<br />
<br />
'''kliegs'''<br><br />
short form for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klieg Klieg light]<br />
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==Page 123==<br />
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'''Betty Stove'''<br><br />
Betty Stöve (born 1945) is a Dutch former professional tennis player and winner of ten Grand Slam titles<br />
<br />
'''Montclair NJ'''<br><br />
a suburb about twenty miles west-northwest of New York City<br />
<br />
'''Con-Edison'''<br><br />
Consolidated Edison, the utilities company serving New York<br />
<br />
'''three meters tall'''<br><br />
about nine feet, ten inches tall<br />
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==Page 124==<br />
<br />
'''Weber Grill'''<br><br />
a real brand, you can see examples [http://www.weberstuff.com/?gclid=CK71gtmRyI8CFQIQFQodpCUq9A here]<br />
<br />
'''Passaic NJ'''<br><br />
near Montclair, Passaic is another western suburb of New York<br />
<br />
'''capering'''<br><br />
To caper is to skip about in a playful manner.<br />
<br />
'''rondelling'''<br><br />
To rondel (more properly, roundel) is to dance in a circle<br />
<br />
'''simpering'''<br><br />
To simper is to smile coyly.<br />
<br />
'''hirsute'''<br><br />
hairy<br />
<br />
'''boscages'''<br><br />
masses of trees or shrubs<br />
<br />
'''jetéed'''<br><br />
To jeté is to jump ballet-style.<br />
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'''lamé'''<br><br />
an ornamental fabric incorporating threads of gold or silver<br />
<br />
'''Titian'''<br><br />
Tiziano Vecellio (1485-1576) was a Venetian painter.<br />
<br />
'''poison sumac'''<br><br />
a tall shrub containing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urushiol urushiol], which causes a rash similar to poison ivy<br />
<br />
'''ambient'''<br><br />
of or pertaining to the surrounding environment<br />
<br />
==Page 126==<br />
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==Page 126==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''les salles de danser'''<br><br />
French: dancing rooms<br />
<br />
'''Val d'Or, Québec'''<br><br />
city of northern Québec, 325 miles northwest of Montreal<br />
<br />
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'''eidetic'''<br><br />
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_memory photographic memory]<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''murated'''<br><br />
a rarely used English word (found in ''OED'') meaning "surrounded by walls"<br />
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'''yogic full lotus'''<br><br />
the cross-legged sitting position<br />
<br />
'''crustacean'''<br><br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean branch of animals] including lobsters, shrimp, and other similar shellfish<br />
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'''''DEUS PROVIDEBIT'''''<br><br />
Latin: God will provide. The line appears in the Vulgate (Latin) version of the Bible at Genesis 22:8, where Abraham tell Isaac, whom he intends to sacrifice, that God will provide an animal for the sacrifice.<br />
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'''agnate'''<br><br />
paternal, related on the father's side<br />
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'''Champaign IL'''<br><br />
He probably attends the [http://www.uiuc.edu/ University of Illinois] main campus.<br />
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'''Ward and June'''<br><br />
The mother and father's names on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_It_To_Beaver Leave It to Beaver]<br />
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'''pedalferrous'''<br><br />
apparently a neologism, the word would mean "of or pertaining to foot metal," i.e., fast driving<br />
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'''fulvous'''<br><br />
in color, yellow-gray to yellowish-brown<br />
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'''teratogenic'''<br><br />
having an effect on the development of a fetus<br />
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''''''n sûr'''''<br><br />
An elision of ''bien sûr'', French for "of course"<br />
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==Page 94==<br />
<br />
'''Sterling UL35 9 mm machine pistol with Mag Na Port silencer'''<br><br />
Sterling is a real British gun manufacturer and [http://www.oegmag.com/Magnaport.asp Mag-Na-Port] is real also, but this particular gun model is apparently made-up.<br />
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'''Charleston'''<br><br />
a dance popular in the 1920s<br />
<br />
'''mesquite'''<br><br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesquite mesquite] plant<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''Barbicide'''<br><br />
a brand name of disinfectant used for combs and hairbrushes<br />
<br />
'''Tolstoy's sentence'''<br><br />
The question probably referred to the opening lines of Leo Tolstoy's ''Anna Karenina:'' "HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."<br />
<br />
'''No cathode gun. No phosphenic screen.'''<br><br />
A cathode gun is an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_gun electron gun] used in a cathode ray tube. "Phosphenic" refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene phosphenes].<br />
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'''UHF'''<br><br />
Ultra High Frequency<br />
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'''acutance'''<br><br />
the edge contrast of an image<br />
<br />
'''Michael Pemulis, ..., clear his throat deeply'''<br /><br />
this grammatical error appears shortly after a discussion of a class on grammar<br />
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'''halation'''<br><br />
blurring of a visual image by glare<br />
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'''quiescent'''<br><br />
still or at rest<br />
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'''digitate'''<br><br />
having fingers<br />
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'''Zoltan'''<br><br />
Zoltán was a 10th century ruler of Hungary.<br />
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'''Csikzentmihalyi'''<br /><br />
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (''sic'') is a psychologist best known for his concept of "flow", a psychological state where one "is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity", e.g. "being in the zone" while playing sports.<br />
<br />
'''Idris Arslanian, new this year, ethnically vague'''<br><br />
Idris is an Arabic name, corresponding in the Qur'an to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch%2C_ancestor_of_Noah Enoch] in the Bible. The last name Arslanian sounds Armenian, though ''Arslan'' is a Turkish word for "lion."<br />
<br />
'''R.A.'''<br><br />
Resident Assistant<br />
<br />
'''Tex Watson'''<br><br />
Besides a character in ''Infinite Jest,'' Tex Watson was the nickname of Charles Watson, one of the chief murderers in the Charles Manson Family.<br />
<br />
'''ephebes'''<br><br />
An ephebe is an adolescent male.<br />
<br />
'''suppliants'''<br><br />
A suppliant is a petitioner.<br />
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'''sienna'''<br><br />
yellowish- to reddish-brown<br />
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'''thoracic'''<br><br />
having to do with the chest<br />
<br />
'''atavistically'''<br><br />
Atavism means reversion to an earlier evolutionary type.<br />
<br />
'''piebald'''<br><br />
having patches of different colors<br />
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'''cognomen'''<br><br />
a nickname<br />
<br />
'''inflation-generative grammar'''<br><br />
a grammar that generates air<br />
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==Page 101==<br />
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'''semion'''<br><br />
A semion is technically part of an anyon, the latter of which is defined in the ''OED'' as "a particle having characteristics intermediate between those of fermions and bosons in two-dimensional space." However, it seems Wallace uses the word as a form closer to "semiotics." A later search reveals that ''semion'' is Greek for "sign."<br />
<br />
'''Umbrian'''<br><br />
From the Italian ''reggione'' of Umbria, in central Italy. Hal is Italian on his father's side, as well as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pima Pima] Native American. His mother, of course, is French-Canadian.<br />
<br />
'''Brylcreemed'''<br><br />
Used as a verb here, Brylcreem was a brand name of men's hair grooming product.<br />
<br />
'''zygomatics'''<br><br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygomatics zygomatic bones] of the face<br />
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'''haul ashes'''<br><br />
For a history of this term, click [http://www.wordwizard.com/ch_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6859 here].<br />
<br />
'''Johnny Mathis's "Chances Are"'''<br><br />
available on [http://wm01.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=33:d95txqehldfe these recordings]<br />
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==Page 103==<br />
<br />
'''Luther's 16th-century shoes, awaiting epiphany'''<br><br />
Martin Luther (1483-1546), German father of the Reformation, was a notorious sufferer of constipation.<br />
<br />
'''hobnailed boots'''<br><br />
boots assembled with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobnail hobnails]<br />
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==Endnote 43==<br />
<br />
The disease is named for Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884-1983), American gastroenterologist.<br />
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==Page 103 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''carminative'''<br><br />
antispasmodic<br />
<br />
'''gout'''<br><br />
a disease characterized by the collection of uric acid in the joints<br />
<br />
'''Port Washington'''<br><br />
There are three cities by this name in the U.S.: In New York, Wisconsin, and Ohio.<br />
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<br />
'''woppsed up'''<br><br />
a created word, apparently something like "wadded up"<br />
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==Page 105==<br />
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'''Tristan and Isolde'''<br><br />
star-crossed lovers from Arthurian myth<br />
<br />
'''Lancelot and what's-her-name'''<br><br />
Guinevere<br />
<br />
'''Agamemnon and Helen'''<br><br />
Steeply has this one wrong.<br />
<br />
'''Dante and Beatrice'''<br><br />
Beatrice is Dante's guide through heaven in the third part of the ''Divine Comedy'', ''Paradiso''<br />
<br />
'''Narcissus and Echo'''<br><br />
The story of these doomed lovers from Greek mythology is [http://thanasis.com/echo.htm here].<br />
<br />
'''Kierkegaard and Regina'''<br><br />
Regina Olsen was the short-term fiancée of Kierkegaard.<br />
<br />
'''Kafka and that poor girl afraid to go the postbox for the mail'''<br><br />
The story being referred to can be read [http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.jsp?what=KafkaDoll here].<br />
<br />
'''Menelaus was husband, him of Sparta'''<br><br />
Menelaus, King of Sparta, was the husband of Helen. Agamemnon was the King of Argos and Menelaus's brother.<br />
<br />
'''Helen and Paris. He of Troy.'''<br><br />
Paris, a Trojan prince, kidnapped Helen from Menelaus, precipitating the Trojan War.<br />
<br />
'''The horse: the gift which was not a gift'''<br><br />
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Horse Trojan horse]<br />
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==Page 106==<br />
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'''electrolysistic'''<br><br />
resulting from electrolysis, the removal of hair using electric shocks<br />
<br />
'''sangfroid'''<br><br />
From French for "cold blood," this word means "coolness."<br />
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<br />
'''creosote'''<br><br />
There are several types of creosote, described [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creosote here].<br />
<br />
'''Crepuscular'''<br><br />
active in the twilight, as bats<br />
<br />
==Endnote 45==<br />
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==[[IJE304|Endnote 304]]==<br />
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'''gibbous'''<br><br />
the shape of the moon when it is neither full, nor crescent, nor half, i.e., when it is more than half full<br />
<br />
'''Quonsets'''<br><br />
short form for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut Quonset huts]<br />
<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]<br />
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==Page 110==<br />
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'''Stan Smith'''<br><br />
Born in 1946, Smith is a retired professional tennis player, having won Wimdledon and the U.S. Open once each.<br />
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'''dessicated'''<br><br />
dried out<br />
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==Endnote 46==<br />
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'''corticatization'''<br><br />
probably a misspelling of [http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?query=corticalization&action=Search+OMD corticalization]<br />
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==Page 111==<br />
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'''E.N.T. oncologist'''<br><br />
ear, nose, and throat; an oncologist is a cancer physician<br />
<br />
'''violas'''<br><br />
A viola is a like a violin, only slightly larger and deeper in tone.<br />
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==Page 112==<br />
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'''''E Unibus Pluram'''''<br><br />
A Latin pun on ''E pluribus unum'' ("From many, one"), the U.S. motto. This would mean "From one, many."<br />
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==Page 113==<br />
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'''Solipsism'''<br><br />
a kind of narcissism based on the idea that one's own mind is all one can ever truly know<br />
<br />
'''''ballet de se'''''<br><br />
<br />
French: Ballet of (itself)<br />
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==Page 114==<br />
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==Page 115==<br />
<br />
'''plateaux'''<br><br />
the proper French plural of "plateau," rather than "plateaus"<br />
<br />
'''slog'''<br><br />
to drive with blows<br />
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==Page 116==<br />
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'''Banzai!'''<br><br />
a Japanese battle cry<br />
<br />
'''hangdog'''<br><br />
browbeaten or intimidated<br />
<br />
==Page 117==<br />
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'''croupiers'''<br><br />
attendants at gambling casinos<br />
<br />
'''plasticene'''<br><br />
misspelling of Plasticine, a brand name of plastic used for making molds<br />
<br />
'''ancipitals'''<br><br />
double-edged<br />
<br />
'''accretive'''<br><br />
of or pertaining to the process of natural growth<br />
<br />
'''autonomical'''<br><br />
of or pertaining to the reflexive nervous system<br />
<br />
==Page 118==<br />
<br />
'''machine-language'''<br><br />
a coding system for computers that requires no compiling before running<br />
<br />
'''Orinda CA'''<br><br />
city of northern California, in the Bay Area, about 18 miles east-northeast of San Francisco<br />
<br />
'''me droogies'''<br><br />
Struck is speaking in Nadsat, the language of Anthony Burgess's novel ''A Clockwork Orange'', which is based on Russian. ''Droogies'' is Nadsat for "friends."<br />
<br />
'''kertwanging'''<br><br />
from context, this would seem to be a thrashing (at tennis), particularly hitting the ball at your opponent<br />
<br />
==Page 119==<br />
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'''Mein kinder'''<br><br />
German: My children<br />
<br />
==Page 120==<br />
<br />
'''Wagenknecht'''<br><br />
sort of a formal German word for "chauffeur."<br />
<br />
'''guilloche'''<br><br />
This is "an ornamental pattern or border, as in architecture, consisting of paired ribbons or lines flowing in interlaced curves around a series of circular voids" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''A la contraire'''<br><br />
A French mistake: Should be ''au contraire'' (masculine)<br />
<br />
'''gingival mound'''<br><br />
mound of gum tissue<br />
<br />
==Page 121==<br />
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'''aperçu'''<br><br />
an insight<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]<br />
<br />
'''two hundred kilos'''<br><br />
over 440 pounds<br />
<br />
'''Southpaw'''<br><br />
left-handed<br />
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'''coiffure'''<br><br />
hairdo<br />
<br />
'''osseously'''<br><br />
Osseous means "bone-like."<br />
<br />
'''reticulate'''<br><br />
netted<br />
<br />
'''chill dusk'''<br><br />
George Eliot (born Mary Anne Evans; 1819-1880), the British novelist, uses the expression in her novel [http://www.fullbooks.com/Adam-Bede.html Adam Bede].<br />
<br />
'''easement'''<br><br />
Literally meaning the use of something legally not one's own, here it's used to mean a new path beaten through a thicket.<br />
<br />
'''kliegs'''<br><br />
short form for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klieg Klieg light]<br />
<br />
==Page 123==<br />
<br />
'''Betty Stove'''<br><br />
Betty Stöve (born 1945) is a Dutch former professional tennis player and winner of ten Grand Slam titles<br />
<br />
'''Montclair NJ'''<br><br />
a suburb about twenty miles west-northwest of New York City<br />
<br />
'''Con-Edison'''<br><br />
Consolidated Edison, the utilities company serving New York<br />
<br />
'''three meters tall'''<br><br />
about nine feet, ten inches tall<br />
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==Page 124==<br />
<br />
'''Weber Grill'''<br><br />
a real brand, you can see examples [http://www.weberstuff.com/?gclid=CK71gtmRyI8CFQIQFQodpCUq9A here]<br />
<br />
'''Passaic NJ'''<br><br />
near Montclair, Passaic is another western suburb of New York<br />
<br />
'''capering'''<br><br />
To caper is to skip about in a playful manner.<br />
<br />
'''rondelling'''<br><br />
To rondel (more properly, roundel) is to dance in a circle<br />
<br />
'''simpering'''<br><br />
To simper is to smile coyly.<br />
<br />
'''hirsute'''<br><br />
hairy<br />
<br />
'''boscages'''<br><br />
masses of trees or shrubs<br />
<br />
'''jetéed'''<br><br />
To jeté is to jump ballet-style.<br />
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==Page 125==<br />
<br />
'''lamé'''<br><br />
an ornamental fabric incorporating threads of gold or silver<br />
<br />
'''Titian'''<br><br />
Tiziano Vecellio (1485-1576) was a Venetian painter.<br />
<br />
'''poison sumac'''<br><br />
a tall shrub containing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urushiol urushiol], which causes a rash similar to poison ivy<br />
<br />
'''ambient'''<br><br />
of or pertaining to the surrounding environment<br />
<br />
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==Page 126==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''les salles de danser'''<br><br />
French: dancing rooms<br />
<br />
'''Val d'Or, Québec'''<br><br />
city of northern Québec, 325 miles northwest of Montreal<br />
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'''eidetic'''<br><br />
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_memory photographic memory]<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">127 · Still More Marathe & Steeply</span><br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''murated'''<br><br />
a rarely used English word (found in ''OED'') meaning "surrounded by walls"<br />
<br />
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'''yogic full lotus'''<br><br />
the cross-legged sitting position<br />
<br />
'''crustacean'''<br><br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean branch of animals] including lobsters, shrimp, and other similar shellfish<br />
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'''''DEUS PROVIDEBIT'''''<br><br />
Latin: God will provide. The line appears in the Vulgate (Latin) version of the Bible at Genesis 22:8, where Abraham tell Isaac, whom he intends to sacrifice, that God will provide an animal for the sacrifice.<br />
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'''agnate'''<br><br />
paternal, related on the father's side<br />
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'''Champaign IL'''<br><br />
He probably attends the [http://www.uiuc.edu/ University of Illinois] main campus.<br />
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'''Ward and June'''<br><br />
The mother and father's names on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_It_To_Beaver Leave It to Beaver]<br />
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'''pedalferrous'''<br><br />
apparently a neologism, the word would mean "of or pertaining to foot metal," i.e., fast driving<br />
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'''fulvous'''<br><br />
in color, yellow-gray to yellowish-brown<br />
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'''teratogenic'''<br><br />
having an effect on the development of a fetus<br />
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''''''n sûr'''''<br><br />
An elision of ''bien sûr'', French for "of course"<br />
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'''Sterling UL35 9 mm machine pistol with Mag Na Port silencer'''<br><br />
Sterling is a real British gun manufacturer and [http://www.oegmag.com/Magnaport.asp Mag-Na-Port] is real also, but this particular gun model is apparently made-up.<br />
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'''Charleston'''<br><br />
a dance popular in the 1920s<br />
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'''mesquite'''<br><br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesquite mesquite] plant<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''Barbicide'''<br><br />
a brand name of disinfectant used for combs and hairbrushes<br />
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'''Tolstoy's sentence'''<br><br />
The question probably referred to the opening lines of Leo Tolstoy's ''Anna Karenina:'' "HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."<br />
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'''No cathode gun. No phosphenic screen.'''<br><br />
A cathode gun is an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_gun electron gun] used in a cathode ray tube. "Phosphenic" refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene phosphenes].<br />
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'''UHF'''<br><br />
Ultra High Frequency<br />
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'''acutance'''<br><br />
the edge contrast of an image<br />
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'''halation'''<br><br />
blurring of a visual image by glare<br />
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'''quiescent'''<br><br />
still or at rest<br />
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'''digitate'''<br><br />
having fingers<br />
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'''Zoltan'''<br><br />
Zoltán was a 10th century ruler of Hungary.<br />
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'''Csikzentmihalyi'''<br /><br />
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (''sic'') is a psychologist best known for his concept of "flow", a psychological state where one "is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity", e.g. "being in the zone" while playing sports.<br />
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'''Idris Arslanian, new this year, ethnically vague'''<br><br />
Idris is an Arabic name, corresponding in the Qur'an to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch%2C_ancestor_of_Noah Enoch] in the Bible. The last name Arslanian sounds Armenian, though ''Arslan'' is a Turkish word for "lion."<br />
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'''R.A.'''<br><br />
Resident Assistant<br />
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'''Tex Watson'''<br><br />
Besides a character in ''Infinite Jest,'' Tex Watson was the nickname of Charles Watson, one of the chief murderers in the Charles Manson Family.<br />
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'''ephebes'''<br><br />
An ephebe is an adolescent male.<br />
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'''suppliants'''<br><br />
A suppliant is a petitioner.<br />
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'''sienna'''<br><br />
yellowish- to reddish-brown<br />
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'''thoracic'''<br><br />
having to do with the chest<br />
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'''atavistically'''<br><br />
Atavism means reversion to an earlier evolutionary type.<br />
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'''piebald'''<br><br />
having patches of different colors<br />
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'''cognomen'''<br><br />
a nickname<br />
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'''inflation-generative grammar'''<br><br />
a grammar that generates air<br />
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'''semion'''<br><br />
A semion is technically part of an anyon, the latter of which is defined in the ''OED'' as "a particle having characteristics intermediate between those of fermions and bosons in two-dimensional space." However, it seems Wallace uses the word as a form closer to "semiotics." A later search reveals that ''semion'' is Greek for "sign."<br />
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'''Umbrian'''<br><br />
From the Italian ''reggione'' of Umbria, in central Italy. Hal is Italian on his father's side, as well as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pima Pima] Native American. His mother, of course, is French-Canadian.<br />
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'''Brylcreemed'''<br><br />
Used as a verb here, Brylcreem was a brand name of men's hair grooming product.<br />
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'''zygomatics'''<br><br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygomatics zygomatic bones] of the face<br />
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'''haul ashes'''<br><br />
For a history of this term, click [http://www.wordwizard.com/ch_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6859 here].<br />
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'''Johnny Mathis's "Chances Are"'''<br><br />
available on [http://wm01.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=33:d95txqehldfe these recordings]<br />
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==Page 103==<br />
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'''Luther's 16th-century shoes, awaiting epiphany'''<br><br />
Martin Luther (1483-1546), German father of the Reformation, was a notorious sufferer of constipation.<br />
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'''hobnailed boots'''<br><br />
boots assembled with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobnail hobnails]<br />
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==Endnote 43==<br />
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The disease is named for Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884-1983), American gastroenterologist.<br />
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'''carminative'''<br><br />
antispasmodic<br />
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'''gout'''<br><br />
a disease characterized by the collection of uric acid in the joints<br />
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'''Port Washington'''<br><br />
There are three cities by this name in the U.S.: In New York, Wisconsin, and Ohio.<br />
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'''woppsed up'''<br><br />
a created word, apparently something like "wadded up"<br />
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'''Tristan and Isolde'''<br><br />
star-crossed lovers from Arthurian myth<br />
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'''Lancelot and what's-her-name'''<br><br />
Guinevere<br />
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'''Agamemnon and Helen'''<br><br />
Steeply has this one wrong.<br />
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'''Dante and Beatrice'''<br><br />
Beatrice is Dante's guide through heaven in the third part of the ''Divine Comedy'', ''Paradiso''<br />
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'''Narcissus and Echo'''<br><br />
The story of these doomed lovers from Greek mythology is [http://thanasis.com/echo.htm here].<br />
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'''Kierkegaard and Regina'''<br><br />
Regina Olsen was the short-term fiancée of Kierkegaard.<br />
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'''Kafka and that poor girl afraid to go the postbox for the mail'''<br><br />
The story being referred to can be read [http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.jsp?what=KafkaDoll here].<br />
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'''Menelaus was husband, him of Sparta'''<br><br />
Menelaus, King of Sparta, was the husband of Helen. Agamemnon was the King of Argos and Menelaus's brother.<br />
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'''Helen and Paris. He of Troy.'''<br><br />
Paris, a Trojan prince, kidnapped Helen from Menelaus, precipitating the Trojan War.<br />
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'''The horse: the gift which was not a gift'''<br><br />
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Horse Trojan horse]<br />
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'''electrolysistic'''<br><br />
resulting from electrolysis, the removal of hair using electric shocks<br />
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'''sangfroid'''<br><br />
From French for "cold blood," this word means "coolness."<br />
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'''creosote'''<br><br />
There are several types of creosote, described [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creosote here].<br />
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'''Crepuscular'''<br><br />
active in the twilight, as bats<br />
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'''gibbous'''<br><br />
the shape of the moon when it is neither full, nor crescent, nor half, i.e., when it is more than half full<br />
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'''Quonsets'''<br><br />
short form for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut Quonset huts]<br />
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'''Stan Smith'''<br><br />
Born in 1946, Smith is a retired professional tennis player, having won Wimdledon and the U.S. Open once each.<br />
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'''dessicated'''<br><br />
dried out<br />
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'''corticatization'''<br><br />
probably a misspelling of [http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?query=corticalization&action=Search+OMD corticalization]<br />
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'''E.N.T. oncologist'''<br><br />
ear, nose, and throat; an oncologist is a cancer physician<br />
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'''violas'''<br><br />
A viola is a like a violin, only slightly larger and deeper in tone.<br />
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'''''E Unibus Pluram'''''<br><br />
A Latin pun on ''E pluribus unum'' ("From many, one"), the U.S. motto. This would mean "From one, many."<br />
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'''Solipsism'''<br><br />
a kind of narcissism based on the idea that one's own mind is all one can ever truly know<br />
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'''''ballet de se'''''<br><br />
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French: Ballet of (itself)<br />
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'''plateaux'''<br><br />
the proper French plural of "plateau," rather than "plateaus"<br />
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'''slog'''<br><br />
to drive with blows<br />
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'''Banzai!'''<br><br />
a Japanese battle cry<br />
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'''hangdog'''<br><br />
browbeaten or intimidated<br />
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'''croupiers'''<br><br />
attendants at gambling casinos<br />
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'''plasticene'''<br><br />
misspelling of Plasticine, a brand name of plastic used for making molds<br />
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'''ancipitals'''<br><br />
double-edged<br />
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'''accretive'''<br><br />
of or pertaining to the process of natural growth<br />
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'''autonomical'''<br><br />
of or pertaining to the reflexive nervous system<br />
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'''machine-language'''<br><br />
a coding system for computers that requires no compiling before running<br />
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'''Orinda CA'''<br><br />
city of northern California, in the Bay Area, about 18 miles east-northeast of San Francisco<br />
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'''me droogies'''<br><br />
Struck is speaking in Nadsat, the language of Anthony Burgess's novel ''A Clockwork Orange'', which is based on Russian. ''Droogies'' is Nadsat for "friends."<br />
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'''kertwanging'''<br><br />
from context, this would seem to be a thrashing (at tennis), particularly hitting the ball at your opponent<br />
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'''Mein kinder'''<br><br />
German: My children<br />
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'''Wagenknecht'''<br><br />
sort of a formal German word for "chauffeur."<br />
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'''guilloche'''<br><br />
This is "an ornamental pattern or border, as in architecture, consisting of paired ribbons or lines flowing in interlaced curves around a series of circular voids" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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'''A la contraire'''<br><br />
A French mistake: Should be ''au contraire'' (masculine)<br />
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'''gingival mound'''<br><br />
mound of gum tissue<br />
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'''aperçu'''<br><br />
an insight<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]<br />
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'''two hundred kilos'''<br><br />
over 440 pounds<br />
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'''Southpaw'''<br><br />
left-handed<br />
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'''coiffure'''<br><br />
hairdo<br />
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'''osseously'''<br><br />
Osseous means "bone-like."<br />
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'''reticulate'''<br><br />
netted<br />
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'''chill dusk'''<br><br />
George Eliot (born Mary Anne Evans; 1819-1880), the British novelist, uses the expression in her novel [http://www.fullbooks.com/Adam-Bede.html Adam Bede].<br />
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'''easement'''<br><br />
Literally meaning the use of something legally not one's own, here it's used to mean a new path beaten through a thicket.<br />
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'''kliegs'''<br><br />
short form for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klieg Klieg light]<br />
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'''Betty Stove'''<br><br />
Betty Stöve (born 1945) is a Dutch former professional tennis player and winner of ten Grand Slam titles<br />
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'''Montclair NJ'''<br><br />
a suburb about twenty miles west-northwest of New York City<br />
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'''Con-Edison'''<br><br />
Consolidated Edison, the utilities company serving New York<br />
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'''three meters tall'''<br><br />
about nine feet, ten inches tall<br />
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'''Weber Grill'''<br><br />
a real brand, you can see examples [http://www.weberstuff.com/?gclid=CK71gtmRyI8CFQIQFQodpCUq9A here]<br />
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'''Passaic NJ'''<br><br />
near Montclair, Passaic is another western suburb of New York<br />
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'''capering'''<br><br />
To caper is to skip about in a playful manner.<br />
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'''rondelling'''<br><br />
To rondel (more properly, roundel) is to dance in a circle<br />
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'''simpering'''<br><br />
To simper is to smile coyly.<br />
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'''hirsute'''<br><br />
hairy<br />
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'''boscages'''<br><br />
masses of trees or shrubs<br />
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'''jetéed'''<br><br />
To jeté is to jump ballet-style.<br />
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'''lamé'''<br><br />
an ornamental fabric incorporating threads of gold or silver<br />
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'''Titian'''<br><br />
Tiziano Vecellio (1485-1576) was a Venetian painter.<br />
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'''poison sumac'''<br><br />
a tall shrub containing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urushiol urushiol], which causes a rash similar to poison ivy<br />
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'''ambient'''<br><br />
of or pertaining to the surrounding environment<br />
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'''les salles de danser'''<br><br />
French: dancing rooms<br />
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'''Val d'Or, Québec'''<br><br />
city of northern Québec, 325 miles northwest of Montreal<br />
