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'''G. Ford - early G. Bush''' 
roughly 1974 to 1989

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

'''neutron''' 
a subatomic particle with no charge

'''gamma-refractive''' 
referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions

'''lithium-adonized''' 
made more beautiful with lithium

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'''cold annular fusion''' 
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped.

'''Tableaux''' 
This is the French pluralization of "tableau," a striking scene.

'''homolosine-cartography''' 
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Mercator projection].

'''optative''' 
expressing a wish or choice

'''U.S.T.A.''' 
United States Tennis Assocation

'''après-garde''' 
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''

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'''Macdonald Chair''' 
possibly named for Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), American writer, editor, and social critic

'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University''' 
now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal

'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems''' 
These are two systems of cognition, the former is associative, rapid in processing, and subconcious, while the latter is rule-based and thus slower.

'''''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement''''' 
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely

'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada''' 
There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.

'''recondite''' 
dealing with complex subject matter

'''mordantly''' 
in a caustic manner

'''feck''' 
efficacy; force; value

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'''F.C.''' 
Perhaps "formerly Canadian"

'''A.E.C.''' 
Atomic Energy Commission

'''ARPA-NET''' 
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.

'''L'Islet County''' 
a county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains

'''hyperfloration''' 
overgrowth of flowers or plants

'''festschrift''' 
In German, a ''Festschrift'' is a celebratory monograph dedicated to a person.

'''anticonfluential''' 
against things coming together

'''chiaroscuro''' 
distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting

'''annulation''' 
the formation of rings

'''hypertrophied''' 
grown exceeding large

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'''tacks''' 
follows a zigzag course

'''Mile-High''' 
the stadium in which the Denver Broncos play

'''100 meters over the 40''' 
I.e., the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.

'''nongarish''' 
not garish, i.e., not excessively ornate

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'''zither''' 
a harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels

'''water-drops''' 
being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks

'''Oiler''' 
the former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans

'''Brown''' 
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.

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'''organopsychedelic''' 
a substance naturally producing a psychedelic effect

'''isoxazole-alkaloid''' 
Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.

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'''methoxylated''' 
Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."

'''phenylkylamine''' 
possibly a made-up substance

'''rock and bob Hasidically''' 
A Hasid or Chasid is an Orthodox Jew who wears sidelogs, dark clothes, etc. The bobbing is a nod to what Hasidim do when praying or studying religious texts.

'''titrated''' 
To titrate is "to ascertain the quantity of a given constituent by adding a liquid reagent of known strength and measuring the volume necessary to convert the constituent to another form" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

As used here, a doper expression meaning to try a bit of the drug to ascertain its effects before taking the whole thing (eg one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD).

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'''enkephalin''' 
a type of painkiller

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'''psychodysleptic''' 
a drug that negative effects the take psychologically

'''''in medias''''' 
Latin: in the middle of

'''oblique''' 
neither perpendicular nor parallel

'''deliquesce''' 
to become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air

68* · Kate Gompert in the Psych Ward

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'''Watteau''' 
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.

'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States''''' 
This book does not exist. The famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.

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'''hypocapnia''' 
reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation

'''emery board''' 
a disposable nail file

'''Wellesley Hills''' 
a section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston

'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital''' 
a real hospital

'''Parnate''' 
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAO) antidepressant that is among the oldest class of antidepressants and that have a load of serious side effects. Usually used as a last resort.

'''dysphoria''' 
feeling badly

'''diurnal''' 
during the day

'''w/w/o''' 
with and without

'''CO''' 
carbon monoxide, often used from engine exhaust for suicide

'''hemotoxicity''' 
poisonous blood level

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'''Librium''' 
brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal

'''Dretske''' 
perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind

'''Mydol''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol]

'''trepidation''' 
hesitancy caused by fear

'''facial affect''' 
emotions expressed on the face

'''Lithonate''' 
a brand name of lithium

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'''plestor''' 
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleximeter pleximeter]

'''plangent''' 
loud and resounding

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'''carpopedal''' 
involving both the hands and feet

'''tetanic''' 
pertaining to tetanus, a kind of lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually

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'''circumorals''' 
muscles around the mouth

'''thigmotactic''' 
having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus

'''dentate''' 
having teeth

'''synclinal''' 
sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /

'''Sinse''' 
short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana

'''duBois''' 
fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette

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'''uremic''' 
smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood

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'''boric acid''' 
also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects

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'''the T''' 
local transit in the Boston metro area

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'''"That old cartridge, Nicholas and the big Indian..."''' 
She's referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]; "Nichols" is [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/ Jack Nicholson].

78 · Medical Attaché Update #3

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'''0145h.''' 
It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.

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'''rictus''' 
a gaping grimace

79 · Schtitt & Mario

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'''Nick Bolletieri''' 
a [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real tennis coach]

'''epaulets''' 
military shoulder decorations on clothing

'''a philosopher instead of a king''' 
Although Plato stresses, in ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.

'''F.R.G.''' 
Federal Republic of Germany, which is the technical name for Germany today, but referred to West Germany in the days of divided Germany (1945-1989)

'''leptosomatic''' 
having a slender, frail build

'''pedagogical''' 
having to do with teaching

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'''post-prandial''' 
following a meal

'''calliopsis''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis]

'''quincunx''' 
the arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right)[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]

'''briers' yeasty musk''' 
the yeasty smell arising from the brier patches

'''bradykinetic''' 
describing abnormally slow movement

'''plosivity''' 
referring to a plosive or linguistic stop, i.e., a sound in a language characterized by the stopping of the breath: examples include not only the phonemes /p/ and /b/, but /t/, /d/, etc.

'''Euclid''' 
Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."

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'''tympana''' 
Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.

'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST''''' 

The euphemistic translation aside, this literaly means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.

'''discursive''' 
rambling in speech

'''wonk''' 
A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

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'''simpatico''' 
in agreement

'''Hopman''' 
either Henry ("Harry") Christian Hopman Harry or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Hall_Hopman Nell Hopman]

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'''Mandelbrotian''' 
Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.

'''post-Gödelian''' 
coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher

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'''van der Meer''' 
probably Simon van der Meer (born 1925), Dutch Nobel laureate in physics

'''fractal''' 
A fractal is "a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''aleatory''' 
of or pertaining to accidental causes

'''''Lieber Gott nein''''' 
German: Dear God, no

'''''Gymanasium''''' 
the equivalent of a U.S. college-prepatory high school

'''appetitive will''' 
that part of the will that desires physical things

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'''''palestra''''' 
an ancient Greek school of wrestling

'''experialist''' 
like "imperialist," but rather than incorporating outside things into itself, an experialist entity exports things outside itself that are not wanted; in the case of O.N.A.N., toxic waste

'''''Verstiegenheit''''' 
literally German for "eccentricity"

'''''Platz''''' 
German: a public square

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'''pirouetting''' 
whirling on the toes

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85 · Tiny Ewell in Detox

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'''D.T.''' 
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].

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'''12°C''' 
~54°F

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'''skallycap''' 
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]

87 · Medical Attaché Update #4

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'''Seventh Day Adventist''' 
a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"

87* · Marathe & Steeply

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'''payloaders''' 
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]

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'''caries''' 
tooth decay, leading to a cavity (always used in plural form)

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'''continentally ranked''' 
ranking of players in North America, see, e.g., [[Pages_3-27#onancaa|O.N.A.N.C.A.A.]]

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'''moniker''' 
nickname

'''apprised''' 
informed

'''pejorative''' 
derogatory, disparaging (Hal indicating that the phrase "my reputation preceded me" is generally used in a pejorative sense)

'''Alexandrian''' 
Referring to the reign of the Byzantine emperor Alexander who ruled from 879-913 c.e.

'''Constantinian''' 
Presumably referring to the reign of Constantine "the Great", Byzantine emperor from 306–337 c.e.

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'''amanuensis''' 
a scribe, or secretary who takes dictation

'''Der Spiegel''' 
A German news-weekly magazine, known for investigative journalism

'''papparazzo''' 
a kind of photo-journalist who seeks out impromptu unauthorized shots of the rich and famous, frequently in search of scandal

'''alpenstock''' 
a metal-tipped staff used by mountaineers

'''assignation''' 
a meeting between lovers; tryst

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'''"I want to tell you . . . My head is filled with things to say."''' 
These are the first lines of the Beatles song "I Want to Tell You," written by George Harrison (1943-2001).

'''"I don't mind . . . I could wait forever."''' 
more lyrics from "I Want to Tell You," though not the very next ones

'''Brandt''' 
Another German name, most famously the nom de guerre of the future mayor of West Berlin and Kanzler of Germany, Willy Brandt, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm (1913-1922).

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'''legation''' 
a diplomatic office lower than an embassy

'''Libertine Statue''' 
I.e., the Statue of Liberty, though calling it this implies sexual promiscuity, even if she is wearing a diaper

'''apposite''' 
suitable or well adapted

'''Rub' al Khali''' 
Arabic for ''Empty Quarter,'' another name for the Arabian Desert.

'''maxillofacial''' 
pertaining to or affecting the jaws and face

'''''Candida albacans''''' 
the Latin name for a fungal infection that causes, among other disorders, thrush

'''monilial''' 
of or caused by fungus of the genus ''Monila''

'''DeBakey''' 
Michael Ellis DeBakey (1908-2008) is a world-famous heart surgeon.

'''''ad valorem''''' 
Latin: according to the value

'''nauseous''' 
Correctly used here, this word means "tending to cause nausea." If one has nausea, they are "nauseated."

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'''Scottsdale''' 
a suburb about 19 miles east-northeast of Phoenix

'''sufism''' 
a mystic strain of Islam

'''Pir Valayat''' 
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1916-2004) was a British-born Sufi.

'''kif''' 
Arabic for marijuana in leaf form, as opposed to hashish

'''''shari'a-halal''''' 
An Arabic term akin to the Jewish ''kosher,'' this means that food has been prepared in accordance with Islamic law.

'''Back Bay Hilton''' 
This is a real hotel, with a Web site [http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/BOSBHHH-Hilton-Boston-Back-Bay-Massachusetts/index.do here].

'''nystatin''' 
an anti-fungal drug

'''stiptics''' 
A styptic is a chemical that stops bleeding.

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'''necrosis''' 
a term for death of bodily tissue

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'''triptych''' 
a three-part art display

'''O.N.A.N.M.A.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Medical Assocation

'''actinomycete-class antibiotics''' 
antibiotics effective against Gram-positive bacteria called actinobacteria

'''CBC/PATHÉ''' 
CBC is the Canadian Broadcasting Company. PATHÉ is probably the French entertainment company Pathé Frères (Pathé Brothers).

'''''Nass''''' 
Arabic for "text"

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'''double dutch''' 
a type of rope jumping where two ropes are used

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'''Brighton Projects''' 
presumably high-rise, low-income housing in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton,_Boston,_Massachusetts Brighton]

'''Shedd Spread''' 
a brand of [http://www.countrycrock.com/products.asp margarine]

'''wraithlike''' 
A wraith is a type of ghost.

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'''nocturnal emitter''' 
a boy who has a wet dream

'''anfractuous''' 
full of twists and turns

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'''petulant''' 
unreasonably irritable

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'''''Tosca''''' 
The title of an opera by Italian composer Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (1858-1924), which premiered in 1900.

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'''agoraphobic''' 
suffering from an irrational fear of going outside

'''portcullis''' 
This is "a strong grating, as of iron, made to slide along vertical grooves at the sides of a gateway of a fortified place and let down to prevent passage" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

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'''2010h. on 1 April''' 
The medical attaché has been watching for forty-three minutes.

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'''Ambush''' 
a [http://www.100perfumes.com/forums/Perfume/m12442.htm real perfume]

'''Home with the team''' 
It's already been mentioned that Orin plays professional football. He must play for the Arizona Cardinals.

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'''''Blattaria implacblus''''' 
''Blattaria'' is the order that contains the several genus and species of cockroaches. The Latin phrase really means "implacable cockroach."

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'''fantods''' 
sudden outpourings of anger, outrage, or fear

'''Chalmette''' 
an eastern suburb of New Orleans

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'''kippers''' 
cured herring

'''Mrs. Avril M. T. Incandenza''' 
Hal's mother is named for the first time.

'''phylacteryish''' 
Remove "-ish" and you have the English word for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefillin tefillin].

'''imprimatur''' 
sanction or approval

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'''Positron-Emission Topography''' 
According to Wikipedia, this is "a nuclear medicine medical imaging technique that produces a three-dimensional image or map of functional processes in the body."

'''positrons''' 
the sub-atomic particles that are the opposite of electrons

'''Fritz Lang''' 
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (1890-1976) was a Viennese-born Austrian-American director, probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022100/ M].

'''''Moment'' magazine''' 
This is a Jewish-interest [http://www.momentmag.com/ magazine].

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'''Pandora's box of worms''' 
a mixed metaphor of "Pandora's box" and "can of worms," neither of which can be shut again once they're opened

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'''one-hitter''' 
a small marijuana pipe that will provide one "hit" of marijuana per packing

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'''Partridge, KS''' 
A town in Kansas about 55 miles north-northwest of Wichita

'''Charles Tavis''' 
I.e., C.T.

'''gizzard''' 
the digestive organ of a bird

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'''Bob Hope''' 
Cockney rhyming slang for "dope"

'''neo-Georgian''' 
modern-day architecture that approximates that of the Georgian period, from 1714 (accession of George I of the U.K.) to 1830 (death of George III)

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'''spherocubular''' 
Another neologism, presumably meaning having characteristics of both a sphere and cube -- a three-dimension "squircle".

'''Leith''' 
A homonym of Lethe, the name of the river in Greek mythology whose water, if drunk, will erase one's memory.

'''Dr. James O. Incandenza''' 
Hal's father's full name is given for the first time.

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'''dendriurethane''' 
This substance does not actually exist. An educated guess is that it is a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyurethane polyurethane] that comes from trees, ''dendri'' being Greek for "tree."

'''twenty meters''' 
almost twenty-two yards

'''unfenestrated''' 
having no windows

'''two meter''' 
a little over 6.5 ft

'''banshee''' 
In Irish mythology, the banshee is female spirit, who acts as an omen of death. They are known for "keening," i.e., shrieking.

'''flange''' 
a plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe

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'''post-latency''' 
after the latency period that Freud posited in his four-stage theory of psychosexual development in children

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_5|Endnote 5]]

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[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_6|Endnote 6]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_7|Endnote 7]]

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[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_8|Endnote 8]]

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'''mushrooms or X''' 
psilocybin mushrooms or MDMA (called ecstasy)

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'''Interdependent regions''' 
I.e., Canada

'''prorectors''' 
members of a management body of a university, each managing his/her specific area

'''the Show''' 
professional tennis

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'''Kodiak''' 
a brand of chewing tobacco

'''quail''' 
to shrink back in fear

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'''0020h''' 
The medical attaché has now been watching for four hours and fifty-three minutes.

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'''filmic''' 
having to do with motion pictures

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[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_12a|Endnote 12a]]

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'''élan''' 
enthusiastic vigor or liveliness

'''Revere Holding''' 
a jail, obviously -- probably the jail for Revere, Mass., just south of Boston

'''P.D.''' 
public defender

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_13|Endnote 13]]

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'''dictum''' 
a maxim or saying

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'''Marblehead''' 
A town in Essex County, Mass., home to a yachting resort. It's about 15 miles northeast of the city on the water.

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'''''International Affairs'' and ''Interdependent Affairs''''' 
The first magazine is real; the second is not.

'''teak chiffonier''' 
a piece of furniture, one of which you can see [http://www.artfact.com/catalog/viewLot.cfm?lotCode=4xRrS2JB here]

'''Berkshires''' 
the westernmost portion of Massachusetts, a popular vacation spot

'''van Dyke''' 
a goatee

'''apocopes''' 
losses of syllables from words, particularly unstressed vowels

'''Café au Lait''' 
half coffee and half milk in a large cup, as drunk in France

'''gangrenously tight''' 
I.e., so tight as to cause gangrene, i.e., death of tissue due to lack of blood

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'''grippe''' 
flu

'''pre-British-takeover Québecois''' 
The British took over Quebec on September 8, 1760.

'''grackles''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passerine passernine] birds native to North America

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[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_19|Endnote 19]]

'''intercostal''' 
pertaining to the ribs or the muscles around them

'''Montreal Tulip Fest''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival Canadian Tulip Festival] actually takes place in Ottawa, Ontario, and Gatineau, Quebec, which border each other.

'''Guillaume DuPlessis''' 
A man by this name was one of the first French Calvinist settlers on the island of St. Kitts in the 17th century.

'''250 clicks due east''' 
Clicks are kilometers. Two hundred fifty km is about 155 miles.

'''lividity''' 
the change of color in skin brought on by livor mortis, an after-death phenomenon when blood settles in the body at low points of gravity

'''comme-il-faut''' 
French: As is necessary

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'''932/1864''' 
I don't know what the numbers mean, but the first is half of the second.

'''R.I.S.C.''' 
reduced instruction set computer, i.e., a computer that takes a limited set of commands

'''Primestar''' 
a direct broadcast satellite network active in the 1990s

'''D.S.S.''' 
digital satellite system

'''pixel-free''' 
smooth and not pixelated

'''baud''' 
a unit equal to bits per second; a baud rate is the number of bits per second a modem can send/receive

'''''couture''''' 
French for "fashion"

'''nanoprocessors''' 
very small processors -- smaller than microprocessors

'''chromotography''' 
Here misspelled, chromatography is "any of various techniques for the separation of complex mixtures that rely on the differential affinities of substances for a gas or liquid mobile medium and for a stationary adsorbing medium through which they pass, such as paper, gelatin, or magnesia" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'').

'''carpal neuralgia''' 
nerve pain in the bones of the hand

'''phosphenic migraine''' 
the phenomenon of seeing lights accompanying a migraine

'''gluteal hyperadiposity''' 
fat in the buttocks

'''lumbar stressae''' 
back stress

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'''Jim Troeltsch''' 
The most famous person with this surname is [http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/WeirdWildWeb/courses/mwt/dictionary/mwt_themes_705_troeltsch.htm Ernst Troeltsch] (1865-1923), a German Protestant theologian and philosopher of religion and history.

'''Narberth PA''' 
a suburb of Philadelphia, on the famous Main Line from Philadelphia to Lancaster

'''meatus''' 
a natural bodily opening

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_21|Endnote 21]]

'''OTC''' 
over the counter

'''expectorants''' 
drugs that induce phlegm-producing coughing

'''pertussives''' 
cough suppressants

'''megaspansules''' 
a combination of mega + span + capsule, these would be large, time-released capsules

==Endnote 22==

'''mucoid dessicators''' 
drugs that dry up phlegm

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'''Rader''' 
If the name is pronounced with a "long a," as in the Oakland football team, a famous person with this last name was Erich Johann Albert Raeder (1876-1960), a World War II-era German grand admiral, sentenced to life at Nuremberg but served only nine years.

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'''nebulizer''' 
something that turns a liquid into a spray

'''fugue-state''' 
According to Wikipedia, a fugue state is "a state of mind characterized by abandonment of personal identity, along with the memories, personality and other identifying characteristics of individuality."

'''prolix''' 
extended to a great, unneedy length

==Page 61==

'''rhinoviri''' 
Wallace's plural for rhinovirus, one of dozens of variations of the virus that causes the common cold, also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus rhinoviruses]

'''mucosa''' 
An absorptive/secretive tissue layer in the body; here, in Troeltsch's throat or nose

==Page 62==

'''matte''' 
as an adjective, having a dull or lusterless finish

'''snuff-white''' 
Snuff is grayish to yellowish brown in color; snuff-white must be that color, but lighter.

'''reglets''' 
narrow, flat moldings

'''rheostats''' 
continuously variable electronic resistors

'''shank''' 
part of the leg between the knee and ankle

==Page 63==

'''As of [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]''' 
Which is to say, as of 2009

'''pre-Method actor''' 
He was an actor before the dawn of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_acting the Method].

'''dipsomaniacal''' 
Characterized by an uncontrollable urge to consume alcohol, describing James O. Incandenza's father

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'''caries''' 
tooth decay, leading to a cavity (always used in plural form)

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'''continentally ranked''' 
ranking of players in North America, see, e.g., [[Pages_3-27#onancaa|O.N.A.N.C.A.A.]]

==Page 29==

'''moniker''' 
nickname

'''apprised''' 
informed

'''pejorative''' 
derogatory, disparaging (Hal indicating that the phrase "my reputation preceded me" is generally used in a pejorative sense)

'''Alexandrian''' 
Referring to the reign of the Byzantine emperor Alexander who ruled from 879-913 c.e.

'''Constantinian''' 
Presumably referring to the reign of Constantine "the Great", Byzantine emperor from 306–337 c.e.

==Page 30==

'''amanuensis''' 
a scribe, or secretary who takes dictation

'''Der Spiegel''' 
A German news-weekly magazine, known for investigative journalism

'''papparazzo''' 
a kind of photo-journalist who seeks out impromptu unauthorized shots of the rich and famous, frequently in search of scandal

'''alpenstock''' 
a meral-tipped staff used by mountaineers

'''assignation''' 
a meeting between lovers; tryst

==Page 31==

==Page 32==

'''"I want to tell you . . . My head is filled with things to say."''' 
These are the first lines of the Beatles song "I Want to Tell You," written by George Harrison (1943-2001).

'''"I don't mind . . . I could wait forever."''' 
more lyrics from "I Want to Tell You," though not the very next ones

'''Brandt''' 
Another German name, most famously the nom de guerre of the future mayor of West Berlin and Kanzler of Germany, Willy Brandt, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm (1913-1922).

==Page 33==

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

'''legation''' 
a diplomatic office lower than an embassy

'''Libertine Statue''' 
I.e., the Statue of Liberty, though calling it this implies sexual promiscuity, even if she is wearing a diaper

'''apposite''' 
suitable or well adapted

'''Rub' al Khali''' 
Arabic for ''Empty Quarter,'' another name for the Arabian Desert.

'''maxillofacial''' 
pertaining to or affecting the jaws and face

'''''Candida albacans''''' 
the Latin name for a fungal infection that causes, among other disorders, thrush

'''monilial''' 
of or caused by fungus of the genus ''Monila''

'''DeBakey''' 
Michael Ellis DeBakey (1908-2008) is a world-famous heart surgeon.

'''''ad valorem''''' 
Latin: according to the value

'''nauseous''' 
Correctly used here, this word means "tending to cause nausea." If one has nausea, they are "nauseated."

==Page 34==

'''Scottsdale''' 
a suburb about 19 miles east-northeast of Phoenix

'''sufism''' 
a mystic strain of Islam

'''Pir Valayat''' 
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1916-2004) was a British-born Sufi.

'''kif''' 
Arabic for marijuana in leaf form, as opposed to hashish

'''''shari'a-halal''''' 
An Arabic term akin to the Jewish ''kosher,'' this means that food has been prepared in accordance with Islamic law.

'''Back Bay Hilton''' 
This is a real hotel, with a Web site [http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/BOSBHHH-Hilton-Boston-Back-Bay-Massachusetts/index.do here].

'''nystatin''' 
an anti-fungal drug

'''stiptics''' 
A styptic is a chemical that stops bleeding.

==Page 35==

'''necrosis''' 
a term for death of bodily tissue

==Page 36==

'''triptych''' 
a three-part art display

'''O.N.A.N.M.A.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Medical Assocation

'''actinomycete-class antibiotics''' 
antibiotics effective against Gram-positive bacteria called actinobacteria

'''CBC/PATHÉ''' 
CBC is the Canadian Broadcasting Company. PATHÉ is probably the French entertainment company Pathé Frères (Pathé Brothers).

'''''Nass''''' 
Arabic for "text"

==Page 37==

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'''double dutch''' 
a type of rope jumping where two ropes are used

==Page 38==

'''Brighton Projects''' 
presumably high-rise, low-income housing in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton,_Boston,_Massachusetts Brighton]

'''Shedd Spread''' 
a brand of [http://www.countrycrock.com/products.asp margarine]

'''wraithlike''' 
A wraith is a type of ghost.

==Page 39==

'''nocturnal emitter''' 
a boy who has a wet dream

'''anfractuous''' 
full of twists and turns

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

==Page 40==

'''petulant''' 
unreasonably irritable

==Page 41==

'''''Tosca''''' 
The title of an opera by Italian composer Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (1858-1924), which premiered in 1900.

==Page 42==

'''agoraphobic''' 
suffering from an irrational fear of going outside

'''portcullis''' 
This is "a strong grating, as of iron, made to slide along vertical grooves at the sides of a gateway of a fortified place and let down to prevent passage" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

==Page 42==

'''2010h. on 1 April''' 
The medical attaché has been watching for forty-three minutes.

==Page 42==

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

==Page 43==

'''Ambush''' 
a [http://www.100perfumes.com/forums/Perfume/m12442.htm real perfume]

'''Home with the team''' 
It's already been mentioned that Orin plays professional football. He must play for the Arizona Cardinals.

==Page 44==

'''''Blattaria implacblus''''' 
''Blattaria'' is the order that contains the several genus and species of cockroaches. The Latin phrase really means "implacable cockroach."

==Page 45==

'''fantods''' 
sudden outpourings of anger, outrage, or fear

'''Chalmette''' 
an eastern suburb of New Orleans

==Page 46==

'''kippers''' 
cured herring

'''Mrs. Avril M. T. Incandenza''' 
Hal's mother is named for the first time.

'''phylacteryish''' 
Remove "-ish" and you have the English word for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefillin tefillin].

'''imprimatur''' 
sanction or approval

==Page 48==

'''Positron-Emission Topography''' 
According to Wikipedia, this is "a nuclear medicine medical imaging technique that produces a three-dimensional image or map of functional processes in the body."

'''positrons''' 
the sub-atomic particles that are the opposite of electrons

'''Fritz Lang''' 
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (1890-1976) was a Viennese-born Austrian-American director, probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022100/ M].

'''''Moment'' magazine''' 
This is a Jewish-interest [http://www.momentmag.com/ magazine].

==Page 49==

'''Pandora's box of worms''' 
a mixed metaphor of "Pandora's box" and "can of worms," neither of which can be shut again once they're opened

==Page 49==

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

'''one-hitter''' 
a small marijuana pipe that will provide one "hit" of marijuana per packing

==Page 50==

'''Partridge, KS''' 
A town in Kansas about 55 miles north-northwest of Wichita

'''Charles Tavis''' 
I.e., C.T.

'''gizzard''' 
the digestive organ of a bird

==Page 51==

'''Bob Hope''' 
Cockney rhyming slang for "dope"

'''neo-Georgian''' 
modern-day architecture that approximates that of the Georgian period, from 1714 (accession of George I of the U.K.) to 1830 (death of George III)

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_3|Endnote 3]]
==Page 51 (cont'd)==

'''spherocubular''' 
Another neologism, presumably meaning having characteristics of both a sphere and cube -- a three-dimension "squircle".

'''Leith''' 
A homonym of Lethe, the name of the river in Greek mythology whose water, if drunk, will erase one's memory.

'''Dr. James O. Incandenza''' 
Hal's father's full name is given for the first time.

==Page 52==

'''dendriurethane''' 
This substance does not actually exist. An educated guess is that it is a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyurethane polyurethane] that comes from trees, ''dendri'' being Greek for "tree."

'''twenty meters''' 
almost twenty-two yards

'''unfenestrated''' 
having no windows

'''two meter''' 
a little over 6.5 ft

'''banshee''' 
In Irish mythology, the banshee is female spirit, who acts as an omen of death. They are known for "keening," i.e., shrieking.

'''flange''' 
a plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe

==Page 53==

'''post-latency''' 
after the latency period that Freud posited in his four-stage theory of psychosexual development in children

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_5|Endnote 5]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_5a|Endnote 5a]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_6|Endnote 6]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_7|Endnote 7]]

==Page 53 (cont'd)==

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_8|Endnote 8]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_8a|Endnote 8a]]

'''mushrooms or X''' 
psilocybin mushrooms or MDMA (called ecstasy)

==Page 53 (cont'd)==

'''Interdependent regions''' 
I.e., Canada

'''prorectors''' 
members of a management body of a university, each managing his/her specific area

'''the Show''' 
professional tennis

==Page 54==

'''Kodiak''' 
a brand of chewing tobacco

'''quail''' 
to shrink back in fear

==Page 54==

'''0020h''' 
The medical attaché has now been watching for four hours and fifty-three minutes.

==Page 54==

'''filmic''' 
having to do with motion pictures

==Page 55==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_12a|Endnote 12a]]

==Page 55 (cont'd)==

'''élan''' 
enthusiastic vigor or liveliness

'''Revere Holding''' 
a jail, obviously -- probably the jail for Revere, Mass., just south of Boston

'''P.D.''' 
public defender

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_13|Endnote 13]]

==Page 55 (cont'd)==

'''dictum''' 
a maxim or saying

==Page 56==

'''Marblehead''' 
A town in Essex County, Mass., home to a yachting resort. It's about 15 miles northeast of the city on the water.

==Page 57==

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_17|Endnote 17]]

'''''International Affairs'' and ''Interdependent Affairs''''' 
The first magazine is real; the second is not.

'''teak chiffonier''' 
a piece of furniture, one of which you can see [http://www.artfact.com/catalog/viewLot.cfm?lotCode=4xRrS2JB here]

'''Berkshires''' 
the westernmost portion of Massachusetts, a popular vacation spot

'''van Dyke''' 
a goatee

'''apocopes''' 
losses of syllables from words, particularly unstressed vowels

'''Café au Lait''' 
half coffee and half milk in a large cup, as drunk in France

'''gangrenously tight''' 
I.e., so tight as to cause gangrene, i.e., death of tissue due to lack of blood

==Page 58==

'''grippe''' 
flu

'''pre-British-takeover Québecois''' 
The British took over Quebec on September 8, 1760.

'''grackles''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passerine passernine] birds native to North America

==Page 59==

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_19|Endnote 19]]

'''intercostal''' 
pertaining to the ribs or the muscles around them

'''Montreal Tulip Fest''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival Canadian Tulip Festival] actually takes place in Ottawa, Ontario, and Gatineau, Quebec, which border each other.

'''Guillaume DuPlessis''' 
A man by this name was one of the first French Calvinist settlers on the island of St. Kitts in the 17th century.

'''250 clicks due east''' 
Clicks are kilometers. Two hundred fifty km is about 155 miles.

'''lividity''' 
the change of color in skin brought on by livor mortis, an after-death phenomenon when blood settles in the body at low points of gravity

'''comme-il-faut''' 
French: As is necessary

==Page 60==

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'''932/1864''' 
I don't know what the numbers mean, but the first is half of the second.

'''R.I.S.C.''' 
reduced instruction set computer, i.e., a computer that takes a limited set of commands

'''Primestar''' 
a direct broadcast satellite network active in the 1990s

'''D.S.S.''' 
digital satellite system

'''pixel-free''' 
smooth and not pixelated

'''baud''' 
a unit equal to bits per second; a baud rate is the number of bits per second a modem can send/receive

'''''couture''''' 
French for "fashion"

'''nanoprocessors''' 
very small processors -- smaller than microprocessors

'''chromotography''' 
Here misspelled, chromatography is "any of various techniques for the separation of complex mixtures that rely on the differential affinities of substances for a gas or liquid mobile medium and for a stationary adsorbing medium through which they pass, such as paper, gelatin, or magnesia" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'').

'''carpal neuralgia''' 
nerve pain in the bones of the hand

'''phosphenic migraine''' 
the phenomenon of seeing lights accompanying a migraine

'''gluteal hyperadiposity''' 
fat in the buttocks

'''lumbar stressae''' 
back stress

==Page 60==

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

'''Jim Troeltsch''' 
The most famous person with this surname is [http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/WeirdWildWeb/courses/mwt/dictionary/mwt_themes_705_troeltsch.htm Ernst Troeltsch] (1865-1923), a German Protestant theologian and philosopher of religion and history.

'''Narberth PA''' 
a suburb of Philadelphia, on the famous Main Line from Philadelphia to Lancaster

'''meatus''' 
a natural bodily opening

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_21|Endnote 21]]

'''OTC''' 
over the counter

'''expectorants''' 
drugs that induce phlegm-producing coughing

'''pertussives''' 
cough suppressants

'''megaspansules''' 
a combination of mega + span + capsule, these would be large, time-released capsules

==Endnote 22==

'''mucoid dessicators''' 
drugs that dry up phlegm

==Page 60 (cont'd)==

'''Rader''' 
If the name is pronounced with a "long a," as in the Oakland football team, a famous person with this last name was Erich Johann Albert Raeder (1876-1960), a World War II-era German grand admiral, sentenced to life at Nuremberg but served only nine years.

==Page 61==

'''nebulizer''' 
something that turns a liquid into a spray

'''fugue-state''' 
According to Wikipedia, a fugue state is "a state of mind characterized by abandonment of personal identity, along with the memories, personality and other identifying characteristics of individuality."

'''prolix''' 
extended to a great, unneedy length

==Page 61==

'''rhinoviri''' 
Wallace's plural for rhinovirus, one of dozens of variations of the virus that causes the common cold, also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus rhinoviruses]

'''mucosa''' 
An absorptive/secretive tissue layer in the body; here, in Troeltsch's throat or nose

==Page 62==

'''matte''' 
as an adjective, having a dull or lusterless finish

'''snuff-white''' 
Snuff is grayish to yellowish brown in color; snuff-white must be that color, but lighter.

'''reglets''' 
narrow, flat moldings

'''rheostats''' 
continuously variable electronic resistors

'''shank''' 
part of the leg between the knee and ankle

==Page 63==

'''As of [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]''' 
Which is to say, as of 2009

'''pre-Method actor''' 
He was an actor before the dawn of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_acting the Method].

'''dipsomaniacal''' 
Characterized by an uncontrollable urge to consume alcohol, describing James O. Incandenza's father

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_23|Endnote 23]]

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'''caries''' 
tooth decay, leading to a cavity (always used in plural form)

==Page 28==

'''continentally ranked''' 
ranking of players in North America, see, e.g., [[Pages_3-27#onancaa|O.N.A.N.C.A.A.]]

==Page 29==

'''moniker''' 
nickname

'''apprised''' 
informed

'''pejorative''' 
derogatory, disparaging (Hal indicating that the phrase "my reputation preceded me" is generally used in a pejorative sense)

'''Alexandrian''' 
Referring to the reign of the Byzantine emperor Alexander who ruled from 879-913 c.e.

'''Constantinian''' 
Presumably referring to the reign of Constantine "the Great", Byzantine emperor from 306–337 c.e.

==Page 30==

'''amanuensis''' 
a scribe, or secretary who takes dictation

'''Der Spiegel''' 
A German news-weekly magazine, known for investigative journalism

'''papparazzo''' 
a kind of photo-journalist who seeks out impromptu unauthorized shots of the rich and famous, frequently in search of scandal

'''alpenstock'''
a meral-tipped staff used by mountaineers

'''assignation'''
a meeting between lovers; tryst

==Page 31==

==Page 32==

'''"I want to tell you . . . My head is filled with things to say."''' 
These are the first lines of the Beatles song "I Want to Tell You," written by George Harrison (1943-2001).

'''"I don't mind . . . I could wait forever."''' 
more lyrics from "I Want to Tell You," though not the very next ones

'''Brandt''' 
Another German name, most famously the nom de guerre of the future mayor of West Berlin and Kanzler of Germany, Willy Brandt, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm (1913-1922).

==Page 33==

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

'''legation''' 
a diplomatic office lower than an embassy

'''Libertine Statue''' 
I.e., the Statue of Liberty, though calling it this implies sexual promiscuity, even if she is wearing a diaper

'''apposite''' 
suitable or well adapted

'''Rub' al Khali''' 
Arabic for ''Empty Quarter,'' another name for the Arabian Desert.

'''maxillofacial''' 
pertaining to or affecting the jaws and face

'''''Candida albacans''''' 
the Latin name for a fungal infection that causes, among other disorders, thrush

'''monilial''' 
of or caused by fungus of the genus ''Monila''

'''DeBakey''' 
Michael Ellis DeBakey (1908-2008) is a world-famous heart surgeon.

'''''ad valorem''''' 
Latin: according to the value

'''nauseous''' 
Correctly used here, this word means "tending to cause nausea." If one has nausea, they are "nauseated."

==Page 34==

'''Scottsdale''' 
a suburb about 19 miles east-northeast of Phoenix

'''sufism''' 
a mystic strain of Islam

'''Pir Valayat''' 
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1916-2004) was a British-born Sufi.

'''kif''' 
Arabic for marijuana in leaf form, as opposed to hashish

'''''shari'a-halal''''' 
An Arabic term akin to the Jewish ''kosher,'' this means that food has been prepared in accordance with Islamic law.

'''Back Bay Hilton''' 
This is a real hotel, with a Web site [http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/BOSBHHH-Hilton-Boston-Back-Bay-Massachusetts/index.do here].

'''nystatin''' 
an anti-fungal drug

'''stiptics''' 
A styptic is a chemical that stops bleeding.

==Page 35==

'''necrosis''' 
a term for death of bodily tissue

==Page 36==

'''triptych''' 
a three-part art display

'''O.N.A.N.M.A.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Medical Assocation

'''actinomycete-class antibiotics''' 
antibiotics effective against Gram-positive bacteria called actinobacteria

'''CBC/PATHÉ''' 
CBC is the Canadian Broadcasting Company. PATHÉ is probably the French entertainment company Pathé Frères (Pathé Brothers).

'''''Nass''''' 
Arabic for "text"

==Page 37==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar]]

'''double dutch''' 
a type of rope jumping where two ropes are used

==Page 38==

'''Brighton Projects''' 
presumably high-rise, low-income housing in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton,_Boston,_Massachusetts Brighton]

'''Shedd Spread''' 
a brand of [http://www.countrycrock.com/products.asp margarine]

'''wraithlike''' 
A wraith is a type of ghost.

==Page 39==

'''nocturnal emitter''' 
a boy who has a wet dream

'''anfractuous''' 
full of twists and turns

==Page 39==

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

==Page 40==

'''petulant''' 
unreasonably irritable

==Page 41==

'''''Tosca''''' 
The title of an opera by Italian composer Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (1858-1924), which premiered in 1900.

==Page 42==

'''agoraphobic''' 
suffering from an irrational fear of going outside

'''portcullis''' 
This is "a strong grating, as of iron, made to slide along vertical grooves at the sides of a gateway of a fortified place and let down to prevent passage" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

==Page 42==

'''2010h. on 1 April''' 
The medical attaché has been watching for forty-three minutes.

==Page 42==

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

==Page 43==

'''Ambush''' 
a [http://www.100perfumes.com/forums/Perfume/m12442.htm real perfume]

'''Home with the team''' 
It's already been mentioned that Orin plays professional football. He must play for the Arizona Cardinals.

==Page 44==

'''''Blattaria implacblus''''' 
''Blattaria'' is the order that contains the several genus and species of cockroaches. The Latin phrase really means "implacable cockroach."

==Page 45==

'''fantods''' 
sudden outpourings of anger, outrage, or fear

'''Chalmette''' 
an eastern suburb of New Orleans

==Page 46==

'''kippers''' 
cured herring

'''Mrs. Avril M. T. Incandenza''' 
Hal's mother is named for the first time.

'''phylacteryish''' 
Remove "-ish" and you have the English word for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefillin tefillin].

'''imprimatur''' 
sanction or approval

==Page 48==

'''Positron-Emission Topography''' 
According to Wikipedia, this is "a nuclear medicine medical imaging technique that produces a three-dimensional image or map of functional processes in the body."

'''positrons''' 
the sub-atomic particles that are the opposite of electrons

'''Fritz Lang''' 
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (1890-1976) was a Viennese-born Austrian-American director, probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022100/ M].

'''''Moment'' magazine''' 
This is a Jewish-interest [http://www.momentmag.com/ magazine].

==Page 49==

'''Pandora's box of worms''' 
a mixed metaphor of "Pandora's box" and "can of worms," neither of which can be shut again once they're opened

==Page 49==

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

'''one-hitter''' 
a small marijuana pipe that will provide one "hit" of marijuana per packing

==Page 50==

'''Partridge, KS''' 
A town in Kansas about 55 miles north-northwest of Wichita

'''Charles Tavis''' 
I.e., C.T.

'''gizzard''' 
the digestive organ of a bird

==Page 51==

'''Bob Hope''' 
Cockney rhyming slang for "dope"

'''neo-Georgian''' 
modern-day architecture that approximates that of the Georgian period, from 1714 (accession of George I of the U.K.) to 1830 (death of George III)

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_3|Endnote 3]]
==Page 51 (cont'd)==

'''spherocubular''' 
Another neologism, presumably meaning having characteristics of both a sphere and cube -- a three-dimension "squircle".

'''Leith''' 
A homonym of Lethe, the name of the river in Greek mythology whose water, if drunk, will erase one's memory.

'''Dr. James O. Incandenza''' 
Hal's father's full name is given for the first time.

==Page 52==

'''dendriurethane''' 
This substance does not actually exist. An educated guess is that it is a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyurethane polyurethane] that comes from trees, ''dendri'' being Greek for "tree."

'''twenty meters''' 
almost twenty-two yards

'''unfenestrated''' 
having no windows

'''two meter''' 
a little over 6.5 ft

'''banshee''' 
In Irish mythology, the banshee is female spirit, who acts as an omen of death. They are known for "keening," i.e., shrieking.

'''flange''' 
a plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe

==Page 53==

'''post-latency''' 
after the latency period that Freud posited in his four-stage theory of psychosexual development in children

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_5|Endnote 5]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_5a|Endnote 5a]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_6|Endnote 6]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_7|Endnote 7]]

==Page 53 (cont'd)==

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_8|Endnote 8]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_8a|Endnote 8a]]

'''mushrooms or X''' 
psilocybin mushrooms or MDMA (called ecstasy)

==Page 53 (cont'd)==

'''Interdependent regions''' 
I.e., Canada

'''prorectors''' 
members of a management body of a university, each managing his/her specific area

'''the Show''' 
professional tennis

==Page 54==

'''Kodiak''' 
a brand of chewing tobacco

'''quail''' 
to shrink back in fear

==Page 54==

'''0020h''' 
The medical attaché has now been watching for four hours and fifty-three minutes.

==Page 54==

'''filmic''' 
having to do with motion pictures

==Page 55==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_12a|Endnote 12a]]

==Page 55 (cont'd)==

'''élan''' 
enthusiastic vigor or liveliness

'''Revere Holding''' 
a jail, obviously -- probably the jail for Revere, Mass., just south of Boston

'''P.D.''' 
public defender

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'''dictum''' 
a maxim or saying

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'''Marblehead''' 
A town in Essex County, Mass., home to a yachting resort. It's about 15 miles northeast of the city on the water.

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[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_17|Endnote 17]]

'''''International Affairs'' and ''Interdependent Affairs''''' 
The first magazine is real; the second is not.

'''teak chiffonier''' 
a piece of furniture, one of which you can see [http://www.artfact.com/catalog/viewLot.cfm?lotCode=4xRrS2JB here]

'''Berkshires''' 
the westernmost portion of Massachusetts, a popular vacation spot

'''van Dyke''' 
a goatee

'''apocopes''' 
losses of syllables from words, particularly unstressed vowels

'''Café au Lait''' 
half coffee and half milk in a large cup, as drunk in France

'''gangrenously tight''' 
I.e., so tight as to cause gangrene, i.e., death of tissue due to lack of blood

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'''grippe''' 
flu

'''pre-British-takeover Québecois''' 
The British took over Quebec on September 8, 1760.

'''grackles''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passerine passernine] birds native to North America

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[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_19|Endnote 19]]

'''intercostal''' 
pertaining to the ribs or the muscles around them

'''Montreal Tulip Fest''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival Canadian Tulip Festival] actually takes place in Ottawa, Ontario, and Gatineau, Quebec, which border each other.

'''Guillaume DuPlessis''' 
A man by this name was one of the first French Calvinist settlers on the island of St. Kitts in the 17th century.

'''250 clicks due east''' 
Clicks are kilometers. Two hundred fifty km is about 155 miles.

'''lividity''' 
the change of color in skin brought on by livor mortis, an after-death phenomenon when blood settles in the body at low points of gravity

'''comme-il-faut''' 
French: As is necessary

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'''932/1864''' 
I don't know what the numbers mean, but the first is half of the second.

'''R.I.S.C.''' 
reduced instruction set computer, i.e., a computer that takes a limited set of commands

'''Primestar''' 
a direct broadcast satellite network active in the 1990s

'''D.S.S.''' 
digital satellite system

'''pixel-free''' 
smooth and not pixelated

'''baud''' 
a unit equal to bits per second; a baud rate is the number of bits per second a modem can send/receive

'''''couture''''' 
French for "fashion"

'''nanoprocessors''' 
very small processors -- smaller than microprocessors

'''chromotography''' 
Here misspelled, chromatography is "any of various techniques for the separation of complex mixtures that rely on the differential affinities of substances for a gas or liquid mobile medium and for a stationary adsorbing medium through which they pass, such as paper, gelatin, or magnesia" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'').

'''carpal neuralgia''' 
nerve pain in the bones of the hand

'''phosphenic migraine''' 
the phenomenon of seeing lights accompanying a migraine

'''gluteal hyperadiposity''' 
fat in the buttocks

'''lumbar stressae''' 
back stress

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

'''Jim Troeltsch''' 
The most famous person with this surname is [http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/WeirdWildWeb/courses/mwt/dictionary/mwt_themes_705_troeltsch.htm Ernst Troeltsch] (1865-1923), a German Protestant theologian and philosopher of religion and history.

'''Narberth PA''' 
a suburb of Philadelphia, on the famous Main Line from Philadelphia to Lancaster

'''meatus''' 
a natural bodily opening

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_21|Endnote 21]]

'''OTC''' 
over the counter

'''expectorants''' 
drugs that induce phlegm-producing coughing

'''pertussives''' 
cough suppressants

'''megaspansules''' 
a combination of mega + span + capsule, these would be large, time-released capsules

==Endnote 22==

'''mucoid dessicators''' 
drugs that dry up phlegm

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'''Rader''' 
If the name is pronounced with a "long a," as in the Oakland football team, a famous person with this last name was Erich Johann Albert Raeder (1876-1960), a World War II-era German grand admiral, sentenced to life at Nuremberg but served only nine years.

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'''nebulizer''' 
something that turns a liquid into a spray

'''fugue-state''' 
According to Wikipedia, a fugue state is "a state of mind characterized by abandonment of personal identity, along with the memories, personality and other identifying characteristics of individuality."

'''prolix''' 
extended to a great, unneedy length

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'''rhinoviri''' 
Wallace's plural for rhinovirus, one of dozens of variations of the virus that causes the common cold, also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus rhinoviruses]

'''mucosa''' 
An absorptive/secretive tissue layer in the body; here, in Troeltsch's throat or nose

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'''matte''' 
as an adjective, having a dull or lusterless finish

'''snuff-white''' 
Snuff is grayish to yellowish brown in color; snuff-white must be that color, but lighter.

'''reglets''' 
narrow, flat moldings

'''rheostats''' 
continuously variable electronic resistors

'''shank''' 
part of the leg between the knee and ankle

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'''As of [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]''' 
Which is to say, as of 2009

'''pre-Method actor''' 
He was an actor before the dawn of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_acting the Method].

'''dipsomaniacal''' 
Characterized by an uncontrollable urge to consume alcohol, describing James O. Incandenza's father

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'''Dali, Salvador''' 
185; Spanish surrealist painter

'''Darkstar''' 
''See'' [[M#McNair|McNair, Stokely]]

'''Day, Geoffrey''' 
209; Ennet House resident; "red-wine-and-Quaalude man who [...] manned the helm of a Scholarly Journal" 272; fn.90; "closet poofta" 561; the dark, billowing horror triggered by violin notes and vibrating window-glass, 649; attended Brown University and graduated''magna cum laude'', 650; telling Gately about his brother who "had enormous red loose lips and wore eyeglasses so thick his eyes had looked like an ant's eyes" w/phobic fear of leaves, 828; article on A.F.R. that Struck is reading (by G.T. Day), fn.304/1056;

'''DeBakey''' 
33; "of maxillofacial yeast"

'''D.E.C.''' 
273; TP viewer

'''''Decade Magazine''''' 
284; ran a short interest-piece on Orin

'''''Deep Throat''''' 
955; a B.S. 70s porno flick

'''Delco incident''' 
512;

'''Deleuze, M. Gilles''' 
792; "posthumous''Incest and the Life of Death in Capitalist Entertainment''

'''deLint, Aubrey F.''' 
3; ETA prorector; 306; described, 657;

'''Delphina, Lady''' 
131; dope dealer "down by the Empire" in Boston; selling to Joelle v.D., 225; 300;

'''DeNiro, Robert''' 
944; American film actor

'''De Palma''' 
185; (Brian) American film director

'''Department of Social Services (D.S.S.)''' 
377-78;

'''depression''' 
Gompert's clinical, 69; unipolars ("tormented by the conviction that no one lese could hear or understand them"), 75; 692; anhedonia, or simple melancholy, afflicting goal-oriented people, 692-93; clinical, 695; psychotic, 695-96; a "trapped person [who] reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise" 696; beyond human aid, 697; [[Depression|DISCUSSION]]

'''Deren, Maya''' 
185; at Notkin party; 228

'''Desai, Dick''' 
491; in Data Production, B.S.S.

'''Desert Beat Theater Project''' 
63; J. Incandenza, Sr.'s interest

'''Desjardins''' 
725; A.F.R. volunteer who viewed the Entertainment

'''DesMonts''' 
975; colleague of Bobby C.'s; DesMontes [sp] "had no realy loyalties or membership in any community" fn.369/1078

'''Dickinson, Emily''' 
fn. 110/1005

'''Diehl, Gavin''' 
177; resident at Ennet House; 208; 363; 596;

'''Diggs, Mrs.''' 
76; co-worker of K. Gompert

'''Dimock Detox''' 
272; where Geoffrey Day came from

'''Dingley''' 
564; "that skittery kid" at Ennet House

'''Disease''' 
"your personal will is the web your Disease sits and spins in" 357;

'''Dixon, Franklin W.''' 
811; name used for high-interest account of Ewell's Money-Stealers' Club

'''DMZ''' 
170; [Link to Oneirine] powerful psychedelic described as "''temporally''-cerebral and almost ontological", aka''Madame Psychosis ''; 211-15; "envision acid that has itself dropped acid" 214; "time-tested entrepôt" 216; traded to Antitois by old hippy (Sixties Bob?) for "antique blue lava-lamp and a lavender-tinged apothecary's mirror" 481-82; Pemulis researching, 785; fn.8/984; per Pemulis: "doesn't show up on a G.C./M.S. [...] Struck tracked this down off an obscure Digestive-Flora footnote. It's the fitviavi-mold base. If the stuff shows up at all it shows as a slight case of imbalanced yeast" fn.321/1064; "original intent was to induce what they called quote transcendent experiences in [...] chronic alcoholics in the like 1960s at Verdun Protestant Hospital in Montreal" fn.321/1064;

'''Doocey, Tommy''' 
18 (not named); "kept several large snakes" 39; 75; his hairlip, 179; 584;

'''dope''' 
acid trails, 43; one-hitter, 49; at E.T.A., 53; "oral narcotis addicts tend to operate on an extremely rigid physical schedule of need and satisfaction" 57; Seldane, 60; "''Amanita Muscaria'', a.k.a. the fly agaric mushroom" 66; Parnate, 70; Thousand-Meter Stare, 76; "involuted marijuana-type thinking" 136; Talwin, 210; Ecstacy, 230; marijuana addiction, 503; cocaine hydrolysis' effect on various characters in''IJ'', fn.232/1037; "Marijuana Thinking" fn.269/1048; "operating a pharmaceutical company without a license" 699; "humboldt County hydroponic marijuana" 804; Tenuate, fn.3/983; P.S. (Pulmonary Sloth), fn.6/984;

'''double-S''' 
A.F.R.'s standard, "a double sinuous s-shaped line across the traditional''fleur-de-lis'' motif of Quebecois Separatism, fn.304/1056; Pemulis: "revere the double S. Leap like a knight of faith into the arms of Peano, Leibniz, Hilbert, L'Hôpital. You will be lifted up. Fourier, Gauss, LaPlace, Rickey. Borne up. Never let fall. Wiener, Reimann, Frege, Green" fn.324/1072;

'''Doucette, Anton ("The Boogerman")''' 
fn.147/1029; ETA student; confessing to Lyle re booger-like mole, 390; clinically depressed, 567;

'''dreams-''' 
"talent's unconscious exercise [...] a long waking dream of pure play" 173; "expect some rough dreams [...] Keep a flashlight by your bed" 174-75; "This is also how not to fear sleep or dreams" 175; "dreamy, dreaming music that had the rhythm of long things swinging" 183; "nightmares where you prepare immaculately and [...] the exam questions are in Hindi" 253; "I kept dreaming of a face in the floor" 254; Dream Duty, 272;

'''Dretske, Fred''' 
70; (pioneer in the field of cognitive science, Philosophy Dept., Duke Univ.)

'''duBois''' 
marijuana cigarette; ("doobie")

'''Duffy, Maura''' 
973; childhood schoolmate of Gately's

'''Dukakis, Michael''' 
576; former Governor of Mass., & US presidential candidate who lost to George H. W. Bush in 1988.

'''Dunkel, Rik''' 
381; ETA prorector; 457;

'''DuPlessis, Guillaume''' 
30; "the most infamous anti-O.N.A.N. organizer north of the Great Concavity" 58; Gately's strangulation victim (59); "victim's prior involvement with the widow of the ''auteur'' " 91; Perec was "stenographer-cum-''jeune-fille-de-Vendredi'' ["Girl Friday"] to, 92; former ass't. coordinator of the pan-Canadian Resistance (92); "once studies under radical Edmonton Jesuits" 420; "late regional patron" of the Antitoi brothers, 480; "of the Gaspé Peninsula" 480; 722;

'''Duquette''' 
233; fn.145/1027; film critic at M.I.T.

'''Dworkinite Female Objectification Prevention and Protest Phalanx''' 
929; Brown Univ. feminist protesters at Yale/Brown basketball game Eighties Bill bets on

'''Dymphna''' 
17; 9-year-old soft-skulled, blind tennis kid from "Nowheresburg, Iowa" who will be enrolling at ETA "next term"; "little blind Illinois kid Thorp thought so well of" 246;''Moment'' article on, 247; 518; 567;

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'''caries''' 
tooth decay, leading to a cavity (always used in plural form)

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'''continentally ranked''' 
ranking of players in North America, see, e.g., [[Pages_3-27#onancaa|O.N.A.N.C.A.A.]]

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'''moniker''' 
nickname

'''apprised''' 
informed

'''pejorative''' 
derogatory, disparaging (Hal indicating that the phrase "my reputation preceded me" is generally used in a pejorative sense)

'''Alexandrian''' 
Referring to the reign of the Byzantine emperor Alexander who ruled from 879-913 c.e.

'''Constantinian''' 
Presumably referring to the reign of Constantine "the Great", Byzantine emperor from 306–337 c.e.

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'''"I want to tell you . . . My head is filled with things to say."''' 
These are the first lines of the Beatles song "I Want to Tell You," written by George Harrison (1943-2001).

'''"I don't mind . . . I could wait forever."''' 
more lyrics from "I Want to Tell You," though not the very next ones

'''Brandt''' 
Another German name, most famously the nom de guerre of the future mayor of West Berlin and Kanzler of Germany, Willy Brandt, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm (1913-1922).

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

'''legation''' 
a diplomatic office lower than an embassy

'''Libertine Statue''' 
I.e., the Statue of Liberty, though calling it this implies sexual promiscuity, even if she is wearing a diaper

'''apposite''' 
suitable or well adapted

'''Rub' al Khali''' 
Arabic for ''Empty Quarter,'' another name for the Arabian Desert.

'''maxillofacial''' 
pertaining to or affecting the jaws and face

'''''Candida albacans''''' 
the Latin name for a fungal infection that causes, among other disorders, thrush

'''monilial''' 
of or caused by fungus of the genus ''Monila''

'''DeBakey''' 
Michael Ellis DeBakey (1908-2008) is a world-famous heart surgeon.

'''''ad valorem''''' 
Latin: according to the value

'''nauseous''' 
Correctly used here, this word means "tending to cause nausea." If one has nausea, they are "nauseated."

==Page 34==

'''Scottsdale''' 
a suburb about 19 miles east-northeast of Phoenix

'''sufism''' 
a mystic strain of Islam

'''Pir Valayat''' 
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1916-2004) was a British-born Sufi.

'''kif''' 
Arabic for marijuana in leaf form, as opposed to hashish

'''''shari'a-halal''''' 
An Arabic term akin to the Jewish ''kosher,'' this means that food has been prepared in accordance with Islamic law.

'''Back Bay Hilton''' 
This is a real hotel, with a Web site [http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/BOSBHHH-Hilton-Boston-Back-Bay-Massachusetts/index.do here].

'''nystatin''' 
an anti-fungal drug

'''stiptics''' 
A styptic is a chemical that stops bleeding.

==Page 35==

'''necrosis''' 
a term for death of bodily tissue

==Page 36==

'''triptych''' 
a three-part art display

'''O.N.A.N.M.A.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Medical Assocation

'''actinomycete-class antibiotics''' 
antibiotics effective against Gram-positive bacteria called actinobacteria

'''CBC/PATHÉ''' 
CBC is the Canadian Broadcasting Company. PATHÉ is probably the French entertainment company Pathé Frères (Pathé Brothers).

'''''Nass''''' 
Arabic for "text"

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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar]]

'''double dutch''' 
a type of rope jumping where two ropes are used

==Page 38==

'''Brighton Projects''' 
presumably high-rise, low-income housing in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton,_Boston,_Massachusetts Brighton]

'''Shedd Spread''' 
a brand of [http://www.countrycrock.com/products.asp margarine]

'''wraithlike''' 
A wraith is a type of ghost.

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'''nocturnal emitter''' 
a boy who has a wet dream

'''anfractuous''' 
full of twists and turns

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

==Page 40==

'''petulant''' 
unreasonably irritable

==Page 41==

'''''Tosca''''' 
The title of an opera by Italian composer Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (1858-1924), which premiered in 1900.

==Page 42==

'''agoraphobic''' 
suffering from an irrational fear of going outside

'''portcullis''' 
This is "a strong grating, as of iron, made to slide along vertical grooves at the sides of a gateway of a fortified place and let down to prevent passage" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

==Page 42==

'''2010h. on 1 April''' 
The medical attaché has been watching for forty-three minutes.

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

==Page 43==

'''Ambush''' 
a [http://www.100perfumes.com/forums/Perfume/m12442.htm real perfume]

'''Home with the team''' 
It's already been mentioned that Orin plays professional football. He must play for the Arizona Cardinals.

==Page 44==

'''''Blattaria implacblus''''' 
''Blattaria'' is the order that contains the several genus and species of cockroaches. The Latin phrase really means "implacable cockroach."

==Page 45==

'''fantods''' 
sudden outpourings of anger, outrage, or fear

'''Chalmette''' 
an eastern suburb of New Orleans

==Page 46==

'''kippers''' 
cured herring

'''Mrs. Avril M. T. Incandenza''' 
Hal's mother is named for the first time.

'''phylacteryish''' 
Remove "-ish" and you have the English word for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefillin tefillin].

'''imprimatur''' 
sanction or approval

==Page 48==

'''Positron-Emission Topography''' 
According to Wikipedia, this is "a nuclear medicine medical imaging technique that produces a three-dimensional image or map of functional processes in the body."

'''positrons''' 
the sub-atomic particles that are the opposite of electrons

'''Fritz Lang''' 
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (1890-1976) was a Viennese-born Austrian-American director, probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022100/ M].

'''''Moment'' magazine''' 
This is a Jewish-interest [http://www.momentmag.com/ magazine].

==Page 49==

'''Pandora's box of worms''' 
a mixed metaphor of "Pandora's box" and "can of worms," neither of which can be shut again once they're opened

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

'''one-hitter''' 
a small marijuana pipe that will provide one "hit" of marijuana per packing

==Page 50==

'''Partridge, KS''' 
A town in Kansas about 55 miles north-northwest of Wichita

'''Charles Tavis''' 
I.e., C.T.

'''gizzard''' 
the digestive organ of a bird

==Page 51==

'''Bob Hope''' 
Cockney rhyming slang for "dope"

'''neo-Georgian''' 
modern-day architecture that approximates that of the Georgian period, from 1714 (accession of George I of the U.K.) to 1830 (death of George III)

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'''spherocubular''' 
Another neologism, presumably meaning having characteristics of both a sphere and cube -- a three-dimension "squircle".

'''Leith''' 
A homonym of Lethe, the name of the river in Greek mythology whose water, if drunk, will erase one's memory.

'''Dr. James O. Incandenza''' 
Hal's father's full name is given for the first time.

==Page 52==

'''dendriurethane''' 
This substance does not actually exist. An educated guess is that it is a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyurethane polyurethane] that comes from trees, ''dendri'' being Greek for "tree."

'''twenty meters''' 
almost twenty-two yards

'''unfenestrated''' 
having no windows

'''two meter''' 
a little over 6.5 ft

'''banshee''' 
In Irish mythology, the banshee is female spirit, who acts as an omen of death. They are known for "keening," i.e., shrieking.

'''flange''' 
a plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe

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'''post-latency''' 
after the latency period that Freud posited in his four-stage theory of psychosexual development in children

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_5|Endnote 5]]

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[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_6|Endnote 6]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_7|Endnote 7]]

==Page 53 (cont'd)==

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_8|Endnote 8]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_8a|Endnote 8a]]

'''mushrooms or X''' 
psilocybin mushrooms or MDMA (called ecstasy)

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'''Interdependent regions''' 
I.e., Canada

'''prorectors''' 
members of a management body of a university, each managing his/her specific area

'''the Show''' 
professional tennis

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'''Kodiak''' 
a brand of chewing tobacco

'''quail''' 
to shrink back in fear

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'''0020h''' 
The medical attaché has now been watching for four hours and fifty-three minutes.

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'''filmic''' 
having to do with motion pictures

==Page 55==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_12a|Endnote 12a]]

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'''élan''' 
enthusiastic vigor or liveliness

'''Revere Holding''' 
a jail, obviously -- probably the jail for Revere, Mass., just south of Boston

'''P.D.''' 
public defender

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_13|Endnote 13]]

==Page 55 (cont'd)==

'''dictum''' 
a maxim or saying

==Page 56==

'''Marblehead''' 
A town in Essex County, Mass., home to a yachting resort. It's about 15 miles northeast of the city on the water.

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'''''International Affairs'' and ''Interdependent Affairs''''' 
The first magazine is real; the second is not.

'''teak chiffonier''' 
a piece of furniture, one of which you can see [http://www.artfact.com/catalog/viewLot.cfm?lotCode=4xRrS2JB here]

'''Berkshires''' 
the westernmost portion of Massachusetts, a popular vacation spot

'''van Dyke''' 
a goatee

'''apocopes''' 
losses of syllables from words, particularly unstressed vowels

'''Café au Lait''' 
half coffee and half milk in a large cup, as drunk in France

'''gangrenously tight''' 
I.e., so tight as to cause gangrene, i.e., death of tissue due to lack of blood

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'''grippe''' 
flu

'''pre-British-takeover Québecois''' 
The British took over Quebec on September 8, 1760.

