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<span class="marker">283* · Orin and Joelle</span><br />
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==Page 283==<br />
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'''C.U.S.P.'''<br /><br />
Stands for Clean United States Party, i.e. Johnny Gentle's pro-hygiene political platform. In reality, though it was created after ''Infinite Jest'' was published, there is an organization called [http://geo.international.gc.ca/can-am/main/border/creating_cusp-en.asp CUSP].<br />
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'''Johnny Gentle'''<br /><br />
the name of a [http://www.johnnygentle.co.uk/ real musician] from the U.K.<br />
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'''O.N.A.N.ism'''<br /><br />
Onanism is another word for masturbation in the English language<br />
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'''cholera and amoebic-dysentery'''<br /><br />
Cholera is extreme diarrhea brought on by unsanitary conditions. Amoebic dysentery is also extreme diarrhea, this time brought on by the acquisition of a parasitic infection.<br />
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'''diasporic'''<br /><br />
here denoting being in exile<br />
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==Endnote 94==<br />
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'''''Lebensgefährtin'''''<br /><br />
German: female romantic companion<br />
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'''Palmer Academy'''<br /><br />
There is a [http://www.privateschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/6794 Palmer Academy] in Florida, but it's in Haines City, sixty miles east of Tampa.<br />
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'''ROTC'''<br /><br />
Reserve Officer Training Corps, which recruits future officers in the U.S. Armed Forces from universities<br />
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'''A.P.'''<br /><br />
Advanced Placement<br />
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'''Croate'''<br /><br />
French for "Croat" but probably just a misspelling<br />
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==Endnote 95==<br />
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'''post-Windows DOS'''<br /><br />
A DOS is a Disk Operating System, the programming by which a computer runs other programs. Microsoft has not issued a new DOS after Windows as of late 2007.<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]<br />
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'''recompile'''<br /><br />
Some programs needed to be "compiled" before they run, depending on the computer language in which they're written. Recompiling would be compiling over again.<br />
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'''inducement'''<br /><br />
an incentive<br />
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'''Dodge'''<br /><br />
A reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_City Dodge City, Kansas], to "get out of Dodge" is to disappear because of some kind of perceived or real threat.<br />
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==Endnote 96==<br />
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'''Fredericton, N.B.'''<br /><br />
Fredericton is the capital of the Canadian province of New Brunswick (N.B.) about 175 miles as the crow flies (much longer if you drive it) from Halifax, Nova Scotia, the nearest "big city" in that part of Canada.<br />
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'''septuagenaric'''<br /><br />
in one's seventies<br />
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'''patrician'''<br /><br />
aristocratic<br />
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'''vault the net'''<br /><br />
It used to be a tradition in tennis for one player to jump ("vault") over the net to congratulate or console his/her opponent after a match.<br />
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'''round-robins'''<br /><br />
This is a type of tournament in which each player plays every other player once, the winner being the person/team/etc. with the most wins. Compare this to a single-elimination tournament like the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.<br />
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'''deck-sneakers'''<br /><br />
You can see examples [http://sneakers.pair.com/m-deck.htm here].<br />
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==Page 286==<br />
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'''Lacoste'''<br /><br />
a French apparel company, known for producing [http://www.izod.com/ Izod]<br />
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'''levantine'''<br /><br />
from the Near East, particularly Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, or Israel, i.e., the Levant<br />
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'''kohl'''<br /><br />
a powder used to darken the eyelids<br />
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'''Terriers'''<br /><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhett_the_Boston_Terrier Rhett the Boston Terrier] is the mascot of Boston University.<br />
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'''plum'''<br /><br />
an excellent or desirable thing<br />
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'''hiati'''<br /><br />
