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=November 20th, YDAU - Pre-Exhibition Fête=<br />
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==Page 964==<br />
'''Gaudeamus Igitur'''<br /><br />
Latin: " so let us rejoice", an ancient academic drinking song now popular as a graduation hymn, whose text pokes fun at university life and urges students to enjoy life while they can.<br />
<br />
'''claret-colored'''<br /><br />
A deep purplish red. Claret is also the name of a wine that is produced in the Bordeaux region of France and slang for 'blood'.[http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fuller's+earth]<br />
<br />
'''fuller's earth or sawdust'''<br /><br />
Fuller's earth is an absorbent clay that is used in talcum powder. Sawdust and chalk (talcum) are used by tennis players to keep their grip dry. <br />
[http://www.usta.com/USTA/Global/Archive/News/Lessons/Lessons/444102_The_Final_Word_Chalking_Up.aspx]<br />
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'''shifted antigens'''<br /><br />
An antigenic shift generally refers to the medical term that explains how two strains of the influenza virus join together to form a new subtype and, in turn, become more virulent. The new subtype has a mixture of the antigens from the originals. An antigen is the substance that stimulates the immune system. [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/926623/antigenic-shift]<br />
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It's used here to refer to rumors about severe weather and the Quebec Junior Team. These rumors undergo an antigenic shift as they circulate around the locker room. They combine and are reconstituted as a new rumor before being returned to the rumor's originator. <br /><br />
<br />
'''the Csikszentmihalyi kid was doing a kind of piaffer'''<br /><br />
A piaffer is a trot in place where the legs are lifted high. This type of trot is usually done by a horse, but it's part of the 'Csikszentmihalyi kid's' pre-game ritual to stretch his hip flexors. <br/><br />
<br />
The name Csikszentmihalyi may be a humorous nod to the Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi who is noted for his work in happiness and creativity. He is known as the world's leading researcher on positive psychology and proposed the concept of <i>Flow</i>. Flow is the mental state whereby a person is fully immersed and focused on an activity <i>(such as Tennis)</i>. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi]<br /><br />
<br />
'''hip-flexors'''<br /><br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_flexor muscles] that move the hip<br />
<br />
'''an ascot or a very fey tie'''<br /><br />
An ascot is a scarf or tie with broad ends typically worn for formal occasions[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascot_tie]. If the tie <i>very fey</i>, it is excessively refined [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fey] or fancy to the point that it could be confused with an ascot.<br />
<br />
'''astringent'''<br /><br />
a substance or preparation, such as alum, that draws together or constricts body tissues and is effective in stopping the flow of blood or other secretions<br />
<br />
'''invoking Camilla, goddess of speed and light step'''<br /><br />
Camilla of Volsci, a heroine from Roman Mythology, found in Virgil's prose and ancient pottery paintings. Virgil claimed Camilla was so fast that she could run across the ocean without wetting her feet and across fields of grain without bending the grass. [http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Camilla_(mythology)] To 'invoke' is to petition for help with an incantation.[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/invoking]<br />
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'''Frankenstein'''<br /><br />
or, more correctly, Frankenstein's monster<br />
<br />
'''Hal'''<br /><br />
who is clearly not narrating anymore, unless he is speaking of himself in the third person<br />
<br />
'''malleolus'''<br /><br />
a bony lump on the side of the ankle<br />
<br />
'''Joni Mitchell'''<br /><br />
Joni Mitchell (born Roberta Joan Anderson in 1943) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter and painter. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_Mitchell Wikipedia Entry].<br />
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'''occluded'''<br /><br />
Closed off, shut in, or blocked off [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/occlude]<br />
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'''they all in here existed basically as Fourier Transforms of postures and little routines'''<br/><br />
<br />
A Fourier transform is a mathematical operation that transforms one function into another. This type of transform is named in honour of Joseph Fourier. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fourier] To exist basically as Fourier Transforms of postures and routines is to exist as an abstraction where a student is trained in postures and routines is transformed into tennis player capable of executing a variation of those postures and routines.<br />
<br />
It is also worth noting that the Fourier transform converts a signal from the time domain (that is, that the signal is a function of time) to the frequency domain (no longer a function of time but of frequency, the function being composed of wave functions). The implication being that all the "postures and little routines" are composed of repeated actions (analogous to the waves that make up a Fourier series) and can be expressed in a time independent manner.<br />
<br />
'''ingenuish'''<br /><br />
in the manner of an ingenue, an innocent young woman<br />
<br />
'''moribund'''<br /><br />
nearing death or in a terminal decline [http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/moribund?view=uk]<br />
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'''Y.T.M.P.'''<br /><br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]<br />
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'''ciquatoxic'''<br /><br />
An alternate or mispelling of 'ciguatoxic'. Reef fish can carry ciguatoxins, which cause ciguatera food poisoning [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciguatera] in humans who consume the contaminated fish. These toxins may be specific to certain reefs, are concentrated up the food chain and as such are more likely to be present in larger reef fish, and cannot be destroyed by cooking and freezing. For more, see [http://www.livefoodfishtrade.org/definitions.htm here]. <br />
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'''R.C. clergy'''<br /><br />
Roman Catholic priesthood<br />
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'''P.O.'''<br /><br />
philharmonic orchestra<br />
<br />
'''Carmelite'''<br /><br />
a member of the Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a Catholic order.<br />
<br />
'''liniment''' <br /><br />
a liquid preparation rubbed into the skin or gums as a counterirritant, rubefacient, anodyne, or cleansing agent<br />
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'''Sanger-Brown's ataxia'''<br /><br />
another name for [http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/1672.html Marie's ataxia]<br />
<br />
'''St. John's Seminary'''<br /><br />
an actual institution in Brighton<br />
<br />
'''reading his hours'''<br /><br />
The Liturgy of the Hours is the set of daily prayers prescribed by the Catholic Church as part of the canonical obligation of those ordained as deacons. The prayers take place throughout the day: Matins or Vigils, during the night; Lauds or Dawn Prayer; Prime or Early Morning Prayer; Terce or Mid-Morning Prayer; Sext or Midday Prayer; None or Mid-Afternoon Prayer; Vespers or Evening Prayer; Compline or Night prayer.<br />
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'''practicum'''<br /><br />
the student-teaching portion of a teaching education<br />
<br />
'''spiritually necrotic'''<br /><br />
Necrosis usually refers to the localized death of cells within healthy tissue. To be spiritually necrotic is akin to having a dead spirit in an otherwise healthy body.<br />
<br />
'''Jesuitical Endeavors'''<br /><br />
An endeavor is a purposeful undertaking that requires boldness. Jesuitical endeavors are those undertaken as part of a Jesuit ministry.<br />
<br />
'''Numero Uno'''<br /><br />
Spanish for ''Number One'', used here as an expression to mean concern about only oneself.<br />
<br />
'''Flexor carpi ulnaris muscle'''<br /><br />
Muscle in the side of the forearm, used to twist the hand side to side, thus important when tossing playing cards.<br />
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'''ineluctable'''<br /><br />
incapable of being avoided or changed <br />
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'''Apologia'''<br /><br />
An Apologia is a defense of one's beliefs, religious or other. Here, Barry is out of his league in his ability to put up a good defense of the religious beliefs that may help get his brother out of his own spiritual funk.<br />
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'''self-mimetic'''<br /><br />
imitating one's self<br />
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'''not that much unlike Alyosha and Ivan's conversations in the good old ''Brothers K''.'''<br /><br />
''The Brother's Karamazov'' is a novel by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881). Ivan and Alyosha, main characters in the novel, are siblings. Alyosha has a faith in God that manifests in a love of mankind and Ivan is a rationalist who is burdened by his inability or unwillingness to believe in a God that could preside over an unjust world. In the novel the brothers, Ivan and Alyosha, discuss their opposing beliefs. <br />
<br />
'''erudite'''<br /><br />
scholarly<br />
<br />
'''carcinogenic'''<br /><br />
causing cancer<br />
<br />
'''acerbity'''<br /><br />
acidity<br />
<br />
'''Ivan's Grand Inquisitor scenario'''<br /><br />
