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'''''GAUDEAMUS IGITUR''''' 
Latin: Let Us Rejoice. The first line of (and alternative title for) the student song [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaudeamus_igitur 'De Brevitate Vitae'], often sung at graduation ceremonies.

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'''Eschaton''' 
The name of the game is based on "eschatology" (from the Greek ἔσχατος, Eschatos meaning "last" and -logy meaning "the study of") which is a part of theology and philosophy concerned with what is believed to be the final events in the history of the world, or the ultimate destiny of humanity, commonly referred to as the end of the world. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatology Wikipedia]

'''frisson''' 
a sudden sense of excitement

'''puerile''' 
childish

'''Wilmington DE''' 
a city 30 miles southwest of Philadelphia

'''''vademecum''ish''' 
vade mecum - Latin for "go with me"; like a reference handbook intended to be carried everywhere.

[[Subsidized Time|Y.P.W]]

'''Bunyan''' 
John Bunyan (1628-1688) was an English-Calvinist preacher and writer. You can read ''Pilgrim's Progress'' [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Pilgrim%27s_Progress here].

'''Luger''' 
a German brand of handgun

'''''Anschluss''''' 
German for "union"; possibly forced annexation, involving occupation. ''Anschluss'' often refers to German annexation of Austria before WWII. [http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/bibliography/?lang=en&content=anschluss]

'''AMNAT''' 
The United States of America and other NATO nations

'''SOVWAR''' 
The Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations

'''REDCHI''' 
The People's Republic of China

'''LIBSYR''' 
Libya and Syria

'''IRLIBSYR''' 
LIBSYR plus Iran and Iraq

'''INDPAK''' 
India and Pakistan

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'''Mean-Value Theorem for Integrals''' 
Learn it [https://www.khanacademy.org/math/integral-calculus/solid_revolution_topic/function-average-value/v/mean-value-theorem-integrals here]. It should be noted that Wallace does not actually explain the theorem.

==Endnote 123==

'''Extreme Value Theorem''' 
This is explained [http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ExtremeValueTheorem.html here].

'''datums''' 
The proper plural is "data."

'''ordnance''' 
guns, cannon, artillery, weapons, arms, munitions, military supplies, materiel.

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'''synoptic''' 
by way of summary

'''Yahtzee''' 
a popular [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahtzee parlor game] played with dice

==Endnote 124==

'''Aapps Inc.''' 
There is an actual company by this name, though whether this is the same company to which Wallace refers, I don't know.

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'''three-prong''' 
a three-pronged outlet

'''Dürer's 'The Magnificent Beast'''' 
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was a German engraver, painter, and mathematician. You can see the work cited [http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/pd--12367630/sp--A/Apocalypse_the_Great_Beast.htm here].

'''bellicosity''' 
a warlike disposition

'''Presque Isle ME''' 
a city of Maine about 20 miles west of the border with New Brunswick, Canada

'''Chyonskrg Kurgistan''' 
Assuming that (a) the name of the town is spelled correctly, and (b) the country is [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/kg.html Kyrgyzstan], I can't find this town on a [http://www.fallingrain.com/world/KG/ directory of towns] in Kyrgyzstan.

'''Pliscu Romania''' 
There doesn't seem to be a real city by this name either, though ''pliscu'' seems to be a word pertaining to the nose.

'''MILABBREV''' 
Military abbreviations

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'''PCs''' 
Personal Computers

'''topspin''' 
spin given to a ball in tennis causing it to rotate forward

'''profligate''' 
recklessly extravagant

'''metastasizes''' 
spreads like cancer

'''SUFDDIR - self evident''' 
Suffered from Death, Destruction, and Incapacitation of Response

'''Motrin''' 
Ibuprofen/Advil/.. painkiller, the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug class that is used for treating pain, fever, and inflammation

'''EM''' 
electromagnetic

'''baroque''' 
extravagantly ornate

'''quorum''' 
the required minimum number of people required to carry forth a particular task

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'''DEFCON''' 
Defense Readiness Condition, i.e., the measure of the activation of the U.S. Armed Forces in reaction to a real or perceived threat. The higher the number, the lower the threat; the numbers as used in ''Infinite Jest'' are used incorrectly, i.e., the higher the DEFCON number, the higher the risk.

'''theater''' 
here used as a military term for an area in which warfare is carried out

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'''dilettantes''' 
people who (in this case) play tennis merely for amusement

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'''Achilles' heel''' 
This denotes a single weakness, taken from Greek mythology and the warrior Achilles, hero of the ''Iliad,'' who was made invincible to weapons by his mother dipping him in the river Styx. However, because he was held by his heel, he was vulnerable in this single place; Paris was able to kill Achilles by wounding him in the heel with an arrow.

'''goes tactical''' 
enters the phase of using tactical nuclear weapons

'''Sinkiang''' 
an alternate spelling for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinkiang Xinjiang province] of China

'''Aleutians''' 
an archipelago of Islands stretching west from the coast of Alaska toward (and over) the International Date Line

'''SS10s''' 
a type of Soviet surface-to-surface (SS) missile

'''El Al''' 
Israel's national airline

'''airbus''' 
properly, Airbus, a European manufacturer of passenger aircraft of all ranges

'''both H'sseins''' 
Hussein I (1935-1999), king of Jordan, and Saddam Hussein (1937-2006), president of Iraq

'''Ft. Chimo''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Chimo Kuujjuaq, Québec], in the Arctic Circle

'''Labrador''' 
the mainland part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland

'''Volgograd''' 
Formerly known as Tsaritsyn and then Stalingrad, this is a city of Russia on the Volga River, downriver from Moscow.

'''Stolichnaya''' 
a Russian brand of vodka

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'''picayune''' 
small or trifling

'''TRISITs''' 
triggering situations

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[[Image:Gorbachev.jpg|thumb|Mikhail Gorbachev|right]]

'''F16s''' 
American [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-16 fighter jets]

'''Cape Flattery Naval Base''' 
It's not clear whether there is a naval base at Cape Flattery currently, but the town itself is in the state of Washington, about 140 miles west-northwest of Seattle.

'''Irkutsk''' 
a large city in Russian Siberia

'''Dzhugdzhur Range''' 
a mountain range in far east Siberia

'''SOVWAR's bald and port-wine-stained premier''' 
This is no doubt a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorbachev Mikhail Gorbachev] (see right), the last head of state of the USSR, although he was never premier.

==Endnote 127==

'''Wolf-spiders''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_spider arachnid]

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'''Prince Albert in a can''' 
An old phone gag explained in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Albert_tobacco Wikipedia entry] for the popular pipe tobacco sold in the distinctive red tin can with its portrait of Prince Albert (later King Edward VII) on its obverse side.

'''Sakhalin''' 
a Russian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakhalin island] in the Pacific Ocean

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'''Portsmouth OH''' 
a town about 90 miles due south of Columbus, Ohio

'''four kilgrams''' 
about 8.8 pounds

'''Sixth Fleet''' 
the fleet of the U.S. Navy that patrols the Mediterranean

'''MiG25s''' 
Russian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25 aircraft]

'''apoplectic''' 
Overcome with anger; extremely indignant, so much so that it could induce a stroke

'''"...only to be asked if his refrigerator's running..."''' 
Another ancient [http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070328212331AA34OVT&show=7 phone gag]: Prankster: "Can you check to see if your refrigerator is running?" Dupe (after a pause to check): "Yes, it is." Prankster: "Well, you'd better go catch it!"

'''Air Force One''' 
technically, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_force_one any United States Air Force aircraft] carrying the President of the U.S.

'''Abu Kenal''' 
probably meant to be the same as Abu Kemal referred to at 337

'''En Nebk''' 
a city in Syria, not far from Damascus

'''dip-mil''' 
diplomatic-military

'''sues for terms''' 
i.e., sues for peace

'''Tripoli''' 
a city in Lebanon; or the capital of Libya

'''Médenine Tunisia''' 
a city in the far south of Tunisia

'''Ostrava''' 
a city in the Czech Republic about 200 miles east of Prague

'''Howitzer''' 
a large piece of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howitzer artillery]

'''NSA''' 
National Security Agency

'''Tientsin''' 
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tientsin Tianjin]

'''Air Force Two''' 
the designation of any aircraft carrying the Vice President of the United States

'''Provo UT''' 
a city about 45 miles south of Salt Lake City

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'''advertorial''' 
Normally this word denotes an advertisement written to appear as if it's journalism, but here Wallace seems to mean bearing an ad.

'''thanatoptic''' 
contemplating death

'''adepts''' 
expert players

'''Talmudic''' 
Normally referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud Talmud], here it means making fine distinctions.

'''pique''' 
resentment

'''''Commentary''''' 
A public affairs magazine that describes itself as [http://www.commentarymagazine.com/abouthistory.cfm the flagship of neoconservatism]. It was founded by the American Jewish Committee and is still known for its coverage of Jewish issues.

'''Beersheba''' 
a major city of Israel at the northern end of the Negev desert

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'''probity''' 
integrity or honesty

'''1300-m.2''' 
a bit over 1554 square yards

'''purloined''' 
stolen

'''subterranean''' 
literally underground

'''Peoria IL''' 
a city around 160 miles southwest of Chicago

'''topographic''' 
descriptive of the altitudes of the land on a map

'''Interstate 74''' 
This road runs from Davenport, Iowa, to Cincinnati

'''Minuteman''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuteman_%28missile%29 missile]

'''''irregardless''''' 
not a real word, though a frequent usage mistake

'''2π''' 
used because we're dealing with circular and spherical areas of damage
: what looks weird to me is dividing by 1/surface: it is the same as simply multiplying by the surface.

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'''1,400,000 curies''' 
A curie (Ci) is a measure of radioactivity, defined as 3.7×1010 decays per second. The more commonly used measurement in science is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becquerel becquerel]. 1.4 million curies is equal to 59.2 million gigabecquerels.

'''microcephalic''' 
having a tiny head

'''Tenuate''' 
brand name of diethylpropion, a drug marketed as an appetite suppressant

'''left-eye-nystagmic''' 
Troeltsch's left eye is nystagmic. Nystagmus is an involuntary eye-movement characterised by the combination of a smooth pursuit, which usually acts to take the eye off the point of regard, interspersed with the saccadic movement that serves to bring the eye back on target.

'''cerebral''' 
oriented toward thinking

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'''Roentgens''' 
The roentgen (R) is a unit of measurement for ionizing radiation and uses the units charge divided by unit weight (C/kg). The preferred scientific unit is the gray (Gy), a unit of absorbed dose (of radiation).

'''Minsk''' 
the capital of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus Belarus]

'''extant''' 
still existing

'''Edina MN''' 
a suburb of Minneapolis-St. Paul about 3 miles southwest

'''arational''' 
not irrational, but also not rational -- rather lacking the ability to tell one from the other

'''cod''' 
a type of fish

'''EMP''' 
electromagnetic pulse

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'''gander''' 
A gander, as used here, is a look or peek.

'''finski'''
undoubtedly a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_five-dollar_bill five-dollar bill], from its old nickname ''fin''

'''SJOG''' 
St. John of God

'''obtuse''' 
Annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand

'''Decision Tree''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_tree tool] used in decision analysis

'''Imam'd''' 
Here used as a verb for "to lead," an Imam is a Muslim cleric.

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'''strip-mining''' 
According to Wikipedia, "Strip mining is the practice of mining a seam of mineral by first removing a long strip of overlying soil and rock." The implication here seems to be simply that Ingersoll is picking rather deeply.

'''ad service box''' 
the box to serve into when an odd number of points have been played (so when one player or the other has the advantage, i.e. is ahead in points); as opposed to the "deuce service box" where one serves when an even number of points have been played (in particular when the game is tied at deuce).

'''n.b.''' 
Nota bene [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nota_bene Wikipedia]

'''parley''' 
to hold a discussion

'''Sierra Leone''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone country] of West Africa

'''Nunhagen''' 
a real brand of aspirin

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'''Karachi''' 
the largest city in Pakistan and capital of its Sindh province

'''verisimilitude''' 
proximity to reality, "Truth likeness"

'''eminence grise''' 
French for "gray eminence," this is a powerful adviser or decision-maker.

'''Miles Penn''' 
a combination of the names of two early British settlers of America: William Penn and Miles Standish (1584-1656), the military commander of Plymouth colony who traveled to Massachusetts on the ''Mayflower''.

''''It's snowing on the goddamn ''map,'' not the ''territory''...'''' 
This is a reference to the statement "the map is not the territory," i.e., the thing representing some other thing is not that other thing in reality -- just a representation of it. Count Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski (1879-1950), the founder of [http://www.time-binding.org/ general semantics], coined the phrase. It's interesting that the term [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/map ''map''] appears so often in ''Infinite Jest'', as in reference to suicide (eliminating one's own map) or when one of anhedonia's symptoms is described thus: "The world becomes a map of the world." (p.693) Clearly Wallace is doing something with this general idea.

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'''contrite''' 
apologetic

'''rugby-scrum''' 
a way of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(rugby) restarting a game] of rugby after a point has been scored

'''Arabian Sea''' 
the part of the Indian into which the Persian Gulf (or Arabian Gulf) leads

'''metatheoretical''' 
regarding a theory devised to analyze a previous theory

'''El Greco''' 
El Greco (Spanish for "the Greek") was the byname of Doménicos Theotokópoulos (1541-1614), a Greek/Cretan-Spanish painter. Presumably a "bad" El Greco, i.e., a bad piece of art by El Greco, would have the characteristics Hal considers in Pemulis's face.

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'''paralytic thought-helix''' 
Paralytic would imply that this "thought-helix" stops everything else both physical and mental in Hal's actions/thoughts. A helix is a spiral, so a thought-helix is a thought-spiral, which goes on and on but never really gets anywhere.

'''1.3 m.''' 
about 4.25 feet

'''utility''' 
In economics or statistics, this is a quantity/quality to be maximized in decision making.

'''haunches''' 
the hips, buttocks, and upper thighs

'''cerebrate''' 
to think about something

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'''Toltec''' 
a catch-all term for the pre-Columbian cultures of what is now Mexico

'''Ivory Coast''' 
the English name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory_Coast Côte d'Ivoire]

'''Senegal''' 
another [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegal nation] in west Africa

'''metadecision''' 
a decision about a previous decision

'''solander''' 
a case for maps or plates made to look like a book

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'''aggregate''' 
total, e.g., the aggregate IQ of the people in a room would be all their individual IQs added together

'''equivocationary''' 
not a real word; but of course equivocate means to deceive, so, perhaps "deceptive"?

'''Abu Kemal and Es Suweida''' 
Abu Kamal is in eastern Syria, near the Iraqi border. As-Suwayda is also in Syria, near its border with Jordan. This is to say that Ingersoll is patrolling Syria's eastern frontier.

'''Charleston''' 
This is the third mention of characters dancing or pretending to dance the Charleston, the others being Steeply at page 94 and the Vaught twins at page 218.

'''hoofer's cane''' 
the cane of a tap dancer (which is what a hoofer is)

'''de facto''' 
As opposed to ''de jure,'' which would mean legally, ''de facto'' implies a situation is true even if not legally true.

'''One True Faith''' 
Islam

'''vacillation''' 
inability to stick with a choice

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'''boat-wake''' 
water made to rise by the motion of a boat

'''compromise Eschaton's map''' 
which here would seem to mean that Lord may just kill Eschaton as a game

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'''something anatomically impossible''' 
i.e., to go fuck himself, or perform anal-cranial inversion

'''tripartite''' 
having three parts

'''thiamine''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiamine vitamin B1]

'''Nigeria and Chad''' 
bordering nations in North Africa, just south of the Sahara, Nigeria being the most populous African nation

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'''triangulating''' 
dividing into triangles
[More likely, homing in by successive approximation]

'''on point''' 
furthest up front, as in military formation

'''pincer movement''' 
a military maneuver whereby an enemy is attacked not from the front, but at both sides or flanks

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'''contact-bursts''' 
a type of nuclear strike (the nuclear device explodes when it contacts the target), discriminated from air-burst (the nuclear device explodes when it reaches a pre-programmed altitude above the target)

'''left cross''' 
According to a [http://ezinearticles.com/?Boxing-Techniques---The-Right-Cross&id=290419 boxing Web site], "the right cross is thrown in a straight line to the target and comes back in a straight line to the chin." The left cross is delivered with left hand.

'''accreting''' 
gathering increasing amounts

'''''doze''''' 
Todd is trying to say "nose."

'''equivocation''' 
ambiguity

'''Asian subcontinent''' 
Better known as the Indian subcontinent, it includes Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, & Sri Lanka.

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'''Indochina''' 
The colonial name for the continental portion of southeast Asia, camprising what is now Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, & (variably) peninsular Malaysia, & Singapore.

'''baseline''' 
the line at the end of a tennis court, parallel to the net, that marks the boundary of play

'''hasp''' 
a clasp for a door or lid

'''modem''' 
An acronym for modulation-demodulation, it is a data-transfer device.

'''chassis''' 
the construction forming the sides, top, and back of a piece of equipment

'''y-axis''' 
the vertical axis

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'''''GAUDEAMUS IGITUR''''' 
Latin: Let Us Rejoice. The first line of (and alternative title for) the student song [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaudeamus_igitur 'De Brevitate Vitae'], often sung at graduation ceremonies.

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'''Eschaton''' 
The name of the game is based on "eschatology" (from the Greek ἔσχατος, Eschatos meaning "last" and -logy meaning "the study of") which is a part of theology and philosophy concerned with what is believed to be the final events in the history of the world, or the ultimate destiny of humanity, commonly referred to as the end of the world. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatology Wikipedia]

'''frisson''' 
a sudden sense of excitement

'''puerile''' 
childish

'''Wilmington DE''' 
a city 30 miles southwest of Philadelphia

'''''vademecum''ish''' 
vade mecum - Latin for "go with me"; like a reference handbook intended to be carried everywhere.

[[Subsidized Time|Y.P.W]]

'''Bunyan''' 
John Bunyan (1628-1688) was an English-Calvinist preacher and writer. You can read ''Pilgrim's Progress'' [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Pilgrim%27s_Progress here].

'''Luger''' 
a German brand of handgun

'''''Anschluss''''' 
German for "union"; possibly forced annexation, involving occupation. ''Anschluss'' often refers to German annexation of Austria before WWII. [http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/bibliography/?lang=en&content=anschluss]

'''AMNAT''' 
The United States of America and other NATO nations

'''SOVWAR''' 
The Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations

'''REDCHI''' 
The People's Republic of China

'''LIBSYR''' 
Libya and Syria

'''IRLIBSYR''' 
LIBSYR plus Iran and Iraq

'''INDPAK''' 
India and Pakistan

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'''Mean-Value Theorem for Integrals''' 
Learn it [https://www.khanacademy.org/math/integral-calculus/solid_revolution_topic/function-average-value/v/mean-value-theorem-integrals here]. It should be noted that Wallace does not actually explain the theorem.

==Endnote 123==

'''Extreme Value Theorem''' 
This is explained [http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ExtremeValueTheorem.html here].

'''datums''' 
The proper plural is "data."

'''ordnance''' 
guns, cannon, artillery, weapons, arms, munitions, military supplies, materiel.

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'''synoptic''' 
by way of summary

'''Yahtzee''' 
a popular [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahtzee parlor game] played with dice

==Endnote 124==

'''Aapps Inc.''' 
There is an actual company by this name, though whether this is the same company to which Wallace refers, I don't know.

==Page 323 (cont'd)==

'''three-prong''' 
a three-pronged outlet

'''Dürer's 'The Magnificent Beast'''' 
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was a German engraver, painter, and mathematician. You can see the work cited [http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/pd--12367630/sp--A/Apocalypse_the_Great_Beast.htm here].

'''bellicosity''' 
a warlike disposition

'''Presque Isle ME''' 
a city of Maine about 20 miles west of the border with New Brunswick, Canada

'''Chyonskrg Kurgistan''' 
Assuming that (a) the name of the town is spelled correctly, and (b) the country is [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/kg.html Kyrgyzstan], I can't find this town on a [http://www.fallingrain.com/world/KG/ directory of towns] in Kyrgyzstan.

'''Pliscu Romania''' 
There doesn't seem to be a real city by this name either, though ''pliscu'' seems to be a word pertaining to the nose.

'''MILABBREV''' 
Military abbreviations

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'''PCs''' 
Personal Computers

'''topspin''' 
spin given to a ball in tennis causing it to rotate forward

'''profligate''' 
recklessly extravagant

'''metastasizes''' 
spreads like cancer

'''SUFDDIR - self evident''' 
Suffered from Death, Destruction, and Incapacitation of Response

'''EM''' 
electromagnetic

'''baroque''' 
extravagantly ornate

'''quorum''' 
the required minimum number of people required to carry forth a particular task

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'''DEFCON''' 
Defense Readiness Condition, i.e., the measure of the activation of the U.S. Armed Forces in reaction to a real or perceived threat. The higher the number, the lower the threat; the numbers as used in ''Infinite Jest'' are used incorrectly, i.e., the higher the DEFCON number, the higher the risk.

'''theater''' 
here used as a military term for an area in which warfare is carried out

==Endnote 125==

'''dilettantes''' 
people who (in this case) play tennis merely for amusement

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'''Achilles' heel''' 
This denotes a single weakness, taken from Greek mythology and the warrior Achilles, hero of the ''Iliad,'' who was made invincible to weapons by his mother dipping him in the river Styx. However, because he was held by his heel, he was vulnerable in this single place; Paris was able to kill Achilles by wounding him in the heel with an arrow.

'''goes tactical''' 
enters the phase of using tactical nuclear weapons

'''Sinkiang''' 
an alternate spelling for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinkiang Xinjiang province] of China

'''Aleutians''' 
an archipelago of Islands stretching west from the coast of Alaska toward (and over) the International Date Line

'''SS10s''' 
a type of Soviet surface-to-surface (SS) missile

'''El Al''' 
Israel's national airline

'''airbus''' 
properly, Airbus, a European manufacturer of passenger aircraft of all ranges

'''both H'sseins''' 
Hussein I (1935-1999), king of Jordan, and Saddam Hussein (1937-2006), president of Iraq

'''Ft. Chimo''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Chimo Kuujjuaq, Québec], in the Arctic Circle

'''Labrador''' 
the mainland part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland

'''Volgograd''' 
Formerly known as Tsaritsyn and then Stalingrad, this is a city of Russia on the Volga River, downriver from Moscow.

'''Stolichnaya''' 
a Russian brand of vodka

==Endnote 126==

'''picayune''' 
small or trifling

'''TRISITs''' 
triggering situations

==Page 325 (cont'd)==

[[Image:Gorbachev.jpg|thumb|Mikhail Gorbachev|right]]

'''F16s''' 
American [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-16 fighter jets]

'''Cape Flattery Naval Base''' 
It's not clear whether there is a naval base at Cape Flattery currently, but the town itself is in the state of Washington, about 140 miles west-northwest of Seattle.

'''Irkutsk''' 
a large city in Russian Siberia

'''Dzhugdzhur Range''' 
a mountain range in far east Siberia

'''SOVWAR's bald and port-wine-stained premier''' 
This is no doubt a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorbachev Mikhail Gorbachev] (see right), the last head of state of the USSR, although he was never premier.