'''grackles''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passerine passernine] birds native to North America

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[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_19|Endnote 19]]

'''intercostal''' 
pertaining to the ribs or the muscles around them

'''Montreal Tulip Fest''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival Canadian Tulip Festival] actually takes place in Ottawa, Ontario, and Gatineau, Quebec, which border each other.

'''Guillaume DuPlessis''' 
A man by this name was one of the first French Calvinist settlers on the island of St. Kitts in the 17th century.

'''250 clicks due east''' 
Clicks are kilometers. Two hundred fifty km is about 155 miles.

'''lividity''' 
the change of color in skin brought on by livor mortis, an after-death phenomenon when blood settles in the body at low points of gravity

'''comme-il-faut''' 
French: As is necessary

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'''932/1864''' 
I don't know what the numbers mean, but the first is half of the second.

'''R.I.S.C.''' 
reduced instruction set computer, i.e., a computer that takes a limited set of commands

'''Primestar''' 
a direct broadcast satellite network active in the 1990s

'''D.S.S.''' 
digital satellite system

'''pixel-free''' 
smooth and not pixelated

'''baud''' 
a unit equal to bits per second; a baud rate is the number of bits per second a modem can send/receive

'''''couture''''' 
French for "fashion"

'''nanoprocessors''' 
very small processors -- smaller than microprocessors

'''chromotography''' 
Here misspelled, chromatography is "any of various techniques for the separation of complex mixtures that rely on the differential affinities of substances for a gas or liquid mobile medium and for a stationary adsorbing medium through which they pass, such as paper, gelatin, or magnesia" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'').

'''carpal neuralgia''' 
nerve pain in the bones of the hand

'''phosphenic migraine''' 
the phenomenon of seeing lights accompanying a migraine

'''gluteal hyperadiposity''' 
fat in the buttocks

'''lumbar stressae''' 
back stress

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

'''Jim Troeltsch''' 
The most famous person with this surname is [http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/WeirdWildWeb/courses/mwt/dictionary/mwt_themes_705_troeltsch.htm Ernst Troeltsch] (1865-1923), a German Protestant theologian and philosopher of religion and history.

'''Narberth PA''' 
a suburb of Philadelphia, on the famous Main Line from Philadelphia to Lancaster

'''meatus''' 
a natural bodily opening

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_21|Endnote 21]]

'''OTC''' 
over the counter

'''expectorants''' 
drugs that induce phlegm-producing coughing

'''pertussives''' 
cough suppressants

'''megaspansules''' 
a combination of mega + span + capsule, these would be large, time-released capsules

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'''mucoid dessicators''' 
drugs that dry up phlegm

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'''Rader''' 
If the name is pronounced with a "long a," as in the Oakland football team, a famous person with this last name was Erich Johann Albert Raeder (1876-1960), a World War II-era German grand admiral, sentenced to life at Nuremberg but served only nine years.

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'''nebulizer''' 
something that turns a liquid into a spray

'''fugue-state''' 
According to Wikipedia, a fugue state is "a state of mind characterized by abandonment of personal identity, along with the memories, personality and other identifying characteristics of individuality."

'''prolix''' 
extended to a great, unneedy length

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'''rhinoviri''' 
Wallace's plural for rhinovirus, one of dozens of variations of the virus that causes the common cold, also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus rhinoviruses]

'''mucosa''' 
An absorptive/secretive tissue layer in the body; here, in Troeltsch's throat or nose

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'''matte''' 
as an adjective, having a dull or lusterless finish

'''snuff-white''' 
Snuff is grayish to yellowish brown in color; snuff-white must be that color, but lighter.

'''reglets''' 
narrow, flat moldings

'''rheostats''' 
continuously variable electronic resistors

'''shank''' 
part of the leg between the knee and ankle

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'''As of [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]''' 
Which is to say, as of 2009

'''pre-Method actor''' 
He was an actor before the dawn of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_acting the Method].

'''dipsomaniacal''' 
Characterized by an uncontrollable urge to consume alcohol, describing James O. Incandenza's father

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'''caries''' 
tooth decay, leading to a cavity (always used in plural form)

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'''continentally ranked''' 
ranking of players in North America, see, e.g., [[Pages_3-27#onancaa|O.N.A.N.C.A.A.]]

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'''moniker''' 
nickname

'''apprised''' 
informed

'''pejorative''' 
derogatory, disparaging (Hal indicating that the phrase "my reputation preceded me" is generally used in a pejorative sense)

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'''"I want to tell you . . . My head is filled with things to say."''' 
These are the first lines of the Beatles song "I Want to Tell You," written by George Harrison (1943-2001).

'''"I don't mind . . . I could wait forever."''' 
more lyrics from "I Want to Tell You," though not the very next ones

'''Brandt''' 
Another German name, most famously the nom de guerre of the future mayor of West Berlin and Kanzler of Germany, Willy Brandt, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm (1913-1922).

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'''legation''' 
a diplomatic office lower than an embassy

'''Libertine Statue''' 
I.e., the Statue of Liberty, though calling it this implies sexual promiscuity, even if she is wearing a diaper

'''apposite''' 
suitable or well adapted

'''Rub' al Khali''' 
Arabic for ''Empty Quarter,'' another name for the Arabian Desert.

'''maxillofacial''' 
pertaining to or affecting the jaws and face

'''''Candida albacans''''' 
the Latin name for a fungal infection that causes, among other disorders, thrush

'''monilial''' 
of or caused by fungus of the genus ''Monila''

'''DeBakey''' 
Michael Ellis DeBakey (1908-2008) is a world-famous heart surgeon.

'''''ad valorem''''' 
Latin: according to the value

'''nauseous''' 
Correctly used here, this word means "tending to cause nausea." If one has nausea, they are "nauseated."

==Page 34==

'''Scottsdale''' 
a suburb about 19 miles east-northeast of Phoenix

'''sufism''' 
a mystic strain of Islam

'''Pir Valayat''' 
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1916-2004) was a British-born Sufi.

'''kif''' 
Arabic for marijuana in leaf form, as opposed to hashish

'''''shari'a-halal''''' 
An Arabic term akin to the Jewish ''kosher,'' this means that food has been prepared in accordance with Islamic law.

'''Back Bay Hilton''' 
This is a real hotel, with a Web site [http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/BOSBHHH-Hilton-Boston-Back-Bay-Massachusetts/index.do here].

'''nystatin''' 
an anti-fungal drug

'''stiptics''' 
A styptic is a chemical that stops bleeding.

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'''necrosis''' 
a term for death of bodily tissue

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'''triptych''' 
a three-part art display

'''O.N.A.N.M.A.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Medical Assocation

'''actinomycete-class antibiotics''' 
antibiotics effective against Gram-positive bacteria called actinobacteria

'''CBC/PATHÉ''' 
CBC is the Canadian Broadcasting Company. PATHÉ is probably the French entertainment company Pathé Frères (Pathé Brothers).

'''''Nass''''' 
Arabic for "text"

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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar]]

'''double dutch''' 
a type of rope jumping where two ropes are used

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'''Brighton Projects''' 
presumably high-rise, low-income housing in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton,_Boston,_Massachusetts Brighton]

'''Shedd Spread''' 
a brand of [http://www.countrycrock.com/products.asp margarine]

'''wraithlike''' 
A wraith is a type of ghost.

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'''nocturnal emitter''' 
a boy who has a wet dream

'''anfractuous''' 
full of twists and turns

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'''petulant''' 
unreasonably irritable

==Page 41==

'''''Tosca''''' 
The title of an opera by Italian composer Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (1858-1924), which premiered in 1900.

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'''agoraphobic''' 
suffering from an irrational fear of going outside

'''portcullis''' 
This is "a strong grating, as of iron, made to slide along vertical grooves at the sides of a gateway of a fortified place and let down to prevent passage" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

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'''2010h. on 1 April''' 
The medical attaché has been watching for forty-three minutes.

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==Page 43==

'''Ambush''' 
a [http://www.100perfumes.com/forums/Perfume/m12442.htm real perfume]

'''Home with the team''' 
It's already been mentioned that Orin plays professional football. He must play for the Arizona Cardinals.

==Page 44==

'''''Blattaria implacblus''''' 
''Blattaria'' is the order that contains the several genus and species of cockroaches. The Latin phrase really means "implacable cockroach."

==Page 45==

'''fantods''' 
sudden outpourings of anger, outrage, or fear

'''Chalmette''' 
an eastern suburb of New Orleans

==Page 46==

'''kippers''' 
cured herring

'''Mrs. Avril M. T. Incandenza''' 
Hal's mother is named for the first time.

'''phylacteryish''' 
Remove "-ish" and you have the English word for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefillin tefillin].

'''imprimatur''' 
sanction or approval

==Page 48==

'''Positron-Emission Topography''' 
According to Wikipedia, this is "a nuclear medicine medical imaging technique that produces a three-dimensional image or map of functional processes in the body."

'''positrons''' 
the sub-atomic particles that are the opposite of electrons

'''Fritz Lang''' 
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (1890-1976) was a Viennese-born Austrian-American director, probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022100/ M].

'''''Moment'' magazine''' 
This is a Jewish-interest [http://www.momentmag.com/ magazine].

==Page 49==

'''Pandora's box of worms''' 
a mixed metaphor of "Pandora's box" and "can of worms," neither of which can be shut again once they're opened

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'''one-hitter''' 
a small marijuana pipe that will provide one "hit" of marijuana per packing

==Page 50==

'''Partridge, KS''' 
A town in Kansas about 55 miles north-northwest of Wichita

'''Charles Tavis''' 
I.e., C.T.

'''gizzard''' 
the digestive organ of a bird

==Page 51==

'''Bob Hope''' 
Cockney rhyming slang for "dope"

'''neo-Georgian''' 
modern-day architecture that approximates that of the Georgian period, from 1714 (accession of George I of the U.K.) to 1830 (death of George III)

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'''spherocubular''' 
Another neologism, presumably meaning having characteristics of both a sphere and cube -- a three-dimension "squircle".

'''Leith''' 
A homonym of Lethe, the name of the river in Greek mythology whose water, if drunk, will erase one's memory.

'''Dr. James O. Incandenza''' 
Hal's father's full name is given for the first time.

==Page 52==

'''dendriurethane''' 
This substance does not actually exist. An educated guess is that it is a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyurethane polyurethane] that comes from trees, ''dendri'' being Greek for "tree."

'''twenty meters''' 
almost twenty-two yards

'''unfenestrated''' 
having no windows

'''two meter''' 
a little over 6.5 ft

'''banshee''' 
In Irish mythology, the banshee is female spirit, who acts as an omen of death. They are known for "keening," i.e., shrieking.

'''flange''' 
a plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe

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'''post-latency''' 
after the latency period that Freud posited in his four-stage theory of psychosexual development in children

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_5|Endnote 5]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_5a|Endnote 5a]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_6|Endnote 6]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_7|Endnote 7]]

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[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_8|Endnote 8]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_8a|Endnote 8a]]

'''mushrooms or X''' 
psilocybin mushrooms or MDMA (called ecstasy)

==Page 53 (cont'd)==

'''Interdependent regions''' 
I.e., Canada

'''prorectors''' 
members of a management body of a university, each managing his/her specific area

'''the Show''' 
professional tennis

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'''Kodiak''' 
a brand of chewing tobacco

'''quail''' 
to shrink back in fear

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'''0020h''' 
The medical attaché has now been watching for four hours and fifty-three minutes.

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'''filmic''' 
having to do with motion pictures

==Page 55==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_12a|Endnote 12a]]

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'''élan''' 
enthusiastic vigor or liveliness

'''Revere Holding''' 
a jail, obviously -- probably the jail for Revere, Mass., just south of Boston

'''P.D.''' 
public defender

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==Page 55 (cont'd)==

'''dictum''' 
a maxim or saying

==Page 56==

'''Marblehead''' 
A town in Essex County, Mass., home to a yachting resort. It's about 15 miles northeast of the city on the water.

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[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_17|Endnote 17]]

'''''International Affairs'' and ''Interdependent Affairs''''' 
The first magazine is real; the second is not.

'''teak chiffonier''' 
a piece of furniture, one of which you can see [http://www.artfact.com/catalog/viewLot.cfm?lotCode=4xRrS2JB here]

'''Berkshires''' 
the westernmost portion of Massachusetts, a popular vacation spot

'''van Dyke''' 
a goatee

'''apocopes''' 
losses of syllables from words, particularly unstressed vowels

'''Café au Lait''' 
half coffee and half milk in a large cup, as drunk in France

'''gangrenously tight''' 
I.e., so tight as to cause gangrene, i.e., death of tissue due to lack of blood

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'''grippe''' 
flu

'''pre-British-takeover Québecois''' 
The British took over Quebec on September 8, 1760.

'''grackles''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passerine passernine] birds native to North America

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[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_19|Endnote 19]]

'''intercostal''' 
pertaining to the ribs or the muscles around them

'''Montreal Tulip Fest''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival Canadian Tulip Festival] actually takes place in Ottawa, Ontario, and Gatineau, Quebec, which border each other.

'''Guillaume DuPlessis''' 
A man by this name was one of the first French Calvinist settlers on the island of St. Kitts in the 17th century.

'''250 clicks due east''' 
Clicks are kilometers. Two hundred fifty km is about 155 miles.

'''lividity''' 
the change of color in skin brought on by livor mortis, an after-death phenomenon when blood settles in the body at low points of gravity

'''comme-il-faut''' 
French: As is necessary

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'''932/1864''' 
I don't know what the numbers mean, but the first is half of the second.

'''R.I.S.C.''' 
reduced instruction set computer, i.e., a computer that takes a limited set of commands

'''Primestar''' 
a direct broadcast satellite network active in the 1990s

'''D.S.S.''' 
digital satellite system

'''pixel-free''' 
smooth and not pixelated

'''baud''' 
a unit equal to bits per second; a baud rate is the number of bits per second a modem can send/receive

'''''couture''''' 
French for "fashion"

'''nanoprocessors''' 
very small processors -- smaller than microprocessors

'''chromotography''' 
Here misspelled, chromatography is "any of various techniques for the separation of complex mixtures that rely on the differential affinities of substances for a gas or liquid mobile medium and for a stationary adsorbing medium through which they pass, such as paper, gelatin, or magnesia" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'').

'''carpal neuralgia''' 
nerve pain in the bones of the hand

'''phosphenic migraine''' 
the phenomenon of seeing lights accompanying a migraine

'''gluteal hyperadiposity''' 
fat in the buttocks

'''lumbar stressae''' 
back stress

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'''Jim Troeltsch''' 
The most famous person with this surname is [http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/WeirdWildWeb/courses/mwt/dictionary/mwt_themes_705_troeltsch.htm Ernst Troeltsch] (1865-1923), a German Protestant theologian and philosopher of religion and history.

'''Narberth PA''' 
a suburb of Philadelphia, on the famous Main Line from Philadelphia to Lancaster

'''meatus''' 
a natural bodily opening

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_21|Endnote 21]]

'''OTC''' 
over the counter

'''expectorants''' 
drugs that induce phlegm-producing coughing

'''pertussives''' 
cough suppressants

'''megaspansules''' 
a combination of mega + span + capsule, these would be large, time-released capsules

==Endnote 22==

'''mucoid dessicators''' 
drugs that dry up phlegm

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'''Rader''' 
If the name is pronounced with a "long a," as in the Oakland football team, a famous person with this last name was Erich Johann Albert Raeder (1876-1960), a World War II-era German grand admiral, sentenced to life at Nuremberg but served only nine years.

==Page 61==

'''nebulizer''' 
something that turns a liquid into a spray

'''fugue-state''' 
According to Wikipedia, a fugue state is "a state of mind characterized by abandonment of personal identity, along with the memories, personality and other identifying characteristics of individuality."

'''prolix''' 
extended to a great, unneedy length

==Page 61==

'''rhinoviri''' 
Wallace's plural for rhinovirus, one of dozens of variations of the virus that causes the common cold, also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus rhinoviruses]

'''mucosa''' 
An absorptive/secretive tissue layer in the body; here, in Troeltsch's throat or nose

==Page 62==

'''matte''' 
as an adjective, having a dull or lusterless finish

'''snuff-white''' 
Snuff is grayish to yellowish brown in color; snuff-white must be that color, but lighter.

'''reglets''' 
narrow, flat moldings

'''rheostats''' 
continuously variable electronic resistors

'''shank''' 
part of the leg between the knee and ankle

==Page 63==

'''As of [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]''' 
Which is to say, as of 2009

'''pre-Method actor''' 
He was an actor before the dawn of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_acting the Method].

'''dipsomaniacal''' 
Characterized by an uncontrollable urge to consume alcohol, describing James O. Incandenza's father

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_23|Endnote 23]]

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{{infobox Book |
| name = Infinite Jest
| image = [[Image:IJ_cover.jpg|230px]]
| image_caption = U.S. First Edition, February 1, 1996
| author = David Foster Wallace
| country = United States
| language = English
| genre = Novel
| publisher = Little, Brown
| release_date = 1996
| media_type = Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
| pages = 1079
| isbn = ISBN 0-316-92004-5
}}

'''''Infinite Jest''''' (1996) is a novel written by [[David Foster Wallace]]. The lengthy and complex work takes place in a semi-parodic future version of North America. The novel touches on the topics of tennis; substance addiction and recovery programs; depression; child abuse; family relationships; advertising and popular entertainment; film theory; and Quebec separatism.

''Time'' magazine included the novel in its ''TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005'' list.<ref name="TIME">{{Citation
| last = Grossman
| first = Lev
| author-link =
| last2 = Lacayo
| first2 = Richard
| author2-link =
| title = TIME's Critics pick the 100 Best Novels, 1923 to present
| newspaper = TIME
| pages =
| year = 2005
| date =
| url = http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html}}</ref>

==Title==

The novel derives its name in part from a line in ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet Hamlet]'', in which Hamlet refers to the skull of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorick_(Hamlet) Yorick], the court jester: "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!"

In addition to being the title given to the fictional film central to the story, reviewers have also considered the title a "sly wink at the book's massive girth."<ref name="TIME"/>

Wallace's working title for ''Infinite Jest'' had been ''A Failed Entertainment''.<ref name="TRS1">{{Citation
| last = Lipsky
| first = David
| author-link =
| last2 =
| first2 =
| author2-link =
| title = The Lost Years & Last Days of David Foster Wallace
| newspaper = Rolling Stone
| pages = 6 of 11
| year = 2008
| date =
| url = http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/23638511/the_lost_years__last_days_of_david_foster_wallace/6}}</ref>

==Setting==

In the novel's future world, North America is one unified state comprising the United States, Canada, and Mexico, known as the Organization of North American Nations (O.N.A.N.). Corporations purchase naming rights to each calendar year, eliminating traditional numerical designations; for example, "The Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment" and "The Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland". Much of what used to be the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada has become a hazardous waste dump known as the "Great Concavity" to Americans and as the "Great Convexity" to Canadians.

The novel's primary locations are the Enfield Tennis Academy, Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House (footnoted "Redundancy sic" in the text), and a conversation between a Quebec separatist and a U.S. double agent outside of Tucson, AZ. Enfield Tennis Academy ("ETA") and Ennet House are separated by a hillside in suburban Boston, Massachusetts. Many characters are either students and faculty at the school or residents and staff at the halfway house.

==Characters==
===The Incandenza family===

*'''[[I#joi|James Orin Incandenza]],''' an optics expert and filmmaker, is the founder of the Enfield Tennis Academy. He is the creator of the Entertainment (a.k.a. ''Infinite Jest'' or "the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/samizdat samizdat]"). He was strongly attached to Joelle Van Dyne, his son Orin's strikingly beautiful girlfriend, and used her in many of his films. It is suggested that he can create and view the Entertainment without becoming entranced because at the time of its creation he is already insane. He appears in the book mainly either in flashbacks or as a ghost, having committed suicide by placing his head in a [[microwave oven]]. He is a notoriously heavy drinker, preferring Wild Turkey whiskey. His nickname among the family is '''Himself'''. The family also refers to him as 'The Mad Stork' or 'The Sad Stork'.

*'''[[I#ami|Avril Incandenza]],''' née '''Mondragon,''' is the (covertly) domineering mother of the Incandenza children and wife of James. A tall, beautiful Québécoise, she becomes a major figure at the Enfield Tennis Academy after the death of her husband and begins, or perhaps continues, a relationship with Charles Tavis, the new head of the academy and her either half- or adoptive brother. Her sexual relationships are a matter of some speculation/discussion; one with John "No Relation" Wayne is depicted. In one scene, James, speaking to Hal, refers to his "mother's cavortings with not one not two but over ''thirty'' Near Eastern medical attachés." She has a phobia of uncleanliness and disease, and is also described as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/agoraphobic agoraphobic]]. She has an obsessive-compulsive need to watch over ETA and her two youngest sons, Hal and Mario, who live at the school. Avril and Orin are no longer in contact with each other. Her nickname among the family is "The Moms."

*'''[[I#hji|Hal Incandenza]]''' is the youngest of the Incandenza children and arguably the protagonist of the novel, the events of which take place largely during his senior year at ETA. Hal is as prodigiously intelligent and talented as the other members of his family, but insecure about his abilities (and eventually his mental state). He has a difficult relationship with both his parents. He reads the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' and like his mother often corrects the grammar of his friends and family. Hal's mental degradation and alienation from those around him culminate in his chronologically last appearance in the novel, in which all of his attempts at speech appear to others as uncontrolled screaming. The origin of Hal's final condition is unclear. One possibility is that the mold Hal ingested as a child developed into a hallucinogenic drug known as DMZ, with Hal's marijuana withdrawal serving as a catalyst; alternatively, his friend Michael Pemulis (or another Academy resident) may have doped his toothbrush with that drug. An accidental viewing of the titular film is another possible cause. It is also possible that Hal was subjected to a "Technical Interview", as was his older brother Orin.

*'''[[I#mi|Mario Incandenza]]''' is the Incandenzas' second son, although it is suggested that his father may be Charles Tavis rather than James. Severely deformed since birth (he is <balloon title="Having an exceptionally large head and brain" style="color:red">macrocephalic</balloon>, <balloon title="dentition in which the teeth closely resemble on another" style="color:red">homodontic</balloon>, and stands or walks at a 45 degree angle) he is nonetheless perennially cheerful. He is also a budding auteur, having served as camera and directorial assistant to James, and later inheriting the prodigious studio equipment and film lab built by his father on the grounds of the Academy. Hal, although younger, acts like a supportive older brother. Hal's nickname for Mario is "Booboo".

*'''[[I#oi|Orin Incandenza]]''' is the eldest son of the Incandenzas. He is a punter for the Arizona Cardinals and a serial womanizer, and is estranged from everyone in his family except Hal. In theory, Orin lost his attraction to Joelle after she supposedly became deformed when her mother threw acid in her face during a Thanksgiving dinner, but cites Joelle's questionable relationship with his father as the reason for the breakup. After breaking up with Joelle, Orin focuses his womanizing on young mothers; it is suggested by Hal that this is related to his blaming the Moms for the death of Himself.

===The Enfield Tennis Academy===

*'''Michael Pemulis''' - A working-class child from an Allston, Massachuesetts family and Hal's best friend. Pemulis is a prankster and the school's resident drug dealer. He is also very proficient in mathematics. This, combined with his limited but ultraprecise lobbing, made him the school's first Eschaton master. (Eschaton, a computer-aided turn-based nuclear wargame, requires that players be adept both at game theory and pegging targets with tennis balls. Pemulis is thus the archetypal Eschaton player.) Although the novel takes place long after Pemulis' Eschaton days (the game is played by twelve- to fourteen-year-olds), Pemulis is still regarded as the game's all-time great, and a final court of appeal in game matters. His brother Matt is a gay hustler.

*'''Ortho "The Darkness" Stice''' - Another of Hal's close friends. He only endorses brands that have black-colored products, and is at all times clad entirely in black. In a 3-setter, he nearly defeats Hal Incandenza late in the book, and becomes a more significant character as his ability to deny selfhood is realized. It is likely that Ortho is being visited by the ghost of Himself.

*'''John "No Relation" Wayne''' - The top ranked player at ETA. John Wayne was discovered by James Incandenza during interviews of men named [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne John Wayne] for a film. He is frighteningly efficient, controlled, and almost machine-like on the court. John Wayne is almost never directly quoted in the narrative; his statements are nearly always either summarized by the narrator or repeated by other characters. His Canadian and Quebecois citizenship has been revoked since he came to ETA. His father is a sick asbestos miner in Quebec who hopes that John will soon start earning "serious $" in the Show to "take him away from all this" (see "6 November YDAU, the meet with Port Washington").

*'''LaMont Chu''' - One of the 14-15 year old students at Enfield. He consults "sweat guru" Lyle for counsel after he becomes obsessed with attaining the more superficial rewards of success in professional tennis, and finds that his performance suffers from this obsession. His quixotic pursuit of fame has led some to suggest his name as a take-off of '[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote|La Mancha]'.

*'''Ann Kittenplan''' - Another tennis student at Enfield. One of the many players who becomes violently unhinged during the resident Eschaton tournament.

===The Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House===

*'''Don Gately''' - A former thief and Demerol addict, and current counselor in residence at the Ennet House. One of the novel's primary characters, Gately is physically enormous, an avid [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholics_Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous] member, and intricately (though not obviously) connected to both the Enfield Tennis Academy and the international struggle to seize the master copy of the Entertainment. During his middle-school and high-school years, Gately's size rendered him a formidable football talent, and he excelled in both offensive and defensive capacities. Gately is known for his toothbrush-in-ass tactic (an outrageous scene that was a favorite at public Wallace readings) and is the accidental murderer of M. DuPlessis, a leader of one of the many separatist Quebecois organizations and a samizdat conspirator. Gately, like Ortho Stice, is visited by the ghost of James O. Incandenza.

*'''Joelle Van Dyne''' (a.k.a. "Madame Psychosis" (her on-air name, a play on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/metempsychosis metempsychosis]), a.k.a. "The Prettiest Girl of All Time (or P.G.O.A.T.)") - The primary figure in the Entertainment. In the work, which is filmed through a wobbly "neo-natal" lens, she is seen reaching down to the camera, as if it were in a bassinet, and apologizing profusely. This is said to trigger an addictive pleasure complex in the viewer, which makes even partial viewing of the Entertainment suicidal. She wears a veil to hide her face, which was once strikingly beautiful. A member of the "Union of the Hideously and Improbably Deformed", she may be disfigured; based on an account by the unreliable Molly Notkin, her mother hit Joelle's face with a corrosive chemical compound produced by her father, an amateur mixologist who worked with acidic compounds. Despite Notkin's unreliability, however, it is likely that Joelle was to some extent disfigured by acid, given Orin's lack of interest in her following the incident and her repeated references to "the acid". She tries to "eliminate her own map" (that is, commit [[suicide]]) in Molly Notkin's bathroom via massive ingestion of freebase cocaine, which lands her in the Ennet House as a resident. She develops a strong connection to Don Gately and considers showing him what lies beneath the veil after his heroic actions in the middle of the text.

*'''Kate Gompert''' - A marijuana ("cannabinoid") addict who suffers from extreme unipolar depression. She shares a name with a former acquaintance of David Foster Wallace, who sued the author and his publisher following the release of the novel.

*'''Pat Montesian''' - The Ennet House manager. She is a recovering addict, stroke victim with partial facial paraylsis, and the wife of Mars Montesian, a Boston billionaire. Pat is especially fond of Don Gately.

*'''Ken Erdedy''' - A cannabinoid addict introduced early in the novel.

*'''Bruce Green''' - Ex-husband of Mildred Bonk Green. He once lived with Tommy Doocey, a harelipped pot dealer for Erdedy, et al. He is reticent and fondly thought of as stoic by Gately. He accompanies Lenz on post-AA meeting walks back to Ennet House, unwittingly preventing Lenz from murdering neighborhood pets.

*'''Randy Lenz''' - Cocaine addict and obsessive compulsive, residing at Ennet House not to recover, but to hide from both the police and a group of drug dealers involved in a tremendous simultaneous con. The stress of hiding, combined with partial withdrawal from cocaine, leads him to torturing animals, which in turn leads to the novel's climactic fight scene. His name may be a reference to the novella 'Lenz' by [[Georg Büchner]], the subject of which is 18th-century German writer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Michael_Reinhold_Lenz Jakob Michael Reinhold], a schizophrenic whose ruminations while taking a long walk make up much of the novella.

*'''Tiny Ewell''' - A lawyer with dwarfism. He is obsessed with the tattoos of fellow Ennet House residents, and develops a classification system for them.

*'''Geoffrey Day''' - A pompously verbose Ennet House resident and professor at a junior college. He enters rehabilitation after crashing his Saab into a department store. Previously, he wrote an article on the Wheelchair Assassins and their pre-adolescent train-jumping game.

*'''Calvin Thrust''' - Former porn star who was featured in several of Himself's films.

*'''Emil Minty''' - A hardcore smack-addict punk with a palsy and a tattoo of a swastika with the caption "FUCK NIGERS" on his left bicep, which he is heartily encouraged by Ennet House staff to keep covered.

===Les Assassins en Fauteuils Roulants===

Les Assassins en Fauteuils Roulants (A.F.R.), known in English as the Wheelchair Assassins, are a Quebecois separatist group. They are one of many such groups that developed after the United States coerced Canada and Mexico into joining the Organization of North American Nations (O.N.A.N.), but the A.F.R. is the most deadly and extremist. While other separatist groups are willing to settle for nationhood, the A.F.R. wants Canada to secede from O.N.A.N. and to reject America's forced gift of its polluted "Great Concavity" (or, Hal and Orin speculate, is pretending that those are its goals to put pressure on Canada to let Quebec secede). The Antitoi brothers suffer gruesome fates at the hands of the A.F.R. because they are members of a separatist group whose goals the A.F.R. finds unacceptably moderate. The A.F.R. seeks the master copy of ''Infinite Jest'' as a terrorist weapon to achieve its anti-experialist goals. The A.F.R. has its roots in a childhood game in which miners' sons line up alongside a train track and compete to be the last one to jump across the path of an oncoming train, an activity in which many were killed or maimed.

Only one miner's son has (disgracefully) failed to jump – Bernard Wayne, who may be related to ETA's John Wayne. Quebecois Avril's liaisons with Wayne and with the half-Canadian attache accidentally killed by Don Gately suggest that she may have ties to the A.F.R. as well. There is also evidence linking ETA prorector Thierry Poutrincourt to the group.

*'''Remy Marathe''' - Member of the Wheelchair Assassins who secretly talks to Hugh/Helen Steeply. Marathe is a quadruple agent: the AFR thinks that he is a triple agent, only pretending to betray the AFR, while Marathe and Steeply know that he only pretends to pretend to betray them. He does this in order to secure medical support for his wife (who was born without a skull) from the Office of Unspecified Services. Late in the novel, Marathe is sent to infiltrate Ennett House in the guise of a Swiss drug addict.

===Miscellaneous characters===
*'''Poor Tony Krause (P.T. Krause)''' - A drag queen formerly associated with Michael Pemulis's older brother, Matty, as well as Randy Lenz. Throughout the novel, Poor Tony is on a harrowing downward spiral of drug use and seizures.

*'''Medical attaché''' - A medical attaché in charge of a Saudi prince who eats only Toblerone. He goes home to his wife and sits in his chair to escape reality. He is the first character in the novel rendered insane by repeated viewing of the Entertainment cartridge.

*'''Hugh/Helen Steeply''' - Cross-dresser with whom Orin Incandenza becomes obsessed. He works for the government Office of Unspecified Services, but is doing undercover work trying to get information out of Orin to find out more about the Entertainment. He talks to Marathe secretly.

*'''Gene Fackelmann (a.k.a. "Fax")''' - A member of Gately's former book-keeping enforcement crew. Fackelmann was a Dilaudid addict whose behavior (particularly his involvement in a scheme involving Whitey Sorkin, Sixties Bob, Eighties Bill and about $250,000 U.S.D.) brings the pathetic nature of drug addiction to Gately's attention for the first time.

==Plot/Synopsis==
The plot partially revolves around the missing master copy of a film cartridge, titled ''Infinite Jest'' and referred to in the novel as "the Entertainment" or "the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/samizdat samizdat]". The film is so entertaining to its viewers that they become lifeless, losing all interest in anything other than endless viewings of the film. Quebec separatists are interested in acquiring a Master, redistributable copy of the work.

==Subsidized Time==
In the book's future, advertising's relentless search for new markets has led to a world where, by O.N.A.N. dictate, years are referred to by the name of their corporate sponsor.

#Year of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whopper Whopper]
#Year of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucks_Pads Tucks] Medicated Pad
#Year of the Trial-Size [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dove_(chocolate) Dove] Bar
#Year of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perdue_Farms Perdue] Wonderchicken
#Year of the Whisper-Quiet [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maytag Maytag] Dishmaster
#Year of the Yushityu 2007 Mimetic-Resolution-Cartridge-View-Motherboard-Easy-To-Install-Upgrade For Infernatron/InterLace TP Systems For Home, Office, Or Mobile
#Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland
#Year of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depend Depend] Adult Undergarment
#Year of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glad_(company) Glad]

Most of the action in the novel takes place in the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, or Y.D.A.U., which is probably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_Calendar Gregorian] 2009. Critic Stephen Burn, in his book on ''Infinite Jest'', argues that Y.D.A.U. corresponds to 2009: the MIT Language Riots took place in 1997 (n. 24) and those riots occurred 12 years prior to Y.D.A.U. (n. 60). Also, if the "2007" in "Year of the Yushityu 2007 Mimetic-Resolution-Cartridge-View-Motherboard-Easy-To-Install-Upgrade For Infernatron/InterLace TP Systems For Home, Office, Or Mobile" refers to the pre-subsidization-style numerical date convention, then Y.D.A.U., which comes two years later, would be 2009.

It is also possible that Y.D.A.U. is 2008, as Matty Pemulis turns 23 in Y.D.A.U. (p. 682). Matty and Mike Pemulis' father immigrated from Ireland in 1989 when Matty was "three or four" (p. 683). If Matty had been three and four in 1989, he was born in 1985, which mean he turns 23 in 2008.

Also, in the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, November 4 falls on a Wednesday (176). If Subsidized Time is parallel to real-world time, this means that Y.D.A.U. would be either 2009 or 2015. Yet, Thanksgiving of the Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad falls on 24 November (793). Accordingly, Y.T.M.P has to be either 2005 or 2011, meaning that the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment would be 2012 or 2018, respectively.<ref>Wallace, David Foster. ''Infinite Jest.'' 1st. ed. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company. 1996</ref>

==Geographic location==

The fictional Enfield Tennis Academy is a series of buildings laid out as a cardioid on top of a hill on Commonwealth Avenue. This detail has certain thematic resonance, as ETA is in many ways the heart of the novel's setting, and a permutation of the American myth of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_upon_a_Hill City upon a hill]. Ennet House lies directly downhill of ETA, facilitating many of the interactions between characters residing in both locations.

Orin lives in Arizona, a state where much of the dialogue between Helen Steeply and Remy Marathe takes place, and the student union of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology]—in the novel the structure is built in the shape of the human brain—is both the broadcasting site of Madame Psychosis's radio show and the location of a potentially devastating tennis tournament between ETA and Canadian youths.

Enfield is largely a stand-in for [[Brighton, Massachusetts]]. Wallace's description of life in Enfield and neighboring Allston contrasts with the largely idyllic life of students at ETA. The real-life town of [[Enfield, Massachusetts|Enfield]] is now submerged under the [[Quabbin Reservoir]].

Wallace wrote the book while living in Syracuse, New York.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf?/base/news-15/122155534751021.xml| publisher=Syracuse Online| title=Author created 'Jest' in Syracuse| accessdate=2008-09-16| }}</ref>

==Stylistic elements==

*There are frequent references to endnotes throughout the novel. In an interview with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Rose Charlie Rose], Wallace characterized their use as a method of disrupting the linearity of the text while maintaining some sense of narrative cohesion.

*Acronyms are another signature device in Wallace's work and are used frequently within the novel.

*Wallace's writing voice is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/postmodern postmodern] mixture of high- and low-brow linguistic traits. He juxtaposes, often within a single sentence, colloquialisms and polysyllabic, highly esoteric words.

== Critical literature ==
=== Surveys ===

* Marshall Boswell, ''Understanding David Foster Wallace''. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. ISBN 1-57003-517-2
* Iannis Goerlandt and Luc Herman, "David Foster Wallace". ''Post-war Literatures in English: A Lexicon of Contemporary Authors'' 56 (2004), 1-16; A1-2, B1-2.

=== In-depth studies ===

* Burn, Stephen. ''David Foster Wallace's'' Infinite Jest'': A Reader's Guide''. New York, London: Continuum, 2003 (= Continuum Contemporaries) ISBN 0-8264-1477-X
* Carlisle, Greg. "Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace's 'Infinite Jest'". Hollywood: SSMG Press, 2007.
* Cioffi, Frank Louis. "An Anguish Becomes Thing: Narrative as Performance in David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest''". ''Narrative'' 8.2 (2000), 161-181.
* Delfino, Andrew Steven. "Becoming the New Man in Post-Postmodernist Fiction: Portrayals of Masculinities in David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest'' and [[Chuck Palahniuk]]'s ''[[Fight Club]]''". MA Thesis, Georgia State University. [http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04202007-113340/unrestricted/delfino_andrew_s_200705_ma.pdf]
* Goerlandt, Iannis. "'Put the book down and slowly walk away': Irony and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest". ''Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction'' 47.3 (2006), 309-328.
* Holland, Mary K. "'The Art's Heart's Purpose': Braving the Narcissistic Loop of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest". ''Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction'' 47.3 (2006), 218-242.
* Jacobs, Timothy. “The Brothers Incandenza: Translating Ideology in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s ''The Brothers Karamazov'' and David Foster Wallace’s ''Infinite Jest''.” ''Texas Studies in Literature and Language'' 49.3 (2007): 265-292.
* Jacobs, Timothy. “The Brothers Incandenza: Translating Ideology in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s ''The Brothers Karamazov'' and David Foster Wallace’s ''Infinite Jest''.” ''Contemporary Literary Criticism'' Vol. 271. Ed. Jeffrey Hunter. New York: Gale, 2009. Forthcoming.
* Jacobs, Timothy. “American Touchstone: The Idea of Order in Gerard Manley Hopkins and David Foster Wallace.” ''Comparative Literature Studies'' 38.3 (2001): 215-231.
* Jacobs, Timothy. “David Foster Wallace’s ''Infinite Jest''.” ''The Explicator'' 58.3 (2000): 172-175.
* Jacobs, Timothy. “David Foster Wallace’s ''The Broom of the System''.” Ed. Alan Hedblad. ''Beacham’s Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction''. Vol 15. New York: Thomson-Gale, 2001. 41-50.
* LeClair, Tom. "The Prodigious Fiction of [[Richard Powers]], [[William Vollmann]], and David Foster Wallace". ''Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction'' 38.1 (1996), 12-37.
* Nichols, Catherine "Dialogizing Postmodern Carnival: David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest''". ''Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction'' 43.1 (2001), 3-16.

===Interviews===

* Laura Miller, "The Salon Interview: David Foster Wallace". ''Salon'' 9 (1996). [http://archive.salon.com/09/features/wallace1.html]
* Michael Goldfarb, "David Foster Wallace". Radio interview for ''The Connection'' ([[25 June]] [[2004]]). ([http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2004/06/20040625_b_main.asp full audio interview])

== External links ==
* [http://www.smallbytes.net/~bobkat/jesterlist.html ''Infinite Jest''. Reviews, Articles, & Miscellany]
* [http://www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw.htm The Howling Fantods! - David Foster Wallace: News, Info, Links]
* [http://www.kottke.org/09/01/the-words-of-david-foster-wallace Vocabulary in Infinite Jest]
* [http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw960411david_foster_wallace Wallace talking about his novel]
* [http://www.thenewcanon.com/infinte_jest.html "Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace"] by Ted Gioia ([http://www.thenewcanon.com The New Canon])

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Infinite Jest

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{{infobox Book |
| name = Infinite Jest
| image = [[Image:IJ_cover.jpg|230px]]
| image_caption = U.S. First Edition, February 1, 1996
| author = David Foster Wallace
| country = United States
| language = English
| genre = Novel
| publisher = Little, Brown
| release_date = 1996
| media_type = Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
| pages = 1079
| isbn = ISBN 0-316-92004-5
}}

'''''Infinite Jest''''' (1996) is a novel written by [[David Foster Wallace]]. The lengthy and complex work takes place in a semi-parodic future version of North America. The novel touches on the topics of tennis; substance addiction and recovery programs; depression; child abuse; family relationships; advertising and popular entertainment; film theory; and Quebec separatism.

''Time'' magazine included the novel in its ''TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005'' list.<ref name="TIME">{{Citation
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==Title==

The novel derives its name in part from a line in ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet Hamlet]'', in which Hamlet refers to the skull of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorick_(Hamlet) Yorick], the court jester: "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!"

In addition to being the title given to the fictional film central to the story, reviewers have also considered the title a "sly wink at the book's massive girth."<ref name="TIME"/>

Wallace's working title for ''Infinite Jest'' had been ''A Failed Entertainment''.<ref name="TRS1">{{Citation
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==Setting==

In the novel's future world, North America is one unified state comprising the United States, Canada, and Mexico, known as the Organization of North American Nations (O.N.A.N.). Corporations purchase naming rights to each calendar year, eliminating traditional numerical designations; for example, "The Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment" and "The Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland". Much of what used to be the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada has become a hazardous waste dump known as the "Great Concavity" to Americans and as the "Great Convexity" to Canadians.

The novel's primary locations are the Enfield Tennis Academy, Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House (footnoted "Redundancy sic" in the text), and a conversation between a Quebec separatist and a U.S. double agent outside of Tucson, AZ. Enfield Tennis Academy ("ETA") and Ennet House are separated by a hillside in suburban Boston, Massachusetts. Many characters are either students and faculty at the school or residents and staff at the halfway house.

==Characters==
===The Incandenza family===

*'''[[I#joi|James Orin Incandenza]],''' an optics expert and filmmaker, is the founder of the Enfield Tennis Academy. He is the creator of the Entertainment (a.k.a. ''Infinite Jest'' or "the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/samizdat samizdat]"). He was strongly attached to Joelle Van Dyne, his son Orin's strikingly beautiful girlfriend, and used her in many of his films. It is suggested that he can create and view the Entertainment without becoming entranced because at the time of its creation he is already insane. He appears in the book mainly either in flashbacks or as a ghost, having committed suicide by placing his head in a [[microwave oven]]. He is a notoriously heavy drinker, preferring Wild Turkey whiskey. His nickname among the family is '''Himself'''. The family also refers to him as 'The Mad Stork' or 'The Sad Stork'.

*'''[[I#ami|Avril Incandenza]],''' née '''Mondragon,''' is the (covertly) domineering mother of the Incandenza children and wife of James. A tall, beautiful Québécoise, she becomes a major figure at the Enfield Tennis Academy after the death of her husband and begins, or perhaps continues, a relationship with Charles Tavis, the new head of the academy and her either half- or adoptive brother. Her sexual relationships are a matter of some speculation/discussion; one with John "No Relation" Wayne is depicted. In one scene, James, speaking to Hal, refers to his "mother's cavortings with not one not two but over ''thirty'' Near Eastern medical attachés." She has a phobia of uncleanliness and disease, and is also described as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/agoraphobic agoraphobic]]. She has an obsessive-compulsive need to watch over ETA and her two youngest sons, Hal and Mario, who live at the school. Avril and Orin are no longer in contact with each other. Her nickname among the family is "The Moms."

*'''[[I#hji|Hal Incandenza]]''' is the youngest of the Incandenza children and arguably the protagonist of the novel, the events of which take place largely during Hal's senior year at ETA. Hal is as prodigiously intelligent and talented as the other members of his family, but insecure about his abilities (and eventually his mental state). He has a difficult relationship with both his parents. He reads the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' and like his mother often corrects the grammar of his friends and family. Hal's mental degradation and alienation from those around him culminate in his chronologically last appearance in the novel, in which all of his attempts at speech appear to others as uncontrolled screaming. The origin of Hal's final condition is unclear. One possibility is that the mold Hal ingested as a child developed into a hallucinogenic drug known as DMZ, with Hal's marijuana withdrawal serving as a catalyst; alternatively, his friend Michael Pemulis (or another Academy resident) may have doped his toothbrush with that drug. An accidental viewing of the titular film is another possible cause. It is also possible that Hal was subjected to a "Technical Interview", as was his older brother Orin.

*'''[[I#mi|Mario Incandenza]]''' is the Incandenzas' second son, although it is suggested that his father may be Charles Tavis rather than James. Severely deformed since birth (he is <balloon title="Having an exceptionally large head and brain" style="color:red">macrocephalic</balloon>, <balloon title="dentition in which the teeth closely resemble on another" style="color:red">homodontic</balloon>, and stands or walks at a 45 degree angle) he is nonetheless perennially cheerful. He is also a budding auteur, having served as camera and directorial assistant to James, and later inheriting the prodigious studio equipment and film lab built by his father on the grounds of the Academy. Hal, although younger, acts like a supportive older brother. Hal's nickname for Mario is "Booboo".

*'''[[I#oi|Orin Incandenza]]''' is the eldest son of the Incandenzas. He is a punter for the Arizona Cardinals and a serial womanizer, and is estranged from everyone in his family except Hal. In theory, Orin lost his attraction to Joelle after she supposedly became deformed when her mother threw acid in her face during a Thanksgiving dinner, but cites Joelle's questionable relationship with his father as the reason for the breakup. After breaking up with Joelle, Orin focuses his womanizing on young mothers; it is suggested by Hal that this is related to his blaming the Moms for the death of Himself.

===The Enfield Tennis Academy===

*'''Michael Pemulis''' - A working-class child from an Allston, Massachuesetts family and Hal's best friend. Pemulis is a prankster and the school's resident drug dealer. He is also very proficient in mathematics. This, combined with his limited but ultraprecise lobbing, made him the school's first Eschaton master. (Eschaton, a computer-aided turn-based nuclear wargame, requires that players be adept both at game theory and pegging targets with tennis balls. Pemulis is thus the archetypal Eschaton player.) Although the novel takes place long after Pemulis' Eschaton days (the game is played by twelve- to fourteen-year-olds), Pemulis is still regarded as the game's all-time great, and a final court of appeal in game matters. His brother Matt is a gay hustler.

*'''Ortho "The Darkness" Stice''' - Another of Hal's close friends. He only endorses brands that have black-colored products, and is at all times clad entirely in black. In a 3-setter, he nearly defeats Hal Incandenza late in the book, and becomes a more significant character as his ability to deny selfhood is realized. It is likely that Ortho is being visited by the ghost of Himself.

*'''John "No Relation" Wayne''' - The top ranked player at ETA. John Wayne was discovered by James Incandenza during interviews of men named [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne John Wayne] for a film. He is frighteningly efficient, controlled, and almost machine-like on the court. John Wayne is almost never directly quoted in the narrative; his statements are nearly always either summarized by the narrator or repeated by other characters. His Canadian and Quebecois citizenship has been revoked since he came to ETA. His father is a sick asbestos miner in Quebec who hopes that John will soon start earning "serious $" in the Show to "take him away from all this" (see "6 November YDAU, the meet with Port Washington").

*'''LaMont Chu''' - One of the 14-15 year old students at Enfield. He consults "sweat guru" Lyle for counsel after he becomes obsessed with attaining the more superficial rewards of success in professional tennis, and finds that his performance suffers from this obsession. His quixotic pursuit of fame has led some to suggest his name as a take-off of '[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote|La Mancha]'.

*'''Ann Kittenplan''' - Another tennis student at Enfield. One of the many players who becomes violently unhinged during the resident Eschaton tournament.

===The Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House===

*'''Don Gately''' - A former thief and Demerol addict, and current counselor in residence at the Ennet House. One of the novel's primary characters, Gately is physically enormous, an avid [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholics_Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous] member, and intricately (though not obviously) connected to both the Enfield Tennis Academy and the international struggle to seize the master copy of the Entertainment. During his middle-school and high-school years, Gately's size rendered him a formidable football talent, and he excelled in both offensive and defensive capacities. Gately is known for his toothbrush-in-ass tactic (an outrageous scene that was a favorite at public Wallace readings) and is the accidental murderer of M. DuPlessis, a leader of one of the many separatist Quebecois organizations and a samizdat conspirator. Gately, like Ortho Stice, is visited by the ghost of James O. Incandenza.

*'''Joelle Van Dyne''' (a.k.a. "Madame Psychosis" (her on-air name, a play on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/metempsychosis metempsychosis]), a.k.a. "The Prettiest Girl of All Time (or P.G.O.A.T.)") - The primary figure in the Entertainment. In the work, which is filmed through a wobbly "neo-natal" lens, she is seen reaching down to the camera, as if it were in a bassinet, and apologizing profusely. This is said to trigger an addictive pleasure complex in the viewer, which makes even partial viewing of the Entertainment suicidal. She wears a veil to hide her face, which was once strikingly beautiful. A member of the "Union of the Hideously and Improbably Deformed", she may be disfigured; based on an account by the unreliable Molly Notkin, her mother hit Joelle's face with a corrosive chemical compound produced by her father, an amateur mixologist who worked with acidic compounds. Despite Notkin's unreliability, however, it is likely that Joelle was to some extent disfigured by acid, given Orin's lack of interest in her following the incident and her repeated references to "the acid". She tries to "eliminate her own map" (that is, commit [[suicide]]) in Molly Notkin's bathroom via massive ingestion of freebase cocaine, which lands her in the Ennet House as a resident. She develops a strong connection to Don Gately and considers showing him what lies beneath the veil after his heroic actions in the middle of the text.

*'''Kate Gompert''' - A marijuana ("cannabinoid") addict who suffers from extreme unipolar depression. She shares a name with a former acquaintance of David Foster Wallace, who sued the author and his publisher following the release of the novel.

*'''Pat Montesian''' - The Ennet House manager. She is a recovering addict, stroke victim with partial facial paraylsis, and the wife of Mars Montesian, a Boston billionaire. Pat is especially fond of Don Gately.

*'''Ken Erdedy''' - A cannabinoid addict introduced early in the novel.

*'''Bruce Green''' - Ex-husband of Mildred Bonk Green. He once lived with Tommy Doocey, a harelipped pot dealer for Erdedy, et al. He is reticent and fondly thought of as stoic by Gately. He accompanies Lenz on post-AA meeting walks back to Ennet House, unwittingly preventing Lenz from murdering neighborhood pets.

*'''Randy Lenz''' - Cocaine addict and obsessive compulsive, residing at Ennet House not to recover, but to hide from both the police and a group of drug dealers involved in a tremendous simultaneous con. The stress of hiding, combined with partial withdrawal from cocaine, leads him to torturing animals, which in turn leads to the novel's climactic fight scene. His name may be a reference to the novella 'Lenz' by [[Georg Büchner]], the subject of which is 18th-century German writer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Michael_Reinhold_Lenz Jakob Michael Reinhold], a schizophrenic whose ruminations while taking a long walk make up much of the novella.

*'''Tiny Ewell''' - A lawyer with dwarfism. He is obsessed with the tattoos of fellow Ennet House residents, and develops a classification system for them.

*'''Geoffrey Day''' - A pompously verbose Ennet House resident and professor at a junior college. He enters rehabilitation after crashing his Saab into a department store. Previously, he wrote an article on the Wheelchair Assassins and their pre-adolescent train-jumping game.

*'''Calvin Thrust''' - Former porn star who was featured in several of Himself's films.

*'''Emil Minty''' - A hardcore smack-addict punk with a palsy and a tattoo of a swastika with the caption "FUCK NIGERS" on his left bicep, which he is heartily encouraged by Ennet House staff to keep covered.

===Les Assassins en Fauteuils Roulants===

Les Assassins en Fauteuils Roulants (A.F.R.), known in English as the Wheelchair Assassins, are a Quebecois separatist group. They are one of many such groups that developed after the United States coerced Canada and Mexico into joining the Organization of North American Nations (O.N.A.N.), but the A.F.R. is the most deadly and extremist. While other separatist groups are willing to settle for nationhood, the A.F.R. wants Canada to secede from O.N.A.N. and to reject America's forced gift of its polluted "Great Concavity" (or, Hal and Orin speculate, is pretending that those are its goals to put pressure on Canada to let Quebec secede). The Antitoi brothers suffer gruesome fates at the hands of the A.F.R. because they are members of a separatist group whose goals the A.F.R. finds unacceptably moderate. The A.F.R. seeks the master copy of ''Infinite Jest'' as a terrorist weapon to achieve its anti-experialist goals. The A.F.R. has its roots in a childhood game in which miners' sons line up alongside a train track and compete to be the last one to jump across the path of an oncoming train, an activity in which many were killed or maimed.

Only one miner's son has (disgracefully) failed to jump – Bernard Wayne, who may be related to ETA's John Wayne. Quebecois Avril's liaisons with Wayne and with the half-Canadian attache accidentally killed by Don Gately suggest that she may have ties to the A.F.R. as well. There is also evidence linking ETA prorector Thierry Poutrincourt to the group.

*'''Remy Marathe''' - Member of the Wheelchair Assassins who secretly talks to Hugh/Helen Steeply. Marathe is a quadruple agent: the AFR thinks that he is a triple agent, only pretending to betray the AFR, while Marathe and Steeply know that he only pretends to pretend to betray them. He does this in order to secure medical support for his wife (who was born without a skull) from the Office of Unspecified Services. Late in the novel, Marathe is sent to infiltrate Ennett House in the guise of a Swiss drug addict.

===Miscellaneous characters===
*'''Poor Tony Krause (P.T. Krause)''' - A drag queen formerly associated with Michael Pemulis's older brother, Matty, as well as Randy Lenz. Throughout the novel, Poor Tony is on a harrowing downward spiral of drug use and seizures.

*'''Medical attaché''' - A medical attaché in charge of a Saudi prince who eats only Toblerone. He goes home to his wife and sits in his chair to escape reality. He is the first character in the novel rendered insane by repeated viewing of the Entertainment cartridge.

*'''Hugh/Helen Steeply''' - Cross-dresser with whom Orin Incandenza becomes obsessed. He works for the government Office of Unspecified Services, but is doing undercover work trying to get information out of Orin to find out more about the Entertainment. He talks to Marathe secretly.

*'''Gene Fackelmann (a.k.a. "Fax")''' - A member of Gately's former book-keeping enforcement crew. Fackelmann was a Dilaudid addict whose behavior (particularly his involvement in a scheme involving Whitey Sorkin, Sixties Bob, Eighties Bill and about $250,000 U.S.D.) brings the pathetic nature of drug addiction to Gately's attention for the first time.

==Plot/Synopsis==
The plot partially revolves around the missing master copy of a film cartridge, titled ''Infinite Jest'' and referred to in the novel as "the Entertainment" or "the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/samizdat samizdat]". The film is so entertaining to its viewers that they become lifeless, losing all interest in anything other than endless viewings of the film. Quebec separatists are interested in acquiring a Master, redistributable copy of the work.

==Subsidized Time==
In the book's future, advertising's relentless search for new markets has led to a world where, by O.N.A.N. dictate, years are referred to by the name of their corporate sponsor.

#Year of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whopper Whopper]
#Year of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucks_Pads Tucks] Medicated Pad
#Year of the Trial-Size [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dove_(chocolate) Dove] Bar
#Year of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perdue_Farms Perdue] Wonderchicken
#Year of the Whisper-Quiet [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maytag Maytag] Dishmaster
#Year of the Yushityu 2007 Mimetic-Resolution-Cartridge-View-Motherboard-Easy-To-Install-Upgrade For Infernatron/InterLace TP Systems For Home, Office, Or Mobile
#Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland
#Year of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depend Depend] Adult Undergarment
#Year of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glad_(company) Glad]

Most of the action in the novel takes place in the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, or Y.D.A.U., which is probably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_Calendar Gregorian] 2009. Critic Stephen Burn, in his book on ''Infinite Jest'', argues that Y.D.A.U. corresponds to 2009: the MIT Language Riots took place in 1997 (n. 24) and those riots occurred 12 years prior to Y.D.A.U. (n. 60). Also, if the "2007" in "Year of the Yushityu 2007 Mimetic-Resolution-Cartridge-View-Motherboard-Easy-To-Install-Upgrade For Infernatron/InterLace TP Systems For Home, Office, Or Mobile" refers to the pre-subsidization-style numerical date convention, then Y.D.A.U., which comes two years later, would be 2009.

It is also possible that Y.D.A.U. is 2008, as Matty Pemulis turns 23 in Y.D.A.U. (p. 682). Matty and Mike Pemulis' father immigrated from Ireland in 1989 when Matty was "three or four" (p. 683). If Matty had been three and four in 1989, he was born in 1985, which mean he turns 23 in 2008.

Also, in the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, November 4 falls on a Wednesday (176). If Subsidized Time is parallel to real-world time, this means that Y.D.A.U. would be either 2009 or 2015. Yet, Thanksgiving of the Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad falls on 24 November (793). Accordingly, Y.T.M.P has to be either 2005 or 2011, meaning that the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment would be 2012 or 2018, respectively.<ref>Wallace, David Foster. ''Infinite Jest.'' 1st. ed. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company. 1996</ref>

==Geographic location==

The fictional Enfield Tennis Academy is a series of buildings laid out as a cardioid on top of a hill on Commonwealth Avenue. This detail has certain thematic resonance, as ETA is in many ways the heart of the novel's setting, and a permutation of the American myth of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_upon_a_Hill City upon a hill]. Ennet House lies directly downhill of ETA, facilitating many of the interactions between characters residing in both locations.

Orin lives in Arizona, a state where much of the dialogue between Helen Steeply and Remy Marathe takes place, and the student union of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology]—in the novel the structure is built in the shape of the human brain—is both the broadcasting site of Madame Psychosis's radio show and the location of a potentially devastating tennis tournament between ETA and Canadian youths.

Enfield is largely a stand-in for [[Brighton, Massachusetts]]. Wallace's description of life in Enfield and neighboring Allston contrasts with the largely idyllic life of students at ETA. The real-life town of [[Enfield, Massachusetts|Enfield]] is now submerged under the [[Quabbin Reservoir]].

Wallace wrote the book while living in Syracuse, New York.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf?/base/news-15/122155534751021.xml| publisher=Syracuse Online| title=Author created 'Jest' in Syracuse| accessdate=2008-09-16| }}</ref>

==Stylistic elements==

*There are frequent references to endnotes throughout the novel. In an interview with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Rose Charlie Rose], Wallace characterized their use as a method of disrupting the linearity of the text while maintaining some sense of narrative cohesion.

*Acronyms are another signature device in Wallace's work and are used frequently within the novel.

*Wallace's writing voice is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/postmodern postmodern] mixture of high- and low-brow linguistic traits. He juxtaposes, often within a single sentence, colloquialisms and polysyllabic, highly esoteric words.

== Critical literature ==
=== Surveys ===

* Marshall Boswell, ''Understanding David Foster Wallace''. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. ISBN 1-57003-517-2
* Iannis Goerlandt and Luc Herman, "David Foster Wallace". ''Post-war Literatures in English: A Lexicon of Contemporary Authors'' 56 (2004), 1-16; A1-2, B1-2.

=== In-depth studies ===

* Burn, Stephen. ''David Foster Wallace's'' Infinite Jest'': A Reader's Guide''. New York, London: Continuum, 2003 (= Continuum Contemporaries) ISBN 0-8264-1477-X
* Carlisle, Greg. "Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace's 'Infinite Jest'". Hollywood: SSMG Press, 2007.
* Cioffi, Frank Louis. "An Anguish Becomes Thing: Narrative as Performance in David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest''". ''Narrative'' 8.2 (2000), 161-181.
* Delfino, Andrew Steven. "Becoming the New Man in Post-Postmodernist Fiction: Portrayals of Masculinities in David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest'' and [[Chuck Palahniuk]]'s ''[[Fight Club]]''". MA Thesis, Georgia State University. [http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04202007-113340/unrestricted/delfino_andrew_s_200705_ma.pdf]
* Goerlandt, Iannis. "'Put the book down and slowly walk away': Irony and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest". ''Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction'' 47.3 (2006), 309-328.
* Holland, Mary K. "'The Art's Heart's Purpose': Braving the Narcissistic Loop of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest". ''Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction'' 47.3 (2006), 218-242.
* Jacobs, Timothy. “The Brothers Incandenza: Translating Ideology in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s ''The Brothers Karamazov'' and David Foster Wallace’s ''Infinite Jest''.” ''Texas Studies in Literature and Language'' 49.3 (2007): 265-292.
* Jacobs, Timothy. “The Brothers Incandenza: Translating Ideology in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s ''The Brothers Karamazov'' and David Foster Wallace’s ''Infinite Jest''.” ''Contemporary Literary Criticism'' Vol. 271. Ed. Jeffrey Hunter. New York: Gale, 2009. Forthcoming.
* Jacobs, Timothy. “American Touchstone: The Idea of Order in Gerard Manley Hopkins and David Foster Wallace.” ''Comparative Literature Studies'' 38.3 (2001): 215-231.
* Jacobs, Timothy. “David Foster Wallace’s ''Infinite Jest''.” ''The Explicator'' 58.3 (2000): 172-175.
* Jacobs, Timothy. “David Foster Wallace’s ''The Broom of the System''.” Ed. Alan Hedblad. ''Beacham’s Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction''. Vol 15. New York: Thomson-Gale, 2001. 41-50.
* LeClair, Tom. "The Prodigious Fiction of [[Richard Powers]], [[William Vollmann]], and David Foster Wallace". ''Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction'' 38.1 (1996), 12-37.
* Nichols, Catherine "Dialogizing Postmodern Carnival: David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest''". ''Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction'' 43.1 (2001), 3-16.

===Interviews===

* Laura Miller, "The Salon Interview: David Foster Wallace". ''Salon'' 9 (1996). [http://archive.salon.com/09/features/wallace1.html]
* Michael Goldfarb, "David Foster Wallace". Radio interview for ''The Connection'' ([[25 June]] [[2004]]). ([http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2004/06/20040625_b_main.asp full audio interview])

== External links ==
* [http://www.smallbytes.net/~bobkat/jesterlist.html ''Infinite Jest''. Reviews, Articles, & Miscellany]
* [http://www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw.htm The Howling Fantods! - David Foster Wallace: News, Info, Links]
* [http://www.kottke.org/09/01/the-words-of-david-foster-wallace Vocabulary in Infinite Jest]
* [http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw960411david_foster_wallace Wallace talking about his novel]
* [http://www.thenewcanon.com/infinte_jest.html "Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace"] by Ted Gioia ([http://www.thenewcanon.com The New Canon])

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Infinite Jest

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| name = Infinite Jest
| image = [[Image:IJ_cover.jpg|230px]]
| image_caption = U.S. First Edition, February 1, 1996
| author = David Foster Wallace
| country = United States
| language = English
| genre = Novel
| publisher = Little, Brown
| release_date = 1996
| media_type = Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
| pages = 1079
| isbn = ISBN 0-316-92004-5
}}

'''''Infinite Jest''''' (1996) is a novel written by [[David Foster Wallace]]. The lengthy and complex work takes place in a semi-parodic future version of North America. The novel touches on the topics of tennis; substance addiction and recovery programs; depression; child abuse; family relationships; advertising and popular entertainment; film theory; and Quebec separatism.