Read this portion [http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/philosophy/existentialism/dostoevsky/grand.html here].<br />
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'''lumpen'''<br /><br />
marginalized; uneducated and/or unenlightened; disenfranchised<br />
<br />
'''solar plexus'''<br /><br />
a complex of nerves in the abdomen. Taking blows to the solar plexus refers to the sensation of "having the wind knocked out of you", as the solar plexus is involved in the autonomic activity of respiration.<br />
<br />
'''verminousness'''<br /><br />
resembling vermin<br />
<br />
'''mufti'''<br /><br />
civilian dress; also a name for a type of Muslim scholar<br />
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'''alms'''<br /><br />
charity<br />
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'''silt'''<br /><br />
very small grains of rock or sand<br />
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'''fuliginous'''<br /><br />
smoky or sooty<br />
<br />
'''50° C'''<br /><br />
122° Fahrenheit<br />
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=Orin=<br />
==Page 971==<br />
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==Page 972==<br />
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''''Do it to her!''' '''''Do it to her!''''''<br/><br />
a reference to George Orwell's 1984. Winston Smith shouts 'Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia!' under similar circumstances.<br />
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'''ham'''<br /><br />
an actor who is bad by virtue of over-acting<br />
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=Final Chapter=<br />
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==Page 972==<br />
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'''confiteor'''<br /><br />
a prayer of confession of sins<br />
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==Page 973==<br />
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==Endnote 385==<br />
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'''gram-negative'''<br /><br />
This refers to a bacterium that does not show up in a violet stain using Gram's method; in other words, the doctor suspects that Gately has a particularly resistant strain of bacteria within his body, which previous antibiotics given to him have been ineffective in eliminating.<br />
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==Page 973 (cont.)==<br />
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'''...look down her shirt and spell ''attic''...'''<br /><br />
and thus saying, "A-T-T-I-C" or "a titty I see"<br />
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''''The truth will [you] set you free,...''''<br /><br />
See the Gospel of John 8:32.<br />
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==Page 974==<br />
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'''vertical hold'''<br /><br />
the control on a television that prevents the picture from rolling bottom to top<br />
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==Page 975==<br />
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[[Image:Weejun.jpg|thumb|right|Men's cordovan Bass Weejun]]<br />
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'''Weejuns'''<br /><br />
G. H. Bass & Co.'s tradename for its line of men's and women's penny loafer shoes (see right)<br />
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==Page 976==<br />
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'''Jack Daniels'''<br /><br />
a famous brand of bourbon whiskey<br />
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'''S&W'''<br /><br />
Smith & Wesson<br />
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'''"The contorted face... "'''<br /><br />
The painting of Whitey Sorkin is the same one that had Hal "popping Nunhagen compulsively until his ears started ringing" when it appeared in the advertisement for Nunhagen Aspirin Co. created by Viney and Veals Advertising. See footnote 162.<br />
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'''2500-IU ampule'''<br /><br />
IUs are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_unit international units], which converts to metric depending on the substance.<br />
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'''transvestals'''<br /><br />
i.e., transvestites<br />
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==Page 978==<br />
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==Endnote 386==<br />
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'''Exocet'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exocet missile]<br />
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'''antagonists'''<br /><br />
a drug that acts against an agonist, i.e., a drug that stimulates a certain receptor<br />
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==Page 978 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''Linda McCartney'''<br /><br />
Linda Louise, Lady McCartney (1941-1998) was an American photographer and wife of Beatle Paul McCartney (born 1943).<br />
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'''"....somebody had taken an old disk of McCartney and Wings [...] and run it through a Kurtzweil remixer and removed every track on the songs except the tracks of poor old Mrs. Linda McCartney singing backup and playing tambourine"'''<br /><br />
An alleged isolated vocal track of Linda McCartney singing along to "Hey Jude" at a concert did circulate, but the production itself may have been a hoax. For more, see [http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/03/audio_hoaxes_an.html here].<br />
Kurtzweil appears to be a misspelling of Kurzweil, referring to Ray Kurzweil, an inventor in audio and speech technologies, artificial intelligence, and futurist author. See<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil].<br />
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==Endnote 387==<br />
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'''pentazocine'''<br /><br />
a synethetic opioid painkiller<br />
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==Endnote 387a==<br />
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'''dysmenorrhea'''<br /><br />
pre-menstrual syndrome and/or painful periods<br />
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'''PX'''<br /><br />
with a pharmaceutical as part of the name, it means it contains pentazocine<br />
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==Page 979==<br />
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'''hot shot'''<br /><br />
an injection intended to kill<br />
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==Page 980==<br />
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'''ditty'''<br /><br />
a little song<br />
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==Page 981==<br />
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'''"...the one about ultraviolence and sadism."'''<br /><br />
Gately is thinking of Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/ "A Clockwork Orange."]<br />
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'''"...the last thing Gately saw was an Oriental bearing down with the held square and he looked into the square and saw clearly a reflection of his own big square pale head with its eyes closing as the floor finally pounced."'''<br /><br />
See page 934: "He dreams he looks in a mirror and sees nothing and keeps trying to clean the mirror with his sleeve."<br />
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=November 20th, YDAU - Pre-Exhibition Fête=<br />
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==Page 964==<br />
'''Gaudeamus Igitur'''<br /><br />
Latin: " so let us rejoice", an ancient academic drinking song now popular as a graduation hymn, whose text pokes fun at university life and urges students to enjoy life while they can.<br />
<br />
'''claret-colored'''<br /><br />
A deep purplish red. Claret is also the name of a wine that is produced in the Bordeaux region of France and slang for 'blood'.[http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fuller's+earth]<br />
<br />
'''fuller's earth or sawdust'''<br /><br />
Fuller's earth is an absorbent clay that is used in talcum powder. Sawdust and chalk (talcum) are used by tennis players to keep their grip dry. <br />
[http://www.usta.com/USTA/Global/Archive/News/Lessons/Lessons/444102_The_Final_Word_Chalking_Up.aspx]<br />
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'''shifted antigens'''<br /><br />
An antigenic shift generally refers to the medical term that explains how two strains of the influenza virus join together to form a new subtype and, in turn, become more virulent. The new subtype has a mixture of the antigens from the originals. An antigen is the substance that stimulates the immune system. [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/926623/antigenic-shift]<br />
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It's used here to refer to rumors about severe weather and the Quebec Junior Team. These rumors undergo an antigenic shift as they circulate around the locker room. They combine and are reconstituted as a new rumor before being returned to the rumor's originator. <br /><br />
<br />
'''the Csikszentmihalyi kid was doing a kind of piaffer'''<br /><br />
A piaffer is a trot in place where the legs are lifted high. This type of trot is usually done by a horse, but it's part of the 'Csikszentmihalyi kid's' pre-game ritual to stretch his hip flexors. <br/><br />
<br />
The name Csikszentmihalyi may be a humorous nod to the Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi who is noted for his work in happiness and creativity. He is known as the world's leading researcher on positive psychology and proposed the concept of <i>Flow</i>. Flow is the mental state whereby a person is fully immersed and focused on an activity <i>(such as Tennis)</i>. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi]<br /><br />
<br />
'''hip-flexors'''<br /><br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_flexor muscles] that move the hip<br />