the plural of "hiatus"<br />
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'''Blue Cross'''<br /><br />
an health insurance company<br />
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'''felo de se'''<br /><br />
Latin for "felony against one's self," this is a term for suicide.<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.P.A.H.]]<br />
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'''sedulous'''<br /><br />
diligent or attentive<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar]]<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dary PRoducts from the American Heartland]]<br />
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'''jugular'''<br /><br />
the largest vein in the neck<br />
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''''''Tenebrae Factae Sunt,''' sotto v.'''<br /><br />
Latin for "There Was Darkness," ''Tenebrae Factae Sunt'' is a hymn traditionally sung on Good Friday, the day on which Jesus was crucified. "Sotto v." is shorthand for the Latin ''sotto voce,'' which means "in a low voice."<br />
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'''locusts'''<br /><br />
Given the noise their making, Wallace is probably referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada cicadas].<br />
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'''trundle'''<br /><br />
Used here, it means an impulse that causes something to move.<br />
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'''Salic law'''<br /><br />
The Salic Law was a legal code of medieval Central Europe that, among other things, prevented accession to a monarchy on the basis of female relationship.<br />
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'''anthracnose'''<br /><br />
another name for the plant disease known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthracnose canker]<br />
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'''PAC'''<br /><br />
Political Action Committee<br />
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'''florid'''<br /><br />
very red<br />
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'''trilled ''r'''s'''<br /><br />
as pronounced in a Spanish word such as ''perro'' ("dog")<br />
<br />
''''Politics and the English Language''''<br /><br />
You can read Orwell's essay [http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79e/part42.html here].<br />
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'''Tactical Phalanx'''<br /><br />
Normally a military term, this would be a phalanx (from the Latin word for "fingers") or row of soldiers deployed for tactical purposes.<br />
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'''MGM'''<br /><br />
Militant Grammarians of Massachusetts<br />
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'''tiller'''<br /><br />
a nautical term for the device attached to a boat's rudder to assist in steering<br />
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'''sinecure'''<br /><br />
a job requiring little or no work<br />
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'''"...had a poster of Bill Tilden in his office..."'''<br /><br />
which implies that the coach was either gay (as was Tilden) or very old-fashioned, since Tilden's career was far in the past<br />
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'''schizoid'''<br /><br />
here meaning "erratic"<br />
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'''refraction'''<br /><br />
here referring to the splitting of white light into a spectrum of color<br />
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'''strabismic'''<br /><br />
having improperly aligned eyes<br />
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'''diffraction'''<br /><br />
the bending or stretching of waves, assuming light is a wave and not a particle<br />
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'''OCD'''<br /><br />
Obsessive-Compulsive Disoder<br />
<br />
'''postcoital flanks'''<br /><br />
Postcoital denotes after sexual intercourse. The flank would be the side of the body between the ribs and hip.<br />
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'''decapitated'''<br /><br />
beheaded<br />
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'''epithet'''<br /><br />
a word or phrase applied to a person, often derisively<br />
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'''Actaeon Complex'''<br /><br />
This is not a real psychiatric disorder. Actaeon was a figure from Greek mythology who fell in love with the goddess of the hunt, Artemis, only to anger her and then be changed into a deer, which was then hunted unto death — all of which perhaps suggests an underlying reluctance in the men to pursue Joelle because she might pursue them in return.<br />
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'''phylogenic'''<br /><br />
regarding the evolution of an organism<br />
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'''ascapartic'''<br /><br />
A word coined by Wallace, it means gigantic, as Ascapart was a giant depicted in the fiction of, among other people, J.R.R. Tolkien.<br />
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'''elisions and apical lapses'''<br /><br />
Elisions are the droppings of phonemes from words. Apical refers to sounds made using the tip of the tongue; lapses would be absences of such sounds.<br />
