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=November 6th, YDAU - ETA Weight Room=

==Page 198==

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

'''Kornspan''' 
German: corn chip ["Korn" means corn or grain, "Span" means chip or flake, but "Kornspan" makes no sense in German]

'''isometrics''' 
While this is just another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isometric_exercise isometric exercise], it's not clear how Pemulis would be making his face stronger. ...Perhaps he is just making faces as a result of his trying to eavesdrop and in response to the other shouts in the weight room.

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[[Image:Bacon.jpg|thumb|caption|Bacon's ''Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X''|right|150px]]

'''like one of Bacon's popes''' 
Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was an Irish artist. His portrait of Pope Innocent X can be seen to the right.

==Page 200==

'''rosin''' 
another spelling of "resin," this resin being used to provide a better grip in weightlifting

'''mesomorphic''' 
having a muscular, husky body type

=Facts About Addiction and Tattoos=

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'''D.S.S.''' 
Department of Social Services

'''papular''' 
having papules, i.e., inflamed, raised elevations on the skin not filled with pus (insect bites produce papules in most cases)

'''''tecato gusano''''' 
a worm from Tecate, Mexico, a small city in Baja California, bordering the U.S. Perhaps, but tecato is slang for a drug user, as web search will inform. Gusano indeed means worm.

==Page 201==

'''Flents''' 
a brand name of [http://earplugstore.stores.yahoo.net/flents.html earplugs]

'''subsonic''' 
of a speed less than that of sound

'''arpeggio''' 
in music, a chord played in parts (i.e., one note at a time) rather than together

'''''pace''''' 
a very loose translation from Latin would be "with due reference to"

==Page 202==

'''Human Immuno-Virus''' 
HIV, i.e., the virus that causes AIDS

'''datum''' 
a piece of information; usually used in its plural, i.e., data

'''nexus''' 
a means of connection

'''glans''' 
the end of the penis

'''D.E.C.''' 
Digital Equipment Corporation, now a part of [http://www.dec.com/ Hewlitt-Packard]

==Endnote 70==

'''N.R.A.''' 
National Rifle Association

'''including 12-Step fellowships themselves''' 
See Chuck Palahniuk's novel ''Fight Club''.

==Page 202 (cont'd)==

''''Texas Catheter'''' 
This is "a condom-like device with a plug where the condom's reservoir tip would be, and an adhesive at the base. This device allows for urinary catheterization without the insertion of a true catheter" (Wikipedia).

==Page 203==

'''colloquia''' 
Plural for "colloquium," these are akin to academic conferences, albeit slightly less formal.

'''50 proof''' 
i.e., 25 percent alcohol

'''unalloyed''' 
pure

'''O.C.D.''' 
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

'''epiphanic''' 
adjective form of "epiphany," a moment of sudden and great revelation or realization (Oxford Dictionary of English).

'''insipid''' 
without any interesting qualities

==Page 204==

'''Billerica''' 
a town in Massachusetts, about 25 miles northwest of Boston

'''''vig''''' 
short for "vigorish" (the bookie's fee for his services; see also p. 912)

'''argot''' 
slang

==Page 205==

'''pancreatitis''' 
inflammation of the pancreas

==Page 206==

'''Scrofulous''' 
Morally degenerate; corrupt.

'''Sauvignon''' 
one of two types of wine made from two related sorts of grapes

'''Purple-Hearted''' 
A soldier receives a Purple Heart when s/he is wounded

'''Store 24''' 
A New England chain of convenience stores that often include both self-service gasoline and a deli, the website of which is [http://www.tedeschifoodshops.com/our-history.php here].

==Page 207==

'''200 kilos''' 
over 440 pounds

'''Scooter Puppies''' 
This is likely a term that DFW coined, although Spin magazine used it in a blurb in 1996. I suspect that they were inspired by DFW. ?? Spin does provide one of the reviews in the front of the 2006 edition.

