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902 · Don Gately Remembers

==Page 902==

'''cognomen''' 
a nickname

'''fullback''' 
the running back farthest from the line of scrimmage

'''a 4.4 40''' 
He could run 40 meters in 4.4 seconds.

==Page 903==

'''"...in a flaming L.A...."''' 
This would make the year 1992.

'''"some Finest got home-movied..."''' 
This is a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King Rodney King] beating.

'''Orkin''' 
a large exterminator company

'''screwdrivers''' 
vodka and orange juice

'''brownshirts and jackboots''' 
things worn by Nazis -- jackboots are combat boots that go to mid-calf

'''Zog''' 
i.e., ZOG, for Zionist Occupation Government, the acronym coined by American neo-Nazi Eric Thomson

'''''The Turner Diaries''''' 
Written by William Luther Pierce III (1933-2002), this is a neo-Nazi novel once called the "blueprint" for the Oklahoma City bombing.

'''desBois''' 
the plural of ''duBois''

==Page 904==

'''Hefenreffer''' 
apparently a real brand

'''B.M.S.''' 
Beverly Middle School

'''Erlenmeyer Flasks''' 
Read about them [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlenmeyer_flask here].T

'''"...to cyclize OH..."''' 
To cyclize something is to have it form rings. OH is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxyl_radical hydroxy radical].

==Endnote 364==

'''Love Boat''' 
actually commonly used as a nickname for marijuana laced with PCP

==Page 904 (cont'd)==

'''Farberware''' 
a brand name of pots and pans

'''tetrahydrofuran''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahydrofuran solvent]

'''PVC''' 
polyvinyl chloride

'''48 contigs''' 
48 continguous United States (excludes Alaska and Hawaii)

'''6 provinces''' 
presumably the six Canadian provinces that border the contiguous 48 states, i.e., British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Quebec

'''Sominex''' 
a brand name of antihistamine sleeping aid

'''H3C''' 
ethane

'''mnemonic brown-out''' 
a sort of memory lapse short of a blackout

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'''truancy''' 
skipping school

'''A.D.D.''' 
Attention Deficit Disorder

'''''sieg-heil''''' 
German for "hail victory," the reference is to the Nazis.

'''aveil''' 
i.e., avail

'''Water Lou''' 
i.e., Waterloo

==Page 906==

'''''Howl''''' 
a famous [http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15308 poem] by Irwin Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), American poet

'''Chaucerian English''' 
You can read an example [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Canterbury_Tales/General_Prologue here].

'''enervated''' 
weakened

'''M.S.''' 
multiple sclerosis

'''Lou Gehrig's''' 
the more common name for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which the famous New York Yankee suffered from

'''Salem State U.''' 
There is a [http://www.salemstate.edu/ Salem State College], but not a university.

906 · Hal Wakes Up (Maybe?)

==Page 906==

==Page 907==

'''Javol''' 
It's unclear how Hal is pronouncing this word, but he likely means ''Jawohl''.

==Page 908==

'''''tu-savez-quoi''''' 
(bad) French: You know what

'''bacchanal''' 
a wild party or orgy

'''M.M.''' 
Michael Matthew

'''Shi'ite Moslems''' 
Muslims who believe that Ali was the rightful successor to the Prophet Muhammad

'''mullah''' 
a title of respect for one educated in Islamic law

'''unitard''' 
a bodysuit or one-piece leotard

==Page 909==

[[Image:Zorro.jpg|right|200px]]

'''Zorro''' 
See right

'''porcine''' 
like a swine

'''vantage''' 
point of view

'''mano-a-tete''' 
combination of "mano-a-mano" and "tête-à-tête", both essentially meaning one-on-one.

==Page 910==

'''50 kilos''' 
over 110 pounds

'''Ocean Spray''' 
a brand name of cranberry juice

==Page 911==

'''hydrophobia''' 
another name for rabies

'''pandemic''' 
an epidemic that spreads through human populations across a large region (for example a continent), or even worldwide

'''teleologic''' 
regarding a final cause

'''aridly''' 
dryly

==Endnote 366==

'''Professor H. Bloom''' 
Harold Bloom (born 1930) is a prominent American literary critic.

'''artistic ''influenza''''' 
not actually one of Bloom's concepts

==Page 911 (cont'd)==

'''''clinamen''''' 
See [http://www.vheissu.info/art/art_eng_dante_hollander.htm#chap_4 here].

'''''tessera''''' 
and [http://www.vheissu.info/art/art_eng_dante_hollander.htm#chap_4 here]

'''''kenosis''''' 
and [http://www.vheissu.info/art/art_eng_dante_hollander.htm#chap_4 again]

'''''daemonization''''' 
and [http://www.vheissu.info/art/art_eng_dante_hollander.htm#chap_4 again]

'''''akesis''''' 
and [http://www.vheissu.info/art/art_eng_dante_hollander.htm#chap_4 again]

911 · More Gately History

==Page 911==

'''Saugus''' 
a suburb about 10 miles north of Boston

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'''vigorish''' 

the bookie's fee for his services

==Endnote 367==

'''Pen Registers''' 
an electronic device that records the phone numbers of outgoing calls on a particular line

==Page 913==

'''Cafergot''' 
Read about it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafergot here].

==Endnote 368==

'''Cimetidine''' 
actually an antacid -- strange that Wallace would make such an error, so perhaps it's deliberate

==Page 914==

==Endnote 369==

'''Mace''' 
a brand name of pepper spray

==Page 914 (cont'd)==

'''Osco''' 
a pharmacy chain

'''the Virus''' 
i.e., AIDS

==Page 915==

'''respiritic''' 
presumably having something to do with breathing

'''laminating''' 
sealing in plastic

==Page 916==

'''The B.U. punter''' 
a.k.a. Orin Incandenza

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827 · More With Gately in the Hospital

==Page 827==

==Page 828==

'''Spam''' 
a brand of spiced ham

'''tallly insubstantial ghostish figure''' 
'tall' used adverbially with 3 successive "L"s. cute.

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'''phantasms''' 
apparitions or specters

==Page 831==

'''quanta''' 
plural of quantum, an indivisible entity of energy

'''Heisenbergian''' 
Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901-1976) was a German physicist and one of the fathers of quantum mechanics.

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'''extrude''' 
to thrust out

'''''ACCIACCATURA''''' 
defined [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acciaccatura#Acciaccatura here]

'''''PROPRIOCEPTION''''' 
the sense of the relative position of the parts of the body

'''''TESTUDO''''' 
a genus of tortoises

'''''BRICOLAGE''''' 
the creation of an artistic work from a diverse range of things that are around

'''''CATALEPT''''' 
a person suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalepsy catalepsy]

'''''LAERTES''''' 
a character from ''Hamlet'' who seeks to kill the title character

'''''STRIGIL''''' 
defined [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strigil here]

'''''CHRONAXY''''' 
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronaxy chronaxie]

'''''POOR YORICK''''' 

The (dead) jester in Hamlet. The quote referred to is by Hamlet, holding Yorick's skull after Yorick's remains are uncovered: 'Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest'

'''''LUCULUS''''' 
a Roman general of antiquity

'''''MONTCLAIR''''' 
the model of car owned by James Incandenza's father, Mario

'''''DE SICA''''' 
Vittorio De Sica (1902-1974) was an Italian filmmaker, probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040522/ The Bicycle Thief].

'''''CIRCUMAMBIENTFOUNDDRAMALEVIRATEMARIAGE''''' 
Circumambient means walking around. "Found Drama" was one of James Incandenza's contributions to film artistic history. Levirate marriage is a tradition in several cultures whereby the younger brother of a deceased man marries the dead brother's widow.

'''''HELIATED''''' 
infused with helium

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''''Ren and Stimpy'''' 
the main characters in a once-popular [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_and_Stimpy animated television series]

''''Oo Is 'E When 'E's at 'Ome'''' 
or "Who Is He When He's at Home?", which is apparently a common Irish saying

''''Exposed Northerners'''' 
Wallace is punning on the name of the once-popular television show [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098878/ Northern Exposure].

'''fractional''' 
comparatively small or insignificant

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'''''figurants''''' 
performers with no spoken lines

'''''The Sorrow and the Pity''''' 
a [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066904/ film] about the Nazi occupation of France

'''Heineken Maneuver''' 
Gately means "Heimlich Maneuver."

'''Schwulst or Altman''' 
The only Schwulst I can find is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0778002/ Lance Schwulst], who is probably not the person referred to. Robert Bernard Altman (1925-2006) was an American filmmaker.

==Page 836==

'''''DEXTRAL''''' 
right-handed

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Right-handed

==Page 838==

'''shell-game''' 
a con game

==Page 839==

'''Mennonite''' 
an Anabaptist denomination named for Menno Simons (1496-1561), a Frisian religious leader

'''vapid''' 
lacking liveliness or spirit

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'''packy''' 
short for "package store," it's where one buys alcohol

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'''beeswax''' 
i.e., business

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'''lit''' 
landed

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'''''ü''''' 
a German diphthong, somewhere between /u/ and /ee/

[[Image:Stetson.jpg|thumb|caption|Stetson with feather|right|140px]]
'''Stetson w/ feather''' 
Stetson hats or Stetsons refers to the brand of hat manufactered by the John B. Stetson Company of St. Joseph, Missouri. The word 'Stetson' is sometimes used as a genericized term for a cowboy hat. Although the Stetson company makes other styles of brimmed hat, the Stetson name has become synonymous with a style it pioneered, featuring a high crown and wide brim, popularly known as a Cowboy hat. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stetson Wikipedia]

'''penchant''' 
a predilection

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827 · More With Gately in the Hospital

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==Page 828==

'''Spam''' 
a brand of spiced ham

'''tallly insubstantial ghostish figure''' 
'tall' used adverbially with 3 successive "L"s. cute.

==Page 829==

==Page 830==

'''phantasms''' 
apparitions or specters

==Page 831==

'''quanta''' 
plural of quantum, an indivisible entity of energy

'''Heisenbergian''' 
Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901-1976) was a German physicist and one of the fathers of quantum mechanics.

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'''extrude''' 
to thrust out

'''''ACCIACCATURA''''' 
defined [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acciaccatura#Acciaccatura here]

'''''PROPRIOCEPTION''''' 
the sense of the relative position of the parts of the body

'''''TESTUDO''''' 
a genus of tortoises

'''''BRICOLAGE''''' 
the creation of an artistic work from a diverse range of things that are around

'''''CATALEPT''''' 
a person suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalepsy catalepsy]

'''''LAERTES''''' 
a character from ''Hamlet'' who seeks to kill the title character

'''''STRIGIL''''' 
defined [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strigil here]

'''''CHRONAXY''''' 
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronaxy chronaxie]

'''''POOR YORICK''''' 

The (dead) jester in Hamlet. The quote referred to is by Hamlet, speaking to Yorick's skull after Yorick's remains are uncovered: 'Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest'

'''''LUCULUS''''' 
a Roman general of antiquity

'''''MONTCLAIR''''' 
the model of car owned by James Incandenza's father, Mario

'''''DE SICA''''' 
Vittorio De Sica (1902-1974) was an Italian filmmaker, probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040522/ The Bicycle Thief].

'''''CIRCUMAMBIENTFOUNDDRAMALEVIRATEMARIAGE''''' 
Circumambient means walking around. "Found Drama" was one of James Incandenza's contributions to film artistic history. Levirate marriage is a tradition in several cultures whereby the younger brother of a deceased man marries the dead brother's widow.

'''''HELIATED''''' 
infused with helium

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==Page 834==

''''Ren and Stimpy'''' 
the main characters in a once-popular [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_and_Stimpy animated television series]

''''Oo Is 'E When 'E's at 'Ome'''' 
or "Who Is He When He's at Home?", which is apparently a common Irish saying

''''Exposed Northerners'''' 
Wallace is punning on the name of the once-popular television show [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098878/ Northern Exposure].

'''fractional''' 
comparatively small or insignificant

==Page 835==

'''''figurants''''' 
performers with no spoken lines

'''''The Sorrow and the Pity''''' 
a [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066904/ film] about the Nazi occupation of France

'''Heineken Maneuver''' 
Gately means "Heimlich Maneuver."

'''Schwulst or Altman''' 
The only Schwulst I can find is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0778002/ Lance Schwulst], who is probably not the person referred to. Robert Bernard Altman (1925-2006) was an American filmmaker.

==Page 836==

'''''DEXTRAL''''' 
right-handed

==Page 837==
Right-handed

==Page 838==

'''shell-game''' 
a con game

==Page 839==

'''Mennonite''' 
an Anabaptist denomination named for Menno Simons (1496-1561), a Frisian religious leader

'''vapid''' 
lacking liveliness or spirit

==Page 840==

'''packy''' 
short for "package store," it's where one buys alcohol

==Page 841==

'''beeswax''' 
i.e., business

==Page 842==

'''lit''' 
landed

==Page 843==

==Page 844==

'''''ü''''' 
a German diphthong, somewhere between /u/ and /ee/

[[Image:Stetson.jpg|thumb|caption|Stetson with feather|right|140px]]
'''Stetson w/ feather''' 
Stetson hats or Stetsons refers to the brand of hat manufactered by the John B. Stetson Company of St. Joseph, Missouri. The word 'Stetson' is sometimes used as a genericized term for a cowboy hat. Although the Stetson company makes other styles of brimmed hat, the Stetson name has become synonymous with a style it pioneered, featuring a high crown and wide brim, popularly known as a Cowboy hat. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stetson Wikipedia]

'''penchant''' 
a predilection

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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

'''entrepôt''' 
French for "warehouse," this is where foreign merchandise can be purchased duty-free

'''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.

==Page 984==

===Endnote 7===

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

===Endnote 8===

===Endnote 8a===

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

'''DDMS''' 
dibromododecenyl methylsulfimide

'''DMSO''' 
dimethylsulfoxide

===Endnote 8 (cont'd)===

'''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. is probably Michael Pemulis.

===Endnote 12a===

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

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===Endnote 17===

'''datum''' 
piece of information

===Endnote 19===

French: A person of terrible importance

===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

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===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.

==Page 1004==

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

'''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

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

==Page 1006==

'''quotidian''' 
commonplace

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

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

'''Sikorski''' 
C.T. is probably comparing the bee (which flies) to an airplane (which also flies) produced by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_Aircraft Sikorsky Aircraft].

'''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''' 
eating of bread and water only

===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, also known as 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 "Marry Had a Little Lamb."

'''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

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'''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''' 
chewing tobacco

'''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.

'''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)

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'''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.

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'''"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 tended to be 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.

'''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''' 
preying on babies

'''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''' 
An anapest is a three-syllable word where the emphasis is one last syllable. "Anapest" is an anapest.

===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 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 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''' 
produced or formed by fission

'''pathogenic''' 
capable of producing disease

==Page 1041==

'''antidote''' 
Orin means "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

==Page 1044==

==Page 1047==

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

''' 'After my own parents were horribly killed on the Jamaica Way commuter road one morning in the freak crash of a radio traffic-report helicopter . . .' ''' 

Lateral Alice Moore was handicapped when the news helicopter she flew in crashed onto a high way. It could have been the same accident as the one Bain's referring to here.