<br />
'''an ascot or a very fey tie'''<br /><br />
An ascot is a scarf or tie with broad ends typically worn for formal occasions[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascot_tie]. If the tie <i>very fey</i>, it is excessively refined [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fey] or fancy to the point that it could be confused with an ascot.<br />
<br />
'''astringent'''<br /><br />
a substance or preparation, such as alum, that draws together or constricts body tissues and is effective in stopping the flow of blood or other secretions<br />
<br />
'''invoking Camilla, goddess of speed and light step'''<br /><br />
Camilla of Volsci, a heroine from Roman Mythology, found in Virgil's prose and ancient pottery paintings. Virgil claimed Camilla was so fast that she could run across the ocean without wetting her feet and across fields of grain without bending the grass. [http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Camilla_(mythology)] To 'invoke' is to petition for help with an incantation.[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/invoking]<br />
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'''Frankenstein'''<br /><br />
or, more correctly, Frankenstein's monster<br />
<br />
'''Hal'''<br /><br />
who is clearly not narrating anymore, unless he is speaking of himself in the third person<br />
<br />
'''malleolus'''<br /><br />
a bony lump on the side of the ankle<br />
<br />
'''Joni Mitchell'''<br /><br />
Joni Mitchell (born Roberta Joan Anderson in 1943) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter and painter. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_Mitchell Wikipedia Entry].<br />
<br />
'''occluded'''<br /><br />
Closed off, shut in, or blocked off [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/occlude]<br />
<br />
'''they all in here existed basically as Fourier Transforms of postures and little routines'''<br/><br />
<br />
A Fourier transform is a mathematical operation that transforms one function into another. This type of transform is named in honour of Joseph Fourier. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fourier] To exist basically as Fourier Transforms of postures and routines is to exist as an abstraction where a student is trained in postures and routines is transformed into tennis player capable of executing a variation of those postures and routines.<br />
<br />
It is also worth noting that the Fourier transform converts a signal from the time domain (that is, that the signal is a function of time) to the frequency domain (no longer a function of time but of frequency, the function being composed of wave functions). The implication being that all the "postures and little routines" are composed of repeated actions (analogous to the waves that make up a Fourier series) and can be expressed in a time independent manner.<br />
<br />
'''ingenuish'''<br /><br />
in the manner of an ingenue, an innocent young woman<br />
<br />
'''moribund'''<br /><br />
nearing death or in a terminal decline [http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/moribund?view=uk]<br />
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'''Y.T.M.P.'''<br /><br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]<br />
<br />
'''ciquatoxic'''<br /><br />
An alternate or mispelling of 'ciguatoxic'. Reef fish can carry ciguatoxins, which cause ciguatera food poisoning [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciguatera] in humans who consume the contaminated fish. These toxins may be specific to certain reefs, are concentrated up the food chain and as such are more likely to be present in larger reef fish, and cannot be destroyed by cooking and freezing. For more, see [http://www.livefoodfishtrade.org/definitions.htm here]. <br />
<br />
'''R.C. clergy'''<br /><br />
Roman Catholic priesthood<br />
<br />
'''P.O.'''<br /><br />
philharmonic orchestra<br />
<br />
'''Carmelite'''<br /><br />
a member of the Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a Catholic order.<br />
<br />
'''liniment''' <br /><br />
a liquid preparation rubbed into the skin or gums as a counterirritant, rubefacient, anodyne, or cleansing agent<br />
<br />
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'''Sanger-Brown's ataxia'''<br /><br />
another name for [http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/1672.html Marie's ataxia]<br />
<br />
'''St. John's Seminary'''<br /><br />
an actual institution in Brighton<br />
<br />
'''reading his hours'''<br /><br />
The Liturgy of the Hours is the set of daily prayers prescribed by the Catholic Church as part of the canonical obligation of those ordained as deacons. The prayers take place throughout the day: Matins or Vigils, during the night; Lauds or Dawn Prayer; Prime or Early Morning Prayer; Terce or Mid-Morning Prayer; Sext or Midday Prayer; None or Mid-Afternoon Prayer; Vespers or Evening Prayer; Compline or Night prayer.<br />
<br />
'''practicum'''<br /><br />
the student-teaching portion of a teaching education<br />
<br />
'''spiritually necrotic'''<br /><br />
Necrosis usually refers to the localized death of cells within healthy tissue. To be spiritually necrotic is akin to having a dead spirit in an otherwise healthy body.<br />
<br />
'''Jesuitical Endeavors'''<br /><br />
An endeavor is a purposeful undertaking that requires boldness. Jesuitical endeavors are those undertaken as part of a Jesuit ministry.<br />
<br />
'''Numero Uno'''<br /><br />
Spanish for ''Number One'', used here as an expression to mean concern about only oneself.<br />
<br />
'''Flexor carpi ulnaris muscle'''<br /><br />
Muscle in the side of the forearm, used to twist the hand side to side, thus important when tossing playing cards.<br />
<br />
'''ineluctable'''<br /><br />
incapable of being avoided or changed <br />
<br />
'''Apologia'''<br /><br />
An Apologia is a defense of one's beliefs, religious or other. Here, Barry is out of his league in his ability to put up a good defense of the religious beliefs that may help get his brother out of his own spiritual funk.<br />
<br />
==Page 969==<br />
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'''self-mimetic'''<br /><br />
imitating one's self<br />
<br />
'''not that much unlike Alyosha and Ivan's conversations in the good old ''Brothers K''.'''<br /><br />
''The Brother's Karamazov'' is a novel by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881). Ivan and Alyosha, main characters in the novel, are siblings. Alyosha has a faith in God that manifests in a love of mankind and Ivan is a rationalist who is burdened by his inability or unwillingness to believe in a God that could preside over an unjust world. In the novel the brothers, Ivan and Alyosha, discuss their opposing beliefs. <br />
<br />
'''erudite'''<br /><br />
scholarly<br />
<br />
'''carcinogenic'''<br /><br />
causing cancer<br />
<br />
'''acerbity'''<br /><br />
acidity<br />
<br />
'''Ivan's Grand Inquisitor scenario'''<br /><br />
Read this portion [http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/philosophy/existentialism/dostoevsky/grand.html here].<br />
<br />
'''lumpen'''<br /><br />
marginalized; uneducated and/or unenlightened; disenfranchised<br />
<br />
'''solar plexus'''<br /><br />
a complex of nerves in the abdomen. Taking blows to the solar plexus refers to the sensation of "having the wind knocked out of you", as the solar plexus is involved in the autonomic activity of respiration.<br />
<br />
'''verminousness'''<br /><br />
resembling vermin<br />
<br />
'''mufti'''<br /><br />
civilian dress; also a name for a type of Muslim scholar<br />
<br />
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'''alms'''<br /><br />
charity<br />
<br />
'''silt'''<br /><br />
very small grains of rock or sand<br />
<br />
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'''fuliginous'''<br /><br />
smoky or sooty<br />
<br />
'''50° C'''<br /><br />
122° Fahrenheit<br />
<br />
=Orin=<br />
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==Page 972==<br />
<br />
''''Do it to her!''' '''''Do it to her!''''''<br/><br />
a reference to George Orwell's 1984. Winston Smith shouts 'Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia!' under similar circumstances.<br />
<br />
'''ham'''<br /><br />
an actor who is bad by virtue of over-acting<br />
<br />
=Final Chapter=<br />
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==Page 972==<br />
<br />
'''confiteor'''<br /><br />
a prayer of confession of sins<br />
<br />
==Page 973==<br />
<br />
==Endnote 385==<br />
<br />
'''gram-negative'''<br /><br />
This refers to a bacterium that does not show up in a violet stain using Gram's method; in other words, the doctor suspects that Gately has a particularly resistant strain of bacteria within his body, which previous antibiotics given to him have been ineffective in eliminating.<br />
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==Page 973 (cont.)==<br />
<br />
'''...look down her shirt and spell ''attic''...'''<br /><br />
and thus saying, "A-T-T-I-C" or "a titty I see"<br />
<br />
''''The truth will [you] set you free,...''''<br /><br />
See the Gospel of John 8:32.<br />
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==Page 974==<br />
<br />
'''vertical hold'''<br /><br />
the control on a television that prevents the picture from rolling bottom to top<br />
<br />
==Page 975==<br />
<br />
[[Image:Weejun.jpg|thumb|right|Men's cordovan Bass Weejun]]<br />
<br />
'''Weejuns'''<br /><br />
G. H. Bass & Co.'s tradename for its line of men's and women's penny loafer shoes (see right)<br />
<br />
==Page 976==<br />
<br />
'''Jack Daniels'''<br /><br />
a famous brand of bourbon whiskey<br />
<br />
==Page 977==<br />
<br />
'''S&W'''<br /><br />
Smith & Wesson<br />
<br />
'''The contorted face...'''<br /><br />
The painting of Whitey Sorkin is the same one that had Hal "popping Nunhagen compulsively until his ears started ringing" when it appeared in the advertisement for Nunhagen Aspirin Co. created by Viney and Veals Advertising n.162<br />
