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Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079

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==Endnote 269 · Steeply-Bain Correspondence=====Page 1047== [[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]=
''' 'After my own parents were horribly killed on the Jamaica Way commuter road one morning in the freak crash of a radio traffic-report helicopter . . .' '''<br />
relevant
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'''fairly high-sodium way'''<br />
denoting psychologic dependence
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'''prevarication'''<br />
probably a reference to Dr. Samuel Johnson, the lexicographer
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'''Steeples'''<br />
very talkative
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'''Starkly'''<br />
clearly expressed
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'''multivalent'''<br />
This isn't even close to Steeply's name.
===Endnote 321· Hal's DMZ Dream=== '''(==Page 1063-1066)''' [[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]===
'''Rise Over Run'''<br />
'''covers'''<br />
songs written by other people than yourself
===Page 1064===
'''Digestive-Flora'''<br />
bacteria that live in the intestine and aid in digestion
'''Blue Flames'''<br />
apparently some sort of drug
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'''O<sub>2</sub>'''<br />
oxygen
a character from [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032910/ Pinocchio]
===Endnote 324=== [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]
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'''moon'''<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]
===Page 1066 (cont'd)===
'''whorl'''<br />
plural of "funiculus," i.e., part of the spinal cord
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'''gonions'''<br />
a euphemism for "penis"
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'''welching'''<br />
here used to mean "irritant"
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'''canvas restraint-wrap'''<br />
full of thin mucous
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'''Bedouins'''<br />
stupid
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===Endnote 324f===
one of the airports serving Paris
===Page 1071 (cont'd)===
'''redoubted'''<br />
a town about 40 miles west-northwest of the Twin Cities
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''' "Leap like a knight of faith . . ." '''<br />
Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) was an American mathematician. Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) was a German mathematician. Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a German mathematician and logician. Green is probably George Green (1793-1841), English mathematician and physicist.
===Endnote 332===
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'''jury-rigged'''<br />
a corruption of "jerry-rigged" (a pejorative term about Germans), which basically means rigged in a makeshift, ad hod manner
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'''nictitater'''<br />
criticisms; reprimands
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'''loupes'''<br />
part of an old Irish blessing
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'''incubus'''<br />
a male demon that seduces female humans
 
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'''glycerine'''<br />
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