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

'''guile''' 
insidious cunning

'''larval''' 
immature in its kind

'''codpieces''' 
a pouch at the crotch 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.

'''prenominate''' 
aforementioned

==Page 1048==

'''fairly high-sodium way''' 
i.e., with a grain (or more) of salt

'''purposive''' 
serving some purpose

'''cross-sectioned cow''' 
Cornell University apparently has a cow whose stomachs you can see in action.

'''anaclitic''' 
denoting psychologic dependence

==Page 1049==

'''prevarication''' 
lying

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

'''monilial''' 
having to do with vaginal yeast infection

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

==Page 1050==

'''Steeples''' 
Bain has become to get Steeply's name wrong.

'''Steeley''' 
ditto

'''ACOAs''' 
Adult Children of Alcoholics

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

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

'''ACOGs''' 
American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology

'''aspic''' 
meat jelly

==Page 1051==

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

'''univocal''' 
unambiguous

'''furcated''' 
branching or forking

'''albatross''' 
a burden, 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 321===

'''(1063-1066)'''

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

'''Rise Over Run''' 
The rise (amount the line increases) of a line divided over the run (length of the line) give you the slope of the line, which is also equal 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

'''covers''' 
songs written by other people than yourself

'''Digestive-Flora''' 
bacteria that live in the intestine and aid in digestion

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

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

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

'''impotence''' 
Probably means impetus

'''Blue Flames''' 
apparently some sort of drug

'''O2''' 
oxygen

'''Jiminy Cricket''' 
a character from [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032910/ Pinocchio]

===Endnote 324===

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

==Page 1066==

'''moon''' 
to spend time idly

'''camphonated''' 
more like "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==

'''uncolloped''' 
having no fat

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

'''Nordicular''' 
i.e., 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

'''dinkle''' 
a euphemism for "penis"

==Page 1068==

'''three-setter''' 
a tennis game ending in three sets, rather than five, because one player has gone up 3 to 0

'''cavalier''' 
disdainful; unceremonious

'''burr''' 
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.

'''rheumy''' 
full of thin mucous

==Page 1070==

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

'''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===

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

==Page 1071 (cont'd)==

'''redoubted''' 
formidable

'''"...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]

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

'''Nucleic acids''' 
DNA and RNA

'''A and G, T and C''' 
adenine and guanine, thymine and cytosine, the compounds that make up DNA

'''Csíkszentmihályi''' 
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==

''' "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 332===

==Page 1073==

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

'''jury-rigged''' 
a corruption of "jerry-rigged" (a pejorative term about Germans), which basically means rigged in a makeshift, ad hod manner

==Page 1074==

'''castigations''' 
criticisms; reprimands

==Page 1075==

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

==Page 1076==

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

'''glycerine''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycerine glycerol]

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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

'''entrepôt''' 
French for "warehouse," this is where foreign merchandise can be purchased duty-free

'''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.

==Page 984==

===Endnote 7===

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

===Endnote 8===

===Endnote 8a===

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

'''DDMS''' 
dibromododecenyl methylsulfimide

'''DMSO''' 
dimethylsulfoxide

===Endnote 8 (cont'd)===

'''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. is probably Michael Pemulis.

===Endnote 12a===

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

==Page 985==

===Endnote 17===

'''datum''' 
piece of information

===Endnote 19===

French: A person of terrible importance

===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

==Page 1000==

===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.

==Page 1004==

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

'''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

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

==Page 1006==

'''quotidian''' 
commonplace

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

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

'''Sikorski''' 
C.T. is probably comparing the bee (which flies) to an airplane (which also flies) produced by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_Aircraft Sikorsky Aircraft].

'''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''' 
eating of bread and water only

===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, also known as 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 "Marry Had a Little Lamb."

'''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''' 
chewing tobacco

'''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.

'''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 tended to be 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.

'''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''' 
preying on babies

'''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''' 
An anapest is a three-syllable word where the emphasis is one last syllable. "Anapest" is an anapest.

===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 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 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''' 
produced or formed by fission

'''pathogenic''' 
capable of producing disease

==Page 1041==

'''antidote''' 
Orin means "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

==Page 1044==

==Page 1047==

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

''' 'After my own parents were horribly killed on the Jamaica Way commuter road one morning in the freak crash of a radio traffic-report helicopter . . .' ''' 

Lateral Alice Moore was handicapped when the news helicopter she flew in crashed onto a high way. It could have been the same accident as the one Bain's referring to here.

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

'''guile''' 
insidious cunning

'''larval''' 
immature in its kind

'''codpieces''' 
a pouch at the crotch 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.

'''prenominate''' 
aforementioned

==Page 1048==

'''fairly high-sodium way''' 
i.e., with a grain (or more) of salt

'''purposive''' 
serving some purpose

'''cross-sectioned cow''' 
Cornell University apparently has a cow whose stomachs you can see in action.

'''anaclitic''' 
denoting psychologic dependence

==Page 1049==

'''prevarication''' 
lying

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

'''monilial''' 
having to do with vaginal yeast infection

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

==Page 1050==

'''Steeples''' 
Bain has become to get Steeply's name wrong.

'''Steeley''' 
ditto

'''ACOAs''' 
Adult Children of Alcoholics

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

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

'''ACOGs''' 
American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology

'''aspic''' 
meat jelly

==Page 1051==

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

'''univocal''' 
unambiguous

'''furcated''' 
branching or forking

'''albatross''' 
a burden, 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 321===

'''(1063-1066)'''

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

'''Rise Over Run''' 
The rise (amount the line increases) of a line divided over the run (length of the line) give you the slope of the line, which is also equal 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

'''covers''' 
songs written by other people than yourself

'''Digestive-Flora''' 
bacteria that live in the intestine and aid in digestion

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

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

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

'''impotence''' 
Probably means impetus

'''Blue Flames''' 
apparently some sort of drug

'''O2''' 
oxygen

'''Jiminy Cricket''' 
a character from [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032910/ Pinocchio]

===Endnote 324===

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

==Page 1066==

'''moon''' 
to spend time idly

'''camphonated''' 
more like "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==

'''uncolloped''' 
having no fat

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

'''Nordicular''' 
i.e., 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

'''dinkle''' 
a euphemism for "penis"

==Page 1068==

'''three-setter''' 
a tennis game ending in three sets, rather than five, because one player has gone up 3 to 0

'''cavalier''' 
disdainful; unceremonious

'''burr''' 
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.

'''rheumy''' 
full of thin mucous

==Page 1070==

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

'''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===

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

==Page 1071 (cont'd)==

'''redoubted''' 
formidable

'''"...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]

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

'''Nucleic acids''' 
DNA and RNA

'''A and G, T and C''' 
adenine and guanine, thymine and cytosine, the compounds that make up DNA

'''Csíkszentmihályi''' 
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==

'''"...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 332===

==Page 1073==

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

'''jury-rigged''' 
a corruption of "jerry-rigged" (a pejorative term about Germans), which basically means rigged in a makeshift, ad hod manner

==Page 1074==

'''castigations''' 
criticisms; reprimands

==Page 1075==

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

==Page 1076==

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

'''glycerine''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycerine glycerol]

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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

'''entrepôt''' 
French for "warehouse," this is where foreign merchandise can be purchased duty-free

'''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.

==Page 984==

===Endnote 7===

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

===Endnote 8===

===Endnote 8a===

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

'''DDMS''' 
dibromododecenyl methylsulfimide

'''DMSO''' 
dimethylsulfoxide

===Endnote 8 (cont'd)===

'''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. is probably Michael Pemulis.

===Endnote 12a===

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

==Page 985==

===Endnote 17===

'''datum''' 
piece of information

===Endnote 19===

French: A person of terrible importance

===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

==Page 1000==

===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.

==Page 1004==

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

'''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

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

==Page 1006==

'''quotidian''' 
commonplace

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

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

'''Sikorski''' 
C.T. is probably comparing the bee (which flies) to an airplane (which also flies) produced by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_Aircraft Sikorsky Aircraft].

'''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''' 
eating of bread and water only

===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, also known as 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 "Marry Had a Little Lamb."

'''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''' 
chewing tobacco

'''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.

'''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 tended to be 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.

'''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''' 
preying on babies

'''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''' 
An anapest is a three-syllable word where the emphasis is one last syllable. "Anapest" is an anapest.

===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 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 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''' 
produced or formed by fission

'''pathogenic''' 
capable of producing disease

==Page 1041==

'''antidote''' 
Orin means "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

==Page 1044==

==Page 1047==

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

'''''After my own parents were horribly killed on the Jamaica Way commuter road one morning in the freak crash of a radio traffic-report helicopter . . .''''' 

Lateral Alice Moore was handicapped when the news helicopter she flew in crashed onto a high way. It could have been the same accident as the one Bain's referring to here.

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

'''guile''' 
insidious cunning

'''larval''' 
immature in its kind

'''codpieces''' 
a pouch at the crotch 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.

'''prenominate''' 
aforementioned

==Page 1048==

'''fairly high-sodium way''' 
i.e., with a grain (or more) of salt

'''purposive''' 
serving some purpose

'''cross-sectioned cow''' 
Cornell University apparently has a cow whose stomachs you can see in action.

'''anaclitic''' 
denoting psychologic dependence

==Page 1049==

'''prevarication''' 
lying

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

'''monilial''' 
having to do with vaginal yeast infection

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

==Page 1050==

'''Steeples''' 
Bain has become to get Steeply's name wrong.

'''Steeley''' 
ditto

'''ACOAs''' 
Adult Children of Alcoholics

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

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

'''ACOGs''' 
American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology

'''aspic''' 
meat jelly

==Page 1051==

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

'''univocal''' 
unambiguous

'''furcated''' 
branching or forking

'''albatross''' 
a burden, 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 321===

'''(1063-1066)'''

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

'''Rise Over Run''' 
The rise (amount the line increases) of a line divided over the run (length of the line) give you the slope of the line, which is also equal 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

'''covers''' 
songs written by other people than yourself

'''Digestive-Flora''' 
bacteria that live in the intestine and aid in digestion

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

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

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

'''impotence''' 
Probably means impetus

'''Blue Flames''' 
apparently some sort of drug

'''O2''' 
oxygen

'''Jiminy Cricket''' 
a character from [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032910/ Pinocchio]

===Endnote 324===

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

==Page 1066==

'''moon''' 
to spend time idly

'''camphonated''' 
more like "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==

'''uncolloped''' 
having no fat

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

'''Nordicular''' 
i.e., 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

'''dinkle''' 
a euphemism for "penis"

==Page 1068==

'''three-setter''' 
a tennis game ending in three sets, rather than five, because one player has gone up 3 to 0

'''cavalier''' 
disdainful; unceremonious

'''burr''' 
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.

'''rheumy''' 
full of thin mucous

==Page 1070==

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

'''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===

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

==Page 1071 (cont'd)==

'''redoubted''' 
formidable

'''"...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]

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

'''Nucleic acids''' 
DNA and RNA

'''A and G, T and C''' 
adenine and guanine, thymine and cytosine, the compounds that make up DNA

'''Csíkszentmihályi''' 
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==

'''"...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 332===

==Page 1073==

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

'''jury-rigged''' 
a corruption of "jerry-rigged" (a pejorative term about Germans), which basically means rigged in a makeshift, ad hod manner

==Page 1074==

'''castigations''' 
criticisms; reprimands

==Page 1075==

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

==Page 1076==

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

'''glycerine''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycerine glycerol]

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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

'''entrepôt''' 
French for "warehouse," this is where foreign merchandise can be purchased duty-free

'''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.

==Page 984==

===Endnote 7===

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

===Endnote 8===

===Endnote 8a===

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

'''DDMS''' 
dibromododecenyl methylsulfimide

'''DMSO''' 
dimethylsulfoxide

===Endnote 8 (cont'd)===

'''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. is probably Michael Pemulis.

===Endnote 12a===

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

==Page 985==

===Endnote 17===

'''datum''' 
piece of information

===Endnote 19===

French: A person of terrible importance

===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

==Page 1000==

===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.

==Page 1004==

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

'''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

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

==Page 1006==

'''quotidian''' 
commonplace

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

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

'''Sikorski''' 
C.T. is probably comparing the bee (which flies) to an airplane (which also flies) produced by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_Aircraft Sikorsky Aircraft].

'''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''' 
eating of bread and water only

===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, also known as 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 "Marry Had a Little Lamb."

'''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''' 
chewing tobacco

'''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.

'''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.

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'''"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 tended to be 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.

'''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

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

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'''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''' 
preying on babies

'''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

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'''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''' 
An anapest is a three-syllable word where the emphasis is one last syllable. "Anapest" is an anapest.

===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==

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==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 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 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''' 
produced or formed by fission

'''pathogenic''' 
capable of producing disease

==Page 1041==

'''antidote''' 
Orin means "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

==Page 1044==

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'''''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 high way. It could have been the same accident as the one Bain's referring to here.

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

'''guile''' 
insidious cunning

'''larval''' 
immature in its kind

'''codpieces''' 
a pouch at the crotch 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.

'''prenominate''' 
aforementioned

==Page 1048==

'''fairly high-sodium way''' 
i.e., with a grain (or more) of salt

'''purposive''' 
serving some purpose

'''cross-sectioned cow''' 
Cornell University apparently has a cow whose stomachs you can see in action.

'''anaclitic''' 
denoting psychologic dependence

==Page 1049==

'''prevarication''' 
lying

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

'''monilial''' 
having to do with vaginal yeast infection

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

==Page 1050==

'''Steeples''' 
Bain has become to get Steeply's name wrong.

'''Steeley''' 
ditto

'''ACOAs''' 
Adult Children of Alcoholics

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

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

'''ACOGs''' 
American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology

'''aspic''' 
meat jelly

==Page 1051==

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

'''univocal''' 
unambiguous

'''furcated''' 
branching or forking

'''albatross''' 
a burden, 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 321===

'''(1063-1066)'''

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'''Rise Over Run''' 
The rise (amount the line increases) of a line divided over the run (length of the line) give you the slope of the line, which is also equal 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

'''covers''' 
songs written by other people than yourself

'''Digestive-Flora''' 
bacteria that live in the intestine and aid in digestion

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

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

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

'''Blue Flames''' 
apparently some sort of drug

'''O2''' 
oxygen

'''Jiminy Cricket''' 
a character from [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032910/ Pinocchio]

===Endnote 324===

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

==Page 1066==

'''moon''' 
to spend time idly

'''camphonated''' 
more like "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

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'''uncolloped''' 
having no fat

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

'''Nordicular''' 
i.e., 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

'''dinkle''' 
a euphemism for "penis"

==Page 1068==

'''three-setter''' 
a tennis game ending in three sets, rather than five, because one player has gone up 3 to 0

'''cavalier''' 
disdainful; unceremonious

'''burr''' 
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.

