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==Page 964==<br />
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'''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 />
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'''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 virile. The new subtype has a mixture of the antigens from the originals. An antigen is the substance that stimulates the immune system. [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/926623/antigenic-shift]<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, more virile, rumor before being returned to the rumor's originator. <br /><br />
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'''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 />
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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 />
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'''hip-flexors'''<br /><br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_flexor muscles] that move the hip<br />
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'''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 />
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'''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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As part of their pre-match ritual, the female players, Thode and Donni Stott, can be heard praying to or otherwise petitioning Camilla whose light footed speed may translate to success on the court.<br />
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'''Frankenstein'''<br /><br />
or, more correctly, Frankenstein's monster<br />
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'''Hal'''<br /><br />
who is clearly not narrating anymore, unless he is speaking of himself in the third person<br />
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'''malleolus'''<br /><br />
a bony lump on the side of the ankle<br />
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'''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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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'''ingenuish'''<br /><br />
in the manner of an innocent young woman<br />
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'''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 [http://www.livefoodfishtrade.org/definitions.htm] <br />
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'''P.O.'''<br /><br />
philharmonic orchestra<br />
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'''R.C. clergy'''<br /><br />
Roman Catholic priesthood<br />
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'''Jesuit seminary'''<br />
Theological training for the Society of Jesus Roman Catholic religious order of clerks, known as Jesuits. Jesuits are known for for their missionary work, social justice and human rights. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Jesus]<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 />
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'''St. John's Seminary'''<br /><br />
an actual institution in Brighton<br />
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'''practicum'''<br /><br />
the student-teaching portion of a teaching education<br />
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'''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 />
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'''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 />
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'''Numero Uno'''<br /><br />
Spanish for ''Number One'', used here as an expression to mean concern about only oneself.<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 />
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'''erudite'''<br /><br />
scholarly<br />
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'''carcinogenic'''<br /><br />
causing cancer<br />
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'''acerbity'''<br /><br />
acidity<br />
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'''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 />
disenfrancished<br />
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'''solar plexus'''<br /><br />
a complex of nerves in the abdomen<br />
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'''verminousness'''<br /><br />
resembling vermin<br />
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'''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 />
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'''50° C'''<br /><br />
122° Fahrenheit<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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'''confiteor'''<br /><br />
a prayer of confession of sins<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 - so in other words, the implication is that the doctor suspects Gately has a particularly resistant strain of bacteria within his body that previous antibiotics given to him have been ineffective in eliminating.<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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'''vertical hold'''<br /><br />
the control on a television that prevents the picture from rolling bottom to top<br />
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'''Weejuns'''<br /><br />
a type of shoe, see [http://www.bassweejuns.com/ here]<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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'''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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==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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'''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 />
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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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'''hot shot'''<br /><br />
an injection intended to kill<br />
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'''ditty'''<br /><br />
a little song<br />
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'''"...the one about ultraviolence and sadism."'''<br /><br />
Gately is thinking of Kubrick's [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 />
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See pg 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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'''carpal neuralgia, phospenic migraine, gluteal hyperadiposity, lumbar stressae'''<br /><br />
hand pain, migraines with flashing lights, fat buttocks, and lower back pain<br />
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'''"...all three O.N.A.N. time zones..."'''<br /><br />
Three is considerably fewer time zones than the five the U.S. (including Alaska and Hawaii) currently span, plus the Atlantic Time Zone, in which some of Canada can be found.<br />
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'''genuflecting'''<br /><br />
bending the knee<br />
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''''spect-ops''''<br /><br />
Perhaps a play on the popularized military term 'spec-ops,' meaning 'special operation(s).'<br />
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'''Gapers' Blocks'''<br /><br />
traffic delays caused by rubbernecking<br />
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'''apotheosis'''<br /><br />
the process of being raised to godlike status<br />
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'''coprolaliac'''<br /><br />
abnormally disposed to using profanity<br />
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'''nucleic'''<br /><br />
pertaining to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_force nuclear force], which binds protons and neutrons into atomic nuclei <br />
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'''PAs'''<br /><br />
public-address sytems<br />
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'''nostrums'''<br /><br />
patent medicines<br />
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'''bunting'''<br /><br />
loosely woven fabric in a generally half-circle shape; red-white-and-blue ones can be seen hung on podiums, porches, baseball stadiums, etc, especially on the 4th of July and other patriotic holidays.<br />
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'''c.'''<br /><br />
circa<br />
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'''sylvan'''<br /><br />
woodsy<br />
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'''phylogenic'''<br /><br />
From ''phylogeny'', the study of changes and developments in organisms' lineages. ''Phylogenetic'' is the more common adjectival form.<br />
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'''möbiusizing'''<br /><br />