''Time'' magazine included the novel in its ''TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005'' list.<ref name="TIME">{{Citation
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==Title==

The novel derives its name in part from a line in ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet Hamlet]'', in which Hamlet refers to the skull of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorick_(Hamlet) Yorick], the court jester: "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!"

In addition to being the title given to the fictional film central to the story, reviewers have also considered the title a "sly wink at the book's massive girth."<ref name="TIME"/>

Wallace's working title for ''Infinite Jest'' had been ''A Failed Entertainment''.<ref name="TRS1">{{Citation
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==Setting==

In the novel's future world, North America is one unified state comprising the United States, Canada, and Mexico, known as the Organization of North American Nations (O.N.A.N.). Corporations purchase naming rights to each calendar year, eliminating traditional numerical designations; for example, "The Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment" and "The Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland". Much of what used to be the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada has become a hazardous waste dump known as the "Great Concavity" to Americans and as the "Great Convexity" to Canadians.

The novel's primary locations are the Enfield Tennis Academy, Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House (footnoted "Redundancy sic" in the text), and a conversation between a Quebec separatist and a U.S. double agent outside of Tucson, AZ. Enfield Tennis Academy ("ETA") and Ennet House are separated by a hillside in suburban Boston, Massachusetts. Many characters are either students and faculty at the school or residents and staff at the halfway house.

==Characters==
===The Incandenza family===

*'''[[I#joi|James Orin Incandenza]],''' an optics expert and filmmaker, is the founder of the Enfield Tennis Academy. He is the creator of the Entertainment (a.k.a. ''Infinite Jest'' or "the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/samizdat samizdat]"). He was strongly attached to Joelle Van Dyne, his son Orin's strikingly beautiful girlfriend, and used her in many of his films. It is suggested that he can create and view the Entertainment without becoming entranced because at the time of its creation he is already insane. He appears in the book mainly either in flashbacks or as a ghost, having committed suicide by placing his head in a [[microwave oven]]. He is a notoriously heavy drinker, preferring Wild Turkey whiskey. His nickname among the family is '''Himself'''. The family also refers to him as 'The Mad Stork' or 'The Sad Stork'.

*'''[[I#ami|Avril Incandenza]],''' née '''Mondragon,''' is the (covertly) domineering mother of the Incandenza children and wife of James. A tall, beautiful Québécoise, she becomes a major figure at the Enfield Tennis Academy after the death of her husband and begins, or perhaps continues, a relationship with Charles Tavis, the new head of the academy and her either half- or adoptive brother. Her sexual relationships are a matter of some speculation/discussion; one with John "No Relation" Wayne is depicted. In one scene, James, speaking to Hal, refers to his "mother's cavortings with not one not two but over ''thirty'' Near Eastern medical attachés." She has a phobia of uncleanliness and disease, and is also described as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/agoraphobic agoraphobic]]. She has an obsessive-compulsive need to watch over ETA and her two youngest sons, Hal and Mario, who live at the school. Avril and Orin are no longer in contact with each other. Her nickname among the family is "The Moms."

*'''[[I#hji|Hal Incandenza]]''' is the youngest of the Incandenza children and arguably the protagonist of the novel, the events of which take place during Hal's senior year at ETA. Hal is as prodigiously intelligent and talented as the other members of his family, but insecure about his abilities (and eventually his mental state). He has a difficult relationship with both his parents. He reads the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' and like his mother often corrects the grammar of his friends and family. Hal's mental degradation and alienation from those around him culminate in his chronologically last appearance in the novel, in which all of his attempts at speech appear to others as uncontrolled screaming. The origin of Hal's final condition is unclear. One possibility is that the mold Hal ingested as a child developed into a hallucinogenic drug known as DMZ, with Hal's marijuana withdrawal serving as a catalyst; alternatively, his friend Michael Pemulis (or another Academy resident) may have doped his toothbrush with that drug. An accidental viewing of the titular film is another possible cause. It is also possible that Hal was subjected to a "Technical Interview", as was his older brother Orin.

*'''[[I#mi|Mario Incandenza]]''' is the Incandenzas' second son, although it is suggested that his father may be Charles Tavis rather than James. Severely deformed since birth (he is <balloon title="Having an exceptionally large head and brain" style="color:red">macrocephalic</balloon>, <balloon title="dentition in which the teeth closely resemble on another" style="color:red">homodontic</balloon>, and stands or walks at a 45 degree angle) he is nonetheless perennially cheerful. He is also a budding auteur, having served as camera and directorial assistant to James, and later inheriting the prodigious studio equipment and film lab built by his father on the grounds of the Academy. Hal, although younger, acts like a supportive older brother. Hal's nickname for Mario is "Booboo".

*'''[[I#oi|Orin Incandenza]]''' is the eldest son of the Incandenzas. He is a punter for the Arizona Cardinals and a serial womanizer, and is estranged from everyone in his family except Hal. In theory, Orin lost his attraction to Joelle after she supposedly became deformed when her mother threw acid in her face during a Thanksgiving dinner, but cites Joelle's questionable relationship with his father as the reason for the breakup. After breaking up with Joelle, Orin focuses his womanizing on young mothers; it is suggested by Hal that this is related to his blaming the Moms for the death of Himself.

===The Enfield Tennis Academy===

*'''Michael Pemulis''' - A working-class child from an Allston, Massachuesetts family and Hal's best friend. Pemulis is a prankster and the school's resident drug dealer. He is also very proficient in mathematics. This, combined with his limited but ultraprecise lobbing, made him the school's first Eschaton master. (Eschaton, a computer-aided turn-based nuclear wargame, requires that players be adept both at game theory and pegging targets with tennis balls. Pemulis is thus the archetypal Eschaton player.) Although the novel takes place long after Pemulis' Eschaton days (the game is played by twelve- to fourteen-year-olds), Pemulis is still regarded as the game's all-time great, and a final court of appeal in game matters. His brother Matt is a gay hustler.

*'''Ortho "The Darkness" Stice''' - Another of Hal's close friends. He only endorses brands that have black-colored products, and is at all times clad entirely in black. In a 3-setter, he nearly defeats Hal Incandenza late in the book, and becomes a more significant character as his ability to deny selfhood is realized. It is likely that Ortho is being visited by the ghost of Himself.

*'''John "No Relation" Wayne''' - The top ranked player at ETA. John Wayne was discovered by James Incandenza during interviews of men named [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne John Wayne] for a film. He is frighteningly efficient, controlled, and almost machine-like on the court. John Wayne is almost never directly quoted in the narrative; his statements are nearly always either summarized by the narrator or repeated by other characters. His Canadian and Quebecois citizenship has been revoked since he came to ETA. His father is a sick asbestos miner in Quebec who hopes that John will soon start earning "serious $" in the Show to "take him away from all this" (see "6 November YDAU, the meet with Port Washington").

*'''LaMont Chu''' - One of the 14-15 year old students at Enfield. He consults "sweat guru" Lyle for counsel after he becomes obsessed with attaining the more superficial rewards of success in professional tennis, and finds that his performance suffers from this obsession. His quixotic pursuit of fame has led some to suggest his name as a take-off of '[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote|La Mancha]'.

*'''Ann Kittenplan''' - Another tennis student at Enfield. One of the many players who becomes violently unhinged during the resident Eschaton tournament.

===The Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House===

*'''Don Gately''' - A former thief and Demerol addict, and current counselor in residence at the Ennet House. One of the novel's primary characters, Gately is physically enormous, an avid [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholics_Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous] member, and intricately (though not obviously) connected to both the Enfield Tennis Academy and the international struggle to seize the master copy of the Entertainment. During his middle-school and high-school years, Gately's size rendered him a formidable football talent, and he excelled in both offensive and defensive capacities. Gately is known for his toothbrush-in-ass tactic (an outrageous scene that was a favorite at public Wallace readings) and is the accidental murderer of M. DuPlessis, a leader of one of the many separatist Quebecois organizations and a samizdat conspirator. Gately, like Ortho Stice, is visited by the ghost of James O. Incandenza.

*'''Joelle Van Dyne''' (a.k.a. "Madame Psychosis" (her on-air name, a play on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/metempsychosis metempsychosis]), a.k.a. "The Prettiest Girl of All Time (or P.G.O.A.T.)") - The primary figure in the Entertainment. In the work, which is filmed through a wobbly "neo-natal" lens, she is seen reaching down to the camera, as if it were in a bassinet, and apologizing profusely. This is said to trigger an addictive pleasure complex in the viewer, which makes even partial viewing of the Entertainment suicidal. She wears a veil to hide her face, which was once strikingly beautiful. A member of the "Union of the Hideously and Improbably Deformed", she may be disfigured; based on an account by the unreliable Molly Notkin, her mother hit Joelle's face with a corrosive chemical compound produced by her father, an amateur mixologist who worked with acidic compounds. Despite Notkin's unreliability, however, it is likely that Joelle was to some extent disfigured by acid, given Orin's lack of interest in her following the incident and her repeated references to "the acid". She tries to "eliminate her own map" (that is, commit [[suicide]]) in Molly Notkin's bathroom via massive ingestion of freebase cocaine, which lands her in the Ennet House as a resident. She develops a strong connection to Don Gately and considers showing him what lies beneath the veil after his heroic actions in the middle of the text.

*'''Kate Gompert''' - A marijuana ("cannabinoid") addict who suffers from extreme unipolar depression. She shares a name with a former acquaintance of David Foster Wallace, who sued the author and his publisher following the release of the novel.

*'''Pat Montesian''' - The Ennet House manager. She is a recovering addict, stroke victim with partial facial paraylsis, and the wife of Mars Montesian, a Boston billionaire. Pat is especially fond of Don Gately.

*'''Ken Erdedy''' - A cannabinoid addict introduced early in the novel.

*'''Bruce Green''' - Ex-husband of Mildred Bonk Green. He once lived with Tommy Doocey, a harelipped pot dealer for Erdedy, et al. He is reticent and fondly thought of as stoic by Gately. He accompanies Lenz on post-AA meeting walks back to Ennet House, unwittingly preventing Lenz from murdering neighborhood pets.

*'''Randy Lenz''' - Cocaine addict and obsessive compulsive, residing at Ennet House not to recover, but to hide from both the police and a group of drug dealers involved in a tremendous simultaneous con. The stress of hiding, combined with partial withdrawal from cocaine, leads him to torturing animals, which in turn leads to the novel's climactic fight scene. His name may be a reference to the novella 'Lenz' by [[Georg Büchner]], the subject of which is 18th-century German writer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Michael_Reinhold_Lenz Jakob Michael Reinhold], a schizophrenic whose ruminations while taking a long walk make up much of the novella.

*'''Tiny Ewell''' - A lawyer with dwarfism. He is obsessed with the tattoos of fellow Ennet House residents, and develops a classification system for them.

*'''Geoffrey Day''' - A pompously verbose Ennet House resident and professor at a junior college. He enters rehabilitation after crashing his Saab into a department store. Previously, he wrote an article on the Wheelchair Assassins and their pre-adolescent train-jumping game.

*'''Calvin Thrust''' - Former porn star who was featured in several of Himself's films.

*'''Emil Minty''' - A hardcore smack-addict punk with a palsy and a tattoo of a swastika with the caption "FUCK NIGERS" on his left bicep, which he is heartily encouraged by Ennet House staff to keep covered.

===Les Assassins en Fauteuils Roulants===

Les Assassins en Fauteuils Roulants (A.F.R.), known in English as the Wheelchair Assassins, are a Quebecois separatist group. They are one of many such groups that developed after the United States coerced Canada and Mexico into joining the Organization of North American Nations (O.N.A.N.), but the A.F.R. is the most deadly and extremist. While other separatist groups are willing to settle for nationhood, the A.F.R. wants Canada to secede from O.N.A.N. and to reject America's forced gift of its polluted "Great Concavity" (or, Hal and Orin speculate, is pretending that those are its goals to put pressure on Canada to let Quebec secede). The Antitoi brothers suffer gruesome fates at the hands of the A.F.R. because they are members of a separatist group whose goals the A.F.R. finds unacceptably moderate. The A.F.R. seeks the master copy of ''Infinite Jest'' as a terrorist weapon to achieve its anti-experialist goals. The A.F.R. has its roots in a childhood game in which miners' sons line up alongside a train track and compete to be the last one to jump across the path of an oncoming train, an activity in which many were killed or maimed.

Only one miner's son has (disgracefully) failed to jump – Bernard Wayne, who may be related to ETA's John Wayne. Quebecois Avril's liaisons with Wayne and with the half-Canadian attache accidentally killed by Don Gately suggest that she may have ties to the A.F.R. as well. There is also evidence linking ETA prorector Thierry Poutrincourt to the group.

*'''Remy Marathe''' - Member of the Wheelchair Assassins who secretly talks to Hugh/Helen Steeply. Marathe is a quadruple agent: the AFR thinks that he is a triple agent, only pretending to betray the AFR, while Marathe and Steeply know that he only pretends to pretend to betray them. He does this in order to secure medical support for his wife (who was born without a skull) from the Office of Unspecified Services. Late in the novel, Marathe is sent to infiltrate Ennett House in the guise of a Swiss drug addict.

===Miscellaneous characters===
*'''Poor Tony Krause (P.T. Krause)''' - A drag queen formerly associated with Michael Pemulis's older brother, Matty, as well as Randy Lenz. Throughout the novel, Poor Tony is on a harrowing downward spiral of drug use and seizures.

*'''Medical attaché''' - A medical attaché in charge of a Saudi prince who eats only Toblerone. He goes home to his wife and sits in his chair to escape reality. He is the first character in the novel rendered insane by repeated viewing of the Entertainment cartridge.

*'''Hugh/Helen Steeply''' - Cross-dresser with whom Orin Incandenza becomes obsessed. He works for the government Office of Unspecified Services, but is doing undercover work trying to get information out of Orin to find out more about the Entertainment. He talks to Marathe secretly.

*'''Gene Fackelmann (a.k.a. "Fax")''' - A member of Gately's former book-keeping enforcement crew. Fackelmann was a Dilaudid addict whose behavior (particularly his involvement in a scheme involving Whitey Sorkin, Sixties Bob, Eighties Bill and about $250,000 U.S.D.) brings the pathetic nature of drug addiction to Gately's attention for the first time.

==Plot/Synopsis==
The plot partially revolves around the missing master copy of a film cartridge, titled ''Infinite Jest'' and referred to in the novel as "the Entertainment" or "the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/samizdat samizdat]". The film is so entertaining to its viewers that they become lifeless, losing all interest in anything other than endless viewings of the film. Quebec separatists are interested in acquiring a Master, redistributable copy of the work.

==Subsidized Time==
In the book's future, advertising's relentless search for new markets has led to a world where, by O.N.A.N. dictate, years are referred to by the name of their corporate sponsor.

#Year of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whopper Whopper]
#Year of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucks_Pads Tucks] Medicated Pad
#Year of the Trial-Size [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dove_(chocolate) Dove] Bar
#Year of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perdue_Farms Perdue] Wonderchicken
#Year of the Whisper-Quiet [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maytag Maytag] Dishmaster
#Year of the Yushityu 2007 Mimetic-Resolution-Cartridge-View-Motherboard-Easy-To-Install-Upgrade For Infernatron/InterLace TP Systems For Home, Office, Or Mobile
#Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland
#Year of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depend Depend] Adult Undergarment
#Year of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glad_(company) Glad]

Most of the action in the novel takes place in the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, or Y.D.A.U., which is probably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_Calendar Gregorian] 2009. Critic Stephen Burn, in his book on ''Infinite Jest'', argues that Y.D.A.U. corresponds to 2009: the MIT Language Riots took place in 1997 (n. 24) and those riots occurred 12 years prior to Y.D.A.U. (n. 60). Also, if the "2007" in "Year of the Yushityu 2007 Mimetic-Resolution-Cartridge-View-Motherboard-Easy-To-Install-Upgrade For Infernatron/InterLace TP Systems For Home, Office, Or Mobile" refers to the pre-subsidization-style numerical date convention, then Y.D.A.U., which comes two years later, would be 2009.

It is also possible that Y.D.A.U. is 2008, as Matty Pemulis turns 23 in Y.D.A.U. (p. 682). Matty and Mike Pemulis' father immigrated from Ireland in 1989 when Matty was "three or four" (p. 683). If Matty had been three and four in 1989, he was born in 1985, which mean he turns 23 in 2008.

Also, in the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, November 4 falls on a Wednesday (176). If Subsidized Time is parallel to real-world time, this means that Y.D.A.U. would be either 2009 or 2015. Yet, Thanksgiving of the Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad falls on 24 November (793). Accordingly, Y.T.M.P has to be either 2005 or 2011, meaning that the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment would be 2012 or 2018, respectively.<ref>Wallace, David Foster. ''Infinite Jest.'' 1st. ed. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company. 1996</ref>

==Geographic location==

The fictional Enfield Tennis Academy is a series of buildings laid out as a cardioid on top of a hill on Commonwealth Avenue. This detail has certain thematic resonance, as ETA is in many ways the heart of the novel's setting, and a permutation of the American myth of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_upon_a_Hill City upon a hill]. Ennet House lies directly downhill of ETA, facilitating many of the interactions between characters residing in both locations.

Orin lives in Arizona, a state where much of the dialogue between Helen Steeply and Remy Marathe takes place, and the student union of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology]—in the novel the structure is built in the shape of the human brain—is both the broadcasting site of Madame Psychosis's radio show and the location of a potentially devastating tennis tournament between ETA and Canadian youths.

Enfield is largely a stand-in for [[Brighton, Massachusetts]]. Wallace's description of life in Enfield and neighboring Allston contrasts with the largely idyllic life of students at ETA. The real-life town of [[Enfield, Massachusetts|Enfield]] is now submerged under the [[Quabbin Reservoir]].

Wallace wrote the book while living in Syracuse, New York.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf?/base/news-15/122155534751021.xml| publisher=Syracuse Online| title=Author created 'Jest' in Syracuse| accessdate=2008-09-16| }}</ref>

==Stylistic elements==

*There are frequent references to endnotes throughout the novel. In an interview with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Rose Charlie Rose], Wallace characterized their use as a method of disrupting the linearity of the text while maintaining some sense of narrative cohesion.

*Acronyms are another signature device in Wallace's work and are used frequently within the novel.

*Wallace's writing voice is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/postmodern postmodern] mixture of high- and low-brow linguistic traits. He juxtaposes, often within a single sentence, colloquialisms and polysyllabic, highly esoteric words.

== Critical literature ==
=== Surveys ===

* Marshall Boswell, ''Understanding David Foster Wallace''. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. ISBN 1-57003-517-2
* Iannis Goerlandt and Luc Herman, "David Foster Wallace". ''Post-war Literatures in English: A Lexicon of Contemporary Authors'' 56 (2004), 1-16; A1-2, B1-2.

=== In-depth studies ===

* Burn, Stephen. ''David Foster Wallace's'' Infinite Jest'': A Reader's Guide''. New York, London: Continuum, 2003 (= Continuum Contemporaries) ISBN 0-8264-1477-X
* Carlisle, Greg. "Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace's 'Infinite Jest'". Hollywood: SSMG Press, 2007.
* Cioffi, Frank Louis. "An Anguish Becomes Thing: Narrative as Performance in David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest''". ''Narrative'' 8.2 (2000), 161-181.
* Delfino, Andrew Steven. "Becoming the New Man in Post-Postmodernist Fiction: Portrayals of Masculinities in David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest'' and [[Chuck Palahniuk]]'s ''[[Fight Club]]''". MA Thesis, Georgia State University. [http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04202007-113340/unrestricted/delfino_andrew_s_200705_ma.pdf]
* Goerlandt, Iannis. "'Put the book down and slowly walk away': Irony and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest". ''Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction'' 47.3 (2006), 309-328.
* Holland, Mary K. "'The Art's Heart's Purpose': Braving the Narcissistic Loop of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest". ''Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction'' 47.3 (2006), 218-242.
* Jacobs, Timothy. “The Brothers Incandenza: Translating Ideology in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s ''The Brothers Karamazov'' and David Foster Wallace’s ''Infinite Jest''.” ''Texas Studies in Literature and Language'' 49.3 (2007): 265-292.
* Jacobs, Timothy. “The Brothers Incandenza: Translating Ideology in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s ''The Brothers Karamazov'' and David Foster Wallace’s ''Infinite Jest''.” ''Contemporary Literary Criticism'' Vol. 271. Ed. Jeffrey Hunter. New York: Gale, 2009. Forthcoming.
* Jacobs, Timothy. “American Touchstone: The Idea of Order in Gerard Manley Hopkins and David Foster Wallace.” ''Comparative Literature Studies'' 38.3 (2001): 215-231.
* Jacobs, Timothy. “David Foster Wallace’s ''Infinite Jest''.” ''The Explicator'' 58.3 (2000): 172-175.
* Jacobs, Timothy. “David Foster Wallace’s ''The Broom of the System''.” Ed. Alan Hedblad. ''Beacham’s Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction''. Vol 15. New York: Thomson-Gale, 2001. 41-50.
* LeClair, Tom. "The Prodigious Fiction of [[Richard Powers]], [[William Vollmann]], and David Foster Wallace". ''Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction'' 38.1 (1996), 12-37.
* Nichols, Catherine "Dialogizing Postmodern Carnival: David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest''". ''Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction'' 43.1 (2001), 3-16.

===Interviews===

* Laura Miller, "The Salon Interview: David Foster Wallace". ''Salon'' 9 (1996). [http://archive.salon.com/09/features/wallace1.html]
* Michael Goldfarb, "David Foster Wallace". Radio interview for ''The Connection'' ([[25 June]] [[2004]]). ([http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2004/06/20040625_b_main.asp full audio interview])

== External links ==
* [http://www.smallbytes.net/~bobkat/jesterlist.html ''Infinite Jest''. Reviews, Articles, & Miscellany]
* [http://www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw.htm The Howling Fantods! - David Foster Wallace: News, Info, Links]
* [http://www.kottke.org/09/01/the-words-of-david-foster-wallace Vocabulary in Infinite Jest]
* [http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw960411david_foster_wallace Wallace talking about his novel]
* [http://www.thenewcanon.com/infinte_jest.html "Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace"] by Ted Gioia ([http://www.thenewcanon.com The New Canon])

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Infinite Jest

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{{infobox Book |
| name = Infinite Jest
| image = [[Image:IJ_cover.jpg|230px]]
| image_caption = U.S. First Edition, February 1, 1996
| author = David Foster Wallace
| country = United States
| language = English
| genre = Novel
| publisher = Little, Brown
| release_date = 1996
| media_type = Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
| pages = 1079
| isbn = ISBN 0-316-92004-5
}}

'''''Infinite Jest''''' (1996) is a novel written by [[David Foster Wallace]]. The lengthy and complex work takes place in a semi-parodic future version of North America. The novel touches on the topics of tennis; substance addiction and recovery programs; depression; child abuse; family relationships; advertising and popular entertainment; film theory; and Quebec separatism.

''Time'' magazine included the novel in its ''TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005'' list.<ref name="TIME">{{Citation
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==Title==

The novel derives its name in part from a line in ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet Hamlet]'', in which Hamlet refers to the skull of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorick_(Hamlet) Yorick], the court jester: "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!"

In addition to being the title given to the fictional film central to the story, reviewers have also considered the title a "sly wink at the book's massive girth."<ref name="TIME"/>

Wallace's working title for ''Infinite Jest'' had been ''A Failed Entertainment''.<ref name="TRS1">{{Citation
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==Setting==

In the novel's future world, North America is one unified state comprising the United States, Canada, and Mexico, known as the Organization of North American Nations (O.N.A.N.). Corporations purchase naming rights to each calendar year, eliminating traditional numerical designations; for example, "The Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment" and "The Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland". Much of what used to be the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada has become a hazardous waste dump known as the "Great Concavity" to Americans and as the "Great Convexity" to Canadians.

The novel's primary locations are the Enfield Tennis Academy, Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House (footnoted "Redundancy sic" in the text), and a conversation between a Quebec separatist and a U.S. double agent outside of Tucson, AZ. Enfield Tennis Academy ("ETA") and Ennet House are separated by a hillside in suburban Boston, Massachusetts. Many characters are either students and faculty at the school or residents and staff at the halfway house.

==Characters==
===The Incandenza family===

*'''[[I#joi|James Orin Incandenza]],''' an optics expert and filmmaker, is the founder of the Enfield Tennis Academy. He is the creator of the Entertainment (a.k.a. ''Infinite Jest'' or "the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/samizdat samizdat]"). He was strongly attached to Joelle Van Dyne, his son Orin's strikingly beautiful girlfriend, and used her in many of his films. It is suggested that he can create and view the Entertainment without becoming entranced because at the time of its creation he is already insane. He appears in the book mainly either in flashbacks or as a ghost, having committed suicide by placing his head in a [[microwave oven]]. He is a notoriously heavy drinker, preferring Wild Turkey whiskey. His nickname among the family is '''Himself'''. The family also refers to him as 'The Mad Stork' or 'The Sad Stork'.

*'''[[I#ami|Avril Incandenza]],''' née '''Mondragon,''' is the (covertly) domineering mother of the Incandenza children and wife of James. A tall, beautiful Québécoise, she becomes a major figure at the Enfield Tennis Academy after the death of her husband and begins, or perhaps continues, a relationship with Charles Tavis, the new head of the academy and her either half- or adoptive brother. Her sexual relationships are a matter of some speculation/discussion; one with John "No Relation" Wayne is depicted. In one scene, James, speaking to Hal, refers to his "mother's cavortings with not one not two but over ''thirty'' Near Eastern medical attachés." She has a phobia of uncleanliness and disease, and is also described as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/agoraphobic agoraphobic]]. She has an obsessive-compulsive need to watch over ETA and her two youngest sons, Hal and Mario, who live at the school. Avril and Orin are no longer in contact with each other. Her nickname among the family is "The Moms."

*'''[[I#hji|Hal Incandenza]]''' is the youngest of the Incandenza children and arguably the protagonist of the novel, the events of which are centered around his time at ETA. Hal is as prodigiously intelligent and talented as the other members of his family, but insecure about his abilities (and eventually his mental state). He has a difficult relationship with both his parents. He reads the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' and like his mother often corrects the grammar of his friends and family. Hal's mental degradation and alienation from those around him culminate in his chronologically last appearance in the novel, in which all of his attempts at speech appear to others as uncontrolled screaming. The origin of Hal's final condition is unclear. One possibility is that the mold Hal ingested as a child developed into a hallucinogenic drug known as DMZ, with Hal's marijuana withdrawal serving as a catalyst; alternatively, his friend Michael Pemulis (or another Academy resident) may have doped his toothbrush with that drug. An accidental viewing of the titular film is another possible cause. It is also possible that Hal was subjected to a "Technical Interview", as was his older brother Orin.

*'''[[I#mi|Mario Incandenza]]''' is the Incandenzas' second son, although it is suggested that his father may be Charles Tavis rather than James. Severely deformed since birth (he is <balloon title="Having an exceptionally large head and brain" style="color:red">macrocephalic</balloon>, <balloon title="dentition in which the teeth closely resemble on another" style="color:red">homodontic</balloon>, and stands or walks at a 45 degree angle) he is nonetheless perennially cheerful. He is also a budding auteur, having served as camera and directorial assistant to James, and later inheriting the prodigious studio equipment and film lab built by his father on the grounds of the Academy. Hal, although younger, acts like a supportive older brother. Hal's nickname for Mario is "Booboo".

*'''[[I#oi|Orin Incandenza]]''' is the eldest son of the Incandenzas. He is a punter for the Arizona Cardinals and a serial womanizer, and is estranged from everyone in his family except Hal. In theory, Orin lost his attraction to Joelle after she supposedly became deformed when her mother threw acid in her face during a Thanksgiving dinner, but cites Joelle's questionable relationship with his father as the reason for the breakup. After breaking up with Joelle, Orin focuses his womanizing on young mothers; it is suggested by Hal that this is related to his blaming the Moms for the death of Himself.

===The Enfield Tennis Academy===

*'''Michael Pemulis''' - A working-class child from an Allston, Massachuesetts family and Hal's best friend. Pemulis is a prankster and the school's resident drug dealer. He is also very proficient in mathematics. This, combined with his limited but ultraprecise lobbing, made him the school's first Eschaton master. (Eschaton, a computer-aided turn-based nuclear wargame, requires that players be adept both at game theory and pegging targets with tennis balls. Pemulis is thus the archetypal Eschaton player.) Although the novel takes place long after Pemulis' Eschaton days (the game is played by twelve- to fourteen-year-olds), Pemulis is still regarded as the game's all-time great, and a final court of appeal in game matters. His brother Matt is a gay hustler.

*'''Ortho "The Darkness" Stice''' - Another of Hal's close friends. He only endorses brands that have black-colored products, and is at all times clad entirely in black. In a 3-setter, he nearly defeats Hal Incandenza late in the book, and becomes a more significant character as his ability to deny selfhood is realized. It is likely that Ortho is being visited by the ghost of Himself.

*'''John "No Relation" Wayne''' - The top ranked player at ETA. John Wayne was discovered by James Incandenza during interviews of men named [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne John Wayne] for a film. He is frighteningly efficient, controlled, and almost machine-like on the court. John Wayne is almost never directly quoted in the narrative; his statements are nearly always either summarized by the narrator or repeated by other characters. His Canadian and Quebecois citizenship has been revoked since he came to ETA. His father is a sick asbestos miner in Quebec who hopes that John will soon start earning "serious $" in the Show to "take him away from all this" (see "6 November YDAU, the meet with Port Washington").

*'''LaMont Chu''' - One of the 14-15 year old students at Enfield. He consults "sweat guru" Lyle for counsel after he becomes obsessed with attaining the more superficial rewards of success in professional tennis, and finds that his performance suffers from this obsession. His quixotic pursuit of fame has led some to suggest his name as a take-off of '[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote|La Mancha]'.

*'''Ann Kittenplan''' - Another tennis student at Enfield. One of the many players who becomes violently unhinged during the resident Eschaton tournament.

===The Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House===

*'''Don Gately''' - A former thief and Demerol addict, and current counselor in residence at the Ennet House. One of the novel's primary characters, Gately is physically enormous, an avid [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholics_Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous] member, and intricately (though not obviously) connected to both the Enfield Tennis Academy and the international struggle to seize the master copy of the Entertainment. During his middle-school and high-school years, Gately's size rendered him a formidable football talent, and he excelled in both offensive and defensive capacities. Gately is known for his toothbrush-in-ass tactic (an outrageous scene that was a favorite at public Wallace readings) and is the accidental murderer of M. DuPlessis, a leader of one of the many separatist Quebecois organizations and a samizdat conspirator. Gately, like Ortho Stice, is visited by the ghost of James O. Incandenza.

*'''Joelle Van Dyne''' (a.k.a. "Madame Psychosis" (her on-air name, a play on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/metempsychosis metempsychosis]), a.k.a. "The Prettiest Girl of All Time (or P.G.O.A.T.)") - The primary figure in the Entertainment. In the work, which is filmed through a wobbly "neo-natal" lens, she is seen reaching down to the camera, as if it were in a bassinet, and apologizing profusely. This is said to trigger an addictive pleasure complex in the viewer, which makes even partial viewing of the Entertainment suicidal. She wears a veil to hide her face, which was once strikingly beautiful. A member of the "Union of the Hideously and Improbably Deformed", she may be disfigured; based on an account by the unreliable Molly Notkin, her mother hit Joelle's face with a corrosive chemical compound produced by her father, an amateur mixologist who worked with acidic compounds. Despite Notkin's unreliability, however, it is likely that Joelle was to some extent disfigured by acid, given Orin's lack of interest in her following the incident and her repeated references to "the acid". She tries to "eliminate her own map" (that is, commit [[suicide]]) in Molly Notkin's bathroom via massive ingestion of freebase cocaine, which lands her in the Ennet House as a resident. She develops a strong connection to Don Gately and considers showing him what lies beneath the veil after his heroic actions in the middle of the text.

*'''Kate Gompert''' - A marijuana ("cannabinoid") addict who suffers from extreme unipolar depression. She shares a name with a former acquaintance of David Foster Wallace, who sued the author and his publisher following the release of the novel.

*'''Pat Montesian''' - The Ennet House manager. She is a recovering addict, stroke victim with partial facial paraylsis, and the wife of Mars Montesian, a Boston billionaire. Pat is especially fond of Don Gately.

*'''Ken Erdedy''' - A cannabinoid addict introduced early in the novel.

*'''Bruce Green''' - Ex-husband of Mildred Bonk Green. He once lived with Tommy Doocey, a harelipped pot dealer for Erdedy, et al. He is reticent and fondly thought of as stoic by Gately. He accompanies Lenz on post-AA meeting walks back to Ennet House, unwittingly preventing Lenz from murdering neighborhood pets.

*'''Randy Lenz''' - Cocaine addict and obsessive compulsive, residing at Ennet House not to recover, but to hide from both the police and a group of drug dealers involved in a tremendous simultaneous con. The stress of hiding, combined with partial withdrawal from cocaine, leads him to torturing animals, which in turn leads to the novel's climactic fight scene. His name may be a reference to the novella 'Lenz' by [[Georg Büchner]], the subject of which is 18th-century German writer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Michael_Reinhold_Lenz Jakob Michael Reinhold], a schizophrenic whose ruminations while taking a long walk make up much of the novella.

*'''Tiny Ewell''' - A lawyer with dwarfism. He is obsessed with the tattoos of fellow Ennet House residents, and develops a classification system for them.

*'''Geoffrey Day''' - A pompously verbose Ennet House resident and professor at a junior college. He enters rehabilitation after crashing his Saab into a department store. Previously, he wrote an article on the Wheelchair Assassins and their pre-adolescent train-jumping game.

*'''Calvin Thrust''' - Former porn star who was featured in several of Himself's films.

*'''Emil Minty''' - A hardcore smack-addict punk with a palsy and a tattoo of a swastika with the caption "FUCK NIGERS" on his left bicep, which he is heartily encouraged by Ennet House staff to keep covered.

===Les Assassins en Fauteuils Roulants===

Les Assassins en Fauteuils Roulants (A.F.R.), known in English as the Wheelchair Assassins, are a Quebecois separatist group. They are one of many such groups that developed after the United States coerced Canada and Mexico into joining the Organization of North American Nations (O.N.A.N.), but the A.F.R. is the most deadly and extremist. While other separatist groups are willing to settle for nationhood, the A.F.R. wants Canada to secede from O.N.A.N. and to reject America's forced gift of its polluted "Great Concavity" (or, Hal and Orin speculate, is pretending that those are its goals to put pressure on Canada to let Quebec secede). The Antitoi brothers suffer gruesome fates at the hands of the A.F.R. because they are members of a separatist group whose goals the A.F.R. finds unacceptably moderate. The A.F.R. seeks the master copy of ''Infinite Jest'' as a terrorist weapon to achieve its anti-experialist goals. The A.F.R. has its roots in a childhood game in which miners' sons line up alongside a train track and compete to be the last one to jump across the path of an oncoming train, an activity in which many were killed or maimed.

Only one miner's son has (disgracefully) failed to jump – Bernard Wayne, who may be related to ETA's John Wayne. Quebecois Avril's liaisons with Wayne and with the half-Canadian attache accidentally killed by Don Gately suggest that she may have ties to the A.F.R. as well. There is also evidence linking ETA prorector Thierry Poutrincourt to the group.

*'''Remy Marathe''' - Member of the Wheelchair Assassins who secretly talks to Hugh/Helen Steeply. Marathe is a quadruple agent: the AFR thinks that he is a triple agent, only pretending to betray the AFR, while Marathe and Steeply know that he only pretends to pretend to betray them. He does this in order to secure medical support for his wife (who was born without a skull) from the Office of Unspecified Services. Late in the novel, Marathe is sent to infiltrate Ennett House in the guise of a Swiss drug addict.

===Miscellaneous characters===
*'''Poor Tony Krause (P.T. Krause)''' - A drag queen formerly associated with Michael Pemulis's older brother, Matty, as well as Randy Lenz. Throughout the novel, Poor Tony is on a harrowing downward spiral of drug use and seizures.

*'''Medical attaché''' - A medical attaché in charge of a Saudi prince who eats only Toblerone. He goes home to his wife and sits in his chair to escape reality. He is the first character in the novel rendered insane by repeated viewing of the Entertainment cartridge.

*'''Hugh/Helen Steeply''' - Cross-dresser with whom Orin Incandenza becomes obsessed. He works for the government Office of Unspecified Services, but is doing undercover work trying to get information out of Orin to find out more about the Entertainment. He talks to Marathe secretly.

*'''Gene Fackelmann (a.k.a. "Fax")''' - A member of Gately's former book-keeping enforcement crew. Fackelmann was a Dilaudid addict whose behavior (particularly his involvement in a scheme involving Whitey Sorkin, Sixties Bob, Eighties Bill and about $250,000 U.S.D.) brings the pathetic nature of drug addiction to Gately's attention for the first time.

==Plot/Synopsis==
The plot partially revolves around the missing master copy of a film cartridge, titled ''Infinite Jest'' and referred to in the novel as "the Entertainment" or "the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/samizdat samizdat]". The film is so entertaining to its viewers that they become lifeless, losing all interest in anything other than endless viewings of the film. Quebec separatists are interested in acquiring a Master, redistributable copy of the work.

==Subsidized Time==
In the book's future, advertising's relentless search for new markets has led to a world where, by O.N.A.N. dictate, years are referred to by the name of their corporate sponsor.

#Year of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whopper Whopper]
#Year of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucks_Pads Tucks] Medicated Pad
#Year of the Trial-Size [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dove_(chocolate) Dove] Bar
#Year of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perdue_Farms Perdue] Wonderchicken
#Year of the Whisper-Quiet [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maytag Maytag] Dishmaster
#Year of the Yushityu 2007 Mimetic-Resolution-Cartridge-View-Motherboard-Easy-To-Install-Upgrade For Infernatron/InterLace TP Systems For Home, Office, Or Mobile
#Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland
#Year of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depend Depend] Adult Undergarment
#Year of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glad_(company) Glad]

Most of the action in the novel takes place in the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, or Y.D.A.U., which is probably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_Calendar Gregorian] 2009. Critic Stephen Burn, in his book on ''Infinite Jest'', argues that Y.D.A.U. corresponds to 2009: the MIT Language Riots took place in 1997 (n. 24) and those riots occurred 12 years prior to Y.D.A.U. (n. 60). Also, if the "2007" in "Year of the Yushityu 2007 Mimetic-Resolution-Cartridge-View-Motherboard-Easy-To-Install-Upgrade For Infernatron/InterLace TP Systems For Home, Office, Or Mobile" refers to the pre-subsidization-style numerical date convention, then Y.D.A.U., which comes two years later, would be 2009.

It is also possible that Y.D.A.U. is 2008, as Matty Pemulis turns 23 in Y.D.A.U. (p. 682). Matty and Mike Pemulis' father immigrated from Ireland in 1989 when Matty was "three or four" (p. 683). If Matty had been three and four in 1989, he was born in 1985, which mean he turns 23 in 2008.

Also, in the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, November 4 falls on a Wednesday (176). If Subsidized Time is parallel to real-world time, this means that Y.D.A.U. would be either 2009 or 2015. Yet, Thanksgiving of the Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad falls on 24 November (793). Accordingly, Y.T.M.P has to be either 2005 or 2011, meaning that the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment would be 2012 or 2018, respectively.<ref>Wallace, David Foster. ''Infinite Jest.'' 1st. ed. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company. 1996</ref>

==Geographic location==

The fictional Enfield Tennis Academy is a series of buildings laid out as a cardioid on top of a hill on Commonwealth Avenue. This detail has certain thematic resonance, as ETA is in many ways the heart of the novel's setting, and a permutation of the American myth of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_upon_a_Hill City upon a hill]. Ennet House lies directly downhill of ETA, facilitating many of the interactions between characters residing in both locations.

Orin lives in Arizona, a state where much of the dialogue between Helen Steeply and Remy Marathe takes place, and the student union of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology]—in the novel the structure is built in the shape of the human brain—is both the broadcasting site of Madame Psychosis's radio show and the location of a potentially devastating tennis tournament between ETA and Canadian youths.

Enfield is largely a stand-in for [[Brighton, Massachusetts]]. Wallace's description of life in Enfield and neighboring Allston contrasts with the largely idyllic life of students at ETA. The real-life town of [[Enfield, Massachusetts|Enfield]] is now submerged under the [[Quabbin Reservoir]].

Wallace wrote the book while living in Syracuse, New York.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf?/base/news-15/122155534751021.xml| publisher=Syracuse Online| title=Author created 'Jest' in Syracuse| accessdate=2008-09-16| }}</ref>

==Stylistic elements==

*There are frequent references to endnotes throughout the novel. In an interview with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Rose Charlie Rose], Wallace characterized their use as a method of disrupting the linearity of the text while maintaining some sense of narrative cohesion.

*Acronyms are another signature device in Wallace's work and are used frequently within the novel.

*Wallace's writing voice is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/postmodern postmodern] mixture of high- and low-brow linguistic traits. He juxtaposes, often within a single sentence, colloquialisms and polysyllabic, highly esoteric words.

== Critical literature ==
=== Surveys ===

* Marshall Boswell, ''Understanding David Foster Wallace''. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. ISBN 1-57003-517-2
* Iannis Goerlandt and Luc Herman, "David Foster Wallace". ''Post-war Literatures in English: A Lexicon of Contemporary Authors'' 56 (2004), 1-16; A1-2, B1-2.

=== In-depth studies ===

* Burn, Stephen. ''David Foster Wallace's'' Infinite Jest'': A Reader's Guide''. New York, London: Continuum, 2003 (= Continuum Contemporaries) ISBN 0-8264-1477-X
* Carlisle, Greg. "Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace's 'Infinite Jest'". Hollywood: SSMG Press, 2007.
* Cioffi, Frank Louis. "An Anguish Becomes Thing: Narrative as Performance in David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest''". ''Narrative'' 8.2 (2000), 161-181.
* Delfino, Andrew Steven. "Becoming the New Man in Post-Postmodernist Fiction: Portrayals of Masculinities in David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest'' and [[Chuck Palahniuk]]'s ''[[Fight Club]]''". MA Thesis, Georgia State University. [http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04202007-113340/unrestricted/delfino_andrew_s_200705_ma.pdf]
* Goerlandt, Iannis. "'Put the book down and slowly walk away': Irony and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest". ''Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction'' 47.3 (2006), 309-328.
* Holland, Mary K. "'The Art's Heart's Purpose': Braving the Narcissistic Loop of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest". ''Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction'' 47.3 (2006), 218-242.
* Jacobs, Timothy. “The Brothers Incandenza: Translating Ideology in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s ''The Brothers Karamazov'' and David Foster Wallace’s ''Infinite Jest''.” ''Texas Studies in Literature and Language'' 49.3 (2007): 265-292.
* Jacobs, Timothy. “The Brothers Incandenza: Translating Ideology in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s ''The Brothers Karamazov'' and David Foster Wallace’s ''Infinite Jest''.” ''Contemporary Literary Criticism'' Vol. 271. Ed. Jeffrey Hunter. New York: Gale, 2009. Forthcoming.
* Jacobs, Timothy. “American Touchstone: The Idea of Order in Gerard Manley Hopkins and David Foster Wallace.” ''Comparative Literature Studies'' 38.3 (2001): 215-231.
* Jacobs, Timothy. “David Foster Wallace’s ''Infinite Jest''.” ''The Explicator'' 58.3 (2000): 172-175.
* Jacobs, Timothy. “David Foster Wallace’s ''The Broom of the System''.” Ed. Alan Hedblad. ''Beacham’s Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction''. Vol 15. New York: Thomson-Gale, 2001. 41-50.
* LeClair, Tom. "The Prodigious Fiction of [[Richard Powers]], [[William Vollmann]], and David Foster Wallace". ''Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction'' 38.1 (1996), 12-37.
* Nichols, Catherine "Dialogizing Postmodern Carnival: David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest''". ''Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction'' 43.1 (2001), 3-16.

===Interviews===

* Laura Miller, "The Salon Interview: David Foster Wallace". ''Salon'' 9 (1996). [http://archive.salon.com/09/features/wallace1.html]
* Michael Goldfarb, "David Foster Wallace". Radio interview for ''The Connection'' ([[25 June]] [[2004]]). ([http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2004/06/20040625_b_main.asp full audio interview])

== External links ==
* [http://www.smallbytes.net/~bobkat/jesterlist.html ''Infinite Jest''. Reviews, Articles, & Miscellany]
* [http://www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw.htm The Howling Fantods! - David Foster Wallace: News, Info, Links]
* [http://www.kottke.org/09/01/the-words-of-david-foster-wallace Vocabulary in Infinite Jest]
* [http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw960411david_foster_wallace Wallace talking about his novel]
* [http://www.thenewcanon.com/infinte_jest.html "Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace"] by Ted Gioia ([http://www.thenewcanon.com The New Canon])

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'''I, Mrs.''' 
154; aka Avril Incandenza

'''Iaccarino''' 
231; Chaplin-archivist at Notkin's party

'''I.B.E.W. Local 517''' 
813; Ewell's father's union ("International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers")

<div id="ami">'''Incandenza, Mrs. Avril M. (Mondragon) T. ("The Moms")''' </div>
10; native of Canada; Hal's mother; "assignations with a certain unnamed bisexual bassoonist in the Albertan Secret Guard's tactical-bands unit" (per Himself), 30; affair with medical attaché, 30, 91, 1049; slipping "certain organic testosterone-regeneration compound distilled by the Jivaro shamen of the South-Central L.A. basin" into Hal's cereal (according to Himself), 30; "''agoraphobic'' workaholic and obsessive-compulsive" 42; working hard not to show her "maternal dread" 50; "black phobic dread of hiding or secrecy," "rarely travels above ground" 51; marriage to Himself, 64; "taught out at Brandeis where [DuPlessis had] done his residency" 91; teaches triad of required Grammars at ETA, 154; 187; "had this effect on older men" 286; "E.T.A. Dean of Academic Affairs and of Females" 288; smokes Benson & Hedges, 391; "The Black Hole of Human Attention" (Family Trivia) 521; "at 50+, is still endocrinologically compelling to males" fn.210/1035; Politeness Routine, 523; w/J. Wayne, 552; father was a potato farmer in Québec, fn.234/1041; style of "abuse" 1050; reaction to S. Johnson's demise, 1051; "views the recipients of [her] charity not as persons so much as pieces of exercise equipment on which [she] can develop and demonstrate [her] own virtue" fn.269/1052; AFR spy ?, 726; "the family's light and pulse and the center that held tight" 737; everyone at the table inclines toward Avril "like heliotropes" 745; chattin with Mario in her office, 762; grandfather's unlucky gamble on Delaware Punch, 765; drunk father, 766; "Death incarnate, 790; "engaging in sexual enmeshments with just about everything with a Y-chromosome" 791; "mother had been ethnic Québecois, her father Anglo-Canadian" 897-98; father was a binge-drinker, 898; "The Moms full name is Avril Mondragon Tavis Incandenza, Ed.D., Ph.D. She is 197 cm (6' 5 1/2") tall in flats" 898; "had Himself interred in her family's traditional plot in L'Islet Province" 907; "birth-mother had died in Québec of an infarction when [the Moms] was eight, her father during her sophomore year at McGill under circumstances none of us knew" 953; affairs with "Bain, graduate students, grammatical colleagues, Japanese fight-choreographers, the hairy-shouldered Ken N. Johnson, the Islamic M.D." 957; "has O.C.D. Obsessive-Compulsive-Disorder" fn.234/1039;

<div id="hji">'''Incandenza, Harold ("Hal") James''' </div>
3; in Univ. of AZ Administration office in 11/Y.G.; "verbal scores that are just quite a bit closer to zero than we're comfortable with" 6; essays parroting his parents' interests, 7; "familiar panic of feeling misperceived" 8; "Call it something I ate" 10; mold-eating incident, 10, fn.234/1041; in an emergency room "almost exactly one year back" (from 11/Y.G.), 16; digging up his father's head, 17; "Is Himself still having this hallucination I never speak?" (Hal is 12), 29; interest in Byzantine pornography, 29, 950; "obsession with having nobody [...] know he's high" 54; drugs and, 67; "atavistically dark-complected" 99; pedigree, 100; ankle, 104; gets high daily, 114; "Blott and Arslanian are looking at him. 'Are you OK?'" 114; "a twinge in a tooth on his mouth's left side" 121; "60% of what he told Orin on the phone since Orin had abruptly started calling again this spring was a lie" 136; paper on modern v. post-modern hero, 140-42; "the catatonic hero, the one beyond calm, divorced from all stimulus, carried here and there across sets by burly extras" 142; bunks in subdorm A on 3rd floor of Comm.-Ad.; date of birth: 10/91, 155; about, 155; training, 172; "the window of opportunity [to take DMZ] looks to be 11/20-21" 217; discovered J.I. in microwave, 248; and the grief-therapist, 252; his tennis game, 260; "asymetrically hobbled on the care-too-much side" of tennis proficiency, 269; "the substance-compulsion's strange apparent contribution to Hal's erumpent explosion up the rankings has got to be a temporary thing, that there's like a psychic credit-card bill for Hal in the mail" 270; "feels at his own face to see whether he is wincing" 342; craves dope, tobacco & sugar, 395; "an almost obsessive dislike for deLint" 460; taking care of the blind kid from Philo IL who had "cranium-issues" 518; "at complete ease with" Stice, 521; lying on his back "photosynthesizing" 560; relationship to the Moms, fn.234/1040; near-loss to Stice, 627; "lifetime virginity is a conscious goal" 634; "a whole new and chemical-free Hal" 635; "Hal's in essence a torturer" as a player, 659; Pump Room hideaway sniffed out by kids, 668; his tennis game, 680, 682; chewing Kodiak, 686; "the sleek little show-offy kid" 745; ONANTA guy holding him and Pemulis by the ear, 759; dream of losing teeth, 770; "O.N.A.N.T.A. guy didn't really extract urine samples from us" 772; how people lie, 773; Mario tells him he, Hal, is sad, 782; shows up at Ennet House, 786; driving to NA group (he thinks), 796; "had become a steadily more and more''hidden'' boy, toward the wraith's life's end" 838; wraith's "youngest and most promising son was disappearing" 838; first-person, 851; zoo dream, 851; inadvertently showing hilarity (cachinated), 875; "My full name is Harold James Incandenza, and I am 183.6 cm. (6' 1/4") tall in stocking feet" 898; reciting random facts, 898; "Himself, for two years before his death, had had this delusion of silence when I spoke: I believed I was speaking and he believed I was not speaking" 899; "I was the meat in the room's sandwich" 902; w/Pemulis, 907;''thinks'' Pemulis is trying to get him to agree to take DMZ, 908; making cage of his hands, 909; "trying to align myself along some sort of grain in the world I could barely feel" 950; 3rd person narration, 964; at ETA Gala, Hal's face "assumed various expressions ranging from distended hilarity to scrunched grimace, expressions that seemed unconnected to anything that was going on" 966; DMZ-dream that he's the soldier and is "screaming for help and everybody's acting as if [he's] singing Ethel Merman covers [...] a quality of''loneliness'' " fn.321/1063;

'''Incandenza, James Orin, Sr.''' 
50; "former top U.S. jr. tennis player and the promising young pre-Method actor" 63; "A.E.C.-optics man" 82; Hal's paternal grandfather; wife ("a shover and a thruster"), 157; 1956 Mercury Montclair" 159; father ("A golf man") and mother, 163; aka "Himself", 165; "the Man From Glad" 313; w/wife & squeaky bed, 491; Man from Glad, 492, 494; father was "the blank wooden man who [...] had 'driven' [JOI, Sr.] to 'the bottle' and unrealized potential and an early cerebral hemorrhage" 838;

<div id="joi">'''Incandenza, Dr. James Orin ("Himself")''' (b. c.1950; d. Y.T.-S. D. B., aka 2004) </div>
16; father of Hal; belief that son Hal does not speak, 29; committed suicide at 54; about, 63-65; buried in Québec's L'Islet County, 65; awareness of the Moms' affairs, 29-30; "gyroscopic balance sensor and''mise-en-scène'' appropriation card and priapistic-entertainment cartridge implanted in [Himself's] anaplastic cerebrum" 31; fear of black widows, 45; Geometrical Optics Scholarship, 154; in 1960, 157; his films, 174; "reviews of his multiple-exposure melodramas" 175; 187; "his neonatal lens to blur things in imitation of a neonatal retina" 222; "Infinite Jim" 225; the completed assembly of what she'd appeared in [...] and doubts that any sum of scenes as pathologic as he'd stuck that long quartzy auto-wobbling lens on the camera and filmed her for could have been as entertaining as he'd said the thing he'd always wanted to make had broken his heart by ending up" 228; 229; "aka The Mad Stork, The Sad Stork, 238; working obsessively on the Entertainment, 249; suicide, 249-58; "half-full bottle of Wild Turkey found on the counter not far away, with a large red decorative gifwrappish bow on the neck" 250; "Himself's head had popped like an uncut spud" 257;''Homo Duplex'' (movie on "John Waynes"), 260 (fn.24/988); films, 297; his father's father Mario, 313;''The Man Who Began to Suspect He Was Made of Glass'' , 375; Found Drama, 376, (fn.145);''The ONANtiad'' , 380;''The Medusa v. The Odalisque'', 396, fn.223/1036;''The Joke'' , 397; and InterLace, fn.167/1031;''Annulateur'' , 490; and squeaky bed, 491;''Death in Scarsdale'' , fn.234/1039; "the victim of the most monstrous practical joke ever played" (sez Orin), fn.234/1041; "helped design these special holographic conversions so that the team that worked on annulation could study the behavior of subatomics in highly poisonous environments" 572;''Dial C for Concupiscence'' , 590; scopophile, never missed Boston's pond-draining, 622;''Wave Bye-Bye to the Bureaucrat'', 687-89;''Blood Sister: One Tough Nun'', 689, ("one of Himself's few commercial successes") 703-06, 710-14, fn.289/1053;''The American Century as Seen Through a Brick'', 695;''The Night Wears a Sombrero'', 704;''Low Temperature Civics'', 706; post-carrot anhedonic, 706;''Le Masque'' (as he was called by Avril I), 737;''Pre-Nuptial Agreement of Heaven and Hell'', 740, 742; unable to speak to Hal or Orin "without their mother's presence and mediation" 743; top collegiate tennis player, 743; referred to his films ironically as "entertainments" 743; funeral took place in "L'Islet Province of Nouveau Québec [...] featuring an interment, not a cremation" 790; "remained alcohol-free for the whole next three-and-a-half months [until] the date of his suicide" 790;''The Unfortunate Case of Me'', 792; as wraith in Gately's hospital room, 829-40; replicating "life's real egalitarian babble of figurantless crowds" 835; "spent the whole sober last ninety days of his animate life working tirelessly to contrive a medium via which he and the muted son could simply''converse'' [...] something so compelling it would reverse thrust on a young self's fall into the womb of solipsism, anhedonia, death in life" 838; "his most serious wish was:''to entertain''" 839; "used to see his father's ghost on stairways sometimes [...] black-widow spiders in his hair, too" 870;''Zero-Gravity Tea Ceremony'', 874;''Good-Looking Men in Small Clever Rooms ...'', 900; "joked about making something quote too perfect" 940;''Accomplice!'', 941; "had no interest in suckering the audience with illusory realism" 944; didn't use real actors, 944; Dancing Gland, 944; "remained obsessed with something until he became successful at it, then transferred his obsession to something else" 949; "hetero-hardcore''Möbius Strips'' and the sado-periodontal''Fun with Teeth'' " 954; afraid porno would give Orin "an impoverished, lonely idea of sexuality" 956; "made so many films titled''Cage'' " 957; "God and the Devil playing poker with Tarot cards for the soul of Cosgrove Watt" 971; "cartridge with the held-open eyes and dropper had been the one about ultra-violence and sadism" 981; "in the days prior to [Himself's suicide], a so-called 'word' appeared on a 'fogged' 'window' of Mrs. Inc's pale yellow Volvo" fn.269/1048; "loved [''The Cage''] and stuck little snippets of it [...] anywhere he could" fn.366/1077;

<div id="mi">'''Incandenza, Mario''' </div>
32; brother of Hal (1 year older); "Eighteen in May [...] designated function around [ETA] is filmic" 54; leptosomatic (frail), 79; "a born listener [...] Brady-kinetic" 80; "one of the short strange Himself-influenced conceptual cartridges" he makes, 153; Mario's "conceptual film-type project based on part of [the Riverside''Hamlet'']" 171;''Tennis and the Feral Prodigy'', written by Mario, 173; "fanatical listener/observer" 189; "his short and upbeat annual documentary" 265; birth & description, 312-17; J.O. Incandenza's "honorary assistant production-assistant" 314; his "kid's adaption" of''The ONANtiad'' , 380; with Clipperton, 410; birthday: 11/25, 589; Familial Dysautonomia ("can't feel physical pain very well"), 589; 625; dislike of flourescent lighting, fn.244/1044; "cross between a puppet and one of the big-headed carnivores from Spielberg's old special-effects orgies about reptiles" 746; shooting his documentary w/Bolex H64, 755;

<div id="oi">'''Incandenza, Orin''' </div>
9; Hal's oldest brother (by 9 years); punter for AZ Cardinals, 42; fear of roaches, 44; roaches under inverted tumblers, 45; flying with the Cardinals, 65; morbid fear of heights, 65; "dodger of flung acid extraordinaire" 223; being followed, 244; Eschaton game-master, 284; punter for B.U., 293; "interview" w/''Moment'' fragment, fn.145/1038; 565; Swiss Subject, 566; "Excitement-Hope-Acquisition-Contempt" cycle, 574; Swiss Subject is left-handed, 598; 11/11/YDAU, "once again embracing a certain 'Swiss' hand-model" 655; "a one-trick pony as a player" 661; "has come to regard the truth as''constructed'' rather than''reported'' " fn.269/1048; impression of Avril, 1051; A.F.R. believes most likely to have a duplicate master of the Entertainment, 723; pathological liar, 771; possible affair, as a child, with the Moms, 791; Gately watching him play w/Boston U. on TV, 916; imitation of Himself's mother in wheelchair, 953; in inverted tumbler (glass cage) being interrogated about the Master by Swiss hand-model (Mlle. Luria P.) (see also p.45), 971-72;

'''''Incision, The''''' 
233; film

<div id="Infant">'''''Infant, The'''''</div>
feral, 211; in the Concavity; worshipped by Rastafarians, 559, 562; "propitiate the outsized feral infant" in Himself's''Stand Behind the Men Behind the Wire'', fn.24/991; "oversized feral infant" fn.24/991;''Propitiating the Infant'', 562; fn.304/1055;

'''Infernatron viewer''' 
229; 877; Sorkin's, 930;

'''Infinite Jest''' 
36 (not yet named - 4/1/YDAU); aka "the Entertainment" (discussed by Steeply & Marathe), 90; "'anti'-Entertainment" 126; 2-D man in a wheelchair anti-ad, 224, 721; "a final''opus'' so''magnum'' he'd claimed to have had it locked away" 228; "Was the allegedly fatally entertaining and scopophiliac thing Jim alleges he made out of her unveiled face here at the start of Y.T.S.D.B. a cage or really a door?" 230; "the mother-death-cosmology and apologies she'd repeated over and over, inclined over that auto-wobble lens" 230; "cartridge-as-ecstatic-death rumor" 233; "The Face of the Deep" 238; "so bad he didn't want it released" 253; 318; 430; Bertraund Antitoi stole cartridges from wheelchair anti-ad, 483; A.F.R. and, 489; holography, 490; curious victims, 507; eyes "empty of intent" 508; spreading (early November YDAU), 548; opening sequence, 549; describing what happens to the viewer, 647-48; "It was unlikely that any one game figured much in the Entertainment" 658; DuPlessis copy "secured and verified" 724; "anti-''samazdat'' cartridge of F.L.Q.'s allegation" 752; Notkin's detailed description, 788; meeting re ads warning against viewing, 876; Joelle describing, 938-41; Master is buried with Himself, 940-41;''Infinite Jest (I)'' "first attempt at commercial entertainment" fn.24/986;''I.J. (V)'' "its Master cartridge either destroyed or vaulted''sui testator'', fn.24/993;

'''Iimura, Taka''' 
fn.24/986; Himself dedicated''Dark Logics'' to him

'''Ingersoll, Evan''' 
97; 11-year-old student at ETA, "eyebrowless" from Binghamton NNY; engenders dislike, 99; parents founded Rhode Island version of shopping by TP, 112; description, 114; roommate w/J.J. Penn, 335;

'''Interdependence Day, Continental''' 
31; held on November 8; 52; 221

'''InterLace TelEntertainment''' 
"two hubs of manufacture and dissemination in Phoenix, Arizona U.S.A. and Boston" 33; conceived of by Lace-Forché, 415; "4.8-mb PC-diskettes InterLace was marketing as 'cartridges'" 416; 648; Dissemination Grid, fn.18/985; "copyable Master cartridges require special OS-codes and special hardware to run [...] which keeps most consumers out of the bootleg-cartridge business" fn.301/1054-55;

'''InterLace Subscription Pulse-Matrix''' 
35; broadcasts "spontaneous dissiminations"

'''''Introduction to Montague Semantics''''' 
760; Dowty, Wall and Peters's seminal work, on the Moms' desk;

'''Irish Luggage''' 
541; slang for Hefty bags

'''Item''' 
608; slang for handgun

'''Ives, Burl''' 
86; rotund, bearded American folksinger & actor, "Ewell's radically downscaled" version of

'''I.W.D.''' 
221; dumpsters (International? Waste Disposal)

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{{infobox Book |
| name = Infinite Jest
| image = [[Image:IJ_cover.jpg|230px]]
| image_caption = U.S. First Edition, February 1, 1996
| author = David Foster Wallace
| country = United States
| language = English
| genre = Novel
| publisher = Little, Brown
| release_date = 1996
| media_type = Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
| pages = 1079
| isbn = ISBN 0-316-92004-5
}}

'''''Infinite Jest''''' (1996) is a novel written by [[David Foster Wallace]]. The lengthy and complex work takes place in a semi-parodic future version of North America. The novel touches on the topics of tennis; substance addiction and recovery programs; depression; child abuse; family relationships; advertising and popular entertainment; film theory; and Quebec separatism.

''Time'' magazine included the novel in its ''TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005'' list.<ref name="TIME">{{Citation
| last = Grossman
| first = Lev
| author-link =
| last2 = Lacayo
| first2 = Richard
| author2-link =
| title = TIME's Critics pick the 100 Best Novels, 1923 to present
| newspaper = TIME
| pages =
| year = 2005
| date =
| url = http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html}}</ref>

==Title==

The novel derives its name in part from a line in ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet Hamlet]'', in which Hamlet refers to the skull of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorick_(Hamlet) Yorick], the court jester: "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!"

In addition to being the title given to the fictional film central to the story, reviewers have also considered the title a "sly wink at the book's massive girth."<ref name="TIME"/>

Wallace's working title for ''Infinite Jest'' had been ''A Failed Entertainment''.<ref name="TRS1">{{Citation
| last = Lipsky
| first = David
| author-link =
| last2 =
| first2 =
| author2-link =
| title = The Lost Years & Last Days of David Foster Wallace
| newspaper = Rolling Stone
| pages = 6 of 11
| year = 2008
| date =
| url = http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/23638511/the_lost_years__last_days_of_david_foster_wallace/6}}</ref>

==Setting==

In the novel's future world, North America is one unified state comprising the United States, Canada, and Mexico, known as the Organization of North American Nations (O.N.A.N.). Corporations purchase naming rights to each calendar year, eliminating traditional numerical designations; for example, "The Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment" and "The Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland". Much of what used to be the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada has become a hazardous waste dump known as the "Great Concavity" to Americans and as the "Great Convexity" to Canadians.