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'''eidetic'''<br><br />
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_memory photographic memory]<br />
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'''murated'''<br><br />
a rarely used English word (found in ''OED'') meaning "surrounded by walls"<br />
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'''yogic full lotus'''<br><br />
the cross-legged sitting position<br />
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'''crustacean'''<br><br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean branch of animals] including lobsters, shrimp, and other similar shellfish<br />
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'''''DEUS PROVIDEBIT'''''<br><br />
Latin: God will provide. The line appears in the Vulgate (Latin) version of the Bible at Genesis 22:8, where Abraham tell Isaac, whom he intends to sacrifice, that God will provide an animal for the sacrifice.<br />
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'''swinishest'''<br /><br />
most swinish, i.e., most pig-like<br />
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'''sodding'''<br /><br />
a pejorative intensifier, chiefly British in usage<br />
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'''fingerling'''<br /><br />
something very small<br />
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'''the Beats'''<br /><br />
members of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beats Beat generation]<br />
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'''1956 Mercury Montclair'''<br /><br />
See right, though Incandenza's father's car is "bit-lip red."<br />
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'''nubbly'''<br /><br />
full of small protuberances<br />
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'''sinew'''<br /><br />
another word for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinew tendon]<br />
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'''parping'''<br /><br />
According to the ''OED'', a parp is a honking sound; parping is defined as causing something (as a car horn) to parp.<br />
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'''Head is body.'''<br /><br />
Incandenza's father is expressing a non-Cartesian point of view. René Descartes (1596-1650), the French polymath, separated the mind (''res cogitans'') from the body (''res extensa'').<br />
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'''rutilant'''<br /><br />
bright red<br />
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'''actuating'''<br /><br />
putting into action<br />
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'''Nein?'''<br /><br />
German: No?<br />
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'''tiller'''<br /><br />
what turns the rudder to steer a boat<br />
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'''pronator teres'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronator_teres_muscle muscle] of the forearm<br />
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'''whorled'''<br /><br />
having whorls, i.e., coiled and spiral shapes<br />
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'''flying sod'''<br /><br />
He's referring to divots, i.e., bits of the fairway that get torn up when a golf ball is hit.<br />
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'''anal rage'''<br /><br />
He's probably referring to anal-retentive rage, rather than rage specifically located in the anus.<br />
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'''DeSotos'''<br /><br />
a brand of automobile, examples of which can be seen [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSoto_%28automobile%29 here]<br />
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'''hove'''<br /><br />
past tense of heave<br />
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'''lox'''<br /><br />
smoked salmon<br />
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'''gregariously'''<br /><br />
in a sociable manner<br />
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'''Himself'''<br /><br />
Note that Incandenza's father calls his own father by the same nickname as Incandenza's children call him.<br />
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'''''senza errori'''''<br /><br />
Italian: Without errors<br />
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'''veldt'''<br /><br />
From Afrikaans, this is a word for an open field with grass, bushes, etc.<br />
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'''deft'''<br /><br />
quick and skillful<br />
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'''President'''<br /><br />
here referring to Franklin Roosevelt<br />
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'''lattice'''<br /><br />
This is "a structure of crossed wooden or metal strips usually arranged to form a diagonal pattern of open spaces between the strips" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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'''Bisbee'''<br /><br />
a city of Arizona, 82 miles south of Tucson<br />
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'''Dean'''<br /><br />
probably referring to [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000015/ James Dean]<br />
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'''inertia'''<br /><br />
absence of motion<br />
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'''scabrous'''<br /><br />
having a rough surface because of minute points or projections<br />
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'''mortified'''<br /><br />
having undergone mortification of the flesh, i.e., abuse of the body by one's self as a form of penance''<br />
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'''USC'''<br /><br />
the [http://www.usc.edu/ University of Southern California]<br />
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'''Avalon'''<br /><br />
probably [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000811/ Frankie Avalon]<br />
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'''Latinate'''<br /><br />
suggestive in style of the ancient Romans<br />
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'''Inman Square'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inman_Square square] in Cambridge named for colonial merchant Ralph Inman<br />
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'''Brioni'''<br /><br />
a high-fashion clothes company<br />
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'''Mr. Howell'''<br /><br />
''Gilligan's Island'' character [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurston_Howell Thurston J. Howell, III]<br />
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'''rakish'''<br /><br />
jaunty or dashing<br />
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'''oxfords'''<br /><br />
formal shoes with laces<br />
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'''nacelle'''<br /><br />
the enclosed part of an airplane, where the engine is housed<br />
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'''DMZ'''<br /><br />
Most commonly, this acronym stands for "demilitarized zone," as in the area between North and South Korea. Here it is a made-up drug name.<br />
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'''MED.COM'''<br /><br />
not a real Web site<br />
<br />
'''mescaline'''<br /><br />
Mescaline is the active ingredient in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyote peyote].<br />
<br />
'''TMA'''<br /><br />
an acronym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimethoxyamphetamine trimethoxyamphetamine]<br />
<br />
'''DOM or STP'''<br /><br />
STP stands for "serenity, tranquity, and peace," and it's a pseudonym for DOM, which stands for dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine.<br />
<br />
'''DMT'''<br /><br />
acronym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyltryptamine dimethyltryptamine<br />
<br />
'''Ololiuqui or datura's scopolamine, or Fluothane, or Bufotenine (a.k.a. 'Jackie-O.'), or Ebene'''<br /><br />
Ololiuqui is a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ololiuqui morning glory] plants, the seeds of which are known to be hallucinogenic. Datura's scopolamine is another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopolamine hyoscine]. Fluothane is an inhaled general anesthetic. Bufotenine is an alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufotenine bufotenin] and is the active ingredient in the skin of toads that cause hallucinations when licked. (I have no idea why it's called "Jackie-O.") Ebene is a South American tree that yields a hallucinogen used in rituals.<br />
<br />
==Endnote 56==<br />
<br />
'''PMA'''<br /><br />
acronym for [paramethoxyamphetamine paramethoxyamphetamine]<br />
<br />
'''myristicin'''<br /><br />
Found in nutmeg, it does not have hallucinogenic properties.<br />
<br />
'''ergine'''<br /><br />
Also called LSA, it's found in morning glory seeds<br />
<br />
'''ibogaine'''<br /><br />
Found in varieties of dogbane, it is a drug used to ease heroin withdrawal.<br />
<br />
'''yagé's harmaline'''<br /><br />
Yagé is the native name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banisteriopsis_caapi banisteria]. Harmaline is the active ingredient.<br />
<br />
'''fitviavi'''<br /><br />
apparently a coined word<br />
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==Page 170 (cont'd)==<br />
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==Endnote 57==<br />
<br />
'''''Tibetan-Dead-Book'''''<br /><br />
better known as the [http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/dead/ Tibetan Book of the Dead]<br />
<br />
'''Futurist'''<br /><br />
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism_%28art%29 Italian Futurism], an art movement on the early 20th century<br />
<br />
==Page 170 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''chemist at Sandoz Pharm.'''<br /><br />
This would be Albert Hoffman (born 1906), a Swiss scientist best known for first synthesizing LSD.<br />
<br />
'''Alan Watts'''<br /><br />
Alan Wilson Watts (1915-1973) was a British-born philosopher and writer in the field of comparative religion.<br />
<br />
'''T. Leary'''<br /><br />
Timothy Francis Leary (1920-1996) was an American writer and psychologist best known as an advocate for regular LSD use.<br />
<br />
'''Millbrook NY'''<br /><br />
a town in New York state, about 90 miles north of New York City<br />
<br />
'''WYYY'''<br /><br />
actually a radio station in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYYY Syracuse, New York]<br />
<br />
==Page 171==<br />
<br />
'''Riverside ''Hamlet'''''<br /><br />
The ''Riverside Shakespeare'' is one of the better-known editions of Shakespeare's work. Note that Hal, who is based on the character Hamlet, is reading ''Hamlet''.<br />
<br />
'''the minor and soft-core Alexandrian mosaic'''<br /><br />
i.e. Byzantine erotica (cf. 29, 36)<br />
<br />
'''''Consummation of the Levirates'''''<br /><br />
A levirate is a man called up to marry his elder brother's childless widow, in accordance with Jewish Law. In the Bible, Onan was punished for not consummating his Levirate marriage (he pulled out and spilled his seed).[http://infinitesummer.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=302] <br />
<br />
'''''Baron's'''''<br /><br />
a (probably deliberate) misspelling of [http://online.barrons.com/public/main Barron's]<br />
<br />
'''''Tilden on Spin'''''<br><br />
The book by William Tatem "Big Bill" Tilden II (1893-1953), American tennis giant, is actually entitled ''Match Play and the Spin of the Ball''.<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">172 · ''TENNIS AND THE FERAL PRODIGY''</span><br />
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==Page 172==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Yushityu...]]<br />
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==Page 173==<br />
<br />
'''stevedore'''<br /><br />
a person who loads and unloads cargo from boats<br />
<br />
'''40 km.'''<br /><br />
almost 25 miles<br />
<br />
'''''Schnell'''''<br /><br />
German: Quickly<br />
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==Page 174==<br />
<br />
'''formants and fricatives, trochaically stressed'''<br /><br />
A format is, according to Wikipedia, "a peak in an acoustic frequency spectrum which results from the resonant frequencies of any acoustic system." A fricative is a phoneme produced by forcing air through tight lips. In English, fricatives are /s/, /z/, /th/, and /zh/. Trochaically means spoken in trochees, or a metrical foot on two syllables with the stress on the first (the word "trochee" is a trochee).<br />
<br />
'''aperture'''<br /><br />
An aperture is an opening; here it is probably referring to the anus.<br />
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==Page 175==<br />
<br />
'''''8 1/2'''''<br /><br />
a film by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000019/ Federico Fellini]<br />
<br />
'''intensile'''<br /><br />
incapable of being stretched<br />
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==Page 176==<br />
<br />
'''Noxzema'''<br /><br />
a skin cleaner marketed by Procter & Gamble<br />
<br />
'''Contracol'''<br /><br />
not a drug currently marketed in the U.S.<br />
<br />
'''Epsom salts'''<br /><br />
Magnesium sulfate, used to relieve pain, among other uses.<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">176 · Selected Transcripts</span><br />
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==Page 176==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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==Page 177==<br />
<br />
'''Higher Power'''<br /><br />
Most twelve-step drug or alcohol recovery programs teach a belief in God or a "Higher Power" (the latter to soften the blow to atheists).<br />
<br />
'''Kemp and Limbaugh'''<br /><br />
Jack French Kemp, Jr. (1935-2009), was a conservative American politician, former member of the House of Representative, former Secretary for Housing and Urban Development, and 1996 Republican candidate for Vice President.<br />
<br />
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (born 1951) is a conservative radio talk-show host.<br />
<br />
'''formicate'''<br /><br />
to crawl like ants<br />
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==Page 178==<br />
<br />
'''magnaminously'''<br /><br />
a (probably deliberate) misspelling of "magnanimously," i.e., generously<br />
<br />
'''the Fenway'''<br /><br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenway-Kenmore Fenway-Kenmore] section of Boston<br />
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==Page 179==<br />
<br />
'''septum'''<br /><br />
more specifically, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_septum nasal septum]<br />
<br />
'''harelip'''<br /><br />
also known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harelip cleft lip] or cleft palate<br />
<br />
'''doocy'''<br /><br />
As in the same Tommy Doocey already introduced; the harelipped pot dealer in the trailer park with the smelly snakes.<br />
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==Page 180==<br />
<br />
'''2% proof'''<br /><br />
Redundant because "proof" is an expression of alcohol content. Doubling the alcohol percentage gives you proof, i.e., 2% alcohol is 4 proof.<br />
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==Page 181==<br />
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<span class="marker">181* · Madame Psychosis on the Radio</span><br />
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==Page 181==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''Madame Psychosis'''<br /><br />
not just a byname for DMZ, but also a radio show host<br />
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==Page 182==<br />
<br />
'''patricidal'''<br /><br />
having a tendency to kill one's father<br />
<br />
'''entomologist'''<br /><br />
a person who studies insects scientifically<br />
<br />
'''sephenoid'''<br /><br />
a misspelling for [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sphenoid sphenoid], "a winged bone at the base of the cranium."<br />
''Merriam-Webster Online. 25 May 2009''<br />
<br />
'''Infundibular'''<br /><br />
having the form of a funnel<br />
<br />
'''epiglottal'''<br /><br />
having to do with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiglottis epiglottis]<br />
<br />
'''Hillel'''<br /><br />
a nationwide (worldwide?) Jewish student union present on several campuses<br />
<br />
'''corpus callosum'''<br /><br />
the part of the brain connecting the left and right hemispheres<br />
<br />
'''larygeally fissured'''<br /><br />
having ridges like the human [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larynx larynx]<br />
<br />
'''work-study'''<br /><br />
receiving funding from the university in exchange for work rendered to the university<br />
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==Page 183==<br />
<br />
'''chiffon'''<br /><br />
a lightweight, balanced, plain-woven fabric<br />
<br />
'''limned'''<br /><br />
To limn means to describe<br />
<br />
'''parietal'''<br /><br />
referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parietal_lobe parietal lobe] of the brain, responsible for sensory memory and response<br />
<br />
'''pop'''<br /><br />
Midwesterners in the U.S. use this word to denote what others call "soda," i.e., Coca-Cola, 7-Up, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Dow'''<br /><br />
a pun on the Chinese word ''tao,'' ("the way") and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJIA Dow Jones Industrial Average]<br />
<br />
'''gasper'''<br /><br />
cigarette<br />
<br />
'''E.S.T.'''<br /><br />
Eastern Standard Time<br />
<br />
'''medulla'''<br /><br />
literally that part of the brain responsible for autonomic functions like heartbeat, organ activity, etc.<br />
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==Page 184==<br />
<br />
'''I. M. Pei'''<br /><br />
Ieoh Ming Pei (born 1917) is a Chinese-born American architect who designed, among other famous buildings, MIT's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Building_%28MIT%29 Green Building].<br />
<br />
==Endnote 60==<br />
<br />
'''J. A. Stratton'''<br /><br />
Julius Adams Stratton (1901-1994) was an American educator and president of MIT between 1959 and 1965.<br />
<br />
==Page 184 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''cerebral cortex'''<br /><br />
that part of the brain responsible for higher-order thinking<br />
<br />
'''"...what she's said for three years of midnights..."'''<br /><br />
Up until 'Look at that fucker ''Dance,''' the rest of her introduction is from [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201&version=9 Genesis 1].<br />
<br />
'''Largest Whole Prime On The FM Band'''<br /><br />
109 is a prime number, i.e., divisible only by itself and by 1. Actually the highest number you can get on FM is 108, and there are no whole numbers in FM radio in the U.S.<br />
<br />
'''EM'''<br /><br />
probably denoting "electromagnetic"<br />
<br />
'''centrifugal'''<br /><br />
that force in a spinning object that tends to push away objects from the angle of rotation<br />
<br />
'''Hundt Act'''<br /><br />
Reed E. Hundt (born 1948) was chairman of the Federal Communications Committee in 1996, when the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was passed. Wallace may be riffing on that, as it appears there was no equivalent legislation in 1966.<br />
<br />
'''spatter's center'''<br /><br />
The spatter referred to here is probably the small amount of FM bands that can be sent out.<br />
<br />
'''inelastic'''<br /><br />
When used with regard to demand, this term means tending not to change.<br />
<br />
'''3-km. cannon'''<br /><br />
The range is about 1.86 miles.<br />
<br />
'''P.E.'''<br /><br />
Physical Education<br />
<br />
'''Philology'''<br /><br />
The love of language, the term is also used to describe the study of literature.<br />
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==Page 185==<br />
<br />
'''hypogonadism'''<br /><br />
lack of function of the ovaries or testicles<br />
<br />
'''Nodular leprosy with leonine facies'''<br /><br />
a form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprosy leprosy] that generates lesions made of nodes and that produces lion-like facial expressions (i.e., "leonine facies")<br />
<br />
'''The acromegalic and hyperkeratosistic. The enuretic.'''<br /><br />
Arcomegaly is a disorder of the pituitary gland whereby it produces too much human growth hormone, resulting in giantism. Hyperkeratosistic means that one is suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperkeratosis hyperkeratosis]. Enuresis is the inability to urinate.<br />
<br />
'''The spasmodically torticollic.'''<br /><br />
having a head tilted to one side (torticollis) involving convulsions (spasmodic)<br />
<br />
'''G.S.L.'''<br /><br />
Guaranteed Student Loan<br />
<br />
'''treillage'''<br /><br />
latticework<br />
<br />
'''interneural'''<br /><br />
between nerves<br />
<br />
'''semitic ideograms'''<br /><br />
Semitic languages actually tend to be written uses alphabets, where a symbol denotes a phoneme, rather than in ideograms, like Chinese and Korean are. The oldest alphabet is the Phoenician, which was Semitic.0<br />
<br />
'''rostral lamina'''<br /><br />
in biology, a beaklike or snoutlike (rostral) layer of tissue (lamina)<br />
<br />
'''neuroform'''<br /><br />
Neuroform is actually the brand-name of a type of stent.<br />
<br />
'''S.O.P.'''<br /><br />
Standard Operating Procedure<br />
<br />
'''neorealist'''<br /><br />
adhering to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_neorealism Italian neorealism]<br />
<br />
'''Peterson/Broughton and Dali/Buñuel'''<br /><br />
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0677403/ Sidney Peterson] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0112687/ James Broughton] collaborated on [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038855/ The Potted Psalm] (1946), an experimental film.<br />
<br />
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Púbol (1904-1989) and Luis Buñuel Portolés (1900-1983) were both Spanish artists. They collaborated on ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020530/ Un chien andalou]'' (''An Andalusian Dog'', 1929), another experimental film.<br />
<br />
'''Deren/Hammid'''<br /><br />
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220305/ Maya Deren] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0352413/ Alexander Hammid] codirected [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036154/ Meshes of the Afternoon]<br />
<br />
'''Antonioni'''<br /><br />
Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007) was an Italian filmmaker probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060176/ Blowup].<br />
<br />
'''Tarkovsky'''<br /><br />
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (1932-1986) was a Soviet-Russian filmmaker.<br />
<br />
'''Sometimes Ozu and Bresson'''<br /><br />
Yasujirō Ozu (1903-1963) was a Japanese filmmaker. Robert Bresson (1901-1999) was a French filmmaker.<br />
<br />
'''hoary dramaturgy'''<br /><br />
According to Wikipedia, dramaturgy is "the art of dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage." To call it "hoary" would be to imply it's old.<br />
<br />
'''Sir Herbert Tree'''<br /><br />
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852-1917) was a British actor and manager. You can hear his performances of ''Hamlet'' [http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/playhamlet.html here].<br />
<br />
'''Kaelesque'''<br /><br />
In the style of Pauline Kael (1919-2001), an American film critic for ''New Yorker'' magazine.<br />
<br />
'''De Palma, Tarantino'''<br /><br />
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000361/ Brian De Palma] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000233/ Quentin Tarantino]<br />
<br />
==Endnote 61==<br />
<br />
'''dissociative formalism'''<br /><br />
presumably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formalist_film_theory formalism] that focuses too much on form and not enough on character and other aspects of filmmaking<br />
<br />
'''Stan Brakhage and Hollis Frampton'''<br /><br />
Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) and Hollis Frampton (1936-1984) were American avant-garde filmmakers.<br />
<br />
'''Beth B.'''<br /><br />
You can read about here [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0044579/ here].<br />
<br />
'''the Snow brothers, Vigdis Simpson'''<br /><br />
One of the Snow brothers would have to be Michael Snow (born 1929), a Canadian-American filmmaker, principally known for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength_%281966_film%29 Wavelength]. Vigdis Simpson seems created.<br />
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==Page 185 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''Brutalism, Found Drama'''<br /><br />
Brutalism may refer to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalism brutalist architecture]. Found Drama is the cinematic extension of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_art Found Art].<br />
<br />
'''dissonant'''<br /><br />
inharmonious with other things (here, aspects of Madame Psychosis's taste)<br />
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==Page 186==<br />
<br />
'''Baraka'''<br /><br />
Imamu Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones, 1934) is an African-American poet, playwright, author, and political activist.<br />
<br />
'''piamater'''<br /><br />
actually two words: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pia_mater Pia mater]. Latin: tender mother.<br />
<br />
'''sulci'''<br /><br />
plural of "sulcus," a furrow or groove, particularly between sections of the brain<br />
<br />
'''A.Y. ('V.F.') Rickey's ''summum opus'''''<br /><br />
[http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/ V. Frederick Rickey] is a prominent mathematician. I don't know who A.Y. Rickey is/was, but it is notable that there is, in fact, no Student Union building at MIT.<br />
<br />
''Summum opus'' would be a "great work" while ''magnum opus'' would be the "best work."<br />
<br />
'''parietooccipital'''<br /><br />
referring to both the parietal lobe of the brain, as well as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occipital_lobe occipital] lobe, which is where vision is processed<br />
<br />
'''Pons and abducent'''<br /><br />
The Pons is a structure on the brain stem, while the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abducent_nerve abducens nerve] is a nerve in the muscles of the eye.<br />
<br />
'''basilar-stem artery'''<br /><br />
a stem of an artery that carries blood to the brain<br />
<br />
'''oblongata'''<br /><br />
the second half of the full name of the medulla<br />
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==Page 187==<br />
<br />
'''FHC'''<br /><br />
acronym for "fluorohydrocarbon," this is a type of [http://www.polymerplastics.com/fluoro_overview.shtml fluroplastic], known to give off poisonous fumes<br />
<br />
'''Heathkit'''<br /><br />
The company's Web site is [http://www.heathkit-museum.com/ here].<br />
<br />
'''10ºC'''<br /><br />
fifty degrees Fahrenheit<br />
<br />
'''five m.'''<br /><br />
almost 16.5 feet<br />
<br />
'''vascularly hued'''<br /><br />
colored like a blood vessel<br />
<br />
'''mercuric'''<br /><br />
employing the element [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element) mercury]<br />
<br />
'''wooferless'''<br /><br />
lacking the larger speaker (i.e., the "woofer") found in multi-speaker systems<br />
<br />
'''saddle-noses'''<br /><br />
noses having a collapsed nasal bridge<br />
<br />
'''atrophic'''<br /><br />
shrinking in size<br />
<br />
'''Scleredema adultorum'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic385.htm disease] characterized by non-pitting induration of the skin<br />
<br />
'''serodermatotic'''<br /><br />
suffering from serodermatosis, a skin disease with serous effusion into the skin<br />
<br />
'''hydrocephalic'''<br /><br />
having water on the brain<br />
<br />
'''tabescent and chachetic'''<br /><br />
Tabescent refers to a person with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabes tabes dorsalis], and chachetic (probably misspelled) apparently refers to a person with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cachexia cachexia]. <br />
<br />
'''Brag's-Diseased'''<br /><br />
This would seem to be a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glioma glioma], though it is mentioned almost nowhere.<br />
<br />
'''carbuncular or steatocryptotic'''<br /><br />
Carbuncular means "pimply," while steatocryptotic refers to a person suffering from steatocryptosis, which is derangement of the sebaceous glands.<br />
<br />
'''Marin-Amat Syndrome'''<br /><br />
This is involuntary closure on one eye, named for Manuel Marin Amat, an early 20th century Spanish ophthalmologist.<br />
<br />
'''scrofulodermic'''<br /><br />
suffering from [http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic434.htm cutaneous tuberculosis]<br />
<br />
'''Bell-shaped steatopygiacs'''<br /><br />
A steatopygiac is a person suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steatopygia steatopygia]; if you're bell-shaped, it just means the fat is closer to the bottom than the top<br />
<br />
'''Pityriasis Rosea'''<br /><br />
a skin disease marked by patches of pink, oval rash<br />
<br />
'''"Blessed are the poor in body, for they."'''<br /><br />
This is not one of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatitude Beatitudes].<br />
<br />
'''U.H.I.D.'''<br /><br />
This is a bona fide acronym for "Universal Health Identifier," though it's doubtful this is what Wallace means. A HID is a "Human Interface Device"; U could stand for "university" or "universal" or something else entirely. Ah, what he means: Union of Hideous and Improbably Deformed<br />
<br />
'''probability waves for subhadronics'''<br /><br />
Probability waves are a concept in quantum physics that expresses the probability that "a particle or particles in a particular state will be measured to have a given position and momentum" (Wikipedia). Subhadronic refers to a particle smaller than a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadron hadron].<br />
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==Page 188==<br />
<br />
'''Radcliffe's Bunting Institute'''<br /><br />
Radcliffe is the women's college at Harvard University. According to the Harvard [http://www.harvard.edu/ Web site], "The Bunting Institute is a mutidisciplinary center for women scholars, writers, artists, and activists of demonstrated achievement and promise. Each year, approximately 40 women pursue projects that make significant contributions to their fields, working in a community that fosters interdisciplinary discourse, and creative and intellectual leadership. Some describe their experience as "the Bunting transformation."<br />
<br />
'''L.A.S. tradition'''<br /><br />
Liberal Arts and Sciences<br />
<br />
==Endnote 64==<br />
<br />
'''Samuel Johnson'''<br /><br />
Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1709-1784), was a British poet, essayist, novelist, literary critic, and lexicographer.<br />
<br />
'''Beesley'''<br /><br />
Patricia Beesley, an early 20th century American educator who did author the book named.<br />
<br />
'''cornup3.COM'''<br /><br />
There is no such Web site.<br />
<br />
'''''mens-sana'' pedagogy'''<br /><br />
"healthy-mind" teaching<br />
<br />
'''''ad valorem'''''<br /><br />
Latin: by value<br />
<br />
'''''corpore potis'''''<br /><br />
Latin: able of body<br />
<br />
'''Thorp's Trigonometry of Cubes'''<br /><br />
Edward Oakley Thorp (born 1932) is an American mathematician, but he seems not to have created a "trigonometry of cubes," which would be, frankly, impossible.<br />
<br />
'''aphotic to apochromatic'''<br /><br />
Aphotic means without light, while apochromatic means developing color.<br />
<br />
'''Best Boy'''<br /><br />
a member of a film crew, assistant to either the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaffer_%28motion_picture_industry%29 gaffer] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_grip key grip]<br />
<br />
'''Cambridgeport'''<br /><br />
an area of Cambridge, Mass.<br />
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==Page 189==<br />
<br />
'''leukodermatic'''<br /><br />
white-skinned<br />
<br />
'''xanthodantic'''<br /><br />
misspelling of xanthodontic, which means yellow-toothed<br />
<br />
'''basilisk-breathed and pyorrheic'''<br /><br />
A basilisk is a type of dragon, and pyorrhea is the condition of having gum disease.<br />
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==Page 190==<br />
<br />
'''peronic or teratoidal'''<br /><br />
Peronic means having a bent penis, while teratoidal means malformed.<br />
<br />
'''prenologically malformed'''<br /><br />
malformed in the shape of the skull<br />
<br />
'''supuratively lesioned'''<br /><br />
having lesions that ooze pus<br />
<br />
'''acervulus-nosed'''<br /><br />
having blisters on the nose<br />
<br />
'''radically -ectomied'''<br /><br />
-having to do with body-part removal (think radical mastectomy)<br />
<br />
'''diaphoretic'''<br /><br />
perspiring<br />
<br />
'''granulomatous'''<br /><br />
having masses of ulcerated infections of the skin<br />
<br />
'''lazarettes and oubliettes'''<br /><br />
A lazarette is a hospital that treats infectious diseases, while an oubliette is a dungeon accessible only by trapdoor.<br />
<br />
'''kyphotic and lordotic'''<br /><br />
Kyphotic means having abnormal rear curvature of the spine (i.e., hunchbacked), while lordotic having abnormal forward curvature of the spine.<br />
<br />
'''cellulitic'''<br /><br />
fat<br />
<br />
'''fatally pulchritudinous'''<br /><br />
deadly good-looking<br />
<br />
'''Actaeonizing'''<br /><br />
turning into a deer; growing horns<br />
<br />
'''Medusoid'''<br /><br />
looking like a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon gorgon]<br />
<br />
'''papuled, the macular, the albinic'''<br /><br />
Papules are inflammatory elevations of the skin. Macular means having opaque spots on the cornea. Albinic is having no melanin.<br />
<br />
'''''odalisques'''''<br /><br />
a concubine or slave in a harem<br />
<br />
'''ital'''<br /><br />
italics, used for emphasis<br />
<br />
'''crosiers'''<br /><br />
a crosier is a type of French roll<br />
<br />
'''lager'''<br /><br />
a type of beer, medium in darkness<br />
<br />
'''vin blanc'''<br /><br />
French: white wine<br />
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'''''Good Morning, Midnight'' and ''Maggie: A Girl of the Streets'' and ''Giovanni's Room'' and ''Under the Volcano'''''<br /><br />
''Good Morning, Midnight'' is a novel by Jean Rhys (1890-1979), born Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams, a Caribbean novelist, on the topic of a woman forced to confront her own loneliness and despair. ''Maggie: A Girl of the Streets'' is a novel by Stephen Crane (1871-1900), an American novelist, on the topic of a child prostitute. ''Giovanni's Room'' by African-American expatriate author James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987) is a novel on the topic of a young man coming to terms with his homosexuality. ''Under the Volcano'' is a novel by Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957), a British writer, on the topic of alcoholism.<br />
<br />
'''Bret Ellis'''<br /><br />
Bret Easton Ellis (born 1965) is an American novelist probably best known for ''Less Than Zero'' (1985), about a drug addict who turns to prostitution, and ''American Psycho'' (1991), about a serial killer.<br />
<br />
'''van der Rohe'''<br /><br />
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) was a German-born American architect.<br />
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==Endnote 66==<br />
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'''R.E.M. and Pearl Jam'''<br /><br />
R.E.M.'s lead singer, Michael Stipe, was famous for his unintelligible lyrics until around 1987's ''Document''. Pearl Jam's vocalist, Eddie Vedder, is as cryptic now as he was fifteen years ago, when they released their first record.<br />
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'''wall- and cross-eyed'''<br /><br />
To be wall-eyed is to suffer from exotropia, which is a form of ocular paralysis in which one or both eyes turn outward.<br />
<br />
'''ergotic of St. Anthony'''<br /><br />
An old name for ergot poisoning is "St. Anthony's fire," which is ergot poisoning. However, given the context, Wallace may be referring here to shingles.<br />
<br />
'''varicelliformally eruptive'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eczema_herpeticum eczema due to herpes].<br />
<br />
'''sarcoma'd of Kaposi'''<br /><br />
Karposi's sarcoma is a usually benign skin cancer common in elderly Mediterranean men that has become the most easily identifiable visible symptom of AIDS.<br />
<br />
'''M. Hamilton as Oz's West Witch'''<br /><br />
Referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/ The Wizard of Oz], the Wicked Witch of the West (and East) was played by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002121/ Margaret Hamilton].<br />
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[[Image:RCA.jpg|right]]<br />
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'''RCA-Victorish'''<br /><br />
The image can be seen to the right.<br />
<br />
'''snaggle-toothed'''<br /><br />
having a broken or projecting tooth<br />
<br />
'''wattled'''<br /><br />
having flesh hanging from one's chin, like a turkey<br />
<br />
'''lycanthropically'''<br /><br />
in a way suggesting a werewolf<br />
<br />
'''Tourettic'''<br /><br />
suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourette%27s_Syndrome Tourette's syndrome]<br />
<br />
'''teratoid'''<br /><br />
resembling a monster<br />
<br />
'''halitotic'''<br /><br />
having bad breath<br />
<br />
'''saurian- and equine-looking'''<br /><br />
looking like a lizard or horse, respectively<br />
<br />
'''invaginate'''<br /><br />
sheathed<br />
<br />
'''Cushing's Disease'''<br /><br />
Named for Harvey Williams Cushing (1869-1939), an American neurologist, this disease is an endocrine disorder resulting in rapid weight gain, sweating, thinning of skin, and other negative side effects.<br />
<br />
'''Rhinoplasty'''<br /><br />
nose job<br />
<br />
'''subdural'''<br /><br />
below the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dura_mater dura mater] in the skull<br />
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'''les bâtiments sanctifíes'''<br /><br />