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'''four meters'''<br /><br />
a little over thirteen feet.<br />
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'''zygomatics'''<br /><br />
arches on the outer borders of the eyes<br />
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'''HD'''<br /><br />
high-definition, like a television<br />
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'''pungently'''<br /><br />
in a way that sharply affects the organs of sense<br />
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'''attar'''<br /><br />
a perfume extracted from flowers<br />
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'''avuncular'''<br /><br />
characteristic of an uncle<br />
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'''Facsmile'''<br /><br />
probably a misspelling of "facsimile"<br />
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'''three-meter'''<br /><br />
almost ten feet<br />
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'''lateral'''<br /><br />
sideways<br />
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'''''bona fried'''''<br /><br />
the other players mean to say "bona fide"<br />
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'''dope-slaps'''<br /><br />
more commonly known as "bitch-slaps"<br />
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'''orthopedic'''<br /><br />
denoting an anomaly in the bones<br />
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'''180-kilo'''<br /><br />
almost 400 pounds<br />
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'''Special Teams'''<br /><br />
These are the squads responsible in football for tactics that are neither offensive or defensive, e.g., returning kick-offs, kicking field goals or extra points, and, of course, punting.<br />
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'''femur to tarsus'''<br /><br />
The femur is the bone running from the hip to the knee — the largest bone in the body. The tarsi (plural of tarsus) are the bones of the foot. In between are the tibia and fibula — the bones of the lower leg — and the patella, or kneecap. All of these were apparently broken.<br />
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'''caromed'''<br /><br />
To carom is to strike and rebound; caromed is the past tense.<br />
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'''CNS'''<br /><br />
Central Nervous System<br />
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'''Gauloise'''<br /><br />
a French brand of cigarettes<br />
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'''draconian'''<br /><br />
Derived from Draco, the 7th century BC first lawgiver of Athens, the word means unusually harsh or severe.<br />
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'''SUNY'''<br /><br />
State University of New York<br />
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'''kick serve'''<br /><br />
a serve in tennis with so much spin that the ball bounces high and to the left (if right-handed) or right (if left-handed) of the receiver<br />
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'''Rockette'''<br /><br />
Named for the Rockefeller family and nearby Rockefeller Center, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockette Rockettes] are the Radio City Music Hall-based dancers famous for high kicks.<br />
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'''preternatural'''<br /><br />
out of the ordinary course or nature<br />
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[[Image:Parabola.png|thumb|caption|parabola|right|125px]]<br />
'''parabola'''<br /><br />
a curve; more precisely a conic section formed by cutting a cone with a plane, where the plane is parallel to a line running along the cone's side from the vertex (point) to the circular base; see right<br />
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'''factota'''<br /><br />
plural for factotum, which is a word for a servant or assistant<br />
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'''herbicide'''<br /><br />
something that kills plants<br />
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'''''Schmüberty'''''<br /><br />
Technically speaking, this wouldn't rhyme with "puberty," because an umlaut over a "u" in German produces a diphthong rather than the long /u/ phoneme.<br />
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'''aegis'''<br /><br />
sponsorship or auspices; from the Greek for "shield"<br />
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'''bilateral'''<br /><br />
having two sides<br />
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'''S.T.'''<br /><br />
Special Teams<br />
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'''wide receiver's number'''<br /><br />
Kickers can only be assigned numbers 1 through 19, while wide receivers get numbers in the 80s.<br />
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'''"...it was in its last season of representing an American university..."'''<br /><br />
Presumably under the constitution of O.N.A.N., Syracuse, N.Y., became part of Canada.<br />
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'''book-long'''<br /><br />
This is a bit confusing, since the sense would seem to imply that the "book" is a record book, but the record for a punt in both college and professional football is 99 yards.<br />
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'''Orangemen'''<br /><br />