<br />
'''2500-IU ampule'''<br /><br />
IUs are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_unit international units], which converts to metric depending on the substance.<br />
<br />
'''transvestals'''<br /><br />
i.e., transvestites<br />
<br />
==Page 978==<br />
<br />
==Endnote 386==<br />
<br />
'''Exocet'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exocet missile]<br />
<br />
'''antagonists'''<br /><br />
a drug that acts against an agonist, i.e., a drug that stimulates a certain receptor<br />
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==Page 978 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''Linda McCartney'''<br /><br />
Linda Louise, Lady McCartney (1941-1998) was an American photographer and wife of Beatle Paul McCartney (born 1943).<br />
<br />
'''"....somebody had taken an old disk of McCartney and Wings [...] and run it through a Kurtzweil remixer and removed every track on the songs except the tracks of poor old Mrs. Linda McCartney singing backup and playing tambourine"'''<br /><br />
An alleged isolated vocal track of Linda McCartney singing along to "Hey Jude" at a concert did circulate, but the production itself may have been a hoax. For more, see [http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/03/audio_hoaxes_an.html here].<br />
Kurtzweil appears to be a misspelling of Kurzweil, referring to Ray Kurzweil, an inventor in audio and speech technologies, artificial intelligence, and futurist author. See<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil].<br />
<br />
==Endnote 387==<br />
<br />
'''pentazocine'''<br /><br />
a synethetic opioid painkiller<br />
<br />
==Endnote 387a==<br />
<br />
'''dysmenorrhea'''<br /><br />
pre-menstrual syndrome and/or painful periods<br />
<br />
'''PX'''<br /><br />
with a pharmaceutical as part of the name, it means it contains pentazocine<br />
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==Page 979==<br />
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'''hot shot'''<br /><br />
an injection intended to kill<br />
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==Page 980==<br />
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'''ditty'''<br /><br />
a little song<br />
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==Page 981==<br />
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'''"...the one about ultraviolence and sadism."'''<br /><br />
Gately is thinking of Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/ "A Clockwork Orange."]<br />
<br />
'''"...the last thing Gately saw was an Oriental bearing down with the held square and he looked into the square and saw clearly a reflection of his own big square pale head with its eyes closing as the floor finally pounced."'''<br /><br />
See page 934: "He dreams he looks in a mirror and sees nothing and keeps trying to clean the mirror with his sleeve."<br />
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=☽ Year of Glad - Hal at the University of Arizona=<br />
==Page 3==<br />
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'''Remington-hung'''<br /><br />
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter whose work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].<br />
<br />
'''Uncle Charles'''<br /><br />
Hal's Uncle, Charles Tavis, is head of the Enfield Tennis Academy.<br />
<br />
'''Half-Windsors'''<br /><br />
A type of knot used to tie a necktie. Picture of a half-Windsor [http://www.sutree.com/upload/ymxxpnyqiuyiggefhkbsq/captured.jpg here].<br />
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'''prorector'''<br /><br />
See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prorector prorector]. Possibly an originally German term. Also see [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=P prorector index entry].<br />
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'''A. deLint'''<br /><br />
See [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=D deLint index entry]; p. 4.<br />
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'''C.T.'''<br /><br />
Uncle Charles, mentioned previously. See [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_27-63 Page 50].<br />
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'''periphery'''<br /><br />
fringe; outer boundary<br />
<br />
'''Harold Incandenza'''<br /><br />
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.<br />
<br />
'''Enfield'''<br /><br />
A fictional town just west of Boston, where parts of the real Boston neighborhoods of Brighton and Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938 and flooded by the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir.<br />
<br />
'''court-shaped'''<br /><br />
like a tennis court, presumably<br />
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==Page 4==<br />
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<div id="onancaa">'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.'''<br /></div><br />
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Athletic Association -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.<br />
<br />
'''wen'''<br /><br />
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (<i>Random House Unabridged Dictionary</i>).<br />
<br />
'''Aubrey F. deLint'''<br /><br />
Enfield Tennis Academy prorector. See [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=D deLint index entry].<br />
<br />
'''avers'''<br /><br />
Asserts as true or alleges.<br />
<br />
'''among the very cream'''<br /><br />
as in, among the cream of the crop, or among the very best.<br />
<br />
'''Randolph Tennis Center'''<br /><br />
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tucson, Ariz. and the main campus of the University of Arizona.<br />
<br />
'''El Con Marriott'''<br /><br />
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquistador Hotel in Tucson, the Marriot has a different name.<br />
<br />
'''top-hole'''<br /><br />
British exclamation meaning first-rate or excellent<br />
<br />
'''WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational'''<br /><br />
A fictional junior tennis tournament, sponsored by Whataburger®, a real fast-food chain in the southwest U.S. See p. 14.<br />
<br />
==Page 5==<br />
<br />
'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."'''<br /><br />
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.<br />
<br />
'''62.5%'''<br /><br />
Out of eight people in the room (including Hal, three deans, the Director of Composition, the varsity tennis coach, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are <i>not</i> looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.<br />
<br />
'''Edmonton'''<br /><br />
Presumably Edmonton, Alberta.<br />
<br />
'''mottle'''<br /><br />
Spots of color. <br />
<br />
'''circumflex'''<br /> <br />
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb <i>être</i> (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.<br />
<br />
'''Pac 10'''<br /><br />
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.<br />
<br /><br />
'''"I stare carefully into the Kekuléan knot of the middle Dean's necktie."'''<br/>[[image:wiki.png|frame|August Kekulé (left), the self-consuming snake (middle) and the benzene molecular structure it inspired (right)]]<br />
"Kekuléan" is not a type of knot. To Hal, the knot he is focusing on resembles the self-consuming, annular shape of the snake that inspired August Kekulé's discovery of benzene's molecular structure. August Kekule (1829-1896), a renowned German organic chemist, was the principal founder of the theory of chemical structure. His most famous work, the discovery of benzene molecule's structure, is said to be inspired by a dream. "Kekulé's Dream" was that of a self-devouring snake, the shape of which he used to describe the benzene ring. <br /><br />Hal's intense focus on this annular, or ring-like, part of the tie is the first reference to annular shapes.<br />
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==Page 6==<br />
<br />
'''phonetic perspective'''<br /><br />
Judging from the way the words sound when spoken.<br />
<br />
'''aviarian'''<br /><br />
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.<br />
<br />
==Page 7==<br />
<br />
'''lapidary'''<br /><br />
"Marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression: lapidary prose" (''thefreedictionary.com''). The OED defines it as “Characteristic of or suitable for monumental inscriptions”. The original meaning refers to the cutting and polishing of precious stones. Wallace favored this word to describe well-wrought prose, and used it often himself in interviews and readings.<br />
<br />
'''effete'''<br /><br />
Overrefined. <br />
<br />
'''Prescriptive Grammar'''<br /><br />
This term describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace wrote at length about the thorny questions surrounding this subject in the famous essay, "Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage," which can be found at http://www.harpers.org/archive/2001/04/0070913<br />
<br />
'''Post-Fourier Transformations'''<br /><br />
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.<br />
<br />
'''Holographically Mimetic'''<br /><br />
Approximating reality using holograms.<br />
<br />
'''Stasis'''<br /><br />
Inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing forces [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stasis].<br/><br />
<br />
'''Montague Grammar'''<br /><br />
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.<br />
<br />
'''Physical Modality'''<br /><br />
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.<br />
<br />
'''Tertiary'''<br /><br />
Third-level, after primary and secondary.<br />
<br />
'''Justinian'''<br /><br />
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565).<br />
<br />
'''sotto'''<br /><br />
Italian for "below." Particularly when used in the phrase, "sotto voce," it means speaking in a low voice, under one's breath.<br />
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==Page 8==<br />