French: the holy buildings<br />
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'''''Metropolis'''''<br /><br />
a 1927 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136/ film] directed by Fritz Lang<br />
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'''plexus'''<br /><br />
an intricate network<br />
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'''tête'''<br /><br />
French: head<br />
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'''I/O'''<br /><br />
Input/Output<br />
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'''''C'est ça'''''<br /><br />
French: that's that<br />
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'''ALGOL'''<br /><br />
an ancient [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL computer programming language]<br />
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==Endnote 208==<br />
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'''''Institut für Neutronenphysik und Reaktortechnik, Kernforschungszentrum'''''<br /><br />
German: Institute for Neutron Physics and Reactor Engineering, Nuclear Research Center (a real organization)<br />
<br />
'''Karlsruhe'''<br /><br />
a city in Germany about 90 miles south of Frankfurt (Main)<br />
<br />
'''U.R.G.'''<br /><br />
probably United Republic of Germany<br />
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'''Springer-Verlag'''<br /><br />
one of the largest publishers in Germany<br />
<br />
'''Wien'''<br /><br />
the German name for Vienna, capital of Austria<br />
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'''Bazin'''<br /><br />
André Bazin (1918-1958) was a French film theorist and director.<br />
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==Page 492==<br />
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'''Eureka'''<br /><br />
Ancient Greek for "I've found it," made famous by Archimedes<br />
<br />
'''metastisate'''<br /><br />
He means "metastatize."<br />
<br />
'''gibber'''<br /><br />
to chatter unintelligibly<br />
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'''Synchronicity'''<br /><br />
the state of happening simultaneously<br />
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'''Concord'''<br /><br />
agreement<br />
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'''declivity'''<br /><br />
downward slope or hill<br />
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==Page 495==<br />
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'''hypotenuse'''<br />
<br />
the longest arm of a right triangle<br />
<br />
'''right dihedral triangle'''<br /><br />
A right triangle is one whose largest angle is 90º. Dihedral means "having two sides."<br />
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'''ebullient'''<br /><br />
zestfully enthusiastic<br />
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'''caster'''<br /><br />
wheel<br />
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'''rodential'''<br /><br />
like a rodent<br />
<br />
'''stalactite'''<br /><br />
the kind of V-shaped rock formations in caves that come down from the top<br />
<br />
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==Page 502==<br />
<br />
'''Powell's ''Peeping Tom'''''<br /><br />
Michael Latham Powell (1905-1990) was a British filmmaker, and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054167/ Peeping Tom] was one of his films.<br />
<br />
'''hex'''<br /><br />
i.e., hexagonal, having six sides<br />
<br />
'''L'Hôpital'''<br /><br />
Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital (1661-1704), was a French mathematician.<br />
<br />
'''Bernoulli'''<br /><br />
Jacob Bernoulli (1654-1705) was a Swiss mathematician.<br />
<br />
'''Brachistochrone'''<br /><br />
a reference to a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachistochrone brachistochrone curve]<br />
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==Page 503==<br />
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'''anechoic vestry'''<br /><br />
Anechoic means "characterized by a low level of reverberation"; a vestry is where the priests' vestments (clothing for mass) are kept between ceremonies.<br />
<br />
'''lassitude'''<br /><br />
weariness of body<br />
<br />
'''catalepsy'''<br /><br />
suspension of sensation, with bodily rigidity<br />
<br />
'''circadian arrhythmia'''<br /><br />
sleep disturbance<br />
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'''anhedonia'''<br /><br />
inability to feel pleasure<br />
<br />
'''peristyle'''<br /><br />
a colonnade surrounding an open space, or the space so encircled<br />
<br />
'''astrolabes'''<br /><br />
a type of navigational device used before the invention of the sextant<br />
<br />
'''prickets'''<br /><br />
sharp metal points on which to stick candles<br />
<br />
'''Knights of Columbus'''<br /><br />
a Catholic fraternal order<br />
<br />
'''Penn Station'''<br /><br />
the chief national train station in New York, at 34th Street and Eighth Avenue<br />
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==Page 505==<br />
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'''styptic'''<br /><br />
contracting tissue<br />
<br />
'''dis'''<br /><br />
act of disrespect<br />
<br />
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'''anorak'''<br /><br />
a hooded pullover jacket<br />
<br />
'''bonhommic'''<br /><br />
a neologism, meaning "denoting good-heartedness"<br />
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'''Keds'''<br /><br />
a brand of sneaker<br />
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'''''C'est la guerre'''''<br /><br />
French: That's war<br />
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'''Perseus'''<br /><br />
the Greek hero who beheaded Medusa (cf. ''The Medusa v. The Odalisque'') , using the head to kill others; compared here to the A.F.R. ("the legs ... were amputated") which steals the Entertainment and uses it to kill others<br />
<br />
'''jongleur'''<br /><br />
a wandering minstrel<br />
<br />
'''pantalone'''<br /><br />
a stock mime character, often the butt of jokes<br />
<br />
'''Hercules'''<br /><br />
the Greek hero who lost his mind, murdered his family, and was forced to suffer twelve labors as punishment, including calming a three-headed dog, clearing dung from the Augean stables, and stealing apples of infinite joy; compared here to Gately ("head was square"), who lost his mind as an addict and was forced into a twelve-step program, where he had to calm Pat M.'s dogs and clear shit from the Shattuck shelter (he previously stole the master to the Entertainment). Hercules also borrowed Athena's chariot on occasion; Gately borrows Pat M.'s car.<br />
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'''Castor and Pollux'''<br /><br />
stars in the constellation Gemini, named for twin sons of Zeus and Leda in Greek mythology<br />
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'''plexus'''<br /><br />
an intricate network<br />
<br />
'''tête'''<br /><br />
French: head<br />
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==Page 490==<br />
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'''I/O'''<br /><br />
Input/Output<br />
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'''''C'est ça'''''<br /><br />
French: that's that<br />
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==Page 491==<br />
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'''ALGOL'''<br /><br />
an ancient [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL computer programming language]<br />
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==Endnote 208==<br />
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'''''Institut für Neutronenphysik und Reaktortechnik, Kernforschungszentrum'''''<br /><br />
German: Institute for Neutron Physics and Reactor Engineering, Nuclear Research Center (a real organization)<br />
<br />
'''Karlsruhe'''<br /><br />
a city in Germany about 90 miles south of Frankfurt (Main)<br />
<br />
'''U.R.G.'''<br /><br />
probably United Republic of Germany<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]<br />
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'''Springer-Verlag'''<br /><br />
one of the largest publishers in Germany<br />
<br />
'''Wien'''<br /><br />
the German name for Vienna, capital of Austria<br />
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'''Bazin'''<br /><br />
André Bazin (1918-1958) was a French film theorist and director.<br />
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==Page 492==<br />
<br />
'''Eureka'''<br /><br />
Ancient Greek for "I've found it," made famous by Archimedes<br />
<br />
'''metastisate'''<br /><br />
He means "metastatize."<br />
<br />
'''gibber'''<br /><br />
to chatter unintelligibly<br />
<br />
==Page 493==<br />
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'''Synchronicity'''<br /><br />
the state of happening simultaneously<br />
<br />
'''Concord'''<br /><br />
agreement<br />
<br />
==Page 494==<br />
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'''declivity'''<br /><br />
downward slope or hill<br />
<br />
==Page 495==<br />
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'''hypotenuse'''<br />
<br />
the longest arm of a right triangle<br />
<br />
'''right dihedral triangle'''<br /><br />
A right triangle is one whose largest angle is 90º. Dihedral means "having two sides."<br />
<br />
<br />
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'''ebullient'''<br /><br />
zestfully enthusiastic<br />
<br />
'''caster'''<br /><br />
wheel<br />
<br />
<br />
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'''rodential'''<br /><br />
like a rodent<br />
<br />
'''stalactite'''<br /><br />
the kind of V-shaped rock formations in caves that come down from the top<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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'''Powell's ''Peeping Tom'''''<br /><br />
Michael Latham Powell (1905-1990) was a British filmmaker, and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054167/ Peeping Tom] was one of his films.<br />
<br />
'''hex'''<br /><br />
i.e., hexagonal, having six sides<br />
<br />
'''L'Hôpital'''<br /><br />
Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital (1661-1704), was a French mathematician.<br />
<br />
'''Bernoulli'''<br /><br />
Jacob Bernoulli (1654-1705) was a Swiss mathematician.<br />
<br />
'''Brachistochrone'''<br /><br />
a reference to a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachistochrone brachistochrone curve]<br />
<br />
==Page 503==<br />
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==Page 503==<br />
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'''anechoic vestry'''<br /><br />
Anechoic means "characterized by a low level of reverberation"; a vestry is where the priests' vestments (clothing for mass) are kept between ceremonies.<br />
<br />
'''lassitude'''<br /><br />
weariness of body<br />
<br />
'''catalepsy'''<br /><br />
suspension of sensation, with bodily rigidity<br />
<br />
'''circadian arrhythmia'''<br /><br />
sleep disturbance<br />
<br />
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'''anhedonia'''<br /><br />
inability to feel pleasure<br />
<br />
'''peristyle'''<br /><br />
a colonnade surrounding an open space, or the space so encircled<br />
<br />
'''astrolabes'''<br /><br />
a type of navigational device used before the invention of the sextant<br />
<br />
'''prickets'''<br /><br />
sharp metal points on which to stick candles<br />
<br />
'''Knights of Columbus'''<br /><br />
a Catholic fraternal order<br />
<br />
'''Penn Station'''<br /><br />
the chief national train station in New York, at 34th Street and Eighth Avenue<br />
<br />
==Page 505==<br />
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'''styptic'''<br /><br />
contracting tissue<br />
<br />
'''dis'''<br /><br />
act of disrespect<br />
<br />
==Page 506==<br />
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'''anorak'''<br /><br />
a hooded pullover jacket<br />
<br />
'''bonhommic'''<br /><br />
a neologism, meaning "denoting good-heartedness"<br />
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'''Keds'''<br /><br />
a brand of sneaker<br />
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'''''C'est la guerre'''''<br /><br />
French: That's war<br />
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'''Perseus'''<br /><br />
the constellation of the flying horse<br />
<br />
'''jongleur'''<br /><br />
a wandering minstrel<br />
<br />
'''pantalone'''<br /><br />
a stock mime character, often the butt of jokes<br />
<br />
'''Castor and Pollux'''<br /><br />
stars in the constellation Gemini, named for twin sons of Zeus and Leda in Greek mythology<br />
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'''stereotaxy'''<br /><br />
also known as "stereotaxis," this is three-dimensional brain imaging<br />
<br />
'''plutonium-239'''<br /><br />
a fissile isotope of plutonium<br />
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'''ablative surgery'''<br /><br />
<br />
a treatment for neurological disorders involving freezing or burning of brain tissue<br />
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'''Q-dopa'''<br /><br />
not a real neurotransmitter<br />
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'''MK-Ultra''' <br /><br />
an actual [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKULTRA CIA mind-control experiment] starting in the 1950s and continuing well into the 1960s and possibly 70s<br />
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'''''Orlikow et al. v. United States of America'''''<br /><br />
This was a real case, and you can read the proceedings [http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/orli-01.htm here].<br />
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'''G.C.'''<br /><br />
Government of Canada, perhaps<br />
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'''M.M.P.I.'''<br /><br />
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, a commonly administered psychological test designed to give an overview of personality, neuroses, etc.<br />
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'''Millon's'''<br /><br />
the [Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III http://millon.net/instruments/MCMI_III.htm], another psych inventory<br />
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'''Approception'''<br /><br />
apparently not a real test<br />
<br />
'''shiatsu'''<br /><br />
a type of Asian massage<br />
<br />
'''weal'''<br /><br />
prosperity or happiness<br />
<br />
'''Turner, Bush, Casey'''<br /><br />
Admiral Stansfield Turner was head of the CIA from 1977 to 1981. George H.W. Bush (later President) was CIA head from 1976 to 1977. William J. Casey was head from 1981 to 1987.<br />
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'''Langley'''<br /><br />
the town in Virginia where the CIA is headquartered<br />
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'''divans'''<br /><br />
couches or sofas<br />
<br />
'''rutting'''<br /><br />
heat, i.e., sexual excitement<br />
<br />
'''N.S.A.'''<br /><br />
National Security Agency<br />
<br />
'''C7'''<br /><br />
The C7 is a modified version of the American M-16 combat rifle. It's implied here that C7 was some kind of security apparatus, but there is no evidence that such a body existed.<br />
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'''princess-and-pea'''<br /><br />
a reference to the fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea," wherein despite several mattresses, a princess can still feel a single pea below her<br />
<br />
'''cluster migraines'''<br /><br />
Cluster headaches and migraines are actually two distinct syndromes.<br />
<br />
'''feldspar'''<br /><br />
a rock-forming mineral<br />
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'''E.R.'''<br /><br />
Emergency Room<br />
<br />
'''CITGO'''<br /><br />
one of the [http://www.citgo.com/Home.jsp major oil] companies<br />
<br />
'''70 kph.'''<br /><br />
about 43.5 miles per hour<br />
<br />
'''CVS'''<br /><br />
a large chain of [http://www.cvs.com/ drugstores]<br />
<br />
'''75 k'''<br /><br />
about 46.6 miles per hour<br />
<br />
'''ς'''<br /><br />
the Greek letter ''sigma'' as it appears in lower case at the ends of words<br />
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'''mysticetously'''<br /><br />
in the manner of a baleen whale<br />
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'''cognomen'''<br /><br />
a descriptive nickname<br />
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'''tallboys'''<br /><br />
a long-necked bottle<br />
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'''80 kph'''<br /><br />
almost 50 miles per hour<br />
<br />
'''Berklee School of Music'''<br /><br />
a real school, one of the highest-prestige [http://www.berklee.edu/ music schools] in the U.S.<br />
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==Endnote 202==<br />
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'''Escherian'''<br /><br />
referring to the work of Maurits Cornelis (M.C.) Escher (1898-1972), a Dutch graphic artist<br />
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'''slalom'''<br /><br />
to zigzag between obstacles<br />
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==Page 479==<br />
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'''bodegas'''<br /><br />
a Spanish-owned grocery<br />
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'''crèche'''<br /><br />
a nativity scene<br />
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'''propinquous'''<br /><br />
Probably what's intended is "propinquitous," meaning "proximity" or "nearness."<br />
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'''Chickens Fresh Killed Daily'''<br /><br />
a reference to the prominent 'Live Poultry Fresh Killed' sign of the Mayflower Poultry Company at 621 Cambridge St, East Cambridge about a half a mile from Inman Square. http://bostonist.com/2007/09/07/mayflower_poult.php<br />
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'''Ryle's Jazz Club'''<br /><br />
a reference to Ryles Jazz Club (no apostrophe) in Inman Square, Cambridge at 212 Hampshire Street. http://www.rylesjazz.com/<br />
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'''briar pipes'''<br /><br />
a type of pipe for [http://www.tinderboxinternational.com/briar.htm smoking]<br />
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'''60 k'''<br /><br />
about 37.3 miles per hour<br />
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==Page 480==<br />
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'''MF'''<br /><br />
Millennial Fizzy<br />
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'''aerodyne'''<br /><br />
a heavier-than-air aircraft deriving lift from motion<br />
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'''viz.'''<br /><br />
abbreviation for ''videlicet'' (Latin)<br />
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'''CQBC'''<br /><br />
not a real entity, but probably here denoting a French-Canadian radio station<br />
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'''monomitotic'''<br /><br />
"Mitosis" is cell division; "monomitosis" would be the splitting of a cell into a single cell, i.e., not splitting.G<br />
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'''Gaspé Peninsula'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.great-adventures.com/destinations/canada/gaspe.html region] in northern Québec<br />
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'''''chiens-courants'''''<br /><br />
French: running dogs<br />
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'''U.S.A. 91'''<br /><br />
Interstate 91, which runs from New Haven, Conn, to Derby Line, Vt., at the Canadian border<br />
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'''Bellow's Falls VT'''<br /><br />
a town off Route 91, about 70 miles west of Manchester, N.H.<br />
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'''paisley'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paisley_%28design%29 popular design] originating in Scotland<br />
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'''Nehru jacket'''<br /><br />
A collarless jacket named for Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), first Prime Minister of India and father of Indira Gandhi<br />
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'''''école-spéciale'''''<br /><br />
French: special school<br />
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'''''Va chier, putain!'''''<br /><br />
French: Piss off, whore!<br />
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'''trop formidable'''<br /><br />
French: too strong<br />
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'''Basel'''<br /><br />
a city of Switzerland about 50 miles north of the capital of Bern<br />
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'''''tu-sais-quoi'''''<br /><br />
French: you know what<br />
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'''impost'''<br /><br />
something imposed, as a tax or duty<br />
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==Endnote 204==<br />
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'''Saprogenic'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to putrefaction or rotting<br />
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==Page 483 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''illicit'''<br /><br />
illegal<br />
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'''IL NE FAUT PLUS QU'ON PURSUIVE LE BONHEUR'''<br /><br />
French: It is no longer necessary to pursue happiness<br />
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==Page 484==<br />
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'''125-kilo'''<br /><br />
about 276 lbs<br />
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'''ROPAS'''<br /><br />
Spanish: CLOTHES<br />
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==Page 485==<br />
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'''union-suit underwear'''<br /><br />
one-piece long undergarments<br />
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'''stelliform'''<br /><br />
in the form of a star<br />
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==Page 486==<br />
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'''baguette'''<br /><br />
a long roll of French bread<br />
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'''cerise'''<br /><br />
deep red to purple in color<br />
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''''''n soir, 'sieur'''''<br /><br />
an elision of ''bon soir, monsieur,'' i.e., "Goodnight, sir" in French<br />
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''''''Malhereusement, ton collégue est décedé. It faisait une excellente soupe aus pois.''''''<br /><br />
French: Sadly, your friend is dead. He made an excellent pea soup.<br />
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on p. 425, Marathe outlined a hypothetical in which two people both wanted a Habitant ''soupe aus pois'' that belonged to someone who had recently died<br />
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''''''Non? Ou c'était toi, faisait-elle?''''''<br /><br />
French: No? Our was it you that made it?<br />
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==Page 487==<br />
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'''wangs'''<br /><br />
slaps or bangs against<br />
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'''''frère'''''<br /><br />
French: brother<br />
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'''sphincter'''<br /><br />
Any muscle in ring form, here it means the anus, which has failed Lucien by allowing him to soil himself<br />
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'''''ne pas plaisanter'''''<br /><br />
French: not pleasure<br />
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'''''iront paître'''''<br /><br />
French: they will go to eat<br />
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'''''entend-il?'''''<br /><br />
French: Does he hear?<br />
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'''''inutile'''''<br /><br />
French: useless<br />
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'''natal'''<br /><br />
like a baby's<br />
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'''aphonia'''<br /><br />
absence of sound<br />
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'''muskie'''<br /><br />
short for "muskellunge," a type of fish<br />
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==Page 258==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''halogen'''<br /><br />
Halogens are the following elements -- fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine -- some of which are used in high-powered lamps<br />
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'''the color of sour apples'''<br /><br />
i.e., light green<br />
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==Page 259==<br />
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'''2^27'''<br /><br />
2^27 (2 to the 27th power) = 134,217,728<br />
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'''Montcerf, Québec'''<br /><br />
a city of Québec about 82.5 miles due north of Ottawa<br />
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'''Mercier Dam'''<br /><br />
You can read more about it [http://www.hydroquebec.com/generation/projets/pop/pop_mercier.html here].<br />
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'''Pompano Beach'''<br /><br />
a town in Florida about 10 miles north of Fort Lauderdale<br />
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'''a sepulchral Czech kid named Lendl'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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==Page 260==<br />
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'''Kimberly-Clark'''<br /><br />
an American [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly-Clark corporation] based in Wisconsin<br />
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'''"His Unforced-Error stats look like a decimal-error."'''<br /><br />
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<br />
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==Endnote 86==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.Q.M.D.]]<br />
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'''revenant'''<br /><br />
a person who returns<br />
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'''transom'''<br /><br />
a window above a door<br />
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'''thespio-historical'''<br /><br />
regarding the history of acting<br />
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'''"...had the word ''Homo'' in the title..."'''<br /><br />
The film is James O. Incandenza's ''Homo Duplex''.<br />
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'''quad-function'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_function quadratic function], which produces a parabolic graph result<br />
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==Page 261==<br />
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'''pirouette'''<br /><br />
a spin, in ballet terminology<br />
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==Page 262==<br />
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[[Image:I-beam.jpg|thumb|caption|I-beam|right|120px]]<br />
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'''I-beams'''<br /><br />
standard construction beams made of metal (see right)<br />
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'''hypertonic'''<br /><br />
having rigid, tense muscles<br />
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==Page 263==<br />
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'''undead'''<br /><br />
the state of several unnatural beings (vampires, mummies, zombies, etc.), which is in a state neither live nor dead<br />
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'''kibitzing'''<br /><br />
chatting or conversing<br />
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==Page 264==<br />
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'''whippet'''<br /><br />
a one-inhalation dose of nitrous oxide (laughing gas)<br />
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==Page 265==<br />
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[[Image:YinYang.png|thumb|caption|Yin/Yang symbol|right|120px]]<br />
'''Taoist paraboloid logo'''<br /><br />
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]]<br />
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'''ten m.'''<br /><br />
32.8 feet<br />
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'''VAPS'''<br/><br />
an air traffic control acronym for visual approaches.<br />
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'''effete'''<br /><br />
degenerate or decadent<br />
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'''Sinn Fein'''<br /><br />
Irish for "ourselves alone," this is the political wing of the Irish Republican Army.<br />
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'''cruciform'''<br /><br />
in the form of a cross<br />
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'''cuffs'''<br /><br />
rotator cuffs<br />
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'''polybutylene'''<br /><br />
This is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybutylene polymerized butlyene].<br />
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'''neurasthenic'''<br /><br />
regarding a syndrome of anxiety, fatigue, pain, etc., caused by exhaustion of the central nervous system<br />
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'''Preludin'''<br /><br />
brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preludin phenmetrazine]<br />
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'''Inv.'''<br /><br />
Invitational<br />
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'''40º C'''<br /><br />
104 degrees Fahrenheit<br />
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==Page 268==<br />
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'''pregnable'''<br /><br />
open to attack; capable of being won by force<br />
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'''nacelle'''<br /><br />
the car of a balloon or blimp<br />
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'''corrugated'''<br /><br />
bent into folds<br />
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'''leaf-cutter-ant'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/learning/animals/invertebrates/ant North American ant]<br />
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'''Gore-Tex'''<br /><br />
[http://www.gore-tex.com/remote/Satellite/content/what-is-gore-tex brand name] of material<br />
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'''AC'''<br /><br />
Alternating Current<br />
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'''low-lipid'''<br /><br />
i.e., low-fat<br />
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==Endnote 89==<br />
<br />
'''reductive statistics'''<br /><br />
Wallace is talking either about the process in statistics of reducing variables or Schtitt's use of statistics being reductive, i.e., being simplistic<br />
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==Page 269 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''equanimity'''<br /><br />
mental or emotional stability<br />
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'''laissez-faire'''<br /><br />
French for "to let to do," this is a term usually applied to conservative economics but here generally gives a sense of not caring very much.<br />
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'''erumpent'''<br /><br />
bursting forth<br />
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'''Boards'''<br /><br />
college entrance examinations<br />
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'''ad'''<br /><br />
a tennis term meaning "advantage" for one or the other player<br />
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<span class="marker">270 · Day and Gately</span><br />
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'''Montesian'''<br /><br />
also the name of a [http://oh.lake-link.com/lakes/lake.cfm?LakeID=1515&RegionID=749 lake] in Wisconsin<br />
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'''Lenz'''<br /><br />
German for "springtime"<br />
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'''Goodwill'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.goodwill.org/page/guest/about charity] that redistributes donated goods and clothing<br />
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'''non sequiturs'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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'''butter wouldn't melt'''<br /><br />
which is to say, with a certain, probably faked, coolness<br />
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'''macramé'''<br /><br />
a type of fabric-making done by knotting rather than knitting<br />
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'''Paul Harvey'''<br /><br />
Born Paul Harvey Aurandt, Paul Harvey (born 1918) is an American radio broadcaster known for his platitudes.<br />
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'''nictitated'''<br /><br />
winking<br />
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'''Quaalude'''<br /><br />
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methaqualone methaqualone]<br />
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'''Malden'''<br /><br />
a northern suburb of Boston, about 7 miles north of the city<br />
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'''egregulous'''<br /><br />
not a real word (possibly egregious + ridiculous)<br />
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==Endnote 90==<br />
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'''ephebe'''<br /><br />
a young man between the ages of 18 and 20<br />
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'''redolent'''<br /><br />
smelling badly<br />
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'''main'''<br /><br />
here meaning "physical strength"<br />
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'''interdicted'''<br /><br />
prohibited<br />
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'''sally'''<br /><br />
a clever remark<br />
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'''mild sedatives'''<br /><br />
Quaaludes are more like a sledgehammer to the head than a "mild sedative."<br />
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'''reductia ad absurdum'''<br /><br />
a misstatement or misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum reductio ad absurdum]<br />
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'''"Simply open wide for the spoon."'''<br /><br />
This is perhaps a reference to a line from William S. Burroughs's ''Naked Lunch'', regarding the time when one realizes "what is at the end of that long newspaper spoon."<br />
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'''"...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?"'''<br /><br />
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).<br />
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'''lapped'''<br /><br />
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<br />
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'''iona'''<br /><br />
Iona is an island off the west coast of Scotland. Gately means iota.<br />
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'''bunko artists'''<br /><br />
con artists<br />
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'''jonesing'''<br /><br />
an addict term for the desire for one's substance of choice<br />
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'''mokus'''<br /><br />
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."<br />
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'''Guy That Didn't Even Use His First Name'''<br /><br />
a joke based on the fact that in recovery programs like AA, people do not use their last names<br />
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'''Spont-Dissem'''<br /><br />
Spontaneous Dissemination, i.e., live as opposed to pre-recorded<br />
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'''R.C.'''<br /><br />
presumably Roman Catholic<br />
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==Endnote 91==<br />
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'''''f''-term'''<br /><br />
i.e., "fag"<br />
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'''Morris Code'''<br /><br />
a misstatement of Morse Code<br />
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'''XSive'''<br /><br />
excessive<br />
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'''cook-and-shoot'''<br /><br />
i.e. cooking and shooting up drugs<br />
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'''east of Atlantic City, NJ'''<br /><br />
which would be either in Europe on the Atlantic Ocean somewhere -- or nowhere<br />
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'''Borderline'''<br /><br />
suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_Personality_Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder]<br />
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'''organic-coke'''<br /><br />
an oxymoronic term, since cocaine is a chemical<br />
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'''Charlestown'''<br /><br />
a suburb to the north of Boston, right over the Charles River<br />
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'''100 grams'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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'''D.E.A.'''<br /><br />
Drug Enforcement Agency<br />
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'''MP'''<br /><br />
Military Police<br />
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'''Cesar Romero'''<br /><br />
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].<br />
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[[Image:Easter.jpg|thumb|caption|Easter Island statues|right|125px]]<br />
'''Easter Island statue'''<br /><br />
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] <br />
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[[Image:Prince.jpg|thumb|caption|Prince Valiant|right|125px]]<br />
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'''Prince Valiantish haircut'''<br /><br />
''Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur'', or simply ''Prince Valiant'', is a comic strip created by Hal Foster, which began running in 1937. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Valiant Wikipedia]] Prince Valiant's haircut was your basic "bowl" cut, as seen at right.<br />
