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==A==
'''0.473 litres'''&lt;br /&gt;
222; one pint

'''AA/NA'''&lt;br /&gt;
clich&amp;eacute;s, 270; "the Gift" 273; Getting In Touch With Your Feelings, 446; "accept it on faith" 533; Powerless, 546; rationalizing, 555; is your Higher Power "omni-potent enough to make a suitcase that's too heavy for him to lift"? 564; Gratitude List, 596; "Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it" 606; Suicide Contract, 697; Attitude of Platitude, 706; Denial Aisle, 707; black addict (Reginald or Roy Tony?) who blows off pregnant wife and child, 708; Interval of Issues-Resolution, 716; Ninth Step, 815; Pulsing Blue Light, 833; White-Knuckle, 838; Poor Me, Poor Me, Pour Me A Drink, 839; Church of Perpetual Revenge (CPR)--what White Flaggers call AA, 844; "One Day at a Time" "Keep It in the Day" 858; "AA's real gift: it's no accident they call it ''The Present''" 860; Old Cold Bird, 860; 13th-Stepping (newcomer-seducing), 863; "Let [thoughts of taking a Substance] come as they will, but do not ''Entertain'' them" 890 (see also p.26); "The truth will set you free, but not until it's done with you" 973; "Addicts Don't Have Relationships, They Take Hostages" fn.292/1054

'''Abbott, E. A.'''&lt;br /&gt;
281; author of ''Flatland''

'''Abrams, Shoshana'''&lt;br /&gt;
756; rooms w/Spodek at ETA

'''Academia de Vera Cruz'''&lt;br /&gt;
259; tennis academy in Mexico

'''Academy of Visual Arts and Sciences'''&lt;br /&gt;
548;

'''ACOA'''&lt;br /&gt;
1050; Adult Children of Alcoholics

'''ACOG'''&lt;br /&gt;
1050; Adult Children of Gamblers (?)

'''ACONA'''&lt;br /&gt;
1050; Adult Children of Narcotics Addicts

'''Actaeon Complex'''&lt;br /&gt;
290; "deep phylogenic fear of transhuman beauty"

'''A.D.A.'''&lt;br /&gt;
55; North Shore Assistant District Attorney who has it in for Gately; lives in "upscale Wonderland Valley section of Revere"; wife "needs Valium just to floss" 59; 818; 821; talking with Pat M. about apologizing to Gately, 960; wears a Stetson w/feather, fn.14/984-85;

'''ad valorem'''&lt;br /&gt;
33; Latin: to value.  "In proportion to the value"

'''addiction'''&lt;br /&gt;
marijuana, 17; giving one's self away, 53; "Drug addicts [...] are not often inclined toward violent crime" 55; "Who teaches your U.S.A. children how to choose their temple?" 107; Kicking The Bird, 135; Mario I. to Madame Psychosis' WYYY show, 171, 190; methadone clinic in Unit #2, 194; stats and info on, 200; "all but lose your mind when [the enslaving substance] is taken away from you" 201; "Analysis-Paralysis," 203; McDade's tattoo of "flaming skull on his left shoulderblade" 206; Joelle's to "the Material [freebase cocaine]" 222; Pemulis' "neurasthenic stomach" 267; Troeltsch and 'drines" 267; Hal's "devolution from occasional tourist to subterranean compulsive" 270; "some people never get over the loss of what they'd thought was their one true best friend" 273; The Spider, 274; "difference between abstinence v. recovery" 277;

'''advertising'''&lt;br /&gt;
Statue of Liberty, 33, 367; "declining fortunes of broadcast television advertising, 150; sponsorships, 264, 266; TV-advertising's demise, 411;

'''A.F.R.'''&lt;br /&gt;
89; aka '''''Assassins des Fauteuils Rollents''''', aka '''Wheelchair Assassins of Qu&amp;eacute;bec'''

'''Agnew, Spiro'''&lt;br /&gt;
281; Vice President under Richard Nixon; resigned in disgrace

'''Ahts of Vancouver'''&lt;br /&gt;
243; primitives

'''AlaTeens'''&lt;br /&gt;
1050;

'''ALGOL'''&lt;br /&gt;
491; fn.223/1036

'''All-Bright Printing'''&lt;br /&gt;
894; where Parias-Carbo works; near Jackson-Mann School;

'''Allen, Woody'''&lt;br /&gt;
944; American comedian, film actor and director; parodied by Himself in ''Death in Scarsdale''

'''Allston, MA'''&lt;br /&gt;
"Kiss me where it smells, she said, so I took her to Allston" 154, 578

'''Alphonso'''&lt;br /&gt;
178; resident at Ennet House, from Cuba

'''Altman, Robert'''&lt;br /&gt;
835; American film director - "crafted imitation of aural chaos"

'''American Council of Disseminators of Cable (A.C.D.C.)'''&lt;br /&gt;
412;

'''Anchorman's Bloat'''&lt;br /&gt;
147

'''anhedonia'''&lt;br /&gt;
Anhedonia is the inability to experience pleasure; "You seek to vanquish and transcend the limited self whose limits make the game possible" 84; "it is often more fun to want something than to have it" 205; simple melancholy, afflicting goal-oriented people, 692-93

'''annulation'''&lt;br /&gt;
"cold annular fusion" 64; annular hyperfloration cycles, 65; vicious circle of drug-taking and tennis, 67; "circle of arms" 69; "annularly overfertilized forests" 93; "firelight's circle" 103; "curve's classically annular shape" 150; "annularized Great Concavity's No-Time," 183; "cold-fusion ring" 185; "annulation equations" 185; "the ultimate annular fusion" 222; "some beastly post-annular scopophiliacal vector" 233; "subannular regions of the Great Concavity" 241; "annular-generated amps" 242; 306; 309; &amp;amp; Jim Incandenza, 502-03; and shame, 535; "the annulated Shawshine River" 561; 569; explained, 570-74; annular medicine, 572; Mr. Green "clunking around in circles" 580; people "milling in rings" around an Empire W.D.V. mishap, 620; "concentric rings of pond and crowd" 622; ''Metallurgy of Annular Isotopes'' , 624; "his finger's annular pallor" 638; more concentric rings, 718; ETA's annular heating system, 870; "concentric circles" 891;

'''Anschluss'''&lt;br /&gt;
1020; German: "connection"; O.N.A.N.ite Anschluss, 421; "of Hitler" 777;

'''Anti-Anti-O.N.A.N. Activities' Agency'''&lt;br /&gt;
549; under U.S.O.U.S.; fn.229/1037

'''anticonfluentialism'''&lt;br /&gt;
185; 376; 380; fn.61/996

'''Antitoi Entertain[m]ent'''&lt;br /&gt;
215; "cut-rate mirror, blown-glass, practical joke 'n gag, trendy postcard, and low-demand old film-cartridge emporium [...] just up Prospect St. from Inman Square in Cambridge's decayed Portugo/Brazilian district" where Pemulis bought the DMZ from 2 Canadian insurgents, on Inman Square in Cambridge, MA; owned by Antitoi brothers, 300; 304; Gately drives past, 480; sell used entertainment cartridges, 483; and PT "Poor Tony" Krause, 690-91; Krause running to, 720

'''Antitoi, Bertraund'''&lt;br /&gt;
480; "the brains of the outfit" viz. the Antitois' cell, "self-contained, a monomitotic cell, eccentric and borderline-incompetent"; death, 486; ''Front-Contre-O.N.A.N.isme'' action against the "Canadian Minister of Inter-O.N.A.N. Trade, 690-91;

'''Antitoi, Lucien'''&lt;br /&gt;
480; Bertraund's brother who doesn't know French; death, 488;

'''Antonioni'''&lt;br /&gt;
185;

'''appropriation artist'''&lt;br /&gt;
23; former romantic interest of Gately's

'''Arslanian, Idris ("Id")'''&lt;br /&gt;
98; 14-year-old Pakistani ETA student; 567;

'''''Assassins des Fauteuils Rollents'''''&lt;br /&gt;
''See'' '''Wheelchair Assassins of Qu&amp;eacute;bec'''

'''ATHSCME'''&lt;br /&gt;
51; make fans that blow toxic smoke/fumes north to Canada; "giant protective [...] fans atop the hugely convex protective walls of anodized Lucite" 93; "make really big fans" 240; 268-69; Sunstrand Plaza, 542; de-linting, 542; 1017;

'''A.T.P. Tour'''&lt;br /&gt;
111; 259

'''Au Bon Pain'''&lt;br /&gt;
130; cafe in Harvard Square; 212

'''Avalon, Frankie'''&lt;br /&gt;
168

'''Axford''', Trevor ("The Axhandle")&lt;br /&gt;
50; ETA student; clean-urine sales (w/Pemulis), 151; "only three-and-a-half digits on his right hand" 332; fireworks accident 3 Interdependence Days past, 512; "a true redheaded person" 512; fell off his bike and "received a tiny lesion-type brain injury after which all food everywhere tastes horrible to him" 628; Big Buddy to Penn and Ingersoll, fn.209/1035

'''Axhandle, the'''&lt;br /&gt;
''See'' '''Axford, Trevor '''

==B==
'''B., Louise'''<br />
348; White Flag Group member and attempted suicide

'''Bacon'''<br />
199; "Bacon's popes"

'''Bain, Kevin'''<br />
800; Marlon's older brother, at Inner Infant group Hal happens upon; parents killed in traffic helicopter accident, 803; "short thick person with a dark swart face" 805;

'''Bain, Marlon'''<br />
46; ETA student in Orin's dream; Orin's affair with his sister, 47; 246; ETA student when Orin attended, 284; 296; had O.C.D., 1039; excessive sweating, fn.234/1039; in''Death in Scarsdale'' , fn.234/1039; never leaves home, which is one room, "practically lived" with the Incandenzas in Weston AZ, fn.234/1043; letter to Steeply, fn.269/1047; mother "decapitated by a plummeting rotorblade" 1051; in Himself's films, 687; dislikes meeting people outside his home and office, 663

'''Balbalis'''<br />
726; A.F.R. member making rounds of halfway/rehab houses; haven't located veiled performer as of 11/19/YDAU, 845; going to place large mirror on highway to commandeer Qu&eacute;bec team's bus, 846;

'''B&amp;E'''<br />
435; breaking &amp; entering;

'''Baraka'''<br />
186; poem

'''Barbicide'''<br />
95

'''Bash, Jennie'''<br />
114; ETA student; 551

'''Baum, Crosby'''<br />
229; "academic" at Notkin's party

'''Bay Bank'''<br />
130; "off Sherman Street" in Boston

'''Bazin'''<br />
491; 745

'''Beak, Peter'''<br />
97; 12-year-old student at ETA; sleeping with eyes open, 110; 460; rooms w/Whale and Virgilio, 757;

'''Beatles'''<br />
32; "I Want To Tell You"; 243; Dr. Robert, 927; ''See also'' [[M#McCartney|McCartney, Paul]]

'''Belbin, Jennifer'''<br />
207; Ennet House resident w/teardrop tatoos; 363; 596;

'''Benny, Jack'''<br />
828; American entertainer

'''Bernini'''<br />
235; "Ecstacy of St. Theresa"

'''Better Late Than Never'''<br />
209; AA group at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, 2 blocks from Ennet House; 534; "St. E's" 540;

'''Bewitched'''<br />
834; 60s TV sitcom

'''Big Book'''<br />
360; AA's book

'''Big Buddy'''<br />
66; "big-brotherly type support and counsel" given by upperclassmen at ETA to the younger students; "Each E.T.A. player in 18-and-Unders has four to six 14-and-Unders kids he's supposed to keep his more experienced wing over" 98

'''Big Red Soda Water'''<br />
222; Joelle's favorite soft drink from childhood

'''Bill'''<br />
3; Dean of Athletics at Univ. of AZ, "interviewing" Hal

'''Bing [Crosby]'''<br />
545; slang for cocaine; "the 'Express Elevator to AA'"; 712; fn.27/994

'''Bioavailable Five'''<br />
582; rock band

'''Birch, Herbert G.'''<br />
fn.24/987; plays the dentist in Himself's''Fun with Teeth''; plays son in Himself's''Low-Temperature Physics'', fn.24/991;

'''bit'''<br />
204; metro Boston for a jail sentence

'''blackouts'''<br />
464

'''Blanchard's Liquors'''<br />
546; "off Allston's Union Square"

'''Bloom, Professor H.'''<br />
fn.366/1077; "turgid studies of artistic''influenza'' "

'''Blott, Kent'''<br />
97; 10-year-old student at ETA; father "a cutting-edge E.N.T. oncologist" 111; confessing anxiety re masturbation to Lyle, 390; "humanities-type kid" 668;

'''Bly, Robert'''<br />
806; American poet and author of''Fire In The Belly''; "The fire in the belly" fn.321/1066;

'''Bodine, Jethro'''<br />
1007; "Ass't Mailroom Technician for the N.O. Saints"; 1014;

'''Bogart's'''<br />
20; headshop in Porter Square, Cambridge, MA

'''Bollettieri, Nick'''<br />
79; in Sarasota, tennis camp

'''Bonk, Mildred L.'''<br />
38; beautiful 8th grader; 179; 207; the name Bruce Green has tattooed on his right triceps

'''Bonk-Green, Harriet'''<br />
39; daughter of Mildred Bonk and Bruce Green; 180

'''Boone, Bridget C.'''<br />
49-50; ETA student; introduced Hal to marijuana, 67; 633;

'''Boston AA'''<br />
343; Betty Crocker Cake Mix trope, 467;

'''Boston Univerity'''<br />
284; Terriers, 286;

'''Bouncety-Bounce, Mr.'''<br />
35; host of Interlace Spontaneous-Dissemm. children's program; "-brand bow-biters" 111; 520; "appears in his old cloth-and-safety-pin diaper and paunch and rubber infant-head mask" 648; 878; Gately loves the show, 922;

'''Bow&amp;Arrow'''<br />
129; gay bar in Harvard Squar[e], Boston

'''bradyphrenic'''<br />
314.1-3; lost or impaired ability to make decisions or act independently, abulic.

'''Brady-theory'''<br />
232;

'''Brando, Marlon'''<br />
157; American film actor who ruined two generations "with their own bodies and everyday objects" 157;

'''Brandt, Otto'''<br />
32; janitor at ETA; "Submoronic-to-moronic" 873; appeared in''Zero-Gravity Tea Ceremony'', 874;

'''Bread &amp; Circus'''<br />
478; organic, chi-chi grocery in Inman Square, Cambridge MA; shopping carts with calculators attached, 623;

'''Brecht'''<br />
944; compared to Himself

'''Bresson'''<br />
185; Parisan-French filmmaker compared to Himself; 944

'''Brewster's Angle'''<br />
10;

'''bricklayer'''<br />
138;''See also'''''Glynn''', Doony

'''Brighton Fence &amp; Wire'''<br />
607; where Glynn Doony worked;

'''Briggs electrode'''<br />
470; implanted in brain to prevent seizures

'''Brigham and Women's City of Boston Hospital'''<br />
144

'''Brighton Best Savings Bank (B.B.S.B.)'''<br />
542; 708; 

'''''Br&ouml;ckengespenstph&auml;nom'''''<br />
88; (fn.38) "Goethe's well-known"; 641

'''brody''' <br />
825; usually ''brodie'', to commit suicide by leaping off a bridge

'''Brookline Young People's Mtg. (B.Y.P.)'''<br />
555; AA group "on Beacon neary the Newton line"; 736

'''Broughton'''<br />
185; ??

'''Broull&icirc;me, M.'''<br />
127; member of Les Assassins; Marathe's superior, 420; 722; lectures on Trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid, a material present in "the sweat of grave mental illness" 733-34;

'''Brutalism'''<br />
185;

'''B.S.'''<br />
140; Before Subsidization; last year B.S. Was 2001

'''B.S.S.'''<br />
Qu&eacute;becois Sep&eacute;ratiste Left term for Office of Unspecified Services; ''See'' [[U#Unspecified-Services|Unspecified Services]]

'''Bud, Uncle'''<br />
221; Joelle's; 239

'''Bulat''', Doshka (?)<br />
447; Gately's missing Estonian father

'''Bunyan, J.'''<br />
322; author of''Pilgrim's Progress From This World To That Which Is To Come''

'''Bu&ntilde;uel'''<br />
185; French ?? filmmaker

'''Burns, Major'''<br />
642; M*A*S*H character

'''Burroughs, William'''<br />
21; American writer of the "Beat" generation; 212

'''Burton'''<br />
695;''melancholia'' ;

'''Bush, G. (George)'''<br />
63; American president, 1988-92; 230; 473;

'''Byrne, F. X. ("Follow That Ambulance")'''<br />
512; "rapacious personal-injury J.D."

'''Byzantine Erotica'''<br />
Hal's interest in, 29; "a triptych of high-quality" 35; 950 

==C==
'''c:\Pink2'''<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."

'''C, Bobby'''<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;

'''(C<SUB>2</SUB>H<SUB>5</SUB>CO)<SUB>2</SUB>O<SUB>2</SUB>'''<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."

'''CadaverGate'''<br />
fn.26/994; "scandal thought brought down so many funeral directors in the Year of the Purdue Wonderchicken"

'''cages'''<br />
"cages over the lightbulbs";

'''Cage, John'''<br />
fn.24/989; his''4'33 ''an unnamed influence of Himself's''The Joke'' 

'''''Caisse de D&eacute;p&ocirc;t et Placement'''''<br />
751; workplace of Health-Benefits administrator whose name Maranthe appropriates

'''Cambridge City Hospital'''<br />
690;

'''Cameron, James'''<br />
48;  American filmmaker (''Terminator, Aliens, Titanic'', etc.)

'''Camus, Albert'''<br />
12; Nobel Prize winning Fr. writer/philosopher

'''''Candida Albicans'''''<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.

'''Cantor, Georg'''<br />
82; fn.35/994

'''Cantrell'''<br />
410; early ETA prorector; and Clipperton in YoW, 432;

'''Carty, Gary'''<br />
891; friend of Gately's with whom he'd trap lobsters "in the pre-dawn reek of low tide"

'''Casey , William J.'''<br />
473;  former director of the CIA

'''Cathy or Kathy'''<br />
920; beautiful R.N. who assists Gately in defecating

'''Chang, Michael'''<br />
389; tennis pro

'''Chaos Theory'''<br />
and tennis, 81-82; "What if heredity, instead of linear, is branching" 220; 341; fn.34/994

'''Chawaf, R.-L.-O.'''<br />
''See'''''''''Richardson-Levy-O'Byrne-Chawaf''', Ms. Soma

'''Cheap-O Records'''<br />
129; in Boston

'''Checkpoint Pongo'''<br />
571;

'''Cheers!'''<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;

'''Cheery, Mo'''<br />
643; owner of Cheery Oil, Troy NY, and employer of Steeply's father

'''Cheese, Susan T.'''<br />
130; junkie in Boston; 300;

'''China Pearl Place'''<br />
133; in Boston

'''Chit Chat Farms Rehabilitation of Pennsylvania State'''<br />
749; where Maranthe (as Henri, the Swiss) did detox

'''Choosy Mothers'''<br />
582; (name taken from 1970s era slogan of Jif peanut butter: "Choosy mothers choose Jif."

'''Chore Boys'''<br />
222; 225

'''Chr&#05;&eacute;tien, J.'''<br />
384; Canadian Prime Minister &amp; co-Vice Chair of O.N.A.N.

