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==Page 736==<br />
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'''B.Y.P.'''<br /><br />
maybe Berkshire Young Professionals?<br />
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==Page 737==<br />
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'''Pokie'''<br /><br />
apparently a childhood nickname for Joelle<br />
<br />
'''fifth wall'''<br /><br />
usually a reference to the ceiling of a room<br />
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==Page 738==<br />
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'''futon'''<br /><br />
being a couch that opens into a bed<br />
<br />
'''amniotic'''<br /><br />
taking place ''in utero''<br />
<br />
'''greebles'''<br /><br />
There is such a thing as a [http://www.reference.com/search?r=13&q=Greeble greeble], but probably not as Joelle means it. The real term, medically speaking, is "rheum."<br />
<br />
"<i>Greebles</i> had been her [Joelle's] own mother's word for the little bits of sleepy goo you got in your eyes' corners." p. 738 <br />
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'''basso'''<br /><br />
having a very low voice<br />
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==Page 739==<br />
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'''Carefree'''<br /><br />
a brand of sanitary pads<br />
<br />
'''disdain'''<br /><br />
dislike or hatred<br />
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==Page 740==<br />
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'''rancid'''<br /><br />
rotten<br />
<br />
'''oeuvre'''<br /><br />
body of work<br />
<br />
'''inbent'''<br /><br />
directed inward<br />
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==Page 741==<br />
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'''Everclear'''<br /><br />
a brand of pure grain alcohol<br />
<br />
'''Shoats'''<br /><br />
young pigs<br />
<br />
'''Boosters'''<br /><br />
members of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booster_%28sports%29 booster club]<br />
<br />
'''H.S.'''<br /><br />
high school<br />
<br />
'''YardGuard'''<br /><br />
a brand name of [http://www.yardguardmosquito.com/ insect repellent]<br />
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==Page 742==<br />
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'''Vittorio'''<br /><br />
this would seem to be a museum name, but there is no museum by that name in the Boston area<br />
<br />
'''herring'''<br /><br />
i.e., a red herring — a distraction<br />
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==Page 743==<br />
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'''Legal Seafood'''<br /><br />
perhaps [http://boston.citysearch.com/profile/40879464/boston_ma/legal_seafood.html this restaurant]<br />
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==Endnote 309==<br />
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'''boniface'''<br /><br />
an innkeeper<br />
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==Page 743 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''grouper'''<br /><br />
a family of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grouper fish] including sea basses<br />
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==Page 744==<br />
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'''obtruding'''<br /><br />
pushing something forward without invitation<br />
<br />
'''tri-faceted'''<br /><br />
three-sided<br />
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'''Albertan champagne'''<br /><br />
an oxymoron — champagne comes only from the Champagne region of France<br />
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==Page 745==<br />
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'''Clift'''<br /><br />
Edward Montgomery Clift (1920-1966) was an American actor.<br />
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'''two meters'''<br /><br />
about 6.6 feet<br />
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'''heliotropes'''<br /><br />
plants that turn toward the sun<br />
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'''Candela'''<br /><br />
From the SI: The candela is the luminous intensity, in a given direction, of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540×1012 hertz and that has a radiant intensity in that direction of 1/683 watt per steradian.<br />
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'''freezing point of platinum'''<br /><br />
If the melting point of platinum is 3214.9 ° F, then at any temperature below this, it will be solid, i.e., frozen.<br />
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'''Thomist'''<br /><br />
ascribing to the philosophy of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquinas St. Thomas Aquinas]<br />
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'''''personalistes'''''<br /><br />
perhaps a member of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-conformists_of_the_1930s non-conformist movement] in France in the 1930s<br />
<br />
'''Sagan'''<br /><br />
Carl Edward Sagan (1934-1996) was an American astronomer and host of a television show called ''Cosmos''.<br />
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'''Haplology'''<br /><br />
the elimination of a syllable in a word when two consecutive identical syllable occur, e.g., "probly" for "probably"0<br />
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==Page 746==<br />
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''''the vapors''''<br /><br />
a euphemism for hysteria<br />
<br />
'''Spielberg's old computer-enhanced celluloid things'''<br /><br />
the ''Jurassic Park'' films<br />
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==Page 747==<br />
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'''Kahlua'''<br /><br />
a coffee-flavored [http://www.kahlua.com/ liqueur]<br />
<br />
'''blancmange'''<br /><br />
a thick milk pudding<br />
<br />
'''chickory'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicory plant] used for a coffee substitute in some places<br />
<br />
'''thymus'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thymus bodily organ] that plays a role in immune function<br />
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<span class="marker">747 · Marathe at Ennet House Continued</span><br />
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==Page 747==<br />
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'''subaltern'''<br /><br />
a subordinate<br />
<br />
'''"He had the great fatigue..."'''<br /><br />
A less literal translation would be: "He was very tired..."<br />
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==Page 748==<br />
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'''"...to smack, to scag, and to H..."'''<br /><br />
all the same thing, being street names for heroin<br />
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==Page 749==<br />
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'''bolt of death'''<br /><br />
i.e., a deadbolt lock<br />
<br />
'''Chit Chat Farms'''<br /><br />
This is a real detox in Wernersville, Pa., about 70 miles northwest of Philadelphia.<br />
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==Page 750==<br />
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'''chez'''<br /><br />
a French preposition meaning "at the home of"<br />
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==Page 751==<br />
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'''''comment-on-dit?'''''<br /><br />
French: How do you say?<br />
<br />
'''45 kph'''<br /><br />
almost 28 miles per hour<br />
<br />
'''''Caisse de Dépôt et Placement'''''<br /><br />
French: Fund for Registration and Placement<br />
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<span class="marker">751 · Joelle Continues to Clean</span><br />
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==Page 751==<br />
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'''katexia'''<br /><br />
Just like when Joelle referred to CA newcomers as "catexic" on pg 707, there's no word "katexia" in any American dictionary, although Freud used "katexis" to refer to the process by means of which libido energy is tied or placed into the mental representation of a personality, idea, or thing." This would not seem to the connotation intended here.<br />
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==Page 752==<br />
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'''''Feeling Good'''''<br /><br />
One of the key books on cognitive therapy for depression by David D. Burns, M.D., an American psychiatrist.<br />
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<span class="marker">752 · Marathe Intake Continued</span><br />
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==Page 752==<br />
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'''volubly'''<br /><br />
to speak readily<br />
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'''M./Mlle.'''<br /><br />
French: Monsieur/Mademoiselle, i.e., Mr./Ms., used because of Steeply's disguise<br />
<br />
'''restenotic'''<br /><br />
refers to restenosis, or the re-narrowing of blood vessels after initial stenosis<br />
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==Page 753==<br />
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'''spire'''<br /><br />
steeple<br />
<br />
'''''manche à balai'''''<br /><br />
French: broom handle<br />
<br />
'''''chanteur-fou'''''<br /><br />
French: crazy singer<br />
<br />
'''calculus'''<br /><br />
here meaning simply "calculation"<br />
<br />
'''Lopate'''<br /><br />
The name is perhaps taken from Philip Lopate (born 1943), an American film critic.<br />
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'''''transpercé'''''<br /><br />
pierced through<br />
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==Page 754==<br />
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==Endnote 315==<br />
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'''malentendu'''<br /><br />
mishearing<br />
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==Page 755==<br />
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==Page 736==<br />
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'''B.Y.P.'''<br /><br />
maybe Berkshire Young Professionals?<br />
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==Page 737==<br />
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'''Pokie'''<br /><br />
apparently a childhood nickname for Joelle<br />
<br />
'''fifth wall'''<br /><br />
usually a reference to the ceiling of a room<br />
<br />
==Page 738==<br />
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'''futon'''<br /><br />
being a couch that opens into a bed<br />
<br />
'''amniotic'''<br /><br />
taking place ''in utero''<br />
<br />
'''greebles'''<br /><br />
There is such a thing as a [http://www.reference.com/search?r=13&q=Greeble greeble], but probably not as Joelle means it. The real term, medically speaking, is "rheum."<br />
<br />
"<i>Greebles</i> had been her [Joelle's] own mother's word for the little bits of sleepy goo you got in your eyes' corners." p. 738 <br />
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'''basso'''<br /><br />
having a very low voice<br />
<br />
==Page 739==<br />
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'''Carefree'''<br /><br />
a brand of sanitary pads<br />
<br />
'''disdain'''<br /><br />
dislike or hatred<br />
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==Page 740==<br />
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'''rancid'''<br /><br />
rotten<br />
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'''towardness'''<br /><br />
the quality of being socially proper<br />
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'''oeuvre'''<br /><br />
body of work<br />
<br />
'''inbent'''<br /><br />
directed inward<br />
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==Page 741==<br />
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'''Everclear'''<br /><br />
a brand of pure grain alcohol<br />
<br />
'''Shoats'''<br /><br />
young pigs<br />
<br />
'''Boosters'''<br /><br />
members of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booster_%28sports%29 booster club]<br />
<br />
'''H.S.'''<br /><br />
high school<br />
<br />
'''YardGuard'''<br /><br />
a brand name of [http://www.yardguardmosquito.com/ insect repellent]<br />
<br />
==Page 742==<br />
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'''Vittorio'''<br /><br />
this would seem to be a museum name, but there is no museum by that name in the Boston area<br />
<br />
'''herring'''<br /><br />
i.e., a red herring — a distraction<br />
<br />
==Page 743==<br />
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'''Legal Seafood'''<br /><br />
perhaps [http://boston.citysearch.com/profile/40879464/boston_ma/legal_seafood.html this restaurant]<br />
<br />
==Endnote 309==<br />
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'''boniface'''<br /><br />
an innkeeper<br />
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==Page 743 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''grouper'''<br /><br />
a family of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grouper fish] including sea basses<br />
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==Page 744==<br />
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'''obtruding'''<br /><br />
pushing something forward without invitation<br />
<br />
'''tri-faceted'''<br /><br />
three-sided<br />
<br />
'''Albertan champagne'''<br /><br />
an oxymoron — champagne comes only from the Champagne region of France<br />
<br />
==Page 745==<br />
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'''Clift'''<br /><br />
Edward Montgomery Clift (1920-1966) was an American actor.<br />
<br />
'''two meters'''<br /><br />
about 6.6 feet<br />
<br />
'''heliotropes'''<br /><br />
plants that turn toward the sun<br />
<br />
'''Candela'''<br /><br />
From the SI: The candela is the luminous intensity, in a given direction, of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540×1012 hertz and that has a radiant intensity in that direction of 1/683 watt per steradian.<br />
<br />
'''freezing point of platinum'''<br /><br />
If the melting point of platinum is 3214.9 ° F, then at any temperature below this, it will be solid, i.e., frozen.<br />
<br />
'''Thomist'''<br /><br />
ascribing to the philosophy of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquinas St. Thomas Aquinas]<br />
<br />
'''''personalistes'''''<br /><br />
perhaps a member of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-conformists_of_the_1930s non-conformist movement] in France in the 1930s<br />
<br />
'''Sagan'''<br /><br />
Carl Edward Sagan (1934-1996) was an American astronomer and host of a television show called ''Cosmos''.<br />
<br />
'''Haplology'''<br /><br />
the elimination of a syllable in a word when two consecutive identical syllable occur, e.g., "probly" for "probably"0<br />
<br />
==Page 746==<br />
<br />
''''the vapors''''<br /><br />
a euphemism for hysteria<br />
<br />
'''Spielberg's old computer-enhanced celluloid things'''<br /><br />
the ''Jurassic Park'' films<br />
<br />
==Page 747==<br />
<br />
'''Kahlua'''<br /><br />
a coffee-flavored [http://www.kahlua.com/ liqueur]<br />
<br />
'''blancmange'''<br /><br />
a thick milk pudding<br />
<br />
'''chickory'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicory plant] used for a coffee substitute in some places<br />
<br />
'''thymus'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thymus bodily organ] that plays a role in immune function<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">747 · Marathe at Ennet House Continued</span><br />
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==Page 747==<br />
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'''subaltern'''<br /><br />
a subordinate<br />
<br />
'''"He had the great fatigue..."'''<br /><br />
A less literal translation would be: "He was very tired..."<br />
<br />
==Page 748==<br />
<br />
'''"...to smack, to scag, and to H..."'''<br /><br />
all the same thing, being street names for heroin<br />
<br />
==Page 749==<br />
<br />
'''bolt of death'''<br /><br />
i.e., a deadbolt lock<br />
<br />
'''Chit Chat Farms'''<br /><br />
This is a real detox in Wernersville, Pa., about 70 miles northwest of Philadelphia.<br />
<br />
==Page 750==<br />
<br />
'''chez'''<br /><br />
a French preposition meaning "at the home of"<br />
<br />
==Page 751==<br />
<br />
'''''comment-on-dit?'''''<br /><br />
French: How do you say?<br />
<br />
'''45 kph'''<br /><br />
almost 28 miles per hour<br />
<br />
'''''Caisse de Dépôt et Placement'''''<br /><br />
French: Fund for Registration and Placement<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">751 · Joelle Continues to Clean</span><br />
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==Page 751==<br />
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'''katexia'''<br /><br />
Just like when Joelle referred to CA newcomers as "catexic" on pg 707, there's no word "katexia" in any American dictionary, although Freud used "katexis" to refer to the process by means of which libido energy is tied or placed into the mental representation of a personality, idea, or thing." This would not seem to the connotation intended here.<br />
<br />
==Page 752==<br />
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'''''Feeling Good'''''<br /><br />
One of the key books on cognitive therapy for depression by David D. Burns, M.D., an American psychiatrist.<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">752 · Marathe Intake Continued</span><br />
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==Page 752==<br />
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'''volubly'''<br /><br />
to speak readily<br />
<br />
'''M./Mlle.'''<br /><br />
French: Monsieur/Mademoiselle, i.e., Mr./Ms., used because of Steeply's disguise<br />
<br />
'''restenotic'''<br /><br />
refers to restenosis, or the re-narrowing of blood vessels after initial stenosis<br />
<br />
==Page 753==<br />
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'''spire'''<br /><br />
steeple<br />
<br />
'''''manche à balai'''''<br /><br />
French: broom handle<br />
<br />
'''''chanteur-fou'''''<br /><br />
French: crazy singer<br />
<br />
'''calculus'''<br /><br />
here meaning simply "calculation"<br />
<br />
'''Lopate'''<br /><br />
The name is perhaps taken from Philip Lopate (born 1943), an American film critic.<br />
<br />
'''''transpercé'''''<br /><br />
pierced through<br />
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==Page 754==<br />
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==Endnote 315==<br />
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'''malentendu'''<br /><br />
mishearing<br />
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==Page 755==<br />
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'''G. Ford - early G. Bush'''<br /><br />
Roughly 1974 to 1989.<br />
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'''S.A.C.'''<br /><br />
Strategic Air Command.<br />
<br />
'''neutron'''<br /><br />
A subatomic particle with no charge.<br />
<br />
'''gamma-refractive'''<br /><br />
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.<br />
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'''lithium-adonized'''<br /><br />
Made more beautiful with lithium.<br />
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==Page 64==<br />
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'''cold annular fusion'''<br /><br />
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a taurus (donut).<br />
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'''Tableaux'''<br /><br />
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.<br />
<br />
'''homolosine-cartography'''<br /><br />
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].<br />
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'''optative'''<br /><br />
Expressing a wish or choice.<br />
<br />
'''U.S.T.A.'''<br /><br />
United States Tennis Association.<br />
<br />
'''après-garde'''<br /><br />
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''<br />
<br />
==Endnote 24==<br />
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==Page 64 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''Macdonald Chair'''<br /><br />
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic.<br />
<br />
'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University'''<br /><br />
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal.<br />
<br />
'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems'''<br /><br />
These are two systems of cognition, the former is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the latter is rule-based and thus slower.<br />
<br />
'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement'''''<br /><br />
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.<br />
<br />
'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada'''<br /><br />
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.<br />
<br />
'''recondite'''<br /><br />
dealing with complex subject matter.<br />
<br />
'''mordantly'''<br /><br />
in a caustic manner.<br />
<br />
'''feck'''<br /><br />
efficacy; force; value.<br />
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'''F.C.'''<br /><br />
Perhaps "formerly Canadian."<br />
<br />
'''A.E.C.'''<br /><br />
Atomic Energy Commission.<br />
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'''ARPA-NET'''<br /><br />
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.<br />
<br />
'''L'Islet County'''<br /><br />
A county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains.<br />
<br />
'''hyperfloration'''<br /><br />
Overgrowth of flowers or plants.<br />
<br />
'''festschrift'''<br /><br />
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.<br />
<br />
'''anticonfluential'''<br /><br />
against things coming together<br />
<br />
'''chiaroscuro'''<br /><br />
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting.<br />
<br />
'''annulation'''<br /><br />
The formation of rings.<br />
<br />
'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
Grown exceeding large.<br />
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==Page 65==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''tacks'''<br /><br />
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.<br />
<br />
'''Mile-High'''<br /><br />
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos play.<br />
<br />
'''100 meters over the 40'''<br /><br />
''I.e.'', the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.<br />
<br />
'''nongarish'''<br /><br />
Not garish, ''i.e.'', not excessively ornate.<br />
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==Page 66==<br />
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'''zither'''<br /><br />
A harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels.<br />
<br />
'''water-drops'''<br /><br />
Being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks.<br />
<br />
'''Oiler'''<br /><br />
The former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans.<br />
<br />
'''Brown'''<br /><br />
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.<br />
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==Page 66==<br />
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'''organopsychedelic'''<br /><br />
An organic molecule which, when ingested, produces a psychedelic effect.<br />
<br />
'''isoxazole-alkaloid'''<br /><br />
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.<br />
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'''methoxylated'''<br /><br />
Addition of a methoxy group. Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."<br />
<br />
'''phenylkylamine'''<br /><br />
Possibly a made-up substance.<br />
<br />
'''rock and bob Hasidically'''<br /><br />
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim (and some Jews of other traditions) do when praying or studying religious texts.<br />
<br />
'''titrated'''<br /><br />
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (''e.g.'' one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD, test shot of heroin).<br />
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==Page 67==<br />
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==Endnote 26==<br />
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'''enkephalin'''<br /><br />
A type of painkiller<br />
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==Page 67 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''psychodysleptic'''<br /><br />
A drug that negative effects the take psychologically.<br />
<br />
'''''in medias'''''<br /><br />
Latin: in the middle of.<br />
<br />
'''oblique'''<br /><br />
Neither perpendicular nor parallel.<br />
<br />
'''deliquesce'''<br /><br />
To become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.<br />
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==Page 68==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''Watteau'''<br /><br />
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.<br />
<br />
'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States'''''<br /><br />
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.<br />
<br />
==Page 69==<br />
<br />
'''hypocapnia'''<br /><br />
Reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation.<br />
<br />
'''emery board'''<br /><br />
A disposable nail file.<br />
<br />
'''Wellesley Hills'''<br /><br />
A section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston.<br />
<br />
'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital'''<br /><br />
A real hospital.<br />
<br />
'''Parnate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.<br />
<br />
'''dysphoria'''<br /><br />
A mental state of feeling horrible.<br />
<br />
'''diurnal'''<br /><br />
During the day. Opposite of nocturnal.<br />
<br />
'''w/w/o'''<br /><br />
With and without.<br />
<br />
'''CO'''<br /><br />
Carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide.<br />
<br />
'''hemotoxicity'''<br /><br />
Poisonous blood level.<br />
<br />
==Page 70==<br />
<br />
'''Librium'''<br /><br />
Brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal.<br />
<br />
'''Dretske'''<br /><br />
Perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind.<br />
<br />
'''Mydol'''<br /><br />
A misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol].<br />
<br />
'''trepidation'''<br /><br />
Hesitancy caused by fear.<br />
<br />
'''facial affect'''<br /><br />
Emotions expressed on the face.<br />
<br />
'''Lithonate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of lithium.<br />
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'''plestor'''<br /><br />
Another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter].<br />
<br />
'''plangent'''<br /><br />
Loud and resounding.<br />
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'''carpopedal'''<br /><br />
Involving both the hands and feet.<br />
<br />
'''tetanic'''<br /><br />
Pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually.<br />
<br />
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==Page 75==<br />
<br />
'''circumorals'''<br /><br />
Muscles around the mouth.<br />
<br />
'''thigmotactic'''<br /><br />
Having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus.<br />
<br />
'''dentate'''<br /><br />
Having teeth.<br />
<br />
'''synclinal'''<br /><br />
Sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /.<br />
<br />
'''Sinse'''<br /><br />
Short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana.<br />
<br />
'''duBois'''<br /><br />
Fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette.<br />
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'''uremic'''<br /><br />
Smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood.<br />
<br />
==Endnote 30==<br />
<br />
'''boric acid'''<br /><br />
Also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects.<br />
<br />
==Page 77==<br />
<br />
'''the T'''<br /><br />
Local transit in the Boston metro area.<br />
<br />
==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."'''<br /><br />
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].<br />
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==Page 78==<br />
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'''0145h.'''<br /><br />
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.<br />
<br />
==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''rictus'''<br /><br />
A gaping grimace.<br />
<br />
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==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''Nick Bolletieri'''<br /><br />
A [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach].<br />
<br />
'''epaulets'''<br /><br />
Military shoulder decorations on clothing.<br />
<br />
'''a philosopher instead of a king'''<br /><br />
Although Plato stresses, in the ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.<br />
<br />
'''F.R.G.'''<br /><br />
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989).<br />
<br />
'''leptosomatic'''<br /><br />
Having a slender, frail build.<br />
<br />
'''pedagogical'''<br /><br />
Having to do with teaching.<br />
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'''post-prandial'''<br /><br />
Following a meal.<br />
<br />
'''calliopsis'''<br /><br />
Another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis].<br />
<br />
'''quincunx'''<br /><br />
The arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right).[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]<br />
<br />
'''briers' yeasty musk'''<br /><br />
The yeasty smell arising from the brier patches.<br />
<br />
'''bradykinetic'''<br /><br />
Describing abnormally slow movement.<br />
<br />
'''plosivity'''<br /><br />
Referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, ''etc.''.<br />
<br />
'''Euclid'''<br /><br />
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."<br />
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<br />
'''tympana'''<br /><br />
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.<br />
<br />
'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST'''''<br /><br />
<br />
The euphemistic translation aside, this literally means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.<br />
<br />
'''discursive'''<br /><br />
Rambling in speech.<br />
<br />
'''wonk'''<br /><br />
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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'''simpatico'''<br /><br />
In agreement.<br />
<br />
'''Hopman'''<br /><br />
Either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman].<br />
<br />
==Endnote 34==<br />
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'''Mandelbrotian'''<br /><br />
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.<br />
<br />
'''post-Gödelian'''<br /><br />
Coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher.<br />
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==Page 82 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''van der Meer'''<br /><br />
Probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics.<br />
<br />
'''fractal'''<br /><br />
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''aleatory'''<br /><br />
Of or pertaining to accidental causes.<br />
<br />
'''''Lieber Gott nein'''''<br /><br />
German: ''Dear God, no''.<br />
<br />
'''''Gymanasium'''''<br /><br />
The equivalent of a U.S. college-preparatory high school.<br />
<br />
'''appetitive will'''<br /><br />
That part of the will that desires physical things.<br />
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'''''palestra'''''<br /><br />
An ancient Greek school of wrestling.<br />
<br />
'''experialist'''<br /><br />
Like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste.<br />
<br />
'''''Verstiegenheit'''''<br /><br />
Literally German for "eccentricity."<br />
<br />
'''''Platz'''''<br /><br />
German: a public square.<br />
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==Page 84==<br />
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'''pirouetting'''<br /><br />
Whirling on the toes.<br />
<br />
==Page 85==<br />
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==Page 85==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''D.T.'''<br /><br />
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].<br />
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'''12°C'''<br /><br />
~54°F<br />
<br />
==Page 87==<br />
<br />
'''skallycap'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]<br />
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'''Seventh Day Adventist'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"<br />
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==Page 87==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''payloaders'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]<br />
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==Page 63 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''G. Ford - early G. Bush'''<br /><br />
Roughly 1974 to 1989.<br />
<br />
'''S.A.C.'''<br /><br />
Strategic Air Command.<br />
<br />
'''neutron'''<br /><br />
A subatomic particle with no charge.<br />
<br />
'''gamma-refractive'''<br /><br />
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.<br />
<br />
'''lithium-adonized'''<br /><br />
Made more beautiful with lithium.<br />
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'''cold annular fusion'''<br /><br />
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a taurus (donut).<br />
<br />
'''Tableaux'''<br /><br />
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.<br />
<br />
'''homolosine-cartography'''<br /><br />
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].<br />
<br />
'''optative'''<br /><br />
Expressing a wish or choice.<br />
<br />
'''U.S.T.A.'''<br /><br />
United States Tennis Association.<br />
<br />
'''après-garde'''<br /><br />
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''<br />
<br />
==Endnote 24==<br />
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==Page 64 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''Macdonald Chair'''<br /><br />
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic.<br />
<br />
'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University'''<br /><br />
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal.<br />
<br />
'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems'''<br /><br />
These are two systems of cognition, the former is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the latter is rule-based and thus slower.<br />
<br />
'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement'''''<br /><br />
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.<br />
<br />
'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada'''<br /><br />
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.<br />
<br />
'''recondite'''<br /><br />
dealing with complex subject matter.<br />
<br />
'''mordantly'''<br /><br />
in a caustic manner.<br />
<br />
'''feck'''<br /><br />
efficacy; force; value.<br />
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<br />
'''F.C.'''<br /><br />
Perhaps "formerly Canadian."<br />
<br />
'''A.E.C.'''<br /><br />
Atomic Energy Commission.<br />
<br />
'''ARPA-NET'''<br /><br />
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.<br />
<br />
'''L'Islet County'''<br /><br />
A county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains.<br />
<br />
'''hyperfloration'''<br /><br />
Overgrowth of flowers or plants.<br />
<br />
'''festschrift'''<br /><br />
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.<br />
<br />
'''anticonfluential'''<br /><br />
against things coming together<br />
<br />
'''chiaroscuro'''<br /><br />
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting.<br />
<br />
'''annulation'''<br /><br />
The formation of rings.<br />
<br />
'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
Grown exceeding large.<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''tacks'''<br /><br />
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.<br />
<br />
'''Mile-High'''<br /><br />
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos play.<br />
<br />
'''100 meters over the 40'''<br /><br />
''I.e.'', the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.<br />
<br />
'''nongarish'''<br /><br />
Not garish, ''i.e.'', not excessively ornate.<br />
<br />
==Page 66==<br />
<br />
'''zither'''<br /><br />
A harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels.<br />
<br />
'''water-drops'''<br /><br />
Being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks.<br />
<br />
'''Oiler'''<br /><br />
The former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans.<br />
<br />
'''Brown'''<br /><br />
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.<br />
<br />
==Page 66==<br />
<br />
'''organopsychedelic'''<br /><br />
An organic molecule which, when ingested, produces a psychedelic effect.<br />
<br />
'''isoxazole-alkaloid'''<br /><br />
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
<br />
'''methoxylated'''<br /><br />
Addition of a methoxy group. Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."<br />
<br />
'''phenylkylamine'''<br /><br />
Possibly a made-up substance.<br />
<br />
'''rock and bob Hasidically'''<br /><br />
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim (and some Jews of other traditions) do when praying or studying religious texts.<br />
<br />
'''titrated'''<br /><br />
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (''e.g.'' one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD, test shot of heroin).<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
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==Endnote 26==<br />
<br />
'''enkephalin'''<br /><br />
A type of painkiller<br />
<br />
==Page 67 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''psychodysleptic'''<br /><br />
A drug that negative effects the take psychologically.<br />
<br />
'''''in medias'''''<br /><br />
Latin: in the middle of.<br />
<br />
'''oblique'''<br /><br />
Neither perpendicular nor parallel.<br />
<br />
'''deliquesce'''<br /><br />
To become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.<br />
<br />
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==Page 68==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''Watteau'''<br /><br />
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.<br />
<br />
'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States'''''<br /><br />
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.<br />
<br />
==Page 69==<br />
<br />
'''hypocapnia'''<br /><br />
Reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation.<br />
<br />
'''emery board'''<br /><br />
A disposable nail file.<br />
<br />
'''Wellesley Hills'''<br /><br />
A section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston.<br />
<br />
'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital'''<br /><br />
A real hospital.<br />
<br />
'''Parnate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.<br />
<br />
'''dysphoria'''<br /><br />
A mental state of feeling horrible.<br />
<br />
'''diurnal'''<br /><br />
During the day. Opposite of nocturnal.<br />
<br />
'''w/w/o'''<br /><br />
With and without.<br />
<br />
'''CO'''<br /><br />
Carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide.<br />
<br />
'''hemotoxicity'''<br /><br />
Poisonous blood level.<br />
<br />
==Page 70==<br />
<br />
'''Librium'''<br /><br />
Brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal.<br />
<br />
'''Dretske'''<br /><br />
Perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind.<br />
<br />
'''Mydol'''<br /><br />
A misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol].<br />
<br />
'''trepidation'''<br /><br />
Hesitancy caused by fear.<br />
<br />
'''facial affect'''<br /><br />
Emotions expressed on the face.<br />
<br />
'''Lithonate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of lithium.<br />
<br />
==Page 71==<br />
<br />
'''plestor'''<br /><br />
Another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter].<br />
<br />
'''plangent'''<br /><br />
Loud and resounding.<br />
<br />
==Page 72==<br />
<br />
==Page 73==<br />
<br />
'''carpopedal'''<br /><br />
Involving both the hands and feet.<br />
<br />
'''tetanic'''<br /><br />
Pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually.<br />
<br />
==Page 74==<br />
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==Page 75==<br />
<br />
'''circumorals'''<br /><br />
Muscles around the mouth.<br />
<br />
'''thigmotactic'''<br /><br />
Having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus.<br />
<br />
'''dentate'''<br /><br />
Having teeth.<br />
<br />
'''synclinal'''<br /><br />
Sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /.<br />
<br />
'''Sinse'''<br /><br />
Short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana.<br />
<br />
'''duBois'''<br /><br />
Fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette.<br />
<br />
==Page 76==<br />
<br />
'''uremic'''<br /><br />
Smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood.<br />
<br />
==Endnote 30==<br />
<br />
'''boric acid'''<br /><br />
Also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects.<br />
<br />
==Page 77==<br />
<br />
'''the T'''<br /><br />
Local transit in the Boston metro area.<br />
<br />
==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."'''<br /><br />
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">78 · Medical Attaché Update #3</span><br />
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==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''0145h.'''<br /><br />
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.<br />
<br />
==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''rictus'''<br /><br />
A gaping grimace.<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">79 · Schtitt & Mario</span><br />
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==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''Nick Bolletieri'''<br /><br />
A [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach].<br />
<br />
'''epaulets'''<br /><br />
Military shoulder decorations on clothing.<br />
<br />
'''a philosopher instead of a king'''<br /><br />
Although Plato stresses, in the ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.<br />
<br />
'''F.R.G.'''<br /><br />
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989).<br />
<br />
'''leptosomatic'''<br /><br />
Having a slender, frail build.<br />
<br />
'''pedagogical'''<br /><br />
Having to do with teaching.<br />
<br />
==Page 80==<br />
<br />
'''post-prandial'''<br /><br />
Following a meal.<br />
<br />
'''calliopsis'''<br /><br />
Another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis].<br />
<br />
'''quincunx'''<br /><br />
The arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right).[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]<br />
<br />
'''briers' yeasty musk'''<br /><br />
The yeasty smell arising from the brier patches.<br />
<br />
'''bradykinetic'''<br /><br />
Describing abnormally slow movement.<br />
<br />
'''plosivity'''<br /><br />
Referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, ''etc.''.<br />
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'''Euclid'''<br /><br />
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."<br />
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'''tympana'''<br /><br />
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.<br />
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'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST'''''<br /><br />
<br />
The euphemistic translation aside, this literally means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.<br />
<br />
'''discursive'''<br /><br />
Rambling in speech.<br />
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'''wonk'''<br /><br />
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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'''simpatico'''<br /><br />
In agreement.<br />
<br />
'''Hopman'''<br /><br />
Either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman].<br />
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==Endnote 34==<br />
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'''Mandelbrotian'''<br /><br />
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.<br />
<br />
'''post-Gödelian'''<br /><br />
Coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher.<br />
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'''van der Meer'''<br /><br />
Probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics.<br />
<br />
'''fractal'''<br /><br />
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''aleatory'''<br /><br />
Of or pertaining to accidental causes.<br />
<br />
'''''Lieber Gott nein'''''<br /><br />
German: ''Dear God, no''.<br />
<br />
'''''Gymanasium'''''<br /><br />
The equivalent of a U.S. college-preparatory high school.<br />
<br />
'''appetitive will'''<br /><br />
That part of the will that desires physical things.<br />
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'''''palestra'''''<br /><br />
An ancient Greek school of wrestling.<br />
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'''experialist'''<br /><br />
Like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste.<br />
<br />
'''''Verstiegenheit'''''<br /><br />
Literally German for "eccentricity."<br />
<br />
'''''Platz'''''<br /><br />
German: a public square.<br />
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'''pirouetting'''<br /><br />
whirling on the toes<br />
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'''D.T.'''<br /><br />
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].<br />
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'''12°C'''<br /><br />
~54°F<br />
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<br />
'''skallycap'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]<br />
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'''Seventh Day Adventist'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''payloaders'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]<br />
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'''G. Ford - early G. Bush'''<br /><br />
Roughly 1974 to 1989.<br />
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'''S.A.C.'''<br /><br />
Strategic Air Command.<br />
<br />
'''neutron'''<br /><br />
A subatomic particle with no charge.<br />
<br />
'''gamma-refractive'''<br /><br />
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.<br />
<br />
'''lithium-adonized'''<br /><br />
Made more beautiful with lithium.<br />
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'''cold annular fusion'''<br /><br />
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a taurus (donut).<br />
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'''Tableaux'''<br /><br />
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.<br />
<br />
'''homolosine-cartography'''<br /><br />
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].<br />
<br />
'''optative'''<br /><br />
Expressing a wish or choice.<br />
<br />
'''U.S.T.A.'''<br /><br />
United States Tennis Association.<br />
<br />
'''après-garde'''<br /><br />
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''<br />
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==Endnote 24==<br />
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'''Macdonald Chair'''<br /><br />
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic.<br />
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'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University'''<br /><br />
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal.<br />
<br />
'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems'''<br /><br />
These are two systems of cognition, the former is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the latter is rule-based and thus slower.<br />
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'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement'''''<br /><br />
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.<br />
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'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada'''<br /><br />
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.<br />
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'''recondite'''<br /><br />
dealing with complex subject matter.<br />
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'''mordantly'''<br /><br />
in a caustic manner.<br />
<br />
'''feck'''<br /><br />
efficacy; force; value.<br />
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'''F.C.'''<br /><br />
Perhaps "formerly Canadian."<br />
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'''A.E.C.'''<br /><br />
Atomic Energy Commission.<br />
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'''ARPA-NET'''<br /><br />
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.<br />
<br />
'''L'Islet County'''<br /><br />
A county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains.<br />
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'''hyperfloration'''<br /><br />
Overgrowth of flowers or plants.<br />
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'''festschrift'''<br /><br />
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.<br />
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'''anticonfluential'''<br /><br />
against things coming together<br />
<br />
'''chiaroscuro'''<br /><br />
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting.<br />
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'''annulation'''<br /><br />
The formation of rings.<br />
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'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
Grown exceeding large.<br />
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'''tacks'''<br /><br />
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.<br />
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'''Mile-High'''<br /><br />
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos play.<br />
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'''100 meters over the 40'''<br /><br />
''I.e.'', the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.<br />
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'''nongarish'''<br /><br />
Not garish, ''i.e.'', not excessively ornate.<br />
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'''zither'''<br /><br />
A harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels.<br />
<br />
'''water-drops'''<br /><br />
Being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks.<br />
<br />
'''Oiler'''<br /><br />
The former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans.<br />
<br />
'''Brown'''<br /><br />
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.<br />
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'''organopsychedelic'''<br /><br />
An organic molecule which, when ingested, produces a psychedelic effect.<br />
<br />
'''isoxazole-alkaloid'''<br /><br />
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.<br />
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'''methoxylated'''<br /><br />
Addition of a methoxy group. Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."<br />
<br />
'''phenylkylamine'''<br /><br />
Possibly a made-up substance.<br />
<br />
'''rock and bob Hasidically'''<br /><br />
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim (and some Jews of other traditions) do when praying or studying religious texts.<br />
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'''titrated'''<br /><br />
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (''e.g.'' one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD, test shot of heroin).<br />
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'''enkephalin'''<br /><br />
A type of painkiller<br />
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'''psychodysleptic'''<br /><br />
A drug that negative effects the take psychologically.<br />
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'''''in medias'''''<br /><br />
Latin: in the middle of.<br />
<br />
'''oblique'''<br /><br />
Neither perpendicular nor parallel.<br />
<br />
'''deliquesce'''<br /><br />
To become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.<br />
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'''Watteau'''<br /><br />
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.<br />
<br />
'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States'''''<br /><br />
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.<br />
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'''hypocapnia'''<br /><br />
Reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation.<br />
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'''emery board'''<br /><br />
A disposable nail file.<br />
<br />
'''Wellesley Hills'''<br /><br />
A section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston.<br />
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'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital'''<br /><br />
A real hospital.<br />
<br />
'''Parnate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.<br />
<br />
'''dysphoria'''<br /><br />
A mental state of feeling horrible.<br />
<br />
'''diurnal'''<br /><br />
During the day. Opposite of nocturnal.<br />
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'''w/w/o'''<br /><br />
With and without.<br />
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'''CO'''<br /><br />
Carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide.<br />
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'''hemotoxicity'''<br /><br />
Poisonous blood level.<br />
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'''Librium'''<br /><br />
Brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal.<br />
<br />
'''Dretske'''<br /><br />
Perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind.<br />
<br />
'''Mydol'''<br /><br />
A misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol].<br />
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'''trepidation'''<br /><br />
Hesitancy caused by fear.<br />
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'''facial affect'''<br /><br />
Emotions expressed on the face.<br />
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'''Lithonate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of lithium.<br />
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'''plestor'''<br /><br />
Another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter].<br />
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'''plangent'''<br /><br />
Loud and resounding.<br />
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'''carpopedal'''<br /><br />
Involving both the hands and feet.<br />
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'''tetanic'''<br /><br />
Pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually.<br />
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'''circumorals'''<br /><br />
Muscles around the mouth.<br />
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'''thigmotactic'''<br /><br />
Having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus.<br />
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'''dentate'''<br /><br />
Having teeth.<br />
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'''synclinal'''<br /><br />
Sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /.<br />
<br />
'''Sinse'''<br /><br />
Short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana.<br />
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'''duBois'''<br /><br />
Fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette.<br />
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'''uremic'''<br /><br />
Smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood.<br />
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==Endnote 30==<br />
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'''boric acid'''<br /><br />
Also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects.<br />
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'''the T'''<br /><br />
Local transit in the Boston metro area.<br />
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'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."'''<br /><br />
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].<br />
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'''0145h.'''<br /><br />
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.<br />
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'''rictus'''<br /><br />
A gaping grimace.<br />
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'''Nick Bolletieri'''<br /><br />
A [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach].<br />
<br />
'''epaulets'''<br /><br />
Military shoulder decorations on clothing.<br />
<br />
'''a philosopher instead of a king'''<br /><br />
Although Plato stresses, in the ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.<br />
<br />
'''F.R.G.'''<br /><br />
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989).<br />
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'''leptosomatic'''<br /><br />
Having a slender, frail build.<br />
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'''pedagogical'''<br /><br />
Having to do with teaching.<br />
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'''post-prandial'''<br /><br />
Following a meal.<br />
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'''calliopsis'''<br /><br />
Another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis].<br />
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'''quincunx'''<br /><br />
The arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right).[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]<br />
<br />
'''briers' yeasty musk'''<br /><br />
The yeasty smell arising from the brier patches.<br />
<br />
'''bradykinetic'''<br /><br />
Describing abnormally slow movement.<br />
<br />
'''plosivity'''<br /><br />
Referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, ''etc.''.<br />
<br />
'''Euclid'''<br /><br />
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."<br />
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'''tympana'''<br /><br />
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.<br />
<br />
'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST'''''<br /><br />
<br />
The euphemistic translation aside, this literally means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.<br />
<br />
'''discursive'''<br /><br />
Rambling in speech.<br />
<br />
'''wonk'''<br /><br />
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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'''simpatico'''<br /><br />
In agreement.<br />
<br />
'''Hopman'''<br /><br />
Either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman].<br />
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==Endnote 34==<br />
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'''Mandelbrotian'''<br /><br />
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.<br />
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'''post-Gödelian'''<br /><br />
Coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher.<br />
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'''van der Meer'''<br /><br />
Probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics.<br />
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'''fractal'''<br /><br />
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''aleatory'''<br /><br />
Of or pertaining to accidental causes.<br />
<br />
'''''Lieber Gott nein'''''<br /><br />
German: ''Dear God, no''.<br />
<br />
'''''Gymanasium'''''<br /><br />
The equivalent of a U.S. college-preparatory high school.<br />