'''Gothic script''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rudolf_Koch_gebrochene_Schriften.png Click here] to see examples.

'''undulating''' 
moving in a wavelike motion

'''necrotic''' 
dead

'''White Flag group''' 
A white flag is a military signal for "surrender." Many AA groups' names quote or allude to phrases or concepts from the AA program; this name alludes to the concept of surrender/abandon/acceptance or "turning over [one's] life and will to the care of God."

==Page 208==

'''magiscule''' 
A misspelling of "majuscule," meaning a capital letter, or uncial.

'''hyperemic''' 
engorged with blood

'''palmate''' 
having four or more leaves emanating from a single point

'''Watertown''' 
a suburb of Boston, ten miles to the west

'''half-m.-long''' 
a half-meter, or nearly 20 inches

'''gonfalonish''' 
resembling a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonfalon gonfalon]

'''mucronate''' 
[New Oxford American Dictionary, henceforth NOAD]:[Botany] [Zoology] ending abruptly in a short sharp point or mucro.

'''St. Vitus's dance''' 
a nickname for Sydenham’s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorea_%28disease%29 chorea]

'''''HOW DO YOU LIK YOUR BLUEYED BOY NOW MR DETH!?''''' 
Misspelling and slight misquotation of the last line of the poem "Buffalo Bill's/defunct," by e.e. cummings: "how do you like your blueeyed boy/Mister Death". The full poem appears here: [http://www.madeinwyoming.net/profiles/extras/BBPoemCummings.pdf]

'''gestalt''' 
Gestalt is "a configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that cannot be derived from the summation of its component parts" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

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'''crocodilic''' 
White Flag reference to senior AA members, who sit under a picture of crocodiles sunbathing on a riverbank

'''St. Columbkill''' 
a place name here, named for an actual Irish saint. There is a real Roman Catholic parish in Brighton called St. Columbkille.

'''St. Elizabeth's Hospital''' 
St. Elizabeth's Medical Center is a real hospital in Brighton. Its Web site is [http://www.caritasstelizabeths.org/ here].

'''cantankerous''' 
disagreeable, argumentative

'''Rita Hayworth''' 
The era of [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000028/ Rita Hayworth] would be the '30s and '40s.

'''''SUBIKBAY'62USN4-07''''' 
SUBIKBAY is probably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subic_Bay Subic Bay]. USN would be U.S. Navy.

'''''SEMPER FI''''' 
Short for ''Semper fidelis'' ("always faithful"), motto of the U.S. Marine Corps

'''autolyzed''' 
having undergone autolysis, i.e., the breakdown of tissue over time

'''BLTN''' 
Better Late Than Never

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'''phylum''' 
A taxonomical term just below Kingdom (in humans, Animal), the phylum of mammals is ''Chordata'', which means they have a spinal cord.

'''foment''' 
To foment is to instigate or stir up but the proper word here would be "ferment"

'''M.D.C.''' 
Massachusetts Department of Corrections

'''Talwin''' 
brand name of pentazocine, a narcotic painkiller

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'''cribbage''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cribbage card game]

'''canted''' 
set at an oblique angle; this can also mean having rounded corners

=The Incredibly Potent DMZ=

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'''film-noir''' 
According to Wikipedia, ''film noir'' (French for "dark film") is "a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize moral ambiguity and sexual motivation. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940s to the late 1950s."

'''psychosensual''' 
Whereas ''psychosensual'' would have a more sexual connotation...

'''psychosensory''' 
...''psychosensory'' would be more nearly precise, as it would apply to sensory stimulation, not necessarily sexual.

