https://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Alentravorski&feedformat=atomDavid Foster Wallace Wiki : Infinite Jest - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T15:29:24ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.25.1https://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_934-964&diff=1552Pages 934-9642012-06-22T16:06:12Z<p>Alentravorski: Hal remembers climbing cement steps to a "gambrel-roofed late-Victorian." Gabrel can also mean a roof (source: thefreedictionary.com), not just the hock of an animal.</p>
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=Gately and Fackelmann continued=<br />
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'''recursive'''<br /><br />
capable of being used repeatedly<br />
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'''some creepy thing'''<br /><br />
the creepy thing Gately and Fackelmann watch may be J.O Incandenza's ''Various Small Flames'', see Endnote 24<br />
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'''retsin'''<br /><br />
the supposed active ingredient in Certs breath mints<br />
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'''Ciao Bello'''<br /><br />
Italian: Goodbye, Handsome<br />
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'''corrode'''<br /><br />
to eat away at; to rust<br />
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'''ICBM'''<br /><br />
intercontinental ballistic missile<br />
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'''boot'''<br /><br />
junkie slang for injecting drugs<br />
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'''imprimatur'''<br /><br />
sanction or approval<br />
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'''bonded'''<br /><br />
Sorkin had put up Gately's bail.<br />
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'''ruddled'''<br /><br />
reddened<br />
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'''serration'''<br /><br />
notches in the edges<br />
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'''belled'''<br /><br />
rang like a bell<br />
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=Joelle Talks About the Entertainment=<br />
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'''epicene'''<br /><br />
androgynous<br />
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'''bassinet'''<br /><br />
an oblong basket for a baby<br />
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'''catadioptric'''<br /><br />
produced by reflection and refraction simultaneously<br />
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'''astigmatic'''<br /><br />
failing to have light rays converge on a single point<br />
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=Hal Narrates (Still)=<br />
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'''slight tremble of something hanging from the tip of a pipette'''<br /><br />
A pipette is a type of thin glass tube used in chemistry, and the something trembling would be a drop of some liquid, I suspect...<br />
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'''Thtithe fickn meth'''<br /><br />
Coyle is probably trying to say, "Stice fucking mess."<br />
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'''panic-attack'''<br /><br />
another term for an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_attack anxiety attack]<br />
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'''rank amateurs'''<br /><br />
complete/total amateurs<br />
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'''pernicious'''<br /><br />
harmful<br />
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'''Brecht'''<br /><br />
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (1898-1956) was a German playwright, poet, and director.<br />
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'''Glen Riddle, Pennsylvania'''<br /><br />
a suburb of Philadelphia, about twenty miles west<br />
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'''DeNiro'''<br /><br />
Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. (born 1943), is an Academy Award winning American actor, cast by Scorsese in [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070379/ Mean Streets] and several times thereafter.<br />
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'''McLachlin'''<br /><br />
a misspelling of Kyle MacLachlan (born 1959), an American actor whose second film was [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/ Blue Velvet]<br />
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'''Lynch'''<br /><br />
David Keith Lynch (born 1946) is an American filmmaker.<br />
David Lynch and Kyle MacLachlan worked together on the movies Dune (1984), Blue Velvet (1986), and the TV series Twin Peaks (1990-1991).<br />
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'''Allen to Allen'''<br /><br />
a reference to American director Woody Allen (born 1935 as Allen Stewart Königsberg), who casts himself in most of his films<br />
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'''temporal-lobe'''<br /><br />
the part of the brain involved in hearing, speeech, and vision<br />
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'''familiar foil packet'''<br /><br />
i.e., a condom<br />
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'''ascot'''<br /><br />
a neck scarf<br />
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[[Image:FDR.jpg|thumb|caption|FDR and his filter|right|200px]]<br />
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'''long white FDR-style filter'''<br /><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt], the 32nd President of the United States. He often used a cigarette holder as seen in the photo on the right.<br />
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'''canopied'''<br /><br />
framed with curtains<br />
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'''boudoir'''<br /><br />
a bedroom or private sitting room<br />
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'''ponce'''<br /><br />
an effeminate man<br />
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'''"...an old-fashioned one-sharp-sided razor..."'''<br /><br />
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'''Pheromonic Musk'''<br /><br />
a scent designed to emit pheromones, or a chemical that attracts the opposite sex<br />
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'''chartreuse'''<br /><br />
bright yellowish-green<br />
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'''500 seconds'''<br /><br />
8 minutes and 20 seconds<br />
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'''conundra'''<br /><br />
insoluble questions<br />
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'''sinkhole'''<br /><br />
a depressed area into which waste collects<br />
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'''pratfall'''<br /><br />
a fall on one's rear<br />
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'''two-meter'''<br /><br />
about 6.56 feet<br />
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'''Nor'easter'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nor%27easter type of storm] common to the Northeast U.S.<br />
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'''snorkels'''<br /><br />
tubes for breathing<br />
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'''pugnacious'''<br /><br />
having a tendency to fistfight<br />
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'''snifter'''<br /><br />
a glass with a wide bottom that narrows at the top, for drinking brandy<br />
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'''twidgeling'''<br /><br />
not a real word<br />
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'''Hancock tower'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_Tower skyscraper] in Boston<br />
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'''mimesis'''<br /><br />
the imitation of aspects in the sensible world<br />