==Endnote 127==

'''Wolf-spiders''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_spider arachnid]

==Page 325 (cont'd)==

'''Prince Albert in a can''' 
An old phone gag explained in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Albert_tobacco Wikipedia entry] for the popular pipe tobacco sold in the distinctive red tin can with its portrait of Prince Albert (later King Edward VII) on its obverse side.

'''Sakhalin''' 
a Russian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakhalin island] in the Pacific Ocean

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'''Portsmouth OH''' 
a town about 90 miles due south of Columbus, Ohio

'''four kilgrams''' 
about 8.8 pounds

'''Sixth Fleet''' 
the fleet of the U.S. Navy that patrols the Mediterranean

'''MiG25s''' 
Russian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25 aircraft]

'''apoplectic''' 
Overcome with anger; extremely indignant, so much so that it could induce a stroke

'''"...only to be asked if his refrigerator's running..."''' 
Another ancient [http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070328212331AA34OVT&show=7 phone gag]: Prankster: "Can you check to see if your refrigerator is running?" Dupe (after a pause to check): "Yes, it is." Prankster: "Well, you'd better go catch it!"

'''Air Force One''' 
technically, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_force_one any United States Air Force aircraft] carrying the President of the U.S.

'''Abu Kenal''' 
probably meant to be the same as Abu Kemal referred to at 337

'''En Nebk''' 
a city in Syria, not far from Damascus

'''dip-mil''' 
diplomatic-military

'''sues for terms''' 
i.e., sues for peace

'''Tripoli''' 
a city in Lebanon; or the capital of Libya

'''Médenine Tunisia''' 
a city in the far south of Tunisia

'''Ostrava''' 
a city in the Czech Republic about 200 miles east of Prague

'''Howitzer''' 
a large piece of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howitzer artillery]

'''NSA''' 
National Security Agency

'''Tientsin''' 
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tientsin Tianjin]

'''Air Force Two''' 
the designation of any aircraft carrying the Vice President of the United States

'''Provo UT''' 
a city about 45 miles south of Salt Lake City

==Page 327==

'''advertorial''' 
Normally this word denotes an advertisement written to appear as if it's journalism, but here Wallace seems to mean bearing an ad.

'''thanatoptic''' 
contemplating death

'''adepts''' 
expert players

'''Talmudic''' 
Normally referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud Talmud], here it means making fine distinctions.

'''pique''' 
resentment

'''''Commentary''''' 
A public affairs magazine that describes itself as [http://www.commentarymagazine.com/abouthistory.cfm the flagship of neoconservatism]. It was founded by the American Jewish Committee and is still known for its coverage of Jewish issues.

'''Beersheba''' 
a major city of Israel at the northern end of the Negev desert

==Page 328==

'''probity''' 
integrity or honesty

'''1300-m.2''' 
a bit over 1554 square yards

'''purloined''' 
stolen

'''subterranean''' 
literally underground

'''Peoria IL''' 
a city around 160 miles southwest of Chicago

'''topographic''' 
descriptive of the altitudes of the land on a map

'''Interstate 74''' 
This road runs from Davenport, Iowa, to Cincinnati

'''Minuteman''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuteman_%28missile%29 missile]

'''''irregardless''''' 
not a real word, though a frequent usage mistake

'''2π''' 
used because we're dealing with circular and spherical areas of damage
: what looks weird to me is dividing by 1/surface: it is the same as simply multiplying by the surface.

==Page 329==

'''1,400,000 curies''' 
A curie (Ci) is a measure of radioactivity, defined as 3.7×1010 decays per second. The more commonly used measurement in science is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becquerel becquerel]. 1.4 million curies is equal to 59.2 million gigabecquerels.

'''microcephalic''' 
having a tiny head

'''Tenuate''' 
brand name of diethylpropion, a drug marketed as an appetite suppressant

'''left-eye-nystagmic''' 
Troeltsch's left eye is nystagmic. Nystagmus is an involuntary eye-movement characterised by the combination of a smooth pursuit, which usually acts to take the eye off the point of regard, interspersed with the saccadic movement that serves to bring the eye back on target.

'''cerebral''' 
oriented toward thinking

==Page 330==

'''Roentgens''' 
The roentgen (R) is a unit of measurement for ionizing radiation and uses the units charge divided by unit weight (C/kg). The preferred scientific unit is the gray (Gy), a unit of absorbed dose (of radiation).

'''Minsk''' 
the capital of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus Belarus]

'''extant''' 
still existing

'''Edina MN''' 
a suburb of Minneapolis-St. Paul about 3 miles southwest

'''arational''' 
not irrational, but also not rational -- rather lacking the ability to tell one from the other

'''cod''' 
a type of fish

'''EMP''' 
electromagnetic pulse

==Page 331==

'''gander''' 
A gander, as used here, is a look or peek.

'''finski'''
undoubtedly a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_five-dollar_bill five-dollar bill], from its old nickname ''fin''

'''SJOG''' 
St. John of God

'''obtuse''' 
Annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand

'''Decision Tree''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_tree tool] used in decision analysis

'''Imam'd''' 
Here used as a verb for "to lead," an Imam is a Muslim cleric.

==Page 332==

'''strip-mining''' 
According to Wikipedia, "Strip mining is the practice of mining a seam of mineral by first removing a long strip of overlying soil and rock." The implication here seems to be simply that Ingersoll is picking rather deeply.

'''ad service box''' 
the box to serve into when an odd number of points have been played (so when one player or the other has the advantage, i.e. is ahead in points); as opposed to the "deuce service box" where one serves when an even number of points have been played (in particular when the game is tied at deuce).

'''n.b.''' 
Nota bene [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nota_bene Wikipedia]

'''parley''' 
to hold a discussion

'''Sierra Leone''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone country] of West Africa

'''Nunhagen''' 
a real brand of aspirin

==Page 333==

'''Karachi''' 
the largest city in Pakistan and capital of its Sindh province

'''verisimilitude''' 
proximity to reality, "Truth likeness"

'''eminence grise''' 
French for "gray eminence," this is a powerful adviser or decision-maker.

'''Miles Penn''' 
a combination of the names of two early British settlers of America: William Penn and Miles Standish (1584-1656), the military commander of Plymouth colony who traveled to Massachusetts on the ''Mayflower''.

''''It's snowing on the goddamn ''map,'' not the ''territory''...'''' 
This is a reference to the statement "the map is not the territory," i.e., the thing representing some other thing is not that other thing in reality -- just a representation of it. Count Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski (1879-1950), the founder of [http://www.time-binding.org/ general semantics], coined the phrase. It's interesting that the term [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/map ''map''] appears so often in ''Infinite Jest'', as in reference to suicide (eliminating one's own map) or when one of anhedonia's symptoms is described thus: "The world becomes a map of the world." (p.693) Clearly Wallace is doing something with this general idea.

==Page 334==

'''contrite''' 
apologetic

'''rugby-scrum''' 
a way of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(rugby) restarting a game] of rugby after a point has been scored

'''Arabian Sea''' 
the part of the Indian into which the Persian Gulf (or Arabian Gulf) leads

'''metatheoretical''' 
regarding a theory devised to analyze a previous theory

'''El Greco''' 
El Greco (Spanish for "the Greek") was the byname of Doménicos Theotokópoulos (1541-1614), a Greek/Cretan-Spanish painter. Presumably a "bad" El Greco, i.e., a bad piece of art by El Greco, would have the characteristics Hal considers in Pemulis's face.

==Page 335==

'''paralytic thought-helix''' 
Paralytic would imply that this "thought-helix" stops everything else both physical and mental in Hal's actions/thoughts. A helix is a spiral, so a thought-helix is a thought-spiral, which goes on and on but never really gets anywhere.

'''1.3 m.''' 
about 4.25 feet

'''utility''' 
In economics or statistics, this is a quantity/quality to be maximized in decision making.

'''haunches''' 
the hips, buttocks, and upper thighs

'''cerebrate''' 
to think about something

==Page 336==

'''Toltec''' 
a catch-all term for the pre-Columbian cultures of what is now Mexico

'''Ivory Coast''' 
the English name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory_Coast Côte d'Ivoire]

'''Senegal''' 
another [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegal nation] in west Africa

'''metadecision''' 
a decision about a previous decision

'''solander''' 
a case for maps or plates made to look like a book

==Page 337==

'''aggregate''' 
total, e.g., the aggregate IQ of the people in a room would be all their individual IQs added together

'''equivocationary''' 
not a real word; but of course equivocate means to deceive, so, perhaps "deceptive"?

'''Abu Kemal and Es Suweida''' 
Abu Kamal is in eastern Syria, near the Iraqi border. As-Suwayda is also in Syria, near its border with Jordan. This is to say that Ingersoll is patrolling Syria's eastern frontier.

'''Charleston''' 
This is the third mention of characters dancing or pretending to dance the Charleston, the others being Steeply at page 94 and the Vaught twins at page 218.

'''hoofer's cane''' 
the cane of a tap dancer (which is what a hoofer is)

'''de facto''' 
As opposed to ''de jure,'' which would mean legally, ''de facto'' implies a situation is true even if not legally true.

'''One True Faith''' 
Islam

'''vacillation''' 
inability to stick with a choice

==Page 338==

'''boat-wake''' 
water made to rise by the motion of a boat

'''compromise Eschaton's map''' 
which here would seem to mean that Lord may just kill Eschaton as a game

==Page 339==

'''something anatomically impossible''' 
i.e., to go fuck himself, or perform anal-cranial inversion

'''tripartite''' 
having three parts

'''thiamine''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiamine vitamin B1]

'''Nigeria and Chad''' 
bordering nations in North Africa, just south of the Sahara, Nigeria being the most populous African nation

==Page 340==

'''triangulating''' 
dividing into triangles
[More likely, homing in by successive approximation]

'''on point''' 
furthest up front, as in military formation

'''pincer movement''' 
a military maneuver whereby an enemy is attacked not from the front, but at both sides or flanks

==Page 341==

'''contact-bursts''' 
a type of nuclear strike (the nuclear device explodes when it contacts the target), discriminated from air-burst (the nuclear device explodes when it reaches a pre-programmed altitude above the target)

'''left cross''' 
According to a [http://ezinearticles.com/?Boxing-Techniques---The-Right-Cross&id=290419 boxing Web site], "the right cross is thrown in a straight line to the target and comes back in a straight line to the chin." The left cross is delivered with left hand.

'''accreting''' 
gathering increasing amounts

'''''doze''''' 
Todd is trying to say "nose."

'''equivocation''' 
ambiguity

'''Asian subcontinent''' 
Better known as the Indian subcontinent, it includes Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, & Sri Lanka.

==Page 342==

'''Indochina''' 
The colonial name for the continental portion of southeast Asia, camprising what is now Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, & (variably) peninsular Malaysia, & Singapore.

'''baseline''' 
the line at the end of a tennis court, parallel to the net, that marks the boundary of play

'''hasp''' 
a clasp for a door or lid

'''modem''' 
An acronym for modulation-demodulation, it is a data-transfer device.

'''chassis''' 
the construction forming the sides, top, and back of a piece of equipment

'''y-axis''' 
the vertical axis

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'''''GAUDEAMUS IGITUR''''' 
Latin: Let Us Rejoice. The first line of (and alternative title for) the student song [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaudeamus_igitur 'De Brevitate Vitae'], often sung at graduation ceremonies.

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'''Eschaton''' 
The name of the game is based on "eschatology" (from the Greek ἔσχατος, Eschatos meaning "last" and -logy meaning "the study of") which is a part of theology and philosophy concerned with what is believed to be the final events in the history of the world, or the ultimate destiny of humanity, commonly referred to as the end of the world. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatology Wikipedia]

'''frisson''' 
a sudden sense of excitement

'''puerile''' 
childish

'''Wilmington DE''' 
a city 30 miles southwest of Philadelphia

'''''vademecum''ish''' 
vade mecum - Latin for "go with me"; like a reference handbook intended to be carried everywhere.

[[Subsidized Time|Y.P.W]]

'''Bunyan''' 
John Bunyan (1628-1688) was an English-Calvinist preacher and writer. You can read ''Pilgrim's Progress'' [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Pilgrim%27s_Progress here].

'''Luger''' 
a German brand of handgun

'''''Anschluss''''' 
German for "union"; possibly forced annexation, involving occupation. ''Anschluss'' often refers to German annexation of Austria before WWII. [http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/bibliography/?lang=en&content=anschluss]

'''AMNAT''' 
The United States of America and other NATO nations

'''SOVWAR''' 
The Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations

'''REDCHI''' 
The People's Republic of China

'''LIBSYR''' 
Libya and Syria

'''IRLIBSYR''' 
LIBSYR plus Iran and Iraq

'''INDPAK''' 
India and Pakistan

==Page 323==

'''Mean-Value Theorem for Integrals''' 
Learn it [https://www.khanacademy.org/math/integral-calculus/solid_revolution_topic/function-average-value/v/mean-value-theorem-integrals here]. It should be noted that Wallace does not actually explain the theorem.

==Endnote 123==

'''Extreme Value Theorem''' 
This is explained [http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ExtremeValueTheorem.html here].

'''datums''' 
The proper plural is "data."

'''ordnance''' 
guns, cannon, artillery, weapons, arms, munitions, military supplies, materiel.

==Page 323 (cont'd)==

'''synoptic''' 
by way of summary

'''Yahtzee''' 
a popular [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahtzee parlor game] played with dice

==Endnote 124==

'''Aapps Inc.''' 
There is an actual company by this name, though whether this is the same company to which Wallace refers, I don't know.

==Page 323 (cont'd)==

'''three-prong''' 
a three-pronged outlet

'''Dürer's 'The Magnificent Beast'''' 
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was a German engraver, painter, and mathematician. You can see the work cited [http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/pd--12367630/sp--A/Apocalypse_the_Great_Beast.htm here].

'''bellicosity''' 
a warlike disposition

'''Presque Isle ME''' 
a city of Maine about 20 miles west of the border with New Brunswick, Canada

'''Chyonskrg Kurgistan''' 
Assuming that (a) the name of the town is spelled correctly, and (b) the country is [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/kg.html Kyrgyzstan], I can't find this town on a [http://www.fallingrain.com/world/KG/ directory of towns] in Kyrgyzstan.

'''Pliscu Romania''' 
There doesn't seem to be a real city by this name either, though ''pliscu'' seems to be a word pertaining to the nose.

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'''PCs''' 
Personal Computers

'''topspin''' 
spin given to a ball in tennis causing it to rotate forward

'''profligate''' 
recklessly extravagant

'''metastasizes''' 
spreads like cancer

'''SUFDDIR - self evident''' 
Suffered from Death, Destruction, and Incapacitation of Response

'''EM''' 
electromagnetic

'''baroque''' 
extravagantly ornate

'''quorum''' 
the required minimum number of people required to carry forth a particular task

==Page 325==

'''DEFCON''' 
Defense Readiness Condition, i.e., the measure of the activation of the U.S. Armed Forces in reaction to a real or perceived threat. The higher the number, the lower the threat; the numbers as used in ''Infinite Jest'' are used incorrectly, i.e., the higher the DEFCON number, the higher the risk.

'''theater''' 
here used as a military term for an area in which warfare is carried out

==Endnote 125==

'''dilettantes''' 
people who (in this case) play tennis merely for amusement

==Page 325 (cont'd)==

'''Achilles' heel''' 
This denotes a single weakness, taken from Greek mythology and the warrior Achilles, hero of the ''Iliad,'' who was made invincible to weapons by his mother dipping him in the river Styx. However, because he was held by his heel, he was vulnerable in this single place; Paris was able to kill Achilles by wounding him in the heel with an arrow.

'''goes tactical''' 
enters the phase of using tactical nuclear weapons

'''Sinkiang''' 
an alternate spelling for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinkiang Xinjiang province] of China

'''Aleutians''' 
an archipelago of Islands stretching west from the coast of Alaska toward (and over) the International Date Line

'''SS10s''' 
a type of Soviet surface-to-surface (SS) missile

'''El Al''' 
Israel's national airline

'''airbus''' 
properly, Airbus, a European manufacturer of passenger aircraft of all ranges

'''both H'sseins''' 
Hussein I (1935-1999), king of Jordan, and Saddam Hussein (1937-2006), president of Iraq

'''Ft. Chimo''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Chimo Kuujjuaq, Québec], in the Arctic Circle

'''Labrador''' 
the mainland part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland

'''Volgograd''' 
Formerly known as Tsaritsyn and then Stalingrad, this is a city of Russia on the Volga River, downriver from Moscow.

'''Stolichnaya''' 
a Russian brand of vodka

==Endnote 126==

'''picayune''' 
small or trifling

'''TRISITs''' 
triggering situations

==Page 325 (cont'd)==

[[Image:Gorbachev.jpg|thumb|Mikhail Gorbachev|right]]

'''F16s''' 
American [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-16 fighter jets]

'''Cape Flattery Naval Base''' 
It's not clear whether there is a naval base at Cape Flattery currently, but the town itself is in the state of Washington, about 140 miles west-northwest of Seattle.

'''Irkutsk''' 
a large city in Russian Siberia

'''Dzhugdzhur Range''' 
a mountain range in far east Siberia

'''SOVWAR's bald and port-wine-stained premier''' 
This is no doubt a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorbachev Mikhail Gorbachev] (see right), the last head of state of the USSR, although he was never premier.

==Endnote 127==

'''Wolf-spiders''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_spider arachnid]

==Page 325 (cont'd)==

'''Prince Albert in a can''' 
An old phone gag explained in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Albert_tobacco Wikipedia entry] for the popular pipe tobacco sold in the distinctive red tin can with its portrait of Prince Albert (later King Edward VII) on its obverse side.

'''Sakhalin''' 
a Russian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakhalin island] in the Pacific Ocean

==Page 326==

'''Portsmouth OH''' 
a town about 90 miles due south of Columbus, Ohio

'''four kilgrams''' 
about 8.8 pounds

'''Sixth Fleet''' 
the fleet of the U.S. Navy that patrols the Mediterranean

'''MiG25s''' 
Russian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25 aircraft]

'''apoplectic''' 
Overcome with anger; extremely indignant, so much so that it could induce a stroke

'''"...only to be asked if his refrigerator's running..."''' 
Another ancient [http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070328212331AA34OVT&show=7 phone gag]: Prankster: "Can you check to see if your refrigerator is running?" Dupe (after a pause to check): "Yes, it is." Prankster: "Well, you'd better go catch it!"

'''Air Force One''' 
technically, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_force_one any United States Air Force aircraft] carrying the President of the U.S.

'''Abu Kenal''' 
probably meant to be the same as Abu Kemal referred to at 337

'''En Nebk''' 
a city in Syria, not far from Damascus

'''dip-mil''' 
diplomatic-military

'''sues for terms''' 
i.e., sues for peace

'''Tripoli''' 
a city in Lebanon; or the capital of Libya

'''Médenine Tunisia''' 
a city in the far south of Tunisia

'''Ostrava''' 
a city in the Czech Republic about 200 miles east of Prague

'''Howitzer''' 
a large piece of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howitzer artillery]

'''NSA''' 
National Security Agency

'''Tientsin''' 
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tientsin Tianjin]

'''Air Force Two''' 
the designation of any aircraft carrying the Vice President of the United States

'''Provo UT''' 
a city about 45 miles south of Salt Lake City

==Page 327==

'''advertorial''' 
Normally this word denotes an advertisement written to appear as if it's journalism, but here Wallace seems to mean bearing an ad.

'''thanatoptic''' 
contemplating death

'''adepts''' 
expert players

'''Talmudic''' 
Normally referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud Talmud], here it means making fine distinctions.

'''pique''' 
resentment

'''''Commentary''''' 
A public affairs magazine that describes itself as [http://www.commentarymagazine.com/abouthistory.cfm the flagship of neoconservatism]. It was founded by the American Jewish Committee and is still known for its coverage of Jewish issues.

'''Beersheba''' 
a major city of Israel at the northern end of the Negev desert

==Page 328==

'''probity''' 
integrity or honesty

'''1300-m.2''' 
a bit over 1554 square yards

'''purloined''' 
stolen

'''subterranean''' 
literally underground

'''Peoria IL''' 
a city around 160 miles southwest of Chicago

'''topographic''' 
descriptive of the altitudes of the land on a map

'''Interstate 74''' 
This road runs from Davenport, Iowa, to Cincinnati

'''Minuteman''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuteman_%28missile%29 missile]

'''''irregardless''''' 
not a real word, though a frequent usage mistake

'''2π''' 
used because we're dealing with circular and spherical areas of damage
: what looks weird to me is dividing by 1/surface: it is the same as simply multiplying by the surface.

==Page 329==

'''1,400,000 curies''' 
A curie (Ci) is a measure of radioactivity, defined as 3.7×1010 decays per second. The more commonly used measurement in science is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becquerel becquerel]. 1.4 million curies is equal to 59.2 million gigabecquerels.

'''microcephalic''' 
having a tiny head

'''Tenuate''' 
brand name of diethylpropion, a drug marketed as an appetite suppressant

'''left-eye-nystagmic''' 
Troeltsch's left eye is nystagmic. Nystagmus is an involuntary eye-movement characterised by the combination of a smooth pursuit, which usually acts to take the eye off the point of regard, interspersed with the saccadic movement that serves to bring the eye back on target.

'''cerebral''' 
oriented toward thinking

==Page 330==

'''Roentgens''' 
The roentgen (R) is a unit of measurement for ionizing radiation and uses the units charge divided by unit weight (C/kg). The preferred scientific unit is the gray (Gy), a unit of absorbed dose (of radiation).

'''Minsk''' 
the capital of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus Belarus]

'''extant''' 
still existing

'''Edina MN''' 
a suburb of Minneapolis-St. Paul about 3 miles southwest

'''arational''' 
not irrational, but also not rational -- rather lacking the ability to tell one from the other

'''cod''' 
a type of fish

'''EMP''' 
electromagnetic pulse

==Page 331==

'''gander''' 
A gander, as used here, is a look or peek.

'''finski'''
undoubtedly a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_five-dollar_bill five-dollar bill], from its old nickname ''fin''

'''SJOG''' 
St. John of God

'''obtuse''' 
Annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand

'''Decision Tree''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_tree tool] used in decision analysis

'''Imam'd''' 
Here used as a verb for "to lead," an Imam is a Muslim cleric.

==Page 332==

'''strip-mining''' 
According to Wikipedia, "Strip mining is the practice of mining a seam of mineral by first removing a long strip of overlying soil and rock." The implication here seems to be simply that Ingersoll is picking rather deeply.

'''ad service box''' 
the box to serve into when an odd number of points have been played (so when one player or the other has the advantage, i.e. is ahead in points); as opposed to the "deuce service box" where one serves when an even number of points have been played (in particular when the game is tied at deuce).

'''n.b.''' 
Nota bene [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nota_bene Wikipedia]

'''parley''' 
to hold a discussion

'''Sierra Leone''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone country] of West Africa

'''Nunhagen''' 
a real brand of aspirin

==Page 333==

'''Karachi''' 
the largest city in Pakistan and capital of its Sindh province

'''verisimilitude''' 
proximity to reality, "Truth likeness"

'''eminence grise''' 
French for "gray eminence," this is a powerful adviser or decision-maker.