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'''CIA-era military experiments''' 
probably a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MK-ULTRA MKULTRA]

'''hydrangea''' 
several species of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrangea flowering plants], the color of whose blossoms ranges from pink to blue depending on soil acidity

'''gistless''' 
having no essential heart of the matter

'''Decoct''' 
to extract soluble parts by boiling

'''spectrometer''' 
an optical or magnetic instrument used to conduct spectroscopic analysis of matter (in the case of a mass spectrometer) or light emitted by heated matter, plotting intensity v. wavelength, to determine its constituent elements, or combinations of elements

'''Ram Das''' 
A reference to Baba Ram Dass (born 1931 as Richard Alpert), an American-Jewish spiritual leader, author of ''Be Here Now'', and large influence on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Townshend Pete Townshend].

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'''frustum''' 
A frustum is a truncated cone or pyramid, or specifically "the part of a conical solid left after cutting off a top portion with a plane parallel to the base" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary''). "Cut a cone off the top of a cone, and a frustum is what remains." [editor]

'''Lamb's Breath cannabis''' 
a type of potent marijuana

'''20-g.''' 
a 20-gram amount (about .7 ounces)

'''Sierpinski gasket''' 
Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński (1882-1969) was a Polish mathematician and one of the innovators of set theory. The Sierpinski gasket is a fractal, also called the Sierpinski triangle. See picture at right. [[Image:Sierpinski_Triangle.jpg|caption|Sierpinski gasket|right|150px]]

'''mullioned''' 
having separate panes, when used for a window

'''fenestrated''' 
fenestration 1 : the arrangement, proportioning, and design of windows and doors in a building.

'''philatelic forceps, a loupe''' 
Philatelic refers to stamp collecting, in which stamps are handled with forceps and examined with loupes, the latter being essentialy a magnifying lens one screws into one's eye socket or orbit. A loupe is also used by a jeweler to view flaws in diamonds, and forceps have many other uses.

'''Bunsen burner''' 
a laboratory [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunsen_burner burner] invented in part by Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (1811-1899), a German chemist.

'''titration''' 
the process of determining the strength of a compound

'''Lysergics''' 
Lysergic acid diethylamide - LSD

'''Muscimol''' (also known as agarin or pantherine) is the principal psychoactive constituent of Amanita muscaria and related species of mushroom.

'''WATS''' 
Wide Area Telecommunications Service: "bulk-rate telephone service that enables a subscriber to make an unlimited number of long-distance telephone calls within a given service area for a fixed monthly charge or to receive calls from given areas with no charge to the caller" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'')

'''Methoxy''' 
5-methoxy-diisopropyltryptamine often termed Foxy Methoxy or just Foxy, is a psychedelic tryptamine.

'''Fitviavi''' 
fit via vi is a Latin phrase from Book II of The Aeneid, line 494, that can be translated as “the way is forged by strength” or “Force finds a road.”

'''Ergotics''' 
Effects of poisonous fungus that can infect grains. It has convulsive and gangrenous symptoms. Overuse of
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylergometrine Methylergometrine] and Ergotamine (which is a migraine medication) can also cause the disease.

'''cross-key''' 
to type in at the same time as search terms on a computer

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'''monograph''' 
a scholarly study on a particular subject, usually published as a book

'''Leavenworth''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Disciplinary_Barracks U.S. Disciplinary Barracks] at Leavenworth, Kan.

'''Ethel Merman''' 
an American [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0581062/ actress], primarily known for her roles in Broadway musicals [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Merman wikipedia]

'''AWOL''' 
Absent Without Leave, a military term

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'''Motrinish''' 
I.e., like Motrin, the original brand name of ibuprofen

'''fools-rush-in''' 
A reference to ''An Essay on Man'', a lengthy poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744), a British poet of great renown:
No Place so Sacred from such Fops is barr'd, 
Nor is Paul's Church more safe than Paul's Church-yard: 
Nay, fly to Altars; there they'll talk you dead; 
'''For Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.

'''psychomotor seizure''' 
a seizure characterized by psychic manifestation, and an older name for a complex motor seizure

'''Zen''' 
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen Buddhism] ultimately, although here it applies more to perfection or transcendence

'''dumbshow''' 
Here it means sign language or mime, but the term has a longer history in theater, where it refers to a preview of a part of a play done without lines.