a neologism for taking on the shape of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip Möbius strip]<br />
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'''scopophile'''<br /><br />
someone who derives pleasure (usually sexual) from looking at something<br />
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'''dun'''<br /><br />
grayish brown<br />
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'''Gregg pen'''<br /><br />
See one [http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?s=2eae74b99300ac6261751443db9182fa&showtopic=33208&st=0&p=305917&#entry305917 here]<br />
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'''purview'''<br /><br />
scope of vision<br />
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'''verdigrised'''<br /><br />
covered with grayish-green rust<br />
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'''Robert McCloskey'''<br /><br />
Robert McCloskey (1914-2003) was an American author and illustrator of children's books.<br />
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'''''Make Way for Ducklings'''''<br /><br />
Read about this book [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Way_for_Ducklings here].<br />
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'''greensward'''<br /><br />
stretch of grassy turf<br />
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''"...'''play a game with a small beanbaggy ball'''..."''<br /><br />
A reference to a ''hackey sack''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacky_Sack]<br />
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'''5º C'''<br /><br />
41º Fahrenheit<br />
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'''appurtenances'''<br /><br />
apparatus or instruments<br />
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'''Bread & Circus'''<br /><br />
A small chain of health-food stores first opened in Brookline, MA, in 1975. The chain was acquired by Whole Foods Market in 1992.<br />
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'''sepia'''<br /><br />
dark brown, as in the pigment used to make very early photographs<br />
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'''metallurgy'''<br /><br />
the making and conducting of alloys<br />
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'''Mass Comm.'''<br /><br />
mass communications<br />
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'''ICU'''<br /><br />
Intensive Care Unit<br />
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'''swart'''<br /><br />
swarthy, i.e., dark-skinned<br />
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'''half a house'''<br /><br />
a half-way house<br />
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'''M.D.C.'''<br /><br />
Metropolitan District Commission, a former Massachusetts state agency that was responsible for maintenance of public parks and roads in the Metropolitan Boston area<br />
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'''hackysackers'''<br /><br />
players of a game (hackeysack) where people in a circle kick a small leather bag around to one another<br />
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'''Autoteller'''<br /><br />
an ATM<br />
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'''moguls'''<br /><br />
bumps<br />
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'''coruscant'''<br /><br />
glittering<br />
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'''fenestrated'''<br /><br />
having windows<br />
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'''R.H.I.P.'''<br /><br />
Rank Has Its Privileges<br />
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'''mastication'''<br /><br />
chewing<br />
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'''P.O.W.'''<br /><br />
Prisoner of War<br />
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'''Liberal KS'''<br /><br />
To be exact, it's three miles via Route 83 to the Oklahoma border.<br />
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'''C/W'''<br /><br />
Country & Western<br />
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'''Beefeater'''<br /><br />
a British brand of gin<br />
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'''clapboard'''<br /><br />
a long, thin board, thicker along one edge than the other, used in covering the outer walls of buildings (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'')<br />
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'''nuptial'''<br /><br />
marital<br />
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'''toilet-eau'''<br /><br />
eau de toilette, sort of like perfume<br />
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'''connubial'''<br /><br />
marital<br />
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'''Birkenstock'''<br /><br />
a German brand of sandals and shoes<br />
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'''glutens'''<br /><br />
a mixture of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten wheat proteins]<br />
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'''torpor'''<br /><br />
sluggishness<br />
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'''turrets'''<br /><br />
projections from a building where guns are placed<br />
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'''"...like Roosevelt at Yalta..."'''<br /><br />
a reference to the supposed bullying by Stalin of FDR at the conference at Yalta in 1945 to cede Eastern Europe to Soviet control<br />
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'''saltpeter'''<br /><br />
potassium nitrate, commonly believed to cause erectile dysfunction<br />
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'''Seldane'''<br /><br />
a brand-name of non-drowsy antihistamine<br />
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'''carminative'''<br /><br />
expelling gas<br />
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'''mammarial'''<br /><br />
resembling or having to do with breasts<br />
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'''lecithin'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecithin mixture of fats] found in milk and other foods<br />
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'''semicolonized'''<br /><br />
otherwise, it's a comma splice<br />
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'''buttinskis'''<br /><br />
i.e., the right to butt into line<br />
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'''scooters'''<br /><br />
apparently a slang term for "dollars"<br />
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'''déjà vu'''<br /><br />
From French for "already seen," it's the sense that you're re-experiencing something.<br />
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'''saltire'''<br /><br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltire Cross of St. Andrew]<br />
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'''tektitic'''<br /><br />
referring to fossils formed by meteoric impacts<br />
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'''foist'''<br /><br />
to insert deceitfully<br />
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'''Grant's Tomb'''<br /><br />
The trick answer to the question is "no one." As the tomb is above ground, Ulysses S. Grant is technically "entombed" and not "buried." The obvious answer is Grant.<br />
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'''the one about what do Canadian girls put behind their ears to attract boys'''<br /><br />
Presumably a reference to Q: What does a blonde put behind her ears to make her more attractive? A: Her ankles.<br />
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'''offal'''<br /><br />
garbage, particularly rotting meat<br />
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==Page 634 (cont.)==<br />
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'''tantric'''<br /><br />
referring to a particular branch of Hinduism, but very particularly to the sexual aspect of this branch, which emphasizes long sessions of sexual intercourse<br />
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'''Twister'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twister_%28game%29 parlor game] produced by Hasbro that involves contorting the body<br />
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'''cataract'''<br /><br />
waterfall<br />
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'''reticent'''<br /><br />
the tendency to keep one's thoughts to oneself<br />
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'''colposcope'''<br /><br />
a scope used to examine the internal female reproductive organs<br />
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'''Combat Zone'''<br /><br />
an area of Boston known for prostitution and sex shops<br />
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'''bussed'''<br /><br />
cleaned up<br />