<br />
'''appetitive will'''<br /><br />
That part of the will that desires physical things.<br />
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'''''palestra'''''<br /><br />
an ancient Greek school of wrestling<br />
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'''experialist'''<br /><br />
like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste<br />
<br />
'''''Verstiegenheit'''''<br /><br />
literally German for "eccentricity"<br />
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'''''Platz'''''<br /><br />
German: a public square<br />
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'''pirouetting'''<br /><br />
whirling on the toes<br />
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'''D.T.'''<br /><br />
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].<br />
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'''12°C'''<br /><br />
~54°F<br />
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'''skallycap'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]<br />
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'''Seventh Day Adventist'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"<br />
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'''payloaders'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]<br />
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'''G. Ford - early G. Bush'''<br /><br />
Roughly 1974 to 1989.<br />
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'''S.A.C.'''<br /><br />
Strategic Air Command.<br />
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'''neutron'''<br /><br />
A subatomic particle with no charge.<br />
<br />
'''gamma-refractive'''<br /><br />
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.<br />
<br />
'''lithium-adonized'''<br /><br />
Made more beautiful with lithium.<br />
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'''cold annular fusion'''<br /><br />
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a taurus (donut).<br />
<br />
'''Tableaux'''<br /><br />
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.<br />
<br />
'''homolosine-cartography'''<br /><br />
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].<br />
<br />
'''optative'''<br /><br />
Expressing a wish or choice.<br />
<br />
'''U.S.T.A.'''<br /><br />
United States Tennis Association.<br />
<br />
'''après-garde'''<br /><br />
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''<br />
<br />
==Endnote 24==<br />
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'''Macdonald Chair'''<br /><br />
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic.<br />
<br />
'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University'''<br /><br />
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal.<br />
<br />
'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems'''<br /><br />
These are two systems of cognition, the former is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the latter is rule-based and thus slower.<br />
<br />
'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement'''''<br /><br />
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.<br />
<br />
'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada'''<br /><br />
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.<br />
<br />
'''recondite'''<br /><br />
dealing with complex subject matter.<br />
<br />
'''mordantly'''<br /><br />
in a caustic manner.<br />
<br />
'''feck'''<br /><br />
efficacy; force; value.<br />
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<br />
'''F.C.'''<br /><br />
Perhaps "formerly Canadian."<br />
<br />
'''A.E.C.'''<br /><br />
Atomic Energy Commission.<br />
<br />
'''ARPA-NET'''<br /><br />
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.<br />
<br />
'''L'Islet County'''<br /><br />
A county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains.<br />
<br />
'''hyperfloration'''<br /><br />
Overgrowth of flowers or plants.<br />
<br />
'''festschrift'''<br /><br />
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.<br />
<br />
'''anticonfluential'''<br /><br />
against things coming together<br />
<br />
'''chiaroscuro'''<br /><br />
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting.<br />
<br />
'''annulation'''<br /><br />
The formation of rings.<br />
<br />
'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
Grown exceeding large.<br />
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==Page 65==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''tacks'''<br /><br />
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.<br />
<br />
'''Mile-High'''<br /><br />
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos play.<br />
<br />
'''100 meters over the 40'''<br /><br />
''I.e.'', the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.<br />
<br />
'''nongarish'''<br /><br />
Not garish, ''i.e.'', not excessively ornate.<br />
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==Page 66==<br />
<br />
'''zither'''<br /><br />
A harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels.<br />
<br />
'''water-drops'''<br /><br />
Being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks.<br />
<br />
'''Oiler'''<br /><br />
The former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans.<br />
<br />
'''Brown'''<br /><br />
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.<br />
<br />
==Page 66==<br />
<br />
'''organopsychedelic'''<br /><br />
An organic molecule which, when ingested, produces a psychedelic effect.<br />
<br />
'''isoxazole-alkaloid'''<br /><br />
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
<br />
'''methoxylated'''<br /><br />
Addition of a methoxy group. Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."<br />
<br />
'''phenylkylamine'''<br /><br />
Possibly a made-up substance.<br />
<br />
'''rock and bob Hasidically'''<br /><br />
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim (and some Jews of other traditions) do when praying or studying religious texts.<br />
<br />
'''titrated'''<br /><br />
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (''e.g.'' one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD, test shot of heroin).<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
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==Endnote 26==<br />
<br />
'''enkephalin'''<br /><br />
A type of painkiller<br />
<br />
==Page 67 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''psychodysleptic'''<br /><br />
A drug that negative effects the take psychologically.<br />
<br />
'''''in medias'''''<br /><br />
Latin: in the middle of.<br />
<br />
'''oblique'''<br /><br />
Neither perpendicular nor parallel.<br />
<br />
'''deliquesce'''<br /><br />
To become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">68* · Kate Gompert in the Psych Ward</span><br />
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==Page 68==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''Watteau'''<br /><br />
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.<br />
<br />
'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States'''''<br /><br />
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.<br />
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==Page 69==<br />
<br />
'''hypocapnia'''<br /><br />
Reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation.<br />
<br />
'''emery board'''<br /><br />
A disposable nail file.<br />
<br />
'''Wellesley Hills'''<br /><br />
A section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston.<br />
<br />
'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital'''<br /><br />
A real hospital.<br />
<br />
'''Parnate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.<br />
<br />
'''dysphoria'''<br /><br />
A mental state of feeling horrible.<br />
<br />
'''diurnal'''<br /><br />
During the day. Opposite of nocturnal.<br />
<br />
'''w/w/o'''<br /><br />
With and without.<br />
<br />
'''CO'''<br /><br />
Carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide.<br />
<br />
'''hemotoxicity'''<br /><br />
Poisonous blood level.<br />
<br />
==Page 70==<br />
<br />
'''Librium'''<br /><br />
Brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal.<br />
<br />
'''Dretske'''<br /><br />
Perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind.<br />
<br />
'''Mydol'''<br /><br />
A misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol].<br />
<br />
'''trepidation'''<br /><br />
Hesitancy caused by fear.<br />
<br />
'''facial affect'''<br /><br />
Emotions expressed on the face.<br />
<br />
'''Lithonate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of lithium.<br />
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==Page 71==<br />
<br />
'''plestor'''<br /><br />
Another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter].<br />
<br />
'''plangent'''<br /><br />
Loud and resounding.<br />
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==Page 73==<br />
<br />
'''carpopedal'''<br /><br />
Involving both the hands and feet.<br />
<br />
'''tetanic'''<br /><br />
Pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually.<br />
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==Page 74==<br />
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==Page 75==<br />
<br />
'''circumorals'''<br /><br />
Muscles around the mouth.<br />
<br />
'''thigmotactic'''<br /><br />
Having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus.<br />
<br />
'''dentate'''<br /><br />
Having teeth.<br />
<br />
'''synclinal'''<br /><br />
Sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /.<br />
<br />
'''Sinse'''<br /><br />
Short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana.<br />
<br />
'''duBois'''<br /><br />
Fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette.<br />
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==Page 76==<br />
<br />
'''uremic'''<br /><br />
Smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood.<br />
<br />
==Endnote 30==<br />
<br />
'''boric acid'''<br /><br />
Also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects.<br />
<br />
==Page 77==<br />
<br />
'''the T'''<br /><br />
Local transit in the Boston metro area.<br />
<br />
==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."'''<br /><br />
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">78 · Medical Attaché Update #3</span><br />
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==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''0145h.'''<br /><br />
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.<br />
<br />
==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''rictus'''<br /><br />
A gaping grimace.<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">79 · Schtitt & Mario</span><br />
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==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''Nick Bolletieri'''<br /><br />
A [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach].<br />
<br />
'''epaulets'''<br /><br />
Military shoulder decorations on clothing.<br />
<br />
'''a philosopher instead of a king'''<br /><br />
Although Plato stresses, in the ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.<br />
<br />
'''F.R.G.'''<br /><br />
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989).<br />
<br />
'''leptosomatic'''<br /><br />
Having a slender, frail build.<br />
<br />
'''pedagogical'''<br /><br />
Having to do with teaching.<br />
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'''post-prandial'''<br /><br />
Following a meal.<br />
<br />
'''calliopsis'''<br /><br />
Another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis].<br />
<br />
'''quincunx'''<br /><br />
The arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right).[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]<br />
<br />
'''briers' yeasty musk'''<br /><br />
The yeasty smell arising from the brier patches.<br />
<br />
'''bradykinetic'''<br /><br />
Describing abnormally slow movement.<br />
<br />
'''plosivity'''<br /><br />
Referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, ''etc.''.<br />
<br />
'''Euclid'''<br /><br />
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."<br />
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==Page 81==<br />
<br />
'''tympana'''<br /><br />
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.<br />
<br />
'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST'''''<br /><br />
<br />
The euphemistic translation aside, this literally means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.<br />
<br />
'''discursive'''<br /><br />
Rambling in speech.<br />
<br />
'''wonk'''<br /><br />
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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==Page 82==<br />
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'''simpatico'''<br /><br />
In agreement.<br />
<br />
'''Hopman'''<br /><br />
Either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman].<br />
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==Endnote 34==<br />
<br />
'''Mandelbrotian'''<br /><br />
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.<br />
<br />
'''post-Gödelian'''<br /><br />
Coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher.<br />
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==Page 82 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''van der Meer'''<br /><br />
probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics<br />
<br />
'''fractal'''<br /><br />
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''aleatory'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to accidental causes<br />
<br />
'''''Lieber Gott nein'''''<br /><br />
German: Dear God, no<br />
<br />
'''''Gymanasium'''''<br /><br />
the equivalent of a U.S. college-prepatory high school<br />
<br />
'''appetitive will'''<br /><br />
that part of the will that desires physical things<br />
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==Page 83==<br />
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'''''palestra'''''<br /><br />
an ancient Greek school of wrestling<br />
<br />
'''experialist'''<br /><br />
like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste<br />
<br />
'''''Verstiegenheit'''''<br /><br />
literally German for "eccentricity"<br />
<br />
'''''Platz'''''<br /><br />
German: a public square<br />
<br />
==Page 84==<br />
<br />
'''pirouetting'''<br /><br />
whirling on the toes<br />
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==Page 85==<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">85 · Tiny Ewell in Detox</span><br />
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==Page 85==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''D.T.'''<br /><br />
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].<br />
<br />
==Page 86==<br />
<br />
'''12°C'''<br /><br />
~54°F<br />
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==Page 87==<br />
<br />
'''skallycap'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">87 · Medical Attaché Update #4</span><br />
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==Page 87==<br />
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'''Seventh Day Adventist'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"<br />
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<span class="marker">87* · Marathe & Steeply</span><br />
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==Page 87==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''payloaders'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]<br />
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==Page 63 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''G. Ford - early G. Bush'''<br /><br />
Roughly 1974 to 1989.<br />
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'''S.A.C.'''<br /><br />
Strategic Air Command.<br />
<br />
'''neutron'''<br /><br />
A subatomic particle with no charge.<br />
<br />
'''gamma-refractive'''<br /><br />
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.<br />
<br />
'''lithium-adonized'''<br /><br />
Made more beautiful with lithium.<br />
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==Page 64==<br />
<br />
'''cold annular fusion'''<br /><br />
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a taurus (donut).<br />
<br />
'''Tableaux'''<br /><br />
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.<br />
<br />
'''homolosine-cartography'''<br /><br />
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].<br />
<br />
'''optative'''<br /><br />
Expressing a wish or choice.<br />
<br />
'''U.S.T.A.'''<br /><br />
United States Tennis Association.<br />
<br />
'''après-garde'''<br /><br />
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''<br />
<br />
==Endnote 24==<br />
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==Page 64 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''Macdonald Chair'''<br /><br />
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic.<br />
<br />
'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University'''<br /><br />
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal.<br />
<br />
'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems'''<br /><br />
These are two systems of cognition, the former is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the latter is rule-based and thus slower.<br />
<br />
'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement'''''<br /><br />
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.<br />
<br />
'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada'''<br /><br />
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.<br />
<br />
'''recondite'''<br /><br />
dealing with complex subject matter.<br />
<br />
'''mordantly'''<br /><br />
in a caustic manner.<br />
<br />
'''feck'''<br /><br />
efficacy; force; value.<br />
<br />
==Page 65==<br />
<br />
'''F.C.'''<br /><br />
Perhaps "formerly Canadian."<br />
<br />
'''A.E.C.'''<br /><br />
Atomic Energy Commission.<br />
<br />
'''ARPA-NET'''<br /><br />
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.<br />
<br />
'''L'Islet County'''<br /><br />
A county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains.<br />
<br />
'''hyperfloration'''<br /><br />
Overgrowth of flowers or plants.<br />
<br />
'''festschrift'''<br /><br />
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.<br />
<br />
'''anticonfluential'''<br /><br />
against things coming together<br />
<br />
'''chiaroscuro'''<br /><br />
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting.<br />
<br />
'''annulation'''<br /><br />
The formation of rings.<br />
<br />
'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
Grown exceeding large.<br />
<br />
==Page 65==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''tacks'''<br /><br />
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.<br />
<br />
'''Mile-High'''<br /><br />
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos play.<br />
<br />
'''100 meters over the 40'''<br /><br />
''I.e.'', the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.<br />
<br />
'''nongarish'''<br /><br />
Not garish, ''i.e.'', not excessively ornate.<br />
<br />
==Page 66==<br />
<br />
'''zither'''<br /><br />
A harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels.<br />
<br />
'''water-drops'''<br /><br />
Being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks.<br />
<br />
'''Oiler'''<br /><br />
The former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans.<br />
<br />
'''Brown'''<br /><br />
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.<br />
<br />
==Page 66==<br />
<br />
'''organopsychedelic'''<br /><br />
An organic molecule which, when ingested, produces a psychedelic effect.<br />
<br />
'''isoxazole-alkaloid'''<br /><br />
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
<br />
'''methoxylated'''<br /><br />
Addition of a methoxy group. Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."<br />
<br />
'''phenylkylamine'''<br /><br />
Possibly a made-up substance.<br />
<br />
'''rock and bob Hasidically'''<br /><br />
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim (and some Jews of other traditions) do when praying or studying religious texts.<br />
<br />
'''titrated'''<br /><br />
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (''e.g.'' one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD, test shot of heroin).<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
<br />
==Endnote 26==<br />
<br />
'''enkephalin'''<br /><br />
A type of painkiller<br />
<br />
==Page 67 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''psychodysleptic'''<br /><br />
A drug that negative effects the take psychologically.<br />
<br />
'''''in medias'''''<br /><br />
Latin: in the middle of.<br />
<br />
'''oblique'''<br /><br />
Neither perpendicular nor parallel.<br />
<br />
'''deliquesce'''<br /><br />
To become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">68* · Kate Gompert in the Psych Ward</span><br />
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==Page 68==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''Watteau'''<br /><br />
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.<br />
<br />
'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States'''''<br /><br />
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.<br />
<br />
==Page 69==<br />
<br />
'''hypocapnia'''<br /><br />
Reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation.<br />
<br />
'''emery board'''<br /><br />
A disposable nail file.<br />
<br />
'''Wellesley Hills'''<br /><br />
A section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston.<br />
<br />
'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital'''<br /><br />
A real hospital.<br />
<br />
'''Parnate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.<br />
<br />
'''dysphoria'''<br /><br />
A mental state of feeling horrible.<br />
<br />
'''diurnal'''<br /><br />
During the day. Opposite of nocturnal.<br />
<br />
'''w/w/o'''<br /><br />
With and without.<br />
<br />
'''CO'''<br /><br />
Carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide.<br />
<br />
'''hemotoxicity'''<br /><br />
Poisonous blood level.<br />
<br />
==Page 70==<br />
<br />
'''Librium'''<br /><br />
Brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal.<br />
<br />
'''Dretske'''<br /><br />
Perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind.<br />
<br />
'''Mydol'''<br /><br />
A misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol].<br />
<br />
'''trepidation'''<br /><br />
Hesitancy caused by fear.<br />
<br />
'''facial affect'''<br /><br />
Emotions expressed on the face.<br />
<br />
'''Lithonate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of lithium.<br />
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'''plestor'''<br /><br />
Another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter].<br />
<br />
'''plangent'''<br /><br />
Loud and resounding.<br />
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'''carpopedal'''<br /><br />
Involving both the hands and feet.<br />
<br />
'''tetanic'''<br /><br />
Pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually.<br />
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<br />
'''circumorals'''<br /><br />
Muscles around the mouth.<br />
<br />
'''thigmotactic'''<br /><br />
Having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus.<br />
<br />
'''dentate'''<br /><br />
Having teeth.<br />
<br />
'''synclinal'''<br /><br />
Sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /.<br />
<br />
'''Sinse'''<br /><br />
Short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana.<br />
<br />
'''duBois'''<br /><br />
Fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette.<br />
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'''uremic'''<br /><br />
Smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood.<br />
<br />
==Endnote 30==<br />
<br />
'''boric acid'''<br /><br />
Also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects.<br />
<br />
==Page 77==<br />
<br />
'''the T'''<br /><br />
Local transit in the Boston metro area.<br />
<br />
==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."'''<br /><br />
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].<br />
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==Page 78==<br />
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'''0145h.'''<br /><br />
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.<br />
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==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''rictus'''<br /><br />
A gaping grimace.<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">79 · Schtitt & Mario</span><br />
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==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''Nick Bolletieri'''<br /><br />
A [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach].<br />
<br />
'''epaulets'''<br /><br />
Military shoulder decorations on clothing.<br />
<br />
'''a philosopher instead of a king'''<br /><br />
Although Plato stresses, in the ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.<br />
<br />
'''F.R.G.'''<br /><br />
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989).<br />
<br />
'''leptosomatic'''<br /><br />
Having a slender, frail build.<br />
<br />
'''pedagogical'''<br /><br />
Having to do with teaching.<br />
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'''post-prandial'''<br /><br />
Following a meal.<br />
<br />
'''calliopsis'''<br /><br />
Another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis].<br />
<br />
'''quincunx'''<br /><br />
The arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right).[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]<br />
<br />
'''briers' yeasty musk'''<br /><br />
The yeasty smell arising from the brier patches.<br />
<br />
'''bradykinetic'''<br /><br />
Describing abnormally slow movement.<br />
<br />
'''plosivity'''<br /><br />
Referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, ''etc.''.<br />
<br />
'''Euclid'''<br /><br />
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."<br />
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'''tympana'''<br /><br />
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.<br />
<br />
'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST'''''<br /><br />
<br />
The euphemistic translation aside, this literally means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.<br />
<br />
'''discursive'''<br /><br />
Rambling in speech.<br />
<br />
'''wonk'''<br /><br />
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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'''simpatico'''<br /><br />
In agreement.<br />
<br />
'''Hopman'''<br /><br />
Either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman].<br />
<br />
==Endnote 34==<br />
<br />
'''Mandelbrotian'''<br /><br />
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.<br />
<br />
'''post-Gödelian'''<br /><br />
coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher<br />
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'''van der Meer'''<br /><br />
probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics<br />
<br />
'''fractal'''<br /><br />
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''aleatory'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to accidental causes<br />
<br />
'''''Lieber Gott nein'''''<br /><br />
German: Dear God, no<br />
<br />
'''''Gymanasium'''''<br /><br />
the equivalent of a U.S. college-prepatory high school<br />
<br />
'''appetitive will'''<br /><br />
that part of the will that desires physical things<br />
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'''''palestra'''''<br /><br />
an ancient Greek school of wrestling<br />
<br />
'''experialist'''<br /><br />
like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste<br />
<br />
'''''Verstiegenheit'''''<br /><br />
literally German for "eccentricity"<br />
<br />
'''''Platz'''''<br /><br />
German: a public square<br />
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'''pirouetting'''<br /><br />
whirling on the toes<br />
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==Page 85==<br />
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==Page 85==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''D.T.'''<br /><br />
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].<br />
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'''12°C'''<br /><br />
~54°F<br />
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==Page 87==<br />
<br />
'''skallycap'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]<br />
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'''Seventh Day Adventist'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''payloaders'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]<br />
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'''G. Ford - early G. Bush'''<br /><br />
Roughly 1974 to 1989.<br />
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'''S.A.C.'''<br /><br />
Strategic Air Command.<br />
<br />
'''neutron'''<br /><br />
A subatomic particle with no charge.<br />
<br />
'''gamma-refractive'''<br /><br />
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.<br />
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'''lithium-adonized'''<br /><br />
Made more beautiful with lithium.<br />
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'''cold annular fusion'''<br /><br />
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a taurus (donut).<br />
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'''Tableaux'''<br /><br />
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.<br />
<br />
'''homolosine-cartography'''<br /><br />
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].<br />
<br />
'''optative'''<br /><br />
Expressing a wish or choice.<br />
<br />
'''U.S.T.A.'''<br /><br />
United States Tennis Association.<br />
<br />
'''après-garde'''<br /><br />
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''<br />
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==Endnote 24==<br />
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==Page 64 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''Macdonald Chair'''<br /><br />
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic.<br />
<br />
'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University'''<br /><br />
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal.<br />
<br />
'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems'''<br /><br />
These are two systems of cognition, the former is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the latter is rule-based and thus slower.<br />
<br />
'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement'''''<br /><br />
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.<br />
<br />
'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada'''<br /><br />
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.<br />
<br />
'''recondite'''<br /><br />
dealing with complex subject matter.<br />
<br />
'''mordantly'''<br /><br />
in a caustic manner.<br />
<br />
'''feck'''<br /><br />
efficacy; force; value.<br />
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'''F.C.'''<br /><br />
Perhaps "formerly Canadian."<br />
<br />
'''A.E.C.'''<br /><br />
Atomic Energy Commission.<br />
<br />
'''ARPA-NET'''<br /><br />
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.<br />
<br />
'''L'Islet County'''<br /><br />
A county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains.<br />
<br />
'''hyperfloration'''<br /><br />
Overgrowth of flowers or plants.<br />
<br />
'''festschrift'''<br /><br />
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.<br />
<br />
'''anticonfluential'''<br /><br />
against things coming together<br />
<br />
'''chiaroscuro'''<br /><br />
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting.<br />
<br />
'''annulation'''<br /><br />
The formation of rings.<br />
<br />
'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
Grown exceeding large.<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''tacks'''<br /><br />
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.<br />
<br />
'''Mile-High'''<br /><br />
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos play.<br />
<br />
'''100 meters over the 40'''<br /><br />
''I.e.'', the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.<br />
<br />
'''nongarish'''<br /><br />
Not garish, ''i.e.'', not excessively ornate.<br />
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'''zither'''<br /><br />
A harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels.<br />
<br />
'''water-drops'''<br /><br />
Being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks.<br />
<br />
'''Oiler'''<br /><br />
The former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans.<br />
<br />
'''Brown'''<br /><br />
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.<br />
<br />
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<br />
'''organopsychedelic'''<br /><br />
An organic molecule which, when ingested, produces a psychedelic effect.<br />
<br />
'''isoxazole-alkaloid'''<br /><br />
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.<br />
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'''methoxylated'''<br /><br />
Addition of a methoxy group. Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."<br />
<br />
'''phenylkylamine'''<br /><br />
Possibly a made-up substance.<br />
<br />
'''rock and bob Hasidically'''<br /><br />
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim (and some Jews of other traditions) do when praying or studying religious texts.<br />
<br />
'''titrated'''<br /><br />
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (''e.g.'' one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD, test shot of heroin).<br />
<br />
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==Endnote 26==<br />
<br />
'''enkephalin'''<br /><br />
A type of painkiller<br />
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==Page 67 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''psychodysleptic'''<br /><br />
A drug that negative effects the take psychologically.<br />
<br />
'''''in medias'''''<br /><br />
Latin: in the middle of.<br />
<br />
'''oblique'''<br /><br />
Neither perpendicular nor parallel.<br />
<br />
'''deliquesce'''<br /><br />
To become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.<br />
<br />
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==Page 68==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''Watteau'''<br /><br />
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.<br />
<br />
'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States'''''<br /><br />
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.<br />
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==Page 69==<br />
<br />
'''hypocapnia'''<br /><br />
Reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation.<br />
<br />
'''emery board'''<br /><br />
A disposable nail file.<br />
<br />
'''Wellesley Hills'''<br /><br />
A section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston.<br />
<br />
'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital'''<br /><br />
A real hospital.<br />
<br />
'''Parnate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.<br />
<br />
'''dysphoria'''<br /><br />
A mental state of feeling horrible.<br />
<br />
'''diurnal'''<br /><br />
During the day. Opposite of nocturnal.<br />
<br />
'''w/w/o'''<br /><br />
With and without.<br />
<br />
'''CO'''<br /><br />
Carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide.<br />
<br />
'''hemotoxicity'''<br /><br />
Poisonous blood level.<br />
<br />
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'''Librium'''<br /><br />
Brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal.<br />
<br />
'''Dretske'''<br /><br />
Perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind.<br />
<br />
'''Mydol'''<br /><br />
A misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol].<br />
<br />
'''trepidation'''<br /><br />
Hesitancy caused by fear.<br />
<br />
'''facial affect'''<br /><br />
Emotions expressed on the face.<br />
<br />
'''Lithonate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of lithium.<br />
<br />
==Page 71==<br />
<br />
'''plestor'''<br /><br />
Another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter].<br />
<br />
'''plangent'''<br /><br />
Loud and resounding.<br />
<br />
==Page 72==<br />
<br />
==Page 73==<br />
<br />
'''carpopedal'''<br /><br />
Involving both the hands and feet.<br />
<br />
'''tetanic'''<br /><br />
Pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually.<br />
<br />
==Page 74==<br />
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==Page 75==<br />
<br />
'''circumorals'''<br /><br />
Muscles around the mouth.<br />
<br />
'''thigmotactic'''<br /><br />
Having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus.<br />
<br />
'''dentate'''<br /><br />
Having teeth.<br />
<br />
'''synclinal'''<br /><br />
Sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /.<br />
<br />
'''Sinse'''<br /><br />
Short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana.<br />
<br />
'''duBois'''<br /><br />
Fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette.<br />
<br />
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'''uremic'''<br /><br />
Smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood.<br />
<br />
==Endnote 30==<br />
<br />
'''boric acid'''<br /><br />
Also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects.<br />
<br />
==Page 77==<br />
<br />
'''the T'''<br /><br />
Local transit in the Boston metro area.<br />
<br />
==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."'''<br /><br />
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">78 · Medical Attaché Update #3</span><br />
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==Page 78==<br />
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'''0145h.'''<br /><br />
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.<br />
<br />
==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''rictus'''<br /><br />
A gaping grimace.<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">79 · Schtitt & Mario</span><br />
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==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''Nick Bolletieri'''<br /><br />
A [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach].<br />
<br />
'''epaulets'''<br /><br />
Military shoulder decorations on clothing.<br />
<br />
'''a philosopher instead of a king'''<br /><br />
Although Plato stresses, in the ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.<br />
<br />
'''F.R.G.'''<br /><br />
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989).<br />
<br />
'''leptosomatic'''<br /><br />
Having a slender, frail build.<br />
<br />
'''pedagogical'''<br /><br />
Having to do with teaching.<br />
<br />
==Page 80==<br />
<br />
'''post-prandial'''<br /><br />
Following a meal.<br />
<br />
'''calliopsis'''<br /><br />
Another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis].<br />
<br />
'''quincunx'''<br /><br />
The arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right).[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]<br />
<br />
'''briers' yeasty musk'''<br /><br />
The yeasty smell arising from the brier patches.<br />
<br />
'''bradykinetic'''<br /><br />
Describing abnormally slow movement.<br />
<br />
'''plosivity'''<br /><br />
Referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, ''etc.''.<br />
<br />
'''Euclid'''<br /><br />
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."<br />
<br />
==Page 81==<br />
<br />
'''tympana'''<br /><br />
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.<br />
<br />
'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST'''''<br /><br />
<br />
The euphemistic translation aside, this literally means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.<br />
<br />
'''discursive'''<br /><br />
Rambling in speech.<br />
<br />
'''wonk'''<br /><br />
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
==Page 82==<br />
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'''simpatico'''<br /><br />
in agreement<br />
<br />
'''Hopman'''<br /><br />
either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman]<br />
<br />
==Endnote 34==<br />
<br />
'''Mandelbrotian'''<br /><br />
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.<br />
<br />
'''post-Gödelian'''<br /><br />
coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher<br />
<br />
==Page 82 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''van der Meer'''<br /><br />
probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics<br />
<br />
'''fractal'''<br /><br />
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''aleatory'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to accidental causes<br />
<br />
'''''Lieber Gott nein'''''<br /><br />
German: Dear God, no<br />
<br />
'''''Gymanasium'''''<br /><br />
the equivalent of a U.S. college-prepatory high school<br />
<br />
'''appetitive will'''<br /><br />
that part of the will that desires physical things<br />
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'''''palestra'''''<br /><br />
an ancient Greek school of wrestling<br />
<br />
'''experialist'''<br /><br />
like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste<br />
<br />
'''''Verstiegenheit'''''<br /><br />
literally German for "eccentricity"<br />
<br />
'''''Platz'''''<br /><br />
German: a public square<br />
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'''pirouetting'''<br /><br />
whirling on the toes<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''D.T.'''<br /><br />
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].<br />
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'''12°C'''<br /><br />
~54°F<br />
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<br />
'''skallycap'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]<br />
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'''Seventh Day Adventist'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''payloaders'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]<br />
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==Page 63 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''G. Ford - early G. Bush'''<br /><br />
Roughly 1974 to 1989.<br />
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'''S.A.C.'''<br /><br />
Strategic Air Command.<br />
<br />
'''neutron'''<br /><br />
A subatomic particle with no charge.<br />
<br />
'''gamma-refractive'''<br /><br />
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.<br />
<br />
'''lithium-adonized'''<br /><br />
Made more beautiful with lithium.<br />
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'''cold annular fusion'''<br /><br />
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a taurus (donut).<br />
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'''Tableaux'''<br /><br />
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.<br />
<br />
'''homolosine-cartography'''<br /><br />
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].<br />
<br />
'''optative'''<br /><br />
Expressing a wish or choice.<br />
<br />
'''U.S.T.A.'''<br /><br />
United States Tennis Association.<br />
<br />
'''après-garde'''<br /><br />
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''<br />
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==Endnote 24==<br />
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'''Macdonald Chair'''<br /><br />
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic.<br />
<br />
'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University'''<br /><br />
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal.<br />
<br />
'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems'''<br /><br />
These are two systems of cognition, the former is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the latter is rule-based and thus slower.<br />
<br />
'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement'''''<br /><br />
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.<br />
<br />
'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada'''<br /><br />
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.<br />
<br />
'''recondite'''<br /><br />
dealing with complex subject matter.<br />
<br />
'''mordantly'''<br /><br />
in a caustic manner.<br />
<br />
'''feck'''<br /><br />
efficacy; force; value.<br />
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'''F.C.'''<br /><br />
Perhaps "formerly Canadian."<br />
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'''A.E.C.'''<br /><br />
Atomic Energy Commission.<br />
<br />
'''ARPA-NET'''<br /><br />
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.<br />
<br />
'''L'Islet County'''<br /><br />
A county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains.<br />
<br />
'''hyperfloration'''<br /><br />
Overgrowth of flowers or plants.<br />
<br />
'''festschrift'''<br /><br />
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.<br />
<br />
'''anticonfluential'''<br /><br />
against things coming together<br />
<br />
'''chiaroscuro'''<br /><br />
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting.<br />
<br />
'''annulation'''<br /><br />
The formation of rings.<br />
<br />
'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
Grown exceeding large.<br />
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'''tacks'''<br /><br />
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.<br />
<br />
'''Mile-High'''<br /><br />
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos play.<br />
<br />
'''100 meters over the 40'''<br /><br />
''I.e.'', the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.<br />
<br />
'''nongarish'''<br /><br />
Not garish, ''i.e.'', not excessively ornate.<br />
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'''zither'''<br /><br />
A harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels.<br />
<br />
'''water-drops'''<br /><br />
Being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks.<br />
<br />
'''Oiler'''<br /><br />
The former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans.<br />
<br />
'''Brown'''<br /><br />
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.<br />
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'''organopsychedelic'''<br /><br />
An organic molecule which, when ingested, produces a psychedelic effect.<br />
<br />
'''isoxazole-alkaloid'''<br /><br />
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.<br />
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'''methoxylated'''<br /><br />
Addition of a methoxy group. Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."<br />
<br />
'''phenylkylamine'''<br /><br />
Possibly a made-up substance.<br />
<br />
'''rock and bob Hasidically'''<br /><br />
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim (and some Jews of other traditions) do when praying or studying religious texts.<br />
<br />
'''titrated'''<br /><br />
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (''e.g.'' one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD, test shot of heroin).<br />
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==Endnote 26==<br />
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'''enkephalin'''<br /><br />
A type of painkiller<br />
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'''psychodysleptic'''<br /><br />
A drug that negative effects the take psychologically.<br />
<br />
'''''in medias'''''<br /><br />
Latin: in the middle of.<br />
<br />
'''oblique'''<br /><br />
Neither perpendicular nor parallel.<br />
<br />
'''deliquesce'''<br /><br />
To become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.<br />
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'''Watteau'''<br /><br />
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.<br />
<br />
'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States'''''<br /><br />
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.<br />
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'''hypocapnia'''<br /><br />
Reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation.<br />
<br />
'''emery board'''<br /><br />
A disposable nail file.<br />
<br />
'''Wellesley Hills'''<br /><br />
A section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston.<br />
<br />
'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital'''<br /><br />
A real hospital.<br />
<br />
'''Parnate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.<br />
<br />
'''dysphoria'''<br /><br />
A mental state of feeling horrible.<br />
<br />
'''diurnal'''<br /><br />
During the day. Opposite of nocturnal.<br />
<br />
'''w/w/o'''<br /><br />
With and without.<br />
<br />
'''CO'''<br /><br />
Carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide.<br />
<br />
'''hemotoxicity'''<br /><br />
Poisonous blood level.<br />
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'''Librium'''<br /><br />
Brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal.<br />
<br />
'''Dretske'''<br /><br />
Perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind.<br />
<br />
'''Mydol'''<br /><br />
A misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol].<br />
<br />
'''trepidation'''<br /><br />
Hesitancy caused by fear.<br />
<br />
'''facial affect'''<br /><br />
Emotions expressed on the face.<br />
<br />
'''Lithonate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of lithium.<br />
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'''plestor'''<br /><br />
Another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter].<br />
<br />
'''plangent'''<br /><br />
Loud and resounding.<br />
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'''carpopedal'''<br /><br />
Involving both the hands and feet.<br />
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'''tetanic'''<br /><br />
Pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually.<br />
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'''circumorals'''<br /><br />
Muscles around the mouth.<br />
<br />
'''thigmotactic'''<br /><br />
Having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus.<br />
<br />
'''dentate'''<br /><br />
Having teeth.<br />
<br />
'''synclinal'''<br /><br />
Sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /.<br />
<br />
'''Sinse'''<br /><br />
Short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana.<br />
<br />
'''duBois'''<br /><br />
Fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette.<br />
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'''uremic'''<br /><br />
Smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood.<br />
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==Endnote 30==<br />
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'''boric acid'''<br /><br />
Also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects.<br />
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'''the T'''<br /><br />
Local transit in the Boston metro area.<br />
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'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."'''<br /><br />
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].<br />
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'''0145h.'''<br /><br />
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.<br />
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'''rictus'''<br /><br />
A gaping grimace.<br />
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'''Nick Bolletieri'''<br /><br />
A [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach].<br />
<br />
'''epaulets'''<br /><br />
Military shoulder decorations on clothing.<br />
<br />
'''a philosopher instead of a king'''<br /><br />
Although Plato stresses, in the ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.<br />
<br />
'''F.R.G.'''<br /><br />
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989).<br />
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'''leptosomatic'''<br /><br />
Having a slender, frail build.<br />
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'''pedagogical'''<br /><br />
Having to do with teaching.<br />
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'''post-prandial'''<br /><br />
Following a meal.<br />
<br />
'''calliopsis'''<br /><br />
Another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis].<br />
<br />
'''quincunx'''<br /><br />
The arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right).[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]<br />
<br />
'''briers' yeasty musk'''<br /><br />
The yeasty smell arising from the brier patches.<br />
<br />
'''bradykinetic'''<br /><br />
Describing abnormally slow movement.<br />
<br />
'''plosivity'''<br /><br />
Referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, ''etc.''.<br />
<br />
'''Euclid'''<br /><br />
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."<br />
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'''tympana'''<br /><br />
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.<br />
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'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST'''''<br /><br />
<br />
The euphemistic translation aside, this literaly means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.<br />
<br />
'''discursive'''<br /><br />
rambling in speech<br />
<br />
'''wonk'''<br /><br />
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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'''simpatico'''<br /><br />
in agreement<br />
<br />
'''Hopman'''<br /><br />
either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman]<br />
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==Endnote 34==<br />
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'''Mandelbrotian'''<br /><br />
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.<br />
<br />
'''post-Gödelian'''<br /><br />
coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher<br />
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'''van der Meer'''<br /><br />
probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics<br />
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'''fractal'''<br /><br />
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''aleatory'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to accidental causes<br />
<br />
'''''Lieber Gott nein'''''<br /><br />
German: Dear God, no<br />
<br />
'''''Gymanasium'''''<br /><br />
the equivalent of a U.S. college-prepatory high school<br />
<br />
'''appetitive will'''<br /><br />
that part of the will that desires physical things<br />
<br />
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'''''palestra'''''<br /><br />
an ancient Greek school of wrestling<br />
<br />
'''experialist'''<br /><br />
like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste<br />
<br />
'''''Verstiegenheit'''''<br /><br />
literally German for "eccentricity"<br />
<br />
'''''Platz'''''<br /><br />
German: a public square<br />
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'''pirouetting'''<br /><br />
whirling on the toes<br />
<br />
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'''D.T.'''<br /><br />
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].<br />
<br />
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'''12°C'''<br /><br />
~54°F<br />
<br />
==Page 87==<br />
<br />
'''skallycap'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]<br />
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'''Seventh Day Adventist'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''payloaders'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]<br />
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'''G. Ford - early G. Bush'''<br /><br />
Roughly 1974 to 1989.<br />
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'''S.A.C.'''<br /><br />
Strategic Air Command.<br />
<br />
'''neutron'''<br /><br />
A subatomic particle with no charge.<br />
<br />
'''gamma-refractive'''<br /><br />
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.<br />
<br />
'''lithium-adonized'''<br /><br />
Made more beautiful with lithium.<br />
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'''cold annular fusion'''<br /><br />
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a taurus (donut).<br />
<br />
'''Tableaux'''<br /><br />
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.<br />
<br />
'''homolosine-cartography'''<br /><br />
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].<br />
<br />
'''optative'''<br /><br />
Expressing a wish or choice.<br />
<br />
'''U.S.T.A.'''<br /><br />
United States Tennis Association.<br />
<br />
'''après-garde'''<br /><br />
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''<br />
<br />
==Endnote 24==<br />
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==Page 64 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''Macdonald Chair'''<br /><br />
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic.<br />
<br />
'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University'''<br /><br />
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal.<br />
<br />
'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems'''<br /><br />
These are two systems of cognition, the former is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the latter is rule-based and thus slower.<br />
<br />
'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement'''''<br /><br />
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.<br />
<br />
'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada'''<br /><br />
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.<br />
<br />
'''recondite'''<br /><br />
dealing with complex subject matter.<br />
<br />
'''mordantly'''<br /><br />
in a caustic manner.<br />
<br />
'''feck'''<br /><br />
efficacy; force; value.<br />
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'''F.C.'''<br /><br />
Perhaps "formerly Canadian."<br />
<br />
'''A.E.C.'''<br /><br />
Atomic Energy Commission.<br />
<br />
'''ARPA-NET'''<br /><br />
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.<br />
<br />
'''L'Islet County'''<br /><br />
A county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains.<br />
<br />
'''hyperfloration'''<br /><br />
Overgrowth of flowers or plants.<br />
<br />
'''festschrift'''<br /><br />
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.<br />
<br />
'''anticonfluential'''<br /><br />
against things coming together<br />
<br />
'''chiaroscuro'''<br /><br />
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting.<br />
<br />
'''annulation'''<br /><br />
The formation of rings.<br />
<br />
'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
Grown exceeding large.<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''tacks'''<br /><br />
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.<br />
<br />
'''Mile-High'''<br /><br />
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos play.<br />
<br />
'''100 meters over the 40'''<br /><br />
''I.e.'', the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.<br />
<br />
'''nongarish'''<br /><br />
Not garish, ''i.e.'', not excessively ornate.<br />
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<br />
'''zither'''<br /><br />
A harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels.<br />
<br />
'''water-drops'''<br /><br />
Being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks.<br />
<br />
'''Oiler'''<br /><br />
The former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans.<br />
<br />
'''Brown'''<br /><br />
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.<br />
<br />
==Page 66==<br />
<br />
'''organopsychedelic'''<br /><br />
An organic molecule which, when ingested, produces a psychedelic effect.<br />
<br />
'''isoxazole-alkaloid'''<br /><br />