The novel's primary locations are the Enfield Tennis Academy, Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House (footnoted "Redundancy sic" in the text), and a conversation between a Quebec separatist and a U.S. double agent outside of Tucson, AZ. Enfield Tennis Academy ("ETA") and Ennet House are separated by a hillside in suburban Boston, Massachusetts. Many characters are either students and faculty at the school or residents and staff at the halfway house.

==Characters==
===The Incandenza family===

*'''James Orin Incandenza,''' an optics expert and filmmaker, is the founder of the Enfield Tennis Academy. He is the creator of the Entertainment (a.k.a. ''Infinite Jest'' or "the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/samizdat samizdat]"). He was strongly attached to Joelle Van Dyne, his son Orin's strikingly beautiful girlfriend, and used her in many of his films. It is suggested that he can create and view the Entertainment without becoming entranced because at the time of its creation he is already insane. He appears in the book mainly either in flashbacks or as a ghost, having committed suicide by placing his head in a [[microwave oven]]. He is a notoriously heavy drinker, preferring Wild Turkey whiskey. His nickname among the family is '''Himself'''. The family also refers to him as 'The Mad Stork' or 'The Sad Stork'.

*'''Avril Incandenza,''' née '''Mondragon,''' is the (covertly) domineering mother of the Incandenza children and wife of James. A tall, beautiful Québécoise, she becomes a major figure at the Enfield Tennis Academy after the death of her husband and begins, or perhaps continues, a relationship with Charles Tavis, the new head of the academy and her either half- or adoptive brother. Her sexual relationships are a matter of some speculation/discussion; one with John "No Relation" Wayne is depicted. In one scene, James, speaking to Hal, refers to his "mother's cavortings with not one not two but over ''thirty'' Near Eastern medical attachés." She has a phobia of uncleanliness and disease, and is also described as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/agoraphobic agoraphobic]]. She has an obsessive-compulsive need to watch over ETA and her two youngest sons, Hal and Mario, who live at the school. Avril and Orin are no longer in contact with each other. Her nickname among the family is "The Moms."

*'''Hal Incandenza''' is the youngest of the Incandenza children and arguably the protagonist of the novel, the events of which are centered around his time at ETA. Hal is as prodigiously intelligent and talented as the other members of his family, but insecure about his abilities (and eventually his mental state). He has a difficult relationship with both his parents. He reads the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' and like his mother often corrects the grammar of his friends and family. Hal's mental degradation and alienation from those around him culminate in his chronologically last appearance in the novel, in which all of his attempts at speech appear to others as uncontrolled screaming. The origin of Hal's final condition is unclear. One possibility is that the mold Hal ingested as a child developed into a hallucinogenic drug known as DMZ, with Hal's marijuana withdrawal serving as a catalyst; alternatively, his friend Michael Pemulis (or another Academy resident) may have doped his toothbrush with that drug. An accidental viewing of the titular film is another possible cause. It is also possible that Hal was subjected to a "Technical Interview", as was his older brother Orin.

*'''Mario Incandenza''' is the Incandenzas' second son, although it is suggested that his father may be Charles Tavis rather than James. Severely deformed since birth (he is <balloon title="Having an exceptionally large head and brain" style="color:red">macrocephalic</balloon>, <balloon title="dentition in which the teeth closely resemble on another" style="color:red">homodontic</balloon>, and stands or walks at a 45 degree angle) he is nonetheless perennially cheerful. He is also a budding auteur, having served as camera and directorial assistant to James, and later inheriting the prodigious studio equipment and film lab built by his father on the grounds of the Academy. Hal, although younger, acts like a supportive older brother. Hal's nickname for Mario is "Booboo".

*'''Orin Incandenza''' is the eldest son of the Incandenzas. He is a punter for the Arizona Cardinals and a serial womanizer, and is estranged from everyone in his family except Hal. In theory, Orin lost his attraction to Joelle after she supposedly became deformed when her mother threw acid in her face during a Thanksgiving dinner, but cites Joelle's questionable relationship with his father as the reason for the breakup. After breaking up with Joelle, Orin focuses his womanizing on young mothers; it is suggested by Hal that this is related to his blaming the Moms for the death of Himself.

===The Enfield Tennis Academy===

*'''Michael Pemulis''' - A working-class child from an Allston, Massachuesetts family and Hal's best friend. Pemulis is a prankster and the school's resident drug dealer. He is also very proficient in mathematics. This, combined with his limited but ultraprecise lobbing, made him the school's first Eschaton master. (Eschaton, a computer-aided turn-based nuclear wargame, requires that players be adept both at game theory and pegging targets with tennis balls. Pemulis is thus the archetypal Eschaton player.) Although the novel takes place long after Pemulis' Eschaton days (the game is played by twelve- to fourteen-year-olds), Pemulis is still regarded as the game's all-time great, and a final court of appeal in game matters. His brother Matt is a gay hustler.

*'''Ortho "The Darkness" Stice''' - Another of Hal's close friends. He only endorses brands that have black-colored products, and is at all times clad entirely in black. In a 3-setter, he nearly defeats Hal Incandenza late in the book, and becomes a more significant character as his ability to deny selfhood is realized. It is likely that Ortho is being visited by the ghost of Himself.

*'''John "No Relation" Wayne''' - The top ranked player at ETA. John Wayne was discovered by James Incandenza during interviews of men named [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne John Wayne] for a film. He is frighteningly efficient, controlled, and almost machine-like on the court. John Wayne is almost never directly quoted in the narrative; his statements are nearly always either summarized by the narrator or repeated by other characters. His Canadian and Quebecois citizenship has been revoked since he came to ETA. His father is a sick asbestos miner in Quebec who hopes that John will soon start earning "serious $" in the Show to "take him away from all this" (see "6 November YDAU, the meet with Port Washington").

*'''LaMont Chu''' - One of the 14-15 year old students at Enfield. He consults "sweat guru" Lyle for counsel after he becomes obsessed with attaining the more superficial rewards of success in professional tennis, and finds that his performance suffers from this obsession. His quixotic pursuit of fame has led some to suggest his name as a take-off of '[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote|La Mancha]'.

*'''Ann Kittenplan''' - Another tennis student at Enfield. One of the many players who becomes violently unhinged during the resident Eschaton tournament.

===The Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House===

*'''Don Gately''' - A former thief and Demerol addict, and current counselor in residence at the Ennet House. One of the novel's primary characters, Gately is physically enormous, an avid [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholics_Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous] member, and intricately (though not obviously) connected to both the Enfield Tennis Academy and the international struggle to seize the master copy of the Entertainment. During his middle-school and high-school years, Gately's size rendered him a formidable football talent, and he excelled in both offensive and defensive capacities. Gately is known for his toothbrush-in-ass tactic (an outrageous scene that was a favorite at public Wallace readings) and is the accidental murderer of M. DuPlessis, a leader of one of the many separatist Quebecois organizations and a samizdat conspirator. Gately, like Ortho Stice, is visited by the ghost of James O. Incandenza.

*'''Joelle Van Dyne''' (a.k.a. "Madame Psychosis" (her on-air name, a play on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/metempsychosis metempsychosis]), a.k.a. "The Prettiest Girl of All Time (or P.G.O.A.T.)") - The primary figure in the Entertainment. In the work, which is filmed through a wobbly "neo-natal" lens, she is seen reaching down to the camera, as if it were in a bassinet, and apologizing profusely. This is said to trigger an addictive pleasure complex in the viewer, which makes even partial viewing of the Entertainment suicidal. She wears a veil to hide her face, which was once strikingly beautiful. A member of the "Union of the Hideously and Improbably Deformed", she may be disfigured; based on an account by the unreliable Molly Notkin, her mother hit Joelle's face with a corrosive chemical compound produced by her father, an amateur mixologist who worked with acidic compounds. Despite Notkin's unreliability, however, it is likely that Joelle was to some extent disfigured by acid, given Orin's lack of interest in her following the incident and her repeated references to "the acid". She tries to "eliminate her own map" (that is, commit [[suicide]]) in Molly Notkin's bathroom via massive ingestion of freebase cocaine, which lands her in the Ennet House as a resident. She develops a strong connection to Don Gately and considers showing him what lies beneath the veil after his heroic actions in the middle of the text.

*'''Kate Gompert''' - A marijuana ("cannabinoid") addict who suffers from extreme unipolar depression. She shares a name with a former acquaintance of David Foster Wallace, who sued the author and his publisher following the release of the novel.

*'''Pat Montesian''' - The Ennet House manager. She is a recovering addict, stroke victim with partial facial paraylsis, and the wife of Mars Montesian, a Boston billionaire. Pat is especially fond of Don Gately.

*'''Ken Erdedy''' - A cannabinoid addict introduced early in the novel.

*'''Bruce Green''' - Ex-husband of Mildred Bonk Green. He once lived with Tommy Doocey, a harelipped pot dealer for Erdedy, et al. He is reticent and fondly thought of as stoic by Gately. He accompanies Lenz on post-AA meeting walks back to Ennet House, unwittingly preventing Lenz from murdering neighborhood pets.

*'''Randy Lenz''' - Cocaine addict and obsessive compulsive, residing at Ennet House not to recover, but to hide from both the police and a group of drug dealers involved in a tremendous simultaneous con. The stress of hiding, combined with partial withdrawal from cocaine, leads him to torturing animals, which in turn leads to the novel's climactic fight scene. His name may be a reference to the novella 'Lenz' by [[Georg Büchner]], the subject of which is 18th-century German writer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Michael_Reinhold_Lenz Jakob Michael Reinhold], a schizophrenic whose ruminations while taking a long walk make up much of the novella.

*'''Tiny Ewell''' - A lawyer with dwarfism. He is obsessed with the tattoos of fellow Ennet House residents, and develops a classification system for them.

*'''Geoffrey Day''' - A pompously verbose Ennet House resident and professor at a junior college. He enters rehabilitation after crashing his Saab into a department store. Previously, he wrote an article on the Wheelchair Assassins and their pre-adolescent train-jumping game.

*'''Calvin Thrust''' - Former porn star who was featured in several of Himself's films.

*'''Emil Minty''' - A hardcore smack-addict punk with a palsy and a tattoo of a swastika with the caption "FUCK NIGERS" on his left bicep, which he is heartily encouraged by Ennet House staff to keep covered.

===Les Assassins en Fauteuils Roulants===

Les Assassins en Fauteuils Roulants (A.F.R.), known in English as the Wheelchair Assassins, are a Quebecois separatist group. They are one of many such groups that developed after the United States coerced Canada and Mexico into joining the Organization of North American Nations (O.N.A.N.), but the A.F.R. is the most deadly and extremist. While other separatist groups are willing to settle for nationhood, the A.F.R. wants Canada to secede from O.N.A.N. and to reject America's forced gift of its polluted "Great Concavity" (or, Hal and Orin speculate, is pretending that those are its goals to put pressure on Canada to let Quebec secede). The Antitoi brothers suffer gruesome fates at the hands of the A.F.R. because they are members of a separatist group whose goals the A.F.R. finds unacceptably moderate. The A.F.R. seeks the master copy of ''Infinite Jest'' as a terrorist weapon to achieve its anti-experialist goals. The A.F.R. has its roots in a childhood game in which miners' sons line up alongside a train track and compete to be the last one to jump across the path of an oncoming train, an activity in which many were killed or maimed.

Only one miner's son has (disgracefully) failed to jump – Bernard Wayne, who may be related to ETA's John Wayne. Quebecois Avril's liaisons with Wayne and with the half-Canadian attache accidentally killed by Don Gately suggest that she may have ties to the A.F.R. as well. There is also evidence linking ETA prorector Thierry Poutrincourt to the group.

*'''Remy Marathe''' - Member of the Wheelchair Assassins who secretly talks to Hugh/Helen Steeply. Marathe is a quadruple agent: the AFR thinks that he is a triple agent, only pretending to betray the AFR, while Marathe and Steeply know that he only pretends to pretend to betray them. He does this in order to secure medical support for his wife (who was born without a skull) from the Office of Unspecified Services. Late in the novel, Marathe is sent to infiltrate Ennett House in the guise of a Swiss drug addict.

===Miscellaneous characters===
*'''Poor Tony Krause (P.T. Krause)''' - A drag queen formerly associated with Michael Pemulis's older brother, Matty, as well as Randy Lenz. Throughout the novel, Poor Tony is on a harrowing downward spiral of drug use and seizures.

*'''Medical attaché''' - A medical attaché in charge of a Saudi prince who eats only Toblerone. He goes home to his wife and sits in his chair to escape reality. He is the first character in the novel rendered insane by repeated viewing of the Entertainment cartridge.

*'''Hugh/Helen Steeply''' - Cross-dresser with whom Orin Incandenza becomes obsessed. He works for the government Office of Unspecified Services, but is doing undercover work trying to get information out of Orin to find out more about the Entertainment. He talks to Marathe secretly.

*'''Gene Fackelmann (a.k.a. "Fax")''' - A member of Gately's former book-keeping enforcement crew. Fackelmann was a Dilaudid addict whose behavior (particularly his involvement in a scheme involving Whitey Sorkin, Sixties Bob, Eighties Bill and about $250,000 U.S.D.) brings the pathetic nature of drug addiction to Gately's attention for the first time.

==Plot/Synopsis==
The plot partially revolves around the missing master copy of a film cartridge, titled ''Infinite Jest'' and referred to in the novel as "the Entertainment" or "the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/samizdat samizdat]". The film is so entertaining to its viewers that they become lifeless, losing all interest in anything other than endless viewings of the film. Quebec separatists are interested in acquiring a Master, redistributable copy of the work.

==Subsidized Time==
In the book's future, advertising's relentless search for new markets has led to a world where, by O.N.A.N. dictate, years are referred to by the name of their corporate sponsor.

#Year of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whopper Whopper]
#Year of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucks_Pads Tucks] Medicated Pad
#Year of the Trial-Size [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dove_(chocolate) Dove] Bar
#Year of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perdue_Farms Perdue] Wonderchicken
#Year of the Whisper-Quiet [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maytag Maytag] Dishmaster
#Year of the Yushityu 2007 Mimetic-Resolution-Cartridge-View-Motherboard-Easy-To-Install-Upgrade For Infernatron/InterLace TP Systems For Home, Office, Or Mobile
#Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland
#Year of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depend Depend] Adult Undergarment
#Year of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glad_(company) Glad]

Most of the action in the novel takes place in the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, or Y.D.A.U., which is probably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_Calendar Gregorian] 2009. Critic Stephen Burn, in his book on ''Infinite Jest'', argues that Y.D.A.U. corresponds to 2009: the MIT Language Riots took place in 1997 (n. 24) and those riots occurred 12 years prior to Y.D.A.U. (n. 60). Also, if the "2007" in "Year of the Yushityu 2007 Mimetic-Resolution-Cartridge-View-Motherboard-Easy-To-Install-Upgrade For Infernatron/InterLace TP Systems For Home, Office, Or Mobile" refers to the pre-subsidization-style numerical date convention, then Y.D.A.U., which comes two years later, would be 2009.

It is also possible that Y.D.A.U. is 2008, as Matty Pemulis turns 23 in Y.D.A.U. (p. 682). Matty and Mike Pemulis' father immigrated from Ireland in 1989 when Matty was "three or four" (p. 683). If Matty had been three and four in 1989, he was born in 1985, which mean he turns 23 in 2008.

Also, in the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, November 4 falls on a Wednesday (176). If Subsidized Time is parallel to real-world time, this means that Y.D.A.U. would be either 2009 or 2015. Yet, Thanksgiving of the Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad falls on 24 November (793). Accordingly, Y.T.M.P has to be either 2005 or 2011, meaning that the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment would be 2012 or 2018, respectively.<ref>Wallace, David Foster. ''Infinite Jest.'' 1st. ed. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company. 1996</ref>

==Geographic location==

The fictional Enfield Tennis Academy is a series of buildings laid out as a cardioid on top of a hill on Commonwealth Avenue. This detail has certain thematic resonance, as ETA is in many ways the heart of the novel's setting, and a permutation of the American myth of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_upon_a_Hill City upon a hill]. Ennet House lies directly downhill of ETA, facilitating many of the interactions between characters residing in both locations.

Orin lives in Arizona, a state where much of the dialogue between Helen Steeply and Remy Marathe takes place, and the student union of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology]—in the novel the structure is built in the shape of the human brain—is both the broadcasting site of Madame Psychosis's radio show and the location of a potentially devastating tennis tournament between ETA and Canadian youths.

Enfield is largely a stand-in for [[Brighton, Massachusetts]]. Wallace's description of life in Enfield and neighboring Allston contrasts with the largely idyllic life of students at ETA. The real-life town of [[Enfield, Massachusetts|Enfield]] is now submerged under the [[Quabbin Reservoir]].

Wallace wrote the book while living in Syracuse, New York.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf?/base/news-15/122155534751021.xml| publisher=Syracuse Online| title=Author created 'Jest' in Syracuse| accessdate=2008-09-16| }}</ref>

==Stylistic elements==

*There are frequent references to endnotes throughout the novel. In an interview with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Rose Charlie Rose], Wallace characterized their use as a method of disrupting the linearity of the text while maintaining some sense of narrative cohesion.

*Acronyms are another signature device in Wallace's work and are used frequently within the novel.

*Wallace's writing voice is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/postmodern postmodern] mixture of high- and low-brow linguistic traits. He juxtaposes, often within a single sentence, colloquialisms and polysyllabic, highly esoteric words.

== Critical literature ==
=== Surveys ===

* Marshall Boswell, ''Understanding David Foster Wallace''. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. ISBN 1-57003-517-2
* Iannis Goerlandt and Luc Herman, "David Foster Wallace". ''Post-war Literatures in English: A Lexicon of Contemporary Authors'' 56 (2004), 1-16; A1-2, B1-2.

=== In-depth studies ===

* Burn, Stephen. ''David Foster Wallace's'' Infinite Jest'': A Reader's Guide''. New York, London: Continuum, 2003 (= Continuum Contemporaries) ISBN 0-8264-1477-X
* Carlisle, Greg. "Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace's 'Infinite Jest'". Hollywood: SSMG Press, 2007.
* Cioffi, Frank Louis. "An Anguish Becomes Thing: Narrative as Performance in David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest''". ''Narrative'' 8.2 (2000), 161-181.
* Delfino, Andrew Steven. "Becoming the New Man in Post-Postmodernist Fiction: Portrayals of Masculinities in David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest'' and [[Chuck Palahniuk]]'s ''[[Fight Club]]''". MA Thesis, Georgia State University. [http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04202007-113340/unrestricted/delfino_andrew_s_200705_ma.pdf]
* Goerlandt, Iannis. "'Put the book down and slowly walk away': Irony and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest". ''Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction'' 47.3 (2006), 309-328.
* Holland, Mary K. "'The Art's Heart's Purpose': Braving the Narcissistic Loop of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest". ''Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction'' 47.3 (2006), 218-242.
* Jacobs, Timothy. “The Brothers Incandenza: Translating Ideology in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s ''The Brothers Karamazov'' and David Foster Wallace’s ''Infinite Jest''.” ''Texas Studies in Literature and Language'' 49.3 (2007): 265-292.
* Jacobs, Timothy. “The Brothers Incandenza: Translating Ideology in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s ''The Brothers Karamazov'' and David Foster Wallace’s ''Infinite Jest''.” ''Contemporary Literary Criticism'' Vol. 271. Ed. Jeffrey Hunter. New York: Gale, 2009. Forthcoming.
* Jacobs, Timothy. “American Touchstone: The Idea of Order in Gerard Manley Hopkins and David Foster Wallace.” ''Comparative Literature Studies'' 38.3 (2001): 215-231.
* Jacobs, Timothy. “David Foster Wallace’s ''Infinite Jest''.” ''The Explicator'' 58.3 (2000): 172-175.
* Jacobs, Timothy. “David Foster Wallace’s ''The Broom of the System''.” Ed. Alan Hedblad. ''Beacham’s Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction''. Vol 15. New York: Thomson-Gale, 2001. 41-50.
* LeClair, Tom. "The Prodigious Fiction of [[Richard Powers]], [[William Vollmann]], and David Foster Wallace". ''Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction'' 38.1 (1996), 12-37.
* Nichols, Catherine "Dialogizing Postmodern Carnival: David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest''". ''Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction'' 43.1 (2001), 3-16.

===Interviews===

* Laura Miller, "The Salon Interview: David Foster Wallace". ''Salon'' 9 (1996). [http://archive.salon.com/09/features/wallace1.html]
* Michael Goldfarb, "David Foster Wallace". Radio interview for ''The Connection'' ([[25 June]] [[2004]]). ([http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2004/06/20040625_b_main.asp full audio interview])

== External links ==
* [http://www.smallbytes.net/~bobkat/jesterlist.html ''Infinite Jest''. Reviews, Articles, & Miscellany]
* [http://www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw.htm The Howling Fantods! - David Foster Wallace: News, Info, Links]
* [http://www.kottke.org/09/01/the-words-of-david-foster-wallace Vocabulary in Infinite Jest]
* [http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw960411david_foster_wallace Wallace talking about his novel]
* [http://www.thenewcanon.com/infinte_jest.html "Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace"] by Ted Gioia ([http://www.thenewcanon.com The New Canon])

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==Page 158==

'''swinishest''' 
most swinish, i.e., most pig-like

'''sodding''' 
a pejorative intensifier, chiefly British in usage

'''fingerling''' 
something very small

'''the Beats''' 
members of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beats Beat generation]

==Page 159==

[[Image:Mercury.jpg|right]]

'''1956 Mercury Montclair''' 
See right, though Incandenza's father's car is "bit-lip red."

'''nubbly''' 
full of small protuberances

'''sinew''' 
another word for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinew tendon]

'''parping''' 
According to the ''OED'', a parp is a honking sound; parping is defined as causing something (as a car horn) to parp.

'''Head is body.''' 
Incandenza's father is expressing a non-Cartesian point of view. René Descartes (1596-1650), the French polymath, separated the mind (''res cogitans'') from the body (''res extensa'').

'''rutilant''' 
bright red

==Page 160==

'''actuating''' 
putting into action

'''Nein?''' 
German: No?

'''tiller''' 
what turns the rudder to steer a boat

==Page 161==

'''pronator teres''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronator_teres_muscle muscle] of the forearm

==Page 162==

'''whorled''' 
having whorls, i.e., coiled and spiral shapes

==Page 163==

'''flying sod''' 
He's referring to divots, i.e., bits of the fairway that get torn up when a golf ball is hit.

'''anal rage''' 
He's probably referring to anal-retentive rage, rather than rage specifically located in the anus.

==Page 164==

'''DeSotos''' 
a brand of automobile, examples of which can be seen [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSoto_%28automobile%29 here]

'''hove''' 
past tense of heave

'''lox''' 
smoked salmon

'''gregariously''' 
in a sociable manner

==Page 165==

'''Himself''' 
Note that Incandenza's father calls his own father by the same nickname as Incandenza's children call him.

'''''senza errori''''' 
Italian: Without errors

'''veldt''' 
From Afrikaans, this is a word for an open field with grass, bushes, etc.

'''deft''' 
quick and skillful

'''President''' 
here referring to Franklin Roosevelt

'''lattice''' 
This is "a structure of crossed wooden or metal strips usually arranged to form a diagonal pattern of open spaces between the strips" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

==Page 166==

==Page 167==

'''Bisbee''' 
a city of Arizona, 82 miles south of Tucson

'''Dean''' 
probably referring to [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000015/ James Dean]

==Page 168==

'''inertia''' 
absence of motion

'''scabrous''' 
having a rough surface because of minute points or projections

'''mortified''' 
having undergone mortification of the flesh, i.e., abuse of the body by one's self as a form of penance''

'''USC''' 
the [http://www.usc.edu/ University of Southern California]

'''Avalon''' 
probably [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000811/ Frankie Avalon]

==Page 169==

169 · Pemulis Scores DMZ

==Page 169==

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

'''Latinate''' 
suggestive in style of the ancient Romans

'''Inman Square''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inman_Square square] in Cambridge named for colonial merchant Ralph Inman

'''Brioni''' 
a high-fashion clothes company

'''Mr. Howell''' 
''Gilligan's Island'' character [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurston_Howell Thurston J. Howell, III]

'''rakish''' 
jaunty or dashing

==Page 170==

'''oxfords''' 
formal shoes with laces

'''nacelle''' 
the enclosed part of an airplane, where the engine is housed

'''DMZ''' 
Most commonly, this acronym stands for "demilitarized zone," as in the area between North and South Korea. Here it is a made-up drug name.

'''MED.COM''' 
not a real Web site

'''mescaline''' 
Mescaline is the active ingredient in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyote peyote].

'''TMA''' 
an acronym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimethoxyamphetamine trimethoxyamphetamine]

'''DOM or STP''' 
STP stands for "serenity, tranquity, and peace," and it's a pseudonym for DOM, which stands for dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine.

'''DMT''' 
acronym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyltryptamine dimethyltryptamine

'''Ololiuqui or datura's scopolamine, or Fluothane, or Bufotenine (a.k.a. 'Jackie-O.'), or Ebene''' 
Ololiuqui is a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ololiuqui morning glory] plants, the seeds of which are known to be hallucinogenic. Datura's scopolamine is another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopolamine hyoscine]. Fluothane is an inhaled general anesthetic. Bufotenine is an alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufotenine bufotenin] and is the active ingredient in the skin of toads that cause hallucinations when licked. (I have no idea why it's called "Jackie-O.") Ebene is a South American tree that yields a hallucinogen used in rituals.

==Endnote 56==

'''PMA''' 
acronym for [paramethoxyamphetamine paramethoxyamphetamine]

'''myristicin''' 
Found in nutmeg, it does not have hallucinogenic properties.

'''ergine''' 
Also called LSA, it's found in morning glory seeds

'''ibogaine''' 
Found in varieties of dogbane, it is a drug used to ease heroin withdrawal.

'''yagé's harmaline''' 
Yagé is the native name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banisteriopsis_caapi banisteria]. Harmaline is the active ingredient.

'''fitviavi''' 
apparently a coined word

==Page 170 (cont'd)==

==Endnote 57==

'''''Tibetan-Dead-Book''''' 
better known as the [http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/dead/ Tibetan Book of the Dead]

'''Futurist''' 
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism_%28art%29 Italian Futurism], an art movement on the early 20th century

==Page 170 (cont'd)==

'''chemist at Sandoz Pharm.''' 
This would be Albert Hoffman (born 1906), a Swiss scientist best known for first synthesizing LSD.

'''Alan Watts''' 
Alan Wilson Watts (1915-1973) was a British-born philosopher and writer in the field of comparative religion.

'''T. Leary''' 
Timothy Francis Leary (1920-1996) was an American writer and psychologist best known as an advocate for regular LSD use.

'''Millbrook NY''' 
a town in New York state, about 90 miles north of New York City

'''WYYY''' 
actually a radio station in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYYY Syracuse, New York]

==Page 171==

'''Riverside ''Hamlet''''' 
The ''Riverside Shakespeare'' is one of the better-known editions of Shakespeare's work. Note that Hal, who is based on the character Hamlet, is reading ''Hamlet''.

'''''Consummation of the Levirates''''' 
A levirate is a man called up to marry his elder brother's childless widow, in accordance with Jewish Law.

'''''Baron's''''' 
a deliberate (probably) misspelling of [http://online.barrons.com/public/main Barron's]

'''''Tilden on Spin'' 
The book by William Tatem "Big Bill" Tilden II (1893-1953), American tennis giant, is actually entitled ''Match Play and the Spin of the Ball''.

172 · ''TENNIS AND THE FERAL PRODIGY''

==Page 172==

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==Page 173==

'''stevedore''' 
a person who loads and unloads cargo from boats

'''40 km.''' 
almost 25 miles

'''''Schnell''''' 
German: Quickly

==Page 174==

'''formants and fricatives, trochaically stressed''' 
A format is, according to Wikipedia, "a peak in an acoustic frequency spectrum which results from the resonant frequencies of any acoustic system." A fricative is a phoneme produced by forcing air through tight lips. In English, fricatives are /s/, /z/, /th/, and /zh/. Trochaically means spoken in trochees, or a metrical foot on two syllables with the stress on the first (the word "trochee" is a trochee).

'''aperture''' 
An aperture is an opening; here it is probably referring to the anus.

==Page 175==

'''''8 1/2''''' 
a film by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000019/ Federico Fellini]

'''intensile''' 
incapable of being stretched

==Page 176==

'''Noxzema''' 
a skin cleaner marketed by Procter & Gamble

'''Contracol''' 
not a drug currently marketed in the U.S.

'''Epsom salts''' 
Magnesium sulfate, used to relieve pain, among other uses.

176 · Selected Transcripts </big>

==Page 176==

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==Page 177==

'''Higher Power''' 
Most twelve-step drug or alcohol recovery programs teach a belief in God or a "Higher Power" (the latter to soften the blow to atheists).

'''Kemp and Limbaugh''' 
Jack French Kemp, Jr. (born 1935), is a conservative American politician, former member of the House of Representative, former Secretary for Housing and Urban Development, and 1996 candidate for Vice President.

Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (born 1951) is a conservative radio talk-show host.

'''formicate''' 
to crawl like ants

==Page 178==

'''magnaminously''' 
a (probably deliberate) misspelling of "magnanimously," i.e., generously

'''the Fenway''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenway-Kenmore Fenway-Kenmore] section of Boston

==Page 179==

'''septum''' 
more specifically, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_septum nasal septum]

'''harelip''' 
also known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harelip cleft lip] or cleft palate

'''doocy''' 
I have no idea

==Page 180==

'''2% proof''' 
Redundant because "proof" is an expression of alcohol content. Doubling the alcohol percentage gives you proof, i.e., 2% alcohol is 4 proof.

==Page 181==

181* · Madame Psychosis on the Radio </big>

==Page 181==

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'''Madame Psychosis''' 
not just a byname for DMZ, but also a radio show host

==Page 182==

'''particidal''' 
having a tendency to kill one's father

'''entomologist''' 
a person who studies insects scientifically

'''sephenoid''' 
a misspelling for [http://www.entnet.org/healthinfo/sinus/sinus_sphenoid.cfm sphenoid]

'''Infundibular''' 
having the form of a funnel

'''epiglottal''' 
having to do with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiglottis epiglottis]

'''Hillel''' 
a nationwide (worldwide?) Jewish student union present on several campuses

'''corpus callosum''' 
the part of the brain connecting the left and right hemispheres

'''larygeally fissured''' 
having ridges like the human [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larynx larynx]

'''work-study''' 
receiving funding from the university in exchange for work rendered to the university

==Page 183==

'''chiffon''' 
a lightweight, balanced, plain-woven fabric

'''limned''' 
To limn means to describe

'''parietal''' 
referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parietal_lobe parietal lobe] of the brain, responsible for sensory memory and response

'''pop''' 
Midwesterners in the U.S. use this word to denote what others call "soda," i.e., Coca-Cola, 7-Up, etc.

'''Dow''' 
a pun on the Chinese word ''tao,'' ("the way") and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJIA Dow Jones Industrial Average]

'''gasper''' 
cigarette

'''E.S.T.''' 
Eastern Standard Time

'''medulla''' 
literally that part of the brain responsible for autonomic functions like heartbeat, organ activity, etc.

==Page 184==

'''I. M. Pei''' 
Ieoh Ming Pei (born 1917) is a Chinese-born American architect who designed, among other famous buildings, MIT's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Building_%28MIT%29 Green Building].

==Endnote 60==

'''J. A. Stratton''' 
Julius Adams Stratton (1901-1994) was an American educator and president of MIT between 1959 and 1965.

==Page 184 (cont'd)==

'''cerebral cortex''' 
that part of the brain responsible for higher-order thinking

'''"...what she's said for three years of midnights..."''' 
Up until 'Look at that fucker ''Dance,''' the rest of her introduction is from [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201&version=9 Genesis 1].

'''Largest Whole Prime On The FM Band''' 
109 is a prime number, i.e., divisible only by itself and by 1. Actually the highest number you can get on FM is 108, and there are no whole numbers in FM radio in the U.S.

'''EM''' 
probably denoting "electromagnetic"

'''centrifugal''' 
that force in a spinning object that tends to push away objects from the angle of rotation

'''Hundt Act''' 
Reed E. Hundt (born 1948) was chairman of the Federal Communications Committee in 1996, when the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was passed. Wallace may be riffing on that, as it appears there was no equivalent legislation in 1966.

'''spatter's center''' 
The spatter referred to here is probably the small amount of FM bands that can be sent out.

'''inelastic''' 
When used with regard to demand, this term means tending not to change.

'''3-km. cannon''' 
The range is about 1.86 miles.

'''P.E.''' 
Physical Education

'''Philology''' 
The love of language, the term is also used to describe the study of literature.

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'''hypogonadism''' 
lack of function of the ovaries or testicles

'''Nodular leprosy with leonine facies''' 
a form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprosy leprosy] that generates lesions made of nodes and that produces lion-like facial expressions (i.e., "leonine facies")

'''The acromegalic and hyperkeratosistic. The enuretic.''' 
Arcomegaly is a disorder of the pituitary gland whereby it produces too much human growth hormone, resulting in giantism. Hyperkeratosistic means that one is suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperkeratosis hyperkeratosis]. Enuresis is the inability to urinate.

'''The spasmodically torticollic.''' 
having a head tilted to one side (torticollis) involving convulsions (spasmodic)

'''G.S.L.''' 
Guaranteed Student Loan

'''treillage''' 
latticework

'''interneural''' 
between nerves

'''semitic ideograms''' 
Semitic languages actually tend to be written uses alphabets, where a symbol denotes a phoneme, rather than in ideograms, like Chinese and Korean are. The oldest alphabet is the Phoenician, which was Semitic.0

'''rostral lamina''' 
in biology, a beaklike or snoutlike (rostral) layer of tissue (lamina)

'''neuroform''' 
Neuroform is actually the brand-name of a type of stent.

'''S.O.P.''' 
Standard Operating Procedure

'''neorealist''' 
adhering to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_neorealism Italian neorealism]

'''Peterson/Broughton and Dali/Buñuel''' 
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0677403/ Sidney Peterson] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0112687/ James Broughton] collaborated on [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038855/ The Potted Psalm] (1946), an experimental film.

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Púbol (1904-1989) and Luis Buñuel Portolés (1900-1983) were both Spanish artists. They collaborated on ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020530/ Un chien andalou]'' (''An Andalusian Dog'', 1929), another experimental film.

'''Deren/Hammid''' 
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220305/ Maya Deren] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0352413/ Alexander Hammid] codirected [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036154/ Meshes of the Afternoon]

'''Antonioni''' 
Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007) was an Italian filmmaker probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060176/ Blowup].

'''Tarkovsky''' 
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (1932-1986) was a Soviet-Russian filmmaker.

'''Sometimes Ozu and Bresson''' 
Yasujirō Ozu (1903-1963) was a Japanese filmmaker. Robert Bresson (1901-1999) was a French filmmaker.

'''hoary dramaturgy''' 
According to Wikipedia, dramaturgy is "the art of dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage." To call it "hoary" would be to imply it's old.

'''Sir Herbert Tree''' 
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852-1917) was a British actor and manager. You can hear his performances of ''Hamlet'' [http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/playhamlet.html here].

'''Kaelesque''' 
In the style of Pauline Kael (1919-2001), an American film critic for ''New Yorker'' magazine.

'''De Palma, Tarantino''' 
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000361/ Brian De Palma] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000233/ Quentin Tarantino]

==Endnote 61==

'''dissociative formalism''' 
presumably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formalist_film_theory formalism] that focuses too much on form and not enough on character and other aspects of filmmaking

'''Stan Brakhage and Hollis Frampton''' 
Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) and Hollis Frampton (1936-1984) were American avant-garde filmmakers.

'''Beth B.''' 
You can read about here [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0044579/ here].

'''the Snow brothers, Vigdis Simpson''' 
One of the Snow brothers would have to be Michael Snow (born 1929), a Canadian-American filmmaker, principally known for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength_%281966_film%29 Wavelength]. Vigdis Simpson seems created.

==Page 185 (cont'd)==

'''Brutalism, Found Drama''' 
Brutalism may refer to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalism brutalist architecture]. Found Drama is the cinematic extension of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_art Found Art].

'''dissonant''' 
inharmonious with other things (here, aspects of Madame Psychosis's taste)

==Page 186==

'''Baraka''' 
Imamu Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones, 1934) is an African-American poet, playwright, author, and political activist.

'''piamater''' 
actually two words: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pia_mater Pia mater]

'''sulci''' 
plural of "sulcus," a furrow or groove, particularly between sections of the brain

'''A.Y. ('V.F.') Rickey's ''summum opus''''' 
[http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/ V. Frederick Rickey] is a prominent mathematician. I don't know who A.Y. Rickey is/was, but it is notable that there is, in fact, no Student Union building at MIT.

''Summum opus'' would be a "great work" while ''magnum opus'' would be the "best work."

'''parietooccipital''' 
referring to both the parietal lobe of the brain, as well as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occipital_lobe occipital] lobe, which is where vision is processed

'''Pons and abducent''' 
The Pons is a structure on the brain stem, while the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abducent_nerve abducens nerve] is a nerve in the muscles of the eye.

'''basilar-stem artery''' 
a stem of an artery that carries blood to the brain

'''oblongata''' 
the second half of the full name of the medulla

==Page 187==

'''FHC''' 
acronym for "fluorohydrocarbon," this is a type of [http://www.polymerplastics.com/fluoro_overview.shtml fluroplastic], known to give off poisonous fumes

'''Heathkit''' 
The company's Web site is [http://www.heathkit-museum.com/ here].

'''10ºC''' 
fifty degrees Fahrenheit

'''five m.''' 
almost 16.5 feet

'''vascularly hued''' 
colored like a blood vessel

'''mercuric''' 
employing the element [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element) mercury]

'''wooferless''' 
lacking the larger speaker (i.e., the "woofer") found in multi-speaker systems

'''saddle-noses''' 
noses having a collapsed nasal bridge

'''atrophic''' 
shrinking in size

'''Scleredema adultorum''' 
a [http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic385.htm disease] characterized by non-pitting induration of the skin

'''serodermatotic''' 
suffering from serodermatosis, a skin disease with serous effusion into the skin

'''hydrocephalic''' 
having water on the brain

'''tabescent and chachetic''' 
Tabescent refers to a person with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabes tabes dorsalis], and chachetic (probably misspelled) apparently refers to a person with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cachexia cachexia].

'''Brag's-Diseased''' 
This would seem to be a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glioma glioma], though it is mentioned almost nowhere.

'''carbuncular or steatocryptotic''' 
Carbuncular means "pimply," while steatocryptotic refers to a person suffering from steatocryptosis, which is derangement of the sebaceous glands.

'''Marin-Amat Syndrome''' 
This is involuntary closure on one eye, named for Manuel Marin Amat, an early 20th century Spanish ophthalmologist.

'''scrofulodermic''' 
suffering from [http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic434.htm cutaneous tuberculosis]

'''Bell-shaped steatopygiacs''' 
A steatopygiac is a person suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steatopygia steatopygia]; if you're bell-shaped, it just means the fat is closer to the bottom than the top

'''Pityriasis Rosea''' 
a skin disease marked by patches of pink, oval rash

'''"Blessed are the poor in body, for they."''' 
This is not one of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatitude Beatitudes].

'''U.H.I.D.''' 
This is a bona fide acronym for "Universal Health Identifier," though it's doubtful this is what Wallace means. A HID is a "Human Interface Device"; U could stand for "university" or "universal" or something else entirely. Ah, what he means: Union of Hideous and Improbably Deformed

'''probability waves for subhadronics''' 
Probability waves are a concept in quantum physics that expresses the probability that "a particle or particles in a particular state will be measured to have a given position and momentum" (Wikipedia). Subhadronic refers to a particle smaller than a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadron hadron].

==Page 188==

'''Radcliffe's Bunting Institute''' 
Radcliffe is the women's college at Harvard University. According to the Harvard [http://www.harvard.edu/ Web site], "The Bunting Institute is a mutidisciplinary center for women scholars, writers, artists, and activists of demonstrated achievement and promise. Each year, approximately 40 women pursue projects that make significant contributions to their fields, working in a community that fosters interdisciplinary discourse, and creative and intellectual leadership. Some describe their experience as "the Bunting transformation."

'''L.A.S. tradition''' 
Liberal Arts and Sciences

==Endnote 64==

'''Samuel Johnson''' 
Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1709-1784), was a British poet, essayist, novelist, literary critic, and lexicographer.

'''Beesley''' 
Patricia Beesley, an early 20th century American educator who did author the book named.

'''cornup3.COM''' 
There is no such Web site.

'''''mens-sana'' pedagogy''' 
"healthy-mind" teaching

'''''ad valorem''''' 
Latin: by value

'''''corpore potis''''' 
Latin: able of body

'''Thorp's Trigonometry of Cubes''' 
Edward Oakley Thorp (born 1932) is an American mathematician, but he seems not to have created a "trigonometry of cubes," which would be, frankly, impossible.

'''aphotic to apochromatic''' 
Aphotic means without light, while apochromatic means developing color.

'''Best Boy''' 
a member of a film crew, assistant to either the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaffer_%28motion_picture_industry%29 gaffer] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_grip key grip]

'''Cambridgeport''' 
an area of Cambridge, Mass.

==Page 189==

'''leukodermatic''' 
white-skinned

'''xanthodantic''' 
misspelling of xanthodontic, which means yellow-toothed

'''basilisk-breathed and pyorrheic''' 
A basilisk is a type of dragon, and pyorrhea is the condition of having gum disease.

==Page 190==

'''peronic or teratoidal''' 
Peronic means having a bent penis, while teratoidal means malformed.

'''prenologically malformed''' 
malformed in the shape of the skull

'''supuratively lesioned''' 
having lesions that ooze pus

'''acervulus-nosed''' 
having blisters on the nose

'''radically -ectomied''' 
-having to do with body-part removal (think radical mastectomy)

'''diaphoretic''' 
perspiring

'''granulomatous''' 
having masses of ulcerated infections of the skin

'''lazarettes and oubliettes''' 
A lazarette is a hospital that treats infectious diseases, while an oubliette is a dungeon accessible only by trapdoor.

'''kyphotic and lordotic''' 
Kyphotic means having abnormal rear curvature of the spine (i.e., hunchbacked), while lordotic having abnormal forward curvature of the spine.

'''cellulitic''' 
fat

'''fatally pulchritudinous''' 
deadly good-looking

'''Actaeonizing''' 
turning into a deer; growing horns

'''Medusoid''' 
looking like a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon gorgon]

'''papuled, the macular, the albinic''' 
Papules are inflammatory elevations of the skin. Macular means having opaque spots on the cornea. Albinic is having no melanin.

'''''odalisques''''' 
a concubine or slave in a harem

'''ital''' 
italics, used for emphasis

'''crosiers''' 
a crosier is a type of French roll

'''lager''' 
a type of beer, medium in darkness

'''vin blanc''' 
French: white wine

==Page 191==

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'''''Good Morning, Midnight'' and ''Maggie: A Girl of the Streets'' and ''Giovanni's Room'' and ''Under the Volcano''''' 
''Good Morning, Midnight'' is a novel by Jean Rhys (1890-1979), born Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams, a Caribbean novelist, on the topic of a woman forced to confront her own loneliness and despair. ''Maggie: A Girl of the Streets'' is a novel by Stephen Crane (1871-1900), an American novelist, on the topic of a child prostitute. ''Giovanni's Room'' by African-American expatriate author James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987) is a novel on the topic of a young man coming to terms with his homosexuality. ''Under the Volcano'' is a novel by Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957), a British writer, on the topic of alcoholism.

'''Bret Ellis''' 
Bret Easton Ellis (born 1965) is an American novelist probably best known for ''Less Than Zero'' (1985), about a drug addict who turns to prostitution, and ''American Psycho'' (1991), about a serial killer.

'''van der Rohe''' 
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) was a German-born American architect.

==Endnote 66==

'''R.E.M. and Pearl Jam''' 
R.E.M.'s lead singer, Michael Stipe, was famous for his unintelligible lyrics until around 1987's ''Document''. Pearl Jam's vocalist, Eddie Vedder, is as cryptic now as he was fifteen years ago, when they released their first record.

==Page 191 (cont'd)==

'''wall- and cross-eyed''' 
To be wall-eyed is to suffer from exotropia, which is a form of ocular paralysis in which one or both eyes turn outward.

'''ergotic of St. Anthony''' 
An old name for ergot poisoning is "St. Anthony's fire," which is ergot poisoning. However, given the context, Wallace may be referring here to shingles.

'''varicelliformally eruptive''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eczema_herpeticum eczema due to herpes].

'''sarcoma'd of Kaposi''' 
Karposi's sarcoma is a usually benign skin cancer common in elderly Mediterranean men that has become the most easily identifiable visible symptom of AIDS.

'''M. Hamilton as Oz's West Witch''' 
Referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/ The Wizard of Oz], the Wicked Witch of the West (and East) was played by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002121/ Margaret Hamilton].

==Page 192==

[[Image:RCA.jpg|right]]

'''RCA-Victorish''' 
The image can be seen to the right.

'''snaggle-toothed''' 
having a broken or projecting tooth

'''wattled''' 
having flesh hanging from one's chin, like a turkey

'''lycanthropically''' 
in a way suggesting a werewolf

'''Tourettic''' 
suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourette%27s_Syndrome Tourette's syndrome]

'''teratoid''' 
resembling a monster

'''halitotic''' 
having bad breath

'''saurian- and equine-looking''' 
looking like a lizard or horse, respectively

'''invaginate''' 
sheathed

'''Cushing's Disease''' 
Named for Harvey Williams Cushing (1869-1939), an American neurologist, this disease is an endocrine disorder resulting in rapid weight gain, sweating, thinning of skin, and other negative side effects.

'''Rhinoplasty''' 
nose job

'''subdural''' 
below the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dura_mater dura mater] in the skull

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'''les bâtiments sanctifíes''' 
French: the holy buildings

'''''Metropolis''''' 
a 1927 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136/ film] directed by Fritz Lang

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'''Remington-hung''' 
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].

'''half-Windsors''' 
A type of knot used to tie a necktie

'''Harold Incandenza''' 
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.

'''Enfield''' 
A fictional town just west of Boston, which exists where parts of the real town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.

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<div id="onancaa">'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.''' </div>
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Athletic Association -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.

'''wen''' 
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary)

'''Randolph Tennis Center''' 
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tucson, Ariz. and the main campus of the University of Arizona.

'''El Con Marriott''' 
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquistador Hotel in Tucson, the Marriot has a different name.

==Page 5==

'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."''' 
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.

'''62.5%''' 
Out of eight people in the room (including himself, three deans, the Director of Composition, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are not looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.

'''circumflex''' 
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb être (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.

'''Pac 10''' 
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.

'''Kekuléan''' 
Referring to Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (a.k.a. August Kekulé), a German organic chemist (1829-1896). Chemicals are said to be formed by knots of elements. The exact shape to which Hal is referring is unclear.

==Page 6==

'''aviarian''' 
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.

==Page 7==

'''lapidary''' 
"Marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression: lapidary prose" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''effete''' 
Degenerate or decadent

'''Prescriptive Grammar''' 
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.

'''Post-Fourier Transformations''' 
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.

'''Holographically Mimetic''' 
Approximating reality using holograms

'''Montague Grammar''' 
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.

'''Physical Modality''' 
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.

'''Tertiary''' 
Third-level, after primary and secondary

'''Justinian''' 
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565)

'''sotto''' 
Italian for "below," it means the dean is speaking in a low voice.

==Page 8==

'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium''' 
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

'''hyperthrophied''' 
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (see, contra, ''atrophied'')

'''insigniated''' 
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia)

==Page 9==

'''N.A.A.U.P.''' 
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.

'''de moi''' 
French: from me

'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."''' 
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word.

'''capillary webs''' 
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins

'''defacatory''' 
As if eliminating solid bodily waste

'''RICO''' 
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.

==Page 10==

'''Brewster's-Angle light''' 
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].

'''Weston''' 
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city

'''Orin''' 
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."

'''Rototiller''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]

'''Pooh-wear''' 
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance

[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

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'''presbyopic''' 
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older

'''Rototrembling''' 
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller

'''caustic''' 
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic

'''plumb''' 
adj., straight or true; in line with

'''ideogram''' 
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration

==Page 12==

'''Kirkegaard''' 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy

'''Camus''' 
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.

'''Dennis Gabor''' 
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."''' 
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of Leviathan. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.

'''Hegel''' 
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.

'''creatus''' 
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."

'''pinion''' 
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''parquet''' 
an in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.

==Page 13==

'''half nelson''' 
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind

'''Heimlich''' 
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.

'''pases''' 
This is the plural of pase, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.

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

'''enfilade''' 
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.

==Page 14==

<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thumb|100px|Whataburger logo|right]]
Synechdote for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational", an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson, AZ. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Pheonix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)

==Page 15==

'''espadrilles''' 
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles

'''leonine''' 
lion-like

'''cirri''' 
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud

'''martinet''' 
a strict disciplinarian

==Page 16==

'''ultra-mach''' 
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.

'''barnwood''' 
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''starboard list''' 
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.

'''gigantism''' 
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''

'''parodic''' 
having the qualities of a parody

'''infantophile''' 
one subject to infantophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia]), but may simply reference the earlier Inner Infant group

'''incisionish''' 
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"

'''hypophalangial''' 
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands

'''Himself's''' 
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel

==Page 17==

'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."''' 
See Hamlet, Act Five, Scene One.

'''Venus Williams''' 
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.

'''Dymphna''' 
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.

'''Petropolis Kahn''' 
Petropolis is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.

"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., kohen.

'''etiology''' 
the cause of a disease

'''Socratic method'''
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece

'''O.E.D. VI's count''' 
This is a reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition.

'''nonarchaic''' 
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language

'''Latinate''' 
deriving from Latin

'''Saxonic''' 
deriving from Old English

'''quick-bit''' 
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips

'''jou''' 
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"

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

==Page 18==

'''200 grams''' 
a little over seven ounces

'''"...using just audio..."''' 
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.

'''Allston''' 
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.

'''high-resin dope''' 
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced

'''harelip''' 
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]

==Page 19==

'''TP''' 
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.

'''"own marijuana"''' 
to become master over one's addiction, in this case, to end the addiction to marijuana

'''modem''' 
used as a verb, communicating with the office via modem, an early but ubiquitous tool for transmitting data between servers and client/servers.

'''e-note''' 
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, conceived in the pre-Internet era

==Page 20==

'''Mountie''' 
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI

'''Porter Square, Cambridge''' 
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border

==Page 21==

'''convulsive''' 
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking

'''Wedekind festival''' 
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.

'''rapacious''' 
greedy and forceful in capturing and consuming

==Page 22==

'''pleurisy''' 
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs

'''Interlace viewer''' 
A television-based home entertainment system, ubiquitous in the time the novel is set, which plays copy-protected "cartridges" custom-ordered by viewers, invented by [[L#"Lace"|Noreen Lace-Forché]]

'''raptly''' 
with intense attention to

'''cartridge''' 
See ''Interlace viewer'', above

'''debauch''' 
an episode of debauchery, engaging in excessive, pleasure-seeking, often sexual- or drug/alcohol-related

'''120 grams''' 
about 4.2 ounces

'''debased''' 
of low character and lacking integrity

'''Tito Puente''' 
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.

'''Marlborough Street''' 
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.

==Page 23==

'''appropriation''' 
taking something as one's own, without permission

'''methamphetamine hydrochloride''' 
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that Infinite Jest was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.

==Page 24==

'''pastiche''' 
a mixture of varying style or content

'''magisculed''' 
typo or intentional misspelling of ''majuscule'', an initial capital letter, often large-type to introduce a section of written material; Wallace's use of the noun in a verb form is likely a neologism (especially if the alternate spelling is retained)

'''50 grams''' 
about 1.75 ounces

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water without soil

==Page 25==

'''stein''' 
a drinking mug

'''E.W.D. land barge''' 
perhaps "Enfield Waste Disposal"; a garbage truck

'''phallocentric''' 
biased from a male point of view

'''half a meter''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''carb''' 
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carburetor on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.

'''oblique''' 
slanted, like an acute or obtuse angle, not a right-angle

'''teleputer''' 
Combination television and computer, generic term for an Interlace player, see also [[T#"TP"|TP]]

==Page 26==

'''jibe''' 
correspond with; match up

'''oblique''' 
indirect or dishonest

==Page 27==

'''desiccated''' 
dried out

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'''Remington-hung''' 
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].

'''half-Windsors''' 
A type of knot used to tie a necktie

'''Harold Incandenza''' 
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.

'''Enfield''' 
A fictional town just west of Boston, which exists where parts of the real town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.

==Page 4==

<div id="onancaa">'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.''' </div>
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Athletic Association -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.

'''wen''' 
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary)

'''Randolph Tennis Center''' 
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tuscon, Ariz. and the main campus of the University of Arizona.

'''El Con Marriott''' 
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquistador Hotel in Tucson, the Marriot has a different name.

==Page 5==

'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."''' 
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.

'''62.5%''' 
Out of eight people in the room (including himself, three deans, the Director of Composition, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are not looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.

'''circumflex''' 
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb être (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.

'''Pac 10''' 
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.

'''Kekuléan''' 
Referring to Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (a.k.a. August Kekulé), a German organic chemist (1829-1896). Chemicals are said to be formed by knots of elements. The exact shape to which Hal is referring is unclear.

==Page 6==

'''aviarian''' 
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.

==Page 7==

'''lapidary''' 
"Marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression: lapidary prose" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''effete''' 
Degenerate or decadent

'''Prescriptive Grammar''' 
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.

'''Post-Fourier Transformations''' 
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.

'''Holographically Mimetic''' 
Approximating reality using holograms

'''Montague Grammar''' 
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.

'''Physical Modality''' 
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.

'''Tertiary''' 
Third-level, after primary and secondary

'''Justinian''' 
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565)

'''sotto''' 
Italian for "below," it means the dean is speaking in a low voice.

==Page 8==

'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium''' 
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

'''hyperthrophied''' 
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (see, contra, ''atrophied'')

'''insigniated''' 
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia)

==Page 9==

'''N.A.A.U.P.''' 
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.

'''de moi''' 
French: from me

'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."''' 
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word.

'''capillary webs''' 
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins

'''defacatory''' 
As if eliminating solid bodily waste

'''RICO''' 
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.

==Page 10==

'''Brewster's-Angle light''' 
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].

'''Weston''' 
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city

'''Orin''' 
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."

'''Rototiller''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]

'''Pooh-wear''' 
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance

[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

==Page 11==

'''presbyopic''' 
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older

'''Rototrembling''' 
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller

'''caustic''' 
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic

'''plumb''' 
adj., straight or true; in line with

'''ideogram''' 
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration

==Page 12==

'''Kirkegaard''' 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy

'''Camus''' 
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.

'''Dennis Gabor''' 
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."''' 
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of Leviathan. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.

'''Hegel''' 
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.

'''creatus''' 
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."

'''pinion''' 
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''parquet''' 
an in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.

==Page 13==

'''half nelson''' 
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind

'''Heimlich''' 
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.

'''pases''' 
This is the plural of pase, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.

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

'''enfilade''' 
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.

==Page 14==

<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thumb|100px|Whataburger logo|right]]
Synechdote for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational", an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson, AZ. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Pheonix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)

==Page 15==

'''espadrilles''' 
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles

'''leonine''' 
lion-like

'''cirri''' 
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud

'''martinet''' 
a strict disciplinarian

==Page 16==

'''ultra-mach''' 
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.

'''barnwood''' 
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''starboard list''' 
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.

'''gigantism''' 
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''

'''parodic''' 
having the qualities of a parody

'''infantophile''' 
one subject to infantophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia]), but may simply reference the earlier Inner Infant group

'''incisionish''' 
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"

'''hypophalangial''' 
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands

'''Himself's''' 
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel

==Page 17==

'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."''' 
See Hamlet, Act Five, Scene One.

'''Venus Williams''' 
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.

'''Dymphna''' 
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.

'''Petropolis Kahn''' 
Petropolis is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.

"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., kohen.

'''etiology''' 
the cause of a disease

'''Socratic method'''
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece

'''O.E.D. VI's count''' 
This is a reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition.

'''nonarchaic''' 
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language

'''Latinate''' 
deriving from Latin

'''Saxonic''' 
deriving from Old English

'''quick-bit''' 
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips

'''jou''' 
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"

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

==Page 18==

'''200 grams''' 
a little over seven ounces

'''"...using just audio..."''' 
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.

'''Allston''' 
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.

'''high-resin dope''' 
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced

'''harelip''' 
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]

==Page 19==

'''TP''' 
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.

'''"own marijuana"''' 
to become master over one's addiction, in this case, to end the addiction to marijuana

'''modem''' 
used as a verb, communicating with the office via modem, an early but ubiquitous tool for transmitting data between servers and client/servers.

'''e-note''' 
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, conceived in the pre-Internet era

==Page 20==

'''Mountie''' 
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI

'''Porter Square, Cambridge''' 
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border

==Page 21==

'''convulsive''' 
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking

'''Wedekind festival''' 
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.

'''rapacious''' 
greedy and forceful in capturing and consuming

==Page 22==

'''pleurisy''' 
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs

'''Interlace viewer''' 
A television-based home entertainment system, ubiquitous in the time the novel is set, which plays copy-protected "cartridges" custom-ordered by viewers, invented by [[L#"Lace"|Noreen Lace-Forché]]

'''raptly''' 
with intense attention to

'''cartridge''' 
See ''Interlace viewer'', above

'''debauch''' 
an episode of debauchery, engaging in excessive, pleasure-seeking, often sexual- or drug/alcohol-related

'''120 grams''' 
about 4.2 ounces

'''debased''' 
of low character and lacking integrity

'''Tito Puente''' 
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.

'''Marlborough Street''' 
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.

==Page 23==

'''appropriation''' 
taking something as one's own, without permission

'''methamphetamine hydrochloride''' 
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that Infinite Jest was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.

==Page 24==

'''pastiche''' 
a mixture of varying style or content

'''magisculed''' 
typo or intentional misspelling of ''majuscule'', an initial capital letter, often large-type to introduce a section of written material; Wallace's use of the noun in a verb form is likely a neologism (especially if the alternate spelling is retained)

'''50 grams''' 
about 1.75 ounces

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water without soil

==Page 25==

'''stein''' 
a drinking mug

'''E.W.D. land barge''' 
perhaps "Enfield Waste Disposal"; a garbage truck

'''phallocentric''' 
biased from a male point of view

'''half a meter''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''carb''' 
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carburetor on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.

'''oblique''' 
slanted, like an acute or obtuse angle, not a right-angle

'''teleputer''' 
Combination television and computer, generic term for an Interlace player, see also [[T#"TP"|TP]]

==Page 26==

'''jibe''' 
correspond with; match up

'''oblique''' 
indirect or dishonest

==Page 27==

'''desiccated''' 
dried out

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'''Remington-hung''' 
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].

'''half-Windsors''' 
A type of knot used to tie a necktie

'''Harold Incandenza''' 
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.

'''Enfield''' 
A fictional town just west of Boston, which exists where parts of the real town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.

==Page 4==

<div id="onancaa">'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.''' </div>
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Athletic Association -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.

'''wen''' 
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary)

'''Randolph Tennis Center''' 
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tuscon, Ariz., where the main campus of the University of Arizona is also located.

'''El Con Marriott''' 
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquistador Hotel in Tuscon, the Marriot has a different name.

==Page 5==

'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."''' 
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.

'''62.5%''' 
Out of eight people in the room (including himself, three deans, the Director of Composition, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are not looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.

'''circumflex''' 
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb être (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.

'''Pac 10''' 
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.

'''Kekuléan''' 
Referring to Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (a.k.a. August Kekulé), a German organic chemist (1829-1896). Chemicals are said to be formed by knots of elements. The exact shape to which Hal is referring is unclear.

==Page 6==

'''aviarian''' 
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.

==Page 7==

'''lapidary''' 
"Marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression: lapidary prose" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''effete''' 
Degenerate or decadent

'''Prescriptive Grammar''' 
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.

'''Post-Fourier Transformations''' 
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.

'''Holographically Mimetic''' 
Approximating reality using holograms

'''Montague Grammar''' 
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.

'''Physical Modality''' 
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.

'''Tertiary''' 
Third-level, after primary and secondary

'''Justinian''' 
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565)

'''sotto''' 
Italian for "below," it means the dean is speaking in a low voice.

==Page 8==

'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium''' 
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

'''hyperthrophied''' 
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (see, contra, ''atrophied'')

'''insigniated''' 
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia)

==Page 9==

'''N.A.A.U.P.''' 
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.

'''de moi''' 
French: from me

'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."''' 
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word.

'''capillary webs''' 
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins

'''defacatory''' 
As if eliminating solid bodily waste

'''RICO''' 
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.

==Page 10==

'''Brewster's-Angle light''' 
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].

'''Weston''' 
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city

'''Orin''' 
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."

'''Rototiller''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]

'''Pooh-wear''' 
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance

[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

==Page 11==

'''presbyopic''' 
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older

'''Rototrembling''' 
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller

'''caustic''' 
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic

'''plumb''' 
adj., straight or true; in line with

'''ideogram''' 
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration

==Page 12==

'''Kirkegaard''' 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy

'''Camus''' 
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.

'''Dennis Gabor''' 
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."''' 
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of Leviathan. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.

'''Hegel''' 
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.

'''creatus''' 
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."

'''pinion''' 
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''parquet''' 
an in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.

==Page 13==

'''half nelson''' 
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind

'''Heimlich''' 
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.

'''pases''' 
This is the plural of pase, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.

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

'''enfilade''' 
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.

==Page 14==

<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thumb|100px|Whataburger logo|right]]
Synechdote for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational", an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson, AZ. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Pheonix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)

==Page 15==

'''espadrilles''' 
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles

'''leonine''' 
lion-like

'''cirri''' 
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud

'''martinet''' 
a strict disciplinarian

==Page 16==

'''ultra-mach''' 
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.

'''barnwood''' 
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''starboard list''' 
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.

'''gigantism''' 
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''

'''parodic''' 
having the qualities of a parody

'''infantophile''' 
one subject to infantophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia]), but may simply reference the earlier Inner Infant group

'''incisionish''' 
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"

'''hypophalangial''' 
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands

'''Himself's''' 
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel

==Page 17==

'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."''' 
See Hamlet, Act Five, Scene One.

'''Venus Williams''' 
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.

'''Dymphna''' 
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.

'''Petropolis Kahn''' 
Petropolis is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.

"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., kohen.

'''etiology''' 
the cause of a disease

'''Socratic method'''
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece

'''O.E.D. VI's count''' 
This is a reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition.