'''Miles Penn''' 
a combination of the names of two early British settlers of America: William Penn and Miles Standish (1584-1656), the military commander of Plymouth colony who traveled to Massachusetts on the ''Mayflower''.

''''It's snowing on the goddamn ''map,'' not the ''territory''...'''' 
This is a reference to the statement "the map is not the territory," i.e., the thing representing some other thing is not that other thing in reality -- just a representation of it. Count Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski (1879-1950), the founder of [http://www.time-binding.org/ general semantics], coined the phrase. It's interesting that the term [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/map ''map''] appears so often in ''Infinite Jest'', as in reference to suicide (eliminating one's own map) or when one of anhedonia's symptoms is described thus: "The world becomes a map of the world." (p.693) Clearly Wallace is doing something with this general idea.

==Page 334==

'''contrite''' 
apologetic

'''rugby-scrum''' 
a way of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(rugby) restarting a game] of rugby after a point has been scored

'''Arabian Sea''' 
the part of the Indian into which the Persian Gulf (or Arabian Gulf) leads

'''metatheoretical''' 
regarding a theory devised to analyze a previous theory

'''El Greco''' 
El Greco (Spanish for "the Greek") was the byname of Doménicos Theotokópoulos (1541-1614), a Greek/Cretan-Spanish painter. Presumably a "bad" El Greco, i.e., a bad piece of art by El Greco, would have the characteristics Hal considers in Pemulis's face.

==Page 335==

'''paralytic thought-helix''' 
Paralytic would imply that this "thought-helix" stops everything else both physical and mental in Hal's actions/thoughts. A helix is a spiral, so a thought-helix is a thought-spiral, which goes on and on but never really gets anywhere.

'''1.3 m.''' 
about 4.25 feet

'''utility''' 
In economics or statistics, this is a quantity/quality to be maximized in decision making.

'''haunches''' 
the hips, buttocks, and upper thighs

'''cerebrate''' 
to think about something

==Page 336==

'''Toltec''' 
a catch-all term for the pre-Columbian cultures of what is now Mexico

'''Ivory Coast''' 
the English name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory_Coast Côte d'Ivoire]

'''Senegal''' 
another [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegal nation] in west Africa

'''metadecision''' 
a decision about a previous decision

'''solander''' 
a case for maps or plates made to look like a book

==Page 337==

'''aggregate''' 
total, e.g., the aggregate IQ of the people in a room would be all their individual IQs added together

'''equivocationary''' 
not a real word; but of course equivocate means to deceive, so, perhaps "deceptive"?

'''Abu Kemal and Es Suweida''' 
Abu Kamal is in eastern Syria, near the Iraqi border. As-Suwayda is also in Syria, near its border with Jordan. This is to say that Ingersoll is patrolling Syria's eastern frontier.

'''Charleston''' 
This is the third mention of characters dancing or pretending to dance the Charleston, the others being Steeply at page 94 and the Vaught twins at page 218.

'''hoofer's cane''' 
the cane of a tap dancer (which is what a hoofer is)

'''de facto''' 
As opposed to ''de jure,'' which would mean legally, ''de facto'' implies a situation is true even if not legally true.

'''One True Faith''' 
Islam

'''vacillation''' 
inability to stick with a choice

==Page 338==

'''boat-wake''' 
water made to rise by the motion of a boat

'''compromise Eschaton's map''' 
which here would seem to mean that Lord may just kill Eschaton as a game

==Page 339==

'''something anatomically impossible''' 
i.e., to go fuck himself, or perform anal-cranial inversion

'''tripartite''' 
having three parts

'''thiamine''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiamine vitamin B1]

'''Nigeria and Chad''' 
bordering nations in North Africa, just south of the Sahara, Nigeria being the most populous African nation

==Page 340==

'''triangulating''' 
dividing into triangles
[More likely, homing in by successive approximation]

'''on point''' 
furthest up front, as in military formation

'''pincer movement''' 
a military maneuver whereby an enemy is attacked not from the front, but at both sides or flanks

==Page 341==

'''contact-bursts''' 
a type of nuclear strike (the nuclear device explodes when it contacts the target), discriminated from air-burst (the nuclear device explodes when it reaches a pre-programmed altitude above the target)

'''left cross''' 
According to a [http://ezinearticles.com/?Boxing-Techniques---The-Right-Cross&id=290419 boxing Web site], "the right cross is thrown in a straight line to the target and comes back in a straight line to the chin." The left cross is delivered with left hand.

'''accreting''' 
gathering increasing amounts

'''''doze''''' 
Todd is trying to say "nose."

'''equivocation''' 
ambiguity

'''Asian subcontinent''' 
Better known as the Indian subcontinent, it includes Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, & Sri Lanka.

==Page 342==

'''Indochina''' 
The colonial name for the continental portion of southeast Asia, camprising what is now Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, & (variably) peninsular Malaysia, & Singapore.

'''baseline''' 
the line at the end of a tennis court, parallel to the net, that marks the boundary of play

'''hasp''' 
a clasp for a door or lid

'''modem''' 
An acronym for modulation-demodulation, it is a data-transfer device.

'''chassis''' 
the construction forming the sides, top, and back of a piece of equipment

'''y-axis''' 
the vertical axis

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==Endnote 3==

'''cardioid''' 
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''' 
German for "superhuman"

'''Brandeis''' 
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.''' 
abbreviation for Latin ''nota bene'', i.e., "note well," stated before an important example or corollary point

==Endnote 5a==

'''nystagmus''' 
involuntary eye movement of an iterative stereotyped nature, most commonly horizontal

'''entrepôt''' 
a port, city, or other center to which goods are brought for import and export, and for collection and distribution.

'''loquacity''' 
talkativeness

==Endnote 6==

'''Halcion (still available in Canada, unbelievably, still)''' 
It's also still available here, though the U.K. has banned it since 1991. OED: proprietary name for the hypnotic triazolam

==Endnote 7==

'''bevelling''' 
Here meaning "smoothed out" and misspelled, beveling is the making of 45º angles where perpendiculars meet.

==Endnote 8==

'''dickies''' 
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''' 
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''' 
central nervous system

'''gamma hydroxybutric acid''' 
now more commonly known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-Hydroxybutyric_acid GHB]

'''DMZ/M.P.''' 
DMZ is another made-up drug. M.P. refers to its street name, Madame Psychosis.

===Endnote 8a===

'''Muscimole''' 
another mushroom-based hallucinogen, like psilocybin

'''DDMS''' 
dibromododecenyl methylsulfimide

'''DMSO''' 
dimethylsulfoxide, a common solvent used in many laboratories. It is readily absorbed through the skin, taking with it whatever it has dissolved.

==Endnote 12a==

'''"...Continental Controlled Substances Act of Y.T.M.P., O.N.A.N.D.E.A.'s hierarchy of analgesics/antipyretics/axiolytics..."''' 
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''' 
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.

==Endnote 17==

'''datum''' 
piece of information, the singular form of the word "data"

==Endnote 19==

French: A person of terrible importance
: A person of ''the'' terrible importance. As is often the case in IJ, it makes no sense in French but conveys a feeling of the differences between languages.

==Endnote 21==

'''Q.v.''' 
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.''' 
United States Department of Defense

==Endnote 24 · JAMES O. INCANDENZA: A FILMOGRAPHY==
===Page 986===
'''meniscus''' 
here, a lens with a crescent-shaped section, convex on one side and concave on the other; also the curved interface between a liquid and gas in a tube

'''soliloquized''' 
spoken to oneself

'''incunabular''' 
early stages of something

'''D W Griffith''' 
Film Director whose films include 'Tolerance' and 'Birth of a Nation'; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._W._Griffith Wikipedia entry]

'''Taka Limura''' 
Japanese film maker - [http://research.yale.edu/eastasianstudies/iimura.chin.pdf see article] 

'''Heliotrope''' 
An arrangement of mirrors for reflecting sunlight from a distant point to an observation station. 

===Page 987===
'''Latrodectus Mactans''' 
Properly, Latrodectus mactans, Latin name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectus_mactans Black Widow] spider

'''neuralgia''' 
A form of chronic pain where pain is felt in a nerve without stimulation of pain receptors. Difficult to diagnose and treat.

===Page 988===
'''Godbout''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Godbout Jacques Godbout], a French-Canadian filmmaker and documentarian.

===Page 992===

'''concupiscence''' 

Strong sexual desire

'''Les Anges du Peché''' 
Misspelling of ''Les Anges du péché'' (1943).

===Page 993===

'''Tête-Bêche''' 
French for ''upside down''.

==Endnote 82==

[[Image:Plaid.jpg|thumb|caption|Night Watch Plaid|150px|right]]
'''Bean''' 
as in L.L. Bean, a privately-held mail-order and retail company based in Freeport, Maine, United States, specializing in clothing and outdoor recreation equipment.

'''Night Watch plaid''' 
A pattern of plaid. See right.

==Endnote 110 · Hal and Orin Discuss Québecois Politics==

===Page 1004===
'''Hush Puppy''' 
a [http://www.hushpuppies.com/en-US/Main.aspx brand name] of shoes

'''squeegeed''' 
cleaned with a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeegee squeegee]

'''truncated''' 
cut short

===Page 1005===

'''R&R''' 
Rest and Relaxation

'''ex officio''' 
Latin: by virtue of one's office

''''The Yellow Rose (of Texas)'''' 
Dickinson's poems can also be read to the meter of "Mary Had a Little Lamb."

'''falsetto''' 
a man's voice when he pitches it falsely high to sound like a woman

'''riffling''' 
turning pages quickly

'''unannaly''' 
not anally fixated (see Z.Freud Psychosexual Stage Theory),i.e. without obsessive compulsive urge to perfect order and tidiness, as opposed to his mom's Avril Incandenza anally retentive personality and habitual order seeking

'''Ample make this bed''' 
The full poem is [http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1337.html here].

===Page 1006===

'''quotidian''' 
commonplace, literally, “everyday”

[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.-Q.M.D.]]

'''pistil''' 
that part of a flower that is analogous to the female reproductive organs

'''Sikorski-sized''' 
Sikorsky-sized misspelt, helicopter-sized; the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_R-4 Sikorsky R-4] was the first mass-produced helicopter

'''paucity''' 
scarcity

'''swotted''' 
studied intensively

'''wakked''' 
I have no idea.

'''unperspicous''' 
not clearly expressed or presented

'''penultimate''' 
second to last

'''whingeing''' 
complaining (pronounced to rhyme with "jing")

'''xerophagy''' 
("[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerophagy dry eating]", from Greek ξηρός "dry" and φαγεῖν "eat") is the practice of eating dry food, especially food cooked without oil.

===Endnote 110d===

'''anti-sclerotic''' 
tending to ward of hardening of tissues (as of arteries, here)

===Page 1006 (cont'd)===

'''maunder''' 
to talk incoherently or aimlessly

'''Solecism''' 
nonstandard or incorrect grammatical usage

'''and c.''' 
et cetera

===Page 1007===

'''20 X 25 centimeter''' 
very close to 8" x 10"

'''Jethro Bodine''' 
a character on the television show [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055662/ The Beverly Hillbillies]

'''proviso''' 
a clause, usually in a document, making a stipulation or qualification

'''"...isn't even iambic, much less quatrameter/trimeter..."''' 
This is to say that the poetry of Dickinson is not in iambic pentameter, a particular form of verse. This is the style of poetry Shakespeare is written in ("Now is the winter of our discontent") -- ten syllables, and five iambs (feet, or beats) per line (thus pentameter). Quatrameter/trimeter would be the rhythm scheme of "Yellow Rose of Texas" and "Mary Had a Little Lamb" (although note that the first foot of the latter is incomplete).

'''dink''' 
a synonym for a drop shot, which in tennis is a light tap just over the net

===Page 1008===

'''obverse''' 
the more conspicuous of two possible choices

'''seraphic''' 
like an angel

'''lascivious''' 
appealing to sexual tastes

'''mesmerized''' 
hypnotized

'''skitter''' 
to move rapidly along a surface

'''knight-errant''' 
a knight on a quest to prove his chivalry

===Page 1009===

'''Ainsi''' 
French: so to speak

'''breviary''' 
a prayer and hymn book

'''gynecopia''' 
Latin coined term - female(gyne) abundant(copia)

'''"Kitchens and heat..."''' 
which is to say, if you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen

===Page 1010===

'''Gloeckner''' 
German for "ringer," taking that in either of the meanings it has in English

'''3-kilo''' 
a little over 7.25 pounds

'''Snuff''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuff ground tobacco], which is inhaled rather than smoked or chewed

'''Andover''' 
as in [http://www.boardingschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/5 Philips Academy Andover], alma mater of both Presidents Bush

'''"Dickinson's about as Transcendalist as Poe."''' 
which is to say, not at all

===Page 1011===

[[Image:Eddy.jpg|right]]

'''R.C.M.P.''' 
Royal Canadian Mounted Police

'''Nelson Eddy''' 
Nelson Ackerman Eddy (1901-1967) was an American singer and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0248904/ movie star]. As far as what he looked like, see right.

Rose Marie, 1936, is probably his most-remembered film. His definitive portrayal of the steadfast Mountie became a popular icon, frequently spoofed in cartoons and TV skits. When the Mounties retired their classic red jackets and hat in 1970, except for ceremonial attire, hundreds of newspapers accompanied the story with a photo of Nelson Eddy as Sgt. Bruce in Rose Marie, made 34 years earlier. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Eddy WP]

equestrian jaspers: probably means jodhpurs

'''Droll''' 
whimsically comic

===Page 1012===

'''nanomicroscopy''' 
the looking at extremely small things (nano- being the prefix for "one-billionth") through a microscope

'''Thevet''' 
This is probably a reference to André de Thevet (1502-1590), a French priest and explorer. Though never in Canada, he relied on French-Canadian explorers' work for his own voyages to South America.

'''"...the 5 on the French Achievement boards..."''' 
The highest possible score on the French Advanced Placement Exam (for which one can receive college credit) is 5.

'''Boswell''' 
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (1740-1795), was the Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson.

'''E cup''' 
a very large breast size

'''acuity''' 
acuteness of perception

'''in utero''' 
in the womb

'''thalidomide''' 
a drug developed to treat morning sickness in pregnant women that ended up causing babies to be born missing limbs

'''Condé Nast''' 
one of the largest magazine publishers in the country, owned by Advance Publications (the Newhouse family) and founded by Condé Montrose Nast (1873-1942), an American publisher

'''deform''' 
here meaning simply "to spoil"

'''persona''' 
a fictional identity created for a person, narrator in a book, etc.

'''''du''''' 
French: of the (masculine)

===Page 1013===

'''Meech Lake''' 
a lake in Gatineau Park, near Chelsea, Québec

'''Parizeau''' 
This is probably Jacques Parizeau (born 1930), a former Premier of Québec and proponent of Québecois sovereignty.

'''Charlottetown''' 
the capital of the Canadian province of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island Prince Edward Island]

'''Crétien assassination''' 
This is probably a misspelling of the surname of Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien (born 1934), Prime Minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003.

'''Francophonic''' 
French-speaking

'''Acadian Zionism''' 
Acadia is the traditional name for what is now (in part) eastern Québec. Zionism is used here as a synonym for nationalism, rather than with its specific Jewish connotations

'''Toujours''' 
French: always

'''"On ne parle d'Anglais ici."''' 
French: English is not spoken here

'''Ottawa''' 
the capital of Canada

'''"Permettez Nous Partir, Permettez Nous Être."''' 
French: Allow us to leave, allow us to be.

'''Winnipeg''' 
the capital of Canadian province of Manitoba

'''flux''' 
frequent change

'''appalled''' 
dismayed

'''UV-booth''' 
UV standing for ultraviolet (as in light), this is probably a tanning booth.

===Page 1014===

'''"Nous v. La Plupart Toujours"''' 
French: Us versus the majority always

'''Lesotho''' 
a kingdom of southern Africa, existing as an enclave entirely within the Republic of South Africa

'''SOUTHAF''' 
This is the Union of South Africa, which was formed in 1910 as a British colony and tried to annex Lesotho to it. Because of the imposition of ''apartheid'' laws in S. Africa, the annexation failed.

'''antebellum''' 
before the war, here the U.S. Civil War

===Endnote 110h===

'''Gallic''' 
French

===Page 1014 (cont'd)===

'''Anglophone''' 
English-speaking

'''Plains of Abraham''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains_of_Abraham Battle of the Plains of Abraham], part of the French and Indian Wars, which ended in a decisive British victory of the French

===Endnote 110i===

''''La Guerre des Britanniques et des Sauvages'''' 
French: The War of the British and the Savages

'''Ticonderoga''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Carillon Battle of Carillon], fought at Fort Ticonderoga

===Page 1014 (cont'd)===

'''Booty''' 
treasure taken from a defeated party

'''1759''' 
On September 13, 1759, Québec fell to the British.

'''NAFTA''' 
North American Free Trade Agreement

'''Rubensian''' 
The word more often used is "Rubenesque," but this refers to the women in paintings by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the Flemish artist. His women were usually voluptuous, not to say plump.

'''retardate''' 
more often used as a noun, offensively referring to a retarded person

'''rapacious''' 
ravenous

===Page 1015===

'''lissome''' 
supple

'''Rubensophile''' 
See above, Rubensian.

'''gulag''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GULAG GULAG] prison system of the Soviet Union

''''ce pas?''' 
French elision of "n'est-ce pas?" i.e., "right?"

'''Anbesol''' 
a brand name of benzocaine used for tooth pain

'''flanges''' 
Orin probably means to say "phalanges."

'''Rue Sherbrooke''' 
a road in Montreal

'''St. Jean-Baptiste Day''' 
another name for la [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%AAte_nationale_du_Qu%C3%A9bec fête nationale du Québec]

'''anaerobic''' 
thriving without oxygen

===Page 1016===

'''weedy''' 
scrawny; Hal is probably using it to mean "thin," as in a line of argumentation

'''Brazilian ''Nuevo Contras''''' 
These would be "new" ''contras'', the old ones having been U.S.-funded anti-communist guerrillas in Nicaragua in the 1980s. Note, though, that ''Nuevo'' being a Spanish word would not be a likely name for a Brazilian group (where Brazilian Portuguese is spoken).

'''The Noie Störkraft's? Shining Path's? The Belgian CCC's?''' 
''Noie Störkraft'' is Swedish "New Great Power"; it does not appear to be a new organization, though Störkraft is the name of a skinhead band from Sweden. The Shining Path (''Sendero Luminoso'' in Spanish) is the Communist Party of Peru, which has waged guerrilla warfare against the Peruvian government since 1980. CCC is a French acronym for Communist Combatant Cells; they were eliminated as a terrorist group in 1986.

'''''Ez-ed-Dean-el-Qassan''''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izz_ad-Din_al-Qassam_Brigades alternate spelling] of a Palestinian militant group affiliated with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas Hamas]

'''P.E.T.A.''' 
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

[[Image:Munch.jpg|right|100px]]

'''wobbled shrieking figure in the Munch lithograph''' 
See right.

===Page 1017===

'''subjoin''' 
to append to the end of something

'''attendant''' 
consequent or concomitant

'''cloracne''' 
probably a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloracne chloracne]

'''olfactory hallucinations''' 
hallucinations wherein one smells things that aren't there

'''machete''' 
a large cleaver-like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machete cutting tool]

'''Infant-depredations''' 
attacks and pillaging by feral infants (see footnote 304, pp. 1055ff, about them)

'''phenols''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenol carbolic acid]

'''Fundy''' 
probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Fundy Bay of Fundy]

'''straw-and-camel''' 
i.e., the straw that broke the camel's back

===Page 1018===

'''Docksider''' 
a type of boat shoe

'''full-toll''' 
i.e., it takes its full toll on you

'''Constantine''' 
perhaps [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_I Constantine I], by tradition first Christian emperor of Rome

'''merde''' 
French for "shit"

'''cartographic''' 
having to do with maps

'''parliamentary wigs''' 
Canadian MPs don't wear wigs, though barristers (lawyers) and judges do.

===Page 1019===

'''bone of dissension''' 
Orin means "bone of contention."

'''desmirched''' 
probably a malapropism, although it could mean "to un-besmirch"

'''re-gerrymandered''' 
To gerrymander is to divide an area into electoral districts favorable to one party over another.

'''Cuibono''' 
more properly ''cui bono'', Latin for "who benefits?"

'''swivet''' 
a state of nervous excitement

'''D-bases''' 
databases

'''falcate''' 
to curve like a sickle

'''Albertan ultra-rightists''' 
There is a tradition of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Separatism separatism] in Alberta.

'''Duluth''' 
a town in Minnesota and home to Bob Dylan, on Lake Superior about 150 miles north of the Twin Cities

===Page 1020===

'''Vichified''' 
i.e., as Vichy France, which was a puppet government to the Nazis

'''Anschluss''' 
German for "annexation," it most often refers to Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria in 1938.

'''mayhi''' 
Orin seems to be using this term as a plural of "mayhem."

'''P.Q.s''' 
members of the Parti Québecois

'''P.M.''' 
Prime Minister (of Canada)

'''''aller, partir''''' 
French: to go, to leave

===Page 1021===

'''hapless''' 
here meaning haphazard

'''botulizing''' 
infecting with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulism botulism]

'''jaunty''' 
smartly trim

'''toggle''' 
a type of switch

'''anapestic''' 
In poetry, an anapest is a trisyllable metrical foot of the following pattern: two unstressed syllables, followed by one long or stressed syllable. (Eg the line "'Twas the ''night'' before ''Christ''mas, and ''all'' through the ''house''" contains four anapestic feet.)

===Page 1022===

==Endnote 145 · Found Drama==

An invented, non-existent faux-academic style of film on which James O. Incandenza lectured and received artistic grants, created to lampoon the academic film theory community. Found Drama was not captured on film; rather, Incandenza and close friends "got out a Boston metro phone book and tore a White Pages page out at random and thumbtacked it to the wall and then [Incandenza] would throw a dart at it from across the room. ... And the name it hit becomes the subject of the Found Drama. And whatever happens to the protagonist with the name you hit with the dart for ... the next hour and a half is the Drama."

===Page 1026===

[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]

===Page 1027===

'''ne pas à la mode''' 
French: not in style

'''New Wave''' 
When this term is used w/r/t Himself's work, it is probably referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_New_Wave French New Wave], although there were several other "New Waves" in film.

'''Dick''' 
I'm unable to identify whether this person is real or not.

'''art-gesture films''' 
apparently a created genre

'''isness''' 
i.e., being

'''stasis''' 
inactivity caused by equal opposing forces

'''tenure-jockeys''' 
i.e., junior faculty at universities who are on tenure track

'''Orthochromatic''' 
According to the ''Random House Unabridged Dictionary,'' this word means "representing correctly the relations of colors as found in a subject; isochromatic."

'''retrogradism''' 
This neologism would seem to have the sense of the study or condition of moving backward.

'''McLean Hospital''' 
a real [http://mcleanhospital.org/ psychiatric hospital] in Belmont, Mass., about eight miles west-northwest of Boston

'''Duquette at M.I.T.''' 
There is no such person at M.I.T.

'''Posener''' 
There is no such person at Brandeis.

