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=November 11th, YDAU - Gately and Joelle=<br />
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==Page 531==<br />
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'''boilermakers'''<br /><br />
shots of whiskey chased with beer<br />
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'''keep'''<br /><br />
i.e., the barkeep<br />
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==Page 532==<br />
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'''blotto'''<br /><br />
extremely drunk<br />
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'''Cumberland'''<br /><br />
This must refer to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_River Cumberland River], which flows into the Ohio near Paducah, in the western part of Kentucky, close to Joelle's home town of Shiny Prize (see page 237).<br />
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'''O.D.'''<br /><br />
overdose<br />
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==Page 533==<br />
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'''metronome'''<br /><br />
a time-keeping device for musicians, typically a pendulum-like machine that clicks to provide meter<br />
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'''caparison'''<br /><br />
rich and sumptuous clothing or equipment<br />
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'''a Type and a Symbol'''<br /><br />
These words are used by Mr. Hooper to describe the veil he wears in Nathaniel Hawthorne's story, [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Minister's_Black_Veil "The Minister's Black Veil."]<br />
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==Page 535==<br />
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'''gregarious'''<br /><br />
sociable<br />
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==Page 536==<br />
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==Page 537==<br />
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==Page 538==<br />
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'''slavering'''<br /><br />
drooling<br />
<br />
=☽ - Randy Lenz: Rats, Cats, and Dogs=<br />
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==Page 538==<br />
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'''Duster'''<br /><br />
the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Duster Plymouth Duster] was a sporty compact available from 1970 to 1976<br />
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'''12-gauge blast'''<br /><br />
as from as 12-gauge shotgun<br />
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==Page 539==<br />
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'''loafer one'''<br /><br />
presumably first step of the day, meaning Lenz never leaves Ennet House until after sunset<br />
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'''E.M.I.T.'''<br /><br />
enzyme-multiplied immunoassay technique<br />
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==Page 540==<br />
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==Endnote 224==<br />
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'''EZC'''<br /><br />
i.e., "easy see"<br />
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'''NAL'''<br /><br />
New American Library<br />
<br />
'''Ticknor, Fields'''<br /><br />
Ticknor and Fields was a publishing house eventually bought by Houghton Mifflin in 1880.<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]<br />
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==Page 540 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''W-E'''<br /><br />
west-east<br />
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'''trebled'''<br /><br />
tripled in number or magnitude<br />
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'''Stegosaurus'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegosaurus dinosaur]<br />
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==Page 541==<br />
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'''verminal'''<br /><br />
tending to breed vermin<br />
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'''cabbaging'''<br /><br />
stealing<br />
<br />
'''brisance'''<br /><br />
the shattering effect of an explosive<br />
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==Page 542==<br />
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'''panoply'''<br /><br />
a wide-ranging array of things<br />
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'''A Program of Attraction'''<br /><br />
AA refers to itself as this, meaning that it doesn't need to advertise.<br />
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'''EST and Greenwich Mean'''<br /><br />
Eastern Standard Time and Greenwich Mean Time, the latter of which is determined at the Prime Meridian, or 0º longitude<br />
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'''reseau'''<br /><br />
a reference grid of fine lines forming uniform squares on a photographic plate or print, used to aid in measurement<br />
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'''DOW'''<br /><br />
probably the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average Dow Jones Industrial Average]<br />
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'''NIKEI'''<br /><br />
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikkei_225 Nikkei 225] index of the Japanese stock market<br />
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==Page 543==<br />
'''Eurotrochaic'''<br /><br />
neologism: Euro[pean] + trochaic; here, describing the alternating two-note sound of a European emergency siren (trochaic being the adjectival form of "trochee," a metrical foot of poetry comprised of two feet, stressed and unstressed)<br />
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'''winsome'''<br /><br />
charming<br />
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'''diverticulitis'''<br /><br />
inflammation of the pouches of the colon<br />
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'''gone rye'''<br /><br />
i.e., gone awry<br />
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'''Principles of Psychology and the Gifford Lectures on Natural Philosophy'''<br /><br />
"[http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=88 William James’s Gifford Lectures] of 1901–1902 have been heralded by some as the greatest lectures ever to be presented in the series and perhaps the most seminal of his works (alongside The Principles of Psychology). Published initially in 1902, [http://www.csp.org/experience/james-varieties/james-varieties.html The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature] has stood the test of time and been republished thirty-six times."<br />
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'''20-gram'''<br /><br />
About .70 ounces, this is a lot of cocaine.<br />
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'''bonerfied'''<br /><br />
bona fide<br />
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==Page 544==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Maytag Quietmaster]]<br />
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'''ten-kilo'''<br /><br />
about 22 lbs<br />
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'''Caldor-brand'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldor chain] of discount department stores in the US Northeast. The chain closed its last store in 1999.<br />
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'''Scopophobic'''<br /><br />
Of scopophobia; the fear of being seen or stared at.<br />
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==Page 545==<br />
'''Bing'''<br /><br />
cocaine, usually referring to a line of the substance<br />
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'''phosphenes'''<br /><br />
light sensations in the eyes when light is physically absent<br />
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'''apnea'''<br /><br />
the tendency of mainly overweight people to stop breathing intermittently in their sleep<br />
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'''hone'''<br /><br />
a whetstone used to sharpen blades<br />
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==Page 546==<br />
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'''R. Lauren'''<br /><br />
Ralph Lauren<br />
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'''BYP'''<br /><br />
Brookline Young People's AA group<br />
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==Page 547==<br />
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'''formulating'''<br /><br />
forming<br />
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'''tattlemount'''<br /><br />
tantamount<br />
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==Page 548==<br />
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=Early November, YDAU - Rodney Tine and the ''Samizdat''=<br />
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==Page 548==<br />
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'''District'''<br /><br />
the District of Columbia<br />
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==Endnote 228==<br />
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'''O.N.R.'''<br /><br />
perhaps the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Naval_Research Office of Naval Research]<br />
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'''ambit'''<br /><br />
sphere of operation or influence<br />
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==Page 548 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''twidgelling'''<br /><br />
not a real word<br />
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'''NCA'''<br /><br />
probably Northern California<br />
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'''Code-Five'''<br /><br />
code for "stakeout in progress"<br />
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'''New Iberia LA'''<br /><br />
a city about 50 miles southwest of Baton Rouge<br />
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'''apprised'''<br /><br />
informed<br />
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'''pithed'''<br /><br />
having had a needle stuck into the base of the skull to sever or destroy the brainstem<br />
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'''Academy of D.A.S. (or V.A.S.)'''<br/><br />
It seems like it's printed as either D.A.S. or V.A.S. These are probably something like "Academy of Digital/Visual Arts and Sciences"<br />
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==Page 549==<br />
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'''U.S.O.'''<br /><br />
Undercover Special Operations<br />
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'''P.E.T.s'''<br /><br />
P.E.T. is the acronym for positron emission tomography, a kind of medical imaging technique; these are more commonly called PET scans<br />
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'''retinue'''<br /><br />
a group of attendants, advisers, etc.<br />
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=November 9th, YDAU - Pemulis wanders the E.T.A. offices at night=<br />
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==Page 550==<br />
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'''magical thinking'''<br /><br />
the correlation of actions and events in the absence of scientific proof<br />
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'''pre-Oedipal'''<br /><br />
occurring prior to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_complex Oedipus complex] typically experienced from ages 3-6<br />
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'''cathexis'''<br /><br />
defined as the process of investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea<br />
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'''exhortation'''<br /><br />
a speech or discourse that encourages, incites, or earnestly advises<br />
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'''greeble'''<br /><br />
a small piece of detailing added to break up the surface of an object to add visual interest<br />
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==Page 552==<br />
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'''Filene's'''<br /><br />
a Boston-based [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filene%27s department store] (and chain), defunct since December 2011<br />
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'''chintzy'''<br /><br />
cheap and low grade<br />
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'''Hal's Mumsly-Wumsly'''<br /><br />
his mother, Avril Incandenza<br />
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==Page 553==<br />
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'''worsted'''<br /><br />
firmly twisted yarn<br />
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=November 11th, YDAU - Lenz and Green Walking=<br />
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==Page 554==<br />
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'''RIJID-brand male hairspray'''<br /><br />
appears to be a fictional brand of hairspray<br />
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==Page 555==<br />
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'''stepped on'''<br /><br />
cut, as in weakened the potency of a drug by adding another substance<br />
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'''half-kilo'''<br /><br />
about 1.1 pounds<br />
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==Endnote 231==<br />
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'''Manitol'''<br /><br />
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannitol mannitol]<br />
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==Page 555 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''lineskers'''<br /><br />
lines of powdered cocaine assembled for snorting<br />
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'''"...go find a short pier..."'''<br /><br />
and take a long walk, being the implication<br />
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'''aqua-line nose'''<br /><br />
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooknose aquiline nose]<br />
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==Page 556==<br />
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'''anileated'''<br /><br />
annihilated<br />
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'''hemispasm'''<br /><br />
spasm on half of the face<br />
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'''insousistent'''<br /><br />
insouciant, meaning indifferent<br />
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'''aplomb'''<br /><br />
self-assurance<br />
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'''skirling'''<br /><br />
shrilly wailing<br />
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'''hackles'''<br /><br />
the erectile hairs on the back of a dog which rise up out of fear or aggression<br />
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'''plumb'''<br /><br />
exactly<br />
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'''to the maximus'''<br /><br />
maybe just "the maximum" (or "the max"), but also perhaps more Wallace wordplay, as in the ''gluteus maximus'' (the largest of the muscles in the buttocks), and so a pain in the ass<br />
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'''myriadly'''<br /><br />
countlessly<br />
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'''parallaxing'''<br /><br />
The noun [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax ''parallax''] is a visual term; the nonce participle "parallaxing" used to describe noises here, may be Lenz's way of referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_effect Doppler effect], analogous only in terms of issues of positional perspective, of the ''viewer'' of an object at some distance in the case of ''parallex'' and the ''hearer'' of a moving noisemaker (such as the siren on a speeding ambulance) in the case of the ''Doppler shift''.<br />
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'''crucifi'''<br /><br />
Probably Lenz means "crucifixes."<br />
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'''crepuscular'''<br /><br />
relating to twilight, or possibly the animals active at this time<br />
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'''threnody'''<br /><br />
song of mourning for the dead<br />
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==Page 557==<br />
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'''To Project and to Swerve'''<br /><br />
a pun on the police motto "To Protect and Serve"<br />
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'''hoovered'''<br /><br />
inhaled<br />
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==Endnote 232==<br />
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'''benzoylecgonine'''<br /><br />
the major metabolite of cocaine<br />
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'''ecgonine'''<br /><br />
an organic chemical found naturally in coca leaves<br />
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'''nystagmus'''<br /><br />
a rapid, involuntary, oscillatory motion of the eyeball<br />
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'''benzoic acid'''<br /><br />
the simplest of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboxylic_acid caroxylic acids]<br />
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'''Crosbulation'''<br /><br />
if cocaine is called "Bing," Crosbulation refers to snorting cocaine, referring to the last name of Bing Crosby<br />
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'''spider angiomas'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_angioma benign swelling] of the blood vessels just beneath the skin's surface, often containing a central red spot and reddish extensions which radiate outwards like a spider's web<br />
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'''rhinorrhagia'''<br /><br />
bleeding from the nose<br />
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'''blepharospecticity'''<br /><br />
This means something like "seeing through one's eyelids"<br />
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'''M.A.O.-inhibiting'''<br /><br />
monoamine oxidase inhibitor, a chemical in potent antidepressants.<br />
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'''ballism'''<br /><br />
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballism hemiballismus]<br />
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'''oral labia'''<br /><br />
the lips of the mouth<br />
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'''Paliacci'''<br /><br />
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagliacci Pagliacci] (''Clowns''), an opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), an Italian composer<br />
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'''priapism'''<br /><br />
persistent, usually painful erection of the penis, especially as a consequence of disease and not related to sexual arousal<br />
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'''diuresis extremus'''<br /><br />
Extreme production of urine and, thus, need to urinate. The correct Greek-Latin term should be ''diuresis extrema'', ''diuresis'' being a feminine noun.<br />
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'''phobophobia'''<br /><br />
fear of fear<br />
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'''sociosis'''<br /><br />
a neurosis that has to do with one's ability to deal with society<br />
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'''acne rosea'''<br /><br />
also known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosacea rosacea]<br />
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'''rhinophyma'''<br /><br />
a red nose caused by amassing of granulomas there<br />
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'''synergism'''<br /><br />
the property of things working together<br />
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'''confabulation'''<br /><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation formation of false memories]<br />
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'''garrulousness'''<br /><br />
propensity to ramble<br />
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'''phasece'''<br /><br />
neologism; presumably a back-formation to a plural noun from the adjective 'phasic,' which in medical parlance means "Of the activity of excitable cells or tissues: discontinuous; irregular; not tonic" (OED). "Pulmonary phasece" would be heart palpitations.<br />
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'''lingual tendinitis'''<br /><br />
this would mean inflammation of the tendon of the tongue, but the tongue and mouth lack tendons<br />
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==Page 557 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''sangfroid'''<br /><br />
coolness of the blood (from French)<br />
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'''fob'''<br /><br />
an ornament attached to a pocket watch by a chain<br />
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'''chamois'''<br /><br />
Pronounced "shammy," this is a cloth or piece of leather used to shine a surface.<br />
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'''''Track and Flange'''''<br /><br />
not a real magazine<br />
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'''flange'''<br /><br />
a protruding rim, edge, rib, or collar, as on a wheel or a pipe shaft, used to strengthen an object, hold it in place, or attach it to another object<br />
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'''ergo'''<br /><br />
Latin: therefore<br />
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'''''energois de vivre'''''<br /><br />
Something like "life energy" or "life force;" although ''energois'' isn't a real French word, it might be pronounced like ''joie'' as in ''joie de vivre.''<br />
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==Page 558==<br />
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'''Estuarial crocodile'''<br /><br />
the [http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Estuarine+crocodile estuarine (saltwater) crocodile]<br />
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'''Bonwit's'''<br /><br />
a reference to the now-defunct upscale department store [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonwit_Teller Bonwit Teller]<br />
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'''A.D.A.'''<br /><br />
American Dental Association<br />
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'''akido'''<br /><br />
Lenz means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikido aikido].<br />
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'''valise'''<br /><br />
a small piece of luggage<br />
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'''recurving'''<br /><br />
i.e., recurring<br />
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'''t'ai-chi'''<br /><br />
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiji Taiji]<br />
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==Page 559==<br />
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'''mescal'''<br /><br />
an alcoholic beverage distilled from a cactus<br />
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'''diphthongs'''<br /><br />
occurrences of two adjacent vowel sounds in a word, e.g, poor, sour, coin<br />
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'''cableyarrow'''<br /><br />
''Caballero'' (Spanish for "gentleman") is what he means.<br />
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'''''in vitro'''''<br /><br />
Latin for "in glass," this term is used to refer to experiments that happen in test tubes. Lenz means ''in vivo'', i.e., ''in utero'' (or maybe not -- he might be claiming he was a product of artificial insemination, and that he actually remembers things from before he was implanted, who knows?).<br />
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=Hal Counts His Breaths=<br />
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==Page 560==<br />
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'''photosynthesizing'''<br /><br />
turning light into energy, as plants do<br />
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'''Baobab tree'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/baobab.htm tree] native to Africa and India<br />
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'''pride'''<br /><br />
family of lions<br />
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=Lenz and Green, cont.=<br />
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==Page 560==<br />
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'''septum'''<br /><br />
the cartilage separating the nostrils<br />
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'''reguiles'''<br /><br />
i.e., regales (and simultaneously beguiles)<br />
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'''Shrangi-la'''<br /><br />
Lenz means Shangri-La, the utopia of the novel ''Lost Horizon'' by James Hilton (1900-1954), a British author.<br />
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'''kamasupra'''<br /><br />
Lenz is referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra Kama Sutra].<br />
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'''Fall River'''<br /><br />
a city in Massachusetts about 50 miles south of Boston<br />
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'''poofta'''<br /><br />
i.e., a poofter, a vulgar term for a male homosexual<br />
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'''intrepid'''<br /><br />
fearless<br />
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'''fauna'''<br /><br />
wildlife<br />
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'''Shawshine River'''<br /><br />
also known as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawsheen_River Shawsheen]<br />
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'''ravacious'''<br /><br />
This would seem to be a cross between "ravenous" and "rapacious."<br />
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'''scat-piles'''<br /><br />
piles of feces<br />
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'''feti'''<br /><br />
plural of fetus<br />
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'''yrstruly'''<br /><br />
yours truly<br />
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'''propitiating'''<br /><br />
appeasing<br />
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'''diem'''<br /><br />
Latin: day<br />
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==Page 531==<br />
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'''boilermakers'''<br /><br />
shots of whiskey chased with beer<br />
<br />
'''keep'''<br /><br />
i.e., the barkeep<br />
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'''blotto'''<br /><br />
extremely drunk<br />
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'''Cumberland'''<br /><br />
This must refer to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_River Cumberland River], which flows into the Ohio near Paducah, in the western part of Kentucky, close to Joelle's home town of Shiny Prize (see page 237).<br />
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'''O.D.'''<br /><br />
overdose<br />
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'''metronome'''<br /><br />
a time-keeping device for musicians, typically a pendulum-like machine that clicks to provide meter<br />
<br />
'''caparison'''<br /><br />
rich and sumptuous clothing or equipment<br />
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'''a Type and a Symbol'''<br /><br />
These words are used by Mr. Hooper to describe the veil he wears in Nathaniel Hawthorne's story, [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Minister's_Black_Veil "The Minister's Black Veil."]<br />
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'''gregarious'''<br /><br />
sociable<br />
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'''slavering'''<br /><br />
drooling<br />
<br />
=☽ - Randy Lenz: Rats, Cats, and Dogs=<br />
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==Page 538==<br />
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'''Duster'''<br /><br />