'''Christianson, Daphne'''<br />
38

'''Chu, LaMont'''<br />
112; ETA student; 328; confessing addiction to being a famous tennis star to Lyle, 388; 458; 757; filmed by Mario

'''Chuck or Chick'''<br />
531-33; guy who shoots guy who "made him look small" in front of his girl 

'''chyme'''<BR>

635-13: partly digested food passed from stomach to duodenum

'''Cisne'''<br />
264; ETA student

'''CITGO'''<br />
476;

'''Claprood, Governor'''<br />
576; pre-O.N.A.N.ite governor of MA

'''Clarke, Mrs.'''<br />
112; works in kitchen at ETA; 120; 193; "former Four-Star dessert chef" 380;

'''Clayt'''<br />
65; "sad old ex-QB" for Arizona Cardinals

'''Clean and Serene'''<br />
699; N. Cambridge NA group

'''Clenette'''<br />
''See'' [[H#Henderson|Henderson, Clenette]]

'''clicks'''<br />
573+4; kilometers

'''Clinton, Hillary R. (aka Hillary R.C.)'''<br />
382;

'''Clipperton, Eric'''<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

'''Clow, Lori'''<br />
fn.209/1035; ETA student playing microtennis w/Freer

'''CNS'''<br />
292; central nervous system

'''cockroaches'''<br />
44-45 

'''''Columbia Guide to Refractive Indices Second Edition'''''<br />
161; book young J.O.I., Jr. is holding in garage

'''Commitments'''<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"

'''Concavity Cabinet'''<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; 

'''''Consummation of the Levirates'''''<br />
171; old print of "minor and soft core Alexandrian mosaic" in Hal's &amp; Mario's room; 952

'''Contraria Sunt Complementa'''<br />
713; Latin: "We Are What We Are Against"

'''conversationalist, professional'''<br />
28

'''Cortelyu, April'''<br />
206; Ennet House resident

'''couch-potato-ism'''<br />
620; "The fellowship and anonymous communion of being part of a watching crowd" as antidote, 621;

'''Coyle, Kyle D.'''<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;

'''C.P.C.P.'''<br />
1019; Calgarian pro-Canadian Phalanx; 489;

'''cranio-facial-neuralgia'''<br />
fn.24/987; one of the subjects of Himself's''Kinds of Pain''

'''crew'''<br />
129; mug; rob

'''Criess, Jolene'''<br />
514; young ETA student; 755;

'''Crocodiles, The'''<br />
354; elder White Flaggers

'''croquet'''<br />
104;

'''Csikzentmihalyi, Zoltan'''<br />
98; 16-year-old, little-English speaking student at ETA; "a marginal Slavic kid" fn.324/1070;

'''Cukor'''<br />
219; molded plastic chair of, at Notkin's apartment 

'''''Culte du Prochain Train, Le'''''<br />
732; of which Maranthe was a member; "La" "The Cult of the Next Train" fn.304/1058; 

'''''Culte de Baiser Sans Fin, La'''''<br />
fn.304/1061; "Cult of the Endless Kiss," another Qu&eacute;bec separatist cult

'''C.U.S.P.'''<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; 

==D==
'''Dali, Salvador'''<br />
185; Spanish surrealist painter

'''Darkstar'''<br />
''See'' [[M#McNair|McNair, Stokely]]

'''Day, Geoffrey'''<br />
209; Ennet House resident; "red-wine-and-Quaalude man who [...] manned the helm of a Scholarly Journal" 272; fn.90; "closet poofta" 561; the dark, billowing horror triggered by violin notes and vibrating window-glass, 649; attended Brown University and graduated''magna cum laude'', 650; telling Gately about his brother who "had enormous red loose lips and wore eyeglasses so thick his eyes had looked like an ant's eyes" w/phobic fear of leaves, 828; article on A.F.R. that Struck is reading (by G.T. Day), fn.304/1056;

'''DeBakey'''<br />
33; "of maxillofacial yeast"

'''D.E.C.'''<br />
273; TP viewer 

'''''Decade Magazine'''''<br />
284; ran a short interest-piece on Orin 

'''''Deep Throat'''''<br />
955; a B.S. 70s porno flick

'''Delco incident'''<br />
512;

'''Deleuze, M. Gilles'''<br />
792; "posthumous''Incest and the Life of Death in Capitalist Entertainment''

'''deLint, Aubrey F.'''<br />
3; ETA prorector; 306; described, 657;

'''Delphina, Lady'''<br />
131; dope dealer "down by the Empire" in Boston; selling to Joelle v.D., 225; 300;

'''DeNiro, Robert'''<br />
944; American film actor

'''De Palma'''<br />
185; (Brian) American film director

'''Department of Social Services (D.S.S.)'''<br />
377-78;

'''depression'''<br />
Gompert's clinical, 69; unipolars ("tormented by the conviction that no one lese could hear or understand them"), 75; 692; anhedonia, or simple melancholy, afflicting goal-oriented people, 692-93; clinical, 695; psychotic, 695-96; a "trapped person [who] reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise" 696; beyond human aid, 697; [[Depression|DISCUSSION]]

'''Deren, Maya'''<br />
185; at Notkin party; 228

'''Desai, Dick'''<br />
491; in Data Production, B.S.S.

'''Desert Beat Theater Project'''<br />
63; J. Incandenza, Sr.'s interest

'''Desjardins'''<br />
725; A.F.R. volunteer who viewed the Entertainment

'''DesMonts'''<br />
975; colleague of Bobby C.'s; DesMontes [sp] "had no realy loyalties or membership in any community" fn.369/1078

'''Dickinson, Emily'''<br />
fn. 110/1005

'''Diehl, Gavin'''<br />
177; resident at Ennet House; 208; 363; 596;

'''Diggs, Mrs.'''<br />
76; co-worker of K. Gompert

'''Dimock Detox'''<br />
272; where Geoffrey Day came from

'''Dingley'''<br />
564; "that skittery kid" at Ennet House

'''Disease'''<br />
"your personal will is the web your Disease sits and spins in" 357;

'''Dixon, Franklin W.'''<br />
811; name used for high-interest account of Ewell's Money-Stealers' Club

'''DMZ'''<br />
170; [Link to Oneirine] powerful psychedelic described as "''temporally''-cerebral and almost ontological", aka''Madame Psychosis ''; 211-15; "envision acid that has itself dropped acid" 214; "time-tested entrep&ocirc;t" 216; traded to Antitois by old hippy (Sixties Bob?) for "antique blue lava-lamp and a lavender-tinged apothecary's mirror" 481-82; Pemulis researching, 785; fn.8/984; per Pemulis: "doesn't show up on a G.C./M.S. [...] Struck tracked this down off an obscure Digestive-Flora footnote. It's the fitviavi-mold base. If the stuff shows up at all it shows as a slight case of imbalanced yeast" fn.321/1064; "original intent was to induce what they called quote transcendent experiences in [...] chronic alcoholics in the like 1960s at Verdun Protestant Hospital in Montreal" fn.321/1064;

'''Doocey, Tommy'''<br />
18 (not named); "kept several large snakes" 39; 75; his hairlip, 179; 584;

'''dope'''<br />
acid trails, 43; one-hitter, 49; at E.T.A., 53; "oral narcotis addicts tend to operate on an extremely rigid physical schedule of need and satisfaction" 57; Seldane, 60; "''Amanita Muscaria'', a.k.a. the fly agaric mushroom" 66; Parnate, 70; Thousand-Meter Stare, 76; "involuted marijuana-type thinking" 136; Talwin, 210; Ecstacy, 230; marijuana addiction, 503; cocaine hydrolysis' effect on various characters in''IJ'', fn.232/1037; "Marijuana Thinking" fn.269/1048; "operating a pharmaceutical company without a license" 699; "humboldt County hydroponic marijuana" 804; Tenuate, fn.3/983; P.S. (Pulmonary Sloth), fn.6/984;

'''double-S'''<br />
A.F.R.'s standard, "a double sinuous s-shaped line across the traditional''fleur-de-lis'' motif of Quebecois Separatism, fn.304/1056; Pemulis: "revere the double S. Leap like a knight of faith into the arms of Peano, Leibniz, Hilbert, L'H&ocirc;pital. You will be lifted up. Fourier, Gauss, LaPlace, Rickey. Borne up. Never let fall. Wiener, Reimann, Frege, Green" fn.324/1072;

'''Doucette, Anton ("The Boogerman")'''<br />
fn.147/1029; ETA student; confessing to Lyle re booger-like mole, 390; clinically depressed, 567;

'''dreams-'''<br />
"talent's unconscious exercise [...] a long waking dream of pure play" 173; "expect some rough dreams [...] Keep a flashlight by your bed" 174-75; "This is also how not to fear sleep or dreams" 175; "dreamy, dreaming music that had the rhythm of long things swinging" 183; "nightmares where you prepare immaculately and [...] the exam questions are in Hindi" 253; "I kept dreaming of a face in the floor" 254; Dream Duty, 272;

'''Dretske, Fred'''<br />
70; (pioneer in the field of cognitive science, Philosophy Dept., Duke Univ.)

'''D.T.s'''<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens Delirium tremens]

'''duBois'''<br />
marijuana cigarette; ("doobie")

'''Duffy, Maura'''<br />
973; childhood schoolmate of Gately's

'''Dukakis, Michael'''<br />
576; former Governor of Mass., & US presidential candidate who lost to George H. W. Bush in 1988.

'''Dunkel, Rik'''<br />
381; ETA prorector; 457;

'''DuPlessis, Guillaume'''<br />
30; "the most infamous anti-O.N.A.N. organizer north of the Great Concavity" 58; Gately's strangulation victim (59); "victim's prior involvement with the widow of the ''auteur'' " 91; Perec was "stenographer-cum-''jeune-fille-de-Vendredi'' ["Girl Friday"] to, 92; former ass't. coordinator of the pan-Canadian Resistance (92); "once studies under radical Edmonton Jesuits" 420; "late regional patron" of the Antitoi brothers, 480; "of the Gasp&eacute; Peninsula" 480; 722;

'''Duquette'''<br />
233; fn.145/1027; film critic at M.I.T.

'''Dworkinite Female Objectification Prevention and Protest Phalanx'''<br />
929; Brown Univ. feminist protesters at Yale/Brown basketball game Eighties Bill bets on

'''Dymphna'''<br />
17; 9-year-old soft-skulled, blind tennis kid from "Nowheresburg, Iowa" who will be enrolling at ETA "next term"; "little blind Illinois kid Thorp thought so well of" 246;''Moment'' article on, 247; 518; 567; 

==E==
'''E., Tommy'''<br />
960; at AA/NA meeting with Mikey

'''E.M.P.H.H.'''<br />
''See'' [[#Enfield|Enfield Marine Public Health Hospital Complex]]

'''East Coast AeroTech'''<br />
602; where Gatlely's predecessor as male live-in Staff worked

'''eating cheese'''<br />
202; Boston street term for informing, squealing, narcing, ratting out

'''Echt, Tina'''<br />
381; ETA's youngest student (7 years old); background, 523-24

'''Eckwus'''<br />
''See'' [[R#Reese|Reese, Equus]]

'''Ecstasy of St. Teresa'''<br />
235; sculpture by Gianlorenzo Bernini; 238; 373; in''Pre-Nuptial Agreement of Heaven and Hell'', 742;

'''Egede or Egette'''<br />
891; ex-lover of Gately's: "sharp-nosed round-cheeked dead-eyed nurse with a weird Germanish accent [who] couldn't come close to coming unless he burned her with a cigarette" 891 

'''egregulous'''<br />
272; unidentifiable word (typo?)

'''Eighties Bill'''<br />
"sartorially eccentric cranio-facial-pain-specialist" (not named), 721; upscale gambler who figured in Fackelmann's downfall, 926; son of Sixties Bob, 931; "Sorkin's personal migrainologist" 931;

'''Eisenstein'''<br />
232;

'''Elit[e] Diner'''<br />
354; White Flaggers' hang-out, nextdoor to Steve's Donuts in Enfield Center

'''Ellis, Bret Easton'''<br />
191; "ghastly" American novelist

'''Empire Waste Displacement'''<br />
121; catapults waste into the Great Convexity; 217; 241; 475

'''Endless Stem'''<br />
221; a section of the Charles River (?)

'''Enfield, MA'''<br />
about, 240-

<div id="Enfield">'''Enfield Marine VA Hospital Complex'''</div>
aka Enfield Marine Public Health Hospital complex (E.M.P.H.H.); 
87; managed by U.S. Veteran's Administration, 137; "resembles seven moons orbiting a dead planet" 193;

'''Enfield Tennis Academy ("ETA")'''<br />
3; boarding school in Enfield, MA; layout, 51-52; 63; "hilltop shaved flat" 79; pre-Tavis motto: "Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est" 81; Tavis' new ETA motto: "The Man Who Knows His Limitations Has None" 81; "ritualistic [...] bitching and moaning" 111; "We're each deeply alone here" 112; 153; 6-term Entertainment Requirement, 188; philosophy of, 188; prorectors, 283; dawn drills, 452; blue, 508; inanimate objects on the move, 632, 671, 765; "a progression toward self-forgetting" 635; abundant tunnels, 666; Tunnel Club, 667, 899; brooms on the wall, 765; yearly November exhibition/fundraiser, 265, 852, 964, fn.321/1064; "Lots of the top players start the A.M. with a quick fit of crying" 864; Head Trainer before Loach suffered a terrible accident in the sauna, 971;

'''Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House'''<br />
137; founded in Boston by "Guy Who Didn't Even Use His First Name"; 193-98; described, 197; Dream Duty, 272, 785; "20+ bored crammed-together street-canny people" 596;

'''entrep&ocirc;t'''<br />
216; "the incredibly potent stash now wrapped tight in Saran and stashed deep in the toe of an old sneaker that sits atop the aluminum strut between two panels in subdorm B's drop ceiling"; "Entrep&ocirc;t-bound" 916; "Pemulis's entrep&ocirc;t-yachting-cap" fn.5a/983; "This was way before the discovery of the ultimate entrep&ocirc;t above the false ceiling in Subdorm B's male hallway" fn.324/1067;

'''Epps, Columbus'''<br />
38; brother of Delores Epps

'''Epps, Delores'''<br />
37; sister of Columbus Epps

'''Erdedy, Ken'''<br />
17; pothead; Ennet House resident, 209; "college-boy ad-exec" "a yuppy, an account executive at Viney and Veals Advertising" in late 20s, 360; at NA meeting, 503;

'''Eschaton'''<br />
154; tennis-court game based on CD-ROM nuclear-conflagration game (fn.53/997); "a Croatian-refugee transfer had brought [it] up from the Palmer Academy in Tampa" 284; 321-42; ESCHAX directory, 509; 

'''''Ethan From'''''<br />
884; book Gately couldn't finish in 10th-grade English; 905; 906; 916 

'''''&eacute;toiles'''''<br />
674; shooting star; fn.273

'''Euclid'''<br />
81;

<div id="Ewell">'''Ewell, Eldred K., Jr. ("Tiny")'''</div>
85; "elf-sized" personal-injury attorney from Watertown, MA (208); 177 (not named); "white-collar" resident at Ennet House; "I'm not''denying'' anything" 177; 205; "hypertensive flush and little white beard" 352; 362; Money-Stealers' Club, 810;

'''Experialism'''<br />
"the beginning of the Experialist migration in the subsidized Year of the Whopper" 93; "great pre-Experialist upheaval" 283; 385; "a tight and considerably tighter Experialist U.S. of A.,under Gentle" 391; 402-06; 1013;

'''Exposed Northerners'''<br />
834; Northern Exposure, late 80s/early 90s weird TV drama 

==F==
'''F., Robert (aka Bob Death)'''<br />
444; biker at TSBYSCD Group meeting; "What the fuck is water?" joke, 445;

'''Fackelmann, Eugene ("Fax")'''<br />
614; criminal colleague of Gately's; "Dilaudid. Blues. Fackelmann's Mount Doom" 886; "eliminated map after the insane scam on Sorkin and a disastrous two nights of Dilaudid" 886; "a towering, slope-shouldered, wide-hipped, prematurely potbellied, oddly priapistic, and congenitally high-strung Dilaudid addict with a walrusy mustache" 912; scamming Sorkin, 916; "temporary giganticism in one tit" 931; eyes sewn open, 979;

'''falcate'''<br />
1019.5+4; sickle-shaped

'''Family Trivia'''<br />
521; 771

'''Father &amp; Son Market'''<br />
115; near ETA; 476; Ngs', 593; Benson &amp; Hedges, 759; 

'''''faute-de-mieux'''''<br />
403;

'''Feaster, Ernest'''<br />
697; a depressed civil engineer (of Wellesly MA) who built model trains whom Kate Gompert came to know

'''Federated Funnel and Cone Corp.'''<br />
928; in Providence RI; Eighties Bill "cast himself as White Knight in Bidding for majority control"

'''Fellini'''<br />
185;''8_''

'''''felo de se'''''<br />
286; Latin: suicide; 308;

'''Female Objectification Prevention and Protest Phalanx'''<br />
307;

'''Fenton'''<br />
47; paranoid-schizophrenic on educational cartridge

'''Fentress'''<br />
254; ETA teacher

'''feral hamsters'''<br />
58; 93; 561; possible ETA sighting by Blott, 668; "Piranha of the Plains" 670;

'''feral infant'''<br />
''See'' [[I#Infant|Infant, The]]

'''"Ferocious Francis"'''<br>
''See'' [[G#Gehaney|Gehaney, Francis]]

'''Fiends in Human Shape, The'''<br />
156; band's name on Pemulis' T-shirt; lead singer looks like Mildred Bonk (to Bruce Green), 276; 582;

'''figurants'''<br />
835; silenced background characters in drama and ballet

'''Fils de Montcalm'''<br />
fn.110/1011-12; Qu&eacute;bec separatist organization; fn.304/1057, dropped shit-filled pie shell onto the rostrum of U.S. President Gentle's second Inaugural" 1061;

'''finski'''<br />
331+3; fin. five-spot. fiver. five dollar bill.

'''Flanderfumes'''<br />
647; brand of Belgian cigarette Steeply smokes

'''Flatto, Thomas M., B.S.S.'''<br />
490; director of Input/Output testing of "the Entertainment"; 646

'''Flechette, Dwight'''<br />
949; ETA student during Orin's time there

'''Flechette, Walt'''<br />
46; ETA student in Orin's dream

'''Flents'''<br />
201; brand of earplug

'''F.L.N.'''<br />
310; Fronte de la Lib&eacute;ration Nationale

'''F.L.Q.'''<br />
722; responsible for cardboard wheelchair guy w/the Entertainment w/smiley face and French phrase;''bureau centrale'' on Allston's Rue de Brainerd, 726;

'''Flottman'''<br />
282; ETA student

'''Foltz, Johnette Marie'''<br />
208; Ennet House live-in Staffer; 272; wheelchair-bound NA fianc&eacute;, 461; 503; 593; "of South Chelsea and then the Right Honorable Edmund F. Heany Facility for Demonstrably Incorrigible Girls" 786;

'''Fond du Lac's NoCoat Inc.'''<br />
151; marketed tongue scrapers; 413

'''Footprints'''<br />
601; "depressing Sober Club in Somerville's Davis Square" (fn.246);

'''Ford, G. (Gerald)'''<br />
63; American president, 1974-76

'''Formal Affair, A'''<br />
717; store Lenz rips off tux jacket &amp; spats

'''Fortier, M.'''<br />
89; "the leader of the Wheelchair Assains' U.S.A. cell" (fn.39/994); 319; Marathe's superior, 420; "A.F.R.'s U.S.A. cell's leader" 722; described, 722, 728; fn.39/994;

'''Foss, Chandler'''<br />
207; Ennet House resident; 363; 564; finished out his nine months, 824; "recently graduated nonstick-cookware salesman" 972; 

'''Found Drama'''<br />
185; 376; "the historical zenith of self-consciously dumb stasis" 398; fn.145; fn 234/1038;

'''Foundation for Continental Freedom'''<br />
fn.229/1037;

'''Fourier Transforms'''<br />
"The Implications of Post-Fourier Transformations" 7; 182; 966;

'''Framingham Women's Prison'''<br />
195; where methedrine addict from New Bedford ends up and gets killed

'''Frankie the No-Thankee Hankie'''<br />
878; nixed vehicle for warning about the Entertainment

'''Freedom of Speculation Act'''<br />
fn.304/1057; pass in Y.P.W.c.