<br />
'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium'''<br /><br />
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.<br />
<br />
'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
Growth of tissue, especially muscle. Although there are many causes, the most common is exercise. (see, contra, ''atrophied''.)<br />
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==Page 9==<br />
<br />
'''insigniated'''<br /><br />
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia).<br />
<br />
'''N.A.A.U.P.'''<br /><br />
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.<br />
<br />
'''de moi'''<br /><br />
French: from me.<br />
<br />
'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."'''<br /><br />
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word. Hal is saying that the Deans, even with their limited grammatical abilities, would find the recent essays appalling. <br />
<br />
'''hip-shot'''<br /><br />
one hip lower than the other.<br />
<br />
'''capillary webs'''<br /><br />
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins.<br />
<br />
'''defacatory'''<br /><br />
As if eliminating solid bodily waste.<br />
<br />
'''Don''' <br /><br />
A mafia boss.<br />
<br />
'''RICO'''<br /><br />
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.<br />
<br />
=Account of young Hal eating the mold=<br />
==Page 10==<br />
<br />
'''vortexing''' <br /> <br />
whirling <br />
<br />
'''nepotistic''' <br /><br />
relating to the practice of favoring relatives or friends <br />
<br />
'''Brewster's-Angle light'''<br /><br />
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].<br />
<br />
'''Weston'''<br /><br />
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city<br />
<br />
'''...Popsicle sticks and twine.'''<br /><br />
The passage in which Hal eats the mold is reproduced not quite verbatim from DFW's purportedly autobiographical 1991 <i>Harper's Magazine</i> essay [http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-1991-12-0000710.pdf "Tennis, Trigonometry, Tornadoes: A Midwestern Boyhood"] p. 70.<br />
<br />
'''Orin'''<br /><br />
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."<br />
<br />
'''Rototiller'''<br /><br />
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]<br />
<br />
'''Pooh-wear'''<br /><br />
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance<br />
<br />
[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]<br />
<br />
'''hirsute'''<br /><br />
hairy<br />
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==Page 11==<br />
<br />
'''presbyopic'''<br /><br />
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older<br />
<br />
'''Rototrembling'''<br /><br />
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller<br />
<br />
'''caustic'''<br /><br />
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic<br />
<br />
'''plumb'''<br /><br />
adj., straight or true; in line with<br />
<br />
'''martial'''<br /><br />
war-like <br />
<br />
'''ideogram'''<br /><br />
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration<br />
<br />
=Hal at the University, cont.=<br />
==Page 12==<br />
<br />
'''ROM-drives'''<br /><br />
ROM is an acronym for "Read Only Memory", a class of computer data storage. In the real world, best known in the name of the non-music version of Compact Discs (CD-ROM). CD-ROMs were becoming a popular way to distribute software (and pre-Internet computerized encyclopedias and atlases) when Infinite Jest was written, and even then it was predicted that DVD-ROMs or some other video/data disk would eventually supplant them. In more technical contexts, ROM refers to a specific variety of computer chips, but since Hal is talking about "drives", it seems likely that he means something more like a CD.<br />
<br />
'''Kierkegaard'''<br /><br />
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy<br />
<br />
'''Camus'''<br /><br />
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.<br />
<br />
'''Dennis Gabor'''<br /><br />
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.<br />
<br />
'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."'''<br /><br />
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of <i>Leviathan</i>. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote <i>The Social Contract,</i> in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.<br />
<br />
'''Hegel'''<br /><br />
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.<br />
<br />
'''creatus'''<br /><br />
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is long and pronounced as in "father" rather than in "hate."<br />
<br />
'''pinion'''<br /><br />
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')<br />
<br />
'''parquet'''<br /><br />
An in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring. Also, in France, the branch of the law that deals with the persecution of crime. <br />
<br />
'''"God! Help!"'''<br /><br />
Note: The same words used by the Moms when Hal ate the mold.<br />
<br />
'''Nunn Bush'''<br /><br />
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.<br />
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==Page 13==<br />
<br />
'''half nelson'''<br /><br />
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind<br />
<br />
'''Heimlich'''<br /><br />
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.<br />
<br />
'''roil'''<br /><br />
To move about in whirling manner. <br />
<br />
'''pases'''<br /><br />
This is the plural of <i>pase</i>, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.<br />
<br />
'''supine'''<br /><br />
lying on one's back<br />
<br />
'''enfilade'''<br /><br />
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.<br />
<br />
==Page 14==<br />
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<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thumb|100px|Whataburger logo|right]]<br />
Synecdoche for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational," an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson, AZ. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Phoenix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)<br />
<br />
'''viscous'''<br /> <br />
Sticky, thick and liquid.<br />
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==Page 15==<br />
<br />
'''espadrilles'''<br /><br />
shoes popular in Latin America with rope for soles<br />
<br />
'''savant'''<br /> <br />
a savant is a person of learning, particularly specialized knowledge of a particular field. <br/><br />
This definition: "Mentally handicapped but brilliant in one specific way." refers to an "idiot savant"<br />
<br />
'''shunt'''<br /><br />
To shove.<br />
<br />
'''kangaroo-interview'''<br /><br />
Alludes to kangaroo-court, a sham legal proceeding.<br />
<br />
'''leonine'''<br /><br />
lion-like<br />
<br />
'''cirri'''<br /><br />
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud<br />
<br />
'''vectors''' <br /><br />
Direct paths to desired locations<br />
<br />
'''martinet'''<br /><br />
a strict disciplinarian<br />
<br />
==Page 16==<br />
<br />
'''ultra-mach'''<br /><br />
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.<br />
<br />
'''barnwood'''<br /><br />
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (<i>Random House Unabridged Dictionary</i>).<br />
<br />
'''starboard list'''<br /><br />
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.<br />
<br />
'''gigantism'''<br /><br />
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''<br />
<br />
'''parodic'''<br /><br />
having the qualities of a parody<br />
<br />
'''infantophile'''<br /><br />
one subject to infantophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia]), but may simply reference the earlier Inner Infant group<br />
<br />
'''incisionish'''<br /><br />
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"<br />
<br />
'''hypophalangial'''<br /><br />
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands<br />
<br />
'''Himself's'''<br /><br />
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel<br />
<br />
'''antenna''' <br /><br />
Referring here to the portable phone's antenna. <br />
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==Page 17==<br />
<br />
'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."'''<br /><br />
See <i>Hamlet</i>, Act Five, Scene One.<br />
<br />
'''Venus Williams'''<br /><br />
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.<br />
<br />
'''Dymphna'''<br /><br />
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epileptics, and the mentally ill, among others.<br />
<br />
'''Petropolis Kahn'''<br /><br />
<i>Petropolis</i> is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.<br />
<br />
"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., <i>kohen</i>.<br />
<br />
'''etiology'''<br /><br />
the cause of a disease<br />
<br />
'''Socratic method'''<br />
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece<br />
<br />
'''<i>O.E.D. VI</i>'s count'''<br /><br />
This is a reference to the <i>Oxford English Dictionary</i>, sixth edition.<br />
<br />
'''nonarchaic'''<br /><br />
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language<br />
<br />
'''Latinate'''<br /><br />
deriving from Latin<br />
<br />
'''Saxonic'''<br /><br />
deriving from Old English<br />
<br />
'''quick-bit'''<br /><br />
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips<br />
<br />
'''jou'''<br /><br />
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"<br />
<br />
=☽ YDAU - Erdedy's double bind=<br />
<br />
==Page 17==<br />
'''girder'''<br /> <br />
An upright beam<br />
<br />
==Page 18==<br />
<br />
'''200 grams'''<br /><br />
a little over seven ounces<br />
<br />
'''"...using just audio..."'''<br /><br />
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.<br />
<br />
'''Allston'''<br /><br />
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.<br />
<br />
'''high-resin dope'''<br /><br />
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced<br />
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'''harelip'''<br /><br />