the Syracuse football team's name<br />
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'''podiatric'''<br /><br />
having to do with the foot<br />
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'''USMC'''<br /><br />
United States Marine Corps<br />
<br />
'''Rolling Thunder's big-bellied Berthas'''<br /><br />
Rolling Thunder was the bombing campaign on North Vietnam carried out by South Vietnam and the U.S. military between 1965 and 1968. A A Bertha is probably just a really big gun, like the famous [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bertha Big Bertha] used by Germany during WWI.<br />
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'''sousaphone'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousaphone tuba] developed by John Philip Sousa (1854-1932), American composer, for easier carrying with a marching band<br />
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'''extrication'''<br /><br />
freedom from entanglement<br />
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'''lardy'''<br /><br />
fat<br />
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'''tête-à-tête'''<br /><br />
From the French for "head to head," this term denotes a private conversation between two people.<br />
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'''30,0000'''<br /><br />
The game against Syracuse is a home game, so the audience couldn't have been 30,000 because Nickerson Field has a capacity of less than 10,000 people.<br />
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'''amniotic'''<br /><br />
pertaining to the fluid that surrounds a fetus ''in utero''<br />
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'''cathedran'''<br /><br />
Presumably Wallace means "like a cathedral," but this is not a real word. The proper word would be cathedrarian.<br />
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'''Yankee Conference'''<br /><br />
Ironically, in 1997 (a year after ''Infinite Jest'' was published), Boston University dropped its football program.<br />
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'''K-L-RMKI/Forsythia Bowl'''<br /><br />
This is not a real bowl game, but the letters stand for Ken-L-Ration-Magnavox-Kemper-Insurance Forsythia Bowl.<br />
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'''fealty'''<br /><br />
faithfulness, here to a sports team<br />
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'''4WD'''<br /><br />
four-wheel-drive vehicle<br />
<br />
'''kudzu'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudzu climbing vine] indigenous to the U.S. South<br />
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'''pointers'''<br /><br />
a breed of hunting dog<br />
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'''Pyrex'''<br /><br />
a brand name of heat-resistant glass<br />
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'''turn blue litmus paper red'''<br /><br />
presumably something highly acidic<br />
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'''star-fated'''<br /><br />
as opposed to star-crossed, i.e., predestined for disaster, as Romeo and Juliet<br />
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'''dailies'''<br /><br />
Also called "rushes," these are the pieces of raw film recorded during a single day, including cuts, takes, prints, etc.<br />
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'''turtle-headed'''<br /><br />
implying that Orin's neck is covered entirely but visible, as with a turtleneck sweater<br />
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'''fireman-carrying'''<br /><br />
carrying a person over one's shoulder<br />
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'''Dixie Baton-Twirling Institute in Oxford MS'''<br /><br />
Wallace has taken this idea from a [http://louisville.edu/a-s/english/subcultures/ideas/buzzpounds/pountwirl.html short story] by [http://www.terrysouthern.com/ Terry Southern]. Oxford, Miss., is the home of "Ole Miss," i.e., the [http://www.olemiss.edu/ University of Mississippi] and is about 60 miles southeast of Memphis, Tenn.<br />
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'''hypertrophied'''<br /><br />
overgrown anatomically<br />
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'''quadriceps'''<br /><br />
one of the muscles in front of the thigh<br />
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'''P.T.s'''<br /><br />
Physical Therapists<br />
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'''thespian'''<br /><br />
having to do with acting<br />
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'''BTL'''<br /><br />
the initials of several telecommunications and television companies<br />
<br />
'''Angenieux'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.angenieux.com/ company] that produces high-technology optics devices<br />
<br />
'''half-disk-sector'''<br /><br />
an indication of the amount of digital memory used<br />
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'''#78'''<br /><br />
This is Orin's jersey number — why he didn't get a changed number is uncertain, as is why it said he had gotten a receiver's number. A number in the 70s would be an offensive or defensive lineman — someone unlike to have contact with the ball.<br />
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'''mattes'''<br /><br />