===Page 1028===

===Page 1031===

==Endnote 162==

[[Image:Francis bacon head VI.jpg|thumb|caption|Head VI (1949), Francis Bacon|150px|right]]
'''a Baconian pope with his hat on fire''' 
Referring to the work of 20th century figurative painter [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon_(artist) Francis Bacon] and his "screaming pope" paintings.

===Page 1035===

==Endnote 211==

'''suborn''' 
to bribe or induce someone to commit a crime or misdeed

==Endnote 234 · Excerpts From Orin's Interview With ''Moment''==

===Page 1037===

==Endnote 228==

'''ambit''' 
NOAD: thescope, extent, or bounds of something

==Endnote 231 · Inositol==
'''Inositol''' 
the capitalization of both inositol and mannitol is inappropriate. It is not a B-vitamin but at one time was thought to be one, "B8." I think from context that cyanocobalamin was intended.

===Page 1038===

'''Rafferty''' 
Terrence Rafferty was a film critic for the ''New Yorker'' magazine.

'''NPR''' 
National Public Radio

===Page 1039===

'''dun''' 
make repeated demands on

'''Madison Avenue''' 
the street in New York famous for its advertising firms

'''traversion''' 
Orin probably means "introversion."

'''T-square''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-square drafting tool]

===Page 1040===

'''Prussian''' 
here used to mean "very strict"

'''schizogenic''' 
botany, produced or formed by fission; what DFW apparently intends here is a neologism/malaprop for “tending to cause someone to become schizoid,” the strict psychiatric definition of which is denoting or having a personality type characterized by emotional aloofness and solitary habits. ‹informal› having inconsistent or contradictory elements; mad or crazy

'''pathogenic''' 
capable of producing disease

===Page 1041===

'''antidote''' 
malaprop, "anecdote."

'''Quelquechose''' 
French: something

===Page 1042===

'''pièce''' 
as in "pièce de resistance," the punchline or main point

===Page 1043===

'''four horsemen''' 
as in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse] from the Book of Revelation

'''BPL''' 
Boston Public Library

==Endnote 269 · Steeply-Bain Correspondence==
===Page 1047===

''''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...'''' 

Lateral Alice Moore was handicapped when the news helicopter she flew in crashed onto a highway. It could have been the same accident as the one to which Bain refers here.

'''J.O.I.''' 
James O. Incandenza

'''guile''' 
insidious cunning

'''methoxy-psychedelic''' 
probably referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMDA_%28drug%29 MMDA]

'''larval''' 
immature in its kind

'''codpieces''' 
a codpiece is a pouch at the crotch (covering the male genetalia) of tight-fitting breeches, popular during the Renaissance

'''Swinburne''' 
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was a British poet whose work had themes of homosexuality and sadomasochism.

'''Boston's Roxbury and Mattapan districts''' 
two lower-income, primarily African American and Hispanic neighborhoods in Boston

'''prenominate''' 
aforementioned

'''apposite''' 
appropriate with regard to the current circumstances

===Page 1048===

'''fairly high-sodium way''' 
a circumlocution for “with a grain (or more) of salt”

'''purposive''' 
serving some purpose

'''Gretel the Cross-Sectioned Dairy Cow''' 
Cornell University apparently has a cow whose stomachs you can see in action.

'''consummate''' 
highly skilled

'''anaclitic''' 
in psychology, dependence on other people or another person

===Page 1049===

'''prevarication''' 
avoiding the truth by not directly answering a question

'''"...as if from the Rose Garden..."''' 
like the President of the U.S. answering a question from a reporter

'''exploded''' 
shown to be false or unfounded

'''mendacious''' 
untruthful

'''monilial''' 
relating to a fungus of the genus [http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/monilial Candida]

'''nubbin''' 
a small lump or residual part

'''S. Johnson''' 
probably a reference to Dr. Samuel Johnson, the lexicographer

'''piteously''' 
pitifully

===Page 1050===

'''Steeples''' 
[sic] for "Steeply"

'''vacuous''' 
unintelligent, foolish, empty

'''Steeley''' 
[sic] for "Steeply"

'''ACOAs''' 
Adult Children of Alcoholics

'''AlaTeens''' 
a support group for teenage children of alcoholics

'''ACONAs''' 
Adult Children of Narcotics Anonymous

'''ACOGs''' 
ACOG is most commonly the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, but in this context it probably stands for Adult Children of Gamblers (Grifters? Gladiators? Gun-wielders?)

'''neurasthenic''' 
chronically fatigued and weak

'''aspic''' 
meat jelly

'''profligate''' 
extravagant

'''loquacious''' 
very talkative

===Page 1051===

'''Starkly''' 
Bain gets Steeply's name wrong yet again.

'''univocal''' 
unambiguous

'''furcated''' 
branching or forking

'''solicitous''' 
concerned

'''appurtenances''' 
accessories or equipment

'''pique''' 
feeling of resentment

'''albatross''' 
a burden, literally a large seabird, from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner''

'''Starksaddle''' 
another mistake with Steeply's name

'''perspicuous''' 
clearly expressed

===Page 1052===

'''multivalent''' 
having various meanings

'''Bainbridge''' 
This isn't even close to Steeply's name.

==Endnote 304 · The Train Game==

===Page 1055===

'''McGee-like chaos''' 
An overflowing closet was a running gag on the old-time radio show [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibber_McGee_and_Molly ''Fibber McGee and Molly''].

'''smelling a rat in the woodpile''' 
Rats often use woodpiles as cover for their burrows, as discussed [http://unexco.com/Rat.html here].

'''B.P.L. ArchFax database search''' 
Possibly: Boston Public Library Archival Facsimiles.

===Page 1056===

'''murated''' 
a neologism, by Hal’s criteria. Walled, perhaps from the Latin murare - to wall off.

'''QUOI?''' 
WHAT?

'''Sudetenlandization''' 
florid neologism [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudetenland Wikipedia - Sudetenland]

'''G. T. Day, M.S.''' 
Geoffrey Day, of Ennet House, who claims to have "manned the helm of a Scholarly Quarterly" at "some jr. college up the Expressway in Medford" (272). Before the author is mentioned, the article is said to have come from "someplace called Bayside Community College up I-93 in Medford." Wild Conceits, the publication, is said to be edited by the author of the article Struck is ripping off.

===Page 1057===
'''vishnu''' 
Vishnu is the preserver/maintainer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu god]
of the Hindu Trimurti.

'''''dasein''''' 
German: being there (lit)., [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasein existence]; a cornerstone of the philosophy of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger Martin Heidegger] (1889-1976).

===Page 1058===

'''''cui bono''''' 
Latin: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_Bono To whose benefit?]

'''geatalt''' 
a misprint of ''gestalt''

'''municipal fluoridation''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation addition of fluoride] to public drinking- (tap-)water supplies to reduce tooth decay among the population; home filtration systems (such as Brita manufactures) can remove the flouride and thus eliminate the benefit

===Page 1059===
'''''les passages à niveau de voie ferrée''''' 
the level crossings of railway line

'''Two hundred sixteen''' 
216 is the cube of 6; thus the preliminary round would yield ''Les Trente-Six'' (36) semifinalists and the second round would produce six finalists ''attendants longtemps ses tours'' (French: "waiting a long time for their turns

'''''Le Culte de Baiser Sans Fin''''' 
French: the cult of the kiss without end, or (as translated in the following paragraph), "the Cult of the Endless Kiss"

===Page 1060===

'''Bernard Wayne''' 
Most likely John "N.R." Wayne's brother.

'''contuded''' 
contused (battered, crushed) is intended, a typographical error, a misspelling, or a malaprop: you decide.

'''purple''' 
alluding to purple prose

==Endnote 321 · Hal's DMZ Dream==
===Page 1063===

'''Rise Over Run''' 
[[Image:Slope Forumla.png]] The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slope slope] (''m'') of a line, expressed as its "rise" (variance along the ''y'' axis) divided by its run (variance along the ''x'' axis); equivalent in calculus to the first derivative.

'''tangent''' 
This concept is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangent#Trigonometry here].

'''Differentiation''' 
the process by which one determines the first derivative of a mathematical function

'''inexorably''' 
relentlessly

'''Function x, exponent n, the derivative's going to be nx + x(n-1)''' 
Permulis appears to have misspoken. The derivative of x to the nth power is n times x to the (n - 1) power, not nx plus x to the (n - 1)th power.

'''covers''' 
a recording or performance of a song that was first recorded or made popular by somebody else

===Page 1064===
'''G.C./M.S.''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_chromatography-mass_spectrometry '''G'''as '''C'''hromatography - '''M'''ass '''S'''pectrometry], a means of drug detection

'''Digestive-Flora''' 
bacteria that live in the intestines and aid in digestion, enteral microbiome

'''Verdun Protestant Hospital''' 
now called [http://www.douglas.qc.ca/ Douglas Mental Health Institute]

'''''tu-sais-qué''''' 
malaprop or just really bad French for "you know what"

'''Nutter Butters''' 
Nabisco's peanut-butter sandwich [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutter_Butter cookies]

'''Human Hatchet''' 
i.e., Axford

'''impotence''' 
a malaprop; he means ''impetus''

'''Blue Flames''' 
probably some sort of depressants

===Page 1065===
'''O2''' 
dioxygen, or oxygen gas as it exists in its natural state; ozone is O3

'''Jiminy Cricket''' 
the talking (and singing) cricket in the 1940 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032910/ "Pinocchio"], adapted from Carlo Collodi's serial for children, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Pinocchio ''The Adventures of Pinocchio''] (1881-1883)

==Endnote 324 · John Wayne loses it==

===Page 1066===

'''moon''' 
to spend time idly

'''camphonated''' 
malaprop or misspelling of "camphorated," i.e., contained camphor

===Endnote 324a===

'''loamy''' 
consisting of rich, arable soil

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]

===Page 1066 (cont'd)===

'''whorl''' 
a circular arrangement

'''funiculi''' 
plural of "funiculus," i.e., part of the spinal cord

===Page 1067===

'''gonions''' 
OED: the outermost point on the angle of the lower jaw on each side.

'''uncolloped''' 
neologism, having no collops or fat, more or less

'''latissimal''' 
referring to the [http://www.reference.com/search?r=13&q=Latissimus lattissimus dorsi] muscles

'''profligate''' 
wasteful

'''Nordicular''' 
neologism, Nordic, which is to say blond-haired and blue-eyed

'''armamentarium''' 
an arsenal, particularly used by physicians to refer to drugs or treatments

'''callow''' 
immature; inexperienced

'''entrepôt''' 
a port city or other place for storing/dispensing, importing/exporting, collecting/distributing goods

'''dinkle''' 
(American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, henceforth AHDEL5) penis

===Page 1068===

'''welching''' 
(or welsh) not paying a debt or wager

'''three-setter''' 
a tennis game ending in three sets, rather than two. So Pemulis needs to win a set against Freer to make it to the tournament.

'''cavalier''' 
disdainful; unceremonious

'''burr''' 
the word has a remarkable array of meanings, here used to mean "irritant"

===Page 1069===

'''canvas restraint-wrap''' 
straitjacket

'''catgut''' 
This is "a strong cord made by twisting the dried intestines of animals, as sheep, used in stringing musical instruments and tennis rackets, for surgical sutures, etc." (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''"...his late great Da's..."''' 
Clearly Pemulis has no idea that his brother was molested by their father.

'''pharmacopic''' 
neologism, of or pertaining to prescription medication

'''rheumy''' 
full of thin mucous

'''how 17 can actually go into 56 way more than 3.294 times''' 
This recalls Bette Midler's anecdote (recorded on her 1977 album ''Live at Last'', told while channeling the late [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Tucker Sophie Tucker]:

"I will never forget it. It was on the occasion of Ernie's eightieth birthday and in honor of the occasion he married a twenty-year-old girl. And he rang me up the very next day and he said to me, 'Soph, Soph, I have just married myself a twenty-year-old girl! What do you think of that?!' And I said to him, 'Ernie, when I am eighty years old, I shall marry myself a twenty-year-old boy, and let me tell you something, Ernie! Twenty goes into eighty a hell of a lot more than eighty goes into twenty!'"

Recall that John (N.R.) Wayne is 17, while Avril Incandenza is 56, and the young tennis stud has obviously X'd the Academy matron more than three (or four) times.

'''Joan Sutherland''' 
(1926–2010) an Australian-born internationally renowned dramatic coloratura soprano (opera singer)

'''colposcope''' 
see note, p. 634

===Page 1070===

'''Bedouins''' 
certain Arabs of the deserts of Arabia and the Levant

'''being...buggered''' 
being on the receiving end of anal sex

'''b/w''' 
black and white

'''J. Gleason''' 
Jackie Gleason (1916-1987) was [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001276/ one of the great comic actors] of the 20th century.

'''Zoltan''' 
actually a Hungarian name, which means "ruler"

'''cretinous''' 
stupid

===Page 1071===

===Endnote 324f===

'''brachiatishly''' 
neologism; brachiation is arboreal locomotion by use of the forelimbs/arms, Generally used where appropriate to refer to primates

'''Orly''' 
one of the airports serving Paris

===Page 1071 (cont'd)===

'''redoubted''' 
formidable

'''Modus Tollens''' 
a Latin logical term, meaning, roughly, "the means of denying"

'''Nucleic acids''' 
DNA and RNA

'''A and G, T and C''' 
'''a'''denine and '''g'''uanine, '''t'''hymine and '''c'''ytosine, the neucleobase molecules that combine to form neucleotides, the building blocks of DNA

'''When the boulder's slipped all the way back to the bottom''' 
a reference to the myth of [http://www.reference.com/search?q=Sisyphus Sisyphus]

'''When the headless are blaming''' 
a reference to [http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if/ "If,"] the poem by Rudyard Kipling: "If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you..."

'''Csíkszentmihályi''' 
Probably this is the last name of Zoltán, previously citted, whose “name no one can pronounce.” The name may be taken from Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (born 1934), a prominent Hungarian-American psychologist. His son Christopher is on the faculty at MIT.

'''lemma''' 
a proven statement used as a step in a mathematical proof

'''Boardman MN''' 
a town about 40 miles west-northwest of the Twin Cities

===Page 1072===

''' "directionless in a dark wood" ''' 

A reference to Dante's "Divine Comedy"'s first Canto of the Inferno.

''' "Leap like a knight of faith . . ." ''' 

A reference to Soren Kierkegaard's knight of faith. Kierkegaard, a theologian and philosopher, didn't think there could be any logical justification for believing in God. Instead the believer is required to take a leap of faith, so called because he (the believer) has no evidence for his convictions and thus must always, on some rational level, doubt them. In fact to Kierkegaard doubt defines faith, because if there were no doubt no leap of faith would be required in the first place, much like it doesn't require a leap of faith for you to believe you're actually reading this wikipedia entry right now, or that I'm not an alien sub rosa manipulating your mind for my own purposes.

'''"...Peano, Leibniz, Hilbert..."''' 
Giuseppe Peano (1858-1932) was an Italian mathematician. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a German polymath and one of the creators of calculus. David Hilbert (1862-1943) was a German mathematician.

'''"...Fourier, Gauss, LaPlace, Rickey..."''' 
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) was a French mathematician and physicist. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) was a German mathematician. Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (1749-1827) was a French mathematician and astronomer. Rickey would seem to refer to [http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/ V. Frederick Rickey], though he is contemporary while the other named men are not.

'''"...Wiener, Reimann, Frege, Green..."''' 
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 331===

'''picaresque''' 
adjective, relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero.

==Endnote 332 · Pemulis just slays deLint==

===Page 1073===

'''jury-rigged''' 
OED: nautical. used in combination to designate parts of a ship put together or contrived for temporary use; more broadly, improvised or makeshift

'''urologist''' 
see note, page 527

===Page 1074===

'''nictitater''' 
neologism, descriptive of a creature who deploys its [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nictitating_membrane nictitating membrane] (from Latin nictare, to blink) is a transparent or translucent third eyelid present in some chordates (i.e., having a vertebral column) that can be drawn across the eye from the medial canthus (i.e., inner corner of the eye) for protection and to moisten it while maintaining vision.

'''deviant division''' 
56/17 (see note ''supra'' for page 1069)

'''17-into-56 leaflet''' 
"the leaflet about Wayne and Mrs. I." referred to earlier on the page (with the "deviant division")

'''castigations''' 
criticisms; reprimands

===Page 1075===

'''loupes''' 
eyepiece magnifying glasses used by jewellers and others requiring magnification for clothes work

'''"may the road rise up to meet you..."''' 
part of an old Irish blessing

'''whitherever''' 
neologism, in whatever direction

===Page 1076===

'''recryptographilated''' 
florid neologism, re-encrypted

'''incubus''' 
a male demon that seduces female humans

===Endnote 331===

'''sudoriferous''' 
adjective (of a gland) secreting sweat.

===Page 1077===

'''Sounding rather suspiciously like Professor H. Bloom's turgid studies of artistic ''influenza''''' 
A reference to literary critic and author [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Bloom Harold Bloom] who [https://wwd.com/eye/people/the-full-bloom-3592315/ was no fan of DFW's]:

<blockquote>
Asked about novelist David Foster Wallace, who took his own life in 2008, but who has a new book out, “The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel,” put together from manuscript chapters and files found in his computer, Bloom says, “You know, I don’t want to be offensive. But ‘Infinite Jest’ [regarded by many as Wallace’s masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.” —WWD, April 26, 2011</blockquote>

===Page 1078===

'''n.b.''' 
Latin: nota bene, meaning "note well"

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==Endnote 3==

'''cardioid''' 
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''' 
German for "superhuman"

'''Brandeis''' 
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.''' 
abbreviation for Latin ''nota bene'', i.e., "note well," stated before an important example or corollary point

==Endnote 5a==

'''nystagmus''' 
involuntary eye movement of an iterative stereotyped nature, most commonly horizontal

'''entrepôt''' 
a port, city, or other center to which goods are brought for import and export, and for collection and distribution.

'''loquacity''' 
talkativeness

==Endnote 6==

'''Halcion (still available in Canada, unbelievably, still)''' 
It's also still available here, though the U.K. has banned it since 1991. OED: proprietary name for the hypnotic triazolam

==Endnote 7==

'''bevelling''' 
Here meaning "smoothed out" and misspelled, beveling is the making of 45º angles where perpendiculars meet.

==Endnote 8==

'''dickies''' 
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''' 
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''' 
central nervous system

'''gamma hydroxybutric acid''' 
now more commonly known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-Hydroxybutyric_acid GHB]

'''DMZ/M.P.''' 
DMZ is another made-up drug. M.P. refers to its street name, Madame Psychosis.

===Endnote 8a===

'''Muscimole''' 
another mushroom-based hallucinogen, like psilocybin

'''DDMS''' 
dibromododecenyl methylsulfimide

'''DMSO''' 
dimethylsulfoxide, a common solvent used in many laboratories. It is readily absorbed through the skin, taking with it whatever it has dissolved.

==Endnote 12a==

'''"...Continental Controlled Substances Act of Y.T.M.P., O.N.A.N.D.E.A.'s hierarchy of analgesics/antipyretics/axiolytics..."''' 
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''' 
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.

==Endnote 17==

'''datum''' 
piece of information, the singular form of the word "data"

==Endnote 19==

French: A person of terrible importance
: A person of ''the'' terrible importance. As is often the case in IJ, it makes no sense in French but conveys a feeling of the differences between languages.

==Endnote 21==

'''Q.v.''' 
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.''' 
United States Department of Defense

==Endnote 24 · JAMES O. INCANDENZA: A FILMOGRAPHY==
===Page 986===
'''meniscus''' 
here, a lens with a crescent-shaped section, convex on one side and concave on the other; also the curved interface between a liquid and gas in a tube

'''soliloquized''' 
spoken to oneself

'''incunabular''' 
early stages of something

'''D W Griffith''' 
Film Director whose films include 'Tolerance' and 'Birth of a Nation'; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._W._Griffith Wikipedia entry]

'''Taka Limura''' 
Japanese film maker - [http://research.yale.edu/eastasianstudies/iimura.chin.pdf see article] 

'''Heliotrope''' 
An arrangement of mirrors for reflecting sunlight from a distant point to an observation station. 

===Page 987===
'''Latrodectus Mactans''' 
Properly, Latrodectus mactans, Latin name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectus_mactans Black Widow] spider

'''neuralgia''' 
A form of chronic pain where pain is felt in a nerve without stimulation of pain receptors. Difficult to diagnose and treat.

===Page 988===
'''Godbout''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Godbout Jacques Godbout], a French-Canadian filmmaker and documentarian.

===Page 992===

'''concupiscence''' 

Strong sexual desire

'''Les Anges du Peché''' 
Misspelling of ''Les Anges du péché'' (1943).

===Page 993===

'''Tête-Bêche''' 
French for ''upside down''.

==Endnote 82==

[[Image:Plaid.jpg|thumb|caption|Night Watch Plaid|150px|right]]
'''Bean''' 
as in L.L. Bean, a privately-held mail-order and retail company based in Freeport, Maine, United States, specializing in clothing and outdoor recreation equipment.

'''Night Watch plaid''' 
A pattern of plaid. See right.

==Endnote 110 · Hal and Orin Discuss Québecois Politics==

===Page 1004===
'''Hush Puppy''' 
a [http://www.hushpuppies.com/en-US/Main.aspx brand name] of shoes

'''squeegeed''' 
cleaned with a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeegee squeegee]

'''truncated''' 
cut short

===Page 1005===

'''R&R''' 
Rest and Relaxation

'''ex officio''' 
Latin: by virtue of one's office

''''The Yellow Rose (of Texas)'''' 
Dickinson's poems can also be read to the meter of "Mary Had a Little Lamb."

'''falsetto''' 
a man's voice when he pitches it falsely high to sound like a woman

'''riffling''' 
turning pages quickly

'''unannaly''' 
not anally fixated (see Z.Freud Psychosexual Stage Theory),i.e. without obsessive compulsive urge to perfect order and tidiness, as opposed to his mom's Avril Incandenza anally retentive personality and habitual order seeking

'''Ample make this bed''' 
The full poem is [http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1337.html here].

===Page 1006===

'''quotidian''' 
commonplace, literally, “everyday”

[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.-Q.M.D.]]

'''pistil''' 
that part of a flower that is analogous to the female reproductive organs

'''Sikorski-sized''' 
Sikorsky-sized misspelt, helicopter-sized; the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_R-4 Sikorsky R-4] was the first mass-produced helicopter

'''paucity''' 
scarcity

'''swotted''' 
studied intensively

'''wakked''' 
I have no idea.

'''unperspicous''' 
not clearly expressed or presented

'''penultimate''' 
second to last

'''whingeing''' 
complaining (pronounced to rhyme with "jing")

'''xerophagy''' 
("[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerophagy dry eating]", from Greek ξηρός "dry" and φαγεῖν "eat") is the practice of eating dry food, especially food cooked without oil.