'''rheumy''' 
full of thin mucous

==Page 1070==

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

'''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===

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

==Page 1071 (cont'd)==

'''redoubted''' 
formidable

'''"...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]

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

'''Nucleic acids''' 
DNA and RNA

'''A and G, T and C''' 
adenine and guanine, thymine and cytosine, the compounds that make up DNA

'''Csíkszentmihályi''' 
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==

'''"...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 332===

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'''jury-rigged''' 
a corruption of "jerry-rigged" (a pejorative term about Germans), which basically means rigged in a makeshift, ad hod manner

==Page 1074==

'''castigations''' 
criticisms; reprimands

==Page 1075==

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

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

'''glycerine''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycerine glycerol]

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'''stereotaxy''' 
also known as "stereotaxis," this is three-dimensional brain imaging

'''plutonium-239''' 
a fissile isotope of plutonium

'''ablative surgery''' 

a treatment for neurological disorders involving freezing or burning of brain tissue

==Page 471==

'''Q-dopa''' 
not a real neurotransmitter

==Page 472==

==Endnote 198==

'''''Orlikow et al. v. United States of America''''' 
This was a real case, and you can read the proceedings [http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/orli-01.htm here].

==Page 472 (cont'd)==

'''G.C.''' 
Government of Canada, perhaps

'''M.M.P.I.''' 
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, a commonly administered psychological test designed to give an overview of personality, neuroses, etc.

==Page 473==

'''Millon's''' 
the [Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III http://millon.net/instruments/MCMI_III.htm], another psych inventory

'''Approception''' 
apparently not a real test

'''shiatsu''' 
a type of Asian massage

'''weal''' 
prosperity or happiness

'''Turner, Bush, Casey''' 
Admiral Stansfield Turner was head of the CIA from 1977 to 1981. George H.W. Bush (later President) was CIA head from 1976 to 1977. William J. Casey was head from 1981 to 1987.

'''Langley''' 
the town in Virginia where the CIA is headquartered

==Page 474==

'''divans''' 
couches or sofas

'''rutting''' 
heat, i.e., sexual excitement

'''N.S.A.''' 
National Security Agency

'''C7''' 
The C7 is a modified version of the American M-16 combat rifle. It's implied here that C7 was some kind of security apparatus, but there is no evidence that such a body existed.

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'''princess-and-pea''' 
a reference to the fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea," wherein despite several mattresses, a princess can still feel a single pea below her

'''cluster migraines''' 
Cluster headaches and migraines are actually two distinct syndromes.

'''feldspar''' 
a rock-forming mineral

==Page 476==

'''E.R.''' 
Emergency Room

'''CITGO''' 
one of the [http://www.citgo.com/Home.jsp major oil] companies

'''70 kph.''' 
about 43.5 miles per hour

'''CVS''' 
a large chain of [http://www.cvs.com/ drugstores]

'''75 k''' 
about 46.6 miles per hour

'''ς''' 
the Greek letter ''sigma'' as it appears in lower case at the ends of words

'''cognomen''' 
a descriptive nickname

==Page 477==

'''tallboys''' 
a long-necked bottle

'''80 kph''' 
almost 50 miles per hour

'''Berklee School of Music''' 
a real school, one of the highest-prestige [http://www.berklee.edu/ music schools] in the U.S.

==Page 478==

==Endnote 202==

'''Escherian''' 
referring to the work of Maurits Cornelis (M.C.) Escher (1898-1972), a Dutch graphic artist

==Page 478 (cont'd)==

'''slalom''' 
to zigzag between obstacles

==Page 479==

'''bodegas''' 
a Spanish-owned grocery

'''crèche''' 
a nativity scene

'''propinquous''' 
Probably what's intended is "propinquitous," meaning "proximity" or "nearness."

'''briar pipes''' 
a type of pipe for [http://www.tinderboxinternational.com/briar.htm smoking]

'''60 k''' 
about 37.3 miles per hour

'''MF''' 
Millennial Fizzy

'''aerodyne''' 
a heavier-than-air aircraft deriving lift from motion

'''viz.''' 
abbreviation for ''videlicet'' (Latin)

'''CQBC''' 
not a real entity, but probably here denoting a French-Canadian radio station

'''monomitotic''' 
"Mitosis" is cell division; "monomitosis" would be the splitting of a cell into a single cell, i.e., not splitting.G

'''Gaspé Peninsula''' 
a [http://www.great-adventures.com/destinations/canada/gaspe.html region] in northern Québec

'''''chiens-courants''''' 
French: running dogs

==Page 481==

'''U.S.A. 91''' 
Interstate 91, which runs from New Haven, Conn, to Derby Line, Vt., at the Canadian border

'''Bellow's Falls VT''' 
a town off Route 91, about 70 miles west of Manchester, N.H.

'''paisley''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paisley_%28design%29 popular design] originating in Scotland

'''Nehru jacket''' 
A collarless jacket named for Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), first Prime Minister of India and father of Indira Gandhi

'''''école-spéciale''''' 
French: special school

'''''Va chier, putain!''''' 
French: Piss off, whore!

'''trop formidable''' 
French: too strong

==Page 482==

'''Basel''' 
a city of Switzerland about 50 miles north of the capital of Bern

'''''tu-sais-quoi''''' 
French: you know what

'''impost''' 
something imposed, as a tax or duty

==Page 483==

==Endnote 204==

'''Saprogenic''' 
of or pertaining to putrefaction or rotting

==Page 483 (cont'd)==

'''illicit''' 
illegal

'''IL NE FAUT PLUS QU'ON PURSUIVE LE BONHEUR''' 
French: It is no longer necessary to pursue happiness

==Page 484==

'''125-kilo''' 
about 276 lbs

'''ROPAS''' 
Spanish: CLOTHES

==Page 485==

'''union-suit underwear''' 
one-piece long undergarments

'''stelliform''' 
in the form of a star

==Page 486==

'''baguette''' 
a long roll of French bread

'''cerise''' 
deep red to purple in color

''''''n soir, 'sieur''''' 
an elision of ''bon soir, monsieur,'' i.e., "Goodnight, sir" in French

''''''Malhereusement, ton collégue est décedé. It faisait une excellente soupe aus pois.'''''' 
French: Sadly, your friend is dead. He made an excellent pea soup.

''''''Non? Ou c'était toi, faisait-elle?'''''' 
French: No? Our was it you that made it?

==Page 487==

'''wangs''' 
slaps or bangs against

'''''frère''''' 
French: brother

'''sphincter''' 
Any muscle in ring form, here it means the anus, which has failed Lucien by allowing him to soil himself

'''''ne pas plaisanter''''' 
French: not pleasure

'''''iront paître''''' 
French: they will go to eat

'''''entend-il?''''' 
French: Does he hear?

==Page 488==

'''''inutile''''' 
French: useless

'''natal''' 
like a baby's

'''aphonia''' 
absence of sound

'''muskie''' 
short for "muskellunge," a type of fish

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'''capricious''' 
subject to acting on a whim

'''Caillou Bay''' 
You can see a map of southern Louisiana [http://www.mobilegeographics.com/tideimages/tidesta5222.png here].

'''Cajun''' 
a French-speaking people dwelling in the woods of Louisiana, having emigrated there from French Canada two hundred years ago

'''Taurus PT9''' 
You can see this pistol [http://www.gunsamerica.com/976925959/Guns/Pistols/Taurus-Pistols-Revolvers/Pistols/Steel-Frame/Taurus_PT9_380.htm here].

'''unsafetied''' 
The gun's safety is off.

'''longshoremen''' 
Dock workers who load and unload ships.

'''caricaturesque''' 
pertaining to a depiction of someone that exaggerates certain facial or bodily characteristics

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'''subsumption''' 
the act of placing something under a more comprehensive category

'''''rôle''''' 
This is how we used to spell "role" in English and how it's still spelled in French.

'''Edmonton''' 
the capital of Alberta

==Page 421==

'''malice''' 
desire to do harm

==Page 422==

'''vacuous''' 
lacking in ideas or intelligence

'''Maxwell House''' 
a brand of coffee

'''M. Kemp''' 
as in Monsieur Kemp, i.e., Jack Kemp, implying he was assassinated with a bomb in his house

'''Very Large Satan''' 
or "Great Satan," if you will

==Page 423==

'''''utilitaire''''' 
utilitarian, i.e., providing the greatest good for the greatest number

'''Comme on dit''' 
French: Like they say

==Page 424==

'''chasm''' 
a gorge or deep cleft in the earth's surface

==Page 425==

'''Habitant ''soup aux pois''''' 
''Habitant'' is Québecois French for "farmer," though it seems like a brand name here. ''Soup aux pois'' is pea soup, very popular in Québec.

'''parodically''' 
in a sarcastic or mocking way

==Page 426==

'''Safeway''' 
a chain of supermarkets

'''burrs''' 
protruding, ragged edges

==Page 427==

'''''ami''''' 
French: friend

'''''un autre''''' 
an other, i.e., an outsider

'''supine''' 
on one's back

==Page 428==

'''ponderous''' 
awkward or unwieldy

==Endnote 173==

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==Page 428 (cont'd)==

'''''Veuillez Recycler Ce Contenant''''' 
French: Please Recycle This Container

'''''en ce moment''''' 
French: at this moment

==Page 429==

'''''D'éclaisant''''' 
not a real French word

'''maffick''' 
to celebrate boisterously

==Page 430==

'''''Entre nous''''' 
French: Between us

430 · The Rest of the Eric Clipperton Story

==Page 430==

==Page 431==

'''slider''' 
a breaking pitch in baseball that curves down and out, with much more speed than a typical curveball

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

'''Forest Lawn NNY''' 
a town in New York state, on Lake Ontario

'''cuirass''' 
a piece of armor covering the heart

'''PowerBook''' 
an IBM brand of laptop computer

'''vig''' 
interest, as on a loan from a loan shark

==Page 432==

'''CPR''' 
Cardiopulonary resuscitation

'''Winchester''' 
a city in Massachusetts about 8.5 miles northwest of Boston

'''counsel''' 
purpose, plan, or design

'''whey''' 
the liquid remaining after milk has been curdled and strained

==Page 433==

'''miasma''' 
a noxious atmosphere

'''cordite''' 
a propellant used in place of gunpowder in firearms

'''Crawfordsville, Indiana''' 
a town about 45 miles northwest of Indianapolis

'''Veedersburg IN''' 
this town lies 22 miles west of Crawfordsville on Route 74

==Page 434==

'''vicissitude''' 
a change or variation in the course of something

'''votaried''' 
filled with devotion

434 · Gately's Other Job

==Page 434==

'''Jamaica Plain''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_Plain,_Massachusetts section] of Boston

'''cab of his 4 X 4''' 
A 4 X 4 is a pick-up truck and the cab is where people sit.

'''sub-table''' 
under the table, i.e., off the books so that taxes don't have to be paid

==Page 435==

'''colostomy''' 
a procedure by which feces exit the body via a hole in a person's side into a bag, rather than via the anus

'''B&E''' 
Breaking and Entry, i.e., burglary

'''Kools''' 
a brand of menthol cigarettes

==Page 436==

'''mobilely upward''' 
that is to say, upwardly mobile

'''witticism''' 
a funny remark

436 · More O.N.A.N. History

==Page 436==

'''Davis''' 
a city in California about 15 miles west of Sacramento

'''Quik''' 
a powder mix used to make chocolate milk

==Page 437==

'''NaCN''' 
sodium cyanide

'''acrostics''' 
These are "set(s) of words arranged in a square such that they read the same horizontally and vertically" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'').

'''dewimpled''' 
like defrocked, except for a nun

==Page 438==

'''Benedict Arnold''' 
Benedict Arnold V (1741-1801) was an American general during the Revolutionary War who turned traitor for the British.

==Endnote 176==

'''Minister of Environment and Resource-Development Enterprises''' 
The initials spell ''merde'', which is French for "shit."

'''macrocartographic''' 
immense and involved with maps

==Page 438 (cont'd)==

'''Sino-temporal-endorsement''' 
Chinese sponsorship of time, presumably as opposed to [[Subsidized Time]]

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

'''orts''' 
scraps of food

'''CONCORD''' 
the capital of New Hampshire

'''CLEMSON''' 
a [http://www.clemson.edu/ university] in South Carolina

'''Rantoul IL''' 
a town 125 miles south-southwest of Chicago

'''Ithaca NY''' 
a town in upstate New York, home to [http://www.cornell.edu/ Cornell University]

==Page 439==

'''camp''' 
deliberately artificial or vulgar -- sometimes referring specifically to gay humor

'''robber-baron''' 
Wikipedia defines robber-barons as "businessmen and bankers who dominated their respective industries and amassed huge personal fortunes, typically as a direct result of pursuing various allegedly anti-competitive or unfair business practices."

'''Ollster''' 
a nickname for Oliver, like "Ollie"

'''"...one slim cat with an outsized leg..."''' 
i.e., Orin Incandenza

==Page 440==

'''placative''' 
intending to pacify or calm

'''quadrennial''' 
occurring every four years

'''pulchritudinous''' 
good-looking

'''chapeau''' 
hat

==Page 441==

'''cheri''' 
French: my dear

'''Cerberus''' 
in Greek mythology, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus three-headed dog] that guards Hades

'''Achilles' tendon''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles%27_tendon tendon] in the back of the leg, near the foot

==Page 442==

'''canter''' 
an easy gallop

'''Ixnayish''' 
Remove -ish, and you have Pig Latin for "nix."

'''H.U.D.''' 
Housing and Urban Development

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==Page 418==

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==Page 419==

'''capricious''' 
subject to acting on a whim

'''Caillou Bay''' 
You can see a map of southern Louisiana [http://www.mobilegeographics.com/tideimages/tidesta5222.png here].

'''Cajun''' 
a French-speaking people dwelling in the woods of Louisiana, having emigrated there from French Canada two hundred years ago

'''Taurus PT9''' 
You can see this pistol [http://www.gunsamerica.com/976925959/Guns/Pistols/Taurus-Pistols-Revolvers/Pistols/Steel-Frame/Taurus_PT9_380.htm here].

'''unsafetied''' 
The gun's safety is off.

'''longshoremen''' 
Dock workers who load and unload ships.

'''caricaturesque''' 
pertaining to a depiction of someone that exaggerates certain facial or bodily characteristics

==Page 420==

'''subsumption''' 
the act of placing something under a more comprehensive category

'''''rôle''''' 
This is how we used to spell "role" in English and how it's still spelled in French.

'''Edmonton''' 
the capital of Alberta

==Page 421==

'''malice''' 
desire to do harm

==Page 422==

'''vacuous''' 
lacking in ideas or intelligence

'''Maxwell House''' 
a brand of coffee

'''M. Kemp''' 
as in Monsieur Kemp, i.e., Jack Kemp, implying he was assassinated with a bomb in his house

'''Very Large Satan''' 
or "Great Satan," if you will

==Page 423==

'''''utilitaire''''' 
utilitarian, i.e., providing the greatest good for the greatest number

'''Comme on dit''' 
French: Like they say

==Page 424==

'''chasm''' 
a gorge or deep cleft in the earth's surface

==Page 425==

'''Habitant ''soup aux pois''''' 
''Habitant'' is Québecois French for "farmer," though it seems like a brand name here. ''Soup aux pois'' is pea soup, very popular in Québec.