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'''pince-nez'''<br /><br />
From the French for "pinch-nose," these are glasses without temples to go over the ears.<br />
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'''2F and 1M'''<br /><br />
2 females and 1 male<br />
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'''suppurating'''<br /><br />
oozing pus<br />
<br />
'''Grand Mall epilepsy'''<br /><br />
Gately means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_mal grand mal].<br />
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'''(4)'''<br /><br />
Notice that after listing points (a), (b), and (c) about clichés, Gately moves on to (4) rather than (d).<br />
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'''dun'''<br /><br />
grayish-brown<br />
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'''Spiro Agnew'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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'''"...bearing their shields rather than upon them..."'''<br /><br />
The reference is from ''Quotes from Spartan Women'' by Mestrius Plutarchus (Plutarch; AD 45-120), the Greek historian. One translation (from ''On Sparta'' translated by Richard Talbert) cites the source as follows: "Another woman, handing over the shield to her son as he was going off on campaign said: 'Your father always used to keep this safe for you. So you must either keep it safe too, or cease to exist" (p. 187).<br />
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'''distaffs'''<br /><br />
women's groups<br />
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'''dubs'''<br /><br />
doubles<br />
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'''V.D.'''<br /><br />
alternately this could stand for Venereal Disease<br />
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''nystagmic'''<br /><br />
suffering from involuntary eye movement<br />
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'''Stockhausen'''<br /><br />
German for "stick houses"; 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]<br />
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'''E. A. Abbott'''<br /><br />
Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926) was a British author and theologians 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.<br />
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'''Disciplinary Lit.'''<br /><br />
a joke on the more common "interdisciplinary" academic classes<br />
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'''Goncharov's ''Oblomov'''''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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'''listing to port'''<br /><br />
a nautical term meaning "leaning leftward"<br />
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'''feeling punk'''<br /><br />
Defined as "weak in spirits or health" in the ''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.''<br />
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'''tincture of benzoin'''<br /><br />
A tincture is a mixture of a drug dissolved in alcohol. Benzoin is a balsamic resin used as an antiseptic and expectorant.<br />
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'''Xing'''<br /><br />
presumably a synonym for copulating with someone<br />
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==Endnote 92==<br />
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'''Perth Amboy NJ'''<br /><br />
a town in northern NJ, about 30 miles southwest of New York<br />
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'''Pierre Trudeau'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''halogen'''<br /><br />
Halogens are the following elements -- fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine -- some of which are used in high-powered lamps<br />
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'''the color of sour apples'''<br /><br />
i.e., light green<br />
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'''2^27'''<br /><br />
2^27 (2 to the 27th power) = 134,217,728<br />
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'''Montcerf, Québec'''<br /><br />
a city of Québec about 82.5 miles due north of Ottawa<br />
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'''Mercier Dam'''<br /><br />
You can read more about it [http://www.hydroquebec.com/generation/projets/pop/pop_mercier.html here].<br />
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'''Pompano Beach'''<br /><br />
a town in Florida about 10 miles north of Fort Lauderdale<br />
<br />
'''a sepulchral Czech kid named Lendl'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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==Page 260==<br />
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'''Kimberly-Clark'''<br /><br />
an American [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly-Clark corporation] based in Wisconsin<br />
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'''"His Unforced-Error stats look like a decimal-error."'''<br /><br />
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<br />
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==Endnote 86==<br />
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==Page 260 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''revenant'''<br /><br />
a person who returns<br />
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'''transom'''<br /><br />
a window above a door<br />
<br />
'''thespio-historical'''<br /><br />
regarding the history of acting<br />
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'''"...had the word ''Homo'' in the title..."'''<br /><br />
The film is James O. Incandenza's ''Homo Duplex''.<br />
<br />
'''quad-function'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_function quadratic function], which produces a parabolic graph result<br />
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==Page 261==<br />
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'''pirouette'''<br /><br />
a spin, in ballet terminology<br />
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==Page 262==<br />
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[[Image:I-beam.jpg|thumb|caption|I-beam|right|120px]]<br />
<br />
'''I-beams'''<br /><br />
standard construction beams made of metal (see right)<br />
<br />
'''hypertonic'''<br /><br />
having rigid, tense muscles<br />
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'''undead'''<br /><br />
the state of several unnatural beings (vampires, mummies, zombies, etc.), which is in a state neither live nor dead<br />
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'''kibitzing'''<br /><br />
chatting or conversing<br />
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'''whippet'''<br /><br />
a one-inhalation dose of nitrous oxide (laughing gas)<br />
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==Page 265==<br />
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[[Image:YinYang.png|thumb|caption|Yin/Yang symbol|right|120px]]<br />
'''Taoist paraboloid logo'''<br /><br />
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]]<br />
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'''ten m.'''<br /><br />
32.8 feet<br />
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'''VAPS'''<br/><br />
an air traffic control acronym for visual approaches.<br />
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'''effete'''<br /><br />
degenerate or decadent<br />
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'''Sinn Fein'''<br /><br />
Irish for "ourselves alone," this is the political wing of the Irish Republican Army.<br />
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'''cruciform'''<br /><br />
in the form of a cross<br />
<br />
'''cuffs'''<br /><br />
rotator cuffs<br />
<br />
'''polybutylene'''<br /><br />
This is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybutylene polymerized butlyene].<br />
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'''neurasthenic'''<br /><br />
regarding a syndrome of anxiety, fatigue, pain, etc., caused by exhaustion of the central nervous system<br />
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'''Preludin'''<br /><br />
brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preludin phenmetrazine]<br />
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'''Inv.'''<br /><br />
Invitational<br />
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'''40º C'''<br /><br />
104 degrees Fahrenheit<br />
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==Page 268==<br />
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'''pregnable'''<br /><br />
open to attack; capable of being won by force<br />
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'''nacelle'''<br /><br />
the car of a balloon or blimp<br />
<br />
'''corrugated'''<br /><br />
bent into folds<br />
<br />
'''leaf-cutter-ant'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/learning/animals/invertebrates/ant North American ant]<br />
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'''Gore-Tex'''<br /><br />
[http://www.gore-tex.com/remote/Satellite/content/what-is-gore-tex brand name] of material<br />
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'''AC'''<br /><br />
Alternating Current<br />
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'''low-lipid'''<br /><br />
i.e., low-fat<br />
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==Endnote 89==<br />
<br />
'''reductive statistics'''<br /><br />
Wallace is talking either about the process in statistics of reducing variables or Schtitt's use of statistics being reductive, i.e., being simplistic<br />
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==Page 269 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''equanimity'''<br /><br />
mental or emotional stability<br />
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'''laissez-faire'''<br /><br />
French for "to let to do," this is a term usually applied to conservative economics but here generally gives a sense of not caring very much.<br />
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'''erumpent'''<br /><br />
bursting forth<br />
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'''Boards'''<br /><br />
college entrance examinations<br />
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'''ad'''<br /><br />
a tennis term meaning "advantage" for one or the other player<br />
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<span class="marker">270 · Day and Gately</span><br />
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'''Montesian'''<br /><br />
also the name of a [http://oh.lake-link.com/lakes/lake.cfm?LakeID=1515&RegionID=749 lake] in Wisconsin<br />
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'''Lenz'''<br /><br />
German for "springtime"<br />
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'''Goodwill'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.goodwill.org/page/guest/about charity] that redistributes donated goods and clothing<br />
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==Page 271==<br />
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'''non sequiturs'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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'''butter wouldn't melt'''<br /><br />
which is to say, with a certain, probably faked, coolness<br />
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'''macramé'''<br /><br />
a type of fabric-making done by knotting rather than knitting<br />
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'''Paul Harvey'''<br /><br />
Born Paul Harvey Aurandt, Paul Harvey (born 1918) is an American radio broadcaster known for his platitudes.<br />
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==Page 272==<br />
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'''nictitated'''<br /><br />
winking<br />
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'''Quaalude'''<br /><br />
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methaqualone methaqualone]<br />
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'''Malden'''<br /><br />
a northern suburb of Boston, about 7 miles north of the city<br />
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'''egregulous'''<br /><br />
not a real word (possibly egregious + ridiculous)<br />
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==Endnote 90==<br />
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'''ephebe'''<br /><br />
a young man between the ages of 18 and 20<br />
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'''redolent'''<br /><br />
smelling badly<br />
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'''main'''<br /><br />
here meaning "physical strength"<br />
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'''interdicted'''<br /><br />
prohibited<br />
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'''sally'''<br /><br />
a clever remark<br />
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'''mild sedatives'''<br /><br />
Quaaludes are more like a sledgehammer to the head than a "mild sedative."<br />
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'''reductia ad absurdum'''<br /><br />
a misstatement or misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum reductio ad absurdum]<br />
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'''"Simply open wide for the spoon."'''<br /><br />
This is perhaps a reference to a line from William S. Burroughs's ''Naked Lunch'', regarding the time when one realizes "what is at the end of that long newspaper spoon."<br />
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'''"...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?"'''<br /><br />
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).<br />
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'''lapped'''<br /><br />
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<br />
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'''iona'''<br /><br />
Iona is an island off the west coast of Scotland. Gately means iota.<br />
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'''bunko artists'''<br /><br />
con artists<br />
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'''jonesing'''<br /><br />
an addict term for the desire for one's substance of choice<br />
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'''mokus'''<br /><br />
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."<br />
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'''Guy That Didn't Even Use His First Name'''<br /><br />
a joke based on the fact that in recovery programs like AA, people do not use their last names<br />
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'''Spont-Dissem'''<br /><br />
Spontaneous Dissemination, i.e., live as opposed to pre-recorded<br />
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'''R.C.'''<br /><br />
presumably Roman Catholic<br />
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==Endnote 91==<br />
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'''''f''-term'''<br /><br />
i.e., "fag"<br />
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'''Morris Code'''<br /><br />
a misstatement of Morse Code<br />
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'''XSive'''<br /><br />
excessive<br />
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'''cook-and-shoot'''<br /><br />
i.e. cooking and shooting up drugs<br />
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'''east of Atlantic City, NJ'''<br /><br />
which would be either in Europe on the Atlantic Ocean somewhere -- or nowhere<br />
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'''Borderline'''<br /><br />
suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_Personality_Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder]<br />
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'''organic-coke'''<br /><br />
an oxymoronic term, since cocaine is a chemical<br />
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'''Charlestown'''<br /><br />
a suburb to the north of Boston, right over the Charles River<br />
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'''100 grams'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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'''D.E.A.'''<br /><br />
Drug Enforcement Agency<br />
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'''MP'''<br /><br />
Military Police<br />
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'''Cesar Romero'''<br /><br />
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].<br />
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[[Image:Easter.jpg|thumb|caption|Easter Island statues|right|125px]]<br />
'''Easter Island statue'''<br /><br />
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] <br />
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[[Image:Prince.jpg|thumb|caption|Prince Valiant|right|125px]]<br />
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'''Prince Valiantish haircut'''<br /><br />
''Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur'', or simply ''Prince Valiant'', is a comic strip created by Hal Foster, which began running in 1937. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Valiant Wikipedia]] Prince Valiant's haircut was your basic "bowl" cut, as seen at right.<br />
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'''pince-nez'''<br /><br />
From the French for "pinch-nose," these are glasses without temples to go over the ears.<br />
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'''2F and 1M'''<br /><br />
2 females and 1 male<br />
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'''suppurating'''<br /><br />
oozing pus<br />
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'''Grand Mall epilepsy'''<br /><br />
Gately means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_mal grand mal].<br />
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'''(4)'''<br /><br />
Notice that after listing points (a), (b), and (c) about clichés, Gately moves on to (4) rather than (d).<br />
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'''dun'''<br /><br />
grayish-brown<br />
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'''Spiro Agnew'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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'''"...bearing their shields rather than upon them..."'''<br /><br />
The reference is from ''Quotes from Spartan Women'' by Mestrius Plutarchus (Plutarch; AD 45-120), the Greek historian. One translation (from ''On Sparta'' translated by Richard Talbert) cites the source as follows: "Another woman, handing over the shield to her son as he was going off on campaign said: 'Your father always used to keep this safe for you. So you must either keep it safe too, or cease to exist" (p. 187).<br />
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'''distaffs'''<br /><br />
women's groups<br />
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'''dubs'''<br /><br />
doubles<br />
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'''V.D.'''<br /><br />
alternately this could stand for Venereal Disease<br />
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''nystagmic'''<br /><br />
suffering from involuntary eye movement<br />
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'''Stockhausen'''<br /><br />
German for "stick houses"; 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]<br />
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'''E. A. Abbott'''<br /><br />
Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926) was a British author and theologians 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.<br />
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'''Disciplinary Lit.'''<br /><br />
a joke on the more common "interdisciplinary" academic classes<br />
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'''Goncharov's ''Oblomov'''''<br /><br />
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].<br />
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'''listing to port'''<br /><br />
a nautical term meaning "leaning leftward"<br />
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'''feeling punk'''<br /><br />
Defined as "weak in spirits or health" in the ''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.''<br />
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'''tincture of benzoin'''<br /><br />
A tincture is a mixture of a drug dissolved in alcohol. Benzoin is a balsamic resin used as an antiseptic and expectorant.<br />
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'''Xing'''<br /><br />
presumably a synonym for copulating with someone<br />
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==Endnote 92==<br />
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'''Perth Amboy NJ'''<br /><br />
a town in northern NJ, about 30 miles southwest of New York<br />
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'''Pierre Trudeau'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''halogen'''<br /><br />
Halogens are the following elements -- fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine -- some of which are used in high-powered lamps<br />
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'''the color of sour apples'''<br /><br />
i.e., light green<br />
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'''2^27'''<br /><br />
2^27 (2 to the 27th power) = 134,217,728<br />
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'''Montcerf, Québec'''<br /><br />
a city of Québec about 82.5 miles due north of Ottawa<br />
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'''Mercier Dam'''<br /><br />
You can read more about it [http://www.hydroquebec.com/generation/projets/pop/pop_mercier.html here].<br />
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'''Pompano Beach'''<br /><br />
a town in Florida about 10 miles north of Fort Lauderdale<br />
<br />
'''a sepulchral Czech kid named Lendl'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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'''Kimberly-Clark'''<br /><br />
an American [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly-Clark corporation] based in Wisconsin<br />
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'''"His Unforced-Error stats look like a decimal-error."'''<br /><br />
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<br />
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==Endnote 86==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.Q.M.D.]]<br />
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==Page 260 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''revenant'''<br /><br />
a person who returns<br />
<br />
'''transom'''<br /><br />
a window above a door<br />
<br />
'''thespio-historical'''<br /><br />
regarding the history of acting<br />
<br />
'''"...had the word ''Homo'' in the title..."'''<br /><br />
The film is James O. Incandenza's ''Homo Duplex''.<br />
<br />
'''quad-function'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_function quadratic function], which produces a parabolic graph result<br />
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==Page 261==<br />
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'''pirouette'''<br /><br />
a spin, in ballet terminology<br />
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==Page 262==<br />
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[[Image:I-beam.jpg|thumb|caption|I-beam|right|120px]]<br />
<br />
'''I-beams'''<br /><br />
standard construction beams made of metal (see right)<br />
<br />
'''hypertonic'''<br /><br />
having rigid, tense muscles<br />
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'''undead'''<br /><br />
the state of several unnatural beings (vampires, mummies, zombies, etc.), which is in a state neither live nor dead<br />
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'''kibitzing'''<br /><br />
chatting or conversing<br />
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'''whippet'''<br /><br />
a one-inhalation dose of nitrous oxide (laughing gas)<br />
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[[Image:YinYang.png|thumb|caption|Yin/Yang symbol|right|120px]]<br />
'''Taoist paraboloid logo'''<br /><br />
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]]<br />
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'''ten m.'''<br /><br />
32.8 feet<br />
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'''VAPS'''<br/><br />
an air traffic control acronym for visual approaches.<br />
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'''effete'''<br /><br />
degenerate or decadent<br />
<br />
'''Sinn Fein'''<br /><br />
Irish for "ourselves alone," this is the political wing of the Irish Republican Army.<br />
<br />
'''cruciform'''<br /><br />
in the form of a cross<br />
<br />
'''cuffs'''<br /><br />
rotator cuffs<br />
<br />
'''polybutylene'''<br /><br />
This is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybutylene polymerized butlyene].<br />
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==Page 267==<br />
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'''neurasthenic'''<br /><br />
regarding a syndrome of anxiety, fatigue, pain, etc., caused by exhaustion of the central nervous system<br />
<br />
'''Preludin'''<br /><br />
brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preludin phenmetrazine]<br />
<br />
'''Inv.'''<br /><br />
Invitational<br />
<br />
'''40º C'''<br /><br />
104 degrees Fahrenheit<br />
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'''pregnable'''<br /><br />
open to attack; capable of being won by force<br />
<br />
'''nacelle'''<br /><br />
the car of a balloon or blimp<br />
<br />
'''corrugated'''<br /><br />
bent into folds<br />
<br />
'''leaf-cutter-ant'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/learning/animals/invertebrates/ant North American ant]<br />
<br />
'''Gore-Tex'''<br /><br />
[http://www.gore-tex.com/remote/Satellite/content/what-is-gore-tex brand name] of material<br />
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'''AC'''<br /><br />
Alternating Current<br />
<br />
'''low-lipid'''<br /><br />
i.e., low-fat<br />
<br />
==Endnote 89==<br />
<br />
'''reductive statistics'''<br /><br />
Wallace is talking either about the process in statistics of reducing variables or Schtitt's use of statistics being reductive, i.e., being simplistic<br />
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==Page 269 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''equanimity'''<br /><br />
mental or emotional stability<br />
<br />
'''laissez-faire'''<br /><br />
French for "to let to do," this is a term usually applied to conservative economics but here generally gives a sense of not caring very much.<br />
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<br />
'''erumpent'''<br /><br />
bursting forth<br />
<br />
'''Boards'''<br /><br />
college entrance examinations<br />
<br />
'''ad'''<br /><br />
a tennis term meaning "advantage" for one or the other player<br />
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'''Montesian'''<br /><br />
also the name of a [http://oh.lake-link.com/lakes/lake.cfm?LakeID=1515&RegionID=749 lake] in Wisconsin<br />
<br />
'''Lenz'''<br /><br />
German for "springtime"<br />
<br />
'''Goodwill'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.goodwill.org/page/guest/about charity] that redistributes donated goods and clothing<br />
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'''non sequiturs'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
<br />
'''butter wouldn't melt'''<br /><br />
which is to say, with a certain, probably faked, coolness<br />
<br />
'''macramé'''<br /><br />
a type of fabric-making done by knotting rather than knitting<br />
<br />
'''Paul Harvey'''<br /><br />
Born Paul Harvey Aurandt, Paul Harvey (born 1918) is an American radio broadcaster known for his platitudes.<br />
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==Page 272==<br />
<br />
'''nictitated'''<br /><br />
winking<br />
<br />
'''Quaalude'''<br /><br />
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methaqualone methaqualone]<br />
<br />
'''Malden'''<br /><br />
a northern suburb of Boston, about 7 miles north of the city<br />
<br />
'''egregulous'''<br /><br />
not a real word (possibly egregious + ridiculous)<br />
<br />
==Endnote 90==<br />
<br />
'''ephebe'''<br /><br />
a young man between the ages of 18 and 20<br />
<br />
'''redolent'''<br /><br />
smelling badly<br />
<br />
'''main'''<br /><br />
here meaning "physical strength"<br />
<br />
'''interdicted'''<br /><br />
prohibited<br />
<br />
'''sally'''<br /><br />
a clever remark<br />
<br />
'''mild sedatives'''<br /><br />
Quaaludes are more like a sledgehammer to the head than a "mild sedative."<br />
<br />
'''reductia ad absurdum'''<br /><br />
a misstatement or misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum reductio ad absurdum]<br />
<br />
'''"Simply open wide for the spoon."'''<br /><br />
This is perhaps a reference to a line from William S. Burroughs's ''Naked Lunch'', regarding the time when one realizes "what is at the end of that long newspaper spoon."<br />
<br />
'''"...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?"'''<br /><br />
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).<br />
<br />
'''lapped'''<br /><br />
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<br />
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'''iona'''<br /><br />
Iona is an island off the west coast of Scotland. Gately means iota.<br />
<br />
'''bunko artists'''<br /><br />
con artists<br />
<br />
'''jonesing'''<br /><br />
an addict term for the desire for one's substance of choice<br />
<br />
'''mokus'''<br /><br />
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."<br />
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'''Guy That Didn't Even Use His First Name'''<br /><br />
a joke based on the fact that in recovery programs like AA, people do not use their last names<br />
<br />
'''Spont-Dissem'''<br /><br />
Spontaneous Dissemination, i.e., live as opposed to pre-recorded<br />
<br />
'''R.C.'''<br /><br />
presumably Roman Catholic<br />
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==Endnote 91==<br />
<br />
'''''f''-term'''<br /><br />
i.e., "fag"<br />
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<br />
'''Morris Code'''<br /><br />
a misstatement of Morse Code<br />
<br />
'''XSive'''<br /><br />
excessive<br />
<br />
'''cook-and-shoot'''<br /><br />
i.e. cooking and shooting up drugs<br />
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'''east of Atlantic City, NJ'''<br /><br />
which would be either in Europe on the Atlantic Ocean somewhere -- or nowhere<br />
<br />
'''Borderline'''<br /><br />
suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_Personality_Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder]<br />
<br />
'''organic-coke'''<br /><br />
an oxymoronic term, since cocaine is a chemical<br />
<br />
'''Charlestown'''<br /><br />
a suburb to the north of Boston, right over the Charles River<br />
<br />
'''100 grams'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
<br />
'''D.E.A.'''<br /><br />
Drug Enforcement Agency<br />
<br />
'''MP'''<br /><br />
Military Police<br />
<br />
'''Cesar Romero'''<br /><br />
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].<br />
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[[Image:Easter.jpg|thumb|caption|Easter Island statues|right|125px]]<br />
'''Easter Island statue'''<br /><br />
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] <br />
<br />
[[Image:Prince.jpg|thumb|caption|Prince Valiant|right|125px]]<br />
<br />
'''Prince Valiantish haircut'''<br /><br />
''Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur'', or simply ''Prince Valiant'', is a comic strip created by Hal Foster, which began running in 1937. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Valiant Wikipedia]] Prince Valiant's haircut was your basic "bowl" cut, as seen at right.<br />
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'''pince-nez'''<br /><br />
From the French for "pinch-nose," these are glasses without temples to go over the ears.<br />
<br />
'''2F and 1M'''<br /><br />
2 females and 1 male<br />
<br />
'''suppurating'''<br /><br />
oozing pus<br />
<br />
'''Grand Mall epilepsy'''<br /><br />
Gately means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_mal grand mal].<br />
<br />
'''(4)'''<br /><br />
Notice that after listing points (a), (b), and (c) about clichés, Gately moves on to (4) rather than (d).<br />
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'''dun'''<br /><br />
grayish-brown<br />
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==Page 280==<br />
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'''Spiro Agnew'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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'''"...bearing their shields rather than upon them..."'''<br /><br />
The reference is from ''Quotes from Spartan Women'' by Mestrius Plutarchus (Plutarch; AD 45-120), the Greek historian. One translation (from ''On Sparta'' translated by Richard Talbert) cites the source as follows: "Another woman, handing over the shield to her son as he was going off on campaign said: 'Your father always used to keep this safe for you. So you must either keep it safe too, or cease to exist" (p. 187).<br />
<br />
'''distaffs'''<br /><br />
women's groups<br />
<br />
'''dubs'''<br /><br />
doubles<br />
<br />
'''V.D.'''<br /><br />
alternately this could stand for Venereal Disease<br />
<br />
''nystagmic'''<br /><br />
suffering from involuntary eye movement<br />
<br />
'''Stockhausen'''<br /><br />
German for "stick houses"; 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]<br />
<br />
'''E. A. Abbott'''<br /><br />
Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926) was a British author and theologians 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].<br />
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==Page 282==<br />
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'''Disciplinary Lit.'''<br /><br />
a joke on the more common "interdisciplinary" academic classes<br />
<br />
'''Goncharov's ''Oblomov'''''<br /><br />
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].<br />
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'''listing to port'''<br /><br />
a nautical term meaning "leaning leftward"<br />
<br />
'''feeling punk'''<br /><br />
Defined as "weak in spirits or health" in the ''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.''<br />
<br />
'''tincture of benzoin'''<br /><br />
A tincture is a mixture of a drug dissolved in alcohol. Benzoin is a balsamic resin used as an antiseptic and expectorant.<br />
<br />
'''Xing'''<br /><br />
presumably a synonym for copulating with someone<br />
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==Endnote 92==<br />
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'''Perth Amboy NJ'''<br /><br />
a town in northern NJ, about 30 miles southwest of New York<br />
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'''Pierre Trudeau'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''halogen'''<br /><br />
Halogens are the following elements -- fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine -- some of which are used in high-powered lamps<br />
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'''the color of sour apples'''<br /><br />
i.e., light green<br />
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==Page 259==<br />
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'''2^27'''<br /><br />
2^27 (2 to the 27th power) = 134,217,728<br />
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'''Montcerf, Québec'''<br /><br />
a city of Québec about 82.5 miles due north of Ottawa<br />
<br />
'''Mercier Dam'''<br /><br />
You can read more about it [http://www.hydroquebec.com/generation/projets/pop/pop_mercier.html here].<br />
<br />
'''Pompano Beach'''<br /><br />
a town in Florida about 10 miles north of Fort Lauderdale<br />
<br />
'''a sepulchral Czech kid named Lendl'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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==Page 260==<br />
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'''Kimberly-Clark'''<br /><br />
an American [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly-Clark corporation] based in Wisconsin<br />
<br />
'''"His Unforced-Error stats look like a decimal-error."'''<br /><br />
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<br />
<br />
==Endnote 86==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.Q.M.D.]]<br />
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==Page 260 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''revenant'''<br /><br />
a person who returns<br />
<br />
'''transom'''<br /><br />
a window above a door<br />
<br />
'''thespio-historical'''<br /><br />
regarding the history of acting<br />
<br />
'''"...had the word ''Homo'' in the title..."'''<br /><br />
The film is James O. Incandenza's ''Homo Duplex''.<br />
<br />
'''quad-function'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_function quadratic function], which produces a parabolic graph result<br />
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==Page 261==<br />
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'''pirouette'''<br /><br />
a spin, in ballet terminology<br />
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==Page 262==<br />
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[[Image:I-beam.jpg|thumb|caption|I-beam|right|120px]]<br />
<br />
'''I-beams'''<br /><br />
standard construction beams made of metal (see right)<br />
<br />
'''hypertonic'''<br /><br />
having rigid, tense muscles<br />
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==Page 263==<br />
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'''undead'''<br /><br />
the state of several unnatural beings (vampires, mummies, zombies, etc.), which is in a state neither live nor dead<br />
<br />
'''kibitzing'''<br /><br />
chatting or conversing<br />
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==Page 264==<br />
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'''whippet'''<br /><br />
a one-inhalation dose of nitrous oxide (laughing gas)<br />
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==Page 265==<br />
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[[Image:YinYang.png|thumb|caption|Yin/Yang symbol|right|120px]]<br />
'''Taoist paraboloid logo'''<br /><br />
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]]<br />
<br />
'''ten m.'''<br /><br />
32.8 feet<br />
<br />
'''VAPS'''<br/><br />
an air traffic control acronym for visual approaches.<br />
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'''effete'''<br /><br />