This is shorthand for a matte shot, which is "a shot in which parts of the background and sometimes the foreground are masked so that a different background, foreground, image, etc., can be substituted during printing" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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'''spectation'''<br /><br />
aspect or appearance<br />
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'''rheostat'''<br /><br />
This is "an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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'''Jiffy Pop'''<br /><br />
a brand name of home popping corn<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.]]<br />
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'''rpm'''<br /><br />
revolutions per minute<br />
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'''Storrow 500'''<br /><br />
a local nickname for Storrow Drive in Boston<br />
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'''barney'''<br /><br />
a heavy padded cover for a camera to reduce the amount of noise from the camera's moving parts getting onto the soundtrack<br />
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'''Pilotone blooper'''<br /><br />
Pilotone is an old brand of film equipment, and a blooper is, according to the ''Random House Unabridged Dictionary,'' "a receiving set that generates from its antenna radio-frequency signals that interfere with other nearby receivers."<br />
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'''auracopia'''<br /><br />
a Wallace neologism based on "aura" (sound) and "copia" (plenty) and based on cornucopia (horn of plenty)<br />
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'''Delaware'''<br /><br />
The Yankee Conference, by the way, ceased to exist in 1997.<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]<br />
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'''U. Vermont and UNH now history'''<br /><br />
This implies that Vermont and New Hampshire were also annexed to Canada. However, the University of Vermont had not been in the conference since 1974.<br />
<br />
'''four-point stances'''<br /><br />
with both hands and both feet on the ground<br />
<br />
'''chuff'''<br /><br />
to blow hard and loudly<br />
<br />
'''stave'''<br /><br />
to break or crush<br />
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'''scrimmage'''<br /><br />
the scrimmage line, i.e., where the offense currently has the ball<br />
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'''a bright noncontact white'''<br /><br />
Orin's helmet is white because he hasn't been tackled.<br />
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'''pendular 180-arc of Orin's leg'''<br /><br />
meaning Orin's leg moves the full length of half a circle around the center that is his hip, in a motion similar to that of a pendulum<br />
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'''gluteal'''<br /><br />
pertaining to the buttocks<br />
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<span class="marker">299 · Poor Tony Goes Cold Turkey</span><br />
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==Page 299==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''Armenian Foundation Library in horrid central Watertown MA'''<br /><br />
This is probably the same as the [http://www.almainc.org/ Armenian Library and Museum of America]. Watertown is a suburb of Boston nine miles west of the city, and it has a very large Armenian population.<br />
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'''Equus Reese'''<br /><br />
''Equus'' is Latin for "horse."<br />
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'''Donegal cap'''<br /><br />
You can see one [http://irishop.com/dontweedcap.html here].<br />
<br />
'''cadge'''<br /><br />
to obtain by begging<br />
<br />
'''Antitoi'''<br /><br />
French for "against you"<br />
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'''de-mapping'''<br /><br />
murder<br />
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'''''non grata'''''<br /><br />
Latin: not welcome<br />
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'''cop'''<br /><br />
obtain drugs<br />
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'''rough-trade'''<br /><br />
homosexual sexual activity between a gay man and a straight man, sometimes for money or drugs<br />
<br />
'''Brockton'''<br /><br />
a city in Massachusetts about 25 miles south of Boston<br />
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'''portents'''<br /><br />
omens<br />
<br />
'''Fort Point'''<br /><br />
a section of Boston named for a colonial-era fort of the same name<br />
<br />
'''hepatitis-G'''<br /><br />
This [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis#Hepatitis_G disease] had been identified the same year that Wallace published ''Infinite Jest''. It's unclear whether he was aware of this.<br />
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'''chip'''<br /><br />
to use enough heroin to stave off withdrawal<br />
<br />
'''wigless head'''<br /><br />
which probably means he "flipped his wig" during withdrawal; doubtful—Tony is carrying his auburn wig and red leather coat in a shopping bag<br />
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'''The Old Cold Bird'''<br /><br />
a variation on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_turkey cold turkey]<br />