'''Freer, Keith B. ("The Viking")'''<br />
50; ETA student; 198; 282; "his face and body match" 638; dad invented Phoneless Cord, 638; described, fn.324/1067;

'''Freeway Access Group'''<br />
707; NA group from Mattapan; 710;

'''Frightful Hog'''<br />
692; Lenz's cognomen for his penis; 719;

'''Fukuoka-Hearn, Judy'''<br />
fn.24/986; narrated''Tennis, Everyone'' ; narrated''Flux in a Box'', fn.24/986;

'''Fully Functional Phil, the prancing ass'''<br />
879; animated character to convey warning about the entertainment cartridge; his Warning Dance, "a Native-American-cum-Breakdance-type dance" 882;

'''fungo'''<br />
a fly ball hit especially for practice fielding by a player who tosses a ball in the air and hits it as it comes down (''Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary'') 

==G==
'''G., Francis'''<br />
''See'' [[#Gehaney|Gehaney, Francis]]

<div id="G">'''G., Nell'''</div>
resident at Ennet House; complaining about someone's drumming on table, 176; 177

'''Gabor, Dennis'''<br />
12;

'''Gala, the'''<br />
102; Interdependence Day

'''Garfield'''<br />
880; the Cat

'''Garton, Dr.'''<br />
73; Kate Gompert's therapist; 76; 78; 776;

'''Gately, Donald W.'''<br />
with Wayne and Hal, digging up Himself's head 17; 3 months in Revere Holding, 55; "twenty-seven-year-old oral narcotics addict" 55; "reliable and double-mufflered 4 x 4" 58; 176; 178; resident at Ennet House 194; live-in Staffer, 208; 270; "Substance-free for 421 days today" 274; "almost twenty-nine and sober and just huge" 277; "oral narcotics man" 278; 344; Gehaney is his sponsor, 357; dream of the well-dressed Sergeant at Arms, 359; 997; Higher Power, 442; childhood, 446; Bulat, Gately's missing Estonian father, 447; aka Bim ("Big Indestructible Moron"), 448; Ennet House chef, 461; "solidly pro-American" 479; story of Chuck, 531; moving residents' cars at midnight, 602; altercation with Nuck Hawaiians, 608; in hospital, 707; "the [hospital] ceiling bulged and then deflated, shiny as a lung" 809; polyurethane vacuole, 809; dream of mother getting sucked up by tornado, 816; Otis P. Lord in adjacent bed in hospital, 817; dream of tiny acne-scarred Oriental woman at whom Gately looks up, with rigid dog in distance, 828; appearance of wraith, 829; and the M.P., 840; w/ R.N. nurse addict in Malden, 843; dream of Joelle w/face of Winston Churchill, 847; dream of Joelle as Mrs. Waite, unveiled with angelic face, but is Death, 850; "this certain woman who kills you is always your next life's mother" 850; "the sense of endless Now" 860; shame at lusting after Joelle, 863; resisting Pakistani M.D.'s insistence on his taking Demerol, 887; dream of grabbing Pakistani pharmacologist's balls, 889; and Demerol, 891; scams w/Fackelmann and Kite, 892; "shot cement instead of narcotics" 893; and nurse "out of a racy-nursewear catalogue" 895; childhood, 902; 13-15, "devotee of Quaaludes and Hefenreffer-brand beer" 904; "The Attack of the Killer Sidewalks" 904; "Rite-Aid pharmacist's assistant with disfiguring eczema and serious gambling debts" 906, 975; how he met Sorkin, 911-12; Dilaudid "created a terrible five-second mnemonic hallucination where he was a gargantuan toddler in an XXL Fisher-Price crib in a sandy field under a storm-cloudy sky that bulged and receded like a big gray lung" 915; gorgeous R.N. (C/Kathy) and a goopy-eyed M.D. (Pressburger) rigging bed next to Gately's, 918, 920; late-day dread, 923; dreaming, 933; "dreams he's with a very sad kid and they're in a graveyard digging some dead guy's head up and it's really important, like Continental-Emergency important [and] the sad kid is trying to scream at Gately that the important thing was buried in the guy's head and to divert the Continental Emergency to start digging the guy's head up before it's too late, but the kid moves his mouth and nothing comes out [...] while the kid holds something terrible up by the hair and makes the face of somebody shouting in panic:''Too Late''." 934; wrecked on Dilaudid w/Fackelmann, 934; comes to "on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out" 981

'''Gates, Bill'''<br />
415; owner and CEO of Microsoft Corp.

'''Gaudeamus Igitur'''<br />
Latin: "Therefore, let us rejoice."

<div id="Gehaney">'''Gehaney, Francis ("Ferocious Francis")'''</div>
209; Crocodile in White Flag AA group; 273; emphysemic, 356; Gately's sponsor, 357; "one of the most ancient and gnarled of the Crocodiles" 468; with Gately at hospital, 884;

'''Gentle, President Johnny (Famous Crooner)'''<br />
65; "Famous Crooner" and U.S. President; 283; library phase-out, 288; "n&eacute; Joyner, lounge singer turned teenybopper throb turned B-movie mainstay, for two long -past decades known unkindly as 'the Cleanest Man in Entertainment'" 381; 398-407; presidential campaign managed by P. Tom Veals, 418; 1013; affair with wife of Canada's Minister of Environment and Resource-Development Enterprises, fn.176/1032;''Sans-Christe'' Gentle, 481; endorsing products, 558; poster of in Ennet House, 831-32;

'''ghost-words'''<br />
832; come into Gately's mind in presence of wraith; 922;

'''Ginger'''<br />
77; Kate Gomper's cat 

'''''Giovanni's Room'''''<br />
191; "depressing book"  read by Madame Psychosis. (1956 book by James Baldwin)

'''Giving It Away'''<br />
"people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away" 53; "Our attachments are our temple [...] What we give ourselves to" 107; 12th Step: speaking in front of AA Groups, 344; "We are all dying to give our lives away to something [...] A flight-from in the form of a plunging-into" 900

'''Glass, Philip'''<br />
802; minimalist American composer

'''Gleason, J(ackie)'''<br />
fn.324/1070; "Leith's historical b/w" American sitcom actor (played buffonish and noisy character Ralph Kramden in "The Honeymooners," a program that ran before color TV.)

'''Gloeckner'''<br />
fn.324/1070; male ETA student w/ locker between Freer's and Hal's

'''Glynn, Dwayne "Doony" R.'''<br />
bricklayer accident, 138-39; Ennet House resident with tatooed neck, 206; 275; 363; skygrid, 542; VW bug, 578; "has recurrent diverticulitis" 594;

'''God'''<br />
does Hal believe in, asks Mario, 40; "the God of their understanding helps them find parking places" 204; "speaks and acts entirely through the vehicle of human beings" 205; "God might regard the issue of whether you believe there's a God or not as fairly low on his/her/its list of things s/he/it's interested in re you." 205; "Coordinated as God" 242;

'''Godbout'''<br />
fn.24/988; his "neoconceptual structuralist films" parodied in Himself's''Various Small Flames''

'''Gompert, Katherine Ann ("Kate")'''<br />
68; suicidal drug-dependent patient; data-clerical in a Wellesley Hills real estate office, 69; resident at Ennet House, 206; 361; at NA meeting, 503; purse snatched by Poor Tony, 714; drinking with Maranthe, 774; missing from Ennet House, 824; ['''NOTE''': there is a real life Kate Gompert, and she sued Wallace over the use of her name in ''Infinite Jest'']

'''Goncharov'''<br />
282; author of''Oblomov'' 

'''''Good Morning, Midnight'''''<br />
191; "depressing book"  read by Madame Psychosis. (1939 novel by Jean Rhys. Also a poem by Emily Dickinson, 1830-1889)

'''Gopnik, Josh'''<br />
119; younger ETA student; 330;

'''Grateful Dead'''<br />
208; 481; 904; 918; 927;

'''Great Bisbee Palm-Rot epidemic'''<br />
167; in AZ in 1933

'''Great Concavity'''<br />
58; 67; 233; provenance, 402-03; "three-quarters of the Concavity's northern border runs contiguous to Qu&eacute;bec" 1017; 1018; reason for being, 572; "a surrounding environment so fertilely lush it's practically unlivable" 573; delimited by "Lucite walls and ATHSCME'd checkpoints" 670;

'''Great Convexity'''<br />
59; 233; "the glass-walled Great Convexity whose southernd array of ATHSCME Effectuators blow the tidy U.S.'s northern oxides north" 385; provenance, 402-03;1018; "massive lucite walls" 438;

'''Green, Bruce'''<br />
38; 8th grader who fell in love with Mildred Bonk; at Ennet House, 179; 207; "garbage-head all-Substance-type kid" 276; 363; Lenz's confidant, 546; 553; parents, 578-81; "'For God's sake no Mr. Ho don't light it!'" 651; broken nose, 819;

'''Green, Bruce, Sr.'''<br />
578; father of Bruce; former aerobics instructor (till leg shrank/grew), then "worked in a Waltham novelty or notions concern, something with 'N in the name" 579; packed cigars with tetryl-based explosives, grossly decapitating 3 Rotarians and 24 Shriners, 581;

'''Green Babies'''<br />
288; Avril's houseplants; 745; 

'''''Green Door, The'''''<br />
955; actually''Behind the Green Door'', a 70s porno flick

'''Gregg pen'''<br />
622; stenographer's pen; 656; 659;

'''Grief-Therapist'''<br />
16; and Hal (to alleviate the Moms' guilt), 252; 954

'''Griffith, D.W.'''<br />
fn.24/986; Himself dedicated''Dark Logics'' to him

'''Gunther, Nell'''<br />
208; Ennet House resident; has a glass eye which she wears backwards, 362;

'''Guy Who Didn't Even Use His First Name'''<br />
137; founded Ennet House; 465;

'''Gymnasium Kaiserslautern'''<br />
460; where Schtitt went to school, in Germany 

==H==
'''H., Morris'''<br />
''See'' [[#Hanley|Hanley, Morris]]

'''Habitant Soup'''<br />
425; 480;

'''Hagia Sophia'''<br />
952; floor plans for, at Qal'at Si'man

'''halation'''<br />
"That most angelic of distortions" 97; "a kind of pale sweet aura, a luminescence<sup>76</sup>. Halation, Axford observed" 218; "everything milky and halated through her veils' damp linen" 221; "rain's wet veil blurs things like Jim had designed his neonatal lens to blur things" 222; "fiery violet aura around the heads of respectables" 304; "holding a light-meter and something else too halated to make out on the tape" 410; "the rising sun behind him gives his white head a pinkish corona" 452; "his dental overhead light's corona giving him one of those malperspectived medieval halos" 526; "the stars shine right through people's heads" 617; "as if he's seeing her through a kind of cloud of light, a milky filter" 851; "plus I think a milky blur. Neonatal nystagmus" 939; "pale sweet aura that an LSD afterglow conferred, some milky corona, like almost a halo of approved grace" 999; "a corona of sweat shimmering around him" 1034

'''Hallie'''<br />
49; aka Hal Incandenza

'''Hammid'''<br />
185;

'''Hamilton, M(argaret)'''<br />
191; actress who played the West Witch in''Wizard of Oz'', color Xerox of in Avril's study;

'''Hamlet'''<br />
"Riverside ''Hamlet''" 171; "signifying zip" 174; 238; 900; "never once doubts the reality of the ghost"; Poor Yorick Entertainment, fn.24/990; "the graveyard scene from" fn.337/1076;

<div id="Hanley">'''Hanley, Morris'''</div>
205; Ennet House resident; "special tollhouse cookies" 205; 279; 363; 564; baked cream-cheese brownies for hospitalized Gately, 826;

'''Haplology'''<br />
745-2;

'''Happy Patches'''<br />
420; fn.169/1031; 474;

'''Happy Slippers ("pisscatchers")'''<br />
85-86; what they wear at Ennet House

'''Harde, Dave ("Fall Down Very")'''<br />
152; narcoleptic old ETA janitor; fn.93; "Flight of the Bumblebee" 405; 666; "spinal funiculi" fn.324/1066;

'''Hartigan, Neil'''<br />
454; laconic ETA prorector; "traditional Tahitian shirt and Gaugin-motif sweater" 460; 525; 667;

'''Harv'''<br />
802; at Inner Child group

'''Harvey, Paul'''<br />
271; radio personality known for "The Rest Of The Story."

'''Hasbro'''<br />
883; "tie-ins with"

'''Hawaii Five-O'''<br />
584; 60s TV detective show

'''Hayworth, Rita'''<br />
209; American film actress of mid 20th century.

'''Hazel'''<br />
834; 70s TV sitcom

'''head-'''<br />
Millicent Kent hairdo, 122; eye popping out of "C's map" 134; Mario's "large but sort of withered-looking head" 154; "Hal's head, closely monitored by deLint and Staff, is judged still level and focused" 155; Himself "transcending that overlarge head" 158; "the sound of your head revving, and head is still just body" 159; "pencil-necked big-headed asthmatic little kid staring up through Coke-bottle lenses" 182; "The engineer [...] has extremely bad skin" 183; "M.I.T.'s near-new Student Union [...] one enormous cerebral cortex" 184; "a living corporeal head" 189; "phrenologically malformed" 190; "Two-Baggers" 190; "the utterly noseless" 191; "Kornspan's red face is leaping around on his skull" 199; "mesomorphic head" 200; "99% of the head's thinking activity consists of trying to scare the everliving shit out of itself" 204; Didi N.'s tattoo of "tattered screaming skull" 208; "synthetic-narc-addicted kid" named Skull, 208; "her brain heving around in its skull" 226; "brain heaving in its bone-box" 231; "lifted her veil back to cover her skull like a bride" 235; "[Schacht's] own big sick head" 262; Mario's "poor big head" 267; "They identify their whole selves with their head, and the Disease makes its command headquarters in the head" 272; "head-gaming" 273; Treat's "ruined face" 274; "Disease chewing away inside his head" 274; "garbage-head all-Substance-type kid [...] face very slightly smunched in on one side" 276; "bird-like head movements" 276; "look of a mean clown" 277; Gately's "massive square head" 277;

'''Heath, Pam'''<br />
fn.24/987; played dentist's wife in Himself's''Fun with Teeth''; played wife in Himself's''Various Small Flames'', fn.24/988; plays "Death as a lethally beautiful woman" in Himself's''M&ouml;bius Strips'', fn.24/990;

'''Heaven, Paul Anthony'''<br />
910; thumbless; played dull Academic in''Good-Looking Men ...''; "data entry drone for Ocean Spray"; narrated''"There Are No Losers Here"'' fn.24/986; played a son in Himself's''Low-Temperature Physics'', fn.24/991;

'''Heidegger , Martin'''<br />
233; Ger. philosopher

<div id="Henderson">'''Henderson, Clenette'''</div>
37; half-sister of Wardine; at Ennet House, 180; 363; janitor at ETA, 527; the maid in C.T.'s office when Hal &amp; Pemulis got spot urinalysis by O.N.A.N.T.A. urologist, 633; brought "shitload of cartridges" from ETA dumpster to Ennet House, 825;

'''Herman The Ceiling That Breathed'''<br />
447; in "decayed beach-cottage" in Salem MA where Gately lived as a child; 923;

'''Himself'''<br />
Family name for [[I#joi|James O. Incandenza]]

'''Hinton'''<br />
253;

'''HmH'''<br />
189; Headmaster's House at ETA, where Avril I. and Chuck Tavis live

'''Ho, Don'''<br />
583; Hawaiian pop singer; "My Lovely Launa-Una Luau Lady" 586; "voice has the quality of a type of:''ointment''" 587;

'''Hobbes, Thomas'''<br />
12; English philosopher; "Hobbesian sewers" 44

'''Hoffman-Jeep, Pamela'''<br />
465; Gately's "totally alcoholic past girlfriend"; about the relationship, 924;

'''Holt, Gretchen'''<br />
755; younger ETA student

'''Home Group'''<br />
209; "Ewell's chosen"

'''Hooley, Maureen'''<br />
876; Vice-President for Children's Entertainment, Interlace Telentertainment, Inc.;

'''Hope, Bob'''<br />
51; code for marijuana; fn.27/994 (Bob Hope, American comedian)

'''Hopman'''<br />
82; tennis teacher (? listed with Nick Bolliteri, famous Floridian nurturer of tennis youth.)

'''Horace'''<br />
551; Stice family dog back in Kansas, and Stice's name for his anger

'''Howell, Mr.'''<br />
169; Pemulis' ~ hat, presumably after character Mr. Howell, played by Jim Backus in American TV sitcom "Gilligan's Island."

'''''Howl'''''<br />
906; Allen Ginsberg's famous poem about his lost generation

'''Hoyne, Henri F.'''<br />
507; head of Data Analysis at B.S.S., victim of "the Entertainment"; 647;

'''Hoyne, Miriam'''<br />
508; wife of Henri

'''Huizenga, Wayne'''<br />
415; owner of Blockbuster Entertainment (and at least one professional sports franchise.)