degenerate or decadent<br />
<br />
'''Sinn Fein'''<br /><br />
Irish for "ourselves alone," this is the political wing of the Irish Republican Army.<br />
<br />
'''cruciform'''<br /><br />
in the form of a cross<br />
<br />
'''cuffs'''<br /><br />
rotator cuffs<br />
<br />
'''polybutylene'''<br /><br />
This is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybutylene polymerized butlyene].<br />
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'''neurasthenic'''<br /><br />
regarding a syndrome of anxiety, fatigue, pain, etc., caused by exhaustion of the central nervous system<br />
<br />
'''Preludin'''<br /><br />
brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preludin phenmetrazine]<br />
<br />
'''Inv.'''<br /><br />
Invitational<br />
<br />
'''40º C'''<br /><br />
104 degrees Fahrenheit<br />
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==Page 268==<br />
<br />
'''pregnable'''<br /><br />
open to attack; capable of being won by force<br />
<br />
'''nacelle'''<br /><br />
the car of a balloon or blimp<br />
<br />
'''corrugated'''<br /><br />
bent into folds<br />
<br />
'''leaf-cutter-ant'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/learning/animals/invertebrates/ant North American ant]<br />
<br />
'''Gore-Tex'''<br /><br />
[http://www.gore-tex.com/remote/Satellite/content/what-is-gore-tex brand name] of material<br />
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'''AC'''<br /><br />
Alternating Current<br />
<br />
'''low-lipid'''<br /><br />
i.e., low-fat<br />
<br />
==Endnote 89==<br />
<br />
'''reductive statistics'''<br /><br />
Wallace is talking either about the process in statistics of reducing variables or Schtitt's use of statistics being reductive, i.e., being simplistic<br />
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==Page 269 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''equanimity'''<br /><br />
mental or emotional stability<br />
<br />
'''laissez-faire'''<br /><br />
French for "to let to do," this is a term usually applied to conservative economics but here generally gives a sense of not caring very much.<br />
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==Page 270==<br />
<br />
'''erumpent'''<br /><br />
bursting forth<br />
<br />
'''Boards'''<br /><br />
college entrance examinations<br />
<br />
'''ad'''<br /><br />
a tennis term meaning "advantage" for one or the other player<br />
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==Page 270==<br />
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'''Montesian'''<br /><br />
also the name of a [http://oh.lake-link.com/lakes/lake.cfm?LakeID=1515&RegionID=749 lake] in Wisconsin<br />
<br />
'''Lenz'''<br /><br />
German for "springtime"<br />
<br />
'''Goodwill'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.goodwill.org/page/guest/about charity] that redistributes donated goods and clothing<br />
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'''non sequiturs'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
<br />
'''butter wouldn't melt'''<br /><br />
which is to say, with a certain, probably faked, coolness<br />
<br />
'''macramé'''<br /><br />
a type of fabric-making done by knotting rather than knitting<br />
<br />
'''Paul Harvey'''<br /><br />
Born Paul Harvey Aurandt, Paul Harvey (born 1918) is an American radio broadcaster known for his platitudes.<br />
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'''nictitated'''<br /><br />
winking<br />
<br />
'''Quaalude'''<br /><br />
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methaqualone methaqualone]<br />
<br />
'''Malden'''<br /><br />
a northern suburb of Boston, about 7 miles north of the city<br />
<br />
'''egregulous'''<br /><br />
not a real word (possibly egregious + ridiculous)<br />
<br />
==Endnote 90==<br />
<br />
'''ephebe'''<br /><br />
a young man between the ages of 18 and 20<br />
<br />
'''redolent'''<br /><br />
smelling badly<br />
<br />
'''main'''<br /><br />
here meaning "physical strength"<br />
<br />
'''interdicted'''<br /><br />
prohibited<br />
<br />
'''sally'''<br /><br />
a clever remark<br />
<br />
'''mild sedatives'''<br /><br />
Quaaludes are more like a sledgehammer to the head than a "mild sedative."<br />
<br />
'''reductia ad absurdum'''<br /><br />
a misstatement or misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum reductio ad absurdum]<br />
<br />
'''"Simply open wide for the spoon."'''<br /><br />
This is perhaps a reference to a line from William S. Burroughs's ''Naked Lunch'', regarding the time when one realizes "what is at the end of that long newspaper spoon."<br />
<br />
'''"...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?"'''<br /><br />
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).<br />
<br />
'''lapped'''<br /><br />
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<br />
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'''iona'''<br /><br />
Iona is an island off the west coast of Scotland. Gately means iota.<br />
<br />
'''bunko artists'''<br /><br />
con artists<br />
<br />
'''jonesing'''<br /><br />
an addict term for the desire for one's substance of choice<br />
<br />
'''mokus'''<br /><br />
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."<br />
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'''Guy That Didn't Even Use His First Name'''<br /><br />
a joke based on the fact that in recovery programs like AA, people do not use their last names<br />
<br />
'''Spont-Dissem'''<br /><br />
Spontaneous Dissemination, i.e., live as opposed to pre-recorded<br />
<br />
'''R.C.'''<br /><br />
presumably Roman Catholic<br />
<br />
==Endnote 91==<br />
<br />
'''''f''-term'''<br /><br />
i.e., "fag"<br />
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==Page 275 ==<br />
<br />
'''Morris Code'''<br /><br />
a misstatement of Morse Code<br />
<br />
'''XSive'''<br /><br />
excessive<br />
<br />
'''cook-and-shoot'''<br /><br />
i.e. cooking and shooting up drugs<br />
<br />
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'''east of Atlantic City, NJ'''<br /><br />
which would be either in Europe on the Atlantic Ocean somewhere -- or nowhere<br />
<br />
'''Borderline'''<br /><br />
suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_Personality_Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder]<br />
<br />
'''organic-coke'''<br /><br />
an oxymoronic term, since cocaine is a chemical<br />
<br />
'''Charlestown'''<br /><br />
a suburb to the north of Boston, right over the Charles River<br />
<br />
'''100 grams'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
<br />
'''D.E.A.'''<br /><br />
Drug Enforcement Agency<br />
<br />
'''MP'''<br /><br />
Military Police<br />
<br />
'''Cesar Romero'''<br /><br />
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].<br />
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[[Image:Easter.jpg|thumb|caption|Easter Island statues|right|125px]]<br />
'''Easter Island statue'''<br /><br />
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] <br />
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[[Image:Prince.jpg|thumb|caption|Prince Valiant|right|125px]]<br />
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'''Prince Valiantish haircut'''<br /><br />
''Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur'', or simply ''Prince Valiant'', is a comic strip created by Hal Foster, which began running in 1937. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Valiant Wikipedia]] Prince Valiant's haircut was your basic "bowl" cut, as seen at right.<br />
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'''pince-nez'''<br /><br />
From the French for "pinch-nose," these are glasses without temples to go over the ears.<br />
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'''2F and 1M'''<br /><br />
2 females and 1 male<br />
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'''suppurating'''<br /><br />
oozing pus<br />
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'''Grand Mall epilepsy'''<br /><br />
Gately means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_mal grand mal].<br />
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'''(4)'''<br /><br />
Notice that after listing points (a), (b), and (c) about clichés, Gately moves on to (4) rather than (d).<br />
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'''dun'''<br /><br />
grayish-brown<br />
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'''Spiro Agnew'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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'''"...bearing their shields rather than upon them..."'''<br /><br />
The reference is from ''Quotes from Spartan Women'' by Mestrius Plutarchus (Plutarch; AD 45-120), the Greek historian. One translation (from ''On Sparta'' translated by Richard Talbert) cites the source as follows: "Another woman, handing over the shield to her son as he was going off on campaign said: 'Your father always used to keep this safe for you. So you must either keep it safe too, or cease to exist" (p. 187).<br />
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'''distaffs'''<br /><br />
women's groups<br />
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'''dubs'''<br /><br />
doubles<br />
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'''V.D.'''<br /><br />
alternately this could stand for Venereal Disease<br />
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'''Stockhausen'''<br /><br />
German for "stick houses"; 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]<br />
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'''E. A. Abbott'''<br /><br />
Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926) was a British author and theologians 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].<br />
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'''Disciplinary Lit.'''<br /><br />
a joke on the more common "interdisciplinary" academic classes<br />
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'''Goncharov's ''Oblomov'''''<br /><br />
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].<br />
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'''listing to port'''<br /><br />
a nautical term meaning "leaning leftward"<br />
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'''feeling punk'''<br /><br />
Defined as "weak in spirits or health" in the ''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.''<br />
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'''tincture of benzoin'''<br /><br />
A tincture is a mixture of a drug dissolved in alcohol. Benzoin is a balsamic resin used as an antiseptic and expectorant.<br />
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'''Xing'''<br /><br />
presumably a synonym for copulating with someone<br />
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'''Perth Amboy NJ'''<br /><br />
a town in northern NJ, about 30 miles southwest of New York<br />
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'''Pierre Trudeau'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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'''halogen'''<br /><br />
Halogens are the following elements -- fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine -- some of which are used in high-powered lamps<br />
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'''the color of sour apples'''<br /><br />
i.e., light green<br />
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'''2^27'''<br /><br />
2^27 (2 to the 27th power) = 134,217,728<br />
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'''Montcerf, Québec'''<br /><br />
a city of Québec about 82.5 miles due north of Ottawa<br />
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'''Mercier Dam'''<br /><br />
You can read more about it [http://www.hydroquebec.com/generation/projets/pop/pop_mercier.html here].<br />
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'''Pompano Beach'''<br /><br />
a town in Florida about 10 miles north of Fort Lauderdale<br />
<br />
'''a sepulchral Czech kid named Lendl'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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'''Kimberly-Clark'''<br /><br />
an American [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly-Clark corporation] based in Wisconsin<br />
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'''"His Unforced-Error stats look like a decimal-error."'''<br /><br />
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<br />
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'''revenant'''<br /><br />
a person who returns<br />
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'''transom'''<br /><br />
a window above a door<br />
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'''thespio-historical'''<br /><br />
regarding the history of acting<br />
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'''"...had the word ''Homo'' in the title..."'''<br /><br />
The film is James O. Incandenza's ''Homo Duplex''.<br />
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'''quad-function'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_function quadratic function], which produces a parabolic graph result<br />
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'''pirouette'''<br /><br />
a spin, in ballet terminology<br />
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[[Image:I-beam.jpg|thumb|caption|I-beam|right|120px]]<br />
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'''I-beams'''<br /><br />
standard construction beams made of metal (see right)<br />
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'''hypertonic'''<br /><br />
having rigid, tense muscles<br />
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'''undead'''<br /><br />
the state of several unnatural beings (vampires, mummies, zombies, etc.), which is in a state neither live nor dead<br />
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'''kibitzing'''<br /><br />
chatting or conversing<br />
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'''whippet'''<br /><br />
a one-inhalation dose of nitrous oxide (laughing gas)<br />
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[[Image:YinYang.png|thumb|caption|Yin/Yang symbol|right|120px]]<br />
'''Taoist paraboloid logo'''<br /><br />
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]]<br />
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'''ten m.'''<br /><br />
32.8 feet<br />
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'''VAPS'''<br/><br />
an air traffic control acronym for visual approaches.<br />
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'''effete'''<br /><br />
degenerate or decadent<br />
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'''Sinn Fein'''<br /><br />
Irish for "ourselves alone," this is the political wing of the Irish Republican Army.<br />
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'''cruciform'''<br /><br />
in the form of a cross<br />
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'''cuffs'''<br /><br />
rotator cuffs<br />
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'''polybutylene'''<br /><br />
This is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybutylene polymerized butlyene].<br />
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'''neurasthenic'''<br /><br />
regarding a syndrome of anxiety, fatigue, pain, etc., caused by exhaustion of the central nervous system<br />
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'''Preludin'''<br /><br />
brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preludin phenmetrazine]<br />
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'''Inv.'''<br /><br />
Invitational<br />
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'''40º C'''<br /><br />
104 degrees Fahrenheit<br />
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'''pregnable'''<br /><br />
open to attack; capable of being won by force<br />
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'''nacelle'''<br /><br />
the car of a balloon or blimp<br />
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'''corrugated'''<br /><br />
bent into folds<br />
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'''leaf-cutter-ant'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/learning/animals/invertebrates/ant North American ant]<br />
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'''Gore-Tex'''<br /><br />
[http://www.gore-tex.com/remote/Satellite/content/what-is-gore-tex brand name] of material<br />
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'''AC'''<br /><br />
Alternating Current<br />
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'''low-lipid'''<br /><br />
i.e., low-fat<br />
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==Endnote 89==<br />
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'''reductive statistics'''<br /><br />
Wallace is talking either about the process in statistics of reducing variables or Schtitt's use of statistics being reductive, i.e., being simplistic<br />
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'''equanimity'''<br /><br />
mental or emotional stability<br />
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'''laissez-faire'''<br /><br />
French for "to let to do," this is a term usually applied to conservative economics but here generally gives a sense of not caring very much.<br />
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'''erumpent'''<br /><br />
bursting forth<br />
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'''Boards'''<br /><br />
college entrance examinations<br />
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'''ad'''<br /><br />
a tennis term meaning "advantage" for one or the other player<br />
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'''Montesian'''<br /><br />
also the name of a [http://oh.lake-link.com/lakes/lake.cfm?LakeID=1515&RegionID=749 lake] in Wisconsin<br />
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'''Lenz'''<br /><br />
German for "springtime"<br />
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'''Goodwill'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.goodwill.org/page/guest/about charity] that redistributes donated goods and clothing<br />
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'''non sequiturs'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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'''butter wouldn't melt'''<br /><br />
which is to say, with a certain, probably faked, coolness<br />
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'''macramé'''<br /><br />
a type of fabric-making done by knotting rather than knitting<br />
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'''Paul Harvey'''<br /><br />
Born Paul Harvey Aurandt, Paul Harvey (born 1918) is an American radio broadcaster known for his platitudes.<br />
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'''nictitated'''<br /><br />
winking<br />
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'''Quaalude'''<br /><br />
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methaqualone methaqualone]<br />
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'''Malden'''<br /><br />
a northern suburb of Boston, about 7 miles north of the city<br />
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'''egregulous'''<br /><br />
not a real word (possibly egregious + ridiculous)<br />
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'''ephebe'''<br /><br />
a young man between the ages of 18 and 20<br />
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'''redolent'''<br /><br />
smelling badly<br />
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'''main'''<br /><br />
here meaning "physical strength"<br />
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'''interdicted'''<br /><br />
prohibited<br />
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'''sally'''<br /><br />
a clever remark<br />
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'''mild sedatives'''<br /><br />
Quaaludes are more like a sledgehammer to the head than a "mild sedative."<br />
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'''reductia ad absurdum'''<br /><br />
a misstatement or misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum reductio ad absurdum]<br />
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'''"Simply open wide for the spoon."'''<br /><br />
This is perhaps a reference to a line from William S. Burroughs's ''Naked Lunch'', regarding the time when one realizes "what is at the end of that long newspaper spoon."<br />
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'''"...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?"'''<br /><br />
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).<br />
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'''lapped'''<br /><br />
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<br />
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'''iona'''<br /><br />
Iona is an island off the west coast of Scotland. The narrator (Gately?) likely means "iota."<br />
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'''bunko artists'''<br /><br />
con artists<br />
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'''jonesing'''<br /><br />
an addict term for the desire for one's substance of choice<br />
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'''mokus'''<br /><br />
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."<br />
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'''Guy That Didn't Even Use His First Name'''<br /><br />
a joke based on the fact that in recovery programs like AA, people do not use their last names<br />
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'''Spont-Dissem'''<br /><br />
Spontaneous Dissemination, i.e., live as opposed to pre-recorded<br />
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'''R.C.'''<br /><br />
presumably Roman Catholic<br />
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'''''f''-term'''<br /><br />
i.e., "fag"<br />
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'''Morris Code'''<br /><br />
a misstatement of Morse Code<br />
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'''XSive'''<br /><br />
excessive<br />
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'''cook-and-shoot'''<br /><br />
i.e. cooking and shooting up drugs<br />
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'''east of Atlantic City, NJ'''<br /><br />
which would be either in Europe on the Atlantic Ocean somewhere -- or nowhere<br />
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'''Borderline'''<br /><br />
suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_Personality_Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder]<br />
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'''organic-coke'''<br /><br />
an oxymoronic term, since cocaine is a chemical<br />
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'''Charlestown'''<br /><br />
a suburb to the north of Boston, right over the Charles River<br />
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'''100 grams'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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'''D.E.A.'''<br /><br />
Drug Enforcement Agency<br />
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'''MP'''<br /><br />
Military Police<br />
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'''Cesar Romero'''<br /><br />
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].<br />
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'''Easter Island statue'''<br /><br />
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] <br />
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[[Image:Prince.jpg|thumb|caption|Prince Valiant|right|125px]]<br />
<br />
'''Prince Valiantish haircut'''<br /><br />
''Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur'', or simply ''Prince Valiant'', is a comic strip created by Hal Foster, which began running in 1937. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Valiant Wikipedia]] Prince Valiant's haircut was your basic "bowl" cut, as seen at right.<br />
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'''pince-nez'''<br /><br />
From the French for "pinch-nose," these are glasses without temples to go over the ears.<br />
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'''2F and 1M'''<br /><br />
2 females and 1 male<br />
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'''suppurating'''<br /><br />
oozing pus<br />
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'''Grand Mall epilepsy'''<br /><br />
Gately means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_mal grand mal].<br />
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'''(4)'''<br /><br />
Notice that after listing points (a), (b), and (c) about clichés, Gately moves on to (4) rather than (d).<br />
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'''dun'''<br /><br />
grayish-brown<br />
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'''Spiro Agnew'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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'''"...bearing their shields rather than upon them..."'''<br /><br />
The reference is from ''Quotes from Spartan Women'' by Mestrius Plutarchus (Plutarch; AD 45-120), the Greek historian. One translation (from ''On Sparta'' translated by Richard Talbert) cites the source as follows: "Another woman, handing over the shield to her son as he was going off on campaign said: 'Your father always used to keep this safe for you. So you must either keep it safe too, or cease to exist" (p. 187).<br />
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'''distaffs'''<br /><br />
women's groups<br />
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'''dubs'''<br /><br />
doubles<br />
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'''V.D.'''<br /><br />
alternately this could stand for Venereal Disease<br />
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'''Stockhausen'''<br /><br />
German for "stick houses"; 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]<br />
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'''E. A. Abbott'''<br /><br />
Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926) was a British author and theologians 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].<br />
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'''Disciplinary Lit.'''<br /><br />
a joke on the more common "interdisciplinary" academic classes<br />
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'''Goncharov's ''Oblomov'''''<br /><br />
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].<br />
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'''listing to port'''<br /><br />
a nautical term meaning "leaning leftward"<br />
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'''feeling punk'''<br /><br />
Defined as "weak in spirits or health" in the ''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.''<br />
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'''tincture of benzoin'''<br /><br />
A tincture is a mixture of a drug dissolved in alcohol. Benzoin is a balsamic resin used as an antiseptic and expectorant.<br />
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'''Xing'''<br /><br />
presumably a synonym for copulating with someone<br />
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'''Perth Amboy NJ'''<br /><br />
a town in northern NJ, about 30 miles southwest of New York<br />
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'''Pierre Trudeau'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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'''halogen'''<br /><br />
Halogens are the following elements -- fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine -- some of which are used in high-powered lamps<br />
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'''the color of sour apples'''<br /><br />
i.e., light green<br />
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'''2^27'''<br /><br />
2^27 (2 to the 27th power) = 134,217,728<br />
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'''Montcerf, Québec'''<br /><br />
a city of Québec about 82.5 miles due north of Ottawa<br />
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'''Mercier Dam'''<br /><br />
You can read more about it [http://www.hydroquebec.com/generation/projets/pop/pop_mercier.html here].<br />
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'''Pompano Beach'''<br /><br />
a town in Florida about 10 miles north of Fort Lauderdale<br />
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'''a sepulchral Czech kid named Lendl'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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'''Kimberly-Clark'''<br /><br />
an American [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly-Clark corporation] based in Wisconsin<br />
<br />
'''"His Unforced-Error stats look like a decimal-error."'''<br /><br />
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<br />
<br />
==Endnote 86==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.Q.M.D.]]<br />
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==Page 260 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''revenant'''<br /><br />
a person who returns<br />
<br />
'''transom'''<br /><br />
a window above a door<br />
<br />
'''thespio-historical'''<br /><br />
regarding the history of acting<br />
<br />
'''"...had the word ''Homo'' in the title..."'''<br /><br />
The film is James O. Incandenza's ''Homo Duplex''.<br />
<br />
'''quad-function'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_function quadratic function], which produces a parabolic graph result<br />
<br />
==Page 261==<br />
<br />
'''pirouette'''<br /><br />
a spin, in ballet terminology<br />
<br />
==Page 262==<br />
<br />
[[Image:I-beam.jpg|thumb|caption|I-beam|right|120px]]<br />
<br />
'''I-beams'''<br /><br />
standard construction beams made of metal (see right)<br />
<br />
'''hypertonic'''<br /><br />
having rigid, tense muscles<br />
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==Page 263==<br />
<br />
'''undead'''<br /><br />
the state of several unnatural beings (vampires, mummies, zombies, etc.), which is in a state neither live nor dead<br />
<br />
'''kibitzing'''<br /><br />
chatting or conversing<br />
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==Page 264==<br />
<br />
'''whippet'''<br /><br />
a one-inhalation dose of nitrous oxide (laughing gas)<br />
<br />
==Page 265==<br />
<br />
[[Image:YinYang.png|thumb|caption|Yin/Yang symbol|right|120px]]<br />
'''Taoist paraboloid logo'''<br /><br />
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]]<br />
<br />
'''ten m.'''<br /><br />
32.8 feet<br />
<br />
'''VAPS'''<br/><br />
an air traffic control acronym for visual approaches.<br />
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==Page 266==<br />
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'''effete'''<br /><br />
degenerate or decadent<br />
<br />
'''Sinn Fein'''<br /><br />
Irish for "ourselves alone," this is the political wing of the Irish Republican Army.<br />
<br />
'''cruciform'''<br /><br />
in the form of a cross<br />
<br />
'''cuffs'''<br /><br />
rotator cuffs<br />
<br />
'''polybutylene'''<br /><br />
This is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybutylene polymerized butlyene].<br />
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==Page 267==<br />
<br />
'''neurasthenic'''<br /><br />
regarding a syndrome of anxiety, fatigue, pain, etc., caused by exhaustion of the central nervous system<br />
<br />
'''Preludin'''<br /><br />
brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preludin phenmetrazine]<br />
<br />
'''Inv.'''<br /><br />
Invitational<br />
<br />
'''40º C'''<br /><br />
104 degrees Fahrenheit<br />
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==Page 268==<br />
<br />
'''pregnable'''<br /><br />
open to attack; capable of being won by force<br />
<br />
'''nacelle'''<br /><br />
the car of a balloon or blimp<br />
<br />
'''corrugated'''<br /><br />
bent into folds<br />
<br />
'''leaf-cutter-ant'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/learning/animals/invertebrates/ant North American ant]<br />
<br />
'''Gore-Tex'''<br /><br />
[http://www.gore-tex.com/remote/Satellite/content/what-is-gore-tex brand name] of material<br />
<br />
==Page 269==<br />
<br />
'''AC'''<br /><br />
Alternating Current<br />
<br />
'''low-lipid'''<br /><br />
i.e., low-fat<br />
<br />
==Endnote 89==<br />
<br />
'''reductive statistics'''<br /><br />
Wallace is talking either about the process in statistics of reducing variables or Schtitt's use of statistics being reductive, i.e., being simplistic<br />
<br />
==Page 269 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''equanimity'''<br /><br />
mental or emotional stability<br />
<br />
'''laissez-faire'''<br /><br />
French for "to let to do," this is a term usually applied to conservative economics but here generally gives a sense of not caring very much.<br />
<br />
==Page 270==<br />
<br />
'''erumpent'''<br /><br />
bursting forth<br />
<br />
'''Boards'''<br /><br />
college entrance examinations<br />
<br />
'''ad'''<br /><br />
a tennis term meaning "advantage" for one or the other player<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">270 · Day and Gately</span><br />
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==Page 270==<br />
<br />
'''Montesian'''<br /><br />
also the name of a [http://oh.lake-link.com/lakes/lake.cfm?LakeID=1515&RegionID=749 lake] in Wisconsin<br />
<br />
'''Lenz'''<br /><br />
German for "springtime"<br />
<br />
'''Goodwill'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.goodwill.org/page/guest/about charity] that redistributes donated goods and clothing<br />
<br />
==Page 271==<br />
<br />
'''non sequiturs'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
<br />
'''butter wouldn't melt'''<br /><br />
which is to say, with a certain, probably faked, coolness<br />
<br />
'''macramé'''<br /><br />
a type of fabric-making done by knotting rather than knitting<br />
<br />
'''Paul Harvey'''<br /><br />
Born Paul Harvey Aurandt, Paul Harvey (born 1918) is an American radio broadcaster known for his platitudes.<br />
<br />
==Page 272==<br />
<br />
'''nictitated'''<br /><br />
winking<br />
<br />
'''Quaalude'''<br /><br />
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methaqualone methaqualone]<br />
<br />
'''Malden'''<br /><br />
a northern suburb of Boston, about 7 miles north of the city<br />
<br />
'''egregulous'''<br /><br />
not a real word (possibly egregious + ridiculous)<br />
<br />
==Endnote 90==<br />
<br />
'''ephebe'''<br /><br />
a young man between the ages of 18 and 20<br />
<br />
'''redolent'''<br /><br />
smelling badly<br />
<br />
'''main'''<br /><br />
here meaning "physical strength"<br />
<br />
'''interdicted'''<br /><br />
prohibited<br />
<br />
'''sally'''<br /><br />
a clever remark<br />
<br />
'''mild sedatives'''<br /><br />
Quaaludes are more like a sledgehammer to the head than a "mild sedative."<br />
<br />
'''reductia ad absurdum'''<br /><br />
a misstatement or misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum reductio ad absurdum]<br />
<br />
'''"Simply open wide for the spoon."'''<br /><br />
This is perhaps a reference to a line from William S. Burroughs's ''Naked Lunch'', regarding the time when one realizes "what is at the end of that long newspaper spoon."<br />
<br />
'''"...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?"'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
<br />
'''lapped'''<br /><br />
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<br />
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'''iona'''<br /><br />
Iona is an island off the west coast of Scotland. The narrator (Gately?) likely means "iota."<br />
<br />
'''bunko artists'''<br /><br />
con artists<br />
<br />
'''jonesing'''<br /><br />
an addict term for the desire for one's substance of choice<br />
<br />
'''mokus'''<br /><br />
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."<br />
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==Page 274==<br />
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'''Guy That Didn't Even Use His First Name'''<br /><br />
a joke based on the fact that in recovery programs like AA, people do not use their last names<br />
<br />
'''Spont-Dissem'''<br /><br />
Spontaneous Dissemination, i.e., live as opposed to pre-recorded<br />
<br />
'''R.C.'''<br /><br />
presumably Roman Catholic<br />
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==Endnote 91==<br />
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'''''f''-term'''<br /><br />
i.e., "fag"<br />
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==Page 275 ==<br />
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'''Morris Code'''<br /><br />
a misstatement of Morse Code<br />
<br />
'''XSive'''<br /><br />
excessive<br />
<br />
'''cook-and-shoot'''<br /><br />
i.e. cooking and shooting up drugs<br />
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'''east of Atlantic City, NJ'''<br /><br />
which would be either in Europe on the Atlantic Ocean somewhere -- or nowhere<br />
<br />
'''Borderline'''<br /><br />
suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_Personality_Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder]<br />
<br />
'''organic-coke'''<br /><br />
an oxymoronic term, since cocaine is a chemical<br />
<br />
'''Charlestown'''<br /><br />
a suburb to the north of Boston, right over the Charles River<br />
<br />
'''100 grams'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
<br />
'''D.E.A.'''<br /><br />
Drug Enforcement Agency<br />
<br />
'''MP'''<br /><br />
Military Police<br />
<br />
'''Cesar Romero'''<br /><br />
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].<br />
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==Page 277==<br />
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[[Image:Easter.jpg|thumb|caption|Easter Island statues|right|125px]]<br />
'''Easter Island statue'''<br /><br />
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] <br />
<br />
[[Image:Prince.jpg|thumb|caption|Prince Valiant|right|125px]]<br />
<br />
'''Prince Valiantish haircut'''<br /><br />
''Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur'', or simply ''Prince Valiant'', is a comic strip created by Hal Foster, which began running in 1937. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Valiant Wikipedia]] Prince Valiant's haircut was your basic "bowl" cut, as seen at right.<br />
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==Page 278==<br />
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'''pince-nez'''<br /><br />
From the French for "pinch-nose," these are glasses without temples to go over the ears.<br />