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]<br />
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'''TP'''<br /><br />
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.<br />
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'''"own marijuana"'''<br /><br />
To physically possess marijuana. <br />
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'''modem'''<br /><br />
used as a verb, communicating with the office via modem, an early but ubiquitous tool for transmitting data between servers and client/servers.<br />
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'''e-note'''<br /><br />
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, conceived in the pre-Internet era<br />
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'''Mountie'''<br /><br />
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI<br />
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'''Porter Square, Cambridge'''<br /><br />
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border<br />
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'''convulsive'''<br /><br />
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking<br />
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'''Wedekind festival'''<br /><br />
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.<br />
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'''rapacious'''<br /><br />
Aggressively greedy. <br />
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'''pleurisy'''<br /><br />
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs<br />
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'''Interlace viewer'''<br /><br />
A television-based home entertainment system, ubiquitous in the time the novel is set, which plays copy-protected "cartridges" custom-ordered by viewers, invented by [[L#"Lace"|Noreen Lace-Forché]]<br />
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'''raptly'''<br /><br />
with intense attention to<br />
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'''cartridge'''<br /><br />
See ''Interlace viewer'', above<br />
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'''debauch'''<br /><br />
an episode of debauchery, engaging in excessive, pleasure-seeking, often sexual- or drug/alcohol-related<br />
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'''120 grams'''<br /><br />
about 4.2 ounces<br />
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'''debased'''<br /><br />
of low character and lacking integrity<br />
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'''Tito Puente'''<br /><br />
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.<br />
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'''Marlborough Street'''<br /><br />
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.<br />
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'''appropriation'''<br /><br />
taking something as one's own, without permission<br />
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'''methamphetamine hydrochloride'''<br /><br />
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that <i>Infinite Jest</i> was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.<br />
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'''pastiche'''<br /><br />
describing a work that imitates the style of another work, artist, movement or period<br />
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'''magisculed'''<br /><br />
typo or intentional misspelling of ''majuscule'', an initial capital letter, often large-type to introduce a section of written material; Wallace's use of the noun in a verb form is likely a neologism (especially if the alternate spelling is retained)<br />
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'''50 grams'''<br /><br />
about 1.75 ounces<br />
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'''hydroponic'''<br /><br />
grown in water without soil<br />
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'''stein'''<br /><br />
a drinking mug<br />
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'''E.W.D. land barge'''<br /><br />
acronym for "Empire Waste Disposal"; a garbage truck<br />
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'''phallocentric'''<br /><br />
biased from a male point of view<br />
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'''half a meter'''<br /><br />
nearly 20 inches<br />
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'''carb'''<br /><br />
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carburetor on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.<br />
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'''oblique'''<br /><br />
slanted, like an acute or obtuse angle, not a right-angle<br />
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'''teleputer'''<br /><br />
Combination television and computer, generic term for an Interlace player, see also [[T#"TP"|TP]]<br />
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'''jibe'''<br /><br />
correspond with; match up<br />
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'''oblique'''<br /><br />
indirect or dishonest<br />
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'''desiccated'''<br /><br />
dried out <br />
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'''convulsively'''<br /><br />
As if struck by a convulsion; moving suddenly and without coordination.<br />
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=☽ Year of Glad - Hal at the University of Arizona=<br />
==Page 3==<br />
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'''Remington-hung'''<br /><br />
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter whose work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].<br />
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'''Uncle Charles'''<br /><br />
Hal's Uncle, Charles Tavis, is head of the Enfield Tennis Academy.<br />
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'''Half-Windsors'''<br /><br />
A type of knot used to tie a necktie. Picture of a half-Windsor [http://www.sutree.com/upload/ymxxpnyqiuyiggefhkbsq/captured.jpg here].<br />
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'''prorector'''<br /><br />
See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prorector prorector]. Possibly an originally German term. Also see [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=P prorector index entry].<br />
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'''A. deLint'''<br /><br />
See [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=D deLint index entry]; p. 4.<br />
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'''C.T.'''<br /><br />
Uncle Charles, mentioned previously. See [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_27-63 Page 50].<br />
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'''periphery'''<br /><br />
fringe; outer boundary<br />
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'''Harold Incandenza'''<br /><br />
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.<br />
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'''Enfield'''<br /><br />
A fictional town just west of Boston, where parts of the real Boston neighborhoods of Brighton and Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938 and flooded by the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir.<br />
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'''court-shaped'''<br /><br />
like a tennis court, presumably<br />
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<div id="onancaa">'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.'''<br /></div><br />
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Athletic Association -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.<br />
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'''wen'''<br /><br />
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (<i>Random House Unabridged Dictionary</i>).<br />
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'''Aubrey F. deLint'''<br /><br />
Enfield Tennis Academy prorector. See [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=D deLint index entry].<br />
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'''avers'''<br /><br />
Asserts as true or alleges.<br />
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'''among the very cream'''<br /><br />
as in, among the cream of the crop, or among the very best.<br />
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'''Randolph Tennis Center'''<br /><br />
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tucson, Ariz. and the main campus of the University of Arizona.<br />
<br />
'''El Con Marriott'''<br /><br />
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquistador Hotel in Tucson, the Marriot has a different name.<br />
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'''top-hole'''<br /><br />
British exclamation meaning first-rate or excellent<br />
<br />
'''WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational'''<br /><br />
A fictional junior tennis tournament, sponsored by Whataburger®, a real fast-food chain in the southwest U.S. See p. 14.<br />
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==Page 5==<br />
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'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."'''<br /><br />
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.<br />
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'''62.5%'''<br /><br />
Out of eight people in the room (including Hal, three deans, the Director of Composition, the varsity tennis coach, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are <i>not</i> looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.<br />
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'''Edmonton'''<br /><br />
Presumably Edmonton, Alberta.<br />
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'''mottle'''<br /><br />
Spots of color. <br />
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'''circumflex'''<br /> <br />
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb <i>être</i> (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.<br />