the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Duster Plymouth Duster] was a sporty compact available from 1970 to 1976<br />
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'''12-gauge blast'''<br /><br />
as from as 12-gauge shotgun<br />
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'''loafer one'''<br /><br />
presumably first step of the day, meaning Lenz never leaves Ennet House until after sunset<br />
<br />
'''E.M.I.T.'''<br /><br />
enzyme-multiplied immunoassay technique<br />
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==Endnote 224==<br />
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'''EZC'''<br /><br />
i.e., "easy see"<br />
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'''NAL'''<br /><br />
New American Library<br />
<br />
'''Ticknor, Fields'''<br /><br />
Ticknor and Fields was a publishing house eventually bought by Houghton Mifflin in 1880.<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]<br />
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'''W-E'''<br /><br />
west-east<br />
<br />
'''trebled'''<br /><br />
tripled in number or magnitude<br />
<br />
'''Stegosaurus'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegosaurus dinosaur]<br />
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'''verminal'''<br /><br />
tending to breed vermin<br />
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'''cabbaging'''<br /><br />
stealing<br />
<br />
'''brisance'''<br /><br />
the shattering effect of an explosive<br />
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'''panoply'''<br /><br />
a wide-ranging array of things<br />
<br />
'''A Program of Attraction'''<br /><br />
AA refers to itself as this, meaning that it doesn't need to advertise.<br />
<br />
'''EST and Greenwich Mean'''<br /><br />
Eastern Standard Time and Greenwich Mean Time, the latter of which is determined at the Prime Meridian, or 0º longitude<br />
<br />
'''reseau'''<br /><br />
a reference grid of fine lines forming uniform squares on a photographic plate or print, used to aid in measurement<br />
<br />
'''DOW'''<br /><br />
probably the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average Dow Jones Industrial Average]<br />
<br />
'''NIKEI'''<br /><br />
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikkei_225 Nikkei 225] index of the Japanese stock market<br />
<br />
==Page 543==<br />
'''Eurotrochaic'''<br /><br />
neologism: Euro[pean] + trochaic; here, describing the alternating two-note sound of a European emergency siren (trochaic being the adjectival form of "trochee," a metrical foot of poetry comprised of two feet, stressed and unstressed)<br />
<br />
'''winsome'''<br /><br />
charming<br />
<br />
'''diverticulitis'''<br /><br />
inflammation of the pouches of the colon<br />
<br />
'''gone rye'''<br /><br />
i.e., gone awry<br />
<br />
'''Principles of Psychology and the Gifford Lectures on Natural Philosophy'''<br /><br />
"[http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=88 William James’s Gifford Lectures] of 1901–1902 have been heralded by some as the greatest lectures ever to be presented in the series and perhaps the most seminal of his works (alongside The Principles of Psychology). Published initially in 1902, [http://www.csp.org/experience/james-varieties/james-varieties.html The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature] has stood the test of time and been republished thirty-six times."<br />
<br />
'''20-gram'''<br /><br />
About .70 ounces, this is a lot of cocaine.<br />
<br />
'''bonerfied'''<br /><br />
bona fide<br />
<br />
==Page 544==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Maytag Quietmaster]]<br />
<br />
'''ten-kilo'''<br /><br />
about 22 lbs<br />
<br />
'''Caldor-brand'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldor chain] of discount department stores in the US Northeast. The chain closed its last store in 1999.<br />
<br />
'''Scopophobic'''<br /><br />
Of scopophobia; the fear of being seen or stared at.<br />
<br />
==Page 545==<br />
'''Bing'''<br /><br />
cocaine, usually referring to a line of the substance<br />
<br />
'''phosphenes'''<br /><br />
light sensations in the eyes when light is physically absent<br />
<br />
'''apnea'''<br /><br />
the tendency of mainly overweight people to stop breathing intermittently in their sleep<br />
<br />
'''hone'''<br /><br />
a whetstone used to sharpen blades<br />
<br />
==Page 546==<br />
<br />
'''R. Lauren'''<br /><br />
Ralph Lauren<br />
<br />
'''BYP'''<br /><br />
Brookline Young People's AA group<br />
<br />
==Page 547==<br />
<br />
'''formulating'''<br /><br />
forming<br />
<br />
'''tattlemount'''<br /><br />
tantamount<br />
<br />
==Page 548==<br />
<br />
=Early November, YDAU - Rodney Tine and the ''Samizdat''=<br />
<br />
==Page 548==<br />
<br />
'''District'''<br /><br />
the District of Columbia<br />
<br />
==Endnote 228==<br />
<br />
'''O.N.R.'''<br /><br />
perhaps the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Naval_Research Office of Naval Research]<br />
<br />
'''ambit'''<br /><br />
sphere of operation or influence<br />
<br />
==Page 548 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''twidgelling'''<br /><br />
not a real word<br />
<br />
'''NCA'''<br /><br />
probably Northern California<br />
<br />
'''Code-Five'''<br /><br />
code for "stakeout in progress"<br />
<br />
'''New Iberia LA'''<br /><br />
a city about 50 miles southwest of Baton Rouge<br />
<br />
'''apprised'''<br /><br />
informed<br />
<br />
'''pithed'''<br /><br />
having had a needle stuck into the base of the skull to sever or destroy the brainstem<br />
<br />
'''Academy of D.A.S. (or V.A.S.)'''<br/><br />
It seems like it's printed as either D.A.S. or V.A.S. These are probably something like "Academy of Digital/Visual Arts and Sciences"<br />
<br />
==Page 549==<br />
<br />
'''U.S.O.'''<br /><br />
Undercover Special Operations<br />
<br />
'''P.E.T.s'''<br /><br />
P.E.T. is the acronym for positron emission tomography, a kind of medical imaging technique; these are more commonly called PET scans<br />
<br />
'''retinue'''<br /><br />
a group of attendants, advisers, etc.<br />
<br />
=November 9th, YDAU - Pemulis wanders the E.T.A. offices at night=<br />
<br />
==Page 550==<br />
<br />
'''magical thinking'''<br /><br />
the correlation of actions and events in the absence of scientific proof<br />
<br />
'''pre-Oedipal'''<br /><br />
occurring prior to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_complex Oedipus complex] typically experienced from ages 3-6<br />
<br />
'''cathexis'''<br /><br />
defined as the process of investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea<br />
<br />
==Page 551==<br />
<br />
'''exhortation'''<br /><br />
a speech or discourse that encourages, incites, or earnestly advises<br />
<br />
'''greeble'''<br /><br />
a small piece of detailing added to break up the surface of an object to add visual interest<br />
<br />
==Page 552==<br />
<br />
'''Filene's'''<br /><br />
a Boston-based [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filene%27s department store] (and chain), defunct since December 2011<br />
<br />
'''chintzy'''<br /><br />
cheap and low grade<br />
<br />
'''Hal's Mumsly-Wumsly'''<br /><br />
his mother, Avril Incandenza<br />
<br />
==Page 553==<br />
<br />
'''worsted'''<br /><br />
firmly twisted yarn<br />
<br />
=November 11th, YDAU - Lenz and Green Walking=<br />
<br />
==Page 554==<br />
<br />
'''RIJID-brand male hairspray'''<br /><br />
appears to be a fictional brand of hairspray<br />
<br />
==Page 555==<br />
<br />
'''stepped on'''<br /><br />
cut, as in weakened the potency of a drug by adding another substance<br />
<br />
'''half-kilo'''<br /><br />
about 1.1 pounds<br />
<br />
==Endnote 231==<br />
<br />
'''Manitol'''<br /><br />
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannitol mannitol]<br />
<br />
==Page 555 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''lineskers'''<br /><br />
lines of powdered cocaine assembled for snorting<br />
<br />
'''"...go find a short pier..."'''<br /><br />
and take a long walk, being the implication<br />
<br />
'''aqua-line nose'''<br /><br />
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooknose aquiline nose]<br />
<br />
==Page 556==<br />
<br />
'''anileated'''<br /><br />
annihilated<br />
<br />
'''hemispasm'''<br /><br />
spasm on half of the face<br />
<br />
'''insousistent'''<br /><br />
insouciant, meaning indifferent<br />
<br />
'''aplomb'''<br /><br />
self-assurance<br />
<br />
'''skirling'''<br /><br />
shrilly wailing<br />
<br />
'''hackles'''<br /><br />
the erectile hairs on the back of a dog which rise up out of fear or aggression<br />
<br />
'''plumb'''<br /><br />
exactly<br />
<br />
'''to the maximus'''<br /><br />
maybe just "the maximum" (or "the max"), but also perhaps more Wallace wordplay, as in the ''gluteus maximus'' (the largest of the muscles in the buttocks), and so a pain in the ass<br />
<br />
'''myriadly'''<br /><br />
countlessly<br />
<br />
'''parallaxing'''<br /><br />
The noun [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax ''parallax''] is a visual term; the nonce participle "parallaxing" used to describe noises here, may be Lenz's way of referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_effect Doppler effect], analogous only in terms of issues of positional perspective, of the ''viewer'' of an object at some distance in the case of ''parallex'' and the ''hearer'' of a moving noisemaker (such as the siren on a speeding ambulance) in the case of the ''Doppler shift''.<br />
<br />
'''crucifi'''<br /><br />
Probably Lenz means "crucifixes."<br />
<br />
'''crepuscular'''<br /><br />
relating to twilight, or possibly the animals active at this time<br />
<br />
'''threnody'''<br /><br />
song of mourning for the dead<br />
<br />
==Page 557==<br />
<br />
'''To Project and to Swerve'''<br /><br />
a pun on the police motto "To Protect and Serve"<br />
<br />
'''hoovered'''<br /><br />
inhaled<br />
<br />
==Endnote 232==<br />
<br />
'''benzoylecgonine'''<br /><br />
the major metabolite of cocaine<br />
<br />
'''ecgonine'''<br /><br />
an organic chemical found naturally in coca leaves<br />
<br />
'''nystagmus'''<br /><br />
a rapid, involuntary, oscillatory motion of the eyeball<br />
<br />
'''benzoic acid'''<br /><br />
the simplest of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboxylic_acid caroxylic acids]<br />
<br />
'''Crosbulation'''<br /><br />
if cocaine is called "Bing," Crosbulation refers to snorting cocaine, referring to the last name of Bing Crosby<br />
<br />
'''spider angiomas'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_angioma benign tumor]<br />
<br />
'''rhinorrhagia'''<br /><br />
bleeding from the nose<br />
<br />
'''blepharospecticity'''<br /><br />
This means something like "seeing through one's eyelids"<br />
<br />
'''M.A.O.-inhibiting'''<br /><br />
monoamine oxidase inhibitor, a chemical in potent antidepressants.<br />
<br />
'''ballism'''<br /><br />
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballism hemiballismus]<br />
<br />
'''oral labia'''<br /><br />
the lips of the mouth<br />
<br />
'''Paliacci'''<br /><br />
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagliacci Pagliacci] (''Clowns''), an opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), an Italian composer<br />
<br />
'''priapism'''<br /><br />
persistent, usually painful erection of the penis, especially as a consequence of disease and not related to sexual arousal<br />
<br />
'''diuresis extremus'''<br /><br />
Extreme production of urine and, thus, need to urinate. The correct Greek-Latin term should be ''diuresis extrema'', ''diuresis'' being a feminine noun.<br />
<br />
'''phobophobia'''<br /><br />
fear of fear<br />
<br />
'''sociosis'''<br /><br />
a neurosis that has to do with one's ability to deal with society<br />
<br />
'''acne rosea'''<br /><br />
also known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosacea rosacea]<br />
<br />
'''rhinophyma'''<br /><br />
a red nose caused by amassing of granulomas there<br />
<br />
'''synergism'''<br /><br />
the property of things working together<br />
<br />
'''confabulation'''<br /><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation formation of false memories]<br />
<br />
'''garrulousness'''<br /><br />
propensity to ramble<br />
<br />
'''phasece'''<br /><br />
neologism; presumably a back-formation to a plural noun from the adjective 'phasic,' which in medical parlance means "Of the activity of excitable cells or tissues: discontinuous; irregular; not tonic" (OED). "Pulmonary phasece" would be heart palpitations.<br />
<br />
'''lingual tendinitis'''<br /><br />
this would mean inflammation of the tendon of the tongue, but the tongue and mouth lack tendons<br />
<br />
==Page 557 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''sangfroid'''<br /><br />
coolness of the blood (from French)<br />
<br />
'''fob'''<br /><br />
an ornament attached to a pocket watch by a chain<br />
<br />
'''chamois'''<br /><br />
Pronounced "shammy," this is a cloth or piece of leather used to shine a surface.<br />
<br />
'''''Track and Flange'''''<br /><br />
not a real magazine<br />
<br />
'''flange'''<br /><br />
a protruding rim, edge, rib, or collar, as on a wheel or a pipe shaft, used to strengthen an object, hold it in place, or attach it to another object<br />
<br />
'''ergo'''<br /><br />
Latin: therefore<br />
<br />
'''''energois de vivre'''''<br /><br />
Something like "life energy" or "life force;" although ''energois'' isn't a real French word, it might be pronounced like ''joie'' as in ''joie de vivre.''<br />
<br />
==Page 558==<br />
<br />
'''Estuarial crocodile'''<br /><br />
the [http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Estuarine+crocodile estuarine (saltwater) crocodile]<br />
<br />
'''Bonwit's'''<br /><br />
a reference to the now-defunct upscale department store [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonwit_Teller Bonwit Teller]<br />
<br />
'''A.D.A.'''<br /><br />
American Dental Association<br />
<br />
'''akido'''<br /><br />
Lenz means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikido aikido].<br />
<br />
'''valise'''<br /><br />
a small piece of luggage<br />
<br />
'''recurving'''<br /><br />
i.e., recurring<br />
<br />
'''t'ai-chi'''<br /><br />
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiji Taiji]<br />
<br />
==Page 559==<br />
<br />
'''mescal'''<br /><br />
an alcoholic beverage distilled from a cactus<br />
<br />
'''diphthongs'''<br /><br />
occurrences of two adjacent vowel sounds in a word, e.g, poor, sour, coin<br />
<br />
'''cableyarrow'''<br /><br />
''Caballero'' (Spanish for "gentleman") is what he means.<br />
<br />
'''''in vitro'''''<br /><br />
Latin for "in glass," this term is used to refer to experiments that happen in test tubes. Lenz means ''in vivo'', i.e., ''in utero'' (or maybe not -- he might be claiming he was a product of artificial insemination, and that he actually remembers things from before he was implanted, who knows?).<br />
<br />
=Hal Counts His Breaths=<br />
<br />
==Page 560==<br />
<br />
'''photosynthesizing'''<br /><br />
turning light into energy, as plants do<br />
<br />
'''Baobab tree'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/baobab.htm tree] native to Africa and India<br />
<br />
'''pride'''<br /><br />
family of lions<br />
<br />
=Lenz and Green, cont.=<br />
<br />
==Page 560==<br />
<br />
'''septum'''<br /><br />
the cartilage separating the nostrils<br />
<br />
'''reguiles'''<br /><br />
i.e., regales (and simultaneously beguiles)<br />
<br />
'''Shrangi-la'''<br /><br />
Lenz means Shangri-La, the utopia of the novel ''Lost Horizon'' by James Hilton (1900-1954), a British author.<br />
<br />
'''kamasupra'''<br /><br />
Lenz is referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra Kama Sutra].<br />
<br />
==Page 561==<br />
<br />
'''Fall River'''<br /><br />
a city in Massachusetts about 50 miles south of Boston<br />
<br />
'''poofta'''<br /><br />
i.e., a poofter, a vulgar term for a male homosexual<br />
<br />
'''intrepid'''<br /><br />
fearless<br />
<br />
'''fauna'''<br /><br />
wildlife<br />
<br />
'''Shawshine River'''<br /><br />
also known as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawsheen_River Shawsheen]<br />
<br />
'''ravacious'''<br /><br />
This would seem to be a cross between "ravenous" and "rapacious."<br />
<br />
==Page 562==<br />
<br />
'''scat-piles'''<br /><br />
piles of feces<br />
<br />
'''feti'''<br /><br />
plural of fetus<br />
<br />
'''yrstruly'''<br /><br />
yours truly<br />
<br />
'''propitiating'''<br /><br />
appeasing<br />
<br />
'''diem'''<br /><br />
Latin: day<br />
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=November 11th, YDAU - Gately and Joelle=<br />
<br />
==Page 531==<br />
<br />
'''boilermakers'''<br /><br />
shots of whiskey chased with beer<br />
<br />
'''keep'''<br /><br />
i.e., the barkeep<br />
<br />
==Page 532==<br />
<br />
'''blotto'''<br /><br />
extremely drunk<br />
<br />
'''Cumberland'''<br /><br />
This must refer to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_River Cumberland River], which flows into the Ohio near Paducah, in the western part of Kentucky, close to Joelle's home town of Shiny Prize (see page 237).<br />
<br />
'''O.D.'''<br /><br />
overdose<br />
<br />
==Page 533==<br />
<br />
'''metronome'''<br /><br />
a time-keeping device for musicians, typically a pendulum-like machine that clicks to provide meter<br />
<br />
'''caparison'''<br /><br />
rich and sumptuous clothing or equipment<br />
<br />
==Page 534==<br />
<br />
'''a Type and a Symbol'''<br /><br />
These words are used by Mr. Hooper to describe the veil he wears in Nathaniel Hawthorne's story, [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Minister's_Black_Veil "The Minister's Black Veil."]<br />
<br />
==Page 535==<br />
<br />
'''gregarious'''<br /><br />
sociable<br />
<br />
==Page 536==<br />
<br />
==Page 537==<br />
<br />
==Page 538==<br />
<br />
'''slavering'''<br /><br />
drooling<br />
<br />
=☽ - Randy Lenz: Rats, Cats, and Dogs=<br />
<br />
==Page 538==<br />
<br />
'''Duster'''<br /><br />
the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Duster Plymouth Duster] was a sporty compact available from 1970 to 1976<br />
<br />
'''12-gauge blast'''<br /><br />
as from as 12-gauge shotgun<br />
<br />
==Page 539==<br />
<br />
'''loafer one'''<br /><br />
presumably first step of the day, meaning Lenz never leaves Ennet House until after sunset<br />
<br />
'''E.M.I.T.'''<br /><br />
enzyme-multiplied immunoassay technique<br />
<br />
==Page 540==<br />
<br />
==Endnote 224==<br />
<br />
'''EZC'''<br /><br />
i.e., "easy see"<br />
<br />
'''NAL'''<br /><br />
New American Library<br />
<br />
'''Ticknor, Fields'''<br /><br />
Ticknor and Fields was a publishing house eventually bought by Houghton Mifflin in 1880.<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]<br />
<br />
==Page 540 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''W-E'''<br /><br />
west-east<br />
<br />
'''trebled'''<br /><br />
tripled in number or magnitude<br />
<br />
'''Stegosaurus'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegosaurus dinosaur]<br />
<br />
==Page 541==<br />
<br />
'''verminal'''<br /><br />
tending to breed vermin<br />
<br />
'''cabbaging'''<br /><br />
stealing<br />
<br />
'''brisance'''<br /><br />
the shattering effect of an explosive<br />
<br />
==Page 542==<br />
<br />
'''panoply'''<br /><br />
a wide-ranging array of things<br />
<br />
'''A Program of Attraction'''<br /><br />
AA refers to itself as this, meaning that it doesn't need to advertise.<br />
<br />
'''EST and Greenwich Mean'''<br /><br />
Eastern Standard Time and Greenwich Mean Time, the latter of which is determined at the Prime Meridian, or 0º longitude<br />
<br />
'''reseau'''<br /><br />
a reference grid of fine lines forming uniform squares on a photographic plate or print, used to aid in measurement<br />
<br />
'''DOW'''<br /><br />
probably the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average Dow Jones Industrial Average]<br />
<br />
'''NIKEI'''<br /><br />
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikkei_225 Nikkei 225] index of the Japanese stock market<br />
<br />
==Page 543==<br />
'''Eurotrochaic'''<br /><br />
neologism: Euro[pean] + trochaic; here, describing the alternating two-note sound of a European emergency siren (trochaic being the adjectival form of "trochee," a metrical foot of poetry comprised of two feet, stressed and unstressed)<br />
<br />
'''winsome'''<br /><br />
charming<br />
<br />
'''diverticulitis'''<br /><br />
inflammation of the pouches of the colon<br />
<br />
'''gone rye'''<br /><br />
i.e., gone awry<br />
<br />
'''Principles of Psychology and the Gifford Lectures on Natural Philosophy'''<br /><br />
"[http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=88 William James’s Gifford Lectures] of 1901–1902 have been heralded by some as the greatest lectures ever to be presented in the series and perhaps the most seminal of his works (alongside The Principles of Psychology). Published initially in 1902, [http://www.csp.org/experience/james-varieties/james-varieties.html The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature] has stood the test of time and been republished thirty-six times."<br />
<br />
'''20-gram'''<br /><br />
About .70 ounces, this is a lot of cocaine.<br />
<br />
'''bonerfied'''<br /><br />
bona fide<br />
<br />
==Page 544==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Maytag Quietmaster]]<br />
<br />
'''ten-kilo'''<br /><br />
about 22 lbs<br />
<br />
'''Caldor-brand'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldor chain] of discount department stores in the US Northeast. The chain closed its last store in 1999.<br />
<br />
'''Scopophobic'''<br /><br />
Of scopophobia; the fear of being seen or stared at.<br />
<br />
==Page 545==<br />
'''Bing'''<br /><br />
cocaine, usually referring to a line of the substance<br />
<br />
'''phosphenes'''<br /><br />
light sensations in the eyes when light is physically absent<br />
<br />
'''apnea'''<br /><br />
the tendency of mainly overweight people to stop breathing intermittently in their sleep<br />
<br />
'''hone'''<br /><br />
a whetstone used to sharpen blades<br />
<br />
==Page 546==<br />
<br />
'''R. Lauren'''<br /><br />
Ralph Lauren<br />
<br />
'''BYP'''<br /><br />
Brookline Young People's AA group<br />
<br />
==Page 547==<br />
<br />
'''formulating'''<br /><br />
forming<br />
<br />
'''tattlemount'''<br /><br />
tantamount<br />
<br />
==Page 548==<br />
<br />
=Early November, YDAU - Rodney Tine and the ''Samizdat''=<br />
<br />
==Page 548==<br />
<br />
'''District'''<br /><br />
the District of Columbia<br />
<br />
==Endnote 228==<br />
<br />
'''O.N.R.'''<br /><br />
perhaps the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Naval_Research Office of Naval Research]<br />
<br />
'''ambit'''<br /><br />
sphere of operation or influence<br />
<br />
==Page 548 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''twidgelling'''<br /><br />
not a real word<br />
<br />
'''NCA'''<br /><br />
probably Northern California<br />
<br />
'''Code-Five'''<br /><br />
code for "stakeout in progress"<br />
<br />
'''New Iberia LA'''<br /><br />
a city about 50 miles southwest of Baton Rouge<br />
<br />
'''apprised'''<br /><br />
informed<br />
<br />
'''pithed'''<br /><br />
having had a needle stuck into the base of the skull to sever or destroy the brainstem<br />
<br />
'''Academy of D.A.S. (or V.A.S.)'''<br/><br />
It seems like it's printed as either D.A.S. or V.A.S. These are probably something like "Academy of Digital/Visual Arts and Sciences"<br />
<br />
==Page 549==<br />
<br />
'''U.S.O.'''<br /><br />
Undercover Special Operations<br />
<br />
'''P.E.T.s'''<br /><br />
P.E.T. is the acronym for positron emission tomography, a kind of medical imaging technique; these are more commonly called PET scans<br />
<br />
'''retinue'''<br /><br />
a group of attendants, advisers, etc.<br />
<br />
=November 9th, YDAU - Pemulis wanders the E.T.A. offices at night=<br />
<br />
==Page 550==<br />
<br />
'''magical thinking'''<br /><br />
the correlation of actions and events in the absence of scientific proof<br />
<br />
'''pre-Oedipal'''<br /><br />
occurring prior to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_complex Oedipus complex] typically experienced from ages 3-6<br />
<br />
'''cathexis'''<br /><br />
defined as the process of investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea<br />
<br />
==Page 551==<br />
<br />
'''exhortation'''<br /><br />
a speech or discourse that encourages, incites, or earnestly advises<br />
<br />
'''greeble'''<br /><br />
a small piece of detailing added to break up the surface of an object to add visual interest<br />
<br />
==Page 552==<br />
<br />
'''Filene's'''<br /><br />
a Boston-based [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filene%27s department store] (and chain), defunct since December 2011<br />
<br />
'''chintzy'''<br /><br />
cheap and low grade<br />
<br />
'''Hal's Mumsly-Wumsly'''<br /><br />
his mother, Avril Incandenza<br />
<br />
==Page 553==<br />
<br />
'''worsted'''<br /><br />
firmly twisted yarn<br />
<br />
=November 11th, YDAU - Lenz and Green Walking=<br />
<br />
==Page 554==<br />
<br />
'''RIJID-brand male hairspray'''<br /><br />
appears to be a fictional brand of hairspray<br />
<br />
==Page 555==<br />
<br />
'''stepped on'''<br /><br />
cut, as in weakened the potency of a drug by adding another substance<br />
<br />
'''half-kilo'''<br /><br />
about 1.1 pounds<br />
<br />
==Endnote 231==<br />
<br />
'''Manitol'''<br /><br />
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannitol mannitol]<br />
<br />
==Page 555 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''lineskers'''<br /><br />
lines of powdered cocaine assembled for snorting<br />
<br />
'''"...go find a short pier..."'''<br /><br />
and take a long walk, being the implication<br />
<br />
'''aqua-line nose'''<br /><br />
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooknose aquiline nose]<br />
<br />
==Page 556==<br />
<br />
'''anileated'''<br /><br />
annihilated<br />
<br />
'''hemispasm'''<br /><br />
spasm on half of the face<br />
<br />
'''insousistent'''<br /><br />
insouciant, meaning indifferent<br />
<br />
'''aplomb'''<br /><br />
self-assurance<br />
<br />
'''skirling'''<br /><br />
shrilly wailing<br />
<br />
'''hackles'''<br /><br />
the erectile hairs on the back of a dog which rise up out of fear or aggression<br />
<br />
'''plumb'''<br /><br />
exactly<br />
<br />
'''to the maximus'''<br /><br />
maybe just "the maximum" (or "the max"), but also perhaps more Wallace wordplay, as in the ''gluteus maximus'' (the largest of the muscles in the buttocks), and so a pain in the ass<br />
<br />
'''myriadly'''<br /><br />
countlessly<br />
<br />
'''parallaxing'''<br /><br />
The noun [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax ''parallax''] is a visual term; the nonce participle "parallaxing" used to describe noises here, may be Lenz's way of referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_effect Doppler effect], analogous only in terms of issues of positional perspective, of the ''viewer'' of an object at some distance in the case of ''parallex'' and the ''hearer'' of a moving noisemaker (such as the siren on a speeding ambulance) in the case of the ''Doppler shift''.<br />
<br />
'''crucifi'''<br /><br />
Probably Lenz means "crucifixes."<br />
<br />
'''crepuscular'''<br /><br />
relating to twilight, or possibly the animals active at this time<br />
<br />
'''threnody'''<br /><br />
song of mourning for the dead<br />
<br />
==Page 557==<br />
<br />
'''To Project and to Swerve'''<br /><br />
a pun on the police motto "To Protect and Serve"<br />
<br />
'''hoovered'''<br /><br />
inhaled<br />
<br />
==Endnote 232==<br />
<br />
'''benzoylecgonine'''<br /><br />
the major metabolite of cocaine<br />
<br />