'''nonarchaic''' 
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language

'''Latinate''' 
deriving from Latin

'''Saxonic''' 
deriving from Old English

'''quick-bit''' 
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips

'''jou''' 
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"

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

==Page 18==

'''200 grams''' 
a little over seven ounces

'''"...using just audio..."''' 
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.

'''Allston''' 
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.

'''high-resin dope''' 
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced

'''harelip''' 
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]

==Page 19==

'''TP''' 
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.

'''"own marijuana"''' 
to become master over one's addiction, in this case, to end the addiction to marijuana

'''modem''' 
used as a verb, communicating with the office via modem, an early but ubiquitous tool for transmitting data between servers and client/servers.

'''e-note''' 
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, conceived in the pre-Internet era

==Page 20==

'''Mountie''' 
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI

'''Porter Square, Cambridge''' 
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border

==Page 21==

'''convulsive''' 
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking

'''Wedekind festival''' 
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.

'''rapacious''' 
greedy and forceful in capturing and consuming

==Page 22==

'''pleurisy''' 
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs

'''Interlace viewer''' 
A television-based home entertainment system, ubiquitous in the time the novel is set, which plays copy-protected "cartridges" custom-ordered by viewers, invented by [[L#"Lace"|Noreen Lace-Forché]]

'''raptly''' 
with intense attention to

'''cartridge''' 
See ''Interlace viewer'', above

'''debauch''' 
an episode of debauchery, engaging in excessive, pleasure-seeking, often sexual- or drug/alcohol-related

'''120 grams''' 
about 4.2 ounces

'''debased''' 
of low character and lacking integrity

'''Tito Puente''' 
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.

'''Marlborough Street''' 
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.

==Page 23==

'''appropriation''' 
taking something as one's own, without permission

'''methamphetamine hydrochloride''' 
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that Infinite Jest was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.

==Page 24==

'''pastiche''' 
a mixture of varying style or content

'''magisculed''' 
typo or intentional misspelling of ''majuscule'', an initial capital letter, often large-type to introduce a section of written material; Wallace's use of the noun in a verb form is likely a neologism (especially if the alternate spelling is retained)

'''50 grams''' 
about 1.75 ounces

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water without soil

==Page 25==

'''stein''' 
a drinking mug

'''E.W.D. land barge''' 
perhaps "Enfield Waste Disposal"; a garbage truck

'''phallocentric''' 
biased from a male point of view

'''half a meter''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''carb''' 
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carburetor on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.

'''oblique''' 
slanted, like an acute or obtuse angle, not a right-angle

'''teleputer''' 
Combination television and computer, generic term for an Interlace player, see also [[T#"TP"|TP]]

==Page 26==

'''jibe''' 
correspond with; match up

'''oblique''' 
indirect or dishonest

==Page 27==

'''desiccated''' 
dried out

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'''Remington-hung''' 
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].

'''half-Windsors''' 
A type of knot used to tie a necktie

'''Harold Incandenza''' 
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.

'''Enfield''' 
A fictional town just west of Boston, which exists where parts of the real town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.

==Page 4==

<div id="onancaa">'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.''' </div>
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Athletic Association -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.

'''wen''' 
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary)

'''Randolph Tennis Center''' 
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tuscon, Ariz., where the main campus of the University of Arizona is also located.

'''El Con Marriott''' 
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquistador Hotel in Tuscon, the Marriot has a different name.

==Page 5==

'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."''' 
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.

'''62.5%''' 
Out of eight people in the room (including himself, three deans, the Director of Composition, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are not looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.

'''circumflex''' 
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb être (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.

'''Pac 10''' 
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.

'''Kekuléan''' 
Referring to Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (a.k.a. August Kekulé), a German organic chemist (1829-1896). Chemicals are said to be formed by knots of elements. The exact shape to which Hal is referring is unclear.

==Page 6==

'''aviarian''' 
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.

==Page 7==

'''lapidary''' 
"Marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression: lapidary prose" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''effete''' 
Degenerate or decadent

'''Prescriptive Grammar''' 
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.

'''Post-Fourier Transformations''' 
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.

'''Holographically Mimetic''' 
Approximating reality using holograms

'''Montague Grammar''' 
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.

'''Physical Modality''' 
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.

'''Tertiary''' 
Third-level, after primary and secondary

'''Justinian''' 
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565)

'''sotto''' 
Italian for "below," it means the dean is speaking in a low voice.

==Page 8==

'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium''' 
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

'''hyperthrophied''' 
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (see, contra, ''atrophied'')

'''insigniated''' 
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia)

==Page 9==

'''N.A.A.U.P.''' 
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.

'''de moi''' 
French: from me

'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."''' 
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word.

'''capillary webs''' 
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins

'''defacatory''' 
As if eliminating solid bodily waste

'''RICO''' 
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.

==Page 10==

'''Brewster's-Angle light''' 
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].

'''Weston''' 
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city

'''Orin''' 
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."

'''Rototiller''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]

'''Pooh-wear''' 
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance

[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

==Page 11==

'''presbyopic''' 
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older

'''Rototrembling''' 
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller

'''caustic''' 
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic

'''plumb''' 
adj., straight or true; in line with

'''ideogram''' 
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration

==Page 12==

'''Kirkegaard''' 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy

'''Camus''' 
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.

'''Dennis Gabor''' 
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."''' 
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of Leviathan. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.

'''Hegel''' 
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.

'''creatus''' 
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."

'''pinion''' 
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''parquet''' 
an in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.

==Page 13==

'''half nelson''' 
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind

'''Heimlich''' 
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.

'''pases''' 
This is the plural of pase, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.

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

'''enfilade''' 
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.

==Page 14==

<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thumb|100px|Whataburger logo|right]]
Synechdote for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational", an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson, AZ. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Pheonix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)

==Page 15==

'''espadrilles''' 
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles

'''leonine''' 
lion-like

'''cirri''' 
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud

'''martinet''' 
a strict disciplinarian

==Page 16==

'''ultra-mach''' 
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.

'''barnwood''' 
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''starboard list''' 
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.

'''gigantism''' 
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''

'''parodic''' 
having the qualities of a parody

'''infantophile''' 
one subject to infantophilia, also nepiophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia])

'''incisionish''' 
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"

'''hypophalangial''' 
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands

'''Himself's''' 
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel

==Page 17==

'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."''' 
See Hamlet, Act Five, Scene One.

'''Venus Williams''' 
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.

'''Dymphna''' 
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.

'''Petropolis Kahn''' 
Petropolis is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.

"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., kohen.

'''etiology''' 
the cause of a disease

'''Socratic method'''
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece

'''O.E.D. VI's count''' 
This is a reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition.

'''nonarchaic''' 
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language

'''Latinate''' 
deriving from Latin

'''Saxonic''' 
deriving from Old English

'''quick-bit''' 
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips

'''jou''' 
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"

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

==Page 18==

'''200 grams''' 
a little over seven ounces

'''"...using just audio..."''' 
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.

'''Allston''' 
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.

'''high-resin dope''' 
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced

'''harelip''' 
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]

==Page 19==

'''TP''' 
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.

'''"own marijuana"''' 
to become master over one's addiction, in this case, to end the addiction to marijuana

'''modem''' 
used as a verb, communicating with the office via modem, an early but ubiquitous tool for transmitting data between servers and client/servers.

'''e-note''' 
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, conceived in the pre-Internet era

==Page 20==

'''Mountie''' 
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI

'''Porter Square, Cambridge''' 
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border

==Page 21==

'''convulsive''' 
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking

'''Wedekind festival''' 
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.

'''rapacious''' 
greedy and forceful in capturing and consuming

==Page 22==

'''pleurisy''' 
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs

'''Interlace viewer''' 
A television-based home entertainment system, ubiquitous in the time the novel is set, which plays copy-protected "cartridges" custom-ordered by viewers, invented by [[L#"Lace"|Noreen Lace-Forché]]

'''raptly''' 
with intense attention to

'''cartridge''' 
See ''Interlace viewer'', above

'''debauch''' 
an episode of debauchery, engaging in excessive, pleasure-seeking, often sexual- or drug/alcohol-related

'''120 grams''' 
about 4.2 ounces

'''debased''' 
of low character and lacking integrity

'''Tito Puente''' 
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.

'''Marlborough Street''' 
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.

==Page 23==

'''appropriation''' 
taking something as one's own, without permission

'''methamphetamine hydrochloride''' 
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that Infinite Jest was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.

==Page 24==

'''pastiche''' 
a mixture of varying style or content

'''magisculed''' 
typo or intentional misspelling of ''majuscule'', an initial capital letter, often large-type to introduce a section of written material; Wallace's use of the noun in a verb form is likely a neologism (especially if the alternate spelling is retained)

'''50 grams''' 
about 1.75 ounces

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water without soil

==Page 25==

'''stein''' 
a drinking mug

'''E.W.D. land barge''' 
perhaps "Enfield Waste Disposal"; a garbage truck

'''phallocentric''' 
biased from a male point of view

'''half a meter''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''carb''' 
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carburetor on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.

'''oblique''' 
slanted, like an acute or obtuse angle, not a right-angle

'''teleputer''' 
Combination television and computer, generic term for an Interlace player, see also [[T#"TP"|TP]]

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'''jibe''' 
correspond with; match up

'''oblique''' 
indirect or dishonest

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'''desiccated''' 
dried out

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'''Remington-hung''' 
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].

'''half-Windsors''' 
A type of knot used to tie a necktie

'''Harold Incandenza''' 
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.

'''Enfield''' 
A fictional town just west of Boston, which exists where parts of the real town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.

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<div id="onancaa">'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.''' </div>
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Athletic Association -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.

'''wen''' 
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary)

'''Randolph Tennis Center''' 
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tuscon, Ariz., where the main campus of the University of Arizona is also located.

'''El Con Marriott''' 
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquistador Hotel in Tuscon, the Marriot has a different name.

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'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."''' 
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.

'''62.5%''' 
Out of eight people in the room (including himself, three deans, the Director of Composition, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are not looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.

'''circumflex''' 
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb être (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.

'''Pac 10''' 
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.

'''Kekuléan''' 
Referring to Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (a.k.a. August Kekulé), a German organic chemist (1829-1896). Chemicals are said to be formed by knots of elements. The exact shape to which Hal is referring is unclear.

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'''aviarian''' 
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.

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'''lapidary''' 
"Marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression: lapidary prose" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''effete''' 
Degenerate or decadent

'''Prescriptive Grammar''' 
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.

'''Post-Fourier Transformations''' 
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.

'''Holographically Mimetic''' 
Approximating reality using holograms

'''Montague Grammar''' 
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.

'''Physical Modality''' 
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.

'''Tertiary''' 
Third-level, after primary and secondary

'''Justinian''' 
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565)

'''sotto''' 
Italian for "below," it means the dean is speaking in a low voice.

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'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium''' 
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

'''hyperthrophied''' 
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (see, contra, ''atrophied'')

'''insigniated''' 
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia)

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'''N.A.A.U.P.''' 
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.

'''de moi''' 
French: from me

'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."''' 
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word.

'''capillary webs''' 
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins

'''defacatory''' 
As if eliminating solid bodily waste

'''RICO''' 
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.

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'''Brewster's-Angle light''' 
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].

'''Weston''' 
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city

'''Orin''' 
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."

'''Rototiller''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]

'''Pooh-wear''' 
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance

[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

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'''presbyopic''' 
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older

'''Rototrembling''' 
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller

'''caustic''' 
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic

'''plumb''' 
adj., straight or true; in line with

'''ideogram''' 
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration

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'''Kirkegaard''' 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy

'''Camus''' 
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.

'''Dennis Gabor''' 
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."''' 
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of Leviathan. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.

'''Hegel''' 
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.

'''creatus''' 
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."

'''pinion''' 
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''parquet''' 
an in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.

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'''half nelson''' 
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind

'''Heimlich''' 
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.

'''pases''' 
This is the plural of pase, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.

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

'''enfilade''' 
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.

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<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thumb|100px|Whataburger logo|right]]
Synechdote for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational", an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson, AZ. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Pheonix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)

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'''espadrilles''' 
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles

'''leonine''' 
lion-like

'''cirri''' 
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud

'''martinet''' 
a strict disciplinarian

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'''ultra-mach''' 
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.

'''barnwood''' 
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''starboard list''' 
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.

'''gigantism''' 
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''

'''parodic''' 
having the qualities of a parody

'''infantophile''' 
one subject to infantophilia, also Nepiophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia])

'''incisionish''' 
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"

'''hypophalangial''' 
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands

'''Himself's''' 
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel

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'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."''' 
See Hamlet, Act Five, Scene One.

'''Venus Williams''' 
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.

'''Dymphna''' 
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.

'''Petropolis Kahn''' 
Petropolis is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.

"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., kohen.

'''etiology''' 
the cause of a disease

'''Socratic method'''
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece

'''O.E.D. VI's count''' 
This is a reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition.

'''nonarchaic''' 
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language

'''Latinate''' 
deriving from Latin

'''Saxonic''' 
deriving from Old English

'''quick-bit''' 
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips

'''jou''' 
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"

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'''200 grams''' 
a little over seven ounces

'''"...using just audio..."''' 
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.

'''Allston''' 
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.

'''high-resin dope''' 
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced

'''harelip''' 
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]

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'''TP''' 
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.

'''"own marijuana"''' 
to become master over one's addiction, in this case, to end the addiction to marijuana

'''modem''' 
used as a verb, communicating with the office via modem, an early but ubiquitous tool for transmitting data between servers and client/servers.

'''e-note''' 
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, conceived in the pre-Internet era

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'''Mountie''' 
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI

'''Porter Square, Cambridge''' 
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border

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'''convulsive''' 
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking

'''Wedekind festival''' 
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.

'''rapacious''' 
greedy and forceful in capturing and consuming

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'''pleurisy''' 
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs

'''Interlace viewer''' 
A television-based home entertainment system, ubiquitous in the time the novel is set, which plays copy-protected "cartridges" custom-ordered by viewers, invented by [[L#"Lace"|Noreen Lace-Forché]]

'''raptly''' 
with intense attention to

'''cartridge''' 
See ''Interlace viewer'', above

'''debauch''' 
an episode of debauchery, engaging in excessive, pleasure-seeking, often sexual- or drug/alcohol-related

'''120 grams''' 
about 4.2 ounces

'''debased''' 
of low character and lacking integrity

'''Tito Puente''' 
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.

'''Marlborough Street''' 
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.

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'''appropriation''' 
taking something as one's own, without permission

'''methamphetamine hydrochloride''' 
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that Infinite Jest was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.

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'''pastiche''' 
a mixture of varying style or content

'''magisculed''' 
typo or intentional misspelling of ''majuscule'', an initial capital letter, often large-type to introduce a section of written material; Wallace's use of the noun in a verb form is likely a neologism (especially if the alternate spelling is retained)

'''50 grams''' 
about 1.75 ounces

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water without soil

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'''stein''' 
a drinking mug

'''E.W.D. land barge''' 
perhaps "Enfield Waste Disposal"; a garbage truck

'''phallocentric''' 
biased from a male point of view

'''half a meter''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''carb''' 
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carburetor on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.

'''oblique''' 
slanted, like an acute or obtuse angle, not a right-angle

'''teleputer''' 
Combination television and computer, generic term for an Interlace player, see also [[T#"TP"|TP]]

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'''jibe''' 
correspond with; match up

'''oblique''' 
indirect or dishonest

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'''desiccated''' 
dried out

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'''caries''' 
tooth decay, leading to a cavity (always used in plural form)

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'''continentally ranked''' 
ranking of players in North America, see, e.g., [[Pages_3-27#onancaa|O.N.A.N.C.A.A.]]

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'''moniker''' 
nickname

'''apprised''' 
informed

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'''"I want to tell you . . . My head is filled with things to say."''' 
These are the first lines of the Beatles song "I Want to Tell You," written by George Harrison (1943-2001).

'''"I don't mind . . . I could wait forever."''' 
more lyrics from "I Want to Tell You," though not the very next ones

'''Brandt''' 
Another German name, most famously the nom de guerre of the future mayor of West Berlin and Kanzler of Germany, Willy Brandt, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm (1913-1922).

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'''legation''' 
a diplomatic office lower than an embassy

'''Libertine Statue''' 
I.e., the Statue of Liberty, though calling it this implies sexual promiscuity, even if she is wearing a diaper

'''apposite''' 
suitable or well adapted

'''Rub' al Khali''' 
Arabic for ''Empty Quarter,'' another name for the Arabian Desert.

'''maxillofacial''' 
pertaining to or affecting the jaws and face

'''''Candida albacans''''' 
the Latin name for a fungal infection that causes, among other disorders, thrush

'''monilial''' 
of or caused by fungus of the genus ''Monila''

'''DeBakey''' 
Michael Ellis DeBakey (1908-2008) is a world-famous heart surgeon.

'''''ad valorem''''' 
Latin: according to the value

'''nauseous''' 
Correctly used here, this word means "tending to cause nausea." If one has nausea, they are "nauseated."

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'''Scottsdale''' 
a suburb about 19 miles east-northeast of Phoenix

'''sufism''' 
a mystic strain of Islam

'''Pir Valayat''' 
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1916-2004) was a British-born Sufi.

'''kif''' 
Arabic for marijuana in leaf form, as opposed to hashish

'''''shari'a-halal''''' 
An Arabic term akin to the Jewish ''kosher,'' this means that food has been prepared in accordance with Islamic law.

'''Back Bay Hilton''' 
This is a real hotel, with a Web site [http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/BOSBHHH-Hilton-Boston-Back-Bay-Massachusetts/index.do here].

'''nystatin''' 
an anti-fungal drug

'''stiptics''' 
A styptic is a chemical that stops bleeding.

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'''necrosis''' 
a term for death of bodily tissue

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'''triptych''' 
a three-part art display

'''O.N.A.N.M.A.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Medical Assocation

'''actinomycete-class antibiotics''' 
antibiotics effective against Gram-positive bacteria called actinobacteria

'''CBC/PATHÉ''' 
CBC is the Canadian Broadcasting Company. PATHÉ is probably the French entertainment company Pathé Frères (Pathé Brothers).

'''''Nass''''' 
Arabic for "text"

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'''double dutch''' 
a type of rope jumping where two ropes are used

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'''Brighton Projects''' 
presumably high-rise, low-income housing in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton,_Boston,_Massachusetts Brighton]

'''Shedd Spread''' 
a brand of [http://www.countrycrock.com/products.asp margarine]

'''wraithlike''' 
A wraith is a type of ghost.

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'''nocturnal emitter''' 
a boy who has a wet dream

'''anfractuous''' 
full of twists and turns

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'''petulant''' 
unreasonably irritable

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'''''Tosca''''' 
The title of an opera by Italian composer Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (1858-1924), which premiered in 1900.

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'''agoraphobic''' 
suffering from an irrational fear of going outside

'''portcullis''' 
This is "a strong grating, as of iron, made to slide along vertical grooves at the sides of a gateway of a fortified place and let down to prevent passage" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

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'''2010h. on 1 April''' 
The medical attaché has been watching for forty-three minutes.

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'''Ambush''' 
a [http://www.100perfumes.com/forums/Perfume/m12442.htm real perfume]

'''Home with the team''' 
It's already been mentioned that Orin plays professional football. He must play for the Arizona Cardinals.

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'''''Blattaria implacblus''''' 
''Blattaria'' is the order that contains the several genus and species of cockroaches. The Latin phrase really means "implacable cockroach."

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'''fantods''' 
sudden outpourings of anger, outrage, or fear

'''Chalmette''' 
an eastern suburb of New Orleans

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'''kippers''' 
cured herring

'''Mrs. Avril M. T. Incandenza''' 
Hal's mother is named for the first time.

'''phylacteryish''' 
Remove "-ish" and you have the English word for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefillin tefillin].

'''imprimatur''' 
sanction or approval

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'''Positron-Emission Topography''' 
According to Wikipedia, this is "a nuclear medicine medical imaging technique that produces a three-dimensional image or map of functional processes in the body."

'''positrons''' 
the sub-atomic particles that are the opposite of electrons

'''Fritz Lang''' 
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (1890-1976) was a Viennese-born Austrian-American director, probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022100/ M].

'''''Moment'' magazine''' 
This is a Jewish-interest [http://www.momentmag.com/ magazine].

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'''Pandora's box of worms''' 
a mixed metaphor of "Pandora's box" and "can of worms," neither of which can be shut again once they're opened

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'''one-hitter''' 
a small marijuana pipe that will provide one "hit" of marijuana per packing

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'''Partridge, KS''' 
A town in Kansas about 55 miles north-northwest of Wichita

'''Charles Tavis''' 
I.e., C.T.

'''gizzard''' 
the digestive organ of a bird

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'''Bob Hope''' 
Cockney rhyming slang for "dope"

'''neo-Georgian''' 
modern-day architecture that approximates that of the Georgian period, from 1714 (accession of George I of the U.K.) to 1830 (death of George III)

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'''spherocubular''' 
Another neologism, presumably meaning having characteristics of both a sphere and cube -- a three-dimension "squircle".

'''Leith''' 
A homonym of Lethe, the name of the river in Greek mythology whose water, if drunk, will erase one's memory.

'''Dr. James O. Incandenza''' 
Hal's father's full name is given for the first time.

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'''dendriurethane''' 
This substance does not actually exist. An educated guess is that it is a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyurethane polyurethane] that comes from trees, ''dendri'' being Greek for "tree."

'''twenty meters''' 
almost twenty-two yards

'''unfenestrated''' 
having no windows

'''two meter''' 
a little over 6.5 ft

'''banshee''' 
In Irish mythology, the banshee is female spirit, who acts as an omen of death. They are known for "keening," i.e., shrieking.

'''flange''' 
a plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe

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'''post-latency''' 
after the latency period that Freud posited in his four-stage theory of psychosexual development in children

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_5|Endnote 5]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_5a|Endnote 5a]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_6|Endnote 6]]

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[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_8|Endnote 8]]

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'''mushrooms or X''' 
psilocybin mushrooms or MDMA (called ecstasy)

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'''Interdependent regions''' 
I.e., Canada

'''prorectors''' 
members of a management body of a university, each managing his/her specific area

'''the Show''' 
professional tennis

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'''Kodiak''' 
a brand of chewing tobacco

'''quail''' 
to shrink back in fear

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'''0020h''' 
The medical attaché has now been watching for four hours and fifty-three minutes.

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'''filmic''' 
having to do with motion pictures

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'''élan''' 
enthusiastic vigor or liveliness

'''Revere Holding''' 
a jail, obviously -- probably the jail for Revere, Mass., just south of Boston

'''P.D.''' 
public defender

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'''dictum''' 
a maxim or saying

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'''Marblehead''' 
A town in Essex County, Mass., home to a yachting resort. It's about 15 miles northeast of the city on the water.

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'''''International Affairs'' and ''Interdependent Affairs''''' 
The first magazine is real; the second is not.

'''teak chiffonier''' 
a piece of furniture, one of which you can see [http://www.artfact.com/catalog/viewLot.cfm?lotCode=4xRrS2JB here]

'''Berkshires''' 
the westernmost portion of Massachusetts, a popular vacation spot

'''van Dyke''' 
a goatee

'''apocopes''' 
losses of syllables from words, particularly unstressed vowels

'''Café au Lait''' 
half coffee and half milk in a large cup, as drunk in France

'''gangrenously tight''' 
I.e., so tight as to cause gangrene, i.e., death of tissue due to lack of blood

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'''grippe''' 
flu

'''pre-British-takeover Québecois''' 
The British took over Quebec on September 8, 1760.

'''grackles''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passerine passernine] birds native to North America

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'''intercostal''' 
pertaining to the ribs or the muscles around them

'''Montreal Tulip Fest''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival Canadian Tulip Festival] actually takes place in Ottawa, Ontario, and Gatineau, Quebec, which border each other.

'''Guillaume DuPlessis''' 
A man by this name was one of the first French Calvinist settlers on the island of St. Kitts in the 17th century.

'''250 clicks due east''' 
Clicks are kilometers. Two hundred fifty km is about 155 miles.

'''lividity''' 
the change of color in skin brought on by livor mortis, an after-death phenomenon when blood settles in the body at low points of gravity

'''comme-il-faut''' 
French: As is necessary

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'''932/1864''' 
I don't know what the numbers mean, but the first is half of the second.

'''R.I.S.C.''' 
reduced instruction set computer, i.e., a computer that takes a limited set of commands

'''Primestar''' 
a direct broadcast satellite network active in the 1990s

'''D.S.S.''' 
digital satellite system

'''pixel-free''' 
smooth and not pixelated

'''baud''' 
a unit equal to bits per second; a baud rate is the number of bits per second a modem can send/receive

'''''couture''''' 
French for "fashion"

'''nanoprocessors''' 
very small processors -- smaller than microprocessors

'''chromotography''' 
Here misspelled, chromatography is "any of various techniques for the separation of complex mixtures that rely on the differential affinities of substances for a gas or liquid mobile medium and for a stationary adsorbing medium through which they pass, such as paper, gelatin, or magnesia" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'').

'''carpal neuralgia''' 
nerve pain in the bones of the hand

'''phosphenic migraine''' 
the phenomenon of seeing lights accompanying a migraine

'''gluteal hyperadiposity''' 
fat in the buttocks

'''lumbar stressae''' 
back stress

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'''Jim Troeltsch''' 
The most famous person with this surname is [http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/WeirdWildWeb/courses/mwt/dictionary/mwt_themes_705_troeltsch.htm Ernst Troeltsch] (1865-1923), a German Protestant theologian and philosopher of religion and history.

'''Narberth PA''' 
a suburb of Philadelphia, on the famous Main Line from Philadelphia to Lancaster

'''meatus''' 
a natural bodily opening

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'''OTC''' 
over the counter

'''expectorants''' 
drugs that induce phlegm-producing coughing

'''pertussives''' 
cough suppressants

'''megaspansules''' 
a combination of mega + span + capsule, these would be large, time-released capsules

==Endnote 22==

'''mucoid dessicators''' 
drugs that dry up phlegm

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'''Rader''' 
If the name is pronounced with a "long a," as in the Oakland football team, a famous person with this last name was Erich Johann Albert Raeder (1876-1960), a World War II-era German grand admiral, sentenced to life at Nuremberg but served only nine years.

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'''nebulizer''' 
something that turns a liquid into a spray

'''fugue-state''' 
According to Wikipedia, a fugue state is "a state of mind characterized by abandonment of personal identity, along with the memories, personality and other identifying characteristics of individuality."

'''prolix''' 
extended to a great, unneedy length

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'''rhinoviri''' 
Wallace's plural for rhinovirus, one of dozens of variations of the virus that causes the common cold, also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus rhinoviruses]

'''mucosa''' 
An absorptive/secretive tissue layer in the body; here, in Troeltsch's throat or nose

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'''matte''' 
as an adjective, having a dull or lusterless finish

'''snuff-white''' 
Snuff is grayish to yellowish brown in color; snuff-white must be that color, but lighter.

'''reglets''' 
narrow, flat moldings

'''rheostats''' 
continuously variable electronic resistors

'''shank''' 
part of the leg between the knee and ankle

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'''As of [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]''' 
Which is to say, as of 2009

'''pre-Method actor''' 
He was an actor before the dawn of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_acting the Method].

'''dipsomaniacal''' 
Characterized by an uncontrollable urge to consume alcohol, describing James O. Incandenza's father

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'''caries''' 
tooth decay, leading to a cavity (always used in plural form)

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'''continentally ranked''' 
ranking of players in North America, see, e.g., [[Pages_3-27#onancaa|O.N.A.N.C.A.A.]]

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'''moniker''' 
nickname

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'''"I want to tell you . . . My head is filled with things to say."''' 
These are the first lines of the Beatles song "I Want to Tell You," written by George Harrison (1943-2001).

'''"I don't mind . . . I could wait forever."''' 
more lyrics from "I Want to Tell You," though not the very next ones

'''Brandt''' 
Another German name, most famously the nom de guerre of the future mayor of West Berlin and Kanzler of Germany, Willy Brandt, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm (1913-1922).

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'''legation''' 
a diplomatic office lower than an embassy

'''Libertine Statue''' 
I.e., the Statue of Liberty, though calling it this implies sexual promiscuity, even if she is wearing a diaper

'''apposite''' 
suitable or well adapted

'''Rub' al Khali''' 
Arabic for ''Empty Quarter,'' another name for the Arabian Desert.

'''maxillofacial''' 
pertaining to or affecting the jaws and face

'''''Candida albacans''''' 
the Latin name for a fungal infection that causes, among other disorders, thrush

'''monilial''' 
of or caused by fungus of the genus ''Monila''

'''DeBakey''' 
Michael Ellis DeBakey (1908-2008) is a world-famous heart surgeon.

'''''ad valorem''''' 
Latin: according to the value

'''nauseous''' 
Correctly used here, this word means "tending to cause nausea." If one has nausea, they are "nauseated."

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'''Scottsdale''' 
a suburb about 19 miles east-northeast of Phoenix

'''sufism''' 
a mystic strain of Islam

'''Pir Valayat''' 
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1916-2004) was a British-born Sufi.

'''kif''' 
Arabic for marijuana in leaf form, as opposed to hashish

'''''shari'a-halal''''' 
An Arabic term akin to the Jewish ''kosher,'' this means that food has been prepared in accordance with Islamic law.

'''Back Bay Hilton''' 
This is a real hotel, with a Web site [http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/BOSBHHH-Hilton-Boston-Back-Bay-Massachusetts/index.do here].

'''nystatin''' 
an anti-fungal drug

'''stiptics''' 
A styptic is a chemical that stops bleeding.

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'''necrosis''' 
a term for death of bodily tissue

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'''triptych''' 
a three-part art display

'''O.N.A.N.M.A.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Medical Assocation

'''actinomycete-class antibiotics''' 
antibiotics effective against Gram-positive bacteria called actinobacteria

'''CBC/PATHÉ''' 
CBC is the Canadian Broadcasting Company. PATHÉ is probably the French entertainment company Pathé Frères (Pathé Brothers).

'''''Nass''''' 
Arabic for "text"

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'''double dutch''' 
a type of rope jumping where two ropes are used

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'''Brighton Projects''' 
presumably high-rise, low-income housing in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton,_Boston,_Massachusetts Brighton]

'''Shedd Spread''' 
a brand of [http://www.countrycrock.com/products.asp margarine]

'''wraithlike''' 
A wraith is a type of ghost.

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'''nocturnal emitter''' 
a boy who has a wet dream

'''anfractuous''' 
full of twists and turns

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'''petulant''' 
unreasonably irritable

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'''''Tosca''''' 
The title of an opera by Italian composer Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (1858-1924), which premiered in 1900.

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'''agoraphobic''' 
suffering from an irrational fear of going outside

'''portcullis''' 
This is "a strong grating, as of iron, made to slide along vertical grooves at the sides of a gateway of a fortified place and let down to prevent passage" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

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'''2010h. on 1 April''' 
The medical attaché has been watching for forty-three minutes.

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'''Ambush''' 
a [http://www.100perfumes.com/forums/Perfume/m12442.htm real perfume]

'''Home with the team''' 
It's already been mentioned that Orin plays professional football. He must play for the Arizona Cardinals.

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'''''Blattaria implacblus''''' 
''Blattaria'' is the order that contains the several genus and species of cockroaches. The Latin phrase really means "implacable cockroach."

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'''fantods''' 
sudden outpourings of anger, outrage, or fear

'''Chalmette''' 
an eastern suburb of New Orleans

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'''kippers''' 
cured herring

'''Mrs. Avril M. T. Incandenza''' 
Hal's mother is named for the first time.

'''phylacteryish''' 
Remove "-ish" and you have the English word for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefillin tefillin].

'''imprimatur''' 
sanction or approval

==Page 48==

'''Positron-Emission Topography''' 
According to Wikipedia, this is "a nuclear medicine medical imaging technique that produces a three-dimensional image or map of functional processes in the body."

'''positrons''' 
the sub-atomic particles that are the opposite of electrons

'''Fritz Lang''' 
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (1890-1976) was a Viennese-born Austrian-American director, probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022100/ M].

'''''Moment'' magazine''' 
This is a Jewish-interest [http://www.momentmag.com/ magazine].

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'''Pandora's box of worms''' 
a mixed metaphor of "Pandora's box" and "can of worms," neither of which can be shut again once they're opened

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'''one-hitter''' 
a small marijuana pipe that will provide one "hit" of marijuana per packing

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'''Partridge, KS''' 
A town in Kansas about 55 miles north-northwest of Wichita

'''Charles Tavis''' 
I.e., C.T.

'''gizzard''' 
the digestive organ of a bird

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'''Bob Hope''' 
Cockney rhyming slang for "dope"

'''neo-Georgian''' 
modern-day architecture that approximates that of the Georgian period, from 1714 (accession of George I of the U.K.) to 1830 (death of George III)

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'''spherocubular''' 
Another neologism, presumably meaning having characteristics of both a sphere and cube -- a three-dimension "squircle".

'''Leith''' 
A homonym of Lethe, the name of the river in Greek mythology whose water, if drunk, will erase one's memory.

'''Dr. James O. Incandenza''' 
Hal's father's full name is given for the first time.

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'''dendriurethane''' 
This substance does not actually exist. An educated guess is that it is a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyurethane polyurethane] that comes from trees, ''dendri'' being Greek for "tree."

'''twenty meters''' 
almost twenty-two yards

'''unfenestrated''' 
having no windows

'''two meter''' 
a little over 6.5 ft

'''banshee''' 
In Irish mythology, the banshee is female spirit, who acts as an omen of death. They are known for "keening," i.e., shrieking.

'''flange''' 
a plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe

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'''post-latency''' 
after the latency period that Freud posited in his four-stage theory of psychosexual development in children

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'''mushrooms or X''' 
psilocybin mushrooms or MDMA (called ecstasy)

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'''Interdependent regions''' 
I.e., Canada

'''prorectors''' 
members of a management body of a university, each managing his/her specific area

'''the Show''' 
professional tennis

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'''Kodiak''' 
a brand of chewing tobacco

'''quail''' 
to shrink back in fear

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'''0020h''' 
The medical attaché has now been watching for four hours and fifty-three minutes.

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'''filmic''' 
having to do with motion pictures

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[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland]]

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'''élan''' 
enthusiastic vigor or liveliness

'''Revere Holding''' 
a jail, obviously -- probably the jail for Revere, Mass., just south of Boston

'''P.D.''' 
public defender

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'''dictum''' 
a maxim or saying

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'''Marblehead''' 
A town in Essex County, Mass., home to a yachting resort. It's about 15 miles northeast of the city on the water.

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'''''International Affairs'' and ''Interdependent Affairs''''' 
The first magazine is real; the second is not.

'''teak chiffonier''' 
a piece of furniture, one of which you can see [http://www.artfact.com/catalog/viewLot.cfm?lotCode=4xRrS2JB here]

'''Berkshires''' 
the westernmost portion of Massachusetts, a popular vacation spot

'''van Dyke''' 
a goatee

'''apocopes''' 
losses of syllables from words, particularly unstressed vowels

'''Café au Lait''' 
half coffee and half milk in a large cup, as drunk in France

'''gangrenously tight''' 
I.e., so tight as to cause gangrene, i.e., death of tissue due to lack of blood

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'''grippe''' 
flu

'''pre-British-takeover Québecois''' 
The British took over Quebec on September 8, 1760.

'''grackles''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passerine passernine] birds native to North America

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'''intercostal''' 
pertaining to the ribs or the muscles around them

'''Montreal Tulip Fest''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival Canadian Tulip Festival] actually takes place in Ottawa, Ontario, and Gatineau, Quebec, which border each other.

'''Guillaume DuPlessis''' 
A man by this name was one of the first French Calvinist settlers on the island of St. Kitts in the 17th century.

'''250 clicks due east''' 
Clicks are kilometers. Two hundred fifty km is about 155 miles.

'''lividity''' 
the change of color in skin brought on by livor mortis, an after-death phenomenon when blood settles in the body at low points of gravity

'''comme-il-faut''' 
French: As is necessary

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'''932/1864''' 
I don't know what the numbers mean, but the first is half of the second.

'''R.I.S.C.''' 
reduced instruction set computer, i.e., a computer that takes a limited set of commands

'''Primestar''' 
a direct broadcast satellite network active in the 1990s

'''D.S.S.''' 
digital satellite system

'''pixel-free''' 
smooth and not pixelated

'''baud''' 
a unit equal to bits per second; a baud rate is the number of bits per second a modem can send/receive

'''''couture''''' 
French for "fashion"

'''nanoprocessors''' 
very small processors -- smaller than microprocessors

'''chromotography''' 
Here misspelled, chromatography is "any of various techniques for the separation of complex mixtures that rely on the differential affinities of substances for a gas or liquid mobile medium and for a stationary adsorbing medium through which they pass, such as paper, gelatin, or magnesia" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'').

'''carpal neuralgia''' 
nerve pain in the bones of the hand

'''phosphenic migraine''' 
the phenomenon of seeing lights accompanying a migraine

'''gluteal hyperadiposity''' 
fat in the buttocks

'''lumbar stressae''' 
back stress

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'''Jim Troeltsch''' 
The most famous person with this surname is [http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/WeirdWildWeb/courses/mwt/dictionary/mwt_themes_705_troeltsch.htm Ernst Troeltsch] (1865-1923), a German Protestant theologian and philosopher of religion and history.

'''Narberth PA''' 
a suburb of Philadelphia, on the famous Main Line from Philadelphia to Lancaster

'''meatus''' 
a natural bodily opening

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'''OTC''' 
over the counter

'''expectorants''' 
drugs that induce phlegm-producing coughing

'''pertussives''' 
cough suppressants

'''megaspansules''' 
a combination of mega + span + capsule, these would be large, time-released capsules

==Endnote 22==

'''mucoid dessicators''' 
drugs that dry up phlegm

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'''Rader''' 
If the name is pronounced with a "long a," as in the Oakland football team, a famous person with this last name was Erich Johann Albert Raeder (1876-1960), a World War II-era German grand admiral, sentenced to life at Nuremberg but served only nine years.

==Page 61==

'''nebulizer''' 
something that turns a liquid into a spray

'''fugue-state''' 
According to Wikipedia, a fugue state is "a state of mind characterized by abandonment of personal identity, along with the memories, personality and other identifying characteristics of individuality."

'''prolix''' 
extended to a great, unneedy length

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'''rhinoviri''' 
Wallace's plural for rhinovirus, one of dozens of variations of the virus that causes the common cold, also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus rhinoviruses]

'''mucosa''' 
An absorptive/secretive tissue layer in the body; here, in Troeltsch's throat or nose

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'''matte''' 
as an adjective, having a dull or lusterless finish

'''snuff-white''' 
Snuff is grayish to yellowish brown in color; snuff-white must be that color, but lighter.

'''reglets''' 
narrow, flat moldings

'''rheostats''' 
continuously variable electronic resistors

'''shank''' 
part of the leg between the knee and ankle

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'''As of [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]''' 
Which is to say, as of 2009

'''pre-Method actor''' 
He was an actor before the dawn of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_acting the Method].

'''dipsomaniacal''' 
Characterized by an uncontrollable urge to consume alcohol, describing James O. Incandenza's father

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'''Habitant Soup''' 
425; 480;

'''Hagia Sophia''' 
952; floor plans for, at Qal'at Si'man

'''Hallie''' 
49; aka Hal Incandenza

'''Hammid''' 
185;

'''Hamilton, M(argaret)''' 
191; actress who played the West Witch in''Wizard of Oz'', color Xerox of in Avril's study;

'''Hamlet''' 
"Riverside ''Hamlet''" 171; "signifying zip" 174; 238; 900; "never once doubts the reality of the ghost"; Poor Yorick Entertainment, fn.24/990; "the graveyard scene from" fn.337/1076;

<div id="Hanley">'''Hanley, Morris'''</div>
205; Ennet House resident; "special tollhouse cookies" 205; 279; 363; 564; baked cream-cheese brownies for hospitalized Gately, 826;

'''Haplology''' 
745-2;

'''Happy Patches''' 
420; fn.169/1031; 474;

'''Happy Slippers ("pisscatchers")''' 
85-86; what they wear at Ennet House

'''Harde, Dave ("Fall Down Very")''' 
152; narcoleptic old ETA janitor; fn.93; "Flight of the Bumblebee" 405; 666; "spinal funiculi" fn.324/1066;

'''Hartigan, Neil''' 
454; laconic ETA prorector; "traditional Tahitian shirt and Gaugin-motif sweater" 460; 525; 667;

'''Harv''' 
802; at Inner Child group

'''Harvey, Paul''' 
271; radio personality known for "The Rest Of The Story."

'''Hasbro''' 
883; "tie-ins with"

'''Hawaii Five-O''' 
584; 60s TV detective show

'''Hayworth, Rita''' 
209; American film actress of mid 20th century.

'''Hazel''' 
834; 70s TV sitcom

'''head-''' 
Millicent Kent hairdo, 122; eye popping out of "C's map" 134; Mario's "large but sort of withered-looking head" 154; "Hal's head, closely monitored by deLint and Staff, is judged still level and focused" 155; Himself "transcending that overlarge head" 158; "the sound of your head revving, and head is still just body" 159; "pencil-necked big-headed asthmatic little kid staring up through Coke-bottle lenses" 182; "The engineer [...] has extremely bad skin" 183; "M.I.T.'s near-new Student Union [...] one enormous cerebral cortex" 184; "a living corporeal head" 189; "phrenologically malformed" 190; "Two-Baggers" 190; "the utterly noseless" 191; "Kornspan's red face is leaping around on his skull" 199; "mesomorphic head" 200; "99% of the head's thinking activity consists of trying to scare the everliving shit out of itself" 204; Didi N.'s tattoo of "tattered screaming skull" 208; "synthetic-narc-addicted kid" named Skull, 208; "her brain heving around in its skull" 226; "brain heaving in its bone-box" 231; "lifted her veil back to cover her skull like a bride" 235; "[Schacht's] own big sick head" 262; Mario's "poor big head" 267; "They identify their whole selves with their head, and the Disease makes its command headquarters in the head" 272; "head-gaming" 273; Treat's "ruined face" 274; "Disease chewing away inside his head" 274; "garbage-head all-Substance-type kid [...] face very slightly smunched in on one side" 276; "bird-like head movements" 276; "look of a mean clown" 277; Gately's "massive square head" 277;

'''Heath, Pam''' 
fn.24/987; played dentist's wife in Himself's''Fun with Teeth''; played wife in Himself's''Various Small Flames'', fn.24/988; plays "Death as a lethally beautiful woman" in Himself's''Möbius Strips'', fn.24/990;

'''Heaven, Paul Anthony''' 
910; thumbless; played dull Academic in''Good-Looking Men ...''; "data entry drone for Ocean Spray"; narrated''"There Are No Losers Here"'' fn.24/986; played a son in Himself's''Low-Temperature Physics'', fn.24/991;

'''Heidegger , Martin''' 
233; Ger. philosopher

<div id="Henderson">'''Henderson, Clenette'''</div>
37; half-sister of Wardine; at Ennet House, 180; 363; janitor at ETA, 527; the maid in C.T.'s office when Hal & Pemulis got spot urinalysis by O.N.A.N.T.A. urologist, 633; brought "shitload of cartridges" from ETA dumpster to Ennet House, 825;

'''Herman The Ceiling That Breathed''' 
447; in "decayed beach-cottage" in Salem MA where Gately lived as a child; 923;

'''Himself''' 
Family name for [[I#joi|James O. Incandenza]]

'''Hinton''' 
253;

'''HmH''' 
189; Headmaster's House at ETA, where Avril I. and Chuck Tavis live

'''Ho, Don''' 
583; Hawaiian pop singer; "My Lovely Launa-Una Luau Lady" 586; "voice has the quality of a type of:''ointment''" 587;

'''Hobbes, Thomas''' 
12; English philosopher; "Hobbesian sewers" 44

'''Hoffman-Jeep, Pamela''' 
465; Gately's "totally alcoholic past girlfriend"; about the relationship, 924;

'''Holt, Gretchen''' 
755; younger ETA student

'''Home Group''' 
209; "Ewell's chosen"

'''Hooley, Maureen''' 
876; Vice-President for Children's Entertainment, Interlace Telentertainment, Inc.;

'''Hope, Bob''' 
51; code for marijuana; fn.27/994 (Bob Hope, American comedian)

'''Hopman''' 
82; tennis teacher (? listed with Nick Bolliteri, famous Floridian nurturer of tennis youth.)

'''Horace''' 
551; Stice family dog back in Kansas, and Stice's name for his anger

'''Howell, Mr.''' 
169; Pemulis' ~ hat, presumably after character Mr. Howell, played by Jim Backus in American TV sitcom "Gilligan's Island."

'''''Howl''''' 
906; Allen Ginsberg's famous poem about his lost generation

'''Hoyne, Henri F.''' 
507; head of Data Analysis at B.S.S., victim of "the Entertainment"; 647;

'''Hoyne, Miriam''' 
508; wife of Henri

'''Huizenga, Wayne''' 
415; owner of Blockbuster Entertainment (and at least one professional sports franchise.)

'''Hundt Act''' 
184; regarding FM bandwidth (1966)

'''Hung Toys''' 
131; front for Wo's dope business

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154; aka Avril Incandenza

'''Iaccarino''' 
231; Chaplin-archivist at Notkin's party

'''I.B.E.W. Local 517''' 
813; Ewell's father's union ("International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers")

'''Incandenza, Mrs. Avril M. (Mondragon) T. ("The Moms")''' 
10; native of Canada; Hal's mother; "assignations with a certain unnamed bisexual bassoonist in the Albertan Secret Guard's tactical-bands unit" (per Himself), 30; affair with medical attaché, 30, 91, 1049; slipping "certain organic testosterone-regeneration compound distilled by the Jivaro shamen of the South-Central L.A. basin" into Hal's cereal (according to Himself), 30; "''agoraphobic'' workaholic and obsessive-compulsive" 42; working hard not to show her "maternal dread" 50; "black phobic dread of hiding or secrecy," "rarely travels above ground" 51; marriage to Himself, 64; "taught out at Brandeis where [DuPlessis had] done his residency" 91; teaches triad of required Grammars at ETA, 154; 187; "had this effect on older men" 286; "E.T.A. Dean of Academic Affairs and of Females" 288; smokes Benson & Hedges, 391; "The Black Hole of Human Attention" (Family Trivia) 521; "at 50+, is still endocrinologically compelling to males" fn.210/1035; Politeness Routine, 523; w/J. Wayne, 552; father was a potato farmer in Québec, fn.234/1041; style of "abuse" 1050; reaction to S. Johnson's demise, 1051; "views the recipients of [her] charity not as persons so much as pieces of exercise equipment on which [she] can develop and demonstrate [her] own virtue" fn.269/1052; AFR spy ?, 726; "the family's light and pulse and the center that held tight" 737; everyone at the table inclines toward Avril "like heliotropes" 745; chattin with Mario in her office, 762; grandfather's unlucky gamble on Delaware Punch, 765; drunk father, 766; "Death incarnate, 790; "engaging in sexual enmeshments with just about everything with a Y-chromosome" 791; "mother had been ethnic Québecois, her father Anglo-Canadian" 897-98; father was a binge-drinker, 898; "The Moms full name is Avril Mondragon Tavis Incandenza, Ed.D., Ph.D. She is 197 cm (6' 5 1/2") tall in flats" 898; "had Himself interred in her family's traditional plot in L'Islet Province" 907; "birth-mother had died in Québec of an infarction when [the Moms] was eight, her father during her sophomore year at McGill under circumstances none of us knew" 953; affairs with "Bain, graduate students, grammatical colleagues, Japanese fight-choreographers, the hairy-shouldered Ken N. Johnson, the Islamic M.D." 957; "has O.C.D. Obsessive-Compulsive-Disorder" fn.234/1039;

'''Incandenza, Harold ("Hal") James''' 
3; in Univ. of AZ Administration office in 11/Y.G.; "verbal scores that are just quite a bit closer to zero than we're comfortable with" 6; essays parroting his parents' interests, 7; "familiar panic of feeling misperceived" 8; "Call it something I ate" 10; mold-eating incident, 10, fn.234/1041; in an emergency room "almost exactly one year back" (from 11/Y.G.), 16; digging up his father's head, 17; "Is Himself still having this hallucination I never speak?" (Hal is 12), 29; interest in Byzantine pornography, 29, 950; "obsession with having nobody [...] know he's high" 54; drugs and, 67; "atavistically dark-complected" 99; pedigree, 100; ankle, 104; gets high daily, 114; "Blott and Arslanian are looking at him. 'Are you OK?'" 114; "a twinge in a tooth on his mouth's left side" 121; "60% of what he told Orin on the phone since Orin had abruptly started calling again this spring was a lie" 136; paper on modern v. post-modern hero, 140-42; "the catatonic hero, the one beyond calm, divorced from all stimulus, carried here and there across sets by burly extras" 142; bunks in subdorm A on 3rd floor of Comm.-Ad.; date of birth: 10/91, 155; about, 155; training, 172; "the window of opportunity [to take DMZ] looks to be 11/20-21" 217; discovered J.I. in microwave, 248; and the grief-therapist, 252; his tennis game, 260; "asymetrically hobbled on the care-too-much side" of tennis proficiency, 269; "the substance-compulsion's strange apparent contribution to Hal's erumpent explosion up the rankings has got to be a temporary thing, that there's like a psychic credit-card bill for Hal in the mail" 270; "feels at his own face to see whether he is wincing" 342; craves dope, tobacco & sugar, 395; "an almost obsessive dislike for deLint" 460; taking care of the blind kid from Philo IL who had "cranium-issues" 518; "at complete ease with" Stice, 521; lying on his back "photosynthesizing" 560; relationship to the Moms, fn.234/1040; near-loss to Stice, 627; "lifetime virginity is a conscious goal" 634; "a whole new and chemical-free Hal" 635; "Hal's in essence a torturer" as a player, 659; Pump Room hideaway sniffed out by kids, 668; his tennis game, 680, 682; chewing Kodiak, 686; "the sleek little show-offy kid" 745; ONANTA guy holding him and Pemulis by the ear, 759; dream of losing teeth, 770; "O.N.A.N.T.A. guy didn't really extract urine samples from us" 772; how people lie, 773; Mario tells him he, Hal, is sad, 782; shows up at Ennet House, 786; driving to NA group (he thinks), 796; "had become a steadily more and more''hidden'' boy, toward the wraith's life's end" 838; wraith's "youngest and most promising son was disappearing" 838; first-person, 851; zoo dream, 851; inadvertently showing hilarity (cachinated), 875; "My full name is Harold James Incandenza, and I am 183.6 cm. (6' 1/4") tall in stocking feet" 898; reciting random facts, 898; "Himself, for two years before his death, had had this delusion of silence when I spoke: I believed I was speaking and he believed I was not speaking" 899; "I was the meat in the room's sandwich" 902; w/Pemulis, 907;''thinks'' Pemulis is trying to get him to agree to take DMZ, 908; making cage of his hands, 909; "trying to align myself along some sort of grain in the world I could barely feel" 950; 3rd person narration, 964; at ETA Gala, Hal's face "assumed various expressions ranging from distended hilarity to scrunched grimace, expressions that seemed unconnected to anything that was going on" 966; DMZ-dream that he's the soldier and is "screaming for help and everybody's acting as if [he's] singing Ethel Merman covers [...] a quality of''loneliness'' " fn.321/1063;

'''Incandenza, James Orin, Sr.''' 
50; "former top U.S. jr. tennis player and the promising young pre-Method actor" 63; "A.E.C.-optics man" 82; Hal's paternal grandfather; wife ("a shover and a thruster"), 157; 1956 Mercury Montclair" 159; father ("A golf man") and mother, 163; aka "Himself", 165; "the Man From Glad" 313; w/wife & squeaky bed, 491; Man from Glad, 492, 494; father was "the blank wooden man who [...] had 'driven' [JOI, Sr.] to 'the bottle' and unrealized potential and an early cerebral hemorrhage" 838;

<div id="joi">'''Incandenza, Dr. James Orin ("Himself")''' (b. c.1950; d. Y.T.-S. D. B., aka 2004) </div>
16; father of Hal; belief that son Hal does not speak, 29; committed suicide at 54; about, 63-65; buried in Québec's L'Islet County, 65; awareness of the Moms' affairs, 29-30; "gyroscopic balance sensor and''mise-en-scène'' appropriation card and priapistic-entertainment cartridge implanted in [Himself's] anaplastic cerebrum" 31; fear of black widows, 45; Geometrical Optics Scholarship, 154; in 1960, 157; his films, 174; "reviews of his multiple-exposure melodramas" 175; 187; "his neonatal lens to blur things in imitation of a neonatal retina" 222; "Infinite Jim" 225; the completed assembly of what she'd appeared in [...] and doubts that any sum of scenes as pathologic as he'd stuck that long quartzy auto-wobbling lens on the camera and filmed her for could have been as entertaining as he'd said the thing he'd always wanted to make had broken his heart by ending up" 228; 229; "aka The Mad Stork, The Sad Stork, 238; working obsessively on the Entertainment, 249; suicide, 249-58; "half-full bottle of Wild Turkey found on the counter not far away, with a large red decorative gifwrappish bow on the neck" 250; "Himself's head had popped like an uncut spud" 257;''Homo Duplex'' (movie on "John Waynes"), 260 (fn.24/988); films, 297; his father's father Mario, 313;''The Man Who Began to Suspect He Was Made of Glass'' , 375; Found Drama, 376, (fn.145);''The ONANtiad'' , 380;''The Medusa v. The Odalisque'', 396, fn.223/1036;''The Joke'' , 397; and InterLace, fn.167/1031;''Annulateur'' , 490; and squeaky bed, 491;''Death in Scarsdale'' , fn.234/1039; "the victim of the most monstrous practical joke ever played" (sez Orin), fn.234/1041; "helped design these special holographic conversions so that the team that worked on annulation could study the behavior of subatomics in highly poisonous environments" 572;''Dial C for Concupiscence'' , 590; scopophile, never missed Boston's pond-draining, 622;''Wave Bye-Bye to the Bureaucrat'', 687-89;''Blood Sister: One Tough Nun'', 689, ("one of Himself's few commercial successes") 703-06, 710-14, fn.289/1053;''The American Century as Seen Through a Brick'', 695;''The Night Wears a Sombrero'', 704;''Low Temperature Civics'', 706; post-carrot anhedonic, 706;''Le Masque'' (as he was called by Avril I), 737;''Pre-Nuptial Agreement of Heaven and Hell'', 740, 742; unable to speak to Hal or Orin "without their mother's presence and mediation" 743; top collegiate tennis player, 743; referred to his films ironically as "entertainments" 743; funeral took place in "L'Islet Province of Nouveau Québec [...] featuring an interment, not a cremation" 790; "remained alcohol-free for the whole next three-and-a-half months [until] the date of his suicide" 790;''The Unfortunate Case of Me'', 792; as wraith in Gately's hospital room, 829-40; replicating "life's real egalitarian babble of figurantless crowds" 835; "spent the whole sober last ninety days of his animate life working tirelessly to contrive a medium via which he and the muted son could simply''converse'' [...] something so compelling it would reverse thrust on a young self's fall into the womb of solipsism, anhedonia, death in life" 838; "his most serious wish was:''to entertain''" 839; "used to see his father's ghost on stairways sometimes [...] black-widow spiders in his hair, too" 870;''Zero-Gravity Tea Ceremony'', 874;''Good-Looking Men in Small Clever Rooms ...'', 900; "joked about making something quote too perfect" 940;''Accomplice!'', 941; "had no interest in suckering the audience with illusory realism" 944; didn't use real actors, 944; Dancing Gland, 944; "remained obsessed with something until he became successful at it, then transferred his obsession to something else" 949; "hetero-hardcore''Möbius Strips'' and the sado-periodontal''Fun with Teeth'' " 954; afraid porno would give Orin "an impoverished, lonely idea of sexuality" 956; "made so many films titled''Cage'' " 957; "God and the Devil playing poker with Tarot cards for the soul of Cosgrove Watt" 971; "cartridge with the held-open eyes and dropper had been the one about ultra-violence and sadism" 981; "in the days prior to [Himself's suicide], a so-called 'word' appeared on a 'fogged' 'window' of Mrs. Inc's pale yellow Volvo" fn.269/1048; "loved [''The Cage''] and stuck little snippets of it [...] anywhere he could" fn.366/1077;

'''Incandenza, Mario''' 
32; brother of Hal (1 year older); "Eighteen in May [...] designated function around [ETA] is filmic" 54; leptosomatic (frail), 79; "a born listener [...] Brady-kinetic" 80; "one of the short strange Himself-influenced conceptual cartridges" he makes, 153; Mario's "conceptual film-type project based on part of [the Riverside''Hamlet'']" 171;''Tennis and the Feral Prodigy'', written by Mario, 173; "fanatical listener/observer" 189; "his short and upbeat annual documentary" 265; birth & description, 312-17; J.O. Incandenza's "honorary assistant production-assistant" 314; his "kid's adaption" of''The ONANtiad'' , 380; with Clipperton, 410; birthday: 11/25, 589; Familial Dysautonomia ("can't feel physical pain very well"), 589; 625; dislike of flourescent lighting, fn.244/1044; "cross between a puppet and one of the big-headed carnivores from Spielberg's old special-effects orgies about reptiles" 746; shooting his documentary w/Bolex H64, 755;

'''Incandenza, Orin''' 
9; Hal's oldest brother (by 9 years); punter for AZ Cardinals, 42; fear of roaches, 44; roaches under inverted tumblers, 45; flying with the Cardinals, 65; morbid fear of heights, 65; "dodger of flung acid extraordinaire" 223; being followed, 244; Eschaton game-master, 284; punter for B.U., 293; "interview" w/''Moment'' fragment, fn.145/1038; 565; Swiss Subject, 566; "Excitement-Hope-Acquisition-Contempt" cycle, 574; Swiss Subject is left-handed, 598; 11/11/YDAU, "once again embracing a certain 'Swiss' hand-model" 655; "a one-trick pony as a player" 661; "has come to regard the truth as''constructed'' rather than''reported'' " fn.269/1048; impression of Avril, 1051; A.F.R. believes most likely to have a duplicate master of the Entertainment, 723; pathological liar, 771; possible affair, as a child, with the Moms, 791; Gately watching him play w/Boston U. on TV, 916; imitation of Himself's mother in wheelchair, 953; in inverted tumbler (glass cage) being interrogated about the Master by Swiss hand-model (Mlle. Luria P.) (see also p.45), 971-72;

'''''Incision, The''''' 
233; film

<div id="Infant">'''''Infant, The'''''</div>
feral, 211; in the Concavity; worshipped by Rastafarians, 559, 562; "propitiate the outsized feral infant" in Himself's''Stand Behind the Men Behind the Wire'', fn.24/991; "oversized feral infant" fn.24/991;''Propitiating the Infant'', 562; fn.304/1055;

'''Infernatron viewer''' 
229; 877; Sorkin's, 930;

'''Infinite Jest''' 
36 (not yet named - 4/1/YDAU); aka "the Entertainment" (discussed by Steeply & Marathe), 90; "'anti'-Entertainment" 126; 2-D man in a wheelchair anti-ad, 224, 721; "a final''opus'' so''magnum'' he'd claimed to have had it locked away" 228; "Was the allegedly fatally entertaining and scopophiliac thing Jim alleges he made out of her unveiled face here at the start of Y.T.S.D.B. a cage or really a door?" 230; "the mother-death-cosmology and apologies she'd repeated over and over, inclined over that auto-wobble lens" 230; "cartridge-as-ecstatic-death rumor" 233; "The Face of the Deep" 238; "so bad he didn't want it released" 253; 318; 430; Bertraund Antitoi stole cartridges from wheelchair anti-ad, 483; A.F.R. and, 489; holography, 490; curious victims, 507; eyes "empty of intent" 508; spreading (early November YDAU), 548; opening sequence, 549; describing what happens to the viewer, 647-48; "It was unlikely that any one game figured much in the Entertainment" 658; DuPlessis copy "secured and verified" 724; "anti-''samazdat'' cartridge of F.L.Q.'s allegation" 752; Notkin's detailed description, 788; meeting re ads warning against viewing, 876; Joelle describing, 938-41; Master is buried with Himself, 940-41;''Infinite Jest (I)'' "first attempt at commercial entertainment" fn.24/986;''I.J. (V)'' "its Master cartridge either destroyed or vaulted''sui testator'', fn.24/993;

'''Iimura, Taka''' 
fn.24/986; Himself dedicated''Dark Logics'' to him

'''Ingersoll, Evan''' 
97; 11-year-old student at ETA, "eyebrowless" from Binghamton NNY; engenders dislike, 99; parents founded Rhode Island version of shopping by TP, 112; description, 114; roommate w/J.J. Penn, 335;

'''Interdependence Day, Continental''' 
31; held on November 8; 52; 221

'''InterLace TelEntertainment''' 
"two hubs of manufacture and dissemination in Phoenix, Arizona U.S.A. and Boston" 33; conceived of by Lace-Forché, 415; "4.8-mb PC-diskettes InterLace was marketing as 'cartridges'" 416; 648; Dissemination Grid, fn.18/985; "copyable Master cartridges require special OS-codes and special hardware to run [...] which keeps most consumers out of the bootleg-cartridge business" fn.301/1054-55;

'''InterLace Subscription Pulse-Matrix''' 
35; broadcasts "spontaneous dissiminations"

'''''Introduction to Montague Semantics''''' 
760; Dowty, Wall and Peters's seminal work, on the Moms' desk;

'''Irish Luggage''' 
541; slang for Hefty bags

'''Item''' 
608; slang for handgun

'''Ives, Burl''' 
86; rotund, bearded American folksinger & actor, "Ewell's radically downscaled" version of

'''I.W.D.''' 
221; dumpsters (International? Waste Disposal)

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'''caries''' 
tooth decay, leading to a cavity (always used in plural form)

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'''continentally ranked''' 
ranking of players in North America, see, e.g., [[Pages_3-27#onancaa|O.N.A.N.C.A.A.]]

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'''"I want to tell you . . . My head is filled with things to say."''' 
These are the first lines of the Beatles song "I Want to Tell You," written by George Harrison (1943-2001).

'''"I don't mind . . . I could wait forever."''' 
more lyrics from "I Want to Tell You," though not the very next ones

'''Brandt''' 
Another German name, most famously the nom de guerre of the future mayor of West Berlin and Kanzler of Germany, Willy Brandt, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm (1913-1922).

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'''legation''' 
a diplomatic office lower than an embassy

'''Libertine Statue''' 
I.e., the Statue of Liberty, though calling it this implies sexual promiscuity, even if she is wearing a diaper

'''apposite''' 
suitable or well adapted

'''Rub' al Khali''' 
Arabic for ''Empty Quarter,'' another name for the Arabian Desert.

'''maxillofacial''' 
pertaining to or affecting the jaws and face

'''''Candida albacans''''' 
the Latin name for a fungal infection that causes, among other disorders, thrush

'''monilial''' 
of or caused by fungus of the genus ''Monila''

'''DeBakey''' 
Michael Ellis DeBakey (1908-2008) is a world-famous heart surgeon.

'''''ad valorem''''' 
Latin: according to the value

'''nauseous''' 
Correctly used here, this word means "tending to cause nausea." If one has nausea, they are "nauseated."