'''parodically''' 
in a sarcastic or mocking way

==Page 426==

'''Safeway''' 
a chain of supermarkets

'''burrs''' 
protruding, ragged edges

==Page 427==

'''''ami''''' 
French: friend

'''''un autre''''' 
an other, i.e., an outsider

'''supine''' 
on one's back

==Page 428==

'''ponderous''' 
awkward or unwieldy

==Endnote 173==

==[[IJE304|Endnote 304]]==

==Page 428 (cont'd)==

'''''Veuillez Recycler Ce Contenant''''' 
French: Please Recycle This Container

'''''en ce moment''''' 
French: at this moment

==Page 429==

'''''D'éclaisant''''' 
not a real French word

'''maffick''' 
to celebrate boisterously

==Page 430==

'''''Entre nous''''' 
French: Between us

430 · The Rest of the Eric Clipperton Story

==Page 430==

==Page 431==

'''slider''' 
a breaking pitch in baseball that curves down and out, with much more speed than a typical curveball

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

'''Forest Lawn NNY''' 
a town in New York state, on Lake Ontario

'''cuirass''' 
a piece of armor covering the heart

'''PowerBook''' 
an IBM brand of laptop computer

'''vig''' 
interest, as on a loan from a loan shark

==Page 432==

'''CPR''' 
Cardiopulonary resuscitation

'''Winchester''' 
a city in Massachusetts about 8.5 miles northwest of Boston

'''counsel''' 
purpose, plan, or design

'''whey''' 
the liquid remaining after milk has been curdled and strained

==Page 433==

'''miasma''' 
a noxious atmosphere

'''cordite''' 
a propellant used in place of gunpowder in firearms

'''Crawfordsville, Indiana''' 
a town about 45 miles northwest of Indianapolis

'''Veedersburg IN''' 
this town lies 22 miles west of Crawfordsville on Route 74

==Page 434==

'''vicissitude''' 
a change or variation in the course of something

'''votaried''' 
filled with devotion

434 · Gately's Other Job

==Page 434==

'''Jamaica Plain''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_Plain,_Massachusetts section] of Boston

'''cab of his 4 X 4''' 
A 4 X 4 is a pick-up truck and the cab is where people sit.

'''sub-table''' 
under the table, i.e., off the books so that taxes don't have to be paid

==Page 435==

'''colostomy''' 
a procedure by which feces exit the body via a hole in a person's side into a bag, rather than via the anus

'''B&E''' 
Breaking and Entry, i.e., burglary

'''Kools''' 
a brand of menthol cigarettes

==Page 436==

'''mobilely upward''' 
that is to say, upwardly mobile

'''witticism''' 
a funny remark

436 · More O.N.A.N. History

==Page 436==

'''Davis''' 
a city in California about 15 miles west of Sacramento

'''Quik''' 
a powder mix used to make chocolate milk

==Page 437==

'''NaCN''' 
sodium cyanide

'''acrostics''' 
These are "set(s) of words arranged in a square such that they read the same horizontally and vertically" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'').

'''dewimpled''' 
like defrocked, except for a nun

==Page 438==

'''Benedict Arnold''' 
Benedict Arnold V (1741-1801) was an American general during the Revolutionary War who turned traitor for the British.

==Endnote 176==

'''Minister of Environment and Resource-Development Enterprises''' 
The initials spell ''merde'', which is French for "shit."

'''macrocartographic''' 
immense and involved with maps

==Page 438 (cont'd)==

'''Sino-temporal-endorsement''' 
Chinese sponsorship of time, presumably as opposed to [[Subsidized Time]]

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

'''orts''' 
scraps of food

'''CONCORD''' 
the capital of New Hampshire

'''CLEMSON''' 
a [http://www.clemson.edu/ university] in South Carolina

'''Rantoul IL''' 
a town 125 miles south-southwest of Chicago

'''Ithaca NY''' 
a town in upstate New York, home to [http://www.cornell.edu/ Cornell University]

==Page 439==

'''camp''' 
deliberately artificial or vulgar -- sometimes referring specifically to gay humor

'''robber-baron''' 
Wikipedia defines robber-barons as "businessmen and bankers who dominated their respective industries and amassed huge personal fortunes, typically as a direct result of pursuing various allegedly anti-competitive or unfair business practices."

'''Ollster''' 
a nickname for Oliver, like "Ollie"

'''"...one slim cat with an outsized leg..."''' 
i.e., Orin Incandenza

==Page 440==

'''placative''' 
intending to pacify or calm

'''quadrennial''' 
occurring every four years

'''pulchritudinous''' 
good-looking

==Page 441==

'''cheri''' 
French: my dear

'''Cerberus''' 
in Greek mythology, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus three-headed dog] that guards Hades

'''Achilles' tendon''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles%27_tendon tendon] in the back of the leg, near the foot

==Page 442==

'''canter''' 
an easy gallop

'''Ixnayish''' 
Remove -ish, and you have Pig Latin for "nix."

'''H.U.D.''' 
Housing and Urban Development

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==Page 418==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

==Page 419==

'''capricious''' 
subject to acting on a whim

'''Caillou Bay''' 
You can see a map of southern Louisiana [http://www.mobilegeographics.com/tideimages/tidesta5222.png here].

'''Cajun''' 
a French-speaking people dwelling in the woods of Louisiana, having emigrated there from French Canada two hundred years ago

'''Taurus PT9''' 
You can see this pistol [http://www.gunsamerica.com/976925959/Guns/Pistols/Taurus-Pistols-Revolvers/Pistols/Steel-Frame/Taurus_PT9_380.htm here].

'''unsafetied''' 
The gun's safety is off.

'''longshoremen''' 
Dock workers who load and unload ships.

'''caricaturesque''' 
pertaining to a depiction of someone that exaggerates certain facial or bodily characteristics

==Page 420==

'''subsumption''' 
the act of placing something under a more comprehensive category

'''''rôle''''' 
This is how we used to spell "role" in English and how it's still spelled in French.

'''Edmonton''' 
the capital of Alberta

==Page 421==

'''malice''' 
desire to do harm

==Page 422==

'''vacuous''' 
lacking in ideas or intelligence

'''Maxwell House''' 
a brand of coffee

'''M. Kemp''' 
as in Monsieur Kemp, i.e., Jack Kemp, implying he was assassinated with a bomb in his house

'''Very Large Satan''' 
or "Great Satan," if you will

==Page 423==

'''''utilitaire''''' 
utilitarian, i.e., providing the greatest good for the greatest number

'''Comme on dit''' 
French: Like they say

==Page 424==

'''chasm''' 
a gorge or deep cleft in the earth's surface

==Page 425==

'''Habitant ''soup aux pois''''' 
''Habitant'' is Québecois French for "farmer," though it seems like a brand name here. ''Soup aux pois'' is pea soup, very popular in Québec.

'''parodically''' 
in a sarcastic or mocking way

==Page 426==

'''Safeway''' 
a chain of supermarkets

'''burrs''' 
protruding, ragged edges

==Page 427==

'''''ami''''' 
French: friend

'''''un autre''''' 
an other, i.e., an outsider

'''supine''' 
on one's back

==Page 428==

'''ponderous''' 
awkward or unwieldy

==Endnote 173==

==[[IJE304|Endnote 304]]==

==Page 428 (cont'd)==

'''''Veuillez Recycler Ce Contenant''''' 
French: Please Recycle This Container

'''''en ce moment''''' 
French: at this moment

==Page 429==

'''''D'éclaisant''''' 
not a real French word

'''maffick''' 
to celebrate boisterously

==Page 430==

'''''Entre nous''''' 
French: Between us

430 · The Rest of the Eric Clipperton Story

==Page 430==

==Page 431==

'''slider''' 
a breaking pitch in baseball that curves down and out, with much more speed than a typical curveball

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

'''Forest Lawn NNY''' 
a town in New York state, on Lake Ontario

'''cuirass''' 
a piece of armor covering the heart

'''PowerBook''' 
an IBM brand of laptop computer

'''vig''' 
interest, as on a loan from a loan shark

==Page 432==

'''CPR''' 
Cardiopulonary resuscitation

'''Winchester''' 
a city in Massachusetts about 8.5 miles northwest of Boston

'''counsel''' 
purpose, plan, or design

'''whey''' 
the liquid remaining after milk has been curdled and strained

==Page 433==

'''miasma''' 
a noxious atmosphere

'''cordite''' 
a propellant used in place of gunpowder in firearms

'''Crawfordsville, Indiana''' 
a town about 45 miles northwest of Indianapolis

'''Veedersburg IN''' 
this town lies 22 miles west of Crawfordsville on Route 74

==Page 434==

'''vicissitude''' 
a change or variation in the course of something

'''votaried''' 
filled with devotion

434 · Gately's Other Job

==Page 434==

'''Jamaica Plain''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_Plain,_Massachusetts section] of Boston

'''cab of his 4 X 4''' 
A 4 X 4 is a pick-up truck and the cab is where people sit.

'''sub-table''' 
under the table, i.e., off the books so that taxes don't have to be paid

==Page 435==

'''colostomy''' 
a procedure by which feces exit the body via a hole in a person's side into a bag, rather than via the anus

'''B&E''' 
Breaking and Entry, i.e., burglary

'''Kools''' 
a brand of menthol cigarettes

==Page 436==

'''mobilely upward''' 
that is to say, upwardly mobile

'''witticism''' 
a funny remark

436 · More O.N.A.N. History

==Page 436==

'''Davis''' 
a city in California about 15 miles west of Sacramento

'''Quik''' 
a powder mix used to make chocolate milk

==Page 437==

'''NaCN''' 
sodium cyanide

'''acrostics''' 
These are "set(s) of words arranged in a square such that they read the same horizontally and vertically" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'').

'''dewimpled''' 
like defrocked, except for a nun

==Page 438==

'''Benedict Arnold''' 
Benedict Arnold V (1741-1801) was an American general during the Revolutionary War who turned traitor for the British.

==Endnote 176==

'''Minister of Environment and Resource-Development Enterprises''' 
The initials spell ''merde'', which is French for "shit."

'''macrocartographic''' 
immense and involved with maps

==Page 438 (cont'd)==

'''Sino-temporal-endorsement''' 
Chinese sponsorship of time, presumably as opposed to [[Subsidized Time]]

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

'''orts''' 
scraps of food

'''CONCORD''' 
the capital of New Hampshire

'''CLEMSON''' 
a [http://www.clemson.edu/ university] in South Carolina

'''Rantoul IL''' 
a town 125 miles south-southwest of Chicago

'''Ithaca NY''' 
a town in upstate New York, home to [http://www.cornell.edu/ Cornell University]

==Page 439==

'''camp''' 
deliberately artificial or vulgar -- sometimes referring specifically to gay humor

'''robber-baron''' 
Wikipedia defines robber-barons as "businessmen and bankers who dominated their respective industries and amassed huge personal fortunes, typically as a direct result of pursuing various allegedly anti-competitive or unfair business practices."

'''Ollster''' 
a nickname for Oliver, like "Ollie"

'''"...one slim cat with an outsized leg..."''' 
i.e., Orin Incandenza

==Page 440==

'''placative''' 
intending to pacify or calm

'''quadrennial''' 
occurring every four years

==Page 441==

'''cheri''' 
French: my dear

'''Cerberus''' 
in Greek mythology, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus three-headed dog] that guards Hades

'''Achilles' tendon''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles%27_tendon tendon] in the back of the leg, near the foot

==Page 442==

'''canter''' 
an easy gallop

'''Ixnayish''' 
Remove -ish, and you have Pig Latin for "nix."

'''H.U.D.''' 
Housing and Urban Development

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==Page 398==

==Page 399==

'''LOVE CANAL''' 
an area near Buffalo, N.Y., famous for its high amount of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Canal toxic waste] and the effects it had on the residents there

'''EPA''' 
Environmental Protection Agency

'''Berlin, NH''' 
a town in New Hampshire very close to the Canadian border

'''Rumford, ME''' 
Rumford is in Maine, less than 50 miles due east of Berlin, N.H.

'''MONTPELIER''' 
the capital of Vermont

'''Lancaster NH''' 
a city about twenty miles west of Berlin, N.H.

'''INFARCTION''' 
heart attack

'''ANEURISM''' 
a misspelling of "aneurysm," it's a bursting of a weak blood vessel, if in the brain, usually causing a stroke

'''SALEM MA''' 
a city 15 miles up the coast from Boston

'''FROM SYRACUSE TO TICONDEROGA, NY''' 
This line would go right through [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adirondack_ParkAdirondack Park] in New York.

'''FROM TICODEROGA, NY TO SALEM, MA''' 
The lower corner of Vermont lies below this line.

==Page 400==

'''claque''' 
a group of sycophants

'''hale''' 
healthy

'''Kevlar''' 
a synthetic substance used in, among other things, bulletproof vests

==Page 401==

'''aspersion''' 
a disparaging remark

==Page 402==

'''Bôf''' 
defined by the Cambridge Online French-English dictionary as an interjection "expressing a lack of interest or enthusiasm"

'''maroon''' 
i.e., a moron

'''benighted''' 
overtaken by darkness

'''cojones''' 
Spanish for "testicles"

==Page 403==

'''''Redemisement''''' 
probably a neologism in French, ''redémisement'', with ''démisement'' meaning something along the lines of "dislocation," so ''redémisement'' being a re-dislocation or a second dislocation, here of territory

'''scenario''' 
"Scenarios" is the correct plural.

==Page 404==

[[Image:Tyrolean.jpg|thumb|caption|Tyrolean Hat|150px|right]]

'''Tyrolean hats''' 
The Tyrolean hat, named after the region of Tyrol, is associated with the Austrian Alps. Tyrolean hats have a cord wrapped around the base of the crown and a feather or brush on the side as trim. For an example, see right. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrolean_hat Wikipedia]

'''H.E.W.''' 
Health, Education, and Welfare

'''rife''' 
abounding

'''Eminent nondomain''' 
"Eminent domain" is the right of the government to seize private property to serve a greater good. This would be the opposite.

'''''bien sûr''''' 
French: of course

'''U.S.O.''' 
United States Organizations, an organization dedicated to entertaining troops at war

==Page 405==

'''coup de grâce''' 
French: death blow

'''recalcitrant''' 
hard to deal with or manage

'''''¿Qué?<.i>''' 
Spanish: What?

'''Yukon''' 
a territory of northwest Canada that borders Alaska's western border

'''Brinksmanship''' 
According to the ''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'', this is "the technique or practice of maneuvering a dangerous situation to the limits of tolerance or safety in order to secure the greatest advantage, esp. by creating diplomatic crises."

'''1/3-rpm''' 
This is one-third of a revolution per minute. LPs go literally 100 times faster.

''''Flight of the Bumblebee'''' 
an interlude in ''The Tale of Tsar Saltan'', an opera by Russian composer Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

==Page 406==

'''IMBROGLIO''' 
a misunderstanding or disagreement between persons or nations

'''SIN CITY''' 
Las Vegas

'''F.E.C.''' 
Federal Elections Commission

'''S.A.C.''' 
Strategic Air Command

'''BK''' 
Burger King

'''catastatic''' 
of or pertaining to the climax of a play, movie, etc

'''radon''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radon chemical element] that contaminates homes in gaseous form

==Page 408==

'''Maddox OH''' 
doesn't appear to be a real place

'''Hartford''' 
the capital of Connecticut

==Page 409==

'''Elmer's''' 
a brand of glue

==Endnote 158==
'''renumeration''' 

word should be remuneration

==Endnote 159==

'''Durban''' 
the second most populous city in S. Africa, on the country's southeast coast

==Page 409 (cont'd)==

'''Clipperton ''même''''' 
French: Clipperton himself

==Page 410==

'''transverse aberration''' 
this is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberration_of_light aberration of light] across a field

'''Sunkist''' 
a brand of fruit and fruit drinks

410 · Hal's History of Television Before Subsidized Time

==Page 410==

'''incipient''' 
beginning to develop

==Page 411==

'''Szechuan''' 
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szechuan Sichuan]

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

'''Sherman statutes''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act anti-trust act] introduced by Sen. John Sherman of Ohio (1823-1900)

'''TCI''' 
Tele-Communications, Inc. (now defunct)

'''Malone''' 
John C. Malone (born 1941), now CEO of Liberty Media

'''TBS''' 
Turner Broadcasting System, founded by Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III (born 1938)

'''CBC''' 
Canadian Broadcasting Centre

==Page 412==

'''American Council of Disseminators of Cable''' 
Look at the first letters of the capitalized words.

'''HDTV''' 
High-Definition Television

==Page 413==

'''liposuction''' 
a surgical procedure whereby fat is literally sucked out of the body

'''P.T.A.s''' 
Parent-Teacher Associations

'''PACs''' 
Political Action Committees

'''REM''' 
Rapid Eye Movement

'''kabal''' 
an alternate spelling of "cabal," meaning a small group of secret plotters

'''b&w''' 
black and white

==Page 414==

'''Preparation H''' 
a brand-name ointment for hemorrhoids

'''Überad''' 
a super advertisement, using the German ''über'' ("super") as a prefix

'''MLB''' 
Major League Baseball

==Page 415==

'''Ch. 11 protection''' 
Chapter 11, a section of the bankruptcy code under which one could file for protection from creditors

'''Dow turned Grizzly''' 
i.e., a bear (downward-moving) market environment began

''''Happy Days'''' 
a once-successful [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070992/ television series] on ABC

'''penultimate''' 
second-to-last

'''half-gainer''' 
a type of dive

==Page 416==

'''ken''' 
understanding

'''vox- and digitus-populi''' 
''Vox populi'' means "voice of the people" in Latin. ''Digitus populi'' would be "finger of the people."

==Page 417==

'''CPU''' 
Central Processing Unit

'''tentacularly''' 
as with tentacles

'''GTE''' 
General Telephone and Electronics

'''Hobbesianly''' 
in a way suggesting that people are very much in a state of nature, i.e., without rules or laws

'''!''' 
Used in the 2 times the square root of area formula, the exclamation point denotes a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial factorial]

'''mimetic''' 
used here, meaning as close to reality as possible

'''equatorial''' 
lying on the Equator

==Page 418==

'''mycological''' 
regarding the study of mushrooms

'''ennui''' 
boredom

==Endnote 168==

'''Wagnerian''' 
in the style or manner of Richard Wagner, the German operatic composer

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==Page 398==

==Page 399==

'''LOVE CANAL''' 
an area near Buffalo, N.Y., famous for its high amount of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Canal toxic waste] and the effects it had on the residents there

'''EPA''' 
Environmental Protection Agency

'''Berlin, NH''' 
a town in New Hampshire very close to the Canadian border

'''Rumford, ME''' 
Rumford is in Maine, less than 50 miles due east of Berlin, N.H.

'''MONTPELIER''' 
the capital of Vermont

'''Lancaster NH''' 
a city about twenty miles west of Berlin, N.H.

'''INFARCTION''' 
heart attack

'''ANEURISM''' 
a misspelling of "aneurysm," it's a bursting of a weak blood vessel, if in the brain, usually causing a stroke

'''SALEM MA''' 
a city 15 miles up the coast from Boston

'''FROM SYRACUSE TO TICONDEROGA, NY''' 
This line would go right through [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adirondack_ParkAdirondack Park] in New York.

'''FROM TICODEROGA, NY TO SALEM, MA''' 
The lower corner of Vermont lies below this line.

==Page 400==

'''claque''' 
a group of sycophants

'''hale''' 
healthy

'''Kevlar''' 
a synthetic substance used in, among other things, bulletproof vests

==Page 401==

'''aspersion''' 
a disparaging remark

==Page 402==

'''Bôf''' 
defined by the Cambridge Online French-English dictionary as an interjection "expressing a lack of interest or enthusiasm"

'''maroon''' 
i.e., a moron

'''benighted''' 
overtaken by darkness

'''cojones''' 
Spanish for "testicles"

==Page 403==

'''''Redemisement''''' 
probably a neologism in French, ''redémisement'', with ''démisement'' meaning something along the lines of "dislocation," so ''redémisement'' being a re-dislocation or a second dislocation, here of territory

'''scenario''' 
"Scenarios" is the correct plural.

==Page 404==

[[Image:Tyrolean.jpg|thumb|caption|Tyrolean Hat|150px|right]]

'''Tyrolean hats''' 
The Tyrolean hat, named after the region of Tyrol, is associated with the Austrian Alps. Tyrolean hats have a cord wrapped around the base of the crown and a feather or brush on the side as trim. For an example, see right. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrolean_hat Wikipedia]

'''H.E.W.''' 
Health, Education, and Welfare

'''rife''' 
abounding

'''Eminent nondomain''' 
"Eminent domain" is the right of the government to seize private property to serve a greater good. This would be the opposite.

'''''bien sûr''''' 
French: of course

'''U.S.O.''' 
United States Organizations, an organization dedicated to entertaining troops at war

==Page 405==

'''coup de grâce''' 
French: death blow

'''recalcitrant''' 
hard to deal with or manage

'''''¿Qué?<.i>''' 
Spanish: What?

'''Yukon''' 
a territory of northwest Canada that borders Alaska's western border

'''Brinksmanship''' 
According to the ''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'', this is "the technique or practice of maneuvering a dangerous situation to the limits of tolerance or safety in order to secure the greatest advantage, esp. by creating diplomatic crises."

'''1/3-rpm''' 
This is one-third of a revolution per minute. LPs go literally 100 times faster.

''''Flight of the Bumblebee'''' 
an interlude in ''The Tale of Tsar Saltan'', an opera by Russian composer Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

==Page 406==

'''IMBROGLIO''' 
a misunderstanding or disagreement between persons or nations

'''SIN CITY''' 
Las Vegas

'''F.E.C.''' 
Federal Elections Commission

'''S.A.C.''' 
Strategic Air Command

'''BK''' 
Burger King

'''catastatic''' 
of or pertaining to the climax of a play, movie, etc

'''radon''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radon chemical element] that contaminates homes in gaseous form

==Page 408==

'''Maddox OH''' 
doesn't appear to be a real place

'''Hartford''' 
the capital of Connecticut

==Page 409==

'''Elmer's''' 
a brand of glue

==Endnote 158==
'''renumeration''' 

should be remuneration

==Endnote 159==

'''Durban''' 
the second most populous city in S. Africa, on the country's southeast coast

==Page 409 (cont'd)==

'''Clipperton ''même''''' 
French: Clipperton himself

==Page 410==

'''transverse aberration''' 
this is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberration_of_light aberration of light] across a field

'''Sunkist''' 
a brand of fruit and fruit drinks

410 · Hal's History of Television Before Subsidized Time

==Page 410==

'''incipient''' 
beginning to develop

==Page 411==

'''Szechuan''' 
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szechuan Sichuan]

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

'''Sherman statutes''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act anti-trust act] introduced by Sen. John Sherman of Ohio (1823-1900)

'''TCI''' 
Tele-Communications, Inc. (now defunct)

'''Malone''' 
John C. Malone (born 1941), now CEO of Liberty Media

'''TBS''' 
Turner Broadcasting System, founded by Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III (born 1938)

'''CBC''' 
Canadian Broadcasting Centre

==Page 412==

'''American Council of Disseminators of Cable''' 
Look at the first letters of the capitalized words.

'''HDTV''' 
High-Definition Television

==Page 413==

'''liposuction''' 
a surgical procedure whereby fat is literally sucked out of the body

'''P.T.A.s''' 
Parent-Teacher Associations

'''PACs''' 
Political Action Committees

'''REM''' 
Rapid Eye Movement

'''kabal''' 
an alternate spelling of "cabal," meaning a small group of secret plotters

'''b&w''' 
black and white

==Page 414==

'''Preparation H''' 
a brand-name ointment for hemorrhoids

'''Überad''' 
a super advertisement, using the German ''über'' ("super") as a prefix

'''MLB''' 
Major League Baseball

==Page 415==

'''Ch. 11 protection''' 
Chapter 11, a section of the bankruptcy code under which one could file for protection from creditors

'''Dow turned Grizzly''' 
i.e., a bear (downward-moving) market environment began

''''Happy Days'''' 
a once-successful [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070992/ television series] on ABC

'''penultimate''' 
second-to-last

'''half-gainer''' 
a type of dive

==Page 416==

'''ken''' 
understanding

'''vox- and digitus-populi''' 
''Vox populi'' means "voice of the people" in Latin. ''Digitus populi'' would be "finger of the people."

==Page 417==

'''CPU''' 
Central Processing Unit

'''tentacularly''' 
as with tentacles

'''GTE''' 
General Telephone and Electronics

'''Hobbesianly''' 
in a way suggesting that people are very much in a state of nature, i.e., without rules or laws

'''!''' 
Used in the 2 times the square root of area formula, the exclamation point denotes a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial factorial]

'''mimetic''' 
used here, meaning as close to reality as possible

'''equatorial''' 
lying on the Equator

==Page 418==

'''mycological''' 
regarding the study of mushrooms

'''ennui''' 
boredom

==Endnote 168==

'''Wagnerian''' 
in the style or manner of Richard Wagner, the German operatic composer

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==Page 343==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

'''singular''' 
unique

'''polysterene''' 
styrofoam

'''ziggurats''' 
an ancient type of Mesopotamian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat temple tower]

'''fiberboard''' 
board made of small fibers of wood, plastic, or some combination of these and other materials

'''Concord''' 
Concord is about 20 miles west of Boston and is the site one of the first battles of the American Revolution.

==Page 344==

'''rotary''' 
a traffic circle or, in the U.K., a roundabout

'''plywood''' 
material made of thin layers of wood glued together

''''12th-Step Work'''' 
The twelfth and final step of AA is this: "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs."

'''epigrammatic''' 
of or pertaining to the use of short and pithy statements

'''pay it ''forward''''' 
thus the title of [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0223897/ this movie]

'''nip''' 
drink of alcohol

'''Dick Cavett and Truman Capote''' 
Richard Alva "Dick" Cavett (born 1936) is an Emmy-award-winning television talk-show host. Truman Capote (1924-1984) was an American writer and novelist, best known for writing ''In Cold Blood'' and ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''. Both men were remarkably short.

==Endnote 133==

'''variegated''' 
diverse

'''esoteric''' 
understood or recognized by few people

==Page 344 (cont'd)==

'''piping''' 
This is a tubular band of ornamental material; Nodie is probably a brand name.

'''imbricate''' 
overlapping in sequence

'''tailor's notch''' 
You get one from biting thread to cut it.

'''incisors''' 
front top teeth

==Page 345==

'''insipid''' 
without interesting qualities

'''AA Preamble''' 
You can read it [http://www.serenityfound.org/preamble.html here].

'''empathy''' 
one's ability to feel the emotions of another person

'''what he is''' 
i.e., an alcoholic

==Endnote 134==

'''nonpunitive''' 
not intended as a punishment

'''nitro''' 
nitroglycerin, used for cardiac attacks

==Page 345 (cont'd)==

'''145 kph''' 
a hair over 90 miles per hour

'''litany''' 
a prolonged or tedious account

==Page 345==

'''waxing''' 
growing in size, as for the first half of a lunar cycle

'''peritonitis''' 
inflammation of the serous membrane lining the abdomenal cavity

'''cirrhotic''' 
pertaining to hardening of liver tissue

'''nephritis''' 
inflammation of the kidneys

==Page 347==

'''compadre''' 
a close friend or companion, from the Spanish for "godfather"

'''ravening''' 
voracious

'''maw''' 
mouth

'''Black Mass''' 
a Satanic ritual based on ten Roman Catholic mass

==Page 348==

'''"...something whimpery instead of banging."''' 
a reference to the last line of T.S. Eliot's poem [http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/9824/hollow.html The Hollow Men]

'''garish''' 
loud and flashy

'''Balaclavan''' 
a reference to Balaklava, Ukraine, where these is nuclear submarine base

'''thermal''' 
a warm, rising air current

'''arbitrage''' 
simultaneous purchase and sale of the same assets in different markets

'''compound''' 
i.e., a compound fracture, where the bone protrudes through the skin

'''Svce''' 
Service

'''Unitarian''' 
Though the term refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian Unitarianism], here it suggestsa kind of hippyesque, wishy-washyness.

==Page 349==

'''Hindenburg''' 
Named for Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg (1847-1934), the German field marshal, hero of World War I, and last President of the Weimar Republic, the ''Hindenburg'' was a hydrogen-powered zeppelin that exploded over Lakehurst, N.J., on May 6, 1937.

'''nonuremic''' 
so as not to appear in one's urine

'''foamer''' 
beer

==Page 350==

'''beatific''' 
blissful or angelic

'''Zippo''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippo brand] of lighter

'''saccharin''' 
Based on the word for the artificial sweetener in Sweet & Low, the word as used here means "overly sweet."

'''flummoxed''' 
confused or perplexed

'''burnished''' 
rubbed smooth

'''squalid''' 
foul and repulsive

==Page 351==

'''terse''' 
using few words

'''imperative''' 
a tense of verb implicating a command or directive

'''zealotry''' 
fanaticism

'''green-card Irishman''' 
an Irishman who is a permanent resident non-citizen of the U.S.

'''meal''' 
ground grain

'''metal-pedalled''' 
i.e., "with the pedal to the metal," i.e., at top speed

'''chemical psychosis''' 
Psychosis (called "speed psychosisis") a not uncommon side effect of amphetamine abuse.