<br />
'''2F and 1M'''<br /><br />
2 females and 1 male<br />
<br />
'''suppurating'''<br /><br />
oozing pus<br />
<br />
'''Grand Mall epilepsy'''<br /><br />
Gately means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_mal grand mal].<br />
<br />
'''(4)'''<br /><br />
Notice that after listing points (a), (b), and (c) about clichés, Gately moves on to (4) rather than (d).<br />
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==Page 279==<br />
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'''dun'''<br /><br />
grayish-brown<br />
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==Page 280==<br />
<br />
'''Spiro Agnew'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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==Page 281==<br />
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<span class="marker">281 · Home from Port Washington</span><br />
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'''"...bearing their shields rather than upon them..."'''<br /><br />
The reference is from ''Quotes from Spartan Women'' by Mestrius Plutarchus (Plutarch; AD 45-120), the Greek historian. One translation (from ''On Sparta'' translated by Richard Talbert) cites the source as follows: "Another woman, handing over the shield to her son as he was going off on campaign said: 'Your father always used to keep this safe for you. So you must either keep it safe too, or cease to exist" (p. 187).<br />
<br />
'''distaffs'''<br /><br />
women's groups<br />
<br />
'''dubs'''<br /><br />
doubles<br />
<br />
'''V.D.'''<br /><br />
alternately this could stand for Venereal Disease<br />
<br />
'''Stockhausen'''<br /><br />
German for "stick houses"; 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]<br />
<br />
'''E. A. Abbott'''<br /><br />
Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926) was a British author and theologians 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].<br />
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==Page 282==<br />
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'''Disciplinary Lit.'''<br /><br />
a joke on the more common "interdisciplinary" academic classes<br />
<br />
'''Goncharov's ''Oblomov'''''<br /><br />
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].<br />
<br />
'''listing to port'''<br /><br />
a nautical term meaning "leaning leftward"<br />
<br />
'''feeling punk'''<br /><br />
Defined as "weak in spirits or health" in the ''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.''<br />
<br />
'''tincture of benzoin'''<br /><br />
A tincture is a mixture of a drug dissolved in alcohol. Benzoin is a balsamic resin used as an antiseptic and expectorant.<br />
<br />
'''Xing'''<br /><br />
presumably a synonym for copulating with someone<br />
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==Endnote 92==<br />
<br />
'''Perth Amboy NJ'''<br /><br />
a town in northern NJ, about 30 miles southwest of New York<br />
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==Page 282 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''Pierre Trudeau'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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==Page 258==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''halogen'''<br /><br />
Halogens are the following elements -- fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine -- some of which are used in high-powered lamps<br />
<br />
'''the color of sour apples'''<br /><br />
i.e., light green<br />
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==Page 259==<br />
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'''2^27'''<br /><br />
2^27 (2 to the 27th power) = 134,217,728<br />
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'''Montcerf, Québec'''<br /><br />
a city of Québec about 82.5 miles due north of Ottawa<br />
<br />
'''Mercier Dam'''<br /><br />
You can read more about it [http://www.hydroquebec.com/generation/projets/pop/pop_mercier.html here].<br />
<br />
'''Pompano Beach'''<br /><br />
a town in Florida about 10 miles north of Fort Lauderdale<br />
<br />
'''a sepulchral Czech kid named Lendl'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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==Page 260==<br />
<br />
'''Kimberly-Clark'''<br /><br />
an American [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly-Clark corporation] based in Wisconsin<br />
<br />
'''"His Unforced-Error stats look like a decimal-error."'''<br /><br />
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<br />
<br />
==Endnote 86==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.Q.M.D.]]<br />
<br />
==Page 260 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''revenant'''<br /><br />
a person who returns<br />
<br />
'''transom'''<br /><br />
a window above a door<br />
<br />
'''thespio-historical'''<br /><br />
regarding the history of acting<br />
<br />
'''"...had the word ''Homo'' in the title..."'''<br /><br />
The film is James O. Incandenza's ''Homo Duplex''.<br />
<br />
'''quad-function'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_function quadratic function], which produces a parabolic graph result<br />
<br />
==Page 261==<br />
<br />
'''pirouette'''<br /><br />
a spin, in ballet terminology<br />
<br />
==Page 262==<br />
<br />
[[Image:I-beam.jpg|thumb|caption|I-beam|right|120px]]<br />
<br />
'''I-beams'''<br /><br />
standard construction beams made of metal (see right)<br />
<br />
'''hypertonic'''<br /><br />
having rigid, tense muscles<br />
<br />
==Page 263==<br />
<br />
'''undead'''<br /><br />
the state of several unnatural beings (vampires, mummies, zombies, etc.), which is in a state neither live nor dead<br />
<br />
'''kibitzing'''<br /><br />
chatting or conversing<br />
<br />
==Page 264==<br />
<br />
'''whippet'''<br /><br />
a one-inhalation dose of nitrous oxide (laughing gas)<br />
<br />
==Page 265==<br />
<br />
[[Image:YinYang.png|thumb|caption|Yin/Yang symbol|right|120px]]<br />
'''Taoist paraboloid logo'''<br /><br />
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]]<br />
<br />
'''ten m.'''<br /><br />
32.8 feet<br />
<br />
'''VAPS'''<br/><br />
an air traffic control acronym for visual approaches.<br />
<br />
==Page 266==<br />
<br />
'''effete'''<br /><br />
degenerate or decadent<br />
<br />
'''Sinn Fein'''<br /><br />
Irish for "ourselves alone," this is the political wing of the Irish Republican Army.<br />
<br />
'''cruciform'''<br /><br />
in the form of a cross<br />
<br />
'''cuffs'''<br /><br />
rotator cuffs<br />
<br />
'''polybutylene'''<br /><br />
This is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybutylene polymerized butlyene].<br />
<br />
==Page 267==<br />
<br />
'''neurasthenic'''<br /><br />
regarding a syndrome of anxiety, fatigue, pain, etc., caused by exhaustion of the central nervous system<br />
<br />
'''Preludin'''<br /><br />
brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preludin phenmetrazine]<br />
<br />
'''Inv.'''<br /><br />
Invitational<br />
<br />
'''40º C'''<br /><br />
104 degrees Fahrenheit<br />
<br />
==Page 268==<br />
<br />
'''pregnable'''<br /><br />
open to attack; capable of being won by force<br />
<br />
'''nacelle'''<br /><br />
the car of a balloon or blimp<br />
<br />
'''corrugated'''<br /><br />
bent into folds<br />
<br />
'''leaf-cutter-ant'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/learning/animals/invertebrates/ant North American ant]<br />
<br />
'''Gore-Tex'''<br /><br />
[http://www.gore-tex.com/remote/Satellite/content/what-is-gore-tex brand name] of material<br />
<br />
==Page 269==<br />
<br />
'''AC'''<br /><br />
Alternating Current<br />
<br />
'''low-lipid'''<br /><br />
i.e., low-fat<br />
<br />
==Endnote 89==<br />
<br />
'''reductive statistics'''<br /><br />
Wallace is talking either about the process in statistics of reducing variables or Schtitt's use of statistics being reductive, i.e., being simplistic<br />
<br />
==Page 269 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''equanimity'''<br /><br />
mental or emotional stability<br />
<br />
'''laissez-faire'''<br /><br />
French for "to let to do," this is a term usually applied to conservative economics but here generally gives a sense of not caring very much.<br />
<br />
==Page 270==<br />
<br />
'''erumpent'''<br /><br />
bursting forth<br />
<br />
'''Boards'''<br /><br />
college entrance examinations<br />
<br />
'''ad'''<br /><br />
a tennis term meaning "advantage" for one or the other player<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">270 · Day and Gately</span><br />
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==Page 270==<br />
<br />
'''Montesian'''<br /><br />
also the name of a [http://oh.lake-link.com/lakes/lake.cfm?LakeID=1515&RegionID=749 lake] in Wisconsin<br />
<br />
'''Lenz'''<br /><br />
German for "springtime"<br />
<br />
'''Goodwill'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.goodwill.org/page/guest/about charity] that redistributes donated goods and clothing<br />
<br />
==Page 271==<br />
<br />
'''non sequiturs'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
<br />
'''butter wouldn't melt'''<br /><br />
which is to say, with a certain, probably faked, coolness<br />
<br />
'''macramé'''<br /><br />
a type of fabric-making done by knotting rather than knitting<br />
<br />
'''Paul Harvey'''<br /><br />
Born Paul Harvey Aurandt, Paul Harvey (born 1918) is an American radio broadcaster known for his platitudes.<br />
<br />
==Page 272==<br />
<br />
'''nictitated'''<br /><br />
winking<br />
<br />
'''Quaalude'''<br /><br />
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methaqualone methaqualone]<br />
<br />
'''Malden'''<br /><br />
a northern suburb of Boston, about 7 miles north of the city<br />
<br />
'''egregulous'''<br /><br />
not a real word (possibly egregious + ridiculous)<br />
<br />
==Endnote 90==<br />
<br />
'''ephebe'''<br /><br />
a young man between the ages of 18 and 20<br />
<br />
'''redolent'''<br /><br />
smelling badly<br />
<br />
'''main'''<br /><br />
here meaning "physical strength"<br />
<br />
'''interdicted'''<br /><br />
prohibited<br />
<br />
'''sally'''<br /><br />
a clever remark<br />
<br />
'''mild sedatives'''<br /><br />
Quaaludes are more like a sledgehammer to the head than a "mild sedative."<br />
<br />
'''reductia ad absurdum'''<br /><br />
a misstatement or misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum reductio ad absurdum]<br />
<br />
'''"Simply open wide for the spoon."'''<br /><br />
This is perhaps a reference to a line from William S. Burroughs's ''Naked Lunch'', regarding the time when one realizes "what is at the end of that long newspaper spoon."<br />
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'''"...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?"'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
<br />
'''lapped'''<br /><br />
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<br />
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'''iona'''<br /><br />
Iona is an island off the west coast of Scotland. The narrator (Gately?) likely means "iota."<br />
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'''bunko artists'''<br /><br />
con artists<br />
<br />
'''jonesing'''<br /><br />
an addict term for the desire for one's substance of choice<br />
<br />
'''mokus'''<br /><br />
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."<br />
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'''Guy That Didn't Even Use His First Name'''<br /><br />
a joke based on the fact that in recovery programs like AA, people do not use their last names<br />
<br />
'''Spont-Dissem'''<br /><br />
Spontaneous Dissemination, i.e., live as opposed to pre-recorded<br />
<br />
'''R.C.'''<br /><br />
presumably Roman Catholic<br />
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==Endnote 91==<br />
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'''''f''-term'''<br /><br />
i.e., "fag"<br />
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'''Morris Code'''<br /><br />
a misstatement of Morse Code<br />
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'''XSive'''<br /><br />
excessive<br />
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'''east of Atlantic City, NJ'''<br /><br />
which would be either in Europe on the Atlantic Ocean somewhere -- or nowhere<br />
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'''Borderline'''<br /><br />
suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_Personality_Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder]<br />
<br />
'''organic-coke'''<br /><br />
an oxymoronic term, since cocaine is a chemical<br />
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'''Charlestown'''<br /><br />
a suburb to the north of Boston, right over the Charles River<br />
<br />
'''100 grams'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
<br />
'''D.E.A.'''<br /><br />
Drug Enforcement Agency<br />
<br />
'''MP'''<br /><br />
Military Police<br />
<br />
'''Cesar Romero'''<br /><br />
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].<br />
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[[Image:Easter.jpg|thumb|caption|Easter Island statues|right|125px]]<br />
'''Easter Island statue'''<br /><br />
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] <br />
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[[Image:Prince.jpg|thumb|caption|Prince Valiant|right|125px]]<br />
<br />
'''Prince Valiantish haircut'''<br /><br />
''Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur'', or simply ''Prince Valiant'', is a comic strip created by Hal Foster, which began running in 1937. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Valiant Wikipedia]] Prince Valiant's haircut was your basic "bowl" cut, as seen at right.<br />
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'''pince-nez'''<br /><br />
From the French for "pinch-nose," these are glasses without temples to go over the ears.<br />
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'''2F and 1M'''<br /><br />
2 females and 1 male<br />
<br />
'''suppurating'''<br /><br />
oozing pus<br />
<br />
'''Grand Mall epilepsy'''<br /><br />
Gately means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_mal grand mal].<br />
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'''(4)'''<br /><br />
Notice that after listing points (a), (b), and (c) about clichés, Gately moves on to (4) rather than (d).<br />
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'''dun'''<br /><br />
grayish-brown<br />
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'''Spiro Agnew'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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'''"...bearing their shields rather than upon them..."'''<br /><br />
The reference is from ''Quotes from Spartan Women'' by Mestrius Plutarchus (Plutarch; AD 45-120), the Greek historian. One translation (from ''On Sparta'' translated by Richard Talbert) cites the source as follows: "Another woman, handing over the shield to her son as he was going off on campaign said: 'Your father always used to keep this safe for you. So you must either keep it safe too, or cease to exist" (p. 187).<br />
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'''distaffs'''<br /><br />
women's groups<br />
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'''dubs'''<br /><br />
doubles<br />
<br />
'''V.D.'''<br /><br />
alternately this could stand for Venereal Disease<br />
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'''Stockhausen'''<br /><br />
German for "stick houses"; 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]<br />
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'''E. A. Abbott'''<br /><br />
Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926) was a British author and theologians 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].<br />
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'''Disciplinary Lit.'''<br /><br />
a joke on the more common "interdisciplinary" academic classes<br />
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'''Goncharov's ''Oblomov'''''<br /><br />
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].<br />
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'''listing to port'''<br /><br />
a nautical term meaning "leaning leftward"<br />
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'''feeling punk'''<br /><br />
Defined as "weak in spirits or health" in the ''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.''<br />
<br />
'''tincture of benzoin'''<br /><br />
A tincture is a mixture of a drug dissolved in alcohol. Benzoin is a balsamic resin used as an antiseptic and expectorant.<br />
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'''Xing'''<br /><br />
presumably a synonym for copulating with someone<br />
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==Endnote 92==<br />
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'''Perth Amboy NJ'''<br /><br />
a town in northern NJ, about 30 miles southwest of New York<br />
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'''Pierre Trudeau'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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==Page 258==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''halogen'''<br /><br />
Halogens are the following elements -- fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine -- some of which are used in high-powered lamps<br />
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'''the color of sour apples'''<br /><br />
i.e., light green<br />
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==Page 259==<br />
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'''2^27'''<br /><br />
2^27 (2 to the 27th power) = 134,217,728<br />
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'''Montcerf, Québec'''<br /><br />
a city of Québec about 82.5 miles due north of Ottawa<br />
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'''Mercier Dam'''<br /><br />
You can read more about it [http://www.hydroquebec.com/generation/projets/pop/pop_mercier.html here].<br />
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'''Pompano Beach'''<br /><br />
a town in Florida about 10 miles north of Fort Lauderdale<br />
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'''a sepulchral Czech kid named Lendl'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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==Page 260==<br />
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'''Kimberly-Clark'''<br /><br />
an American [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly-Clark corporation] based in Wisconsin<br />
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'''"His Unforced-Error stats look like a decimal-error."'''<br /><br />
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<br />
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==Endnote 86==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.Q.M.D.]]<br />
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==Page 260 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''revenant'''<br /><br />
a person who returns<br />
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'''transom'''<br /><br />
a window above a door<br />
<br />
'''thespio-historical'''<br /><br />
regarding the history of acting<br />
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'''"...had the word ''Homo'' in the title..."'''<br /><br />
The film is James O. Incandenza's ''Homo Duplex''.<br />
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'''quad-function'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_function quadratic function], which produces a parabolic graph result<br />
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==Page 261==<br />
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'''pirouette'''<br /><br />
a spin, in ballet terminology<br />
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==Page 262==<br />
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[[Image:I-beam.jpg|thumb|caption|I-beam|right|120px]]<br />
<br />
'''I-beams'''<br /><br />
standard construction beams made of metal (see right)<br />
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'''hypertonic'''<br /><br />
having rigid, tense muscles<br />
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==Page 263==<br />
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'''undead'''<br /><br />
the state of several unnatural beings (vampires, mummies, zombies, etc.), which is in a state neither live nor dead<br />
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'''kibitzing'''<br /><br />
chatting or conversing<br />
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==Page 264==<br />
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'''whippet'''<br /><br />
a one-inhalation dose of nitrous oxide (laughing gas)<br />
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==Page 265==<br />
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[[Image:YinYang.png|thumb|caption|Yin/Yang symbol|right|120px]]<br />
'''Taoist paraboloid logo'''<br /><br />
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]]<br />
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'''ten m.'''<br /><br />
32.8 feet<br />
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'''VAPS'''<br/><br />
an air traffic control acronym for visual approaches.<br />
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'''effete'''<br /><br />
degenerate or decadent<br />
<br />
'''Sinn Fein'''<br /><br />
Irish for "ourselves alone," this is the political wing of the Irish Republican Army.<br />
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'''cruciform'''<br /><br />
in the form of a cross<br />
<br />
'''cuffs'''<br /><br />
rotator cuffs<br />
<br />
'''polybutylene'''<br /><br />
This is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybutylene polymerized butlyene].<br />
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'''neurasthenic'''<br /><br />
regarding a syndrome of anxiety, fatigue, pain, etc., caused by exhaustion of the central nervous system<br />
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'''Preludin'''<br /><br />
brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preludin phenmetrazine]<br />
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'''Inv.'''<br /><br />
Invitational<br />
<br />
'''40º C'''<br /><br />
104 degrees Fahrenheit<br />
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==Page 268==<br />
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'''pregnable'''<br /><br />
open to attack; capable of being won by force<br />
<br />
'''nacelle'''<br /><br />
the car of a balloon or blimp<br />
<br />
'''corrugated'''<br /><br />
bent into folds<br />
<br />
'''leaf-cutter-ant'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/learning/animals/invertebrates/ant North American ant]<br />
<br />
'''Gore-Tex'''<br /><br />
[http://www.gore-tex.com/remote/Satellite/content/what-is-gore-tex brand name] of material<br />
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'''AC'''<br /><br />
Alternating Current<br />
<br />
'''low-lipid'''<br /><br />
i.e., low-fat<br />
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==Endnote 89==<br />
<br />
'''reductive statistics'''<br /><br />
Wallace is talking either about the process in statistics of reducing variables or Schtitt's use of statistics being reductive, i.e., being simplistic<br />
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==Page 269 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''equanimity'''<br /><br />
mental or emotional stability<br />
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'''laissez-faire'''<br /><br />
French for "to let to do," this is a term usually applied to conservative economics but here generally gives a sense of not caring very much.<br />
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==Page 270==<br />
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'''erumpent'''<br /><br />
bursting forth<br />
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'''Boards'''<br /><br />
college entrance examinations<br />
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'''ad'''<br /><br />
a tennis term meaning "advantage" for one or the other player<br />
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==Page 270==<br />
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'''Montesian'''<br /><br />
also the name of a [http://oh.lake-link.com/lakes/lake.cfm?LakeID=1515&RegionID=749 lake] in Wisconsin<br />
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'''Lenz'''<br /><br />
German for "springtime"<br />
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'''Goodwill'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.goodwill.org/page/guest/about charity] that redistributes donated goods and clothing<br />
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'''non sequiturs'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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'''butter wouldn't melt'''<br /><br />
which is to say, with a certain, probably faked, coolness<br />
<br />
'''macramé'''<br /><br />
a type of fabric-making done by knotting rather than knitting<br />
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'''Paul Harvey'''<br /><br />
Born Paul Harvey Aurandt, Paul Harvey (born 1918) is an American radio broadcaster known for his platitudes.<br />
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'''nictitated'''<br /><br />
winking<br />
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'''Quaalude'''<br /><br />
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methaqualone methaqualone]<br />
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'''Malden'''<br /><br />
a northern suburb of Boston, about 7 miles north of the city<br />
<br />
'''egregulous'''<br /><br />
not a real word (possibly egregious + ridiculous)<br />
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==Endnote 90==<br />
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'''ephebe'''<br /><br />
a young man between the ages of 18 and 20<br />
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'''redolent'''<br /><br />
smelling badly<br />
<br />
'''main'''<br /><br />
here meaning "physical strength"<br />
<br />
'''interdicted'''<br /><br />
prohibited<br />
<br />
'''sally'''<br /><br />
a clever remark<br />
<br />
'''mild sedatives'''<br /><br />
Quaaludes are more like a sledgehammer to the head than a "mild sedative."<br />
<br />
'''reductia ad absurdum'''<br /><br />
a misstatement or misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum reductio ad absurdum]<br />
<br />
'''"Simply open wide for the spoon."'''<br /><br />
This is perhaps a reference to a line from William S. Burroughs's ''Naked Lunch'', regarding the time when one realizes "what is at the end of that long newspaper spoon."<br />
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'''"...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?"'''<br /><br />
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 opposed it in theory). 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.<br />
<br />
'''lapped'''<br /><br />
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<br />
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'''iona'''<br /><br />
Iona is an island off the west coast of Scotland. The narrator (Gately?) likely means "iota."<br />
<br />
'''bunko artists'''<br /><br />
con artists<br />
<br />
'''jonesing'''<br /><br />
an addict term for the desire for one's substance of choice<br />
<br />
'''mokus'''<br /><br />
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."<br />
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'''Guy That Didn't Even Use His First Name'''<br /><br />
a joke based on the fact that in recovery programs like AA, people do not use their last names<br />
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'''Spont-Dissem'''<br /><br />
Spontaneous Dissemination, i.e., live as opposed to pre-recorded<br />
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'''R.C.'''<br /><br />
presumably Roman Catholic<br />
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==Endnote 91==<br />
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'''''f''-term'''<br /><br />
i.e., "fag"<br />
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'''Morris Code'''<br /><br />
a misstatement of Morse Code<br />
<br />
'''XSive'''<br /><br />
excessive<br />
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'''east of Atlantic City, NJ'''<br /><br />
which would be either in Europe on the Atlantic Ocean somewhere -- or nowhere<br />
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'''Borderline'''<br /><br />
suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_Personality_Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder]<br />
<br />
'''organic-coke'''<br /><br />
an oxymoronic term, since cocaine is a chemical<br />
<br />
'''Charlestown'''<br /><br />
a suburb to the north of Boston, right over the Charles River<br />
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'''100 grams'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
<br />
'''D.E.A.'''<br /><br />
Drug Enforcement Agency<br />
<br />
'''MP'''<br /><br />
Military Police<br />
<br />
'''Cesar Romero'''<br /><br />
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].<br />
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'''Easter Island statue'''<br /><br />
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] <br />
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[[Image:Prince.jpg|thumb|caption|Prince Valiant|right|125px]]<br />
<br />
'''Prince Valiantish haircut'''<br /><br />
''Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur'', or simply ''Prince Valiant'', is a comic strip created by Hal Foster, which began running in 1937. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Valiant Wikipedia]] Prince Valiant's haircut was your basic "bowl" cut, as seen at right.<br />
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'''pince-nez'''<br /><br />
From the French for "pinch-nose," these are glasses without temples to go over the ears.<br />
<br />
'''2F and 1M'''<br /><br />
2 females and 1 male<br />
<br />
'''suppurating'''<br /><br />
oozing pus<br />
<br />
'''Grand Mall epilepsy'''<br /><br />
Gately means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_mal grand mal].<br />
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'''(4)'''<br /><br />
Notice that after listing points (a), (b), and (c) about clichés, Gately moves on to (4) rather than (d).<br />
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'''dun'''<br /><br />
grayish-brown<br />
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'''Spiro Agnew'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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'''"...bearing their shields rather than upon them..."'''<br /><br />
The reference is from ''Quotes from Spartan Women'' by Mestrius Plutarchus (Plutarch; AD 45-120), the Greek historian. One translation (from ''On Sparta'' translated by Richard Talbert) cites the source as follows: "Another woman, handing over the shield to her son as he was going off on campaign said: 'Your father always used to keep this safe for you. So you must either keep it safe too, or cease to exist" (p. 187).<br />
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'''distaffs'''<br /><br />
women's groups<br />
<br />
'''dubs'''<br /><br />
doubles<br />
<br />
'''V.D.'''<br /><br />
alternately this could stand for Venereal Disease<br />
<br />
'''Stockhausen'''<br /><br />
German for "stick houses"; 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]<br />
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'''E. A. Abbott'''<br /><br />
Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926) was a British author and theologians 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].<br />
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'''Disciplinary Lit.'''<br /><br />
a joke on the more common "interdisciplinary" academic classes<br />
<br />
'''Goncharov's ''Oblomov'''''<br /><br />
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].<br />
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'''listing to port'''<br /><br />
a nautical term meaning "leaning leftward"<br />
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'''feeling punk'''<br /><br />
Defined as "weak in spirits or health" in the ''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.''<br />
<br />
'''tincture of benzoin'''<br /><br />
A tincture is a mixture of a drug dissolved in alcohol. Benzoin is a balsamic resin used as an antiseptic and expectorant.<br />
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'''Xing'''<br /><br />
presumably a synonym for copulating with someone<br />
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==Endnote 92==<br />
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'''Perth Amboy NJ'''<br /><br />
a town in northern NJ, about 30 miles southwest of New York<br />
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'''Pierre Trudeau'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''halogen'''<br /><br />
Halogens are the following elements -- fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine -- some of which are used in high-powered lamps<br />
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'''the color of sour apples'''<br /><br />
i.e., light green<br />
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'''2^27'''<br /><br />
2^27 (2 to the 27th power) = 134,217,728<br />
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'''Montcerf, Québec'''<br /><br />
a city of Québec about 82.5 miles due north of Ottawa<br />
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'''Mercier Dam'''<br /><br />
You can read more about it [http://www.hydroquebec.com/generation/projets/pop/pop_mercier.html here].<br />
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'''Pompano Beach'''<br /><br />
a town in Florida about 10 miles north of Fort Lauderdale<br />
<br />
'''a sepulchral Czech kid named Lendl'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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'''Kimberly-Clark'''<br /><br />
an American [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly-Clark corporation] based in Wisconsin<br />
<br />
'''"His Unforced-Error stats look like a decimal-error."'''<br /><br />
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<br />
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==Endnote 86==<br />
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'''revenant'''<br /><br />
a person who returns<br />
<br />
'''transom'''<br /><br />
a window above a door<br />
<br />
'''thespio-historical'''<br /><br />
regarding the history of acting<br />
<br />
'''"...had the word ''Homo'' in the title..."'''<br /><br />
The film is James O. Incandenza's ''Homo Duplex''.<br />
<br />
'''quad-function'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_function quadratic function], which produces a parabolic graph result<br />
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'''pirouette'''<br /><br />
a spin, in ballet terminology<br />
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[[Image:I-beam.jpg|thumb|caption|I-beam|right|120px]]<br />
<br />
'''I-beams'''<br /><br />
standard construction beams made of metal (see right)<br />
<br />
'''hypertonic'''<br /><br />
having rigid, tense muscles<br />
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'''undead'''<br /><br />
the state of several unnatural beings (vampires, mummies, zombies, etc.), which is in a state neither live nor dead<br />
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'''kibitzing'''<br /><br />
chatting or conversing<br />
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'''whippet'''<br /><br />
a one-inhalation dose of nitrous oxide (laughing gas)<br />
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[[Image:YinYang.png|thumb|caption|Yin/Yang symbol|right|120px]]<br />
'''Taoist paraboloid logo'''<br /><br />
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]]<br />
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'''ten m.'''<br /><br />
32.8 feet<br />
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'''VAPS'''<br/><br />
an air traffic control acronym for visual approaches.<br />
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'''effete'''<br /><br />
degenerate or decadent<br />
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'''Sinn Fein'''<br /><br />
Irish for "ourselves alone," this is the political wing of the Irish Republican Army.<br />
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'''cruciform'''<br /><br />
in the form of a cross<br />
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'''cuffs'''<br /><br />
rotator cuffs<br />
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'''polybutylene'''<br /><br />
This is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybutylene polymerized butlyene].<br />
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'''neurasthenic'''<br /><br />
regarding a syndrome of anxiety, fatigue, pain, etc., caused by exhaustion of the central nervous system<br />
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'''Preludin'''<br /><br />
brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preludin phenmetrazine]<br />
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'''Inv.'''<br /><br />
Invitational<br />
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'''40º C'''<br /><br />
104 degrees Fahrenheit<br />
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'''pregnable'''<br /><br />
open to attack; capable of being won by force<br />
<br />
'''nacelle'''<br /><br />
the car of a balloon or blimp<br />
<br />
'''corrugated'''<br /><br />
bent into folds<br />
<br />
'''leaf-cutter-ant'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/learning/animals/invertebrates/ant North American ant]<br />
<br />
'''Gore-Tex'''<br /><br />
[http://www.gore-tex.com/remote/Satellite/content/what-is-gore-tex brand name] of material<br />
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'''AC'''<br /><br />
Alternating Current<br />
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'''low-lipid'''<br /><br />
i.e., low-fat<br />
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==Endnote 89==<br />
<br />
'''reductive statistics'''<br /><br />
Wallace is talking either about the process in statistics of reducing variables or Schtitt's use of statistics being reductive, i.e., being simplistic<br />
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==Page 269 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''equanimity'''<br /><br />