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
<br />
'''methoxylated'''<br /><br />
Addition of a methoxy group. Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."<br />
<br />
'''phenylkylamine'''<br /><br />
Possibly a made-up substance.<br />
<br />
'''rock and bob Hasidically'''<br /><br />
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim (and some Jews of other traditions) do when praying or studying religious texts.<br />
<br />
'''titrated'''<br /><br />
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (''e.g.'' one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD, test shot of heroin).<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
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==Endnote 26==<br />
<br />
'''enkephalin'''<br /><br />
A type of painkiller<br />
<br />
==Page 67 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''psychodysleptic'''<br /><br />
A drug that negative effects the take psychologically.<br />
<br />
'''''in medias'''''<br /><br />
Latin: in the middle of.<br />
<br />
'''oblique'''<br /><br />
Neither perpendicular nor parallel.<br />
<br />
'''deliquesce'''<br /><br />
To become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">68* · Kate Gompert in the Psych Ward</span><br />
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==Page 68==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''Watteau'''<br /><br />
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.<br />
<br />
'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States'''''<br /><br />
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.<br />
<br />
==Page 69==<br />
<br />
'''hypocapnia'''<br /><br />
Reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation.<br />
<br />
'''emery board'''<br /><br />
A disposable nail file.<br />
<br />
'''Wellesley Hills'''<br /><br />
A section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston.<br />
<br />
'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital'''<br /><br />
A real hospital.<br />
<br />
'''Parnate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.<br />
<br />
'''dysphoria'''<br /><br />
A mental state of feeling horrible.<br />
<br />
'''diurnal'''<br /><br />
During the day. Opposite of nocturnal.<br />
<br />
'''w/w/o'''<br /><br />
With and without.<br />
<br />
'''CO'''<br /><br />
Carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide.<br />
<br />
'''hemotoxicity'''<br /><br />
Poisonous blood level.<br />
<br />
==Page 70==<br />
<br />
'''Librium'''<br /><br />
Brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal.<br />
<br />
'''Dretske'''<br /><br />
Perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind.<br />
<br />
'''Mydol'''<br /><br />
A misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol].<br />
<br />
'''trepidation'''<br /><br />
Hesitancy caused by fear.<br />
<br />
'''facial affect'''<br /><br />
Emotions expressed on the face.<br />
<br />
'''Lithonate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of lithium.<br />
<br />
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<br />
'''plestor'''<br /><br />
Another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter].<br />
<br />
'''plangent'''<br /><br />
Loud and resounding.<br />
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<br />
'''carpopedal'''<br /><br />
Involving both the hands and feet.<br />
<br />
'''tetanic'''<br /><br />
Pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually.<br />
<br />
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==Page 75==<br />
<br />
'''circumorals'''<br /><br />
Muscles around the mouth.<br />
<br />
'''thigmotactic'''<br /><br />
Having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus.<br />
<br />
'''dentate'''<br /><br />
Having teeth.<br />
<br />
'''synclinal'''<br /><br />
Sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /.<br />
<br />
'''Sinse'''<br /><br />
Short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana.<br />
<br />
'''duBois'''<br /><br />
Fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette.<br />
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<br />
'''uremic'''<br /><br />
Smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood.<br />
<br />
==Endnote 30==<br />
<br />
'''boric acid'''<br /><br />
Also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects.<br />
<br />
==Page 77==<br />
<br />
'''the T'''<br /><br />
Local transit in the Boston metro area.<br />
<br />
==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."'''<br /><br />
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].<br />
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<span class="marker">78 · Medical Attaché Update #3</span><br />
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==Page 78==<br />
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'''0145h.'''<br /><br />
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.<br />
<br />
==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''rictus'''<br /><br />
A gaping grimace.<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">79 · Schtitt & Mario</span><br />
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==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''Nick Bolletieri'''<br /><br />
A [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach].<br />
<br />
'''epaulets'''<br /><br />
Military shoulder decorations on clothing.<br />
<br />
'''a philosopher instead of a king'''<br /><br />
Although Plato stresses, in the ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.<br />
<br />
'''F.R.G.'''<br /><br />
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989).<br />
<br />
'''leptosomatic'''<br /><br />
Having a slender, frail build.<br />
<br />
'''pedagogical'''<br /><br />
Having to do with teaching.<br />
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'''post-prandial'''<br /><br />
following a meal<br />
<br />
'''calliopsis'''<br /><br />
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis]<br />
<br />
'''quincunx'''<br /><br />
the arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right)[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]<br />
<br />
'''briers' yeasty musk'''<br /><br />
the yeasty smell arising from the brier patches<br />
<br />
'''bradykinetic'''<br /><br />
describing abnormally slow movement<br />
<br />
'''plosivity'''<br /><br />
referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Euclid'''<br /><br />
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."<br />
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<br />
'''tympana'''<br /><br />
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.<br />
<br />
'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST'''''<br /><br />
<br />
The euphemistic translation aside, this literaly means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.<br />
<br />
'''discursive'''<br /><br />
rambling in speech<br />
<br />
'''wonk'''<br /><br />
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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'''simpatico'''<br /><br />
in agreement<br />
<br />
'''Hopman'''<br /><br />
either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman]<br />
<br />
==Endnote 34==<br />
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'''Mandelbrotian'''<br /><br />
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.<br />
<br />
'''post-Gödelian'''<br /><br />
coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher<br />
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==Page 82 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''van der Meer'''<br /><br />
probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics<br />
<br />
'''fractal'''<br /><br />
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''aleatory'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to accidental causes<br />
<br />
'''''Lieber Gott nein'''''<br /><br />
German: Dear God, no<br />
<br />
'''''Gymanasium'''''<br /><br />
the equivalent of a U.S. college-prepatory high school<br />
<br />
'''appetitive will'''<br /><br />
that part of the will that desires physical things<br />
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'''''palestra'''''<br /><br />
an ancient Greek school of wrestling<br />
<br />
'''experialist'''<br /><br />
like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste<br />
<br />
'''''Verstiegenheit'''''<br /><br />
literally German for "eccentricity"<br />
<br />
'''''Platz'''''<br /><br />
German: a public square<br />
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==Page 84==<br />
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'''pirouetting'''<br /><br />
whirling on the toes<br />
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==Page 85==<br />
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<span class="marker">85 · Tiny Ewell in Detox</span><br />
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==Page 85==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''D.T.'''<br /><br />
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].<br />
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'''12°C'''<br /><br />
~54°F<br />
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==Page 87==<br />
<br />
'''skallycap'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]<br />
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<span class="marker">87 · Medical Attaché Update #4</span><br />
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'''Seventh Day Adventist'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"<br />
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<span class="marker">87* · Marathe & Steeply</span><br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''payloaders'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]<br />
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'''G. Ford - early G. Bush'''<br /><br />
Roughly 1974 to 1989.<br />
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'''S.A.C.'''<br /><br />
Strategic Air Command.<br />
<br />
'''neutron'''<br /><br />
A subatomic particle with no charge.<br />
<br />
'''gamma-refractive'''<br /><br />
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.<br />
<br />
'''lithium-adonized'''<br /><br />
Made more beautiful with lithium.<br />
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'''cold annular fusion'''<br /><br />
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a taurus (donut).<br />
<br />
'''Tableaux'''<br /><br />
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.<br />
<br />
'''homolosine-cartography'''<br /><br />
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].<br />
<br />
'''optative'''<br /><br />
Expressing a wish or choice.<br />
<br />
'''U.S.T.A.'''<br /><br />
United States Tennis Association.<br />
<br />
'''après-garde'''<br /><br />
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''<br />
<br />
==Endnote 24==<br />
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==Page 64 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''Macdonald Chair'''<br /><br />
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic.<br />
<br />
'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University'''<br /><br />
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal.<br />
<br />
'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems'''<br /><br />
These are two systems of cognition, the former is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the latter is rule-based and thus slower.<br />
<br />
'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement'''''<br /><br />
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.<br />
<br />
'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada'''<br /><br />
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.<br />
<br />
'''recondite'''<br /><br />
dealing with complex subject matter.<br />
<br />
'''mordantly'''<br /><br />
in a caustic manner.<br />
<br />
'''feck'''<br /><br />
efficacy; force; value.<br />
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<br />
'''F.C.'''<br /><br />
Perhaps "formerly Canadian."<br />
<br />
'''A.E.C.'''<br /><br />
Atomic Energy Commission.<br />
<br />
'''ARPA-NET'''<br /><br />
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.<br />
<br />
'''L'Islet County'''<br /><br />
A county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains.<br />
<br />
'''hyperfloration'''<br /><br />
Overgrowth of flowers or plants.<br />
<br />
'''festschrift'''<br /><br />
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.<br />
<br />
'''anticonfluential'''<br /><br />
against things coming together<br />
<br />
'''chiaroscuro'''<br /><br />
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting.<br />
<br />
'''annulation'''<br /><br />
The formation of rings.<br />
<br />
'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
Grown exceeding large.<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''tacks'''<br /><br />
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.<br />
<br />
'''Mile-High'''<br /><br />
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos play.<br />
<br />
'''100 meters over the 40'''<br /><br />
''I.e.'', the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.<br />
<br />
'''nongarish'''<br /><br />
Not garish, ''i.e.'', not excessively ornate.<br />
<br />
==Page 66==<br />
<br />
'''zither'''<br /><br />
A harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels.<br />
<br />
'''water-drops'''<br /><br />
Being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks.<br />
<br />
'''Oiler'''<br /><br />
The former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans.<br />
<br />
'''Brown'''<br /><br />
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.<br />
<br />
==Page 66==<br />
<br />
'''organopsychedelic'''<br /><br />
An organic molecule which, when ingested, produces a psychedelic effect.<br />
<br />
'''isoxazole-alkaloid'''<br /><br />
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
<br />
'''methoxylated'''<br /><br />
Addition of a methoxy group. Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."<br />
<br />
'''phenylkylamine'''<br /><br />
Possibly a made-up substance.<br />
<br />
'''rock and bob Hasidically'''<br /><br />
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim (and some Jews of other traditions) do when praying or studying religious texts.<br />
<br />
'''titrated'''<br /><br />
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (''e.g.'' one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD, test shot of heroin).<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
<br />
==Endnote 26==<br />
<br />
'''enkephalin'''<br /><br />
A type of painkiller<br />
<br />
==Page 67 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''psychodysleptic'''<br /><br />
A drug that negative effects the take psychologically.<br />
<br />
'''''in medias'''''<br /><br />
Latin: in the middle of.<br />
<br />
'''oblique'''<br /><br />
Neither perpendicular nor parallel.<br />
<br />
'''deliquesce'''<br /><br />
To become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">68* · Kate Gompert in the Psych Ward</span><br />
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==Page 68==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''Watteau'''<br /><br />
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.<br />
<br />
'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States'''''<br /><br />
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.<br />
<br />
==Page 69==<br />
<br />
'''hypocapnia'''<br /><br />
Reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation.<br />
<br />
'''emery board'''<br /><br />
A disposable nail file.<br />
<br />
'''Wellesley Hills'''<br /><br />
A section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston.<br />
<br />
'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital'''<br /><br />
A real hospital.<br />
<br />
'''Parnate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.<br />
<br />
'''dysphoria'''<br /><br />
A mental state of feeling horrible.<br />
<br />
'''diurnal'''<br /><br />
During the day. Opposite of nocturnal.<br />
<br />
'''w/w/o'''<br /><br />
With and without.<br />
<br />
'''CO'''<br /><br />
Carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide.<br />
<br />
'''hemotoxicity'''<br /><br />
Poisonous blood level.<br />
<br />
==Page 70==<br />
<br />
'''Librium'''<br /><br />
Brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal.<br />
<br />
'''Dretske'''<br /><br />
Perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind.<br />
<br />
'''Mydol'''<br /><br />
A misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol].<br />
<br />
'''trepidation'''<br /><br />
Hesitancy caused by fear.<br />
<br />
'''facial affect'''<br /><br />
Emotions expressed on the face.<br />
<br />
'''Lithonate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of lithium.<br />
<br />
==Page 71==<br />
<br />
'''plestor'''<br /><br />
Another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter].<br />
<br />
'''plangent'''<br /><br />
Loud and resounding.<br />
<br />
==Page 72==<br />
<br />
==Page 73==<br />
<br />
'''carpopedal'''<br /><br />
Involving both the hands and feet.<br />
<br />
'''tetanic'''<br /><br />
Pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually.<br />
<br />
==Page 74==<br />
<br />
==Page 75==<br />
<br />
'''circumorals'''<br /><br />
Muscles around the mouth.<br />
<br />
'''thigmotactic'''<br /><br />
Having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus.<br />
<br />
'''dentate'''<br /><br />
Having teeth.<br />
<br />
'''synclinal'''<br /><br />
Sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /.<br />
<br />
'''Sinse'''<br /><br />
Short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana.<br />
<br />
'''duBois'''<br /><br />
Fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette.<br />
<br />
==Page 76==<br />
<br />
'''uremic'''<br /><br />
Smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood.<br />
<br />
==Endnote 30==<br />
<br />
'''boric acid'''<br /><br />
Also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects.<br />
<br />
==Page 77==<br />
<br />
'''the T'''<br /><br />
Local transit in the Boston metro area.<br />
<br />
==Page 78==<br />
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'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."'''<br /><br />
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].<br />
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==Page 78==<br />
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'''0145h.'''<br /><br />
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.<br />
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==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''rictus'''<br /><br />
A gaping grimace.<br />
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==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''Nick Bolletieri'''<br /><br />
A [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach].<br />
<br />
'''epaulets'''<br /><br />
Military shoulder decorations on clothing.<br />
<br />
'''a philosopher instead of a king'''<br /><br />
Although Plato stresses, in ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.<br />
<br />
'''F.R.G.'''<br /><br />
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989).<br />
<br />
'''leptosomatic'''<br /><br />
Having a slender, frail build.<br />
<br />
'''pedagogical'''<br /><br />
Having to do with teaching.<br />
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'''post-prandial'''<br /><br />
following a meal<br />
<br />
'''calliopsis'''<br /><br />
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis]<br />
<br />
'''quincunx'''<br /><br />
the arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right)[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]<br />
<br />
'''briers' yeasty musk'''<br /><br />
the yeasty smell arising from the brier patches<br />
<br />
'''bradykinetic'''<br /><br />
describing abnormally slow movement<br />
<br />
'''plosivity'''<br /><br />
referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Euclid'''<br /><br />
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."<br />
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'''tympana'''<br /><br />
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.<br />
<br />
'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST'''''<br /><br />
<br />
The euphemistic translation aside, this literaly means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.<br />
<br />
'''discursive'''<br /><br />
rambling in speech<br />
<br />
'''wonk'''<br /><br />
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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'''simpatico'''<br /><br />
in agreement<br />
<br />
'''Hopman'''<br /><br />
either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman]<br />
<br />
==Endnote 34==<br />
<br />
'''Mandelbrotian'''<br /><br />
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.<br />
<br />
'''post-Gödelian'''<br /><br />
coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher<br />
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'''van der Meer'''<br /><br />
probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics<br />
<br />
'''fractal'''<br /><br />
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''aleatory'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to accidental causes<br />
<br />
'''''Lieber Gott nein'''''<br /><br />
German: Dear God, no<br />
<br />
'''''Gymanasium'''''<br /><br />
the equivalent of a U.S. college-prepatory high school<br />
<br />
'''appetitive will'''<br /><br />
that part of the will that desires physical things<br />
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'''''palestra'''''<br /><br />
an ancient Greek school of wrestling<br />
<br />
'''experialist'''<br /><br />
like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste<br />
<br />
'''''Verstiegenheit'''''<br /><br />
literally German for "eccentricity"<br />
<br />
'''''Platz'''''<br /><br />
German: a public square<br />
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'''pirouetting'''<br /><br />
whirling on the toes<br />
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==Page 85==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''D.T.'''<br /><br />
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].<br />
<br />
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<br />
'''12°C'''<br /><br />
~54°F<br />
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==Page 87==<br />
<br />
'''skallycap'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]<br />
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==Page 87==<br />
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'''Seventh Day Adventist'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"<br />
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==Page 87==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''payloaders'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]<br />
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==Page 63 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''G. Ford - early G. Bush'''<br /><br />
Roughly 1974 to 1989.<br />
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'''S.A.C.'''<br /><br />
Strategic Air Command.<br />
<br />
'''neutron'''<br /><br />
A subatomic particle with no charge.<br />
<br />
'''gamma-refractive'''<br /><br />
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.<br />
<br />
'''lithium-adonized'''<br /><br />
Made more beautiful with lithium.<br />
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'''cold annular fusion'''<br /><br />
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a taurus (donut).<br />
<br />
'''Tableaux'''<br /><br />
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.<br />
<br />
'''homolosine-cartography'''<br /><br />
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].<br />
<br />
'''optative'''<br /><br />
Expressing a wish or choice.<br />
<br />
'''U.S.T.A.'''<br /><br />
United States Tennis Association.<br />
<br />
'''après-garde'''<br /><br />
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''<br />
<br />
==Endnote 24==<br />
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==Page 64 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''Macdonald Chair'''<br /><br />
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic.<br />
<br />
'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University'''<br /><br />
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal.<br />
<br />
'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems'''<br /><br />
These are two systems of cognition, the former is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the latter is rule-based and thus slower.<br />
<br />
'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement'''''<br /><br />
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.<br />
<br />
'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada'''<br /><br />
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.<br />
<br />
'''recondite'''<br /><br />
dealing with complex subject matter.<br />
<br />
'''mordantly'''<br /><br />
in a caustic manner.<br />
<br />
'''feck'''<br /><br />
efficacy; force; value.<br />
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'''F.C.'''<br /><br />
Perhaps "formerly Canadian."<br />
<br />
'''A.E.C.'''<br /><br />
Atomic Energy Commission.<br />
<br />
'''ARPA-NET'''<br /><br />
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.<br />
<br />
'''L'Islet County'''<br /><br />
A county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains.<br />
<br />
'''hyperfloration'''<br /><br />
Overgrowth of flowers or plants.<br />
<br />
'''festschrift'''<br /><br />
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.<br />
<br />
'''anticonfluential'''<br /><br />
against things coming together<br />
<br />
'''chiaroscuro'''<br /><br />
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting.<br />
<br />
'''annulation'''<br /><br />
The formation of rings.<br />
<br />
'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
Grown exceeding large.<br />
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'''tacks'''<br /><br />
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.<br />
<br />
'''Mile-High'''<br /><br />
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos play.<br />
<br />
'''100 meters over the 40'''<br /><br />
''I.e.'', the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.<br />
<br />
'''nongarish'''<br /><br />
Not garish, ''i.e.'', not excessively ornate.<br />
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'''zither'''<br /><br />
A harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels.<br />
<br />
'''water-drops'''<br /><br />
Being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks.<br />
<br />
'''Oiler'''<br /><br />
The former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans.<br />
<br />
'''Brown'''<br /><br />
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.<br />
<br />
==Page 66==<br />
<br />
'''organopsychedelic'''<br /><br />
An organic molecule which, when ingested, produces a psychedelic effect.<br />
<br />
'''isoxazole-alkaloid'''<br /><br />
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.<br />
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'''methoxylated'''<br /><br />
Addition of a methoxy group. Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."<br />
<br />
'''phenylkylamine'''<br /><br />
Possibly a made-up substance.<br />
<br />
'''rock and bob Hasidically'''<br /><br />
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim (and some Jews of other traditions) do when praying or studying religious texts.<br />
<br />
'''titrated'''<br /><br />
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (''e.g.'' one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD, test shot of heroin).<br />
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==Page 67==<br />
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==Endnote 26==<br />
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'''enkephalin'''<br /><br />
A type of painkiller<br />
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==Page 67 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''psychodysleptic'''<br /><br />
A drug that negative effects the take psychologically.<br />
<br />
'''''in medias'''''<br /><br />
Latin: in the middle of.<br />
<br />
'''oblique'''<br /><br />
Neither perpendicular nor parallel.<br />
<br />
'''deliquesce'''<br /><br />
To become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''Watteau'''<br /><br />
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.<br />
<br />
'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States'''''<br /><br />
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.<br />
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==Page 69==<br />
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'''hypocapnia'''<br /><br />
Reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation.<br />
<br />
'''emery board'''<br /><br />
A disposable nail file.<br />
<br />
'''Wellesley Hills'''<br /><br />
A section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston.<br />
<br />
'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital'''<br /><br />
A real hospital.<br />
<br />
'''Parnate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.<br />
<br />
'''dysphoria'''<br /><br />
A mental state of feeling horrible.<br />
<br />
'''diurnal'''<br /><br />
During the day. Opposite of nocturnal.<br />
<br />
'''w/w/o'''<br /><br />
With and without.<br />
<br />
'''CO'''<br /><br />
Carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide.<br />
<br />
'''hemotoxicity'''<br /><br />
Poisonous blood level.<br />
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'''Librium'''<br /><br />
Brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal.<br />
<br />
'''Dretske'''<br /><br />
Perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind.<br />
<br />
'''Mydol'''<br /><br />
A misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol].<br />
<br />
'''trepidation'''<br /><br />
Hesitancy caused by fear.<br />
<br />
'''facial affect'''<br /><br />
Emotions expressed on the face.<br />
<br />
'''Lithonate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of lithium.<br />
<br />
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'''plestor'''<br /><br />
Another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter].<br />
<br />
'''plangent'''<br /><br />
Loud and resounding.<br />
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==Page 73==<br />
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'''carpopedal'''<br /><br />
Involving both the hands and feet.<br />
<br />
'''tetanic'''<br /><br />
Pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually.<br />
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==Page 75==<br />
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'''circumorals'''<br /><br />
Muscles around the mouth.<br />
<br />
'''thigmotactic'''<br /><br />
Having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus.<br />
<br />
'''dentate'''<br /><br />
Having teeth.<br />
<br />
'''synclinal'''<br /><br />
Sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /.<br />
<br />
'''Sinse'''<br /><br />
Short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana.<br />
<br />
'''duBois'''<br /><br />
Fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette.<br />
<br />
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'''uremic'''<br /><br />
Smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood.<br />
<br />
==Endnote 30==<br />
<br />
'''boric acid'''<br /><br />
Also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects.<br />
<br />
==Page 77==<br />
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'''the T'''<br /><br />
Local transit in the Boston metro area.<br />
<br />
==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."'''<br /><br />
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].<br />
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==Page 78==<br />
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'''0145h.'''<br /><br />
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.<br />
<br />
==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''rictus'''<br /><br />
A gaping grimace.<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">79 · Schtitt & Mario</span><br />
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==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''Nick Bolletieri'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach]<br />
<br />
'''epaulets'''<br /><br />
military shoulder decorations on clothing<br />
<br />
'''a philosopher instead of a king'''<br /><br />
Although Plato stresses, in ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.<br />
<br />
'''F.R.G.'''<br /><br />
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989)<br />
<br />
'''leptosomatic'''<br /><br />
having a slender, frail build<br />
<br />
'''pedagogical'''<br /><br />
having to do with teaching<br />
<br />
==Page 80==<br />
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'''post-prandial'''<br /><br />
following a meal<br />
<br />
'''calliopsis'''<br /><br />
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis]<br />
<br />
'''quincunx'''<br /><br />
the arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right)[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]<br />
<br />
'''briers' yeasty musk'''<br /><br />
the yeasty smell arising from the brier patches<br />
<br />
'''bradykinetic'''<br /><br />
describing abnormally slow movement<br />
<br />
'''plosivity'''<br /><br />
referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Euclid'''<br /><br />
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."<br />
<br />
==Page 81==<br />
<br />
'''tympana'''<br /><br />
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.<br />
<br />
'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST'''''<br /><br />
<br />
The euphemistic translation aside, this literaly means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.<br />
<br />
'''discursive'''<br /><br />
rambling in speech<br />
<br />
'''wonk'''<br /><br />
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
==Page 82==<br />
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'''simpatico'''<br /><br />
in agreement<br />
<br />
'''Hopman'''<br /><br />
either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman]<br />
<br />
==Endnote 34==<br />
<br />
'''Mandelbrotian'''<br /><br />
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.<br />
<br />
'''post-Gödelian'''<br /><br />
coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher<br />
<br />
==Page 82 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''van der Meer'''<br /><br />
probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics<br />
<br />
'''fractal'''<br /><br />
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''aleatory'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to accidental causes<br />
<br />
'''''Lieber Gott nein'''''<br /><br />
German: Dear God, no<br />
<br />
'''''Gymanasium'''''<br /><br />
the equivalent of a U.S. college-prepatory high school<br />
<br />
'''appetitive will'''<br /><br />
that part of the will that desires physical things<br />
<br />
==Page 83==<br />
<br />
'''''palestra'''''<br /><br />
an ancient Greek school of wrestling<br />
<br />
'''experialist'''<br /><br />
like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste<br />
<br />
'''''Verstiegenheit'''''<br /><br />
literally German for "eccentricity"<br />
<br />
'''''Platz'''''<br /><br />
German: a public square<br />
<br />
==Page 84==<br />
<br />
'''pirouetting'''<br /><br />
whirling on the toes<br />
<br />
==Page 85==<br />
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<span class="marker">85 · Tiny Ewell in Detox</span><br />
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==Page 85==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''D.T.'''<br /><br />
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].<br />
<br />
==Page 86==<br />
<br />
'''12°C'''<br /><br />
~54°F<br />
<br />
==Page 87==<br />
<br />
'''skallycap'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]<br />
<br />
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==Page 87==<br />
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'''Seventh Day Adventist'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"<br />
<br />
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==Page 87==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''payloaders'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]<br />
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==Page 63 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''G. Ford - early G. Bush'''<br /><br />
Roughly 1974 to 1989.<br />
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'''S.A.C.'''<br /><br />
Strategic Air Command.<br />
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'''neutron'''<br /><br />
A subatomic particle with no charge.<br />
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'''gamma-refractive'''<br /><br />
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.<br />
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'''lithium-adonized'''<br /><br />
Made more beautiful with lithium.<br />
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'''cold annular fusion'''<br /><br />
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a taurus (donut).<br />
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'''Tableaux'''<br /><br />
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.<br />
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'''homolosine-cartography'''<br /><br />
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].<br />
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'''optative'''<br /><br />
Expressing a wish or choice.<br />
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'''U.S.T.A.'''<br /><br />
United States Tennis Association.<br />
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'''après-garde'''<br /><br />
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''<br />
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==Endnote 24==<br />
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'''Macdonald Chair'''<br /><br />
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic.<br />
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'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University'''<br /><br />
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal.<br />
<br />
'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems'''<br /><br />
These are two systems of cognition, the former is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the latter is rule-based and thus slower.<br />
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'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement'''''<br /><br />
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.<br />
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'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada'''<br /><br />
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.<br />
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'''recondite'''<br /><br />
dealing with complex subject matter.<br />
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'''mordantly'''<br /><br />
in a caustic manner.<br />
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'''feck'''<br /><br />
efficacy; force; value.<br />
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'''F.C.'''<br /><br />
Perhaps "formerly Canadian."<br />
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'''A.E.C.'''<br /><br />
Atomic Energy Commission.<br />
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'''ARPA-NET'''<br /><br />
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.<br />
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'''L'Islet County'''<br /><br />
A county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains.<br />
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'''hyperfloration'''<br /><br />
Overgrowth of flowers or plants.<br />
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'''festschrift'''<br /><br />
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.<br />
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'''anticonfluential'''<br /><br />
against things coming together<br />
<br />
'''chiaroscuro'''<br /><br />
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting.<br />
<br />
'''annulation'''<br /><br />
The formation of rings.<br />
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'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
Grown exceeding large.<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''tacks'''<br /><br />
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.<br />
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'''Mile-High'''<br /><br />
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos play.<br />
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'''100 meters over the 40'''<br /><br />
''I.e.'', the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.<br />
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'''nongarish'''<br /><br />
Not garish, ''i.e.'', not excessively ornate.<br />
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'''zither'''<br /><br />
A harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels.<br />
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'''water-drops'''<br /><br />
Being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks.<br />
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'''Oiler'''<br /><br />
The former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans.<br />
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'''Brown'''<br /><br />
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.<br />
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'''organopsychedelic'''<br /><br />
An organic molecule which, when ingested, produces a psychedelic effect.<br />
<br />
'''isoxazole-alkaloid'''<br /><br />
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.<br />
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'''methoxylated'''<br /><br />
Addition of a methoxy group. Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."<br />
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'''phenylkylamine'''<br /><br />
Possibly a made-up substance.<br />
<br />
'''rock and bob Hasidically'''<br /><br />
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim (and some Jews of other traditions) do when praying or studying religious texts.<br />
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'''titrated'''<br /><br />
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (''e.g.'' one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD, test shot of heroin).<br />
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==Endnote 26==<br />
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'''enkephalin'''<br /><br />
A type of painkiller<br />
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==Page 67 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''psychodysleptic'''<br /><br />
A drug that negative effects the take psychologically.<br />
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'''''in medias'''''<br /><br />
Latin: in the middle of.<br />
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'''oblique'''<br /><br />
Neither perpendicular nor parallel.<br />
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'''deliquesce'''<br /><br />
To become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.<br />
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<span class="marker">68* · Kate Gompert in the Psych Ward</span><br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''Watteau'''<br /><br />
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.<br />
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'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States'''''<br /><br />
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.<br />
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'''hypocapnia'''<br /><br />
Reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation.<br />
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'''emery board'''<br /><br />
A disposable nail file.<br />
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'''Wellesley Hills'''<br /><br />
A section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston.<br />
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'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital'''<br /><br />
A real hospital.<br />
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'''Parnate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.<br />
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'''dysphoria'''<br /><br />
A mental state of feeling horrible.<br />
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'''diurnal'''<br /><br />
During the day. Opposite of nocturnal.<br />
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'''w/w/o'''<br /><br />
With and without.<br />
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'''CO'''<br /><br />
Carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide.<br />
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'''hemotoxicity'''<br /><br />
Poisonous blood level.<br />
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'''Librium'''<br /><br />
Brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal.<br />
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'''Dretske'''<br /><br />
Perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind.<br />
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'''Mydol'''<br /><br />
A misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol].<br />
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'''trepidation'''<br /><br />
Hesitancy caused by fear.<br />
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'''facial affect'''<br /><br />
Emotions expressed on the face.<br />
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'''Lithonate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of lithium.<br />
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'''plestor'''<br /><br />
Another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter].<br />
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'''plangent'''<br /><br />
Loud and resounding.<br />
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'''carpopedal'''<br /><br />
Involving both the hands and feet.<br />
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'''tetanic'''<br /><br />
Pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually.<br />
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'''circumorals'''<br /><br />
Muscles around the mouth.<br />
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'''thigmotactic'''<br /><br />
Having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus.<br />
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'''dentate'''<br /><br />
Having teeth.<br />
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'''synclinal'''<br /><br />
Sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /.<br />
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'''Sinse'''<br /><br />
Short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana.<br />
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'''duBois'''<br /><br />
Fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette.<br />
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'''uremic'''<br /><br />
Smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood.<br />
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'''boric acid'''<br /><br />
Also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects.<br />
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'''the T'''<br /><br />
Local transit in the Boston metro area.<br />
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'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."'''<br /><br />
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].<br />
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<span class="marker">78 · Medical Attaché Update #3</span><br />
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'''0145h.'''<br /><br />
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.<br />
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'''rictus'''<br /><br />
a gaping grimace<br />
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<span class="marker">79 · Schtitt & Mario</span><br />
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'''Nick Bolletieri'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach]<br />
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'''epaulets'''<br /><br />
military shoulder decorations on clothing<br />
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'''a philosopher instead of a king'''<br /><br />
Although Plato stresses, in ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.<br />
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'''F.R.G.'''<br /><br />
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989)<br />
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'''leptosomatic'''<br /><br />
having a slender, frail build<br />
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'''pedagogical'''<br /><br />
having to do with teaching<br />
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'''post-prandial'''<br /><br />
following a meal<br />
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'''calliopsis'''<br /><br />
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis]<br />
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'''quincunx'''<br /><br />
the arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right)[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]<br />
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'''briers' yeasty musk'''<br /><br />
the yeasty smell arising from the brier patches<br />
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'''bradykinetic'''<br /><br />
describing abnormally slow movement<br />
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'''plosivity'''<br /><br />
referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, etc.<br />
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'''Euclid'''<br /><br />
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."<br />
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'''tympana'''<br /><br />
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.<br />
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'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST'''''<br /><br />
<br />
The euphemistic translation aside, this literaly means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.<br />
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'''discursive'''<br /><br />
rambling in speech<br />
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'''wonk'''<br /><br />
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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'''simpatico'''<br /><br />
in agreement<br />
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'''Hopman'''<br /><br />
either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman]<br />
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'''Mandelbrotian'''<br /><br />
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.<br />
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'''post-Gödelian'''<br /><br />
coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher<br />
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'''van der Meer'''<br /><br />
probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics<br />
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'''fractal'''<br /><br />
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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'''aleatory'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to accidental causes<br />
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'''''Lieber Gott nein'''''<br /><br />
German: Dear God, no<br />
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'''''Gymanasium'''''<br /><br />
the equivalent of a U.S. college-prepatory high school<br />
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'''appetitive will'''<br /><br />
that part of the will that desires physical things<br />
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'''''palestra'''''<br /><br />
an ancient Greek school of wrestling<br />
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'''experialist'''<br /><br />
like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste<br />
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'''''Verstiegenheit'''''<br /><br />
literally German for "eccentricity"<br />
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'''''Platz'''''<br /><br />
German: a public square<br />
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'''pirouetting'''<br /><br />
whirling on the toes<br />
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<span class="marker">85 · Tiny Ewell in Detox</span><br />
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'''D.T.'''<br /><br />
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].<br />
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'''12°C'''<br /><br />
~54°F<br />
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'''skallycap'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]<br />
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<span class="marker">87 · Medical Attaché Update #4</span><br />
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'''Seventh Day Adventist'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"<br />
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<span class="marker">87* · Marathe & Steeply</span><br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''payloaders'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]<br />
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==Page 63 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''G. Ford - early G. Bush'''<br /><br />
Roughly 1974 to 1989.<br />
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'''S.A.C.'''<br /><br />
Strategic Air Command.<br />
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'''neutron'''<br /><br />
A subatomic particle with no charge.<br />
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'''gamma-refractive'''<br /><br />
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.<br />
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'''lithium-adonized'''<br /><br />
Made more beautiful with lithium.<br />
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'''cold annular fusion'''<br /><br />
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a taurus (donut).<br />
<br />
'''Tableaux'''<br /><br />
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.<br />
<br />
'''homolosine-cartography'''<br /><br />
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].<br />
<br />
'''optative'''<br /><br />
Expressing a wish or choice.<br />
<br />
'''U.S.T.A.'''<br /><br />
United States Tennis Association.<br />
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'''après-garde'''<br /><br />
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''<br />
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==Endnote 24==<br />
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==Page 64 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''Macdonald Chair'''<br /><br />
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic.<br />
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'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University'''<br /><br />
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal.<br />
<br />
'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems'''<br /><br />
These are two systems of cognition, the former is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the latter is rule-based and thus slower.<br />
<br />
'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement'''''<br /><br />
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.<br />
<br />
'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada'''<br /><br />
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.<br />
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'''recondite'''<br /><br />
dealing with complex subject matter.<br />
<br />
'''mordantly'''<br /><br />
in a caustic manner.<br />
<br />
'''feck'''<br /><br />
efficacy; force; value.<br />
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'''F.C.'''<br /><br />
Perhaps "formerly Canadian."<br />
<br />
'''A.E.C.'''<br /><br />
Atomic Energy Commission.<br />
<br />
'''ARPA-NET'''<br /><br />
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.<br />
<br />
'''L'Islet County'''<br /><br />
A county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains.<br />
<br />
'''hyperfloration'''<br /><br />
Overgrowth of flowers or plants.<br />
<br />
'''festschrift'''<br /><br />
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.<br />
<br />
'''anticonfluential'''<br /><br />
against things coming together<br />
<br />
'''chiaroscuro'''<br /><br />
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting.<br />
<br />
'''annulation'''<br /><br />
The formation of rings.<br />
<br />
'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
Grown exceeding large.<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''tacks'''<br /><br />
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.<br />
<br />
'''Mile-High'''<br /><br />
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos play.<br />
<br />
'''100 meters over the 40'''<br /><br />
''I.e.'', the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.<br />
<br />
'''nongarish'''<br /><br />
Not garish, ''i.e.'', not excessively ornate.<br />
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'''zither'''<br /><br />
A harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels.<br />
<br />
'''water-drops'''<br /><br />
Being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks.<br />
<br />
'''Oiler'''<br /><br />
The former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans.<br />
<br />
'''Brown'''<br /><br />
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.<br />
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'''organopsychedelic'''<br /><br />
An organic molecule which, when ingested, produces a psychedelic effect.<br />
<br />
'''isoxazole-alkaloid'''<br /><br />
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.<br />
<br />
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'''methoxylated'''<br /><br />
Addition of a methoxy group. Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."<br />
<br />
'''phenylkylamine'''<br /><br />
Possibly a made-up substance.<br />
<br />
'''rock and bob Hasidically'''<br /><br />
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim (and some Jews of other traditions) do when praying or studying religious texts.<br />
<br />
'''titrated'''<br /><br />
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (''e.g.'' one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD, test shot of heroin).<br />
<br />
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==Endnote 26==<br />
<br />
'''enkephalin'''<br /><br />
A type of painkiller<br />
<br />
==Page 67 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''psychodysleptic'''<br /><br />
A drug that negative effects the take psychologically.<br />
<br />
'''''in medias'''''<br /><br />
Latin: in the middle of.<br />
<br />
'''oblique'''<br /><br />
Neither perpendicular nor parallel.<br />
<br />
'''deliquesce'''<br /><br />
To become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.<br />