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'''fifty kilos'''<br /><br />
a little over 110 pounds<br />
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'''color of summer squash'''<br /><br />
The colors of summer squashes vary, but Wallace probably is implying that Poor Tony looks yellow.<br />
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'''sty'''<br /><br />
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stye stye]<br />
<br />
'''chignon'''<br /><br />
a type of hair extension worn at the back of the head<br />
<br />
'''troughs and nodes'''<br /><br />
deep furrows and swollen areas, respectively<br />
<br />
'''habilements'''<br /><br />
misspelling of habiliments, i.e., clothing<br />
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'''wan'''<br /><br />
pale in color<br />
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'''gender-dysphoric'''<br /><br />
a person suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria gender identity disorder]<br />
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'''shiva'''<br /><br />
the Jewish ritual of mourning for seven days, tearing one's clothes, sitting on the floor, covering mirrors, etc.<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]<br />
<br />
'''412 Mount Auburn Street'''<br /><br />
This is a real address in Watertown. You can see the house [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=%22412+Mount+Auburn+Street%22+Watertown,+MA&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=51.488837,67.412109&ie=UTF8&ll=42.370023,-71.166751&spn=0.00148,0.002057&t=k&z=19&om=1 here]. It doesn't look like a residence. [Google street view suggests otherwise?]<br />
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'''Codinex Plus'''<br /><br />
a brand name of cough syrup<br />
<br />
'''C<sub>17</sub>-morphine'''<br /><br />
regular old morphine, which has the chemical composition C<sub>17</sub>H<sub>19</sub>NO<sub>3</sub><br />
<br />
'''Bonwit's'''<br /><br />
a department store in Boston<br />
<br />
'''hubris'''<br /><br />
pride to a fault<br />
<br />
'''cadences'''<br /><br />
flows of events<br />
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'''Merry Widow'''<br /><br />
a woman's undergarment consisting of a strapless bra and short corset<br />
<br />
'''Amalfo'''<br /><br />
apparently a misspelling of Amalfi, a brand of shoes<br />
<br />
'''45 kg'''<br /><br />
a little over 99 pounds<br />
<br />
'''''Zuckung'''''<br /><br />
German: convulsion<br />
<br />
'''pebbled glass'''<br /><br />
a drinking glass having a rough surface<br />
<br />
'''filial'''<br /><br />
pertaining to a son or daughter<br />
<br />
'''Mount Auburn Cemetery'''<br /><br />
the first [http://www.mountauburn.org/ landscaped cemetery] in the U.S.<br />
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'''A.F.L.'''<br /><br />
Armenian Foundation Library<br />
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'''loo'''<br /><br />
British colloquialism for toilet<br />
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'''flatulence'''<br /><br />
farting<br />
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'''demethylated'''<br /><br />
with a methyl group (CH<sub>3</sub>) removed. Technically, this is incorrect; to go from codeine (C<sub>18</sub>H<sub>21</sub>NO<sub>3</sub>) to morphine (C<sub>17</sub>H<sub>19</sub>NO<sub>3</sub>) requires the removal of a methyl''ene'' group (CH<sub>2</sub>). The accurate term would be "demethyl''en''ated."<br />
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'''duplicitous'''<br /><br />
deceptive in speech<br />
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'''hapless'''<br /><br />
without luck<br />
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'''bilirubin'''<br /><br />
the compound that makes urine yellow<br />
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'''behemoth'''<br /><br />
a large beast<br />
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'''synaptic'''<br /><br />
pertaining to the spaces between brain cells<br />
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'''dessicated'''<br /><br />
dried out<br />
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'''Eighty-Proof'''<br /><br />
40 percent alcohol<br />
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'''augur'''<br /><br />
to serve as an omen<br />
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'''incongruous'''<br /><br />
out of place<br />
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'''obstretric'''<br /><br />
of or relating to childbirth<br />
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'''dirigibles'''<br /><br />
blimps or zeppelins (airships)<br />
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'''tumid'''<br /><br />
swollen<br />
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'''Red Sox of Rice and Lynn'''<br /><br />
Jim Rice (1974-1989) and Fred Lynn (1974-1980) both played in the 1975 World Series.<br />
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'''taffeta'''<br /><br />
a crisp, smooth, woven fabric, often made from silk, used in gowns<br />
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'''gaffed fish'''<br /><br />
caught with a very large hook<br />
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'''flounces'''<br /><br />
strips of decorative material<br />
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