'''Antitoi''' 
French: against you, as in opposed to you, opposition not propinquity being implied
: When DFW describes his teenage years in ''Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley'', he mentions his tennis partner named Gil Antitoi.

'''Nuck''' 
a pejorative term for a French-Canadian, presumably shortened from "Canuck"

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'''Tenuate Dospan''' 
Tenuate is a brand name of diethylcathinone, an appetite suppressant and mild amphetamine; Dospan is used for the time-release pills.

'''otiose''' 
idle, superfluous or useless

[[Image:Quaker.jpg|right]]

'''"... the way W. Penn in his Quaker Oats hat in like the 16th century must have felt trading a few trinkets to babe-in-the-woods Natives for New Jersey..."''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Penn William Penn] (1644-1718) was the British-born founder of the colony (and later state) of Pennsylvania. For the hat, see right. In 1677 a group of prominent Quakers that included Penn purchased the colonial province of West Jersey (half of the current state of New Jersey), before founding Pennsylvania, and ultimately permitting 3 schismatic counties to break away to become what would in time be known as Delaware.

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

'''opportunity-cost''' 
In economics, this is what one loses in income, pleasure, etc., from engaging in another activity rather than the one that would have paid said income, pleasure, etc. Wallace (or Pemulis) is using the term incorrectly.

'''rotator cuff''' 
the group of muscles and tendons that stabilize the shoulder

'''stolid''' 
unemotional or impassive

'''Sanguine''' 
optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation.

'''''contre-pied''''' 
Literally French for "against-foot," this term is used to apply to a direction taken (mistakenly) by dogs in pursuit of an animal who has taken a different direction.

'''purgatorial''' 
Serving to purify of sin; expiatory.

'''128-256 Alphabetville''' 
Because of his injury, Schacht was ranked in the lower 128 seeds in the tournament just after his hurt his knee. Alphabetville could refer to a ranking convention. A common 'Equal Point Score' guideline for when two or several players have the same Ranking point score decides the position according to the player with most tournament participation within four years, and if these conditions should apply with both or several players then the Ranking position is arranged alphabetically after the surname.

'''11/5''' 
November 5th, [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

'''Accrete''' 
To grow together; fuse.

'''arachnodactylic''' 
having long narrow fingers and toes, evocative of the long legs of spiders

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'''Order but not the same Family''' 
Like "phylum," these are also taxonomical terms. Human beings are ''Homo sapiens'', with ''Homo'' being the genus and ''sapiens'' being the species. Dogs and cats are in the same order: ''Carnivora'' (meat-eaters); but they are in different families: Dogs are in ''Canidae'' and cats in ''Felidae''. However, the hyena, which resembles a dog, is actually in the ''Felidae'' family. Q.e.d.

'''Acton''' 
town in Massachusetts about 25 miles west-northwest of Boston

'''Port Washington Academy''' 
[http://www.pwta.com/JuniorDevelopment.htm PW] in Long Island is the largest indoor tennis facility on the east coast. It's also a nonprofit and looks small Compared to [http://www.evertacademy.com/about-us/ ETA/IMG]

'''Xerox''' 
Why is PW like Xerox? Xerox let Apple employees see their GUI in the 70s. Some say they could be as rich as Apple if they hadn't. Because they failed to be the ones to bring their new GUI to the market, they don't have the eco/social damages of major computer chip manufacturing companies. Compare [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McEnroe John McEnroe] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitas_Gerulaitis Vitas Gerulaitis] developing their games at PW.