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<span class="marker">68* · Kate Gompert in the Psych Ward</span><br />
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==Page 68==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''Watteau'''<br /><br />
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.<br />
<br />
'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States'''''<br /><br />
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.<br />
<br />
==Page 69==<br />
<br />
'''hypocapnia'''<br /><br />
Reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation.<br />
<br />
'''emery board'''<br /><br />
A disposable nail file.<br />
<br />
'''Wellesley Hills'''<br /><br />
A section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston.<br />
<br />
'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital'''<br /><br />
A real hospital.<br />
<br />
'''Parnate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.<br />
<br />
'''dysphoria'''<br /><br />
A mental state of feeling horrible.<br />
<br />
'''diurnal'''<br /><br />
During the day. Opposite of nocturnal.<br />
<br />
'''w/w/o'''<br /><br />
With and without.<br />
<br />
'''CO'''<br /><br />
Carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide.<br />
<br />
'''hemotoxicity'''<br /><br />
Poisonous blood level.<br />
<br />
==Page 70==<br />
<br />
'''Librium'''<br /><br />
Brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal.<br />
<br />
'''Dretske'''<br /><br />
Perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind.<br />
<br />
'''Mydol'''<br /><br />
A misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol].<br />
<br />
'''trepidation'''<br /><br />
Hesitancy caused by fear.<br />
<br />
'''facial affect'''<br /><br />
Emotions expressed on the face.<br />
<br />
'''Lithonate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of lithium.<br />
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==Page 71==<br />
<br />
'''plestor'''<br /><br />
Another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter].<br />
<br />
'''plangent'''<br /><br />
Loud and resounding.<br />
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<br />
'''carpopedal'''<br /><br />
Involving both the hands and feet.<br />
<br />
'''tetanic'''<br /><br />
Pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually.<br />
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==Page 75==<br />
<br />
'''circumorals'''<br /><br />
Muscles around the mouth.<br />
<br />
'''thigmotactic'''<br /><br />
Having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus.<br />
<br />
'''dentate'''<br /><br />
Having teeth.<br />
<br />
'''synclinal'''<br /><br />
Sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /.<br />
<br />
'''Sinse'''<br /><br />
Short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana.<br />
<br />
'''duBois'''<br /><br />
Fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette.<br />
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'''uremic'''<br /><br />
Smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood.<br />
<br />
==Endnote 30==<br />
<br />
'''boric acid'''<br /><br />
Also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects.<br />
<br />
==Page 77==<br />
<br />
'''the T'''<br /><br />
local transit in the Boston metro area<br />
<br />
==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."'''<br /><br />
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].<br />
<br />
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==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''0145h.'''<br /><br />
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.<br />
<br />
==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''rictus'''<br /><br />
a gaping grimace<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">79 · Schtitt & Mario</span><br />
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==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''Nick Bolletieri'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach]<br />
<br />
'''epaulets'''<br /><br />
military shoulder decorations on clothing<br />
<br />
'''a philosopher instead of a king'''<br /><br />
Although Plato stresses, in ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.<br />
<br />
'''F.R.G.'''<br /><br />
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989)<br />
<br />
'''leptosomatic'''<br /><br />
having a slender, frail build<br />
<br />
'''pedagogical'''<br /><br />
having to do with teaching<br />
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'''post-prandial'''<br /><br />
following a meal<br />
<br />
'''calliopsis'''<br /><br />
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis]<br />
<br />
'''quincunx'''<br /><br />
the arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right)[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]<br />
<br />
'''briers' yeasty musk'''<br /><br />
the yeasty smell arising from the brier patches<br />
<br />
'''bradykinetic'''<br /><br />
describing abnormally slow movement<br />
<br />
'''plosivity'''<br /><br />
referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Euclid'''<br /><br />
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."<br />
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==Page 81==<br />
<br />
'''tympana'''<br /><br />
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.<br />
<br />
'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST'''''<br /><br />
<br />
The euphemistic translation aside, this literaly means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.<br />
<br />
'''discursive'''<br /><br />
rambling in speech<br />
<br />
'''wonk'''<br /><br />
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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'''simpatico'''<br /><br />
in agreement<br />
<br />
'''Hopman'''<br /><br />
either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman]<br />
<br />
==Endnote 34==<br />
<br />
'''Mandelbrotian'''<br /><br />
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.<br />
<br />
'''post-Gödelian'''<br /><br />
coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher<br />
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==Page 82 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''van der Meer'''<br /><br />
probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics<br />
<br />
'''fractal'''<br /><br />
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''aleatory'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to accidental causes<br />
<br />
'''''Lieber Gott nein'''''<br /><br />
German: Dear God, no<br />
<br />
'''''Gymanasium'''''<br /><br />
the equivalent of a U.S. college-prepatory high school<br />
<br />
'''appetitive will'''<br /><br />
that part of the will that desires physical things<br />
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'''''palestra'''''<br /><br />
an ancient Greek school of wrestling<br />
<br />
'''experialist'''<br /><br />
like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste<br />
<br />
'''''Verstiegenheit'''''<br /><br />
literally German for "eccentricity"<br />
<br />
'''''Platz'''''<br /><br />
German: a public square<br />
<br />
==Page 84==<br />
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'''pirouetting'''<br /><br />
whirling on the toes<br />
<br />
==Page 85==<br />
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==Page 85==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''D.T.'''<br /><br />
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].<br />
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'''12°C'''<br /><br />
~54°F<br />
<br />
==Page 87==<br />
<br />
'''skallycap'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]<br />
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==Page 87==<br />
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'''Seventh Day Adventist'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"<br />
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==Page 87==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''payloaders'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]<br />
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==Page 63 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''G. Ford - early G. Bush'''<br /><br />
Roughly 1974 to 1989.<br />
<br />
'''S.A.C.'''<br /><br />
Strategic Air Command.<br />
<br />
'''neutron'''<br /><br />
A subatomic particle with no charge.<br />
<br />
'''gamma-refractive'''<br /><br />
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.<br />
<br />
'''lithium-adonized'''<br /><br />
Made more beautiful with lithium.<br />
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'''cold annular fusion'''<br /><br />
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a taurus (donut).<br />
<br />
'''Tableaux'''<br /><br />
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.<br />
<br />
'''homolosine-cartography'''<br /><br />
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].<br />
<br />
'''optative'''<br /><br />
Expressing a wish or choice.<br />
<br />
'''U.S.T.A.'''<br /><br />
United States Tennis Association.<br />
<br />
'''après-garde'''<br /><br />
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''<br />
<br />
==Endnote 24==<br />
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==Page 64 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''Macdonald Chair'''<br /><br />
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic.<br />
<br />
'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University'''<br /><br />
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal.<br />
<br />
'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems'''<br /><br />
These are two systems of cognition, the former is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the latter is rule-based and thus slower.<br />
<br />
'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement'''''<br /><br />
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.<br />
<br />
'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada'''<br /><br />
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.<br />
<br />
'''recondite'''<br /><br />
dealing with complex subject matter.<br />
<br />
'''mordantly'''<br /><br />
in a caustic manner.<br />
<br />
'''feck'''<br /><br />
efficacy; force; value.<br />
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<br />
'''F.C.'''<br /><br />
Perhaps "formerly Canadian."<br />
<br />
'''A.E.C.'''<br /><br />
Atomic Energy Commission.<br />
<br />
'''ARPA-NET'''<br /><br />
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.<br />
<br />
'''L'Islet County'''<br /><br />
A county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains.<br />
<br />
'''hyperfloration'''<br /><br />
Overgrowth of flowers or plants.<br />
<br />
'''festschrift'''<br /><br />
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.<br />
<br />
'''anticonfluential'''<br /><br />
against things coming together<br />
<br />
'''chiaroscuro'''<br /><br />
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting.<br />
<br />
'''annulation'''<br /><br />
The formation of rings.<br />
<br />
'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
Grown exceeding large.<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''tacks'''<br /><br />
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.<br />
<br />
'''Mile-High'''<br /><br />
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos play.<br />
<br />
'''100 meters over the 40'''<br /><br />
''I.e.'', the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.<br />
<br />
'''nongarish'''<br /><br />
Not garish, ''i.e.'', not excessively ornate.<br />
<br />
==Page 66==<br />
<br />
'''zither'''<br /><br />
A harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels.<br />
<br />
'''water-drops'''<br /><br />
Being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks.<br />
<br />
'''Oiler'''<br /><br />
The former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans.<br />
<br />
'''Brown'''<br /><br />
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.<br />
<br />
==Page 66==<br />
<br />
'''organopsychedelic'''<br /><br />
An organic molecule which, when ingested, produces a psychedelic effect.<br />
<br />
'''isoxazole-alkaloid'''<br /><br />
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
<br />
'''methoxylated'''<br /><br />
Addition of a methoxy group. Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."<br />
<br />
'''phenylkylamine'''<br /><br />
Possibly a made-up substance.<br />
<br />
'''rock and bob Hasidically'''<br /><br />
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim (and some Jews of other traditions) do when praying or studying religious texts.<br />
<br />
'''titrated'''<br /><br />
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (''e.g.'' one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD, test shot of heroin).<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
<br />
==Endnote 26==<br />
<br />
'''enkephalin'''<br /><br />
A type of painkiller<br />
<br />
==Page 67 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''psychodysleptic'''<br /><br />
A drug that negative effects the take psychologically.<br />
<br />
'''''in medias'''''<br /><br />
Latin: in the middle of.<br />
<br />
'''oblique'''<br /><br />
Neither perpendicular nor parallel.<br />
<br />
'''deliquesce'''<br /><br />
To become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.<br />
<br />
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==Page 68==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''Watteau'''<br /><br />
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.<br />
<br />
'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States'''''<br /><br />
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.<br />
<br />
==Page 69==<br />
<br />
'''hypocapnia'''<br /><br />
Reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation.<br />
<br />
'''emery board'''<br /><br />
A disposable nail file.<br />
<br />
'''Wellesley Hills'''<br /><br />
A section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston.<br />
<br />
'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital'''<br /><br />
A real hospital.<br />
<br />
'''Parnate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.<br />
<br />
'''dysphoria'''<br /><br />
A mental state of feeling horrible.<br />
<br />
'''diurnal'''<br /><br />
During the day. Opposite of nocturnal.<br />
<br />
'''w/w/o'''<br /><br />
With and without.<br />
<br />
'''CO'''<br /><br />
Carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide.<br />
<br />
'''hemotoxicity'''<br /><br />
Poisonous blood level.<br />
<br />
==Page 70==<br />
<br />
'''Librium'''<br /><br />
Brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal.<br />
<br />
'''Dretske'''<br /><br />
Perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind.<br />
<br />
'''Mydol'''<br /><br />
A misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol].<br />
<br />
'''trepidation'''<br /><br />
Hesitancy caused by fear.<br />
<br />
'''facial affect'''<br /><br />
Emotions expressed on the face.<br />
<br />
'''Lithonate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of lithium.<br />
<br />
==Page 71==<br />
<br />
'''plestor'''<br /><br />
Another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter].<br />
<br />
'''plangent'''<br /><br />
Loud and resounding.<br />
<br />
==Page 72==<br />
<br />
==Page 73==<br />
<br />
'''carpopedal'''<br /><br />
Involving both the hands and feet.<br />
<br />
'''tetanic'''<br /><br />
Pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually.<br />
<br />
==Page 74==<br />
<br />
==Page 75==<br />
<br />
'''circumorals'''<br /><br />
Muscles around the mouth.<br />
<br />
'''thigmotactic'''<br /><br />
Having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus.<br />
<br />
'''dentate'''<br /><br />
Having teeth.<br />
<br />
'''synclinal'''<br /><br />
Sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /.<br />
<br />
'''Sinse'''<br /><br />
Short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana.<br />
<br />
'''duBois'''<br /><br />
Fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette.<br />
<br />
==Page 76==<br />
<br />
'''uremic'''<br /><br />
Smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood.<br />
<br />
==Endnote 30==<br />
<br />
'''boric acid'''<br /><br />
also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects<br />
<br />
==Page 77==<br />
<br />
'''the T'''<br /><br />
local transit in the Boston metro area<br />
<br />
==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."'''<br /><br />
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">78 · Medical Attaché Update #3</span><br />
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==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''0145h.'''<br /><br />
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.<br />
<br />
==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''rictus'''<br /><br />
a gaping grimace<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">79 · Schtitt & Mario</span><br />
<br />
==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''Nick Bolletieri'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach]<br />
<br />
'''epaulets'''<br /><br />
military shoulder decorations on clothing<br />
<br />
'''a philosopher instead of a king'''<br /><br />
Although Plato stresses, in ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.<br />
<br />
'''F.R.G.'''<br /><br />
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989)<br />
<br />
'''leptosomatic'''<br /><br />
having a slender, frail build<br />
<br />
'''pedagogical'''<br /><br />
having to do with teaching<br />
<br />
==Page 80==<br />
<br />
'''post-prandial'''<br /><br />
following a meal<br />
<br />
'''calliopsis'''<br /><br />
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis]<br />
<br />
'''quincunx'''<br /><br />
the arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right)[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]<br />
<br />
'''briers' yeasty musk'''<br /><br />
the yeasty smell arising from the brier patches<br />
<br />
'''bradykinetic'''<br /><br />
describing abnormally slow movement<br />
<br />
'''plosivity'''<br /><br />
referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Euclid'''<br /><br />
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."<br />
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'''tympana'''<br /><br />
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.<br />
<br />
'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST'''''<br /><br />
<br />
The euphemistic translation aside, this literaly means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.<br />
<br />
'''discursive'''<br /><br />
rambling in speech<br />
<br />
'''wonk'''<br /><br />
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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'''simpatico'''<br /><br />
in agreement<br />
<br />
'''Hopman'''<br /><br />
either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman]<br />
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==Endnote 34==<br />
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'''Mandelbrotian'''<br /><br />
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.<br />
<br />
'''post-Gödelian'''<br /><br />
coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher<br />
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'''van der Meer'''<br /><br />
probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics<br />
<br />
'''fractal'''<br /><br />
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''aleatory'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to accidental causes<br />
<br />
'''''Lieber Gott nein'''''<br /><br />
German: Dear God, no<br />
<br />
'''''Gymanasium'''''<br /><br />
the equivalent of a U.S. college-prepatory high school<br />
<br />
'''appetitive will'''<br /><br />
that part of the will that desires physical things<br />
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'''''palestra'''''<br /><br />
an ancient Greek school of wrestling<br />
<br />
'''experialist'''<br /><br />
like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste<br />
<br />
'''''Verstiegenheit'''''<br /><br />
literally German for "eccentricity"<br />
<br />
'''''Platz'''''<br /><br />
German: a public square<br />
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'''pirouetting'''<br /><br />
whirling on the toes<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''D.T.'''<br /><br />
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].<br />
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'''12°C'''<br /><br />
~54°F<br />
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<br />
'''skallycap'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]<br />
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'''Seventh Day Adventist'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''payloaders'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]<br />
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==Page 63 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''G. Ford - early G. Bush'''<br /><br />
Roughly 1974 to 1989.<br />
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'''S.A.C.'''<br /><br />
Strategic Air Command.<br />
<br />
'''neutron'''<br /><br />
A subatomic particle with no charge.<br />
<br />
'''gamma-refractive'''<br /><br />
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.<br />
<br />
'''lithium-adonized'''<br /><br />
Made more beautiful with lithium.<br />
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'''cold annular fusion'''<br /><br />
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a taurus (donut).<br />
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'''Tableaux'''<br /><br />
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.<br />
<br />
'''homolosine-cartography'''<br /><br />
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].<br />
<br />
'''optative'''<br /><br />
Expressing a wish or choice.<br />
<br />
'''U.S.T.A.'''<br /><br />
United States Tennis Association.<br />
<br />
'''après-garde'''<br /><br />
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''<br />
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==Endnote 24==<br />
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'''Macdonald Chair'''<br /><br />
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic.<br />
<br />
'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University'''<br /><br />
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal.<br />
<br />
'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems'''<br /><br />
These are two systems of cognition, the former is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the latter is rule-based and thus slower.<br />
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'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement'''''<br /><br />
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.<br />
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'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada'''<br /><br />
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.<br />
<br />
'''recondite'''<br /><br />
dealing with complex subject matter.<br />
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'''mordantly'''<br /><br />
in a caustic manner.<br />
<br />
'''feck'''<br /><br />
efficacy; force; value.<br />
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'''F.C.'''<br /><br />
Perhaps "formerly Canadian."<br />
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'''A.E.C.'''<br /><br />
Atomic Energy Commission.<br />
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'''ARPA-NET'''<br /><br />
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.<br />
<br />
'''L'Islet County'''<br /><br />
A county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains.<br />
<br />
'''hyperfloration'''<br /><br />
Overgrowth of flowers or plants.<br />
<br />
'''festschrift'''<br /><br />
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.<br />
<br />
'''anticonfluential'''<br /><br />
against things coming together<br />
<br />
'''chiaroscuro'''<br /><br />
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting.<br />
<br />
'''annulation'''<br /><br />
The formation of rings.<br />
<br />
'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
Grown exceeding large.<br />
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'''tacks'''<br /><br />
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.<br />
<br />
'''Mile-High'''<br /><br />
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos play.<br />
<br />
'''100 meters over the 40'''<br /><br />
''I.e.'', the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.<br />
<br />
'''nongarish'''<br /><br />
Not garish, ''i.e.'', not excessively ornate.<br />
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'''zither'''<br /><br />
A harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels.<br />
<br />
'''water-drops'''<br /><br />
Being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks.<br />
<br />
'''Oiler'''<br /><br />
The former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans.<br />
<br />
'''Brown'''<br /><br />
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.<br />
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'''organopsychedelic'''<br /><br />
An organic molecule which, when ingested, produces a psychedelic effect.<br />
<br />
'''isoxazole-alkaloid'''<br /><br />
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.<br />
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'''methoxylated'''<br /><br />
Addition of a methoxy group. Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."<br />
<br />
'''phenylkylamine'''<br /><br />
Possibly a made-up substance.<br />
<br />
'''rock and bob Hasidically'''<br /><br />
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim (and some Jews of other traditions) do when praying or studying religious texts.<br />
<br />
'''titrated'''<br /><br />
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (''e.g.'' one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD, test shot of heroin).<br />
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==Endnote 26==<br />
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'''enkephalin'''<br /><br />
A type of painkiller<br />
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'''psychodysleptic'''<br /><br />
A drug that negative effects the take psychologically.<br />
<br />
'''''in medias'''''<br /><br />
Latin: in the middle of.<br />
<br />
'''oblique'''<br /><br />
Neither perpendicular nor parallel.<br />
<br />
'''deliquesce'''<br /><br />
To become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.<br />
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'''Watteau'''<br /><br />
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.<br />
<br />
'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States'''''<br /><br />
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.<br />
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'''hypocapnia'''<br /><br />
Reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation.<br />
<br />
'''emery board'''<br /><br />
A disposable nail file.<br />
<br />
'''Wellesley Hills'''<br /><br />
A section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston.<br />
<br />
'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital'''<br /><br />
A real hospital.<br />
<br />
'''Parnate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.<br />
<br />
'''dysphoria'''<br /><br />
A mental state of feeling horrible.<br />
<br />
'''diurnal'''<br /><br />
During the day. Opposite of nocturnal.<br />
<br />
'''w/w/o'''<br /><br />
With and without.<br />
<br />
'''CO'''<br /><br />
Carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide.<br />
<br />
'''hemotoxicity'''<br /><br />
Poisonous blood level.<br />
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'''Librium'''<br /><br />
Brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal.<br />
<br />
'''Dretske'''<br /><br />
Perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind.<br />
<br />
'''Mydol'''<br /><br />
A misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol].<br />
<br />
'''trepidation'''<br /><br />
Hesitancy caused by fear.<br />
<br />
'''facial affect'''<br /><br />
Emotions expressed on the face.<br />
<br />
'''Lithonate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of lithium.<br />
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'''plestor'''<br /><br />
Another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter].<br />
<br />
'''plangent'''<br /><br />
Loud and resounding.<br />
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'''carpopedal'''<br /><br />
Involving both the hands and feet.<br />
<br />
'''tetanic'''<br /><br />
Pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually.<br />
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'''circumorals'''<br /><br />
Muscles around the mouth.<br />
<br />
'''thigmotactic'''<br /><br />
Having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus.<br />
<br />
'''dentate'''<br /><br />
Having teeth.<br />
<br />
'''synclinal'''<br /><br />
Sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /.<br />
<br />
'''Sinse'''<br /><br />
Short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana.<br />
<br />
'''duBois'''<br /><br />
Fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette.<br />
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'''uremic'''<br /><br />
smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood<br />
<br />
==Endnote 30==<br />
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'''boric acid'''<br /><br />
also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects<br />
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'''the T'''<br /><br />
local transit in the Boston metro area<br />
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'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."'''<br /><br />
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].<br />
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'''0145h.'''<br /><br />
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.<br />
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'''rictus'''<br /><br />
a gaping grimace<br />
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'''Nick Bolletieri'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach]<br />
<br />
'''epaulets'''<br /><br />
military shoulder decorations on clothing<br />
<br />
'''a philosopher instead of a king'''<br /><br />
Although Plato stresses, in ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.<br />
<br />
'''F.R.G.'''<br /><br />
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989)<br />
<br />
'''leptosomatic'''<br /><br />
having a slender, frail build<br />
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'''pedagogical'''<br /><br />
having to do with teaching<br />
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'''post-prandial'''<br /><br />
following a meal<br />
<br />
'''calliopsis'''<br /><br />
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis]<br />
<br />
'''quincunx'''<br /><br />
the arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right)[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]<br />
<br />
'''briers' yeasty musk'''<br /><br />
the yeasty smell arising from the brier patches<br />
<br />
'''bradykinetic'''<br /><br />
describing abnormally slow movement<br />
<br />
'''plosivity'''<br /><br />
referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Euclid'''<br /><br />
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."<br />
<br />
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'''tympana'''<br /><br />
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.<br />
<br />
'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST'''''<br /><br />
<br />
The euphemistic translation aside, this literaly means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.<br />
<br />
'''discursive'''<br /><br />
rambling in speech<br />
<br />
'''wonk'''<br /><br />
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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'''simpatico'''<br /><br />
in agreement<br />
<br />
'''Hopman'''<br /><br />
either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman]<br />
<br />
==Endnote 34==<br />
<br />
'''Mandelbrotian'''<br /><br />
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.<br />
<br />
'''post-Gödelian'''<br /><br />
coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher<br />
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'''van der Meer'''<br /><br />
probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics<br />
<br />
'''fractal'''<br /><br />
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''aleatory'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to accidental causes<br />
<br />
'''''Lieber Gott nein'''''<br /><br />
German: Dear God, no<br />
<br />
'''''Gymanasium'''''<br /><br />
the equivalent of a U.S. college-prepatory high school<br />
<br />
'''appetitive will'''<br /><br />
that part of the will that desires physical things<br />
<br />
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'''''palestra'''''<br /><br />
an ancient Greek school of wrestling<br />
<br />
'''experialist'''<br /><br />
like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste<br />
<br />
'''''Verstiegenheit'''''<br /><br />
literally German for "eccentricity"<br />
<br />
'''''Platz'''''<br /><br />
German: a public square<br />
<br />
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'''pirouetting'''<br /><br />
whirling on the toes<br />
<br />
==Page 85==<br />
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'''D.T.'''<br /><br />
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].<br />
<br />
==Page 86==<br />
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'''12°C'''<br /><br />
~54°F<br />
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<br />
'''skallycap'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]<br />
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'''Seventh Day Adventist'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"<br />
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'''payloaders'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]<br />
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'''G. Ford - early G. Bush'''<br /><br />
Roughly 1974 to 1989.<br />
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'''S.A.C.'''<br /><br />
Strategic Air Command.<br />
<br />
'''neutron'''<br /><br />
A subatomic particle with no charge.<br />
<br />
'''gamma-refractive'''<br /><br />
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.<br />
<br />
'''lithium-adonized'''<br /><br />
Made more beautiful with lithium.<br />
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'''cold annular fusion'''<br /><br />
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a taurus (donut).<br />
<br />
'''Tableaux'''<br /><br />
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.<br />
<br />
'''homolosine-cartography'''<br /><br />
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].<br />
<br />
'''optative'''<br /><br />
Expressing a wish or choice.<br />
<br />
'''U.S.T.A.'''<br /><br />
United States Tennis Association.<br />
<br />
'''après-garde'''<br /><br />
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''<br />
<br />
==Endnote 24==<br />
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==Page 64 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''Macdonald Chair'''<br /><br />
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic.<br />
<br />
'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University'''<br /><br />
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal.<br />
<br />
'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems'''<br /><br />
These are two systems of cognition, the former is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the latter is rule-based and thus slower.<br />
<br />
'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement'''''<br /><br />
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.<br />
<br />
'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada'''<br /><br />
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.<br />
<br />
'''recondite'''<br /><br />
dealing with complex subject matter.<br />
<br />
'''mordantly'''<br /><br />
in a caustic manner.<br />
<br />
'''feck'''<br /><br />
efficacy; force; value.<br />
<br />
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<br />
'''F.C.'''<br /><br />
Perhaps "formerly Canadian."<br />
<br />
'''A.E.C.'''<br /><br />
Atomic Energy Commission.<br />
<br />
'''ARPA-NET'''<br /><br />
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.<br />
<br />
'''L'Islet County'''<br /><br />
A county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains.<br />
<br />
'''hyperfloration'''<br /><br />
Overgrowth of flowers or plants.<br />
<br />
'''festschrift'''<br /><br />
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.<br />
<br />
'''anticonfluential'''<br /><br />
against things coming together<br />
<br />
'''chiaroscuro'''<br /><br />
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting.<br />
<br />
'''annulation'''<br /><br />
The formation of rings.<br />
<br />
'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
Grown exceeding large.<br />
<br />
==Page 65==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''tacks'''<br /><br />
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.<br />
<br />
'''Mile-High'''<br /><br />
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos play.<br />
<br />
'''100 meters over the 40'''<br /><br />
''I.e.'', the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.<br />
<br />
'''nongarish'''<br /><br />
Not garish, ''i.e.'', not excessively ornate.<br />
<br />
==Page 66==<br />
<br />
'''zither'''<br /><br />
A harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels.<br />
<br />
'''water-drops'''<br /><br />
Being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks.<br />
<br />
'''Oiler'''<br /><br />
The former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans.<br />
<br />
'''Brown'''<br /><br />
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.<br />
<br />
==Page 66==<br />
<br />
'''organopsychedelic'''<br /><br />
An organic molecule which, when ingested, produces a psychedelic effect.<br />
<br />
'''isoxazole-alkaloid'''<br /><br />
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
<br />
'''methoxylated'''<br /><br />
Addition of a methoxy group. Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."<br />
<br />
'''phenylkylamine'''<br /><br />
Possibly a made-up substance.<br />
<br />
'''rock and bob Hasidically'''<br /><br />
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim (and some Jews of other traditions) do when praying or studying religious texts.<br />
<br />
'''titrated'''<br /><br />
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (''e.g.'' one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD, test shot of heroin).<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
<br />
==Endnote 26==<br />
<br />
'''enkephalin'''<br /><br />
A type of painkiller<br />
<br />
==Page 67 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''psychodysleptic'''<br /><br />
A drug that negative effects the take psychologically.<br />
<br />
'''''in medias'''''<br /><br />
Latin: in the middle of.<br />
<br />
'''oblique'''<br /><br />
Neither perpendicular nor parallel.<br />
<br />
'''deliquesce'''<br /><br />
To become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">68* · Kate Gompert in the Psych Ward</span><br />
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==Page 68==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''Watteau'''<br /><br />
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.<br />
<br />
'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States'''''<br /><br />
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.<br />
<br />
==Page 69==<br />
<br />
'''hypocapnia'''<br /><br />
Reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation.<br />
<br />
'''emery board'''<br /><br />
A disposable nail file.<br />
<br />
'''Wellesley Hills'''<br /><br />
A section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston.<br />
<br />
'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital'''<br /><br />
A real hospital.<br />
<br />
'''Parnate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.<br />
<br />
'''dysphoria'''<br /><br />
A mental state of feeling horrible.<br />
<br />
'''diurnal'''<br /><br />
During the day. Opposite of nocturnal.<br />
<br />
'''w/w/o'''<br /><br />
With and without.<br />
<br />
'''CO'''<br /><br />
Carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide.<br />
<br />
'''hemotoxicity'''<br /><br />
Poisonous blood level.<br />
<br />
==Page 70==<br />
<br />
'''Librium'''<br /><br />
Brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal.<br />
<br />
'''Dretske'''<br /><br />
Perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind.<br />
<br />
'''Mydol'''<br /><br />
A misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol].<br />
<br />
'''trepidation'''<br /><br />
Hesitancy caused by fear.<br />
<br />
'''facial affect'''<br /><br />
Emotions expressed on the face.<br />
<br />
'''Lithonate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of lithium.<br />
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==Page 71==<br />
<br />
'''plestor'''<br /><br />
Another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter].<br />
<br />
'''plangent'''<br /><br />
Loud and resounding.<br />
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==Page 73==<br />
<br />
'''carpopedal'''<br /><br />
Involving both the hands and feet.<br />
<br />
'''tetanic'''<br /><br />
Pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually.<br />
<br />
==Page 74==<br />
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==Page 75==<br />
<br />
'''circumorals'''<br /><br />
muscles around the mouth<br />
<br />
'''thigmotactic'''<br /><br />
having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus<br />
<br />
'''dentate'''<br /><br />
having teeth<br />
<br />
'''synclinal'''<br /><br />
sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /<br />
<br />
'''Sinse'''<br /><br />
short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana<br />
<br />
'''duBois'''<br /><br />
fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette<br />
<br />
==Page 76==<br />
<br />
'''uremic'''<br /><br />
smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood<br />
<br />
==Endnote 30==<br />
<br />
'''boric acid'''<br /><br />
also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects<br />
<br />
==Page 77==<br />
<br />
'''the T'''<br /><br />
local transit in the Boston metro area<br />
<br />
==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."'''<br /><br />
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">78 · Medical Attaché Update #3</span><br />
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==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''0145h.'''<br /><br />
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.<br />
<br />
==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''rictus'''<br /><br />
a gaping grimace<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">79 · Schtitt & Mario</span><br />
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==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''Nick Bolletieri'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach]<br />
<br />
'''epaulets'''<br /><br />
military shoulder decorations on clothing<br />
<br />
'''a philosopher instead of a king'''<br /><br />
Although Plato stresses, in ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.<br />
<br />
'''F.R.G.'''<br /><br />
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989)<br />
<br />
'''leptosomatic'''<br /><br />
having a slender, frail build<br />
<br />
'''pedagogical'''<br /><br />
having to do with teaching<br />
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'''post-prandial'''<br /><br />
following a meal<br />
<br />
'''calliopsis'''<br /><br />
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis]<br />
<br />
'''quincunx'''<br /><br />
the arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right)[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]<br />
<br />
'''briers' yeasty musk'''<br /><br />
the yeasty smell arising from the brier patches<br />
<br />
'''bradykinetic'''<br /><br />
describing abnormally slow movement<br />
<br />
'''plosivity'''<br /><br />
referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Euclid'''<br /><br />
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."<br />
<br />
==Page 81==<br />
<br />
'''tympana'''<br /><br />
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.<br />
<br />
'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST'''''<br /><br />
<br />
The euphemistic translation aside, this literaly means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.<br />
<br />
'''discursive'''<br /><br />
rambling in speech<br />
<br />
'''wonk'''<br /><br />
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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==Page 82==<br />
<br />
'''simpatico'''<br /><br />
in agreement<br />
<br />
'''Hopman'''<br /><br />
either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman]<br />
<br />
==Endnote 34==<br />
<br />
'''Mandelbrotian'''<br /><br />
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.<br />
<br />
'''post-Gödelian'''<br /><br />
coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher<br />
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==Page 82 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''van der Meer'''<br /><br />
probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics<br />
<br />
'''fractal'''<br /><br />
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''aleatory'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to accidental causes<br />
<br />
'''''Lieber Gott nein'''''<br /><br />
German: Dear God, no<br />
<br />
'''''Gymanasium'''''<br /><br />
the equivalent of a U.S. college-prepatory high school<br />
<br />
'''appetitive will'''<br /><br />
that part of the will that desires physical things<br />
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==Page 83==<br />
<br />
'''''palestra'''''<br /><br />
an ancient Greek school of wrestling<br />
<br />
'''experialist'''<br /><br />
like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste<br />
<br />
'''''Verstiegenheit'''''<br /><br />
literally German for "eccentricity"<br />
<br />
'''''Platz'''''<br /><br />
German: a public square<br />
<br />
==Page 84==<br />
<br />
'''pirouetting'''<br /><br />
whirling on the toes<br />
<br />
==Page 85==<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">85 · Tiny Ewell in Detox</span><br />
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==Page 85==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''D.T.'''<br /><br />
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].<br />
<br />
==Page 86==<br />
<br />
'''12°C'''<br /><br />
~54°F<br />
<br />
==Page 87==<br />
<br />
'''skallycap'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">87 · Medical Attaché Update #4</span><br />
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==Page 87==<br />
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'''Seventh Day Adventist'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"<br />
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<span class="marker">87* · Marathe & Steeply</span><br />
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==Page 87==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''payloaders'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]<br />
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==Page 63 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''G. Ford - early G. Bush'''<br /><br />
Roughly 1974 to 1989.<br />
<br />
'''S.A.C.'''<br /><br />
Strategic Air Command.<br />
<br />
'''neutron'''<br /><br />
A subatomic particle with no charge.<br />
<br />
'''gamma-refractive'''<br /><br />
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.<br />
<br />
'''lithium-adonized'''<br /><br />
Made more beautiful with lithium.<br />
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==Page 64==<br />
<br />
'''cold annular fusion'''<br /><br />
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a taurus (donut).<br />
<br />
'''Tableaux'''<br /><br />
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.<br />
<br />
'''homolosine-cartography'''<br /><br />
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].<br />
<br />
'''optative'''<br /><br />
Expressing a wish or choice.<br />
<br />
'''U.S.T.A.'''<br /><br />
United States Tennis Association.<br />
<br />
'''après-garde'''<br /><br />
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''<br />
<br />
==Endnote 24==<br />
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==Page 64 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''Macdonald Chair'''<br /><br />
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic.<br />
<br />
'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University'''<br /><br />
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal.<br />
<br />
'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems'''<br /><br />
These are two systems of cognition, the former is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the latter is rule-based and thus slower.<br />
<br />
'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement'''''<br /><br />
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.<br />
<br />
'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada'''<br /><br />
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.<br />
<br />
'''recondite'''<br /><br />
dealing with complex subject matter.<br />
<br />
'''mordantly'''<br /><br />
in a caustic manner.<br />
<br />
'''feck'''<br /><br />
efficacy; force; value.<br />
<br />
==Page 65==<br />
<br />
'''F.C.'''<br /><br />
Perhaps "formerly Canadian."<br />
<br />
'''A.E.C.'''<br /><br />
Atomic Energy Commission.<br />
<br />
'''ARPA-NET'''<br /><br />
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.<br />
<br />
'''L'Islet County'''<br /><br />
A county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains.<br />
<br />
'''hyperfloration'''<br /><br />
Overgrowth of flowers or plants.<br />
<br />
'''festschrift'''<br /><br />
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.<br />
<br />
'''anticonfluential'''<br /><br />
against things coming together<br />
<br />
'''chiaroscuro'''<br /><br />
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting.<br />
<br />
'''annulation'''<br /><br />
The formation of rings.<br />
<br />
'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
Grown exceeding large.<br />
<br />
==Page 65==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''tacks'''<br /><br />
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.<br />
<br />
'''Mile-High'''<br /><br />
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos play.<br />
<br />
'''100 meters over the 40'''<br /><br />
''I.e.'', the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.<br />
<br />
'''nongarish'''<br /><br />
Not garish, ''i.e.'', not excessively ornate.<br />
<br />
==Page 66==<br />
<br />
'''zither'''<br /><br />
A harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels.<br />
<br />
'''water-drops'''<br /><br />
Being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks.<br />
<br />
'''Oiler'''<br /><br />
The former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans.<br />
<br />
'''Brown'''<br /><br />
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.<br />
<br />
==Page 66==<br />
<br />
'''organopsychedelic'''<br /><br />
An organic molecule which, when ingested, produces a psychedelic effect.<br />
<br />
'''isoxazole-alkaloid'''<br /><br />
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
<br />
'''methoxylated'''<br /><br />
Addition of a methoxy group. Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."<br />
<br />
'''phenylkylamine'''<br /><br />
Possibly a made-up substance.<br />
<br />
'''rock and bob Hasidically'''<br /><br />
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim (and some Jews of other traditions) do when praying or studying religious texts.<br />
<br />
'''titrated'''<br /><br />
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (''e.g.'' one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD, test shot of heroin).<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
<br />
==Endnote 26==<br />
<br />
'''enkephalin'''<br /><br />
A type of painkiller<br />
<br />
==Page 67 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''psychodysleptic'''<br /><br />
A drug that negative effects the take psychologically.<br />
<br />
'''''in medias'''''<br /><br />
Latin: in the middle of.<br />
<br />
'''oblique'''<br /><br />
Neither perpendicular nor parallel.<br />
<br />
'''deliquesce'''<br /><br />
To become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">68* · Kate Gompert in the Psych Ward</span><br />
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==Page 68==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''Watteau'''<br /><br />
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.<br />
<br />
'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States'''''<br /><br />
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.<br />
<br />
==Page 69==<br />
<br />
'''hypocapnia'''<br /><br />
Reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation.<br />
<br />
'''emery board'''<br /><br />
A disposable nail file.<br />
<br />
'''Wellesley Hills'''<br /><br />
A section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston.<br />
<br />
'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital'''<br /><br />
A real hospital.<br />
<br />
'''Parnate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.<br />
<br />
'''dysphoria'''<br /><br />
A mental state of feeling horrible.<br />
<br />
'''diurnal'''<br /><br />
During the day. Opposite of nocturnal.<br />
<br />
'''w/w/o'''<br /><br />
With and without.<br />
<br />
'''CO'''<br /><br />
Carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide.<br />
<br />
'''hemotoxicity'''<br /><br />
Poisonous blood level.<br />
<br />
==Page 70==<br />
<br />
'''Librium'''<br /><br />
Brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal.<br />
<br />
'''Dretske'''<br /><br />
Perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind.<br />
<br />
'''Mydol'''<br /><br />
A misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol].<br />
<br />
'''trepidation'''<br /><br />
Hesitancy caused by fear.<br />
<br />
'''facial affect'''<br /><br />
Emotions expressed on the face.<br />
<br />
'''Lithonate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of lithium.<br />
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'''plestor'''<br /><br />
Another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter].<br />
<br />
'''plangent'''<br /><br />
Loud and resounding.<br />
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'''carpopedal'''<br /><br />
involving both the hands and feet<br />
<br />
'''tetanic'''<br /><br />
pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually<br />
<br />
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<br />
'''circumorals'''<br /><br />
muscles around the mouth<br />
<br />
'''thigmotactic'''<br /><br />
having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus<br />
<br />
'''dentate'''<br /><br />
having teeth<br />
<br />
'''synclinal'''<br /><br />
sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /<br />
<br />
'''Sinse'''<br /><br />
short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana<br />
<br />
'''duBois'''<br /><br />
fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette<br />
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'''uremic'''<br /><br />
smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood<br />
<br />
==Endnote 30==<br />
<br />
'''boric acid'''<br /><br />
also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects<br />
<br />
==Page 77==<br />
<br />
'''the T'''<br /><br />
local transit in the Boston metro area<br />
<br />
==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."'''<br /><br />
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">78 · Medical Attaché Update #3</span><br />
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==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''0145h.'''<br /><br />
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.<br />
<br />
==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''rictus'''<br /><br />
a gaping grimace<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">79 · Schtitt & Mario</span><br />
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==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''Nick Bolletieri'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach]<br />
<br />
'''epaulets'''<br /><br />
military shoulder decorations on clothing<br />
<br />
'''a philosopher instead of a king'''<br /><br />
Although Plato stresses, in ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.<br />
<br />
'''F.R.G.'''<br /><br />
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989)<br />
<br />
'''leptosomatic'''<br /><br />
having a slender, frail build<br />
<br />
'''pedagogical'''<br /><br />
having to do with teaching<br />
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'''post-prandial'''<br /><br />
following a meal<br />
<br />
'''calliopsis'''<br /><br />
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis]<br />
<br />
'''quincunx'''<br /><br />
the arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right)[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]<br />
<br />
'''briers' yeasty musk'''<br /><br />
the yeasty smell arising from the brier patches<br />
<br />
'''bradykinetic'''<br /><br />
describing abnormally slow movement<br />
<br />
'''plosivity'''<br /><br />
referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Euclid'''<br /><br />
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."<br />
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<br />
'''tympana'''<br /><br />
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.<br />
<br />
'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST'''''<br /><br />
<br />
The euphemistic translation aside, this literaly means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.<br />
<br />
'''discursive'''<br /><br />
rambling in speech<br />
<br />
'''wonk'''<br /><br />
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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'''simpatico'''<br /><br />
in agreement<br />
<br />
'''Hopman'''<br /><br />
either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman]<br />
<br />
==Endnote 34==<br />
<br />
'''Mandelbrotian'''<br /><br />
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.<br />
<br />
'''post-Gödelian'''<br /><br />
coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher<br />
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'''van der Meer'''<br /><br />
probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics<br />
<br />
'''fractal'''<br /><br />
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''aleatory'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to accidental causes<br />
<br />
'''''Lieber Gott nein'''''<br /><br />
German: Dear God, no<br />