'''ecgonine'''<br /><br />
an organic chemical found naturally in coca leaves<br />
<br />
'''nystagmus'''<br /><br />
a rapid, involuntary, oscillatory motion of the eyeball<br />
<br />
'''benzoic acid'''<br /><br />
the simplest of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboxylic_acid caroxylic acids]<br />
<br />
'''Crosbulation'''<br /><br />
if cocaine is called "Bing," Crosbulation refers to snorting cocaine, referring to the last name of Bing Crosby<br />
<br />
'''spider angiomas'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_angioma benign tumor]<br />
<br />
'''rhinorrhagia'''<br /><br />
bleeding from the nose<br />
<br />
'''blepharospecticity'''<br /><br />
This means something like "seeing through one's eyelids"<br />
<br />
'''M.A.O.-inhibiting'''<br /><br />
monoamine oxidase inhibitor, a chemical in potent antidepressants.<br />
<br />
'''ballism'''<br /><br />
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballism hemiballismus]<br />
<br />
'''oral labia'''<br /><br />
the lips of the mouth<br />
<br />
'''Paliacci'''<br /><br />
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagliacci Pagliacci] (''Clowns''), an opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), an Italian composer<br />
<br />
'''priapism'''<br /><br />
persistent, usually painful erection of the penis, especially as a consequence of disease and not related to sexual arousal<br />
<br />
'''diuresis extremus'''<br /><br />
Extreme production of urine and, thus, need to urinate. The correct Greek-Latin term should be ''diuresis extrema'', ''diuresis'' being a feminine noun.<br />
<br />
'''phobophobia'''<br /><br />
fear of fear<br />
<br />
'''sociosis'''<br /><br />
a neurosis that has to do with one's ability to deal with society<br />
<br />
'''acne rosea'''<br /><br />
also known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosacea rosacea]<br />
<br />
'''rhinophyma'''<br /><br />
a red nose caused by amassing of granulomas there<br />
<br />
'''synergism'''<br /><br />
the property of things working together<br />
<br />
'''confabulation'''<br /><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation formation of false memories]<br />
<br />
'''garrulousness'''<br /><br />
propensity to ramble<br />
<br />
'''phasece'''<br /><br />
neologism; presumably a back-formation to a plural noun from the adjective 'phasic,' which in medical parlance means "Of the activity of excitable cells or tissues: discontinuous; irregular; not tonic" (OED). "Pulmonary phasece" would be heart palpitations.<br />
<br />
'''lingual tendinitis'''<br /><br />
inflammation of the muscles of the tongue<br />
<br />
==Page 557 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''sangfroid'''<br /><br />
coolness of the blood (from French)<br />
<br />
'''fob'''<br /><br />
an ornament attached to a pocket watch by a chain<br />
<br />
'''chamois'''<br /><br />
Pronounced "shammy," this is a cloth or piece of leather used to shine a surface.<br />
<br />
'''''Track and Flange'''''<br /><br />
not a real magazine<br />
<br />
'''flange'''<br /><br />
a protruding rim, edge, rib, or collar, as on a wheel or a pipe shaft, used to strengthen an object, hold it in place, or attach it to another object<br />
<br />
'''ergo'''<br /><br />
Latin: therefore<br />
<br />
'''''energois de vivre'''''<br /><br />
Something like "life energy" or "life force;" although ''energois'' isn't a real French word, it might be pronounced like ''joie'' as in ''joie de vivre.''<br />
<br />
==Page 558==<br />
<br />
'''Estuarial crocodile'''<br /><br />
the [http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Estuarine+crocodile estuarine (saltwater) crocodile]<br />
<br />
'''Bonwit's'''<br /><br />
a reference to the now-defunct upscale department store [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonwit_Teller Bonwit Teller]<br />
<br />
'''A.D.A.'''<br /><br />
American Dental Association<br />
<br />
'''akido'''<br /><br />
Lenz means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikido aikido].<br />
<br />
'''valise'''<br /><br />
a small piece of luggage<br />
<br />
'''recurving'''<br /><br />
i.e., recurring<br />
<br />
'''t'ai-chi'''<br /><br />
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiji Taiji]<br />
<br />
==Page 559==<br />
<br />
'''mescal'''<br /><br />
an alcoholic beverage distilled from a cactus<br />
<br />
'''diphthongs'''<br /><br />
occurrences of two adjacent vowel sounds in a word, e.g, poor, sour, coin<br />
<br />
'''cableyarrow'''<br /><br />
''Caballero'' (Spanish for "gentleman") is what he means.<br />
<br />
'''''in vitro'''''<br /><br />
Latin for "in glass," this term is used to refer to experiments that happen in test tubes. Lenz means ''in vivo'', i.e., ''in utero'' (or maybe not -- he might be claiming he was a product of artificial insemination, and that he actually remembers things from before he was implanted, who knows?).<br />
<br />
=Hal Counts His Breaths=<br />
<br />
==Page 560==<br />
<br />
'''photosynthesizing'''<br /><br />
turning light into energy, as plants do<br />
<br />
'''Baobab tree'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/baobab.htm tree] native to Africa and India<br />
<br />
'''pride'''<br /><br />
family of lions<br />
<br />
=Lenz and Green, cont.=<br />
<br />
==Page 560==<br />
<br />
'''septum'''<br /><br />
the cartilage separating the nostrils<br />
<br />
'''reguiles'''<br /><br />
i.e., regales (and simultaneously beguiles)<br />
<br />
'''Shrangi-la'''<br /><br />
Lenz means Shangri-La, the utopia of the novel ''Lost Horizon'' by James Hilton (1900-1954), a British author.<br />
<br />
'''kamasupra'''<br /><br />
Lenz is referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra Kama Sutra].<br />
<br />
==Page 561==<br />
<br />
'''Fall River'''<br /><br />
a city in Massachusetts about 50 miles south of Boston<br />
<br />
'''poofta'''<br /><br />
i.e., a poofter, a vulgar term for a male homosexual<br />
<br />
'''intrepid'''<br /><br />
fearless<br />
<br />
'''fauna'''<br /><br />
wildlife<br />
<br />
'''Shawshine River'''<br /><br />
also known as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawsheen_River Shawsheen]<br />
<br />
'''ravacious'''<br /><br />
This would seem to be a cross between "ravenous" and "rapacious."<br />
<br />
==Page 562==<br />
<br />
'''scat-piles'''<br /><br />
piles of feces<br />
<br />
'''feti'''<br /><br />
plural of fetus<br />
<br />
'''yrstruly'''<br /><br />
yours truly<br />
<br />
'''propitiating'''<br /><br />
appeasing<br />
<br />
'''diem'''<br /><br />
Latin: day<br />
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=November 11th, YDAU - Gately and Joelle=<br />
<br />
==Page 531==<br />
<br />
'''boilermakers'''<br /><br />
shots of whiskey chased with beer<br />
<br />
'''keep'''<br /><br />
i.e., the barkeep<br />
<br />
==Page 532==<br />
<br />
'''blotto'''<br /><br />
extremely drunk<br />
<br />
'''Cumberland'''<br /><br />
This must refer to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_River Cumberland River], which flows into the Ohio near Paducah, in the western part of Kentucky, close to Joelle's home town of Shiny Prize (see page 237).<br />
<br />
'''O.D.'''<br /><br />
overdose<br />
<br />
==Page 533==<br />
<br />
'''metronome'''<br /><br />
a time-keeping device for musicians, typically a pendulum-like machine that clicks to provide meter<br />
<br />
'''caparison'''<br /><br />
rich and sumptuous clothing or equipment<br />
<br />
==Page 534==<br />
<br />
'''a Type and a Symbol'''<br /><br />
These words are used by Mr. Hooper to describe the veil he wears in Nathaniel Hawthorne's story, [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Minister's_Black_Veil "The Minister's Black Veil."]<br />
<br />
==Page 535==<br />
<br />
'''gregarious'''<br /><br />
sociable<br />
<br />
==Page 536==<br />
<br />
==Page 537==<br />
<br />
==Page 538==<br />
<br />
'''slavering'''<br /><br />
drooling<br />
<br />
=☽ - Randy Lenz: Rats, Cats, and Dogs=<br />
<br />
==Page 538==<br />
<br />
'''Duster'''<br /><br />
the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Duster Plymouth Duster] was a sporty compact available from 1970 to 1976<br />
<br />
'''12-gauge blast'''<br /><br />
as from as 12-gauge shotgun<br />
<br />
==Page 539==<br />
<br />
'''loafer one'''<br /><br />
presumably first step of the day, meaning Lenz never leaves Ennet House until after sunset<br />
<br />
'''E.M.I.T.'''<br /><br />
enzyme-multiplied immunoassay technique<br />
<br />
==Page 540==<br />
<br />
==Endnote 224==<br />
<br />
'''EZC'''<br /><br />
i.e., "easy see"<br />
<br />
'''NAL'''<br /><br />
New American Library<br />
<br />
'''Ticknor, Fields'''<br /><br />
Ticknor and Fields was a publishing house eventually bought by Houghton Mifflin in 1880.<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]<br />
<br />
==Page 540 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''W-E'''<br /><br />
west-east<br />
<br />
'''trebled'''<br /><br />
tripled in number or magnitude<br />
<br />
'''Stegosaurus'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegosaurus dinosaur]<br />
<br />
==Page 541==<br />
<br />
'''verminal'''<br /><br />
tending to breed vermin<br />
<br />
'''cabbaging'''<br /><br />
stealing<br />
<br />
'''brisance'''<br /><br />
the shattering effect of an explosive<br />
<br />
==Page 542==<br />
<br />
'''panoply'''<br /><br />
a wide-ranging array of things<br />
<br />
'''A Program of Attraction'''<br /><br />
AA refers to itself as this, meaning that it doesn't need to advertise.<br />
<br />
'''EST and Greenwich Mean'''<br /><br />
Eastern Standard Time and Greenwich Mean Time, the latter of which is determined at the Prime Meridian, or 0º longitude<br />
<br />
'''reseau'''<br /><br />
a reference grid of fine lines forming uniform squares on a photographic plate or print, used to aid in measurement<br />
<br />
'''DOW'''<br /><br />
probably the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average Dow Jones Industrial Average]<br />
<br />
'''NIKEI'''<br /><br />
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikkei_225 Nikkei 225] index of the Japanese stock market<br />
<br />
==Page 543==<br />
'''Eurotrochaic'''<br /><br />
neologism: Euro[pean] + trochaic; here, describing the alternating two-note sound of a European emergency siren (trochaic being the adjectival form of "trochee," a metrical foot of poetry comprised of two feet, stressed and unstressed)<br />
<br />
'''winsome'''<br /><br />
charming<br />
<br />
'''diverticulitis'''<br /><br />
inflammation of the pouches of the colon<br />
<br />
'''gone rye'''<br /><br />
i.e., gone awry<br />
<br />
'''Principles of Psychology and the Gifford Lectures on Natural Philosophy'''<br /><br />
"[http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=88 William James’s Gifford Lectures] of 1901–1902 have been heralded by some as the greatest lectures ever to be presented in the series and perhaps the most seminal of his works (alongside The Principles of Psychology). Published initially in 1902, [http://www.csp.org/experience/james-varieties/james-varieties.html The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature] has stood the test of time and been republished thirty-six times."<br />
<br />
'''20-gram'''<br /><br />
About .70 ounces, this is a lot of cocaine.<br />
<br />
'''bonerfied'''<br /><br />
bona fide<br />
<br />
==Page 544==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Maytag Quietmaster]]<br />
<br />
'''ten-kilo'''<br /><br />
about 22 lbs<br />
<br />
'''Caldor-brand'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldor chain] of discount department stores in the US Northeast. The chain closed its last store in 1999.<br />
<br />
'''Scopophobic'''<br /><br />
Of scopophobia; the fear of being seen or stared at.<br />
<br />
==Page 545==<br />
'''Bing'''<br /><br />
cocaine, usually referring to a line of the substance<br />
<br />
'''phosphenes'''<br /><br />
light sensations in the eyes when light is physically absent<br />
<br />
'''apnea'''<br /><br />
the tendency of mainly overweight people to stop breathing intermittently in their sleep<br />
<br />
'''hone'''<br /><br />
a whetstone used to sharpen blades<br />
<br />
==Page 546==<br />
<br />
'''R. Lauren'''<br /><br />
Ralph Lauren<br />
<br />
'''BYP'''<br /><br />
Brookline Young People's AA group<br />
<br />
==Page 547==<br />
<br />
'''formulating'''<br /><br />
forming<br />
<br />
'''tattlemount'''<br /><br />
tantamount<br />
<br />
==Page 548==<br />
<br />
=Early November, YDAU - Rodney Tine and the ''Samizdat''=<br />
<br />
==Page 548==<br />
<br />
'''District'''<br /><br />
the District of Columbia<br />
<br />
==Endnote 228==<br />
<br />
'''O.N.R.'''<br /><br />
perhaps the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Naval_Research Office of Naval Research]<br />
<br />
'''ambit'''<br /><br />
sphere of operation or influence<br />
<br />
==Page 548 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''twidgelling'''<br /><br />
not a real word<br />
<br />
'''NCA'''<br /><br />
probably Northern California<br />
<br />
'''Code-Five'''<br /><br />
code for "stakeout in progress"<br />
<br />
'''New Iberia LA'''<br /><br />
a city about 50 miles southwest of Baton Rouge<br />
<br />
'''apprised'''<br /><br />
informed<br />
<br />
'''pithed'''<br /><br />
having had a needle stuck into the base of the skull to sever or destroy the brainstem<br />
<br />
'''Academy of D.A.S. (or V.A.S.)'''<br/><br />
It seems like it's printed as either D.A.S. or V.A.S. These are probably something like "Academy of Digital/Visual Arts and Sciences"<br />
<br />
==Page 549==<br />
<br />
'''U.S.O.'''<br /><br />
Undercover Special Operations<br />
<br />
'''P.E.T.s'''<br /><br />
P.E.T. is the acronym for positron emission tomography, a kind of medical imaging technique; these are more commonly called PET scans<br />
<br />
'''retinue'''<br /><br />
a group of attendants, advisers, etc.<br />
<br />
=November 9th, YDAU - Pemulis wanders the E.T.A. offices at night=<br />
<br />
==Page 550==<br />
<br />
'''magical thinking'''<br /><br />
the correlation of actions and events in the absence of scientific proof<br />
<br />
'''pre-Oedipal'''<br /><br />
occurring prior to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_complex Oedipus complex] typically experienced from ages 3-6<br />
<br />
'''cathexis'''<br /><br />
defined as the process of investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea<br />
<br />
==Page 551==<br />
<br />
'''exhortation'''<br /><br />
a speech or discourse that encourages, incites, or earnestly advises<br />
<br />
'''greeble'''<br /><br />
a small piece of detailing added to break up the surface of an object to add visual interest<br />
<br />
==Page 552==<br />
<br />
'''Filene's'''<br /><br />
a Boston-based [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filene%27s department store] (and chain), defunct since December 2011<br />
<br />
'''chintzy'''<br /><br />
cheap and low grade<br />
<br />
'''Hal's Mumsly-Wumsly'''<br /><br />
his mother, Avril Incandenza<br />
<br />
==Page 553==<br />
<br />
'''worsted'''<br /><br />
firmly twisted yarn<br />
<br />
=November 11th, YDAU - Lenz and Green Walking=<br />
<br />
==Page 554==<br />
<br />
'''RIJID-brand male hairspray'''<br /><br />
appears to be a fictional brand of hairspray<br />
<br />
==Page 555==<br />
<br />
'''stepped on'''<br /><br />
cut, as in weakened the potency of a drug by adding another substance<br />
<br />
'''half-kilo'''<br /><br />
about 1.1 pounds<br />
<br />
==Endnote 231==<br />
<br />
'''Manitol'''<br /><br />
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannitol mannitol]<br />
<br />
==Page 555 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''lineskers'''<br /><br />
lines of powdered cocaine assembled for snorting<br />
<br />
'''"...go find a short pier..."'''<br /><br />
and take a long walk, being the implication<br />
<br />
'''aqua-line nose'''<br /><br />
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooknose aquiline nose]<br />
<br />
==Page 556==<br />
<br />
'''anileated'''<br /><br />
annihilated<br />
<br />
'''hemispasm'''<br /><br />
spasm on half of the face<br />
<br />
'''insousistent'''<br /><br />
insouciant, meaning indifferent<br />
<br />
'''aplomb'''<br /><br />
self-assurance<br />
<br />
'''skirling'''<br /><br />
shrilly wailing<br />
<br />
'''hackles'''<br /><br />
the erectile hairs on the back of a dog which rise up out of fear or aggression<br />
<br />
'''plumb'''<br /><br />
exactly<br />
<br />
'''to the maximus'''<br /><br />
maybe just "the maximum" (or "the max"), but also perhaps more Wallace wordplay, as in the ''gluteus maximus'' (the largest of the muscles in the buttocks), and so a pain in the ass<br />
<br />
'''myriadly'''<br /><br />
countlessly<br />
<br />
'''parallaxing'''<br /><br />
The noun [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax ''parallax''] is a visual term; the nonce participle "parallaxing" used to describe noises here, may be Lenz's way of referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_effect Doppler effect], analogous only in terms of issues of positional perspective, of the ''viewer'' of an object at some distance in the case of ''parallex'' and the ''hearer'' of a moving noisemaker (such as the siren on a speeding ambulance) in the case of the ''Doppler shift''.<br />
<br />
'''crucifi'''<br /><br />
Probably Lenz means "crucifixes."<br />
<br />
'''crepuscular'''<br /><br />
relating to twilight, or possibly the animals active at this time<br />
<br />
'''threnody'''<br /><br />
song of mourning for the dead<br />
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==Page 557==<br />
<br />
'''To Project and to Swerve'''<br /><br />
a pun on the police motto "To Protect and Serve"<br />
<br />
'''hoovered'''<br /><br />
inhaled<br />
<br />
==Endnote 232==<br />
<br />
'''benzoylecgonine'''<br /><br />
the major metabolite of cocaine<br />
<br />
'''ecgonine'''<br /><br />
an organic chemical found naturally in coca leaves<br />
<br />
'''nystagmus'''<br /><br />
a rapid, involuntary, oscillatory motion of the eyeball<br />
<br />
'''benzoic acid'''<br /><br />
the simplest of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboxylic_acid caroxylic acids]<br />
<br />
'''Crosbulation'''<br /><br />
if cocaine is called "Bing," Crosbulation refers to snorting cocaine, referring to the last name of Bing Crosby<br />
<br />
'''spider angiomas'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_angioma benign tumor]<br />
<br />
'''rhinorrhagia'''<br /><br />
bleeding from the nose<br />
<br />
'''blepharospecticity'''<br /><br />
This means something like "seeing through one's eyelids"<br />
<br />
'''M.A.O.-inhibiting'''<br /><br />
monoamine oxidase inhibitor, a chemical in potent antidepressants.<br />
<br />
'''ballism'''<br /><br />
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballism hemiballismus]<br />
<br />
'''oral labia'''<br /><br />
the lips of the mouth<br />
<br />
'''Paliacci'''<br /><br />
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagliacci Pagliacci] (''Clowns''), an opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), an Italian composer<br />
<br />
'''priapism'''<br /><br />
persistent, usually painful erection of the penis, especially as a consequence of disease and not related to sexual arousal<br />
<br />
'''diuresis extremus'''<br /><br />
Extreme production of urine and, thus, need to urinate. The correct Greek-Latin term should be ''diuresis extrema'', ''diuresis'' being a feminine noun.<br />
<br />
'''phobophobia'''<br /><br />
fear of fear<br />
<br />
'''sociosis'''<br /><br />
a neurosis that has to do with one's ability to deal with society<br />
<br />
'''acne rosea'''<br /><br />
also known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosacea rosacea]<br />
<br />
'''rhinophyma'''<br /><br />
a red nose caused by amassing of granulomas there<br />
<br />
'''synergism'''<br /><br />
the property of things working together<br />
<br />
'''confabulation'''<br /><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation formation of false memories]<br />
<br />
'''garrulousness'''<br /><br />
propensity to ramble<br />
<br />
'''phasece'''<br /><br />
?<br />
<br />
'''lingual tendinitis'''<br /><br />
inflammation of the muscles of the tongue<br />
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==Page 557 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''sangfroid'''<br /><br />
coolness of the blood (from French)<br />
<br />
'''fob'''<br /><br />
an ornament attached to a pocket watch by a chain<br />
<br />
'''chamois'''<br /><br />
Pronounced "shammy," this is a cloth or piece of leather used to shine a surface.<br />
<br />
'''''Track and Flange'''''<br /><br />
not a real magazine<br />
<br />
'''flange'''<br /><br />
a protruding rim, edge, rib, or collar, as on a wheel or a pipe shaft, used to strengthen an object, hold it in place, or attach it to another object<br />
<br />
'''ergo'''<br /><br />
Latin: therefore<br />
<br />
'''''energois de vivre'''''<br /><br />
Something like "life energy" or "life force;" although ''energois'' isn't a real French word, it might be pronounced like ''joie'' as in ''joie de vivre.''<br />
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==Page 558==<br />
<br />
'''Estuarial crocodile'''<br /><br />
the [http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Estuarine+crocodile estuarine (saltwater) crocodile]<br />
<br />
'''Bonwit's'''<br /><br />
a reference to the now-defunct upscale department store [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonwit_Teller Bonwit Teller]<br />
<br />
'''A.D.A.'''<br /><br />
American Dental Association<br />
<br />
'''akido'''<br /><br />
Lenz means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikido aikido].<br />
<br />
'''valise'''<br /><br />
a small piece of luggage<br />
<br />
'''recurving'''<br /><br />
i.e., recurring<br />
<br />
'''t'ai-chi'''<br /><br />
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiji Taiji]<br />
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==Page 559==<br />
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'''mescal'''<br /><br />
an alcoholic beverage distilled from a cactus<br />
<br />
'''diphthongs'''<br /><br />
occurrences of two adjacent vowel sounds in a word, e.g, poor, sour, coin<br />
<br />
'''cableyarrow'''<br /><br />
''Caballero'' (Spanish for "gentleman") is what he means.<br />
<br />
'''''in vitro'''''<br /><br />
Latin for "in glass," this term is used to refer to experiments that happen in test tubes. Lenz means ''in vivo'', i.e., ''in utero'' (or maybe not -- he might be claiming he was a product of artificial insemination, and that he actually remembers things from before he was implanted, who knows?).<br />
<br />
=Hal Counts His Breaths=<br />
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==Page 560==<br />
<br />
'''photosynthesizing'''<br /><br />
turning light into energy, as plants do<br />
<br />
'''Baobab tree'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/baobab.htm tree] native to Africa and India<br />
<br />
'''pride'''<br /><br />
family of lions<br />
<br />
=Lenz and Green, cont.=<br />
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==Page 560==<br />
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'''septum'''<br /><br />
the cartilage separating the nostrils<br />
<br />
'''reguiles'''<br /><br />
i.e., regales (and simultaneously beguiles)<br />
<br />
'''Shrangi-la'''<br /><br />
Lenz means Shangri-La, the utopia of the novel ''Lost Horizon'' by James Hilton (1900-1954), a British author.<br />
<br />
'''kamasupra'''<br /><br />
Lenz is referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra Kama Sutra].<br />
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==Page 561==<br />
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'''Fall River'''<br /><br />
a city in Massachusetts about 50 miles south of Boston<br />
<br />
'''poofta'''<br /><br />
i.e., a poofter, a vulgar term for a male homosexual<br />
<br />
'''intrepid'''<br /><br />
fearless<br />
<br />
'''fauna'''<br /><br />
wildlife<br />
<br />
'''Shawshine River'''<br /><br />
also known as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawsheen_River Shawsheen]<br />
<br />
'''ravacious'''<br /><br />
This would seem to be a cross between "ravenous" and "rapacious."<br />
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'''scat-piles'''<br /><br />
piles of feces<br />
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'''feti'''<br /><br />
plural of fetus<br />
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'''yrstruly'''<br /><br />
yours truly<br />
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'''propitiating'''<br /><br />
appeasing<br />
<br />
'''diem'''<br /><br />
Latin: day<br />
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==Page 620==<br />
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'''baud'''<br /><br />
a unit of one bit per second in data transmission; see Wiki for page 60, where this paragraph appears almost word-for-word.<br />
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'''couture'''<br /><br />
high-fashion women's clothing<br />
<br />
'''carpal neuralgia, phospenic migraine, gluteal hyperadiposity, lumbar stressae'''<br /><br />
hand pain, migraines with flashing lights, fat buttocks, and lower back pain<br />
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'''"...all three O.N.A.N. time zones..."'''<br /><br />
Three is considerably fewer time zones than the five the U.S. (including Alaska and Hawaii) currently span, plus the Atlantic Time Zone, in which some of Canada can be found.<br />
<br />
'''genuflecting'''<br /><br />
kneeling to the ground on one knee, esp. to convey respect<br />
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'''sub-rosa'''<br /><br />
secret<br />
<br />
''''spect-ops''''<br /><br />
Perhaps a play on the popularized military term 'spec-ops,' meaning 'special operation(s).' In this case probably meaning 'spectation opportunities'; I.e. opportunities TV be a spectator.<br />
<br />
'''Gapers' Blocks'''<br /><br />
traffic delays caused by rubbernecking, i.e., blocking or retarding traffic by stopping to gape at the scene of an accident<br />
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'''apotheosis'''<br /><br />
the process of being raised to godlike status<br />
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'''coprolaliac'''<br /><br />
uncontrollably disposed to the use of profanity<br />
<br />
'''nucleic'''<br /><br />
pertaining to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_force nuclear force], which binds protons and neutrons into atomic nuclei <br />
<br />
'''PAs'''<br /><br />
public-address sytems<br />
<br />
'''nostrums'''<br /><br />
patent medicines, i.e., quack medicines<br />
<br />
'''Cultists in saffron with much percussion'''<br /><br />
members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Society_for_Krishna_Consciousness (Hare Krishna movement)] in their distinctive saffron-colored (orange) robes, likely carrying [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mridangam Mridangams] and tambourines<br />
<br />
'''bunting'''<br /><br />
loosely woven fabric in a generally half-circle shape; red-white-and-blue ones can be seen hung on podiums, porches, baseball stadiums, etc, especially on the 4th of July and other patriotic holidays<br />
<br />
'''c.'''<br /><br />
abbreviation for ''circa'', Latin for "around," used here in the sense of "approximately"<br />
<br />
'''mufflered'''<br /><br />
wearing scarves<br />
<br />
'''sylvan'''<br /><br />
woodsy<br />
<br />
'''The pond is perfectly round...'''<br /><br />
Two things wrong here, actually. There is no 'duck pond' in The Public Garden. There is a large lagoon on which the swan boats ply their trade, but it is irregular in shape. Make that three things as the lagoon is not drained in the fall. I suppose he could be referring to the 'frog pond' but that' in the neighboring Boston Common.<br />
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==Page 622==<br />