'''Gargantuan''' 
Since [http://www.pwta.com PW] is an after school program that only charges tuition for those who can afford to pay; it can hardly be called Gargantuan. It calls itself a Tennis Academy on it's website but it can hardly be compared to [http://www.evertacademy.com/programs/evert-tennis-academy-annual-and-semester-programs/academy-program/ ETA]. The word Gargantuan brings to mind François Rabelais 16th century story of Gargantua, a story which can be considered a point-by-point critique of the educational practices of the age and promoting free education. So then PW could be compared to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Rabelais#Th.C3.A9l.C3.A8me The Abby of Thélème]

'''TesTar''' 
I can't find anything on Testar but on page 261 the court coverings at PWTA are referred to as lungs. From context, perhaps a truncated portmanteau of '''Tes'''sellated '''Tar'''paulin. It might not be findable if DFW made it up.

'''vivisected''' 
cut apart while still alive

'''the weekend right before Thanksgiving week and the Whataburger Invitational''' 
Hal and Permulis set a date for a 'window of opportunity' to take DMZ. Compare Page 16, where Hal says that the only other emergency room he has ever been in was exactly one year back from November, Year of Glad. So, this may provide a nexus explaining what happened to Hal at the beginning of Infinite Jest.

==Page 218==

'''twins Siamese''' 
The Vaught twin-sister tennis players are actually conjoined at the head.

'''Akron''' 
a city in Ohio and rubber capital of the world

'''Charleston''' 
the dance, not the city

'''bell-lap''' 
a term from track, this is the final lap of a race

'''12/12's Boards''' 
probably SATs or something like them

'''meninges''' 
the tissues that encase the brain

'''glade''' 
a clearing in a forest

==Endnote 76==

'''Attention Deficit Disorder''' 
old terminology for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD. Hal's objective symptoms describe the Inattentive Type.

'''port or starboard''' 
left or right

'''bell curve''' 
the curve formed by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution normal distribution] of IQs -- a concept fraught with problems of political correctness, racism or racialism, and different concepts of what "intelligence" is

'''glabrous''' 
having a surface devoid of hair, generally said of skin or a leaf

'''RAM''' 
Random Access Memory

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'''halcyon''' 
prosperous, happy

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken]]

==Endnote 77==

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

'''H. Bosch's triptych ''The Garden of Earthly Delights''''' 
Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) was a Dutch painter. You can view the aforementioned triptych [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights here].

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insights... hmm... i liked the ending... anyone? --Mimesis

=Inspiration for InterLace=
Wallace's response to George Gilder's ''Life After Television: The Coming Transformation of Media and American Life'', in his essay ''E Unibus Pluram'':

'So, in sum, a conservative tech writer offers a really attractive way of looking at viewer passivity, at TV's institutionalization of irony, narcissism, nihilism, stasis, loneliness. It's not our fault! It's outmoded technology's fault! If TV-dissemination were up to date, it would be impossible for it to "institutionalize" anything through its demonic "mass-psychology." Let's let Joe B., the little lonely average guy, be his own manipulator of video-bits. Once all experience is finally reduced to marketable image, once the receiving user of user-friendly receivers can break from the coffle and choose freely, Americanly, from an Americanly infinite variety of moving images ''hardly distinguishable from real-life images'', and can then choose further just how he wishes to store, enhance, edit, recombine, and present those images to himself in the privacy of his very own home and skull, then TV's ironic, totalitarian grip on the American psychic cojones will be broken. !!!'

This is pretty clearly Wallace's inspiration for the InterLace system. --[[User:Pyrocow|Pyrocow]] 19:14, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

= To hear the squeak =

''to hear the squeak'' (of the Wheelchair Assassins) means to die soon. In Brittany, it was said that when the Ankou (Death) when he came to get you, you heard the squeak of his chariot’s wheels.

= USA giving away toxic waste to another country =

This reminds me of [https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/12/26/congress-directs-repairs-nuclear-waste-coffin-left-over-atomic-bomb-tests.html the nuclear dome on Runit Island], now in the Marshall Islands. No idea whether DFW was aware of this.

= Aaron Swarz’s Ending discussion =

Contains massive spoilers, of course, but [http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/ijend Aaron Swarz’s blog entry] is a must read. Since it is unclear how long his web site will remain up after his death, I am copying it below and deleting it immediately afterwards, so that it doesn’t show up but can be read in the versions history.

Raw Thought

by Aaron Swartz
What Happens at the End of Infinite Jest? (or, the Infinite Jest ending explained)

Herb: Is there no “ending” to “Infinite Book” because there couldn’t be? Or did you just get tired of writing it?

DFW: There is an ending as far as I’m concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging in such a way that an “end” can be projected by the reader somewhere beyond the right frame. If no such convergence or projection occurred to you, then the book’s failed for you.

(Live Online with David Foster Wallace, May 17, 1996)

WARNING: This whole thing is one gigantic spoiler. Only read it if you’ve already tried to figure it out for yourself first.

Gately, having relived his bottom, begins to recover from his infection.

But at the same time, Hal’s condition deepens. Ever since Hal ate the mold as a child, he’s been a brilliant communicator but unable to feel. (694: “Hal himself hasn’t had a bona fide intensity-of-interior-life-type emotion since he was tiny … in fact he’s far more robotic than John Wayne.”) JOI was the only one who could see it. In life, everyone thought JOI was just being crazy but in death (as a wraith) he can actually read Hal’s thoughts and thus confirm his view.

In life he created the Entertainment to draw Hal out (Hal moves outwardly but doesn’t feel inside; victims of the Entertainment feel—something—inside but don’t move outwardly). After all, as he tells Gately, he was willing to resort to desperate measures: “No! No! Any conversation or interchange [between father and son] is better than none at all.” (839)

JOI’s wraith is responsible for the strange disturbances around ETA — tripods in the forest, moving Ortho’s bed, ceiling tiles on the floor. He knocks the ceiling tiles down in an attempt to find the DMZ. Pemulis is too distracted with getting expelled to have Hal take it, so JOI needs to get it to Hal some other way.

JOI also created DMZ as part of an attempt to undo the effects of Hal’s eating mold as a child (recall: DMZ is a mold that grows on a mold). He left it along with the Entertainment (recall: ETA kids find JOI’s personal effects (670: “a bulky old doorless microwave…a load of old TP cartridges…mostly unlabelled”); the tapes and the DMZ are delivered together to the FLQ) which is about this goal (it stars a woman named Madame Psychosis (a street name for DMZ) explaining that the thing that killed you in your last life will give birth to you in the next). The DMZ and the Entertainment were meant to go together for Hal. Now that the Entertainment has escaped, he needs to get Hal the DMZ.

Hal never leaves leaves his toothbrush unattended (870), but that’s no problem for a wraith. He places the DMZ on Hal’s brush and Hal brushes his teeth (860) and immediately begins experiencing symptoms: Ortho thinks Hal’s crying when Hal thinks he’s speaking in a neutral tone (862).

Hal’s symptoms indeed begin to reverse: he is now unable to properly communicate feelings (people see him as either laughing hysterically or terribly sad) but beginning to actually feel (like Gately, he spends a lot of time lying on the floor thinking about the past — the hero of nonaction from his essay (142)). While before, everyone could hear him except JOI; now only JOI can hear him (since, as with Gately, he can hear Hal’s thoughts).

By the time of the match, his symptoms are so bad he’s taken by ambulance to the hospital (16: “the only other emergency room I have ever been in [was] almost exactly one year back”), safely escaping the A.F.R.’s assault. Like fellow student Otis P. Lord, he gets the bed next to Gately. Joelle (who is at the hospital for a meeting) visits Gately on her way out and recognizes Hal. She tells them both about the hunt for the lethal Entertainment and the resulting Continental Emergency and they all go to dig up JOI’s grave. They persuade John Wayne, a spy for the A.F.R., to become a double agent and help sneak them into JOI’s Quebec burial site. Wayne presumably tells the A.F.R. he is actually a triple agent — that he will steal the tape as soon as Hal digs it up. But, as with Marathe, his loyalties are ultimately even-numbered (n40). The A.F.R. finds out and brutally murders him, which is why he can’t win the WhataBurger (16f).