<br />
'''''Gymanasium'''''<br /><br />
the equivalent of a U.S. college-prepatory high school<br />
<br />
'''appetitive will'''<br /><br />
that part of the will that desires physical things<br />
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'''''palestra'''''<br /><br />
an ancient Greek school of wrestling<br />
<br />
'''experialist'''<br /><br />
like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste<br />
<br />
'''''Verstiegenheit'''''<br /><br />
literally German for "eccentricity"<br />
<br />
'''''Platz'''''<br /><br />
German: a public square<br />
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'''pirouetting'''<br /><br />
whirling on the toes<br />
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==Page 85==<br />
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==Page 85==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''D.T.'''<br /><br />
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].<br />
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'''12°C'''<br /><br />
~54°F<br />
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==Page 87==<br />
<br />
'''skallycap'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]<br />
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==Page 87==<br />
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'''Seventh Day Adventist'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"<br />
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<span class="marker">87* · Marathe & Steeply</span><br />
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==Page 87==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''payloaders'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]<br />
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'''G. Ford - early G. Bush'''<br /><br />
Roughly 1974 to 1989.<br />
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'''S.A.C.'''<br /><br />
Strategic Air Command.<br />
<br />
'''neutron'''<br /><br />
A subatomic particle with no charge.<br />
<br />
'''gamma-refractive'''<br /><br />
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.<br />
<br />
'''lithium-adonized'''<br /><br />
Made more beautiful with lithium.<br />
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'''cold annular fusion'''<br /><br />
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a taurus (donut).<br />
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'''Tableaux'''<br /><br />
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.<br />
<br />
'''homolosine-cartography'''<br /><br />
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].<br />
<br />
'''optative'''<br /><br />
Expressing a wish or choice.<br />
<br />
'''U.S.T.A.'''<br /><br />
United States Tennis Association.<br />
<br />
'''après-garde'''<br /><br />
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''<br />
<br />
==Endnote 24==<br />
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==Page 64 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''Macdonald Chair'''<br /><br />
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic.<br />
<br />
'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University'''<br /><br />
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal.<br />
<br />
'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems'''<br /><br />
These are two systems of cognition, the former is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the latter is rule-based and thus slower.<br />
<br />
'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement'''''<br /><br />
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.<br />
<br />
'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada'''<br /><br />
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.<br />
<br />
'''recondite'''<br /><br />
dealing with complex subject matter.<br />
<br />
'''mordantly'''<br /><br />
in a caustic manner.<br />
<br />
'''feck'''<br /><br />
efficacy; force; value.<br />
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'''F.C.'''<br /><br />
Perhaps "formerly Canadian."<br />
<br />
'''A.E.C.'''<br /><br />
Atomic Energy Commission.<br />
<br />
'''ARPA-NET'''<br /><br />
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.<br />
<br />
'''L'Islet County'''<br /><br />
A county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains.<br />
<br />
'''hyperfloration'''<br /><br />
Overgrowth of flowers or plants.<br />
<br />
'''festschrift'''<br /><br />
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.<br />
<br />
'''anticonfluential'''<br /><br />
against things coming together<br />
<br />
'''chiaroscuro'''<br /><br />
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting.<br />
<br />
'''annulation'''<br /><br />
The formation of rings.<br />
<br />
'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
Grown exceeding large.<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''tacks'''<br /><br />
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.<br />
<br />
'''Mile-High'''<br /><br />
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos play.<br />
<br />
'''100 meters over the 40'''<br /><br />
''I.e.'', the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.<br />
<br />
'''nongarish'''<br /><br />
Not garish, ''i.e.'', not excessively ornate.<br />
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'''zither'''<br /><br />
A harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels.<br />
<br />
'''water-drops'''<br /><br />
Being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks.<br />
<br />
'''Oiler'''<br /><br />
The former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans.<br />
<br />
'''Brown'''<br /><br />
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.<br />
<br />
==Page 66==<br />
<br />
'''organopsychedelic'''<br /><br />
An organic molecule which, when ingested, produces a psychedelic effect.<br />
<br />
'''isoxazole-alkaloid'''<br /><br />
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.<br />
<br />
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'''methoxylated'''<br /><br />
Addition of a methoxy group. Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."<br />
<br />
'''phenylkylamine'''<br /><br />
Possibly a made-up substance.<br />
<br />
'''rock and bob Hasidically'''<br /><br />
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim (and some Jews of other traditions) do when praying or studying religious texts.<br />
<br />
'''titrated'''<br /><br />
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (''e.g.'' one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD, test shot of heroin).<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
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==Endnote 26==<br />
<br />
'''enkephalin'''<br /><br />
A type of painkiller<br />
<br />
==Page 67 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''psychodysleptic'''<br /><br />
A drug that negative effects the take psychologically.<br />
<br />
'''''in medias'''''<br /><br />
Latin: in the middle of.<br />
<br />
'''oblique'''<br /><br />
Neither perpendicular nor parallel.<br />
<br />
'''deliquesce'''<br /><br />
To become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.<br />
<br />
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==Page 68==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''Watteau'''<br /><br />
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.<br />
<br />
'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States'''''<br /><br />
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.<br />
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==Page 69==<br />
<br />
'''hypocapnia'''<br /><br />
Reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation.<br />
<br />
'''emery board'''<br /><br />
A disposable nail file.<br />
<br />
'''Wellesley Hills'''<br /><br />
A section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston.<br />
<br />
'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital'''<br /><br />
A real hospital.<br />
<br />
'''Parnate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.<br />
<br />
'''dysphoria'''<br /><br />
A mental state of feeling horrible.<br />
<br />
'''diurnal'''<br /><br />
During the day. Opposite of nocturnal.<br />
<br />
'''w/w/o'''<br /><br />
With and without.<br />
<br />
'''CO'''<br /><br />
Carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide.<br />
<br />
'''hemotoxicity'''<br /><br />
Poisonous blood level.<br />
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'''Librium'''<br /><br />
Brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal.<br />
<br />
'''Dretske'''<br /><br />
Perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind.<br />
<br />
'''Mydol'''<br /><br />
A misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol].<br />
<br />
'''trepidation'''<br /><br />
Hesitancy caused by fear.<br />
<br />
'''facial affect'''<br /><br />
Emotions expressed on the face.<br />
<br />
'''Lithonate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of lithium.<br />
<br />
==Page 71==<br />
<br />
'''plestor'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter]<br />
<br />
'''plangent'''<br /><br />
loud and resounding<br />
<br />
==Page 72==<br />
<br />
==Page 73==<br />
<br />
'''carpopedal'''<br /><br />
involving both the hands and feet<br />
<br />
'''tetanic'''<br /><br />
pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually<br />
<br />
==Page 74==<br />
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==Page 75==<br />
<br />
'''circumorals'''<br /><br />
muscles around the mouth<br />
<br />
'''thigmotactic'''<br /><br />
having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus<br />
<br />
'''dentate'''<br /><br />
having teeth<br />
<br />
'''synclinal'''<br /><br />
sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /<br />
<br />
'''Sinse'''<br /><br />
short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana<br />
<br />
'''duBois'''<br /><br />
fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette<br />
<br />
==Page 76==<br />
<br />
'''uremic'''<br /><br />
smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood<br />
<br />
==Endnote 30==<br />
<br />
'''boric acid'''<br /><br />
also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects<br />
<br />
==Page 77==<br />
<br />
'''the T'''<br /><br />
local transit in the Boston metro area<br />
<br />
==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."'''<br /><br />
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">78 · Medical Attaché Update #3</span><br />
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==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''0145h.'''<br /><br />
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.<br />
<br />
==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''rictus'''<br /><br />
a gaping grimace<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">79 · Schtitt & Mario</span><br />
<br />
==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''Nick Bolletieri'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach]<br />
<br />
'''epaulets'''<br /><br />
military shoulder decorations on clothing<br />
<br />
'''a philosopher instead of a king'''<br /><br />
Although Plato stresses, in ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.<br />
<br />
'''F.R.G.'''<br /><br />
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989)<br />
<br />
'''leptosomatic'''<br /><br />
having a slender, frail build<br />
<br />
'''pedagogical'''<br /><br />
having to do with teaching<br />
<br />
==Page 80==<br />
<br />
'''post-prandial'''<br /><br />
following a meal<br />
<br />
'''calliopsis'''<br /><br />
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis]<br />
<br />
'''quincunx'''<br /><br />
the arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right)[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]<br />
<br />
'''briers' yeasty musk'''<br /><br />
the yeasty smell arising from the brier patches<br />
<br />
'''bradykinetic'''<br /><br />
describing abnormally slow movement<br />
<br />
'''plosivity'''<br /><br />
referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Euclid'''<br /><br />
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."<br />
<br />
==Page 81==<br />
<br />
'''tympana'''<br /><br />
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.<br />
<br />
'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST'''''<br /><br />
<br />
The euphemistic translation aside, this literaly means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.<br />
<br />
'''discursive'''<br /><br />
rambling in speech<br />
<br />
'''wonk'''<br /><br />
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
==Page 82==<br />
<br />
'''simpatico'''<br /><br />
in agreement<br />
<br />
'''Hopman'''<br /><br />
either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman]<br />
<br />
==Endnote 34==<br />
<br />
'''Mandelbrotian'''<br /><br />
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.<br />
<br />
'''post-Gödelian'''<br /><br />
coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher<br />
<br />
==Page 82 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''van der Meer'''<br /><br />
probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics<br />
<br />
'''fractal'''<br /><br />
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''aleatory'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to accidental causes<br />
<br />
'''''Lieber Gott nein'''''<br /><br />
German: Dear God, no<br />
<br />
'''''Gymanasium'''''<br /><br />
the equivalent of a U.S. college-prepatory high school<br />
<br />
'''appetitive will'''<br /><br />
that part of the will that desires physical things<br />
<br />
==Page 83==<br />
<br />
'''''palestra'''''<br /><br />
an ancient Greek school of wrestling<br />
<br />
'''experialist'''<br /><br />
like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste<br />
<br />
'''''Verstiegenheit'''''<br /><br />
literally German for "eccentricity"<br />
<br />
'''''Platz'''''<br /><br />
German: a public square<br />
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'''pirouetting'''<br /><br />
whirling on the toes<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''D.T.'''<br /><br />
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].<br />
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'''12°C'''<br /><br />
~54°F<br />
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<br />
'''skallycap'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]<br />
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'''Seventh Day Adventist'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''payloaders'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]<br />
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'''G. Ford - early G. Bush'''<br /><br />
Roughly 1974 to 1989.<br />
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'''S.A.C.'''<br /><br />
Strategic Air Command.<br />
<br />
'''neutron'''<br /><br />
A subatomic particle with no charge.<br />
<br />
'''gamma-refractive'''<br /><br />
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.<br />
<br />
'''lithium-adonized'''<br /><br />
Made more beautiful with lithium.<br />
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'''cold annular fusion'''<br /><br />
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a taurus (donut).<br />
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'''Tableaux'''<br /><br />
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.<br />
<br />
'''homolosine-cartography'''<br /><br />
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].<br />
<br />
'''optative'''<br /><br />
Expressing a wish or choice.<br />
<br />
'''U.S.T.A.'''<br /><br />
United States Tennis Association.<br />
<br />
'''après-garde'''<br /><br />
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''<br />
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==Endnote 24==<br />
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'''Macdonald Chair'''<br /><br />
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic.<br />
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'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University'''<br /><br />
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal.<br />
<br />
'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems'''<br /><br />
These are two systems of cognition, the former is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the latter is rule-based and thus slower.<br />
<br />
'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement'''''<br /><br />
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.<br />
<br />
'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada'''<br /><br />
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.<br />
<br />
'''recondite'''<br /><br />
dealing with complex subject matter.<br />
<br />
'''mordantly'''<br /><br />
in a caustic manner.<br />
<br />
'''feck'''<br /><br />
efficacy; force; value.<br />
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'''F.C.'''<br /><br />
Perhaps "formerly Canadian."<br />
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'''A.E.C.'''<br /><br />
Atomic Energy Commission.<br />
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'''ARPA-NET'''<br /><br />
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.<br />
<br />
'''L'Islet County'''<br /><br />
A county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains.<br />
<br />
'''hyperfloration'''<br /><br />
Overgrowth of flowers or plants.<br />
<br />
'''festschrift'''<br /><br />
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.<br />
<br />
'''anticonfluential'''<br /><br />
against things coming together<br />
<br />
'''chiaroscuro'''<br /><br />
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting.<br />
<br />
'''annulation'''<br /><br />
The formation of rings.<br />
<br />
'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
Grown exceeding large.<br />
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'''tacks'''<br /><br />
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.<br />
<br />
'''Mile-High'''<br /><br />
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos play.<br />
<br />
'''100 meters over the 40'''<br /><br />
''I.e.'', the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.<br />
<br />
'''nongarish'''<br /><br />
Not garish, ''i.e.'', not excessively ornate.<br />
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'''zither'''<br /><br />
A harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels.<br />
<br />
'''water-drops'''<br /><br />
Being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks.<br />
<br />
'''Oiler'''<br /><br />
The former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans.<br />
<br />
'''Brown'''<br /><br />
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.<br />
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'''organopsychedelic'''<br /><br />
An organic molecule which, when ingested, produces a psychedelic effect.<br />
<br />
'''isoxazole-alkaloid'''<br /><br />
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.<br />
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'''methoxylated'''<br /><br />
Addition of a methoxy group. Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."<br />
<br />
'''phenylkylamine'''<br /><br />
Possibly a made-up substance.<br />
<br />
'''rock and bob Hasidically'''<br /><br />
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim (and some Jews of other traditions) do when praying or studying religious texts.<br />
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'''titrated'''<br /><br />
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (''e.g.'' one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD, test shot of heroin).<br />
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==Endnote 26==<br />
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'''enkephalin'''<br /><br />
A type of painkiller<br />
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'''psychodysleptic'''<br /><br />
A drug that negative effects the take psychologically.<br />
<br />
'''''in medias'''''<br /><br />
Latin: in the middle of.<br />
<br />
'''oblique'''<br /><br />
Neither perpendicular nor parallel.<br />
<br />
'''deliquesce'''<br /><br />
To become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.<br />
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'''Watteau'''<br /><br />
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.<br />
<br />
'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States'''''<br /><br />
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.<br />
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'''hypocapnia'''<br /><br />
Reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation.<br />
<br />
'''emery board'''<br /><br />
A disposable nail file.<br />
<br />
'''Wellesley Hills'''<br /><br />
A section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston.<br />
<br />
'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital'''<br /><br />
A real hospital.<br />
<br />
'''Parnate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.<br />
<br />
'''dysphoria'''<br /><br />
A mental state of feeling horrible.<br />
<br />
'''diurnal'''<br /><br />
During the day. Opposite of nocturnal.<br />
<br />
'''w/w/o'''<br /><br />
With and without.<br />
<br />
'''CO'''<br /><br />
Carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide.<br />
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'''hemotoxicity'''<br /><br />
Poisonous blood level.<br />
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'''Librium'''<br /><br />
brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal<br />
<br />
'''Dretske'''<br /><br />
perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind<br />
<br />
'''Mydol'''<br /><br />
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol]<br />
<br />
'''trepidation'''<br /><br />
hesitancy caused by fear<br />
<br />
'''facial affect'''<br /><br />
emotions expressed on the face<br />
<br />
'''Lithonate'''<br /><br />
a brand name of lithium<br />
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'''plestor'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter]<br />
<br />
'''plangent'''<br /><br />
loud and resounding<br />
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'''carpopedal'''<br /><br />
involving both the hands and feet<br />
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'''tetanic'''<br /><br />
pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually<br />
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'''circumorals'''<br /><br />
muscles around the mouth<br />
<br />
'''thigmotactic'''<br /><br />
having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus<br />
<br />
'''dentate'''<br /><br />
having teeth<br />
<br />
'''synclinal'''<br /><br />
sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /<br />
<br />
'''Sinse'''<br /><br />
short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana<br />
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'''duBois'''<br /><br />
fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette<br />
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'''uremic'''<br /><br />
smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood<br />
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==Endnote 30==<br />
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'''boric acid'''<br /><br />
also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects<br />
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'''the T'''<br /><br />
local transit in the Boston metro area<br />
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'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."'''<br /><br />
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].<br />
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'''0145h.'''<br /><br />
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.<br />
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'''rictus'''<br /><br />
a gaping grimace<br />
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'''Nick Bolletieri'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach]<br />
<br />
'''epaulets'''<br /><br />
military shoulder decorations on clothing<br />
<br />
'''a philosopher instead of a king'''<br /><br />
Although Plato stresses, in ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.<br />
<br />
'''F.R.G.'''<br /><br />
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989)<br />
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'''leptosomatic'''<br /><br />
having a slender, frail build<br />
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'''pedagogical'''<br /><br />
having to do with teaching<br />
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'''post-prandial'''<br /><br />
following a meal<br />
<br />
'''calliopsis'''<br /><br />
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis]<br />
<br />
'''quincunx'''<br /><br />
the arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right)[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]<br />
<br />
'''briers' yeasty musk'''<br /><br />
the yeasty smell arising from the brier patches<br />
<br />
'''bradykinetic'''<br /><br />
describing abnormally slow movement<br />
<br />
'''plosivity'''<br /><br />
referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Euclid'''<br /><br />
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."<br />
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'''tympana'''<br /><br />
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.<br />
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'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST'''''<br /><br />
<br />
The euphemistic translation aside, this literaly means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.<br />
<br />
'''discursive'''<br /><br />
rambling in speech<br />
<br />
'''wonk'''<br /><br />
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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'''simpatico'''<br /><br />
in agreement<br />
<br />
'''Hopman'''<br /><br />
either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman]<br />
<br />
==Endnote 34==<br />
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'''Mandelbrotian'''<br /><br />
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.<br />
<br />
'''post-Gödelian'''<br /><br />
coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher<br />
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'''van der Meer'''<br /><br />
probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics<br />
<br />
'''fractal'''<br /><br />
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''aleatory'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to accidental causes<br />
<br />
'''''Lieber Gott nein'''''<br /><br />
German: Dear God, no<br />
<br />
'''''Gymanasium'''''<br /><br />
the equivalent of a U.S. college-prepatory high school<br />
<br />
'''appetitive will'''<br /><br />
that part of the will that desires physical things<br />
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'''''palestra'''''<br /><br />
an ancient Greek school of wrestling<br />
<br />
'''experialist'''<br /><br />
like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste<br />
<br />
'''''Verstiegenheit'''''<br /><br />
literally German for "eccentricity"<br />
<br />
'''''Platz'''''<br /><br />
German: a public square<br />
<br />
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'''pirouetting'''<br /><br />
whirling on the toes<br />
<br />
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'''D.T.'''<br /><br />
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].<br />
<br />
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'''12°C'''<br /><br />
~54°F<br />
<br />
==Page 87==<br />
<br />
'''skallycap'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]<br />
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'''Seventh Day Adventist'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''payloaders'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]<br />
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'''G. Ford - early G. Bush'''<br /><br />
Roughly 1974 to 1989.<br />
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'''S.A.C.'''<br /><br />
Strategic Air Command.<br />
<br />
'''neutron'''<br /><br />
A subatomic particle with no charge.<br />
<br />
'''gamma-refractive'''<br /><br />
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.<br />
<br />
'''lithium-adonized'''<br /><br />
Made more beautiful with lithium.<br />
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'''cold annular fusion'''<br /><br />
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a taurus (donut).<br />
<br />
'''Tableaux'''<br /><br />
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.<br />
<br />
'''homolosine-cartography'''<br /><br />
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].<br />
<br />
'''optative'''<br /><br />
Expressing a wish or choice.<br />
<br />
'''U.S.T.A.'''<br /><br />
United States Tennis Association.<br />
<br />
'''après-garde'''<br /><br />
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''<br />
<br />
==Endnote 24==<br />
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==Page 64 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''Macdonald Chair'''<br /><br />
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic.<br />
<br />
'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University'''<br /><br />
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal.<br />
<br />
'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems'''<br /><br />
These are two systems of cognition, the former is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the latter is rule-based and thus slower.<br />
<br />
'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement'''''<br /><br />
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.<br />
<br />
'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada'''<br /><br />
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.<br />
<br />
'''recondite'''<br /><br />
dealing with complex subject matter.<br />
<br />
'''mordantly'''<br /><br />
in a caustic manner.<br />
<br />
'''feck'''<br /><br />
efficacy; force; value.<br />
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'''F.C.'''<br /><br />
Perhaps "formerly Canadian."<br />
<br />
'''A.E.C.'''<br /><br />
Atomic Energy Commission.<br />
<br />
'''ARPA-NET'''<br /><br />
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.<br />
<br />
'''L'Islet County'''<br /><br />
A county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains.<br />
<br />
'''hyperfloration'''<br /><br />
Overgrowth of flowers or plants.<br />
<br />
'''festschrift'''<br /><br />
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.<br />
<br />
'''anticonfluential'''<br /><br />
against things coming together<br />
<br />
'''chiaroscuro'''<br /><br />
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting.<br />
<br />
'''annulation'''<br /><br />
The formation of rings.<br />
<br />
'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
Grown exceeding large.<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''tacks'''<br /><br />
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.<br />
<br />
'''Mile-High'''<br /><br />
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos play.<br />
<br />
'''100 meters over the 40'''<br /><br />
''I.e.'', the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.<br />
<br />
'''nongarish'''<br /><br />
Not garish, ''i.e.'', not excessively ornate.<br />
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'''zither'''<br /><br />
A harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels.<br />
<br />
'''water-drops'''<br /><br />
Being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks.<br />
<br />
'''Oiler'''<br /><br />
The former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans.<br />
<br />
'''Brown'''<br /><br />
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.<br />
<br />
==Page 66==<br />
<br />
'''organopsychedelic'''<br /><br />
An organic molecule which, when ingested, produces a psychedelic effect.<br />
<br />
'''isoxazole-alkaloid'''<br /><br />
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
<br />
'''methoxylated'''<br /><br />
Addition of a methoxy group. Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."<br />
<br />
'''phenylkylamine'''<br /><br />
Possibly a made-up substance.<br />
<br />
'''rock and bob Hasidically'''<br /><br />
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim (and some Jews of other traditions) do when praying or studying religious texts.<br />
<br />
'''titrated'''<br /><br />
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (''e.g.'' one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD, test shot of heroin).<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
<br />
==Endnote 26==<br />
<br />
'''enkephalin'''<br /><br />
A type of painkiller<br />
<br />
==Page 67 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''psychodysleptic'''<br /><br />
A drug that negative effects the take psychologically.<br />
<br />
'''''in medias'''''<br /><br />
Latin: in the middle of.<br />
<br />
'''oblique'''<br /><br />
Neither perpendicular nor parallel.<br />
<br />
'''deliquesce'''<br /><br />
To become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">68* · Kate Gompert in the Psych Ward</span><br />
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==Page 68==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''Watteau'''<br /><br />
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.<br />
<br />
'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States'''''<br /><br />
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.<br />
<br />
==Page 69==<br />
<br />
'''hypocapnia'''<br /><br />
reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation<br />
<br />
'''emery board'''<br /><br />
a disposable nail file<br />
<br />
'''Wellesley Hills'''<br /><br />
a section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston<br />
<br />
'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital'''<br /><br />
a real hospital<br />
<br />
'''Parnate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAO) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.<br />
<br />
'''dysphoria'''<br /><br />
feeling badly<br />
<br />
'''diurnal'''<br /><br />
during the day<br />
<br />
'''w/w/o'''<br /><br />
with and without<br />
<br />
'''CO'''<br /><br />
carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide<br />
<br />
'''hemotoxicity'''<br /><br />
poisonous blood level<br />
<br />
==Page 70==<br />
<br />
'''Librium'''<br /><br />
brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal<br />
<br />
'''Dretske'''<br /><br />
perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind<br />
<br />
'''Mydol'''<br /><br />
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol]<br />
<br />
'''trepidation'''<br /><br />
hesitancy caused by fear<br />
<br />
'''facial affect'''<br /><br />
emotions expressed on the face<br />
<br />
'''Lithonate'''<br /><br />
a brand name of lithium<br />
<br />
==Page 71==<br />
<br />
'''plestor'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter]<br />
<br />
'''plangent'''<br /><br />
loud and resounding<br />
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==Page 73==<br />
<br />
'''carpopedal'''<br /><br />
involving both the hands and feet<br />
<br />
'''tetanic'''<br /><br />
pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually<br />
<br />
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==Page 75==<br />
<br />
'''circumorals'''<br /><br />
muscles around the mouth<br />
<br />
'''thigmotactic'''<br /><br />
having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus<br />
<br />
'''dentate'''<br /><br />
having teeth<br />
<br />
'''synclinal'''<br /><br />
sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /<br />
<br />
'''Sinse'''<br /><br />
short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana<br />
<br />
'''duBois'''<br /><br />
fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette<br />
<br />
==Page 76==<br />
<br />
'''uremic'''<br /><br />
smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood<br />
<br />
==Endnote 30==<br />
<br />
'''boric acid'''<br /><br />
also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects<br />
<br />
==Page 77==<br />
<br />
'''the T'''<br /><br />
local transit in the Boston metro area<br />
<br />
==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."'''<br /><br />
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].<br />
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<span class="marker">78 · Medical Attaché Update #3</span><br />
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==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''0145h.'''<br /><br />
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.<br />
<br />
==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''rictus'''<br /><br />
a gaping grimace<br />
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<span class="marker">79 · Schtitt & Mario</span><br />
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==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''Nick Bolletieri'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach]<br />
<br />
'''epaulets'''<br /><br />
military shoulder decorations on clothing<br />
<br />
'''a philosopher instead of a king'''<br /><br />
Although Plato stresses, in ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.<br />
<br />
'''F.R.G.'''<br /><br />
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989)<br />
<br />
'''leptosomatic'''<br /><br />
having a slender, frail build<br />
<br />
'''pedagogical'''<br /><br />
having to do with teaching<br />
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'''post-prandial'''<br /><br />
following a meal<br />
<br />
'''calliopsis'''<br /><br />
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis]<br />
<br />
'''quincunx'''<br /><br />
the arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right)[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]<br />
<br />
'''briers' yeasty musk'''<br /><br />
the yeasty smell arising from the brier patches<br />
<br />
'''bradykinetic'''<br /><br />
describing abnormally slow movement<br />
<br />
'''plosivity'''<br /><br />
referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Euclid'''<br /><br />
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."<br />
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==Page 81==<br />
<br />
'''tympana'''<br /><br />
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.<br />
<br />
'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST'''''<br /><br />
<br />
The euphemistic translation aside, this literaly means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.<br />
<br />
'''discursive'''<br /><br />
rambling in speech<br />
<br />
'''wonk'''<br /><br />
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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'''simpatico'''<br /><br />
in agreement<br />
<br />
'''Hopman'''<br /><br />
either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman]<br />
<br />
==Endnote 34==<br />
<br />
'''Mandelbrotian'''<br /><br />
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.<br />
<br />
'''post-Gödelian'''<br /><br />
coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher<br />
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==Page 82 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''van der Meer'''<br /><br />
probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics<br />
<br />
'''fractal'''<br /><br />
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''aleatory'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to accidental causes<br />
<br />
'''''Lieber Gott nein'''''<br /><br />
German: Dear God, no<br />
<br />
'''''Gymanasium'''''<br /><br />
the equivalent of a U.S. college-prepatory high school<br />
<br />
'''appetitive will'''<br /><br />
that part of the will that desires physical things<br />
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'''''palestra'''''<br /><br />
an ancient Greek school of wrestling<br />
<br />
'''experialist'''<br /><br />
like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste<br />
<br />
'''''Verstiegenheit'''''<br /><br />
literally German for "eccentricity"<br />
<br />
'''''Platz'''''<br /><br />
German: a public square<br />
<br />
==Page 84==<br />
<br />
'''pirouetting'''<br /><br />
whirling on the toes<br />
<br />
==Page 85==<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">85 · Tiny Ewell in Detox</span><br />
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==Page 85==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''D.T.'''<br /><br />
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].<br />
<br />
==Page 86==<br />
<br />
'''12°C'''<br /><br />
~54°F<br />
<br />
==Page 87==<br />
<br />
'''skallycap'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]<br />
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==Page 87==<br />
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'''Seventh Day Adventist'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">87* · Marathe & Steeply</span><br />
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==Page 87==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''payloaders'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]<br />
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==Page 63 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''G. Ford - early G. Bush'''<br /><br />
Roughly 1974 to 1989.<br />
<br />
'''S.A.C.'''<br /><br />
Strategic Air Command.<br />
<br />
'''neutron'''<br /><br />
A subatomic particle with no charge.<br />
<br />
'''gamma-refractive'''<br /><br />
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.<br />
<br />
'''lithium-adonized'''<br /><br />
Made more beautiful with lithium.<br />
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==Page 64==<br />
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'''cold annular fusion'''<br /><br />
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a taurus (donut).<br />
<br />
'''Tableaux'''<br /><br />
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.<br />
<br />
'''homolosine-cartography'''<br /><br />
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].<br />
<br />
'''optative'''<br /><br />
Expressing a wish or choice.<br />
<br />
'''U.S.T.A.'''<br /><br />
United States Tennis Association.<br />
<br />
'''après-garde'''<br /><br />
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''<br />
<br />
==Endnote 24==<br />
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==Page 64 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''Macdonald Chair'''<br /><br />
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic.<br />
<br />
'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University'''<br /><br />
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal.<br />
<br />
'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems'''<br /><br />
These are two systems of cognition, the former is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the latter is rule-based and thus slower.<br />
<br />
'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement'''''<br /><br />
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.<br />
<br />
'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada'''<br /><br />
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.<br />
<br />
'''recondite'''<br /><br />
dealing with complex subject matter.<br />
<br />
'''mordantly'''<br /><br />
in a caustic manner.<br />
<br />
'''feck'''<br /><br />
efficacy; force; value.<br />
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==Page 65==<br />
<br />
'''F.C.'''<br /><br />
Perhaps "formerly Canadian."<br />
<br />
'''A.E.C.'''<br /><br />
Atomic Energy Commission.<br />
<br />
'''ARPA-NET'''<br /><br />
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.<br />
<br />
'''L'Islet County'''<br /><br />
A county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains.<br />
<br />
'''hyperfloration'''<br /><br />
Overgrowth of flowers or plants.<br />
<br />
'''festschrift'''<br /><br />
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.<br />
<br />
'''anticonfluential'''<br /><br />
against things coming together<br />
<br />
'''chiaroscuro'''<br /><br />
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting.<br />
<br />
'''annulation'''<br /><br />
The formation of rings.<br />
<br />
'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
Grown exceeding large.<br />
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==Page 65==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''tacks'''<br /><br />
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.<br />
<br />
'''Mile-High'''<br /><br />
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos play.<br />
<br />
'''100 meters over the 40'''<br /><br />
''I.e.'', the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.<br />
<br />
'''nongarish'''<br /><br />
Not garish, ''i.e.'', not excessively ornate.<br />
<br />
==Page 66==<br />
<br />
'''zither'''<br /><br />
A harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels.<br />
<br />
'''water-drops'''<br /><br />
Being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks.<br />
<br />
'''Oiler'''<br /><br />
The former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans.<br />
<br />
'''Brown'''<br /><br />
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.<br />
<br />
==Page 66==<br />
<br />
'''organopsychedelic'''<br /><br />
An organic molecule which, when ingested, produces a psychedelic effect.<br />
<br />
'''isoxazole-alkaloid'''<br /><br />
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
<br />
'''methoxylated'''<br /><br />
Addition of a methoxy group. Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."<br />
<br />
'''phenylkylamine'''<br /><br />
Possibly a made-up substance.<br />
<br />
'''rock and bob Hasidically'''<br /><br />
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim (and some Jews of other traditions) do when praying or studying religious texts.<br />
<br />
'''titrated'''<br /><br />
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (''e.g.'' one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD, test shot of heroin).<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
<br />
==Endnote 26==<br />
<br />
'''enkephalin'''<br /><br />
A type of painkiller<br />
<br />
==Page 67 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''psychodysleptic'''<br /><br />
a drug that negative effects the take psychologically<br />
<br />
'''''in medias'''''<br /><br />
Latin: in the middle of<br />
<br />
'''oblique'''<br /><br />
neither perpendicular nor parallel<br />
<br />
'''deliquesce'''<br /><br />
to become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">68* · Kate Gompert in the Psych Ward</span><br />
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==Page 68==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''Watteau'''<br /><br />
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.<br />
<br />
'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States'''''<br /><br />
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.<br />
<br />
==Page 69==<br />
<br />
'''hypocapnia'''<br /><br />
reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation<br />
<br />
'''emery board'''<br /><br />
a disposable nail file<br />
<br />
'''Wellesley Hills'''<br /><br />
a section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston<br />
<br />
'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital'''<br /><br />
a real hospital<br />
<br />
'''Parnate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAO) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.<br />
<br />
'''dysphoria'''<br /><br />
feeling badly<br />
<br />
'''diurnal'''<br /><br />
during the day<br />
<br />
'''w/w/o'''<br /><br />
with and without<br />
<br />
'''CO'''<br /><br />
carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide<br />
<br />
'''hemotoxicity'''<br /><br />
poisonous blood level<br />
<br />
==Page 70==<br />
<br />
'''Librium'''<br /><br />
brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal<br />
<br />
'''Dretske'''<br /><br />
perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind<br />
<br />
'''Mydol'''<br /><br />
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol]<br />
<br />
'''trepidation'''<br /><br />
hesitancy caused by fear<br />
<br />
'''facial affect'''<br /><br />
emotions expressed on the face<br />
<br />
'''Lithonate'''<br /><br />
a brand name of lithium<br />
<br />
==Page 71==<br />
<br />
'''plestor'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter]<br />
<br />
'''plangent'''<br /><br />
loud and resounding<br />
<br />
==Page 72==<br />
<br />
==Page 73==<br />
<br />
'''carpopedal'''<br /><br />
involving both the hands and feet<br />
<br />
'''tetanic'''<br /><br />
pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually<br />
<br />
==Page 74==<br />
<br />
==Page 75==<br />
<br />
'''circumorals'''<br /><br />
muscles around the mouth<br />
<br />
'''thigmotactic'''<br /><br />
having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus<br />
<br />
'''dentate'''<br /><br />
having teeth<br />
<br />
'''synclinal'''<br /><br />
sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /<br />
<br />
'''Sinse'''<br /><br />
short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana<br />
<br />
'''duBois'''<br /><br />
fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette<br />
<br />
==Page 76==<br />
<br />
'''uremic'''<br /><br />
smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood<br />
<br />
==Endnote 30==<br />
<br />
'''boric acid'''<br /><br />
also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects<br />
<br />
==Page 77==<br />
<br />
'''the T'''<br /><br />
local transit in the Boston metro area<br />
<br />
==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."'''<br /><br />
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">78 · Medical Attaché Update #3</span><br />
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==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''0145h.'''<br /><br />
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.<br />
<br />
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'''rictus'''<br /><br />
a gaping grimace<br />
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'''Nick Bolletieri'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach]<br />
<br />
'''epaulets'''<br /><br />
military shoulder decorations on clothing<br />
<br />
'''a philosopher instead of a king'''<br /><br />
Although Plato stresses, in ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.<br />
<br />
'''F.R.G.'''<br /><br />
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989)<br />
<br />
'''leptosomatic'''<br /><br />
having a slender, frail build<br />
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'''pedagogical'''<br /><br />
having to do with teaching<br />
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'''post-prandial'''<br /><br />
following a meal<br />
<br />
'''calliopsis'''<br /><br />
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis]<br />
<br />
'''quincunx'''<br /><br />
the arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right)[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]<br />
<br />
'''briers' yeasty musk'''<br /><br />
the yeasty smell arising from the brier patches<br />
<br />
'''bradykinetic'''<br /><br />
describing abnormally slow movement<br />
<br />
'''plosivity'''<br /><br />
referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Euclid'''<br /><br />
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."<br />
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'''tympana'''<br /><br />
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.<br />
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'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST'''''<br /><br />
<br />
The euphemistic translation aside, this literaly means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.<br />
<br />
'''discursive'''<br /><br />
rambling in speech<br />
<br />
'''wonk'''<br /><br />
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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'''simpatico'''<br /><br />
in agreement<br />
<br />
'''Hopman'''<br /><br />
either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman]<br />
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==Endnote 34==<br />
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'''Mandelbrotian'''<br /><br />
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.<br />
<br />
'''post-Gödelian'''<br /><br />
coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher<br />
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'''van der Meer'''<br /><br />
probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics<br />
<br />
'''fractal'''<br /><br />
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''aleatory'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to accidental causes<br />
<br />
'''''Lieber Gott nein'''''<br /><br />
German: Dear God, no<br />
<br />
'''''Gymanasium'''''<br /><br />
the equivalent of a U.S. college-prepatory high school<br />
<br />
'''appetitive will'''<br /><br />
that part of the will that desires physical things<br />
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'''''palestra'''''<br /><br />
an ancient Greek school of wrestling<br />
<br />
'''experialist'''<br /><br />
like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste<br />
<br />
'''''Verstiegenheit'''''<br /><br />
literally German for "eccentricity"<br />
<br />
'''''Platz'''''<br /><br />
German: a public square<br />
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'''pirouetting'''<br /><br />
whirling on the toes<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''D.T.'''<br /><br />
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].<br />
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'''12°C'''<br /><br />
~54°F<br />
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<br />
'''skallycap'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]<br />
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'''Seventh Day Adventist'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''payloaders'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]<br />
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'''G. Ford - early G. Bush'''<br /><br />
Roughly 1974 to 1989.<br />
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'''S.A.C.'''<br /><br />
Strategic Air Command.<br />
<br />
'''neutron'''<br /><br />
A subatomic particle with no charge.<br />
<br />
'''gamma-refractive'''<br /><br />
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.<br />
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'''lithium-adonized'''<br /><br />
Made more beautiful with lithium.<br />
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'''cold annular fusion'''<br /><br />
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a taurus (donut).<br />
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'''Tableaux'''<br /><br />
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.<br />
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'''homolosine-cartography'''<br /><br />
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].<br />
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'''optative'''<br /><br />
Expressing a wish or choice.<br />
<br />
'''U.S.T.A.'''<br /><br />
United States Tennis Association.<br />
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'''après-garde'''<br /><br />
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''<br />
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==Endnote 24==<br />
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'''Macdonald Chair'''<br /><br />
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic.<br />
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'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University'''<br /><br />
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal.<br />
<br />
'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems'''<br /><br />
These are two systems of cognition, the former is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the latter is rule-based and thus slower.<br />
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'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement'''''<br /><br />
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.<br />
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'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada'''<br /><br />
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.<br />
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'''recondite'''<br /><br />
dealing with complex subject matter.<br />
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'''mordantly'''<br /><br />
in a caustic manner.<br />
<br />
'''feck'''<br /><br />
efficacy; force; value.<br />
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'''F.C.'''<br /><br />
Perhaps "formerly Canadian."<br />
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'''A.E.C.'''<br /><br />
Atomic Energy Commission.<br />
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'''ARPA-NET'''<br /><br />
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.<br />
<br />
'''L'Islet County'''<br /><br />
A county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains.<br />
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'''hyperfloration'''<br /><br />
Overgrowth of flowers or plants.<br />
<br />
'''festschrift'''<br /><br />
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.<br />
<br />
'''anticonfluential'''<br /><br />
against things coming together<br />
<br />
'''chiaroscuro'''<br /><br />
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting.<br />
<br />
'''annulation'''<br /><br />
The formation of rings.<br />
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'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
Grown exceeding large.<br />
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'''tacks'''<br /><br />
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.<br />
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'''Mile-High'''<br /><br />
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos play.<br />
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'''100 meters over the 40'''<br /><br />
''I.e.'', the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.<br />
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'''nongarish'''<br /><br />
Not garish, ''i.e.'', not excessively ornate.<br />
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'''zither'''<br /><br />
A harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels.<br />
<br />
'''water-drops'''<br /><br />
Being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks.<br />
<br />
'''Oiler'''<br /><br />
The former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans.<br />
<br />
'''Brown'''<br /><br />
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.<br />
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'''organopsychedelic'''<br /><br />
An organic molecule which, when ingested, produces a psychedelic effect.<br />
<br />
'''isoxazole-alkaloid'''<br /><br />
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.<br />
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'''methoxylated'''<br /><br />
Addition of a methoxy group. Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."<br />
<br />
'''phenylkylamine'''<br /><br />