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'''Scottsdale''' 
a suburb about 19 miles east-northeast of Phoenix

'''sufism''' 
a mystic strain of Islam

'''Pir Valayat''' 
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1916-2004) was a British-born Sufi.

'''kif''' 
Arabic for marijuana in leaf form, as opposed to hashish

'''''shari'a-halal''''' 
An Arabic term akin to the Jewish ''kosher,'' this means that food has been prepared in accordance with Islamic law.

'''Back Bay Hilton''' 
This is a real hotel, with a Web site [http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/BOSBHHH-Hilton-Boston-Back-Bay-Massachusetts/index.do here].

'''nystatin''' 
an anti-fungal drug

'''stiptics''' 
A styptic is a chemical that stops bleeding.

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'''necrosis''' 
a term for death of bodily tissue

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'''triptych''' 
a three-part art display

'''O.N.A.N.M.A.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Medical Assocation

'''actinomycete-class antibiotics''' 
antibiotics effective against Gram-positive bacteria called actinobacteria

'''CBC/PATHÉ''' 
CBC is the Canadian Broadcasting Company. PATHÉ is probably the French entertainment company Pathé Frères (Pathé Brothers).

'''''Nass''''' 
Arabic for "text"

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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar]]

'''double dutch''' 
a type of rope jumping where two ropes are used

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'''Brighton Projects''' 
presumably high-rise, low-income housing in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton,_Boston,_Massachusetts Brighton]

'''Shedd Spread''' 
a brand of [http://www.countrycrock.com/products.asp margarine]

'''wraithlike''' 
A wraith is a type of ghost.

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'''nocturnal emitter''' 
a boy who has a wet dream

'''anfractuous''' 
full of twists and turns

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'''petulant''' 
unreasonably irritable

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'''''Tosca''''' 
The title of an opera by Italian composer Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (1858-1924), which premiered in 1900.

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'''agoraphobic''' 
suffering from an irrational fear of going outside

'''portcullis''' 
This is "a strong grating, as of iron, made to slide along vertical grooves at the sides of a gateway of a fortified place and let down to prevent passage" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

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'''2010h. on 1 April''' 
The medical attaché has been watching for forty-three minutes.

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'''Ambush''' 
a [http://www.100perfumes.com/forums/Perfume/m12442.htm real perfume]

'''Home with the team''' 
It's already been mentioned that Orin plays professional football. He must play for the Arizona Cardinals.

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'''''Blattaria implacblus''''' 
''Blattaria'' is the order that contains the several genus and species of cockroaches. The Latin phrase really means "implacable cockroach."

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'''fantods''' 
sudden outpourings of anger, outrage, or fear

'''Chalmette''' 
an eastern suburb of New Orleans

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'''kippers''' 
cured herring

'''Mrs. Avril M. T. Incandenza''' 
Hal's mother is named for the first time.

'''phylacteryish''' 
Remove "-ish" and you have the English word for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefillin tefillin].

'''imprimatur''' 
sanction or approval

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'''Positron-Emission Topography''' 
According to Wikipedia, this is "a nuclear medicine medical imaging technique that produces a three-dimensional image or map of functional processes in the body."

'''positrons''' 
the sub-atomic particles that are the opposite of electrons

'''Fritz Lang''' 
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (1890-1976) was a Viennese-born Austrian-American director, probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022100/ M].

'''''Moment'' magazine''' 
This is a Jewish-interest [http://www.momentmag.com/ magazine].

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'''Pandora's box of worms''' 
a mixed metaphor of "Pandora's box" and "can of worms," neither of which can be shut again once they're opened

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'''one-hitter''' 
a small marijuana pipe that will provide one "hit" of marijuana per packing

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'''Partridge, KS''' 
A town in Kansas about 55 miles north-northwest of Wichita

'''Charles Tavis''' 
I.e., C.T.

'''gizzard''' 
the digestive organ of a bird

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'''Bob Hope''' 
Cockney rhyming slang for "dope"

'''neo-Georgian''' 
modern-day architecture that approximates that of the Georgian period, from 1714 (accession of George I of the U.K.) to 1830 (death of George III)

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'''spherocubular''' 
Another neologism, presumably meaning having characteristics of both a sphere and cube -- a three-dimension "squircle".

'''Leith''' 
A homonym of Lethe, the name of the river in Greek mythology whose water, if drunk, will erase one's memory.

'''Dr. James O. Incandenza''' 
Hal's father's full name is given for the first time.

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'''dendriurethane''' 
This substance does not actually exist. An educated guess is that it is a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyurethane polyurethane] that comes from trees, ''dendri'' being Greek for "tree."

'''twenty meters''' 
almost twenty-two yards

'''unfenestrated''' 
having no windows

'''two meter''' 
a little over 6.5 ft

'''banshee''' 
In Irish mythology, the banshee is female spirit, who acts as an omen of death. They are known for "keening," i.e., shrieking.

'''flange''' 
a plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe

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'''post-latency''' 
after the latency period that Freud posited in his four-stage theory of psychosexual development in children

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_5|Endnote 5]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_5a|Endnote 5a]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_6|Endnote 6]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_7|Endnote 7]]

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[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_8|Endnote 8]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_8a|Endnote 8a]]

'''mushrooms or X''' 
psilocybin mushrooms or MDMA (called ecstasy)

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'''Interdependent regions''' 
I.e., Canada

'''prorectors''' 
members of a management body of a university, each managing his/her specific area

'''the Show''' 
professional tennis

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'''Kodiak''' 
a brand of chewing tobacco

'''quail''' 
to shrink back in fear

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'''0020h''' 
The medical attaché has now been watching for four hours and fifty-three minutes.

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'''filmic''' 
having to do with motion pictures

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[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_12a|Endnote 12a]]

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'''élan''' 
enthusiastic vigor or liveliness

'''Revere Holding''' 
a jail, obviously -- probably the jail for Revere, Mass., just south of Boston

'''P.D.''' 
public defender

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'''dictum''' 
a maxim or saying

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'''Marblehead''' 
A town in Essex County, Mass., home to a yachting resort. It's about 15 miles northeast of the city on the water.

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'''''International Affairs'' and ''Interdependent Affairs''''' 
The first magazine is real; the second is not.

'''teak chiffonier''' 
a piece of furniture, one of which you can see [http://www.artfact.com/catalog/viewLot.cfm?lotCode=4xRrS2JB here]

'''Berkshires''' 
the westernmost portion of Massachusetts, a popular vacation spot

'''van Dyke''' 
a goatee

'''apocopes''' 
losses of syllables from words, particularly unstressed vowels

'''Café au Lait''' 
half coffee and half milk in a large cup, as drunk in France

'''gangrenously tight''' 
I.e., so tight as to cause gangrene, i.e., death of tissue due to lack of blood

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'''grippe''' 
flu

'''pre-British-takeover Québecois''' 
The British took over Quebec on September 8, 1760.

'''grackles''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passerine passernine] birds native to North America

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'''intercostal''' 
pertaining to the ribs or the muscles around them

'''Montreal Tulip Fest''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival Canadian Tulip Festival] actually takes place in Ottawa, Ontario, and Gatineau, Quebec, which border each other.

'''Guillaume DuPlessis''' 
A man by this name was one of the first French Calvinist settlers on the island of St. Kitts in the 17th century.

'''250 clicks due east''' 
Clicks are kilometers. Two hundred fifty km is about 155 miles.

'''lividity''' 
the change of color in skin brought on by livor mortis, an after-death phenomenon when blood settles in the body at low points of gravity

'''comme-il-faut''' 
French: As is necessary

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'''932/1864''' 
I don't know what the numbers mean, but the first is half of the second.

'''R.I.S.C.''' 
reduced instruction set computer, i.e., a computer that takes a limited set of commands

'''Primestar''' 
a direct broadcast satellite network active in the 1990s

'''D.S.S.''' 
digital satellite system

'''pixel-free''' 
smooth and not pixelated

'''baud''' 
a unit equal to bits per second; a baud rate is the number of bits per second a modem can send/receive

'''''couture''''' 
French for "fashion"

'''nanoprocessors''' 
very small processors -- smaller than microprocessors

'''chromotography''' 
Here misspelled, chromatography is "any of various techniques for the separation of complex mixtures that rely on the differential affinities of substances for a gas or liquid mobile medium and for a stationary adsorbing medium through which they pass, such as paper, gelatin, or magnesia" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'').

'''carpal neuralgia''' 
nerve pain in the bones of the hand

'''phosphenic migraine''' 
the phenomenon of seeing lights accompanying a migraine

'''gluteal hyperadiposity''' 
fat in the buttocks

'''lumbar stressae''' 
back stress

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'''Jim Troeltsch''' 
The most famous person with this surname is [http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/WeirdWildWeb/courses/mwt/dictionary/mwt_themes_705_troeltsch.htm Ernst Troeltsch] (1865-1923), a German Protestant theologian and philosopher of religion and history.

'''Narberth PA''' 
a suburb of Philadelphia, on the famous Main Line from Philadelphia to Lancaster

'''meatus''' 
a natural bodily opening

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_21|Endnote 21]]

'''OTC''' 
over the counter

'''expectorants''' 
drugs that induce phlegm-producing coughing

'''pertussives''' 
cough suppressants

'''megaspansules''' 
a combination of mega + span + capsule, these would be large, time-released capsules

==Endnote 22==

'''mucoid dessicators''' 
drugs that dry up phlegm

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'''Rader''' 
If the name is pronounced with a "long a," as in the Oakland football team, a famous person with this last name was Erich Johann Albert Raeder (1876-1960), a World War II-era German grand admiral, sentenced to life at Nuremberg but served only nine years.

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'''nebulizer''' 
something that turns a liquid into a spray

'''fugue-state''' 
According to Wikipedia, a fugue state is "a state of mind characterized by abandonment of personal identity, along with the memories, personality and other identifying characteristics of individuality."

'''prolix''' 
extended to a great, unneedy length

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'''rhinoviri''' 
Wallace's plural for rhinovirus, one of dozens of variations of the virus that causes the common cold, also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus rhinoviruses]

'''mucosa''' 
An absorptive/secretive tissue layer in the body; here, in Troeltsch's throat or nose

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'''matte''' 
as an adjective, having a dull or lusterless finish

'''snuff-white''' 
Snuff is grayish to yellowish brown in color; snuff-white must be that color, but lighter.

'''reglets''' 
narrow, flat moldings

'''rheostats''' 
continuously variable electronic resistors

'''shank''' 
part of the leg between the knee and ankle

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'''As of [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]''' 
Which is to say, as of 2009

'''pre-Method actor''' 
He was an actor before the dawn of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_acting the Method].

'''dipsomaniacal''' 
Characterized by an uncontrollable urge to consume alcohol, describing James O. Incandenza's father

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'''Remington-hung''' 
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].

'''half-Windsors''' 
A type of knot used to tie a necktie

'''Harold Incandenza''' 
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.

'''Enfield''' 
A fictional town just west of Boston, which exists where parts of the real town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.

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<div id="onancaa">'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.''' </div>
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Athletic Association -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.

'''wen''' 
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary)

'''Randolph Tennis Center''' 
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tuscon, Ariz., where the main campus of the University of Arizona is also located.

'''El Con Marriott''' 
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquistador Hotel in Tuscon, the Marriot has a different name.

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'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."''' 
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.

'''62.5%''' 
Out of eight people in the room (including himself, three deans, the Director of Composition, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are not looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.

'''circumflex''' 
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb être (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.

'''Pac 10''' 
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.

'''Kekuléan''' 
Referring to Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (a.k.a. August Kekulé), a German organic chemist (1829-1896). Chemicals are said to be formed by knots of elements. The exact shape to which Hal is referring is unclear.

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'''aviarian''' 
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.

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'''lapidary''' 
"Marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression: lapidary prose" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''effete''' 
Degenerate or decadent

'''Prescriptive Grammar''' 
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.

'''Post-Fourier Transformations''' 
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.

'''Holographically Mimetic''' 
Approximating reality using holograms

'''Montague Grammar''' 
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.

'''Physical Modality''' 
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.

'''Tertiary''' 
Third-level, after primary and secondary

'''Justinian''' 
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565)

'''sotto''' 
Italian for "below," it means the dean is speaking in a low voice.

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'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium''' 
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

'''hyperthrophied''' 
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (see, contra, ''atrophied'')

'''insigniated''' 
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia)

==Page 9==

'''N.A.A.U.P.''' 
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.

'''de moi''' 
French: from me

'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."''' 
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word.

'''capillary webs''' 
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins

'''defacatory''' 
As if eliminating solid bodily waste

'''RICO''' 
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.

==Page 10==

'''Brewster's-Angle light''' 
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].

'''Weston''' 
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city

'''Orin''' 
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."

'''Rototiller''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]

'''Pooh-wear''' 
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance

[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

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'''presbyopic''' 
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older

'''Rototrembling''' 
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller

'''caustic''' 
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic

'''plumb''' 
adj., straight or true; in line with

'''ideogram''' 
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration

==Page 12==

'''Kirkegaard''' 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy

'''Camus''' 
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.

'''Dennis Gabor''' 
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."''' 
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of Leviathan. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.

'''Hegel''' 
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.

'''creatus''' 
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."

'''pinion''' 
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''parquet''' 
an in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.

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'''half nelson''' 
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind

'''Heimlich''' 
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.

'''pases''' 
This is the plural of pase, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.

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

'''enfilade''' 
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.

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<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thub|Whataburger logo|right]]
Synechdote for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational", an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson each year. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Pheonix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)

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'''espadrilles''' 
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles

'''leonine''' 
lion-like

'''cirri''' 
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud

'''martinet''' 
a strict disciplinarian

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'''ultra-mach''' 
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.

'''barnwood''' 
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''starboard list''' 
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.

'''gigantism''' 
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''

'''parodic''' 
having the qualities of a parody

'''infantophile''' 
one subject to infantophilia, also Nepiophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia])

'''incisionish''' 
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"

'''hypophalangial''' 
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands

'''Himself's''' 
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel

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'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."''' 
See Hamlet, Act Five, Scene One.

'''Venus Williams''' 
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.

'''Dymphna''' 
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.

'''Petropolis Kahn''' 
Petropolis is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.

"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., kohen.

'''etiology''' 
the cause of a disease

'''Socratic method'''
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece

'''O.E.D. VI's count''' 
This is a reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition.

'''nonarchaic''' 
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language

'''Latinate''' 
deriving from Latin

'''Saxonic''' 
deriving from Old English

'''quick-bit''' 
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips

'''jou''' 
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"

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'''200 grams''' 
a little over seven ounces

'''"...using just audio..."''' 
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.

'''Allston''' 
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.

'''high-resin dope''' 
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced

'''harelip''' 
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]

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'''TP''' 
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.

'''"own marijuana"''' 
to become master over one's addiction, in this case, to end the addiction to marijuana

'''modem''' 
used as a verb, communicating with the office via modem, an early but ubiquitous tool for transmitting data between servers and client/servers.

'''e-note''' 
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, conceived in the pre-Internet era

==Page 20==

'''Mountie''' 
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI

'''Porter Square, Cambridge''' 
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border

==Page 21==

'''convulsive''' 
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking

'''Wedekind festival''' 
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.

'''rapacious''' 
greedy and forceful in capturing and consuming

==Page 22==

'''pleurisy''' 
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs

'''Interlace viewer''' 
A television-based home entertainment system, ubiquitous in the time the novel is set, which plays copy-protected "cartridges" custom-ordered by viewers, invented by [[L#"Lace"|Noreen Lace-Forché]]

'''raptly''' 
with intense attention to

'''cartridge''' 
See ''Interlace viewer'', above

'''debauch''' 
an episode of debauchery, engaging in excessive, pleasure-seeking, often sexual- or drug/alcohol-related

'''120 grams''' 
about 4.2 ounces

'''debased''' 
of low character and lacking integrity

'''Tito Puente''' 
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.

'''Marlborough Street''' 
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.

==Page 23==

'''appropriation''' 
taking something as one's own, without permission

'''methamphetamine hydrochloride''' 
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that Infinite Jest was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.

==Page 24==

'''pastiche''' 
a mixture of varying style or content

'''magisculed''' 
typo or intentional misspelling of ''majuscule'', an initial capital letter, often large-type to introduce a section of written material; Wallace's use of the noun in a verb form is likely a neologism (especially if the alternate spelling is retained)

'''50 grams''' 
about 1.75 ounces

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water without soil

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'''stein''' 
a drinking mug

'''E.W.D. land barge''' 
perhaps "Enfield Waste Disposal"; a garbage truck

'''phallocentric''' 
biased from a male point of view

'''half a meter''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''carb''' 
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carburetor on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.

'''oblique''' 
slanted, like an acute or obtuse angle, not a right-angle

'''teleputer''' 
Combination television and computer, generic term for an Interlace player, see also [[T#"TP"|TP]]

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'''jibe''' 
correspond with; match up

'''oblique''' 
indirect or dishonest

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'''desiccated''' 
dried out

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'''Remington-hung''' 
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].

'''half-Windsors''' 
A type of knot used to tie a necktie

'''Harold Incandenza''' 
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.

'''Enfield''' 
A fictional town just west of Boston, which exists where parts of the real town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.

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<div id="onancaa">'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.''' </div>
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Atheltic Assocation -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.

'''wen''' 
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary)

'''Randolph Tennis Center''' 
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tuscon, Ariz., where the main campus of the University of Arizona is also located.

'''El Con Marriott''' 
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquidistdor Hotel in Tuscon, the Marriot has a different name.

==Page 5==

'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."''' 
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.

'''62.5%''' 
Out of eight people in the room (including himself, three deans, the Director of Composition, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are not looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.

'''circumflex''' 
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb être (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.

'''Pac 10''' 
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.

'''Kekuléan''' 
Referring to Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (a.k.a. August Kekulé), a German organic chemist (1829-1896). Chemicals are said to be formed by knots of elements. The exact shape to which Hal is referring is unclear.

==Page 6==

'''aviarian''' 
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.

==Page 7==

'''lapidary''' 
"Marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression: lapidary prose" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''effete''' 
Degenerate or decadent

'''Prescriptive Grammar''' 
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.

'''Post-Fourier Transformations''' 
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.

'''Holographically Mimetic''' 
Approximating reality using holograms

'''Montague Grammar''' 
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.

'''Physical Modality''' 
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.

'''Tertiary''' 
Third-level, after primary and secondary

'''Justinian''' 
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565)

'''sotto''' 
Italian for "below," it means the dean is speaking in a low voice.

==Page 8==

'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium''' 
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

'''hyperthrophied''' 
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (see, contra, ''atrophied'')

'''insigniated''' 
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia)

==Page 9==

'''N.A.A.U.P.''' 
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.

'''de moi''' 
French: from me

'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."''' 
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word.

'''capillary webs''' 
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins

'''defacatory''' 
As if eliminating solid bodily waste

'''RICO''' 
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.

==Page 10==

'''Brewster's-Angle light''' 
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].

'''Weston''' 
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city

'''Orin''' 
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."

'''Rototiller''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]

'''Pooh-wear''' 
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance

[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

==Page 11==

'''presbyopic''' 
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older

'''Rototrembling''' 
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller

'''caustic''' 
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic

'''plumb''' 
adj., straight or true; in line with

'''ideogram''' 
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration

==Page 12==

'''Kirkegaard''' 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy

'''Camus''' 
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.

'''Dennis Gabor''' 
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."''' 
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of Leviathan. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.

'''Hegel''' 
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.

'''creatus''' 
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."

'''pinion''' 
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''parquet''' 
an in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.

==Page 13==

'''half nelson''' 
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind

'''Heimlich''' 
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.

'''pases''' 
This is the plural of pase, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.

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

'''enfilade''' 
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.

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<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thub|Whataburger logo|right]]
Synechdote for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational", an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson each year. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Pheonix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)

==Page 15==

'''espadrilles''' 
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles

'''leonine''' 
lion-like

'''cirri''' 
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud

'''martinet''' 
a strict disciplinarian

==Page 16==

'''ultra-mach''' 
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.

'''barnwood''' 
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''starboard list''' 
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.

'''gigantism''' 
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''

'''parodic''' 
having the qualities of a parody

'''infantophile''' 
one subject to infantophilia, also Nepiophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia])

'''incisionish''' 
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"

'''hypophalangial''' 
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands

'''Himself's''' 
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel

==Page 17==

'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."''' 
See Hamlet, Act Five, Scene One.

'''Venus Williams''' 
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.

'''Dymphna''' 
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.

'''Petropolis Kahn''' 
Petropolis is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.

"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., kohen.

'''etiology''' 
the cause of a disease

'''Socratic method'''
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece

'''O.E.D. VI's count''' 
This is a reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition.

'''nonarchaic''' 
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language

'''Latinate''' 
deriving from Latin

'''Saxonic''' 
deriving from Old English

'''quick-bit''' 
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips

'''jou''' 
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"

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

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'''200 grams''' 
a little over seven ounces

'''"...using just audio..."''' 
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.

'''Allston''' 
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.

'''high-resin dope''' 
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced

'''harelip''' 
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]

==Page 19==

'''TP''' 
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.

'''"own marijuana"''' 
to become master over one's addiction, in this case, to end the addiction to marijuana

'''modem''' 
used as a verb, communicating with the office via modem, an early but ubiquitous tool for transmitting data between servers and client/servers.

'''e-note''' 
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, conceived in the pre-Internet era

==Page 20==

'''Mountie''' 
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI

'''Porter Square, Cambridge''' 
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border

==Page 21==

'''convulsive''' 
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking

'''Wedekind festival''' 
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.

'''rapacious''' 
greedy and forceful in capturing and consuming

==Page 22==

'''pleurisy''' 
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs

'''Interlace viewer''' 
A television-based home entertainment system, ubiquitous in the time the novel is set, which plays copy-protected "cartridges" custom-ordered by viewers, invented by [[L#"Lace"|Noreen Lace-Forché]]

'''raptly''' 
with intense attention to

'''cartridge''' 
See ''Interlace viewer'', above

'''debauch''' 
an episode of debauchery, engaging in excessive, pleasure-seeking, often sexual- or drug/alcohol-related

'''120 grams''' 
about 4.2 ounces

'''debased''' 
of low character and lacking integrity

'''Tito Puente''' 
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.

'''Marlborough Street''' 
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.

==Page 23==

'''appropriation''' 
taking something as one's own, without permission

'''methamphetamine hydrochloride''' 
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that Infinite Jest was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.

==Page 24==

'''pastiche''' 
a mixture of varying style or content

'''magisculed''' 
typo or intentional misspelling of ''majuscule'', an initial capital letter, often large-type to introduce a section of written material; Wallace's use of the noun in a verb form is likely a neologism (especially if the alternate spelling is retained)

'''50 grams''' 
about 1.75 ounces

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water without soil

==Page 25==

'''stein''' 
a drinking mug

'''E.W.D. land barge''' 
perhaps "Enfield Waste Disposal"; a garbage truck

'''phallocentric''' 
biased from a male point of view

'''half a meter''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''carb''' 
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carburetor on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.

'''oblique''' 
slanted, like an acute or obtuse angle, not a right-angle

'''teleputer''' 
Combination television and computer, generic term for an Interlace player, see also [[T#"TP"|TP]]

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'''jibe''' 
correspond with; match up

'''oblique''' 
indirect or dishonest

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'''desiccated''' 
dried out

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'''Remington-hung''' 
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].

'''half-Windsors''' 
A type of knot used to tie a necktie

'''Harold Incandenza''' 
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.

'''Enfield''' 
A fictional town just west of Boston, which exists where parts of the real town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.

==Page 4==

<div id="onancaa">'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.'''</div> 
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Atheltic Assocation -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.

'''wen''' 
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary)

'''Randolph Tennis Center''' 
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tuscon, Ariz., where the main campus of the University of Arizona is also located.

'''El Con Marriott''' 
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquidistdor Hotel in Tuscon, the Marriot has a different name.

==Page 5==

'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."''' 
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.

'''62.5%''' 
Out of eight people in the room (including himself, three deans, the Director of Composition, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are not looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.

'''circumflex''' 
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb être (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.

'''Pac 10''' 
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.

'''Kekuléan''' 
Referring to Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (a.k.a. August Kekulé), a German organic chemist (1829-1896). Chemicals are said to be formed by knots of elements. The exact shape to which Hal is referring is unclear.

==Page 6==

'''aviarian''' 
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.

==Page 7==

'''lapidary''' 
"Marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression: lapidary prose" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''effete''' 
Degenerate or decadent

'''Prescriptive Grammar''' 
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.

'''Post-Fourier Transformations''' 
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.

'''Holographically Mimetic''' 
Approximating reality using holograms

'''Montague Grammar''' 
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.

'''Physical Modality''' 
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.

'''Tertiary''' 
Third-level, after primary and secondary

'''Justinian''' 
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565)

'''sotto''' 
Italian for "below," it means the dean is speaking in a low voice.

==Page 8==

'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium''' 
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

'''hyperthrophied''' 
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (see, contra, ''atrophied'')

'''insigniated''' 
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia)

==Page 9==

'''N.A.A.U.P.''' 
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.

'''de moi''' 
French: from me

'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."''' 
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word.

'''capillary webs''' 
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins

'''defacatory''' 
As if eliminating solid bodily waste

'''RICO''' 
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.

==Page 10==

'''Brewster's-Angle light''' 
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].

'''Weston''' 
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city

'''Orin''' 
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."

'''Rototiller''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]

'''Pooh-wear''' 
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance

[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

==Page 11==

'''presbyopic''' 
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older

'''Rototrembling''' 
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller

'''caustic''' 
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic

'''plumb''' 
adj., straight or true; in line with

'''ideogram''' 
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration

==Page 12==

'''Kirkegaard''' 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy

'''Camus''' 
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.

'''Dennis Gabor''' 
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."''' 
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of Leviathan. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.

'''Hegel''' 
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.

'''creatus''' 
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."

'''pinion''' 
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''parquet''' 
an in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.

==Page 13==

'''half nelson''' 
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind

'''Heimlich''' 
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.

'''pases''' 
This is the plural of pase, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.

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

'''enfilade''' 
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.

==Page 14==

<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thub|Whataburger logo|right]]
Synechdote for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational", an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson each year. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Pheonix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)

==Page 15==

'''espadrilles''' 
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles

'''leonine''' 
lion-like

'''cirri''' 
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud

'''martinet''' 
a strict disciplinarian

==Page 16==

'''ultra-mach''' 
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.

'''barnwood''' 
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''starboard list''' 
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.

'''gigantism''' 
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''

'''parodic''' 
having the qualities of a parody

'''infantophile''' 
one subject to infantophilia, also Nepiophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia])

'''incisionish''' 
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"

'''hypophalangial''' 
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands

'''Himself's''' 
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel

==Page 17==

'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."''' 
See Hamlet, Act Five, Scene One.

'''Venus Williams''' 
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.

'''Dymphna''' 
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.

'''Petropolis Kahn''' 
Petropolis is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.

"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., kohen.

'''etiology''' 
the cause of a disease

'''Socratic method'''
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece

'''O.E.D. VI's count''' 
This is a reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition.

'''nonarchaic''' 
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language

'''Latinate''' 
deriving from Latin

'''Saxonic''' 
deriving from Old English

'''quick-bit''' 
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips

'''jou''' 
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"

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

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'''200 grams''' 
a little over seven ounces

'''"...using just audio..."''' 
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.

'''Allston''' 
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.

'''high-resin dope''' 
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced

'''harelip''' 
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]

==Page 19==

'''TP''' 
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.

'''"own marijuana"''' 
to become master over one's addiction, in this case, to end the addiction to marijuana

'''modem''' 
used as a verb, communicating with the office via modem, an early but ubiquitous tool for transmitting data between servers and client/servers.

'''e-note''' 
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, conceived in the pre-Internet era

==Page 20==

'''Mountie''' 
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI

'''Porter Square, Cambridge''' 
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border

==Page 21==

'''convulsive''' 
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking

'''Wedekind festival''' 
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.

'''rapacious''' 
greedy and forceful in capturing and consuming

==Page 22==

'''pleurisy''' 
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs

'''Interlace viewer''' 
A television-based home entertainment system, ubiquitous in the time the novel is set, which plays copy-protected "cartridges" custom-ordered by viewers, invented by [[L#"Lace"|Noreen Lace-Forché]]

'''raptly''' 
with intense attention to

'''cartridge''' 
See ''Interlace viewer'', above

'''debauch''' 
an episode of debauchery, engaging in excessive, pleasure-seeking, often sexual- or drug/alcohol-related

'''120 grams''' 
about 4.2 ounces

'''debased''' 
of low character and lacking integrity

'''Tito Puente''' 
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.

'''Marlborough Street''' 
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.

==Page 23==

'''appropriation''' 
taking something as one's own, without permission

'''methamphetamine hydrochloride''' 
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that Infinite Jest was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.

==Page 24==

'''pastiche''' 
a mixture of varying style or content

'''magisculed''' 
typo or intentional misspelling of ''majuscule'', an initial capital letter, often large-type to introduce a section of written material; Wallace's use of the noun in a verb form is likely a neologism (especially if the alternate spelling is retained)

'''50 grams''' 
about 1.75 ounces

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water without soil

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'''stein''' 
a drinking mug

'''E.W.D. land barge''' 
perhaps "Enfield Waste Disposal"; a garbage truck

'''phallocentric''' 
biased from a male point of view

'''half a meter''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''carb''' 
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carburetor on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.

'''oblique''' 
slanted, like an acute or obtuse angle, not a right-angle

'''teleputer''' 
Combination television and computer, generic term for an Interlace player, see also [[T#"TP"|TP]]

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'''jibe''' 
correspond with; match up

'''oblique''' 
indirect or dishonest

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'''desiccated''' 
dried out

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284; 511;

'''C, Bobby''' 
128; "Wos' former aquaintance from crewing with slopes on the North shore for Whity Sorkin in the days of his youth"; junkie in Boston who hangs with Poor Tony and "yrstruly"; takes off patty's ear, 129; 300; henchman for Sorkin, 917;

'''(C2H5CO)2O2''' 
1055; "pimple cream," (see fn 304a, p. 1062) ['''NOTE''': this is not the chemical formula for benzoyl peroxide as some have suggested. (That formula is C14H10O4.)] And...as I was informed by a reader named Olympia McGurk, "...this is not benzoyl peroxide; its chemical name is propionyl peroxide (or more correctly but less commonly dipropionyl peroxide). It is a precursor used in the synthesis of some polymers but is most emphatically not pimple cream as DFW claims. I suspect it would burn your skin off." Although, Olympia continues, "I also realized that it could just be a printer's or editor's error: the formula would be correct for benzoyl peroxide if it were (C6H5CO)2O2 instead of (C2H5CO)2O2. The substitution of C2H5 for C6H5 (ethyl for benzyl) would be a natural error for someone who knew a little bit of chemistry but who wasn't thinking about aromatic rings."

'''CadaverGate''' 
fn.26/994; "scandal thought brought down so many funeral directors in the Year of the Purdue Wonderchicken"

'''cages''' 
"cages over the lightbulbs";

'''Cage, John''' 
fn.24/989; his''4'33 ''an unnamed influence of Himself's''The Joke''

'''''Caisse de Dépôt et Placement''''' 
751; workplace of Health-Benefits administrator whose name Maranthe appropriates

'''Cambridge City Hospital''' 
690;

'''Cameron, James''' 
48; American filmmaker (''Terminator, Aliens, Titanic'', etc.)

'''Camus, Albert''' 
12; Nobel Prize winning Fr. writer/philosopher

'''''Candida Albicans''''' 
33; a dimorphous organism that can be either a yeast, in which form it is not invasive, or a fungus, in which form it is.

'''Cantor, Georg''' 
82; fn.35/994

'''Cantrell''' 
410; early ETA prorector; and Clipperton in YoW, 432;

'''Carty, Gary''' 
891; friend of Gately's with whom he'd trap lobsters "in the pre-dawn reek of low tide"

'''Casey , William J.''' 
473; former director of the CIA

'''Cathy or Kathy''' 
920; beautiful R.N. who assists Gately in defecating

'''Chang, Michael''' 
389; tennis pro

'''Chaos Theory''' 
and tennis, 81-82; "What if heredity, instead of linear, is branching" 220; 341; fn.34/994

'''Chawaf, R.-L.-O.''' 
''See'''''''''Richardson-Levy-O'Byrne-Chawaf''', Ms. Soma

'''Cheap-O Records''' 
129; in Boston

'''Checkpoint Pongo''' 
571;

'''Cheers!''' 
834; late-80s/early 90s TV sitcom, with "Sam and Carla and Nom"; Nom as Gately's "own organic father" 836; Gately's memories of, 883;

'''Cheery, Mo''' 
643; owner of Cheery Oil, Troy NY, and employer of Steeply's father

'''Cheese, Susan T.''' 
130; junkie in Boston; 300;

'''China Pearl Place''' 
133; in Boston

'''Chit Chat Farms Rehabilitation of Pennsylvania State''' 
749; where Maranthe (as Henri, the Swiss) did detox

'''Choosy Mothers''' 
582; (name taken from 1970s era slogan of Jif peanut butter: "Choosy mothers choose Jif."

'''Chore Boys''' 
222; 225

'''Chrétien, J.''' 
384; Canadian Prime Minister & co-Vice Chair of O.N.A.N.

'''Christianson, Daphne''' 
38

'''Chu, LaMont''' 
112; ETA student; 328; confessing addiction to being a famous tennis star to Lyle, 388; 458;

'''Chuck or Chick''' 
531-33; guy who shoots guy who "made him look small" in front of his girl

'''chyme''' 

635-13: partly digested food passed from stomach to duodenum

'''Cisne''' 
264; ETA student

'''CITGO''' 
476;

'''Claprood, Governor''' 
576; pre-O.N.A.N.ite governor of MA

'''Clarke, Mrs.''' 
112; works in kitchen at ETA; 120; 193; "former Four-Star dessert chef" 380;

'''Clayt''' 
65; "sad old ex-QB" for Arizona Cardinals

'''Clean and Serene''' 
699; N. Cambridge NA group

'''Clenette''' 
''See'' [[H#Henderson|Henderson, Clenette]]

'''clicks''' 
573+4; kilometers

'''Clinton, Hillary R. (aka Hillary R.C.)''' 
382;

'''Clipperton, Eric''' 
407; Clipperton Brigade;''fin de siecle'' unseeded 16-year-old tennis legend who threatened to shoot himself if he ever lost a game; 431; from Crawfordsville IN, 433; 681;

'''Clow, Lori''' 
fn.209/1035; ETA student playing microtennis w/Freer

'''CNS''' 
292; central nervous system

'''cockroaches''' 
44-45

'''''Columbia Guide to Refractive Indices Second Edition''''' 
161; book young J.O.I., Jr. is holding in garage

'''Commitments''' 
343; "some members of one Group commit to hit the road and travel to another Group's meeting to speak publicly from the podium"

'''Concavity Cabinet''' 
400; Pres. of Mexico, J. Gentle, R. Tine, Sec. Int. Blaine, Sec. State Billingsley, Sec. Transp. Marty, Sec. H.E.W. Trent, Sec. Treas. Chet, Press Sec. Jay, Sec. Def. Ollie; Sec. H.U.D. Sivnik;

'''''Consummation of the Levirates''''' 
171; old print of "minor and soft core Alexandrian mosaic" in Hal's & Mario's room; 952

'''Contraria Sunt Complementa''' 
713; Latin: "We Are What We Are Against"

'''conversationalist, professional''' 
28

'''Cortelyu, April''' 
206; Ennet House resident

'''couch-potato-ism''' 
620; "The fellowship and anonymous communion of being part of a watching crowd" as antidote, 621;

'''Coyle, Kyle D.''' 
50; ETA student; 266; rooms w/Stice, 394; from Erythema AZ (outside Tucson), 453; stepdad went to "one of those men's-issues-Men's-Movement-type Meetings" 804; "having them discharges again" 868; "doesn't have his key since the accident with the whirlpool" 942;

'''C.P.C.P.''' 
1019; Calgarian pro-Canadian Phalanx; 489;

'''cranio-facial-neuralgia''' 
fn.24/987; one of the subjects of Himself's''Kinds of Pain''

'''crew''' 
129; mug; rob

'''Criess, Jolene''' 
514; young ETA student; 755;

'''Crocodiles, The''' 
354; elder White Flaggers

'''croquet''' 
104;

'''Csikzentmihalyi, Zoltan''' 
98; 16-year-old, little-English speaking student at ETA; "a marginal Slavic kid" fn.324/1070;

'''Cukor''' 
219; molded plastic chair of, at Notkin's apartment

'''''Culte du Prochain Train, Le''''' 
732; of which Maranthe was a member; "La" "The Cult of the Next Train" fn.304/1058;

'''''Culte de Baiser Sans Fin, La''''' 
fn.304/1061; "Cult of the Endless Kiss," another Québec separatist cult

'''C.U.S.P.''' 
283; Clean U. S. Party, Gentle's party; "annular agnation of ultra-right jingoist. . .and far-left macrobiotic. . .a surreal union of. . .disillusioned fringes" that "swept to quadrennial victory" as a third party, 382; 1016;1022;

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'''caries''' 
tooth decay, leading to a cavity (always used in plural form)

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==Page 32==

'''"I want to tell you . . . My head is filled with things to say."''' 
These are the first lines of the Beatles song "I Want to Tell You," written by George Harrison (1943-2001).

'''"I don't mind . . . I could wait forever."''' 
more lyrics from "I Want to Tell You," though not the very next ones

'''Brandt''' 
Another German name, most famously the nom de guerre of the future mayor of West Berlin and Kanzler of Germany, Willy Brandt, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm (1913-1922).

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

'''legation''' 
a diplomatic office lower than an embassy

'''Libertine Statue''' 
I.e., the Statue of Liberty, though calling it this implies sexual promiscuity, even if she is wearing a diaper

'''apposite''' 
suitable or well adapted

'''Rub' al Khali''' 
Arabic for ''Empty Quarter,'' another name for the Arabian Desert.

'''maxillofacial''' 
pertaining to or affecting the jaws and face

'''''Candida albacans''''' 
the Latin name for a fungal infection that causes, among other disorders, thrush

'''monilial''' 
of or caused by fungus of the genus ''Monila''

'''DeBakey''' 
Michael Ellis DeBakey (1908-2008) is a world-famous heart surgeon.

'''''ad valorem''''' 
Latin: according to the value

'''nauseous''' 
Correctly used here, this word means "tending to cause nausea." If one has nausea, they are "nauseated."

==Page 34==

'''Scottsdale''' 
a suburb about 19 miles east-northeast of Phoenix

'''sufism''' 
a mystic strain of Islam

'''Pir Valayat''' 
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1916-2004) was a British-born Sufi.

'''kif''' 
Arabic for marijuana in leaf form, as opposed to hashish

'''''shari'a-halal''''' 
An Arabic term akin to the Jewish ''kosher,'' this means that food has been prepared in accordance with Islamic law.

'''Back Bay Hilton''' 
This is a real hotel, with a Web site [http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/BOSBHHH-Hilton-Boston-Back-Bay-Massachusetts/index.do here].

'''nystatin''' 
an anti-fungal drug

'''stiptics''' 
A styptic is a chemical that stops bleeding.

==Page 35==

'''necrosis''' 
a term for death of bodily tissue

==Page 36==

'''triptych''' 
a three-part art display

'''O.N.A.N.M.A.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Medical Assocation

'''actinomycete-class antibiotics''' 
antibiotics effective against Gram-positive bacteria called actinobacteria

'''CBC/PATHÉ''' 
CBC is the Canadian Broadcasting Company. PATHÉ is probably the French entertainment company Pathé Frères (Pathé Brothers).

'''''Nass''''' 
Arabic for "text"

==Page 37==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar]]

'''double dutch''' 
a type of rope jumping where two ropes are used

==Page 38==

'''Brighton Projects''' 
presumably high-rise, low-income housing in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton,_Boston,_Massachusetts Brighton]

'''Shedd Spread''' 
a brand of [http://www.countrycrock.com/products.asp margarine]

'''wraithlike''' 
A wraith is a type of ghost.

==Page 39==

'''nocturnal emitter''' 
a boy who has a wet dream

'''anfractuous''' 
full of twists and turns

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

==Page 40==

'''petulant''' 
unreasonably irritable

==Page 41==

'''''Tosca''''' 
The title of an opera by Italian composer Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (1858-1924), which premiered in 1900.

==Page 42==

'''agoraphobic''' 
suffering from an irrational fear of going outside

'''portcullis''' 
This is "a strong grating, as of iron, made to slide along vertical grooves at the sides of a gateway of a fortified place and let down to prevent passage" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

==Page 42==

'''2010h. on 1 April''' 
The medical attaché has been watching for forty-three minutes.

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

==Page 43==

'''Ambush''' 
a [http://www.100perfumes.com/forums/Perfume/m12442.htm real perfume]

'''Home with the team''' 
It's already been mentioned that Orin plays professional football. He must play for the Arizona Cardinals.

==Page 44==

'''''Blattaria implacblus''''' 
''Blattaria'' is the order that contains the several genus and species of cockroaches. The Latin phrase really means "implacable cockroach."

==Page 45==

'''fantods''' 
sudden outpourings of anger, outrage, or fear

'''Chalmette''' 
an eastern suburb of New Orleans

==Page 46==

'''kippers''' 
cured herring

'''Mrs. Avril M. T. Incandenza''' 
Hal's mother is named for the first time.

'''phylacteryish''' 
Remove "-ish" and you have the English word for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefillin tefillin].

'''imprimatur''' 
sanction or approval

==Page 48==

'''Positron-Emission Topography''' 
According to Wikipedia, this is "a nuclear medicine medical imaging technique that produces a three-dimensional image or map of functional processes in the body."

'''positrons''' 
the sub-atomic particles that are the opposite of electrons

'''Fritz Lang''' 
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (1890-1976) was a Viennese-born Austrian-American director, probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022100/ M].

'''''Moment'' magazine''' 
This is a Jewish-interest [http://www.momentmag.com/ magazine].

==Page 49==

'''Pandora's box of worms''' 
a mixed metaphor of "Pandora's box" and "can of worms," neither of which can be shut again once they're opened

==Page 49==

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

'''one-hitter''' 
a small marijuana pipe that will provide one "hit" of marijuana per packing

==Page 50==

'''Partridge, KS''' 
A town in Kansas about 55 miles north-northwest of Wichita

'''Charles Tavis''' 
I.e., C.T.

'''gizzard''' 
the digestive organ of a bird

==Page 51==

'''Bob Hope''' 
Cockney rhyming slang for "dope"

'''neo-Georgian''' 
modern-day architecture that approximates that of the Georgian period, from 1714 (accession of George I of the U.K.) to 1830 (death of George III)

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_3|Endnote 3]]
==Page 51 (cont'd)==

'''spherocubular''' 
Another neologism, presumably meaning having characteristics of both a sphere and cube -- a three-dimension "squircle".

'''Leith''' 
A homonym of Lethe, the name of the river in Greek mythology whose water, if drunk, will erase one's memory.

'''Dr. James O. Incandenza''' 
Hal's father's full name is given for the first time.

==Page 52==

'''dendriurethane''' 
This substance does not actually exist. An educated guess is that it is a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyurethane polyurethane] that comes from trees, ''dendri'' being Greek for "tree."

'''twenty meters''' 
almost twenty-two yards

'''unfenestrated''' 
having no windows

'''two meter''' 
a little over 6.5 ft

'''banshee''' 
In Irish mythology, the banshee is female spirit, who acts as an omen of death. They are known for "keening," i.e., shrieking.

'''flange''' 
a plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe

==Page 53==

'''post-latency''' 
after the latency period that Freud posited in his four-stage theory of psychosexual development in children

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_5|Endnote 5]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_5a|Endnote 5a]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_6|Endnote 6]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_7|Endnote 7]]

==Page 53 (cont'd)==

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_8|Endnote 8]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_8a|Endnote 8a]]

'''mushrooms or X''' 
psilocybin mushrooms or MDMA (called ecstasy)

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'''Interdependent regions''' 
I.e., Canada

'''prorectors''' 
members of a management body of a university, each managing his/her specific area

'''the Show''' 
professional tennis

==Page 54==

'''Kodiak''' 
a brand of chewing tobacco

'''quail''' 
to shrink back in fear

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'''0020h''' 
The medical attaché has now been watching for four hours and fifty-three minutes.

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'''filmic''' 
having to do with motion pictures

==Page 55==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_12a|Endnote 12a]]

==Page 55 (cont'd)==

'''élan''' 
enthusiastic vigor or liveliness

'''Revere Holding''' 
a jail, obviously -- probably the jail for Revere, Mass., just south of Boston

'''P.D.''' 
public defender

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_13|Endnote 13]]

==Page 55 (cont'd)==

'''dictum''' 
a maxim or saying

==Page 56==

'''Marblehead''' 
A town in Essex County, Mass., home to a yachting resort. It's about 15 miles northeast of the city on the water.

==Page 57==

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_17|Endnote 17]]

'''''International Affairs'' and ''Interdependent Affairs''''' 
The first magazine is real; the second is not.

'''teak chiffonier''' 
a piece of furniture, one of which you can see [http://www.artfact.com/catalog/viewLot.cfm?lotCode=4xRrS2JB here]

'''Berkshires''' 
the westernmost portion of Massachusetts, a popular vacation spot

'''van Dyke''' 
a goatee

'''apocopes''' 
losses of syllables from words, particularly unstressed vowels

'''Café au Lait''' 
half coffee and half milk in a large cup, as drunk in France

'''gangrenously tight''' 
I.e., so tight as to cause gangrene, i.e., death of tissue due to lack of blood

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'''grippe''' 
flu

'''pre-British-takeover Québecois''' 
The British took over Quebec on September 8, 1760.

'''grackles''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passerine passernine] birds native to North America

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[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_19|Endnote 19]]

'''intercostal''' 
pertaining to the ribs or the muscles around them

'''Montreal Tulip Fest''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival Canadian Tulip Festival] actually takes place in Ottawa, Ontario, and Gatineau, Quebec, which border each other.

'''Guillaume DuPlessis''' 
A man by this name was one of the first French Calvinist settlers on the island of St. Kitts in the 17th century.

'''250 clicks due east''' 
Clicks are kilometers. Two hundred fifty km is about 155 miles.

'''lividity''' 
the change of color in skin brought on by livor mortis, an after-death phenomenon when blood settles in the body at low points of gravity

'''comme-il-faut''' 
French: As is necessary

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'''932/1864''' 
I don't know what the numbers mean, but the first is half of the second.

'''R.I.S.C.''' 
reduced instruction set computer, i.e., a computer that takes a limited set of commands

'''Primestar''' 
a direct broadcast satellite network active in the 1990s

'''D.S.S.''' 
digital satellite system

'''pixel-free''' 
smooth and not pixelated

'''baud''' 
a unit equal to bits per second; a baud rate is the number of bits per second a modem can send/receive

'''''couture''''' 
French for "fashion"

'''nanoprocessors''' 
very small processors -- smaller than microprocessors

'''chromotography''' 
Here misspelled, chromatography is "any of various techniques for the separation of complex mixtures that rely on the differential affinities of substances for a gas or liquid mobile medium and for a stationary adsorbing medium through which they pass, such as paper, gelatin, or magnesia" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'').

'''carpal neuralgia''' 
nerve pain in the bones of the hand

'''phosphenic migraine''' 
the phenomenon of seeing lights accompanying a migraine

'''gluteal hyperadiposity''' 
fat in the buttocks

'''lumbar stressae''' 
back stress

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

'''Jim Troeltsch''' 
The most famous person with this surname is [http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/WeirdWildWeb/courses/mwt/dictionary/mwt_themes_705_troeltsch.htm Ernst Troeltsch] (1865-1923), a German Protestant theologian and philosopher of religion and history.

'''Narberth PA''' 
a suburb of Philadelphia, on the famous Main Line from Philadelphia to Lancaster

'''meatus''' 
a natural bodily opening

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_21|Endnote 21]]

'''OTC''' 
over the counter

'''expectorants''' 
drugs that induce phlegm-producing coughing

'''pertussives''' 
cough suppressants

'''megaspansules''' 
a combination of mega + span + capsule, these would be large, time-released capsules

==Endnote 22==

'''mucoid dessicators''' 
drugs that dry up phlegm

==Page 60 (cont'd)==

'''Rader''' 
If the name is pronounced with a "long a," as in the Oakland football team, a famous person with this last name was Erich Johann Albert Raeder (1876-1960), a World War II-era German grand admiral, sentenced to life at Nuremberg but served only nine years.

==Page 61==

'''nebulizer''' 
something that turns a liquid into a spray

'''fugue-state''' 
According to Wikipedia, a fugue state is "a state of mind characterized by abandonment of personal identity, along with the memories, personality and other identifying characteristics of individuality."

'''prolix''' 
extended to a great, unneedy length

==Page 61==

'''rhinoviri''' 
Wallace's plural for rhinovirus, one of dozens of variations of the virus that causes the common cold, also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus rhinoviruses]

'''mucosa''' 
An absorptive/secretive tissue layer in the body; here, in Troeltsch's throat or nose

==Page 62==

'''matte''' 
as an adjective, having a dull or lusterless finish

'''snuff-white''' 
Snuff is grayish to yellowish brown in color; snuff-white must be that color, but lighter.

'''reglets''' 
narrow, flat moldings

'''rheostats''' 
continuously variable electronic resistors

'''shank''' 
part of the leg between the knee and ankle

==Page 63==

'''As of [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]''' 
Which is to say, as of 2009

'''pre-Method actor''' 
He was an actor before the dawn of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_acting the Method].

'''dipsomaniacal''' 
Characterized by an uncontrollable urge to consume alcohol, describing James O. Incandenza's father

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_23|Endnote 23]]

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'''caries''' 
tooth decay, leading to a cavity (always used in plural form)

==Page 28==

==Page 29==

==Page 30==

==Page 31==

==Page 32==

'''"I want to tell you . . . My head is filled with things to say."''' 
These are the first lines of the Beatles song "I Want to Tell You," written by George Harrison (1943-2001).

'''"I don't mind . . . I could wait forever."''' 
more lyrics from "I Want to Tell You," though not the very next ones

'''Brandt''' 
Another German name, most famously the nom de guerre of the future mayor of West Berlin and Kanzler of Germany, Willy Brandt, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm (1913-1922).

==Page 33==

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

'''legation''' 
a diplomatic office lower than an embassy

'''Libertine Statue''' 
I.e., the Statue of Liberty, though calling it this implies sexual promiscuity, even if she is wearing a diaper

'''apposite''' 
suitable or well adapted

'''Rub' al Khali''' 
Arabic for ''Empty Quarter,'' another name for the Arabian Desert.

'''maxillofacial''' 
pertaining to or affecting the jaws and face

'''''Candida albacans''''' 
the Latin name for a fungal infection that causes, among other disorders, thrush

'''monilial''' 
of or caused by fungus of the genus ''Monila''

'''DeBakey''' 
Michael Ellis DeBakey (1908-2008) is a world-famous heart surgeon.

'''''ad valorem''''' 
Latin: according to the value

'''nauseous''' 
Correctly used here, this word means "tending to cause nausea." If one has nausea, they are "nauseated."

==Page 34==

'''Scottsdale''' 
a suburb about 19 miles east-northeast of Phoenix

'''sufism''' 
a mystic strain of Islam

'''Pir Valayat''' 
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1916-2004) was a British-born Sufi.

'''kif''' 
Arabic for marijuana in leaf form, as opposed to hashish

'''''shari'a-halal''''' 
An Arabic term akin to the Jewish ''kosher,'' this means that food has been prepared in accordance with Islamic law.

'''Back Bay Hilton''' 
This is a real hotel, with a Web site [http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/BOSBHHH-Hilton-Boston-Back-Bay-Massachusetts/index.do here].

'''nystatin''' 
an anti-fungal drug

'''stiptics''' 
A styptic is a chemical that stops bleeding.

==Page 35==

'''necrosis''' 
a term for death of bodily tissue

==Page 36==

'''triptych''' 
a three-part art display

'''O.N.A.N.M.A.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Medical Assocation

'''actinomycete-class antibiotics''' 
antibiotics effective against Gram-positive bacteria called actinobacteria

'''CBC/PATHÉ''' 
CBC is the Canadian Broadcasting Company. PATHÉ is probably the French entertainment company Pathé Frères (Pathé Brothers).

'''''Nass''''' 
Arabic for "text"

==Page 37==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar]]

'''double dutch''' 
a type of rope jumping where two ropes are used

==Page 38==

'''Brighton Projects''' 
presumably high-rise, low-income housing in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton,_Boston,_Massachusetts Brighton]

'''Shedd Spread''' 
a brand of [http://www.countrycrock.com/products.asp margarine]

'''wraithlike''' 
A wraith is a type of ghost.

==Page 39==

'''nocturnal emitter''' 
a boy who has a wet dream

'''anfractuous''' 
full of twists and turns

==Page 39==

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

==Page 40==

'''petulant''' 
unreasonably irritable

==Page 41==

'''''Tosca''''' 
The title of an opera by Italian composer Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (1858-1924), which premiered in 1900.

==Page 42==

'''agoraphobic''' 
suffering from an irrational fear of going outside

'''portcullis''' 
This is "a strong grating, as of iron, made to slide along vertical grooves at the sides of a gateway of a fortified place and let down to prevent passage" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

==Page 42==

'''2010h. on 1 April''' 
The medical attaché has been watching for forty-three minutes.

==Page 42==

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

==Page 43==

'''Ambush''' 
a [http://www.100perfumes.com/forums/Perfume/m12442.htm real perfume]

'''Home with the team''' 
It's already been mentioned that Orin plays professional football. He must play for the Arizona Cardinals.

==Page 44==

'''''Blattaria implacblus''''' 
''Blattaria'' is the order that contains the several genus and species of cockroaches. The Latin phrase really means "implacable cockroach."

==Page 45==

'''fantods''' 
sudden outpourings of anger, outrage, or fear

'''Chalmette''' 
an eastern suburb of New Orleans

==Page 46==

'''kippers''' 
cured herring

'''Mrs. Avril M. T. Incandenza''' 
Hal's mother is named for the first time.

'''phylacteryish''' 
Remove "-ish" and you have the English word for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefillin tefillin].

'''imprimatur''' 
sanction or approval

==Page 48==

'''Positron-Emission Topography''' 
According to Wikipedia, this is "a nuclear medicine medical imaging technique that produces a three-dimensional image or map of functional processes in the body."

'''positrons''' 
the sub-atomic particles that are the opposite of electrons

'''Fritz Lang''' 
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (1890-1976) was a Viennese-born Austrian-American director, probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022100/ M].

'''''Moment'' magazine''' 
This is a Jewish-interest [http://www.momentmag.com/ magazine].

==Page 49==

'''Pandora's box of worms''' 
a mixed metaphor of "Pandora's box" and "can of worms," neither of which can be shut again once they're opened

==Page 49==

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

'''one-hitter''' 
a small marijuana pipe that will provide one "hit" of marijuana per packing

==Page 50==

'''Partridge, KS''' 
A town in Kansas about 55 miles north-northwest of Wichita

'''Charles Tavis''' 
I.e., C.T.

'''gizzard''' 
the digestive organ of a bird

==Page 51==

'''Bob Hope''' 
Cockney rhyming slang for "dope"

'''neo-Georgian''' 
modern-day architecture that approximates that of the Georgian period, from 1714 (accession of George I of the U.K.) to 1830 (death of George III)

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_3|Endnote 3]]
==Page 51 (cont'd)==

'''spherocubular''' 
Another neologism, presumably meaning having characteristics of both a sphere and cube -- a three-dimension "squircle".

'''Leith''' 
A homonym of Lethe, the name of the river in Greek mythology whose water, if drunk, will erase one's memory.

'''Dr. James O. Incandenza''' 
Hal's father's full name is given for the first time.

==Page 52==

'''dendriurethane''' 
This substance does not actually exist. An educated guess is that it is a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyurethane polyurethane] that comes from trees, ''dendri'' being Greek for "tree."

'''twenty meters''' 
almost twenty-two yards

'''unfenestrated''' 
having no windows

'''two meter''' 
a little over 6.5 ft

'''banshee''' 
In Irish mythology, the banshee is female spirit, who acts as an omen of death. They are known for "keening," i.e., shrieking.

'''flange''' 
a plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe

==Page 53==

'''post-latency''' 
after the latency period that Freud posited in his four-stage theory of psychosexual development in children

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_5|Endnote 5]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_5a|Endnote 5a]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_6|Endnote 6]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_7|Endnote 7]]

==Page 53 (cont'd)==

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_8|Endnote 8]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_8a|Endnote 8a]]

'''mushrooms or X''' 
psilocybin mushrooms or MDMA (called ecstasy)

==Page 53 (cont'd)==

'''Interdependent regions''' 
I.e., Canada

'''prorectors''' 
members of a management body of a university, each managing his/her specific area

'''the Show''' 
professional tennis

==Page 54==

'''Kodiak''' 
a brand of chewing tobacco

'''quail''' 
to shrink back in fear

==Page 54==

'''0020h''' 
The medical attaché has now been watching for four hours and fifty-three minutes.

==Page 54==

'''filmic''' 
having to do with motion pictures

==Page 55==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_12a|Endnote 12a]]

==Page 55 (cont'd)==

'''élan''' 
enthusiastic vigor or liveliness

'''Revere Holding''' 
a jail, obviously -- probably the jail for Revere, Mass., just south of Boston

'''P.D.''' 
public defender

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_13|Endnote 13]]

==Page 55 (cont'd)==

'''dictum''' 
a maxim or saying

==Page 56==

'''Marblehead''' 
A town in Essex County, Mass., home to a yachting resort. It's about 15 miles northeast of the city on the water.

==Page 57==

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_17|Endnote 17]]

'''''International Affairs'' and ''Interdependent Affairs''''' 
The first magazine is real; the second is not.

'''teak chiffonier''' 
a piece of furniture, one of which you can see [http://www.artfact.com/catalog/viewLot.cfm?lotCode=4xRrS2JB here]

'''Berkshires''' 
the westernmost portion of Massachusetts, a popular vacation spot

'''van Dyke''' 
a goatee

'''apocopes''' 
losses of syllables from words, particularly unstressed vowels

'''Café au Lait''' 
half coffee and half milk in a large cup, as drunk in France

'''gangrenously tight''' 
I.e., so tight as to cause gangrene, i.e., death of tissue due to lack of blood

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'''grippe''' 
flu

'''pre-British-takeover Québecois''' 
The British took over Quebec on September 8, 1760.

'''grackles''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passerine passernine] birds native to North America

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'''intercostal''' 
pertaining to the ribs or the muscles around them

'''Montreal Tulip Fest''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival Canadian Tulip Festival] actually takes place in Ottawa, Ontario, and Gatineau, Quebec, which border each other.

'''Guillaume DuPlessis''' 
A man by this name was one of the first French Calvinist settlers on the island of St. Kitts in the 17th century.

'''250 clicks due east''' 
Clicks are kilometers. Two hundred fifty km is about 155 miles.

'''lividity''' 
the change of color in skin brought on by livor mortis, an after-death phenomenon when blood settles in the body at low points of gravity

'''comme-il-faut''' 
French: As is necessary

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'''932/1864''' 
I don't know what the numbers mean, but the first is half of the second.

'''R.I.S.C.''' 
reduced instruction set computer, i.e., a computer that takes a limited set of commands

'''Primestar''' 
a direct broadcast satellite network active in the 1990s

'''D.S.S.''' 
digital satellite system

'''pixel-free''' 
smooth and not pixelated

'''baud''' 
a unit equal to bits per second; a baud rate is the number of bits per second a modem can send/receive

'''''couture''''' 
French for "fashion"

'''nanoprocessors''' 
very small processors -- smaller than microprocessors

'''chromotography''' 
Here misspelled, chromatography is "any of various techniques for the separation of complex mixtures that rely on the differential affinities of substances for a gas or liquid mobile medium and for a stationary adsorbing medium through which they pass, such as paper, gelatin, or magnesia" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'').

'''carpal neuralgia''' 
nerve pain in the bones of the hand

'''phosphenic migraine''' 
the phenomenon of seeing lights accompanying a migraine

'''gluteal hyperadiposity''' 
fat in the buttocks

'''lumbar stressae''' 
back stress

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

'''Jim Troeltsch''' 
The most famous person with this surname is [http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/WeirdWildWeb/courses/mwt/dictionary/mwt_themes_705_troeltsch.htm Ernst Troeltsch] (1865-1923), a German Protestant theologian and philosopher of religion and history.

'''Narberth PA''' 
a suburb of Philadelphia, on the famous Main Line from Philadelphia to Lancaster

'''meatus''' 
a natural bodily opening

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_21|Endnote 21]]

'''OTC''' 
over the counter

'''expectorants''' 
drugs that induce phlegm-producing coughing

'''pertussives''' 
cough suppressants

'''megaspansules''' 
a combination of mega + span + capsule, these would be large, time-released capsules

==Endnote 22==

'''mucoid dessicators''' 
drugs that dry up phlegm

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'''Rader''' 
If the name is pronounced with a "long a," as in the Oakland football team, a famous person with this last name was Erich Johann Albert Raeder (1876-1960), a World War II-era German grand admiral, sentenced to life at Nuremberg but served only nine years.

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'''nebulizer''' 
something that turns a liquid into a spray

'''fugue-state''' 
According to Wikipedia, a fugue state is "a state of mind characterized by abandonment of personal identity, along with the memories, personality and other identifying characteristics of individuality."

'''prolix''' 
extended to a great, unneedy length

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'''rhinoviri''' 
Wallace's plural for rhinovirus, one of dozens of variations of the virus that causes the common cold, also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus rhinoviruses]

'''mucosa''' 
An absorptive/secretive tissue layer in the body; here, in Troeltsch's throat or nose

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'''matte''' 
as an adjective, having a dull or lusterless finish

'''snuff-white''' 
Snuff is grayish to yellowish brown in color; snuff-white must be that color, but lighter.

'''reglets''' 
narrow, flat moldings

'''rheostats''' 
continuously variable electronic resistors

'''shank''' 
part of the leg between the knee and ankle

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'''As of [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]''' 
Which is to say, as of 2009

'''pre-Method actor''' 
He was an actor before the dawn of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_acting the Method].

'''dipsomaniacal''' 
Characterized by an uncontrollable urge to consume alcohol, describing James O. Incandenza's father

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'''"I want to tell you . . . My head is filled with things to say."''' 
These are the first lines of the Beatles song "I Want to Tell You," written by George Harrison (1943-2001).

'''"I don't mind . . . I could wait forever."''' 
more lyrics from "I Want to Tell You," though not the very next ones

'''Brandt''' 
Another German name, most famously the nom de guerre of the future mayor of West Berlin and Kanzler of Germany, Willy Brandt, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm (1913-1922).

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'''legation''' 
a diplomatic office lower than an embassy

'''Libertine Statue''' 
I.e., the Statue of Liberty, though calling it this implies sexual promiscuity, even if she is wearing a diaper

'''apposite''' 
suitable or well adapted

'''Rub' al Khali''' 
Arabic for ''Empty Quarter,'' another name for the Arabian Desert.

'''maxillofacial''' 
pertaining to or affecting the jaws and face

'''''Candida albacans''''' 
the Latin name for a fungal infection that causes, among other disorders, thrush

'''monilial''' 
of or caused by fungus of the genus ''Monila''

'''DeBakey''' 
Michael Ellis DeBakey (1908-2008) is a world-famous heart surgeon.

