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964 · Pre-Exhibition Fête
Contents
Page 964
Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment
claret-colored
A deep purplish red. Also the name of a wine that is produced in the Bordeaux region of France.
fuller's earth
Fuller's earth is any non-plastic clay or claylike earthy material that can be used to decolorize, filter, and purify animal, mineral, and vegetable oils and greases. Wikipedia
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pigeon-toed
having toes that point inward, like this: / \
antigens
a molecule that stimulates immune response
piaffer
the trotting of a horse in one place with raised legs
hip-flexors
the muscles that move the hip
fey
effeminate
Camilla
a figure from Roman mythology
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Frankenstein
or, more correctly, Frankenstein's monster
Hal
who is clearly not narrating anymore, unless he is speaking of himself in the third person
malleolus
a bony lump on the side of the ankle
Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell (born Roberta Joan Anderson in 1943) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter.
ingenuish
in the manner of an innocent young woman
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ciquatoxic
referring to a poison produced by certain fish
P.O.
philharmonic orchestra
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Sanger-Brown's ataxia
another name for Marie's ataxia
practicum
the student-teaching portion of a teaching education
ineluctable
incapable of being avoided
Apologia
in this sense, not an apology but a defense
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self-mimetic
imitating one's self
Brothers K.
The Brother's Karamazov, a novel by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), Russian novelist
erudite
scholarly
carcinogenic
causing cancer
acerbity
acidity
Ivan's Grand Inquisitor scenario
Read this portion here.
lumpen
disenfrancished
solar plexus
a complex of nerves in the abdomen
verminousness
resembling vermin
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alms
charity
silt
very small grains of rock or sand
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fuliginous
smoky or sooty
50° C
122° Fahrenheit
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ham
an actor who is bad by virtue of over-acting
972 · Final Chapter
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confiteor
a prayer of confession of sins
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"...look down her shirt and spell attic..."
and thus saying, "A-T-T-I-C" or "a titty I see"
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vertical hold
the control on a television that prevents the picture from rolling bottom to top
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Weejuns
a type of shoe, see here
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Jack Daniels
a famous brand of bourbon whiskey
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S&W
Smith & Wesson
2500-IU ampule
IUs are international units, which converts to metric depending on the substance.
transvestals
i.e., transvestites
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Endnote 386
Exocet
a type of missile
antagonists
a drug that acts against an agonist, i.e., a drug that stimulates a certain receptor
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Linda McCartney
Linda Louise, Lady McCartney (1941-1998) was an American photographer and wife of Beatle Paul McCartney (born 1943).
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Endnote 387
pentazocine
a synethetic opioid painkiller
Endnote 387a
dysmenorrhea
pre-menstrual syndrome and/or painful periods
hot shot
an injection intended to kill
PX
with a pharmaceutical as part of the name, it means it contains pentazocine
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ditty
a little song
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"...the one about ultraviolence and sadism."
Gately is thinking of Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange
