Changes
{{PbP Header}}
==Page 983==
==Endnote 3==
'''cardioid'''<br />
In geometry, a cardioid is a plane curve produced by tracing the path of a chosen point of a circle which rolls around a fixed circle. The cardioid shape of E.T.A. has one cusp, i.e., a point on the curve that is not smooth. The ''r'' referred to by the narrator here is the radius of the moving circle.
'''Übermensch'''<br />
German for "superhuman"
'''Brandeis'''<br />
Brandeis is a Jewish-founded university in Waltham, Mass., about nine miles west of Boston, named for Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941) the first Jewish Supreme Court justice.
==Endnote 5==
'''N.B.'''<br />
abbreviation for Latin ''nota bene'', i.e., "note well," stated before an important example or corollary point
==Endnote 5a==
'''nystagmus'''<br />
involuntary eye movement
'''entrepôt'''<br />
French for "warehouse," this is where foreign merchandise can be purchased duty-free
'''loquacity'''<br />
talkativeness
==Endnote 6==
'''Halcion (still available in Canada, unbelievably, still)'''<br />
It's also still available here, though the U.K. has banned it since 1991.
==984==
==Endnote 7==
'''bevelling'''<br />
Here meaning "smoothed out" and misspelled, beveling is the making of 45º angles where perpendiculars meet.
==Endnote 8==
==Endnote 8a==
'''Muscimole'''<br />
another mushroom-based hallucinogen, like psilocybin
'''DDMS'''<br />
dibromododecenyl methylsulfimide
'''DMSO'''<br />
dimethylsulfoxide
==Endnote 8 (cont'd)==
'''dickies'''<br />
As a dickie is designed to give the appearance of wearing a tie, Wallace uses this word here to deal with drugs that mimic the effects of other drugs.
'''MMDA, DMA, DMMM, 2CB, para-DOT I-VI'''<br />
You can read about MMDA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMDA_%28psychedelic%29 here], DMA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethoxyamphetamine here], 2CB [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2CB here], DOT [http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_Chemical.jsp?Rec_Id=PC35343 here] (apparently). DMMM appears to be made up.
'''CNS'''<br />
central nervous system
'''gamma hydroxybutric acid'''<br />
now more commonly known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-Hydroxybutyric_acid GHB]
'''DMZ/M.P.'''<br />
DMZ is another made-up drug. M.P. is probably Michael Pemulis.
==Endnote 12a==
'''"...Continental Controlled Substances Act of Y.T.M.P., O.N.A.N.D.E.A.'s hierarchy of analgesics/antipyretics/axiolytics..."'''<br />
There is no such act, obviously. Y.T.M.P. is [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]. The second acronym is Organization of North American Nations Drug Enforcement Agency. Analgesics are painkillers. Antipyretics are fever-reducing drugs, and anxiolytics are anxiety-reducing drugs.
==Endnote 13==
'''Quo Vadis'''<br />
Latin: Where are you going? Famously asked of Jesus by Peter when the former was on his way to be crucified. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quo_vadis here.] Also a novel and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043949/ film] by that name were made.
==Page 985==
==Endnote 17==
'''datum'''<br />
piece of information
==Endnote 19==
French: A person of terrible importance
==Endnote 21==
'''Q.v.'''<br />
Latin abbreviation for ''quod vide'' ("which see"), used to direct a reader elsewhere in a book. Here we are directed to...
==Endnote 23==
'''U.S.D.D.'''<br />
United States Department of Defense
==Page 1035==
==Endnote 211==
'''suborn'''<br />
to bribe or induce someone to commit a crime or misdeed
<span class="marker">Endnote 234 · Excerpts From Orin's Interview With ''Moment''</span>