'''''ad valorem''''' 
Latin: according to the value

'''nauseous''' 
Correctly used here, this word means "tending to cause nausea." If one has nausea, they are "nauseated."

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'''Scottsdale''' 
a suburb about 19 miles east-northeast of Phoenix

'''sufism''' 
a mystic strain of Islam

'''Pir Valayat''' 
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1916-2004) was a British-born Sufi.

'''kif''' 
Arabic for marijuana in leaf form, as opposed to hashish

'''''shari'a-halal''''' 
An Arabic term akin to the Jewish ''kosher,'' this means that food has been prepared in accordance with Islamic law.

'''Back Bay Hilton''' 
This is a real hotel, with a Web site [http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/BOSBHHH-Hilton-Boston-Back-Bay-Massachusetts/index.do here].

'''nystatin''' 
an anti-fungal drug

'''stiptics''' 
A styptic is a chemical that stops bleeding.

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'''necrosis''' 
a term for death of bodily tissue

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'''triptych''' 
a three-part art display

'''O.N.A.N.M.A.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Medical Assocation

'''actinomycete-class antibiotics''' 
antibiotics effective against Gram-positive bacteria called actinobacteria

'''CBC/PATHÉ''' 
CBC is the Canadian Broadcasting Company. PATHÉ is probably the French entertainment company Pathé Frères (Pathé Brothers).

'''''Nass''''' 
Arabic for "text"

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'''double dutch''' 
a type of rope jumping where two ropes are used

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'''Brighton Projects''' 
presumably high-rise, low-income housing in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton,_Boston,_Massachusetts Brighton]

'''Shedd Spread''' 
a brand of [http://www.countrycrock.com/products.asp margarine]

'''wraithlike''' 
A wraith is a type of ghost.

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'''nocturnal emitter''' 
a boy who has a wet dream

'''anfractuous''' 
full of twists and turns

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'''petulant''' 
unreasonably irritable

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'''''Tosca''''' 
The title of an opera by Italian composer Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (1858-1924), which premiered in 1900.

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'''agoraphobic''' 
suffering from an irrational fear of going outside

'''portcullis''' 
This is "a strong grating, as of iron, made to slide along vertical grooves at the sides of a gateway of a fortified place and let down to prevent passage" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

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'''2010h. on 1 April''' 
The medical attaché has been watching for forty-three minutes.

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'''Ambush''' 
a [http://www.100perfumes.com/forums/Perfume/m12442.htm real perfume]

'''Home with the team''' 
It's already been mentioned that Orin plays professional football. He must play for the Arizona Cardinals.

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'''''Blattaria implacblus''''' 
''Blattaria'' is the order that contains the several genus and species of cockroaches. The Latin phrase really means "implacable cockroach."

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'''fantods''' 
sudden outpourings of anger, outrage, or fear

'''Chalmette''' 
an eastern suburb of New Orleans

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'''kippers''' 
cured herring

'''Mrs. Avril M. T. Incandenza''' 
Hal's mother is named for the first time.

'''phylacteryish''' 
Remove "-ish" and you have the English word for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefillin tefillin].

'''imprimatur''' 
sanction or approval

==Page 48==

'''Positron-Emission Topography''' 
According to Wikipedia, this is "a nuclear medicine medical imaging technique that produces a three-dimensional image or map of functional processes in the body."

'''positrons''' 
the sub-atomic particles that are the opposite of electrons

'''Fritz Lang''' 
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (1890-1976) was a Viennese-born Austrian-American director, probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022100/ M].

'''''Moment'' magazine''' 
This is a Jewish-interest [http://www.momentmag.com/ magazine].

==Page 49==

'''Pandora's box of worms''' 
a mixed metaphor of "Pandora's box" and "can of worms," neither of which can be shut again once they're opened

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'''one-hitter''' 
a small marijuana pipe that will provide one "hit" of marijuana per packing

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'''Partridge, KS''' 
A town in Kansas about 55 miles north-northwest of Wichita

'''Charles Tavis''' 
I.e., C.T.

'''gizzard''' 
the digestive organ of a bird

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'''Bob Hope''' 
Cockney rhyming slang for "dope"

'''neo-Georgian''' 
modern-day architecture that approximates that of the Georgian period, from 1714 (accession of George I of the U.K.) to 1830 (death of George III)

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'''spherocubular''' 
Another neologism, presumably meaning having characteristics of both a sphere and cube -- a three-dimension "squircle".

'''Leith''' 
A homonym of Lethe, the name of the river in Greek mythology whose water, if drunk, will erase one's memory.

'''Dr. James O. Incandenza''' 
Hal's father's full name is given for the first time.

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'''dendriurethane''' 
This substance does not actually exist. An educated guess is that it is a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyurethane polyurethane] that comes from trees, ''dendri'' being Greek for "tree."

'''twenty meters''' 
almost twenty-two yards

'''unfenestrated''' 
having no windows

'''two meter''' 
a little over 6.5 ft

'''banshee''' 
In Irish mythology, the banshee is female spirit, who acts as an omen of death. They are known for "keening," i.e., shrieking.

'''flange''' 
a plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe

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'''post-latency''' 
after the latency period that Freud posited in his four-stage theory of psychosexual development in children

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[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_6|Endnote 6]]

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'''mushrooms or X''' 
psilocybin mushrooms or MDMA (called ecstasy)

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'''Interdependent regions''' 
I.e., Canada

'''prorectors''' 
members of a management body of a university, each managing his/her specific area

'''the Show''' 
professional tennis

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'''Kodiak''' 
a brand of chewing tobacco

'''quail''' 
to shrink back in fear

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'''0020h''' 
The medical attaché has now been watching for four hours and fifty-three minutes.

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'''filmic''' 
having to do with motion pictures

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[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland]]

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'''élan''' 
enthusiastic vigor or liveliness

'''Revere Holding''' 
a jail, obviously -- probably the jail for Revere, Mass., just south of Boston

'''P.D.''' 
public defender

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'''dictum''' 
a maxim or saying

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'''Marblehead''' 
A town in Essex County, Mass., home to a yachting resort. It's about 15 miles northeast of the city on the water.

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'''''International Affairs'' and ''Interdependent Affairs''''' 
The first magazine is real; the second is not.

'''teak chiffonier''' 
a piece of furniture, one of which you can see [http://www.artfact.com/catalog/viewLot.cfm?lotCode=4xRrS2JB here]

'''Berkshires''' 
the westernmost portion of Massachusetts, a popular vacation spot

'''van Dyke''' 
a goatee

'''apocopes''' 
losses of syllables from words, particularly unstressed vowels

'''Café au Lait''' 
half coffee and half milk in a large cup, as drunk in France

'''gangrenously tight''' 
I.e., so tight as to cause gangrene, i.e., death of tissue due to lack of blood

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'''grippe''' 
flu

'''pre-British-takeover Québecois''' 
The British took over Quebec on September 8, 1760.

'''grackles''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passerine passernine] birds native to North America

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[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_19|Endnote 19]]

'''intercostal''' 
pertaining to the ribs or the muscles around them

'''Montreal Tulip Fest''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival Canadian Tulip Festival] actually takes place in Ottawa, Ontario, and Gatineau, Quebec, which border each other.

'''Guillaume DuPlessis''' 
A man by this name was one of the first French Calvinist settlers on the island of St. Kitts in the 17th century.

'''250 clicks due east''' 
Clicks are kilometers. Two hundred fifty km is about 155 miles.

'''lividity''' 
the change of color in skin brought on by livor mortis, an after-death phenomenon when blood settles in the body at low points of gravity

'''comme-il-faut''' 
French: As is necessary

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'''932/1864''' 
I don't know what the numbers mean, but the first is half of the second.

'''R.I.S.C.''' 
reduced instruction set computer, i.e., a computer that takes a limited set of commands

'''Primestar''' 
a direct broadcast satellite network active in the 1990s

'''D.S.S.''' 
digital satellite system

'''pixel-free''' 
smooth and not pixelated

'''baud''' 
a unit equal to bits per second; a baud rate is the number of bits per second a modem can send/receive

'''''couture''''' 
French for "fashion"

'''nanoprocessors''' 
very small processors -- smaller than microprocessors

'''chromotography''' 
Here misspelled, chromatography is "any of various techniques for the separation of complex mixtures that rely on the differential affinities of substances for a gas or liquid mobile medium and for a stationary adsorbing medium through which they pass, such as paper, gelatin, or magnesia" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'').

'''carpal neuralgia''' 
nerve pain in the bones of the hand

'''phosphenic migraine''' 
the phenomenon of seeing lights accompanying a migraine

'''gluteal hyperadiposity''' 
fat in the buttocks

'''lumbar stressae''' 
back stress

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

'''Jim Troeltsch''' 
The most famous person with this surname is [http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/WeirdWildWeb/courses/mwt/dictionary/mwt_themes_705_troeltsch.htm Ernst Troeltsch] (1865-1923), a German Protestant theologian and philosopher of religion and history.

'''Narberth PA''' 
a suburb of Philadelphia, on the famous Main Line from Philadelphia to Lancaster

'''meatus''' 
a natural bodily opening

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_21|Endnote 21]]

'''OTC''' 
over the counter

'''expectorants''' 
drugs that induce phlegm-producing coughing

'''pertussives''' 
cough suppressants

'''megaspansules''' 
a combination of mega + span + capsule, these would be large, time-released capsules

==Endnote 22==

'''mucoid dessicators''' 
drugs that dry up phlegm

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'''Rader''' 
If the name is pronounced with a "long a," as in the Oakland football team, a famous person with this last name was Erich Johann Albert Raeder (1876-1960), a World War II-era German grand admiral, sentenced to life at Nuremberg but served only nine years.

==Page 61==

'''nebulizer''' 
something that turns a liquid into a spray

'''fugue-state''' 
According to Wikipedia, a fugue state is "a state of mind characterized by abandonment of personal identity, along with the memories, personality and other identifying characteristics of individuality."

'''prolix''' 
extended to a great, unneedy length

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'''rhinoviri''' 
Wallace's plural for rhinovirus, one of dozens of variations of the virus that causes the common cold, also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus rhinoviruses]

'''mucosa''' 
An absorptive/secretive tissue layer in the body; here, in Troeltsch's throat or nose

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'''matte''' 
as an adjective, having a dull or lusterless finish

'''snuff-white''' 
Snuff is grayish to yellowish brown in color; snuff-white must be that color, but lighter.

'''reglets''' 
narrow, flat moldings

'''rheostats''' 
continuously variable electronic resistors

'''shank''' 
part of the leg between the knee and ankle

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'''As of [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]''' 
Which is to say, as of 2009

'''pre-Method actor''' 
He was an actor before the dawn of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_acting the Method].

'''dipsomaniacal''' 
Characterized by an uncontrollable urge to consume alcohol, describing James O. Incandenza's father

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'''Remington-hung''' 
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].

'''half-Windsors''' 
A type of knot used to tie a necktie

'''Harold Incandenza''' 
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.

'''Enfield''' 
A fictional town just west of Boston, which exists where parts of the real town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.

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'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Atheltic Assocation -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.

'''wen''' 
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary)

'''Randolph Tennis Center''' 
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tuscon, Ariz., where the main campus of the University of Arizona is also located.

'''El Con Marriott''' 
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquidistdor Hotel in Tuscon, the Marriot has a different name.

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'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."''' 
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.

'''62.5%''' 
Out of eight people in the room (including himself, three deans, the Director of Composition, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are not looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.

'''circumflex''' 
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb être (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.

'''Pac 10''' 
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.

'''Kekuléan''' 
Referring to Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (a.k.a. August Kekulé), a German organic chemist (1829-1896). Chemicals are said to be formed by knots of elements. The exact shape to which Hal is referring is unclear.

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'''aviarian''' 
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.

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'''lapidary''' 
"Marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression: lapidary prose" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''effete''' 
Degenerate or decadent

'''Prescriptive Grammar''' 
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.

'''Post-Fourier Transformations''' 
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.

'''Holographically Mimetic''' 
Approximating reality using holograms

'''Montague Grammar''' 
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.

'''Physical Modality''' 
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.

'''Tertiary''' 
Third-level, after primary and secondary

'''Justinian''' 
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565)

'''sotto''' 
Italian for "below," it means the dean is speaking in a low voice.

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'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium''' 
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

'''hyperthrophied''' 
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (see, contra, ''atrophied'')

'''insigniated''' 
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia)

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'''N.A.A.U.P.''' 
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.

'''de moi''' 
French: from me

'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."''' 
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word.

'''capillary webs''' 
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins

'''defacatory''' 
As if eliminating solid bodily waste

'''RICO''' 
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.

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'''Brewster's-Angle light''' 
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].

'''Weston''' 
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city

'''Orin''' 
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."

'''Rototiller''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]

'''Pooh-wear''' 
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance

[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

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'''presbyopic''' 
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older

'''Rototrembling''' 
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller

'''caustic''' 
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic

'''plumb''' 
adj., straight or true; in line with

'''ideogram''' 
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration

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'''Kirkegaard''' 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy

'''Camus''' 
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.

'''Dennis Gabor''' 
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."''' 
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of Leviathan. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.

'''Hegel''' 
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.

'''creatus''' 
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."

'''pinion''' 
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''parquet''' 
an in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.

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'''half nelson''' 
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind

'''Heimlich''' 
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.

'''pases''' 
This is the plural of pase, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.

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

'''enfilade''' 
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.

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<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thub|Whataburger logo|right]]
Synechdote for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational", an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson each year. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Pheonix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)

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'''espadrilles''' 
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles

'''leonine''' 
lion-like

'''cirri''' 
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud

'''martinet''' 
a strict disciplinarian

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'''ultra-mach''' 
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.

'''barnwood''' 
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''starboard list''' 
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.

'''gigantism''' 
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''

'''parodic''' 
having the qualities of a parody

'''infantophile''' 
one subject to infantophilia, also Nepiophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia])

'''incisionish''' 
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"

'''hypophalangial''' 
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands

'''Himself's''' 
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel

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'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."''' 
See Hamlet, Act Five, Scene One.

'''Venus Williams''' 
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.

'''Dymphna''' 
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.

'''Petropolis Kahn''' 
Petropolis is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.

"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., kohen.

'''etiology''' 
the cause of a disease

'''Socratic method'''
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece

'''O.E.D. VI's count''' 
This is a reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition.

'''nonarchaic''' 
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language

'''Latinate''' 
deriving from Latin

'''Saxonic''' 
deriving from Old English

'''quick-bit''' 
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips

'''jou''' 
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"

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'''200 grams''' 
a little over seven ounces

'''"...using just audio..."''' 
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.

'''Allston''' 
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.

'''high-resin dope''' 
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced

'''harelip''' 
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]

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'''TP''' 
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.

'''"own marijuana"''' 
to become master over one's addiction, in this case, to end the addiction to marijuana

'''modem''' 
used as a verb, communicating with the office via modem, an early but ubiquitous tool for transmitting data between servers and client/servers.

'''e-note''' 
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, conceived in the pre-Internet era

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'''Mountie''' 
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI

'''Porter Square, Cambridge''' 
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border

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'''convulsive''' 
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking

'''Wedekind festival''' 
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.

'''rapacious''' 
greedy and forceful in capturing and consuming

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'''pleurisy''' 
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs

'''Interlace viewer''' 
A television-based home entertainment system, ubiquitous in the time the novel is set, which plays copy-protected "cartridges" custom-ordered by viewers, invented by [[L#"Lace"|Noreen Lace-Forché]]

'''raptly''' 
with intense attention to

'''cartridge''' 
See ''Interlace viewer'', above

'''debauch''' 
an episode of debauchery, engaging in excessive, pleasure-seeking, often sexual- or drug/alcohol-related

'''120 grams''' 
about 4.2 ounces

'''debased''' 
of low character and lacking integrity

'''Tito Puente''' 
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.

'''Marlborough Street''' 
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.

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'''appropriation''' 
taking something as one's own, without permission

'''methamphetamine hydrochloride''' 
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that Infinite Jest was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.

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'''pastiche''' 
a mixture of varying style or content

'''magisculed''' 
typo or intentional misspelling of ''majuscule'', an initial capital letter, often large-type to introduce a section of written material; Wallace's use of the noun in a verb form is likely a neologism (especially if the alternate spelling is retained)

'''50 grams''' 
about 1.75 ounces

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water without soil

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'''stein''' 
a drinking mug

'''E.W.D. land barge''' 
perhaps "Enfield Waste Disposal"; a garbage truck

'''phallocentric''' 
biased from a male point of view

'''half a meter''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''carb''' 
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carburetor on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.

'''oblique''' 
slanted, like an acute or obtuse angle, not a right-angle

'''teleputer''' 
Combination television and computer, generic term for an Interlace player, see also [[T#"TP"|TP]]

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'''jibe''' 
correspond with; match up

'''oblique''' 
indirect or dishonest

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'''desiccated''' 
dried out

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'''"I want to tell you . . . My head is filled with things to say."''' 
These are the first lines of the Beatles song "I Want to Tell You," written by George Harrison (1943-2001).

'''"I don't mind . . . I could wait forever."''' 
more lyrics from "I Want to Tell You," though not the very next ones

'''Brandt''' 
Another German name, most famously the nom de guerre of the future mayor of West Berlin and Kanzler of Germany, Willy Brandt, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm (1913-1922).

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'''legation''' 
a diplomatic office lower than an embassy

'''Libertine Statue''' 
I.e., the Statue of Liberty, though calling it this implies sexual promiscuity, even if she is wearing a diaper

'''apposite''' 
suitable or well adapted

'''Rub' al Khali''' 
Arabic for ''Empty Quarter,'' another name for the Arabian Desert.

'''maxillofacial''' 
pertaining to or affecting the jaws and face

'''''Candida albacans''''' 
the Latin name for a fungal infection that causes, among other disorders, thrush

'''monilial''' 
of or caused by fungus of the genus ''Monila''

'''DeBakey''' 
Michael Ellis DeBakey (1908-2008) is a world-famous heart surgeon.

'''''ad valorem''''' 
Latin: according to the value

'''nauseous''' 
Correctly used here, this word means "tending to cause nausea." If one has nausea, they are "nauseated."

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'''Scottsdale''' 
a suburb about 19 miles east-northeast of Phoenix

'''sufism''' 
a mystic strain of Islam

'''Pir Valayat''' 
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1916-2004) was a British-born Sufi.

'''kif''' 
Arabic for marijuana in leaf form, as opposed to hashish

'''''shari'a-halal''''' 
An Arabic term akin to the Jewish ''kosher,'' this means that food has been prepared in accordance with Islamic law.

'''Back Bay Hilton''' 
This is a real hotel, with a Web site [http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/BOSBHHH-Hilton-Boston-Back-Bay-Massachusetts/index.do here].

'''nystatin''' 
an anti-fungal drug

'''stiptics''' 
A styptic is a chemical that stops bleeding.

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'''necrosis''' 
a term for death of bodily tissue

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'''triptych''' 
a three-part art display

'''O.N.A.N.M.A.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Medical Assocation

'''actinomycete-class antibiotics''' 
antibiotics effective against Gram-positive bacteria called actinobacteria

'''CBC/PATHÉ''' 
CBC is the Canadian Broadcasting Company. PATHÉ is probably the French entertainment company Pathé Frères (Pathé Brothers).

'''''Nass''''' 
Arabic for "text"

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'''double dutch''' 
a type of rope jumping where two ropes are used

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'''Brighton Projects''' 
presumably high-rise, low-income housing in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton,_Boston,_Massachusetts Brighton]

'''Shedd Spread''' 
a brand of [http://www.countrycrock.com/products.asp margarine]

'''wraithlike''' 
A wraith is a type of ghost.

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'''nocturnal emitter''' 
a boy who has a wet dream

'''anfractuous''' 
full of twists and turns

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'''petulant''' 
unreasonably irritable

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'''''Tosca''''' 
The title of an opera by Italian composer Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (1858-1924), which premiered in 1900.

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'''agoraphobic''' 
suffering from an irrational fear of going outside

'''portcullis''' 
This is "a strong grating, as of iron, made to slide along vertical grooves at the sides of a gateway of a fortified place and let down to prevent passage" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

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'''2010h. on 1 April''' 
The medical attaché has been watching for forty-three minutes.

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'''Ambush''' 
a [http://www.100perfumes.com/forums/Perfume/m12442.htm real perfume]

'''Home with the team''' 
It's already been mentioned that Orin plays professional football. He must play for the Arizona Cardinals.

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'''''Blattaria implacblus''''' 
''Blattaria'' is the order that contains the several genus and species of cockroaches. The Latin phrase really means "implacable cockroach."

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'''fantods''' 
sudden outpourings of anger, outrage, or fear

'''Chalmette''' 
an eastern suburb of New Orleans

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'''kippers''' 
cured herring

'''Mrs. Avril M. T. Incandenza''' 
Hal's mother is named for the first time.

'''phylacteryish''' 
Remove "-ish" and you have the English word for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefillin tefillin].

'''imprimatur''' 
sanction or approval

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'''Positron-Emission Topography''' 
According to Wikipedia, this is "a nuclear medicine medical imaging technique that produces a three-dimensional image or map of functional processes in the body."

'''positrons''' 
the sub-atomic particles that are the opposite of electrons

'''Fritz Lang''' 
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (1890-1976) was a Viennese-born Austrian-American director, probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022100/ M].

'''''Moment'' magazine''' 
This is a Jewish-interest [http://www.momentmag.com/ magazine].

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'''Pandora's box of worms''' 
a mixed metaphor of "Pandora's box" and "can of worms," neither of which can be shut again once they're opened

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'''one-hitter''' 
a small marijuana pipe that will provide one "hit" of marijuana per packing

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'''Partridge, KS''' 
A town in Kansas about 55 miles north-northwest of Wichita

'''Charles Tavis''' 
I.e., C.T.

'''gizzard''' 
the digestive organ of a bird

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'''Bob Hope''' 
Cockney rhyming slang for "dope"

'''neo-Georgian''' 
modern-day architecture that approximates that of the Georgian period, from 1714 (accession of George I of the U.K.) to 1830 (death of George III)

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'''spherocubular''' 
Another neologism, presumably meaning having characteristics of both a sphere and cube -- a three-dimension "squircle".

'''Leith''' 
A homonym of Lethe, the name of the river in Greek mythology whose water, if drunk, will erase one's memory.

'''Dr. James O. Incandenza''' 
Hal's father's full name is given for the first time.

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'''dendriurethane''' 
This substance does not actually exist. An educated guess is that it is a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyurethane polyurethane] that comes from trees, ''dendri'' being Greek for "tree."

'''twenty meters''' 
almost twenty-two yards

'''unfenestrated''' 
having no windows

'''two meter''' 
a little over 6.5 ft

'''banshee''' 
In Irish mythology, the banshee is female spirit, who acts as an omen of death. They are known for "keening," i.e., shrieking.

'''flange''' 
a plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe

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'''post-latency''' 
after the latency period that Freud posited in his four-stage theory of psychosexual development in children

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_5|Endnote 5]]

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[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_6|Endnote 6]]

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'''mushrooms or X''' 
psilocybin mushrooms or MDMA (called ecstasy)

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'''Interdependent regions''' 
I.e., Canada

'''prorectors''' 
members of a management body of a university, each managing his/her specific area

'''the Show''' 
professional tennis

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'''Kodiak''' 
a brand of chewing tobacco

'''quail''' 
to shrink back in fear

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'''0020h''' 
The medical attaché has now been watching for four hours and fifty-three minutes.

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'''filmic''' 
having to do with motion pictures

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'''élan''' 
enthusiastic vigor or liveliness

'''Revere Holding''' 
a jail, obviously -- probably the jail for Revere, Mass., just south of Boston

'''P.D.''' 
public defender

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'''dictum''' 
a maxim or saying

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'''Marblehead''' 
A town in Essex County, Mass., home to a yachting resort. It's about 15 miles northeast of the city on the water.

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'''''International Affairs'' and ''Interdependent Affairs''''' 
The first magazine is real; the second is not.

'''teak chiffonier''' 
a piece of furniture, one of which you can see [http://www.artfact.com/catalog/viewLot.cfm?lotCode=4xRrS2JB here]

'''Berkshires''' 
the westernmost portion of Massachusetts, a popular vacation spot

'''van Dyke''' 
a goatee

'''apocopes''' 
losses of syllables from words, particularly unstressed vowels

'''Café au Lait''' 
half coffee and half milk in a large cup, as drunk in France

'''gangrenously tight''' 
I.e., so tight as to cause gangrene, i.e., death of tissue due to lack of blood

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'''grippe''' 
flu

'''pre-British-takeover Québecois''' 
The British took over Quebec on September 8, 1760.

'''grackles''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passerine passernine] birds native to North America

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'''intercostal''' 
pertaining to the ribs or the muscles around them

'''Montreal Tulip Fest''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival Canadian Tulip Festival] actually takes place in Ottawa, Ontario, and Gatineau, Quebec, which border each other.

'''Guillaume DuPlessis''' 
A man by this name was one of the first French Calvinist settlers on the island of St. Kitts in the 17th century.

'''250 clicks due east''' 
Clicks are kilometers. Two hundred fifty km is about 155 miles.

'''lividity''' 
the change of color in skin brought on by livor mortis, an after-death phenomenon when blood settles in the body at low points of gravity

'''comme-il-faut''' 
French: As is necessary

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'''932/1864''' 
I don't know what the numbers mean, but the first is half of the second.

'''R.I.S.C.''' 
reduced instruction set computer, i.e., a computer that takes a limited set of commands

'''Primestar''' 
a direct broadcast satellite network active in the 1990s

'''D.S.S.''' 
digital satellite system

'''pixel-free''' 
smooth and not pixelated

'''baud''' 
a unit equal to bits per second; a baud rate is the number of bits per second a modem can send/receive

'''''couture''''' 
French for "fashion"

'''nanoprocessors''' 
very small processors -- smaller than microprocessors

'''chromotography''' 
Here misspelled, chromatography is "any of various techniques for the separation of complex mixtures that rely on the differential affinities of substances for a gas or liquid mobile medium and for a stationary adsorbing medium through which they pass, such as paper, gelatin, or magnesia" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'').

'''carpal neuralgia''' 
nerve pain in the bones of the hand

'''phosphenic migraine''' 
the phenomenon of seeing lights accompanying a migraine

'''gluteal hyperadiposity''' 
fat in the buttocks

'''lumbar stressae''' 
back stress

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'''Jim Troeltsch''' 
The most famous person with this surname is [http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/WeirdWildWeb/courses/mwt/dictionary/mwt_themes_705_troeltsch.htm Ernst Troeltsch] (1865-1923), a German Protestant theologian and philosopher of religion and history.

'''Narberth PA''' 
a suburb of Philadelphia, on the famous Main Line from Philadelphia to Lancaster

'''meatus''' 
a natural bodily opening

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'''OTC''' 
over the counter

'''expectorants''' 
drugs that induce phlegm-producing coughing

'''pertussives''' 
cough suppressants

'''megaspansules''' 
a combination of mega + span + capsule, these would be large, time-released capsules

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'''mucoid dessicators''' 
drugs that dry up phlegm

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'''Rader''' 
If the name is pronounced with a "long a," as in the Oakland football team, a famous person with this last name was Erich Johann Albert Raeder (1876-1960), a World War II-era German grand admiral, sentenced to life at Nuremberg but served only nine years.

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'''nebulizer''' 
something that turns a liquid into a spray

'''fugue-state''' 
According to Wikipedia, a fugue state is "a state of mind characterized by abandonment of personal identity, along with the memories, personality and other identifying characteristics of individuality."

'''prolix''' 
extended to a great, unneedy length

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'''rhinoviri''' 
Wallace's plural for rhinovirus, one of dozens of variations of the virus that causes the common cold, also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus rhinoviruses]

'''mucosa''' 
An absorptive/secretive tissue layer in the body; here, in Troeltsch's throat or nose

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'''matte''' 
as an adjective, having a dull or lusterless finish

'''snuff-white''' 
Snuff is grayish to yellowish brown in color; snuff-white must be that color, but lighter.

'''reglets''' 
narrow, flat moldings

'''rheostats''' 
continuously variable electronic resistors

'''shank''' 
part of the leg between the knee and ankle

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'''As of [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]''' 
Which is to say, as of 2009

'''pre-Method actor''' 
He was an actor before the dawn of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_acting the Method].

'''dipsomaniacal''' 
Characterized by an uncontrollable urge to consume alcohol, describing James O. Incandenza's father

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'''Remington-hung''' 
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].

'''half-Windsors''' 
A type of knot used to tie a necktie

'''Harold Incandenza''' 
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.

'''Enfield''' 
A fictional town just west of Boston, which exists where parts of the real town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.

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'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Atheltic Assocation -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.

'''wen''' 
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary)

'''Randolph Tennis Center''' 
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tuscon, Ariz., where the main campus of the University of Arizona is also located.

'''El Con Marriott''' 
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquidistdor Hotel in Tuscon, the Marriot has a different name.

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'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."''' 
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.

'''62.5%''' 
Out of eight people in the room (including himself, three deans, the Director of Composition, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are not looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.

'''circumflex''' 
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb être (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.

'''Pac 10''' 
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.

'''Kekuléan''' 
Referring to Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (a.k.a. August Kekulé), a German organic chemist (1829-1896). Chemicals are said to be formed by knots of elements. The exact shape to which Hal is referring is unclear.

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'''aviarian''' 
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.

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'''lapidary''' 
"Marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression: lapidary prose" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''effete''' 
Degenerate or decadent

'''Prescriptive Grammar''' 
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.

'''Post-Fourier Transformations''' 
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.

'''Holographically Mimetic''' 
Approximating reality using holograms

'''Montague Grammar''' 
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.

'''Physical Modality''' 
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.

'''Tertiary''' 
Third-level, after primary and secondary

'''Justinian''' 
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565)

'''sotto''' 
Italian for "below," it means the dean is speaking in a low voice.

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'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium''' 
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

'''hyperthrophied''' 
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (see, contra, ''atrophied'')

'''insigniated''' 
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia)

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'''N.A.A.U.P.''' 
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.

'''de moi''' 
French: from me

'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."''' 
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word.

'''capillary webs''' 
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins

'''defacatory''' 
As if eliminating solid bodily waste

'''RICO''' 
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.

==Page 10==

'''Brewster's-Angle light''' 
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].

'''Weston''' 
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city

'''Orin''' 
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."

'''Rototiller''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]

'''Pooh-wear''' 
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance

[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

==Page 11==

'''presbyopic''' 
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older

'''Rototrembling''' 
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller

'''caustic''' 
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic

'''plumb''' 
adj., straight or true; in line with

'''ideogram''' 
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration

==Page 12==

'''Kirkegaard''' 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy

'''Camus''' 
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.

'''Dennis Gabor''' 
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."''' 
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of Leviathan. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.

'''Hegel''' 
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.

'''creatus''' 
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."

'''pinion''' 
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''parquet''' 
an in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.

==Page 13==

'''half nelson''' 
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind

'''Heimlich''' 
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.

'''pases''' 
This is the plural of pase, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.

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

'''enfilade''' 
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.

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<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thub|Whataburger logo|right]]
Synechdote for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational", an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson each year. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Pheonix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)

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'''espadrilles''' 
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles

'''leonine''' 
lion-like

'''cirri''' 
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud

'''martinet''' 
a strict disciplinarian

==Page 16==

'''ultra-mach''' 
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.

'''barnwood''' 
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''starboard list''' 
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.

'''gigantism''' 
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''

'''parodic''' 
having the qualities of a parody

'''infantophile''' 
one subject to infantophilia, also Nepiophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia])

'''incisionish''' 
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"

'''hypophalangial''' 
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands

'''Himself's''' 
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel

==Page 17==

'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."''' 
See Hamlet, Act Five, Scene One.

'''Venus Williams''' 
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.

'''Dymphna''' 
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.

'''Petropolis Kahn''' 
Petropolis is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.

"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., kohen.

'''etiology''' 
the cause of a disease

'''Socratic method'''
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece

'''O.E.D. VI's count''' 
This is a reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition.

'''nonarchaic''' 
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language

'''Latinate''' 
deriving from Latin

'''Saxonic''' 
deriving from Old English

'''quick-bit''' 
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips

'''jou''' 
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"

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

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'''200 grams''' 
a little over seven ounces

'''"...using just audio..."''' 
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.

'''Allston''' 
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.

'''high-resin dope''' 
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced

'''harelip''' 
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]

==Page 19==

'''TP''' 
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.

'''"own marijuana"''' 
to become master over one's addiction, in this case, to end the addiction to marijuana

'''modem''' 
used as a verb, communicating with the office via modem, an early but ubiquitous tool for transmitting data between servers and client/servers.

'''e-note''' 
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, conceived in the pre-Internet era

==Page 20==

'''Mountie''' 
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI

'''Porter Square, Cambridge''' 
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border

==Page 21==

'''convulsive''' 
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking

'''Wedekind festival''' 
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.

'''rapacious''' 
greedy and forceful in capturing and consuming

==Page 22==

'''pleurisy''' 
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs

'''Interlace viewer''' 
A television-based home entertainment system, ubiquitous in the time the novel is set, which plays copy-protected "cartridges" custom-ordered by viewers, invented by [[L#"Lace"|Noreen Lace-Forché]]

'''raptly''' 
with intense attention to

'''cartridge''' 
See ''Interlace viewer'', above

'''debauch''' 
an episode of debauchery, engaging in excessive, pleasure-seeking, often sexual- or drug/alcohol-related

'''120 grams''' 
about 4.2 ounces

'''debased''' 
of low character and lacking integrity

'''Tito Puente''' 
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.

'''Marlborough Street''' 
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.

==Page 23==

'''appropriation''' 
taking something as one's own, without permission

'''methamphetamine hydrochloride''' 
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that Infinite Jest was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.

==Page 24==

'''pastiche''' 
a mixture of varying style or content

'''magisculed''' 
typo or intentional misspelling of ''majuscule'', an initial capital letter, often large-type to introduce a section of written material; Wallace's use of the noun in a verb form is likely a neologism (especially if the alternate spelling is retained)

'''50 grams''' 
about 1.75 ounces

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water without soil

==Page 25==

'''stein''' 
a drinking mug

'''E.W.D. land barge''' 
perhaps "Enfield Waste Disposal"; a garbage truck

'''phallocentric''' 
biased from a male point of view

'''half a meter''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''carb''' 
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carburetor on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.

'''oblique''' 
slanted, like an acute or obtuse angle, not a right-angle

'''teleputer''' 
Combination television and computer, generic term for an Interlace player, see also [[T#"TP"|TP]]

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'''jibe''' 
correspond with; match up

'''oblique''' 
indirect or dishonest

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'''Remington-hung''' 
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].

'''half-Windsors''' 
A type of knot used to tie a necktie

'''Harold Incandenza''' 
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.

'''Enfield''' 
A fictional town just west of Boston, which exists where parts of the real town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.

==Page 4==

'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Atheltic Assocation -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.

'''wen''' 
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary)

'''Randolph Tennis Center''' 
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tuscon, Ariz., where the main campus of the University of Arizona is also located.

'''El Con Marriott''' 
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquidistdor Hotel in Tuscon, the Marriot has a different name.

==Page 5==

'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."''' 
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.

'''62.5%''' 
Out of eight people in the room (including himself, three deans, the Director of Composition, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are not looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.

'''circumflex''' 
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb être (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.

'''Pac 10''' 
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.

'''Kekuléan''' 
Referring to Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (a.k.a. August Kekulé), a German organic chemist (1829-1896). Chemicals are said to be formed by knots of elements. The exact shape to which Hal is referring is unclear.

==Page 6==

'''aviarian''' 
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.

==Page 7==

'''lapidary''' 
"Marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression: lapidary prose" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''effete''' 
Degenerate or decadent

'''Prescriptive Grammar''' 
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.

'''Post-Fourier Transformations''' 
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.

'''Holographically Mimetic''' 
Approximating reality using holograms

'''Montague Grammar''' 
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.

'''Physical Modality''' 
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.

'''Tertiary''' 
Third-level, after primary and secondary

'''Justinian''' 
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565)

'''sotto''' 
Italian for "below," it means the dean is speaking in a low voice.

==Page 8==

'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium''' 
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

'''hyperthrophied''' 
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (see, contra, ''atrophied'')

'''insigniated''' 
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia)

==Page 9==

'''N.A.A.U.P.''' 
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.

'''de moi''' 
French: from me

'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."''' 
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word.

'''capillary webs''' 
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins

'''defacatory''' 
As if eliminating solid bodily waste

'''RICO''' 
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.

==Page 10==

'''Brewster's-Angle light''' 
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].

'''Weston''' 
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city

'''Orin''' 
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."

'''Rototiller''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]

'''Pooh-wear''' 
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance

[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

==Page 11==

'''presbyopic''' 
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older

'''Rototrembling''' 
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller

'''caustic''' 
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic

'''plumb''' 
adj., straight or true; in line with

'''ideogram''' 
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration

==Page 12==

'''Kirkegaard''' 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy

'''Camus''' 
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.

'''Dennis Gabor''' 
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."''' 
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of Leviathan. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.

'''Hegel''' 
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.

'''creatus''' 
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."

'''pinion''' 
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''parquet''' 
an in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.

==Page 13==

'''half nelson''' 
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind

'''Heimlich''' 
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.

'''pases''' 
This is the plural of pase, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.

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

'''enfilade''' 
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.

==Page 14==

<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thub|Whataburger logo|right]]
Synechdote for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational", an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson each year. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Pheonix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)

==Page 15==

'''espadrilles''' 
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles

'''leonine''' 
lion-like

'''cirri''' 
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud

'''martinet''' 
a strict disciplinarian

==Page 16==

'''ultra-mach''' 
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.

'''barnwood''' 
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''starboard list''' 
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.

'''gigantism''' 
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''

'''parodic''' 
having the qualities of a parody

'''infantophile''' 
one subject to infantophilia, also Nepiophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia])

'''incisionish''' 
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"

'''hypophalangial''' 
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands

'''Himself's''' 
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel

==Page 17==

'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."''' 
See Hamlet, Act Five, Scene One.

'''Venus Williams''' 
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.

'''Dymphna''' 
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.

'''Petropolis Kahn''' 
Petropolis is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.

"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., kohen.

'''etiology''' 
the cause of a disease

'''Socratic method'''
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece

'''O.E.D. VI's count''' 
This is a reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition.

'''nonarchaic''' 
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language

'''Latinate''' 
deriving from Latin

'''Saxonic''' 
deriving from Old English

'''quick-bit''' 
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips

'''jou''' 
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"

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

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'''200 grams''' 
a little over seven ounces

'''"...using just audio..."''' 
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.

'''Allston''' 
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.

'''high-resin dope''' 
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced

'''harelip''' 
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]

==Page 19==

'''TP''' 
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.

'''"own marijuana"''' 
to become master over one's addiction, in this case, to end the addiction to marijuana

'''modem''' 
used as a verb, communicating with the office via modem, an early but ubiquitous tool for transmitting data between servers and client/servers.

'''e-note''' 
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, conceived in the pre-Internet era

==Page 20==

'''Mountie''' 
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI

'''Porter Square, Cambridge''' 
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border

==Page 21==

'''convulsive''' 
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking

'''Wedekind festival''' 
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.

'''rapacious''' 
greedy and forceful in capturing and consuming

==Page 22==

'''pleurisy''' 
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs

'''Interlace viewer''' 
A television-based home entertainment system, ubiquitous in the time the novel is set, which plays copy-protected "cartridges" custom-ordered by viewers, invented by [[L#"Lace"|Noreen Lace-Forché]]

'''raptly''' 
with intense attention to

'''cartridge''' 
See ''Interlace viewer'', above

'''debauch''' 
an episode of debauchery, engaging in excessive, pleasure-seeking, often sexual- or drug/alcohol-related

'''120 grams''' 
about 4.2 ounces

'''debased''' 
of low character and lacking integrity

'''Tito Puente''' 
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.

'''Marlborough Street''' 
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.

==Page 23==

'''appropriation''' 
taking something as one's own, without permission

'''methamphetamine hydrochloride''' 
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that Infinite Jest was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.

==Page 24==

'''pastiche''' 
a mixture of varying style or content

'''magisculed''' 
typo or intentional misspelling of ''majuscule'', an initial capital letter, often large-type to introduce a section of written material; Wallace's use of the noun in a verb form is likely a neologism (especially if the alternate spelling is retained)

'''50 grams''' 
about 1.75 ounces

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water without soil

==Page 25==

'''stein''' 
a drinking mug

'''E.W.D. land barge''' 
perhaps "Enfield Waste Disposal"; a garbage truck

'''phallocentric''' 
biased from a male point of view

'''half a meter''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''carb''' 
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carburetor on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.

'''oblique''' 
slanted, like an acute or obtuse angle, not a right-angle

'''teleputer''' 
Combination television and computer, generic term for an Interlace player, see also [[T#"TP"|TP]]

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'''jibe''' 
correspond with; match up

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'''Remington-hung''' 
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].

'''half-Windsors''' 
A type of knot used to tie a necktie

'''Harold Incandenza''' 
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.

'''Enfield''' 
A fictional town just west of Boston, which exists where parts of the real town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.

==Page 4==

'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Atheltic Assocation -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.

'''wen''' 
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary)

'''Randolph Tennis Center''' 
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tuscon, Ariz., where the main campus of the University of Arizona is also located.

'''El Con Marriott''' 
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquidistdor Hotel in Tuscon, the Marriot has a different name.

==Page 5==

'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."''' 
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.

'''62.5%''' 
Out of eight people in the room (including himself, three deans, the Director of Composition, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are not looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.

'''circumflex''' 
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb être (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.

'''Pac 10''' 
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.

'''Kekuléan''' 
Referring to Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (a.k.a. August Kekulé), a German organic chemist (1829-1896). Chemicals are said to be formed by knots of elements. The exact shape to which Hal is referring is unclear.

==Page 6==

'''aviarian''' 
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.

==Page 7==

'''lapidary''' 
"Marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression: lapidary prose" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''effete''' 
Degenerate or decadent

'''Prescriptive Grammar''' 
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.

'''Post-Fourier Transformations''' 
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.

'''Holographically Mimetic''' 
Approximating reality using holograms

'''Montague Grammar''' 
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.

'''Physical Modality''' 
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.

'''Tertiary''' 
Third-level, after primary and secondary

'''Justinian''' 
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565)

'''sotto''' 
Italian for "below," it means the dean is speaking in a low voice.

==Page 8==

'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium''' 
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

'''hyperthrophied''' 
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (see, contra, ''atrophied'')

'''insigniated''' 
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia)

==Page 9==

'''N.A.A.U.P.''' 
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.

'''de moi''' 
French: from me

'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."''' 
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word.

'''capillary webs''' 
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins

'''defacatory''' 
As if eliminating solid bodily waste

'''RICO''' 
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.

==Page 10==

'''Brewster's-Angle light''' 
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].

'''Weston''' 
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city

'''Orin''' 
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."

'''Rototiller''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]

'''Pooh-wear''' 
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance

[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

==Page 11==

'''presbyopic''' 
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older

'''Rototrembling''' 
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller

'''caustic''' 
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic

'''plumb''' 
adj., straight or true; in line with

'''ideogram''' 
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration

==Page 12==

'''Kirkegaard''' 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy

'''Camus''' 
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.

'''Dennis Gabor''' 
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."''' 
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of Leviathan. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.

'''Hegel''' 
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.

'''creatus''' 
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."

'''pinion''' 
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''parquet''' 
an in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.

==Page 13==

'''half nelson''' 
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind

'''Heimlich''' 
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.

'''pases''' 
This is the plural of pase, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.

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

'''enfilade''' 
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.

==Page 14==

<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thub|Whataburger logo|right]]
Synechdote for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational", an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson each year. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Pheonix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)

==Page 15==

'''espadrilles''' 
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles

'''leonine''' 
lion-like

'''cirri''' 
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud

'''martinet''' 
a strict disciplinarian

==Page 16==

'''ultra-mach''' 
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.

'''barnwood''' 
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''starboard list''' 
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.

'''gigantism''' 
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''

'''parodic''' 
having the qualities of a parody

'''infantophile''' 
one subject to infantophilia, also Nepiophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia])

'''incisionish''' 
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"

'''hypophalangial''' 
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands

'''Himself's''' 
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel

==Page 17==

'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."''' 
See Hamlet, Act Five, Scene One.

'''Venus Williams''' 
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.

'''Dymphna''' 
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.

'''Petropolis Kahn''' 
Petropolis is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.

"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., kohen.

'''etiology''' 
the cause of a disease

'''Socratic method'''
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece

'''O.E.D. VI's count''' 
This is a reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition.

'''nonarchaic''' 
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language

'''Latinate''' 
deriving from Latin

'''Saxonic''' 
deriving from Old English

'''quick-bit''' 
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips

'''jou''' 
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"

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

==Page 18==

'''200 grams''' 
a little over seven ounces

'''"...using just audio..."''' 
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.

'''Allston''' 
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.

'''high-resin dope''' 
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced

'''harelip''' 
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]

==Page 19==

'''TP''' 
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.

'''"own marijuana"''' 
to become master over one's addiction, in this case, to end the addiction to marijuana

'''modem''' 
used as a verb, communicating with the office via modem, an early but ubiquitous tool for transmitting data between servers and client/servers.

'''e-note''' 
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, conceived in the pre-Internet era

==Page 20==

'''Mountie''' 
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI

'''Porter Square, Cambridge''' 
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border

==Page 21==

'''convulsive''' 
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking

'''Wedekind festival''' 
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.

'''rapacious''' 
greedy and forceful in capturing and consuming

==Page 22==

'''pleurisy''' 
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs

'''Interlace viewer''' 
A television-based home entertainment system, ubiquitous in the time the novel is set, which plays copy-protected "cartridges" custom-ordered by viewers, invented by [[L#"Lace"|Noreen Lace-Forché]]

'''raptly''' 
with intense attention to

'''cartridge''' 
See ''Interlace viewer'', above

'''debauch''' 
an episode of debauchery, engaging in excessive, pleasure-seeking, often sexual- or drug/alcohol-related

'''120 grams''' 
about 4.2 ounces

'''debased''' 
of low character and lacking integrity

'''Tito Puente''' 
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.

'''Marlborough Street''' 
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.

==Page 23==

'''appropriation''' 
taking something as one's own, without permission

'''methamphetamine hydrochloride''' 
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that Infinite Jest was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.

==Page 24==

'''pastiche''' 
a mixture of varying style or content

'''magisculed''' 
typo or intentional misspelling of ''majuscule'', an initial capital letter, often large-type to introduce a section of written material; Wallace's use of the noun in a verb form is likely a neologism (especially if the alternate spelling is retained)

'''50 grams''' 
about 1.75 ounces

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water without soil

==Page 25==

'''stein''' 
a drinking mug

'''E.W.D. land barge''' 
perhaps "Enfield Waste Disposal"; a garbage truck

'''phallocentric''' 
biased from a male point of view

'''half a meter''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''carb''' 
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carburetor on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.

'''oblique''' 
slanted, like an acute or obtuse angle, not a right-angle

'''teleputer''' 
Combination television and computer, generic term for an Interlace player, see also [[T#"TP"|TP]]

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'''Remington-hung''' 
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].

'''half-Windsors''' 
A type of knot used to tie a necktie

'''Harold Incandenza''' 
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.

'''Enfield''' 
A fictional town just west of Boston, which exists where parts of the real town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.

==Page 4==

'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Atheltic Assocation -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.

'''wen''' 
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary)

'''Randolph Tennis Center''' 
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tuscon, Ariz., where the main campus of the University of Arizona is also located.

'''El Con Marriott''' 
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquidistdor Hotel in Tuscon, the Marriot has a different name.

==Page 5==

'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."''' 
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.

'''62.5%''' 
Out of eight people in the room (including himself, three deans, the Director of Composition, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are not looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.

'''circumflex''' 
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb être (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.

'''Pac 10''' 
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.

'''Kekuléan''' 
Referring to Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (a.k.a. August Kekulé), a German organic chemist (1829-1896). Chemicals are said to be formed by knots of elements. The exact shape to which Hal is referring is unclear.

==Page 6==

'''aviarian''' 
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.

==Page 7==

'''lapidary''' 
"Marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression: lapidary prose" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''effete''' 
Degenerate or decadent

'''Prescriptive Grammar''' 
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.

'''Post-Fourier Transformations''' 
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.

'''Holographically Mimetic''' 
Approximating reality using holograms

'''Montague Grammar''' 
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.

'''Physical Modality''' 
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.

'''Tertiary''' 
Third-level, after primary and secondary

'''Justinian''' 
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565)

'''sotto''' 
Italian for "below," it means the dean is speaking in a low voice.

==Page 8==

'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium''' 
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

'''hyperthrophied''' 
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (see, contra, ''atrophied'')

'''insigniated''' 
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia)

==Page 9==

'''N.A.A.U.P.''' 
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.

'''de moi''' 
French: from me

'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."''' 
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word.

'''capillary webs''' 
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins

'''defacatory''' 
As if eliminating solid bodily waste

'''RICO''' 
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.

==Page 10==

'''Brewster's-Angle light''' 
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].

'''Weston''' 
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city

'''Orin''' 
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."

'''Rototiller''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]

'''Pooh-wear''' 
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance

[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

==Page 11==

'''presbyopic''' 
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older

'''Rototrembling''' 
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller

'''caustic''' 
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic

'''plumb''' 
adj., straight or true; in line with

'''ideogram''' 
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration

==Page 12==

'''Kirkegaard''' 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy

'''Camus''' 
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.

'''Dennis Gabor''' 
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."''' 
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of Leviathan. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.

'''Hegel''' 
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.

'''creatus''' 
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."

'''pinion''' 
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''parquet''' 
an in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.

==Page 13==

'''half nelson''' 
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind

'''Heimlich''' 
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.

'''pases''' 
This is the plural of pase, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.

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

'''enfilade''' 
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.

==Page 14==

<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thub|Whataburger logo|right]]
Synechdote for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational", an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson each year. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Pheonix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)

==Page 15==

'''espadrilles''' 
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles

'''leonine''' 
lion-like

'''cirri''' 
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud

'''martinet''' 
a strict disciplinarian

==Page 16==

'''ultra-mach''' 
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.

'''barnwood''' 
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''starboard list''' 
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.

'''gigantism''' 
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''

'''parodic''' 
having the qualities of a parody

'''infantophile''' 
one subject to infantophilia, also Nepiophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia])

'''incisionish''' 
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"

'''hypophalangial''' 
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands

'''Himself's''' 
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel

==Page 17==

'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."''' 
See Hamlet, Act Five, Scene One.

'''Venus Williams''' 
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.

'''Dymphna''' 
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.

'''Petropolis Kahn''' 
Petropolis is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.

"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., kohen.

'''etiology''' 
the cause of a disease

'''Socratic method'''
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece

'''O.E.D. VI's count''' 
This is a reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition.

'''nonarchaic''' 
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language

'''Latinate''' 
deriving from Latin

'''Saxonic''' 
deriving from Old English

'''quick-bit''' 
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips

'''jou''' 
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"

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

==Page 18==

'''200 grams''' 
a little over seven ounces

'''"...using just audio..."''' 
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.

'''Allston''' 
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.

'''high-resin dope''' 
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced

'''harelip''' 
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]

==Page 19==

'''TP''' 
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.

'''"own marijuana"''' 
to become master over one's addiction, in this case, to end the addiction to marijuana

'''modem''' 
used as a verb, communicating with the office via modem, an early but ubiquitous tool for transmitting data between servers and client/servers.

'''e-note''' 
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, conceived in the pre-Internet era

==Page 20==

'''Mountie''' 
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI

'''Porter Square, Cambridge''' 
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border

==Page 21==

'''convulsive''' 
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking

'''Wedekind festival''' 
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.

'''rapacious''' 
greedy and forceful in capturing and consuming

==Page 22==

'''pleurisy''' 
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs

'''Interlace viewer''' 
A television-based home entertainment system, ubiquitous in the time the novel is set, which plays copy-protected "cartridges" custom-ordered by viewers, invented by [[L#"Lace"|Noreen Lace-Forché]]

'''raptly''' 
with intense attention to

'''cartridge''' 
See ''Interlace viewer'', above

'''debauch''' 
an episode of debauchery, engaging in excessive, pleasure-seeking, often sexual- or drug/alcohol-related

'''120 grams''' 
about 4.2 ounces

'''debased''' 
of low character and lacking integrity

'''Tito Puente''' 
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.

'''Marlborough Street''' 
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.

==Page 23==

'''appropriation''' 
taking something as one's own, without permission

'''methamphetamine hydrochloride''' 
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that Infinite Jest was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.

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'''pastiche''' 
a mixture of varying style or content

'''magisculed''' 
typo or intentional misspelling of ''majuscule'', an initial capital letter, often large-type to introduce a section of written material; Wallace's use of the noun in a verb form is likely a neologism (especially if the alternate spelling is retained)

'''50 grams''' 
about 1.75 ounces

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water without soil

==Page 25==

'''stein''' 
a drinking mug

'''E.W.D. land barge''' 
perhaps "Enfield Waste Disposal"; a garbage truck

'''half a meter''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''carb''' 
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carbuteror on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.

'''teleputer''' 
Presumably a computer which shows television shows or movies, it occurs to me now that "TP" may stand for "teleputer."

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'''Remington-hung''' 
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].

'''half-Windsors''' 
A type of knot used to tie a necktie

'''Harold Incandenza''' 
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.

'''Enfield''' 
A fictional town just west of Boston, which exists where parts of the real town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.

==Page 4==

'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Atheltic Assocation -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.

'''wen''' 
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary)

'''Randolph Tennis Center''' 
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tuscon, Ariz., where the main campus of the University of Arizona is also located.

'''El Con Marriott''' 
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquidistdor Hotel in Tuscon, the Marriot has a different name.

==Page 5==

'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."''' 
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.

'''62.5%''' 
Out of eight people in the room (including himself, three deans, the Director of Composition, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are not looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.

'''circumflex''' 
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb être (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.

'''Pac 10''' 
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.

'''Kekuléan''' 
Referring to Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (a.k.a. August Kekulé), a German organic chemist (1829-1896). Chemicals are said to be formed by knots of elements. The exact shape to which Hal is referring is unclear.

==Page 6==

'''aviarian''' 
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.

==Page 7==

'''lapidary''' 
"Marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression: lapidary prose" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''effete''' 
Degenerate or decadent

'''Prescriptive Grammar''' 
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.

'''Post-Fourier Transformations''' 
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.

'''Holographically Mimetic''' 
Approximating reality using holograms

'''Montague Grammar''' 
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.

'''Physical Modality''' 
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.

'''Tertiary''' 
Third-level, after primary and secondary

'''Justinian''' 
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565)

'''sotto''' 
Italian for "below," it means the dean is speaking in a low voice.

==Page 8==

'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium''' 
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

'''hyperthrophied''' 
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (see, contra, ''atrophied'')

'''insigniated''' 
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia)

==Page 9==

'''N.A.A.U.P.''' 
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.

'''de moi''' 
French: from me

'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."''' 
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word.

'''capillary webs''' 
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins

'''defacatory''' 
As if eliminating solid bodily waste

'''RICO''' 
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.

==Page 10==

'''Brewster's-Angle light''' 
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].

'''Weston''' 
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city

'''Orin''' 
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."

'''Rototiller''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]

'''Pooh-wear''' 
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance

[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

==Page 11==

'''presbyopic''' 
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older

'''Rototrembling''' 
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller

'''caustic''' 
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic

'''plumb''' 
adj., straight or true; in line with

'''ideogram''' 
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration

==Page 12==

'''Kirkegaard''' 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy

'''Camus''' 
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.

'''Dennis Gabor''' 
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."''' 
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of Leviathan. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.

'''Hegel''' 
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.

'''creatus''' 
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."

'''pinion''' 
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''parquet''' 
an in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.

==Page 13==

'''half nelson''' 
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind

'''Heimlich''' 
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.

'''pases''' 
This is the plural of pase, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.

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

'''enfilade''' 
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.

==Page 14==

<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thub|Whataburger logo|right]]
Synechdote for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational", an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson each year. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Pheonix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)

==Page 15==

'''espadrilles''' 
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles

'''leonine''' 
lion-like

'''cirri''' 
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud

'''martinet''' 
a strict disciplinarian

==Page 16==

'''ultra-mach''' 
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.

'''barnwood''' 
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''starboard list''' 
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.

'''gigantism''' 
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''

'''parodic''' 
having the qualities of a parody

'''infantophile''' 
one subject to infantophilia, also Nepiophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia])

'''incisionish''' 
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"

'''hypophalangial''' 
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands

'''Himself's''' 
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel

==Page 17==

'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."''' 
See Hamlet, Act Five, Scene One.

'''Venus Williams''' 
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.

'''Dymphna''' 
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.

'''Petropolis Kahn''' 
Petropolis is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.

"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., kohen.

'''etiology''' 
the cause of a disease

'''Socratic method'''
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece

'''O.E.D. VI's count''' 
This is a reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition.

'''nonarchaic''' 
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language

'''Latinate''' 
deriving from Latin

'''Saxonic''' 
deriving from Old English

'''quick-bit''' 
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips

'''jou''' 
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"

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

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'''200 grams''' 
a little over seven ounces

'''"...using just audio..."''' 
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.

'''Allston''' 
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.

'''high-resin dope''' 
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced

'''harelip''' 
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]

==Page 19==

'''TP''' 
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.

'''"own marijuana"''' 
to become master over one's addiction, in this case, to end the addiction to marijuana

'''modem''' 
used as a verb, communicating with the office via modem, an early but ubiquitous tool for transmitting data between servers and client/servers.

'''e-note''' 
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, conceived in the pre-Internet era

==Page 20==

'''Mountie''' 
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI

'''Porter Square, Cambridge''' 
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border

==Page 21==

'''convulsive''' 
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking

'''Wedekind festival''' 
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.

'''rapacious''' 
greedy and forceful in capturing and consuming

==Page 22==

'''pleurisy''' 
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs

'''Interlace viewer''' 
A television-based home entertainment system, ubiquitous in the time the novel is set, which plays copy-protected "cartridges" custom-ordered by viewers, invented by [[L#"Lace"|Noreen Lace-Forché]]

'''raptly''' 
with intense attention to

'''cartridge''' 
See ''Interlace viewer'', above

'''debauch''' 
an episode of debauchery, engaging in excessive, pleasure-seeking, often sexual- or drug/alcohol-related

'''120 grams''' 
about 4.2 ounces

'''debased''' 
of low character and lacking integrity

'''Tito Puente''' 
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.

'''Marlborough Street''' 
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.

==Page 23==

'''appropriation''' 
taking something as one's own, without permission

'''methamphetamine hydrochloride''' 
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that Infinite Jest was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.

==Page 24==

'''pastiche''' 
a mixture of varying style or content

'''magisculed''' 
typo or intentional misspelling of ''majuscule'', an initial capital letter, often large-type to introduce a section of written material; Wallace's use of the noun in a verb form is likely a neologism (especially if the alternate spelling is retained)

'''50 grams''' 
about 1.75 ounces

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water without soil

==Page 25==

'''stein''' 
a drinking mug

'''E.W.D. land barge''' 
perhaps "Enfield Waste Disposal"

'''half a meter''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''carb''' 
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carbuteror on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.

'''teleputer''' 
Presumably a computer which shows television shows or movies, it occurs to me now that "TP" may stand for "teleputer."

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'''Remington-hung''' 
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].

'''half-Windsors''' 
A type of knot used to tie a necktie

'''Harold Incandenza''' 
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.

'''Enfield''' 
A fictional town just west of Boston, which exists where parts of the real town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.

==Page 4==

'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Atheltic Assocation -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.

'''wen''' 
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary)

'''Randolph Tennis Center''' 
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tuscon, Ariz., where the main campus of the University of Arizona is also located.

'''El Con Marriott''' 
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquidistdor Hotel in Tuscon, the Marriot has a different name.

==Page 5==

'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."''' 
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.

'''62.5%''' 
Out of eight people in the room (including himself, three deans, the Director of Composition, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are not looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.

'''circumflex''' 
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb être (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.

'''Pac 10''' 
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.

'''Kekuléan''' 
Referring to Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (a.k.a. August Kekulé), a German organic chemist (1829-1896). Chemicals are said to be formed by knots of elements. The exact shape to which Hal is referring is unclear.

==Page 6==

'''aviarian''' 
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.

==Page 7==

'''lapidary''' 
"Marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression: lapidary prose" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''effete''' 
Degenerate or decadent

'''Prescriptive Grammar''' 
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.

'''Post-Fourier Transformations''' 
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.

'''Holographically Mimetic''' 
Approximating reality using holograms

'''Montague Grammar''' 
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.

'''Physical Modality''' 
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.

'''Tertiary''' 
Third-level, after primary and secondary

'''Justinian''' 
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565)

'''sotto''' 
Italian for "below," it means the dean is speaking in a low voice.

==Page 8==

'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium''' 
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

'''hyperthrophied''' 
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (see, contra, ''atrophied'')

'''insigniated''' 
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia)

==Page 9==

'''N.A.A.U.P.''' 
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.

'''de moi''' 
French: from me

'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."''' 
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word.

'''capillary webs''' 
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins

'''defacatory''' 
As if eliminating solid bodily waste

'''RICO''' 
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.

==Page 10==

'''Brewster's-Angle light''' 
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].

'''Weston''' 
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city

'''Orin''' 
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."

'''Rototiller''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]

'''Pooh-wear''' 
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance

[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

==Page 11==

'''presbyopic''' 
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older

'''Rototrembling''' 
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller

'''caustic''' 
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic

'''plumb''' 
adj., straight or true; in line with

'''ideogram''' 
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration

==Page 12==

'''Kirkegaard''' 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy

'''Camus''' 
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.

'''Dennis Gabor''' 
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."''' 
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of Leviathan. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.

'''Hegel''' 
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.

'''creatus''' 
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."

'''pinion''' 
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''parquet''' 
an in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.

==Page 13==

'''half nelson''' 
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind

'''Heimlich''' 
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.

'''pases''' 
This is the plural of pase, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.

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

'''enfilade''' 
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.

==Page 14==

<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thub|Whataburger logo|right]]
Synechdote for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational", an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson each year. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Pheonix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)

==Page 15==

'''espadrilles''' 
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles

'''leonine''' 
lion-like

'''cirri''' 
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud

'''martinet''' 
a strict disciplinarian

==Page 16==

'''ultra-mach''' 
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.

'''barnwood''' 
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''starboard list''' 
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.

'''gigantism''' 
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''

'''parodic''' 
having the qualities of a parody

'''infantophile''' 
one subject to infantophilia, also Nepiophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia])

'''incisionish''' 
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"

'''hypophalangial''' 
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands

'''Himself's''' 
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel

==Page 17==

'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."''' 
See Hamlet, Act Five, Scene One.

'''Venus Williams''' 
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.

'''Dymphna''' 
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.

'''Petropolis Kahn''' 
Petropolis is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.

"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., kohen.