'''phylogenic'''<br /><br />
From ''phylogeny'', the study of changes and developments in organisms' lineages. ''Phylogenetic'' is the more common adjectival form.<br />
<br />
'''möbiusizing'''<br /><br />
a neologism for taking on the shape of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip Möbius strip]<br />
<br />
'''coccyx'''<br /><br />
tailbone<br />
<br />
'''scopophile'''<br /><br />
someone who derives pleasure (usually sexual) from looking at something<br />
<br />
'''dun'''<br /><br />
grayish brown<br />
<br />
'''martial at ease'''<br /><br />
a military stance with feet shoulder's width apart and hands clasped behind the back<br />
<br />
==Endnote 258==<br />
'''peasant skirt'''<br /><br />
a long, flowing skirt usually featuring bands of embroidery<br />
<br />
==Page 622 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''Gregg pen'''<br /><br />
[[file:gregg.jpg|left]]Gregg is a phonetic shorthand writing system for stenographers, devised by John Robert Gregg and first published in 1888. The rights to Gregg shorthand were owned by the Gregg Publishing Company, founded in 1896. The Gregg company licensed pen manufacturers to produce pens to Gregg’s specifications and use the Gregg name; these pens are relatively thin and have very firm fine nibs. Some Gregg pens were fitted with an enameled Gregg emblem inlaid into the end of the cap, as shown at left on a Wahl pen from the late 1920s. [http://www.richardspens.com/?page=ref/glossary/G.htm here]. Read more about Gregg shorthand [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg_Shorthand here] and Gregg pens [http://www.vintagepens.com/gregg_shorthand_discovery.htm here].<br />
<br />
'''purview'''<br /><br />
scope of vision<br />
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==Page 623==<br />
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'''verdigrised'''<br /><br />
covered with grayish-green rust<br />
<br />
'''statues of ducklings in a row'''<br /><br />
Wallace is referring to an actual statue in Boston Public Garden shown [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/Make_way_for_ducklings_statue.jpg here]<br />
<br />
'''Robert McCloskey'''<br /><br />
Robert McCloskey (1914-2003) was an American author and illustrator of children's books.<br />
<br />
'''''Make Way for Ducklings'''''<br /><br />
Read about this book [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Way_for_Ducklings here].<br />
<br />
'''greensward'''<br /><br />
stretch of grassy turf<br />
<br />
'''lithe'''<br /><br />
slim and gracefully flexible<br />
<br />
'''...play a game with a small beanbaggy ball...'''<br /><br />
a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacky_Sack hacky sack] (or "hackey sack")<br />
<br />
'''5º C'''<br /><br />
41º Fahrenheit<br />
<br />
'''attenuated'''<br /><br />
weakened, also pertaining to the propagation of waves in telecommunications<br />
<br />
'''unmoored'''<br /><br />
opposite of the nautical term moored meaning fastened or secured in place (as in a boat)<br />
<br />
'''stupor'''<br /><br />
state of near-unconsciousness<br />
<br />
'''appurtenances'''<br /><br />
equipment, e.g., clothing, tools, or instruments, used for a specific purpose or style of living<br />
<br />
'''Bread & Circus'''<br /><br />
a small chain of health-food stores that first opened in Brookline, MA, in 1975 and acquired by Whole Foods Market in 1992<br />
<br />
'''sepia'''<br /><br />
dark brown, as in the pigment used to make very early photographs<br />
<br />
'''chanting very softly 'Smoke''''<br /><br />
i.e., surreptitiously peddling marijuana<br />
<br />
'''undercapitalized'''<br /><br />
lacking sufficient funds to complete a business transaction<br />
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==Page 624==<br />
<br />
'''thermal'''<br /><br />
an upward current of warm air<br />
<br />
'''metallurgy'''<br /><br />
the making and conducting of alloys<br />
<br />
'''chyme'''<br /><br />
semi-fluid partially digested food<br />
<br />
'''Mass Comm. graduate student '''<br /><br />
Mass Communications? This is unclear. The uppercase M and C suggest it is intended to be the name of a college, though the absence of a period after 'Mass' suggests the word 'mass'.<br />
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==Page 625==<br />
<br />
'''allay'''<br /><br />
put to rest<br />
<br />
'''triptych'''<br /><br />
three-fold<br />
<br />
'''micronized'''<br /><br />
reduced in particle size to only a few microns (millionths of a meter) in diameter<br />
<br />
'''ICU'''<br /><br />
Intensive Care Unit<br />
<br />
'''swart'''<br /><br />
swarthy, i.e., dark-skinned<br />
<br />
'''Basilar'''<br /><br />
related to or situated at the base, especially the base of the skull (as with the basilar artery); capitalization could suggest a fictitious branding, perhaps a competitor of Otis<br />
<br />
'''half a house'''<br /><br />
a half-way house<br />
<br />
'''copless'''<br /><br />
without policemen<br />
<br />
'''M.D.C.'''<br /><br />
Metropolitan District Commission, a former Massachusetts state agency that was responsible for maintenance of public parks and roads in the Metropolitan Boston area<br />
<br />
'''hackysackers'''<br /><br />
players of a game (hacky sack) where people in a circle kick a small leather bag around to one another (see "game with a small beanbaggy ball" on page 623)<br />
<br />
'''slaloms'''<br /><br />
moves around in a zigzagging fashion<br />
<br />
'''moguls'''<br /><br />
a bumps on a ski slope formed by the repeated turns of skiers over the same path<br />
<br />
'''coruscant'''<br /><br />
sparkling<br />
<br />
==Page 626==<br />
<br />
'''Autoteller'''<br /><br />
an ATM (automated teller machine)<br />
<br />
'''moguls'''<br /><br />
bumps of the kind often seen in snow on ski slopes<br />
<br />
'''coruscant'''<br /><br />
glittering<br />
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==Page 627==<br />
<br />
'''fenestrated'''<br /><br />
having windows<br />
<br />
'''R.H.I.P.'''<br /><br />
Rank Has Its Privileges<br />
<br />
'''mastication'''<br /><br />
chewing<br />
<br />
==Page 628==<br />
<br />
'''P.O.W.ish'''<br /><br />
greedily, in the manner of '''p'''risoners '''o'''f '''w'''ar<br />
<br />
'''Liberal KS'''<br /><br />
To be exact, it's three miles via Route 83 to the Oklahoma border.<br />
<br />
'''C/W'''<br /><br />
Country & Western<br />
<br />
'''juris-prudential precepts'''<br /><br />
rulings from a court of law<br />
<br />
'''Beefeater'''<br /><br />
a British brand of gin<br />
<br />
'''clapboard'''<br /><br />
a long, thin board, thicker along one edge than the other, used in covering the outer walls of buildings (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'')<br />
<br />
'''nuptial'''<br /><br />
marital<br />
<br />
==Page 629==<br />
<br />
'''toilet-eau'''<br /><br />
eau de toilette (French: toilet water) is used mainly by women and is less concentrated than perfume, but more concentrated than eau de cologne, which is used more commonly by men<br />
<br />
'''connubial'''<br /><br />
marital<br />
<br />
[[Image:Birkenstock sandals.jpg|thumb|right|Birkenstock sandals]]<br />
<br />
'''Birkenstock'''<br /><br />
Birkenstock is a German brand of sandals and shoes (see right)<br />
<br />
'''glutens'''<br /><br />
a mixture of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten wheat proteins]<br />
<br />
'''torpor'''<br /><br />
sluggishness<br />
<br />
'''turrets'''<br /><br />
refers here to small towers of the kind seen on medieval castles and other fortifications, often built with battlement crenels (notches) for use by defensive archers<br />
<br />
==Page 630==<br />
<br />
'''"...like Roosevelt at Yalta..."'''<br /><br />
a reference to the supposed bullying by Stalin of FDR at the conference at Yalta in 1945 to cede Eastern Europe to Soviet control<br />
<br />
'''saltpeter'''<br /><br />
potassium nitrate or nitre, an ingredient in gunpowder, it was (is) commonly believed to be used in food fed to prisoners and even military enlistees (or other predominantly male populations, such as boys' schools and Boy Scout troops) to curb libido; there is no evidence that it causes erectile dysfunction, but large amounts can have dangerous (poisonous) side effects<br />
<br />
'''regrout'''<br /><br />
replace the grout (construction material used to seal the gaps between tiles)<br />
<br />
'''Seldane'''<br /><br />
a brand-name of non-drowsy antihistamine<br />
<br />
'''carminative'''<br /><br />
a herb mixture that prevents gastrointestinal pressure and gas<br />
<br />
==Page 631==<br />
<br />
'''carb-caloric''' (from page 630)<br /><br />
Cranberry juice is higher in carbohydrates than other juices because of the larger amounts of sugar added to sweeten it, cranberries being less naturally sweet than, e.g., oranges or apples.<br />
<br />
'''mammarial'''<br /><br />
resembling or having to do with breasts<br />
<br />
'''lecithin'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecithin mixture of fats] found in milk and other foods<br />
<br />
'''semicolonized'''<br /><br />
converted from a comma to a semicolon; otherwise, it's a comma splice<br />
<br />
'''autolysis'''<br /><br />
perhaps used here in the sense of digestion, although the term actually refers to ''self-digestion'', the destruction of a cell through the action of its own enzymes<br />
<br />
'''buttinskis'''<br /><br />
i.e., the right to butt into line<br />
<br />
'''R.H.I. literal P.'''<br /><br />
'''R'''ank '''H'''as '''I'''ts literal '''P'''riveleges (see '''R.H.I.P.''' on page 627)<br />
<br />
'''Tryna'''<br /><br />
i.e., trying to<br />
<br />
'''scooters'''<br /><br />
apparently a slang term for "dollars"<br />
<br />
'''déjà vu'''<br /><br />
From French for "already seen," it's the sense that you're re-experiencing something.<br />
<br />
==Page 632==<br />
<br />
'''saltire'''<br /><br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltire Cross of St. Andrew]<br />
<br />
'''tektitic'''<br /><br />
referring to fossils formed by meteoric impacts<br />
<br />
'''foist'''<br /><br />
to insert deceitfully<br />
<br />
==Page 633==<br />
<br />
'''he thinks a manila folder's a Filipino contortionist'''<br /><br />
Manila being the capital of the Philippines<br />
<br />
'''Grant's Tomb'''<br /><br />
The trick answer to the question is "no one." As the tomb is above ground, Ulysses S. Grant is technically "entombed" and not "buried." The obvious answer is Grant himself, and, in fact, he and his wife Julia are both entombed there. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant%27s_Tomb General Grant National Memorial] overlooks the Hudson River, in Riverside Park in Manhattan (New York).<br />
<br />
'''the one about what do Canadian girls put behind their ears to attract boys'''<br /><br />
Presumably a reference to this old riddle: Q: What does a blonde put behind her ears to make her more attractive? A: Her ankles.<br />
<br />
'''cubist'''<br /><br />
suggestive of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism Cubism], the early-20th-century avant-garde (''not'' après-garde) art movement<br />
<br />
'''Crohn's Disease'''<br /><br />
also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crohn%27s_disease regional enteritis], an inflammatory disease of the bowels<br />
<br />
==Page 634==<br />
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==Endnote 261==<br />
<br />
'''offal'''<br /><br />
garbage, particularly rotting meat<br />
<br />
==Page 634 (cont.)==<br />
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'''post-prandially'''<br /><br />
after eating a meal<br />
<br />
'''tantric'''<br /><br />
referring to a particular branch of Hinduism, but very particularly to the sexual aspect of this branch, which emphasizes long sessions of sexual intercourse<br />
<br />
'''Twister'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twister_%28game%29 parlor game] produced by Hasbro that involves contorting the body<br />
<br />
'''cataract'''<br /><br />
waterfall<br />
<br />
'''reticent'''<br /><br />
tending to keep one's thoughts to oneself<br />
<br />
'''colposcope'''<br /><br />
a scope used to examine the internal female reproductive organs<br />
<br />
'''Combat Zone'''<br /><br />
a former area of Boston known for prostitution and sex shops<br />
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==Page 635==<br />
<br />
'''bussed'''<br /><br />
cleaned up<br />
<br />
'''jejune'''<br /><br />
naive and childish<br />
<br />
'''patellar tendon'''<br /><br />
the tendon connecting the patella (kneecap) to the tibia (shinbone)<br />
<br />
'''B.B.'''<br /><br />
Big Buddy<br />
<br />
'''asexual'''<br /><br />
not sexually active or not attracted to either sex<br />
<br />
'''contingent'''<br /><br />
group of people sharing a common trait within a larger group<br />
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[[Image:Doryphoros.jpeg|thumb|right|''Doryphoros'']]<br />
<br />
'''nascent'''<br /><br />
beginning to develop<br />
<br />
'''Sapphic'''<br /><br />
i.e., lesbian, the reference being to Sappho, the ancient Greek poet from Lesbos<br />
<br />
'''Penal Matron'''<br /><br />
in other words, a female prison warden<br />
<br />
'''Polycleitos'''<br /><br />
more commonly Polykleitos, a Greek sculptor of the fifth century BC most commonly known for his canonical sculpture [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doryphoros ''Doryphoros''] (see right)<br />
<br />
'''Hermes'''<br /><br />
the messenger god of Greek mythology<br />
<br />
'''Theseus'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theseus hero] of Greek mythology<br />
<br />
'''swart'''<br /><br />
i.e. swarthy - of dark complexion or color<br />
<br />
'''mottled'''<br /><br />
marked with irregular patches or smears of color<br />
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'''staccato'''<br /><br />
in music, notes sounded in a detached manner<br />
<br />
'''acerbic'''<br /><br />
sharp or biting<br />
<br />
'''penitent'''<br /><br />
repentant<br />
<br />
'''hick'''<br /><br />
a person from a rural area<br />
<br />
'''spitter'''<br /><br />
a spitball, in baseball<br />
<br />
'''tsunami'''<br /><br />
tidal wave<br />
<br />
'''blither'''<br /><br />
more cheerful and irreverently indifferent<br />
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==Page 638==<br />
<br />
'''olla'''<br /><br />
a pot for making stew, or stew itself<br />
<br />
'''tsimmes'''<br /><br />
a Jewish sweet stew typically containing vegetables and dried fruits<br />
<br />
'''riches nouveaux'''<br /><br />
French: new riches; here an inversion of ''nouveaux riches'', i.e., "newly rich"<br />
<br />
'''Amway'''<br /><br />
the American-based international direct-sales [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amway retailer]<br />
<br />
'''Pet-Rockish'''<br /><br />
inane, like the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Rock fad] phenomenon of the small stones marketed as live "pets," requiring care and feeding, in the silly '70s<br />
<br />
'''windfall'''<br /><br />
sudden or unexpected monetary gain<br />
<br />
=May 1st, YDAU - Steeply & Marathe discuss an obsession with ''M*A*S*H''=<br />
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==Page 639==<br />
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'''acronym'''<br /><br />
MASH stands for "Mobile Army Surgical Hospital."<br />
<br />
'''prima facie'''<br /><br />
Latin: at first sight<br />
<br />
'''Troy, New York'''<br /><br />
a college town about ten miles from the state capital of Albany<br />
<br />
'''wens'''<br /><br />
harmless cysts on the scalp or face<br />
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==Page 640==<br />
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'''Knights of Columbus'''<br /><br />
the world's largest Catholic fraternal organization<br />
<br />
'''Canadiens of the N.L. of H.'''<br /><br />
the Montreal Canadiens, a team in the National Hockey League<br />
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==Page 641==<br />
<br />
'''canned laughter'''<br /><br />
prerecorded laughter used on the soundtracks of some filmed comedies (which are not "filmed before a live studio audience"), but also a reminder of the incident involving the can of macadamia nuts (page 580)<br />
<br />
'''''Bröckengespenstphänom'''''<br /><br />
German: Brocken is a German mountain and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken_spectre brockengespenst] refers to the large shadow an observer on the mountain casts in a certain lighting. This is an allusion to a scene from Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel [http://www.badgerinternet.com/~bobkat/jestwiley2.html ''Gravity's Rainbow''.]<br />
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'''Marsh or Swamp'''<br /><br />
The principal male characters in ''M*A*S*H'' lived in the same tent, which they called "the Swamp."<br />
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==Endnote 263==<br />
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'''Betamax'''<br /><br />
the smaller format of videotape that was eventually pushed out of the market by VHS<br />
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==Page 642 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''''transperçant'''''<br /><br />
French: piercing or transfixing<br />
<br />
'''salience'''<br /><br />
pronounced feature<br />
<br />
'''Major Burns'''<br /><br />
a "villain" character played by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0513271/?fr=c2M9MXxsbT01MDB8ZmI9dXx4PTB8eT0wfG14PTIwfGh0bWw9MXxzaXRlPWRmfHE9TGFycnkgTGludmlsbGV8bm09MXxwbj0w;fc=1;ft=20 Larry Linville]<br />
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==Page 643==<br />
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<i>'''Troy Record'''</i ><br /><br />
a tabloid-style daily newspaper for the city of Troy, NY<br />
<br />
'''inveterate'''<br /><br />
habitual<br />
<br />
'''Maury Linville'''<br /><br />
Steeply is misremembering ''Larry'' Linville.<br />
<br />
'''c/o'''<br /><br />
care of, signifying an intermediary responsible for transporting the piece of mail to the final recipient's address<br />
<br />
''''In the South Korea of history.''''<br /><br />
possibly implying that in the time of the novel, there's only one Korea again<br />
<br />
''''You are not meaning your sister was a goat.''''<br /><br />
bearing in mind that "kid" also means a baby goat<br />
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'''Korean Police Action of the U.N.'''<br />
This is a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War Korean War], which involved military support from United Nations member nations (in defense of South Korea from the invading North). The war actually lasted three full years.<br />
<br />
'''baroquoco'''<br /><br />
This would seem to be a mix between "baroque" and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo "rococo"].<br />
<br />
'''augured'''<br /><br />
predicted; forecast<br />
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'''tact'''<br /><br />
the sense of what to do to avoid offending or souring relations with someone<br />
<br />
'''explicated'''<br /><br />
analyzed and developed in detail<br />
<br />
'''do-goodnik'''<br /><br />
a play on no-goodnik, i.e., lowlife, presumably meaning do-gooder<br />
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'''haggard'''<br /><br />
fatigued and unwell<br />
<br />
'''Alda'''<br /><br />
a reference to ''M*A*S*H'' star [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000257/ Alan Alda]<br />
<br />
'''transmural infarction'''<br /><br />
heart attack<br />
<br />
'''ventricle'''<br /><br />
one of two of the four chambers of the heart<br />
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==Page 647==<br />
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'''mesquite'''<br /><br />
a spiny shrub with bean pods<br />
<br />
'''Dick Willis'''<br /><br />
There was a spy named Richard Willis (1613-1690) active during the English Civil War (1642-1660). This is also the name of a professional peer of Steeply in the novel, first mentioned earlier.<br />
<br />
'''Ossified'''<br /><br />
turned to bone<br />
<br />
'''plura'''<br /><br />
a misspelling (likely) of "pleura," which is a thin membrane enclosing the lungs<br />
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==Page 648==<br />
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=November 13th, YDAU - Kate Gompert & Geoffrey Day discuss It=<br />
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==Page 649==<br />
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'''benign'''<br /><br />
harmless<br />
<br />
'''anomaly'''<br /><br />
something like nothing else (i.e., an outlier)<br />
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'''malevolent'''<br /><br />
intending harm<br />
<br />
'''''magna cum laude'''''<br /><br />
Latin: with high honors<br />
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'''130-kilo'''<br /><br />
286.6 pounds<br />
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'''caries'''<br /><br />
tooth decay, leading to a cavity (always used in plural form)<br />
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<br />
'''"...a regular verb, transitive..."'''<br /><br />
In English, ''regular'' verbs end in -ed (or -d, for infinitives that end in -e) in the past simple or the past participle. An irregular verb does not follow this rule. For example, "implore," a regular verb, is "implored" in the past simple tense. "Fall," an irregular verb, becomes "fell" in the past simple tense. <br />
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A ''transitive'' verb is able to take a direct object. For example, "I implore you." Intransitive verbs generally necessitate a preposition: "I look at you."<br />
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'''continentally ranked'''<br /><br />
ranking of players in North America, see, e.g., [[Pages_3-27#onancaa|O.N.A.N.C.A.A.]]<br />
<br />
'''supplication'''<br /><br />
The act of asking earnestly; begging; making an entreaty.<br />
<br />
'''OED'''<br /><br />
The abbreviation for "Oxford English Dictionary."<br />
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'''Webster's 7th'''<br /><br />
Webster's Dictionary, 7th edition.<br />
<br />
'''moniker'''<br /><br />
nickname<br />
<br />
'''apprised'''<br /><br />
informed<br />
<br />
'''consummate'''<br /><br />
Highly skilled; perfect.<br />
<br />
'''Byzantine erotica'''<br /><br />
The Byzantine Empire was the continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle Ages. A cursory google search for "Byzantine Erotica" reveals not very much at all. The topic is either as esoteric as it seems or a DFW invention. <br />
<br />
'''fly-by-night'''<br /> <br />
Untrustworthy.<br />
<br />
'''pejorative'''<br /><br />
derogatory, disparaging (Hal indicating that the phrase "my reputation preceded me" is generally used in a pejorative sense)<br />
<br />
'''Alexandrian'''<br /><br />
Referring to the reign of the Byzantine emperor Alexander who ruled from 879-913 c.e.<br />
<br />
'''Constantinian'''<br /><br />
Presumably referring to the reign of Constantine "the Great", Byzantine emperor from 306–337 c.e.<br />
<br />
'''"...intra-provincial crisis..."'''<br /><br />
A crisis occurring within a province. <br />
<br />
'''racy mosaics'''<br /><br />
Referring to aforementioned Byzantine Erotica. Mosaics are detailed pictures created with very small pieces of stone. <br />
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'''sordid liaison'''<br /><br />
A distasteful or morally wrong secret sexual relationship. <br />
<br />
'''amanuensis-cum-operative'''<br /><br />
The professional conversationalist is saying that Luria P----- is both an amanuensis--a secretary who takes dictation--and a secret agent. <br />
<br />
'''lexical prodigy'''<br /><br />
A child who is exceptionally talented with words.<br />
<br />
'''avant-garde'''<br /><br />
Marked by unusual, cutting-edge artistic ideas.<br />
<br />
'''Der Spiegel'''<br /><br />
A German news-weekly magazine, known for investigative journalism; literally, ''The Mirror''.<br />
<br />
'''Wild Turkey'''<br /><br />
[http://www.wildturkeybourbon.com/ Bourbon.]<br />
<br />
'''jew's-ear'''<br /><br />
a species of edible fungus. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auricularia_auricula-judae<br />
<br />
'''malevolent'''<br /><br />
evil<br />
<br />
'''Ottawan papparazzo'''<br /><br />
A photo-journalist from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa Ottawa] who seeks out impromptu unauthorized shots of the rich and famous. <br />
<br />
'''alpenstock'''<br /><br />
a metal-tipped staff used by mountaineers<br />
<br />
'''Bavarian'''<br /><br />
Originating from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavaria Bavaria.]<br />
<br />
'''"...ill-swallowed cocktail onion..."'''<br /><br />
The editor choked on a cocktail onion. <br />
<br />
'''Albertan'''<br /><br />
From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta Alberta.]<br />
<br />
'''countenance'''<br /><br />
Admit as possible.<br />
<br />
'''assignation'''<br /><br />
a meeting between lovers; tryst<br />
<br />
'''blithe'''<br /><br />
casually indifferent<br />
<br />
'''cavortings'''<br /><br />
sexual pursuits<br />
<br />
'''near-eastern'''<br /><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_East Ambiguous.]<br />
<br />
'''medical attaches'''<br /><br />
Here, a medical attache is a specialist who assists a wealthy or powerful person's personal physician.<br />
<br />
'''"...stereochemically not dissimilar..."'''<br /><br />
similar, based on the spatial arrangement of atoms<br />
<br />
'''hypodermic'''<Br /><br />
injected<br />
<br />
'''Jivaro'''<br /><br />
Jivaro Indians are native to eastern Ecuador and Peru. They are associated with shrunken heads.<br />
<br />
'''South-Central L.A.'''<br /><br />
An area of Los Angeles known for extreme crime and violence. <br />
<br />
'''Basin'''<br /><br />
A natural depression in the earth. Used often in geological and anthropological contexts.<br />
<br />
'''Ralston'''<br /><br />
breakfast cereal<br />
<br />
==Page 31==<br />
'''priapistic-entertainment cartridge''' <br/><br />
priapistic: Persistent, usually painful erection of the penis, especially as a consequence of disease and not related to sexual arousal.<br />
<br />
'''fifth wall''' <br /><br />
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_wall "fourth wall"] is a term used in theater to describe the imaginary wall that separates the stage from the audience. The "fifth wall" could be an extrapolation of this concept, meaning a wall separating an actor from a critic or separating two people sharing the same experience.<br />
<br />
'''oral-lyrologist''' <br /><br />
likely refers to someone who plays a ''jew's-harp'' as evidenced by references to theory of oral lyres on page 30, and as it is a musical instrument similar to a lyre, but played orally.<br />
<br />
'''anaplastic '''<br /><br />
<br />
Adjective meaning either relating to the surgical restoration of a lost or absent part or<br />
relating to or characterized by cells that have become less differentiated/primitive.<br />
<br />
'''phalluctomy''' <br /><br />
<br />
Neologism probably referring to the removal of the penis<br />
<br />
'''Mondragonoid''' <br /><br />
<br />
Avril Incandenza's maiden name is revealed to be Mondragon. Also refers to Mondragón, the Spanish name for the Basque town of Arrasate, best known as the home of the [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondrag%C3%B3n_Cooperative_Corporation Mondragón Cooperative Corporation] the world's largest worker cooperative. Note the similarity of the Basque Country and Quebec as presented in IJ.<br />
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=☽ May 9th, YDAU - Orin calls Hal=<br />
==Page 32==<br />
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'''locutions'''<br /><br />
Sayings; phrases.<br />
<br />
'''"I want to tell you...My head is filled with things to say."'''<br /><br />
These are the first lines of the Beatles song "I Want to Tell You," written by George Harrison (1943-2001).<br />