'''wax lyrical''' 
to speak poetically

'''"'d been a confarmed..."''' 
I'd been a confirmed bowl-splatterer for years beyond counting. I'd been barred from the facilities at all the truck stops betwixt here nad New York for years. The wallpaper in the loo at home hung in these curled sheets from the wall, I tell you. But now one day . . . I'll remember it always. It were a week to the day after I stood up for my ninety-day chip. I were three months sober. I were there on the throne at home, you know. Not to put too fine a point on it, I prodeuced as usual and . . . and I were so amazed as to not believing my ears. It was a sound so unfamiliar at the first I thouht I'd dropped my wallet int he loo, do you know? I thought I'd dropped me wallet in the loo as god is my witness. So down I bend betwixt my knees and had a look in the dim of the loo and couldn't believe my eyes. So good people I do then I drop to my knees by the loo and had a ''real'' look. A lover's look, do you know? And friends it were a lovely past my poor powers to say. It were a ''turd'' in the loo. A ''real turd''. It were firm and tapered and ever so gently arched. It looked . . . ''constructed'' instead of sprayed. It look as I felt in my heart God himself made a turd to look. My firends, this thurd of mien practically had a pulse. I staed downon my kness and thanked my Higher Power, which I choose to call my Higher Power God, and I been thanking my Higher Power on my knees ever since, morning and nighttime and in the loo as well, ever since.

==Page 352==

'''Enuresis''' 
bed-wetting

'''Priapism''' 
an erection that won't go away

'''Projectile-incontinence''' 
inability to hold owns bowels to the extent that feces shoot out of the anus

'''Autocastration''' 
castration of one's self

'''fringe-Birchism''' 
Birchism is adherence to the principles of the [http://www.jbs.org/ John Birch Society], an ultra-right-wing political organization

'''National-Socialist-Bundism''' 
probably something like the German-American Bund of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Kuhn_(Nazi) Fritz Julius Kuhn]

'''Coprophilia and -phagia''' 
sexual excitement brought on by feces and eating of feces, respectively

'''candelabrum''' 
a holder for more than one candle

==Page 353==

'''vitriol''' 
something highly caustic or severe, as criticism

'''orevwar''' 
They trying to say ''au revoir'', i.e., French for "goodbye."

'''fremitic''' 
characterized by tremor vibrations in any part of the body

==Page 354==

'''verdant''' 
green with vegetation

'''varicose''' 
having veins that are visible through the skin

'''shamanistic fiat''' 
A shaman is a priest or religious official, usually of an indigenous religion. A fiat is an order, based on the Latin for the imperative form of the verb "to be."

'''30 kph''' 
18.6 miles per hour

'''talismanically''' 
in a way suggesting something having to do with a magic charm or amulet

'''Lord's Prayer''' 
from [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%206:9-13;&version=9; Matthew 20:9-13]

'''ballast''' 
meaning an electric ballast, which is used to regulate and stabilize the current in lights

==Page 355==

'''gnarled''' 
knotty of misshappen

'''Sixers''' 
the short name for the [http://www.nba.com/sixers/index_main.html Philadelphia 76ers]

'''MCI-Walpole''' 
This is the Massachusetts Correction Institute at Walpole, about 25 miles southwest of Boston.

'''raisin jack''' 
an alcoholic drink fermented from raisins, commonly made in prisons

'''spectral''' 
looking like a ghost

==Page 356==

'''LeSabre''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buick_LeSabre Buick LeSabre]

'''jack-legged''' 
a slang term meaning "always screwing up"

'''dash''' 
short for "dashboard"

'''abject''' 
sunken to a low position, as in "abject poverty"

'''regs''' 
regulations

'''autonomy''' 
control or rule over one's self

==Page 357==

'''fibrosis''' 
scarring

==Endnote 139==

'''entomologic''' 
Entomology is the study of insects.

==Page 357 (cont'd)==

'''Mr. Rogers''' 
The Reverend Frederick McFeely "Fred" Rogers (1928-2003) was an American minister and children's television show host.

'''rhapsodize''' 
speak in an extravagantly elegant manner

'''fisticuffery''' 
fist-fighting

'''invectives''' 
abusive expressions of opinion

'''Sergeant at Arms''' 
an officer appointed to keep order

==Page 358==

'''apothegm''' 
a short, pithy statement

'''head''' 
bathroom

'''spuds''' 
potatoes

'''nocturnal''' 
happening at night

'''crook''' 
a shepherd's staff

'''French-curled''' 
You can see French-curled jewelry [http://www.cqout.com/item.asp?id=3093801 here]

'''demurely''' 
in an effectedly modest way

==Page 359==

'''circumferences''' 
distances around the edge of a circle

'''cuticles''' 
dead skin at the bottom of the fingernails

'''astringent''' 
a chemical that tends to dry something else out

'''onionlight''' 
You can see onionlights [http://www.hammerworks.com/onionlights_a.html here].

'''isopropyl''' 
a type of alcohol, found in rubbing alcohol

'''reek''' 
to smell very badly

'''A.D.A.''' 
Assistant District Attorney

==Page 360==

'''fumigated''' 
permeated with gas to kill insects

'''idiosyncrasy''' 
a peculiarity of personality

'''rattan''' 
material taken from the rattan plant, a climbing palm with very long stems

'''Big Book''' 
This is the AA "bible," so to speak, and can be found online [http://www.aa.org/bigbookonline/ here].

'''''As Bill Sees It''''' 
a book by Bill W., one of AA's founders, first published in 1967

'''''Came To Believe''''' 
another AA publication, this one published in 1973

==Page 361==

'''joggling''' 
shaking slightly

'''Demerol''' 
a brand name of pethidine, a painkiller

'''photic''' 
having to do with light

==Page 362==

'''copperheads''' 
one of five species of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agkistrodon_contortrix poisonous snake]

'''tongues''' 
The reference is to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossolalia glossolalia].

'''larynx''' 
voice box

'''requisite''' 
essential or necessary

'''venulated''' 
The word means "able to see the veins"; this condition of the nose is very common among advanced alcoholics.

''''Volare'''' 
This is a song whose title is from the Italian for "to fly." The song was written by Domenico Modugno and Franco Migliacci. Modugno went on to be a member of Italy's parliament

==Page 363==

'''pupil and iris''' 
The pupil is the black circle at the center of the eye, while the iris is the colored part (blue, green, brown).

'''cognito''' 
which is to say, in Lenz's case, incognito

'''Ferragamos''' 
an Italian brand of shoes

'''periphery''' 
an external boundary

'''11-Step''' 
recalling the 12th step on page 344, UHID must lack this step, or perhaps one of the others

==Page 364==

'''Rémy''' 
Rémy-Martin, a brand of cognac

'''Tiparillo''' 
a brand name of [http://lfa.atu.edu/Brucker/advertisement%20presentation/sld005.htm cigar]

[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland]]

'''defib paddles''' 
the paddles used in defibrillation, the application of electric shocks to the heart to re-start it

'''divot''' 
Normally a golf term, a divot is the hole left by the dirt displaced when one strikes a golf ball.

'''rankness''' 
the quality of being offensive

'''proprietary''' 
Usually referring to an owner, here it refers to feeling as if one has a sense of ownership.

==Page 365==

'''rectum''' 
the very end of the large intestine

'''hubristic''' 
having exaggerated pride or self-confidence

'''7-iron''' 
a type of golf club

'''tenth rough''' 
off the fairway on the tenth hole of a golf course

==Page 366==

'''flats''' 
women's shoes without heels

'''subjunctive''' 
contingent on something else happening

'''counterfactual''' 
at variance with what really happened

'''indicative''' 
According to ''Merriam-Webster,'' "indicative" means "of, relating to, or constituting a verb form or set of verb forms that represents the denoted act or state as an objective fact."

'''transposition''' 
switching the position of two things

'''Radarange''' 
microwave

'''pass''' 
here used to mean "place"

'''allude''' 
here used to mean "give an impression of"

==Page 367==

'''velour''' 
a piled and nappy material resembling velvet

'''caparison''' 
an ornamental covering for a horse, or just rich clothing

'''gavel''' 
the type of hammer a judge uses to restore or maintain order

367 (1) · Statue of Liberty

==Page 367==

'''huge photo album''' 
The book held by the statue reads, "JULY IV MDCCLXXVI [1776]."

'''product''' 
as opposed to the torch it currently holds

'''pitons''' 
spikes used by mountain climbers for support

367 (2) · Boston AA Meeting (continued)

==Page 367==

'''deprecate''' 
to express disapproval

==Page 368==

'''conundrum''' 
something puzzling

'''cunctations''' 
delays

'''chagrin''' 
embarrassment

'''aphasiac''' 
inability to speak

'''Filene's''' 
now owned by [http://www.macys.com/ Macy's]

==Page 369==

'''unironic''' 
i.e., totally expected and not at all a surprise

'''disingenuous''' 
lacking in sincerity

'''schlepping''' 
moving awkwardly or slowly

==Page 370==

'''Naked I Club''' 
a real strip club mentioned [http://www.totse.com/en/erotica/erotic_fiction_so_to_sz/striprv.html here]

'''Route 1''' 
U.S. 1 runs from Fort Kent, Maine, at the Canadian border down to Key West, Fla., mainly through small towns.

'''Saugus MA''' 
a suburb of Boston about ten miles south of the city

'''etiology''' 
the cause or source of a medical problem

'''Mud-Bug''' 
a Southern term for a crawfish

'''invertebrate''' 
an animal with a spine

'''chordate phylum''' 
the phylum of the animal kingdom containing all animals with spines

==Page 371==

'''Campfire Girls''' 
apparently [http://www.campfire.org/start.asp not just for girls] anymore

'''Lancôme''' 
one of France's largest cosmetics manufacturers

'''lurid''' 
gruesome or shocking

'''ubiquitousness''' 
the quality of always being present

'''Aetna''' 
a real [http://www.aetna.com/ insurance company]

'''Doric column''' 
columns of buildings built according to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doric_order Doric order]

'''pliability''' 
the ability to be easily bent

==Page 373==

'''''Ramparts'' and ''Commonweal''''' 
''Ramparts'' was a magazine founded for a Catholic leadership but eventually found its niche with the New Left. ''Commonweal'' was and still is a publication by and for lay Catholics.

'''Sally Jessy Raphael M.S.W.''' 
Sally Jessy Raphael (born Sally Lowenthal, 1938) is an American talk-show host. She does not hold an M.S.W., i.e., a Master's of Social Work

'''complicity''' 
the status of being an accomplice in a wrongdoing

'''Wounded, Hurting, Inadequately Nurtured but Ever-Recovering Survivors''' 
Look at the initials of the capitalized words.

'''auburn''' 
reddish-brown

'''perimeter''' 
the oustide edge of something

==Page 373==

'''vanity''' 
a dressing table

'''limbic system''' 
a complex system within the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbic_system brain]

'''gauntlet''' 
an attack from all sides

'''rasa the tabula''' 
This is a pun on ''tabula rasa,'' Latin for "blank state" and used in the philosophy of John Locke (1632-1704). The sense here is the clean the slate.

'''bandanna''' 
a large printed handkerchief, typically red or blue with a white design

'''circumoral''' 
surrounding the mouth

'''vacuole and optica''' 
These are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuole parts] of a cell, the optica likely being some kind of "seeing" organ.

'''protozoan''' 
a single-celled organism

'''some Catholic statue''' 
The statue described strongly appears to be Bernini's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstasy_of_St_Theresa The Ecstasy of St Theresa]. This statue is also referred to by name at endnote 24, page 988 in the synopsis of James Incandenza's film ''Pre-Nuptial Agreement of Heaven and Hell.''

'''Hours''' 
another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horae Horae]

'''prurient''' 
causing lust

'''cherub''' 
Often this word is used to denote a baby angel, but the actual connotation of the original Hebrew is of a fearsome warrior angel. A cherub guards the Garden of Eden in Genesis so that Adam and Eve cannot go back in.

'''lolled''' 
dropped

==Page 374==

'''IV''' 
intravenous, i.e., directly into a vein

'''lucidity''' 
mental clarity

'''implicit''' 
unspoken but implied

'''Six Flags Over the Poconos''' 
Six Flags is a [http://www.sixflags.com/national/index.aspx chain] of amusement parks. There is not currently one in the Pocono Mountains.

'''labrynth''' 
This is the mythological spelling of "labyrinth," meaning generically a maze, but more specifically denoting the maze built by Daedalus of ancient Greek myth.

'''minotaurs''' 
Daedalus build his famous maze to house the minotaur, a monster that was half man and half bull and the product of sexual congress between Europa, queen of Crete, and Zeus in the form of a bull.

'''aides de camp''' 
a confidential assistant to a military officer

'''absconded''' 
departed suddenly and in secret

'''proto-Fascist''' 
Wallace really means "quasi-Fascist" rather than "proto-Fascist"; it's not as if the rules of AA are the harbinger of Fascism later to come.

'''decamped''' 
a synonym of "absconded"

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]

'''commode''' 
toilet

==Page 375==

==Endnote 143==

'''''Sic''''' 
This word means: "Thus; so. Used to indicate that a quoted passage, especially one containing an error or unconventional spelling, has been retained in its original form or written intentionally" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'').

375 (1) · More Marathe & Steeply

==Page 375==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

'''shelf''' 
a projecting ridge on a mountain

'''spangle''' 
a small bright spot

'''"...launching even one ship or vessel."''' 
unlike [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_of_Troy Helen of Troy], whose face "launched a thousand ships" according to Homer

375 (2) · Himself and Lyle

==Page 375==

'''blotto''' 
drunk

==Endnote 144==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Purdue Wonderchicken]]

==Page 376==

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote 145 · Found Drama|Endnote 145]]

376 · More Boston AA

==Page 376==

'''brogue''' 
an accent, usually Irish

'''Eightball''' 
an eighth of an ounce of cocaine

'''translucent''' 
capable of having light pass through

==Page 377==

'''swaddled''' 
wrapped tightly in clothes

'''fuchsia''' 
hot pink

'''dysplasia''' 
abnormal growth of cells or tissue

'''remonstrances''' 
acts of protest

'''beat-cop''' 
a policeman who patrols the streets

'''tungsten''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolframite wolframite]

==Page 378==

'''Chanel''' 
the fashion house known in long form as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanel House of Chanel]

'''reticence''' 
reluctance

'''D&C''' 
dilation (of the cervix) and curetage (scraping) of the uterus

'''placenta''' 
the tissue that nourishes a fetus and makes up the afterbirth

'''S.S.I.''' 
Social Security Insurance

==Page 379==

379 · More With Himself and Lyle

==Page 379==

'''libations''' 
alcoholic drinks

'''injudicious''' 
showing lack of judgment

'''chyme''' 
This is "the semifluid mass into which food is converted by gastric secretion and which passes from the stomach into the small intestine" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

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'''singular''' 
unique

'''polysterene''' 
styrofoam

'''ziggurats''' 
an ancient type of Mesopotamian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat temple tower]

'''fiberboard''' 
board made of small fibers of wood, plastic, or some combination of these and other materials

'''Concord''' 
Concord is about 20 miles west of Boston and is the site one of the first battles of the American Revolution.

==Page 344==

'''rotary''' 
a traffic circle or, in the U.K., a roundabout

'''plywood''' 
material made of thin layers of wood glued together

''''12th-Step Work'''' 
The twelfth and final step of AA is this: "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs."

