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964 · Pre-Exhibition Fête
Contents
Page 964
Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment
claret-colored
A deep purplish red. Claret is also the name of a wine that is produced in the Bordeaux region of France and slang for 'blood'.[1]
fuller's earth or sawdust
Fuller's earth is an absorbent clay that is used in talcum powder. Sawdust and chalk (talcum) are used by tennis players to keep their grip dry.
[2]
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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
invoking Camilla, goddess of speed and light step
Camilla of Volsci, a heroine from Roman Mythology, found in Virgil's prose and ancient pottery paintings. Virgil claimed Camilla was so fast that she could run across the ocean without wetting her feet and across fields of grain without bending the grass. [3] To 'invoke' is to petition for help with an incantation.[4]
As part of their pre-match ritual, the female players, Thode and Donni Stott, can be heard praying to or otherwise petitioning Camilla whose light footed speed may translate to success on the court.
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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