'''Hundt Act'''<br />
184; regarding FM bandwidth (1966)

'''Hung Toys'''<br />
131; front for Wo's dope business 

==I==
'''I, Mrs.'''<br />
154; aka Avril Incandenza

'''Iaccarino'''<br />
231; Chaplin-archivist at Notkin's party

'''I.B.E.W. Local 517'''<br />
813; Ewell's father's union ("International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers")

<div id="ami">'''Incandenza, Mrs. Avril M. (Mondragon) T. ("The Moms")'''<br /></div>
10; native of Canada; Hal's mother; "assignations with a certain unnamed bisexual bassoonist in the Albertan Secret Guard's tactical-bands unit" (per Himself), 30; affair with medical attach&eacute;, 30, 91, 1049; slipping "certain organic testosterone-regeneration compound distilled by the Jivaro shamen of the South-Central L.A. basin" into Hal's cereal (according to Himself), 30; "''agoraphobic'' workaholic and obsessive-compulsive" 42; working hard not to show her "maternal dread" 50; "black phobic dread of hiding or secrecy," "rarely travels above ground" 51; marriage to Himself, 64; "taught out at Brandeis where [DuPlessis had] done his residency" 91; teaches triad of required Grammars at ETA, 154; 187; "had this effect on older men" 286; "E.T.A. Dean of Academic Affairs and of Females" 288; smokes Benson &amp; Hedges, 391; "The Black Hole of Human Attention" (Family Trivia) 521; "at 50+, is still endocrinologically compelling to males" fn.210/1035; Politeness Routine, 523; w/J. Wayne, 552; father was a potato farmer in Qu&eacute;bec, fn.234/1041; style of "abuse" 1050; reaction to S. Johnson's demise, 1051; "views the recipients of [her] charity not as persons so much as pieces of exercise equipment on which [she] can develop and demonstrate [her] own virtue" fn.269/1052; AFR spy ?, 726; "the family's light and pulse and the center that held tight" 737; everyone at the table inclines toward Avril "like heliotropes" 745; chattin with Mario in her office, 762; grandfather's unlucky gamble on Delaware Punch, 765; drunk father, 766; "Death incarnate, 790; "engaging in sexual enmeshments with just about everything with a Y-chromosome" 791; "mother had been ethnic Qu&eacute;becois, her father Anglo-Canadian" 897-98; father was a binge-drinker, 898; "The Moms full name is Avril Mondragon Tavis Incandenza, Ed.D., Ph.D. She is 197 cm (6' 5 1/2") tall in flats" 898; "had Himself interred in her family's traditional plot in L'Islet Province" 907; "birth-mother had died in Qu&eacute;bec of an infarction when [the Moms] was eight, her father during her sophomore year at McGill under circumstances none of us knew" 953; affairs with "Bain, graduate students, grammatical colleagues, Japanese fight-choreographers, the hairy-shouldered Ken N. Johnson, the Islamic M.D." 957; "has O.C.D. Obsessive-Compulsive-Disorder" fn.234/1039;

<div id="hji">'''Incandenza, Harold ("Hal") James'''<br /></div>
3; in Univ. of AZ Administration office in 11/Y.G.; "verbal scores that are just quite a bit closer to zero than we're comfortable with" 6; essays parroting his parents' interests, 7; "familiar panic of feeling misperceived" 8; "Call it something I ate" 10; mold-eating incident, 10, fn.234/1041; in an emergency room "almost exactly one year back" (from 11/Y.G.), 16; digging up his father's head, 17; "Is Himself still having this hallucination I never speak?" (Hal is 12), 29; interest in Byzantine pornography, 29, 950; "obsession with having nobody [...] know he's high" 54; drugs and, 67; "atavistically dark-complected" 99; pedigree, 100; ankle, 104; gets high daily, 114; "Blott and Arslanian are looking at him. 'Are you OK?'" 114; "a twinge in a tooth on his mouth's left side" 121; "60% of what he told Orin on the phone since Orin had abruptly started calling again this spring was a lie" 136; paper on modern v. post-modern hero, 140-42; "the catatonic hero, the one beyond calm, divorced from all stimulus, carried here and there across sets by burly extras" 142; bunks in subdorm A on 3rd floor of Comm.-Ad.; date of birth: 10/91, 155; about, 155; training, 172; "the window of opportunity [to take DMZ] looks to be 11/20-21" 217; discovered J.I. in microwave, 248; and the grief-therapist, 252; his tennis game, 260; "asymetrically hobbled on the care-too-much side" of tennis proficiency, 269; "the substance-compulsion's strange apparent contribution to Hal's erumpent explosion up the rankings has got to be a temporary thing, that there's like a psychic credit-card bill for Hal in the mail" 270; "feels at his own face to see whether he is wincing" 342; craves dope, tobacco &amp; sugar, 395; "an almost obsessive dislike for deLint" 460; taking care of the blind kid from Philo IL who had "cranium-issues" 518; "at complete ease with" Stice, 521; lying on his back "photosynthesizing" 560; relationship to the Moms, fn.234/1040; near-loss to Stice, 627; "lifetime virginity is a conscious goal" 634; "a whole new and chemical-free Hal" 635; "Hal's in essence a torturer" as a player, 659; Pump Room hideaway sniffed out by kids, 668; his tennis game, 680, 682; chewing Kodiak, 686; "the sleek little show-offy kid" 745; ONANTA guy holding him and Pemulis by the ear, 759; dream of losing teeth, 770; "O.N.A.N.T.A. guy didn't really extract urine samples from us" 772; how people lie, 773; Mario tells him he, Hal, is sad, 782; shows up at Ennet House, 786; driving to NA group (he thinks), 796; "had become a steadily more and more''hidden'' boy, toward the wraith's life's end" 838; wraith's "youngest and most promising son was disappearing" 838; first-person, 851; zoo dream, 851; inadvertently showing hilarity (cachinated), 875; "My full name is Harold James Incandenza, and I am 183.6 cm. (6' 1/4") tall in stocking feet" 898; reciting random facts, 898; "Himself, for two years before his death, had had this delusion of silence when I spoke: I believed I was speaking and he believed I was not speaking" 899; "I was the meat in the room's sandwich" 902; w/Pemulis, 907;''thinks'' Pemulis is trying to get him to agree to take DMZ, 908; making cage of his hands, 909; "trying to align myself along some sort of grain in the world I could barely feel" 950; 3rd person narration, 964; at ETA Gala, Hal's face "assumed various expressions ranging from distended hilarity to scrunched grimace, expressions that seemed unconnected to anything that was going on" 966; DMZ-dream that he's the soldier and is "screaming for help and everybody's acting as if [he's] singing Ethel Merman covers [...] a quality of''loneliness'' " fn.321/1063;

'''Incandenza, James Orin, Sr.'''<br />
50; "former top U.S. jr. tennis player and the promising young pre-Method actor" 63; Hal's paternal grandfather; wife ("a shover and a thruster"), 157; 1956 Mercury Montclair" 159; father ("A golf man") and mother, 163; aka "Himself", 165; "the Man From Glad" 313; w/wife &amp; squeaky bed, 491; Man from Glad, 492, 494; father was "the blank wooden man who [...] had 'driven' [JOI, Sr.] to 'the bottle' and unrealized potential and an early cerebral hemorrhage" 838;

<div id="joi">'''Incandenza, Dr. James Orin ("Himself")''' (b. c.1950; d. Y.T.-S. D. B., aka 2004)<br /></div>
16; father of Hal; belief that son Hal does not speak, 29; committed suicide at 54; about, 63-65; buried in Qu&eacute;bec's L'Islet County, 65; awareness of the Moms' affairs, 29-30; "gyroscopic balance sensor and''mise-en-sc&egrave;ne'' appropriation card and priapistic-entertainment cartridge implanted in [Himself's] anaplastic cerebrum" 31; fear of black widows, 45; "A.E.C.-optics man" 82; Geometrical Optics Scholarship, 154; in 1960, 157; his films, 174; "reviews of his multiple-exposure melodramas" 175; 187; "his neonatal lens to blur things in imitation of a neonatal retina" 222; "Infinite Jim" 225; the completed assembly of what she'd appeared in [...] and doubts that any sum of scenes as pathologic as he'd stuck that long quartzy auto-wobbling lens on the camera and filmed her for could have been as entertaining as he'd said the thing he'd always wanted to make had broken his heart by ending up" 228; 229; "aka The Mad Stork, The Sad Stork, 238; working obsessively on the Entertainment, 249; suicide, 249-58; "half-full bottle of Wild Turkey found on the counter not far away, with a large red decorative gifwrappish bow on the neck" 250; "Himself's head had popped like an uncut spud" 257;''Homo Duplex'' (movie on "John Waynes"), 260 (fn.24/988); films, 297; his father's father Mario, 313;''The Man Who Began to Suspect He Was Made of Glass'' , 375; Found Drama, 376, (fn.145);''The ONANtiad'' , 380;''The Medusa v. The Odalisque'', 396, fn.223/1036;''The Joke'' , 397; and InterLace, fn.167/1031;''Annulateur'' , 490; and squeaky bed, 491;''Death in Scarsdale'' , fn.234/1039; "the victim of the most monstrous practical joke ever played" (sez Orin), fn.234/1041; "helped design these special holographic conversions so that the team that worked on annulation could study the behavior of subatomics in highly poisonous environments" 572;''Dial C for Concupiscence'' , 590; scopophile, never missed Boston's pond-draining, 622;''Wave Bye-Bye to the Bureaucrat'', 687-89;''Blood Sister: One Tough Nun'', 689, ("one of Himself's few commercial successes") 703-06, 710-14, fn.289/1053;''The American Century as Seen Through a Brick'', 695;''The Night Wears a Sombrero'', 704;''Low Temperature Civics'', 706; post-carrot anhedonic, 706;''Le Masque'' (as he was called by Avril I), 737;''Pre-Nuptial Agreement of Heaven and Hell'', 740, 742; unable to speak to Hal or Orin "without their mother's presence and mediation" 743; top collegiate tennis player, 743; referred to his films ironically as "entertainments" 743; funeral took place in "L'Islet Province of Nouveau Qu&eacute;bec [...] featuring an interment, not a cremation" 790; "remained alcohol-free for the whole next three-and-a-half months [until] the date of his suicide" 790;''The Unfortunate Case of Me'', 792; as wraith in Gately's hospital room, 829-40; replicating "life's real egalitarian babble of figurantless crowds" 835; "spent the whole sober last ninety days of his animate life working tirelessly to contrive a medium via which he and the muted son could simply''converse'' [...] something so compelling it would reverse thrust on a young self's fall into the womb of solipsism, anhedonia, death in life" 838; "his most serious wish was:''to entertain''" 839; "used to see his father's ghost on stairways sometimes [...] black-widow spiders in his hair, too" 870;''Zero-Gravity Tea Ceremony'', 874;''Good-Looking Men in Small Clever Rooms ...'', 900; "joked about making something quote too perfect" 940;''Accomplice!'', 941; "had no interest in suckering the audience with illusory realism" 944; didn't use real actors, 944; Dancing Gland, 944; "remained obsessed with something until he became successful at it, then transferred his obsession to something else" 949; "hetero-hardcore''M&ouml;bius Strips'' and the sado-periodontal''Fun with Teeth'' " 954; afraid porno would give Orin "an impoverished, lonely idea of sexuality" 956; "made so many films titled''Cage'' " 957; "God and the Devil playing poker with Tarot cards for the soul of Cosgrove Watt" 971; "cartridge with the held-open eyes and dropper had been the one about ultra-violence and sadism" 981; "in the days prior to [Himself's suicide], a so-called 'word' appeared on a 'fogged' 'window' of Mrs. Inc's pale yellow Volvo" fn.269/1048; "loved [''The Cage''] and stuck little snippets of it [...] anywhere he could" fn.366/1077;

<div id="mi">'''Incandenza, Mario'''<br /></div>
32; brother of Hal (1 year older); "Eighteen in May [...] designated function around [ETA] is filmic" 54; leptosomatic (frail), 79; "a born listener [...] Brady-kinetic" 80; "one of the short strange Himself-influenced conceptual cartridges" he makes, 153; Mario's "conceptual film-type project based on part of [the Riverside''Hamlet'']" 171;''Tennis and the Feral Prodigy'', written by Mario, 173; "fanatical listener/observer" 189; "his short and upbeat annual documentary" 265; birth &amp; description, 312-17; J.O. Incandenza's "honorary assistant production-assistant" 314; his "kid's adaption" of''The ONANtiad'' , 380; with Clipperton, 410; birthday: 11/25, 589; Familial Dysautonomia ("can't feel physical pain very well"), 589; 625; dislike of flourescent lighting, fn.244/1044; "cross between a puppet and one of the big-headed carnivores from Spielberg's old special-effects orgies about reptiles" 746; shooting his documentary w/Bolex H64, 755;

<div id="oi">'''Incandenza, Orin'''<br /></div>
9; Hal's oldest brother (by 9 years); punter for AZ Cardinals, 42; fear of roaches, 44; roaches under inverted tumblers, 45; flying with the Cardinals, 65; morbid fear of heights, 65; "dodger of flung acid extraordinaire" 223; being followed, 244; Eschaton game-master, 284; punter for B.U., 293; "interview" w/''Moment'' fragment, fn.145/1038; 565; Swiss Subject, 566; "Excitement-Hope-Acquisition-Contempt" cycle, 574; Swiss Subject is left-handed, 598; 11/11/YDAU, "once again embracing a certain 'Swiss' hand-model" 655; "a one-trick pony as a player" 661; "has come to regard the truth as''constructed'' rather than''reported'' " fn.269/1048; impression of Avril, 1051; A.F.R. believes most likely to have a duplicate master of the Entertainment, 723; pathological liar, 771; possible affair, as a child, with the Moms, 791; Gately watching him play w/Boston U. on TV, 916; imitation of Himself's mother in wheelchair, 953; in inverted tumbler (glass cage) being interrogated about the Master by Swiss hand-model (Mlle. Luria P.) (see also p.45), 971-72; 

'''''Incision, The'''''<br />
233; film 

<div id="Infant">'''''Infant, The'''''</div>
feral, 211; in the Concavity; worshipped by Rastafarians, 559, 562; "propitiate the outsized feral infant" in Himself's''Stand Behind the Men Behind the Wire'', fn.24/991; "oversized feral infant" fn.24/991;''Propitiating the Infant'', 562; fn.304/1055;

'''Infernatron viewer'''<br />
229; 877; Sorkin's, 930;

'''Infinite Jest'''<br />
36 (not yet named - 4/1/YDAU); aka "the Entertainment" (discussed by Steeply &amp; Marathe), 90; "'anti'-Entertainment" 126; 2-D man in a wheelchair anti-ad, 224, 721; "a final''opus'' so''magnum'' he'd claimed to have had it locked away" 228; "Was the allegedly fatally entertaining and scopophiliac thing Jim alleges he made out of her unveiled face here at the start of Y.T.S.D.B. a cage or really a door?" 230; "the mother-death-cosmology and apologies she'd repeated over and over, inclined over that auto-wobble lens" 230; "cartridge-as-ecstatic-death rumor" 233; "The Face of the Deep" 238; "so bad he didn't want it released" 253; 318; 430; Bertraund Antitoi stole cartridges from wheelchair anti-ad, 483; A.F.R. and, 489; holography, 490; curious victims, 507; eyes "empty of intent" 508; spreading (early November YDAU), 548; opening sequence, 549; describing what happens to the viewer, 647-48; "It was unlikely that any one game figured much in the Entertainment" 658; DuPlessis copy "secured and verified" 724; "anti-''samazdat'' cartridge of F.L.Q.'s allegation" 752; Notkin's detailed description, 788; meeting re ads warning against viewing, 876; Joelle describing, 938-41; Master is buried with Himself, 940-41;''Infinite Jest (I)'' "first attempt at commercial entertainment" fn.24/986;''I.J. (V)'' "its Master cartridge either destroyed or vaulted''sui testator'', fn.24/993;

'''Iimura, Taka'''<br />
fn.24/986; Himself dedicated''Dark Logics'' to him

'''Ingersoll, Evan'''<br />
97; 11-year-old student at ETA, "eyebrowless" from Binghamton NNY; engenders dislike, 99; parents founded Rhode Island version of shopping by TP, 112; description, 114; roommate w/J.J. Penn, 335;

'''Interdependence Day, Continental'''<br />
31; held on November 8; 52; 221

'''InterLace TelEntertainment'''<br />
"two hubs of manufacture and dissemination in Phoenix, Arizona U.S.A. and Boston" 33; conceived of by Lace-Forch&eacute;, 415; "4.8-mb PC-diskettes InterLace was marketing as 'cartridges'" 416; 648; Dissemination Grid, fn.18/985; "copyable Master cartridges require special OS-codes and special hardware to run [...] which keeps most consumers out of the bootleg-cartridge business" fn.301/1054-55;

'''InterLace Subscription Pulse-Matrix'''<br />
35; broadcasts "spontaneous dissiminations" 

'''''Introduction to Montague Semantics'''''<br />
760; Dowty, Wall and Peters's seminal work, on the Moms' desk;

'''Irish Luggage'''<br />
541; slang for Hefty bags

'''Item'''<br />
608; slang for handgun

'''Ives, Burl'''<br />
86; rotund, bearded American folksinger &amp; actor, "Ewell's radically downscaled" version of

'''I.W.D.'''<br />
221; dumpsters (International? Waste Disposal)

==J==
'''J., Amy'''<br />
''See'' [[#Johnson|Johnson, Amy]]

'''J., Jack'''<br />
844; Ennet House resident who visits Gately in hospital

'''James, William'''<br />
fn.224/1037; ''The Principles of Psychology with The Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion''; where Lenz keeps his stash, 543; ''Catharsis'', 544; 718;

'''Jim'''<br />
806; at Inner Infant group Hal stumbles upon

'''J.J.'''<br />
384; Presidente of Mexico &amp; co-Vice Chair of O.N.A.N.

'''Jivaro shaman'''<br />
30; of the South-Central L.A. basin

<div id="Johnson">'''Johnson, Amy'''</div>
475; new girl at Ennet House; 539; 595;

'''Johnson, Ken N.'''<br />
957; had affair w/Avril I.; played Amway representative in Himself's''Various Small Flames''; played son in Himself's''Low-Temperature Physics'', fn.24/991;

'''Johnson, S.'''<br />
1049; Incandenzas' dog that Orin pulverizes; "spotless doggie-dish under the table" 744; being discussed by Hal and Mario, 771; 950;

'''Joubet'''<br />
725; A.F.R. member ("the red-bearded workhorse") who views the Entertainment 

==K==
'''K., David'''<br />
''See'' [[#Krone|Krone, David]]

'''K., Glenn'''<br />
352; White Flagger whose "chosen Higher Power" is''Satan'' ; 367; "Evening, Ladies" joke, 445;

'''Kaele'''<br />
185;

'''Kahn, Petropolis'''<br />
17; ETA student; aka "W.M." ("Woolly Mammoth"); "thick and solid" 457;

'''Kastenbaum and Kastenbaum'''<br />
253;

'''Keck, Rutherford'''<br />
229; "academic" at Notkin's party; 232

'''Kekul&eacute;'''<br />
5;

'''Kemp, Jack'''<br />
177; actually a U.S. Senator from NJ; in''IJ'', he's a former President of the U.S.; "his exploding home" 422;

'''Ken-L-Ration-Magnavox-Kemper-Insurance Forsythia Bowl'''<br />
915;

'''Kent, U.S.S. Millicent'''<br />
121; student at ETA; of Montclaire, NJ; came upon Husky VI-brand tripod, 122, 126; transvestite father, 123;

'''Kenkle'''<br />
32; janitor at ETA; dreadlocked black guy, 873; "received his doctorate in low-temperature physics from U.Mass at twenty-one and taken a prestigious sinecure at the U.S. Office of Naval Research" 873; appeared in''Zero-Gravity Tea Ceremony'', 874;

'''kertwang'''<br />
118; 251; 512; 527; 569; 575; 630; 784; 869; fn.324/1069; fn.324/1070;

'''Kierkegaard, Soren Aaby'''<br />
12; Danish religious philosopher, parodied in Himself's''Safe Boating is No Accident'' ; "and Regina" 105;

'''Kimberly-Clark Corp.'s Depend Asorbent Products Division'''<br />
260; maker of the Depend Adult Undergarment

'''Kinski'''<br />
234; as Paganini

'''Kite, Trent ("QuoVadis")'''<br />
55 &amp; 56 (unnamed accomplice of Gately's); 614; "[A.F.R.'s] fatal technical interview of the young burglar" 721; "Dilaudid. Blues. [...] Kite's steep-angled decline" 886; "background was he'd been a computer-wienie at Salem State before he got the shoe for hacking the phone bills of certain guys deep in trouble over 900 sex-lines into the S.S. Adminstration's WATs account"; "rig up an identity and credit record sufficient to rent them a luxury furnished apt." 892; "dyed-in-wool laptop-carrying wienie, chinless and with a nose like a tapir, and pretty much the last fanatical Grateful Dead fan under age forty" 904; "QuoVadis" (Quaalude-isotopes), 904; "got the administrative Shoe from Salem State" 915; "32 Uses for Sterno Me Lad" 980; "once the A.F.R. got through with him" fn.363/1077;

'''Kittenplan, Ann'''<br />
330; "butch and suspiciously muscular" 12.5-year-old steroid-addled ETA student; 511;

'''Klamkin, Maury'''<br />
9; Coach White's predecessor at Univ. of AZ

'''Knievel, Evel'''<br />
859; motorcycle daredevil of the 1970s who became famous jumping his cycle over ever-increasing number of parked cars.