'''epigrammatic''' 
of or pertaining to the use of short and pithy statements

'''pay it ''forward''''' 
thus the title of [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0223897/ this movie]

'''nip''' 
drink of alcohol

'''Dick Cavett and Truman Capote''' 
Richard Alva "Dick" Cavett (born 1936) is an Emmy-award-winning television talk-show host. Truman Capote (1924-1984) was an American writer and novelist, best known for writing ''In Cold Blood'' and ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''. Both men were remarkably short.

==Endnote 133==

'''variegated''' 
diverse

'''esoteric''' 
understood or recognized by few people

==Page 344 (cont'd)==

'''piping''' 
This is a tubular band of ornamental material; Nodie is probably a brand name.

'''imbricate''' 
overlapping in sequence

'''tailor's notch''' 
You get one from biting thread to cut it.

'''incisors''' 
front top teeth

==Page 345==

'''insipid''' 
without interesting qualities

'''AA Preamble''' 
You can read it [http://www.serenityfound.org/preamble.html here].

'''empathy''' 
one's ability to feel the emotions of another person

'''what he is''' 
i.e., an alcoholic

==Endnote 134==

'''nonpunitive''' 
not intended as a punishment

'''nitro''' 
nitroglycerin, used for cardiac attacks

==Page 345 (cont'd)==

'''145 kph''' 
a hair over 90 miles per hour

'''litany''' 
a prolonged or tedious account

==Page 345==

'''waxing''' 
growing in size, as for the first half of a lunar cycle

'''peritonitis''' 
inflammation of the serous membrane lining the abdomenal cavity

'''cirrhotic''' 
pertaining to hardening of liver tissue

'''nephritis''' 
inflammation of the kidneys

==Page 347==

'''compadre''' 
a close friend or companion, from the Spanish for "godfather"

'''ravening''' 
voracious

'''maw''' 
mouth

'''Black Mass''' 
a Satanic ritual based on ten Roman Catholic mass

==Page 348==

'''"...something whimpery instead of banging."''' 
a reference to the last line of T.S. Eliot's poem [http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/9824/hollow.html The Hollow Men]

'''garish''' 
loud and flashy

'''Balaclavan''' 
a reference to Balaklava, Ukraine, where these is nuclear submarine base

'''thermal''' 
a warm, rising air current

'''arbitrage''' 
simultaneous purchase and sale of the same assets in different markets

'''compound''' 
i.e., a compound fracture, where the bone protrudes through the skin

'''Svce''' 
Service

'''Unitarian''' 
Though the term refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian Unitarianism], here it suggestsa kind of hippyesque, wishy-washyness.

==Page 349==

'''Hindenburg''' 
Named for Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg (1847-1934), the German field marshal, hero of World War I, and last President of the Weimar Republic, the ''Hindenburg'' was a hydrogen-powered zeppelin that exploded over Lakehurst, N.J., on May 6, 1937.

'''nonuremic''' 
so as not to appear in one's urine

'''foamer''' 
beer

==Page 350==

'''beatific''' 
blissful or angelic

'''Zippo''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippo brand] of lighter

'''saccharin''' 
Based on the word for the artificial sweetener in Sweet & Low, the word as used here means "overly sweet."

'''flummoxed''' 
confused or perplexed

'''burnished''' 
rubbed smooth

'''squalid''' 
foul and repulsive

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'''terse''' 
using few words

'''imperative''' 
a tense of verb implicating a command or directive

'''zealotry''' 
fanaticism

'''green-card Irishman''' 
an Irishman who is a permanent resident non-citizen of the U.S.

'''meal''' 
ground grain

'''metal-pedalled''' 
i.e., "with the pedal to the metal," i.e., at top speed

'''chemical psychosis''' 
Psychosis (called "speed psychosisis") a not uncommon side effect of amphetamine abuse.

'''wax lyrical''' 
to speak poetically

'''"'d been a confarmed..."''' 
I'd been a confirmed bowl-splatterer for years beyond counting. I'd been barred from the facilities at all the truck stops betwixt here nad New York for years. The wallpaper in the loo at home hung in these curled sheets from the wall, I tell you. But now one day . . . I'll remember it always. It were a week to the day after I stood up for my ninety-day chip. I were three months sober. I were there on the throne at home, you know. Not to put too fine a point on it, I prodeuced as usual and . . . and I were so amazed as to not believing my ears. It was a sound so unfamiliar at the first I thouht I'd dropped my wallet int he loo, do you know? I thought I'd dropped me wallet in the loo as god is my witness. So down I bend betwixt my knees and had a look in the dim of the loo and couldn't believe my eyes. So good people I do then I drop to my knees by the loo and had a ''real'' look. A lover's look, do you know? And friends it were a lovely past my poor powers to say. It were a ''turd'' in the loo. A ''real turd''. It were firm and tapered and ever so gently arched. It looked . . . ''constructed'' instead of sprayed. It look as I felt in my heart God himself made a turd to look. My firends, this thurd of mien practically had a pulse. I staed downon my kness and thanked my Higher Power, which I choose to call my Higher Power God, and I been thanking my Higher Power on my knees ever since, morning and nighttime and in the loo as well, ever since.

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'''Enuresis''' 
bed-wetting

'''Priapism''' 
an erection that won't go away

'''Projectile-incontinence''' 
inability to hold owns bowels to the extent that feces shoot out of the anus

'''Autocastration''' 
castration of one's self

'''fringe-Birchism''' 
Birchism is adherence to the principles of the [http://www.jbs.org/ John Birch Society], an ultra-right-wing political organization

'''National-Socialist-Bundism''' 
probably something like the German-American Bund of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Kuhn_(Nazi) Fritz Julius Kuhn]

'''Coprophilia and -phagia''' 
sexual excitement brought on by feces and eating of feces, respectively

'''candelabrum''' 
a holder for more than one candle

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'''vitriol''' 
something highly caustic or severe, as criticism

'''orevwar''' 
They trying to say ''au revoir'', i.e., French for "goodbye."

'''fremitic''' 
characterized by tremor vibrations in any part of the body

==Page 354==

'''verdant''' 
green with vegetation

'''varicose''' 
having veins that are visible through the skin

'''shamanistic fiat''' 
A shaman is a priest or religious official, usually of an indigenous religion. A fiat is an order, based on the Latin for the imperative form of the verb "to be."

'''30 kph''' 
18.6 miles per hour

'''talismanically''' 
in a way suggesting something having to do with a magic charm or amulet

'''Lord's Prayer''' 
from [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%206:9-13;&version=9; Matthew 20:9-13]

'''ballast''' 
meaning an electric ballast, which is used to regulate and stabilize the current in lights

==Page 355==

'''gnarled''' 
knotty of misshappen

'''Sixers''' 
the short name for the [http://www.nba.com/sixers/index_main.html Philadelphia 76ers]

'''MCI-Walpole''' 
This is the Massachusetts Correction Institute at Walpole, about 25 miles southwest of Boston.

'''raisin jack''' 
an alcoholic drink fermented from raisins, commonly made in prisons

'''spectral''' 
looking like a ghost

==Page 356==

'''LeSabre''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buick_LeSabre Buick LeSabre]

'''jack-legged''' 
a slang term meaning "always screwing up"

'''dash''' 
short for "dashboard"

'''abject''' 
sunken to a low position, as in "abject poverty"

'''regs''' 
regulations

'''autonomy''' 
control or rule over one's self

==Page 357==

'''fibrosis''' 
scarring

==Endnote 139==

'''entomologic''' 
Entomology is the study of insects.

==Page 357 (cont'd)==

'''Mr. Rogers''' 
The Reverend Frederick McFeely "Fred" Rogers (1928-2003) was an American minister and children's television show host.

'''rhapsodize''' 
speak in an extravagantly elegant manner

'''fisticuffery''' 
fist-fighting

'''invectives''' 
abusive expressions of opinion

'''Sergeant at Arms''' 
an officer appointed to keep order

==Page 358==

'''apothegm''' 
a short, pithy statement

'''head''' 
bathroom

'''spuds''' 
potatoes

'''nocturnal''' 
happening at night

'''crook''' 
a shepherd's staff

'''French-curled''' 
You can see French-curled jewelry [http://www.cqout.com/item.asp?id=3093801 here]

'''demurely''' 
in an effectedly modest way

==Page 359==

'''circumferences''' 
distances around the edge of a circle

'''cuticles''' 
dead skin at the bottom of the fingernails

'''astringent''' 
a chemical that tends to dry something else out

'''onionlight''' 
You can see onionlights [http://www.hammerworks.com/onionlights_a.html here].

'''isopropyl''' 
a type of alcohol, found in rubbing alcohol

'''reek''' 
to smell very badly

'''A.D.A.''' 
Assistant District Attorney

==Page 360==

'''fumigated''' 
permeated with gas to kill insects

'''idiosyncrasy''' 
a peculiarity of personality

'''rattan''' 
material taken from the rattan plant, a climbing palm with very long stems

'''Big Book''' 
This is the AA "bible," so to speak, and can be found online [http://www.aa.org/bigbookonline/ here].

'''''As Bill Sees It''''' 
a book by Bill W., one of AA's founders, first published in 1967

'''''Came To Believe''''' 
another AA publication, this one published in 1973

==Page 361==

'''joggling''' 
shaking slightly

'''Demerol''' 
a brand name of pethidine, a painkiller

'''photic''' 
having to do with light

==Page 362==

'''copperheads''' 
one of five species of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agkistrodon_contortrix poisonous snake]

'''tongues''' 
The reference is to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossolalia glossolalia].

'''larynx''' 
voice box

'''requisite''' 
essential or necessary

'''venulated''' 
The word means "able to see the veins"; this condition of the nose is very common among advanced alcoholics.

''''Volare'''' 
This is a song whose title is from the Italian for "to fly." The song was written by Domenico Modugno and Franco Migliacci. Modugno went on to be a member of Italy's parliament

==Page 363==

'''pupil and iris''' 
The pupil is the black circle at the center of the eye, while the iris is the colored part (blue, green, brown).

'''cognito''' 
which is to say, in Lenz's case, incognito

'''Ferragamos''' 
an Italian brand of shoes

'''periphery''' 
an external boundary

'''11-Step''' 
recalling the 12th step on page 344, UHID must lack this step, or perhaps one of the others

==Page 364==

'''Rémy''' 
Rémy-Martin, a brand of cognac

'''Tiparillo''' 
a brand name of [http://lfa.atu.edu/Brucker/advertisement%20presentation/sld005.htm cigar]

[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland]]

'''defib paddles''' 
the paddles used in defibrillation, the application of electric shocks to the heart to re-start it

'''divot''' 
Normally a golf term, a divot is the hole left by the dirt displaced when one strikes a golf ball.

'''rankness''' 
the quality of being offensive

'''proprietary''' 
Usually referring to an owner, here it refers to feeling as if one has a sense of ownership.

==Page 365==

'''rectum''' 
the very end of the large intestine

'''hubristic''' 
having exaggerated pride or self-confidence

'''7-iron''' 
a type of golf club

'''tenth rough''' 
off the fairway on the tenth hole of a golf course

==Page 366==

'''flats''' 
women's shoes without heels

'''subjunctive''' 
contingent on something else happening

'''counterfactual''' 
at variance with what really happened

'''indicative''' 
According to ''Merriam-Webster,'' "indicative" means "of, relating to, or constituting a verb form or set of verb forms that represents the denoted act or state as an objective fact."

'''transposition''' 
switching the position of two things

'''Radarange''' 
microwave

'''pass''' 
here used to mean "place"

'''allude''' 
here used to mean "give an impression of"

==Page 367==

'''velour''' 
a piled and nappy material resembling velvet

'''caparison''' 
an ornamental covering for a horse, or just rich clothing

'''gavel''' 
the type of hammer a judge uses to restore or maintain order

367 (1) · Statue of Liberty

==Page 367==

'''huge photo album''' 
The book held by the statue reads, "JULY IV MDCCLXXVI [1776]."

'''product''' 
as opposed to the torch it currently holds

'''pitons''' 
spikes used by mountain climbers for support

367 (2) · Boston AA Meeting (continued)

==Page 367==

'''deprecate''' 
to express disapproval

==Page 368==

'''conundrum''' 
something puzzling

'''cunctations''' 
delays

'''chagrin''' 
embarrassment

'''aphasiac''' 
inability to speak

'''Filene's''' 
now owned by [http://www.macys.com/ Macy's]

==Page 369==

'''unironic''' 
i.e., totally expected and not at all a surprise

'''disingenuous''' 
lacking in sincerity

'''schlepping''' 
moving awkwardly or slowly

==Page 370==

'''Naked I Club''' 
a real strip club mentioned [http://www.totse.com/en/erotica/erotic_fiction_so_to_sz/striprv.html here]

'''Route 1''' 
U.S. 1 runs from Fort Kent, Maine, at the Canadian border down to Key West, Fla., mainly through small towns.

'''Saugus MA''' 
a suburb of Boston about ten miles south of the city

'''etiology''' 
the cause or source of a medical problem

'''Mud-Bug''' 
a Southern term for a crawfish

'''invertebrate''' 
an animal with a spine

'''chordate phylum''' 
the phylum of the animal kingdom containing all animals with spines

==Page 371==

'''Campfire Girls''' 
apparently [http://www.campfire.org/start.asp not just for girls] anymore

'''Lancôme''' 
one of France's largest cosmetics manufacturers

'''lurid''' 
gruesome or shocking

'''ubiquitousness''' 
the quality of always being present

'''Aetna''' 
a real [http://www.aetna.com/ insurance company]

'''Doric column''' 
columns of buildings built according to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doric_order Doric order]

'''pliability''' 
the ability to be easily bent

==Page 373==

'''''Ramparts'' and ''Commonweal''''' 
''Ramparts'' was a magazine founded for a Catholic leadership but eventually found its niche with the New Left. ''Commonweal'' was and still is a publication by and for lay Catholics.

'''Sally Jessy Raphael M.S.W.''' 
Sally Jessy Raphael (born Sally Lowenthal, 1938) is an American talk-show host. She does not hold an M.S.W., i.e., a Master's of Social Work

'''complicity''' 
the status of being an accomplice in a wrongdoing

'''Wounded, Hurting, Inadequately Nurtured but Ever-Recovering Survivors''' 
Look at the initials of the capitalized words.

'''auburn''' 
reddish-brown

'''perimeter''' 
the oustide edge of something

==Page 373==

'''vanity''' 
a dressing table

'''limbic system''' 
a complex system within the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbic_system brain]

'''gauntlet''' 
an attack from all sides

'''rasa the tabula''' 
This is a pun on ''tabula rasa,'' Latin for "blank state" and used in the philosophy of John Locke (1632-1704). The sense here is the clean the slate.

'''bandanna''' 
a large printed handkerchief, typically red or blue with a white design

'''circumoral''' 
surrounding the mouth

'''vacuole and optica''' 
These are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuole parts] of a cell, the optica likely being some kind of "seeing" organ.