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'''B.B.'''<br /><br />
Big Brother<br />
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'''asexual'''<br /><br />
not sexually active or not attracted to either sex<br />
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'''nascent'''<br /><br />
beginning to develop<br />
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'''Sapphic'''<br /><br />
i.e., lesbian, the reference being to Sappho, the ancient Greek poet from Lesbos<br />
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'''Penal Matron'''<br /><br />
in other words, a female prison warden<br />
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'''Polycleitos'''<br /><br />
a Greek sculptor of the fifth century BC<br />
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'''Hermes'''<br /><br />
the messenger god of Greek mythology<br />
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'''Theseus'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theseus hero] of Greek mythology<br />
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'''swart'''<br /><br />
i.e. swarthy - of dark complexion or color<br />
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'''staccato'''<br /><br />
in music, notes sounded in a detached manner<br />
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'''acerbic'''<br /><br />
sharp or biting<br />
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'''hick'''<br /><br />
a person from a rural area<br />
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'''spitter'''<br /><br />
a spitball, in baseball<br />
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'''tsunami'''<br /><br />
tidal wave<br />
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'''olla'''<br /><br />
a pot for making stew, or stew itself<br />
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'''tsimmes'''<br /><br />
a fruit and vegetable casserole<br />
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'''riches nouveaux'''<br /><br />
French: new riches; here an inversion of ''nouveaux riches'', i.e., "newly rich"<br />
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=May 1st, YDAU - Steeply & Marathe discuss an obsession with ''M*A*S*H''=<br />
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==Page 639==<br />
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'''acronym'''<br /><br />
MASH stands for "Mobile Army Surgical Hospital."<br />
<br />
'''prima facie'''<br /><br />
Latin: at first sight<br />
<br />
'''Troy, New York'''<br /><br />
a college town about ten miles from the state capital of Albany<br />
<br />
'''wens'''<br /><br />
a harmless cyst on the scalp or face<br />
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'''Canadiens of the N.L. of H.'''<br /><br />
the Montreal Canadiens, a team in the National Hockey League<br />
<br />
==Page 641==<br />
<br />
'''canned laughter'''<br /><br />
pre-recorded, but also a reminder of the can of macadamia nuts incident<br />
<br />
'''''Bröckengespenstphänom'''''<br /><br />
German: Brocken is a German mountain and the brockengespenst refers to the large shadow an observer on the mountain casts in a certain lighting.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken_spectre]<br />
This is an allusion to a scene from ''Gravity's Rainbow''.[http://www.badgerinternet.com/~bobkat/jestwiley2.html]<br />
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'''Marsh or Swamp'''<br /><br />
The principal male characters in ''M*A*S*H*'' lived in the same tent, which they called "the Swamp."<br />
<br />
==Endnote 263==<br />
<br />
'''Betamax'''<br /><br />
the smaller format of videotape that was eventually pushed out of the market by VHS<br />
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==Page 642 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''''transperçant'''''<br /><br />
French: penetrating across<br />
<br />
'''Major Burns'''<br /><br />
a "villain" character played by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0513271/?fr=c2M9MXxsbT01MDB8ZmI9dXx4PTB8eT0wfG14PTIwfGh0bWw9MXxzaXRlPWRmfHE9TGFycnkgTGludmlsbGV8bm09MXxwbj0w;fc=1;ft=20 Larry Linville]<br />
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'''inveterate'''<br /><br />
habitual<br />
<br />
'''Maury Linville'''<br /><br />
There is no such actor.<br />
<br />
''''In the South Korea of history.''''<br /><br />
sort of implying that in the time of the novel, there's only one Korea again<br />
<br />
''''You are not meaning your sister was a goat.''''<br /><br />
bearing in mind that "kid" also means a baby goat<br />
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'''Korean Police Action of the U.N.'''<br />
<br />
this in reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War Korean War], which involved military support from (in defense of South Korea from the invading North) United Nations member nations. The war actually lasted three full years.<br />
<br />
'''baroquoco'''<br /><br />
This would seem to be a mix between "baroque" and "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo rococo]."<br />
<br />
'''augured'''<br /><br />
predicted for the future<br />
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==Page 646==<br />
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'''Alda'''<br /><br />
a reference to ''M*A*S*H'' star [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000257/ Alan Alda]<br />
<br />
'''transmural infarction'''<br /><br />
heart attack<br />
<br />
'''ventricle'''<br /><br />
one of two of the four chambers of the heart<br />
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'''mesquite'''<br /><br />
a spiny shrub with bean pods<br />
<br />
'''Dick Willis'''<br /><br />
There was a spy named Richard Willis (1613-1690) active during the English Civil War (1642-1660). This is also the name of a professional peer of Steeply in the novel, first mentioned earlier.<br />
<br />
'''Ossified'''<br /><br />
turned to bone<br />
<br />
'''plura'''<br /><br />
a misspelling (likely) of "pleura," which is a thin membrane enclosing the lungs<br />
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=November 13th, YDAU - Kate Gompert & Geoffrey Day discuss It=<br />
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==Page 648==<br />
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'''benign'''<br /><br />
harmless<br />
<br />
'''anomaly'''<br /><br />
something like nothing else (i.e. an outlier)<br />
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'''malevolent'''<br /><br />
intending harm<br />
<br />
'''''magna cum laude'''''<br /><br />
Latin: with very high honors<br />
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'''130-kilo'''<br /><br />
286.6 pounds<br />
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==Page 620==<br />
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'''carpal neuralgia, phospenic migraine, gluteal hyperadiposity, lumbar stressae'''<br /><br />
hand pain, migraines with flashing lights, fat buttocks, and lower back pain<br />
<br />
'''"...all three O.N.A.N. time zones..."'''<br /><br />
Three is considerably fewer time zones than the five the U.S. (including Alaska and Hawaii) currently span, plus the Atlantic Time Zone, in which some of Canada can be found.<br />
<br />
'''genuflecting'''<br /><br />
bending the knee<br />
<br />
''''spect-ops''''<br /><br />
Perhaps a play on the popularized military term 'spec-ops,' meaning 'special operation(s).'<br />
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'''Gapers' Blocks'''<br /><br />
traffic delays caused by rubbernecking<br />
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==Page 621==<br />
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'''apotheosis'''<br /><br />
the process of being raised to godlike status<br />
<br />
'''coprolaliac'''<br /><br />
abnormally disposed to using profanity<br />
<br />
'''nucleic'''<br /><br />
pertaining to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_force nuclear force], which binds protons and neutrons into atomic nuclei <br />
<br />
'''PAs'''<br /><br />
public-address sytems<br />
<br />
'''nostrums'''<br /><br />
patent medicines<br />
<br />
'''bunting'''<br /><br />
loosely woven fabric in a generally half-circle shape; red-white-and-blue ones can be seen hung on podiums, porches, baseball stadiums, etc, especially on the 4th of July and other patriotic holidays.<br />
<br />
'''c.'''<br /><br />
circa<br />
<br />
'''sylvan'''<br /><br />
woodsy<br />
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'''phylogenic'''<br /><br />
From ''phylogeny'', the study of changes and developments in organisms' lineages. ''Phylogenetic'' is the more common adjectival form.<br />
<br />
'''möbiusizing'''<br /><br />