mental or emotional stability<br />
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'''laissez-faire'''<br /><br />
French for "to let to do," this is a term usually applied to conservative economics but here generally gives a sense of not caring very much.<br />
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'''erumpent'''<br /><br />
bursting forth<br />
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'''Boards'''<br /><br />
college entrance examinations<br />
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'''ad'''<br /><br />
a tennis term meaning "advantage" for one or the other player<br />
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'''Montesian'''<br /><br />
also the name of a [http://oh.lake-link.com/lakes/lake.cfm?LakeID=1515&RegionID=749 lake] in Wisconsin<br />
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'''Lenz'''<br /><br />
German for "springtime"<br />
<br />
'''Goodwill'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.goodwill.org/page/guest/about charity] that redistributes donated goods and clothing<br />
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'''non sequiturs'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
<br />
'''butter wouldn't melt'''<br /><br />
which is to say, with a certain, probably faked, coolness<br />
<br />
'''macramé'''<br /><br />
a type of fabric-making done by knotting rather than knitting<br />
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'''Paul Harvey'''<br /><br />
Born Paul Harvey Aurandt, Paul Harvey (born 1918) is an American radio broadcaster known for his platitudes.<br />
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'''nictitated'''<br /><br />
winking<br />
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'''Quaalude'''<br /><br />
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methaqualone methaqualone]<br />
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'''Malden'''<br /><br />
a northern suburb of Boston, about 7 miles north of the city<br />
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'''egregulous'''<br /><br />
not a real word (possibly egregious + ridiculous)<br />
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==Endnote 90==<br />
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'''ephebe'''<br /><br />
a young man between the ages of 18 and 20<br />
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'''redolent'''<br /><br />
smelling badly<br />
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'''main'''<br /><br />
here meaning "physical strength"<br />
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'''interdicted'''<br /><br />
prohibited<br />
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'''sally'''<br /><br />
a clever remark<br />
<br />
'''mild sedatives'''<br /><br />
Quaaludes are more like a sledgehammer to the head than a "mild sedative."<br />
<br />
'''reductia ad absurdum'''<br /><br />
a misstatement or misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum reductio ad absurdum]<br />
<br />
'''"Simply open wide for the spoon."'''<br /><br />
This is perhaps a reference to a line from William S. Burroughs's ''Naked Lunch'', regarding the time when one realizes "what is at the end of that long newspaper spoon."<br />
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'''"...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?"'''<br /><br />
First things first: 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.<br />
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James Madison, the chief drafter of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, though he opposed in theory the latter, said of the Ninth Amendment: "It has been objected also against a Bill of Rights, that, by enumerating particular exceptions to the grant of power, it would disparage those rights which were not placed in that enumeration; and it might follow by implication, that those rights which were not singled out, were intended to be assigned into the hands of the General Government, and were consequently insecure. This is one of the most plausible arguments I have ever heard against the admission of a bill of rights into this system; but, I conceive, that it may be guarded against. I have attempted it, as gentlemen may see by turning to the last clause of the fourth resolution [i.e., the Ninth Amendment itself]."<br />
<br />
The idea was to limit the powers of Congress to block other rights and limits its powers to what Article One of the Constitution already gave it.<br />
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How this works with the First Amendment's guarantee of the right to petition the government for redress I don't know, because petitioning is not deemed inadvisable, although perhaps it had been. One idea is that by petitioning the government for redress, the government (and specifically Congress) may go beyond its prescribed powers, thus making petitioning inadvisable.<br />
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'''lapped'''<br /><br />
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<br />
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'''iona'''<br /><br />
Iona is an island off the west coast of Scotland. The narrator (Gately?) likely means "iota."<br />
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'''bunko artists'''<br /><br />
con artists<br />
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'''jonesing'''<br /><br />
an addict term for the desire for one's substance of choice<br />
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'''mokus'''<br /><br />
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."<br />
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'''Guy That Didn't Even Use His First Name'''<br /><br />
a joke based on the fact that in recovery programs like AA, people do not use their last names<br />
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'''Spont-Dissem'''<br /><br />
Spontaneous Dissemination, i.e., live as opposed to pre-recorded<br />
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'''R.C.'''<br /><br />
presumably Roman Catholic<br />
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==Endnote 91==<br />
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'''''f''-term'''<br /><br />
i.e., "fag"<br />
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'''Morris Code'''<br /><br />
a misstatement of Morse Code<br />
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'''XSive'''<br /><br />
excessive<br />
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'''east of Atlantic City, NJ'''<br /><br />
which would be either in Europe on the Atlantic Ocean somewhere -- or nowhere<br />
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'''Borderline'''<br /><br />
suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_Personality_Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder]<br />
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'''organic-coke'''<br /><br />
an oxymoronic term, since cocaine is a chemical<br />
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'''Charlestown'''<br /><br />
a suburb to the north of Boston, right over the Charles River<br />
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'''100 grams'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
<br />
'''D.E.A.'''<br /><br />
Drug Enforcement Agency<br />
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'''MP'''<br /><br />
Military Police<br />
<br />
'''Cesar Romero'''<br /><br />
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].<br />
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[[Image:Easter.jpg|thumb|caption|Easter Island statues|right|125px]]<br />
'''Easter Island statue'''<br /><br />
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] <br />
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[[Image:Prince.jpg|thumb|caption|Prince Valiant|right|125px]]<br />
<br />
'''Prince Valiantish haircut'''<br /><br />
''Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur'', or simply ''Prince Valiant'', is a comic strip created by Hal Foster, which began running in 1937. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Valiant Wikipedia]] Prince Valiant's haircut was your basic "bowl" cut, as seen at right.<br />
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'''pince-nez'''<br /><br />
From the French for "pinch-nose," these are glasses without temples to go over the ears.<br />
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'''2F and 1M'''<br /><br />
2 females and 1 male<br />
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'''suppurating'''<br /><br />
oozing pus<br />
<br />
'''Grand Mall epilepsy'''<br /><br />
Gately means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_mal grand mal].<br />
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'''(4)'''<br /><br />
Notice that after listing points (a), (b), and (c) about clichés, Gately moves on to (4) rather than (d).<br />
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'''dun'''<br /><br />
grayish-brown<br />
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'''Spiro Agnew'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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'''"...bearing their shields rather than upon them..."'''<br /><br />
The reference is from ''Quotes from Spartan Women'' by Mestrius Plutarchus (Plutarch; AD 45-120), the Greek historian. One translation (from ''On Sparta'' translated by Richard Talbert) cites the source as follows: "Another woman, handing over the shield to her son as he was going off on campaign said: 'Your father always used to keep this safe for you. So you must either keep it safe too, or cease to exist" (p. 187).<br />
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'''distaffs'''<br /><br />
women's groups<br />
<br />
'''dubs'''<br /><br />
doubles<br />
<br />
'''V.D.'''<br /><br />
alternately this could stand for Venereal Disease<br />
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'''Stockhausen'''<br /><br />
German for "stick houses"; 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]<br />
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'''E. A. Abbott'''<br /><br />
Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926) was a British author and theologians 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].<br />
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'''Disciplinary Lit.'''<br /><br />
a joke on the more common "interdisciplinary" academic classes<br />
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'''Goncharov's ''Oblomov'''''<br /><br />
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].<br />
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'''listing to port'''<br /><br />
a nautical term meaning "leaning leftward"<br />
<br />
'''feeling punk'''<br /><br />
Defined as "weak in spirits or health" in the ''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.''<br />
<br />
'''tincture of benzoin'''<br /><br />
A tincture is a mixture of a drug dissolved in alcohol. Benzoin is a balsamic resin used as an antiseptic and expectorant.<br />
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'''Xing'''<br /><br />
presumably a synonym for copulating with someone<br />
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==Endnote 92==<br />
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'''Perth Amboy NJ'''<br /><br />
a town in northern NJ, about 30 miles southwest of New York<br />
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'''Pierre Trudeau'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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'''halogen'''<br /><br />
Halogens are the following elements -- fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine -- some of which are used in high-powered lamps<br />
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'''the color of sour apples'''<br /><br />
i.e., light green<br />
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'''2^27'''<br /><br />
2^27 (2 to the 27th power) = 134,217,728<br />
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'''Montcerf, Québec'''<br /><br />
a city of Québec about 82.5 miles due north of Ottawa<br />
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'''Mercier Dam'''<br /><br />
You can read more about it [http://www.hydroquebec.com/generation/projets/pop/pop_mercier.html here].<br />
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'''Pompano Beach'''<br /><br />
a town in Florida about 10 miles north of Fort Lauderdale<br />
<br />
'''a sepulchral Czech kid named Lendl'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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'''Kimberly-Clark'''<br /><br />
an American [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly-Clark corporation] based in Wisconsin<br />
<br />
'''"His Unforced-Error stats look like a decimal-error."'''<br /><br />
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<br />
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==Endnote 86==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.Q.M.D.]]<br />
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'''revenant'''<br /><br />
a person who returns<br />
<br />
'''transom'''<br /><br />
a window above a door<br />
<br />
'''thespio-historical'''<br /><br />
regarding the history of acting<br />
<br />
'''"...had the word ''Homo'' in the title..."'''<br /><br />
The film is James O. Incandenza's ''Homo Duplex''.<br />
<br />
'''quad-function'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_function quadratic function], which produces a parabolic graph result<br />
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'''pirouette'''<br /><br />
a spin, in ballet terminology<br />
<br />
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[[Image:I-beam.jpg|thumb|caption|I-beam|right|120px]]<br />
<br />
'''I-beams'''<br /><br />
standard construction beams made of metal (see right)<br />
<br />
'''hypertonic'''<br /><br />
having rigid, tense muscles<br />
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'''undead'''<br /><br />
the state of several unnatural beings (vampires, mummies, zombies, etc.), which is in a state neither live nor dead<br />
<br />
'''kibitzing'''<br /><br />
chatting or conversing<br />
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'''whippet'''<br /><br />
a one-inhalation dose of nitrous oxide (laughing gas)<br />
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[[Image:YinYang.png|thumb|caption|Yin/Yang symbol|right|120px]]<br />
'''Taoist paraboloid logo'''<br /><br />
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]]<br />
<br />
'''ten m.'''<br /><br />
32.8 feet<br />
<br />
'''VAPS'''<br/><br />
an air traffic control acronym for visual approaches.<br />
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'''effete'''<br /><br />
degenerate or decadent<br />
<br />
'''Sinn Fein'''<br /><br />
Irish for "ourselves alone," this is the political wing of the Irish Republican Army.<br />
<br />
'''cruciform'''<br /><br />
in the form of a cross<br />
<br />
'''cuffs'''<br /><br />
rotator cuffs<br />
<br />
'''polybutylene'''<br /><br />
This is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybutylene polymerized butlyene].<br />
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'''neurasthenic'''<br /><br />
regarding a syndrome of anxiety, fatigue, pain, etc., caused by exhaustion of the central nervous system<br />
<br />
'''Preludin'''<br /><br />
brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preludin phenmetrazine]<br />
<br />
'''Inv.'''<br /><br />
Invitational<br />
<br />
'''40º C'''<br /><br />
104 degrees Fahrenheit<br />
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==Page 268==<br />
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'''pregnable'''<br /><br />
open to attack; capable of being won by force<br />
<br />
'''nacelle'''<br /><br />
the car of a balloon or blimp<br />
<br />
'''corrugated'''<br /><br />
bent into folds<br />
<br />
'''leaf-cutter-ant'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/learning/animals/invertebrates/ant North American ant]<br />
<br />
'''Gore-Tex'''<br /><br />
[http://www.gore-tex.com/remote/Satellite/content/what-is-gore-tex brand name] of material<br />
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==Page 269==<br />
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'''AC'''<br /><br />
Alternating Current<br />
<br />
'''low-lipid'''<br /><br />
i.e., low-fat<br />
<br />
==Endnote 89==<br />
<br />
'''reductive statistics'''<br /><br />
Wallace is talking either about the process in statistics of reducing variables or Schtitt's use of statistics being reductive, i.e., being simplistic<br />
<br />
==Page 269 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''equanimity'''<br /><br />
mental or emotional stability<br />
<br />
'''laissez-faire'''<br /><br />
French for "to let to do," this is a term usually applied to conservative economics but here generally gives a sense of not caring very much.<br />
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==Page 270==<br />
<br />
'''erumpent'''<br /><br />
bursting forth<br />
<br />
'''Boards'''<br /><br />
college entrance examinations<br />
<br />
'''ad'''<br /><br />
a tennis term meaning "advantage" for one or the other player<br />
<br />
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==Page 270==<br />
<br />
'''Montesian'''<br /><br />
also the name of a [http://oh.lake-link.com/lakes/lake.cfm?LakeID=1515&RegionID=749 lake] in Wisconsin<br />
<br />
'''Lenz'''<br /><br />
German for "springtime"<br />
<br />
'''Goodwill'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.goodwill.org/page/guest/about charity] that redistributes donated goods and clothing<br />
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==Page 271==<br />
<br />
'''non sequiturs'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
<br />
'''butter wouldn't melt'''<br /><br />
which is to say, with a certain, probably faked, coolness<br />
<br />
'''macramé'''<br /><br />
a type of fabric-making done by knotting rather than knitting<br />
<br />
'''Paul Harvey'''<br /><br />
Born Paul Harvey Aurandt, Paul Harvey (born 1918) is an American radio broadcaster known for his platitudes.<br />
<br />
==Page 272==<br />
<br />
'''nictitated'''<br /><br />
winking<br />
<br />
'''Quaalude'''<br /><br />
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methaqualone methaqualone]<br />
<br />
'''Malden'''<br /><br />
a northern suburb of Boston, about 7 miles north of the city<br />
<br />
'''egregulous'''<br /><br />
not a real word (possibly egregious + ridiculous)<br />
<br />
==Endnote 90==<br />
<br />
'''ephebe'''<br /><br />
a young man between the ages of 18 and 20<br />
<br />
'''redolent'''<br /><br />
smelling badly<br />
<br />
'''main'''<br /><br />
here meaning "physical strength"<br />
<br />
'''interdicted'''<br /><br />
prohibited<br />
<br />
'''sally'''<br /><br />
a clever remark<br />
<br />
'''mild sedatives'''<br /><br />
Quaaludes are more like a sledgehammer to the head than a "mild sedative."<br />
<br />
'''reductia ad absurdum'''<br /><br />
a misstatement or misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum reductio ad absurdum]<br />
<br />
'''"Simply open wide for the spoon."'''<br /><br />
This is perhaps a reference to a line from William S. Burroughs's ''Naked Lunch'', regarding the time when one realizes "what is at the end of that long newspaper spoon."<br />
<br />
'''"...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?"'''<br /><br />
First things first: 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.<br />
<br />
James Madison, the chief drafter of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, though he opposed in theory the latter, said of the Ninth Amendment: "It has been objected also against a Bill of Rights, that, by enumerating particular exceptions to the grant of power, it would disparage those rights which were not placed in that enumeration; and it might follow by implication, that those rights which were not singled out, were intended to be assigned into the hands of the General Government, and were consequently insecure. This is one of the most plausible arguments I have ever heard against the admission of a bill of rights into this system; but, I conceive, that it may be guarded against. I have attempted it, as gentlemen may see by turning to the last clause of the fourth resolution [i.e., the Ninth Amendment itself]."<br />
<br />
The idea was to limit the powers of Congress to block other rights and limits its powers to what Article One of the Constitution already gave it.<br />
<br />
How this works with the First Amendment's guarantee of the right to petition the government for redress I don't know, because petitioning is not deemed inadvisable, although perhaps it had been. One idea is that by petitioning the government for redress, the government (and specifically Congress) may go beyond its prescribed powers, thus making petitioning inadvisable.<br />
<br />
'''lapped'''<br /><br />
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<br />
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'''iona'''<br /><br />
Iona is an island off the west coast of Scotland. The narrator (Gately?) likely means "iota."<br />
<br />
'''bunko artists'''<br /><br />
con artists<br />
<br />
'''jonesing'''<br /><br />
an addict term for the desire for one's substance of choice<br />
<br />
'''mokus'''<br /><br />
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."<br />
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==Page 274==<br />
<br />
'''Guy That Didn't Even Use His First Name'''<br /><br />
a joke based on the fact that in recovery programs like AA, people do not use their last names<br />
<br />
'''Spont-Dissem'''<br /><br />
Spontaneous Dissemination, i.e., live as opposed to pre-recorded<br />
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==Endnote 91==<br />
<br />
'''''f''-term'''<br /><br />
i.e., "fag"<br />
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==Page 275 ==<br />
<br />
'''Morris Code'''<br /><br />
a misstatement of Morse Code<br />
<br />
'''XSive'''<br /><br />
excessive<br />
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'''east of Atlantic City, NJ'''<br /><br />
which would be either in Europe on the Atlantic Ocean somewhere -- or nowhere<br />
<br />
'''Borderline'''<br /><br />
suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_Personality_Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder]<br />
<br />
'''organic-coke'''<br /><br />
an oxymoronic term, since cocaine is a chemical<br />
<br />
'''Charlestown'''<br /><br />
a suburb to the north of Boston, right over the Charles River<br />
<br />
'''100 grams'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
<br />
'''D.E.A.'''<br /><br />
Drug Enforcement Agency<br />
<br />
'''MP'''<br /><br />
Military Police<br />
<br />
'''Cesar Romero'''<br /><br />
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].<br />
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==Page 277==<br />
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[[Image:Easter.jpg|thumb|caption|Easter Island statues|right|125px]]<br />
'''Easter Island statue'''<br /><br />
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] <br />
<br />
[[Image:Prince.jpg|thumb|caption|Prince Valiant|right|125px]]<br />
<br />
'''Prince Valiantish haircut'''<br /><br />
''Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur'', or simply ''Prince Valiant'', is a comic strip created by Hal Foster, which began running in 1937. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Valiant Wikipedia]] Prince Valiant's haircut was your basic "bowl" cut, as seen at right.<br />
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'''pince-nez'''<br /><br />
From the French for "pinch-nose," these are glasses without temples to go over the ears.<br />
<br />
'''2F and 1M'''<br /><br />
2 females and 1 male<br />
<br />
'''suppurating'''<br /><br />
oozing pus<br />
<br />
'''Grand Mall epilepsy'''<br /><br />
Gately means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_mal grand mal].<br />
<br />
'''(4)'''<br /><br />
Notice that after listing points (a), (b), and (c) about clichés, Gately moves on to (4) rather than (d).<br />
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==Page 279==<br />
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'''dun'''<br /><br />
grayish-brown<br />
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==Page 280==<br />
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'''Spiro Agnew'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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'''"...bearing their shields rather than upon them..."'''<br /><br />
The reference is from ''Quotes from Spartan Women'' by Mestrius Plutarchus (Plutarch; AD 45-120), the Greek historian. One translation (from ''On Sparta'' translated by Richard Talbert) cites the source as follows: "Another woman, handing over the shield to her son as he was going off on campaign said: 'Your father always used to keep this safe for you. So you must either keep it safe too, or cease to exist" (p. 187).<br />
<br />
'''distaffs'''<br /><br />
women's groups<br />
<br />
'''dubs'''<br /><br />
doubles<br />
<br />
'''V.D.'''<br /><br />
alternately this could stand for Venereal Disease<br />
<br />
'''Stockhausen'''<br /><br />
German for "stick houses"; 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]<br />
<br />
'''E. A. Abbott'''<br /><br />
Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926) was a British author and theologians 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].<br />
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==Page 282==<br />
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'''Disciplinary Lit.'''<br /><br />
a joke on the more common "interdisciplinary" academic classes<br />
<br />
'''Goncharov's ''Oblomov'''''<br /><br />
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].<br />
<br />
'''listing to port'''<br /><br />
a nautical term meaning "leaning leftward"<br />
<br />
'''feeling punk'''<br /><br />
Defined as "weak in spirits or health" in the ''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.''<br />
<br />
'''tincture of benzoin'''<br /><br />
A tincture is a mixture of a drug dissolved in alcohol. Benzoin is a balsamic resin used as an antiseptic and expectorant.<br />
<br />
'''Xing'''<br /><br />
presumably a synonym for copulating with someone<br />
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==Endnote 92==<br />
<br />
'''Perth Amboy NJ'''<br /><br />
a town in northern NJ, about 30 miles southwest of New York<br />
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==Page 282 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''Pierre Trudeau'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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==Page 258==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''halogen'''<br /><br />
Halogens are the following elements -- fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine -- some of which are used in high-powered lamps<br />
<br />
'''the color of sour apples'''<br /><br />
i.e., light green<br />
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==Page 259==<br />
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'''2^27'''<br /><br />
2^27 (2 to the 27th power) = 134,217,728<br />
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'''Montcerf, Québec'''<br /><br />
a city of Québec about 82.5 miles due north of Ottawa<br />
<br />
'''Mercier Dam'''<br /><br />
You can read more about it [http://www.hydroquebec.com/generation/projets/pop/pop_mercier.html here].<br />
<br />
'''Pompano Beach'''<br /><br />
a town in Florida about 10 miles north of Fort Lauderdale<br />
<br />
'''a sepulchral Czech kid named Lendl'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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==Page 260==<br />
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'''Kimberly-Clark'''<br /><br />
an American [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly-Clark corporation] based in Wisconsin<br />
<br />
'''"His Unforced-Error stats look like a decimal-error."'''<br /><br />
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<br />
<br />
==Endnote 86==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.Q.M.D.]]<br />
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==Page 260 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''revenant'''<br /><br />
a person who returns<br />
<br />
'''transom'''<br /><br />
a window above a door<br />
<br />
'''thespio-historical'''<br /><br />
regarding the history of acting<br />
<br />
'''"...had the word ''Homo'' in the title..."'''<br /><br />
The film is James O. Incandenza's ''Homo Duplex''.<br />
<br />
'''quad-function'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_function quadratic function], which produces a parabolic graph result<br />
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==Page 261==<br />
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'''pirouette'''<br /><br />
a spin, in ballet terminology<br />
<br />
==Page 262==<br />
<br />
[[Image:I-beam.jpg|thumb|caption|I-beam|right|120px]]<br />
<br />
'''I-beams'''<br /><br />
standard construction beams made of metal (see right)<br />
<br />
'''hypertonic'''<br /><br />
having rigid, tense muscles<br />
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==Page 263==<br />
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'''undead'''<br /><br />
the state of several unnatural beings (vampires, mummies, zombies, etc.), which is in a state neither live nor dead<br />
<br />
'''kibitzing'''<br /><br />
chatting or conversing<br />
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==Page 264==<br />
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'''whippet'''<br /><br />
a one-inhalation dose of nitrous oxide (laughing gas)<br />
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==Page 265==<br />
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[[Image:YinYang.png|thumb|caption|Yin/Yang symbol|right|120px]]<br />
'''Taoist paraboloid logo'''<br /><br />
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]]<br />
<br />
'''ten m.'''<br /><br />
32.8 feet<br />
<br />
'''VAPS'''<br/><br />
an air traffic control acronym for visual approaches.<br />
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==Page 266==<br />
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'''effete'''<br /><br />
degenerate or decadent<br />
<br />
'''Sinn Fein'''<br /><br />
Irish for "ourselves alone," this is the political wing of the Irish Republican Army.<br />
<br />
'''cruciform'''<br /><br />
in the form of a cross<br />
<br />
'''cuffs'''<br /><br />
rotator cuffs<br />
<br />
'''polybutylene'''<br /><br />
This is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybutylene polymerized butlyene].<br />
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==Page 267==<br />
<br />
'''neurasthenic'''<br /><br />
regarding a syndrome of anxiety, fatigue, pain, etc., caused by exhaustion of the central nervous system<br />
<br />
'''Preludin'''<br /><br />
brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preludin phenmetrazine]<br />
<br />
'''Inv.'''<br /><br />
Invitational<br />
<br />
'''40º C'''<br /><br />
104 degrees Fahrenheit<br />
<br />
==Page 268==<br />
<br />
'''pregnable'''<br /><br />
open to attack; capable of being won by force<br />
<br />
'''nacelle'''<br /><br />
the car of a balloon or blimp<br />
<br />
'''corrugated'''<br /><br />
bent into folds<br />
<br />
'''leaf-cutter-ant'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/learning/animals/invertebrates/ant North American ant]<br />
<br />
'''Gore-Tex'''<br /><br />
[http://www.gore-tex.com/remote/Satellite/content/what-is-gore-tex brand name] of material<br />
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==Page 269==<br />
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'''AC'''<br /><br />
Alternating Current<br />
<br />
'''low-lipid'''<br /><br />
i.e., low-fat<br />
<br />
==Endnote 89==<br />
<br />
'''reductive statistics'''<br /><br />
Wallace is talking either about the process in statistics of reducing variables or Schtitt's use of statistics being reductive, i.e., being simplistic<br />
<br />
==Page 269 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''equanimity'''<br /><br />
mental or emotional stability<br />
<br />
'''laissez-faire'''<br /><br />
French for "to let to do," this is a term usually applied to conservative economics but here generally gives a sense of not caring very much.<br />
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==Page 270==<br />
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'''erumpent'''<br /><br />
bursting forth<br />
<br />
'''Boards'''<br /><br />
college entrance examinations<br />
<br />
'''ad'''<br /><br />
a tennis term meaning "advantage" for one or the other player<br />
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<span class="marker">270 · Day and Gately</span><br />
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==Page 270==<br />
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'''Montesian'''<br /><br />
also the name of a [http://oh.lake-link.com/lakes/lake.cfm?LakeID=1515&RegionID=749 lake] in Wisconsin<br />
<br />
'''Lenz'''<br /><br />
German for "springtime"<br />
<br />
'''Goodwill'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.goodwill.org/page/guest/about charity] that redistributes donated goods and clothing<br />
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<br />
'''non sequiturs'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
<br />
'''butter wouldn't melt'''<br /><br />
which is to say, with a certain, probably faked, coolness<br />
<br />
'''macramé'''<br /><br />
a type of fabric-making done by knotting rather than knitting<br />
<br />
'''Paul Harvey'''<br /><br />
Born Paul Harvey Aurandt, Paul Harvey (born 1918) is an American radio broadcaster known for his platitudes.<br />
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==Page 272==<br />
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'''nictitated'''<br /><br />
winking<br />
<br />
'''Quaalude'''<br /><br />
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methaqualone methaqualone]<br />
<br />
'''Malden'''<br /><br />
a northern suburb of Boston, about 7 miles north of the city<br />
<br />
'''egregulous'''<br /><br />
not a real word (possibly egregious + ridiculous)<br />
<br />
==Endnote 90==<br />
<br />
'''ephebe'''<br /><br />
a young man between the ages of 18 and 20<br />
<br />
'''redolent'''<br /><br />
smelling badly<br />
<br />
'''main'''<br /><br />
here meaning "physical strength"<br />
<br />
'''interdicted'''<br /><br />
prohibited<br />
<br />
'''sally'''<br /><br />
a clever remark<br />
<br />
'''mild sedatives'''<br /><br />
Quaaludes are more like a sledgehammer to the head than a "mild sedative."<br />
<br />
'''reductia ad absurdum'''<br /><br />
a misstatement or misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum reductio ad absurdum]<br />
<br />
'''"Simply open wide for the spoon."'''<br /><br />
This is perhaps a reference to a line from William S. Burroughs's ''Naked Lunch'', regarding the time when one realizes "what is at the end of that long newspaper spoon."<br />
<br />
'''"...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?"'''<br /><br />
First things first: 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.<br />
<br />
James Madison, the chief drafter of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, though he opposed in theory the latter, said of the Ninth Amendment: "It has been objected also against a Bill of Rights, that, by enumerating particular exceptions to the grant of power, it would disparage those rights which were not placed in that enumeration; and it might follow by implication, that those rights which were not singled out, were intended to be assigned into the hands of the General Government, and were consequently insecure. This is one of the most plausible arguments I have ever heard against the admission of a bill of rights into this system; but, I conceive, that it may be guarded against. I have attempted it, as gentlemen may see by turning to the last clause of the fourth resolution [i.e., the Ninth Amendment itself]."<br />
<br />
The idea was to limit the powers of Congress to block other rights and limits its powers to what Article One of the Constitution already gave it.<br />
<br />
How this works with the First Amendment's guarantee of the right to petition the government for redress I don't know, because petitioning is not deemed inadvisable, although perhaps it had been. One idea is that by petitioning the government for redress, the government (and specifically Congress) may go beyond its prescribed powers, thus making petitioning inadvisable.<br />
<br />
'''lapped'''<br /><br />
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<br />
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'''iona'''<br /><br />
Iona is an island off the west coast of Scotland. The narrator likely means "iota."<br />
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'''bunko artists'''<br /><br />
con artists<br />
<br />
'''jonesing'''<br /><br />
an addict term for the desire for one's substance of choice<br />
<br />
'''mokus'''<br /><br />
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."<br />
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'''Guy That Didn't Even Use His First Name'''<br /><br />
a joke based on the fact that in recovery programs like AA, people do not use their last names<br />
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'''Spont-Dissem'''<br /><br />
Spontaneous Dissemination, i.e., live as opposed to pre-recorded<br />
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==Endnote 91==<br />
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'''''f''-term'''<br /><br />
i.e., "fag"<br />
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'''Morris Code'''<br /><br />
a misstatement of Morse Code<br />
<br />
'''XSive'''<br /><br />
excessive<br />
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'''east of Atlantic City, NJ'''<br /><br />
which would be either in Europe on the Atlantic Ocean somewhere -- or nowhere<br />
<br />
'''Borderline'''<br /><br />
suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_Personality_Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder]<br />
<br />
'''organic-coke'''<br /><br />
an oxymoronic term, since cocaine is a chemical<br />
<br />
'''Charlestown'''<br /><br />
a suburb to the north of Boston, right over the Charles River<br />