'''Kodiak'''<br />
114: Hal's brand of chew

'''Kondo, Ms. Tawni'''<br />
35; InterLace aerobics-guru; poster of, 62; 620;

'''Kornspan, Eliot'''<br />
198; "steroidic" 15-year-old ETA student; fn.324/1070;

'''Kosinski, J.'''<br />
fn.24/987; novelist parodied by Himself in''Fun with Teeth''

'''Krause, Poor Tony'''<br />
128; gay junkie in Boston who hangs with C. And "yrstruly"; and "red leather fags" 129; purse-snatching debacle involving lady with heart in purse, 143; stroke, 299; withdrawal, 300; late obstetrician father, 301, 721; 11/11/YDAU, in the stall, 655; 683; former crewmate of Matty Pemulis, 691; running from Ruth van Cleve, 719, 728; "with a supine person Krause vaulted lifting a decayed head from the alley floor to counter with:''Go''" 721; "newly acquired test-subject" for viewing the Entertainment, 845; probably one of the red-leather-coat girls w/Bobby C. during Fackelmann's demise, 976; 

<div id="Krone">'''Krone, David'''</div>
754; crab-like resident at Ennet House; 786; 824;

'''Kubitz, Glenny'''<br />
885; relates Ennet House debacle to Ferocious Francis

'''K&uuml;bler-Ross, Elizabeth'''<br />
253; author of "On Death & Dying"

'''Kurosawa, Akira'''<br />
232; Japanese filmmaker.

==L==
'''L., John'''<br />
345; AA member;

'''Lac de Deux Montaignes region'''<br />
732; region of Qu&eacute;bec where Maranthe lived as a child

<div id="Lace">'''Lace-Forch&eacute;, Noreen'''<br /></div>
415; "USC-educated video-rental mogulette"; 620; fn.301/1054

'''Latrodectus Mactans'''<br />
159; aka Black Widow; fn.24/987; phylum and species of the black widow spider (ChrisO: ChrisO@fieldschool.com)

'''Lamb, Mrs.'''<br />
575; at Parents' Day at Bishop Anthony McDiardama Elementary School w/Mrs. Lenz

'''Lang, Fritz'''<br />
48; German filmmaker;''Metropolis'', 193; "chilling framed print of Lang directing''Metropolis'' " 951; parody/homage to his''Rancho Notorious'', in Himself's''The Night Wears a Sombrero''

'''Leary, Dr. Tim(othy)'''<br />
170; famous acid-head and comedian

'''L&eacute;aud'''<br />
234; as Doinel

'''Lechmere's'''<br />
717; clothing store in Cambridgeside that Lenz rips off

'''Legal Seafood'''<br />
743; where Orin took Joelle to meet Himself, in Brookline MA 

'''''Le Groupe Vid&eacute;otron'''''<br />
412; owner of "five big Canadian Shop-at-Home networks"

'''Leisure Time Ice'''<br />
39; where B. Green worked; 577

'''Leith, Disney R.'''<br />
51; History of Entertainment and Optics teacher at ETA; 96; 298; Quadrivial colloquium "Reflections on Refraction" 511; fn.145/1027;

'''Lemon Pledge'''<br />
99; Furniture polish

'''Lendl , Ivan'''<br />
259; "Czech Kid" actual tennis champion who did retire but who has not, as far as can be determined, "suicided" himself.

'''Lenz, Mrs.'''<br />
575; mother of Randy; "a thrice-divorc&eacute;e and Data Processor [...] unspeakably obese";

'''Lenz, Randy'''<br />
207; Ennet House resident; 270; described, 276; "small-time organic-coke dealer" 276; 363; 533; walks home from meetings, 539; room w/Glynn &amp; Day, 539; demapping rats, 540; progression of appetite, 541; 553; mother &amp; stepfather, 557, 561; harassing Yolanda, 565; from Fall River MA, 575; Polish Curse, 692; discharged from Ennet House, 692; post-discharge, stalking two Chinese ladies, 716; escaping Chinese ladies, 728; A.F.R.'s "newly acquired test-subject" for viewing the Entertainment, 845;

'''Leroux, Mrs.'''<br />
575; at Parents' Day at Bishop Anthony McDiardama Elementary School w/Mrs. Lenz

'''Lesotho'''<br />
1014; small African country contained, Vatican-like, within the borders of the Republic of South Africa.;

'''Limbaugh, Rush'''<br />
177; radio personality and mouthpiece for the Republican political party; in''IJ'', a former US President; 382; Limbaugh Era, 411, 562; poster of on Sorkin's office door, 929;

'''Lindistairne Gospels'''<br />
950; "tiny pornographic scenes in the Byzantine weave"

'''Lingley'''<br />
254; ETA teacher

'''Linville, Maury'''<br />
643; actual first name is Larry.  Actor who played lipless and peevish Major Frank Burns in [[M#MASH|''M*A*S*H'']], American 1970s TV dramedy.

'''LipoVac Unltd.'''<br />
413; ads done by Viney and Veals

'''Liquor World'''<br />
556;

'''Little Lisbon'''<br />
717; area in Cambridge ?

'''Loach, Barry'''<br />
102; ETA Trainer; 316; 525; "resembles a wingless fly--blunt and scuttly" 967; was in a Jesuit seminary but lost his religion

'''Loach, Therese'''<br />
967; Barry's sister, who carries match-number cards at pro fights

'''Lobokulas, Stavros'''<br />
434; foot-fetishist who works with Gately at Shattuck Shelter and "owns the company that contracts with the Commonwealth for the Shattuck's maintenance"; 922;

'''L'Odalisque de Ste. Th&eacute;r&egrave;se'''<br />
396; "character out of old Qu&eacute;becois mythology who was supposedly so inhumanly gorgeous that anyone who looked at her turned instantly into a human-sized precious gem"; "In most versions an opal" 529;

'''Logan'''<br />
710; large Boston airport where black addict works; where Qu&eacute;bec team is to land, 853;

'''Lolasister'''<br />
130; junkie in Boston; 300;

'''Longley, Bernadette'''<br />
50; ETA student; 282;

'''Lopate, Mrs.'''<br />
753; catatonic at the Shed; "the objay dart from the Shed that they come and install next to the Ennet House viewer some days" 818;

'''Lord, Otis P.'''<br />
116; ETA student &amp; "thirteen-year-old baseliner and calculus phenom from Wilmington DE, who 'Wears the Beanie' as Eschaton's gamemaster and statistician of record" (322); "stats-wienie and Eschaton game-master," 171; 264; Hitachi monitor still over his head from Eschaton violence, 456; in Tavis' office, 527; in hospital bed next to Gately, 817; Hitachi monitor removed on Thursday, 948;

'''Loring A.F.B.'''<br />
571; near "what used to be Presque Isle Maine"

'''LTIs'''<br />
196

'''Ludditism'''<br />
150; actually "Luddism;" opposition to technical or technological change

'''Luke'''<br />
257; Luke Skywalker, character in''Star Wars'' who in the movie's climactic battle sequence does not "remove his targeting helmet" but in fact merely switches off his targeting computer in favor of "The Force" (the movie's quazi-religion.)

'''Lung, The'''<br />
51; inflatable covering for ETA tennis courts November-March; 153; inflation day (fourth Monday of November), 268;

'''Luther'''<br />
103; presumably Martin Luther, German theologian and leader of the Protestant Reformation. Perhaps he wore wooden sandals while dumping too.

'''Lyle'''<br />
114; guru in ETA weight room, who lives off others' perspiration; 127; Deus Providebit ("God Provides"), 198; and Himself, 249; 316; 379; dispensing wisdom for sweat, 387; visited in Ontario by Himself, fn.234 (1041); "appearance outside the weight room, upright and walking across the grounds" 433; hovering cross-legged "just a couple mm. above the top of the towel dispenser" 700; met and bonded w/Himself on Canada's Northwest coast, 706; "'I Don't Know (How to Love Him)' from an old opera Lyle sometimes [...] listened to at night in the weight room" 808; taught ETA kids that "panic sharpens the senses almost past enduring" 896; says that "the most advanced level of Vaipassana or 'Insight' meditation consisted in sitting in fully awakened contemplation of one's own death" 898;

<div id="Lynch">'''Lynch, David'''</div>
944; American film (''Eraserhead'', ''The Elephant Man'', ''Blue Velvet'', ''Wild At Heart'', ''Lost Highway'') and TV (''Twin Peaks'', ''On The Air'' ) director; parodied (?) in Himself's ''Safe Boating is No Accident''; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lynch Wikipedia]

==M==
'''M., Gene'''<br />
''See'' [[#Martinez|Martinez, Eugenio]]

'''Mackey'''<br />
fn.209/1035; senior male ETA student

<div id="Madame-Psychosis">'''Madame, The'''</div>
542; hallucinogen Doony Glynn did in 1989

'''Made Guys from the North End'''<br />
609; presumably "made" members of the mafia. (Becoming a made man is something akin to getting tenure.) (Or so I've read.)

'''''Maggie: A Girl of the Streets'''''<br />
191; "depressing book"  read by [[#Madame-Psychosis|Madame, The]].

'''Mainwaring, Reeves'''<br />
238; at Notkin's party

'''Makavajev'''<br />
233; possibly Dusan Makavejev, Belgrade-born filmmaker.

'''Makulic, Bernard'''<br />
634; "little 14-C" at ETA

'''Malone'''<br />
411; owned TCI cable TV network

'''Mann'''<br />
fn.24/987; filmmaker parodied in Himself's''Death in Scarsdale''

'''Man o' War Grille'''<br />
682; Portuguese restaurant on Prospect in Cambridge, where Matty Pemulis is;

'''map'''<br />
129; slang term for face; personal map, 196; "personal competitive map" fn.75; "utter demapping" fn.75; "eliminate their own map for keeps" (commit suicide), 220; 231; "keep his map shut when he's got nothing important to say" 276; 280; de-mapping, 300;

'''Marathe, Gertraud'''<br />
89 (unnamed); 126; wife of R&eacute;my; dying of ventricular restenosis, 126; born w/o a skull, 429; 529; 752; "among the first Swiss children of southwestern Switzerland to become born without a skull" 779; her condition, 779; in a comatose state for almost one year, 780;

'''Marathe, R&eacute;my'''<br />
88; member of "Wheelchair Assassins" and quadruple agent (fn.40/995); "Something bigger than the self [...] You are what you love" 107; wife dying of ventricular restenosis, 126; "eidetic, near-perfect in recall" 127; reports to M. Fortier, 127; 317; wife was born without a skull, 429; father's death, 490; dreams of father, 528; A.F.R. believes him to be a triple agent, 529; at Ennet House, 730; "prepared to die violently at any time" 732; w/paranoid addict who raves about the "metal" people, 735; at Ennet House w/Pat M., 747; aka "Henri" 748; w/Kate Gompert, 774; how he met his wife, 777; "a used Kenbeck pacemaker for Maranthe's father, now deceased" fn.313/1062;

'''Marblehead'''<br />
55; where ADA and wife go to "celebrity sailing thing"

'''Marlon'''<br />
386; perpetually wet former ETA student &amp; Orin's doubles partner

'''Martin, Dean'''<br />
863; American actor and singer

<div id="Martinez">'''Martinez, Eugenio'''</div>
177; volunteer alumnus counselor at Ennet House &amp; Gately's counselor when he was a resident; 196; 273; "ex coke and -phone-bunko guy whose left ear had been one of his Losses" and "grizzled Filipino" 466;

'''Marxist Film-Cartridge Theory'''<br />
227; subject of Notkin's oral critique for Ph.D. 

<div id="MASH">'''M*A*S*H'''</div>
639; 70s TV show with which Steeply's father was obsessed; U.N. Korean Police Action only lasted two years, 644; 834;

'''masks-'''<br />
"blank facial masking" 72; Lemon Pledge husks "a battery of five-holed masks" 223; Notkin's Karl Marx, 227; guy in wheelchair tailing Orin with "some kind of domino-mask" 245; "Wayne's father is an asbestos miner who [...] wears triple-thick masks" 262; "a disguise that makes [Lenz] look like Cesar Romero after a terrible accident" 276;

'''Massachussetts Department of Public Health'''<br />
138; of which Division of Substance Abuse Services is a part

'''Material'''<br />
222; dope

'''Mathis, Johnny'''<br />
102; American pop crooner (50s-60s); "Chances Are"

'''McCartney, Linda'''<br />
978; wife of Paul; CD of just her contributions to Wings tunes

<div id="McCartney">'''McCartney, Paul'''</div>
978; former Beatle and leader of Wings

'''McDade, Wade'''<br />
177; resident at Ennet House; tatoos, 206; 363; "a young hard-core flask-alkie from Ashland KY" 469; 533;

'''McGee'''<br />
fn.304/1055; "-like chaos" unknown reference

'''McGruff'''<br />
880; "the freaking crime dog;" Smokey The Bear-ish mascot for law enforcement.

'''MCI-Billerica'''<br />
462; where Gately did some time (Mass. Correctional Institution, in Billerica.)

'''McKenna, Kieran'''<br />
341; ETA student

'''McLachlin, Kyle'''<br />
944; Kyle''MacLachlan'', American actor who worked with director [[L#Lynch|David Lynch]] on''Blue Velvet'',''Twin Peaks,'' and''Dune''.

'''McLean Hospital'''<br />
249; where Himself did "a two-day purge and detox" while working on the Entertainment; fn.145/1027; in Belmont, MA, where J.O.I. planned out Found Drama ("the ultimate Neorealism") "to get revenge" on critics of his films

<div id="McNair">'''McNair, Stokely ("Dark Star")'''</div>
129; junkie in Boston; 300; "the late" 690;

'''M.D.C.'''<br />
137; MA Department of Correction; 210

'''Meech Lake Accord'''<br />
1013; I, II &amp; III; III was "Ottawa's last attempt to placate Qu&eacute;bec with a constitutional amendment formalizing the Gallic province's right to 'preserve and promote' a 'distinct society and culture.'" 1021;

'''M&eacute;li&egrave;s'''<br />
219; molded plastic chair of, in Notkin's apartment

'''Melinda'''<br />
229 (unnamed); "beautiful young woman" high on Ecstacy, dancing in front of mirror, at Notkin's party; 233; 235

'''Menelaus'''<br />
105; king of Sparta at the time of the Trojan War; husband of Helen and brother of Agamemnon.

'''Mercier Dam'''<br />
259; Canadian dam on the St. Lawrence.

'''Merman, Ethel'''<br />
214; American comic actress and singer noted for her poweful voice. 1909-1984

'''methedrine addict from New Bedford'''<br />
194; woman who hangs w/Gately at Ennet House

'''Metheun-Andover border'''<br />
456; locus of mammoth effectuators, in no. MA; Metheun Fan-Complex, 571; 670; 

'''''Metropolis'''''<br />
193; 1927 film by Fritz Lang; "chilling framed print of Lang directing" 951

'''Micheaux'''<br />
232; filmmaker?

'''Mikey'''<br />
958; "alcoholic, addict and a sick fuck" with child visitation issues with his mother and sister

'''Militant Grammarians of Massachussetts (MGM)'''<br />
288; led by Avril I.; Tactical Phalanx, 288; fn.234/1039

'''Millennial Fizzy'''<br />
182; soft drink; fn.138; taken w/Oreos for "jittery amphetaminic buzz" 200

'''Miller, W.'''<br />
581; tracts by, being handed out by Bruce Green's aunt

'''Minimal Mambo'''<br />
229; danced at Notkin's party

'''mint green Ford sedan'''<br />
327; with Nunhagen Asprin ad on its right rear door, 332

'''Minty, Emil'''<br />
aka "yrstruly" (12/YDPAH), 128-35; resident at Ennet House, 178; 207; "hard-core smack-addict punk" 275; 300; 615; (Note, Emil Minty is the name of the child actor who plays the "Feral Kid" in the post-apocalyptic Mel Gibson movie "Road Warrior.")

'''Miss Diagnosis'''<br />
450; "alto grad student" who is Madame Psychosis' replacement at WYYY; 624;

'''Mitchell, Joni'''<br />
966; disk of, playing in J. Wayne's locker. (singer/songwriter, b. Roberta Joan Anderson, Saskatchewan, Canada, 7Nov43)

'''M.I.T. Student Union'''<br />
184; "one enormous cerebral cortex"

'''MK-Ultra'''<br />
472; CIA-sponsored brainwashing experiments in B.S. '53

'''M &amp; M's'''<br />
20; Fackelmann, Dilaudid and, 932

'''M.M.P.I.'''<br />
472; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. A tool (test) used to categorize humans by personality. Similar to (and often used concurrently with) Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

'''Mohammed'''<br />
108; Arab prophet of Islam; established a theocratic state at Medina after 622 and began to convert Arabia to Islam. (American Heritage Dict.)

'''''Moment'' Magazine'''<br />
Orin to be interviewed by some profiler from, 48; story about heart-in-a-purse lady, 142; article about Army DMZ casualty, 214; "medical, soft sports, personality, and home-entertainment-trends reporting" 227; story on Orin, 244, 1012; "supermarket-checkout-lane-display magazine" 244; "physically imposing''Moment'' girl" 246; "a national magazine for and about exceptional people" 660;

'''Monroe, Dr. Robert ("Sixties Bob")'''<br />
927; "septuagenarian pink-sunglasses-and-Nehru-jacket-wearing N.C.-F.P.F. ergotic-vascular-headachetreatment specialized [who] interned at Sandoz [in Switzerland] [and was] one of T. Leary's original circle"; treats Sorkins headaches; big Grateful Dead fanatic; perhaps got the DMZ he sold to Antitois from Kite;

'''Montcalmists'''<br />
420; Canadian resistance group

'''Montesian, Ms. Patricia, M.A., C.S.A.C.'''<br />
176; Executive Director, Ennet House in Enfield, MA; 196; had a stroke, 278; "photo-seizure-prone" 361; her black 1964 Ford Aventura, 461; husband, 461; background &amp; description, 465; and Mars (husband?), 960;

'''Moore, Lateral Alice'''<br />
99; ETA administration, C.T.'s administrative ass't; 174; 432; about, 509-;

'''More Will Be Revealed'''<br />
540; NA group

'''Morris [sic] Code'''<br />
275

'''M.P.'''<br />
446; Gately's mother's "live-in lover, a former Navy M.P. who used to beat her up on a regular schedule"; 840-43; drove a "cheese-and-egg delivery truck for Cheese King Inc." 841; maiming flies, 842;

'''mucronate'''<br />
314.1+5. having a sharp point

'''Mulroney, (Martin) Brian'''<br />
fn.304/1058; Canadian president from 1984 - ??

'''Munch, Edvard'''<br />
1016; 1863-1944; Norwegian artist famous for his painting "The Scream."

'''Murnau'''<br />
219; molded plastic chair of, in Notkin's apartment

'''mythology'''<br />
Icarus, 65; "Tristan and Isolde. Lancelot and what's-her-name. Agamemnon and Helen, Dante and Beatrice." 105; "Helen and Paris. He of Troy." Menelaus, 105; Medusa, 190, 529; Popogatapec, 243; "It's a myth no one misses [the Substance]" 273; 528; Circe, 529; "Polycleitos body, Hermes or Theseus before his trials" 636; Job, 740, 895; Promethean-guilt angle, 791; Incandenza family, 838; Camilla, "goddess of speed and light step" 965; "visually lethal mythologic females" in Himself's''"The Medusa v. the Odalisque'', fn.24/988; 

==N==
'''N., Dicky'''<br />
445; Crocodile

'''N., Didi'''<br />
''See'' [[#Neaves|Neaves, Didi]]

'''N., Maureen'''<br />
826; C. Treat's counselor at Ennet House

'''N., Tamara'''<br />
445; at AA meeting

'''NAAUP'''<br />
9; collegiate athletic association

'''Naked I Club'''<br />
370; where "skinny hard-faced Advanced Basics girl" at Boston AA meeting was a stripper at 16-years-old

'''National Clays'''<br />
287; tennis tournament in Indianapolis IN

'''National Cranio-Facial Pain Foundation'''<br />
267; where Schacht interns in Enfield, MA; where Sorkin gets treated, 913; ad featuring painting of headachey Sorkin, 977; 

'''Near Eastern Medical Attach&eacute;'''<br />
78; 87;

'''Neaves, Didi'''<br />
208; "new black girl" at Ennet House resident w/skull tatooed on her upper abdomen; 543; works at ETA, 634;

'''Neeld, Harper'''<br />
253;''Seven Choices: Taking the Steps to New Life After Losing Someone You Love''

'''NeGram'''<br />
235; something on Notkin's bathroom's sink

'''Neil'''<br />
404; "in Spin" dept of Gentle's administration

'''Nell'''<br />
''See'' [[G#G|G., Nell]]

'''neo-Thomist Realism'''<br />
745; "''Personalistes'', an aesthetic schoolf of great influence over French Catholic intellectuals circa 1930-1940" 745;

'''New Choice'''<br />
503; "grim" juvenile rehab in Dorchester MA

'''Newton'''<br />
182; "Newton's II" possibly a reference to Newton's 2nd Law Of Motion (though the "For Every Action There's An Equal But Opposite Reaction" vibe would more accurately be conveyed by Newton's 3rd.)

'''Nichols'''<br />
78; aka Jack Nicholson in "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"

'''Nickerson'''<br />
291; Orin's doubles partner; 296;

'''Nickerson Farms Meat Facsmile'''[sic]<br />
291; Orin's strabismic B.U. doubles partner is an heir to its "fortune"

'''Nietzschean'''<br />
605; 

'''''Nightmare on Elm Street XXII: The Senescence'''''<br />
825; McDade bitching about having to watch

'''Nixon, Richard'''<br />
147; "N[ixon]-K[ennedy] debates of B.S. 1960"

'''NoCoat Lingua Scrapers'''<br />
151; 235 

'''''North American Junior Tennis'''''<br />
431; biweekly &amp; trilingual magazine

'''Notkin''', Molly Cantrell("near-Professor")<br />
219; Ph.D. In Film and Film-Cartridge Theory from MIT; former lover who believed there were "only a finite number of erections possible in the world" 220; father, 234; "thick swart girl" 625; on Himself's "early oeuvre" 740; interrogated by Rod the God Tine, 787;

'''Notre Rai Pays'''<br />
222; 753; 1013; 1017; 1019; literally "our spoken country." (possibly this is a term used by Quebecois to refer to their country, separate from Canada?)

'''N. Paducah Technical H.S. Rivermen'''<br />
742; football team

'''Nucci, Vinnie ("Nooch")'''<br />
886; "favored Dilaudid and spent over a year without ever taking the belt off his wing, dropping through Osco skylights at night on a rope"; "for whom Gately also occasionally held the rope on late-night Osco-and-Rite-Aid-skylight missions" 914; at AA/NA meeting (?), 960;

'''Nunhagen-Aspirin'''<br />
341; of Framington MA; Cranio-Facial Pain ads, 413;

'''Nwangi, Tony'''<br />
98; ETA prorector; "hatchet-faced Kenyan" (fn.73/998) 

==O==
'''O., Bud'''<br />
844; Ennet House resident who visits Gately at St. Elizabeth's Hospital; broke his wife's nose so that it laid flat against her face and refused to let her have it fixed;

'''O.C.D.'''<br />
203; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

'''O.E.D.'''<br />
17; Oxford English Dictionary; 28; 30; 245;

'''Ogilvie, Mr. Urquhart, Jr.'''<br />
140; teaches "Introduction to Entertainment Studies" at ETA; 188; 411; 515; "Reflections on Refraction" class, 756;

'''Old Nurse who Asks For Help'''<br />
196; retired Air Force Nurse in Unit #4 at Ennet House; 608; "HELP WANTED sign up under the window of the lady in Unit #4 that shouts for Help" 894;

'''Olders'''<br />
471; Canadian scientist at the Brandon Psychiatric Center who discovered''p''-terminals, aka "Rivers of Reward." The name Steeply is trying to remember is Olds; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Olds James Olds] is one of the psychologists who co-discovered the pleasure centers. He made this discovery in Canada, but he's actually an American.

'''O.N.A.N.'''<br />
65; Organization of North American Nations (U.S., Canada, Mexico); tumesence of, 283; history, 391; 1013;

'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.'''<br />
4,7; Organization of North American Nations College Athletics Association; 111

'''O.N.A.N.M.A.'''<br />
36; Organization of North American Nations Medical Association

'''O.N.A.N.T.A.'''<br />
Organization of North American Nations Tennis Association; urine testing, 151; toxologist, 156; 259;

'''O.N.R.'''<br />
63; Office of Naval Research, U.S.D.D.; 67

'''Oo Is 'E When 'E's at 'Ome'''<br />
834; TV show?

'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium curricular model'''<br />
8; 188; fn.64/996-97

'''Oreida'''<br />
819; Likely malapropism for "iota", double-entendre with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ore-Ida "Tater Tot"]

'''Oriental women w/shopping bags''' (11/7)<br />
224

'''Orwell, George. (Pen name of Eric Arthur Blair)'''<br />
288; 1903-1950, British writer whose works include Animal Farm (1945) and 1984 (1949).<br />
288; "Politics and the English Language"

'''O'Shay, Gwendine'''<br />
927; Sorkin's secretary, "howitzer-breasted old Green-Cardless former I.R.A.-moll"

'''Ossowiecke, R.'''<br />
726; A.F.R. member making rounds of halway/rehab houses; 845;

'''O.U.S.'''<br />
''See'' [[U#Unspecified-Services|Unspecified Services, Office of]]

'''Ozu'''<br />
185; filmmaker? 

==P==
'''P ------- , Luria'''<br />
''See'' [[#Perec|Perec, Luria]]

'''Papineau'''<br />
88; desolate region in extreme southwest Qu&eacute;bec; fn.304/1058;

'''parabola'''<br />
"weird Taoist paraboloid logo" 265;

'''paranoia'''<br />
Fenton the paranoid-schizophrenic, 47; "Pemulis's poster of the paranoid king" 60; "dealers that stay around any length of time tend to be on the paranoid side" 75; "Nothing brings you together like a common enemy" 113; "It'll help your attitude to look for evidence of design" 113; "Accident? Random happenstance?" 114; Pemulis "fears the dealer's Brutus" 156; "They" 175; "the people to be most frightened of are the people who are most frightened" 204; paranoid king, 213; "Yes, I'm paranoid--but am I paranoid enough?" fn.211/1035;

'''Parias-Carbo, Alphonso'''<br />
363; Ennet House resident; 611; "the totally ununderstandable Cuban" 887;

'''Parrot, Annie'''<br />
279; Asst. Mgr. at Ennet House; Ass't Director at Ennet House, 434; to "go get certified in jet-engine maintenance at East Coast Aerotech on a Mass Rehab grant" 822;

'''Patch the Pony Who Says Nay to Strangers'''<br />
879; toy manufactured by ChildSearch.

'''Patty citizen type'''<br />
128; straight person (?)

'''p-dope'''<br />
131;

'''Pearson, Heath'''<br />
672; former ETA student; in Himself's films, 687; founder of the sub-14's Tunnel Club, 899; "former tow-truck shareholder" fn.209/1035;

'''Pei, I.M. (Ieoh Ming)'''<br />
184; Chinese-born American architect, b. 1917. Architect of the MIT Stratton Student Center, building W20, 84 Mass. Ave., which dates from the late 60's. The original student center, still standing near Ames St. and Memorial Drive, 142 Memorial Dr., is the Walker Memorial, building 50. This is the one with the columns.

'''Peckinpah, Sam'''<br />
185; American filmmaker parodied in Himself's''Fun with Teeth'', fn.24/987

'''Pemberton, Hugh'''<br />
fn.110; ETA student; 1009;

'''Pemulis, "Da"'''<br />
683; abusive father of Matty and Michael, who came over "on a boat from Louth in Lenster in 1989;

'''Pemulis, Matty (aka "Mad Matty")'''<br />
682; 23-year-old prostitute brother of Michael; described, 683; former crewmate of Poor Tony Krause, 691;

'''Pemulis, Michael Mathew'''<br />
40; student at ETA and Big Buddy; rooms w/Troeltsch &amp; Schacht in subdorm B in the back north part of the second floor of West House (171); "reptilian" (according to Avril); 50; "One kid asks you to please commit a crime" 75; "has this way of looking warily from side to side" 95, 211; Big Buddy to Lord &amp; Possalthwaite, 116; clean-urine sales (w/Axford), 151; about, 154; "Please commit a crime" 156; DMZ arrangements with "day-shift Ennet House kid at the booth who raises the portcullis" at ETA, 171; Tenuate (methedrine) spansules, 216, 329, fn.321/1065, fn.324/1068; considering dosing Wayne, 213; puking at Port Washington, 262; "physically 'drine dependent" 267; dosed tennis opponent at P.W., 281; PowerBook, 431; waiting to see Tavis, 509, 526; interrupting Avril &amp; J. Wayne, 552; holding forth on annulation, 570-74; "He goes to the library and pores" 785; trying to cut down on places with 'N' in their name, 908; crawling into the ceiling at ETA, "Entrep&ocirc;t-bound" 916; to Hal: "cut yourself off of it altogether, you die inside. You lose your mind" fn.321/1065; takes two Tenuate spansules before a tennis game, fn.324/1067; got out of urine-test by threatening to bust Avril and J. Wayne for "major-sport interlude" fn.324/1068; "how 17 can actually go into 56 way more than 3.294 times" fn.324/1069;

'''Pendleton'''<br />
921; doctor at St. Elizabeth's tending to Gately

'''Penn, Jeffrey Joseph ("J. J.")'''<br />
327; ETA student, "a high-ranked thirteen-year-old but not exactly the brightest log on the Yuletide fire"; roommate w/Ingersoll, 338; perhaps seriously injured, 452 (see p.341);

'''Penn, Michael H.'''<br />
333; 21-year-old brother of J.J. and "sworn foe" of Pemulis for calling him "Penisless";

'''Penn, Miles'''<br />
687; ETA student in Himself's films

'''Penn, W. (William)'''<br />
216; English Quaker colonizer in America,  founded Pennsylvania in 1681.

'''''perdre son coeur'''''<br />
fn.304/1060; French: "lose his heart"

<div id="Perec">'''Perec, Mlle. Luria'''</div>
30; "of Lamartine, county of L'Islet, Qu&eacute;bec; stenographer to Tine, Sr., and to DuPlessis, 92; with whom R. Tine is "smitten" 92, fn.156 (1030); 440; aka "Swiss" woman, 566, 598, 655, 726, 845, 971-2;

'''Perot, Ross'''<br />
382; elfin Texas businessman; presidential candidate in 1992 & 1996

'''personal-injury attorney'''<br />
''See'' [[E#Ewell|Ewell, Eldred K., Jr.]]

'''''Personnes Qui On Doit'''''<br />
92

'''Peterson, Sidney'''<br />
234;''The Lead Shoes''; 185; "Peterson-shaped directorial chair" 788;''The Cage'' in background of''Good-Looking Men...'', 911; 957; "1947 classic''The Cage'' " fn.24/986; "low-budget classic''The Cage'' , which is mostly about a peripatetic eyeball rolling around" fn.366/1077;

'''Peterson, "Sleepy T.P."'''<br />
115; ETA student; 330;

'''Pettijohn'''<br />
254; ETA teacher

'''P.G.O.A.T.'''<br />
Prettiest Girl Of All Time

'''Phelps and Phelps'''<br />
fn.304/1058; authors of''The Cults of the Unwavering I''

'''Phiely, R. Bill ("Touchy")'''<br />
510; "of California's Rolling Hills Academy"; infamous pediphile

'''Philips Andover Academy'''<br />
915; Gately made false MA driver's licenses for the rich kids there

'''Phob-Comp-Anon'''<br />
961; 12-Step splinter Ass't D.A. attends - codependency-issues

'''Phoenix House'''<br />
503; halfway house in Somerville MA; visited by Fortier, 727;

'''Picasso''', Pablo (1881-1973) <br>
798; "Seated Harlequin" print hanging in Quabbin Recovery Systems; Spanish artist.

'''Pillow-biter'''<br />
274; homosexual

'''Pine Street Inn'''<br />
434; "the biggest and foulest homeless shelter in all of Boston" where Gately works as a janitor

'''Pinker, Steven'''<br />
fn.24/987; debate w/Avril I. which was subject of Himself's''Union of Theoretical Grammarians in Cambridge''

'''pisser'''<br />
204; metro Boston for "really quite wonderful" pronounced PISS-ah

'''Plasmatron-7'''<br />
358; aka Bernard; "industrial-grunge post-punk" at Ennet House

'''Plate, Sylvia'''<br />
593; Gately's foggy memory of Sylvia Plath, an American writer (1932-1963) who committed suicide by sticking in her in an oven

'''Pointgrav&egrave;'''<br />
975; colleague of Bobby C.'s; "had no real loyalties or membership in any community" fn.369/1078

'''Polep'''<br />
17; tennis player in Hal's age group

'''Poor Tony'''<br />
''See'' [[K#Krause|Krause, Tony]]

'''Port Washington Tennis Academy'''<br />
103; I.D. Day; where ETA-PW tennis tournament is held on Long Island; "the Xerox Inc. Of North American tennis academies" 217; "a fancy tri-domed system of permanent all-weather Lung" 258;

'''Posener'''<br />
fn.145/1027; Brandeis film critic

'''Possalthwaite, Todd ("Postal-Weight")'''<br />
98; "the great lobber" at ETA; "endomorphic thirteen-year-old from Edina MN" 330; broken nose, 758; Minneapolis-developer father, fn.324/1068;

'''Post-Coital Vestibulitis'''<br />
928; rare neurological disorder that Yale's star power forward has

'''Poutrincourt, Mlle. Thierry T.'''<br />
309; ETA prorector who taught a class called "Separatism and Return: Qu&eacute;becois History from Frontenac Through the Age of Interdependence" in Qu&eacute;becois French; 523; described, 673, 675; suspects Helen Steeply is neither a "civilian soft-profiler nor even a female" 1052; "History of Canadian Unpleasantness" course, fn.304/1055;

'''Powell's ''Peeping Tom'''''<br />
502; still-posters from in J.O. Incandenza's childhood bedroom in Sepulveda CA (1963)

'''Power-PC'''<br />
417; perhaps the BST Apple Mac computer with RISC processor

'''Presque Isle Maine'''<br />
571; near Loring A.F.B.

'''Pressburger''' or'''Prissburger, Dr.'''<br />
920; w/Gately and gorgeous R.N.

'''Pricket[t], Mrs. Miriam'''<br />
188; endowed-for-perpetuity at ETA; 229

'''Prince Q -------'''<br />
33

'''Prins, Diane'''<br />
fn. 92; Bernadette Longley's doubles partner; 311; 757;

'''prorector'''<br />
ETA post-graduates "who stay on for two years and serve as deLint's" assistants, 283; "teach one marginal class per term and serve as on-court assistants" fn.94;

'''Provident Nursing Home'''<br />
198; near Boston, MA; Hester Thrale works there, 601;

<div id="Madame-Psychosis">'''Psychosis, Madame'''</div>
170; (10/22/YDAU) hosting "Madame Psychosis Hour," M-F 0000h.-0100h., on M.I.T.'s semi-underground WYYY, FM-109, "Largest Whole Prime On The FM Band"; 181; main theme is film and film-cartridges, 185; "issue of enclosure" 189; "strangely empty" voice, 189; music, 190, 191; "Madame's Downer-Lit Hour," 191; 450; 589; inaugural year: YW, 591; 625; "used to read an Eve Arden beauty brochure all the time where [she] says: 'The importance of a mask is to increase your circulation'" 774; mother killed in a garbage disposal, 788; in Gately's dream "with wings and no underwear and asks if they knew him, the dead guy with the head" 934; in Himself's ''Low-Temperature Physics'', fn.24/991; ''See also [[V#JVD|van Dyne, Joelle]]''

'''Public Garden'''<br />
427; Marathe's favorite off-duty place, in Boston MA; draining the pond in November, 621;

'''Puente, Tito'''<br />
22; Latin singer and bandleader (b. Ernesto Antonio Puente, Jr., Apr 20, 1923, NYC.)

'''Purity Supreme Market'''<br />
461; in Allston MA, where Gately shops for Ennet House

'''Purpleboy'''<br />
129; junkie in Boston 

'''''pursuiva le bonheur'''''<br />
427; French: "pursuit of happiness"; "il ne faut plus qu'on pursuive le bonheur" 483; 

==Q==
'''Quabbin Recovery Systems'''<br />
797; where "Inner Infant" group is located, which group Hal happens upon, in Natick MA; "Q.R.S. Infantilist" 954;

'''Qal'at Si'man'''<br />
952;

'''Qu&eacute;becois-Sep&eacute;ratiste Left'''<br />
29; about, 58; 64; 89; 137; alphabetical tally of groups, 144; highway mirrors, 311; fn.110/1011-1; F.L.Q., 1019; 

==R==
'''R., Sven'''<br />
fn.195/1033; Crocodile who was a refinisher and fixed table Gately cracked

<div id="Rader">'''Rader, Graham ("Yard-guard")</div>
60; ETA student; 264; 869;

'''Rafferty'''<br />
fn.234/1038;''New Yorker ''film critic

'''Ram Das'''<br />
212

'''Rancho Vista Golf and Tennis Academy'''<br />
453; from which K.D. Coyle was lured at 13 years old

'''Randolph Tennis Center'''<br />
4

'''RCMP'''<br />
64; Royal Canadian Mounted Police

'''Reality Is For People That Can't Handle Drugs Group'''<br />
707; NA group Joelle v.D. attends

'''Reat, Ross'''<br />
46; of Maddox OH (408); ETA student in Orin's dream; 296; playing E. Clipperton, 408; in Himself's films, 687; picture of, in Clipperton Suite, 759;

'''Reconfiguration'''<br />
92; 1017; Territorial Reconfiguration of NE U.S. and SE Canada, fn.177/1032;

'''recursion'''<br />
picture frames, 229; hand within hand

'''Redondo, Guglielmo'''<br />
759; ETA student; rooms w/Esteban Reynes

'''Reehegan, Mr.'''<br />
fn.234/1044; next-door neighbor of Incandenzas in Weston, who was "so-called 'friends' with" the Moms

<div id="Reese">'''Reese, Equus ("I'll Stick Anything in Any Part of My Body")'''</div>
aka Eckwus, 129; "hideous" &amp; addict acquaintance of Poor Tony's, 300; 683; Gately acquaintance, 887;

'''Reginald'''<br />
37; boyfriend of Wardine

'''Reilly, C. N.'''<br />
fn.24/986; narrated''Annular Fusion Is Our Friend'' ;

'''Ren and Stimpy'''<br />
834; popular TV cartoon of '90s ("''Steempy''! You''seek'' leetle''mawn''key!")

'''Reynes, Esteban'''<br />
759; ETA student; rooms w/ Redondo

'''R.H.I.P.'''<br />
627; 631; rank has its privileges

'''Richardson-Levy-O'Byrne-Chawaf, Ms. Soma'''<br />
154; aka "Soma R.-L.-O. Chawaf"; teaches Literature of Discipline at ETA ; J. Incandenza Jr.'s "loyal sound engineer, Best Boy, production assistant, and third-favorite actress, respectively" 188; 515; played in Himself's''Low-Temperature Physics'', fn.24/991;

'''Rickey''', A.Y. ("Vector-Field")<br />
186; "E.T.A.'s original architect, Avril's old [...] friend, the topology world's closed-curve-mapping &Uuml;bermensch" fn.3/983; designed M.I.T.'s Student Union, his''summum opus''; fn.180/1032;

'''Riley's Roast Beef'''<br />
578; in Union Square in Allston MA

'''Riney, Uncle Lum'''<br />
862; Joelle's Daddy's partner at the shop; "breathed some kind of fume at the shop when I was little, and now he'll always try and climb up on top of shit" 

'''''Robert's Rules'''''<br />
668; "for the Tunnel Club;"; ''Robert's Rules of Order'',  (Henry Martyn Robert ) The Strunk & White for (usu. governmental) meetings, sort of. First published 1876.)