a neologism for taking on the shape of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip Möbius strip]<br />
<br />
'''scopophile'''<br /><br />
someone who derives pleasure (usually sexual) from looking at something<br />
<br />
'''dun'''<br /><br />
grayish brown<br />
<br />
'''Gregg pen'''<br /><br />
See one [http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?s=2eae74b99300ac6261751443db9182fa&showtopic=33208&st=0&p=305917&#entry305917 here]<br />
<br />
'''purview'''<br /><br />
scope of vision<br />
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'''verdigrised'''<br /><br />
covered with grayish-green rust<br />
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'''Robert McCloskey'''<br /><br />
Robert McCloskey (1914-2003) was an American author and illustrator of children's books.<br />
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'''''Make Way for Ducklings'''''<br /><br />
Read about this book [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Way_for_Ducklings here].<br />
<br />
'''greensward'''<br /><br />
stretch of grassy turf<br />
<br />
''"...'''play a game with a small beanbaggy ball'''..."''<br /><br />
A reference to a ''hackey sack''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacky_Sack]<br />
<br />
'''5º C'''<br /><br />
41º Fahrenheit<br />
<br />
'''appurtenances'''<br /><br />
apparatus or instruments<br />
<br />
'''Bread & Circus'''<br /><br />
A small chain of health-food stores first opened in Brookline, MA, in 1975. The chain was acquired by Whole Foods Market in 1992.<br />
<br />
'''sepia'''<br /><br />
dark brown, as in the pigment used to make very early photographs<br />
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'''metallurgy'''<br /><br />
the making and conducting of alloys<br />
<br />
'''Mass Comm.'''<br /><br />
mass communications<br />
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'''ICU'''<br /><br />
Intensive Care Unit<br />
<br />
'''swart'''<br /><br />
swarthy, i.e., dark-skinned<br />
<br />
'''half a house'''<br /><br />
a half-way house<br />
<br />
'''M.D.C.'''<br /><br />
Metropolitan District Commission, a former Massachusetts state agency that was responsible for maintenance of public parks and roads in the Metropolitan Boston area<br />
<br />
'''hackysackers'''<br /><br />
players of a game (hackeysack) where people in a circle kick a small leather bag around to one another<br />
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==Page 626==<br />
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'''Autoteller'''<br /><br />
an ATM<br />
<br />
'''moguls'''<br /><br />
bumps<br />
<br />
'''coruscant'''<br /><br />
glittering<br />
<br />
=November 11th, YDAU - Mealtime at ETA=<br />
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==Page 627==<br />
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'''fenestrated'''<br /><br />
having windows<br />
<br />
'''R.H.I.P.'''<br /><br />
Rank Has Its Privileges<br />
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'''mastication'''<br /><br />
chewing<br />
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==Page 628==<br />
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'''P.O.W.'''<br /><br />
Prisoner of War<br />
<br />
'''Liberal KS'''<br /><br />
To be exact, it's three miles via Route 83 to the Oklahoma border.<br />
<br />
'''C/W'''<br /><br />
Country & Western<br />
<br />
'''Beefeater'''<br /><br />
a British brand of gin<br />
<br />
'''clapboard'''<br /><br />
a long, thin board, thicker along one edge than the other, used in covering the outer walls of buildings (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'')<br />
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'''nuptial'''<br /><br />
marital<br />
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'''toilet-eau'''<br /><br />
eau de toilette, sort of like perfume<br />
<br />
'''connubial'''<br /><br />
marital<br />
<br />
'''Birkenstock'''<br /><br />
a German brand of sandals and shoes<br />
<br />
'''glutens'''<br /><br />
a mixture of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten wheat proteins]<br />
<br />
'''torpor'''<br /><br />
sluggishness<br />
<br />
'''turrets'''<br /><br />
projections from a building where guns are placed<br />
<br />
==Page 630==<br />
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'''"...like Roosevelt at Yalta..."'''<br /><br />
a reference to the supposed bullying by Stalin of FDR at the conference at Yalta in 1945 to cede Eastern Europe to Soviet control<br />
<br />
'''saltpeter'''<br /><br />
potassium nitrate, commonly believed to cause erectile dysfunction<br />
<br />
'''Seldane'''<br /><br />
a brand-name of non-drowsy antihistamine<br />
<br />
'''carminative'''<br /><br />
expelling gas<br />
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==Page 631==<br />
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'''mammarial'''<br /><br />
resembling or having to do with breasts<br />
<br />
'''lecithin'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecithin mixture of fats] found in milk and other foods<br />
<br />
'''semicolonized'''<br /><br />
otherwise, it's a comma splice<br />
<br />
'''buttinskis'''<br /><br />
i.e., the right to butt into line<br />
<br />
'''scooters'''<br /><br />
apparently a slang term for "dollars"<br />
<br />
'''déjà vu'''<br /><br />
From French for "already seen," it's the sense that you're re-experiencing something.<br />
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==Page 632==<br />
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'''saltire'''<br /><br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltire Cross of St. Andrew]<br />
<br />
'''tektitic'''<br /><br />
referring to fossils formed by meteoric impacts<br />
<br />
'''foist'''<br /><br />
to insert deceitfully<br />
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==Page 633==<br />
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'''Grant's Tomb'''<br /><br />
The trick answer to the question is "no one." As the tomb is above ground, Ulysses S. Grant is technically "entombed" and not "buried." The obvious answer is Grant.<br />
<br />
'''the one about what do Canadian girls put behind their ears to attract boys'''<br /><br />
Presumably a reference to Q: What does a blonde put behind her ears to make her more attractive? A: Her ankles.<br />
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==Endnote 261==<br />
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'''offal'''<br /><br />
garbage, particularly rotting meat<br />
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'''tantric'''<br /><br />
referring to a particular branch of Hinduism, but very particularly to the sexual aspect of this branch, which emphasizes long sessions of sexual intercourse<br />
<br />
'''Twister'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twister_%28game%29 parlor game] produced by Hasbro that involves contorting the body<br />
<br />
'''cataract'''<br /><br />
waterfall<br />
<br />
'''reticent'''<br /><br />
the tendency to keep one's thoughts to oneself<br />
<br />
'''colposcope'''<br /><br />
a scope used to examine the internal female reproductive organs<br />
<br />
'''Combat Zone'''<br /><br />
an area of Boston known for prostitution and sex shops<br />
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==Page 635==<br />
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'''bussed'''<br /><br />
cleaned up<br />
<br />
'''B.B.'''<br /><br />
Big Brother<br />
<br />
'''asexual'''<br /><br />
not sexually active or not attracted to either sex<br />
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'''nascent'''<br /><br />
beginning to develop<br />
<br />
'''Sapphic'''<br /><br />
i.e., lesbian, the reference being to Sappho, the ancient Greek poet from Lesbos<br />
<br />
'''Penal Matron'''<br /><br />
in other words, a female prison warden<br />
<br />
'''Polycleitos'''<br /><br />
a Greek sculptor of the fifth century BC<br />
<br />
'''Hermes'''<br /><br />
the messenger god of Greek mythology<br />
<br />
'''Theseus'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theseus hero] of Greek mythology<br />
<br />
'''swart'''<br /><br />
i.e. swarthy - of dark complexion or color<br />
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==Page 637==<br />
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'''staccato'''<br /><br />
in music, notes sounded in a detached manner<br />
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'''acerbic'''<br /><br />
sharp or biting<br />
<br />
'''hick'''<br /><br />
a person from a rural area<br />
<br />
'''spitter'''<br /><br />
a spitball, in baseball<br />
<br />
'''tsunami'''<br /><br />
tidal wave<br />
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'''olla'''<br /><br />
a pot for making stew, or stew itself<br />