'''protozoan''' 
a single-celled organism

'''some Catholic statue''' 
The statue described strongly appears to be Bernini's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstasy_of_St_Theresa The Ecstasy of St Theresa]. This statue is also referred to by name at endnote 24, page 988 in the synopsis of James Incandenza's film ''Pre-Nuptial Agreement of Heaven and Hell.''

'''Hours''' 
another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horae Horae]

'''prurient''' 
causing lust

'''cherub''' 
Often this word is used to denote a baby angel, but the actual connotation of the original Hebrew is of a fearsome warrior angel. A cherub guards the Garden of Eden in Genesis so that Adam and Eve cannot go back in.

'''lolled''' 
dropped

==Page 374==

'''IV''' 
intravenous, i.e., directly into a vein

'''lucidity''' 
mental clarity

'''implicit''' 
unspoken but implied

'''Six Flags Over the Poconos''' 
Six Flags is a [http://www.sixflags.com/national/index.aspx chain] of amusement parks. There is not currently one in the Pocono Mountains.

'''labrynth''' 
This is the mythological spelling of "labyrinth," meaning generically a maze, but more specifically denoting the maze built by Daedalus of ancient Greek myth.

'''minotaurs''' 
Daedalus build his famous maze to house the minotaur, a monster that was half man and half bull and the product of sexual congress between Europa, queen of Crete, and Zeus in the form of a bull.

'''aides de camp''' 
a confidential assistant to a military officer

'''absconded''' 
departed suddenly and in secret

'''proto-Fascist''' 
Wallace really means "quasi-Fascist" rather than "proto-Fascist"; it's not as if the rules of AA are the harbinger of Fascism later to come.

'''decamped''' 
a synonym of "absconded"

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]

'''commode''' 
toilet

==Page 375==

==Endnote 143==

'''''Sic''''' 
This word means: "Thus; so. Used to indicate that a quoted passage, especially one containing an error or unconventional spelling, has been retained in its original form or written intentionally" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'').

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==Page 375==

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'''shelf''' 
a projecting ridge on a mountain

'''spangle''' 
a small bright spot

'''"...launching even one ship or vessel."''' 
unlike [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_of_Troy Helen of Troy], whose face "launched a thousand ships" according to Homer

375 (2) · Himself and Lyle

==Page 375==

'''blotto''' 
drunk

==Endnote 144==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Purdue Wonderchicken]]

==Page 376==

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376 · More Boston AA

==Page 376==

''' 'base head''' 
a cocaine addict

'''brogue''' 
an accent, usually Irish

'''Eightball''' 
an eighth of an ounce of cocaine

'''translucent''' 
capable of having light pass through

==Page 377==

'''swaddled''' 
wrapped tightly in clothes

'''fuchsia''' 
hot pink

'''dysplasia''' 
abnormal growth of cells or tissue

'''remonstrances''' 
acts of protest

'''beat-cop''' 
a policeman who patrols the streets

'''tungsten''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolframite wolframite]

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'''Chanel''' 
the fashion house known in long form as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanel House of Chanel]

'''reticence''' 
reluctance

'''D&C''' 
dilation (of the cervix) and curetage (scraping) of the uterus

'''placenta''' 
the tissue that nourishes a fetus and makes up the afterbirth

'''S.S.I.''' 
Social Security Insurance

==Page 379==

379 · More With Himself and Lyle

==Page 379==

'''libations''' 
alcoholic drinks

'''injudicious''' 
showing lack of judgment

'''chyme''' 
This is "the semifluid mass into which food is converted by gastric secretion and which passes from the stomach into the small intestine" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

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'''Kornspan''' 
German: corn chip

'''isometrics''' 
While this is just another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isometric_exercise isometric exercise], it's not clear how Pemulis would be making his face stronger.

==Page 199==

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'''like one of Bacon's popes''' 
Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was an Irish artist. His portrait of Pope Innocent X can be seen to the right.

==Page 200==

'''rosin''' 
another spelling of "resin," this resin being used to provide a better grip in weightlifting

'''mesomorphic''' 
having a muscular, study body

200 · Facts About Addiction and Tattoos

==Page 200==

'''D.S.S.''' 
Department of Social Services

'''papular''' 
having papules, i.e., inflamed, raised elevations on the skin not filled with pus

'''''tecato gusano''''' 
a worm from Tecate, Mexico, a small city in Baja California, bordering the U.S.

==Page 201==

'''Flents''' 
a brand name of [http://earplugstore.stores.yahoo.net/flents.html earplugs]

'''subsonic''' 
of a speed less than that of sound

'''arpeggio''' 
in music, a chord played in parts (i.e., one note at a time) rather than together

'''''pace''''' 
a very loose translation from Latin would be "with due reference to"

==Page 202==

'''Human Immuno-Virus''' 
HIV, i.e., the virus that causes AIDS

'''datum''' 
a piece of information; usually used in its plural, i.e., data

'''nexus''' 
a means of connection

'''glans''' 
the end of the penis

'''D.E.C.''' 
Digital Equipment Corporation, now a part of [http://www.dec.com/ Hewlitt-Packard]

==Endnote 70==

'''N.R.A.''' 
National Rifle Association

'''including 12-Step fellowships themselves''' 
See Chuck Palahniuk's novel ''Fight Club''.

==Page 202 (cont'd)==

''''Texas Catheter'''' 
This is "a condom-like device with a plug where the condom's reservoir tip would be, and an adhesive at the base. This device allows for urinary catheterization without the insertion of a true catheter" (Wikipedia).

==Page 203==

'''colloquia''' 
Plural for "colloquium," these are akin to academic conferences, albeit slightly less formal.

'''50 proof''' 
i.e., 25 percent alcohol

'''unalloyed''' 
pure

'''O.C.D.''' 
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

'''insipid''' 
without any interesting qualities

==Page 204==

'''Billerica''' 
a town in Massachusetts, about 25 miles northwest of Boston

'''''vig''''' 
short for "vigorish"

'''argot''' 
slang

==Page 205==

'''pancreatitis''' 
inflammation of the pancreas

==Page 206==

'''Sauvignon''' 
one of two types of wine made from two related sorts of grapes

'''Purple-Hearted''' 
A soldier receives a Purple Heart when s/he is wounded

==Page 207==

'''200 kilos''' 
over 440 pounds

'''Gothic script''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rudolf_Koch_gebrochene_Schriften.png Click here] to see examples.

'''undulating''' 
moving in a wavelike motion

'''necrotic''' 
dead

==Page 208==

'''hyperemic''' 
erect

'''palmate''' 
having four or more leaves emanating from a single point

'''Watertown''' 
a suburb of Boston, ten miles to the west

'''half-m.-long''' 
a half-meter, or nearly 20 inches

'''gonfalonish''' 
resembling a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonfalon gonfalon]

'''mucronate''' 
having a projecting point

'''St. Vitus's dance''' 
a nickname for the disease [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorea_%28disease%29 chorea]

'''''HOW DO YOU LIK YOUR BLUEYED BOY NOW MR DETH!?''''' 
Misspelling and slight misquotation of the last line of the poem "Buffalo Bill's/defunct," by e.e. cummings: "how do you like your blueeyed boy/Mister Death". The full poem appears here: [http://www.madeinwyoming.net/profiles/extras/BBPoemCummings.pdf]

'''gestalt''' 
Gestalt is "a configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that cannot be derived from the summation of its component parts" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

==Page 209==

'''crocodilic''' 
presumably resembling a crocodile, probably due to wrinkled skin

'''St. Columbkill''' 
a place name here, named for an actual Irish saint

'''St. Elizabeth's Hospital''' 
Its Web site is [http://www.caritas-semc.org/home/default.asp here].

'''cantankerous''' 
disagreeable, argumentative

'''Rita Hayworth''' 
The era of [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000028/ Rita Hayworth] would be the '30s and '40s.

'''''SUBIKBAY'62USN4-07''''' 
SUBIKBAY is probably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subic_Bay Subic Bay]. USN would be U.S. Navy.

'''''SEMPER FI''''' 
Short for ''Semper fidelis'' ("always faithful"), motto of the U.S. Marine Corps

'''autolyzed''' 
having undergone autolysis, i.e., the breakdown of tissue over time

'''BLTN''' 
Better Late That Never

==Page 210==

'''phylum''' 
A taxonomical term just below Kingdom (in humans, Animal), the phylum of mammals is ''Chordata'', which means they have a spinal cord.

'''foment''' 
the proper word would be "ferment"

'''M.D.C.''' 
Massachusetts Department of Corrections

'''Talwin''' 
brand name of pentazocine, a narcotic painkiller

==Page 211==

'''cribbage''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cribbage card game]

'''canted''' 
set at an oblique angle

211 · The Incredibly Potent DMZ

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'''film-noir''' 
According to Wikipedia, ''film noir'' (French for "dark film") is "a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize moral ambiguity and sexual motivation. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940s to the late 1950s."

'''psychosensual''' 
Where as psychosensual would have a more sexual connotation...

'''psychosensory''' 
...psychosensory would be the more correct word, as it would apply to sensory stimulation, not necessarily sexual.

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'''CIA-era military experiments''' 
probably a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MK-ULTRA MKULTRA]

'''hydrangea''' 
several species of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrangea flowering plants]

'''gistless''' 
having no essential heart of the matter

'''Decoct''' 
as opposed to "concoct"

'''spectrometer''' 
an optical instrument used to conduct spectroscopic analysis on matter to determine its constituent elements

'''Ram Das''' 
This is probably a reference to Baba Ram Dass (born 1931 as Richard Alpert), an American-Jewish spiritual leader, author of ''Be Here Now'', and large influence on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Townshend Pete Townshend].

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'''frustum''' 
A frustrum is "the part of a conical solid left after cutting off a top portion with a plane parallel to the base" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''Lamb's Breath cannabis''' 
a type of potent marijuana

'''20-g.''' 
a 20-gram amount (about .7 ounces)

'''Sierpinski''' 
Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński (1882-1969) was a Polish mathematician and one of the innovators of set theory.

'''gasket''' 
a sealing ring

'''mullioned''' 
having separate panes, when used for a window

'''philatelic forceps, a loupe''' 
Philatelic refers to stamp collecting. A loupe is used primarily by a jeweler to view flaws in diamonds.

'''Bunsen burner''' 
a laboratory [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunsen_burner burner] invented in part by Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (1811-1899), a German chemist.

'''titration''' 
the process of determining the strength of a compound

'''WATS''' 
Wide Area Telecommunications Service: "bulk-rate telephone service that enables a subscriber to make an unlimited number of long-distance telephone calls within a given service area for a fixed monthly charge or to receive calls from given areas with no charge to the caller" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'')

'''cross-key''' 
to type in at the same time as search terms on a computer

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'''monograph''' 
a scholarly study on a particular subject, usually published as a book

'''Leavenworth''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Disciplinary_Barracks U.S. Disciplinary Barracks] at Leavenworth, Kan.

'''Ethel Merman''' 
an American [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0581062/ actress], also known for Broadway roles

'''AWOL''' 
Absent Without Leave, a military term

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'''Motrinish''' 
I.e., like Motrin, the original brand name of ibuprofen

'''fools-rush-in''' 
A reference to ''An Essay on Man'', a length poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744), a British poet of great renown:
No Place so Sacred from such Fops is barr'd, Nor is Paul's Church more safe than Paul's Church-yard:
Nay, fly to Altars; there they'll talk you dead; '''For Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.

Zen''' 
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen Buddhism] ultimately, although here is applies more to perfection or transcendence

'''Nuck''' 
a pejorative term for a French-Canadian, presumably shortened from "Canuck"

'''dumbshow''' 
Here it means sign language or mime, but the term has a longer history in theater, where it refers to a preview of a part of a play done without lines.

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'''Tenuate Dospan''' 
Tenuate is a brand name of diethylcathinone, an appetite suppressant and mild amphetamine; Dospan is used for the time-release pills.

'''otiose''' 
superfluous or useless

[[Image:Quaker.png|right]]

'''"... the way W. Penn in his Quaker Oats hat in like the 16th century must have felt trading a few trinkets to babe-in-the-woods Natives for New Jersey..."''' 
William Penn (1644-1718) was the British-born founder of the colony (and later state) of Pennsylvania. For the hat, see right. Penn obviously lived later than the 16th century and he had no involvement in the founding of New Jersey, which Pemulis seems to be conflating with the purchase of Manhattan by the Dutch for about $24 worth of jewelry.

'''opportunity-cost''' 
In economics, this is what one loses in income, pleasure, etc., from engaging in another activity rather than the one that would have paid said income, pleasure, etc. Wallace (or Pemulis) is using the term incorrectly.

'''rotator cuff''' 
the group of muscles and tendons that stabilize the shoulder

'''stolid''' 
unemotional or impassive

'''''contre-pied''''' 
Literally French for "against-foot," this term is used to apply to a direction taken by dogs in pursuit of an animal they are no longer chasing.

'''purgatorial''' 
referring neither to heaven nor hell

'''128-256 Alphabetville''' 
Because of his injury, Schacht was ranked in the lower 128 seeds in the tournament just after his hurt his knee. (Why this is called "Alphabetville," I don't know.)

'''11/5''' 
November 5th, [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

'''arachnodactylic''' 
having fingers like spiders

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'''Order but not the same Family''' 
Like "phylum," these are also taxonomical terms. Human beings are ''Homo sapiens'', with ''Homo'' being the genus and ''sapiens'' being the species. Dogs and cats are in the same order: ''Carnivora'' (meat-eaters); but they are in difference families: Dogs are in ''Canidae'' and cats in ''Felidae''. However, the hyena, which resembles a dog, is actually in the ''Felidae'' family. Q.e.d.

'''Acton''' 
town in Massachusetts about 25 miles west-northwest of Boston

'''the Xerox Inc. of North American tennis academies''' 
This demonstrates that Port Washington Academy is big, but Xerox is far from the biggest corporation in the U.S.

'''Port Washington''' 
It's made clear here that this is the town on Long Island. This is the "East Egg" of F. Scott Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby,'' in Nassau County on the north shore of Long Island, very close to New York City.

'''vivisected''' 
cut apart while still alive

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'''twins Siamese''' 
The Vaught twin-sister tennis players are actually conjoined at the head.

'''Akron''' 
a city in Ohio and rubber capital of the world

'''Charleston''' 
the dance, not the city

'''bell-lap''' 
a term from track, this is the final lap of a race

'''12/12's Boards''' 
probably SATs or something like them

'''meninges''' 
the tissues that encase the brain

'''glade''' 
a clearing in a forest

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'''Attention Deficit Disorder''' 
i.e., hyperactivity

'''port or starboard''' 
left or right

'''bell curve''' 
the curve formed by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution normal distribution] of IQs -- a concept fraught with problems of political correctness, racism or racialism, and different concepts of what "intelligence" is

'''glabrous''' 
having a surface devoid of hair

'''RAM''' 
Random Access Memory

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'''halcyon''' 
prosperous, happy

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken]]

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==Endnote 77==

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

'''H. Bosch's triptych ''The Garden of Earthly Delights''''' 
Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) was a Dutch painter. You can view the aforementioned triptych [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights here].

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