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'''sinciput'''<br /><br />
the upper part of the skull<br />
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'''convolutions'''<br /><br />
folds on the surface of the brain<br />
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'''filigree'''<br /><br />
intricate ornamentation usually consisting of twisted metal wire/ribbons on, say, a fence<br />
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'''Lindisfarne Gospels'''<br /><br />
an Old English text of the Gospels found in England<br />
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'''hyperfertilized'''<br /><br />
given too much fertilizer<br />
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'''finial'''<br /><br />
an architectural device used to top a gable<br />
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'''defile'''<br /><br />
a narrow passage<br />
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'''neutered'''<br /><br />
castrated<br />
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'''topiary'''<br /><br />
a sculptured shrub or bush<br />
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'''gambrel'''<br /><br />
usually means the hock of an animal, particularly a horse, but here it's referring to a double sloping roof, like on a barn or church.<br />
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[[File:Fritz_lang_directing_metropolis.jpg|thumb|right|The photo of Fritz Lang directing Metropolis. Also appeared on the copy of ''The Cinema Book'' that Wallace owned[http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/culturalcompass/2010/03/08/infinite-possibilities-a-first-glimpse-into-david-foster-wallace%E2%80%99s-library/][http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/fb/e8/0eb681b0c8a03b9679fea110._AA240_.L.jpg], and was one of the photographs Wallace considered using on the cover of ''Infinite Jest'' (mentioned in ''Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself'').]]<br />
'''framed print of Lang directing Metropolis'''<br /><br />
See photo.<br />
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'''etagere'''<br /><br />
a stand with a series of open shelves<br />
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'''delfts'''<br /><br />
type of earthenware<br />
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'''claret'''<br /><br />
red wine<br />
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'''Hagia Sophia and S. Simeon'''<br /><br />
Hagia Sophia is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia mosque] in Istanbul that had been a Byzantine basilica. S. Simeon refers to the ruins of a monastery named for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Stylites Simeon Stylites].<br />
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'''Qal'at Si'man'''<br /><br />
Arabic for "Saint Simeon"<br />
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'''Levirates'''<br /><br />
men required to marry their brothers' widows<br />
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'''''maniera greca'''''<br /><br />
a style of Italian painting ("Greek style") popular in the early Renaissance<br />
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'''half a meter'''<br /><br />
about 1.64 feet<br />
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'''hyperemic'''<br /><br />
an unusual amount of blood in part of the body<br />
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'''seraglio'''<br /><br />
the living quarters of a Turkish harem<br />
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'''fieldstone'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fieldstone construction material]<br />
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'''varicotic'''<br /><br />
having varicose veins<br />
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'''onyx'''<br /><br />
a deep black form of quartz<br />
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'''kyphotic'''<br /><br />
having abnormal curvature of the spine<br />
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'''climacteric'''<br /><br />
A period of decrease in reproductive capacity; in women, menopause.<br />
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'''Infantilist'''<br /><br />
While the term can mean a type of paraphilia in which one dresses up like a baby, here Hal more likely means a pediatrician that treats patients like babies.<br />
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'''koans'''<br /><br />
in Zen Buddhism, statements that defy rational explanation upon which to meditate<br />
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'''misnomer'''<br /><br />
a misapplied name or designation<br />
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'''''The Green Door'''''<br /><br />
The full title is [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068260/ Behind the Green Door].<br />
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'''''Deep Throat'''''<br /><br />
a pornographic film starring [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001483/ Linda Lovelace]<br />
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'''jism'''<br /><br />
slang for semen<br />
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'''interrogatives'''<br /><br />
questions<br />
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'''expatriates'''<br /><br />
people living outside their countries of origin<br />
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'''Faulknerian'''<br /><br />
recollecting the style or manner of William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897-1962), American novelist<br />
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'''aspirating'''<br /><br />
inhaling<br />
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=After the Interview=<br />
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'''She'''<br /><br />
i.e., Joelle<br />
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'''Middlesex County'''<br /><br />
a county comprising most of the suburbs northwest and west of Boston<br />
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=Hi, Mikey=<br />
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'''the hook'''<br /><br />
presumably, the sister's hand<br />
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'''boatayouse'''<br /><br />
i.e., "both of you"<br />
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'''a hundred m.'s'''<br /><br />
a little over 328 feet<br />
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=The Assistant District Attorney=<br />
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'''easement'''<br /><br />
a convenience<br />
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'''Suffolk County'''<br /><br />
the county in Massachusetts where Boston is<br />
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'''McDonald's House'''<br /><br />
a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_McDonald_House Ronald McDonald House Charities], which provides housing for the parents of children undergoing intensive medical care<br />
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'''Tooty'''<br /><br />
apparently the ADA's wife<br />
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'''Fourth- and Eighth-Step'''<br /><br />
"Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves" and "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all," respectively<br />
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'''weal'''<br /><br />
welfare<br />
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'''peroxide'''<br /><br />
hydrogen peroxide (H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>), used as a bleach and whitener<br />
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'''NoCoat LinguaScraper'''<br /><br />
Fictional product mentioned on [http://wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_127-156#Page_151 Page 151].<br />
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