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'''tsimmes'''<br /><br />
a fruit and vegetable casserole<br />
<br />
'''riches nouveaux'''<br /><br />
French: new riches; here an inversion of ''nouveaux riches'', i.e., "newly rich"<br />
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=May 1st, YDAU - Steeply & Marathe discuss an obsession with ''M*A*S*H''=<br />
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==Page 639==<br />
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'''acronym'''<br /><br />
MASH stands for "Mobile Army Surgical Hospital."<br />
<br />
'''prima facie'''<br /><br />
Latin: at first sight<br />
<br />
'''Troy, New York'''<br /><br />
a college town about ten miles from the state capital of Albany<br />
<br />
'''wens'''<br /><br />
a harmless cyst on the scalp or face<br />
<br />
==Page 640==<br />
<br />
'''Canadiens of the N.L. of H.'''<br /><br />
the Montreal Canadiens, a team in the National Hockey League<br />
<br />
==Page 641==<br />
<br />
'''canned laughter'''<br /><br />
pre-recorded, but also a reminder of the can of macadamia nuts incident<br />
<br />
'''''Bröckengespenstphänom'''''<br /><br />
German: Brocken is a German mountain and the brockengespenst refers to the large shadow an observer on the mountain casts in a certain lighting.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken_spectre]<br />
This is an allusion to a scene from ''Gravity's Rainbow''.[http://www.badgerinternet.com/~bobkat/jestwiley2.html]<br />
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==Page 642==<br />
<br />
'''Marsh or Swamp'''<br /><br />
The principal male characters in ''M*A*S*H*'' lived in the same tent, which they called "the Swamp."<br />
<br />
==Endnote 263==<br />
<br />
'''Betamax'''<br /><br />
the smaller format of videotape that was eventually pushed out of the market by VHS<br />
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==Page 642 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''''transperçant'''''<br /><br />
French: penetrating across<br />
<br />
'''Major Burns'''<br /><br />
a "villain" character played by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0513271/?fr=c2M9MXxsbT01MDB8ZmI9dXx4PTB8eT0wfG14PTIwfGh0bWw9MXxzaXRlPWRmfHE9TGFycnkgTGludmlsbGV8bm09MXxwbj0w;fc=1;ft=20 Larry Linville]<br />
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==Page 643==<br />
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'''inveterate'''<br /><br />
habitual<br />
<br />
'''Maury Linville'''<br /><br />
There is no such actor.<br />
<br />
''''In the South Korea of history.''''<br /><br />
sort of implying that in the time of the novel, there's only one Korea again<br />
<br />
''''You are not meaning your sister was a goat.''''<br /><br />
bearing in mind that "kid" also means a baby goat<br />
<br />
==Page 644==<br />
<br />
'''Korean Police Action of the U.N.'''<br />
<br />
this in reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War Korean War], which involved military support from (in defense of South Korea from the invading North) United Nations member nations. The war actually lasted three full years.<br />
<br />
'''baroquoco'''<br /><br />
This would seem to be a mix between "baroque" and "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo rococo]."<br />
<br />
'''augured'''<br /><br />
predicted for the future<br />
<br />
==Page 645==<br />
<br />
==Page 646==<br />
<br />
'''Alda'''<br /><br />
a reference to ''M*A*S*H'' star [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000257/ Alan Alda]<br />
<br />
'''transmural infarction'''<br /><br />
heart attack<br />
<br />
'''ventricle'''<br /><br />
one of two of the four chambers of the heart<br />
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==Page 647==<br />
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'''mesquite'''<br /><br />
a spiny shrub with bean pods<br />
<br />
'''Dick Willis'''<br /><br />
There was a spy named Richard Willis (1613-1690) active during the English Civil War (1642-1660). This is also the name of a professional peer of Steeply in the novel, first mentioned earlier.<br />
<br />
'''Ossified'''<br /><br />
turned to bone<br />
<br />
'''plura'''<br /><br />
a misspelling (likely) of "pleura," which is a thin membrane enclosing the lungs<br />
<br />
==Page 648==<br />
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=November 13th, YDAU - Kate Gompert & Geoffrey Day discuss It=<br />
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==Page 648==<br />
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'''benign'''<br /><br />
harmless<br />
<br />
'''anomaly'''<br /><br />
something like nothing else<br />
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'''malevolent'''<br /><br />
intending harm<br />
<br />
'''''magna cum laude'''''<br /><br />
Latin: with very high honors<br />
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'''130-kilo'''<br /><br />
286.6 pounds<br />
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==Page 470==<br />
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'''stereotaxy'''<br /><br />
also known as "stereotaxis," this is three-dimensional brain imaging<br />
<br />
'''Elder, Elders'''<br /><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Olds James Olds], co-discovered the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasure_center#Experiments_on_rodents "pleasure center"]<br />
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'''plutonium-239'''<br /><br />
a fissile isotope of plutonium<br />
<br />
'''ablative surgery'''<br /><br />
<br />
a treatment for neurological disorders involving freezing or burning of brain tissue<br />
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==Page 471==<br />
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'''Q-dopa'''<br /><br />
not a real neurotransmitter<br />
<br />
==Page 472==<br />
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'''MK-Ultra''' <br /><br />
an actual [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKULTRA CIA mind-control experiment] starting in the 1950s and continuing well into the 1960s and possibly 70s<br />
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==Endnote 198==<br />
<br />
'''''Orlikow et al. v. United States of America'''''<br /><br />
This was a real case, and you can read the proceedings [http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/orli-01.htm here].<br />
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==Page 472 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''G.C.'''<br /><br />
Government of Canada, perhaps<br />
<br />
'''M.M.P.I.'''<br /><br />
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, a commonly administered psychological test designed to give an overview of personality, neuroses, etc.<br />
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'''Millon's'''<br /><br />
the [http://millon.net/instruments/MCMI_III.htm Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III], another psych inventory<br />
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'''Approception'''<br /><br />
apparently not a real test<br />
<br />
'''shiatsu'''<br /><br />
a type of Asian massage<br />
<br />
'''weal'''<br /><br />
prosperity or happiness<br />
<br />
'''Turner, Bush, Casey'''<br /><br />
Admiral Stansfield Turner was head of the CIA from 1977 to 1981. George H.W. Bush (later President) was CIA head from 1976 to 1977. William J. Casey was head from 1981 to 1987.<br />
<br />
'''Langley'''<br /><br />
the town in Virginia where the CIA is headquartered<br />
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'''divans'''<br /><br />
couches or sofas<br />
<br />
'''rutting'''<br /><br />
heat, i.e., sexual excitement<br />
<br />
'''N.S.A.'''<br /><br />
National Security Agency<br />
<br />
'''C7'''<br /><br />
The C7 is a modified version of the American M-16 combat rifle. It's implied here that C7 was some kind of security apparatus, but there is no evidence that such a body existed.<br />
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==Page 475==<br />
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=Gately Driving / Antitoi Brothers=<br />
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==Page 475==<br />
<br />
'''princess-and-pea'''<br /><br />
a reference to the fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea," wherein despite several mattresses, a princess can still feel a single pea below her<br />
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'''cluster migraines'''<br /><br />
Cluster headaches and migraines are actually two distinct syndromes.<br />
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'''feldspar'''<br /><br />
a rock-forming mineral<br />
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'''E.R.'''<br /><br />