<br />
'''100 grams'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
<br />
'''D.E.A.'''<br /><br />
Drug Enforcement Agency<br />
<br />
'''MP'''<br /><br />
Military Police<br />
<br />
'''Cesar Romero'''<br /><br />
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].<br />
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[[Image:Easter.jpg|thumb|caption|Easter Island statues|right|125px]]<br />
'''Easter Island statue'''<br /><br />
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] <br />
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[[Image:Prince.jpg|thumb|caption|Prince Valiant|right|125px]]<br />
<br />
'''Prince Valiantish haircut'''<br /><br />
''Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur'', or simply ''Prince Valiant'', is a comic strip created by Hal Foster, which began running in 1937. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Valiant Wikipedia]] Prince Valiant's haircut was your basic "bowl" cut, as seen at right.<br />
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'''pince-nez'''<br /><br />
From the French for "pinch-nose," these are glasses without temples to go over the ears.<br />
<br />
'''2F and 1M'''<br /><br />
2 females and 1 male<br />
<br />
'''suppurating'''<br /><br />
oozing pus<br />
<br />
'''Grand Mall epilepsy'''<br /><br />
Gately means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_mal grand mal].<br />
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'''(4)'''<br /><br />
Notice that after listing points (a), (b), and (c) about clichés, Gately moves on to (4) rather than (d).<br />
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==Page 279==<br />
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'''dun'''<br /><br />
grayish-brown<br />
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'''Spiro Agnew'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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'''"...bearing their shields rather than upon them..."'''<br /><br />
The reference is from ''Quotes from Spartan Women'' by Mestrius Plutarchus (Plutarch; AD 45-120), the Greek historian. One translation (from ''On Sparta'' translated by Richard Talbert) cites the source as follows: "Another woman, handing over the shield to her son as he was going off on campaign said: 'Your father always used to keep this safe for you. So you must either keep it safe too, or cease to exist" (p. 187).<br />
<br />
'''distaffs'''<br /><br />
women's groups<br />
<br />
'''dubs'''<br /><br />
doubles<br />
<br />
'''V.D.'''<br /><br />
alternately this could stand for Venereal Disease<br />
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'''Stockhausen'''<br /><br />
German for "stick houses"; 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]<br />
<br />
'''E. A. Abbott'''<br /><br />
Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926) was a British author and theologians 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].<br />
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<br />
'''Disciplinary Lit.'''<br /><br />
a joke on the more common "interdisciplinary" academic classes<br />
<br />
'''Goncharov's ''Oblomov'''''<br /><br />
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].<br />
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'''listing to port'''<br /><br />
a nautical term meaning "leaning leftward"<br />
<br />
'''feeling punk'''<br /><br />
Defined as "weak in spirits or health" in the ''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.''<br />
<br />
'''tincture of benzoin'''<br /><br />
A tincture is a mixture of a drug dissolved in alcohol. Benzoin is a balsamic resin used as an antiseptic and expectorant.<br />
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'''Xing'''<br /><br />
presumably a synonym for copulating with someone<br />
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==Endnote 92==<br />
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'''Perth Amboy NJ'''<br /><br />
a town in northern NJ, about 30 miles southwest of New York<br />
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==Page 282 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''Pierre Trudeau'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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==Page 258==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''halogen'''<br /><br />
Halogens are the following elements -- fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine -- some of which are used in high-powered lamps<br />
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'''the color of sour apples'''<br /><br />
i.e., light green<br />
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==Page 259==<br />
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'''2^27'''<br /><br />
2^27 (2 to the 27th power) = 134,217,728<br />
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'''Montcerf, Québec'''<br /><br />
a city of Québec about 82.5 miles due north of Ottawa<br />
<br />
'''Mercier Dam'''<br /><br />
You can read more about it [http://www.hydroquebec.com/generation/projets/pop/pop_mercier.html here].<br />
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'''Pompano Beach'''<br /><br />
a town in Florida about 10 miles north of Fort Lauderdale<br />
<br />
'''a sepulchral Czech kid named Lendl'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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==Page 260==<br />
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'''Kimberly-Clark'''<br /><br />
an American [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly-Clark corporation] based in Wisconsin<br />
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'''"His Unforced-Error stats look like a decimal-error."'''<br /><br />
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<br />
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==Endnote 86==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.Q.M.D.]]<br />
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==Page 260 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''revenant'''<br /><br />
a person who returns<br />
<br />
'''transom'''<br /><br />
a window above a door<br />
<br />
'''thespio-historical'''<br /><br />
regarding the history of acting<br />
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'''"...had the word ''Homo'' in the title..."'''<br /><br />
The film is James O. Incandenza's ''Homo Duplex''.<br />
<br />
'''quad-function'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_function quadratic function], which produces a parabolic graph result<br />
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==Page 261==<br />
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'''pirouette'''<br /><br />
a spin, in ballet terminology<br />
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==Page 262==<br />
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[[Image:I-beam.jpg|thumb|caption|I-beam|right|120px]]<br />
<br />
'''I-beams'''<br /><br />
standard construction beams made of metal (see right)<br />
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'''hypertonic'''<br /><br />
having rigid, tense muscles<br />
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==Page 263==<br />
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'''undead'''<br /><br />
the state of several unnatural beings (vampires, mummies, zombies, etc.), which is in a state neither live nor dead<br />
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'''kibitzing'''<br /><br />
chatting or conversing<br />
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==Page 264==<br />
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'''whippet'''<br /><br />
a one-inhalation dose of nitrous oxide (laughing gas)<br />
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==Page 265==<br />
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[[Image:YinYang.png|thumb|caption|Yin/Yang symbol|right|120px]]<br />
'''Taoist paraboloid logo'''<br /><br />
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]]<br />
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'''ten m.'''<br /><br />
32.8 feet<br />
<br />
'''VAPS'''<br/><br />
an air traffic control acronym for visual approaches.<br />
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==Page 266==<br />
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'''effete'''<br /><br />
degenerate or decadent<br />
<br />
'''Sinn Fein'''<br /><br />
Irish for "ourselves alone," this is the political wing of the Irish Republican Army.<br />
<br />
'''cruciform'''<br /><br />
in the form of a cross<br />
<br />
'''cuffs'''<br /><br />
rotator cuffs<br />
<br />
'''polybutylene'''<br /><br />
This is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybutylene polymerized butlyene].<br />
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==Page 267==<br />
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'''neurasthenic'''<br /><br />
regarding a syndrome of anxiety, fatigue, pain, etc., caused by exhaustion of the central nervous system<br />
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'''Preludin'''<br /><br />
brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preludin phenmetrazine]<br />
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'''Inv.'''<br /><br />
Invitational<br />
<br />
'''40º C'''<br /><br />
104 degrees Fahrenheit<br />
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==Page 268==<br />
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'''pregnable'''<br /><br />
open to attack; capable of being won by force<br />
<br />
'''nacelle'''<br /><br />
the car of a balloon or blimp<br />
<br />
'''corrugated'''<br /><br />
bent into folds<br />
<br />
'''leaf-cutter-ant'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/learning/animals/invertebrates/ant North American ant]<br />
<br />
'''Gore-Tex'''<br /><br />
[http://www.gore-tex.com/remote/Satellite/content/what-is-gore-tex brand name] of material<br />
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'''AC'''<br /><br />
Alternating Current<br />
<br />
'''low-lipid'''<br /><br />
i.e., low-fat<br />
<br />
==Endnote 89==<br />
<br />
'''reductive statistics'''<br /><br />
Wallace is talking either about the process in statistics of reducing variables or Schtitt's use of statistics being reductive, i.e., being simplistic<br />
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==Page 269 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''equanimity'''<br /><br />
mental or emotional stability<br />
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'''laissez-faire'''<br /><br />
French for "to let to do," this is a term usually applied to conservative economics but here generally gives a sense of not caring very much.<br />
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==Page 270==<br />
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'''erumpent'''<br /><br />
bursting forth<br />
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'''Boards'''<br /><br />
college entrance examinations<br />
<br />
'''ad'''<br /><br />
a tennis term meaning "advantage" for one or the other player<br />
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==Page 270==<br />
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'''Montesian'''<br /><br />
also the name of a [http://oh.lake-link.com/lakes/lake.cfm?LakeID=1515&RegionID=749 lake] in Wisconsin<br />
<br />
'''Lenz'''<br /><br />
German for "springtime"<br />
<br />
'''Goodwill'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.goodwill.org/page/guest/about charity] that redistributes donated goods and clothing<br />
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'''non sequiturs'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
<br />
'''butter wouldn't melt'''<br /><br />
which is to say, with a certain, probably faked, coolness<br />
<br />
'''macramé'''<br /><br />
a type of fabric-making done by knotting rather than knitting<br />
<br />
'''Paul Harvey'''<br /><br />
Born Paul Harvey Aurandt, Paul Harvey (born 1918) is an American radio broadcaster known for his platitudes.<br />
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'''nictitated'''<br /><br />
winking<br />
<br />
'''Quaalude'''<br /><br />
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methaqualone methaqualone]<br />
<br />
'''Malden'''<br /><br />
a northern suburb of Boston, about 7 miles north of the city<br />
<br />
'''egregulous'''<br /><br />
not a real word (possibly egregious + ridiculous)<br />
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==Endnote 90==<br />
<br />
'''ephebe'''<br /><br />
a young man between the ages of 18 and 20<br />
<br />
'''redolent'''<br /><br />
smelling badly<br />
<br />
'''main'''<br /><br />
here meaning "physical strength"<br />
<br />
'''interdicted'''<br /><br />
prohibited<br />
<br />
'''sally'''<br /><br />
a clever remark<br />
<br />
'''mild sedatives'''<br /><br />
Quaaludes are more like a sledgehammer to the head than a "mild sedative."<br />
<br />
'''reductia ad absurdum'''<br /><br />
a misstatement or misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum reductio ad absurdum]<br />
<br />
'''"Simply open wide for the spoon."'''<br /><br />
This is perhaps a reference to a line from William S. Burroughs's ''Naked Lunch'', regarding the time when one realizes "what is at the end of that long newspaper spoon."<br />
<br />
'''"...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?"'''<br /><br />
First things first: 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.<br />
<br />
James Madison, the chief drafter of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, though he opposed in theory the latter, said of the Ninth Amendment: "It has been objected also against a Bill of Rights, that, by enumerating particular exceptions to the grant of power, it would disparage those rights which were not placed in that enumeration; and it might follow by implication, that those rights which were not singled out, were intended to be assigned into the hands of the General Government, and were consequently insecure. This is one of the most plausible arguments I have ever heard against the admission of a bill of rights into this system; but, I conceive, that it may be guarded against. I have attempted it, as gentlemen may see by turning to the last clause of the fourth resolution [i.e., the Ninth Amendment itself]."<br />
<br />
The idea was to limit the powers of Congress to block other rights and limits its powers to what Article One of the Constitution already gave it.<br />
<br />
How this works with the First Amendment's guarantee of the right to petition the government for redress I don't know, because petitioning is not deemed inadvisable, although perhaps it had been. One idea is that by petitioning the government for redress, the government (and specifically Congress) may go beyond its prescribed powers, thus making petitioning inadvisable.<br />
<br />
'''lapped'''<br /><br />
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<br />
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'''iona'''<br /><br />
Iona is an island off the west coast of Scotland. Gately or Francis likely means "iota."<br />
<br />
'''bunko artists'''<br /><br />
con artists<br />
<br />
'''jonesing'''<br /><br />
an addict term for the desire for one's substance of choice<br />
<br />
'''mokus'''<br /><br />
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."<br />
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'''Guy That Didn't Even Use His First Name'''<br /><br />
a joke based on the fact that in recovery programs like AA, people do not use their last names<br />
<br />
'''Spont-Dissem'''<br /><br />
Spontaneous Dissemination, i.e., live as opposed to pre-recorded<br />
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==Endnote 91==<br />
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'''''f''-term'''<br /><br />
i.e., "fag"<br />
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==Page 275 ==<br />
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'''Morris Code'''<br /><br />
a misstatement of Morse Code<br />
<br />
'''XSive'''<br /><br />
excessive<br />
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'''east of Atlantic City, NJ'''<br /><br />
which would be either in Europe on the Atlantic Ocean somewhere -- or nowhere<br />
<br />
'''Borderline'''<br /><br />
suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_Personality_Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder]<br />
<br />
'''organic-coke'''<br /><br />
an oxymoronic term, since cocaine is a chemical<br />
<br />
'''Charlestown'''<br /><br />
a suburb to the north of Boston, right over the Charles River<br />
<br />
'''100 grams'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
<br />
'''D.E.A.'''<br /><br />
Drug Enforcement Agency<br />
<br />
'''MP'''<br /><br />
Military Police<br />
<br />
'''Cesar Romero'''<br /><br />
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].<br />
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[[Image:Easter.jpg|thumb|caption|Easter Island statues|right|125px]]<br />
'''Easter Island statue'''<br /><br />
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] <br />
<br />
[[Image:Prince.jpg|thumb|caption|Prince Valiant|right|125px]]<br />
<br />
'''Prince Valiantish haircut'''<br /><br />
''Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur'', or simply ''Prince Valiant'', is a comic strip created by Hal Foster, which began running in 1937. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Valiant Wikipedia]] Prince Valiant's haircut was your basic "bowl" cut, as seen at right.<br />
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'''pince-nez'''<br /><br />
From the French for "pinch-nose," these are glasses without temples to go over the ears.<br />
<br />
'''2F and 1M'''<br /><br />
2 females and 1 male<br />
<br />
'''suppurating'''<br /><br />
oozing pus<br />
<br />
'''Grand Mall epilepsy'''<br /><br />
Gately means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_mal grand mal].<br />
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'''(4)'''<br /><br />
Notice that after listing points (a), (b), and (c) about clichés, Gately moves on to (4) rather than (d).<br />
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'''dun'''<br /><br />
grayish-brown<br />
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'''Spiro Agnew'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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'''"...bearing their shields rather than upon them..."'''<br /><br />
The reference is from ''Quotes from Spartan Women'' by Mestrius Plutarchus (Plutarch; AD 45-120), the Greek historian. One translation (from ''On Sparta'' translated by Richard Talbert) cites the source as follows: "Another woman, handing over the shield to her son as he was going off on campaign said: 'Your father always used to keep this safe for you. So you must either keep it safe too, or cease to exist" (p. 187).<br />
<br />
'''distaffs'''<br /><br />
women's groups<br />
<br />
'''dubs'''<br /><br />
doubles<br />
<br />
'''V.D.'''<br /><br />
alternately this could stand for Venereal Disease<br />
<br />
'''Stockhausen'''<br /><br />
German for "stick houses"; 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]<br />
<br />
'''E. A. Abbott'''<br /><br />
Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926) was a British author and theologians 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].<br />
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==Page 282==<br />
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'''Disciplinary Lit.'''<br /><br />
a joke on the more common "interdisciplinary" academic classes<br />
<br />
'''Goncharov's ''Oblomov'''''<br /><br />
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].<br />
<br />
'''listing to port'''<br /><br />
a nautical term meaning "leaning leftward"<br />
<br />
'''feeling punk'''<br /><br />
Defined as "weak in spirits or health" in the ''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.''<br />
<br />
'''tincture of benzoin'''<br /><br />
A tincture is a mixture of a drug dissolved in alcohol. Benzoin is a balsamic resin used as an antiseptic and expectorant.<br />
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'''Xing'''<br /><br />
presumably a synonym for copulating with someone<br />
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'''Perth Amboy NJ'''<br /><br />
a town in northern NJ, about 30 miles southwest of New York<br />
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'''Pierre Trudeau'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''halogen'''<br /><br />
Halogens are the following elements -- fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine -- some of which are used in high-powered lamps<br />
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'''the color of sour apples'''<br /><br />
i.e., light green<br />
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'''2^27'''<br /><br />
2^27 (2 to the 27th power) = 134,217,728<br />
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'''Montcerf, Québec'''<br /><br />
a city of Québec about 82.5 miles due north of Ottawa<br />
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'''Mercier Dam'''<br /><br />
You can read more about it [http://www.hydroquebec.com/generation/projets/pop/pop_mercier.html here].<br />
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'''Pompano Beach'''<br /><br />
a town in Florida about 10 miles north of Fort Lauderdale<br />
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'''a sepulchral Czech kid named Lendl'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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'''Kimberly-Clark'''<br /><br />
an American [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly-Clark corporation] based in Wisconsin<br />
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'''"His Unforced-Error stats look like a decimal-error."'''<br /><br />
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<br />
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==Endnote 86==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.Q.M.D.]]<br />
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'''revenant'''<br /><br />
a person who returns<br />
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'''transom'''<br /><br />
a window above a door<br />
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'''thespio-historical'''<br /><br />
regarding the history of acting<br />
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'''"...had the word ''Homo'' in the title..."'''<br /><br />
The film is James O. Incandenza's ''Homo Duplex''.<br />
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'''quad-function'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_function quadratic function], which produces a parabolic graph result<br />
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'''pirouette'''<br /><br />
a spin, in ballet terminology<br />
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[[Image:I-beam.jpg|thumb|caption|I-beam|right|120px]]<br />
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'''I-beams'''<br /><br />
standard construction beams made of metal (see right)<br />
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'''hypertonic'''<br /><br />
having rigid, tense muscles<br />
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'''undead'''<br /><br />
the state of several unnatural beings (vampires, mummies, zombies, etc.), which is in a state neither live nor dead<br />
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'''kibitzing'''<br /><br />
chatting or conversing<br />
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'''whippet'''<br /><br />
a one-inhalation dose of nitrous oxide (laughing gas)<br />
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[[Image:YinYang.png|thumb|caption|Yin/Yang symbol|right|120px]]<br />
'''Taoist paraboloid logo'''<br /><br />
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]]<br />
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'''ten m.'''<br /><br />
32.8 feet<br />
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'''VAPS'''<br/><br />
an air traffic control acronym for visual approaches.<br />
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'''effete'''<br /><br />
degenerate or decadent<br />
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'''Sinn Fein'''<br /><br />
Irish for "ourselves alone," this is the political wing of the Irish Republican Army.<br />
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'''cruciform'''<br /><br />
in the form of a cross<br />
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'''cuffs'''<br /><br />
rotator cuffs<br />
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'''polybutylene'''<br /><br />
This is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybutylene polymerized butlyene].<br />
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'''neurasthenic'''<br /><br />
regarding a syndrome of anxiety, fatigue, pain, etc., caused by exhaustion of the central nervous system<br />
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'''Preludin'''<br /><br />
brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preludin phenmetrazine]<br />
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'''Inv.'''<br /><br />
Invitational<br />
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'''40º C'''<br /><br />
104 degrees Fahrenheit<br />
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'''pregnable'''<br /><br />
open to attack; capable of being won by force<br />
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'''nacelle'''<br /><br />
the car of a balloon or blimp<br />
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'''corrugated'''<br /><br />
bent into folds<br />
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'''leaf-cutter-ant'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/learning/animals/invertebrates/ant North American ant]<br />
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'''Gore-Tex'''<br /><br />
[http://www.gore-tex.com/remote/Satellite/content/what-is-gore-tex brand name] of material<br />
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'''AC'''<br /><br />
Alternating Current<br />
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'''low-lipid'''<br /><br />
i.e., low-fat<br />
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==Endnote 89==<br />
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'''reductive statistics'''<br /><br />
Wallace is talking either about the process in statistics of reducing variables or Schtitt's use of statistics being reductive, i.e., being simplistic<br />
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'''equanimity'''<br /><br />
mental or emotional stability<br />
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'''laissez-faire'''<br /><br />
French for "to let to do," this is a term usually applied to conservative economics but here generally gives a sense of not caring very much.<br />
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'''erumpent'''<br /><br />
bursting forth<br />
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'''Boards'''<br /><br />
college entrance examinations<br />
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'''ad'''<br /><br />
a tennis term meaning "advantage" for one or the other player<br />
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'''Montesian'''<br /><br />
also the name of a [http://oh.lake-link.com/lakes/lake.cfm?LakeID=1515&RegionID=749 lake] in Wisconsin<br />
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'''Lenz'''<br /><br />
German for "springtime"<br />
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'''Goodwill'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.goodwill.org/page/guest/about charity] that redistributes donated goods and clothing<br />
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'''non sequiturs'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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'''butter wouldn't melt'''<br /><br />
which is to say, with a certain, probably faked, coolness<br />
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'''macramé'''<br /><br />
a type of fabric-making done by knotting rather than knitting<br />
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'''Paul Harvey'''<br /><br />
Born Paul Harvey Aurandt, Paul Harvey (born 1918) is an American radio broadcaster known for his platitudes.<br />
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'''nictitated'''<br /><br />
winking<br />
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'''Quaalude'''<br /><br />
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methaqualone methaqualone]<br />
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'''Malden'''<br /><br />
a northern suburb of Boston, about 7 miles north of the city<br />
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'''egregulous'''<br /><br />
not a real word (possibly egregious + ridiculous)<br />
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'''ephebe'''<br /><br />
a young man between the ages of 18 and 20<br />
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'''redolent'''<br /><br />
smelling badly<br />
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'''main'''<br /><br />
here meaning "physical strength"<br />
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'''interdicted'''<br /><br />
prohibited<br />
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'''sally'''<br /><br />
a clever remark<br />
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'''mild sedatives'''<br /><br />
Quaaludes are more like a sledgehammer to the head than a "mild sedative."<br />
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'''reductia ad absurdum'''<br /><br />
a misstatement or misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum reductio ad absurdum]<br />
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'''"Simply open wide for the spoon."'''<br /><br />
This is perhaps a reference to a line from William S. Burroughs's ''Naked Lunch'', regarding the time when one realizes "what is at the end of that long newspaper spoon."<br />
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'''"...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?"'''<br /><br />
First things first: 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.<br />
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James Madison, the chief drafter of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, though he opposed in theory the latter, said of the Ninth Amendment: "It has been objected also against a Bill of Rights, that, by enumerating particular exceptions to the grant of power, it would disparage those rights which were not placed in that enumeration; and it might follow by implication, that those rights which were not singled out, were intended to be assigned into the hands of the General Government, and were consequently insecure. This is one of the most plausible arguments I have ever heard against the admission of a bill of rights into this system; but, I conceive, that it may be guarded against. I have attempted it, as gentlemen may see by turning to the last clause of the fourth resolution [i.e., the Ninth Amendment itself]."<br />
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The idea was to limit the powers of Congress to block other rights and limits its powers to what Article One of the Constitution already gave it.<br />
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How this works with the First Amendment's guarantee of the right to petition the government for redress I don't know, because petitioning is not deemed inadvisable, although perhaps it had been. One idea is that by petitioning the government for redress, the government (and specifically Congress) may go beyond its prescribed powers, thus making petitioning inadvisable.<br />
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'''lapped'''<br /><br />
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<br />
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'''iona'''<br /><br />
Iona, an island off the west coast of Scotland. Gately or Francis likely means "iota."<br />
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'''bunko artists'''<br /><br />
con artists<br />
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'''jonesing'''<br /><br />
an addict term for the desire for one's substance of choice<br />
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'''mokus'''<br /><br />
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."<br />
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'''Guy That Didn't Even Use His First Name'''<br /><br />
a joke based on the fact that in recovery programs like AA, people do not use their last names<br />
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'''Spont-Dissem'''<br /><br />
Spontaneous Dissemination, i.e., live as opposed to pre-recorded<br />
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'''''f''-term'''<br /><br />
i.e., "fag"<br />
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'''Morris Code'''<br /><br />
a misstatement of Morse Code<br />
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'''XSive'''<br /><br />
excessive<br />
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'''east of Atlantic City, NJ'''<br /><br />
which would be either in Europe on the Atlantic Ocean somewhere -- or nowhere<br />
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'''Borderline'''<br /><br />
suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_Personality_Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder]<br />
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'''organic-coke'''<br /><br />
an oxymoronic term, since cocaine is a chemical<br />
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'''Charlestown'''<br /><br />
a suburb to the north of Boston, right over the Charles River<br />
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'''100 grams'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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'''D.E.A.'''<br /><br />
Drug Enforcement Agency<br />
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'''MP'''<br /><br />
Military Police<br />
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'''Cesar Romero'''<br /><br />
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].<br />
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[[Image:Easter.jpg|thumb|caption|Easter Island statues|right|125px]]<br />
'''Easter Island statue'''<br /><br />
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] <br />
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[[Image:Prince.jpg|thumb|caption|Prince Valiant|right|125px]]<br />
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'''Prince Valiantish haircut'''<br /><br />
''Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur'', or simply ''Prince Valiant'', is a comic strip created by Hal Foster, which began running in 1937. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Valiant Wikipedia]] Prince Valiant's haircut was your basic "bowl" cut, as seen at right.<br />
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'''pince-nez'''<br /><br />
From the French for "pinch-nose," these are glasses without temples to go over the ears.<br />
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'''2F and 1M'''<br /><br />
2 females and 1 male<br />
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'''suppurating'''<br /><br />
oozing pus<br />
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'''Grand Mall epilepsy'''<br /><br />
Gately means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_mal grand mal].<br />
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'''(4)'''<br /><br />
Notice that after listing points (a), (b), and (c) about clichés, Gately moves on to (4) rather than (d).<br />
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'''dun'''<br /><br />
grayish-brown<br />
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'''Spiro Agnew'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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'''"...bearing their shields rather than upon them..."'''<br /><br />
The reference is from ''Quotes from Spartan Women'' by Mestrius Plutarchus (Plutarch; AD 45-120), the Greek historian. One translation (from ''On Sparta'' translated by Richard Talbert) cites the source as follows: "Another woman, handing over the shield to her son as he was going off on campaign said: 'Your father always used to keep this safe for you. So you must either keep it safe too, or cease to exist" (p. 187).<br />
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'''distaffs'''<br /><br />
women's groups<br />
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'''dubs'''<br /><br />
doubles<br />
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'''V.D.'''<br /><br />
alternately this could stand for Venereal Disease<br />
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'''Stockhausen'''<br /><br />
German for "stick houses"; 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]<br />
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'''E. A. Abbott'''<br /><br />
Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926) was a British author and theologians 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].<br />
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'''Disciplinary Lit.'''<br /><br />
a joke on the more common "interdisciplinary" academic classes<br />
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'''Goncharov's ''Oblomov'''''<br /><br />
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].<br />
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'''listing to port'''<br /><br />
a nautical term meaning "leaning leftward"<br />
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'''feeling punk'''<br /><br />
Defined as "weak in spirits or health" in the ''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.''<br />
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'''tincture of benzoin'''<br /><br />
A tincture is a mixture of a drug dissolved in alcohol. Benzoin is a balsamic resin used as an antiseptic and expectorant.<br />
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'''Xing'''<br /><br />
presumably a synonym for copulating with someone<br />
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'''Perth Amboy NJ'''<br /><br />
a town in northern NJ, about 30 miles southwest of New York<br />
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'''Pierre Trudeau'''<br /><br />
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.<br />
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