===Endnote 110d===

'''anti-sclerotic''' 
tending to ward of hardening of tissues (as of arteries, here)

===Page 1006 (cont'd)===

'''maunder''' 
to talk incoherently or aimlessly

'''Solecism''' 
nonstandard or incorrect grammatical usage

'''and c.''' 
et cetera

===Page 1007===

'''20 X 25 centimeter''' 
very close to 8" x 10"

'''Jethro Bodine''' 
a character on the television show [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055662/ The Beverly Hillbillies]

'''proviso''' 
a clause, usually in a document, making a stipulation or qualification

'''"...isn't even iambic, much less quatrameter/trimeter..."''' 
This is to say that the poetry of Dickinson is not in iambic pentameter, a particular form of verse. This is the style of poetry Shakespeare is written in ("Now is the winter of our discontent") -- ten syllables, and five iambs (feet, or beats) per line (thus pentameter). Quatrameter/trimeter would be the rhythm scheme of "Yellow Rose of Texas" and "Mary Had a Little Lamb" (although note that the first foot of the latter is incomplete).

'''dink''' 
a synonym for a drop shot, which in tennis is a light tap just over the net

===Page 1008===

'''obverse''' 
the more conspicuous of two possible choices

'''seraphic''' 
like an angel

'''lascivious''' 
appealing to sexual tastes

'''mesmerized''' 
hypnotized

'''skitter''' 
to move rapidly along a surface

'''knight-errant''' 
a knight on a quest to prove his chivalry

===Page 1009===

'''Ainsi''' 
French: so to speak

'''breviary''' 
a prayer and hymn book

'''"Kitchens and heat..."''' 
which is to say, if you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen

===Page 1010===

'''Gloeckner''' 
German for "ringer," taking that in either of the meanings it has in English

'''3-kilo''' 
a little over 7.25 pounds

'''Snuff''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuff ground tobacco], which is inhaled rather than smoked or chewed

'''Andover''' 
as in [http://www.boardingschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/5 Philips Academy Andover], alma mater of both Presidents Bush

'''"Dickinson's about as Transcendalist as Poe."''' 
which is to say, not at all

===Page 1011===

[[Image:Eddy.jpg|right]]

'''R.C.M.P.''' 
Royal Canadian Mounted Police

'''Nelson Eddy''' 
Nelson Ackerman Eddy (1901-1967) was an American singer and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0248904/ movie star]. As far as what he looked like, see right.

Rose Marie, 1936, is probably his most-remembered film. His definitive portrayal of the steadfast Mountie became a popular icon, frequently spoofed in cartoons and TV skits. When the Mounties retired their classic red jackets and hat in 1970, except for ceremonial attire, hundreds of newspapers accompanied the story with a photo of Nelson Eddy as Sgt. Bruce in Rose Marie, made 34 years earlier. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Eddy WP]

equestrian jaspers: probably means jodhpurs

'''Droll''' 
whimsically comic

===Page 1012===

'''nanomicroscopy''' 
the looking at extremely small things (nano- being the prefix for "one-billionth") through a microscope

'''Thevet''' 
This is probably a reference to André de Thevet (1502-1590), a French priest and explorer. Though never in Canada, he relied on French-Canadian explorers' work for his own voyages to South America.

'''"...the 5 on the French Achievement boards..."''' 
The highest possible score on the French Advanced Placement Exam (for which one can receive college credit) is 5.

'''Boswell''' 
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (1740-1795), was the Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson.

'''E cup''' 
a very large breast size

'''acuity''' 
acuteness of perception

'''in utero''' 
in the womb

'''thalidomide''' 
a drug developed to treat morning sickness in pregnant women that ended up causing babies to be born missing limbs

'''Condé Nast''' 
one of the largest magazine publishers in the country, owned by Advance Publications (the Newhouse family) and founded by Condé Montrose Nast (1873-1942), an American publisher

'''deform''' 
here meaning simply "to spoil"

'''persona''' 
a fictional identity created for a person, narrator in a book, etc.

'''''du''''' 
French: of the (masculine)

===Page 1013===

'''Meech Lake''' 
a lake in Gatineau Park, near Chelsea, Québec

'''Parizeau''' 
This is probably Jacques Parizeau (born 1930), a former Premier of Québec and proponent of Québecois sovereignty.

'''Charlottetown''' 
the capital of the Canadian province of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island Prince Edward Island]

'''Crétien assassination''' 
This is probably a misspelling of the surname of Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien (born 1934), Prime Minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003.

'''Francophonic''' 
French-speaking

'''Acadian Zionism''' 
Acadia is the traditional name for what is now (in part) eastern Québec. Zionism is used here as a synonym for nationalism, rather than with its specific Jewish connotations

'''Toujours''' 
French: always

'''"On ne parle d'Anglais ici."''' 
French: English is not spoken here

'''Ottawa''' 
the capital of Canada

'''"Permettez Nous Partir, Permettez Nous Être."''' 
French: Allow us to leave, allow us to be.

'''Winnipeg''' 
the capital of Canadian province of Manitoba

'''flux''' 
frequent change

'''appalled''' 
dismayed

'''UV-booth''' 
UV standing for ultraviolet (as in light), this is probably a tanning booth.

===Page 1014===

'''"Nous v. La Plupart Toujours"''' 
French: Us versus the majority always

'''Lesotho''' 
a kingdom of southern Africa, existing as an enclave entirely within the Republic of South Africa

'''SOUTHAF''' 
This is the Union of South Africa, which was formed in 1910 as a British colony and tried to annex Lesotho to it. Because of the imposition of ''apartheid'' laws in S. Africa, the annexation failed.

'''antebellum''' 
before the war, here the U.S. Civil War

===Endnote 110h===

'''Gallic''' 
French

===Page 1014 (cont'd)===

'''Anglophone''' 
English-speaking

'''Plains of Abraham''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains_of_Abraham Battle of the Plains of Abraham], part of the French and Indian Wars, which ended in a decisive British victory of the French

===Endnote 110i===

''''La Guerre des Britanniques et des Sauvages'''' 
French: The War of the British and the Savages

'''Ticonderoga''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Carillon Battle of Carillon], fought at Fort Ticonderoga

===Page 1014 (cont'd)===

'''Booty''' 
treasure taken from a defeated party

'''1759''' 
On September 13, 1759, Québec fell to the British.

'''NAFTA''' 
North American Free Trade Agreement

'''Rubensian''' 
The word more often used is "Rubenesque," but this refers to the women in paintings by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the Flemish artist. His women were usually voluptuous, not to say plump.

'''retardate''' 
more often used as a noun, offensively referring to a retarded person

'''rapacious''' 
ravenous

===Page 1015===

'''lissome''' 
supple

'''Rubensophile''' 
See above, Rubensian.

'''gulag''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GULAG GULAG] prison system of the Soviet Union

''''ce pas?''' 
French elision of "n'est-ce pas?" i.e., "right?"

'''Anbesol''' 
a brand name of benzocaine used for tooth pain

'''flanges''' 
Orin probably means to say "phalanges."

'''Rue Sherbrooke''' 
a road in Montreal

'''St. Jean-Baptiste Day''' 
another name for la [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%AAte_nationale_du_Qu%C3%A9bec fête nationale du Québec]

'''anaerobic''' 
thriving without oxygen

===Page 1016===

'''weedy''' 
scrawny; Hal is probably using it to mean "thin," as in a line of argumentation

'''Brazilian ''Nuevo Contras''''' 
These would be "new" ''contras'', the old ones having been U.S.-funded anti-communist guerrillas in Nicaragua in the 1980s. Note, though, that ''Nuevo'' being a Spanish word would not be a likely name for a Brazilian group (where Brazilian Portuguese is spoken).

'''The Noie Störkraft's? Shining Path's? The Belgian CCC's?''' 
''Noie Störkraft'' is Swedish "New Great Power"; it does not appear to be a new organization, though Störkraft is the name of a skinhead band from Sweden. The Shining Path (''Sendero Luminoso'' in Spanish) is the Communist Party of Peru, which has waged guerrilla warfare against the Peruvian government since 1980. CCC is a French acronym for Communist Combatant Cells; they were eliminated as a terrorist group in 1986.

'''''Ez-ed-Dean-el-Qassan''''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izz_ad-Din_al-Qassam_Brigades alternate spelling] of a Palestinian militant group affiliated with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas Hamas]

'''P.E.T.A.''' 
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

[[Image:Munch.jpg|right|100px]]

'''wobbled shrieking figure in the Munch lithograph''' 
See right.

===Page 1017===

'''subjoin''' 
to append to the end of something

'''attendant''' 
consequent or concomitant

'''cloracne''' 
probably a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloracne chloracne]

'''olfactory hallucinations''' 
hallucinations wherein one smells things that aren't there

'''machete''' 
a large cleaver-like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machete cutting tool]

'''Infant-depredations''' 
attacks and pillaging by feral infants (see footnote 304, pp. 1055ff, about them)

'''phenols''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenol carbolic acid]

'''Fundy''' 
probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Fundy Bay of Fundy]

'''straw-and-camel''' 
i.e., the straw that broke the camel's back

===Page 1018===

'''Docksider''' 
a type of boat shoe

'''full-toll''' 
i.e., it takes its full toll on you

'''Constantine''' 
perhaps [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_I Constantine I], by tradition first Christian emperor of Rome

'''merde''' 
French for "shit"

'''cartographic''' 
having to do with maps

'''parliamentary wigs''' 
Canadian MPs don't wear wigs, though barristers (lawyers) and judges do.

===Page 1019===

'''bone of dissension''' 
Orin means "bone of contention."

'''desmirched''' 
probably a malapropism, although it could mean "to un-besmirch"

'''re-gerrymandered''' 
To gerrymander is to divide an area into electoral districts favorable to one party over another.

'''Cuibono''' 
more properly ''cui bono'', Latin for "who benefits?"

'''swivet''' 
a state of nervous excitement

'''D-bases''' 
databases

'''falcate''' 
to curve like a sickle

'''Albertan ultra-rightists''' 
There is a tradition of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Separatism separatism] in Alberta.

'''Duluth''' 
a town in Minnesota and home to Bob Dylan, on Lake Superior about 150 miles north of the Twin Cities

===Page 1020===

'''Vichified''' 
i.e., as Vichy France, which was a puppet government to the Nazis

'''Anschluss''' 
German for "annexation," it most often refers to Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria in 1938.

'''mayhi''' 
Orin seems to be using this term as a plural of "mayhem."

'''P.Q.s''' 
members of the Parti Québecois

'''P.M.''' 
Prime Minister (of Canada)

'''''aller, partir''''' 
French: to go, to leave

===Page 1021===

'''hapless''' 
here meaning haphazard

'''botulizing''' 
infecting with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulism botulism]

'''jaunty''' 
smartly trim

'''toggle''' 
a type of switch

'''anapestic''' 
In poetry, an anapest is a trisyllable metrical foot of the following pattern: two unstressed syllables, followed by one long or stressed syllable. (Eg the line "'Twas the ''night'' before ''Christ''mas, and ''all'' through the ''house''" contains four anapestic feet.)

===Page 1022===

==Endnote 145 · Found Drama==

An invented, non-existent faux-academic style of film on which James O. Incandenza lectured and received artistic grants, created to lampoon the academic film theory community. Found Drama was not captured on film; rather, Incandenza and close friends "got out a Boston metro phone book and tore a White Pages page out at random and thumbtacked it to the wall and then [Incandenza] would throw a dart at it from across the room. ... And the name it hit becomes the subject of the Found Drama. And whatever happens to the protagonist with the name you hit with the dart for ... the next hour and a half is the Drama."

===Page 1026===

[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]

===Page 1027===

'''ne pas à la mode''' 
French: not in style

'''New Wave''' 
When this term is used w/r/t Himself's work, it is probably referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_New_Wave French New Wave], although there were several other "New Waves" in film.

'''Dick''' 
I'm unable to identify whether this person is real or not.

'''art-gesture films''' 
apparently a created genre

'''isness''' 
i.e., being

'''stasis''' 
inactivity caused by equal opposing forces

'''tenure-jockeys''' 
i.e., junior faculty at universities who are on tenure track

'''Orthochromatic''' 
According to the ''Random House Unabridged Dictionary,'' this word means "representing correctly the relations of colors as found in a subject; isochromatic."

'''retrogradism''' 
This neologism would seem to have the sense of the study or condition of moving backward.

'''McLean Hospital''' 
a real [http://mcleanhospital.org/ psychiatric hospital] in Belmont, Mass., about eight miles west-northwest of Boston

'''Duquette at M.I.T.''' 
There is no such person at M.I.T.

'''Posener''' 
There is no such person at Brandeis.

===Page 1028===

===Page 1031===

==Endnote 162==

[[Image:Francis bacon head VI.jpg|thumb|caption|Head VI (1949), Francis Bacon|150px|right]]
'''a Baconian pope with his hat on fire''' 
Referring to the work of 20th century figurative painter [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon_(artist) Francis Bacon] and his "screaming pope" paintings.

===Page 1035===

==Endnote 211==

'''suborn''' 
to bribe or induce someone to commit a crime or misdeed

==Endnote 234 · Excerpts From Orin's Interview With ''Moment''==

===Page 1037===

==Endnote 228==

'''ambit''' 
NOAD: thescope, extent, or bounds of something

==Endnote 231 · Inositol==
'''Inositol''' 
the capitalization of both inositol and mannitol is inappropriate. It is not a B-vitamin but at one time was thought to be one, "B8." I think from context that cyanocobalamin was intended.

===Page 1038===

'''Rafferty''' 
Terrence Rafferty was a film critic for the ''New Yorker'' magazine.

'''NPR''' 
National Public Radio

===Page 1039===

'''dun''' 
make repeated demands on

'''Madison Avenue''' 
the street in New York famous for its advertising firms

'''traversion''' 
Orin probably means "introversion."

'''T-square''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-square drafting tool]

===Page 1040===

'''Prussian''' 
here used to mean "very strict"

'''schizogenic''' 
botany, produced or formed by fission; what DFW apparently intends here is a neologism/malaprop for “tending to cause someone to become schizoid,” the strict psychiatric definition of which is denoting or having a personality type characterized by emotional aloofness and solitary habits. ‹informal› having inconsistent or contradictory elements; mad or crazy

'''pathogenic''' 
capable of producing disease

===Page 1041===

'''antidote''' 
malaprop, "anecdote."

'''Quelquechose''' 
French: something

===Page 1042===

'''pièce''' 
as in "pièce de resistance," the punchline or main point

===Page 1043===

'''four horsemen''' 
as in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse] from the Book of Revelation

'''BPL''' 
Boston Public Library

==Endnote 269 · Steeply-Bain Correspondence==
===Page 1047===

''''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...'''' 

Lateral Alice Moore was handicapped when the news helicopter she flew in crashed onto a highway. It could have been the same accident as the one to which Bain refers here.

'''J.O.I.''' 
James O. Incandenza

'''guile''' 
insidious cunning

'''methoxy-psychedelic''' 
probably referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMDA_%28drug%29 MMDA]

'''larval''' 
immature in its kind

'''codpieces''' 
a codpiece is a pouch at the crotch (covering the male genetalia) of tight-fitting breeches, popular during the Renaissance

'''Swinburne''' 
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was a British poet whose work had themes of homosexuality and sadomasochism.

'''Boston's Roxbury and Mattapan districts''' 
two lower-income, primarily African American and Hispanic neighborhoods in Boston

'''prenominate''' 
aforementioned

'''apposite''' 
appropriate with regard to the current circumstances

===Page 1048===

'''fairly high-sodium way''' 
a circumlocution for “with a grain (or more) of salt”

'''purposive''' 
serving some purpose

'''Gretel the Cross-Sectioned Dairy Cow''' 
Cornell University apparently has a cow whose stomachs you can see in action.

'''consummate''' 
highly skilled

'''anaclitic''' 
in psychology, dependence on other people or another person

===Page 1049===

'''prevarication''' 
avoiding the truth by not directly answering a question

'''"...as if from the Rose Garden..."''' 
like the President of the U.S. answering a question from a reporter

'''exploded''' 
shown to be false or unfounded

'''mendacious''' 
untruthful

'''monilial''' 
relating to a fungus of the genus [http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/monilial Candida]

'''nubbin''' 
a small lump or residual part

'''S. Johnson''' 
probably a reference to Dr. Samuel Johnson, the lexicographer

'''piteously''' 
pitifully

===Page 1050===

'''Steeples''' 
[sic] for "Steeply"

'''vacuous''' 
unintelligent, foolish, empty

'''Steeley''' 
[sic] for "Steeply"

'''ACOAs''' 
Adult Children of Alcoholics

'''AlaTeens''' 
a support group for teenage children of alcoholics

'''ACONAs''' 
Adult Children of Narcotics Anonymous

'''ACOGs''' 
ACOG is most commonly the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, but in this context it probably stands for Adult Children of Gamblers (Grifters? Gladiators? Gun-wielders?)

'''neurasthenic''' 
chronically fatigued and weak

'''aspic''' 
meat jelly

'''profligate''' 
extravagant

'''loquacious''' 
very talkative

===Page 1051===

'''Starkly''' 
Bain gets Steeply's name wrong yet again.

'''univocal''' 
unambiguous

'''furcated''' 
branching or forking

'''solicitous''' 
concerned

'''appurtenances''' 
accessories or equipment

'''pique''' 
feeling of resentment

'''albatross''' 
a burden, literally a large seabird, from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner''

'''Starksaddle''' 
another mistake with Steeply's name

'''perspicuous''' 
clearly expressed

===Page 1052===

'''multivalent''' 
having various meanings

'''Bainbridge''' 
This isn't even close to Steeply's name.

==Endnote 304 · The Train Game==

===Page 1055===

'''McGee-like chaos''' 
An overflowing closet was a running gag on the old-time radio show [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibber_McGee_and_Molly ''Fibber McGee and Molly''].

'''smelling a rat in the woodpile''' 
Rats often use woodpiles as cover for their burrows, as discussed [http://unexco.com/Rat.html here].

'''B.P.L. ArchFax database search''' 
Possibly: Boston Public Library Archival Facsimiles.

===Page 1056===

'''murated''' 
a neologism, by Hal’s criteria. Walled, perhaps from the Latin murare - to wall off.

'''QUOI?''' 
WHAT?

'''Sudetenlandization''' 
florid neologism [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudetenland Wikipedia - Sudetenland]

'''G. T. Day, M.S.''' 
Geoffrey Day, of Ennet House, who claims to have "manned the helm of a Scholarly Quarterly" at "some jr. college up the Expressway in Medford" (272). Before the author is mentioned, the article is said to have come from "someplace called Bayside Community College up I-93 in Medford." Wild Conceits, the publication, is said to be edited by the author of the article Struck is ripping off.

===Page 1057===
'''vishnu''' 
Vishnu is the preserver/maintainer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu god]
of the Hindu Trimurti.

'''''dasein''''' 
German: being there (lit)., [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasein existence]; a cornerstone of the philosophy of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger Martin Heidegger] (1889-1976).

===Page 1058===

'''''cui bono''''' 
Latin: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_Bono To whose benefit?]

'''geatalt''' 
a misprint of ''gestalt''

'''municipal fluoridation''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation addition of fluoride] to public drinking- (tap-)water supplies to reduce tooth decay among the population; home filtration systems (such as Brita manufactures) can remove the flouride and thus eliminate the benefit

===Page 1059===
'''''les passages à niveau de voie ferrée''''' 
the level crossings of railway line

'''Two hundred sixteen''' 
216 is the cube of 6; thus the preliminary round would yield ''Les Trente-Six'' (36) semifinalists and the second round would produce six finalists ''attendants longtemps ses tours'' (French: "waiting a long time for their turns

'''''Le Culte de Baiser Sans Fin''''' 
French: the cult of the kiss without end, or (as translated in the following paragraph), "the Cult of the Endless Kiss"

===Page 1060===

'''Bernard Wayne''' 
Most likely John "N.R." Wayne's brother.

'''contuded''' 
contused (battered, crushed) is intended, a typographical error, a misspelling, or a malaprop: you decide.

'''purple''' 
alluding to purple prose

==Endnote 321 · Hal's DMZ Dream==
===Page 1063===

'''Rise Over Run''' 
[[Image:Slope Forumla.png]] The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slope slope] (''m'') of a line, expressed as its "rise" (variance along the ''y'' axis) divided by its run (variance along the ''x'' axis); equivalent in calculus to the first derivative.

'''tangent''' 
This concept is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangent#Trigonometry here].

'''Differentiation''' 
the process by which one determines the first derivative of a mathematical function

'''inexorably''' 
relentlessly

'''Function x, exponent n, the derivative's going to be nx + x(n-1)''' 
Permulis appears to have misspoken. The derivative of x to the nth power is n times x to the (n - 1) power, not nx plus x to the (n - 1)th power.

'''covers''' 
a recording or performance of a song that was first recorded or made popular by somebody else

===Page 1064===
'''G.C./M.S.''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_chromatography-mass_spectrometry '''G'''as '''C'''hromatography - '''M'''ass '''S'''pectrometry], a means of drug detection

'''Digestive-Flora''' 
bacteria that live in the intestines and aid in digestion, enteral microbiome

'''Verdun Protestant Hospital''' 
now called [http://www.douglas.qc.ca/ Douglas Mental Health Institute]

'''''tu-sais-qué''''' 
malaprop or just really bad French for "you know what"

'''Nutter Butters''' 
Nabisco's peanut-butter sandwich [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutter_Butter cookies]

'''Human Hatchet''' 
i.e., Axford

'''impotence''' 
a malaprop; he means ''impetus''

'''Blue Flames''' 
probably some sort of depressants

===Page 1065===
'''O2''' 
dioxygen, or oxygen gas as it exists in its natural state; ozone is O3

'''Jiminy Cricket''' 
the talking (and singing) cricket in the 1940 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032910/ "Pinocchio"], adapted from Carlo Collodi's serial for children, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Pinocchio ''The Adventures of Pinocchio''] (1881-1883)

==Endnote 324 · John Wayne loses it==

===Page 1066===

'''moon''' 
to spend time idly

'''camphonated''' 
malaprop or misspelling of "camphorated," i.e., contained camphor

===Endnote 324a===

'''loamy''' 
consisting of rich, arable soil

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]

===Page 1066 (cont'd)===

'''whorl''' 
a circular arrangement

'''funiculi''' 
plural of "funiculus," i.e., part of the spinal cord

===Page 1067===

'''gonions''' 
OED: the outermost point on the angle of the lower jaw on each side.

'''uncolloped''' 
neologism, having no collops or fat, more or less

'''latissimal''' 
referring to the [http://www.reference.com/search?r=13&q=Latissimus lattissimus dorsi] muscles

'''profligate''' 
wasteful

'''Nordicular''' 
neologism, Nordic, which is to say blond-haired and blue-eyed

'''armamentarium''' 
an arsenal, particularly used by physicians to refer to drugs or treatments

'''callow''' 
immature; inexperienced

'''entrepôt''' 
a port city or other place for storing/dispensing, importing/exporting, collecting/distributing goods

'''dinkle''' 
(American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, henceforth AHDEL5) penis

===Page 1068===

'''welching''' 
(or welsh) not paying a debt or wager

'''three-setter''' 
a tennis game ending in three sets, rather than two. So Pemulis needs to win a set against Freer to make it to the tournament.

'''cavalier''' 
disdainful; unceremonious

'''burr''' 
the word has a remarkable array of meanings, here used to mean "irritant"

===Page 1069===

'''canvas restraint-wrap''' 
straitjacket

'''catgut''' 
This is "a strong cord made by twisting the dried intestines of animals, as sheep, used in stringing musical instruments and tennis rackets, for surgical sutures, etc." (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''"...his late great Da's..."''' 
Clearly Pemulis has no idea that his brother was molested by their father.