Emergency Room<br />
<br />
'''Rebel Yell'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_yell battle cry] used by Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War<br />
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'''CITGO'''<br /><br />
one of the [http://www.citgo.com/Home.jsp major oil] companies. The neon [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citgo_sign#The_Citgo_sign Citgo sign] described here is an iconic landmark in Boston.<br />
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'''70 kph.'''<br /><br />
about 43.5 miles per hour<br />
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'''Father & Son Market...Riley's Roast Beef'''<br /><br />
all of these are references to actual stores and clubs in Allston/Brighton, though many have closed or been renamed and some are on nearby streets and would not be visible to Gately as he drives down Comm. Ave.<br />
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'''CVS'''<br /><br />
a large chain of [http://www.cvs.com/ drugstores]<br />
<br />
'''75 k'''<br /><br />
about 46.6 miles per hour<br />
<br />
'''ς'''<br /><br />
the Greek letter ''sigma'' as it appears in lower case at the ends of words<br />
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'''mysticetously'''<br /><br />
in the manner of a baleen whale<br />
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'''cognomen'''<br /><br />
a descriptive nickname<br />
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'''tallboys'''<br /><br />
<br />
16oz cans of beer<br />
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'''80 kph'''<br /><br />
almost 50 miles per hour<br />
<br />
'''Berklee School of Music'''<br /><br />
a real school, one of the highest-prestige [http://www.berklee.edu/ music schools] in the U.S.<br />
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==Page 478==<br />
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'''tonic machines'''<br /><br />
"tonic" is a (rapidly disappearing) Boston area term for carbonated soft drinks.<br />
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==Endnote 202==<br />
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'''argot'''<br /><br />
slang, jargon<br />
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'''Escherian'''<br /><br />
referring to the work of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Escher Maurits Cornelis (M.C.) Escher] (1898-1972), a Dutch graphic artist famous for his illustrations of repeated patterns and impossible structures. "Escherian signs" would seem to indicate signs that are confusing or impossible to follow.<br />
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==Page 478 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''Bread & Circus in Inman Square'''<br /><br />
a real health food store on Prospect Street in Cambridge between Central and Inman Squares. The Bread & Circus chain was bought by Whole Foods, so this store is now operating as a Whole Foods.<br />
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'''slalom'''<br /><br />
to zigzag between obstacles<br />
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'''bodegas'''<br /><br />
a Spanish-owned grocery<br />
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'''crèche'''<br /><br />
a nativity scene<br />
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'''propinquous'''<br /><br />
Probably what's intended is "propinquitous," meaning "proximity" or "nearness."<br />
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'''Chickens Fresh Killed Daily'''<br /><br />
a reference to the prominent 'Live Poultry Fresh Killed' sign of the Mayflower Poultry Company at 621 Cambridge St, East Cambridge about a half a mile from Inman Square. http://bostonist.com/2007/09/07/mayflower_poult.php<br />
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'''Ryle's Jazz Club'''<br /><br />
a reference to Ryles Jazz Club (no apostrophe) in Inman Square, Cambridge at 212 Hampshire Street. http://www.rylesjazz.com/<br />
<br />
'''briar pipes'''<br /><br />
a type of pipe for [http://www.tinderboxinternational.com/briar.htm smoking]<br />
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'''60 k'''<br /><br />
about 37.3 miles per hour<br />
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'''MF'''<br /><br />
Millennial Fizzy<br />
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'''aerodyne'''<br /><br />
a heavier-than-air aircraft deriving lift from motion<br />
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'''viz.'''<br /><br />
abbreviation for ''videlicet'' (Latin)<br />
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'''CQBC'''<br /><br />
not a real entity, but probably here denoting a French-Canadian radio station<br />
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'''monomitotic'''<br /><br />
"Mitosis" is cell division; "monomitosis" would be the splitting of a cell into a single cell, i.e., not splitting.G<br />
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'''Gaspé Peninsula'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.great-adventures.com/destinations/canada/gaspe.html region] in northern Québec<br />
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'''U.S.A. Civic War hero's Boylston St. statue'''<br /><br />
probably a reference the Robert Gould Shaw statue that Joelle van Dyne passes on p. 223. DFW appears to have moved the Shaw memorial from Beacon Street to Boylston Street.<br />
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'''''chiens-courants'''''<br /><br />
French: running dogs, hounds<br />
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'''Van Buskirk of Montreal'''<br /><br />
appears to be a fictional glass company<br />
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'''Provincial Autoroute 55'''<br /><br />
Quebec north-south highway that runs from Shawinigan to Stanstead at the US border, where it connects with...<br />
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'''U.S.A. 91'''<br /><br />
Interstate 91, which runs from New Haven, Conn, to Derby Line, Vt., at the Canadian border<br />
<br />
'''Bellow's Falls VT'''<br /><br />
a town off Route 91, about 70 miles west of Manchester, N.H.<br />
<br />
'''paisley'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paisley_%28design%29 popular design] originating in Scotland<br />
<br />
'''Nehru jacket'''<br /><br />
A collarless jacket named for Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), first Prime Minister of India and father of Indira Gandhi<br />
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'''''école-spéciale'''''<br /><br />
French: special school<br />
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'''Ste.-Anne-des-Monts'''<br /><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainte-Anne-des-Monts,_Quebec city] on the north shore of the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec<br />
<br />
'''''Va chier, putain!'''''<br /><br />
French: Piss off, whore!<br />
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'''trop formidable'''<br /><br />
French: too strong<br />
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'''Basel'''<br /><br />
a city of Switzerland about 50 miles north of the capital of Bern<br />
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'''''tu-sais-quoi'''''<br /><br />
French: you know what<br />
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'''impost'''<br /><br />
something imposed, as a tax or duty<br />
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==Endnote 204==<br />
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'''Saprogenic'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to putrefaction or rotting<br />
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'''illicit'''<br /><br />
illegal<br />
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'''IL NE FAUT PLUS QU'ON PURSUIVE LE BONHEUR'''<br /><br />
French: It is no longer necessary to pursue happiness<br />
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'''125-kilo'''<br /><br />
about 276 lbs<br />
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'''ROPAS'''<br /><br />
Spanish: CLOTHES<br />
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'''union-suit underwear'''<br /><br />
one-piece long undergarments<br />
<br />
'''stelliform'''<br /><br />
in the form of a star<br />
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'''transperçant'''<br /><br />
French: "stabbing or piercing," but also "transfixing"<br />
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'''baguette'''<br /><br />
a long roll of French bread<br />
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'''cerise'''<br /><br />
deep red to purple in color<br />
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'''teratoid'''<br /><br />