Possibly a made-up substance.<br />
<br />
'''rock and bob Hasidically'''<br /><br />
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim (and some Jews of other traditions) do when praying or studying religious texts.<br />
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'''titrated'''<br /><br />
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (''e.g.'' one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD, test shot of heroin).<br />
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==Endnote 26==<br />
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'''enkephalin'''<br /><br />
a type of painkiller<br />
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'''psychodysleptic'''<br /><br />
a drug that negative effects the take psychologically<br />
<br />
'''''in medias'''''<br /><br />
Latin: in the middle of<br />
<br />
'''oblique'''<br /><br />
neither perpendicular nor parallel<br />
<br />
'''deliquesce'''<br /><br />
to become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air<br />
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'''Watteau'''<br /><br />
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.<br />
<br />
'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States'''''<br /><br />
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.<br />
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'''hypocapnia'''<br /><br />
reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation<br />
<br />
'''emery board'''<br /><br />
a disposable nail file<br />
<br />
'''Wellesley Hills'''<br /><br />
a section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston<br />
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'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital'''<br /><br />
a real hospital<br />
<br />
'''Parnate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAO) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.<br />
<br />
'''dysphoria'''<br /><br />
feeling badly<br />
<br />
'''diurnal'''<br /><br />
during the day<br />
<br />
'''w/w/o'''<br /><br />
with and without<br />
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'''CO'''<br /><br />
carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide<br />
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'''hemotoxicity'''<br /><br />
poisonous blood level<br />
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'''Librium'''<br /><br />
brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal<br />
<br />
'''Dretske'''<br /><br />
perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind<br />
<br />
'''Mydol'''<br /><br />
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol]<br />
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'''trepidation'''<br /><br />
hesitancy caused by fear<br />
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'''facial affect'''<br /><br />
emotions expressed on the face<br />
<br />
'''Lithonate'''<br /><br />
a brand name of lithium<br />
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'''plestor'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter]<br />
<br />
'''plangent'''<br /><br />
loud and resounding<br />
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'''carpopedal'''<br /><br />
involving both the hands and feet<br />
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'''tetanic'''<br /><br />
pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually<br />
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'''circumorals'''<br /><br />
muscles around the mouth<br />
<br />
'''thigmotactic'''<br /><br />
having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus<br />
<br />
'''dentate'''<br /><br />
having teeth<br />
<br />
'''synclinal'''<br /><br />
sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /<br />
<br />
'''Sinse'''<br /><br />
short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana<br />
<br />
'''duBois'''<br /><br />
fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette<br />
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'''uremic'''<br /><br />
smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood<br />
<br />
==Endnote 30==<br />
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'''boric acid'''<br /><br />
also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects<br />
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'''the T'''<br /><br />
local transit in the Boston metro area<br />
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'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."'''<br /><br />
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].<br />
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==Page 78==<br />
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'''0145h.'''<br /><br />
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.<br />
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==Page 79==<br />
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'''rictus'''<br /><br />
a gaping grimace<br />
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'''Nick Bolletieri'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach]<br />
<br />
'''epaulets'''<br /><br />
military shoulder decorations on clothing<br />
<br />
'''a philosopher instead of a king'''<br /><br />
Although Plato stresses, in ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.<br />
<br />
'''F.R.G.'''<br /><br />
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989)<br />
<br />
'''leptosomatic'''<br /><br />
having a slender, frail build<br />
<br />
'''pedagogical'''<br /><br />
having to do with teaching<br />
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'''post-prandial'''<br /><br />
following a meal<br />
<br />
'''calliopsis'''<br /><br />
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis]<br />
<br />
'''quincunx'''<br /><br />
the arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right)[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]<br />
<br />
'''briers' yeasty musk'''<br /><br />
the yeasty smell arising from the brier patches<br />
<br />
'''bradykinetic'''<br /><br />
describing abnormally slow movement<br />
<br />
'''plosivity'''<br /><br />
referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Euclid'''<br /><br />
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."<br />
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'''tympana'''<br /><br />
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.<br />
<br />
'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST'''''<br /><br />
<br />
The euphemistic translation aside, this literaly means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.<br />
<br />
'''discursive'''<br /><br />
rambling in speech<br />
<br />
'''wonk'''<br /><br />
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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'''simpatico'''<br /><br />
in agreement<br />
<br />
'''Hopman'''<br /><br />
either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman]<br />
<br />
==Endnote 34==<br />
<br />
'''Mandelbrotian'''<br /><br />
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.<br />
<br />
'''post-Gödelian'''<br /><br />
coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher<br />
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'''van der Meer'''<br /><br />
probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics<br />
<br />
'''fractal'''<br /><br />
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''aleatory'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to accidental causes<br />
<br />
'''''Lieber Gott nein'''''<br /><br />
German: Dear God, no<br />
<br />
'''''Gymanasium'''''<br /><br />
the equivalent of a U.S. college-prepatory high school<br />
<br />
'''appetitive will'''<br /><br />
that part of the will that desires physical things<br />
<br />
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'''''palestra'''''<br /><br />
an ancient Greek school of wrestling<br />
<br />
'''experialist'''<br /><br />
like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste<br />
<br />
'''''Verstiegenheit'''''<br /><br />
literally German for "eccentricity"<br />
<br />
'''''Platz'''''<br /><br />
German: a public square<br />
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'''pirouetting'''<br /><br />
whirling on the toes<br />
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'''D.T.'''<br /><br />
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].<br />
<br />
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'''12°C'''<br /><br />
~54°F<br />
<br />
==Page 87==<br />
<br />
'''skallycap'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]<br />
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'''Seventh Day Adventist'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"<br />
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'''payloaders'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]<br />
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'''G. Ford - early G. Bush'''<br /><br />
Roughly 1974 to 1989.<br />
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'''S.A.C.'''<br /><br />
Strategic Air Command.<br />
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'''neutron'''<br /><br />
A subatomic particle with no charge.<br />
<br />
'''gamma-refractive'''<br /><br />
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.<br />
<br />
'''lithium-adonized'''<br /><br />
Made more beautiful with lithium.<br />
<br />
==Page 64==<br />
<br />
'''cold annular fusion'''<br /><br />
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a taurus (donut).<br />
<br />
'''Tableaux'''<br /><br />
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.<br />
<br />
'''homolosine-cartography'''<br /><br />
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].<br />
<br />
'''optative'''<br /><br />
Expressing a wish or choice.<br />
<br />
'''U.S.T.A.'''<br /><br />
United States Tennis Association.<br />
<br />
'''après-garde'''<br /><br />
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''<br />
<br />
==Endnote 24==<br />
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==Page 64 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''Macdonald Chair'''<br /><br />
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic.<br />
<br />
'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University'''<br /><br />
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal.<br />
<br />
'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems'''<br /><br />
These are two systems of cognition, the former is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the latter is rule-based and thus slower.<br />
<br />
'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement'''''<br /><br />
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.<br />
<br />
'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada'''<br /><br />
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.<br />
<br />
'''recondite'''<br /><br />
dealing with complex subject matter.<br />
<br />
'''mordantly'''<br /><br />
in a caustic manner.<br />
<br />
'''feck'''<br /><br />
efficacy; force; value.<br />
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<br />
'''F.C.'''<br /><br />
Perhaps "formerly Canadian."<br />
<br />
'''A.E.C.'''<br /><br />
Atomic Energy Commission.<br />
<br />
'''ARPA-NET'''<br /><br />
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.<br />
<br />
'''L'Islet County'''<br /><br />
A county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains.<br />
<br />
'''hyperfloration'''<br /><br />
Overgrowth of flowers or plants.<br />
<br />
'''festschrift'''<br /><br />
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.<br />
<br />
'''anticonfluential'''<br /><br />
against things coming together<br />
<br />
'''chiaroscuro'''<br /><br />
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting.<br />
<br />
'''annulation'''<br /><br />
The formation of rings.<br />
<br />
'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
Grown exceeding large.<br />
<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''tacks'''<br /><br />
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.<br />
<br />
'''Mile-High'''<br /><br />
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos play.<br />
<br />
'''100 meters over the 40'''<br /><br />
''I.e.'', the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.<br />
<br />
'''nongarish'''<br /><br />
Not garish, ''i.e.'', not excessively ornate.<br />
<br />
==Page 66==<br />
<br />
'''zither'''<br /><br />
A harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels.<br />
<br />
'''water-drops'''<br /><br />
Being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks.<br />
<br />
'''Oiler'''<br /><br />
The former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans.<br />
<br />
'''Brown'''<br /><br />
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.<br />
<br />
==Page 66==<br />
<br />
'''organopsychedelic'''<br /><br />
An organic molecule which, when ingested, produces a psychedelic effect.<br />
<br />
'''isoxazole-alkaloid'''<br /><br />
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
<br />
'''methoxylated'''<br /><br />
Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."<br />
<br />
'''phenylkylamine'''<br /><br />
possibly a made-up substance<br />
<br />
'''rock and bob Hasidically'''<br /><br />
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim do when praying or studying religious texts.<br />
<br />
'''titrated'''<br /><br />
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (eg one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD).<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
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==Endnote 26==<br />
<br />
'''enkephalin'''<br /><br />
a type of painkiller<br />
<br />
==Page 67 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''psychodysleptic'''<br /><br />
a drug that negative effects the take psychologically<br />
<br />
'''''in medias'''''<br /><br />
Latin: in the middle of<br />
<br />
'''oblique'''<br /><br />
neither perpendicular nor parallel<br />
<br />
'''deliquesce'''<br /><br />
to become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">68* · Kate Gompert in the Psych Ward</span><br />
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==Page 68==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''Watteau'''<br /><br />
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.<br />
<br />
'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States'''''<br /><br />
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.<br />
<br />
==Page 69==<br />
<br />
'''hypocapnia'''<br /><br />
reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation<br />
<br />
'''emery board'''<br /><br />
a disposable nail file<br />
<br />
'''Wellesley Hills'''<br /><br />
a section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston<br />
<br />
'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital'''<br /><br />
a real hospital<br />
<br />
'''Parnate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAO) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.<br />
<br />
'''dysphoria'''<br /><br />
feeling badly<br />
<br />
'''diurnal'''<br /><br />
during the day<br />
<br />
'''w/w/o'''<br /><br />
with and without<br />
<br />
'''CO'''<br /><br />
carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide<br />
<br />
'''hemotoxicity'''<br /><br />
poisonous blood level<br />
<br />
==Page 70==<br />
<br />
'''Librium'''<br /><br />
brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal<br />
<br />
'''Dretske'''<br /><br />
perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind<br />
<br />
'''Mydol'''<br /><br />
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol]<br />
<br />
'''trepidation'''<br /><br />
hesitancy caused by fear<br />
<br />
'''facial affect'''<br /><br />
emotions expressed on the face<br />
<br />
'''Lithonate'''<br /><br />
a brand name of lithium<br />
<br />
==Page 71==<br />
<br />
'''plestor'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter]<br />
<br />
'''plangent'''<br /><br />
loud and resounding<br />
<br />
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==Page 73==<br />
<br />
'''carpopedal'''<br /><br />
involving both the hands and feet<br />
<br />
'''tetanic'''<br /><br />
pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually<br />
<br />
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==Page 75==<br />
<br />
'''circumorals'''<br /><br />
muscles around the mouth<br />
<br />
'''thigmotactic'''<br /><br />
having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus<br />
<br />
'''dentate'''<br /><br />
having teeth<br />
<br />
'''synclinal'''<br /><br />
sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /<br />
<br />
'''Sinse'''<br /><br />
short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana<br />
<br />
'''duBois'''<br /><br />
fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette<br />
<br />
==Page 76==<br />
<br />
'''uremic'''<br /><br />
smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood<br />
<br />
==Endnote 30==<br />
<br />
'''boric acid'''<br /><br />
also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects<br />
<br />
==Page 77==<br />
<br />
'''the T'''<br /><br />
local transit in the Boston metro area<br />
<br />
==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."'''<br /><br />
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">78 · Medical Attaché Update #3</span><br />
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==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''0145h.'''<br /><br />
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.<br />
<br />
==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''rictus'''<br /><br />
a gaping grimace<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">79 · Schtitt & Mario</span><br />
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==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''Nick Bolletieri'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach]<br />
<br />
'''epaulets'''<br /><br />
military shoulder decorations on clothing<br />
<br />
'''a philosopher instead of a king'''<br /><br />
Although Plato stresses, in ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.<br />
<br />
'''F.R.G.'''<br /><br />
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989)<br />
<br />
'''leptosomatic'''<br /><br />
having a slender, frail build<br />
<br />
'''pedagogical'''<br /><br />
having to do with teaching<br />
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'''post-prandial'''<br /><br />
following a meal<br />
<br />
'''calliopsis'''<br /><br />
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis]<br />
<br />
'''quincunx'''<br /><br />
the arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right)[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]<br />
<br />
'''briers' yeasty musk'''<br /><br />
the yeasty smell arising from the brier patches<br />
<br />
'''bradykinetic'''<br /><br />
describing abnormally slow movement<br />
<br />
'''plosivity'''<br /><br />
referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Euclid'''<br /><br />
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."<br />
<br />
==Page 81==<br />
<br />
'''tympana'''<br /><br />
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.<br />
<br />
'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST'''''<br /><br />
<br />
The euphemistic translation aside, this literaly means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.<br />
<br />
'''discursive'''<br /><br />
rambling in speech<br />
<br />
'''wonk'''<br /><br />
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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==Page 82==<br />
<br />
'''simpatico'''<br /><br />
in agreement<br />
<br />
'''Hopman'''<br /><br />
either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman]<br />
<br />
==Endnote 34==<br />
<br />
'''Mandelbrotian'''<br /><br />
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.<br />
<br />
'''post-Gödelian'''<br /><br />
coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher<br />
<br />
==Page 82 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''van der Meer'''<br /><br />
probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics<br />
<br />
'''fractal'''<br /><br />
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''aleatory'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to accidental causes<br />
<br />
'''''Lieber Gott nein'''''<br /><br />
German: Dear God, no<br />
<br />
'''''Gymanasium'''''<br /><br />
the equivalent of a U.S. college-prepatory high school<br />
<br />
'''appetitive will'''<br /><br />
that part of the will that desires physical things<br />
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'''''palestra'''''<br /><br />
an ancient Greek school of wrestling<br />
<br />
'''experialist'''<br /><br />
like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste<br />
<br />
'''''Verstiegenheit'''''<br /><br />
literally German for "eccentricity"<br />
<br />
'''''Platz'''''<br /><br />
German: a public square<br />
<br />
==Page 84==<br />
<br />
'''pirouetting'''<br /><br />
whirling on the toes<br />
<br />
==Page 85==<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">85 · Tiny Ewell in Detox</span><br />
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==Page 85==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''D.T.'''<br /><br />
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].<br />
<br />
==Page 86==<br />
<br />
'''12°C'''<br /><br />
~54°F<br />
<br />
==Page 87==<br />
<br />
'''skallycap'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">87 · Medical Attaché Update #4</span><br />
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==Page 87==<br />
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'''Seventh Day Adventist'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"<br />
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<span class="marker">87* · Marathe & Steeply</span><br />
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==Page 87==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''payloaders'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]<br />
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'''G. Ford - early G. Bush'''<br /><br />
Roughly 1974 to 1989.<br />
<br />
'''S.A.C.'''<br /><br />
Strategic Air Command.<br />
<br />
'''neutron'''<br /><br />
A subatomic particle with no charge.<br />
<br />
'''gamma-refractive'''<br /><br />
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.<br />
<br />
'''lithium-adonized'''<br /><br />
Made more beautiful with lithium.<br />
<br />
==Page 64==<br />
<br />
'''cold annular fusion'''<br /><br />
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a taurus (donut).<br />
<br />
'''Tableaux'''<br /><br />
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.<br />
<br />
'''homolosine-cartography'''<br /><br />
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].<br />
<br />
'''optative'''<br /><br />
Expressing a wish or choice.<br />
<br />
'''U.S.T.A.'''<br /><br />
United States Tennis Association.<br />
<br />
'''après-garde'''<br /><br />
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''<br />
<br />
==Endnote 24==<br />
<br />
==Page 64 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''Macdonald Chair'''<br /><br />
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic.<br />
<br />
'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University'''<br /><br />
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal.<br />
<br />
'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems'''<br /><br />
These are two systems of cognition, the former is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the latter is rule-based and thus slower.<br />
<br />
'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement'''''<br /><br />
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.<br />
<br />
'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada'''<br /><br />
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.<br />
<br />
'''recondite'''<br /><br />
dealing with complex subject matter.<br />
<br />
'''mordantly'''<br /><br />
in a caustic manner.<br />
<br />
'''feck'''<br /><br />
efficacy; force; value.<br />
<br />
==Page 65==<br />
<br />
'''F.C.'''<br /><br />
Perhaps "formerly Canadian."<br />
<br />
'''A.E.C.'''<br /><br />
Atomic Energy Commission.<br />
<br />
'''ARPA-NET'''<br /><br />
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.<br />
<br />
'''L'Islet County'''<br /><br />
A county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains.<br />
<br />
'''hyperfloration'''<br /><br />
Overgrowth of flowers or plants.<br />
<br />
'''festschrift'''<br /><br />
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.<br />
<br />
'''anticonfluential'''<br /><br />
against things coming together<br />
<br />
'''chiaroscuro'''<br /><br />
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting.<br />
<br />
'''annulation'''<br /><br />
The formation of rings.<br />
<br />
'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
Grown exceeding large.<br />
<br />
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<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''tacks'''<br /><br />
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.<br />
<br />
'''Mile-High'''<br /><br />
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos play.<br />
<br />
'''100 meters over the 40'''<br /><br />
''I.e.'', the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.<br />
<br />
'''nongarish'''<br /><br />
Not garish, ''i.e.'', not excessively ornate.<br />
<br />
==Page 66==<br />
<br />
'''zither'''<br /><br />
A harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels.<br />
<br />
'''water-drops'''<br /><br />
Being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks.<br />
<br />
'''Oiler'''<br /><br />
The former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans.<br />
<br />
'''Brown'''<br /><br />
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.<br />
<br />
==Page 66==<br />
<br />
'''organopsychedelic'''<br /><br />
An organic molecule naturally a psychedelic effect.<br />
<br />
'''isoxazole-alkaloid'''<br /><br />
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
<br />
'''methoxylated'''<br /><br />
Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."<br />
<br />
'''phenylkylamine'''<br /><br />
possibly a made-up substance<br />
<br />
'''rock and bob Hasidically'''<br /><br />
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim do when praying or studying religious texts.<br />
<br />
'''titrated'''<br /><br />
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (eg one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD).<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
<br />
==Endnote 26==<br />
<br />
'''enkephalin'''<br /><br />
a type of painkiller<br />
<br />
==Page 67 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''psychodysleptic'''<br /><br />
a drug that negative effects the take psychologically<br />
<br />
'''''in medias'''''<br /><br />
Latin: in the middle of<br />
<br />
'''oblique'''<br /><br />
neither perpendicular nor parallel<br />
<br />
'''deliquesce'''<br /><br />
to become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">68* · Kate Gompert in the Psych Ward</span><br />
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==Page 68==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''Watteau'''<br /><br />
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.<br />
<br />
'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States'''''<br /><br />
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.<br />
<br />
==Page 69==<br />
<br />
'''hypocapnia'''<br /><br />
reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation<br />
<br />
'''emery board'''<br /><br />
a disposable nail file<br />
<br />
'''Wellesley Hills'''<br /><br />
a section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston<br />
<br />
'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital'''<br /><br />
a real hospital<br />
<br />
'''Parnate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAO) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.<br />
<br />
'''dysphoria'''<br /><br />
feeling badly<br />
<br />
'''diurnal'''<br /><br />
during the day<br />
<br />
'''w/w/o'''<br /><br />
with and without<br />
<br />
'''CO'''<br /><br />
carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide<br />
<br />
'''hemotoxicity'''<br /><br />
poisonous blood level<br />
<br />
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<br />
'''Librium'''<br /><br />
brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal<br />
<br />
'''Dretske'''<br /><br />
perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind<br />
<br />
'''Mydol'''<br /><br />
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol]<br />
<br />
'''trepidation'''<br /><br />
hesitancy caused by fear<br />
<br />
'''facial affect'''<br /><br />
emotions expressed on the face<br />
<br />
'''Lithonate'''<br /><br />
a brand name of lithium<br />
<br />
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<br />
'''plestor'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter]<br />
<br />
'''plangent'''<br /><br />
loud and resounding<br />
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==Page 73==<br />
<br />
'''carpopedal'''<br /><br />
involving both the hands and feet<br />
<br />
'''tetanic'''<br /><br />
pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually<br />
<br />
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==Page 75==<br />
<br />
'''circumorals'''<br /><br />
muscles around the mouth<br />
<br />
'''thigmotactic'''<br /><br />
having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus<br />
<br />
'''dentate'''<br /><br />
having teeth<br />
<br />
'''synclinal'''<br /><br />
sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /<br />
<br />
'''Sinse'''<br /><br />
short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana<br />
<br />
'''duBois'''<br /><br />
fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette<br />
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'''uremic'''<br /><br />
smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood<br />
<br />
==Endnote 30==<br />
<br />
'''boric acid'''<br /><br />
also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects<br />
<br />
==Page 77==<br />
<br />
'''the T'''<br /><br />
local transit in the Boston metro area<br />
<br />
==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."'''<br /><br />
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].<br />
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==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''0145h.'''<br /><br />
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.<br />
<br />
==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''rictus'''<br /><br />
a gaping grimace<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">79 · Schtitt & Mario</span><br />
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==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''Nick Bolletieri'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach]<br />
<br />
'''epaulets'''<br /><br />
military shoulder decorations on clothing<br />
<br />
'''a philosopher instead of a king'''<br /><br />
Although Plato stresses, in ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.<br />
<br />
'''F.R.G.'''<br /><br />
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989)<br />
<br />
'''leptosomatic'''<br /><br />
having a slender, frail build<br />
<br />
'''pedagogical'''<br /><br />
having to do with teaching<br />
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'''post-prandial'''<br /><br />
following a meal<br />
<br />
'''calliopsis'''<br /><br />
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis]<br />
<br />
'''quincunx'''<br /><br />
the arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right)[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]<br />
<br />
'''briers' yeasty musk'''<br /><br />
the yeasty smell arising from the brier patches<br />
<br />
'''bradykinetic'''<br /><br />
describing abnormally slow movement<br />
<br />
'''plosivity'''<br /><br />
referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Euclid'''<br /><br />
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."<br />
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<br />
'''tympana'''<br /><br />
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.<br />
<br />
'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST'''''<br /><br />
<br />
The euphemistic translation aside, this literaly means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.<br />
<br />
'''discursive'''<br /><br />
rambling in speech<br />
<br />
'''wonk'''<br /><br />
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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'''simpatico'''<br /><br />
in agreement<br />
<br />
'''Hopman'''<br /><br />
either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman]<br />
<br />
==Endnote 34==<br />
<br />
'''Mandelbrotian'''<br /><br />
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.<br />
<br />
'''post-Gödelian'''<br /><br />
coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher<br />
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'''van der Meer'''<br /><br />
probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics<br />
<br />
'''fractal'''<br /><br />
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''aleatory'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to accidental causes<br />
<br />
'''''Lieber Gott nein'''''<br /><br />
German: Dear God, no<br />
<br />
'''''Gymanasium'''''<br /><br />
the equivalent of a U.S. college-prepatory high school<br />
<br />
'''appetitive will'''<br /><br />
that part of the will that desires physical things<br />
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'''''palestra'''''<br /><br />
an ancient Greek school of wrestling<br />
<br />
'''experialist'''<br /><br />
like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste<br />
<br />
'''''Verstiegenheit'''''<br /><br />
literally German for "eccentricity"<br />
<br />
'''''Platz'''''<br /><br />
German: a public square<br />
<br />
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'''pirouetting'''<br /><br />
whirling on the toes<br />
<br />
==Page 85==<br />
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<span class="marker">85 · Tiny Ewell in Detox</span><br />
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==Page 85==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''D.T.'''<br /><br />
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].<br />
<br />
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'''12°C'''<br /><br />
~54°F<br />
<br />
==Page 87==<br />
<br />
'''skallycap'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]<br />
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==Page 87==<br />
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'''Seventh Day Adventist'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"<br />
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<span class="marker">87* · Marathe & Steeply</span><br />
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==Page 87==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''payloaders'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]<br />
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'''G. Ford - early G. Bush'''<br /><br />
Roughly 1974 to 1989.<br />
<br />
'''S.A.C.'''<br /><br />
Strategic Air Command.<br />
<br />
'''neutron'''<br /><br />
A subatomic particle with no charge.<br />
<br />
'''gamma-refractive'''<br /><br />
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.<br />
<br />
'''lithium-adonized'''<br /><br />
Made more beautiful with lithium.<br />
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'''cold annular fusion'''<br /><br />
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a taurus (donut).<br />
<br />
'''Tableaux'''<br /><br />
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.<br />
<br />
'''homolosine-cartography'''<br /><br />
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].<br />
<br />
'''optative'''<br /><br />
Expressing a wish or choice.<br />
<br />
'''U.S.T.A.'''<br /><br />
United States Tennis Association.<br />
<br />
'''après-garde'''<br /><br />
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''<br />
<br />
==Endnote 24==<br />
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==Page 64 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''Macdonald Chair'''<br /><br />
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic.<br />
<br />
'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University'''<br /><br />
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal.<br />
<br />
'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems'''<br /><br />
These are two systems of cognition, the former is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the latter is rule-based and thus slower.<br />
<br />
'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement'''''<br /><br />
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.<br />
<br />
'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada'''<br /><br />
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.<br />
<br />
'''recondite'''<br /><br />
dealing with complex subject matter.<br />
<br />
'''mordantly'''<br /><br />
in a caustic manner.<br />
<br />
'''feck'''<br /><br />
efficacy; force; value.<br />
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<br />
'''F.C.'''<br /><br />
Perhaps "formerly Canadian."<br />
<br />
'''A.E.C.'''<br /><br />
Atomic Energy Commission.<br />
<br />
'''ARPA-NET'''<br /><br />
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.<br />
<br />
'''L'Islet County'''<br /><br />
A county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains.<br />
<br />
'''hyperfloration'''<br /><br />
Overgrowth of flowers or plants.<br />
<br />
'''festschrift'''<br /><br />
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.<br />
<br />
'''anticonfluential'''<br /><br />
against things coming together<br />
<br />
'''chiaroscuro'''<br /><br />
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting.<br />
<br />
'''annulation'''<br /><br />
The formation of rings.<br />
<br />
'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
Grown exceeding large.<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''tacks'''<br /><br />
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.<br />
<br />
'''Mile-High'''<br /><br />
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos play.<br />
<br />
'''100 meters over the 40'''<br /><br />
''I.e.'', the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.<br />
<br />
'''nongarish'''<br /><br />
Not garish, ''i.e.'', not excessively ornate.<br />
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<br />
'''zither'''<br /><br />
A harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels.<br />
<br />
'''water-drops'''<br /><br />
Being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks.<br />
<br />
'''Oiler'''<br /><br />
The former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans.<br />
<br />
'''Brown'''<br /><br />
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.<br />
<br />
==Page 66==<br />
<br />
'''organopsychedelic'''<br /><br />
a substance naturally producing a psychedelic effect<br />
<br />
'''isoxazole-alkaloid'''<br /><br />
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
<br />
'''methoxylated'''<br /><br />
Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."<br />
<br />
'''phenylkylamine'''<br /><br />
possibly a made-up substance<br />
<br />
'''rock and bob Hasidically'''<br /><br />
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim do when praying or studying religious texts.<br />
<br />
'''titrated'''<br /><br />
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (eg one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD).<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
<br />
==Endnote 26==<br />
<br />
'''enkephalin'''<br /><br />
a type of painkiller<br />
<br />
==Page 67 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''psychodysleptic'''<br /><br />
a drug that negative effects the take psychologically<br />
<br />
'''''in medias'''''<br /><br />
Latin: in the middle of<br />
<br />
'''oblique'''<br /><br />
neither perpendicular nor parallel<br />
<br />
'''deliquesce'''<br /><br />
to become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">68* · Kate Gompert in the Psych Ward</span><br />
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==Page 68==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''Watteau'''<br /><br />
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.<br />
<br />
'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States'''''<br /><br />
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.<br />
<br />
==Page 69==<br />
<br />
'''hypocapnia'''<br /><br />
reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation<br />
<br />
'''emery board'''<br /><br />
a disposable nail file<br />
<br />
'''Wellesley Hills'''<br /><br />
a section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston<br />
<br />
'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital'''<br /><br />
a real hospital<br />
<br />
'''Parnate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAO) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.<br />
<br />
'''dysphoria'''<br /><br />
feeling badly<br />
<br />
'''diurnal'''<br /><br />
during the day<br />
<br />
'''w/w/o'''<br /><br />
with and without<br />
<br />
'''CO'''<br /><br />
carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide<br />
<br />
'''hemotoxicity'''<br /><br />
poisonous blood level<br />
<br />
==Page 70==<br />
<br />
'''Librium'''<br /><br />
brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal<br />
<br />
'''Dretske'''<br /><br />
perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind<br />
<br />
'''Mydol'''<br /><br />
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol]<br />
<br />
'''trepidation'''<br /><br />
hesitancy caused by fear<br />
<br />
'''facial affect'''<br /><br />
emotions expressed on the face<br />
<br />
'''Lithonate'''<br /><br />
a brand name of lithium<br />
<br />
==Page 71==<br />
<br />
'''plestor'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter]<br />
<br />
'''plangent'''<br /><br />
loud and resounding<br />
<br />
==Page 72==<br />
<br />
==Page 73==<br />
<br />
'''carpopedal'''<br /><br />
involving both the hands and feet<br />
<br />
'''tetanic'''<br /><br />
pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually<br />
<br />
==Page 74==<br />
<br />
==Page 75==<br />
<br />
'''circumorals'''<br /><br />
muscles around the mouth<br />
<br />
'''thigmotactic'''<br /><br />
having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus<br />
<br />
'''dentate'''<br /><br />
having teeth<br />
<br />
'''synclinal'''<br /><br />
sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /<br />
<br />
'''Sinse'''<br /><br />
short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana<br />
<br />
'''duBois'''<br /><br />
fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette<br />
<br />
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<br />
'''uremic'''<br /><br />
smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood<br />
<br />
==Endnote 30==<br />
<br />
'''boric acid'''<br /><br />
also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects<br />
<br />
==Page 77==<br />
<br />
'''the T'''<br /><br />
local transit in the Boston metro area<br />
<br />
==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."'''<br /><br />
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">78 · Medical Attaché Update #3</span><br />
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==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''0145h.'''<br /><br />
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.<br />
<br />
==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''rictus'''<br /><br />
a gaping grimace<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">79 · Schtitt & Mario</span><br />
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==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''Nick Bolletieri'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach]<br />
<br />
'''epaulets'''<br /><br />
military shoulder decorations on clothing<br />
<br />
'''a philosopher instead of a king'''<br /><br />
Although Plato stresses, in ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.<br />
<br />
'''F.R.G.'''<br /><br />
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989)<br />
<br />
'''leptosomatic'''<br /><br />
having a slender, frail build<br />
<br />
'''pedagogical'''<br /><br />
having to do with teaching<br />
<br />
==Page 80==<br />
<br />
'''post-prandial'''<br /><br />
following a meal<br />
<br />
'''calliopsis'''<br /><br />
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis]<br />
<br />
'''quincunx'''<br /><br />
the arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right)[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]<br />
<br />
'''briers' yeasty musk'''<br /><br />
the yeasty smell arising from the brier patches<br />
<br />
'''bradykinetic'''<br /><br />
describing abnormally slow movement<br />
<br />
'''plosivity'''<br /><br />
referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Euclid'''<br /><br />
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."<br />
<br />
==Page 81==<br />
<br />
'''tympana'''<br /><br />
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.<br />
<br />
'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST'''''<br /><br />
<br />
The euphemistic translation aside, this literaly means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.<br />
<br />
'''discursive'''<br /><br />
rambling in speech<br />
<br />
'''wonk'''<br /><br />
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
==Page 82==<br />
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'''simpatico'''<br /><br />
in agreement<br />
<br />
'''Hopman'''<br /><br />
either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman]<br />
<br />
==Endnote 34==<br />
<br />
'''Mandelbrotian'''<br /><br />
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.<br />
<br />
'''post-Gödelian'''<br /><br />
coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher<br />
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'''van der Meer'''<br /><br />
probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics<br />
<br />
'''fractal'''<br /><br />
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''aleatory'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to accidental causes<br />
<br />
'''''Lieber Gott nein'''''<br /><br />
German: Dear God, no<br />
<br />
'''''Gymanasium'''''<br /><br />
the equivalent of a U.S. college-prepatory high school<br />
<br />
'''appetitive will'''<br /><br />
that part of the will that desires physical things<br />
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'''''palestra'''''<br /><br />
an ancient Greek school of wrestling<br />
<br />
'''experialist'''<br /><br />
like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste<br />
<br />
'''''Verstiegenheit'''''<br /><br />
literally German for "eccentricity"<br />
<br />
'''''Platz'''''<br /><br />
German: a public square<br />
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'''pirouetting'''<br /><br />
whirling on the toes<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''D.T.'''<br /><br />
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].<br />
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'''12°C'''<br /><br />
~54°F<br />
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<br />
'''skallycap'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]<br />
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'''Seventh Day Adventist'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''payloaders'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]<br />
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'''G. Ford - early G. Bush'''<br /><br />
Roughly 1974 to 1989.<br />
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'''S.A.C.'''<br /><br />
Strategic Air Command.<br />
<br />
'''neutron'''<br /><br />
A subatomic particle with no charge.<br />
<br />
'''gamma-refractive'''<br /><br />
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.<br />
<br />
'''lithium-adonized'''<br /><br />
Made more beautiful with lithium.<br />
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'''cold annular fusion'''<br /><br />
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a taurus (donut).<br />
<br />
'''Tableaux'''<br /><br />
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.<br />
<br />
'''homolosine-cartography'''<br /><br />
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].<br />
<br />
'''optative'''<br /><br />
Expressing a wish or choice.<br />
<br />
'''U.S.T.A.'''<br /><br />
United States Tennis Association.<br />
<br />
'''après-garde'''<br /><br />
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''<br />
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==Endnote 24==<br />
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'''Macdonald Chair'''<br /><br />
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic.<br />
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'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University'''<br /><br />
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal.<br />
<br />
'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems'''<br /><br />
These are two systems of cognition, the former is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the latter is rule-based and thus slower.<br />
<br />
'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement'''''<br /><br />
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.<br />
<br />
'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada'''<br /><br />
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.<br />
<br />
'''recondite'''<br /><br />
dealing with complex subject matter.<br />
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'''mordantly'''<br /><br />
in a caustic manner.<br />
<br />
'''feck'''<br /><br />
efficacy; force; value.<br />
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'''F.C.'''<br /><br />
Perhaps "formerly Canadian."<br />
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'''A.E.C.'''<br /><br />
Atomic Energy Commission.<br />
<br />
'''ARPA-NET'''<br /><br />
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.<br />
<br />
'''L'Islet County'''<br /><br />
A county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains.<br />
<br />
'''hyperfloration'''<br /><br />
Overgrowth of flowers or plants.<br />
<br />
'''festschrift'''<br /><br />
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.<br />
<br />
'''anticonfluential'''<br /><br />
against things coming together<br />
<br />
'''chiaroscuro'''<br /><br />
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting.<br />
<br />
'''annulation'''<br /><br />
The formation of rings.<br />
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'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
Grown exceeding large.<br />
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'''tacks'''<br /><br />
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.<br />
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'''Mile-High'''<br /><br />
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos play.<br />
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'''100 meters over the 40'''<br /><br />
''I.e.'', the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.<br />
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'''nongarish'''<br /><br />
Not garish, ''i.e.'', not excessively ornate.<br />
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'''zither'''<br /><br />
a harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels<br />
<br />
'''water-drops'''<br /><br />
being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks<br />
<br />
'''Oiler'''<br /><br />
the former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans<br />
<br />
'''Brown'''<br /><br />
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.<br />
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'''organopsychedelic'''<br /><br />
a substance naturally producing a psychedelic effect<br />
<br />
'''isoxazole-alkaloid'''<br /><br />
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.<br />
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'''methoxylated'''<br /><br />
Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."<br />
<br />
'''phenylkylamine'''<br /><br />
possibly a made-up substance<br />
<br />
'''rock and bob Hasidically'''<br /><br />
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim do when praying or studying religious texts.<br />
<br />
'''titrated'''<br /><br />
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (eg one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD).<br />
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==Endnote 26==<br />
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'''enkephalin'''<br /><br />
a type of painkiller<br />
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'''psychodysleptic'''<br /><br />
a drug that negative effects the take psychologically<br />
<br />
'''''in medias'''''<br /><br />
Latin: in the middle of<br />
<br />
'''oblique'''<br /><br />
neither perpendicular nor parallel<br />
<br />
'''deliquesce'''<br /><br />
to become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air<br />
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'''Watteau'''<br /><br />
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.<br />
<br />
'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States'''''<br /><br />
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.<br />
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'''hypocapnia'''<br /><br />
reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation<br />
<br />
'''emery board'''<br /><br />
a disposable nail file<br />
<br />
'''Wellesley Hills'''<br /><br />
a section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston<br />
<br />
'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital'''<br /><br />
a real hospital<br />
<br />
'''Parnate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAO) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.<br />
<br />
'''dysphoria'''<br /><br />
feeling badly<br />
<br />
'''diurnal'''<br /><br />
during the day<br />
<br />
'''w/w/o'''<br /><br />
with and without<br />
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'''CO'''<br /><br />
carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide<br />
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'''hemotoxicity'''<br /><br />
poisonous blood level<br />
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'''Librium'''<br /><br />
brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal<br />
<br />
'''Dretske'''<br /><br />
perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind<br />
<br />
'''Mydol'''<br /><br />
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol]<br />
<br />
'''trepidation'''<br /><br />
hesitancy caused by fear<br />
<br />
'''facial affect'''<br /><br />
emotions expressed on the face<br />
<br />
'''Lithonate'''<br /><br />
a brand name of lithium<br />
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'''plestor'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter]<br />
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'''plangent'''<br /><br />
loud and resounding<br />
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'''carpopedal'''<br /><br />
involving both the hands and feet<br />
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'''tetanic'''<br /><br />
pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually<br />
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'''circumorals'''<br /><br />
muscles around the mouth<br />
<br />
'''thigmotactic'''<br /><br />
having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus<br />
<br />
'''dentate'''<br /><br />
having teeth<br />
<br />
'''synclinal'''<br /><br />
sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /<br />
<br />
'''Sinse'''<br /><br />
short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana<br />
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'''duBois'''<br /><br />
fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette<br />
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'''uremic'''<br /><br />
smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood<br />
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==Endnote 30==<br />
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'''boric acid'''<br /><br />
also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects<br />
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'''the T'''<br /><br />
local transit in the Boston metro area<br />
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'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."'''<br /><br />
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].<br />
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'''0145h.'''<br /><br />
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.<br />
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'''rictus'''<br /><br />
a gaping grimace<br />
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'''Nick Bolletieri'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach]<br />
<br />
'''epaulets'''<br /><br />
military shoulder decorations on clothing<br />
<br />
'''a philosopher instead of a king'''<br /><br />
Although Plato stresses, in ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.<br />
<br />
'''F.R.G.'''<br /><br />
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989)<br />
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'''leptosomatic'''<br /><br />
having a slender, frail build<br />
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'''pedagogical'''<br /><br />
having to do with teaching<br />
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'''post-prandial'''<br /><br />
following a meal<br />
<br />
'''calliopsis'''<br /><br />
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis]<br />
<br />
'''quincunx'''<br /><br />
the arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right)[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]<br />
<br />
'''briers' yeasty musk'''<br /><br />
the yeasty smell arising from the brier patches<br />
<br />
'''bradykinetic'''<br /><br />
describing abnormally slow movement<br />
<br />
'''plosivity'''<br /><br />
referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Euclid'''<br /><br />
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."<br />
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'''tympana'''<br /><br />
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.<br />
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'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST'''''<br /><br />
<br />
The euphemistic translation aside, this literaly means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.<br />
<br />
'''discursive'''<br /><br />
rambling in speech<br />
<br />
'''wonk'''<br /><br />
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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'''simpatico'''<br /><br />
in agreement<br />
<br />
'''Hopman'''<br /><br />
either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman]<br />