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'''Pac 10'''<br /><br />
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.<br />
<br /><br />
'''"I stare carefully into the Kekuléan knot of the middle Dean's necktie."'''<br/>[[image:wiki.png|frame|August Kekulé (left), the self-consuming snake (middle) and the benzene molecular structure it inspired (right)]]<br />
"Kekuléan" is not a type of knot. To Hal, the knot he is focusing on resembles the self-consuming, annular shape of the snake that inspired August Kekulé's discovery of benzene's molecular structure. August Kekule (1829-1896), a renowned German organic chemist, was the principal founder of the theory of chemical structure. His most famous work, the discovery of benzene molecule's structure, is said to be inspired by a dream. "Kekulé's Dream" was that of a self-devouring snake, the shape of which he used to describe the benzene ring. <br /><br />Hal's intense focus on this annular, or ring-like, part of the tie is the first reference to annular shapes.<br />
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==Page 6==<br />
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'''phonetic perspective'''<br /><br />
Judging from the way the words sound when spoken.<br />
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'''aviarian'''<br /><br />
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.<br />
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==Page 7==<br />
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'''lapidary'''<br /><br />
"Marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression: lapidary prose" (''thefreedictionary.com''). The OED defines it as “Characteristic of or suitable for monumental inscriptions”. The original meaning refers to the cutting and polishing of precious stones. Wallace favored this word to describe well-wrought prose, and used it often himself in interviews and readings.<br />
<br />
'''effete'''<br /><br />
Overrefined. <br />
<br />
'''Prescriptive Grammar'''<br /><br />
This term describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace wrote at length about the thorny questions surrounding this subject in the famous essay, "Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage," which can be found at http://www.harpers.org/archive/2001/04/0070913<br />
<br />
'''Post-Fourier Transformations'''<br /><br />
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.<br />
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'''Holographically Mimetic'''<br /><br />
Approximating reality using holograms.<br />
<br />
'''Stasis'''<br /><br />
Inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing forces [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stasis].<br/><br />
<br />
'''Montague Grammar'''<br /><br />
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.<br />
<br />
'''Physical Modality'''<br /><br />
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.<br />
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'''Tertiary'''<br /><br />
Third-level, after primary and secondary.<br />
<br />
'''Justinian'''<br /><br />
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565).<br />
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'''sotto'''<br /><br />
Italian for "below." Particularly when used in the phrase, "sotto voce," it means speaking in a low voice, under one's breath.<br />
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==Page 8==<br />
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'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium'''<br /><br />
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.<br />
<br />
'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
Growth of tissue, especially muscle. Although there are many causes, the most common is exercise. (see, contra, ''atrophied''.)<br />
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==Page 9==<br />
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'''insigniated'''<br /><br />
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia).<br />
<br />
'''N.A.A.U.P.'''<br /><br />
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.<br />
<br />
'''de moi'''<br /><br />
French: from me.<br />
<br />
'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."'''<br /><br />
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word. Hal is saying that the Deans, even with their limited grammatical abilities, would find the recent essays appalling. <br />
<br />
'''hip-shot'''<br /><br />
one hip lower than the other.<br />
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'''capillary webs'''<br /><br />
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins.<br />
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'''defacatory'''<br /><br />
As if eliminating solid bodily waste.<br />
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'''Don''' <br /><br />
A mafia boss.<br />
<br />
'''RICO'''<br /><br />
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.<br />
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=Account of young Hal eating the mold=<br />
==Page 10==<br />
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'''vortexing''' <br /> <br />
whirling <br />
<br />
'''nepotistic''' <br /><br />
relating to the practice of favoring relatives or friends <br />
<br />
'''Brewster's-Angle light'''<br /><br />
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].<br />
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'''Weston'''<br /><br />
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city<br />
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'''...Popsicle sticks and twine.'''<br /><br />
The passage in which Hal eats the mold is reproduced not quite verbatim from DFW's purportedly autobiographical 1991 <i>Harper's Magazine</i> essay [http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-1991-12-0000710.pdf "Tennis, Trigonometry, Tornadoes: A Midwestern Boyhood"] p. 3<br />
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'''Orin'''<br /><br />
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."<br />
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'''Rototiller'''<br /><br />
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]<br />
<br />
'''Pooh-wear'''<br /><br />
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance<br />
<br />
[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]<br />
<br />
'''hirsute'''<br /><br />
hairy<br />
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==Page 11==<br />
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'''presbyopic'''<br /><br />
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older<br />
<br />
'''Rototrembling'''<br /><br />
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller<br />
<br />
'''caustic'''<br /><br />
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic<br />
<br />
'''plumb'''<br /><br />
adj., straight or true; in line with<br />
<br />
'''martial'''<br /><br />
war-like <br />
<br />
'''ideogram'''<br /><br />
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration<br />
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=Hal at the University, cont.=<br />
==Page 12==<br />
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'''ROM-drives'''<br /><br />
ROM is an acronym for "Read Only Memory", a class of computer data storage. In the real world, best known in the name of the non-music version of Compact Discs (CD-ROM). CD-ROMs were becoming a popular way to distribute software (and pre-Internet computerized encyclopedias and atlases) when Infinite Jest was written, and even then it was predicted that DVD-ROMs or some other video/data disk would eventually supplant them. In more technical contexts, ROM refers to a specific variety of computer chips, but since Hal is talking about "drives", it seems likely that he means something more like a CD.<br />
<br />
'''Kierkegaard'''<br /><br />
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy<br />
<br />
'''Camus'''<br /><br />
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.<br />
<br />
'''Dennis Gabor'''<br /><br />
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.<br />
<br />
'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."'''<br /><br />
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of <i>Leviathan</i>. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote <i>The Social Contract,</i> in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.<br />
<br />
'''Hegel'''<br /><br />
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.<br />
<br />
'''creatus'''<br /><br />
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is long and pronounced as in "father" rather than in "hate."<br />
<br />
'''pinion'''<br /><br />
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')<br />
<br />
'''parquet'''<br /><br />
An in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring. Also, in France, the branch of the law that deals with the persecution of crime. <br />
<br />
'''"God! Help!"'''<br /><br />
Note: The same words used by the Moms when Hal ate the mold.<br />
<br />
'''Nunn Bush'''<br /><br />
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.<br />
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'''half nelson'''<br /><br />
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind<br />
<br />
'''Heimlich'''<br /><br />
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.<br />
<br />
'''roil'''<br /><br />
To move about in whirling manner. <br />
<br />
'''pases'''<br /><br />
This is the plural of <i>pase</i>, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.<br />
<br />
'''supine'''<br /><br />
lying on one's back<br />
<br />
'''enfilade'''<br /><br />
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.<br />
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==Page 14==<br />
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<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thumb|100px|Whataburger logo|right]]<br />