resembling a monster; monstrous (from Greek teras, terat- "monster.")<br />
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''''''n soir, 'sieur'''''<br /><br />
an elision of ''bon soir, monsieur,'' i.e., "Good evening, sir" in French<br />
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''''''Malhereusement, ton collégue est décédé. Il faisait une excellente soupe aux pois.''''''<br /><br />
French: Sadly, your friend is dead. He made an excellent pea soup.<br />
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on p. 425, Marathe outlined a hypothetical in which two people both wanted a Habitant ''soupe aus pois'' that belonged to someone who had recently died<br />
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''''''Non? Ou c'était toi, faisait-elle?''''''<br /><br />
French: No? Or was it you that made it?<br />
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'''wangs'''<br /><br />
slaps or bangs against<br />
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'''''frère'''''<br /><br />
French: brother<br />
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'''sphincter'''<br /><br />
Any muscle in ring form, here it means the anus, which has failed Lucien by allowing him to soil himself<br />
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'''''ne pas plaisanter'''''<br /><br />
French: not pleasure<br />
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'''''iront paître'''''<br /><br />
French: they will go to eat<br />
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'''''entend-il?'''''<br /><br />
French: Does he hear?<br />
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'''maxillofacial'''<br /><br />
relating to the jaw and face<br />
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'''''inutile'''''<br /><br />
French: useless<br />
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'''natal'''<br /><br />
like a baby's<br />
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'''aphonia'''<br /><br />
loss of or inability to speak due to damage to or disease of the larynx<br />
<br />
'''aphrasiac'''<br /><br />
the inability to speak words in intelligible order<br />
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'''Chic-Choc lakes'''<br /><br />
the Chic-Choc mountains are in the Gaspé Peninsula<br />
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'''Cap-Chat'''<br /><br />
a town in the Gaspé Peninsula<br />
<br />
'''inguinal canal'''<br /><br />
a passage in the lower front part of the abdominal wall<br />
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'''sigmoid'''<br /><br />
the sigmoid colon is the part of the large intestine closest to the rectum<br />
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'''muskie'''<br /><br />
short for "muskellunge," a type of fish<br />
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=☽ YDAU - Gately's struggle to understand a Higher Power=<br />
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==Page 442==<br />
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'''Braintree'''<br /><br />
a town in Massachusetts about 13 miles south-southeast of Boston<br />
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==Page 443==<br />
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'''easement'''<br /><br />
An easement is a right to use part of someone else's land for a limited purpose, often a right to cross it on a defined pathway. Thus the Higher Power as a cheese-easement refers to Gately's analogy to a lab rat who's learned one route through a maze to the cheese.<br />
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'''rote'''<br /><br />
repetition<br />
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'''Probie'''<br /><br />
probation officer<br />
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'''10-cm.'''<br /><br />
a little under 4 inches<br />
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'''Our Father'''<br /><br />
the Lord's Prayer<br />
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'''hawgs'''<br /><br />
"Hog" is a slang term for a Harley-Davidson<br />
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'''mantis'''<br /><br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praying_mantis praying mantis]<br />
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'''spats'''<br /><br />
a covering for the uppers of shoes<br />
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'''Quincy Market'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Market shopping area] in downtown Boston. Like the nearby suburb, Quincy is pronounced "Quinzy."<br />
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'''affable'''<br /><br />
showing warmth and friendliness<br />
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'''Rte. 3'''<br /><br />
highway running southeast from Boston along the South Shore toward Cape Cod<br />
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'''Hennessey'''<br /><br />
a brand of cognac<br />
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'''sampler'''<br /><br />
a piece of cloth embroidered with stitches, sometimes incorporating platitudes<br />
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'''Estonian'''<br /><br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonians native population] of Estonia<br />
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'''wrought-iron'''<br /><br />
iron in nearly carbon-free form, making it readily forged<br />
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'''M.P.'''<br /><br />
military policeman<br />
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'''brig'''<br /><br />
prison on a Navy ship<br />
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==Page 447==<br />
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'''Bulat'''<br /><br />
actually a common Kazakh first name<br />
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'''Yirrell Beach bridge in Point Shirley'''<br /><br />
these are references to Winthrop, a coastal town just northeast of Boston and separated from Logan Airport by a narrow inlet of Boston Harbor. Interestingly, Sylvia Plath's family lived for a time in the Point Shirley section of Winthrop and in 1960 she wrote a poem titled "Point Shirley."<br />
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==Page 448==<br />
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'''filial'''<br /><br />
pertaining to a son or daughter<br />
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'''Nimitz'''<br /><br />
Chester William Nimitz (1885-1966) was a U.S. admiral and commander of Naval forces in the Pacific during WWII.<br />
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'''afghan'''<br /><br />
a type of blanket<br />
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==Page 449==<br />
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==Endnote 179==<br />
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'''chivalric'''<br /><br />
considerate and courteous to women<br />
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==Page 449 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''Sir Osis of Thuliver'''<br /><br />
i.e., cirrhosis of the liver<br />
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'''vessels'''<br /><br />
He means "vassals."<br />
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=Very late October, YDAU - Madame Psychosis's unannounced sabbatical=<br />
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'''shale'''<br /><br />
the most common [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shale sedimentary rock]<br />
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==Page 450==<br />
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'''alto'''<br /><br />
having a lower female voice<br />
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'''Horkheimer and Adorno'''<br /><br />
Max Horkheimer (1895-1973) was a German philosopher and sociologist, a founder and guiding thinker of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School Frankfurt School] of critical theory. Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969) was a German sociologist and fellow member of the Frankfurt School.<br />
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'''Patridge Family'''<br /><br />
the band featured on the [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065333/ television series] of the same name<br />
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'''narcotized'''<br /><br />
drugged<br />
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'''timbre'''<br /><br />
tone of voice<br />
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'''Rectus Bulbi'''<br /><br />
short name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_rectus_muscle superior rectus muscle]<br />