<br />
'''"I don't mind...I could wait forever."'''<br /><br />
more lyrics from "I Want to Tell You," though not the very next ones<br />
<br />
'''Brandt'''<br /><br />
Another German name, most famously the nom de guerre of the future mayor of West Berlin and Kanzler of Germany, Willy Brandt, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm (1913-1922).<br /><br />
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==Page 33==<br />
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=☽ April 1st, YDAU - HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!=<br />
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'''Saudi'''<br /><br />
Of [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/SA.html Saudi Arabia.]<br />
<br />
'''diplomatic immunity'''<br /><br />
Diplomats are granted [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_immunity freedom] from prosecution under a host country's laws. <br />
<br />
'''legation'''<br /><br />
a diplomatic office lower than an embassy<br />
<br />
'''idolatrous'''<br /><br />
Worships idols instead a God. <br />
<br />
'''Libertine Statue'''<br /><br />
I.e., the Statue of Liberty, though calling it this implies sexual promiscuity, even if she is wearing a diaper<br />
<br />
'''Montreal'''<br /><br />
A French-speaking [http://www.tourisme-montreal.org/ city] in the Canadian province of Quebec. <br />
<br />
'''apposite'''<br /><br />
suitable or well adapted<br />
<br />
'''Rub' al Khali'''<br /><br />
Arabic for ''Empty Quarter,'' another name for the Arabian Desert.<br />
<br />
'''residency'''<br /><br />
A stage of specialized medical training in a hospital after graduation from medical school. <br />
<br />
'''retinue'''<br /><br />
A group of advisers accompanying an important person; an entourage. <br />
<br />
'''E.N.T.'''<br /><br />
Abbreviation for "ear-nose-throat." <br />
<br />
'''Toblerone'''<br /><br />
A Swiss-made [http://www.toblerone.com/ chocolate bar]. <br />
<br />
In the 1990 essay "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction", DFW uses Toblerone to point out that treats are acceptable in small amounts but harmful if consumed in large amounts. "One can only guess at what volume of gin or poundage of Toblerone six hours of Special Treat a day would convert to." ''(" E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction." A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. (1997): 37.)''<br />
<br />
'''maxillofacial'''<br /><br />
pertaining to or affecting the jaws and face<br />
<br />
'''''Candida albicans'''''<br /><br />
the Latin name for a fungus that causes, among other disorders, thrush<br />
<br />
'''intestinal flora'''<br /> <br />
Referring to ''Candida albacans'', one of the microorganisms that lives in the human mouth and intestines.<br />
<br />
'''monilial sinusitis'''<br /><br />
Inflammation of the nasal sinus caused by fungus of the genus ''Monila''.<br />
<br />
'''thrush'''<br /><br />
A fungal infection caused by (here) ''Candida albicans''. Sort of a yeast infection of the mouth. <br />
<br />
'''DeBakey'''<br /><br />
Michael Ellis DeBakey (1908-2008) is a world-famous heart surgeon.<br />
<br />
'''''ad valorem'''''<br /><br />
Latin: according to the value<br />
<br />
'''nauseous'''<br /><br />
Correctly used here. This word means "tending to cause nausea." If one has nausea, they are "nauseated."<br />
<br />
'''veritable'''<br /><br />
Genuine<br />
<br />
'''nonpareil'''<br /><br />
unrivaled<br />
<br />
'''sumptuous'''<br /><br />
splendid; expensive<br />
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'''Scottsdale'''<br /><br />
a suburb about 19 miles east-northeast of Phoenix<br />
<br />
'''sufism'''<br /><br />
a mystic strain of Islam<br />
<br />
'''Pir Valayat'''<br /><br />
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1916-2004) was a British-born Sufi.<br />
<br />
'''kif'''<br /><br />
Arabic for marijuana in leaf form, as opposed to hashish<br />
<br />
'''''shari'a-halal'''''<br /><br />
An Arabic term akin to the Jewish ''kosher,'' this means that food has been prepared in accordance with Islamic law.<br />
<br />
'''Back Bay Hilton'''<br /><br />
This is a real hotel, with a Web site [http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/BOSBHHH-Hilton-Boston-Back-Bay-Massachusetts/index.do here].<br />
<br />
'''nystatin'''<br /><br />
an anti-fungal drug<br />
<br />
'''stiptics'''<br /><br />
A styptic is a chemical that stops bleeding.<br />
<br />
'''promulgated'''<br /><br />
make widely known <br />
<br />
'''imperial'''<br /><br />
a small pointed beard. <br />
<br />
'''detritus'''<br /><br />
debris<br />
<br />
'''silk-analog'''<br /><br />
molecularly similar to silk <br />
<br />
'''recursive'''<br /><br />
repetitive<br />
<br />
'''dyspeptic'''<br /><br />
irritable<br />
<br />
'''penitent'''<br /><br />
showing regret for having done wrong<br />
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==Page 35==<br />
<br />
'''necrosis'''<br /><br />
a term for death of bodily tissue<br />
<br />
==Page 36==<br />
<br />
'''triptych'''<br /><br />
a three-part art display<br />
<br />
'''O.N.A.N.M.A.'''<br /><br />
Organization of North American Nations Medical Assocation<br />
<br />
'''actinomycete-class antibiotics'''<br /><br />
antibiotics effective against Gram-positive bacteria called actinobacteria<br />
<br />
'''CBC/PATHÉ'''<br /><br />
CBC is the Canadian Broadcasting Company. PATHÉ is probably the French entertainment company Pathé Frères (Pathé Brothers).<br />
<br />
'''''Nass'''''<br /><br />
Arabic for "people". Referring to a fictional Arabic version of "People Magazine"<br />
<br />
=YTSDB - Wardine & Roy Tony=<br />
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==Page 37==<br />
'''double dutch'''<br /><br />
a type of rope jumping where two ropes are used<br />
<br />
==Page 38==<br />
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'''Brighton Projects'''<br /><br />
presumably high-rise, low-income housing in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton,_Boston,_Massachusetts Brighton]<br />
<br />
'''Shedd Spread'''<br /><br />
a brand of [http://www.countrycrock.com/products.asp margarine]<br />
<br />
'''wraithlike'''<br /><br />
A wraith is a type of ghost.<br />
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==Page 39==<br />
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'''nocturnal emitter'''<br /><br />
a boy who has a wet dream<br />
<br />
'''anfractuous'''<br /><br />
full of twists and turns<br />
<br />
=☽ YDAU - Mario and Hal talk before sleep=<br />
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'''petulant'''<br /><br />
unreasonably irritable<br />
<br />
==Page 41==<br />
<br />
'''''Tosca'''''<br /><br />
The title of an opera by Italian composer Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (1858-1924), which premiered in 1900.<br />
<br />
==Page 42==<br />
<br />
'''agoraphobic'''<br /><br />
suffering from an irrational fear of going outside<br />
<br />
'''portcullis'''<br /><br />
This is "a strong grating, as of iron, made to slide along vertical grooves at the sides of a gateway of a fortified place and let down to prevent passage" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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==Page 42==<br />
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'''2010h. on 1 April'''<br /><br />
The medical attaché has been watching for forty-three minutes.<br />
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=HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! cont.=<br />
=October, YDAU - Orin in Phoenix, AZ=<br />
==Page 43==<br />
<br />
'''Ambush'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.100perfumes.com/forums/Perfume/m12442.htm real perfume]<br />
<br />
Ambush: To attack from a concealed position. Orin's fear of commitment, fear that the "subject" is trying to entrap him i.e marriage.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Home with the team'''<br /><br />
It's already been mentioned that Orin plays professional football. He must play for the Arizona Cardinals.<br />
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==Page 44==<br />
<br />
'''''Blattaria implacblus'''''<br /><br />
''Blattaria'' is the order that contains the several genus and species of cockroaches. The Latin phrase really means "implacable cockroach."<br />
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==Page 45==<br />
<br />
'''fantods'''<br /><br />
A state of fidgetiness, uneasiness, or unreasonableness; nervous depression or apprehension; "the fidgets;" "the creeps;" "the willies." See online dictionary [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fantod here]<br />
<br />
'''Chalmette'''<br /><br />
an eastern suburb of New Orleans<br />
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'''kippers'''<br /><br />
cured herring<br />
<br />
'''Mrs. Avril M. T. Incandenza'''<br /><br />
Hal's mother is named for the first time.<br />
<br />
'''phylacteryish'''<br /><br />
Remove "-ish" and you have the English word for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefillin tefillin].<br />
<br />
'''imprimatur'''<br /><br />
sanction or approval<br />
<br />
==Page 48==<br />
<br />
'''Positron-Emission Topography'''<br /><br />
According to Wikipedia, this is "a nuclear medicine medical imaging technique that produces a three-dimensional image or map of functional processes in the body." [Except that the third word should be Tomography. Is this a typo, or something significant?]<br />
<br />
'''positrons'''<br /><br />
the sub-atomic particles that are the opposite of electrons<br />
<br />
'''Fritz Lang'''<br /><br />
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (1890-1976) was a Viennese-born Austrian-American director. His science fiction film <i>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136 Metropolis]</i> (1927) presents a dystopian future where people are oppressed by technology.<br />
<br />
'''''Moment'' magazine'''<br /><br />
This is a Jewish-interest [http://www.momentmag.com/ magazine].<br />
<br />
==Page 49==<br />
<br />
'''Pandora's box of worms'''<br /><br />
a mixed metaphor of "Pandora's box" and "can of worms," neither of which can be shut again once they're opened<br />
<br />
'''shaving upward'''<br /><br />
<br />
the wrong way<br />
<br />
=☽ YDAU - Hal getting covertly high=<br />
==Page 49==<br />
<br />
'''one-hitter'''<br /><br />
a small marijuana pipe that will provide one "hit" of marijuana per packing<br />
<br />
==Page 50==<br />
<br />
'''Partridge, KS'''<br /><br />
A town in Kansas about 55 miles north-northwest of Wichita<br />
<br />
'''Charles Tavis'''<br /><br />
I.e., C.T.<br />
<br />
'''gizzard'''<br /><br />
the digestive organ of a bird<br />
<br />
==Page 51==<br />
<br />
'''Bob Hope'''<br /><br />
Cockney rhyming slang for "dope"<br />
<br />
'''neo-Georgian'''<br /><br />
modern-day architecture that approximates that of the Georgian period, from 1714 (accession of George I of the U.K.) to 1830 (death of George III)<br />
<br />
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_3|Endnote 3]]<br />
==Page 51 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''spherocubular'''<br /><br />
Another neologism, presumably meaning having characteristics of both a sphere and cube -- a three-dimension "squircle".<br />
<br />
'''Leith'''<br /><br />
A homonym of Lethe, the name of the river in Greek mythology whose water, if drunk, will erase one's memory. In keeping with the optics theme, Emmett Leith was an inventor in the field of holography. Walt Disney, of course, was a well known film producer and director. <br />
<br />
<br />
'''Dr. James O. Incandenza'''<br /><br />
Hal's father's full name is given for the first time.<br />
<br />
'''pargeting'''<br />
<br />
A form of plasterwork shown to the right.[[File:pargeting.jpeg|thumb| alt = Pargeting | Pargeting]]<br />
<br />
==Page 52==<br />
<br />
'''dendriurethane'''<br /><br />
This substance does not actually exist. An educated guess is that it is a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyurethane polyurethane] that comes from trees, ''dendri'' being Greek for "tree."<br />
<br />
'''twenty meters'''<br /><br />
almost twenty-two yards<br />
<br />
'''unfenestrated'''<br /><br />
having no windows<br />
<br />
'''two meter'''<br /><br />
a little over 6.5 ft<br />
<br />
'''banshee'''<br /><br />
In Irish mythology, the banshee is female spirit, who acts as an omen of death. They are known for "keening," i.e., shrieking.<br />
<br />
'''flange'''<br /><br />
a plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe<br />
<br />
==Page 53==<br />
<br />
'''post-latency'''<br /><br />
after the latency period that Freud posited in his four-stage theory of psychosexual development in children<br />
<br />
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_5|Endnote 5]]<br />
<br />
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_5a|Endnote 5a]]<br />
<br />
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_6|Endnote 6]]<br />
<br />
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_7|Endnote 7]]<br />
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==Page 53 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_8|Endnote 8]]<br />
<br />
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_8a|Endnote 8a]]<br />
<br />
'''mushrooms or X'''<br /><br />
psilocybin mushrooms or MDMA (called ecstasy)<br />
<br />
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==Page 53 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''Interdependent regions'''<br /><br />
I.e., Canada<br />
<br />
'''prorectors'''<br /><br />
members of a management body of a university, each managing his/her specific area<br />
<br />
'''the Show'''<br /><br />
professional tennis<br />
<br />
==Page 54==<br />
<br />
'''Kodiak'''<br /><br />
a brand of chewing tobacco<br />
<br />
'''quail'''<br /><br />
to shrink back in fear<br />
<br />
==Page 54==<br />
=HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! cont.=<br />
'''0020h'''<br /><br />
The medical attaché has now been watching for four hours and fifty-three minutes.<br />
<br />
=Mario's designated function around ETA=<br />
==Page 54==<br />
'''filmic'''<br /><br />
having to do with motion pictures<br />
<br />
==Page 55==<br />
=Autumn, YDPAH - Gately's crime=<br />
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==Page 55==<br />
<br />
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_12a|Endnote 12a]]<br />
<br />
'''élan'''<br /><br />
enthusiastic vigor or liveliness<br />
<br />
'''Revere Holding'''<br /><br />
a jail, obviously -- probably the jail for Revere, Mass., just north of Boston<br />
<br />
'''P.D.'''<br /><br />
public defender<br />
<br />
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_13|Endnote 13]]<br />
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==Page 55 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''dictum'''<br /><br />
a maxim or saying<br />
<br />
==Page 56==<br />
<br />
'''''Globe'''''<br /><br />
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boston_Globe ''Boston Globe.''] The main daily newspaper of Boston, MA.<br />
<br />
'''Marblehead'''<br /><br />
A town in Essex County, Mass., home to a yachting resort. It's about 15 miles northeast of the city on the water.<br />
<br />
==Page 57==<br />
<br />
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_17|Endnote 17]]<br />
<br />
'''''International Affairs'' and ''Interdependent Affairs'''''<br /><br />
The first magazine is real; the second is not.<br />
<br />
'''teak chiffonier'''<br /><br />
a piece of furniture, one of which you can see [http://www.artfact.com/catalog/viewLot.cfm?lotCode=4xRrS2JB here]<br />
<br />
'''Berkshires'''<br /><br />
the mountainous region in the westernmost portion of Massachusetts, a popular vacation spot<br />
<br />
'''adenoidal'''<br /><br />
sounding as if the nose were pinched due to enlarged lymphatic tissue in the throat behind the uvula<br />
<br />
'''van Dyke'''<br /><br />
a goatee<br />
<br />
'''rheumy'''<br /><br />
watery and unhealthy<br />
<br />
'''apocopes'''<br /><br />
losses of syllables from words, particularly unstressed vowels<br />
<br />
'''M. Café-brand Automatic Café-au-Lait maker'''<br /><br />
half coffee and half milk in a large cup, as drunk in France. M. Café as in 'Mr. Coffee".<br />
<br />
'''gangrenously tight'''<br /><br />
I.e., so tight as to cause gangrene, i.e., death of tissue due to lack of blood<br />
<br />
==Page 58==<br />
<br />
'''grippe'''<br /><br />
flu<br />
<br />
'''pre-British-takeover Québecois'''<br /><br />
The British took over Quebec on September 8, 1760.<br />
<br />
'''grackles'''<br /><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passerine passernine] birds native to North America<br />
<br />
==Page 59==<br />
<br />
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_19|Endnote 19]]<br />
<br />
'''intercostal'''<br /><br />
pertaining to the ribs or the muscles around them<br />
<br />
'''Montreal Tulip Fest'''<br /><br />
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival Canadian Tulip Festival] actually takes place in Ottawa, Ontario, and Gatineau, Quebec, which border each other.<br />
<br />
'''Guillaume DuPlessis'''<br /><br />
A man by this name was one of the first French Calvinist settlers on the island of St. Kitts in the 17th century.<br />
<br />
'''250 clicks due east'''<br /><br />
Clicks are kilometers. Two hundred fifty km is about 155 miles.<br />
<br />
'''lividity'''<br /><br />
the change of color in skin brought on by livor mortis, an after-death phenomenon when blood settles in the body at low points of gravity<br />
<br />
'''comme-il-faut'''<br /><br />
French: As is necessary<br />
<br />
==Page 60==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''932/1864'''<br /><br />
I don't know what the numbers mean, but the first is half of the second.<br />
<br />
'''R.I.S.C.'''<br /><br />
reduced instruction set computer, i.e., a computer that takes a limited set of commands<br />
<br />
'''Pink2'''<br /><br />
Footnote 95 (to p. 284) reads "Pink being Microsoft Inc.'s first post-Windows DOS, quickly upgraded to Pink2 when InterLace took everything 100 % interactive and digital; by Y.D.A.U. it's kind of a dinosaur, but it's still the only DOS that'll run a MathpakVEndStat tree without having to stop and recompile every few seconds."<br />
<br />
'''Primestar'''<br /><br />
a direct broadcast satellite network active in the 1990s<br />
<br />
'''D.S.S.'''<br /><br />
digital satellite system<br />
<br />
'''pixel-free'''<br /><br />
smooth and not pixelated<br />
<br />
'''baud'''<br /><br />
a unit equal to bits per second; a baud rate is the number of bits per second a modem can send/receive<br />
<br />
'''''couture'''''<br /><br />
French for "fashion"<br />
<br />
'''nanoprocessors'''<br /><br />
very small processors -- smaller than microprocessors<br />
<br />
'''chromotography'''<br /><br />
Here misspelled, chromatography is "any of various techniques for the separation of complex mixtures that rely on the differential affinities of substances for a gas or liquid mobile medium and for a stationary adsorbing medium through which they pass, such as paper, gelatin, or magnesia" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'').<br />
<br />
'''carpal neuralgia'''<br /><br />
nerve pain in the bones of the hand<br />
<br />
'''phosphenic migraine'''<br /><br />
the phenomenon of seeing lights accompanying a migraine<br />
<br />
'''gluteal hyperadiposity'''<br /><br />
excessive fat in the buttocks<br />
<br />
'''lumbar stressae'''<br /><br />
back stress<br />
<br />
=November 3rd, YDAU - Troeltsch's illness=<br />
==Page 60==<br />
<br />
'''Jim Troeltsch'''<br /><br />
The most famous person with this surname is [http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/WeirdWildWeb/courses/mwt/dictionary/mwt_themes_705_troeltsch.htm Ernst Troeltsch] (1865-1923), a German Protestant theologian and philosopher of religion and history. <br />
<br />
'''Narberth PA'''<br /><br />
A wealthy, 1 square-mile borough west of Philadelphia and part of the larger "Main Line" suburban area running from Philadelphia to Malvern.<br />
<br />
'''meatus'''<br /><br />
a natural bodily opening<br />
<br />
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_21|Endnote 21]]<br />
<br />
'''OTC'''<br /><br />
over the counter<br />
<br />
'''expectorants'''<br /><br />
drugs that induce phlegm-producing coughing<br />
<br />
'''pertussives'''<br /><br />
cough suppressants<br />
<br />
'''megaspansules'''<br /><br />
a combination of mega + span + capsule, these would be large, time-released capsules<br />
<br />
==Endnote 22==<br />
<br />
'''mucoid dessicators'''<br /><br />
drugs that dry up phlegm<br />
<br />
==Page 60 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''Rader'''<br /><br />
If the name is pronounced with a "long a," as in the Oakland football team, a famous person with this last name was Erich Johann Albert Raeder (1876-1960), a World War II-era German grand admiral, sentenced to life at Nuremberg but served only nine years.<br />
<br />
==Page 61==<br />
<br />
'''nebulizer'''<br /><br />
something that turns a liquid into a spray<br />
<br />
'''fugue-state'''<br /><br />
According to Wikipedia, a fugue state is "a state of mind characterized by abandonment of personal identity, along with the memories, personality and other identifying characteristics of individuality."<br />
<br />
'''prolix'''<br /><br />
extended to a great, unneedy length<br />
<br />
=Nightmares=<br />
==Page 61==<br />
<br />
'''rhinoviri'''<br /><br />
Wallace's plural for rhinovirus, one of dozens of variations of the virus that causes the common cold, also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus rhinoviruses]<br />
<br />
'''mucosa'''<br /><br />
An absorptive/secretive tissue layer in the body; here, in Troeltsch's throat or nose<br />
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==Page 62==<br />
<br />
'''matte'''<br /><br />
as an adjective, having a dull or lusterless finish<br />
<br />
'''bolections'''<br /><br />
mouldings that cover joints<br />
<br />
'''snuff-white'''<br /><br />
Snuff is grayish to yellowish brown in color; snuff-white must be that color, but lighter.<br />
<br />
'''reglets'''<br /><br />
narrow, flat moldings<br />
<br />
'''rheostats'''<br /><br />
continuously variable electronic resistors<br />
<br />
'''shank'''<br /><br />
part of the leg between the knee and ankle<br />
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=☽ April 1st, YTMP - Professional Conversationalist=<br />
==Page 27==<br />
<br />
'''caries'''<br /><br />
tooth decay, leading to a cavity (always used in plural form)<br />
<br />
==Page 28==<br />
<br />
'''"...a regular verb, transitive..."'''<br /><br />
In English, ''regular'' verbs end in -ed (or -d, for infinitives that end in -e) in the past simple or the past participle. An irregular verb does not follow this rule. For example, "implore," a regular verb, is "implored" in the past simple tense. "Fall," an irregular verb, becomes "fell" in the past simple tense. <br />
<br />
A ''transitive'' verb is able to take a direct object. For example, "I implore you." Intransitive verbs generally necessitate a preposition: "I look at you."<br />
<br />
'''continentally ranked'''<br /><br />
ranking of players in North America, see, e.g., [[Pages_3-27#onancaa|O.N.A.N.C.A.A.]]<br />
<br />
'''supplication'''<br /><br />
The act of asking earnestly; begging; making an entreaty.<br />
<br />
'''OED'''<br /><br />
The abbreviation for "Oxford English Dictionary."<br />
<br />
==Page 29==<br />
<br />
'''Webster's 7th'''<br /><br />
Webster's Dictionary, 7th edition.<br />
<br />
'''moniker'''<br /><br />
nickname<br />
<br />
'''apprised'''<br /><br />
informed<br />
<br />
'''consummate'''<br /><br />
Highly skilled; perfect.<br />
<br />
'''Byzantine erotica'''<br /><br />
The Byzantine Empire was the continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle Ages. A cursory google search for "Byzantine Erotica" reveals not very much at all. The topic is either as esoteric as it seems or a DFW invention. <br />
<br />
'''fly-by-night'''<br /> <br />
Untrustworthy.<br />
<br />
'''pejorative'''<br /><br />
derogatory, disparaging (Hal indicating that the phrase "my reputation preceded me" is generally used in a pejorative sense)<br />
<br />
'''Alexandrian'''<br /><br />
Referring to the reign of the Byzantine emperor Alexander who ruled from 879-913 c.e.<br />
<br />
'''Constantinian'''<br /><br />
Presumably referring to the reign of Constantine "the Great", Byzantine emperor from 306–337 c.e.<br />
<br />
'''"...intra-provincial crisis..."'''<br /><br />
A crisis occurring within a province. <br />
<br />
'''racy mosaics'''<br /><br />
Referring to aforementioned Byzantine Erotica. Mosaics are detailed pictures created with very small pieces of stone. <br />
<br />
==Page 30==<br />
<br />
'''sordid liaison'''<br /><br />
A distasteful or morally wrong secret sexual relationship. <br />
<br />
'''amanuensis-cum-operative'''<br /><br />
The professional conversationalist is saying that Luria P----- is both an amanuensis--a secretary who takes dictation--and a secret agent. <br />
<br />
'''lexical prodigy'''<br /><br />
A child who is exceptionally talented with words.<br />
<br />
'''avant-garde'''<br /><br />
Marked by unusual, cutting-edge artistic ideas.<br />
<br />
'''Der Spiegel'''<br /><br />
A German news-weekly magazine, known for investigative journalism; literally, ''The Mirror''.<br />
<br />
'''Wild Turkey'''<br /><br />
[http://www.wildturkeybourbon.com/ Bourbon.]<br />
<br />
'''jew's-ear'''<br /><br />
a species of edible fungus. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auricularia_auricula-judae<br />
<br />
'''malevolent'''<br /><br />
evil<br />
<br />
'''Ottawan papparazzo'''<br /><br />
A photo-journalist from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa Ottawa] who seeks out impromptu unauthorized shots of the rich and famous. <br />
<br />
'''alpenstock'''<br /><br />
a metal-tipped staff used by mountaineers<br />
<br />
'''Bavarian'''<br /><br />
Originating from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavaria Bavaria.]<br />
<br />
'''"...ill-swallowed cocktail onion..."'''<br /><br />
The editor choked on a cocktail onion. <br />
<br />
'''Albertan'''<br /><br />
From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta Alberta.]<br />
<br />
'''countenance'''<br /><br />
Admit as possible.<br />
<br />
'''assignation'''<br /><br />
a meeting between lovers; tryst<br />
<br />
'''blithe'''<br /><br />
casually indifferent<br />
<br />
'''cavortings'''<br /><br />
sexual pursuits<br />
<br />
'''near-eastern'''<br /><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_East Ambiguous.]<br />
<br />
'''medical attaches'''<br /><br />
Here, a medical attache is a specialist who assists a wealthy or powerful person's personal physician.<br />
<br />
'''"...stereochemically not dissimilar..."'''<br /><br />
similar, based on the spatial arrangement of atoms<br />
<br />
'''hypodermic'''<Br /><br />
injected<br />
<br />
'''Jivaro'''<br /><br />
Jivaro Indians are native to eastern Ecuador and Peru. They are associated with shrunken heads.<br />
<br />
'''South-Central L.A.'''<br /><br />
An area of Los Angeles known for extreme crime and violence. <br />
<br />
'''Basin'''<br /><br />
A natural depression in the earth. Used often in geological and anthropological contexts.<br />
<br />
'''Ralston'''<br /><br />
breakfast cereal<br />
<br />
==Page 31==<br />
'''priapistic-entertainment cartridge''' <br/><br />
priapistic: Persistent, usually painful erection of the penis, especially as a consequence of disease and not related to sexual arousal.<br />
<br />
'''fifth wall''' <br /><br />
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_wall "fourth wall"] is a term used in theater to describe the imaginary wall that separates the stage from the audience. The "fifth wall" could be an extrapolation of this concept, meaning a wall separating an actor from a critic or separating two people sharing the same experience.<br />