Synecdoche for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational," an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson, AZ. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Phoenix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)<br />
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'''viscous'''<br /> <br />
Sticky, thick and liquid.<br />
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==Page 15==<br />
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'''espadrilles'''<br /><br />
shoes popular in Latin America with rope for soles<br />
<br />
'''savant'''<br /> <br />
a savant is a person of learning, particularly specialized knowledge of a particular field. <br/><br />
This definition: "Mentally handicapped but brilliant in one specific way." refers to an "idiot savant"<br />
<br />
'''shunt'''<br /><br />
To shove.<br />
<br />
'''kangaroo-interview'''<br /><br />
Alludes to kangaroo-court, a sham legal proceeding.<br />
<br />
'''leonine'''<br /><br />
lion-like<br />
<br />
'''cirri'''<br /><br />
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud<br />
<br />
'''vectors''' <br /><br />
Direct paths to desired locations<br />
<br />
'''martinet'''<br /><br />
a strict disciplinarian<br />
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==Page 16==<br />
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'''ultra-mach'''<br /><br />
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.<br />
<br />
'''barnwood'''<br /><br />
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (<i>Random House Unabridged Dictionary</i>).<br />
<br />
'''starboard list'''<br /><br />
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.<br />
<br />
'''gigantism'''<br /><br />
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''<br />
<br />
'''parodic'''<br /><br />
having the qualities of a parody<br />
<br />
'''infantophile'''<br /><br />
one subject to infantophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia]), but may simply reference the earlier Inner Infant group<br />
<br />
'''incisionish'''<br /><br />
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"<br />
<br />
'''hypophalangial'''<br /><br />
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands<br />
<br />
'''Himself's'''<br /><br />
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel<br />
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'''antenna''' <br /><br />
Referring here to the portable phone's antenna. <br />
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==Page 17==<br />
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'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."'''<br /><br />
See <i>Hamlet</i>, Act Five, Scene One.<br />
<br />
'''Venus Williams'''<br /><br />
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.<br />
<br />
'''Dymphna'''<br /><br />
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epileptics, and the mentally ill, among others.<br />
<br />
'''Petropolis Kahn'''<br /><br />
<i>Petropolis</i> is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.<br />
<br />
"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., <i>kohen</i>.<br />
<br />
'''etiology'''<br /><br />
the cause of a disease<br />
<br />
'''Socratic method'''<br />
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece<br />
<br />
'''<i>O.E.D. VI</i>'s count'''<br /><br />
This is a reference to the <i>Oxford English Dictionary</i>, sixth edition.<br />
<br />
'''nonarchaic'''<br /><br />
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language<br />
<br />
'''Latinate'''<br /><br />
deriving from Latin<br />
<br />
'''Saxonic'''<br /><br />
deriving from Old English<br />
<br />
'''quick-bit'''<br /><br />
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips<br />
<br />
'''jou'''<br /><br />
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"<br />
<br />
=☽ YDAU - Erdedy's double bind=<br />
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==Page 17==<br />
'''girder'''<br /> <br />
An upright beam<br />
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'''200 grams'''<br /><br />
a little over seven ounces<br />
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'''"...using just audio..."'''<br /><br />
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.<br />
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'''Allston'''<br /><br />
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.<br />
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'''high-resin dope'''<br /><br />
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced<br />
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'''harelip'''<br /><br />
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]<br />
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'''TP'''<br /><br />
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.<br />
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'''"own marijuana"'''<br /><br />
To physically possess marijuana. <br />
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'''modem'''<br /><br />
used as a verb, communicating with the office via modem, an early but ubiquitous tool for transmitting data between servers and client/servers.<br />
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'''e-note'''<br /><br />
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, conceived in the pre-Internet era<br />
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'''Mountie'''<br /><br />
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI<br />
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'''Porter Square, Cambridge'''<br /><br />
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border<br />
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'''convulsive'''<br /><br />
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking<br />
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'''Wedekind festival'''<br /><br />
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.<br />
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'''rapacious'''<br /><br />
Aggressively greedy. <br />
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'''pleurisy'''<br /><br />
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs<br />
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'''Interlace viewer'''<br /><br />
A television-based home entertainment system, ubiquitous in the time the novel is set, which plays copy-protected "cartridges" custom-ordered by viewers, invented by [[L#"Lace"|Noreen Lace-Forché]]<br />
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'''raptly'''<br /><br />
with intense attention to<br />
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'''cartridge'''<br /><br />
See ''Interlace viewer'', above<br />
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'''debauch'''<br /><br />
an episode of debauchery, engaging in excessive, pleasure-seeking, often sexual- or drug/alcohol-related<br />
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'''120 grams'''<br /><br />
about 4.2 ounces<br />
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'''debased'''<br /><br />
of low character and lacking integrity<br />
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'''Tito Puente'''<br /><br />
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.<br />
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'''Marlborough Street'''<br /><br />
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.<br />
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'''appropriation'''<br /><br />
taking something as one's own, without permission<br />
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'''methamphetamine hydrochloride'''<br /><br />
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that <i>Infinite Jest</i> was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.<br />
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'''pastiche'''<br /><br />
describing a work that imitates the style of another work, artist, movement or period<br />
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'''magisculed'''<br /><br />
typo or intentional misspelling of ''majuscule'', an initial capital letter, often large-type to introduce a section of written material; Wallace's use of the noun in a verb form is likely a neologism (especially if the alternate spelling is retained)<br />
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'''50 grams'''<br /><br />
about 1.75 ounces<br />
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'''hydroponic'''<br /><br />
grown in water without soil<br />
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'''stein'''<br /><br />
a drinking mug<br />
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'''E.W.D. land barge'''<br /><br />
acronym for "Empire Waste Disposal"; a garbage truck<br />
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'''phallocentric'''<br /><br />
biased from a male point of view<br />
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'''half a meter'''<br /><br />
nearly 20 inches<br />
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'''carb'''<br /><br />
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carburetor on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.<br />
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'''oblique'''<br /><br />
slanted, like an acute or obtuse angle, not a right-angle<br />
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'''teleputer'''<br /><br />
Combination television and computer, generic term for an Interlace player, see also [[T#"TP"|TP]]<br />
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'''jibe'''<br /><br />
correspond with; match up<br />
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'''oblique'''<br /><br />
indirect or dishonest<br />
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'''desiccated'''<br /><br />
dried out <br />
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'''convulsively'''<br /><br />
As if struck by a convulsion; moving suddenly and without coordination.<br />
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