'''pharmacopic''' 
neologism, of or pertaining to prescription medication

'''rheumy''' 
full of thin mucous

'''how 17 can actually go into 56 way more than 3.294 times''' 
This recalls Bette Midler's anecdote (recorded on her 1977 album ''Live at Last'', told while channeling the late [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Tucker Sophie Tucker]:

"I will never forget it. It was on the occasion of Ernie's eightieth birthday and in honor of the occasion he married a twenty-year-old girl. And he rang me up the very next day and he said to me, 'Soph, Soph, I have just married myself a twenty-year-old girl! What do you think of that?!' And I said to him, 'Ernie, when I am eighty years old, I shall marry myself a twenty-year-old boy, and let me tell you something, Ernie! Twenty goes into eighty a hell of a lot more than eighty goes into twenty!'"

Recall that John (N.R.) Wayne is 17, while Avril Incandenza is 56, and the young tennis stud has obviously X'd the Academy matron more than three (or four) times.

'''Joan Sutherland''' 
(1926–2010) an Australian-born internationally renowned dramatic coloratura soprano (opera singer)

'''colposcope''' 
see note, p. 634

===Page 1070===

'''Bedouins''' 
certain Arabs of the deserts of Arabia and the Levant

'''being...buggered''' 
being on the receiving end of anal sex

'''b/w''' 
black and white

'''J. Gleason''' 
Jackie Gleason (1916-1987) was [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001276/ one of the great comic actors] of the 20th century.

'''Zoltan''' 
actually a Hungarian name, which means "ruler"

'''cretinous''' 
stupid

===Page 1071===

===Endnote 324f===

'''brachiatishly''' 
neologism; brachiation is arboreal locomotion by use of the forelimbs/arms, Generally used where appropriate to refer to primates

'''Orly''' 
one of the airports serving Paris

===Page 1071 (cont'd)===

'''redoubted''' 
formidable

'''Modus Tollens''' 
a Latin logical term, meaning, roughly, "the means of denying"

'''Nucleic acids''' 
DNA and RNA

'''A and G, T and C''' 
'''a'''denine and '''g'''uanine, '''t'''hymine and '''c'''ytosine, the neucleobase molecules that combine to form neucleotides, the building blocks of DNA

'''When the boulder's slipped all the way back to the bottom''' 
a reference to the myth of [http://www.reference.com/search?q=Sisyphus Sisyphus]

'''When the headless are blaming''' 
a reference to [http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if/ "If,"] the poem by Rudyard Kipling: "If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you..."

'''Csíkszentmihályi''' 
Probably this is the last name of Zoltán, previously citted, whose “name no one can pronounce.” The name may be taken from Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (born 1934), a prominent Hungarian-American psychologist. His son Christopher is on the faculty at MIT.

'''lemma''' 
a proven statement used as a step in a mathematical proof

'''Boardman MN''' 
a town about 40 miles west-northwest of the Twin Cities

===Page 1072===

''' "directionless in a dark wood" ''' 

A reference to Dante's "Divine Comedy"'s first Canto of the Inferno.

''' "Leap like a knight of faith . . ." ''' 

A reference to Soren Kierkegaard's knight of faith. Kierkegaard, a theologian and philosopher, didn't think there could be any logical justification for believing in God. Instead the believer is required to take a leap of faith, so called because he (the believer) has no evidence for his convictions and thus must always, on some rational level, doubt them. In fact to Kierkegaard doubt defines faith, because if there were no doubt no leap of faith would be required in the first place, much like it doesn't require a leap of faith for you to believe you're actually reading this wikipedia entry right now, or that I'm not an alien sub rosa manipulating your mind for my own purposes.

'''"...Peano, Leibniz, Hilbert..."''' 
Giuseppe Peano (1858-1932) was an Italian mathematician. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a German polymath and one of the creators of calculus. David Hilbert (1862-1943) was a German mathematician.

'''"...Fourier, Gauss, LaPlace, Rickey..."''' 
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) was a French mathematician and physicist. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) was a German mathematician. Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (1749-1827) was a French mathematician and astronomer. Rickey would seem to refer to [http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/ V. Frederick Rickey], though he is contemporary while the other named men are not.

'''"...Wiener, Reimann, Frege, Green..."''' 
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 331===

'''picaresque''' 
adjective, relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero.

==Endnote 332 · Pemulis just slays deLint==

===Page 1073===

'''jury-rigged''' 
OED: nautical. used in combination to designate parts of a ship put together or contrived for temporary use; more broadly, improvised or makeshift

'''urologist''' 
see note, page 527

===Page 1074===

'''nictitater''' 
neologism, descriptive of a creature who deploys its [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nictitating_membrane nictitating membrane] (from Latin nictare, to blink) is a transparent or translucent third eyelid present in some chordates (i.e., having a vertebral column) that can be drawn across the eye from the medial canthus (i.e., inner corner of the eye) for protection and to moisten it while maintaining vision.

'''deviant division''' 
56/17 (see note ''supra'' for page 1069)

'''17-into-56 leaflet''' 
"the leaflet about Wayne and Mrs. I." referred to earlier on the page (with the "deviant division")

'''castigations''' 
criticisms; reprimands

===Page 1075===

'''loupes''' 
eyepiece magnifying glasses used by jewellers and others requiring magnification for clothes work

'''"may the road rise up to meet you..."''' 
part of an old Irish blessing

'''whitherever''' 
neologism, in whatever direction

===Page 1076===

'''recryptographilated''' 
florid neologism, re-encrypted

'''incubus''' 
a male demon that seduces female humans

===Endnote 331===

'''sudoriferous''' 
adjective (of a gland) secreting sweat.

===Page 1077===

'''Sounding rather suspiciously like Professor H. Bloom's turgid studies of artistic ''influenza''''' 
A reference to literary critic and author [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Bloom Harold Bloom] who [https://wwd.com/eye/people/the-full-bloom-3592315/ was no fan of DFW's]:

<blockquote>
Asked about novelist David Foster Wallace, who took his own life in 2008, but who has a new book out, “The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel,” put together from manuscript chapters and files found in his computer, Bloom says, “You know, I don’t want to be offensive. But ‘Infinite Jest’ [regarded by many as Wallace’s masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.” —WWD, April 26, 2011</blockquote>

===Page 1078===

'''n.b.''' 
Latin: nota bene, meaning "note well"

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==Page 283==

'''C.U.S.P.''' 
Stands for Clean United States Party, i.e. Johnny Gentle's pro-hygiene political platform. In reality, though it was created after ''Infinite Jest'' was published, there is an organization called [http://geo.international.gc.ca/can-am/main/border/creating_cusp-en.asp CUSP].

'''Johnny Gentle''' 
the name of a [http://www.johnnygentle.co.uk/ real musician] from the U.K.

'''O.N.A.N.ism''' 
Onanism is another word for masturbation in the English language, but there might be much more to it than [http://infinitesummer.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=302 that]. At the target, expand your understanding of Levirate marriage as well.

'''cholera and amoebic-dysentery''' 
Cholera is extreme diarrhea brought on by ingesting V. cholera, a comma shaped bacterium excreted in extraordinary quantities in the feces of victims. (The interested reader will enjoy learning about John Snow and the Broad Street pump.) Amoebic dysentery is also extreme diarrhea, this time brought on by the acquisition of a parasitic infection.

'''diasporic''' 
scattered; dispersed (from one's homeland)

==Endnote 93==

''winners never quit and quitters never win'' is a quote by [[wikipedia:Vince Lombardi|Vince Lombardi]] who was the Greenbay Packers coach in the 1960s

==Endnote 94==

'''''Lebensgefährtin''''' 
German: female romantic companion (rather, "significant other" or "longtime companion")

'''''neurasthenic''''' 
a psychological disorder marked especially by easy fatigability and often by lack of motivation, feelings of inadequacy, and psychosomatic symptoms — compare chronic fatigue syndrome.

==Page 284==

'''afflatus''' 
a divine creative impulse or inspiration.

'''Palmer Academy''' 
There is a [http://www.privateschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/6794 Palmer Academy] in Florida, but it's in Haines City, sixty miles east of Tampa.

'''deafflatusized''' 
neologism: uninspired. afflatus is inspiration, divine communication of knowledge, literally to blow upon. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afflatus Wikipedia]

'''ROTC''' 
Reserve Officer Training Corps, which recruits future officers in the U.S. Armed Forces from universities

'''A.P.''' 
Advanced Placement

'''Croate''' 
French for "female Croat" (or Croatian modifying a feminine French noun) but probably just a misspelling,
OR indicative that the "Croation-refugee transfer" from Palmer Academy, who brought Eschaton to E.T.A. was a female.
: It is in fact both the male and female form of the adjective meaning ''Croat'' or ''Croatian''.

==Endnote 95==

'''post-Windows DOS''' 
A DOS is a Disk Operating System, the programming by which a computer runs other programs. Microsoft has not issued a new DOS after Windows as of 2016 and claims they never will.

[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]

'''recompile''' 
Some programs needed to be "compiled" before they run, depending on the computer language in which they're written. Recompiling would be compiling over again.

==Page 285==

'''inducement''' 
an incentive

'''Dodge''' 
A reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_City Dodge City, Kansas], to "get out of Dodge" is to disappear because of some kind of perceived or real threat.

==Endnote 96==

'''Fredericton, N.B.''' 
Fredericton is the capital of the Canadian province of New Brunswick (N.B.) about 175 miles as the crow flies (much longer if you drive it) from Halifax, Nova Scotia, the nearest "big city" in that part of Canada.

==Page 285 (cont'd)==

'''septuagenaric''' 
in one's seventies

'''patrician''' 
aristocratic

'''vault the net''' 
It used to be a tradition in tennis for one player to jump ("vault") over the net to congratulate or console his/her opponent after a match.

'''round-robins''' 
This is a type of tournament in which each player plays every other player once, the winner being the person/team/etc. with the most wins. Compare this to a single-elimination tournament like the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.

'''deck-sneakers''' 
You can see examples [http://sneakers.pair.com/m-deck.htm here].

==Page 286==

'''Lacoste''' 
a French apparel company, known for producing [http://www.izod.com/ Izod]
: Also notable because it was founded by Frenchman René Lacoste (1904-1996), a tennis player, nicknamed ''the Crocodile'' (like the old AA members) because of his playing style, and who later adopted the crocodile logo for his brand.

'''levantine''' 
from the Near East, particularly Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, or Israel, i.e., the Levant

'''kohl''' 
a powder used to darken the eyelids

'''Terriers''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhett_the_Boston_Terrier Rhett the Boston Terrier] is the mascot of Boston University.

'''plum''' 
an excellent or desirable thing

'''hiati''' 
the plural of "hiatus"

'''Blue Cross''' 
an health insurance company

'''felo de se''' 
Latin for "felony against one's self," this is a term for suicide.

[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.P.A.H.]]

'''sedulous''' 
diligent or attentive

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar]]

==Page 287==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland]]

'''jugular''' 
the largest vein in the neck

''''''Tenabrae Factae Sunt,''' sotto v.''' 
Ten'''e'''brae Factae Sunt misspelt. Latin for "There Was Darkness," ''Tenebrae Factae Sunt'' is a hymn traditionally sung on Good Friday, the day on which Jesus was crucified. "Sotto v." is shorthand for the Italian ''sotto voce,'' which means "in a low voice."

==Page 288==

'''locusts''' 
Given the noise they're making, Wallace is probably referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada cicadas].

'''trundle''' 
Used here, it means an impulse that causes something to move.

'''Salic law''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salic_law Salic Law] was a legal code of medieval Central Europe. The phrase is sometimes used simply to refer to its best-known tenet: agnatic succession, or the inheritance of the throne only by male heirs.

'''anthracnose''' 
another name for the plant disease known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthracnose canker] that usually has no cure.

'''PAC''' 
Political Action Committee

'''florid''' 
flowery in style 

'''trilled r's''' 
as pronounced in a Spanish word such as ''perro'' ("dog") 
The French trilled r can be uvular (on the back of the tongue) or aveolar (front of the tongue, like the Spanish ''perro'' example).
: Most French speakers don’t use trilled r’s at all nowadays, the most common pronunciation being an uvular fricative. It survives in dialects and niches, like old-style singing.

''''Politics and the English Language'''' 
You can read Orwell's essay [http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79e/part42.html here].

'''Tactical Phalanx''' 
Normally a military term, this would be a phalanx (from the Latin word for "fingers") or row of soldiers deployed for tactical purposes.

'''MGM''' 
Militant Grammarians of Massachusetts

'''tiller''' 
a nautical term for the device attached to a boat's rudder to assist in steering

'''sinecure''' 
a job requiring little or no work but that confers status/prestige

==Page 289==

'''Bill Tilden''' 
Tilden was considered the world's best tennis player from 1920 - 1934.


'''schizoid''' 
here meaning "erratic"

'''refraction''' 
here referring to the splitting of white light into a spectrum of color, as on the cover of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Side_of_the_Moon Dark Side of the Moon]

'''strabismic''' 
having improperly aligned eyes

'''diffraction''' 
the bending or stretching of waves, assuming light is a wave and not a particle

'''OCD''' 
Obsessive-Compulsive Disoder



'''postcoital flanks''' 
Postcoital denotes after sexual intercourse. The flank is the side of the body between the ribs and hip.

'''decapitated''' 
beheaded

'''epithet''' 
an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.

==Page 290==

'''Actaeon Complex''' 
This is not a real psychiatric disorder. Actaeon was a figure from Greek mythology who fell in love with the goddess of the hunt, Artemis, only to anger her (by observing her bathing) and then be changed by her into a deer, which was then hunted to death by Actaeon's own dogs — all of which perhaps suggests an underlying reluctance in the men to pursue Joelle because she might pursue them in return. (But, it was not Artemis who pursued Actaeon…??)

'''phylogenic''' 
(phylogenetic is the more common variant) OED: of, relating to, or characteristic of the evolutionary development of a species or other group of organisms through a succession of forms.

'''ascapartic''' 
A word coined by Wallace, it means gigantic, as Ascapart was a giant depicted in the fiction of, among other people, J.R.R. Tolkien.

'''elisions and apical lapses''' 
Elisions are the droppings of phonemes from words. Apical refers to sounds made using the tip of the tongue; lapses would be absences of such sounds.

'''four meters''' 
a little over thirteen feet.

'''zygomatics''' 
so-called cheekbones, arches on the outer borders of the eyes

'''HD''' 
high-definition, like a television

'''pungently''' 
in a way that sharply affects the organs of sense

'''attar''' 
an essential oil extracted from flowers

'''decocted''' 
to extract the flavor of by boiling

'''avuncular''' 
characteristic of an uncle

==Page 291==

'''strabismic''' 
squinty or improperly aligned eyes

'''Facsmile''' 
probably a misspelling of "facsimile"

'''three-meter''' 
almost ten feet

'''lateral''' 
sideways

'''''mollygag''''' 
the exiled Oklahoman football coach appears to combine "lolly-gag" and "molly-coddle"

'''''bona fried''''' 
the exiled Oklahoman coach here appears to mean "bona fide"

'''dope-slaps''' 
a smack to the back of the head, designed to get attention rather than inflict pain; distinct from more familiar "bitch-slap"

'''adit''' 
entrance or passage, antonym exit

'''orthopedic''' 
the branch of medicine devoted to the correction of anomalies or injuries to bones or muscles

'''180-kilo''' 
almost 400 pounds

'''Special Teams''' 
These are the squads responsible in football for tactics that are neither offensive or defensive, e.g., returning kick-offs, kicking field goals or extra points, and, of course, punting.

'''femur to tarsus''' 
The femur is the bone running from the hip to the knee — the largest bone in the body. The tarsi (plural of tarsus) are the bones of the midfoot. In between are the tibia and fibula — the bones of the lower leg — and the patella, or kneecap – and the calcaneus or heelbone. All of these were apparently broken.

==Page 292==

'''caromed''' 
To carom is to strike and rebound; caromed is the past tense.

'''CNS''' 
Central Nervous System

'''Gauloise''' 
a French brand of cigarettes, the word means of or pertaining to Gaul, the name by which France was known in Roman times

'''draconian''' 
Derived from Draco, the 7th century BC first lawgiver of Athens, the word means unusually harsh or severe.

==Page 293==

'''SUNY''' 
State University of New York

'''kick serve''' 
a serve in tennis with so much spin that the ball bounces high and to the left (if right-handed) or right (if left-handed) of the receiver

'''Rockette''' 
Named for the Rockefeller family and nearby Rockefeller Center, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockette Rockettes] are the Radio City Music Hall-based dancers famous for high kicks.

'''preternatural''' 
out of the ordinary course or nature

[[Image:Parabola.png|thumb|caption|parabola|right|125px]]
'''parabola''' 
a curve; more precisely a conic section formed by cutting a cone with a plane, where the plane is parallel to a line running along the cone's side from the vertex (point) to the circular base; see right

'''factota''' 
plural for factotum, which is a word for a servant or assistant

'''herbicide''' 
something that kills plants

==Page 294==

'''''Schmüberty''''' 
Technically speaking, this wouldn't rhyme with "puberty," because an umlaut over a "u" in German produces a high front rounded vowel (as in French ''tu'' "you") rather than the long /u/ phoneme.

'''kill it just by touching''' 
When a player on the punter's team touches the ball while it is still in the field of play, the play is whistled "dead" and the opposing team takes possession at that point

'''coffin-corner kicks''' 
Usually refers to a punt inside the opponent's 20 yard line that goes out of bounds and thus cannot be returned, as opposed to inside the 20-yard-line punts that remain in the field of play but are touched (killed) by a downfield runner

'''aegis''' 
sponsorship or auspices; (in classical art and mythology) an attribute of Zeus and Athena (or their Roman counterparts Jupiter and Minerva) usually represented as a goatskin shield.

'''bilateral''' 
having two sides, as here used meaning "on both sides"

'''S.T.''' 
Special Teams

'''wide receiver's number''' 
Punters are typically assigned a uniform with a number between 1 and 19, while wide receivers typically get a number in the 80s, though the NCAA has no hard and fast rules in this regard.

'''"...it was in its last season of representing an American university..."''' 
Presumably under the constitution of O.N.A.N., Syracuse, N.Y., became part of Canada.

'''book-long''' 
The "book" length of a punt is not the same as its physical distance. Orin kicked the "baptismal competitive punt" 90 yards in the air, but was only credited with a 40-yard punt. Because the line of scrimmage was Syracuse's 40, and Orin kicked the ball through the end zone, the punt is recorded as 40 yards (the distance from the line of scrimmage to the end zone). The ball would be placed at Syracuse's 20, so the "net" on the punt would only have been 20 yards.

'''90-yard punt''' 
The record for a punt in both college and professional football is 99 yards. Presumably in each instance the punting team had the ball at its own 1 yard line and the punt, through the air and then with fortuitous bounces, came to rest in the opponent's end zone. Orins's punt is said to have traveled 90 yards in the air, which is a bit beyond the outer limits of what even a top pro can do on his best kicks.

'''Orangemen''' 
the Syracuse football team's name

==Page 295==

'''podiatric''' 
of or pertaining to the treatment of the feet and their ailments.

'''USMC''' 
United States Marine Corps

'''Rolling Thunder's big-bellied Berthas''' 
Rolling Thunder was the bombing campaign on North Vietnam carried out by South Vietnam and the U.S. military between 1965 and 1968. A Bertha is probably just a really big gun, like the famous [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bertha Big Bertha] used by Germany during WWI.
More likely Bertha is referring here to large bombs dropped during the Rolling Thunder campaign, though B52s capable of dropping really large bombs were used much more extensively later - in the escalation into Cambodia for example

'''sousaphone''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousaphone tuba] developed by John Philip Sousa (1854-1932), American composer, for easier carrying with a marching band

'''extrication''' 
freedom from entanglement, it means extract in this context, the punctured football is extricated/extracted from the bell of the sousaphone.

'''lardy''' 
fat

'''tête-à-tête''' 
From the French for "head to head," this term denotes a private conversation between two people.

'''30,0000''' 
This must refer to the attendance for the game at Boston College's Alumni Stadium, which has a capacity of 44,500 (see page 293 for schedule). Nickerson Field at BU has a capacity of less than 10,000 people. BU also played at Rhode Island in Hal's first four weeks, but its field has a capacity of only 5,180.

'''amniotic''' 
pertaining to the fluid that surrounds a fetus ''in utero''

==Page 296==

'''cathedran''' 
Presumably Wallace means "like a cathedral," but this is not a real word. The proper word would be cathedrarian which th OED calls a "nonce-word" n. a word apparently used only ‘for the nonce’, i.e. on one specific occasion or in one specific text or writer's works..

'''Yankee Conference''' 
Ironically, in 1997 (a year after ''Infinite Jest'' was published), Boston University dropped its football program.

'''K-L-RMKI/Forsythia Bowl''' 
This is not a real bowl game, but the letters stand for Ken-L-Ration-Magnavox-Kemper-Insurance Forsythia Bowl.

'''three subway stops distant''' 
East Cambridge is about ten green-line stops from BU.

'''fealty''' 
faithfulness, here to a sports team

'''4WD''' 
four-wheel-drive vehicle

'''kudzu''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudzu climbing vine] now prevalent in the U.S. South. It was introduced in the 30s and 40s and has long been viewed as an invasive nuisance. I recall it being so viewed in the 1960s.

'''pointers''' 
a breed of hunting dog

'''Pyrex''' 
a brand name of heat-resistant glass

'''turn blue litmus paper red''' 
something acidic: something basic would turn red litmus paper blue

'''star-fated''' 
as opposed to star-crossed, i.e., predestined for disaster, as Romeo and Juliet

==Page 297==

'''dailies''' 
Also called "rushes," these are the pieces of raw film recorded during a single day, including cuts, takes, prints, etc.

'''turtle-headed''' 
implying that Orin's neck is covered entirely but visible, as with a turtleneck sweater

'''fireman-carrying''' 
carrying a person over one's shoulder

'''Dixie Baton-Twirling Institute in Oxford MS''' 
Wallace has taken this idea from a  short story "Twirling at Ole Miss" by [http://www.terrysouthern.com/ Terry Southern]. Oxford, Miss., is the home of "Ole Miss," i.e., the [http://www.olemiss.edu/ University of Mississippi] and is about 60 miles southeast of Memphis, Tenn.

'''hypertrophied''' 
overgrown anatomically

'''quadriceps''' 
one of the muscles in front of the thigh

'''P.T.s''' 
Physical Therapists

'''thespian''' 
having to do with acting

'''BTL''' 
the initials of several telecommunications and television companies

'''Angenieux''' 
a [http://www.angenieux.com/ company] that produces high-technology optics devices

'''half-disk-sector''' 
an indication of the amount of digital memory used

'''#78''' 
This is Orin's jersey number — why he didn't get a changed number is uncertain, as is why it said he had gotten a receiver's number. A number in the 70s would be an offensive or defensive lineman — someone unlikely to have contact with the ball.

'''mattes''' 
This is shorthand for a matte shot, which is "a shot in which parts of the background and sometimes the foreground are masked so that a different background, foreground, image, etc., can be substituted during printing" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''spectation''' 
watching

==Page 298==

'''rheostat''' 
This is "an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''Jiffy Pop''' 
a brand name of home popping corn

[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.]]