<br />
'''oral-lyrologist''' <br /><br />
likely refers to someone who plays a ''jew's-harp'' as evidenced by references to theory of oral lyres on page 30, and as it is a musical instrument similar to a lyre, but played orally.<br />
<br />
'''anaplastic '''<br /><br />
<br />
Adjective meaning either relating to the surgical restoration of a lost or absent part or<br />
relating to or characterized by cells that have become less differentiated/primitive.<br />
<br />
'''phalluctomy''' <br /><br />
<br />
Neolgism probably referring to the removal of the penis<br />
<br />
'''Mondragonoid''' <br /><br />
<br />
Avril Incandenza's maiden name is revealed to be Mondragon. Also refers to Mondragón, the Spanish name for the Basque town of Arrasate, best known as the home of the [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondrag%C3%B3n_Cooperative_Corporation Mondragón Cooperative Corporation] the world's largest worker cooperative. Note the similarity of the Basque Country and Quebec as presented in IJ.<br />
<br />
=☽ May 9th, YDAU - Orin calls Hal=<br />
==Page 32==<br />
<br />
'''locutions'''<br /><br />
Sayings; phrases.<br />
<br />
'''"I want to tell you...My head is filled with things to say."'''<br /><br />
These are the first lines of the Beatles song "I Want to Tell You," written by George Harrison (1943-2001).<br />
<br />
'''"I don't mind...I could wait forever."'''<br /><br />
more lyrics from "I Want to Tell You," though not the very next ones<br />
<br />
'''Brandt'''<br /><br />
Another German name, most famously the nom de guerre of the future mayor of West Berlin and Kanzler of Germany, Willy Brandt, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm (1913-1922).<br /><br />
<br />
==Page 33==<br />
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=☽ April 1st, YDAU - HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!=<br />
<br />
'''Saudi'''<br /><br />
Of [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/SA.html Saudi Arabia.]<br />
<br />
'''diplomatic immunity'''<br /><br />
Diplomats are granted [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_immunity freedom] from prosecution under a host country's laws. <br />
<br />
'''legation'''<br /><br />
a diplomatic office lower than an embassy<br />
<br />
'''idolatrous'''<br /><br />
Worships idols instead a God. <br />
<br />
'''Libertine Statue'''<br /><br />
I.e., the Statue of Liberty, though calling it this implies sexual promiscuity, even if she is wearing a diaper<br />
<br />
'''Montreal'''<br /><br />
A French-speaking [http://www.tourisme-montreal.org/ city] in the Canadian province of Quebec. <br />
<br />
'''apposite'''<br /><br />
suitable or well adapted<br />
<br />
'''Rub' al Khali'''<br /><br />
Arabic for ''Empty Quarter,'' another name for the Arabian Desert.<br />
<br />
'''residency'''<br /><br />
A stage of specialized medical training in a hospital after graduation from medical school. <br />
<br />
'''retinue'''<br /><br />
A group of advisers accompanying an important person; an entourage. <br />
<br />
'''E.N.T.'''<br /><br />
Abbreviation for "ear-nose-throat." <br />
<br />
'''Toblerone'''<br /><br />
A Swiss-made [http://www.toblerone.com/ chocolate bar]. <br />
<br />
In the 1990 essay "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction", DFW uses Toblerone to point out that treats are acceptable in small amounts but harmful if consumed in large amounts. "One can only guess at what volume of gin or poundage of Toblerone six hours of Special Treat a day would convert to." ''(" E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction." A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. (1997): 37.)''<br />
<br />
'''maxillofacial'''<br /><br />
pertaining to or affecting the jaws and face<br />
<br />
'''''Candida albicans'''''<br /><br />
the Latin name for a fungus that causes, among other disorders, thrush<br />
<br />
'''intestinal flora'''<br /> <br />
Referring to ''Candida albacans'', one of the microorganisms that lives in the human mouth and intestines.<br />
<br />
'''monilial sinusitis'''<br /><br />
Inflammation of the nasal sinus caused by fungus of the genus ''Monila''.<br />
<br />
'''thrush'''<br /><br />
A fungal infection caused by (here) ''Candida albicans''. Sort of a yeast infection of the mouth. <br />
<br />
'''DeBakey'''<br /><br />
Michael Ellis DeBakey (1908-2008) is a world-famous heart surgeon.<br />
<br />
'''''ad valorem'''''<br /><br />
Latin: according to the value<br />
<br />
'''nauseous'''<br /><br />
Correctly used here. This word means "tending to cause nausea." If one has nausea, they are "nauseated."<br />
<br />
'''veritable'''<br /><br />
Genuine<br />
<br />
'''nonpareil'''<br /><br />
unrivaled<br />
<br />
'''sumptuous'''<br /><br />
splendid; expensive<br />
<br />
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<br />
'''Scottsdale'''<br /><br />
a suburb about 19 miles east-northeast of Phoenix<br />
<br />
'''sufism'''<br /><br />
a mystic strain of Islam<br />
<br />
'''Pir Valayat'''<br /><br />
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1916-2004) was a British-born Sufi.<br />
<br />
'''kif'''<br /><br />
Arabic for marijuana in leaf form, as opposed to hashish<br />
<br />
'''''shari'a-halal'''''<br /><br />
An Arabic term akin to the Jewish ''kosher,'' this means that food has been prepared in accordance with Islamic law.<br />
<br />
'''Back Bay Hilton'''<br /><br />
This is a real hotel, with a Web site [http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/BOSBHHH-Hilton-Boston-Back-Bay-Massachusetts/index.do here].<br />
<br />
'''nystatin'''<br /><br />
an anti-fungal drug<br />
<br />
'''stiptics'''<br /><br />
A styptic is a chemical that stops bleeding.<br />
<br />
'''promulgated'''<br /><br />
make widely known <br />
<br />
'''imperial'''<br /><br />
a small pointed beard. <br />
<br />
'''detritus'''<br /><br />
debris<br />
<br />
'''silk-analog'''<br /><br />
molecularly similar to silk <br />
<br />
'''recursive'''<br /><br />
repetitive<br />
<br />
'''dyspeptic'''<br /><br />
irritable<br />
<br />
'''penitent'''<br /><br />
showing regret for having done wrong<br />
<br />
==Page 35==<br />
<br />
'''necrosis'''<br /><br />
a term for death of bodily tissue<br />
<br />
==Page 36==<br />
<br />
'''triptych'''<br /><br />
a three-part art display<br />
<br />
'''O.N.A.N.M.A.'''<br /><br />
Organization of North American Nations Medical Assocation<br />
<br />
'''actinomycete-class antibiotics'''<br /><br />
antibiotics effective against Gram-positive bacteria called actinobacteria<br />
<br />
'''CBC/PATHÉ'''<br /><br />
CBC is the Canadian Broadcasting Company. PATHÉ is probably the French entertainment company Pathé Frères (Pathé Brothers).<br />
<br />
'''''Nass'''''<br /><br />
Arabic for "people". Referring to a fictional Arabic version of "People Magazine"<br />
<br />
=YTSDB - Wardine & Roy Tony=<br />
<br />
==Page 37==<br />
'''double dutch'''<br /><br />
a type of rope jumping where two ropes are used<br />
<br />
==Page 38==<br />
<br />
'''Brighton Projects'''<br /><br />
presumably high-rise, low-income housing in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton,_Boston,_Massachusetts Brighton]<br />
<br />
'''Shedd Spread'''<br /><br />
a brand of [http://www.countrycrock.com/products.asp margarine]<br />
<br />
'''wraithlike'''<br /><br />
A wraith is a type of ghost.<br />
<br />
==Page 39==<br />
<br />
'''nocturnal emitter'''<br /><br />
a boy who has a wet dream<br />
<br />
'''anfractuous'''<br /><br />
full of twists and turns<br />
<br />
=☽ YDAU - Mario and Hal talk before sleep=<br />
<br />
==Page 39==<br />
==Page 40==<br />
<br />
'''petulant'''<br /><br />
unreasonably irritable<br />
<br />
==Page 41==<br />
<br />
'''''Tosca'''''<br /><br />
The title of an opera by Italian composer Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (1858-1924), which premiered in 1900.<br />
<br />
==Page 42==<br />
<br />
'''agoraphobic'''<br /><br />
suffering from an irrational fear of going outside<br />
<br />
'''portcullis'''<br /><br />
This is "a strong grating, as of iron, made to slide along vertical grooves at the sides of a gateway of a fortified place and let down to prevent passage" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
==Page 42==<br />
<br />
'''2010h. on 1 April'''<br /><br />
The medical attaché has been watching for forty-three minutes.<br />
<br />
==Page 42==<br />
<br />
=HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! cont.=<br />
=October, YDAU - Orin in Phoenix, AZ=<br />
==Page 43==<br />
<br />
'''Ambush'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.100perfumes.com/forums/Perfume/m12442.htm real perfume]<br />
<br />
Ambush: To attack from a concealed position. Orin's fear of commitment, fear that the "subject" is trying to entrap him i.e marriage.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Home with the team'''<br /><br />
It's already been mentioned that Orin plays professional football. He must play for the Arizona Cardinals.<br />
<br />
==Page 44==<br />
<br />
'''''Blattaria implacblus'''''<br /><br />
''Blattaria'' is the order that contains the several genus and species of cockroaches. The Latin phrase really means "implacable cockroach."<br />
<br />
==Page 45==<br />
<br />
'''fantods'''<br /><br />
A state of fidgetiness, uneasiness, or unreasonableness; nervous depression or apprehension; "the fidgets;" "the creeps;" "the willies." See online dictionary [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fantod here]<br />
<br />
'''Chalmette'''<br /><br />
an eastern suburb of New Orleans<br />
<br />
==Page 46==<br />
<br />
'''kippers'''<br /><br />
cured herring<br />
<br />
'''Mrs. Avril M. T. Incandenza'''<br /><br />
Hal's mother is named for the first time.<br />
<br />
'''phylacteryish'''<br /><br />
Remove "-ish" and you have the English word for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefillin tefillin].<br />
<br />
'''imprimatur'''<br /><br />
sanction or approval<br />
<br />
==Page 48==<br />
<br />
'''Positron-Emission Topography'''<br /><br />
According to Wikipedia, this is "a nuclear medicine medical imaging technique that produces a three-dimensional image or map of functional processes in the body." [Except that the third word should be Tomography. Is this a typo, or something significant?]<br />
<br />
'''positrons'''<br /><br />
the sub-atomic particles that are the opposite of electrons<br />
<br />
'''Fritz Lang'''<br /><br />
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (1890-1976) was a Viennese-born Austrian-American director. His science fiction film <i>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136 Metropolis]</i> (1927) presents a dystopian future where people are oppressed by technology.<br />
<br />
'''''Moment'' magazine'''<br /><br />
This is a Jewish-interest [http://www.momentmag.com/ magazine].<br />
<br />
==Page 49==<br />
<br />
'''Pandora's box of worms'''<br /><br />
a mixed metaphor of "Pandora's box" and "can of worms," neither of which can be shut again once they're opened<br />
<br />
'''shaving upward'''<br /><br />
<br />
the wrong way<br />
<br />
=☽ YDAU - Hal getting covertly high=<br />
==Page 49==<br />
<br />
'''one-hitter'''<br /><br />
a small marijuana pipe that will provide one "hit" of marijuana per packing<br />
<br />
==Page 50==<br />
<br />
'''Partridge, KS'''<br /><br />
A town in Kansas about 55 miles north-northwest of Wichita<br />
<br />
'''Charles Tavis'''<br /><br />
I.e., C.T.<br />
<br />
'''gizzard'''<br /><br />
the digestive organ of a bird<br />
<br />
==Page 51==<br />
<br />
'''Bob Hope'''<br /><br />
Cockney rhyming slang for "dope"<br />
<br />
'''neo-Georgian'''<br /><br />
modern-day architecture that approximates that of the Georgian period, from 1714 (accession of George I of the U.K.) to 1830 (death of George III)<br />
<br />
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_3|Endnote 3]]<br />
==Page 51 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''spherocubular'''<br /><br />
Another neologism, presumably meaning having characteristics of both a sphere and cube -- a three-dimension "squircle".<br />
<br />
'''Leith'''<br /><br />
A homonym of Lethe, the name of the river in Greek mythology whose water, if drunk, will erase one's memory. In keeping with the optics theme, Emmett Leith was an inventor in the field of holography. Walt Disney, of course, was a well known film producer and director. <br />
<br />
<br />
'''Dr. James O. Incandenza'''<br /><br />
Hal's father's full name is given for the first time.<br />
<br />
'''pargeting'''<br />
<br />
A form of plasterwork shown to the right.[[File:pargeting.jpeg|thumb| alt = Pargeting | Pargeting]]<br />
<br />
==Page 52==<br />
<br />
'''dendriurethane'''<br /><br />
This substance does not actually exist. An educated guess is that it is a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyurethane polyurethane] that comes from trees, ''dendri'' being Greek for "tree."<br />
<br />
'''twenty meters'''<br /><br />
almost twenty-two yards<br />
<br />
'''unfenestrated'''<br /><br />
having no windows<br />
<br />
'''two meter'''<br /><br />
a little over 6.5 ft<br />
<br />
'''banshee'''<br /><br />
In Irish mythology, the banshee is female spirit, who acts as an omen of death. They are known for "keening," i.e., shrieking.<br />
<br />
'''flange'''<br /><br />
a plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe<br />
<br />
==Page 53==<br />
<br />
'''post-latency'''<br /><br />
after the latency period that Freud posited in his four-stage theory of psychosexual development in children<br />
<br />
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_5|Endnote 5]]<br />
<br />
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_5a|Endnote 5a]]<br />
<br />
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_6|Endnote 6]]<br />
<br />
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_7|Endnote 7]]<br />
<br />
==Page 53 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_8|Endnote 8]]<br />
<br />
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_8a|Endnote 8a]]<br />
<br />
'''mushrooms or X'''<br /><br />
psilocybin mushrooms or MDMA (called ecstasy)<br />
<br />
<br />
==Page 53 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''Interdependent regions'''<br /><br />
I.e., Canada<br />
<br />
'''prorectors'''<br /><br />
members of a management body of a university, each managing his/her specific area<br />
<br />
'''the Show'''<br /><br />
professional tennis<br />
<br />
==Page 54==<br />
<br />
'''Kodiak'''<br /><br />
a brand of chewing tobacco<br />
<br />
'''quail'''<br /><br />
to shrink back in fear<br />
<br />
==Page 54==<br />
=HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! cont.=<br />
'''0020h'''<br /><br />
The medical attaché has now been watching for four hours and fifty-three minutes.<br />
<br />
=Mario's designated function around ETA=<br />
==Page 54==<br />
'''filmic'''<br /><br />
having to do with motion pictures<br />
<br />
==Page 55==<br />
=Autumn, YDPAH - Gately's crime=<br />
<br />
==Page 55==<br />
<br />
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_12a|Endnote 12a]]<br />
<br />
'''élan'''<br /><br />
enthusiastic vigor or liveliness<br />
<br />
'''Revere Holding'''<br /><br />
a jail, obviously -- probably the jail for Revere, Mass., just north of Boston<br />
<br />
'''P.D.'''<br /><br />
public defender<br />
<br />
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_13|Endnote 13]]<br />
<br />
==Page 55 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''dictum'''<br /><br />
a maxim or saying<br />
<br />
==Page 56==<br />
<br />
'''''Globe'''''<br /><br />
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boston_Globe ''Boston Globe.''] The main daily newspaper of Boston, MA.<br />
<br />
'''Marblehead'''<br /><br />
A town in Essex County, Mass., home to a yachting resort. It's about 15 miles northeast of the city on the water.<br />
<br />
==Page 57==<br />
<br />
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_17|Endnote 17]]<br />
<br />
'''''International Affairs'' and ''Interdependent Affairs'''''<br /><br />
The first magazine is real; the second is not.<br />
<br />
'''teak chiffonier'''<br /><br />
a piece of furniture, one of which you can see [http://www.artfact.com/catalog/viewLot.cfm?lotCode=4xRrS2JB here]<br />
<br />
'''Berkshires'''<br /><br />
the mountainous region in the westernmost portion of Massachusetts, a popular vacation spot<br />
<br />
'''adenoidal'''<br /><br />
sounding as if the nose were pinched due to enlarged lymphatic tissue in the throat behind the uvula<br />
<br />
'''van Dyke'''<br /><br />
a goatee<br />
<br />
'''rheumy'''<br /><br />
watery and unhealthy<br />
<br />
'''apocopes'''<br /><br />
losses of syllables from words, particularly unstressed vowels<br />
<br />
'''M. Café-brand Automatic Café-au-Lait maker'''<br /><br />
half coffee and half milk in a large cup, as drunk in France. M. Café as in 'Mr. Coffee".<br />
<br />
'''gangrenously tight'''<br /><br />
I.e., so tight as to cause gangrene, i.e., death of tissue due to lack of blood<br />
<br />
==Page 58==<br />
<br />
'''grippe'''<br /><br />
flu<br />
<br />
'''pre-British-takeover Québecois'''<br /><br />
The British took over Quebec on September 8, 1760.<br />
<br />
'''grackles'''<br /><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passerine passernine] birds native to North America<br />
<br />
==Page 59==<br />
<br />
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_19|Endnote 19]]<br />
<br />
'''intercostal'''<br /><br />
pertaining to the ribs or the muscles around them<br />
<br />
'''Montreal Tulip Fest'''<br /><br />
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival Canadian Tulip Festival] actually takes place in Ottawa, Ontario, and Gatineau, Quebec, which border each other.<br />
<br />
'''Guillaume DuPlessis'''<br /><br />
A man by this name was one of the first French Calvinist settlers on the island of St. Kitts in the 17th century.<br />
<br />
'''250 clicks due east'''<br /><br />
Clicks are kilometers. Two hundred fifty km is about 155 miles.<br />
<br />
'''lividity'''<br /><br />
the change of color in skin brought on by livor mortis, an after-death phenomenon when blood settles in the body at low points of gravity<br />
<br />
'''comme-il-faut'''<br /><br />
French: As is necessary<br />
<br />
==Page 60==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''932/1864'''<br /><br />
I don't know what the numbers mean, but the first is half of the second.<br />
<br />
'''R.I.S.C.'''<br /><br />
reduced instruction set computer, i.e., a computer that takes a limited set of commands<br />
<br />
'''Pink2'''<br /><br />
Footnote 95 (to p. 284) reads "Pink being Microsoft Inc.'s first post-Windows DOS, quickly upgraded to Pink2 when InterLace took everything 100 % interactive and digital; by Y.D.A.U. it's kind of a dinosaur, but it's still the only DOS that'll run a MathpakVEndStat tree without having to stop and recompile every few seconds."<br />
<br />
'''Primestar'''<br /><br />
a direct broadcast satellite network active in the 1990s<br />
<br />
'''D.S.S.'''<br /><br />
digital satellite system<br />
<br />
'''pixel-free'''<br /><br />
smooth and not pixelated<br />
<br />
'''baud'''<br /><br />
a unit equal to bits per second; a baud rate is the number of bits per second a modem can send/receive<br />
<br />
'''''couture'''''<br /><br />
French for "fashion"<br />
<br />
'''nanoprocessors'''<br /><br />
very small processors -- smaller than microprocessors<br />
<br />
'''chromotography'''<br /><br />
Here misspelled, chromatography is "any of various techniques for the separation of complex mixtures that rely on the differential affinities of substances for a gas or liquid mobile medium and for a stationary adsorbing medium through which they pass, such as paper, gelatin, or magnesia" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'').<br />
<br />
'''carpal neuralgia'''<br /><br />
nerve pain in the bones of the hand<br />
<br />
'''phosphenic migraine'''<br /><br />
the phenomenon of seeing lights accompanying a migraine<br />
<br />
'''gluteal hyperadiposity'''<br /><br />
excessive fat in the buttocks<br />
<br />
'''lumbar stressae'''<br /><br />
back stress<br />
<br />
=November 3rd, YDAU - Troeltsch's illness=<br />
==Page 60==<br />
<br />
'''Jim Troeltsch'''<br /><br />
The most famous person with this surname is [http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/WeirdWildWeb/courses/mwt/dictionary/mwt_themes_705_troeltsch.htm Ernst Troeltsch] (1865-1923), a German Protestant theologian and philosopher of religion and history. <br />
<br />
'''Narberth PA'''<br /><br />
A wealthy, 1 square-mile borough west of Philadelphia and part of the larger "Main Line" suburban area running from Philadelphia to Malvern.<br />
<br />
'''meatus'''<br /><br />
a natural bodily opening<br />
<br />
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_21|Endnote 21]]<br />
<br />
'''OTC'''<br /><br />
over the counter<br />
<br />
'''expectorants'''<br /><br />
drugs that induce phlegm-producing coughing<br />
<br />
'''pertussives'''<br /><br />
cough suppressants<br />
<br />
'''megaspansules'''<br /><br />
a combination of mega + span + capsule, these would be large, time-released capsules<br />
<br />
==Endnote 22==<br />
<br />
'''mucoid dessicators'''<br /><br />
drugs that dry up phlegm<br />
<br />
==Page 60 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''Rader'''<br /><br />
If the name is pronounced with a "long a," as in the Oakland football team, a famous person with this last name was Erich Johann Albert Raeder (1876-1960), a World War II-era German grand admiral, sentenced to life at Nuremberg but served only nine years.<br />
<br />
==Page 61==<br />
<br />
'''nebulizer'''<br /><br />
something that turns a liquid into a spray<br />
<br />
'''fugue-state'''<br /><br />
According to Wikipedia, a fugue state is "a state of mind characterized by abandonment of personal identity, along with the memories, personality and other identifying characteristics of individuality."<br />
<br />
'''prolix'''<br /><br />
extended to a great, unneedy length<br />
<br />
=Nightmares=<br />
==Page 61==<br />
<br />
'''rhinoviri'''<br /><br />
Wallace's plural for rhinovirus, one of dozens of variations of the virus that causes the common cold, also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus rhinoviruses]<br />
<br />
'''mucosa'''<br /><br />
An absorptive/secretive tissue layer in the body; here, in Troeltsch's throat or nose<br />
<br />
==Page 62==<br />
<br />
'''matte'''<br /><br />
as an adjective, having a dull or lusterless finish<br />
<br />
'''bolections'''<br /><br />
mouldings that cover joints<br />
<br />
'''snuff-white'''<br /><br />
Snuff is grayish to yellowish brown in color; snuff-white must be that color, but lighter.<br />
<br />
'''reglets'''<br /><br />
narrow, flat moldings<br />
<br />
'''rheostats'''<br /><br />
continuously variable electronic resistors<br />
<br />
'''shank'''<br /><br />
part of the leg between the knee and ankle<br />
<br />
==Page 63==<br />
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<div>'''c:\Pink2'''<br /><br />
60; 284; 511; 620. Fn95, p. 284/1003 reads "Pink being Microsoft Inc.'s first post-Windows DOS, quickly upgraded to Pink2 when InterLace took everything 100 % interactive and digital; by Y.D.A.U. it's kind of a dinosaur, but it's still the only DOS that'll run a MathpakVEndStat tree without having to stop and recompile every few seconds."<br />
<br />
'''C, Bobby'''<br /><br />
128; "Wos' former aquaintance from crewing with slopes on the North shore for Whity Sorkin in the days of his youth"; junkie in Boston who hangs with Poor Tony and "yrstruly"; takes off patty's ear, 129; 300; henchman for Sorkin, 917;<br />
<br />
'''(C<SUB>2</SUB>H<SUB>5</SUB>CO)<SUB>2</SUB>O<SUB>2</SUB>'''<br /><br />
1055; "pimple cream," (see fn 304a, p. 1062) ['''NOTE''': this is not the chemical formula for benzoyl peroxide as some have suggested. (That formula is C<SUB>14</SUB>H<SUB>10</SUB>O<SUB>4</SUB>.)] And...as I was informed by a reader named Olympia McGurk, "...this is not benzoyl peroxide; its chemical name is propionyl peroxide (or more correctly but less commonly dipropionyl peroxide). It is a precursor used in the synthesis of some polymers but is most emphatically not pimple cream as DFW claims. I suspect it would burn your skin off." Although, Olympia continues, "I also realized that it could just be a printer's or editor's error: the formula would be correct for benzoyl peroxide if it were (C<SUB>6</SUB>H<SUB>5</SUB>CO)<SUB>2</SUB>O<SUB>2</SUB> instead of (C<SUB>2</SUB>H<SUB>5</SUB>CO)<SUB>2</SUB>O<SUB>2</SUB>. The substitution of C<SUB>2</SUB>H<SUB>5</SUB> for C<SUB>6</SUB>H<SUB>5</SUB> (ethyl for benzyl) would be a natural error for someone who knew a little bit of chemistry but who wasn't thinking about aromatic rings."<br />
<br />
'''CadaverGate'''<br /><br />
fn.26/994; "scandal thought brought down so many funeral directors in the Year of the Purdue Wonderchicken"<br />
<br />
'''cages'''<br /><br />
"cages over the lightbulbs";<br />
<br />
'''Cage, John'''<br /><br />
fn.24/989; his''4'33 ''an unnamed influence of Himself's''The Joke'' <br />
<br />
'''''Caisse de D&eacute;p&ocirc;t et Placement'''''<br /><br />
751; workplace of Health-Benefits administrator whose name Maranthe appropriates<br />
<br />
'''Cambridge City Hospital'''<br /><br />
690;<br />
<br />
'''Cameron, James'''<br /><br />
48; American filmmaker (''Terminator, Aliens, Titanic'', etc.)<br />
<br />
'''Camus, Albert'''<br /><br />
12; Nobel Prize winning Fr. writer/philosopher<br />
<br />
'''''Candida Albicans'''''<br /><br />
33; a dimorphous organism that can be either a yeast, in which form it is not invasive, or a fungus, in which form it is.<br />
<br />
'''Cantor, Georg'''<br /><br />
82; fn.35/994<br />
<br />
'''Cantrell'''<br /><br />
410; early ETA prorector; and Clipperton in YoW, 432;<br />
<br />
'''Carty, Gary'''<br /><br />
891; friend of Gately's with whom he'd trap lobsters "in the pre-dawn reek of low tide"<br />
<br />
'''Casey , William J.'''<br /><br />
473; former director of the CIA<br />
<br />
'''Cathy or Kathy'''<br /><br />
920; beautiful R.N. who assists Gately in defecating<br />
<br />
'''Chang, Michael'''<br /><br />
389; tennis pro<br />
<br />
'''Chaos Theory'''<br /><br />
and tennis, 81-82; "What if heredity, instead of linear, is branching" 220; 341; fn.34/994<br />
<br />
'''Chawaf, R.-L.-O.'''<br /><br />
''See'''''''''Richardson-Levy-O'Byrne-Chawaf''', Ms. Soma<br />
<br />
'''Cheap-O Records'''<br /><br />
129; in Boston<br />
<br />
'''Checkpoint Pongo'''<br /><br />
571;<br />
<br />
'''Cheers!'''<br /><br />
834; late-80s/early 90s TV sitcom, with "Sam and Carla and Nom"; Nom as Gately's "own organic father" 836; Gately's memories of, 883;<br />
<br />
'''Cheery, Mo'''<br /><br />
643; owner of Cheery Oil, Troy NY, and employer of Steeply's father<br />
<br />
'''Cheese, Susan T.'''<br /><br />
130; junkie in Boston; 300;<br />
<br />
'''China Pearl Place'''<br /><br />
133; in Boston<br />
<br />
'''Chit Chat Farms Rehabilitation of Pennsylvania State'''<br /><br />
749; where Maranthe (as Henri, the Swiss) did detox<br />
<br />
'''Choosy Mothers'''<br /><br />
582; (name taken from 1970s era slogan of Jif peanut butter: "Choosy mothers choose Jif."<br />
<br />
'''Chore Boys'''<br /><br />
222; 225<br />
<br />
'''Chr&#05;&eacute;tien, J.'''<br /><br />
384; Canadian Prime Minister &amp; co-Vice Chair of O.N.A.N.<br />
<br />
'''Christianson, Daphne'''<br /><br />
38<br />
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'''Chu, LaMont'''<br /><br />
112; ETA student; 328; confessing addiction to being a famous tennis star to Lyle, 388; 458; 757; filmed by Mario<br />
<br />
'''Chuck or Chick'''<br /><br />
531-33; guy who shoots guy who "made him look small" in front of his girl <br />
<br />
'''chyme'''<BR><br />
<br />
635-13: partly digested food passed from stomach to duodenum<br />
<br />