'''Rockwell, Norman'''<br />
271; American painter

'''rodney'''<br />
87; slang for cigarette

'''Romero, Caesar'''<br />
276; actor, played The Joker on the campy Batman TV series.

'''Rousseau, Jean Jacques'''<br />
12; French philosopher  (1712-1778)

'''Roy'''<br />
37; lives with Wardine (brother?)

'''Royal Victoria'''<br />
247;

'''Roy Tony'''<br />
37; Wardine's momma's boyfriend; dealing in Brighton Projects, 129; at Boston NA meeting, 505;

'''Rub'al Khali'''<br />
33, "Sometimes called "the Empty Quarter." 1. A desert region in the southeast interior of the Arabian Peninsula. (''American Heritage Dictionary'')

'''Rusk, Dr. Dolores'''<br />
50; ETA psych-counselor; 252; 437; w/Stice, 550;''Champion An Inner Child Today'' , 551;

'''Ryle's Jazz Club (aka Ryle's Tavern)'''<br />
479; "upscale pub-type bar" in Cambridge MA; Gender-Dysphoric Night, 691; where Marathe &amp; Kate Gompert are drinking, 775; 

==S==
'''SAC'''<br />
63; Strategic Air Command

'''SACPOP'''<br />
324; Eschaton term. Literally: Strikes Against Civilian Populations. Figuratively: to go "postal."

'''Sagan, Carl'''<br />
745; (1934-1996) pop-astronomer of whom Orin does an impression

'''St. Columbkill Sunday Night Group'''<br />
209; 12-Step group; 856;

'''St. Elizabeth's Hospital'''<br />
209; in Boston, MA

'''St. Mel's Hospital'''<br />
86; where Ewell detoxed

'''St.-Simone, Kimberly'''<br />
38

'''samizdat'''<br />
91; Russian: "any sort of politically underground or beyond-the-pale press or the stuff published thereby" 1011; "the Entertainment" as, 490, 549; 658;

'''Sandoz Pharmaceuticals'''<br />
170; where LSD was first created; 927; where Dr. Robert Monroe interned

'''San Simeon'''<br />
952; floor plans for, at Qal'at Si'man

'''Sarge'''<br />
860; "Ferocious Francis's own sponsor, the nearly dead guy they wheel to White Flag"

'''Saturday Night Lively'''<br />
555;

'''S.A.S.'''<br />
138; Substance Abuse Services

'''Saudi Minister of Home Entertainment'''<br />
33

'''Sawyer, Dean'''<br />
7; Dean of Admissions at Univ. of AZ, interviewing Hal

'''Schacht, Ted'''<br />
31; 50; ETA senior; rooms w/Pemulis &amp; Troeltsch; Crohn's Disease, 103, 266, 633; tight with Mario and with Lyle, 263; "doesn't care all that much whether he wins anymore" 306; "thick and solid" 457;

'''Schtitt, Gerhardt'''<br />
52; 70-year-old Head Coach and Athletic Director at ETA; about, 79; "We Are What We Walk Between" 81; in love with a tree, 83; smokes pipe, 391; early supporter of J. Gentle, fn.169/1031; "Traversion is character" fn.234/1039; "self-transcendence through pain" 660; with Mario heading for Evangeline's Low-Temperature Confections, 701; listening to Wagner, 755; 
It seems that his name should look German, but it is not, since if a "t"  follows a "Sch", the "ch" is left out. So the correct way of spelling would be just "Stitt". 

'''Schwulst'''<br />
835; "a poseur like"

'''Scooter-Puppies'''<br />
207; what Boston Bikers refer to themselves as

'''Scorsese, Martin'''<br />
944; American film director (''Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, The Last Waltz, Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, Casino, Kundun,'' etc.)

'''Seinfeld, Jerry'''<br />
834; American comedian and TV actor

'''Selwyn'''<br />
735; paranoid addict who raves about the "metal" people to Maranthe; 748 

'''''senza errori'''''<br />
165; never-miss consistency; 675; (italian: "without errors")

'''Sergeant at Arms'''<br />
359; the well-dressed man outside the Boston AA meetings, in Gately's dream, yanked people out with a shepherd's staff; 463; 468;

'''sexism'''<br />
"high-pitched grunts that if girls could only hear what their own grunts sounded like they'd cut it out" [He''really'' writes that!]

'''Shantell'''<br />
37; lives with Wardine (sister?); daughter of black addict

'''Sharing and Caring'''<br />
546; NA group, St. E's

'''Shattuck Shelter for Homeless Males'''<br />
272; where Gately works as a janitor; 434; 709;

'''Shaw, Colonel'''<br />
223; "equestrian statue of" in Boston, draped in Qu&eacute;becois flag

'''Shaw, Tall Paul'''<br />
50; ETA student; sponsorship, 266;

'''Shed, The'''<br />
196; Unit #5 at Ennet House, where catatonics are "stored"

'''Sherman statutes'''<br />
411;

'''Sherman, W.T. (William Tecumseh)'''<br />
925; "with the ladies"  (1820-1891) "American Union general. Appointed commander of all Union troops in the West (1864), he captured Atlanta (1864) and led a destructive March to the Sea, which effectively cut the Confederacy in two." (American Heritage Dictionary)

'''Shiny Prize Biting Shoats'''<br />
741; KY football team on which the first boy ever to approach Joelle in a male-female way played as a lineman ("half blind on Everclear punch"), 741;

'''Show, the'''<br />
53; pro-level sports, specif. the A.T.P. tour (111); 109; 111; "When you hit the Show is when you'll understand''primitive''" 243; 259; 263; 269;

'''Shuco-Mist Medical Pressure Systems'''<br />
198; near Boston, MA

'''Sidney or Stanley'''<br />
619; "hammered" security guy at Gately/Nuck altercation

'''Sierpinski gasket'''<br />
213; the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierpinski_triangle Sierpinski gasket] (aka Sierpinski triangle) is a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractals fractal] using equilateral triangles; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierpinski Waclaw Sierpinski] (1882-1969), Polish mathmetician

'''Silvie'''<br />
51

'''Sir Osis of Thuliver'''<br />
834; play on words: cirrhosis of the liver.

'''Siress, Erica'''<br />
514; young ETA student

'''Sixties Bob'''<br />
''See'' [[M#Monroe|Monroe, Bob]]

'''Skull'''<br />
208; Ennet House resident

'''Slobodan'''<br />
525; "barrel-chested Latvian" satellite pro (fn.221)

'''slope'''<br />
131; ethnic slur for an Asian person

'''Smith, Burt F.'''<br />
130; (not named) mugged by Poor Tony and left to die; Ennet House resident with no hands or feet, 274;

'''Smith, Stan'''<br />
110; Tennis pro whose cartridge Hal and his Buddies are viewing

'''Smothergill, Phillip T.'''<br />
229; "insufferable child actor"; 714; in Himself's''Low-Temperature Physics'', fn.24/991;

'''Snout'''<br />
582; rock band

'''Sol Hoopi Players'''<br />
583; Don Ho's back-up band

'''Sorkin, Whity'''<br />
131; addict buddy of C's in the days of his youth; scammed by Fackelmann, 886; "the migrainous bookie" 892; "terrible cranio-facial neuralgia" 913; arrives for Fackelmann's demise 

'''''Sorrow and the Pity, The'''''<br />
835; Gately "wiggling his pinkie to indicate the world's smallest viola playing the theme from" (1971 documentary. 4+ hour long French film documenting French attitudes toward the German occupation in WWII and in particular their (the French's) complicity therewith.)

'''special attach&eacute; to the Saudi Minister'''<br />
33

'''Spider, The'''<br />
274; aka the Disease aka addiction/dependence

'''Spodek, Carol'''<br />
102; ETA student; 198; 636; Big Buddy to Kittenplan, 758;

'''sporting lint'''<br />
202; Boston street term for having no money

'''Spur, The'''<br />
154; "outlying district zoned for sprawl" where Pemulis is from (in Allston, MA); 180

'''Star'''<br />
896; aka MDMA, Ecstacy

'''Statue of Liberty'''<br />
"Libertine Statute, wearing some type of enormous adult-design diaper" 33; "other arm holds aloft a product [...] changed each 1 Jan." 367

'''Steenbok, Danielle'''<br />
208; Ennet House alumna &amp; volunteer counselor; Gompert's counselor, 361; rumored to attend Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, 462;

'''Steeply, M. Hugh (aka Helen)'''<br />
88; Unspecified Services field operative; described, 93; his "green sedan subsidized by a painful ad" 107 (see also p.327); "made his early career [...] conducting technical interviews" 108; aka "Helen" the journalist--story about heart-in-a-purse lady, 142; "Putative Curriculum Vitae" of Helen, 227; 317; "assigned to cultivate some of the Entertainment's alleged filmmaker's relatives and inner circles" 375; 1012; going to ETA as "Helen" fn.147/1028; "the ugliest supposedly female feet" 419; what America really wants, 423; 565; 622; at ETA, 627; his father, 638; H.H., 639; kid sister, 643; at Stice/Hal match, 652;

'''stelliform'''<br />
"sharp star of frond-shade" 165; "star's points" 187; Stelliform Cultism, 560; "perfectly round [...] radiating knives of light" 88; "gigantic asterisk shadows" 88; something Lenz talks about; "antihistorical American stelliformism" fn.304/1058; "stelliform offshoots" of''Le Assassins'' " fn.304/1060;

'''stemming'''<br />
203; metro Boston for panhandling

'''Steve's donuts'''<br />
129; junkie hangout in Enfield Squar[e], Boston

'''Stewart, Rod'''<br />
44; British rock singer ("Rod the Mod")

'''Stice, Ortho ("the Darkness")'''<br />
17; patriotic ETA student; big fan of Schtitt, 105; Big Buddy to Wagenknecht; 264; rooms w/Coyle, 394; conferring w/Lyle, 394; fn.185; crewcutted, 520; counterphobia, 550; parents (Mr. Stice and The Bride), 628;11/11/YDAU match w/Hal described, 652; forehead stuck to window, 865; 3 statisticians joke, 867; bed is on the ceiling, 942; bet Coyle "he could stand on his desk chair and lift it up at the same time" 943;

'''Stockhausen'''<br />
281; ETA student on "C" team, singing opera on the bus

'''Stokely-van Camp Corp.'''<br />
329; candded- and frozen vegetable conglomerate (?)

'''Store 24'''<br />
206; where McDade works

'''Stott, Donnie'''<br />
121; ETA student; Donni, 523, 965; "Valley-Map laugher" fn.324/1067;

'''Stove, Betty'''<br />
123; "Power-game tradition"; Dutch tennis player of the mid-70s, winner of numerous Grand Slam doubles titles playing with Wendy Turnbull.

'''Struck, James Albrecht Lockley, Jr.'''<br />
49; of Orinda, CA; ETA student and Big Buddy to Tallat-Kelpsa, Traub &amp; Whale; Gopnik); pet tarantula, 519; wears braces, 638; studying Qu&eacute;bec-separatist history, fn.304/1055; about his dissipated dad, fn.304/1058;

'''student engineer at WYYY'''<br />
82; 239; kidnapped, 622-26; 726-27;

'''Subject, The'''<br />
43; Orin's affectionate moniker for his partners in one-night stands; 566;

'''Subsidized Era'''<br />
151; when corporations sponsor a year, which year the sponsor may name, at the end of which year they sell the sponsorship to the highest bidder; chronology, 223 (first was B.S.2002 ['''note''': I left this 2002 thing in because I couldn't disprove it, but nor can I recall in the text where one can fix subsidized time to "regular" time. In fact when I did it I came up with a different year. I can't recall how I came up with my answer either. -SMR-]; "Subsidized Time," 234; 260; "a revenue-response to the heady costs of the U.S.'s Reconfigurative giveaway" 438; 439-42; fn.304/1057;

'''Sudbury Half-Measures Avail Us Nothing Group'''<br />
563; AA group whose Chair used to be a nuclear auditor for the Defense industry ("used tod wear a four-piece suit and the fourth piece was him")

'''Sunstrand Power &amp; Light'''<br />
342; Himself's ad for, fn.24/986; "like being down at Sunstrand Plaza when they fired the transformers" fn.234/1042; "O.N.A.N.-Sunstrand waste-intensive fusion facility up in what used to be Montpelier"

'''Sutherland, Joan'''<br />
fn.324/1069; theme; (b. 1926, Australian operatic soprano)

'''Svelte Nail Co.'''<br />
540; "just east of Watertown on No. Harvard St." in Boston

'''Sweeny, Chip'''<br />
552; younger ETA student

'''Swinburne''', Algernon Charles. (1837-1909)<br />
fn.269/1047;  British poet and critic who wrote musical, often erotic verse in which he attacked the conventions of Victorian morality. (American Heritage Dictionary)

'''Syrian Satellite Pro'''<br />
216; at ETA for "two paid weeks of corrective instruction" 

==T==
'''Tallat-Kelpsa, Audern'''<br />
118; younger ETA student; 265;

'''Tap &amp; Whack'''<br />
515; grueling tennis drill, aka "Puker"

'''Tarantino, Quentin'''<br />
185; American filmmaker (''Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction'')

'''Tarkovsky, Andrey'''<br />
185; "some Russian guy" (1932-1986), Soviet film director

'''Tassigny'''<br />
722; A.F.R. volunteer to view cartridges; partial colostomy, 725;

'''TaTung Corp.'''<br />
975; box carried by a "very bland groomed collegeish guy in a Wembley tie, during Fackelmann's demise

'''Tavis, Charles ("C.T."), Ed.D.'''<br />
3; bald, plump &amp; 48 years old (314); Headmaster at Enfield Tennis Academy; half-brother of Avril Incandenza; "a former engineer most recently employed in Amateur Sports Administration at Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada" 64; "either Mrs. Incandenza's half-brother or adoptive brother, depending on the version' 81; "his collection of platform shoes and unconvincing hairpieces and StairMaster" 253; 285; becomes Assistant Headmaster at ETA, 286-87; possibly Mario's biological father, 451; "a reverse-Buddhism, a state of Total Worry" 451; background, 516; "possibly the openest man of all time" "a cross-section of a person" 517; 526; 655; "a master charmer past all social gauge" fn.266/1046; "Gretel the Cross-Sectioned Dairy Cow" fn.269/1048; "misadventure at Himself's funeral" 907, 910;

'''Tavis, Elizabeth'''<br />
901; Avril's step-mother, "an American widow [who] seems almost certainly to have been a dwarf" 901; "still alive and somewhere in Alberta" 953; 

'''''tecato gusano'''''<br />
200; "some kind of interior psychic worm that cannot be sated or killed" (Latin slang for one's addiction)

'''''Tech Talk Daily'''''<br />
182; CD-ROM student paper at MIT

'''teleputer'''<br />
''See'' [[#TP|TP]]

'''Tenderhole, Bridget'''<br />
300; Boston prostitute who copes for Poor Tony

'''tennis'''<br />
and drugs, 67; combination of chess &amp; boxing, 81; Schtitt's theories on, 81-84; "The true oponent, the enfolding boundary, is the player himself" 84; Stan Smith cartridge, 110; "It's an individual sport" 112; 3 types of student (Despairing; Obsessive; Complacent), 115; "sheer repetitive weight makes it sink down into the gut" 117; and Brando, 158; the ball, 160; The Zone, 166; service,172; seeding, 174; in the groove, 242-43; 258; "largely mental" 269; college recruiting, 284; after achieving top ranking, 436; the Fresno family that's poisoned, 436; dawn drills, 452; "This second world inside the lines" 459; "junior players don't have the emotional juice left over after tennis to face what dating requires" 635; "Axiom: the man who has to hit up from the net is going to get passed" 653; what top tennis requires, 675-76; famous burnouts, 676;''Billboard Who Walks'', 676;''gestalt'' or''complete game'', 679; "ability to transcend the goal" 680; Sydrome of the Endless Party, 681; "Life is like tennis. Those who serve best usually win." 952; match-wrap, 966; ''See also'' [[S#Show|Show, the]];

'''Terminex'''<br />
44; roach exterminators in Phoenix, AZ. (No evident relation to Terminix.)

'''Thode, Mary Esther'''<br />
113; "Girls 16's/18's prorecter" at ETA (338); "regarded by the upperclassmen as probably insane" 307; "The Toothless Predator: Breast-Feeding as Sexual Assault" 307; takes lots of thiamine, 339; her sister Ruth, a senior at ETA during Orin's time, 955

'''Thorp, Corbett'''<br />
188; prorector who teaches Trigonometry of Cubes at ETA; prorector in Hal's dorm, fn.82; "Deviant Geometries" 306; terrible stutter, 456;

'''Thrale, Hester'''<br />
180; female Ennet House resident; Earth tatooed on her stomach, 207; Alfa Romeo gets towed, 823;

'''Thrust, Calvin'''<br />
195; Ennet House alumnus &amp; volunteer counselor, former NYC porno actor; Bruce Green's counselor, 582; cartridge Gately saw of Thrust having sex with a lady with only one arm" 819; recounting Ennet House fight w/Nucks to Gately, 819-21; air of imminent departure, 823; 

'''''Tilden on Spin'''''<br />
171; Tennis book written in 1937

'''Tilden, Bill'''<br />
289; tennis champ of early 20th century. Book''Tilden On Spin'', p.171

'''Tine, Rodney, Sr.'''<br />
92; Chief of Office of Unspecified Services; acknowledged architect of O.N.A.N. and continental Reconfiguration; and Luria P.("a great and timeless love"), 94, 105-06; 312; 392; "former O.C.D.-support-group-sponsor and later Clean U.S. Party campaign manager" fn.156/1030; penis measuring, 548; in State House Annex, 622; White House Adviser on Interdependent Relations, 876;

'''Tine, Rodney, Jr.'''<br />
622; D.S.S. Regional Operative; meeting re ads telling kids not to watch dubious entertainment cartridges

'''Tingly (Tingley)'''<br />
208; Ennet House resident; "stout alcoholic kid" 609;

'''T&ouml;blerone'''<br />
34; chocolate candy imported from Switzerland; 48

'''Tode, Mary Esther'''<br />
80; prorector at ETA

'''Tolan, Billy'''<br />
fn.24/987; plays academic in Himself's''Fun with Teeth''

'''Tolstoy''', Count Leo, (Lev Nikolayevich)<br />
95; sentence syntax; (1828-1910) Russian writer/philosopher. (''War and Peace, Anna Kerenina'')

'''Tommy S. or F.'''<br />
364; U.H.I.D. member at AA meeting;

'''Tooty'''<br />
961; wife of Ass't D.A. after Gately 

'''''Tosca'''''<br />
what Hal listened to over and over after Himself died, 41; "protracted death-aria from" "There is no music for free-floating misery like''Tosca''" 896; Puccini aria.