As Gately forsees:

he’s with a very sad kid and they’re in a graveyard digging some dead guy’s head up and it’s really important, like Continental-Emergency important, and Gately’s the best digger but he’s wicked hungry, like irresistibly hungry, and he’s eating with both hands out of huge economy-size bags of corporate snacks so he can’t really dig, while it gets later and later and the sad kid is trying to scream at Gately that the important thing was buried in the guy’s head and to divert the Continental Emergency to start digging the guy’s head up before it’s too late, but the kid moves his mouth but nothing comes out, and Joelle van D. appears … while the sad kid holds something terrible up by the hair and makes the face of somebody shouting in panic: Too Late. (934)

It’s too late because someone got there first and took the anti-Entertainment cartridge (126) embedded in JOI’s head (31). Whoever took it is presumably the person who’s made and mailed the extant copies. It couldn’t be the A.F.R. or O.U.S. or they wouldn’t still be searching for it. It probably wasn’t the F.L.Q. because they didn’t know how to read master cartridges—they just thought they were blank tapes in their displays were blank. (483n205) It couldn’t be Avril acting alone; she has problems but she’s not that kind of cold-blooded killer. It had to have been Orin. (1)

Orin (who never attended his father’s funeral) went to the gravesite and dug up his father, releasing the wraith in the process. (244: “After a burial, rural Papineau-region Québecers purportedly drill a small hole down from ground level all the way down through the lid of the coffin, to let out the soul, if it wants out.”) Orin, who is such a partisan of his father that he feels the need to repeatedly ruin the lives of people like his mother, has been mailing the tapes to his father’s enemies in revenge: disapproving film critics in Berkeley and the medical attaché (whose affair with his mother drove Himself especially wild) in Boston. It’s possible he’s being influenced by the wraith in these actions.

After the A.F.R. releases roaches into his giant glass tumbler, Orin cuts a deal with the A.F.R. and gives them the tape in return for letting him live. (He’s apparently still alive on p. 14.) The A.F.R. uses the tape to set off some sort of intracontinental conflagaration (16: “some sort of ultra-mach fighter too high overhead to hear slices the sky from south to north”) which apparently topples the Gentle administration (n114: “[Y.G. is] the very last year of Subsidized Time”).

As seen in Chapter 1, Hal’s condition deepens until he literally can’t communicate at all, but no longer feels like a robot anymore. (12: “I’m not a machine. I feel and believe.”) The only thing he has left is tennis and he looks forward to playing Ortho Stice in the final match of the WhataBurger. But Stice is possessed by his father (in the manuscript, Stice is called “the Wraithster”), so the novel ends as Hal finally gets to really interface with his father — in the only way he has left.

Thanks to Jeff Halley and Joe Giacona for help with the part about the DMZ.

(1) Recall that “the padded mailer [received by the attaché] is postmarked suburban Phoenix area in Arizona U.S.A.” (36) Also, Orin mentions being “in line in the post office” even though, as Hal points out, “You hate snail-mail. And you quit mailing the Moms the pseudo-form-replies two years ago.” (244) Orin doesn’t reply to that.

And: “There was reason to think M. DuPlessis had received his original copies from this relative, an athlete. … [He] may have borne responsibility for the razzles and dazzles of Berkeley and Boston, U.S.A.” (723) The other appearances of the Entertainment are New Iberia LA (Orin played football in New Orleans LA) and Tempe AZ (Orin lives in Phoenix AZ). (Thanks to Greg Carlisle, p. 477, for catching these.) ↩

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==Page 884==

'''''Ethan From''''' 
Gately means American author Edith Wharton's 1911 novel [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Frome ''Ethan Frome''].