'''rpm''' 
revolutions per minute

'''Storrow 500''' 
a local nickname for Storrow Drive in Boston

'''barney''' 
a heavy padded cover for a camera to reduce the amount of noise from the camera's moving parts getting onto the soundtrack

'''Pilotone blooper''' 
Pilotone is an old brand of film equipment, and a blooper is, according to the ''Random House Unabridged Dictionary,'' "a receiving set that generates from its antenna radio-frequency signals that interfere with other nearby receivers."

'''auracopia''' 
a Wallace neologism based on "aura" (sound) and "copia" (plenty) and based on cornucopia (horn of plenty)

'''Delaware''' 
The Yankee Conference, by the way, ceased to exist in 1997.

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]

'''U. Vermont and UNH now history''' 
This implies that Vermont and New Hampshire were also annexed to Canada. However, the University of Vermont had not been in the conference since 1974.

'''four-point stances''' 
with both hands and both feet on the ground

'''chuff''' 
to blow hard and loudly

'''stave''' 
to break or crush; Wallace might also mean to ward off or keep away, but the more commmon phrase for that is "stave off".

'''scrimmage''' 
the scrimmage line, i.e., where the offense currently has the ball

==Page 299==

'''a bright noncontact white''' 
Orin's helmet is white because he hasn't been tackled.

'''pendular 180-arc of Orin's leg''' 
meaning Orin's leg moves the full length of half a circle around the center that is his hip, in a motion similar to that of a pendulum

'''gluteal''' 
pertaining to the buttocks

=November 14th, YDAU - Poor Tony Goes Cold Turkey=

==Page 299==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

'''Armenian Foundation Library in horrid central Watertown MA''' 
This is probably the same as the [http://www.almainc.org/ Armenian Library and Museum of America]. Watertown is a suburb of Boston nine miles west of the city, and it has a very large Armenian population.

==Page 300==

'''Equus Reese''' 
''Equus'' is Latin for "horse."

'''Donegal cap''' 
You can see one [http://irishop.com/dontweedcap.html here].

'''cadge''' 
to obtain by begging

'''Antitoi''' 
French for "against you"

'''de-mapping''' 
murder

'''''non grata''''' 
Latin: not welcome

'''Aigner accessory''' 
Etienne Aigner is a designer of women's handbags & leather goods.

'''cop''' 
obtain drugs

'''rough-trade''' 
homosexual prostitution - trading sexual activity for money or drugs, frequently associated with violence [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/rough+trade FreeDictionary]

'''Brockton''' 
a city in Massachusetts about 25 miles south of Boston

'''portents''' 
omens

'''Fort Point''' 
a section of Boston named for a colonial-era fort of the same name

'''hepatitis-G''' 
This [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis#Hepatitis_G disease] had been identified the same year that Wallace published ''Infinite Jest''. It's unclear whether he was aware of this.

'''chip''' 
to use enough heroin to stave off withdrawal

'''wigless-head''' 
Tony is carrying his auburn wig and red leather coat in a shopping bag.

'''The Old Cold Bird''' 
a variation on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_turkey cold turkey]

'''fifty kilos''' 
a little over 110 pounds

==Page 301==

'''color of summer squash''' 
The colors of summer squashes vary, but Wallace probably is implying that Poor Tony looks yellow.

'''sty''' 
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stye stye]

'''chignon''' 
hair tied into a knot worn at the back of the head, similar to a bun.

'''troughs and nodes''' 
deep furrows and swollen areas, respectively 
more likely: lows and data points or vertices between changes in symptoms.

'''habilements''' 
misspelling of habillements, i.e., clothing (the word is French)

'''wan''' 
pale in color

'''neurasthenic''' 
suffering from nervous exhaustion (with no apparent physical cause)

'''gender-dysphoric''' 
a person suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria gender identity disorder]

'''shiva''' 
the Jewish ritual of mourning for seven days, tearing one's clothes, sitting on the floor, covering mirrors, etc.

'''[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]'''

'''412 Mount Auburn Street''' 
This is a real address in Watertown. You can see the house [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=%22412+Mount+Auburn+Street%22+Watertown,+MA&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=51.488837,67.412109&ie=UTF8&ll=42.370023,-71.166751&spn=0.00148,0.002057&t=k&z=19&om=1 here]. It doesn't look like a residence. [Google street view suggests otherwise?]

==Page 302==

'''Codinex Plus''' 
a brand name of cough syrup

'''C17-morphine''' 
regular old morphine, which has the chemical composition C17H19NO3

'''Bonwit's''' 
a department store in Boston

'''hubris''' 
pride to a fault

'''cadences''' 
flows of events

==Page 303==

'''Merry Widow''' 
a woman's undergarment consisting of a strapless bra and short corset

'''Amalfo''' 
the very odd singular of Amalfi, a brand of shoes

'''45 kg''' 
a little over 99 pounds

'''''Zuckung''''' 
German: convulsion, jerk or twitch

'''pebbled glass''' 
a drinking glass having a rough surface

'''filial''' 
pertaining to a son or daughter

'''Mount Auburn Cemetery''' 
the first [http://www.mountauburn.org/ landscaped cemetery] in the U.S.

'''A.F.L.''' 
Armenian Foundation Library

'''loo''' 
British colloquialism for toilet

'''flatulence''' 
farting

'''demethylated''' 
with a methyl group (CH3) removed. Technically, this is incorrect; to go from codeine (C18H21NO3) to morphine (C17H19NO3) requires the removal of a methyl''ene'' group (CH2). The accurate term would be "demethyl''en''ated."

==Page 304==

'''duplicitous''' 
deceptive in speech

'''hapless''' 
without luck

'''formicating''' 
moving like ants

'''bilirubin''' 
a yellow chemical that results from the incomplete metabolism of heme, the oxygen carrying part of hemoglobin molecules, odorless, to be distinguished from urochrome which gives urine its yellow color

'''behemoth''' 
a large beast

'''synaptic''' 
pertaining to the spaces between brain cells

'''dessicated''' 
dried out

'''Eighty-Proof''' 
40 percent alcohol

'''augur''' 
to serve as an omen

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'''incongruous''' 
out of place

'''obstetric''' 
of or relating to childbirth

'''dirigibles''' 
blimps or zeppelins (airships)

'''tumid''' 
swollen

'''Red Sox of Rice and Lynn''' 
Jim Rice (1974-1989) and Fred Lynn (1974-1980) both played in the 1975 World Series.

'''taffeta''' 
a crisp, smooth, woven fabric, often made from silk, used in gowns

'''gaffed fish''' 
caught with a very large hook

'''flounces''' 
strips of decorative material

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'''White halogen''' 
i.e., the light from a halogen lamp

'''pallor''' 
an unhealthy pale appearance.

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'''2^27''' 
2^27 (2 to the 27th power) = 134,217,728

Wallace's math is completely wrong, though -- assuming each match has a 50% chance of victory for each team, which is what seems implied by the text. The actual probability for 108 matches is about 7.6% (or about 1 in 13 times).

Think of it as tossing a fair coin 108 times. The odds of, say, the first 54 tosses to be heads and the last 54 tosses to be tails is very small indeed (1 in 2^108). But there are many other ways to get 54 heads and 54 tails -- all combinations of 54 in 108, which is (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combination) 54!/(54!*(108-54)!). Multiplying these two numbers (one very small and one very large http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=fact%28x%29%2F%28%28fact%28x%2F2%29%5E2%29*2%5Ex%29+for+x%3D108 gives us to the actual probability.

'''Montcerf, Québec''' 
a city of Québec about 82.5 miles due north of Ottawa

'''Mercier Dam''' 
You can read more about it [http://www.hydroquebec.com/generation/projets/pop/pop_mercier.html here].

'''Pompano Beach''' 
a town in Florida about 10 miles north of Fort Lauderdale

'''a sepulchral Czech kid named Lendl''' 
Sepulchral implies the grave and can mean "hollow;" syn. "cadaverous." The Czech kid is probably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Lendl Ivan Lendl], although Lendl has not committed suicide.

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'''Kimberly-Clark''' 
Depend's parent [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly-Clark corporation] also Kleenex's

'''"His Unforced-Error stats look like a decimal-error."''' 
which is to say that the percentage expressed as a a decimal has so many leading zeros that it looks as if someone made a mistake transcribing the number

'''attrition''' 
The wearing down of the enemy's strength and morale by unremitting harassment. "War of attrition" (OED)

==Endnote 86==

'''Embolism '''
A sudden blocking of an artery.

[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.Q.M.D.]]

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'''revenant''' 
a person who returns, may refer to an undead (see below p263)

'''transom''' 
a window above a door

'''thespio-historical''' 
regarding the history of acting

'''"...had the word ''Homo'' in the title..."''' 
The film is James O. Incandenza's ''Homo Duplex''.

'''quad-function''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_function quadratic function], which produces a parabolic graph result

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'''pirouette''' 
a spin, in ballet terminology

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[[Image:I-beam.jpg|thumb|caption|I-beam|right|120px]]

'''I-beams''' 
standard construction beams made of metal (see right)

'''odd-numbered game''' 
Changes are after odd-numbered games because in tennis, a set is won by the first player to reach six, if ahead by two games. If the score were 4-4, the player with his back to the sun, for example, would have the advantage for two games if changes were after even-numbered games.

'''reticulate''' 
adj., resembling a net or network (Merriam-Webster)

'''hypertonic''' 
having rigid, tense muscles

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'''undead''' 
the state of several unnatural beings (vampires, mummies, zombies, etc.), which is in a state neither live nor dead

'''liniment''' 
a liquid or lotion, especially one made with oil, for rubbing on the body to relieve pain.

'''gut strung''' 
tennis rackets were originally strung with cat gut.

'''kibitzing''' 
chatting or conversing, or offering unwanted comment

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'''whippet''' 
Whippet was a brand name for an approximately one-inhalation dose of nitrous oxide (laughing gas). Its intended purpose was to make whipping cream. The actual Whippet brand contained a combination of carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide (dinitrous monoxide). Most modern similar cartridges are charged with 100% dinitrous monoxide. A modern brand with a similar name is detailed [http://www.amazon.com/Whip-It-Whipped-Cream-Chargers-50-Pack/dp/B001MUJHKG?psc=1&SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-d-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B001MUJHKG here].

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[[Image:YinYang.png|thumb|caption|Yin/Yang symbol|right|120px]]
'''Taoist paraboloid logo''' 
referring to the yin/yang symbol (seen right). In Chinese philosophy, the concept of yin yang is used to describe how seemingly disjunct or opposing forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, giving rise to each other in turn. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_yang Wikipedia])

'''fête''' 
is an elaborate festival, party or celebration. In Britain, fêtes are traditional public festivals, held outdoors and organised to raise funds for a charity.

'''ten m.''' 
32.8 feet

'''Marino 350''' 
Not a camera but a [http://masscases.com/cases/sjc/350/350mass534.html case] from Massachusetts in 1966. Plaintiff wanted a private drive on his land to be denied to defendant so that defendant could no longer reach his own property. The defendant won. The full title of the case: JAMES F. KENNEY & another vs. ANDREA MARINO & another. 350 Mass. 534

'''diffusion filter''' 
A diffusion filter is a translucent photographic filter used for a special effect. When used in front of the camera lens, a diffusion filter softens subjects and generates a dreamy haze.

'''fast film''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_speed Fast film] is more sensitive to light than slow film, permitting proper exposure in lower levels of ambient light, usually at the expense of other aesthetic qualities of the film such as grain size.

'''low exposure''' 
this refers to permitting less light to reach the film, which can be accomplished in various ways

'''VAPS''' 
an air traffic control acronym for visual approaches, but in this context more likely '''V'''ector/'''A'''ngle/'''P'''ace/'''S'''pin

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'''effete''' 
degenerate or decadent

'''NNE''' 
Northern New England not North Northeast

'''Sinn Fein''' 
Irish for "We ourselves" this is the political wing of the Irish Republican Army.

'''cruciform''' 
in the form of a cross

'''cuffs''' 
rotator cuffs - group of muscles and their tendons that act to stabilize the shoulder.

'''polybutylene''' 
This is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybutylene polymerized butlyene].

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'''neurasthenic''' 
regarding a syndrome of anxiety, fatigue, pain, etc., caused by exhaustion of the central nervous system

''''drines''' 
Guide to [http://humancomplex.blogspot.com/2009/06/illustrated-addicts-guide-to-infinite.html 'drines]

'''Tenuate''' 
[[wikipedia:Amfepramone| Tenuate]] is an appetite suppressant and amphetamine

'''Preludin''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preludin Preludin] is also an appetite suppressant and amphetamine with much more abuse and addiction potential.

'''Inv.''' 
Invitational

'''40º C''' 
104 degrees Fahrenheit

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'''pregnable''' 
open to attack; capable of being won by force

'''nacelle''' 
the car of a balloon or blimp

'''corrugated''' 
bent into folds

'''leaf-cutter-ant''' 
a type of [http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/learning/animals/invertebrates/ant North American ant]

'''Gore-Tex''' 
[http://www.gore-tex.com/remote/Satellite/content/what-is-gore-tex brand name] of material, a laminate of finely reticulate pertetrafluoroethylene and other fabrics, claimed to be permeable to water vapor but impermeable to liquid water.

'''pneumatic''' 
1.using air pressure to move or work 
2.filled with air 
3.of a woman : having a body with full, pleasing curves
''Merriam-Webster''

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'''AC''' 
Alternating Current

'''low-lipid''' 
i.e., low-fat

==Endnote 89==

'''reductive statistics''' 
Wallace is talking either about the process in statistics of reducing variables or Schtitt's use of statistics being reductive, i.e., being simplistic

==Page 269 (cont'd)==

'''equanimity''' 
mental or emotional stability

'''laissez-faire''' 
French for "let do," or, more idiomatically, "leave alone," this is a term usually applied to conservative economics but here generally gives a sense of not caring very much.

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'''erumpent''' 
bursting forth or through a surface

'''Boards''' 
college entrance examinations, at the time IJ was written, this would have referred to the SAT or Scholastic Aptitude Test, which test and which names have evolved significantly since then.

'''ad''' 
a tennis term meaning "advantage" for one or the other player

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'''Montesian''' 
also the name of a [http://oh.lake-link.com/lakes/lake.cfm?LakeID=1515&RegionID=749 lake] in Wisconsin

'''Lenz''' 
Very old-fashion German for "springtime". But also a family name, e.g. from the 19th century playwright [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Michael_Reinhold_Lenz J. M. R. Lenz]:

'''Goodwill''' 
a [http://www.goodwill.org/page/guest/about charity] that redistributes donated goods and clothing

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'''imbibe''' 
1.drink (alcohol).
2.absorb or assimilate (ideas or knowledge).
3.(especially of seeds) absorb (water) into ultramicroscopic spaces or pores.

'''non sequiturs''' 
From the Latin for "it does not follow," a non sequitur is a statement with no connection to what comes before or what follows it.

'''look as if butter wouldn't melt''' 
''Look as if butter wouldn't melt in his mouth''
Appear gentle or innocent while typically being the opposite. - ''OED''

'''assiduous''' 
showing great care and perseverance.

'''sedulous''' 
(of a person or action) showing dedication and diligence.
"he watched himself with the most sedulous care"

'''subordinate clause''' 
A subordinate clause is a subject and a verb (a clause) that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence ''because it does not express a complete thought''.
italicized part of the explanation is itself a subordinate clause

'''polyslyable''' 
[In my Kindle edition of who knows what provenance, this has been corrected to "polysyllable."] not a word.
polysyllabic means consisting of several, especially four or more, syllables, as a word.

'''macramé''' 
the manufacture of decorative articles by knotting rather than knitting

'''Paul Harvey''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Harvey Paul Harvey] (1918-2009) was an American radio broadcaster known for his platitudes.

'''inflection''' 
(OED): modulation of the voice; in speaking or singing: a change in the pitch or tone of the voice 
"You went to town" can be a statement or a question in spoken English, based on inflection. With a rising tone, it is a question. In some spoken languages, inflection is the only way to ask a question, as the words and their order do not change. 
Also, for grammar: a change in the form of a word that occurs when it has a particular use
“Gone” and “went” are inflections of the verb “go.”

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'''Denial is not just a river in Egypt.''' 
The Nile river

'''Roxbury''' 
The city asserts that this [[wikipedia:Roxbury,_Boston|neighborhood]] "serves as the heart of Black culture in Boston."

'''Dimock Detox''' 
[http://www.dimock.org/behavioral-health/detox The Dimock Center] is a medical complex that offers Detoxification Services

'''nictitated''' 
blinking

'''Quaalude''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methaqualone methaqualone]

'''Malden''' 
a northern suburb of Boston, about 7 miles north of the city

'''Librium''' 
a brand of chlordiazepoxide (Librium) Treats anxiety, symptoms of alcohol withdrawal, and tremor. This medicine is a [[wikipedia:benzodiazepine|benzodiazepine]].

'''DT''' 
Delirium tremens
a psychotic condition typical of withdrawal in chronic alcoholics, involving tremors, hallucinations, anxiety, and disorientation.

'''10+ clicks''' 
a click is US military for a kilometer (so 10+ is over 6.2 miles)

'''egregulous''' 
a DFW neologism (possibly egregious(outstandingly bad or shocking) + ridiculous or + orgulous). See the blog post at [http://infinitedetox.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/the-good-word-egregulous/ Infinite Detox].

==Endnote 90==

'''ephebe''' 
a young man between the ages of 18 and 20 undergoing training, especially for combat

'''redolent''' 
exuding fragrance (in this case, apparently an unpleasant one)

'''main''' 
here meaning "physical strength"

'''Yalie''' 
Yale student

'''sally''' 
a clever remark

'''mild sedatives''' 
Quaaludes are more like a sledgehammer to the head than a "mild sedative."

'''Chianti''' 
is any wine produced in the Chianti region, in central Tuscany, Italy. Some different types are Chianti, Chianti Classico, Chianti Rufina, and Chianti Colli Senese.

'''reductia ad absurdum''' 
If, as it appears, Geoffrey wants to pluralize [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum reductio ad absurdum],(Latin: argument to absurdity) he wants ''reductiones''.
reductio ad absurdum is a common form of argument which seeks to demonstrate that a statement is true by showing that a false, untenable, or absurd result follows from its denial.



'''"...To interdict a fundamental doctrinal question by invoking a doctrine against questioning? Wasn't this the very horror the Madisonians were horrified of in 1791? Amendments I and IX? My Grievance is disallowed because my Petition for Redress is a priori interdicted by the inadvisability of all Petitioning?"''' 
Day is referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment#Text First Amendment] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Text Ninth Amendment] to the U.S. Constitution, drafted by James Madison (though he personally thought them unnecessary, referring to them as "politic, if not obligatory"). Day is apparently suggesting that without those amendments, Congress could pass a law prohibiting attempts to get them to change the law, thereby making the law forever impervious to attempts to change it, since any such attempt would be prohibited by the law itself. This doesn't sound like the kind of thing the Madisonians were actually worried about; the right to petition dates back to the Magna Carta (where it referred to petitioning the King) and the Ninth Amendment was added to make it clear that just because some rights were explicitly spelled out in the Bill of Rights didn't mean that other rights didn't exist too (Madison believed "the people have those rights in their own hands", which is why he didn't think a Bill of them was necessary in the first place).

'''lapped''' 
a reference to track and field, in which a runner is so far ahead of another runner on a circular court that he has "lapped" him, i.e., is now a lap ahead of him

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'''iona''' 
Iona is an island off the west coast of Scotland. Gately means iota.

'''bunko artists''' 
con artists

'''jonesing''' 
an addict term for the desire for one's substance of choice

'''mokus''' 
1) Loneliness or depression. Oddly, this term could not be found in a U.S. dictionary, but is referred to in the ''[http://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/mokus Oxford Living Online Dictionary], henceforth OLOD'' as "US slang." 2) More often spelled as "mocus," common American 12-Step term for a hazy, unfocused state of mind, especially in early sobriety. Said to come from "mind out of focus." Mokus is also Hungarian for squirrel, raising the possibility of a pun on "feeling squirrelly."

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'''Guy That Didn't Even Use His First Name''' 
a joke based on the fact that in recovery programs like AA, people do not use their last names

'''Spont-Dissem''' 
Spontaneous Dissemination, i.e., live as opposed to pre-recorded

'''R.C.''' 
Roman Catholic

'''pillow-biter''' 
per endnote 91, another North-shore term for male homosexual, one of only two such terms known to Gately

==Endnote 91==

'''''f''-term''' 
i.e., "fag"

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'''..mugged and beaten half to death in Cambridge on Xmas Eve last year''' 
See mug scene described earlier on page 130

'''Morris Code''' 
a misstatement of Morse Code

'''XSive''' 
excessive

'''cook-and-shoot''' 
i.e. cooking and shooting up drugs

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'''east of Atlantic City, NJ''' 
which would be either in Europe on the Atlantic Ocean somewhere -- or nowhere. The reader is perhaps led to infer that Mildred is not very clever, or is at least significantly geographically-challenged.

'''Hester Thrale''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hester_Thrale Hester Thrale] was a literary figure of the 18th century. An associate and early biographer of Dr Samuel Johnson, her Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson (1786) was criticised by James Boswell as inaccurate. Her connection with the nail-biter and putative borderline personality is unclear.

'''Borderline''' 
suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_Personality_Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder]

'''organic-coke''' 
an oxymoronic term, since cocaine is a chemical

'''Charlestown''' 
a neighborhood in the northernmost part of Boston, right over the Charles River from downtown

'''100 grams''' 
About 3.5 ounces. The street value of 100 grams of cocaine is enormous -- after cutting on the order of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

-I would argue that street value would be more on the order of (low) tens of thousands of dollars, assuming prices around $100/gram and purity around 55%. See this excerpt from the [http://www.unodc.org/pdf/WDR_2004/Chap5_coca.pdf United Nations World Drug Report 2004].

'''D.E.A.''' 
Drug Enforcement Agency

'''MP''' 
Military Police

'''queer a square beef''' 
spoil the chances of success of a fair complaint/argument

'''Cesar Romero''' 
Cesar Romero (1907-1994) was a Cuban-American [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003110/ actor and entertainer], best known to a generation of television viewers as the man who played the Joker on the television live-action series of [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059968/ Batman].

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[[Image:Easter.jpg|thumb|caption|Easter Island statues|right|125px]]
'''Easter Island statue''' 
Easter Island is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian triangle. The island is a special territory of Chile. Easter Island is famous for its monumental statues, called ''moai'', created by the Rapanui people. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_island Wikipedia]

[[Image:Prince.jpg|thumb|caption|Prince Valiant|right|125px]]

'''Prince Valiantish haircut''' 
''Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur'', or simply [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Valiant ''Prince Valiant''], is a comic strip created by Hal Foster, which began running in 1937. Prince Valiant's haircut is a pageboy with long tresses in back, as seen at right.

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'''pince-nez''' 
From the French for "pinch-nose," these are glasses without temples to go over the ears.