'''''Totalitarian's Guide to Iron-Fisted Spin'''''<br />
404; by Pol and Diang

'''Toucan Sam'''<br />
880; cartoon character; (for Froot Loops cereal, a la "Tony The Tiger")

<div id="Tough">'''Tough Shit But You Still Can't Drink'''</div>
442; AA Group in Braintree

<div id="TP">'''TP'''</div>
20; Teleputer: combination television/VCR/computer/videophone; power-Tps described, 60; "difference [...] between your historical broadcast TV set and a cartridge-capable TP" 96; "InterLace-designed R.I.S.C.-grade High Def-screen Pcs with mimetic-resolution cartridge-view motherboards" 417;

'''Trappist monks'''<br />
705; Catholic monks who have taken a vow of silence

'''Traub, Philip'''<br />
118; younger ETA student

'''Treat, Charlotte'''<br />
207; Ennet House resident; 270; "violently red hair" &amp; former prostitute &amp; HIV-positive, 277; "secret dream [...] to get her G.E.D. and become a dental hygienist" 575; "father had been one-time Chair of the Northeast Regional Board of Dental Anesthesiologists" fn.239/1044; developed "goopy Virus-related eye infection" 826;

'''Tree, Sir Herbert'''<br />
185; "hoary dramaturgy of" British actor/stage director of late 1800s/earlt 1900s.

'''Tree Lady'''<br />
196; catatonic at The Shed who comes out and touches the tree in #5's lawn

'''Treffert, Gilbert'''<br />
757; tennis pro (possibly fictional)

'''Triple Bind'''<br />
441; faced by Gentle's administration: "Outflows required, inflows restricted, balance demanded"

'''trivium'''<br />
8; 188; (see FN # 64)

'''Troeltsch, Jim'''<br />
50; ETA student and Big Buddy; rooms w/Pemulis &amp; Schacht; "promoting" Pemulis's Tenuate, 60, fn.5a.983; "constant 'drines" 267; wants a tennis-broadcasting career, 308; "left-eye-nystamic" 329; paranoid about powdered milk, 630; "and sex: no way" 634; 673; "heavy-browed red-nostriled kid" 677; sleeping in Axhandle's room, 869;

'''Trudeau, Pierre'''<br />
282; PM of Canada

'''TSBYSCD'''<br />
443; ''See'' [[#Tough|Tough Shit But You Still Can't Drink]]

'''Turner'''<br />
922; "fake-Turner fog-and-boat print" on Gately's hospital room wall

'''Turner, Ted'''<br />
411; owned TBS cable TV network; 473 

'''''Turner Diaries, The'''''<br />
903; lectured on by the Naval M.P. [?? Orkin man, see line 25] to young Gately; 1978 novel by William Pierce (pen name Andrew Macdonald), leader of the neo-Nazi National Alliance. About an Aryan revolution that deposes the US government. 

==U==
'''U.H.I.D.'''<br />
533; see'''Union of the Hideously and Improbably Deformed'''

'''Uncle T.S.'''<br />
738; Joelle's Personal Daddy's uncle

'''''Under the Volcano'''''<br />
191; "depressing book" read by [[M#Madame-Psychosis|Madame Psychosis]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_volcano ''Under the Volcano''] (1947) was written by Malcolm Lowry)

'''Unexamined Life, The ("T.U.L.")'''<br />
50; tavern in Enfield, MA, with Blind Bouncer; 476; 997; 581;

'''Union of the Hideously and Improbably Deformed (U.H.I.D.)'''<br />
187; "an agnostic-style 12-step support-group"; an 11-step support group; Madame Psychosis reads their announcement on the air at WYYY; "The fatally pulchritudinous" 190; "unofficially founded in London in B.S. 1940 [to] afford the scopophobic empathic fellowship and the genesis of sturdy inner resources through shame-free and unconstrained concealment" 226; "Compelling Within Compatible Limits" 231; 317; 363; explicated, 533; and Bud O.'s wife, 844;

'''Universal Bleacher'''<br />
710; where black addict worked; 

<div id="Unspecified-Services">'''Unspecified Services, Office of'''</div>
88; aka''Bureau des Services sans Sp&eacute;cificit&eacute;'' (B.S.S.); 382; why A.F.R. gives them the fantods, 420; encompasses Nat'l Security Agency, "A.T.F. and D.E.A., C.I.A. and O.N.R. and Secret Service" fn.228/1037

'''Unwin, Frannie'''<br />
50; ETA student; 264; 682; described, 703;

'''Updike, John'''<br />
fn.24/987; American novelist parodied in Himself's''Fun with Teeth''

'''U.S.D.D.'''<br />
65; possibly US Dept. of Defense (usu. abbreviated DOD)

'''U.S.O.U.S.'''<br />
''See'' [[#Unspecified-Services|Unspecified Services]]

==V==
'''vade mecum'''<br />
156; " A useful thing that one constantly carries about; A book, such as a guidebook, for ready reference." (''American Heritage Dictionary'')

'''Valayat, Pir'''<br />
34 ; promulgater of "North American sufism"

'''van Cleve, Ruth'''<br />
595; "brand-new Court-Ordered female" at Ennet House "who looks like one of those people you see in pictures of African famine"; 698; dumped her baby in an alley, 699; purse snatched by Poor Tony, 714;

'''van der Meer, Dennis'''<br />
82; "a Dutch immigrant low-level pro who became a major pro coach and tennis-education-theory guru" (fn.184); 457;

'''van der Rohe'''<br />
191; architect

'''Vandervoort'''<br />
fn.209/1035; senior male ETA student

<div id="JVD">'''van Dyne, Joelle'''</div>
219; "retreat into broadcast sound" 220; wears a linen veil, 220; contemplating "the absolute end of her life and beauty" 221; "excruciatingly alive and encaged" 222; "veilless [...] like some grotesque clown" 223; involved w/Jim Incandenza, Jr., 224; "after the acid, after first Orin left and then Jim came and made her sit through that filmed apology-scene and then vanished and then came back" 225; "Imitate the wife and mother they both declined to shoot" 225; aka Madame P., 225; formerly lived w/Orin I., 227; living on Himself's "generous trust" 228; "has never seen the completed assembly of what she'd appeared in [...] and doubts that any sum of scenes as pathologic as he'd stuck that long quartzy auto-wobbling lens on the camera and filmed her for could have been as entertaining as he'd said the thing he'd always wanted to make had broken his heart by ending up" 228; "mirror of quality plate" 229; background, 234; "deveiled, too pretty for words, maybe the Prettiest Girl of All Time" 239, 290; 249; 289; "the prettiness getting visibly worse day by day" 298; admitted to Ennet House on 11/8/YDAU, 345 (&amp; fn.134); 361; 364; vegetarian, 475; talking w/Gately, 531; the veil, 533; "I'm so beautiful I drive anybody with a nervous system out of their fucking mind" 538; aka "Joe L."543; in''I.J.'' , 549; 563; "after [J.v.D.] had been disfigured" 634; considering showing someone "the face" 710; obsessing on her teeth, 723; dream of Gately, 724; and cleaning, 736; and earplugs, 736; and Orin, 736; aka "Pokie" 737; introduced to Himself by Orin, 739; majored in "Film/Cartridge Studies" at MIT, 743; "terrible accident and deformation" 790; father "a low-pH chemist for a Kentucky reagent outfit" 792; the horrible accident described, 793; real name: Lucille Duquette, 795; bull named Mr. Man and mule named Chet, 861; being interrogated by B.S.S., 938-41; returning to Ennet House after interrogation and seeing in parked in front "the Middlesex County Sheriff's car [with] a uniform at the wheel absently feeling his face" 958; ''See also'' [[P#Madame-Psychosis|Madame Psychosis]]

'''van Dyne, Joe Lon'''<br />
295; Joelle's father, of Shiny Prize, KY, and of the Dyne-Riney Proton Donor Reagent Corp. Of Boaz KY; 315; still "sucking air" 563; mother died same Thanksgiving Day that Joelle had "irreparable facial trauma" 791; real name: "Earl or Al Duquette of extreme southeast KY" 795; never named dogs, 861;

'''van Slack, Duncan'''<br />
fn.148/1029; ETA student; "kid who carried a guitar around with himself everyplace but never played it" fn.324/1071;

'''van Vleck, Brian'''<br />
115; ETA student; 460;

'''VAPS'''<br />
265; ETA term for Vector/Angle/Pace/Spin; 568;

'''Vaught Caryn'''<br />
214; 17-year-old ETA student &amp; twin of Sharyn, from Akron, OH; ONAN's top-ranked junior women's doubles team (w/Sharyn); "special one-match doubles exhibition" 217; twins "play as one" 218; 661;

'''Vaught, Sharyn'''<br />
214; 17-year-old ETA student &amp; twin of Caryn, from Akron, OH; ONAN's top-ranked junior women's doubles team (w/Caryn); "special one-match doubles exhibition" 217; 661;

'''V.D.'''<br />
281; Victory by Default

'''Veach'''<br />
259; #1 American tennis "kid", in Florida

'''Veals, P. Tom'''<br />
415; co-owner of Viney and Veals; Gentle's campaign manager, 418; Veals Associates Advertising, 440; 11/20/YDAU meeting re ads warning against viewing dubious entertainment cartridges, 876;

'''Velvety Vocalists Guild'''<br />
381; "the tanned, gold-chained labor union" headed by Johnny Gentle; enforced "Live Silence" strike-thing

'''videophony'''<br />
64; 190; stress, 144-51;''Video-Physiognomic Dysphoria'' (VPD), 147;''Transmittable Tableau'' (TT), 149;''Optimistic Misrepresentational Masking'' (OMM), 149; Tableaux, 149, fn.234/1039;

'''Vienna, Virginia Szechuan steakhouse'''<br />
411; "where ... Subsidized Tim was conceived";

'''vig'''<br />
204; street argot for the bookmaker's commission on an illegal bet

'''Viney and Veals Advertising'''<br />
360; in Boston MA; orchestrated cable campaign against the Big Four; 393; 412;

'''Vinoy, Kely'''<br />
129; prostitute in Boston

'''Vogelsong'''<br />
231; of Emerson College, at Notkin's party 

==W==
'''W., Bill'''<br />
833; founder of AA; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_W. Bill Wilson] (1895-1971)

'''Wagenknecht, Stephen'''<br />
119; younger ETA student; 1017

'''Waite, Mrs.'''<br />
447; neighbor of Gately's as a child; about, 847; suicide, 848

'''Wall, The'''<br />
571

'''Wardine'''<br />
37

<div id="WardJune">'''Ward and June'''</div>
93; progenitors of feral hamsters; (presumably named after Ward and June Cleaver, parents of Wally and The Beaver in 1957 - 1963 b/w feel-goody sitcom "Leave It To Beaver.")

'''Ward-and-Wally'''<br />
931; father and son in 50s TV sitcom "Leave It To Beaver" (''See'' [[#WardJune|Ward and June]], above)

'''Watson, Tex'''<br />
98; ETA prorector; 306; teaches "energy in models of resource-scarcity and resource-plenty [...] fossil fuels all the way up to annular fusion/fission cycles" 569; ['''Note''': Tex Watson is the name of one of the members of Charles Manson's clan that slaughtered Sharon Tate, her unborn child, and four house guests in August, 1969.]

'''Watt, Cosgrove'''<br />
Hal: "I think very briefly of the late" 16; 941; in''Accomplice!''; "one of the very few professional actors Himself ever used" 944; lived with his mother and her cats in Glen Riddle PA, 944; "Himself had actually put Watt, mother, and cats up in a contiguous suite of what later became prorectors' rooms off the main E.T.A. tunnel, the Moms [...] instructing Orin, Mario, and [Hal] never ever to remain in a room alone with Watt" 944; in Himself's ''Various Small Flames'', fn.24/988; plays CEO father in Himself's ''Low-Temperature Physics'', fn.24/991

'''Watteau-era'''<br />
68; rococo style; (Jean-Antoine Watteau. French Rococo Era
Painter, 1684-1721)

'''Watts, Dr. Allan'''<br />
170; writer of popular books on Zen Buddhism &amp; Eastern philosophy

'''Wayne something'''<br />
856; 19-year-old-who-looked 40 who Joelle saw at St. Columbkill meeting; had a 10-year blackout; deep diagonal furrow in face "the Flaw"

'''Wayne''', John ("No Relation")<br />
"standing watch in a mask as Donald Gately and [Hal] dig up [Hal's] father's head" 16; 17-year-old Canadian student and best tennis player at ETA; dinners at HmH w/Incandenzas, 192; from Montcerf, Qu&eacute;bec ("an asbestos-mining town"), 259; his tennis game ("an automatic beauty"), 260-63; hangs out with other morose "Nucks" 263; w/Avril, 552; 681; WETA incident, 899; "had been involved with the Moms sexually since roughly the second month after his arrival" (according to Hal), 957; "Troeltsch's got Wayne on the air and Wayne's lost his mind" fn.324/1072; "jury-rigged the Duke into candid sharing for the WETA broadcast" fn.332/1073; imitation of C.T. asking a cheerleader out, fn.332/1074; "public castigations of his various peers and instructors" fn.332/1074

'''Wayne, Bernard'''<br />
fn.304/1060; asbestos miner's son, the sole participant in ''le Jeu'' who did not jump

'''Weaver stance'''<br />
609; (two-handed shooting stance with the weapon arms slightly bent to absorb recoil. Seen in countless movies where police have time to set up (e.g., outside a suspect's hotel door). Supposedly named after one Jack Weaver, though &#151; also supposedly &#151; Weaver did not invent it.)

'''Welch, Raquel'''<br />
371; phenomenally voluptuous 1970s American actress

'''Weld'''<br />
815; former president of I.B.E.W. during whose administration [[E#Ewell|Ewell's]] father lost the I.B.E.W. account

'''Wellesley Hills Skating Club'''<br />
716; where Kate Gompert played crack the whip as a child during "Wee Blades' Toddler Skating Hour" 716

'''''Weltschmerz'''''<br />
694; German: world-weariness

'''Weston''' <br />
10; suburb of Tucson AZ, where the Incandenzas lived when Hal ate the mold; aka "Volvoland" fn.234/1041

'''wet work'''<br />
130; involving bloodshed

'''Whale, Carl ("Mobes")'''<br />
119; 13-year-old ETA student; 568; rooms w/"Beak" and "Virgilio" 757

'''[[Pages_3-27#whataburger|WhataBurger]] Southwest Junior Invitational'''<br />
4; 14-16; held during Thanksgiving week at Randolph Tennis Center in Tucson AZ, 217

'''Whatever's Beyond Eidetic'''<br />
317; "on the Mnemonic Verbal Inventory" Hal tested on, eidetic meaning extraordinarily detailed and vivid visual recall.

'''Wheelchair Assassins of Southern Qu&eacute;bec'''<br />
89; "remote embryonic disseminatory Ops base in AZ", 106; "of the E.W.D.-receptacle-festooned Papineau region of southwestern Qu&eacute;bec", 1022; "penchant for showing off", 419; and the Antitoi brothers, 484-88; "suicidal Nuck cult [...] that worshipped a form of Russian Roulette that involved jumping in front of trains", 560; at Antitois, 719; intentions, 722, fn.304/1057; about, fn.304/1055-62; "To hear the squeak", fn.304/1057

'''WHINERS'''<br />
1050; (see '''Wounded, Hurting, Inadequately Nurtured but Ever-Recovering Survivors''')

'''whinge'''<br />
441; "east-Canadian idiom for vigorous high-pitched complaining, almost like whining except with a semantic tinge of legitimacy to the complaint"

'''White, Coach Kirk'''<br />
4; Univ. of Arizona varsity tennis coach

'''White Flag'''<br />
209, a Boston AA group; "old guys with suspendered bellies and white crew cuts and geologic amounts of sober time, the Crocodiles", 278; meet at Provident Nursing Home on Hanneman Street, a couple blocks from ETA, 343; 354

'''Wichardson, Wonnie'''<br />
181; "petwoleum jelly salesman outta of Bwookline"; USMC flier who always comes to Nickerson Stadium to give away petroleum-jelly samples, 295

'''Wilander, Mats'''<br />
757; Swedish tennis pro; b. 1964, appeared in eleven grand slam finals from from 1982 - 1988, winning seven (3 Australian Opens, 3 French Opens, 1 US Open)

'''William'''<br />
37; lives with Wardine (brother?)

'''Williams, Venus'''<br />
17; famous tennis pro? Power-game tradition; 1012; (b. 17June80. As I'm keying this in--on 6/24/02-- Venus has won four grand slams and her sister Serena has won two. They are currently ranked 1 and 2 in the world respectively.) [Note the question mark, which should date the initial version of this index rather nicely. Also note that Venus won her first professional tennis match in October of 1994 but did not win her first major until July of 2000. And finally, note that Wallace wrote Infinite Jest from 1993 - 1996. Hell of a guess, eh?)

'''Willis, Dick'''<br />
647; "empty of intent"

<div id="Willis">'''Willis, Yolanda'''</div>
508; Ennet House resident "on the I/O nightshift" at B.S.S.; 565; being sexually harassed by Lenz, 565; 601; during Gately/Nuck fight, 614; spiked her heel through Nuck's eye and killed him, 827

'''Wingo, Amy'''<br />
fn.209/1035; ETA student

'''Winkler, Henry'''<br />
415; "hairless and sugar-addicted in La Honda CA" in 1999; (as implied in the text, Winkler played the astronomically popular character of Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli on the 1970s TV sitcom Happy Days)

'''Winter Hill Special School'''<br />
188; in Cambridgeport, MA; Mario's school until 3 years before Y.D.A.U.

'''Wo, Dr.'''<br />
131; Chinese high-priced-dope dealer in Hung Toy's Cold Tea Emporium in Chinatown; 300; where Facklemann purchases bulk Dilaudid, 931

'''WODS'''<br />
589; station Mario listens to: "narcotizing orchestral arrangements of old Carpenters songs" 589

'''Woman with Big Breast'''<br />
16; giganticism

'''Words to Live By'''<br />
"evil people never believe they are evil, but rather that ''everyone else'' is evil", 202; "you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do", 203

'''works'''<br />
129; hypodermic needle, spoon, tie, i.e., a junkie's hardware

'''w/r/t'''<br />
with respect to

'''Wounded, Hurting, Inadequately Nurtured but Ever-Recovering Survivors'''<br />
372; 12-step program for incest and child-abuse survivors, to which Joelle belongs

'''WYYY'''<br />
170; FM-109; "Largest Whole Prime On The FM Band", out of MIT in Cambridge, MA; "Those Were the Legends That Formerly Were" 181-82; 450; 726; 769; "doing its weather-report via mimesis, broadcasting raw static" 949

==X==
'''Xanax'''<br />
475; addictive drug; fn.199

==Y==
'''''Yale Journal of Alcohol Studies'''''<br />
898;

'''Yard-Guard'''<br />
''See'' [[R#Rader|Rader, Graham]]

'''Y.C.A.'''<br />
577;

'''Yee, Carl E. ("Buster")'''<br />
876; Director of Marketing and Product-Perception, Glad Flaccid Receptacle Corporation

'''Yevtuschenko, Yevgeny'''<br />
70; 695;''psychotic depression''; (Russian poet. "In the early '60s -- when Soviet Communism briefly softened --Mikhail Gorbachev heard him read his poetry and was changed instantly. Thus the seed was planted that would later bear the fruit of glasnost, perestroika, and the fall of Soviet power." - Wall Street Journal, 31Oct2000)

'''Yolanda'''<br />
''See'' [[W#Willis|Willis, Yolanda]]

'''yrstruly'''<br />
''See'' [[M#Minty|Minty, Emil]]

==Z==
'''Zegarelli, E., D.D.S.'''<br />
27; ETA dentist under Group Plan; 509; 526; 1010; fn.352/1077;

'''Zog'''<br />
903; lectured on by the Naval M.P. [?? Orkin man, see line 25] to young Gately; Antisemitic/white-supremacist/extremist acronym for Zionist Occupied Government.

'''Zone, The'''<br />
"when you feel perfectly calibrated" 242; "self-consciousness that kills the magic [...] Tightening Up" 249; "I was in The Zone, therapeutically speaking" 256; "a pitcher who has a no-hitter going" 260; 

'''''Zuckung'''''<br />
303;

'''Zweig, Felicity'''<br />
756; young student at ETA; 761

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