'''etiology''' 
the cause of a disease

'''Socratic method'''
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece

'''O.E.D. VI's count''' 
This is a reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition.

'''nonarchaic''' 
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language

'''Latinate''' 
deriving from Latin

'''Saxonic''' 
deriving from Old English

'''quick-bit''' 
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips

'''jou''' 
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"

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

==Page 18==

'''200 grams''' 
a little over seven ounces

'''"...using just audio..."''' 
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.

'''Allston''' 
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.

'''high-resin dope''' 
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced

'''harelip''' 
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]

==Page 19==

'''TP''' 
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.

'''"own marijuana"''' 
to become master over one's addiction, in this case, to end the addiction to marijuana

'''modem''' 
used as a verb, communicating with the office via modem, an early but ubiquitous tool for transmitting data between servers and client/servers.

'''e-note''' 
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, conceived in the pre-Internet era

==Page 20==

'''Mountie''' 
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI

'''Porter Square, Cambridge''' 
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border

==Page 21==

'''convulsive''' 
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking

'''Wedekind festival''' 
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.

'''rapacious''' 
greedy and forceful in capturing and consuming

==Page 22==

'''pleurisy''' 
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs

'''Interlace viewer''' 
A television-based home entertainment system, ubiquitous in the time the novel is set, which plays copy-protected "cartridges" custom-ordered by viewers, invented by [[L#"Lace"|Noreen Lace-Forché]]

'''raptly''' 
with intense attention to

'''cartridge''' 
See ''Interlace viewer'', above

'''debauch''' 
an episode of debauchery, engaging in excessive, pleasure-seeking, often sexual- or drug/alcohol-related

'''120 grams''' 
about 4.2 ounces

'''debased''' 
of low character and lacking integrity

'''Tito Puente''' 
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.

'''Marlborough Street''' 
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.

==Page 23==

'''appropriation''' 
taking something as one's own, without permission

'''methamphetamine hydrochloride''' 
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that Infinite Jest was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.

==Page 24==

'''pastiche'''
a mixture of varying style or content

'''magisculed''' 
typo or intentional misspelling of ''majuscule'', an initial capital letter, often large-type to introduce a section of written material; Wallace's use of the noun in a verb form is likely a neologism (especially if the alternate spelling is retained)

'''50 grams''' 
about 1.75 ounces

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water without soil

==Page 25==

'''stein''' 
a drinking mug

'''E.W.D. land barge''' 
perhaps "Enfield Waste Disposal"

'''half a meter''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''carb''' 
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carbuteror on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.

'''teleputer''' 
Presumably a computer which shows television shows or movies, it occurs to me now that "TP" may stand for "teleputer."

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'''Remington-hung''' 
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].

'''half-Windsors''' 
A type of knot used to tie a necktie

'''Harold Incandenza''' 
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.

'''Enfield''' 
A fictional town just west of Boston, which exists where parts of the real town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.

==Page 4==

'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Atheltic Assocation -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.

'''wen''' 
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary)

'''Randolph Tennis Center''' 
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tuscon, Ariz., where the main campus of the University of Arizona is also located.

'''El Con Marriott''' 
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquidistdor Hotel in Tuscon, the Marriot has a different name.

==Page 5==

'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."''' 
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.

'''62.5%''' 
Out of eight people in the room (including himself, three deans, the Director of Composition, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are not looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.

'''circumflex''' 
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb être (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.

'''Pac 10''' 
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.

'''Kekuléan''' 
Referring to Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (a.k.a. August Kekulé), a German organic chemist (1829-1896). Chemicals are said to be formed by knots of elements. The exact shape to which Hal is referring is unclear.

==Page 6==

'''aviarian''' 
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.

==Page 7==

'''lapidary''' 
"Marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression: lapidary prose" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''effete''' 
Degenerate or decadent

'''Prescriptive Grammar''' 
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.

'''Post-Fourier Transformations''' 
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.

'''Holographically Mimetic''' 
Approximating reality using holograms

'''Montague Grammar''' 
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.

'''Physical Modality''' 
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.

'''Tertiary''' 
Third-level, after primary and secondary

'''Justinian''' 
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565)

'''sotto''' 
Italian for "below," it means the dean is speaking in a low voice.

==Page 8==

'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium''' 
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

'''hyperthrophied''' 
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (see, contra, ''atrophied'')

'''insigniated''' 
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia)

==Page 9==

'''N.A.A.U.P.''' 
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.

'''de moi''' 
French: from me

'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."''' 
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word.

'''capillary webs''' 
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins

'''defacatory''' 
As if eliminating solid bodily waste

'''RICO''' 
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.

==Page 10==

'''Brewster's-Angle light''' 
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].

'''Weston''' 
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city

'''Orin''' 
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."

'''Rototiller''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]

'''Pooh-wear''' 
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance

[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

==Page 11==

'''presbyopic''' 
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older

'''Rototrembling''' 
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller

'''caustic''' 
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic

'''plumb''' 
adj., straight or true; in line with

'''ideogram''' 
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration

==Page 12==

'''Kirkegaard''' 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy

'''Camus''' 
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.

'''Dennis Gabor''' 
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."''' 
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of Leviathan. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.

'''Hegel''' 
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.

'''creatus''' 
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."

'''pinion''' 
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''parquet''' 
an in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.

==Page 13==

'''half nelson''' 
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind

'''Heimlich''' 
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.

'''pases''' 
This is the plural of pase, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.

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

'''enfilade''' 
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.

==Page 14==

<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thub|Whataburger logo|right]]
Synechdote for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational", an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson each year. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Pheonix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)

==Page 15==

'''espadrilles''' 
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles

'''leonine''' 
lion-like

'''cirri''' 
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud

'''martinet''' 
a strict disciplinarian

==Page 16==

'''ultra-mach''' 
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.

'''barnwood''' 
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''starboard list''' 
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.

'''gigantism''' 
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''

'''parodic''' 
having the qualities of a parody

'''infantophile''' 
one subject to infantophilia, also Nepiophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia])

'''incisionish''' 
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"

'''hypophalangial''' 
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands

'''Himself's''' 
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel

==Page 17==

'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."''' 
See Hamlet, Act Five, Scene One.

'''Venus Williams''' 
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.

'''Dymphna''' 
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.

'''Petropolis Kahn''' 
Petropolis is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.

"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., kohen.

'''etiology''' 
the cause of a disease

'''Socratic method'''
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece

'''O.E.D. VI's count''' 
This is a reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition.

'''nonarchaic''' 
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language

'''Latinate''' 
deriving from Latin

'''Saxonic''' 
deriving from Old English

'''quick-bit''' 
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips

'''jou''' 
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"

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

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'''200 grams''' 
a little over seven ounces

'''"...using just audio..."''' 
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.

'''Allston''' 
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.

'''high-resin dope''' 
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced

'''harelip''' 
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]

==Page 19==

'''TP''' 
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.

'''"own marijuana"''' 
to become master over one's addiction, in this case, to end the addiction to marijuana

'''modem''' 
used as a verb, communicating with the office via modem, an early but ubiquitous tool for transmitting data between servers and client/servers.

'''e-note''' 
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, conceived in the pre-Internet era

==Page 20==

'''Mountie''' 
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI

'''Porter Square, Cambridge''' 
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border

==Page 21==

'''convulsive''' 
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking

'''Wedekind festival''' 
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.

'''rapacious''' 
greedy and forceful in capturing and consuming

==Page 22==

'''pleurisy''' 
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs

'''Interlace viewer''' 
A television-based home entertainment system, ubiquitous in the time the novel is set, which plays copy-protected "cartridges" custom-ordered by viewers, invented by [[L#"Lace"|Noreen Lace-Forché]]

'''raptly''' 
with intense attention to

'''cartridge''' 
See ''Interlace viewer'', above

'''debauch''' 
an episode of debauchery, engaging in excessive, pleasure-seeking, often sexual- or drug/alcohol-related

'''120 grams''' 
about 4.2 ounces

'''debased''' 
of low character and lacking integrity

'''Tito Puente''' 
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.

'''Marlborough Street''' 
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.

==Page 23==

'''appropriation''' 
taking something as one's own, without permission

'''methamphetamine hydrochloride''' 
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that Infinite Jest was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.

==Page 24==

'''magisculed''' 
"Magiscules" are upper-case letters; Wallace is using this noun as a verb.

'''50 grams''' 
about 1.75 ounces

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water without soil

==Page 25==

'''stein''' 
a drinking mug

'''E.W.D. land barge''' 
perhaps "Enfield Waste Disposal"

'''half a meter''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''carb''' 
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carbuteror on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.

'''teleputer''' 
Presumably a computer which shows television shows or movies, it occurs to me now that "TP" may stand for "teleputer."

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'''Remington-hung''' 
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].

'''half-Windsors''' 
A type of knot used to tie a necktie

'''Harold Incandenza''' 
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.

'''Enfield''' 
A fictional town just west of Boston, which exists where parts of the real town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.

==Page 4==

'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Atheltic Assocation -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.

'''wen''' 
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary)

'''Randolph Tennis Center''' 
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tuscon, Ariz., where the main campus of the University of Arizona is also located.

'''El Con Marriott''' 
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquidistdor Hotel in Tuscon, the Marriot has a different name.

==Page 5==

'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."''' 
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.

'''62.5%''' 
Out of eight people in the room (including himself, three deans, the Director of Composition, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are not looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.

'''circumflex''' 
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb être (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.

'''Pac 10''' 
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.

'''Kekuléan''' 
Referring to Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (a.k.a. August Kekulé), a German organic chemist (1829-1896). Chemicals are said to be formed by knots of elements. The exact shape to which Hal is referring is unclear.

==Page 6==

'''aviarian''' 
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.

==Page 7==

'''lapidary''' 
"Marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression: lapidary prose" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''effete''' 
Degenerate or decadent

'''Prescriptive Grammar''' 
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.

'''Post-Fourier Transformations''' 
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.

'''Holographically Mimetic''' 
Approximating reality using holograms

'''Montague Grammar''' 
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.

'''Physical Modality''' 
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.

'''Tertiary''' 
Third-level, after primary and secondary

'''Justinian''' 
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565)

'''sotto''' 
Italian for "below," it means the dean is speaking in a low voice.

==Page 8==

'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium''' 
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

'''hyperthrophied''' 
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (see, contra, ''atrophied'')

'''insigniated''' 
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia)

==Page 9==

'''N.A.A.U.P.''' 
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.

'''de moi''' 
French: from me

'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."''' 
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word.

'''capillary webs''' 
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins

'''defacatory''' 
As if eliminating solid bodily waste

'''RICO''' 
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.

==Page 10==

'''Brewster's-Angle light''' 
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].

'''Weston''' 
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city

'''Orin''' 
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."

'''Rototiller''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]

'''Pooh-wear''' 
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance

[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

==Page 11==

'''presbyopic''' 
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older

'''Rototrembling''' 
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller

'''caustic''' 
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic

'''plumb''' 
adj., straight or true; in line with

'''ideogram''' 
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration

==Page 12==

'''Kirkegaard''' 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy

'''Camus''' 
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.

'''Dennis Gabor''' 
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."''' 
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of Leviathan. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.

'''Hegel''' 
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.

'''creatus''' 
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."

'''pinion''' 
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''parquet''' 
an in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.

==Page 13==

'''half nelson''' 
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind

'''Heimlich''' 
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.

'''pases''' 
This is the plural of pase, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.

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

'''enfilade''' 
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.

==Page 14==

<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thub|Whataburger logo|right]]
Synechdote for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational", an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson each year. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Pheonix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)

==Page 15==

'''espadrilles''' 
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles

'''leonine''' 
lion-like

'''cirri''' 
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud

'''martinet''' 
a strict disciplinarian

==Page 16==

'''ultra-mach''' 
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.

'''barnwood''' 
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''starboard list''' 
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.

'''gigantism''' 
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''

'''parodic''' 
having the qualities of a parody

'''infantophile''' 
one subject to infantophilia, also Nepiophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia])

'''incisionish''' 
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"

'''hypophalangial''' 
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands

'''Himself's''' 
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel

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'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."''' 
See Hamlet, Act Five, Scene One.

'''Venus Williams''' 
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.

'''Dymphna''' 
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.

'''Petropolis Kahn''' 
Petropolis is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.

"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., kohen.

'''etiology''' 
the cause of a disease

'''Socratic method'''
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece

'''O.E.D. VI's count''' 
This is a reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition.

'''nonarchaic''' 
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language

'''Latinate''' 
deriving from Latin

'''Saxonic''' 
deriving from Old English

'''quick-bit''' 
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips

'''jou''' 
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"

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'''200 grams''' 
a little over seven ounces

'''"...using just audio..."''' 
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.

'''Allston''' 
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.

'''high-resin dope''' 
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced

'''harelip''' 
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]

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'''TP''' 
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.

'''"own marijuana"''' 
to become master over one's addiction, in this case, to end the addiction to marijuana

'''modem''' 
used as a verb, communicating with the office via modem, an early but ubiquitous tool for transmitting data between servers and client/servers.

'''e-note''' 
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, conceived in the pre-Internet era

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'''Mountie''' 
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI

'''Porter Square, Cambridge''' 
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border

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'''convulsive''' 
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking

'''Wedekind festival''' 
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.

'''rapacious''' 
greedy and forceful in capturing and consuming

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'''pleurisy''' 
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs

'''Interlace viewer''' 
A television-based home entertainment system, ubiquitous in the time the novel is set, which plays copy-protected "cartridges" custom-ordered by viewers, invented by [[L#"Lace"|Noreen Lace-Forché]]

'''raptly''' 
with intense attention to

'''cartridge''' 
See ''Interlace viewer'', above

'''debauch''' 
an episode of debauchery, engaging in excessive, pleasure-seeking, often sexual- or drug/alcohol-related

'''120 grams''' 
about 4.2 ounces

'''debased''' 
of low character and lacking integrity

'''Tito Puente''' 
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.

'''Marlborough Street''' 
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.

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'''methamphetamine hydrochloride''' 
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that Infinite Jest was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.

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'''magisculed''' 
"Magiscules" are upper-case letters; Wallace is using this noun as a verb.

'''50 grams''' 
about 1.75 ounces

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water without soil

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'''stein''' 
a drinking mug

'''E.W.D. land barge''' 
perhaps "Enfield Waste Disposal"

'''half a meter''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''carb''' 
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carbuteror on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.

'''teleputer''' 
Presumably a computer which shows television shows or movies, it occurs to me now that "TP" may stand for "teleputer."

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345; AA member;

'''Lac de Deux Montaignes region''' 
732; region of Québec where Maranthe lived as a child

<div id="Lace">'''Lace-Forché, Noreen''' </div>
415; "USC-educated video-rental mogulette"; 620; fn.301/1054

'''Latrodectus Mactans''' 
159; aka Black Widow; fn.24/987; phylum and species of the black widow spider (ChrisO: ChrisO@fieldschool.com)

'''Lamb, Mrs.''' 
575; at Parents' Day at Bishop Anthony McDiardama Elementary School w/Mrs. Lenz

'''Lang, Fritz''' 
48; German filmmaker;''Metropolis'', 193; "chilling framed print of Lang directing''Metropolis'' " 951; parody/homage to his''Rancho Notorious'', in Himself's''The Night Wears a Sombrero''

'''Leary, Dr. Tim(othy)''' 
170; famous acid-head and comedian

'''Léaud''' 
234; as Doinel

'''Lechmere's''' 
717; clothing store in Cambridgeside that Lenz rips off

'''Legal Seafood''' 
743; where Orin took Joelle to meet Himself, in Brookline MA

'''''Le Groupe Vidéotron''''' 
412; owner of "five big Canadian Shop-at-Home networks"

'''Leisure Time Ice''' 
39; where B. Green worked; 577

'''Leith, Disney R.''' 
51; History of Entertainment and Optics teacher at ETA; 96; 298; Quadrivial colloquium "Reflections on Refraction" 511; fn.145/1027;

'''Lemon Pledge''' 
99; Furniture polish

'''Lendl , Ivan''' 
259; "Czech Kid" actual tennis champion who did retire but who has not, as far as can be determined, "suicided" himself.

'''Lenz, Mrs.''' 
575; mother of Randy; "a thrice-divorcée and Data Processor [...] unspeakably obese";

'''Lenz, Randy''' 
207; Ennet House resident; 270; described, 276; "small-time organic-coke dealer" 276; 363; 533; walks home from meetings, 539; room w/Glynn & Day, 539; demapping rats, 540; progression of appetite, 541; 553; mother & stepfather, 557, 561; harassing Yolanda, 565; from Fall River MA, 575; Polish Curse, 692; discharged from Ennet House, 692; post-discharge, stalking two Chinese ladies, 716; escaping Chinese ladies, 728; A.F.R.'s "newly acquired test-subject" for viewing the Entertainment, 845;

'''Leroux, Mrs.''' 
575; at Parents' Day at Bishop Anthony McDiardama Elementary School w/Mrs. Lenz

'''Lesotho''' 
1014; small African country contained, Vatican-like, within the borders of the Republic of South Africa.;

'''Limbaugh, Rush''' 
177; radio personality and mouthpiece for the Republican political party; in''IJ'', a former US President; 382; Limbaugh Era, 411, 562; poster of on Sorkin's office door, 929;

'''Lindistairne Gospels''' 
950; "tiny pornographic scenes in the Byzantine weave"

'''Lingley''' 
254; ETA teacher

'''Linville, Maury''' 
643; actual first name is Larry. Actor who played lipless and peevish Major Frank Burns in [[M#MASH|''M*A*S*H'']], American 1970s TV dramedy.

'''LipoVac Unltd.''' 
413; ads done by Viney and Veals

'''Liquor World''' 
556;

'''Little Lisbon''' 
717; area in Cambridge ?

'''Loach, Barry''' 
102; ETA Trainer; 316; 525; "resembles a wingless fly--blunt and scuttly" 967; was in a Jesuit seminary but lost his religion

'''Loach, Therese''' 
967; Barry's sister, who carries match-number cards at pro fights

'''Lobokulas, Stavros''' 
434; foot-fetishist who works with Gately at Shattuck Shelter and "owns the company that contracts with the Commonwealth for the Shattuck's maintenance"; 922;

'''L'Odalisque de Ste. Thérèse''' 
396; "character out of old Québecois mythology who was supposedly so inhumanly gorgeous that anyone who looked at her turned instantly into a human-sized precious gem"; "In most versions an opal" 529;

'''Logan''' 
710; large Boston airport where black addict works; where Québec team is to land, 853;

'''Lolasister''' 
130; junkie in Boston; 300;

'''Longley, Bernadette''' 
50; ETA student; 282;

'''Lopate, Mrs.''' 
753; catatonic at the Shed; "the objay dart from the Shed that they come and install next to the Ennet House viewer some days" 818;

'''Lord, Otis P.''' 
116; ETA student & "thirteen-year-old baseliner and calculus phenom from Wilmington DE, who 'Wears the Beanie' as Eschaton's gamemaster and statistician of record" (322); "stats-wienie and Eschaton game-master," 171; 264; Hitachi monitor still over his head from Eschaton violence, 456; in Tavis' office, 527; in hospital bed next to Gately, 817; Hitachi monitor removed on Thursday, 948;

'''Loring A.F.B.''' 
571; near "what used to be Presque Isle Maine"

'''LTIs''' 
196

'''Ludditism''' 
150; actually "Luddism;" opposition to technical or technological change

'''Luke''' 
257; Luke Skywalker, character in''Star Wars'' who in the movie's climactic battle sequence does not "remove his targeting helmet" but in fact merely switches off his targeting computer in favor of "The Force" (the movie's quazi-religion.)

'''Lung, The''' 
51; inflatable covering for ETA tennis courts November-March; 153; inflation day (fourth Monday of November), 268;

'''Luther''' 
103; presumably Martin Luther, German theologian and leader of the Protestant Reformation. Perhaps he wore wooden sandals while dumping too.

'''Lyle''' 
114; guru in ETA weight room, who lives off others' perspiration; 127; Deus Providebit ("God Provides"), 198; and Himself, 249; 316; 379; dispensing wisdom for sweat, 387; visited in Ontario by Himself, fn.234 (1041); "appearance outside the weight room, upright and walking across the grounds" 433; hovering cross-legged "just a couple mm. above the top of the towel dispenser" 700; met and bonded w/Himself on Canada's Northwest coast, 706; "'I Don't Know (How to Love Him)' from an old opera Lyle sometimes [...] listened to at night in the weight room" 808; taught ETA kids that "panic sharpens the senses almost past enduring" 896; says that "the most advanced level of Vaipassana or 'Insight' meditation consisted in sitting in fully awakened contemplation of one's own death" 898;

<div id="Lynch">'''Lynch, David'''</div>
944; American film (''Eraserhead'', ''The Elephant Man'', ''Blue Velvet'', ''Wild At Heart'', ''Lost Highway'') and TV (''Twin Peaks'', ''On The Air'' ) director; parodied (?) in Himself's ''Safe Boating is No Accident''; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lynch Wikipedia]

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'''Remington-hung''' 
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].

'''half-Windsors''' 
A type of knot used to tie a necktie

'''Harold Incandenza''' 
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.

'''Enfield''' 
A fictional town just west of Boston, which exists where parts of the real town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.

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'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Atheltic Assocation -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.

'''wen''' 
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary)

'''Randolph Tennis Center''' 
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tuscon, Ariz., where the main campus of the University of Arizona is also located.

'''El Con Marriott''' 
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquidistdor Hotel in Tuscon, the Marriot has a different name.

==Page 5==

'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."''' 
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.

'''62.5%''' 
Out of eight people in the room (including himself, three deans, the Director of Composition, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are not looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.

'''circumflex''' 
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb être (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.

'''Pac 10''' 
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.

'''Kekuléan''' 
Referring to Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (a.k.a. August Kekulé), a German organic chemist (1829-1896). Chemicals are said to be formed by knots of elements. The exact shape to which Hal is referring is unclear.

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'''aviarian''' 
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.

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'''lapidary''' 
"Marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression: lapidary prose" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''effete''' 
Degenerate or decadent

'''Prescriptive Grammar''' 
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.

'''Post-Fourier Transformations''' 
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.

'''Holographically Mimetic''' 
Approximating reality using holograms

'''Montague Grammar''' 
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.

'''Physical Modality''' 
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.

'''Tertiary''' 
Third-level, after primary and secondary

'''Justinian''' 
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565)

'''sotto''' 
Italian for "below," it means the dean is speaking in a low voice.

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'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium''' 
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

'''hyperthrophied''' 
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (see, contra, ''atrophied'')

'''insigniated''' 
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia)

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'''N.A.A.U.P.''' 
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.

'''de moi''' 
French: from me

'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."''' 
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word.

'''capillary webs''' 
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins

'''defacatory''' 
As if eliminating solid bodily waste

'''RICO''' 
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.

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'''Brewster's-Angle light''' 
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].

'''Weston''' 
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city

'''Orin''' 
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."

'''Rototiller''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]

'''Pooh-wear''' 
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance

[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

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'''presbyopic''' 
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older

'''Rototrembling''' 
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller

'''caustic''' 
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic

'''plumb''' 
adj., straight or true; in line with

'''ideogram''' 
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration

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'''Kirkegaard''' 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy

'''Camus''' 
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.

'''Dennis Gabor''' 
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."''' 
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of Leviathan. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.

'''Hegel''' 
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.

'''creatus''' 
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."

'''pinion''' 
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''parquet''' 
an in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.

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'''half nelson''' 
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind

'''Heimlich''' 
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.

'''pases''' 
This is the plural of pase, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.

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

'''enfilade''' 
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.

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<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thub|Whataburger logo|right]]
Synechdote for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational", an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson each year. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Pheonix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)

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'''espadrilles''' 
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles

'''leonine''' 
lion-like

'''cirri''' 
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud

'''martinet''' 
a strict disciplinarian

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'''ultra-mach''' 
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.

'''barnwood''' 
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''starboard list''' 
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.

'''gigantism''' 
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''

'''parodic''' 
having the qualities of a parody

'''infantophile''' 
one subject to infantophilia, also Nepiophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia])

'''incisionish''' 
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"

'''hypophalangial''' 
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands

'''Himself's''' 
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel

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'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."''' 
See Hamlet, Act Five, Scene One.

'''Venus Williams''' 
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.

'''Dymphna''' 
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.

'''Petropolis Kahn''' 
Petropolis is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.

"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., kohen.

'''etiology''' 
the cause of a disease

'''Socratic method'''
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece

'''O.E.D. VI's count''' 
This is a reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition.

'''nonarchaic''' 
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language

'''Latinate''' 
deriving from Latin

'''Saxonic''' 
deriving from Old English

'''quick-bit''' 
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips

'''jou''' 
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"

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'''200 grams''' 
a little over seven ounces

'''"...using just audio..."''' 
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.

'''Allston''' 
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.

'''high-resin dope''' 
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced

'''harelip''' 
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]

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'''TP''' 
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.

'''"own marijuana"''' 
to become master over one's addiction, in this case, to end the addiction to marijuana

'''modem''' 
used as a verb, communicating with the office via modem, an early but ubiquitous tool for transmitting data between servers and client/servers.

'''e-note''' 
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, conceived in the pre-Internet era

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'''Mountie''' 
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI

'''Porter Square, Cambridge''' 
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border

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'''convulsive''' 
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking

'''Wedekind festival''' 
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.

'''rapacious''' 
greedy and forceful in capturing and consuming

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'''pleurisy''' 
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs

'''120 grams''' 
about 4.2 ounces

'''Tito Puente''' 
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.

'''Marlborough Street''' 
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.

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'''methamphetamine hydrochloride''' 
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that Infinite Jest was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.

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'''magisculed''' 
"Magiscules" are upper-case letters; Wallace is using this noun as a verb.

'''50 grams''' 
about 1.75 ounces

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water without soil

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'''stein''' 
a drinking mug

'''E.W.D. land barge''' 
perhaps "Enfield Waste Disposal"

'''half a meter''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''carb''' 
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carbuteror on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.

'''teleputer''' 
Presumably a computer which shows television shows or movies, it occurs to me now that "TP" may stand for "teleputer."

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'''Remington-hung''' 
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].

'''half-Windsors''' 
A type of knot used to tie a necktie

'''Harold Incandenza''' 
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.

'''Enfield''' 
A fictional town just west of Boston, which exists where parts of the real town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.

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'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Atheltic Assocation -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.

'''wen''' 
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary)

'''Randolph Tennis Center''' 
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tuscon, Ariz., where the main campus of the University of Arizona is also located.

'''El Con Marriott''' 
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquidistdor Hotel in Tuscon, the Marriot has a different name.

==Page 5==

'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."''' 
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.

'''62.5%''' 
Out of eight people in the room (including himself, three deans, the Director of Composition, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are not looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.

'''circumflex''' 
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb être (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.

'''Pac 10''' 
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.

'''Kekuléan''' 
Referring to Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (a.k.a. August Kekulé), a German organic chemist (1829-1896). Chemicals are said to be formed by knots of elements. The exact shape to which Hal is referring is unclear.

==Page 6==

'''aviarian''' 
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.

==Page 7==

'''lapidary''' 
"Marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression: lapidary prose" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''effete''' 
Degenerate or decadent

'''Prescriptive Grammar''' 
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.

'''Post-Fourier Transformations''' 
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.

'''Holographically Mimetic''' 
Approximating reality using holograms

'''Montague Grammar''' 
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.

'''Physical Modality''' 
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.

'''Tertiary''' 
Third-level, after primary and secondary

'''Justinian''' 
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565)

'''sotto''' 
Italian for "below," it means the dean is speaking in a low voice.

==Page 8==

'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium''' 
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

'''hyperthrophied''' 
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (see, contra, ''atrophied'')

'''insigniated''' 
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia)

==Page 9==

'''N.A.A.U.P.''' 
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.

'''de moi''' 
French: from me

'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."''' 
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word.

'''capillary webs''' 
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins

'''defacatory''' 
As if eliminating solid bodily waste

'''RICO''' 
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.

==Page 10==

'''Brewster's-Angle light''' 
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].

'''Weston''' 
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city

'''Orin''' 
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."

'''Rototiller''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]

'''Pooh-wear''' 
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance

[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

==Page 11==

'''presbyopic''' 
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older

'''Rototrembling''' 
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller

'''caustic''' 
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic

'''plumb''' 
adj., straight or true; in line with

'''ideogram''' 
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration

==Page 12==

'''Kirkegaard''' 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy

'''Camus''' 
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.

'''Dennis Gabor''' 
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."''' 
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of Leviathan. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.

'''Hegel''' 
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.

'''creatus''' 
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."

'''pinion''' 
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''parquet''' 
an in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.

==Page 13==

'''half nelson''' 
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind

'''Heimlich''' 
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.

'''pases''' 
This is the plural of pase, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.

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

'''enfilade''' 
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.

==Page 14==

<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thub|Whataburger logo|right]]
Synechdote for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational", an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson each year. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Pheonix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)

==Page 15==

'''espadrilles''' 
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles

'''leonine''' 
lion-like

'''cirri''' 
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud

'''martinet''' 
a strict disciplinarian

==Page 16==

'''ultra-mach''' 
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.

'''barnwood''' 
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''starboard list''' 
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.

'''gigantism''' 
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''

'''parodic''' 
having the qualities of a parody

'''infantophile''' 
one subject to infantophilia, also Nepiophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia])

'''incisionish''' 
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"

'''hypophalangial''' 
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands

'''Himself's''' 
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel

==Page 17==

'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."''' 
See Hamlet, Act Five, Scene One.

'''Venus Williams''' 
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.

'''Dymphna''' 
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.

'''Petropolis Kahn''' 
Petropolis is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.

"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., kohen.

'''etiology''' 
the cause of a disease

'''Socratic method'''
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece

'''O.E.D. VI's count''' 
This is a reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition.

'''nonarchaic''' 
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language

'''Latinate''' 
deriving from Latin

'''Saxonic''' 
deriving from Old English

'''quick-bit''' 
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips

'''jou''' 
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"

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

==Page 18==

'''200 grams''' 
a little over seven ounces

'''"...using just audio..."''' 
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.

'''Allston''' 
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.

'''high-resin dope''' 
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced

'''harelip''' 
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]

==Page 19==

'''TP''' 
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.

'''"own marijuana"''' 
to become master over one's addiction, in this case, to end the addiction to marijuana

'''modem''' 
used as a verb, communicating with the office via modem, an early but ubiquitous tool for transmitting data between servers and client/servers.

'''e-note''' 
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, conceived in the pre-Internet era

==Page 20==

'''Mountie''' 
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI

'''Porter Square, Cambridge''' 
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border

==Page 21==

'''convulsive''' 
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking

'''Wedekind festival''' 
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.

==Page 22==

'''pleurisy''' 
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs

'''120 grams''' 
about 4.2 ounces

'''Tito Puente''' 
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.

'''Marlborough Street''' 
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.

==Page 23==

'''methamphetamine hydrochloride''' 
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that Infinite Jest was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.

==Page 24==

'''magisculed''' 
"Magiscules" are upper-case letters; Wallace is using this noun as a verb.

'''50 grams''' 
about 1.75 ounces

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water without soil

==Page 25==

'''stein''' 
a drinking mug

'''E.W.D. land barge''' 
perhaps "Enfield Waste Disposal"

'''half a meter''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''carb''' 
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carbuteror on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.

'''teleputer''' 
Presumably a computer which shows television shows or movies, it occurs to me now that "TP" may stand for "teleputer."

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'''Remington-hung''' 
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].

'''half-Windsors''' 
A type of knot used to tie a necktie

'''Harold Incandenza''' 
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.

'''Enfield''' 
A fictional town just west of Boston, which exists where parts of the real town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.

==Page 4==

'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Atheltic Assocation -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.

'''wen''' 
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary)

'''Randolph Tennis Center''' 
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tuscon, Ariz., where the main campus of the University of Arizona is also located.

'''El Con Marriott''' 
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquidistdor Hotel in Tuscon, the Marriot has a different name.

==Page 5==

'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."''' 
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.

'''62.5%''' 
Out of eight people in the room (including himself, three deans, the Director of Composition, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are not looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.

'''circumflex''' 
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb être (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.

'''Pac 10''' 
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.

'''Kekuléan''' 
Referring to Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (a.k.a. August Kekulé), a German organic chemist (1829-1896). Chemicals are said to be formed by knots of elements. The exact shape to which Hal is referring is unclear.

==Page 6==

'''aviarian''' 
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.

==Page 7==

'''lapidary''' 
A jewel-cutter

'''effete''' 
Degenerate or decadent

'''Prescriptive Grammar''' 
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.

'''Post-Fourier Transformations''' 
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.

'''Holographically Mimetic''' 
Approximating reality using holograms

'''Montague Grammar''' 
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.

'''Physical Modality''' 
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.

'''Tertiary''' 
Third-level, after primary and secondary

'''Justinian''' 
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565)

'''sotto''' 
Italian for "below," it means the dean is speaking in a low voice.

==Page 8==

'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium''' 
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

'''hyperthrophied''' 
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (see, contra, ''atrophied'')

'''insigniated''' 
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia)

==Page 9==

'''N.A.A.U.P.''' 
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.

'''de moi''' 
French: from me

'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."''' 
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word.

'''capillary webs''' 
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins

'''defacatory''' 
As if eliminating solid bodily waste

'''RICO''' 
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.

==Page 10==

'''Brewster's-Angle light''' 
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].

'''Weston''' 
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city

'''Orin''' 
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."

'''Rototiller''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]

'''Pooh-wear''' 
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance

[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

==Page 11==

'''presbyopic''' 
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older

'''Rototrembling''' 
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller

'''caustic''' 
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic

'''plumb''' 
adj., straight or true; in line with

'''ideogram''' 
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration

==Page 12==

'''Kirkegaard''' 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy

'''Camus''' 
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.

'''Dennis Gabor''' 
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."''' 
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of Leviathan. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.

'''Hegel''' 
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.

'''creatus''' 
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."

'''pinion''' 
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''parquet''' 
an in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.

==Page 13==

'''half nelson''' 
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind

'''Heimlich''' 
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.

'''pases''' 
This is the plural of pase, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.

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

'''enfilade''' 
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.

==Page 14==

<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thub|Whataburger logo|right]]
Synechdote for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational", an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson each year. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Pheonix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)

==Page 15==

'''espadrilles''' 
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles

'''leonine''' 
lion-like

'''cirri''' 
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud

'''martinet''' 
a strict disciplinarian

==Page 16==

'''ultra-mach''' 
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.

'''barnwood''' 
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''starboard list''' 
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.

'''gigantism''' 
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''

'''parodic''' 
having the qualities of a parody

'''infantophile''' 
one subject to infantophilia, also Nepiophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia])

'''incisionish''' 
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"

'''hypophalangial''' 
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands

'''Himself's''' 
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel

==Page 17==

'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."''' 
See Hamlet, Act Five, Scene One.

'''Venus Williams''' 
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.

'''Dymphna''' 
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.

'''Petropolis Kahn''' 
Petropolis is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.

"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., kohen.

'''etiology''' 
the cause of a disease

'''Socratic method'''
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece

'''O.E.D. VI's count''' 
This is a reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition.

'''nonarchaic''' 
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language

'''Latinate''' 
deriving from Latin

'''Saxonic''' 
deriving from Old English

'''quick-bit''' 
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips

'''jou''' 
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"

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

==Page 18==

'''200 grams''' 
a little over seven ounces

'''"...using just audio..."''' 
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.

'''Allston''' 
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.

'''high-resin dope''' 
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced

'''harelip''' 
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]

==Page 19==

'''TP''' 
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.

'''"own marijuana"''' 
to become master over one's addiction, in this case, to end the addiction to marijuana

'''modem''' 
used as a verb, communicating with the office via modem, an early but ubiquitous tool for transmitting data between servers and client/servers.

'''e-note''' 
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, conceived in the pre-Internet era

==Page 20==

'''Mountie''' 
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI

'''Porter Square, Cambridge''' 
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border

==Page 21==

'''convulsive''' 
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking

'''Wedekind festival''' 
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.

==Page 22==

'''pleurisy''' 
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs

'''120 grams''' 
about 4.2 ounces

'''Tito Puente''' 
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.

'''Marlborough Street''' 
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.

==Page 23==

'''methamphetamine hydrochloride''' 
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that Infinite Jest was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.

==Page 24==

'''magisculed''' 
"Magiscules" are upper-case letters; Wallace is using this noun as a verb.

'''50 grams''' 
about 1.75 ounces

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water without soil

==Page 25==

'''stein''' 
a drinking mug

'''E.W.D. land barge''' 
perhaps "Enfield Waste Disposal"

'''half a meter''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''carb''' 
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carbuteror on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.

'''teleputer''' 
Presumably a computer which shows television shows or movies, it occurs to me now that "TP" may stand for "teleputer."

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==Page 3==

'''Remington-hung''' 
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].

'''half-Windsors''' 
A type of knot used to tie a necktie

'''Harold Incandenza''' 
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.

'''Enfield''' 
A fictional town just west of Boston, which exists where parts of the real town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.

==Page 4==

'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Atheltic Assocation -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.

'''wen''' 
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary)

'''Randolph Tennis Center''' 
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tuscon, Ariz., where the main campus of the University of Arizona is also located.

'''El Con Marriott''' 
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquidistdor Hotel in Tuscon, the Marriot has a different name.

==Page 5==

'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."''' 
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.

'''62.5%''' 
Out of eight people in the room (including himself, three deans, the Director of Composition, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are not looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.

'''circumflex''' 
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb être (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.

'''Pac 10''' 
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.

'''Kekuléan''' 
Referring to Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (a.k.a. August Kekulé), a German organic chemist (1829-1896). Chemicals are said to be formed by knots of elements. The exact shape to which Hal is referring is unclear.

==Page 6==

'''aviarian''' 
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.

==Page 7==

'''lapidary''' 
A jewel-cutter

'''effete''' 
Degenerate or decadent

'''Prescriptive Grammar''' 
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.

'''Post-Fourier Transformations''' 
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.

'''Holographically Mimetic''' 
Approximating reality using holograms

'''Montague Grammar''' 
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.

'''Physical Modality''' 
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.

'''Tertiary''' 
Third-level, after primary and secondary

'''Justinian''' 
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565)

'''sotto''' 
Italian for "below," it means the dean is speaking in a low voice.

==Page 8==

'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium''' 
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

'''hyperthrophied''' 
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (see, contra, ''atrophied'')

'''insigniated''' 
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia)

==Page 9==

'''N.A.A.U.P.''' 
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.

'''de moi''' 
French: from me

'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."''' 
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word.

'''capillary webs''' 
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins

'''defacatory''' 
As if eliminating solid bodily waste

'''RICO''' 
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.

==Page 10==

'''Brewster's-Angle light''' 
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].

'''Weston''' 
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city

'''Orin''' 
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."

'''Rototiller''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]

'''Pooh-wear''' 
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance

[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

==Page 11==

'''presbyopic''' 
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older

'''Rototrembling''' 
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller

'''caustic''' 
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic

'''plumb''' 
adj., straight or true; in line with

'''ideogram''' 
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration

==Page 12==

'''Kirkegaard''' 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy

'''Camus''' 
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.

'''Dennis Gabor''' 
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."''' 
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of Leviathan. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.

'''Hegel''' 
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.

'''creatus''' 
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."

'''pinion''' 
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''parquet''' 
an in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.

==Page 13==

'''half nelson''' 
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind

'''Heimlich''' 
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.

'''pases''' 
This is the plural of pase, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.

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

'''enfilade''' 
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.

==Page 14==

<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thub|Whataburger logo|right]]
Synechdote for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational", an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson each year. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Pheonix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)

==Page 15==

'''espadrilles''' 
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles

'''leonine''' 
lion-like

'''cirri''' 
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud

'''martinet''' 
a strict disciplinarian

==Page 16==

'''ultra-mach''' 
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.

'''barnwood''' 
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''starboard list''' 
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.

'''gigantism''' 
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''

'''parodic''' 
having the qualities of a parody

'''infantophile''' 
one subject to infantophilia, also Nepiophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia])

'''incisionish''' 
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"

'''hypophalangial''' 
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands

'''Himself's''' 
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel

==Page 17==

'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."''' 
See Hamlet, Act Five, Scene One.

'''Venus Williams''' 
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.

'''Dymphna''' 
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.

'''Petropolis Kahn''' 
Petropolis is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.

"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., kohen.

'''etiology''' 
the cause of a disease

'''Socratic method'''
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece

'''O.E.D. VI's count''' 
This is a reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition.

'''nonarchaic''' 
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language

'''Latinate''' 
deriving from Latin

'''Saxonic''' 
deriving from Old English

'''quick-bit''' 
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips

'''jou''' 
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"

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

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'''200 grams''' 
a little over seven ounces

'''"...using just audio..."''' 
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.

'''Allston''' 
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.

'''high-resin dope''' 
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced

'''harelip''' 
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]

==Page 19==

'''TP''' 
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.

'''"own marijuana"''' 
to become master over one's addiction, in this case, to end the addiction to marijuana

'''modem''' 
used as a verb, communicating with the office via modem, an early but ubiquitous tool for transmitting data between servers and client/servers.

'''e-note''' 
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, written in the pre-Internet era

==Page 20==

'''Mountie''' 
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI

'''Porter Square, Cambridge''' 
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border

==Page 21==

'''convulsive''' 
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking

'''Wedekind festival''' 
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.

==Page 22==

'''pleurisy''' 
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs

'''120 grams''' 
about 4.2 ounces

'''Tito Puente''' 
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.

'''Marlborough Street''' 
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.

==Page 23==

'''methamphetamine hydrochloride''' 
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that Infinite Jest was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.

==Page 24==

'''magisculed''' 
"Magiscules" are upper-case letters; Wallace is using this noun as a verb.

'''50 grams''' 
about 1.75 ounces

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water without soil

==Page 25==

'''stein''' 
a drinking mug

'''E.W.D. land barge''' 
perhaps "Enfield Waste Disposal"

'''half a meter''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''carb''' 
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carbuteror on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.

'''teleputer''' 
Presumably a computer which shows television shows or movies, it occurs to me now that "TP" may stand for "teleputer."

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==Page 3==

'''Remington-hung''' 
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].

'''half-Windsors''' 
A type of knot used to tie a necktie

'''Harold Incandenza''' 
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.

'''Enfield''' 
A fictional town just west of Boston, which exists where parts of the real town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.

==Page 4==

'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Atheltic Assocation -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.

'''wen''' 
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary)

'''Randolph Tennis Center''' 
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tuscon, Ariz., where the main campus of the University of Arizona is also located.

'''El Con Marriott''' 
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquidistdor Hotel in Tuscon, the Marriot has a different name.

==Page 5==

'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."''' 
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.

'''62.5%''' 
Out of eight people in the room (including himself, three deans, the Director of Composition, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are not looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.

'''circumflex''' 
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb être (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.

'''Pac 10''' 
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.

'''Kekuléan''' 
Referring to Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (a.k.a. August Kekulé), a German organic chemist (1829-1896). Chemicals are said to be formed by knots of elements. The exact shape to which Hal is referring is unclear.

==Page 6==

'''aviarian''' 
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.

==Page 7==

'''lapidary''' 
A jewel-cutter

'''effete''' 
Degenerate or decadent

'''Prescriptive Grammar''' 
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.

'''Post-Fourier Transformations''' 
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.

'''Holographically Mimetic''' 
Approximating reality using holograms

'''Montague Grammar''' 
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.

'''Physical Modality''' 
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.

'''Tertiary''' 
Third-level, after primary and secondary

'''Justinian''' 
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565)

'''sotto''' 
Italian for "below," it means the dean is speaking in a low voice.

==Page 8==

'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium''' 
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

'''hyperthrophied''' 
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (see, contra, ''atrophied'')

'''insigniated''' 
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia)

==Page 9==

'''N.A.A.U.P.''' 
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.

'''de moi''' 
French: from me

'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."''' 
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word.

'''capillary webs''' 
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins

'''defacatory''' 
As if eliminating solid bodily waste

'''RICO''' 
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.

==Page 10==

'''Brewster's-Angle light''' 
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].

'''Weston''' 
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city

'''Orin''' 
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."

'''Rototiller''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]

'''Pooh-wear''' 
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance

[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

==Page 11==

'''presbyopic''' 
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older

'''Rototrembling''' 
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller

'''caustic''' 
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic

'''plumb''' 
adj., straight or true; in line with

'''ideogram''' 
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration

==Page 12==

'''Kirkegaard''' 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy

'''Camus''' 
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.

'''Dennis Gabor''' 
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."''' 
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of Leviathan. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.

'''Hegel''' 
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.

'''creatus''' 
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."

'''pinion''' 
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''parquet''' 
an in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.

==Page 13==

'''half nelson''' 
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind

'''Heimlich''' 
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.

'''pases''' 
This is the plural of pase, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.

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

'''enfilade''' 
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.

==Page 14==

<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thub|Whataburger logo|right]]
Synechdote for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational", an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson each year. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Pheonix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)

==Page 15==

'''espadrilles''' 
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles

'''leonine''' 
lion-like

'''cirri''' 
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud

'''martinet''' 
a strict disciplinarian

==Page 16==

'''ultra-mach''' 
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.

'''barnwood''' 
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''starboard list''' 
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.

'''gigantism''' 
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''

'''parodic''' 
having the qualities of a parody

'''infantophile''' 
one subject to infantophilia, also Nepiophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia])

'''incisionish''' 
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"

'''hypophalangial''' 
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands

'''Himself's''' 
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel

==Page 17==

'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."''' 
See Hamlet, Act Five, Scene One.

'''Venus Williams''' 
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.

'''Dymphna''' 
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.

'''Petropolis Kahn''' 
Petropolis is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.

"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., kohen.

'''etiology''' 
the cause of a disease

'''Socratic method'''
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece

'''O.E.D. VI's count''' 
This is a reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition.

'''nonarchaic''' 
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language

'''Latinate''' 
deriving from Latin

'''Saxonic''' 
deriving from Old English

'''quick-bit''' 
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips

'''jou''' 
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"

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

==Page 18==

'''200 grams''' 
a little over seven ounces

'''"...using just audio..."''' 
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.

'''Allston''' 
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.

'''high-resin dope''' 
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced

'''harelip''' 
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]

==Page 19==

'''TP''' 
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.

'''"own marijuana"''' 
to become master over one's addiction, in this case, to end the addiction to marijuana

'''modem''' 
used as a verb, communicating with the office via modem, an early but ubiquitous tool for transmitting data (modems, that is)

'''e-note''' 
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, written in the pre-Internet era

==Page 20==

'''Mountie''' 
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI

'''Porter Square, Cambridge''' 
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border

==Page 21==

'''convulsive''' 
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking

'''Wedekind festival''' 
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.

==Page 22==

'''pleurisy''' 
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs

'''120 grams''' 
about 4.2 ounces

'''Tito Puente''' 
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.

'''Marlborough Street''' 
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.

==Page 23==

'''methamphetamine hydrochloride''' 
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that Infinite Jest was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.

==Page 24==

'''magisculed''' 
"Magiscules" are upper-case letters; Wallace is using this noun as a verb.

'''50 grams''' 
about 1.75 ounces

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water without soil

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'''stein''' 
a drinking mug

'''E.W.D. land barge''' 
perhaps "Enfield Waste Disposal"

'''half a meter''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''carb''' 
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carbuteror on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.

'''teleputer''' 
Presumably a computer which shows television shows or movies, it occurs to me now that "TP" may stand for "teleputer."

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'''Remington-hung''' 
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].

'''half-Windsors''' 
A type of knot used to tie a necktie

'''Harold Incandenza''' 
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.

'''Enfield''' 
A fictional town just west of Boston, which exists where parts of the real town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.

==Page 4==

'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Atheltic Assocation -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.

'''wen''' 
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary)

'''Randolph Tennis Center''' 
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tuscon, Ariz., where the main campus of the University of Arizona is also located.

'''El Con Marriott''' 
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquidistdor Hotel in Tuscon, the Marriot has a different name.

==Page 5==

'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."''' 
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.

'''62.5%''' 
Out of eight people in the room (including himself, three deans, the Director of Composition, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are not looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.

'''circumflex''' 
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb être (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.

'''Pac 10''' 
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.

'''Kekuléan''' 
Referring to Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (a.k.a. August Kekulé), a German organic chemist (1829-1896). Chemicals are said to be formed by knots of elements. The exact shape to which Hal is referring is unclear.

==Page 6==

'''aviarian''' 
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.

==Page 7==

'''lapidary''' 
A jewel-cutter

'''effete''' 
Degenerate or decadent

'''Prescriptive Grammar''' 
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.

'''Post-Fourier Transformations''' 
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.

'''Holographically Mimetic''' 
Approximating reality using holograms

'''Montague Grammar''' 
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.

'''Physical Modality''' 
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.

'''Tertiary''' 
Third-level, after primary and secondary

'''Justinian''' 
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565)

'''sotto''' 
Italian for "below," it means the dean is speaking in a low voice.

==Page 8==

'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium''' 
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

'''hyperthrophied''' 
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (see, contra, ''atrophied'')

'''insigniated''' 
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia)

==Page 9==

'''N.A.A.U.P.''' 
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.

'''de moi''' 
French: from me

'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."''' 
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word.

'''capillary webs''' 
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins

'''defacatory''' 
As if eliminating solid bodily waste

'''RICO''' 
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.

==Page 10==

'''Brewster's-Angle light''' 
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].

'''Weston''' 
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city

'''Orin''' 
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."

'''Rototiller''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]

'''Pooh-wear''' 
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance

[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

==Page 11==

'''presbyopic''' 
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older

'''Rototrembling''' 
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller

'''caustic''' 
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic

'''plumb''' 
adj., straight or true; in line with

'''ideogram''' 
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration

==Page 12==

'''Kirkegaard''' 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy

'''Camus''' 
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.

'''Dennis Gabor''' 
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."''' 
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of Leviathan. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.

'''Hegel''' 
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.

'''creatus''' 
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."

'''pinion''' 
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''parquet''' 
an in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.

==Page 13==

'''half nelson''' 
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind

'''Heimlich''' 
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.

'''pases''' 
This is the plural of pase, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.

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

'''enfilade''' 
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.

==Page 14==

<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thub|Whataburger logo|right]]
Synechdote for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational", an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson each year. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Pheonix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)

==Page 15==

'''espadrilles''' 
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles

'''leonine''' 
lion-like

'''cirri''' 
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud

'''martinet''' 
a strict disciplinarian

==Page 16==

'''ultra-mach''' 
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.

'''barnwood''' 
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''starboard list''' 
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.

'''gigantism''' 
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''

'''parodic''' 
having the qualities of a parody

'''infantophile''' 
one subject to infantophilia, also Nepiophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia])

'''incisionish''' 
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"

'''hypophalangial''' 
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands

'''Himself's''' 
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel

==Page 17==

'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."''' 
See Hamlet, Act Five, Scene One.

'''Venus Williams''' 
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.

'''Dymphna''' 
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.

'''Petropolis Kahn''' 
Petropolis is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.

"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., kohen.

'''etiology''' 
the cause of a disease

'''Socratic method'''
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece

'''O.E.D. VI's count''' 
This is a reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition.

'''nonarchaic''' 
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language

'''Latinate''' 
deriving from Latin

'''Saxonic''' 
deriving from Old English

'''quick-bit''' 
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips

'''jou''' 
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"

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

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'''200 grams''' 
a little over seven ounces

'''"...using just audio..."''' 
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.

'''Allston''' 
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.

'''high-resin dope''' 
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced

'''harelip''' 
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]

==Page 19==

'''TP''' 
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.

'''"own marijuana"''' 
to become master over one's addiction, in this case, to end the addiction to marijuana

'''modem''' 
used as a verb, communicating with the office via modem, an early but ubiquitous tool for transmitting data

'''e-note''' 
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, written in the pre-Internet era

==Page 20==

'''Mountie''' 
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI

'''Porter Square, Cambridge''' 
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border

==Page 21==

'''convulsive''' 
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking

'''Wedekind festival''' 
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.

==Page 22==

'''pleurisy''' 
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs

'''120 grams''' 
about 4.2 ounces

'''Tito Puente''' 
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.

'''Marlborough Street''' 
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.

==Page 23==

'''methamphetamine hydrochloride''' 
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that Infinite Jest was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.

==Page 24==

'''magisculed''' 
"Magiscules" are upper-case letters; Wallace is using this noun as a verb.

'''50 grams''' 
about 1.75 ounces

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water without soil

==Page 25==

'''stein''' 
a drinking mug

'''E.W.D. land barge''' 
perhaps "Enfield Waste Disposal"

'''half a meter''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''carb''' 
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carbuteror on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.

'''teleputer''' 
Presumably a computer which shows television shows or movies, it occurs to me now that "TP" may stand for "teleputer."

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'''Remington-hung''' 
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].

'''half-Windsors''' 
A type of knot used to tie a necktie

'''Harold Incandenza''' 
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.

'''Enfield''' 
A fictional town just west of Boston, which exists where parts of the real town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.

==Page 4==

'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Atheltic Assocation -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.

'''wen''' 
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary)

'''Randolph Tennis Center''' 
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tuscon, Ariz., where the main campus of the University of Arizona is also located.

'''El Con Marriott''' 
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquidistdor Hotel in Tuscon, the Marriot has a different name.

==Page 5==

'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."''' 
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.

'''62.5%''' 
Out of eight people in the room (including himself, three deans, the Director of Composition, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are not looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.

'''circumflex''' 
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb être (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.

'''Pac 10''' 
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.

'''Kekuléan''' 
Referring to Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (a.k.a. August Kekulé), a German organic chemist (1829-1896). Chemicals are said to be formed by knots of elements. The exact shape to which Hal is referring is unclear.

==Page 6==

'''aviarian''' 
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.

==Page 7==

'''lapidary''' 
A jewel-cutter

'''effete''' 
Degenerate or decadent

'''Prescriptive Grammar''' 
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.

'''Post-Fourier Transformations''' 
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.

'''Holographically Mimetic''' 
Approximating reality using holograms

'''Montague Grammar''' 
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.

'''Physical Modality''' 
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.

'''Tertiary''' 
Third-level, after primary and secondary

'''Justinian''' 
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565)

'''sotto''' 
Italian for "below," it means the dean is speaking in a low voice.

==Page 8==

'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium''' 
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

'''hyperthrophied''' 
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (see, contra, ''atrophied'')

'''insigniated''' 
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia)

==Page 9==

'''N.A.A.U.P.''' 
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.

'''de moi''' 
French: from me

'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."''' 
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word.

'''capillary webs''' 
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins

'''defacatory''' 
As if eliminating solid bodily waste

'''RICO''' 
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.

==Page 10==

'''Brewster's-Angle light''' 
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].

'''Weston''' 
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city

'''Orin''' 
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."

'''Rototiller''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]

'''Pooh-wear''' 
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance

[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

==Page 11==

'''presbyopic''' 
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older

'''Rototrembling''' 
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller

'''caustic''' 
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic

'''plumb''' 
adj., straight or true; in line with

'''ideogram''' 
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration

==Page 12==

'''Kirkegaard''' 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy

'''Camus''' 
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.

'''Dennis Gabor''' 
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."''' 
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of Leviathan. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.

'''Hegel''' 
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.

'''creatus''' 
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."

'''pinion''' 
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''parquet''' 
an in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.

==Page 13==

'''half nelson''' 
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind

'''Heimlich''' 
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.

'''pases''' 
This is the plural of pase, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.

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

'''enfilade''' 
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.

==Page 14==

<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thub|Whataburger logo|right]]
Synechdote for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational", an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson each year. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Pheonix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)

==Page 15==

'''espadrilles''' 
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles

'''leonine''' 
lion-like

'''cirri''' 
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud

'''martinet''' 
a strict disciplinarian

==Page 16==

'''ultra-mach''' 
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.

'''barnwood''' 
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''starboard list''' 
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.

'''gigantism''' 
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''

'''parodic''' 
having the qualities of a parody

'''infantophile''' 
one subject to infantophilia, also Nepiophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia])

'''incisionish''' 
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"

'''hypophalangial''' 
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands

'''Himself's''' 
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel

==Page 17==

'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."''' 
See Hamlet, Act Five, Scene One.

'''Venus Williams''' 
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.

'''Dymphna''' 
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.

'''Petropolis Kahn''' 
Petropolis is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.

"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., kohen.

'''etiology''' 
the cause of a disease

'''Socratic method'''
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece

'''O.E.D. VI's count''' 
This is a reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition.

'''nonarchaic''' 
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language

'''Latinate''' 
deriving from Latin

'''Saxonic''' 
deriving from Old English

'''quick-bit''' 
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips

'''jou''' 
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"

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

==Page 18==

'''200 grams''' 
a little over seven ounces

'''"...using just audio..."''' 
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.

'''Allston''' 
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.

'''high-resin dope''' 
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced

'''harelip''' 
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]

==Page 19==

'''TP''' 
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.

'''"own marijuana"''' 
to become master over one's addiction, in this case, to end the addiction to marijuana

'''modem''' 
used as a verb to mean communicating with the office via modem

'''e-note''' 
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, written in the pre-Internet era

==Page 20==

'''Mountie''' 
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI

'''Porter Square, Cambridge''' 
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border

==Page 21==

'''convulsive''' 
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking

'''Wedekind festival''' 
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.

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'''pleurisy''' 
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs

'''120 grams''' 
about 4.2 ounces

'''Tito Puente''' 
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.

'''Marlborough Street''' 
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.

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'''methamphetamine hydrochloride''' 
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that Infinite Jest was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.

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'''magisculed''' 
"Magiscules" are upper-case letters; Wallace is using this noun as a verb.

'''50 grams''' 
about 1.75 ounces

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water without soil

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'''stein''' 
a drinking mug

'''E.W.D. land barge''' 
perhaps "Enfield Waste Disposal"

'''half a meter''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''carb''' 
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carbuteror on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.

'''teleputer''' 
Presumably a computer which shows television shows or movies, it occurs to me now that "TP" may stand for "teleputer."

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'''Remington-hung''' 
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].

'''half-Windsors''' 
A type of knot used to tie a necktie

'''Harold Incandenza''' 
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.

'''Enfield''' 
A fictional town just west of Boston, which exists where parts of the real town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.

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'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Atheltic Assocation -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.

'''wen''' 
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary)

'''Randolph Tennis Center''' 
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tuscon, Ariz., where the main campus of the University of Arizona is also located.

'''El Con Marriott''' 
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquidistdor Hotel in Tuscon, the Marriot has a different name.

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'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."''' 
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.

'''62.5%''' 
Out of eight people in the room (including himself, three deans, the Director of Composition, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are not looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.

'''circumflex''' 
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb être (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.

'''Pac 10''' 
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.

'''Kekuléan''' 
Referring to Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (a.k.a. August Kekulé), a German organic chemist (1829-1896). Chemicals are said to be formed by knots of elements. The exact shape to which Hal is referring is unclear.

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'''aviarian''' 
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.

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'''lapidary''' 
A jewel-cutter

'''effete''' 
Degenerate or decadent

'''Prescriptive Grammar''' 
This terms describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace is firmly in this school.

'''Post-Fourier Transformations''' 
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.

'''Holographically Mimetic''' 
Approximating reality using holograms

'''Montague Grammar''' 
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.

'''Physical Modality''' 
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.

'''Tertiary''' 
Third-level, after primary and secondary

'''Justinian''' 
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565)

'''sotto''' 
Italian for "below," it means the dean is speaking in a low voice.

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'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium''' 
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

'''hyperthrophied''' 
Enlarged through strength training, specific to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy human muscles] (see, contra, ''atrophied'')

'''insigniated''' 
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia)

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'''N.A.A.U.P.''' 
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.

'''de moi''' 
French: from me

'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."''' 
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word.

'''capillary webs''' 
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins

'''defacatory''' 
As if eliminating solid bodily waste

'''RICO''' 
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.

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'''Brewster's-Angle light''' 
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].

'''Weston''' 
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city

'''Orin''' 
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."

'''Rototiller''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]

'''Pooh-wear''' 
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance

[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

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'''presbyopic''' 
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older

'''Rototrembling''' 
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller

'''caustic''' 
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic

'''plumb''' 
adj., straight or true; in line with

'''ideogram''' 
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration

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'''Kirkegaard''' 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy

'''Camus''' 
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.

'''Dennis Gabor''' 
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."''' 
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of Leviathan. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.

'''Hegel''' 
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.

'''creatus''' 
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."

'''pinion''' 
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''parquet''' 
an in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.

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'''half nelson''' 
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind

'''Heimlich''' 
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.

'''pases''' 
This is the plural of pase, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.

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

'''enfilade''' 
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.

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<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thub|Whataburger logo|right]]
Synechdote for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational", an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson each year. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Pheonix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)

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'''espadrilles''' 
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles

'''leonine''' 
lion-like

'''cirri''' 
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud

'''martinet''' 
a strict disciplinarian

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'''ultra-mach''' 
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.

'''barnwood''' 
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''starboard list''' 
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.

'''gigantism''' 
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''

'''parodic''' 
having the qualities of a parody

'''infantophile''' 
one subject to infantophilia, also Nepiophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia])

'''incisionish''' 
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"

'''hypophalangial''' 
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands

'''Himself's''' 
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel

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'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."''' 
See Hamlet, Act Five, Scene One.

'''Venus Williams''' 
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.

'''Dymphna''' 
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.

'''Petropolis Kahn''' 
Petropolis is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.

"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., kohen.

'''etiology''' 
the cause of a disease

'''Socratic method'''
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece

'''O.E.D. VI's count''' 
This is a reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition.

'''nonarchaic''' 
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language

'''Latinate''' 
deriving from Latin

'''Saxonic''' 
deriving from Old English

'''quick-bit''' 
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips

'''jou''' 
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"

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

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'''200 grams''' 
a little over seven ounces

'''"...using just audio..."''' 
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.

'''Allston''' 
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.

'''high-resin dope''' 
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced

'''harelip''' 
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]

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'''TP''' 
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.

'''"own marijuana"''' 
to become master over one's addiction, in this case, to end the addiction to marijuana

'''modem''' 
used as a verb to mean communicating with the office via modem

'''e-note''' 
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, written in the pre-Internet era

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'''Mountie''' 
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI

'''Porter Square, Cambridge''' 
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border

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'''Wedekind festival''' 
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.

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'''pleurisy''' 
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs

'''120 grams''' 
about 4.2 ounces

'''Tito Puente''' 
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.

'''Marlborough Street''' 
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.

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'''methamphetamine hydrochloride''' 
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that Infinite Jest was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.

==Page 24==

'''magisculed''' 
"Magiscules" are upper-case letters; Wallace is using this noun as a verb.

'''50 grams''' 
about 1.75 ounces

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water without soil

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'''stein''' 
a drinking mug

'''E.W.D. land barge''' 
perhaps "Enfield Waste Disposal"

'''half a meter''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''carb''' 
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carbuteror on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.

'''teleputer''' 
Presumably a computer which shows television shows or movies, it occurs to me now that "TP" may stand for "teleputer."

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