'''2F and 1M''' 
2 females and 1 male

'''suppurating''' 
oozing pus

'''Grand Mall epilepsy''' 
Gately means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_mal grand mal]. I find this quite droll, and like it that it is not quite clear from context whether the malaprop is by Gately or Pat M.

'''(4)''' 
Notice that after listing points (a), (b), and (c) about clichés, Gately moves on to (4) rather than (d).

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'''dun''' 
grayish-brown

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'''Talwin''' 
Pentazocine (Talwin)
Prescription drug.
Treats moderate to severe pain. Is sometimes given before or after a surgery. May also be given with a general anesthesia before an operation. Belongs to a class of drugs called narcotic analgesics.

'''Spiro Agnew''' 
Spiro Theodore Agnew (1918-1996) was vice president of the U.S. under Richard Nixon until forced to resign after pleading no contest to charges of charges of tax evasion and money laundering.

'''work-a-world''' 
probably workaday world is intended.

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'''"...bearing their shields rather than upon them..."''' 
Spartans were carried back on their shields when killed in battle.

'''distaffs''' 
women's groups

'''dubs''' 
doubles

'''V.D.''' 
alternately this could stand for Venereal Disease

'''nystagmic''' 
suffering from involuntary eye movement

'''Stockhausen''' 
German for "stick houses"; not really: "-hausen" functions like "-burg" or "-stadt" – in town names, meaning "town" – as in "Oberhausen" or "Bad Ricklinghausen"; could be a nod to Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music" (Hewett 2007). He is known for his ground-breaking work in electronic music, aleatory (controlled chance) in serial composition, and musical spatialization. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockhausen Wikipedia]

'''E. A. Abbott''' 
Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926) was a British author and theologian best known for having written ''Flatland,'' which can be read [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=umhistmath;idno=ABR0624.0001.001 here]. The book tries to dramatize dimensionality by telling the story of shapes that live 2D and their interaction with 1D and 3D shapes. It's very popular with aspiring math-physics-computer-science students.

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'''sodium light''' 
The strikingly yellow light, wavelength 589 nm, emitted by sodium lamps, of which there are two kinds, Low Pressure (LPS) and High Pressure (HPS). These lamps are mostly used for street lighting as well as industrial uses. The lamp works by creating an electric arc through vaporized sodium metal.

'''Disciplinary Lit.''' 
a joke on the more common ''interdisciplinary'' (of or relating to more than one branch of knowledge) academic classes

'''Goncharov's ''Oblomov''''' 
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (1812-1891) was a Russian novelist and author of ''Oblomov,'' which can be read [http://www.oblomovka.com/eldritch/iag/oblomov.htm here]. The book is about a young man too lazy to act or decide; he doesn't leave his bed for the first 150 pages.

'''listing to port''' 
a nautical term meaning "leaning leftward"

'''feeling punk''' 
Defined as "weak in spirits or health" in the ''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.''

'''tincture of benzoin''' 
This is a mixture of a balsamic resin dissolved in alcohol. Benzoin is used as an adhesive, antiseptic, and expectorant, but each use generally has its own formulation. Tennis players are more likely to use it on chafed or scraped skin as an antiseptic.

'''Xing''' 
a circumlocution for copulating with someone

==Endnote 92==

'''Perth Amboy NJ''' 
a town in northern NJ, about 30 miles southwest of New York

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'''Pierre Trudeau''' 
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau (commonly called Pierre-Elliot Trudeau; 1919-2000) was the Prime Minister of Canada for most of the 1970s and from 1980 to 1984.

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'''White halogen''' 
i.e., the light from a halogen lamp

'''pallor''' 
an unhealthy pale appearance.

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'''2^27''' 
2^27 (2 to the 27th power) = 134,217,728

Wallace's math is completely wrong, though -- assuming each match has a 50% chance of victory for each team, which is what seems implied by the text. The actual probability for 108 matches is about 7.6% (or about 1 in 13 times).

Think of it as tossing a fair coin 108 times. The odds of, say, the first 54 tosses to be heads and the last 54 tosses to be tails is very small indeed (1 in 2^108). But there are many other ways to get 54 heads and 54 tails -- all combinations of 54 in 108, which is (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combination) 54!/(54!*(108-54)!). Multiplying these two numbers (one very small and one very large http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=fact%28x%29%2F%28%28fact%28x%2F2%29%5E2%29*2%5Ex%29+for+x%3D108 gives us to the actual probability.

'''Montcerf, Québec''' 
a city of Québec about 82.5 miles due north of Ottawa

'''Mercier Dam''' 
You can read more about it [http://www.hydroquebec.com/generation/projets/pop/pop_mercier.html here].

'''Pompano Beach''' 
a town in Florida about 10 miles north of Fort Lauderdale

'''a sepulchral Czech kid named Lendl''' 
Sepulchral implies the grave and can mean "hollow;" syn. "cadaverous." The Czech kid is probably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Lendl Ivan Lendl], although Lendl has not committed suicide.

==Page 260==

'''Kimberly-Clark''' 
Depend's parent [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly-Clark corporation] also Kleenex's

'''"His Unforced-Error stats look like a decimal-error."''' 
which is to say that the percentage expressed as a a decimal has so many leading zeros that it looks as if someone made a mistake transcribing the number

'''attrition''' 
The wearing down of the enemy's strength and morale by unremitting harassment. "War of attrition" (OED)

==Endnote 86==

'''Embolism '''
A sudden blocking of an artery.

[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.Q.M.D.]]

==Page 260 (cont'd)==

'''revenant''' 
a person who returns, may refer to an undead (see below p263)

'''transom''' 
a window above a door

'''thespio-historical''' 
regarding the history of acting

'''"...had the word ''Homo'' in the title..."''' 
The film is James O. Incandenza's ''Homo Duplex''.

'''quad-function''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_function quadratic function], which produces a parabolic graph result

==Page 261==

'''pirouette''' 
a spin, in ballet terminology

==Page 262==

[[Image:I-beam.jpg|thumb|caption|I-beam|right|120px]]

'''I-beams''' 
standard construction beams made of metal (see right)

'''odd-numbered game''' 
Changes are after odd-numbered games because in tennis, a set is won by the first player to reach six, if ahead by two games. If the score were 4-4, the player with his back to the sun, for example, would have the advantage for two games if changes were after even-numbered games.

'''reticulate''' 
adj., resembling a net or network (Merriam-Webster)

'''hypertonic''' 
having rigid, tense muscles

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'''undead''' 
the state of several unnatural beings (vampires, mummies, zombies, etc.), which is in a state neither live nor dead

'''liniment''' 
a liquid or lotion, especially one made with oil, for rubbing on the body to relieve pain.

'''gut strung''' 
tennis rackets were originally strung with cat gut.

'''kibitzing''' 
chatting or conversing, or offering unwanted comment

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'''whippet''' 
Whippet was a brand name for an approximately one-inhalation dose of nitrous oxide (laughing gas). Its intended purpose was to make whipping cream. The actual Whippet brand contained a combination of carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide (dinitrous monoxide). Most modern similar cartridges are charged with 100% dinitrous monoxide. A modern brand with a similar name is detailed [http://www.amazon.com/Whip-It-Whipped-Cream-Chargers-50-Pack/dp/B001MUJHKG?psc=1&SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-d-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B001MUJHKG here].

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[[Image:YinYang.png|thumb|caption|Yin/Yang symbol|right|120px]]
'''Taoist paraboloid logo''' 
referring to the yin/yang symbol (seen right). In Chinese philosophy, the concept of yin yang is used to describe how seemingly disjunct or opposing forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, giving rise to each other in turn. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_yang Wikipedia])

'''fête''' 
is an elaborate festival, party or celebration. In Britain, fêtes are traditional public festivals, held outdoors and organised to raise funds for a charity.

'''ten m.''' 
32.8 feet

'''Marino 350''' 
Not a camera but a [http://masscases.com/cases/sjc/350/350mass534.html case] from Massachusetts in 1966. Plaintiff wanted a private drive on his land to be denied to defendant so that defendant could no longer reach his own property. The defendant won. The full title of the case: JAMES F. KENNEY & another vs. ANDREA MARINO & another. 350 Mass. 534

'''diffusion filter''' 
A diffusion filter is a translucent photographic filter used for a special effect. When used in front of the camera lens, a diffusion filter softens subjects and generates a dreamy haze.

'''fast film''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_speed Fast film] is more sensitive to light than slow film, permitting proper exposure in lower levels of ambient light, usually at the expense of other aesthetic qualities of the film such as grain size.

'''low exposure''' 
this refers to permitting less light to reach the film, which can be accomplished in various ways

'''VAPS''' 
an air traffic control acronym for visual approaches, but in this context more likely '''V'''ector/'''A'''ngle/'''P'''ace/'''S'''pin

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'''effete''' 
degenerate or decadent

'''NNE''' 
Northern New England not North Northeast

'''Sinn Fein''' 
Irish for "We ourselves" this is the political wing of the Irish Republican Army.

'''cruciform''' 
in the form of a cross

'''cuffs''' 
rotator cuffs - group of muscles and their tendons that act to stabilize the shoulder.

'''polybutylene''' 
This is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybutylene polymerized butlyene].

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'''neurasthenic''' 
regarding a syndrome of anxiety, fatigue, pain, etc., caused by exhaustion of the central nervous system

''''drines''' 
Guide to [http://humancomplex.blogspot.com/2009/06/illustrated-addicts-guide-to-infinite.html 'drines]

'''Tenuate''' 
[[wikipedia:Amfepramone| Tenuate]] is an appetite suppressant and amphetamine

'''Preludin''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preludin Preludin] is also an appetite suppressant and amphetamine with much more abuse and addiction potential.

'''Inv.''' 
Invitational

'''40º C''' 
104 degrees Fahrenheit

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'''pregnable''' 
open to attack; capable of being won by force

'''nacelle''' 
the car of a balloon or blimp

'''corrugated''' 
bent into folds

'''leaf-cutter-ant''' 
a type of [http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/learning/animals/invertebrates/ant North American ant]

'''Gore-Tex''' 
[http://www.gore-tex.com/remote/Satellite/content/what-is-gore-tex brand name] of material, a laminate of finely reticulate pertetrafluoroethylene and other fabrics, claimed to be permeable to water vapor but impermeable to liquid water.

'''pneumatic''' 
1.using air pressure to move or work 
2.filled with air 
3.of a woman : having a body with full, pleasing curves
''Merriam-Webster''

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'''AC''' 
Alternating Current

'''low-lipid''' 
i.e., low-fat

==Endnote 89==

'''reductive statistics''' 
Wallace is talking either about the process in statistics of reducing variables or Schtitt's use of statistics being reductive, i.e., being simplistic

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'''equanimity''' 
mental or emotional stability

'''laissez-faire''' 
French for "let do," or, more idiomatically, "leave alone," this is a term usually applied to conservative economics but here generally gives a sense of not caring very much.

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'''erumpent''' 
bursting forth or through a surface

'''Boards''' 
college entrance examinations, at the time IJ was written, this would have referred to the SAT or Scholastic Aptitude Test, which test and which names have evolved significantly since then.

'''ad''' 
a tennis term meaning "advantage" for one or the other player

=Day gives Gately a lesson in patience=

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'''Montesian''' 
also the name of a [http://oh.lake-link.com/lakes/lake.cfm?LakeID=1515&RegionID=749 lake] in Wisconsin

'''Lenz''' 
Very old-fashion German for "springtime". But also a family name, e.g. from the 19th century playwright [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Michael_Reinhold_Lenz J. M. R. Lenz]:

'''Goodwill''' 
a [http://www.goodwill.org/page/guest/about charity] that redistributes donated goods and clothing

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'''imbibe''' 
1.drink (alcohol).
2.absorb or assimilate (ideas or knowledge).
3.(especially of seeds) absorb (water) into ultramicroscopic spaces or pores.

'''non sequiturs''' 
From the Latin for "it does not follow," a non sequitur is a statement with no connection to what comes before or what follows it.

'''look as if butter wouldn't melt''' 
''Look as if butter wouldn't melt in his mouth''
Appear gentle or innocent while typically being the opposite. - ''OED''

'''assiduous''' 
showing great care and perseverance.

'''sedulous''' 
(of a person or action) showing dedication and diligence.
"he watched himself with the most sedulous care"

'''subordinate clause''' 
A subordinate clause is a subject and a verb (a clause) that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence ''because it does not express a complete thought''.
italicized part of the explanation is itself a subordinate clause

'''polyslyable''' 
[In my Kindle edition of who knows what provenance, this has been corrected to "polysyllable."] not a word.
polysyllabic means consisting of several, especially four or more, syllables, as a word.

'''macramé''' 
the manufacture of decorative articles by knotting rather than knitting

'''Paul Harvey''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Harvey Paul Harvey] (1918-2009) was an American radio broadcaster known for his platitudes.

'''inflection''' 
(OED): modulation of the voice; in speaking or singing: a change in the pitch or tone of the voice 
"You went to town" can be a statement or a question in spoken English, based on inflection. With a rising tone, it is a question. In some spoken languages, inflection is the only way to ask a question, as the words and their order do not change. 
Also, for grammar: a change in the form of a word that occurs when it has a particular use
“Gone” and “went” are inflections of the verb “go.”

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'''Denial is not just a river in Egypt.''' 
The Nile river

'''Roxbury''' 
The city asserts that this [[wikipedia:Roxbury,_Boston|neighborhood]] "serves as the heart of Black culture in Boston."

'''Dimock Detox''' 
[http://www.dimock.org/behavioral-health/detox The Dimock Center] is a medical complex that offers Detoxification Services

'''nictitated''' 
blinking

'''Quaalude''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methaqualone methaqualone]

'''Malden''' 
a northern suburb of Boston, about 7 miles north of the city

'''Librium''' 
a brand of chlordiazepoxide (Librium) Treats anxiety, symptoms of alcohol withdrawal, and tremor. This medicine is a [[wikipedia:benzodiazepine|benzodiazepine]].

'''DT''' 
Delirium tremens
a psychotic condition typical of withdrawal in chronic alcoholics, involving tremors, hallucinations, anxiety, and disorientation.

'''10+ clicks''' 
a click is US military for a kilometer (so 10+ is over 6.2 miles)

'''egregulous''' 
a DFW neologism (possibly egregious(outstandingly bad or shocking) + ridiculous or + orgulous). See the blog post at [http://infinitedetox.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/the-good-word-egregulous/ Infinite Detox].

==Endnote 90==

'''ephebe''' 
a young man between the ages of 18 and 20 undergoing training, especially for combat

'''redolent''' 
exuding fragrance (in this case, apparently an unpleasant one)

'''main''' 
here meaning "physical strength"

'''Yalie''' 
Yale student

'''sally''' 
a clever remark

'''mild sedatives''' 
Quaaludes are more like a sledgehammer to the head than a "mild sedative."

'''Chianti''' 
is any wine produced in the Chianti region, in central Tuscany, Italy. Some different types are Chianti, Chianti Classico, Chianti Rufina, and Chianti Colli Senese.

'''reductia ad absurdum''' 
If, as it appears, Geoffrey wants to pluralize [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum reductio ad absurdum],(Latin: argument to absurdity) he wants ''reductiones''.
reductio ad absurdum is a common form of argument which seeks to demonstrate that a statement is true by showing that a false, untenable, or absurd result follows from its denial.



'''"...To interdict a fundamental doctrinal question by invoking a doctrine against questioning? Wasn't this the very horror the Madisonians were horrified of in 1791? Amendments I and IX? My Grievance is disallowed because my Petition for Redress is a priori interdicted by the inadvisability of all Petitioning?"''' 
Day is referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment#Text First Amendment] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Text Ninth Amendment] to the U.S. Constitution, drafted by James Madison (though he personally thought them unnecessary, referring to them as "politic, if not obligatory"). Day is apparently suggesting that without those amendments, Congress could pass a law prohibiting attempts to get them to change the law, thereby making the law forever impervious to attempts to change it, since any such attempt would be prohibited by the law itself. This doesn't sound like the kind of thing the Madisonians were actually worried about; the right to petition dates back to the Magna Carta (where it referred to petitioning the King) and the Ninth Amendment was added to make it clear that just because some rights were explicitly spelled out in the Bill of Rights didn't mean that other rights didn't exist too (Madison believed "the people have those rights in their own hands", which is why he didn't think a Bill of them was necessary in the first place).

'''lapped''' 
a reference to track and field, in which a runner is so far ahead of another runner on a circular court that he has "lapped" him, i.e., is now a lap ahead of him

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'''iona''' 
Iona is an island off the west coast of Scotland. Gately means iota.

'''bunko artists''' 
con artists

'''jonesing''' 
an addict term for the desire for one's substance of choice

'''mokus''' 
1) Loneliness or depression. Oddly, this term could not be found in a U.S. dictionary, but is referred to in the ''[http://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/mokus Oxford Living Online Dictionary], henceforth OLOD'' as "US slang." 2) More often spelled as "mocus," common American 12-Step term for a hazy, unfocused state of mind, especially in early sobriety. Said to come from "mind out of focus." Mokus is also Hungarian for squirrel, raising the possibility of a pun on "feeling squirrelly."

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'''Guy That Didn't Even Use His First Name''' 
a joke based on the fact that in recovery programs like AA, people do not use their last names

'''Spont-Dissem''' 
Spontaneous Dissemination, i.e., live as opposed to pre-recorded

'''R.C.''' 
Roman Catholic

'''pillow-biter''' 
per endnote 91, another North-shore term for male homosexual, one of only two such terms known to Gately

==Endnote 91==

'''''f''-term''' 
i.e., "fag"

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'''Morris Code''' 
a misstatement of Morse Code

'''XSive''' 
excessive

'''cook-and-shoot''' 
i.e. cooking and shooting up drugs

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'''east of Atlantic City, NJ''' 
which would be either in Europe on the Atlantic Ocean somewhere -- or nowhere. The reader is perhaps led to infer that Mildred is not very clever, or is at least significantly geographically-challenged.

'''Hester Thrale''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hester_Thrale Hester Thrale] was a literary figure of the 18th century. An associate and early biographer of Dr Samuel Johnson, her Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson (1786) was criticised by James Boswell as inaccurate. Her connection with the nail-biter and putative borderline personality is unclear.

'''Borderline''' 
suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_Personality_Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder]

'''organic-coke''' 
an oxymoronic term, since cocaine is a chemical

'''Charlestown''' 
a neighborhood in the northernmost part of Boston, right over the Charles River from downtown

'''100 grams''' 
About 3.5 ounces. The street value of 100 grams of cocaine is enormous -- after cutting on the order of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

-I would argue that street value would be more on the order of (low) tens of thousands of dollars, assuming prices around $100/gram and purity around 55%. See this excerpt from the [http://www.unodc.org/pdf/WDR_2004/Chap5_coca.pdf United Nations World Drug Report 2004].

'''D.E.A.''' 
Drug Enforcement Agency

'''MP''' 
Military Police

'''queer a square beef''' 
spoil the chances of success of a fair complaint/argument

'''Cesar Romero''' 
Cesar Romero (1907-1994) was a Cuban-American [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003110/ actor and entertainer], best known to a generation of television viewers as the man who played the Joker on the television live-action series of [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059968/ Batman].

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[[Image:Easter.jpg|thumb|caption|Easter Island statues|right|125px]]
'''Easter Island statue''' 
Easter Island is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian triangle. The island is a special territory of Chile. Easter Island is famous for its monumental statues, called ''moai'', created by the Rapanui people. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_island Wikipedia]

[[Image:Prince.jpg|thumb|caption|Prince Valiant|right|125px]]

'''Prince Valiantish haircut''' 
''Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur'', or simply [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Valiant ''Prince Valiant''], is a comic strip created by Hal Foster, which began running in 1937. Prince Valiant's haircut is a pageboy with long tresses in back, as seen at right.

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'''pince-nez''' 
From the French for "pinch-nose," these are glasses without temples to go over the ears.

'''2F and 1M''' 
2 females and 1 male

'''suppurating''' 
oozing pus

'''Grand Mall epilepsy''' 
Gately means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_mal grand mal]. I find this quite droll, and like it that it is not quite clear from context whether the malaprop is by Gately or Pat M.

'''(4)''' 
Notice that after listing points (a), (b), and (c) about clichés, Gately moves on to (4) rather than (d).

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'''dun''' 
grayish-brown

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'''Talwin''' 
Pentazocine (Talwin)
Prescription drug.
Treats moderate to severe pain. Is sometimes given before or after a surgery. May also be given with a general anesthesia before an operation. Belongs to a class of drugs called narcotic analgesics.

'''Spiro Agnew''' 
Spiro Theodore Agnew (1918-1996) was vice president of the U.S. under Richard Nixon until forced to resign after pleading no contest to charges of charges of tax evasion and money laundering.

'''work-a-world''' 
probably workaday world is intended.

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=Home from Port Washington=

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'''"...bearing their shields rather than upon them..."''' 
Spartans were carried back on their shields when killed in battle.

'''distaffs''' 
women's groups

'''dubs''' 
doubles

'''V.D.''' 
alternately this could stand for Venereal Disease

'''nystagmic''' 
suffering from involuntary eye movement

'''Stockhausen''' 
German for "stick houses"; not really: "-hausen" functions like "-burg" or "-stadt" – in town names, meaning "town" – as in "Oberhausen" or "Bad Ricklinghausen"; could be a nod to Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music" (Hewett 2007). He is known for his ground-breaking work in electronic music, aleatory (controlled chance) in serial composition, and musical spatialization. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockhausen Wikipedia]

'''E. A. Abbott''' 
Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926) was a British author and theologian best known for having written ''Flatland,'' which can be read [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=umhistmath;idno=ABR0624.0001.001 here]. The book tries to dramatize dimensionality by telling the story of shapes that live 2D and their interaction with 1D and 3D shapes. It's very popular with aspiring math-physics-computer-science students.

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'''sodium light''' 
The strikingly yellow light, wavelength 589 nm, emitted by sodium lamps, of which there are two kinds, Low Pressure (LPS) and High Pressure (HPS). These lamps are mostly used for street lighting as well as industrial uses. The lamp works by creating an electric arc through vaporized sodium metal.

'''Disciplinary Lit.''' 
a joke on the more common ''interdisciplinary'' (of or relating to more than one branch of knowledge) academic classes

'''Goncharov's ''Oblomov''''' 
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (1812-1891) was a Russian novelist and author of ''Oblomov,'' which can be read [http://www.oblomovka.com/eldritch/iag/oblomov.htm here]. The book is about a young man too lazy to act or decide; he doesn't leave his bed for the first 150 pages.

'''listing to port''' 
a nautical term meaning "leaning leftward"

'''feeling punk''' 
Defined as "weak in spirits or health" in the ''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.''

'''tincture of benzoin''' 
This is a mixture of a balsamic resin dissolved in alcohol. Benzoin is used as an adhesive, antiseptic, and expectorant, but each use generally has its own formulation. Tennis players are more likely to use it on chafed or scraped skin as an antiseptic.

'''Xing''' 
a circumlocution for copulating with someone

==Endnote 92==

'''Perth Amboy NJ''' 
a town in northern NJ, about 30 miles southwest of New York

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'''Pierre Trudeau''' 
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau (commonly called Pierre-Elliot Trudeau; 1919-2000) was the Prime Minister of Canada for most of the 1970s and from 1980 to 1984.

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