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'''sarcophagally'''<br /><br />
in a way suggesting a coffin<br />
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=November 9th, YDAU - Morning Drills=<br />
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==Page 450==<br />
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==Page 451==<br />
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'''permutations'''<br /><br />
arrangements of the same items in different sequences<br />
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'''"...the thing it's not entirely impossible he may have fathered..."'''<br /><br />
This is to say that C.T. may have been Mario's father and not James O. Incandenza. Given that C.T. and Avril are blood relatives, this would explain Mario's profound birth defects.<br />
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'''anodized'''<br /><br />
coated with metal<br />
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'''perk'''<br /><br />
i.e., perquisite, a special benefit<br />
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'''alpaca'''<br /><br />
wool taken from an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpaca animal] closely related to the camel and llama<br />
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'''Kaopectate'''<br /><br />
brand name of parapectolin. A pink, clay-like antidiarrheal; believed to work by adsorbing the bacteria or germ that may be causing the diarrhea.<br />
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'''canted'''<br /><br />
put in an oblique position<br />
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'''reveille'''<br /><br />
the trumpet call played in the morning to awaken sleeping soldiers<br />
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'''corona'''<br /><br />
crown or halo<br />
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'''muzzle'''<br /><br />
the barrel of a gun<br />
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'''Erythema'''<br /><br />
does not appear to be an actual suburb of Tucson. The word means redness of the skin as the result of various causes, including infection and sunburn.<br />
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'''bratwursts'''<br /><br />
This is a small German sausage composed of pork and beef; the name is German for "chopped meat sausage."<br />
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'''revenant'''<br /><br />
one who returns after death or a long absence<br />
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'''Puker'''<br /><br />
a punitive run designed to make one vomit<br />
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'''American Twist'''<br /><br />
another name for a kick serve<br />
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'''2 m.'''<br /><br />
over 6'6" tall<br />
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==Page 455==<br />
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'''low 10's C'''<br /><br />
10º C is equal to 50º Fahrenheit.<br />
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'''nacreous'''<br /><br />
like mother of pearl<br />
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'''baroque'''<br /><br />
of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a style of artistic expression prevalent especially in the 17th century that is marked generally by use of complex forms, bold ornamentation, and the juxtaposition of contrasting elements often conveying a sense of drama, movement, and tension (Source: [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/baroque Merriam-Webster])<br />
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'''picric'''<br /><br />
Picric acid is an explosive, so the word "picric" w/r/t clouds probably implies an explosive (or about to explode) quality. It is also a toxic yellow.<br />
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'''pro forma'''<br /><br />
perfunctory<br />
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'''fungoes'''<br /><br />
In baseball a fungo is a pop fly deliberately hit to train players in fielding. Presumably here, in tennis, these balls are hit in a deliberate place in a deliberate manner to exercise a particular skill.<br />
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'''quarter'''<br /><br />
here meaning "mercy"<br />
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'''''forvart'''''<br /><br />
"forward", said with a German accent<br />
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'''23.8 meters, 8 I think .2 meters'''<br /><br />
close to 80 feet by nearly 27 feet<br />
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'''Gymnasium Kaiserlautern'''<br /><br />
The Web site is [http://asg.region-kl.de/ here]. ''Kaiserlautern'' means something like "Emperor acclamation" in German and is a city in southwest Germany.<br />
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'''Raggedy Andy'''<br /><br />
a popular doll seen [http://www.backtobasicstoys.com/images/6391.jpg here]<br />
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'''z coordinate'''<br /><br />
the measurement of depth<br />
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'''Gaugin'''<br /><br />
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a French artist who lived in Tahiti.<br />
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'''morendo'''<br /><br />
a musical term meaning "a gradual decrescendo at the end of a strain or cadence" (''Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary'')<br />
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=More on Gately at Ennet House=<br />
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'''1964 Ford Aventura'''<br /><br />
There is no such car.<br />
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'''Purity Supreme Market'''<br /><br />
A New England [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purity_Supreme supermarket chain] that ceased operations in 1997 after being bought by a competitor.<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whisper-Quiet Maytag Dishmaster]]<br />
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'''DUI'''<br /><br />
Driving Under the Influence<br />
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'''D&Ds'''<br /><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunk_and_disorderly Drunk and Disorderly conduct]<br />
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'''Possession With Intent'''<br /><br />
i.e., with intent to distribute<br />
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'''D.S.A.S.'''<br /><br />
Division of Substance Abuse Services<br />
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'''constabulary'''<br /><br />
a body of peace officers<br />
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'''Murder-2'''<br /><br />
second-degree murder, or murder without premeditation<br />
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'''Deer Island'''<br /><br />
an island in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer_Island_%28Massachusetts%29 Boston Harbor], and until 1991 the site of the Suffolk County House of Correction<br />
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'''hinked'''<br /><br />
According to the ''OED'', hink as a verb means "to halt" or "to falter." The implication here is that 90 days in jail isn't much to Gately since he'd already served 17 months in another sentence.<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]<br />
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'''women's leg-shaver thing'''<br /><br />
i.e., Epi-Lady<br />
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'''misprision'''<br /><br />
contempt against the government or courts. However, it can also mean, in a non-legal sense, misunderstanding, which may be the meaning here (for example, Gately confusing "epilepsy" with "Epi-Lady").<br />
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'''Cape'''<br /><br />
i.e., Cape Cod<br />
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'''J.C.'''<br /><br />
Jesus Christ<br />
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'''Korean-War-vintage'''<br /><br />
The Korean War (1950–53) was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and People's Republic of China, with air support from the Soviet Union.<br />
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'''Nixon administration'''<br /><br />
January 1969 to August 1974<br />
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'''188 cm. and 128 kg.'''<br /><br />
Gately is a hair over 6'2" and weights over 282 lbs.<br />
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'''Ashland KY'''<br /><br />
a city on the Ohio River about 120 miles south of Columbus, Ohio<br />
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