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==Endnote 34==<br />
<br />
'''Mandelbrotian'''<br /><br />
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.<br />
<br />
'''post-Gödelian'''<br /><br />
coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher<br />
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'''van der Meer'''<br /><br />
probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics<br />
<br />
'''fractal'''<br /><br />
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''aleatory'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to accidental causes<br />
<br />
'''''Lieber Gott nein'''''<br /><br />
German: Dear God, no<br />
<br />
'''''Gymanasium'''''<br /><br />
the equivalent of a U.S. college-prepatory high school<br />
<br />
'''appetitive will'''<br /><br />
that part of the will that desires physical things<br />
<br />
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'''''palestra'''''<br /><br />
an ancient Greek school of wrestling<br />
<br />
'''experialist'''<br /><br />
like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste<br />
<br />
'''''Verstiegenheit'''''<br /><br />
literally German for "eccentricity"<br />
<br />
'''''Platz'''''<br /><br />
German: a public square<br />
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'''pirouetting'''<br /><br />
whirling on the toes<br />
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'''D.T.'''<br /><br />
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].<br />
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'''12°C'''<br /><br />
~54°F<br />
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'''skallycap'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]<br />
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'''Seventh Day Adventist'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''payloaders'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]<br />
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'''G. Ford - early G. Bush'''<br /><br />
Roughly 1974 to 1989.<br />
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'''S.A.C.'''<br /><br />
Strategic Air Command.<br />
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'''neutron'''<br /><br />
A subatomic particle with no charge.<br />
<br />
'''gamma-refractive'''<br /><br />
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.<br />
<br />
'''lithium-adonized'''<br /><br />
Made more beautiful with lithium.<br />
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'''cold annular fusion'''<br /><br />
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a taurus (donut).<br />
<br />
'''Tableaux'''<br /><br />
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.<br />
<br />
'''homolosine-cartography'''<br /><br />
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].<br />
<br />
'''optative'''<br /><br />
Expressing a wish or choice.<br />
<br />
'''U.S.T.A.'''<br /><br />
United States Tennis Association.<br />
<br />
'''après-garde'''<br /><br />
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''<br />
<br />
==Endnote 24==<br />
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==Page 64 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''Macdonald Chair'''<br /><br />
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic.<br />
<br />
'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University'''<br /><br />
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal.<br />
<br />
'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems'''<br /><br />
These are two systems of cognition, the former is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the latter is rule-based and thus slower.<br />
<br />
'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement'''''<br /><br />
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.<br />
<br />
'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada'''<br /><br />
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.<br />
<br />
'''recondite'''<br /><br />
dealing with complex subject matter.<br />
<br />
'''mordantly'''<br /><br />
in a caustic manner.<br />
<br />
'''feck'''<br /><br />
efficacy; force; value.<br />
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'''F.C.'''<br /><br />
Perhaps "formerly Canadian."<br />
<br />
'''A.E.C.'''<br /><br />
Atomic Energy Commission.<br />
<br />
'''ARPA-NET'''<br /><br />
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.<br />
<br />
'''L'Islet County'''<br /><br />
A county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains.<br />
<br />
'''hyperfloration'''<br /><br />
Overgrowth of flowers or plants.<br />
<br />
'''festschrift'''<br /><br />
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.<br />
<br />
'''anticonfluential'''<br /><br />
against things coming together<br />
<br />
'''chiaroscuro'''<br /><br />
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting.<br />
<br />
'''annulation'''<br /><br />
The formation of rings.<br />
<br />
'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
Grown exceeding large.<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''tacks'''<br /><br />
follows a zigzag course<br />
<br />
'''Mile-High'''<br /><br />
the stadium in which the Denver Broncos play<br />
<br />
'''100 meters over the 40'''<br /><br />
I.e., the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.<br />
<br />
'''nongarish'''<br /><br />
not garish, i.e., not excessively ornate<br />
<br />
==Page 66==<br />
<br />
'''zither'''<br /><br />
a harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels<br />
<br />
'''water-drops'''<br /><br />
being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks<br />
<br />
'''Oiler'''<br /><br />
the former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans<br />
<br />
'''Brown'''<br /><br />
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.<br />
<br />
==Page 66==<br />
<br />
'''organopsychedelic'''<br /><br />
a substance naturally producing a psychedelic effect<br />
<br />
'''isoxazole-alkaloid'''<br /><br />
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
<br />
'''methoxylated'''<br /><br />
Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."<br />
<br />
'''phenylkylamine'''<br /><br />
possibly a made-up substance<br />
<br />
'''rock and bob Hasidically'''<br /><br />
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim do when praying or studying religious texts.<br />
<br />
'''titrated'''<br /><br />
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (eg one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD).<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
<br />
==Endnote 26==<br />
<br />
'''enkephalin'''<br /><br />
a type of painkiller<br />
<br />
==Page 67 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''psychodysleptic'''<br /><br />
a drug that negative effects the take psychologically<br />
<br />
'''''in medias'''''<br /><br />
Latin: in the middle of<br />
<br />
'''oblique'''<br /><br />
neither perpendicular nor parallel<br />
<br />
'''deliquesce'''<br /><br />
to become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">68* · Kate Gompert in the Psych Ward</span><br />
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==Page 68==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''Watteau'''<br /><br />
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.<br />
<br />
'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States'''''<br /><br />
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.<br />
<br />
==Page 69==<br />
<br />
'''hypocapnia'''<br /><br />
reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation<br />
<br />
'''emery board'''<br /><br />
a disposable nail file<br />
<br />
'''Wellesley Hills'''<br /><br />
a section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston<br />
<br />
'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital'''<br /><br />
a real hospital<br />
<br />
'''Parnate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAO) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.<br />
<br />
'''dysphoria'''<br /><br />
feeling badly<br />
<br />
'''diurnal'''<br /><br />
during the day<br />
<br />
'''w/w/o'''<br /><br />
with and without<br />
<br />
'''CO'''<br /><br />
carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide<br />
<br />
'''hemotoxicity'''<br /><br />
poisonous blood level<br />
<br />
==Page 70==<br />
<br />
'''Librium'''<br /><br />
brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal<br />
<br />
'''Dretske'''<br /><br />
perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind<br />
<br />
'''Mydol'''<br /><br />
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol]<br />
<br />
'''trepidation'''<br /><br />
hesitancy caused by fear<br />
<br />
'''facial affect'''<br /><br />
emotions expressed on the face<br />
<br />
'''Lithonate'''<br /><br />
a brand name of lithium<br />
<br />
==Page 71==<br />
<br />
'''plestor'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter]<br />
<br />
'''plangent'''<br /><br />
loud and resounding<br />
<br />
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==Page 73==<br />
<br />
'''carpopedal'''<br /><br />
involving both the hands and feet<br />
<br />
'''tetanic'''<br /><br />
pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually<br />
<br />
==Page 74==<br />
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==Page 75==<br />
<br />
'''circumorals'''<br /><br />
muscles around the mouth<br />
<br />
'''thigmotactic'''<br /><br />
having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus<br />
<br />
'''dentate'''<br /><br />
having teeth<br />
<br />
'''synclinal'''<br /><br />
sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /<br />
<br />
'''Sinse'''<br /><br />
short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana<br />
<br />
'''duBois'''<br /><br />
fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette<br />
<br />
==Page 76==<br />
<br />
'''uremic'''<br /><br />
smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood<br />
<br />
==Endnote 30==<br />
<br />
'''boric acid'''<br /><br />
also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects<br />
<br />
==Page 77==<br />
<br />
'''the T'''<br /><br />
local transit in the Boston metro area<br />
<br />
==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."'''<br /><br />
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">78 · Medical Attaché Update #3</span><br />
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==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''0145h.'''<br /><br />
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.<br />
<br />
==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''rictus'''<br /><br />
a gaping grimace<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">79 · Schtitt & Mario</span><br />
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==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''Nick Bolletieri'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach]<br />
<br />
'''epaulets'''<br /><br />
military shoulder decorations on clothing<br />
<br />
'''a philosopher instead of a king'''<br /><br />
Although Plato stresses, in ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.<br />
<br />
'''F.R.G.'''<br /><br />
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989)<br />
<br />
'''leptosomatic'''<br /><br />
having a slender, frail build<br />
<br />
'''pedagogical'''<br /><br />
having to do with teaching<br />
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'''post-prandial'''<br /><br />
following a meal<br />
<br />
'''calliopsis'''<br /><br />
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis]<br />
<br />
'''quincunx'''<br /><br />
the arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right)[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]<br />
<br />
'''briers' yeasty musk'''<br /><br />
the yeasty smell arising from the brier patches<br />
<br />
'''bradykinetic'''<br /><br />
describing abnormally slow movement<br />
<br />
'''plosivity'''<br /><br />
referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Euclid'''<br /><br />
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."<br />
<br />
==Page 81==<br />
<br />
'''tympana'''<br /><br />
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.<br />
<br />
'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST'''''<br /><br />
<br />
The euphemistic translation aside, this literaly means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.<br />
<br />
'''discursive'''<br /><br />
rambling in speech<br />
<br />
'''wonk'''<br /><br />
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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==Page 82==<br />
<br />
'''simpatico'''<br /><br />
in agreement<br />
<br />
'''Hopman'''<br /><br />
either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman]<br />
<br />
==Endnote 34==<br />
<br />
'''Mandelbrotian'''<br /><br />
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.<br />
<br />
'''post-Gödelian'''<br /><br />
coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher<br />
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==Page 82 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''van der Meer'''<br /><br />
probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics<br />
<br />
'''fractal'''<br /><br />
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''aleatory'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to accidental causes<br />
<br />
'''''Lieber Gott nein'''''<br /><br />
German: Dear God, no<br />
<br />
'''''Gymanasium'''''<br /><br />
the equivalent of a U.S. college-prepatory high school<br />
<br />
'''appetitive will'''<br /><br />
that part of the will that desires physical things<br />
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<br />
'''''palestra'''''<br /><br />
an ancient Greek school of wrestling<br />
<br />
'''experialist'''<br /><br />
like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste<br />
<br />
'''''Verstiegenheit'''''<br /><br />
literally German for "eccentricity"<br />
<br />
'''''Platz'''''<br /><br />
German: a public square<br />
<br />
==Page 84==<br />
<br />
'''pirouetting'''<br /><br />
whirling on the toes<br />
<br />
==Page 85==<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">85 · Tiny Ewell in Detox</span><br />
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==Page 85==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''D.T.'''<br /><br />
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].<br />
<br />
==Page 86==<br />
<br />
'''12°C'''<br /><br />
~54°F<br />
<br />
==Page 87==<br />
<br />
'''skallycap'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">87 · Medical Attaché Update #4</span><br />
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==Page 87==<br />
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'''Seventh Day Adventist'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">87* · Marathe & Steeply</span><br />
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==Page 87==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''payloaders'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]<br />
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'''G. Ford - early G. Bush'''<br /><br />
Roughly 1974 to 1989.<br />
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'''S.A.C.'''<br /><br />
Strategic Air Command.<br />
<br />
'''neutron'''<br /><br />
A subatomic particle with no charge.<br />
<br />
'''gamma-refractive'''<br /><br />
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.<br />
<br />
'''lithium-adonized'''<br /><br />
Made more beautiful with lithium.<br />
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'''cold annular fusion'''<br /><br />
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a taurus (donut).<br />
<br />
'''Tableaux'''<br /><br />
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.<br />
<br />
'''homolosine-cartography'''<br /><br />
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].<br />
<br />
'''optative'''<br /><br />
Expressing a wish or choice.<br />
<br />
'''U.S.T.A.'''<br /><br />
United States Tennis Association.<br />
<br />
'''après-garde'''<br /><br />
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''<br />
<br />
==Endnote 24==<br />
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==Page 64 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''Macdonald Chair'''<br /><br />
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic.<br />
<br />
'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University'''<br /><br />
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal.<br />
<br />
'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems'''<br /><br />
These are two systems of cognition, the former is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the latter is rule-based and thus slower.<br />
<br />
'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement'''''<br /><br />
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.<br />
<br />
'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada'''<br /><br />
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.<br />
<br />
'''recondite'''<br /><br />
dealing with complex subject matter.<br />
<br />
'''mordantly'''<br /><br />
in a caustic manner.<br />
<br />
'''feck'''<br /><br />
efficacy; force; value.<br />
<br />
==Page 65==<br />
<br />
'''F.C.'''<br /><br />
Perhaps "formerly Canadian"<br />
<br />
'''A.E.C.'''<br /><br />
Atomic Energy Commission<br />
<br />
'''ARPA-NET'''<br /><br />
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.<br />
<br />
'''L'Islet County'''<br /><br />
a county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains<br />
<br />
'''hyperfloration'''<br /><br />
overgrowth of flowers or plants<br />
<br />
'''festschrift'''<br /><br />
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.<br />
<br />
'''anticonfluential'''<br /><br />
against things coming together<br />
<br />
'''chiaroscuro'''<br /><br />
distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting<br />
<br />
'''annulation'''<br /><br />
the formation of rings<br />
<br />
'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
grown exceeding large<br />
<br />
==Page 65==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''tacks'''<br /><br />
follows a zigzag course<br />
<br />
'''Mile-High'''<br /><br />
the stadium in which the Denver Broncos play<br />
<br />
'''100 meters over the 40'''<br /><br />
I.e., the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.<br />
<br />
'''nongarish'''<br /><br />
not garish, i.e., not excessively ornate<br />
<br />
==Page 66==<br />
<br />
'''zither'''<br /><br />
a harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels<br />
<br />
'''water-drops'''<br /><br />
being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks<br />
<br />
'''Oiler'''<br /><br />
the former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans<br />
<br />
'''Brown'''<br /><br />
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.<br />
<br />
==Page 66==<br />
<br />
'''organopsychedelic'''<br /><br />
a substance naturally producing a psychedelic effect<br />
<br />
'''isoxazole-alkaloid'''<br /><br />
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
<br />
'''methoxylated'''<br /><br />
Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."<br />
<br />
'''phenylkylamine'''<br /><br />
possibly a made-up substance<br />
<br />
'''rock and bob Hasidically'''<br /><br />
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim do when praying or studying religious texts.<br />
<br />
'''titrated'''<br /><br />
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (eg one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD).<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
<br />
==Endnote 26==<br />
<br />
'''enkephalin'''<br /><br />
a type of painkiller<br />
<br />
==Page 67 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''psychodysleptic'''<br /><br />
a drug that negative effects the take psychologically<br />
<br />
'''''in medias'''''<br /><br />
Latin: in the middle of<br />
<br />
'''oblique'''<br /><br />
neither perpendicular nor parallel<br />
<br />
'''deliquesce'''<br /><br />
to become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">68* · Kate Gompert in the Psych Ward</span><br />
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==Page 68==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''Watteau'''<br /><br />
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.<br />
<br />
'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States'''''<br /><br />
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.<br />
<br />
==Page 69==<br />
<br />
'''hypocapnia'''<br /><br />
reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation<br />
<br />
'''emery board'''<br /><br />
a disposable nail file<br />
<br />
'''Wellesley Hills'''<br /><br />
a section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston<br />
<br />
'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital'''<br /><br />
a real hospital<br />
<br />
'''Parnate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAO) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.<br />
<br />
'''dysphoria'''<br /><br />
feeling badly<br />
<br />
'''diurnal'''<br /><br />
during the day<br />
<br />
'''w/w/o'''<br /><br />
with and without<br />
<br />
'''CO'''<br /><br />
carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide<br />
<br />
'''hemotoxicity'''<br /><br />
poisonous blood level<br />
<br />
==Page 70==<br />
<br />
'''Librium'''<br /><br />
brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal<br />
<br />
'''Dretske'''<br /><br />
perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind<br />
<br />
'''Mydol'''<br /><br />
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol]<br />
<br />
'''trepidation'''<br /><br />
hesitancy caused by fear<br />
<br />
'''facial affect'''<br /><br />
emotions expressed on the face<br />
<br />
'''Lithonate'''<br /><br />
a brand name of lithium<br />
<br />
==Page 71==<br />
<br />
'''plestor'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter]<br />
<br />
'''plangent'''<br /><br />
loud and resounding<br />
<br />
==Page 72==<br />
<br />
==Page 73==<br />
<br />
'''carpopedal'''<br /><br />
involving both the hands and feet<br />
<br />
'''tetanic'''<br /><br />
pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually<br />
<br />
==Page 74==<br />
<br />
==Page 75==<br />
<br />
'''circumorals'''<br /><br />
muscles around the mouth<br />
<br />
'''thigmotactic'''<br /><br />
having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus<br />
<br />
'''dentate'''<br /><br />
having teeth<br />
<br />
'''synclinal'''<br /><br />
sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /<br />
<br />
'''Sinse'''<br /><br />
short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana<br />
<br />
'''duBois'''<br /><br />
fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette<br />
<br />
==Page 76==<br />
<br />
'''uremic'''<br /><br />
smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood<br />
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==Endnote 30==<br />
<br />
'''boric acid'''<br /><br />
also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects<br />
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'''the T'''<br /><br />
local transit in the Boston metro area<br />
<br />
==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."'''<br /><br />
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].<br />
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==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''0145h.'''<br /><br />
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.<br />
<br />
==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''rictus'''<br /><br />
a gaping grimace<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">79 · Schtitt & Mario</span><br />
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==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''Nick Bolletieri'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach]<br />
<br />
'''epaulets'''<br /><br />
military shoulder decorations on clothing<br />
<br />
'''a philosopher instead of a king'''<br /><br />
Although Plato stresses, in ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.<br />
<br />
'''F.R.G.'''<br /><br />
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989)<br />
<br />
'''leptosomatic'''<br /><br />
having a slender, frail build<br />
<br />
'''pedagogical'''<br /><br />
having to do with teaching<br />
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==Page 80==<br />
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'''post-prandial'''<br /><br />
following a meal<br />
<br />
'''calliopsis'''<br /><br />
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis]<br />
<br />
'''quincunx'''<br /><br />
the arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right)[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]<br />
<br />
'''briers' yeasty musk'''<br /><br />
the yeasty smell arising from the brier patches<br />
<br />
'''bradykinetic'''<br /><br />
describing abnormally slow movement<br />
<br />
'''plosivity'''<br /><br />
referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Euclid'''<br /><br />
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."<br />
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==Page 81==<br />
<br />
'''tympana'''<br /><br />
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.<br />
<br />
'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST'''''<br /><br />
<br />
The euphemistic translation aside, this literaly means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.<br />
<br />
'''discursive'''<br /><br />
rambling in speech<br />
<br />
'''wonk'''<br /><br />
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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'''simpatico'''<br /><br />
in agreement<br />
<br />
'''Hopman'''<br /><br />
either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman]<br />
<br />
==Endnote 34==<br />
<br />
'''Mandelbrotian'''<br /><br />
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.<br />
<br />
'''post-Gödelian'''<br /><br />
coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher<br />
<br />
==Page 82 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''van der Meer'''<br /><br />
probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics<br />
<br />
'''fractal'''<br /><br />
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''aleatory'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to accidental causes<br />
<br />
'''''Lieber Gott nein'''''<br /><br />
German: Dear God, no<br />
<br />
'''''Gymanasium'''''<br /><br />
the equivalent of a U.S. college-prepatory high school<br />
<br />
'''appetitive will'''<br /><br />
that part of the will that desires physical things<br />
<br />
==Page 83==<br />
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'''''palestra'''''<br /><br />
an ancient Greek school of wrestling<br />
<br />
'''experialist'''<br /><br />
like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste<br />
<br />
'''''Verstiegenheit'''''<br /><br />
literally German for "eccentricity"<br />
<br />
'''''Platz'''''<br /><br />
German: a public square<br />
<br />
==Page 84==<br />
<br />
'''pirouetting'''<br /><br />
whirling on the toes<br />
<br />
==Page 85==<br />
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==Page 85==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''D.T.'''<br /><br />
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].<br />
<br />
==Page 86==<br />
<br />
'''12°C'''<br /><br />
~54°F<br />
<br />
==Page 87==<br />
<br />
'''skallycap'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]<br />
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==Page 87==<br />
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'''Seventh Day Adventist'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">87* · Marathe & Steeply</span><br />
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==Page 87==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''payloaders'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]<br />
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'''G. Ford - early G. Bush'''<br /><br />
Roughly 1974 to 1989.<br />
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'''S.A.C.'''<br /><br />
Strategic Air Command.<br />
<br />
'''neutron'''<br /><br />
A subatomic particle with no charge.<br />
<br />
'''gamma-refractive'''<br /><br />
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.<br />
<br />
'''lithium-adonized'''<br /><br />
Made more beautiful with lithium.<br />
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'''cold annular fusion'''<br /><br />
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a taurus (donut).<br />
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'''Tableaux'''<br /><br />
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.<br />
<br />
'''homolosine-cartography'''<br /><br />
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].<br />
<br />
'''optative'''<br /><br />
Expressing a wish or choice.<br />
<br />
'''U.S.T.A.'''<br /><br />
United States Tennis Association.<br />
<br />
'''après-garde'''<br /><br />
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''<br />
<br />
==Endnote 24==<br />
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==Page 64 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''Macdonald Chair'''<br /><br />
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic<br />
<br />
'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University'''<br /><br />
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal<br />
<br />
'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems'''<br /><br />
These are two systems of cognition, the former is associative, rapid in processing, and subconcious, while the latter is rule-based and thus slower.<br />
<br />
'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement'''''<br /><br />
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely<br />
<br />
'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada'''<br /><br />
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.<br />
<br />
'''recondite'''<br /><br />
dealing with complex subject matter<br />
<br />
'''mordantly'''<br /><br />
in a caustic manner<br />
<br />
'''feck'''<br /><br />
efficacy; force; value<br />
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'''F.C.'''<br /><br />
Perhaps "formerly Canadian"<br />
<br />
'''A.E.C.'''<br /><br />
Atomic Energy Commission<br />
<br />
'''ARPA-NET'''<br /><br />
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.<br />
<br />
'''L'Islet County'''<br /><br />
a county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains<br />
<br />
'''hyperfloration'''<br /><br />
overgrowth of flowers or plants<br />
<br />
'''festschrift'''<br /><br />
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.<br />
<br />
'''anticonfluential'''<br /><br />
against things coming together<br />
<br />
'''chiaroscuro'''<br /><br />
distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting<br />
<br />
'''annulation'''<br /><br />
the formation of rings<br />
<br />
'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
grown exceeding large<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''tacks'''<br /><br />
follows a zigzag course<br />
<br />
'''Mile-High'''<br /><br />
the stadium in which the Denver Broncos play<br />
<br />
'''100 meters over the 40'''<br /><br />
I.e., the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.<br />
<br />
'''nongarish'''<br /><br />
not garish, i.e., not excessively ornate<br />
<br />
==Page 66==<br />
<br />
'''zither'''<br /><br />
a harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels<br />
<br />
'''water-drops'''<br /><br />
being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks<br />
<br />
'''Oiler'''<br /><br />
the former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans<br />
<br />
'''Brown'''<br /><br />
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.<br />
<br />
==Page 66==<br />
<br />
'''organopsychedelic'''<br /><br />
a substance naturally producing a psychedelic effect<br />
<br />
'''isoxazole-alkaloid'''<br /><br />
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
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'''methoxylated'''<br /><br />
Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."<br />
<br />
'''phenylkylamine'''<br /><br />
possibly a made-up substance<br />
<br />
'''rock and bob Hasidically'''<br /><br />
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim do when praying or studying religious texts.<br />
<br />
'''titrated'''<br /><br />
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (eg one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD).<br />
<br />
==Page 67==<br />
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==Endnote 26==<br />
<br />
'''enkephalin'''<br /><br />
a type of painkiller<br />
<br />
==Page 67 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''psychodysleptic'''<br /><br />
a drug that negative effects the take psychologically<br />
<br />
'''''in medias'''''<br /><br />
Latin: in the middle of<br />
<br />
'''oblique'''<br /><br />
neither perpendicular nor parallel<br />
<br />
'''deliquesce'''<br /><br />
to become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air<br />
<br />
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==Page 68==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''Watteau'''<br /><br />
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.<br />
<br />
'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States'''''<br /><br />
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.<br />
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==Page 69==<br />
<br />
'''hypocapnia'''<br /><br />
reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation<br />
<br />
'''emery board'''<br /><br />
a disposable nail file<br />
<br />
'''Wellesley Hills'''<br /><br />
a section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston<br />
<br />
'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital'''<br /><br />
a real hospital<br />
<br />
'''Parnate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAO) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.<br />
<br />
'''dysphoria'''<br /><br />
feeling badly<br />
<br />
'''diurnal'''<br /><br />
during the day<br />
<br />
'''w/w/o'''<br /><br />
with and without<br />
<br />
'''CO'''<br /><br />
carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide<br />
<br />
'''hemotoxicity'''<br /><br />
poisonous blood level<br />
<br />
==Page 70==<br />
<br />
'''Librium'''<br /><br />
brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal<br />
<br />
'''Dretske'''<br /><br />
perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind<br />
<br />
'''Mydol'''<br /><br />
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol]<br />
<br />
'''trepidation'''<br /><br />
hesitancy caused by fear<br />
<br />
'''facial affect'''<br /><br />
emotions expressed on the face<br />
<br />
'''Lithonate'''<br /><br />
a brand name of lithium<br />
<br />
==Page 71==<br />
<br />
'''plestor'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter]<br />
<br />
'''plangent'''<br /><br />
loud and resounding<br />
<br />
==Page 72==<br />
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==Page 73==<br />
<br />
'''carpopedal'''<br /><br />
involving both the hands and feet<br />
<br />
'''tetanic'''<br /><br />
pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually<br />
<br />
==Page 74==<br />
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==Page 75==<br />
<br />
'''circumorals'''<br /><br />
muscles around the mouth<br />
<br />
'''thigmotactic'''<br /><br />
having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus<br />
<br />
'''dentate'''<br /><br />
having teeth<br />
<br />
'''synclinal'''<br /><br />
sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /<br />
<br />
'''Sinse'''<br /><br />
short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana<br />
<br />
'''duBois'''<br /><br />
fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette<br />
<br />
==Page 76==<br />
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'''uremic'''<br /><br />
smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood<br />
<br />
==Endnote 30==<br />
<br />
'''boric acid'''<br /><br />
also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects<br />
<br />
==Page 77==<br />
<br />
'''the T'''<br /><br />
local transit in the Boston metro area<br />
<br />
==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."'''<br /><br />
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">78 · Medical Attaché Update #3</span><br />
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==Page 78==<br />
<br />
'''0145h.'''<br /><br />
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.<br />
<br />
==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''rictus'''<br /><br />
a gaping grimace<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">79 · Schtitt & Mario</span><br />
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==Page 79==<br />
<br />
'''Nick Bolletieri'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach]<br />
<br />
'''epaulets'''<br /><br />
military shoulder decorations on clothing<br />
<br />
'''a philosopher instead of a king'''<br /><br />
Although Plato stresses, in ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.<br />
<br />
'''F.R.G.'''<br /><br />
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989)<br />
<br />
'''leptosomatic'''<br /><br />
having a slender, frail build<br />
<br />
'''pedagogical'''<br /><br />
having to do with teaching<br />
<br />
==Page 80==<br />
<br />
'''post-prandial'''<br /><br />
following a meal<br />
<br />
'''calliopsis'''<br /><br />
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis]<br />
<br />
'''quincunx'''<br /><br />
the arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right)[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]<br />
<br />
'''briers' yeasty musk'''<br /><br />
the yeasty smell arising from the brier patches<br />
<br />
'''bradykinetic'''<br /><br />
describing abnormally slow movement<br />
<br />
'''plosivity'''<br /><br />
referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Euclid'''<br /><br />
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."<br />
<br />
==Page 81==<br />
<br />
'''tympana'''<br /><br />
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.<br />
<br />
'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST'''''<br /><br />
<br />
The euphemistic translation aside, this literaly means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.<br />
<br />
'''discursive'''<br /><br />
rambling in speech<br />
<br />
'''wonk'''<br /><br />
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
==Page 82==<br />
<br />
'''simpatico'''<br /><br />
in agreement<br />
<br />
'''Hopman'''<br /><br />
either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman]<br />
<br />
==Endnote 34==<br />
<br />
'''Mandelbrotian'''<br /><br />
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.<br />
<br />
'''post-Gödelian'''<br /><br />
coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher<br />
<br />
==Page 82 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''van der Meer'''<br /><br />
probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics<br />
<br />
'''fractal'''<br /><br />
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''aleatory'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to accidental causes<br />
<br />
'''''Lieber Gott nein'''''<br /><br />
German: Dear God, no<br />
<br />
'''''Gymanasium'''''<br /><br />
the equivalent of a U.S. college-prepatory high school<br />
<br />
'''appetitive will'''<br /><br />
that part of the will that desires physical things<br />
<br />
==Page 83==<br />
<br />
'''''palestra'''''<br /><br />
an ancient Greek school of wrestling<br />
<br />
'''experialist'''<br /><br />
like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste<br />
<br />
'''''Verstiegenheit'''''<br /><br />
literally German for "eccentricity"<br />
<br />
'''''Platz'''''<br /><br />
German: a public square<br />
<br />
==Page 84==<br />
<br />
'''pirouetting'''<br /><br />
whirling on the toes<br />
<br />
==Page 85==<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">85 · Tiny Ewell in Detox</span><br />
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==Page 85==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''D.T.'''<br /><br />
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].<br />
<br />
==Page 86==<br />
<br />
'''12°C'''<br /><br />
~54°F<br />
<br />
==Page 87==<br />
<br />
'''skallycap'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]<br />
<br />
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==Page 87==<br />
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'''Seventh Day Adventist'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"<br />
<br />
<span class="marker">87* · Marathe & Steeply</span><br />
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==Page 87==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''payloaders'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]<br />
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'''G. Ford - early G. Bush'''<br /><br />
Roughly 1974 to 1989.<br />
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'''S.A.C.'''<br /><br />
Strategic Air Command.<br />
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'''neutron'''<br /><br />
A subatomic particle with no charge.<br />
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'''gamma-refractive'''<br /><br />
Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.<br />
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'''lithium-adonized'''<br /><br />
Made more beautiful with lithium.<br />
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'''cold annular fusion'''<br /><br />
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped.<br />
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'''Tableaux'''<br /><br />
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.<br />
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'''homolosine-cartography'''<br /><br />
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].<br />
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'''optative'''<br /><br />
expressing a wish or choice<br />
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'''U.S.T.A.'''<br /><br />
United States Tennis Assocation<br />
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'''après-garde'''<br /><br />
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''<br />
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==Endnote 24==<br />
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'''Macdonald Chair'''<br /><br />
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic<br />
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'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University'''<br /><br />
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal<br />
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'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems'''<br /><br />
These are two systems of cognition, the former is associative, rapid in processing, and subconcious, while the latter is rule-based and thus slower.<br />
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'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement'''''<br /><br />
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely<br />
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'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada'''<br /><br />
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.<br />
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'''recondite'''<br /><br />
dealing with complex subject matter<br />
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'''mordantly'''<br /><br />
in a caustic manner<br />
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'''feck'''<br /><br />
efficacy; force; value<br />
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'''F.C.'''<br /><br />
Perhaps "formerly Canadian"<br />
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'''A.E.C.'''<br /><br />
Atomic Energy Commission<br />
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'''ARPA-NET'''<br /><br />
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.<br />
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'''L'Islet County'''<br /><br />
a county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains<br />
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'''hyperfloration'''<br /><br />
overgrowth of flowers or plants<br />
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'''festschrift'''<br /><br />
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.<br />
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'''anticonfluential'''<br /><br />
against things coming together<br />
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'''chiaroscuro'''<br /><br />
distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting<br />
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'''annulation'''<br /><br />
the formation of rings<br />
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'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
grown exceeding large<br />
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'''tacks'''<br /><br />
follows a zigzag course<br />
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'''Mile-High'''<br /><br />
the stadium in which the Denver Broncos play<br />
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'''100 meters over the 40'''<br /><br />
I.e., the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.<br />
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'''nongarish'''<br /><br />
not garish, i.e., not excessively ornate<br />
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'''zither'''<br /><br />
a harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels<br />
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'''water-drops'''<br /><br />
being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks<br />
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'''Oiler'''<br /><br />
the former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans<br />
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'''Brown'''<br /><br />
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.<br />
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'''organopsychedelic'''<br /><br />
a substance naturally producing a psychedelic effect<br />
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'''isoxazole-alkaloid'''<br /><br />
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.<br />
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'''methoxylated'''<br /><br />
Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."<br />
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'''phenylkylamine'''<br /><br />
possibly a made-up substance<br />
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'''rock and bob Hasidically'''<br /><br />
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim do when praying or studying religious texts.<br />
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'''titrated'''<br /><br />
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (eg one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD).<br />
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==Endnote 26==<br />
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'''enkephalin'''<br /><br />
a type of painkiller<br />
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'''psychodysleptic'''<br /><br />
a drug that negative effects the take psychologically<br />
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'''''in medias'''''<br /><br />
Latin: in the middle of<br />
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'''oblique'''<br /><br />
neither perpendicular nor parallel<br />
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'''deliquesce'''<br /><br />
to become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''Watteau'''<br /><br />
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.<br />
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'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States'''''<br /><br />
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.<br />
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'''hypocapnia'''<br /><br />
reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation<br />
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'''emery board'''<br /><br />
a disposable nail file<br />
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'''Wellesley Hills'''<br /><br />
a section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston<br />
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'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital'''<br /><br />
a real hospital<br />
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'''Parnate'''<br /><br />
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAO) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.<br />
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'''dysphoria'''<br /><br />
feeling badly<br />
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'''diurnal'''<br /><br />
during the day<br />
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'''w/w/o'''<br /><br />
with and without<br />
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'''CO'''<br /><br />
carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide<br />
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'''hemotoxicity'''<br /><br />
poisonous blood level<br />
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'''Librium'''<br /><br />
brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal<br />
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'''Dretske'''<br /><br />
perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind<br />
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'''Mydol'''<br /><br />
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol]<br />
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'''trepidation'''<br /><br />
hesitancy caused by fear<br />
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'''facial affect'''<br /><br />
emotions expressed on the face<br />
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'''Lithonate'''<br /><br />
a brand name of lithium<br />
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'''plestor'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter]<br />
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'''plangent'''<br /><br />
loud and resounding<br />
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'''carpopedal'''<br /><br />
involving both the hands and feet<br />
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'''tetanic'''<br /><br />
pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually<br />
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'''circumorals'''<br /><br />
muscles around the mouth<br />
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'''thigmotactic'''<br /><br />
having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus<br />
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'''dentate'''<br /><br />
having teeth<br />
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'''synclinal'''<br /><br />
sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /<br />
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'''Sinse'''<br /><br />
short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana<br />
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'''duBois'''<br /><br />
fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette<br />
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'''uremic'''<br /><br />
smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood<br />
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==Endnote 30==<br />
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'''boric acid'''<br /><br />
also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects<br />
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'''the T'''<br /><br />
local transit in the Boston metro area<br />
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==Page 78==<br />
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'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."'''<br /><br />
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].<br />
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'''0145h.'''<br /><br />
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.<br />
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==Page 79==<br />
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'''rictus'''<br /><br />
a gaping grimace<br />
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<span class="marker">79 · Schtitt & Mario</span><br />
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'''Nick Bolletieri'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach]<br />
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'''epaulets'''<br /><br />
military shoulder decorations on clothing<br />
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'''a philosopher instead of a king'''<br /><br />
Although Plato stresses, in ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.<br />
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'''F.R.G.'''<br /><br />
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989)<br />
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'''leptosomatic'''<br /><br />
having a slender, frail build<br />
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'''pedagogical'''<br /><br />
having to do with teaching<br />
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'''post-prandial'''<br /><br />
following a meal<br />
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'''calliopsis'''<br /><br />
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis]<br />
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'''quincunx'''<br /><br />
the arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right)[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]<br />
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'''briers' yeasty musk'''<br /><br />
the yeasty smell arising from the brier patches<br />
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'''bradykinetic'''<br /><br />
describing abnormally slow movement<br />
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'''plosivity'''<br /><br />
referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, etc.<br />
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'''Euclid'''<br /><br />
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."<br />
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'''tympana'''<br /><br />
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.<br />
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'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST'''''<br /><br />
<br />
The euphemistic translation aside, this literaly means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.<br />
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'''discursive'''<br /><br />
rambling in speech<br />
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'''wonk'''<br /><br />
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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'''simpatico'''<br /><br />
in agreement<br />
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'''Hopman'''<br /><br />
either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman]<br />
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==Endnote 34==<br />
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'''Mandelbrotian'''<br /><br />
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.<br />
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'''post-Gödelian'''<br /><br />
coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher<br />
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'''van der Meer'''<br /><br />
probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics<br />
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'''fractal'''<br /><br />
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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'''aleatory'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to accidental causes<br />
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'''''Lieber Gott nein'''''<br /><br />
German: Dear God, no<br />
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'''''Gymanasium'''''<br /><br />
the equivalent of a U.S. college-prepatory high school<br />
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'''appetitive will'''<br /><br />
that part of the will that desires physical things<br />
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'''''palestra'''''<br /><br />
an ancient Greek school of wrestling<br />
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'''experialist'''<br /><br />
like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste<br />
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'''''Verstiegenheit'''''<br /><br />
literally German for "eccentricity"<br />
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'''''Platz'''''<br /><br />
German: a public square<br />
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'''pirouetting'''<br /><br />
whirling on the toes<br />
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<span class="marker">85 · Tiny Ewell in Detox</span><br />
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'''D.T.'''<br /><br />
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].<br />
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'''12°C'''<br /><br />
~54°F<br />
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'''skallycap'''<br /><br />
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]<br />
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<span class="marker">87 · Medical Attaché Update #4</span><br />
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'''Seventh Day Adventist'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"<br />
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<span class="marker">87* · Marathe & Steeply</span><br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''payloaders'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]<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 who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].<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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'''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 town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.<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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'''Avers'''<br /><br />
Asserts.<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 />
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'''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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'''"...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, 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 />
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'''"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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'''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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'''phonetic perspective'''<br /><br />
Judging from the way the words sound when spoken.<br />
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'''lapidary'''<br /><br />
"Marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression: lapidary prose" (''thefreedictionary.com'').<br />
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'''effete'''<br /><br />
Overrefined. <br />
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'''Prescriptive Grammar'''<br /><br />
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.<br />
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'''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 />
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'''Stasis'''<br /><br />
Inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing forces [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stasis].<br/><br />
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'''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 />
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'''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 />
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'''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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'''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 />
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'''hyperthrophied'''<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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'''insigniated'''<br /><br />
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia).<br />
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'''N.A.A.U.P.'''<br /><br />
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.<br />
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'''de moi'''<br /><br />
French: from me.<br />
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'''"...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 />
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'''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 />
<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 />
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<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 />
'''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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<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 />
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'''ROM'''<br /><br />
read only memory <br />
<br />
'''Kirkegaard'''<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 pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."<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 />
'''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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<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thumb|100px|Whataburger logo|right]]<br />
Synechdoche 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 Pheonix (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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<br />
'''espadrilles'''<br /><br />
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles<br />
<br />
'''savant'''<br /> <br />
Mentally handicapped but brilliant in one specific way. <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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<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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'''"...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, epilectics, 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 />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''girder'''<br /> <br />
An upright beam<br />
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'''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 />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''"own marijuana"'''<br /><br />
To physically posses marijuana. <br />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''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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==Page 21==<br />
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'''convulsive'''<br /><br />
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking<br />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''raptly'''<br /><br />
with intense attention to<br />
<br />
'''cartridge'''<br /><br />
See ''Interlace viewer'', above<br />
<br />
'''debauch'''<br /><br />
an episode of debauchery, engaging in excessive, pleasure-seeking, often sexual- or drug/alcohol-related<br />
<br />
'''120 grams'''<br /><br />
about 4.2 ounces<br />
<br />
'''debased'''<br /><br />
of low character and lacking integrity<br />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''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 />
a mixture of varying style or content<br />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''50 grams'''<br /><br />
about 1.75 ounces<br />
<br />
'''hydroponic'''<br /><br />
grown in water without soil<br />
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==Page 25==<br />
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'''stein'''<br /><br />
a drinking mug<br />
<br />
'''E.W.D. land barge'''<br /><br />
perhaps "Enfield Waste Disposal"; a garbage truck<br />
<br />
'''phallocentric'''<br /><br />
biased from a male point of view<br />
<br />
'''half a meter'''<br /><br />
nearly 20 inches<br />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''oblique'''<br /><br />
slanted, like an acute or obtuse angle, not a right-angle<br />
<br />
'''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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'''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 who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].<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 />
<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 town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.<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 />
'''Avers'''<br /><br />
Asserts.<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 />
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==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, 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 />
'''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 />
'''phonetic perspective'''<br /><br />
Judging from the way the words sound when spoken.<br />
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==Page 7==<br />
<br />
'''lapidary'''<br /><br />
"Marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression: lapidary prose" (''thefreedictionary.com'').<br />
<br />
'''effete'''<br /><br />
Overrefined. <br />
<br />
'''Prescriptive Grammar'''<br /><br />
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.<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 />
'''hyperthrophied'''<br /><br />
Growth of tissue, especially muscle. Although there are many causes, the most common is exercise. (see, contra, ''atrophied''.)<br />
<br />
==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 />
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==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 />
'''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 />
<br />
==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 />
==Page 12==<br />
<br />
'''ROM'''<br /><br />
read only memory <br />
<br />
'''Kirkegaard'''<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 />
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'''Hegel'''<br /><br />
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.<br />
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'''creatus'''<br /><br />
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."<br />
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'''pinion'''<br /><br />
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')<br />
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'''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 />
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'''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 />
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'''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 />
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'''roil'''<br /><br />
To move about in whirling manner. <br />
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'''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 />
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'''supine'''<br /><br />
lying on one's back<br />
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'''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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<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thumb|100px|Whataburger logo|right]]<br />
Synechdoche 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 Pheonix (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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'''espadrilles'''<br /><br />
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles<br />
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'''savant'''<br /> <br />
Mentally handicapped but brilliant in one specific way. <br />
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'''shunt'''<br /><br />
To shove.<br />
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'''kangaroo-interview'''<br /><br />
Alludes to kangaroo-court, a sham legal proceeding.<br />
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'''leonine'''<br /><br />
lion-like<br />
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'''cirri'''<br /><br />
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud<br />
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'''vectors''' <br /><br />
Direct paths to desired locations<br />
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'''martinet'''<br /><br />
a strict disciplinarian<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 />
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'''barnwood'''<br /><br />
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (<i>Random House Unabridged Dictionary</i>).<br />
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'''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 />
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'''gigantism'''<br /><br />
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''<br />
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'''parodic'''<br /><br />
having the qualities of a parody<br />
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'''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 />
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'''incisionish'''<br /><br />
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"<br />
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'''hypophalangial'''<br /><br />
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands<br />
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'''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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'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."'''<br /><br />
See <i>Hamlet</i>, Act Five, Scene One.<br />
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'''Venus Williams'''<br /><br />
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.<br />
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'''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, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.<br />
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'''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 />
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"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., <i>kohen</i>.<br />
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'''etiology'''<br /><br />
the cause of a disease<br />
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'''Socratic method'''<br />
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece<br />
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'''<i>O.E.D. VI</i>'s count'''<br /><br />
This is a reference to the <i>Oxford English Dictionary</i>, sixth edition.<br />
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'''nonarchaic'''<br /><br />
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language<br />
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'''Latinate'''<br /><br />
deriving from Latin<br />
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'''Saxonic'''<br /><br />
deriving from Old English<br />
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'''quick-bit'''<br /><br />
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips<br />
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'''jou'''<br /><br />
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''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 posses 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 />
a mixture of varying style or content<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 />
perhaps "Enfield 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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'''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 who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].<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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'''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 town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.<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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'''Avers'''<br /><br />
Asserts.<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 />
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'''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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'''"...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, 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 />
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'''"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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'''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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'''phonetic perspective'''<br /><br />
Judging from the way the words sound when spoken.<br />
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'''lapidary'''<br /><br />
"Marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression: lapidary prose" (''thefreedictionary.com'').<br />
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'''effete'''<br /><br />
Overrefined. <br />
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'''Prescriptive Grammar'''<br /><br />
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.<br />
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'''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 />
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'''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 />
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'''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 />
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'''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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'''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 />
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'''hyperthrophied'''<br /><br />
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (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 />
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'''N.A.A.U.P.'''<br /><br />
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.<br />
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'''de moi'''<br /><br />
French: from me<br />
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'''"...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 />
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'''defacatory'''<br /><br />
As if eliminating solid bodily waste<br />
<br />
'''Don''' <br /><br />
A mafia boss<br />
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'''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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'''vortexing''' <br /> <br />
whirling <br />
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'''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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'''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 />
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[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]<br />
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'''hirsute'''<br /><br />
hairy<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 />
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'''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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'''ROM'''<br /><br />
read only memory <br />
<br />
'''Kirkegaard'''<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 />
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'''"...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 />
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'''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 pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."<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 />
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'''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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<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thumb|100px|Whataburger logo|right]]<br />
Synechdoche 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 Pheonix (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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'''espadrilles'''<br /><br />
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles<br />
<br />
'''savant'''<br /> <br />
Mentally handicapped but brilliant in one specific way. <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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'''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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'''"...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, epilectics, 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 />
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"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 />
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'''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 />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''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 />
<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 />
<br />
'''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 posses marijuana. <br />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''120 grams'''<br /><br />
about 4.2 ounces<br />
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'''debased'''<br /><br />
of low character and lacking integrity<br />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''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 />
a mixture of varying style or content<br />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''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 />
perhaps "Enfield 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 />
<br />
'''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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'''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 who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].<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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'''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 town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.<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 />
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'''Avers'''<br /><br />
Asserts.<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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'''"...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, 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 />
<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 />
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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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'''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 />
'''phonetic perspective'''<br /><br />
Judging from the way the words sound when spoken.<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'')<br />
<br />
'''effete'''<br /><br />
Overrefined. <br />
<br />
'''Prescriptive Grammar'''<br /><br />
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.<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 />
<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 />
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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 />
'''hyperthrophied'''<br /><br />
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (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 />
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==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 />
'''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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<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 />
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'''ROM'''<br /><br />
read only memory <br />
<br />
'''Kirkegaard'''<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 pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."<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 />
'''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 />
Synechdoche 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 Pheonix (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 American with rope for soles<br />
<br />
'''savant'''<br /> <br />
Mentally handicapped but brilliant in one specific way. <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 />
<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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'''"...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, epilectics, 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 />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''girder'''<br /> <br />
An upright beam<br />
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'''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 />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''"own marijuana"'''<br /><br />
To physically posses marijuana. <br />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''debauch'''<br /><br />
an episode of debauchery, engaging in excessive, pleasure-seeking, often sexual- or drug/alcohol-related<br />
<br />
'''120 grams'''<br /><br />
about 4.2 ounces<br />
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'''debased'''<br /><br />
of low character and lacking integrity<br />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''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 />
a mixture of varying style or content<br />
<br />
'''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 />
perhaps "Enfield 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 />
<br />
'''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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'''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 who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].<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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'''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 town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.<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 />
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'''Avers'''<br /><br />
Asserts.<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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'''"...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, 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 />
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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 />
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'''"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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'''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 />
'''phonetic perspective'''<br /><br />
Judging from the way the words sound when spoken.<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'')<br />
<br />
'''effete'''<br /><br />
Overrefined. <br />
<br />
'''Prescriptive Grammar'''<br /><br />
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.<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 />
<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 />
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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 />
'''hyperthrophied'''<br /><br />
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (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 />
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==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 />
'''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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'''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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==Page 12==<br />
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'''ROM'''<br /><br />
read only memory <br />
<br />
'''Kirkegaard'''<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 pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."<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 />
'''Nunn Bush'''<br /><br />
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.<br />
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<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 />
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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 />
Synechdoche 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 Pheonix (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 American with rope for soles<br />
<br />
'''savant'''<br /> <br />
Mentally handicapped but brilliant in one specific way. <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 />
<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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'''"...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, epilectics, 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 />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''girder'''<br /> <br />
An upright beam<br />
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<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 />
<br />
'''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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==Page 19==<br />
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'''TP'''<br /><br />
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.<br />
<br />
'''"own marijuana"'''<br /><br />
To physically posses marijuana. <br />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''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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==Page 20==<br />
<br />
'''Mountie'''<br /><br />
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI<br />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''debauch'''<br /><br />
an episode of debauchery, engaging in excessive, pleasure-seeking, often sexual- or drug/alcohol-related<br />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''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 />
a mixture of varying style or content<br />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''50 grams'''<br /><br />
about 1.75 ounces<br />
<br />
'''hydroponic'''<br /><br />
grown in water without soil<br />
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'''stein'''<br /><br />
a drinking mug<br />
<br />
'''E.W.D. land barge'''<br /><br />
perhaps "Enfield Waste Disposal"; a garbage truck<br />
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'''phallocentric'''<br /><br />
biased from a male point of view<br />
<br />
'''half a meter'''<br /><br />
nearly 20 inches<br />
<br />
'''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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'''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 who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].<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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'''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 town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.<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 />
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'''Avers'''<br /><br />
Asserts.<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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'''"...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 himself, three deans, the Director of Composition, 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, AB.<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 snakes 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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'''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 />
'''phonetic perspective'''<br /><br />
Judging from the way the words sound when spoken.<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'')<br />
<br />
'''effete'''<br /><br />
Overrefined. <br />
<br />
'''Prescriptive Grammar'''<br /><br />
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.<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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'''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 />
'''hyperthrophied'''<br /><br />
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (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 />
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==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 />
'''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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'''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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'''ROM'''<br /><br />
read only memory <br />
<br />
'''Kirkegaard'''<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 pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."<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 />
'''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 />
Synechdoche 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 Pheonix (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 American with rope for soles<br />
<br />
'''savant'''<br /> <br />
Mentally handicapped but brilliant in one specific way. <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 />
<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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'''"...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, epilectics, 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 />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''girder'''<br /> <br />
An upright beam<br />
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<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 />
<br />
'''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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==Page 19==<br />
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'''TP'''<br /><br />
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.<br />
<br />
'''"own marijuana"'''<br /><br />
To physically posses marijuana. <br />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''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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==Page 20==<br />
<br />
'''Mountie'''<br /><br />
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI<br />
<br />
'''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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==Page 21==<br />
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'''convulsive'''<br /><br />
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking<br />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''rapacious'''<br /><br />
Aggressively greedy. <br />
<br />
==Page 22==<br />
<br />
'''pleurisy'''<br /><br />
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs<br />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''raptly'''<br /><br />
with intense attention to<br />
<br />
'''cartridge'''<br /><br />
See ''Interlace viewer'', above<br />
<br />
'''debauch'''<br /><br />
an episode of debauchery, engaging in excessive, pleasure-seeking, often sexual- or drug/alcohol-related<br />
<br />
'''120 grams'''<br /><br />
about 4.2 ounces<br />
<br />
'''debased'''<br /><br />
of low character and lacking integrity<br />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''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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==Page 23==<br />
<br />
'''appropriation'''<br /><br />
taking something as one's own, without permission<br />
<br />
'''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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==Page 24==<br />
<br />
'''pastiche'''<br /><br />
a mixture of varying style or content<br />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''50 grams'''<br /><br />
about 1.75 ounces<br />
<br />
'''hydroponic'''<br /><br />
grown in water without soil<br />
<br />
==Page 25==<br />
<br />
'''stein'''<br /><br />
a drinking mug<br />
<br />
'''E.W.D. land barge'''<br /><br />
perhaps "Enfield Waste Disposal"; a garbage truck<br />
<br />
'''phallocentric'''<br /><br />
biased from a male point of view<br />
<br />
'''half a meter'''<br /><br />
nearly 20 inches<br />
<br />
'''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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'''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 who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].<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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'''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 town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.<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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'''avers'''<br /><br />
Asserts<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 />
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'''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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'''"...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 himself, three deans, the Director of Composition, 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, AB.<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 />
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'''"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 snakes 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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'''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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'''phonetic perspective'''<br /><br />
Judging from the way the words sound when spoken.<br />
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'''lapidary'''<br /><br />
"Marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression: lapidary prose" (''thefreedictionary.com'')<br />
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'''effete'''<br /><br />
Overrefined. <br />
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'''Prescriptive Grammar'''<br /><br />
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.<br />
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'''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 />
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'''Stasis'''<br /><br />
Inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing forces [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stasis]<br/><br />
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'''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 />
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'''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 />
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'''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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'''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 />
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'''hyperthrophied'''<br /><br />
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (see, contra, ''atrophied'')<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 />
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'''N.A.A.U.P.'''<br /><br />
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.<br />
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'''de moi'''<br /><br />
French: from me<br />
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'''"...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 />
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'''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 />
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'''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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'''vortexing''' <br /> <br />
whirling <br />
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'''nepotistic''' <br /><br />
relating to the practice of favoring relatives or friends <br />
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'''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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'''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 />
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'''Pooh-wear'''<br /><br />
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance<br />
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[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]<br />
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'''hirsute'''<br /><br />
hairy<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 />
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'''Rototrembling'''<br /><br />
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller<br />
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'''caustic'''<br /><br />
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic<br />
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'''plumb'''<br /><br />
adj., straight or true; in line with<br />
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'''martial'''<br /><br />
war-like <br />
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'''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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'''ROM'''<br /><br />
read only memory <br />
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'''Kirkegaard'''<br /><br />
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy<br />
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'''Camus'''<br /><br />
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.<br />
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'''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 />
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'''"...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 />
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'''Hegel'''<br /><br />
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.<br />
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'''creatus'''<br /><br />
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."<br />
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'''pinion'''<br /><br />
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')<br />
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'''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 />
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'''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 />
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'''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 />
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'''roil'''<br /><br />
To move about in whirling manner. <br />
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'''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 />
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'''supine'''<br /><br />
lying on one's back<br />
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'''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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<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thumb|100px|Whataburger logo|right]]<br />
Synechdoche 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 Pheonix (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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'''espadrilles'''<br /><br />
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles<br />
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'''savant'''<br /> <br />
Mentally handicapped but brilliant in one specific way. <br />
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'''shunt'''<br /><br />
To shove.<br />
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'''kangaroo-interview'''<br /><br />
Alludes to kangaroo-court, a sham legal proceeding.<br />
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'''leonine'''<br /><br />
lion-like<br />
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'''cirri'''<br /><br />
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud<br />
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'''vectors''' <br /><br />
Direct paths to desired locations<br />
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'''martinet'''<br /><br />
a strict disciplinarian<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 />
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'''barnwood'''<br /><br />
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (<i>Random House Unabridged Dictionary</i>).<br />
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'''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 />
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'''gigantism'''<br /><br />
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''<br />
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'''parodic'''<br /><br />
having the qualities of a parody<br />
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'''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 />
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'''incisionish'''<br /><br />
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"<br />
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'''hypophalangial'''<br /><br />
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands<br />
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'''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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'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."'''<br /><br />
See <i>Hamlet</i>, Act Five, Scene One.<br />
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'''Venus Williams'''<br /><br />
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.<br />
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'''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, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.<br />
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'''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 />
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"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., <i>kohen</i>.<br />
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'''etiology'''<br /><br />
the cause of a disease<br />
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'''Socratic method'''<br />
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece<br />
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'''<i>O.E.D. VI</i>'s count'''<br /><br />
This is a reference to the <i>Oxford English Dictionary</i>, sixth edition.<br />
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'''nonarchaic'''<br /><br />
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language<br />
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'''Latinate'''<br /><br />
deriving from Latin<br />
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'''Saxonic'''<br /><br />
deriving from Old English<br />
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'''quick-bit'''<br /><br />
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips<br />
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'''jou'''<br /><br />
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''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 posses 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 />
a mixture of varying style or content<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 />
perhaps "Enfield 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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'''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 who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].<br />
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'''half-Windsors'''<br /><br />
A type of knot used to tie a necktie<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, which exists where parts of the real town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.<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 />
<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 />
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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 />
<br />
'''62.5%'''<br /><br />
Out of eight people in the room (including himself, three deans, the Director of Composition, 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 />
'''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 snakes 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 />
'''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 />
<br />
'''lapidary'''<br /><br />
"Marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression: lapidary prose" (''thefreedictionary.com'')<br />
<br />
'''effete'''<br /><br />
Degenerate or decadent<br />
<br />
'''Prescriptive Grammar'''<br /><br />
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.<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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<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 />
'''hyperthrophied'''<br /><br />
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (see, contra, ''atrophied'')<br />
<br />
'''insigniated'''<br /><br />
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia)<br />
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<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.<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 />
'''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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==Page 10==<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 />
'''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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<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 />
'''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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==Page 12==<br />
<br />
'''Kirkegaard'''<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 pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."<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<br />
<br />
'''Nunn Bush'''<br /><br />
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.<br />
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<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 />
'''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 />
Synechdoche 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 Pheonix (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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==Page 15==<br />
<br />
'''espadrilles'''<br /><br />
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles<br />
<br />
'''leonine'''<br /><br />
lion-like<br />
<br />
'''cirri'''<br /><br />
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud<br />
<br />
'''martinet'''<br /><br />
a strict disciplinarian<br />
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==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 />
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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, epilectics, 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 />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''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 />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''"own marijuana"'''<br /><br />
to become master over one's addiction, in this case, to end the addiction to marijuana<br />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''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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==Page 21==<br />
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'''convulsive'''<br /><br />
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking<br />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''rapacious'''<br /><br />
greedy and forceful in capturing and consuming<br />
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'''pleurisy'''<br /><br />
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs<br />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''raptly'''<br /><br />
with intense attention to<br />
<br />
'''cartridge'''<br /><br />
See ''Interlace viewer'', above<br />
<br />
'''debauch'''<br /><br />
an episode of debauchery, engaging in excessive, pleasure-seeking, often sexual- or drug/alcohol-related<br />
<br />
'''120 grams'''<br /><br />
about 4.2 ounces<br />
<br />
'''debased'''<br /><br />
of low character and lacking integrity<br />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''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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==Page 23==<br />
<br />
'''appropriation'''<br /><br />
taking something as one's own, without permission<br />
<br />
'''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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==Page 24==<br />
<br />
'''pastiche'''<br /><br />
a mixture of varying style or content<br />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''50 grams'''<br /><br />
about 1.75 ounces<br />
<br />
'''hydroponic'''<br /><br />
grown in water without soil<br />
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'''stein'''<br /><br />
a drinking mug<br />
<br />
'''E.W.D. land barge'''<br /><br />
perhaps "Enfield Waste Disposal"; a garbage truck<br />
<br />
'''phallocentric'''<br /><br />
biased from a male point of view<br />
<br />
'''half a meter'''<br /><br />
nearly 20 inches<br />
<br />
'''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 />
<br />
'''oblique'''<br /><br />
slanted, like an acute or obtuse angle, not a right-angle<br />
<br />
'''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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'''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 who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].<br />
<br />
'''half-Windsors'''<br /><br />
A type of knot used to tie a necktie<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, which exists where parts of the real town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.<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 />
'''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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==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 himself, three deans, the Director of Composition, 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 />
'''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 snakes 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 />
'''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'')<br />
<br />
'''effete'''<br /><br />
Degenerate or decadent<br />
<br />
'''Prescriptive Grammar'''<br /><br />
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.<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 />
<br />
==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 />
'''hyperthrophied'''<br /><br />
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (see, contra, ''atrophied'')<br />
<br />
'''insigniated'''<br /><br />
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia)<br />
<br />
==Page 9==<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 />
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'''de moi'''<br /><br />
French: from me<br />
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'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."'''<br /><br />
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word.<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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'''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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'''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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'''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 />
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'''Pooh-wear'''<br /><br />
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance<br />
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[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]<br />
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'''hirsute'''<br /><br />
hairy<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 />
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'''Rototrembling'''<br /><br />
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller<br />
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'''caustic'''<br /><br />
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic<br />
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'''plumb'''<br /><br />
adj., straight or true; in line with<br />
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'''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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'''Kirkegaard'''<br /><br />
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy<br />
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'''Camus'''<br /><br />
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.<br />
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'''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 />
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'''"...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 />
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'''Hegel'''<br /><br />
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.<br />
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'''creatus'''<br /><br />
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."<br />
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'''pinion'''<br /><br />
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')<br />
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'''parquet'''<br /><br />
an in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring<br />
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'''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 />
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'''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 />
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'''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 />
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'''supine'''<br /><br />
lying on one's back<br />
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'''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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<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thumb|100px|Whataburger logo|right]]<br />
Synechdote 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 Pheonix (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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'''espadrilles'''<br /><br />
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles<br />
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'''leonine'''<br /><br />
lion-like<br />
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'''cirri'''<br /><br />
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud<br />
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'''martinet'''<br /><br />
a strict disciplinarian<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 />
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'''barnwood'''<br /><br />
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (<i>Random House Unabridged Dictionary</i>).<br />
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'''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 />
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'''gigantism'''<br /><br />
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''<br />
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'''parodic'''<br /><br />
having the qualities of a parody<br />
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'''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 />
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'''incisionish'''<br /><br />
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"<br />
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'''hypophalangial'''<br /><br />
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands<br />
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'''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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'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."'''<br /><br />
See <i>Hamlet</i>, Act Five, Scene One.<br />
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'''Venus Williams'''<br /><br />
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.<br />
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'''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, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.<br />
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'''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 />
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"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., <i>kohen</i>.<br />
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'''etiology'''<br /><br />
the cause of a disease<br />
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'''Socratic method'''<br />
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece<br />
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'''<i>O.E.D. VI</i>'s count'''<br /><br />
This is a reference to the <i>Oxford English Dictionary</i>, sixth edition.<br />
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'''nonarchaic'''<br /><br />
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language<br />
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'''Latinate'''<br /><br />
deriving from Latin<br />
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'''Saxonic'''<br /><br />
deriving from Old English<br />
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'''quick-bit'''<br /><br />
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips<br />
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'''jou'''<br /><br />
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<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 become master over one's addiction, in this case, to end the addiction to 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 />
greedy and forceful in capturing and consuming<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 />
a mixture of varying style or content<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 />
perhaps "Enfield 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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