'''Cisne'''<br /><br />
264; ETA student<br />
<br />
'''CITGO'''<br /><br />
476;<br />
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'''Claprood, Governor'''<br /><br />
576; pre-O.N.A.N.ite governor of MA<br />
<br />
'''Clarke, Mrs.'''<br /><br />
112; works in kitchen at ETA; 120; 193; "former Four-Star dessert chef" 380;<br />
<br />
'''Clayt'''<br /><br />
65; "sad old ex-QB" for Arizona Cardinals<br />
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'''Clean and Serene'''<br /><br />
699; N. Cambridge NA group<br />
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'''Clenette'''<br /><br />
''See'' [[H#Henderson|Henderson, Clenette]]<br />
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'''clicks'''<br /><br />
573+4; kilometers<br />
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'''Clinton, Hillary R. (aka Hillary R.C.)'''<br /><br />
382;<br />
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'''Clipperton, Eric'''<br /><br />
407; Clipperton Brigade;''fin de siecle'' unseeded 16-year-old tennis legend who threatened to shoot himself if he ever lost a game; 431; from Crawfordsville IN, 433; 681; 759; the Clipperton Suite in East House<br />
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'''Clow, Lori'''<br /><br />
fn.209/1035; ETA student playing microtennis w/Freer<br />
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'''CNS'''<br /><br />
292; central nervous system<br />
<br />
'''cockroaches'''<br /><br />
44-45 <br />
<br />
'''''Columbia Guide to Refractive Indices Second Edition'''''<br /><br />
161; book young J.O.I., Jr. is holding in garage<br />
<br />
'''Commitments'''<br /><br />
343; "some members of one Group commit to hit the road and travel to another Group's meeting to speak publicly from the podium"<br />
<br />
'''Concavity Cabinet'''<br /><br />
400; Pres. of Mexico, J. Gentle, R. Tine, Sec. Int. Blaine, Sec. State Billingsley, Sec. Transp. Marty, Sec. H.E.W. Trent, Sec. Treas. Chet, Press Sec. Jay, Sec. Def. Ollie; Sec. H.U.D. Sivnik; <br />
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'''''Consummation of the Levirates'''''<br /><br />
171; old print of "minor and soft core Alexandrian mosaic" in Hal's &amp; Mario's room; 952<br />
<br />
'''Contraria Sunt Complementa'''<br /><br />
713; Latin: "We Are What We Are Against"<br />
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'''conversationalist, professional'''<br /><br />
28<br />
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'''Cortelyu, April'''<br /><br />
206; Ennet House resident<br />
<br />
'''couch-potato-ism'''<br /><br />
620; "The fellowship and anonymous communion of being part of a watching crowd" as antidote, 621;<br />
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'''Coyle, Kyle D.'''<br /><br />
50; ETA student; 266; rooms w/Stice, 394; from Erythema AZ (outside Tucson), 453; stepdad went to "one of those men's-issues-Men's-Movement-type Meetings" 804; "having them discharges again" 868; "doesn't have his key since the accident with the whirlpool" 942;<br />
<br />
'''C.P.C.P.'''<br /><br />
1019; Calgarian pro-Canadian Phalanx; 489;<br />
<br />
'''cranio-facial-neuralgia'''<br /><br />
fn.24/987; one of the subjects of Himself's''Kinds of Pain''<br />
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'''crew'''<br /><br />
129; mug; rob<br />
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'''Criess, Jolene'''<br /><br />
514; young ETA student; 755;<br />
<br />
'''Crocodiles, The'''<br /><br />
354; elder White Flaggers<br />
<br />
'''croquet'''<br /><br />
104;<br />
<br />
'''Csikzentmihalyi, Zoltan'''<br /><br />
98; 16-year-old, little-English speaking student at ETA; "a marginal Slavic kid" fn.324/1070;<br />
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'''Cukor'''<br /><br />
219; molded plastic chair of, at Notkin's apartment <br />
<br />
'''''Culte du Prochain Train, Le'''''<br /><br />
732; of which Maranthe was a member; "La" "The Cult of the Next Train" fn.304/1058; <br />
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'''''Culte de Baiser Sans Fin, La'''''<br /><br />
fn.304/1061; "Cult of the Endless Kiss," another Qu&eacute;bec separatist cult<br />
<br />
'''C.U.S.P.'''<br /><br />
283; Clean U. S. Party, Gentle's party; "annular agnation of ultra-right jingoist. . .and far-left macrobiotic. . .a surreal union of. . .disillusioned fringes" that "swept to quadrennial victory" as a third party, 382; 1016;1022; <br />
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60; 284; 511; 620<br />
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'''C, Bobby'''<br /><br />
128; "Wos' former aquaintance from crewing with slopes on the North shore for Whity Sorkin in the days of his youth"; junkie in Boston who hangs with Poor Tony and "yrstruly"; takes off patty's ear, 129; 300; henchman for Sorkin, 917;<br />
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'''(C<SUB>2</SUB>H<SUB>5</SUB>CO)<SUB>2</SUB>O<SUB>2</SUB>'''<br /><br />
1055; "pimple cream," (see fn 304a, p. 1062) ['''NOTE''': this is not the chemical formula for benzoyl peroxide as some have suggested. (That formula is C<SUB>14</SUB>H<SUB>10</SUB>O<SUB>4</SUB>.)] And...as I was informed by a reader named Olympia McGurk, "...this is not benzoyl peroxide; its chemical name is propionyl peroxide (or more correctly but less commonly dipropionyl peroxide). It is a precursor used in the synthesis of some polymers but is most emphatically not pimple cream as DFW claims. I suspect it would burn your skin off." Although, Olympia continues, "I also realized that it could just be a printer's or editor's error: the formula would be correct for benzoyl peroxide if it were (C<SUB>6</SUB>H<SUB>5</SUB>CO)<SUB>2</SUB>O<SUB>2</SUB> instead of (C<SUB>2</SUB>H<SUB>5</SUB>CO)<SUB>2</SUB>O<SUB>2</SUB>. The substitution of C<SUB>2</SUB>H<SUB>5</SUB> for C<SUB>6</SUB>H<SUB>5</SUB> (ethyl for benzyl) would be a natural error for someone who knew a little bit of chemistry but who wasn't thinking about aromatic rings."<br />
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'''CadaverGate'''<br /><br />
fn.26/994; "scandal thought brought down so many funeral directors in the Year of the Purdue Wonderchicken"<br />
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'''cages'''<br /><br />
"cages over the lightbulbs";<br />
<br />
'''Cage, John'''<br /><br />
fn.24/989; his''4'33 ''an unnamed influence of Himself's''The Joke'' <br />
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'''''Caisse de D&eacute;p&ocirc;t et Placement'''''<br /><br />
751; workplace of Health-Benefits administrator whose name Maranthe appropriates<br />
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'''Cambridge City Hospital'''<br /><br />
690;<br />
<br />
'''Cameron, James'''<br /><br />
48; American filmmaker (''Terminator, Aliens, Titanic'', etc.)<br />
<br />
'''Camus, Albert'''<br /><br />
12; Nobel Prize winning Fr. writer/philosopher<br />
<br />
'''''Candida Albicans'''''<br /><br />
33; a dimorphous organism that can be either a yeast, in which form it is not invasive, or a fungus, in which form it is.<br />
<br />
'''Cantor, Georg'''<br /><br />
82; fn.35/994<br />
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'''Cantrell'''<br /><br />
410; early ETA prorector; and Clipperton in YoW, 432;<br />
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'''Carty, Gary'''<br /><br />
891; friend of Gately's with whom he'd trap lobsters "in the pre-dawn reek of low tide"<br />
<br />
'''Casey , William J.'''<br /><br />
473; former director of the CIA<br />
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'''Cathy or Kathy'''<br /><br />
920; beautiful R.N. who assists Gately in defecating<br />
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'''Chang, Michael'''<br /><br />
389; tennis pro<br />
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'''Chaos Theory'''<br /><br />
and tennis, 81-82; "What if heredity, instead of linear, is branching" 220; 341; fn.34/994<br />
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'''Chawaf, R.-L.-O.'''<br /><br />
''See'''''''''Richardson-Levy-O'Byrne-Chawaf''', Ms. Soma<br />
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'''Cheap-O Records'''<br /><br />
129; in Boston<br />
<br />
'''Checkpoint Pongo'''<br /><br />
571;<br />
<br />
'''Cheers!'''<br /><br />
834; late-80s/early 90s TV sitcom, with "Sam and Carla and Nom"; Nom as Gately's "own organic father" 836; Gately's memories of, 883;<br />
<br />
'''Cheery, Mo'''<br /><br />
643; owner of Cheery Oil, Troy NY, and employer of Steeply's father<br />
<br />
'''Cheese, Susan T.'''<br /><br />
130; junkie in Boston; 300;<br />
<br />
'''China Pearl Place'''<br /><br />
133; in Boston<br />
<br />
'''Chit Chat Farms Rehabilitation of Pennsylvania State'''<br /><br />
749; where Maranthe (as Henri, the Swiss) did detox<br />
<br />
'''Choosy Mothers'''<br /><br />
582; (name taken from 1970s era slogan of Jif peanut butter: "Choosy mothers choose Jif."<br />
<br />
'''Chore Boys'''<br /><br />
222; 225<br />
<br />
'''Chr&#05;&eacute;tien, J.'''<br /><br />
384; Canadian Prime Minister &amp; co-Vice Chair of O.N.A.N.<br />
<br />
'''Christianson, Daphne'''<br /><br />
38<br />
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'''Chu, LaMont'''<br /><br />
112; ETA student; 328; confessing addiction to being a famous tennis star to Lyle, 388; 458; 757; filmed by Mario<br />
<br />
'''Chuck or Chick'''<br /><br />
531-33; guy who shoots guy who "made him look small" in front of his girl <br />
<br />
'''chyme'''<BR><br />
<br />
635-13: partly digested food passed from stomach to duodenum<br />
<br />
'''Cisne'''<br /><br />
264; ETA student<br />
<br />
'''CITGO'''<br /><br />
476;<br />
<br />
'''Claprood, Governor'''<br /><br />
576; pre-O.N.A.N.ite governor of MA<br />
<br />
'''Clarke, Mrs.'''<br /><br />
112; works in kitchen at ETA; 120; 193; "former Four-Star dessert chef" 380;<br />
<br />
'''Clayt'''<br /><br />
65; "sad old ex-QB" for Arizona Cardinals<br />
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'''Clean and Serene'''<br /><br />
699; N. Cambridge NA group<br />
<br />
'''Clenette'''<br /><br />
''See'' [[H#Henderson|Henderson, Clenette]]<br />
<br />
'''clicks'''<br /><br />
573+4; kilometers<br />
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'''Clinton, Hillary R. (aka Hillary R.C.)'''<br /><br />
382;<br />
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'''Clipperton, Eric'''<br /><br />
407; Clipperton Brigade;''fin de siecle'' unseeded 16-year-old tennis legend who threatened to shoot himself if he ever lost a game; 431; from Crawfordsville IN, 433; 681; 759; the Clipperton Suite in East House<br />
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'''Clow, Lori'''<br /><br />
fn.209/1035; ETA student playing microtennis w/Freer<br />
<br />
'''CNS'''<br /><br />
292; central nervous system<br />
<br />
'''cockroaches'''<br /><br />
44-45 <br />
<br />
'''''Columbia Guide to Refractive Indices Second Edition'''''<br /><br />
161; book young J.O.I., Jr. is holding in garage<br />
<br />
'''Commitments'''<br /><br />
343; "some members of one Group commit to hit the road and travel to another Group's meeting to speak publicly from the podium"<br />
<br />
'''Concavity Cabinet'''<br /><br />
400; Pres. of Mexico, J. Gentle, R. Tine, Sec. Int. Blaine, Sec. State Billingsley, Sec. Transp. Marty, Sec. H.E.W. Trent, Sec. Treas. Chet, Press Sec. Jay, Sec. Def. Ollie; Sec. H.U.D. Sivnik; <br />
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'''''Consummation of the Levirates'''''<br /><br />
171; old print of "minor and soft core Alexandrian mosaic" in Hal's &amp; Mario's room; 952<br />
<br />
'''Contraria Sunt Complementa'''<br /><br />
713; Latin: "We Are What We Are Against"<br />
<br />
'''conversationalist, professional'''<br /><br />
28<br />
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'''Cortelyu, April'''<br /><br />
206; Ennet House resident<br />
<br />
'''couch-potato-ism'''<br /><br />
620; "The fellowship and anonymous communion of being part of a watching crowd" as antidote, 621;<br />
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'''Coyle, Kyle D.'''<br /><br />
50; ETA student; 266; rooms w/Stice, 394; from Erythema AZ (outside Tucson), 453; stepdad went to "one of those men's-issues-Men's-Movement-type Meetings" 804; "having them discharges again" 868; "doesn't have his key since the accident with the whirlpool" 942;<br />
<br />
'''C.P.C.P.'''<br /><br />
1019; Calgarian pro-Canadian Phalanx; 489;<br />
<br />
'''cranio-facial-neuralgia'''<br /><br />
fn.24/987; one of the subjects of Himself's''Kinds of Pain''<br />
<br />
'''crew'''<br /><br />
129; mug; rob<br />
<br />
'''Criess, Jolene'''<br /><br />
514; young ETA student; 755;<br />
<br />
'''Crocodiles, The'''<br /><br />
354; elder White Flaggers<br />
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'''croquet'''<br /><br />
104;<br />
<br />
'''Csikzentmihalyi, Zoltan'''<br /><br />
98; 16-year-old, little-English speaking student at ETA; "a marginal Slavic kid" fn.324/1070;<br />
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'''Cukor'''<br /><br />
219; molded plastic chair of, at Notkin's apartment <br />
<br />
'''''Culte du Prochain Train, Le'''''<br /><br />
732; of which Maranthe was a member; "La" "The Cult of the Next Train" fn.304/1058; <br />
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'''''Culte de Baiser Sans Fin, La'''''<br /><br />
fn.304/1061; "Cult of the Endless Kiss," another Qu&eacute;bec separatist cult<br />
<br />
'''C.U.S.P.'''<br /><br />
283; Clean U. S. Party, Gentle's party; "annular agnation of ultra-right jingoist. . .and far-left macrobiotic. . .a surreal union of. . .disillusioned fringes" that "swept to quadrennial victory" as a third party, 382; 1016;1022; <br />
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=''The ONANtiad'', cont.=<br />
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==Page 398==<br />
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==Page 399==<br />
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'''LOVE CANAL'''<br /><br />
an area near Buffalo, N.Y., famous for its high amount of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Canal toxic waste] and the effects it had on the residents there<br />
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'''EPA'''<br /><br />
Environmental Protection Agency<br />
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'''Berlin, NH'''<br /><br />
a town in New Hampshire very close to the Canadian border<br />
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'''Rumford, ME'''<br /><br />
Rumford is in Maine, less than 50 miles due east of Berlin, N.H.<br />
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'''MONTPELIER'''<br /><br />
the capital of Vermont<br />
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'''Lancaster NH'''<br /><br />
a city about twenty miles west of Berlin, N.H.<br />
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'''INFARCTION'''<br /><br />
heart attack<br />
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'''ANEURISM'''<br /><br />
a misspelling of "aneurysm," it's a bursting of a weak blood vessel, if in the brain, usually causing a stroke<br />
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'''SALEM MA'''<br /><br />
a city 15 miles up the coast from Boston<br />
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'''FROM SYRACUSE TO TICONDEROGA, NY'''<br /><br />
This line would go right through [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adirondack_ParkAdirondack Park] in New York.<br />
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'''FROM TICODEROGA, NY TO SALEM, MA'''<br /><br />
The lower corner of Vermont lies below this line.<br />
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==Page 400==<br />
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'''claque'''<br /><br />
a group of sycophants<br />
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'''hale'''<br /><br />
healthy<br />
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'''Kevlar'''<br /><br />
a synthetic substance used in, among other things, bulletproof vests<br />
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==Page 401==<br />
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'''aspersion'''<br /><br />
a disparaging remark<br />
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==Page 402==<br />
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'''Bôf'''<br /><br />
defined by the Cambridge Online French-English dictionary as an interjection "expressing a lack of interest or enthusiasm"<br />
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'''maroon'''<br /><br />
i.e., a moron<br />
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'''benighted'''<br /><br />
overtaken by darkness<br />
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'''cojones'''<br /><br />
Spanish for "testicles"<br />
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==Page 403==<br />
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'''redemisement'''<br /><br />
see discussion of "redemised" at [[Pages_306-321#Page_319|page 319]]<br />
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'''scenario'''<br /><br />
"Scenarios" is the correct plural.<br />
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==Page 404==<br />
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[[Image:Tyrolean.jpg|thumb|caption|Tyrolean Hat|150px|right]]<br />
<br />
'''Tyrolean hats'''<br /><br />
The Tyrolean hat, named after the region of Tyrol, is associated with the Austrian Alps. Tyrolean hats have a cord wrapped around the base of the crown and a feather or brush on the side as trim. For an example, see right. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrolean_hat Wikipedia]<br />
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'''H.E.W.'''<br /><br />
Health, Education, and Welfare<br />
<br />
'''rife'''<br /><br />
abounding<br />
<br />
'''Eminent nondomain'''<br /><br />
"Eminent domain" is the right of the government to seize private property to serve a greater good. This would be the opposite.<br />
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'''''bien sûr'''''<br /><br />
French: of course<br />
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'''U.S.O.'''<br /><br />
United States Organizations, an organization dedicated to entertaining troops at war<br />
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==Page 405==<br />
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'''coup de grâce'''<br /><br />
French: death blow<br />
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'''recalcitrant'''<br /><br />
hard to deal with or manage<br />
<br />
'''''¿Qué?'''<br /><br />
Spanish: What?<br />
<br />
'''Yukon'''<br /><br />
a territory of northwest Canada that borders Alaska's western border<br />
<br />
'''Brinksmanship'''<br /><br />
According to the ''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'', this is "the technique or practice of maneuvering a dangerous situation to the limits of tolerance or safety in order to secure the greatest advantage, esp. by creating diplomatic crises."<br />
<br />
'''1/3-rpm'''<br /><br />
This is one-third of a revolution per minute. LPs go literally 100 times faster.<br />
<br />
''''Flight of the Bumblebee''''<br /><br />
an interlude in ''The Tale of Tsar Saltan'', an opera by Russian composer Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)<br />
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==Page 406==<br />
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'''IMBROGLIO'''<br /><br />
a misunderstanding or disagreement between persons or nations<br />
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'''SIN CITY'''<br /><br />
Las Vegas<br />
<br />
'''F.E.C.'''<br /><br />
Federal Elections Commission<br />
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==Page 407==<br />
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'''S.A.C.'''<br /><br />
Strategic Air Command<br />
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'''BK'''<br /><br />
Burger King<br />
<br />
'''catastatic'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to the climax of a play, movie, etc<br />
<br />
'''radon'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radon chemical element] that contaminates homes in gaseous form<br />
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==Page 408==<br />
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'''Maddox OH'''<br /><br />
doesn't appear to be a real place<br />
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'''Hartford'''<br /><br />
the capital of Connecticut<br />
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==Page 409==<br />
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'''Elmer's'''<br /><br />
a brand of glue<br />
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==Endnote 158==<br />
'''renumeration'''<br /><br />
<br />
word should be remuneration<br />
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==Endnote 159==<br />
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'''Durban'''<br /><br />
the second most populous city in S. Africa, on the country's southeast coast<br />
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==Page 409 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''Clipperton ''même'''''<br /><br />
French: Clipperton himself<br />
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==Page 410==<br />
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'''transverse aberration'''<br /><br />
this is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberration_of_light aberration of light] across a field<br />
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'''Sunkist'''<br /><br />
a brand of fruit and fruit drinks<br />
<br />
=Hal's History of Television Before Subsidized Time=<br />
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==Page 410==<br />
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'''incipient'''<br /><br />
beginning to develop<br />
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==Page 411==<br />
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'''Szechuan'''<br /><br />
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szechuan Sichuan]<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Y.P.W.]]<br />
<br />
'''Sherman statutes'''<br /><br />
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act anti-trust act] introduced by Sen. John Sherman of Ohio (1823-1900)<br />
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'''TCI'''<br /><br />
Tele-Communications, Inc. (now defunct)<br />
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'''Malone'''<br /><br />
John C. Malone (born 1941), now CEO of Liberty Media<br />
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'''TBS'''<br /><br />
Turner Broadcasting System, founded by Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III (born 1938)<br />
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'''CBC'''<br /><br />
Canadian Broadcasting Centre<br />
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==Page 412==<br />
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'''American Council of Disseminators of Cable'''<br /><br />
Look at the first letters of the capitalized words.<br />
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'''HDTV'''<br /><br />
High-Definition Television<br />
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==Page 413==<br />
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'''liposuction'''<br /><br />
a surgical procedure whereby fat is literally sucked out of the body<br />
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'''P.T.A.s'''<br /><br />
Parent-Teacher Associations<br />
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'''PACs'''<br /><br />
Political Action Committees<br />
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'''REM'''<br /><br />
Rapid Eye Movement<br />
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'''kabal'''<br /><br />
an alternate spelling of "cabal," meaning a small group of secret plotters<br />
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'''b&w'''<br /><br />
black and white<br />
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'''avuncular'''<br /><br />
suggestive of an uncle<br />
<br />
'''Preparation H'''<br /><br />
a brand-name ointment for hemorrhoids<br />
<br />
'''Überad'''<br /><br />
a super advertisement, using the German ''über'' ("super") as a prefix<br />
<br />
'''MLB'''<br /><br />
Major League Baseball<br />
<br />
==Page 415==<br />
<br />
'''Ch. 11 protection'''<br /><br />
Chapter 11, a section of the bankruptcy code under which one could file for protection from creditors<br />
<br />
'''Dow turned Grizzly'''<br /><br />
i.e., a bear (downward-moving) market environment began<br />
<br />
''''Happy Days''''<br /><br />
a once-successful [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070992/ television series] on ABC<br />
<br />
'''penultimate'''<br /><br />
second-to-last<br />
<br />
'''half-gainer'''<br /><br />
a type of dive<br />
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==Page 416==<br />
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'''ken'''<br /><br />
understanding<br />
<br />
'''vox- and digitus-populi'''<br /><br />
''Vox populi'' means "voice of the people" in Latin. ''Digitus populi'' would be "finger of the people."<br />
<br />
==Page 417==<br />
<br />
'''CPU'''<br /><br />
Central Processing Unit<br />
<br />
'''tentacularly'''<br /><br />
as with tentacles<br />
<br />
'''GTE'''<br /><br />
General Telephone and Electronics<br />
<br />
'''Hobbesianly'''<br /><br />
in a way suggesting that people are very much in a state of nature, i.e., without rules or laws<br />
<br />
'''!'''<br /><br />
Used in the 2 times the square root of area formula, the exclamation point denotes a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial factorial]<br />
<br />
'''mimetic'''<br /><br />
used here, meaning as close to reality as possible<br />
<br />
'''equatorial'''<br /><br />
lying on the Equator<br />
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==Page 418==<br />
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'''mycological'''<br /><br />
regarding the study of mushrooms<br />
<br />
'''ennui'''<br /><br />
boredom<br />
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==Endnote 168==<br />
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'''Wagnerian'''<br /><br />
in the style or manner of Richard Wagner, the German operatic composer<br />
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=November 8th, YDAU - Interdependence Day - Boston AA=<br />
(The longest chapter in the book)<br />
==Page 343==<br />
<br />
'''singular'''<br /><br />
unique<br />
<br />
'''polysterene'''<br /><br />
styrofoam<br />
<br />
'''ziggurats'''<br /><br />
an ancient type of Mesopotamian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat temple tower]<br />
<br />
'''fiberboard'''<br /><br />
board made of small fibers of wood, plastic, or some combination of these and other materials<br />
<br />
'''Concord'''<br /><br />
Concord is about 20 miles west of Boston and is the site one of the first battles of the American Revolution.<br />
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==Page 344==<br />
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'''rotary'''<br /><br />
a traffic circle or, in the U.K., a roundabout<br />
<br />
'''plywood'''<br /><br />
material made of thin layers of wood glued together<br />
<br />
''''12th-Step Work''''<br /><br />
The twelfth and final step of AA is this: "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs."<br />
<br />
'''epigrammatic'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to the use of short and pithy statements<br />
<br />
'''pay it ''forward'''''<br /><br />
thus the title of [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0223897/ this movie]<br />
<br />
'''nip'''<br /><br />
drink of alcohol<br />
<br />
'''Dick Cavett and Truman Capote'''<br /><br />
Richard Alva "Dick" Cavett (born 1936) is an Emmy-award-winning television talk-show host. Truman Capote (1924-1984) was an American writer and novelist, best known for writing ''In Cold Blood'' and ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''. Both men were remarkably short.<br />
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==Endnote 133==<br />
<br />
'''variegated'''<br /><br />
diverse<br />
<br />
'''esoteric'''<br /><br />
understood or recognized by few people<br />
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==Page 344 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''piping'''<br /><br />
This is a tubular band of ornamental material; Nodie is probably a brand name.<br />
<br />
'''imbricate'''<br /><br />
overlapping in sequence<br />
<br />
'''tailor's notch'''<br /><br />
Notch in your tooth you get from repeatedly biting thread to cut it (or from holding a sewing needle between one's teeth)<br />
<br />
'''incisors'''<br /><br />
front top teeth<br />
<br />
==Page 345==<br />
<br />
'''insipid'''<br /><br />
without interesting qualities<br />
<br />
'''AA Preamble'''<br /><br />
You can read it [http://www.serenityfound.org/preamble.html here].<br />
<br />
'''empathy'''<br /><br />
one's ability to feel the emotions of another person<br />
<br />
'''what he is'''<br /><br />
i.e., an alcoholic<br />
<br />
==Endnote 134==<br />
<br />
'''nonpunitive'''<br /><br />
not intended as a punishment<br />
<br />
'''nitro'''<br /><br />
nitroglycerin, used for cardiac attacks<br />
<br />
==Page 345 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''145 kph'''<br /><br />
a hair over 90 miles per hour<br />
<br />
'''litany'''<br /><br />
a prolonged or tedious account<br />
<br />
==Page 345==<br />
<br />
'''waxing'''<br /><br />
growing in size, as for the first half of a lunar cycle<br />
<br />
'''peritonitis'''<br /><br />
inflammation of the serous membrane lining the abdomenal cavity<br />
<br />
'''cirrhotic'''<br /><br />
pertaining to hardening of liver tissue<br />
<br />
'''nephritis'''<br /><br />
inflammation of the kidneys<br />
<br />
==Page 347==<br />
<br />
'''compadre'''<br /><br />
a close friend or companion, from the Spanish for "godfather"<br />
<br />
'''ravening'''<br /><br />
voracious<br />
<br />
'''maw'''<br /><br />
mouth<br />
<br />
'''Black Mass'''<br /><br />
a Satanic ritual based on ten Roman Catholic mass<br />
<br />
==Page 348==<br />
<br />
'''"...something whimpery instead of banging."'''<br /><br />
a reference to the last line of T.S. Eliot's poem [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollow_Men The Hollow Men]<br />
<br />
'''garish'''<br /><br />
loud and flashy<br />
<br />
'''Balaclavan'''<br /><br />
a reference to Balaklava, Ukraine, and the suicidal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade Charge of the Light Brigade]<br />
<br />
'''prognathous'''<br /><br />
having one's lower jaw project beyond the upper part of one's face<br />
<br />
'''thermal'''<br /><br />
a warm, rising air current<br />
<br />
'''arbitrage'''<br /><br />
simultaneous purchase and sale of the same assets in different markets<br />
<br />
'''compound'''<br /><br />
i.e., a compound fracture, where the bone protrudes through the skin<br />
<br />
'''Svce'''<br /><br />
Service<br />
<br />
'''Unitarian'''<br /><br />
Though the term refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian Unitarianism], here it suggestsa kind of hippyesque, wishy-washyness.<br />
<br />
==Page 349==<br />
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'''Hindenburg'''<br /><br />
Named for Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg (1847-1934), the German field marshal, hero of World War I, and last President of the Weimar Republic, the ''Hindenburg'' was a hydrogen-powered zeppelin that exploded over Lakehurst, N.J., on May 6, 1937.<br />
<br />
'''nonuremic'''<br /><br />
so as not to appear in one's urine<br />
<br />
'''foamer'''<br /><br />
beer<br />
<br />
==Page 350==<br />
<br />
'''beatific'''<br /><br />
blissful or angelic<br />
<br />
'''Zippo'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippo brand] of lighter<br />
<br />
'''saccharin'''<br /><br />
A play on words. "Saccharin" is the artificial sweetener in Sweet & Low (coffee is being discussed); "saccharine" means "overly sweet."<br />
<br />
'''flummoxed'''<br /><br />
confused or perplexed<br />
<br />
'''burnished'''<br /><br />
rubbed smooth<br />
<br />
'''squalid'''<br /><br />
foul and repulsive<br />
<br />
==Page 351==<br />
<br />
'''terse'''<br /><br />
using few words<br />
<br />
'''imperative'''<br /><br />
a tense of verb implicating a command or directive<br />
<br />
'''zealotry'''<br /><br />
fanaticism<br />
<br />
'''green-card Irishman'''<br /><br />
an Irishman who is a permanent resident non-citizen of the U.S.<br />
<br />
'''meal'''<br /><br />
ground grain<br />
<br />
'''metal-pedalled'''<br /><br />
i.e., "with the pedal to the metal," i.e., at top speed<br />
<br />
'''chemical psychosis'''<br /><br />
Psychosis (called "speed psychosisis") a not uncommon side effect of amphetamine abuse.<br />
<br />
'''wax lyrical'''<br /><br />
to speak poetically<br />
<br />
'''"'d been a confarmed..."'''<br /><br />
I'd been a confirmed bowl-splatterer for years beyond counting. I'd been barred from the facilities at all the truck stops betwixt here and New York for years. The wallpaper in the loo at home hung in these curled sheets from the wall, I tell you. But now one day . . . I'll remember it always. It were a week to the day after I stood up for my ninety-day chip. I were three months sober. I were there on the throne at home, you know. Not to put too fine a point on it, I produced as usual and . . . and I were so amazed as to not believing my ears. It was a sound so unfamiliar at the first I thought I'd dropped my wallet in the loo, do you know? I thought I'd dropped me wallet in the loo as god is my witness. So down I bend betwixt my knees and had a look in the dim of the loo and couldn't believe my eyes. So good people I do then I drop to my knees by the loo and had a ''real'' look. A lover's look, do you know? And friends it were a lovely past my poor powers to say. It were a ''turd'' in the loo. A ''real turd''. It were firm and tapered and ever so gently arched. It looked . . . ''constructed'' instead of sprayed. It look as I felt in my heart God himself made a turd to look. My friends, this turd of mine practically had a pulse. I stayed down on my knees and thanked my Higher Power, which I choose to call my Higher Power God, and I been thanking my Higher Power on my knees ever since, morning and nighttime and in the loo as well, ever since.<br />
<br />
==Page 352==<br />
<br />
'''Enuresis'''<br /><br />
bed-wetting<br />
<br />
'''Priapism'''<br /><br />
an erection that won't go away<br />
<br />
'''Projectile-incontinence'''<br /><br />
inability to hold owns bowels to the extent that feces shoot out of the anus<br />
<br />
'''Autocastration'''<br /><br />
castration of one's self<br />
<br />
'''fringe-Birchism'''<br /><br />
Birchism is adherence to the principles of the [http://www.jbs.org/ John Birch Society], an ultra-right-wing political organization<br />
<br />
'''National-Socialist-Bundism'''<br /><br />
probably something like the German-American Bund of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Kuhn_(Nazi) Fritz Julius Kuhn]<br />
<br />
'''Coprophilia and -phagia'''<br /><br />
sexual excitement brought on by feces and eating of feces, respectively<br />
<br />
'''candelabrum'''<br /><br />
a holder for more than one candle<br />
<br />
==Page 353==<br />
<br />
'''vitriol'''<br /><br />
something highly caustic or severe, as criticism<br />
<br />
'''orevwar'''<br /><br />
They trying to say ''au revoir'', i.e., French for "goodbye."<br />
<br />
'''fremitic'''<br /><br />
characterized by tremor vibrations in any part of the body<br />
<br />
==Page 354==<br />
<br />
'''verdant'''<br /><br />
green with vegetation<br />
<br />
'''varicose'''<br /><br />
having veins that are visible through the skin<br />
<br />
'''shamanistic fiat'''<br /><br />
A shaman is a priest or religious official, usually of an indigenous religion. A fiat is an order, based on the Latin for the imperative form of the verb "to be."<br />
<br />
'''30 kph'''<br /><br />
18.6 miles per hour<br />
<br />
'''talismanically'''<br /><br />
in a way suggesting something having to do with a magic charm or amulet<br />
<br />
'''Lord's Prayer'''<br /><br />
from [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%206:9-13;&version=9; Matthew 20:9-13]<br />
<br />
'''ballast'''<br /><br />
meaning an electric ballast, which is used to regulate and stabilize the current in lights<br />
<br />
==Page 355==<br />
<br />
'''gnarled'''<br /><br />
knotty of misshappen<br />
<br />
'''Sixers'''<br /><br />
the short name for the [http://www.nba.com/sixers/index_main.html Philadelphia 76ers]<br />
<br />
'''MCI-Walpole'''<br /><br />
This is the Massachusetts Correction Institute at Walpole, about 25 miles southwest of Boston.<br />
<br />
'''raisin jack'''<br /><br />
an alcoholic drink fermented from raisins, commonly made in prisons<br />
<br />
'''spectral'''<br /><br />
looking like a ghost<br />
<br />
==Page 356==<br />
<br />
'''LeSabre'''<br /><br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buick_LeSabre Buick LeSabre]<br />
<br />
'''jack-legged'''<br /><br />
a slang term meaning "always screwing up"<br />
<br />
'''dash'''<br /><br />
short for "dashboard"<br />
<br />
'''abject'''<br /><br />
sunken to a low position, as in "abject poverty"<br />
<br />
'''regs'''<br /><br />
regulations<br />
<br />
'''sub-rosa'''<br /><br />
The Latin phrase [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub_rosa sub rosa] means "under the rose" and is used in English to denote secrecy or confidentiality<br />
<br />
'''autonomy'''<br /><br />
control or rule over one's self<br />
<br />
==Page 357==<br />
<br />
'''fibrosis'''<br /><br />
scarring<br />
<br />
==Endnote 139==<br />
<br />
'''entomologic'''<br /><br />
Entomology is the study of insects.<br />
<br />
==Page 357 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''Mr. Rogers'''<br /><br />
The Reverend Frederick McFeely "Fred" Rogers (1928-2003) was an American minister and children's television show host.<br />
<br />
'''rhapsodize'''<br /><br />
speak in an extravagantly elegant manner<br />
<br />
'''fisticuffery'''<br /><br />
fist-fighting<br />
<br />
'''invectives'''<br /><br />
abusive expressions of opinion<br />
<br />
'''Sergeant at Arms'''<br /><br />
an officer appointed to keep order<br />
<br />
==Page 358==<br />
<br />
'''apothegm'''<br /><br />
a short, pithy statement<br />
<br />
'''head'''<br /><br />
bathroom<br />
<br />
'''spuds'''<br /><br />
potatoes<br />
<br />
'''nocturnal'''<br /><br />
happening at night<br />
<br />
'''crook'''<br /><br />
a shepherd's staff<br />
<br />
'''French-curled'''<br /><br />
You can see French-curled jewelry [http://www.cqout.com/item.asp?id=3093801 here]<br />
<br />
'''demurely'''<br /><br />
in an effectedly modest way<br />
<br />
==Page 359==<br />
<br />
'''circumferences'''<br /><br />
distances around the edge of a circle<br />
<br />
'''cuticles'''<br /><br />
dead skin at the bottom of the fingernails<br />
<br />
'''astringent'''<br /><br />
a chemical that tends to dry something else out<br />
<br />
'''onionlight'''<br /><br />
You can see onionlights [http://www.hammerworks.com/onionlights1.html here].<br />
<br />
'''isopropyl'''<br /><br />
a type of alcohol, found in rubbing alcohol<br />
<br />
'''reek'''<br /><br />
to smell very badly<br />
<br />
'''A.D.A.'''<br /><br />
Assistant District Attorney<br />
<br />
==Page 360==<br />
<br />
'''fumigated'''<br /><br />
permeated with gas to kill insects<br />
<br />
'''idiosyncrasy'''<br /><br />
a peculiarity of personality<br />
<br />
'''rattan'''<br /><br />
material taken from the rattan plant, a climbing palm with very long stems<br />
<br />
'''Big Book'''<br /><br />
This is the AA "bible," so to speak, and can be found online [http://www.aa.org/bigbookonline/ here].<br />
<br />
'''''As Bill Sees It'''''<br /><br />
a book by Bill W., one of AA's founders, first published in 1967<br />
<br />
'''''Came To Believe'''''<br /><br />
another AA publication, this one published in 1973<br />
<br />
==Page 361==<br />
<br />
'''joggling'''<br /><br />
shaking slightly<br />
<br />
'''Demerol'''<br /><br />
a brand name of pethidine, a painkiller<br />
<br />
'''photic'''<br /><br />
having to do with light<br />
<br />
==Page 362==<br />
<br />
'''copperheads'''<br /><br />
one of five species of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agkistrodon_contortrix poisonous snake]<br />
<br />
'''tongues'''<br /><br />
The reference is to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossolalia glossolalia].<br />
<br />
'''larynx'''<br /><br />
voice box<br />
<br />
'''requisite'''<br /><br />
essential or necessary<br />
<br />
'''venulated'''<br /><br />
The word means "able to see the veins"; this condition of the nose is very common among advanced alcoholics.<br />
<br />
''''Volare''''<br /><br />
This is a song whose title is from the Italian for "to fly." The song was written by Domenico Modugno and Franco Migliacci. Modugno went on to be a member of Italy's parliament<br />
<br />
==Page 363==<br />
<br />
'''pupil and iris'''<br /><br />
The pupil is the black circle at the center of the eye, while the iris is the colored part (blue, green, brown).<br />
<br />
'''cognito'''<br /><br />
which is to say, in Lenz's case, unsuccessfully incognito<br />
<br />
'''Ferragamos'''<br /><br />
an Italian brand of shoes<br />
<br />
'''periphery'''<br /><br />
an external boundary<br />
<br />
'''11-Step'''<br /><br />
recalling the 12th step on page 344, UHID must lack this step, or perhaps one of the others<br />
<br />
==Page 364==<br />
<br />
'''Rémy'''<br /><br />
Rémy-Martin, a brand of cognac<br />
<br />
'''Tiparillo'''<br /><br />
a brand name of [http://lfa.atu.edu/Brucker/advertisement%20presentation/sld005.htm cigar]<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland]]<br />
<br />
'''defib paddles'''<br /><br />
the paddles used in defibrillation, the application of electric shocks to the heart to re-start it<br />
<br />
'''divot'''<br /><br />
Normally a golf term, a divot is the hole left by the dirt displaced when one strikes a golf ball.<br />
<br />
'''rankness'''<br /><br />
the quality of being offensive<br />
<br />
'''proprietary'''<br /><br />
Usually referring to an owner, here it refers to feeling as if one has a sense of ownership.<br />
<br />
==Page 365==<br />
<br />
'''rectum'''<br /><br />
the very end of the large intestine<br />
<br />
'''hubristic'''<br /><br />
having exaggerated pride or self-confidence<br />
<br />
'''7-iron'''<br /><br />
a type of golf club<br />
<br />
'''tenth rough'''<br /><br />
off the fairway on the tenth hole of a golf course<br />
<br />
==Page 366==<br />
<br />
'''flats'''<br /><br />
women's shoes without heels<br />
<br />
'''subjunctive'''<br /><br />
contingent on something else happening<br />
<br />
'''counterfactual'''<br /><br />
at variance with what really happened<br />
<br />
'''indicative'''<br /><br />
According to ''Merriam-Webster,'' "indicative" means "of, relating to, or constituting a verb form or set of verb forms that represents the denoted act or state as an objective fact."<br />
<br />
'''transposition'''<br /><br />
switching the position of two things<br />
<br />
'''Radarange'''<br /><br />
microwave<br />
<br />
'''pass'''<br /><br />
here used to mean "place"<br />
<br />
'''allude'''<br /><br />
here used to mean "give an impression of"<br />
<br />
==Page 367==<br />
<br />
'''velour'''<br /><br />
a piled and nappy material resembling velvet<br />
<br />
'''caparison'''<br /><br />
an ornamental covering for a horse, or just rich clothing<br />
<br />
'''gavel'''<br /><br />
the type of hammer a judge uses to restore or maintain order<br />
<br />
=NNYC's Statue of Liberty=<br />
<br />
==Page 367==<br />
<br />
'''huge photo album'''<br /><br />
The book held by the statue reads, "JULY IV MDCCLXXVI [1776]."<br />
<br />
'''product'''<br /><br />
as opposed to the torch it currently holds<br />
<br />
'''pitons'''<br /><br />
spikes used by mountain climbers for support<br />
<br />
=Boston AA, cont.=<br />
<br />
==Page 367==<br />
<br />
'''deprecate'''<br /><br />
to express disapproval<br />
<br />
==Page 368==<br />
<br />
'''conundrum'''<br /><br />
something puzzling<br />
<br />
'''cunctations'''<br /><br />
delays<br />
<br />
'''chagrin'''<br /><br />
embarrassment<br />
<br />
'''aphasiac'''<br /><br />
inability to speak<br />
<br />
'''Filene's'''<br /><br />
now owned by [http://www.macys.com/ Macy's]<br />
<br />
==Page 369==<br />
<br />
'''unironic'''<br /><br />
i.e., totally expected and not at all a surprise<br />
<br />
'''disingenuous'''<br /><br />
lacking in sincerity, pretending to be naïve<br />
<br />
'''schlepping'''<br /><br />
moving awkwardly or slowly<br />
<br />
'''deprogramming'''<br /><br />
from the deprogrammer's point of view, reversing the brainwashing that induced someone to adhere to a religious cult<br />
<br />
==Page 370==<br />
<br />
'''Naked I Club'''<br /><br />
a real strip club mentioned [http://www.totse.com/en/erotica/erotic_fiction_so_to_sz/striprv.html here]<br />
<br />
'''Route 1'''<br /><br />
U.S. 1 runs from Fort Kent, Maine, at the Canadian border down to Key West, Fla., mainly through small towns.<br />
<br />
'''Saugus MA'''<br /><br />
a suburb of Boston about ten miles south of the city<br />
<br />
'''etiology'''<br /><br />
the cause or source of a medical problem<br />
<br />
'''Mud-Bug'''<br /><br />
a Southern term for a crawfish<br />
<br />
'''invertebrate'''<br /><br />
an animal with a spine<br />
<br />
'''chordate phylum'''<br /><br />
the phylum of the animal kingdom containing all animals with spines<br />
<br />
==Page 371==<br />
<br />
'''Campfire Girls'''<br /><br />
former name of [http://www.campfireusa.org/ youth organization] when it was just for girls<br />
<br />
'''Lancôme'''<br /><br />
one of France's largest cosmetics manufacturers<br />
<br />
'''lurid'''<br /><br />
gruesome or shocking<br />
<br />
'''ubiquitousness'''<br /><br />
the quality of always being present<br />
<br />
'''Aetna'''<br /><br />
a real [http://www.aetna.com/ insurance company]<br />
<br />
'''Doric column'''<br /><br />
columns of buildings built according to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doric_order Doric order]<br />
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'''pliability'''<br /><br />
the ability to be easily bent<br />
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'''''Ramparts'' and ''Commonweal'''''<br /><br />
''Ramparts'' was a magazine founded for a Catholic leadership but eventually found its niche with the New Left. ''Commonweal'' was and still is a publication by and for lay Catholics.<br />
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'''Sally Jessy Raphael M.S.W.'''<br /><br />
Sally Jessy Raphael (born Sally Lowenthal, 1938) is an American talk-show host. She does not hold an M.S.W., i.e., a Master's of Social Work<br />
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'''complicity'''<br /><br />
the status of being an accomplice in a wrongdoing<br />
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'''Wounded, Hurting, Inadequately Nurtured but Ever-Recovering Survivors'''<br /><br />
Look at the initials of the capitalized words.<br />
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'''auburn'''<br /><br />
reddish-brown<br />
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'''perimeter'''<br /><br />
the oustide edge of something<br />
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'''vanity'''<br /><br />
a dressing table<br />
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'''limbic system'''<br /><br />
a complex system within the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbic_system brain]<br />
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'''gauntlet'''<br /><br />
an attack from all sides<br />
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'''rasa the tabula'''<br /><br />
This is a pun on ''tabula rasa,'' Latin for "blank state" and used in the philosophy of John Locke (1632-1704). The sense here is the clean the slate.<br />
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'''bandanna'''<br /><br />
a large printed handkerchief, typically red or blue with a white design<br />
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'''circumoral'''<br /><br />
surrounding the mouth<br />
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'''vacuole and optica'''<br /><br />
These are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuole parts] of a cell, the optica likely being some kind of "seeing" organ.<br />
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'''protozoan'''<br /><br />
a single-celled organism<br />
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'''some Catholic statue'''<br /><br />
The statue described strongly appears to be Bernini's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstasy_of_St_Theresa The Ecstasy of St Theresa]. This statue is also referred to by name at endnote 24, page 988 in the synopsis of James Incandenza's film ''Pre-Nuptial Agreement of Heaven and Hell.''<br />
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'''Hours'''<br /><br />
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liturgy_of_the_Hours Liturgy of the Hours] is the official set of daily prayers prescribed by the Catholic Church to be recited at the canonical hours by the clergy, religious orders, and laity<br />
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'''prurient'''<br /><br />
causing lust<br />
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'''cherub'''<br /><br />
Often this word is used to denote a baby angel, but the actual connotation of the original Hebrew is of a fearsome warrior angel. A cherub guards the Garden of Eden in Genesis so that Adam and Eve cannot go back in.<br />
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'''lolled'''<br /><br />
dropped<br />
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'''IV'''<br /><br />
intravenous, i.e., directly into a vein<br />
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'''lucidity'''<br /><br />
mental clarity<br />
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'''implicit'''<br /><br />
unspoken but implied<br />
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'''Six Flags Over the Poconos'''<br /><br />
Six Flags is a [http://www.sixflags.com/national/index.aspx chain] of amusement parks. There is not currently one in the Pocono Mountains.<br />
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'''labrynth'''<br /><br />
This is the mythological spelling of "labyrinth," meaning generically a maze, but more specifically denoting the maze built by Daedalus of ancient Greek myth.<br />
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'''minotaurs'''<br /><br />
Daedalus build his famous maze to house the minotaur, a monster that was half man and half bull and the product of sexual congress between Europa, queen of Crete, and Zeus in the form of a bull.<br />
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'''aides de camp'''<br /><br />
a confidential assistant to a military officer<br />
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'''absconded'''<br /><br />
departed suddenly and in secret<br />
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'''proto-Fascist'''<br /><br />
Wallace really means "quasi-Fascist" rather than "proto-Fascist"; it's not as if the rules of AA are the harbinger of Fascism later to come.<br />
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'''decamped'''<br /><br />
a synonym of "absconded"<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]<br />
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'''commode'''<br /><br />
toilet<br />
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==Endnote 143==<br />
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'''''Sic'''''<br /><br />
This word means: "Thus; so. Used to indicate that a quoted passage, especially one containing an error or unconventional spelling, has been retained in its original form or written intentionally" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'').<br />
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=April 30th/May 1st, YDAU - More Marathe & Steeply=<br />
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'''shelf'''<br /><br />
a projecting ridge on a mountain<br />
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'''spangle'''<br /><br />
a small bright spot<br />
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'''"...launching even one ship or vessel."'''<br /><br />
unlike [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_of_Troy Helen of Troy], whose face "launched a thousand ships" according to Homer<br />
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=Himself and Lyle=<br />
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'''blotto'''<br /><br />
drunk<br />
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==Endnote 144==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Purdue Wonderchicken]]<br />
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[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote 145 · Found Drama|Endnote 145]]<br />
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=More Boston AA=<br />
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'''brogue'''<br /><br />
an accent, usually Irish<br />
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'''Eightball'''<br /><br />
an eighth of an ounce of cocaine<br />
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'''translucent'''<br /><br />
capable of having light pass through<br />
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'''swaddled'''<br /><br />
wrapped tightly in clothes<br />
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'''fuchsia'''<br /><br />
hot pink<br />
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'''dysplasia'''<br /><br />
abnormal growth of cells or tissue<br />
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'''remonstrances'''<br /><br />
acts of protest<br />
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'''beat-cop'''<br /><br />
a policeman who patrols the streets<br />
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'''tungsten'''<br /><br />
a metalic element described [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten here], also known as wolfram<br />
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'''Chanel'''<br /><br />
the fashion house known in long form as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanel House of Chanel]<br />
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'''reticence'''<br /><br />
reluctance<br />
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'''D&C'''<br /><br />
dilation (of the cervix) and curetage (scraping) of the uterus<br />
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'''placenta'''<br /><br />
the tissue that nourishes a fetus and makes up the afterbirth<br />
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'''S.S.I.'''<br /><br />
Social Security Insurance<br />
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=Himself and Lyle, cont.=<br />
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'''libations'''<br /><br />
alcoholic drinks<br />
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'''injudicious'''<br /><br />
showing lack of judgment<br />
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'''chyme'''<br /><br />
This is "the semifluid mass into which food is converted by gastric secretion and which passes from the stomach into the small intestine" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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==Endnote 146==<br />
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'''L.M.P.'''<br /><br />
Latrodectus Mactans Productions<br />
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