'''''OMMATOPHORIC''''' 
having eyes at the ends of stalks

'''''ghostwords''''' 
a word that has come into existence by error rather than by normal linguistic transmission, as through the mistaken reading of a manuscript, a scribal error, or a misprint. ([http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Ghost+words Dictionary.com])

==Page 885==

'''cuneiform''' 
the writing of ancient Sumer, made by digging a wedge into clay

'''Marshall Plan''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan plan] to rebuild Germany after WWII

'''Shane''' 
a reference to a [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046303/ popular western film]

==Page 886==

'''Synovial''' 
of or pertaining to the fluid that lubricates the joints

'''renal calculus''' 
kidney stones

'''ectopic labor''' 
pregnancy in the fallopian tube

'''ibuprofen''' 
the generic name for Advil

'''antipyretic''' 
designed to combat fever

'''SR''' 
Usually in drug names, this stands for "sustained release."

'''Dilaudid''' 
brand name for hydromorphone hydrochloride

'''bayou''' 
a marshy arm of a lake

'''C-II''' 
These drugs are highly addictive. Cocaine is in this class, as it is still used legally in dentistry.

==Page 887==

'''Hydrocodone''' 
also the active ingredient in Vicodin

'''Oxycodone-nalaxone''' 
Oxycodone also the active ingredient in Oxycontin. Naloxone blocks (partially, one must guess) the effects of opioids, probably to reduce abuse potential.

==Endnote 358==

'''NX''' 
Attached to a drug name, this means it contains Naloxone.

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'''somnolent''' 
drowsy

==Page 891==

'''concentric circles''' 
circles within circles (and more annularity); more specifically circles of different radii but a common center

'''chintz''' 
printed, glazed fabric, usually of bright colors

'''the lobsters' eyes' stalks''' 
see ''OMMATOPHORIC'' earlier on pg. 884

'''The fish asking about what's water.''' 
A reference to DFW's Kenyon College commencement speech [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Water This Is Water]

'''Ipswich''' 
a town in northern Massachusetts about 40 miles east of Nashua, N.H.

'''intra-ocular''' 
within the eye

==Page 892==

'''Bufferin''' 
a brand of aspirin with a protectant for the stomach

'''JFK Library''' 
the Kennedy [http://www.jfklibrary.org/ Presidential library], located in Boston

'''Banfis''' 
expensive Italian shoes

==Page 893==

'''libido''' 
sex drive

'''taciturn''' 
reserved or reticent in speech; saying little.

'''ebubblient''' 
i.e., "ebullient" (with bubbles)

'''''hatbeat''''' 
i.e., "heartbeat" with a Boston accent ("Ya can't pak ya ca in Havid Yad.")

'''tittymount''' 
i.e., "tantamount"

==Page 894==

'''sombrero w/ balls''' 

[[Image:Sombrero with Dingle Balls.jpg]]

'''maroon''' 
a cartoonish pronunciation (''à la'' Bugs Bunny) of "moron;" (see note for page 302 ''supra'')

'''scuttlebutt''' 
gossip, rumor

==Page 895==

'''''FLEET''''' 
a brand of enema

'''alacrity''' 
eagerness

'''mortification''' 
extreme embarrassment

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==Page 896==

'''''Tosca''''' 
Opera by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) that premiered in 1900. Hal's "protracted death aria" is probably Cavaradossi's final aria 'E lucevan le stelle' ('And the stars shone'). Full lyrics and a recording can be found [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_lucevan_le_stelle here].

'''overcognitive''' 
thinking too much

==Page 897==

'''megagram''' 
a million grams, or slightly over 2,200 pounds
: A megagram is more commonly called a tonne.

'''vivisected''' 
slaughtered, yes, but not cut apart while still living

==Page 898==

'''''Yale Journal of Alcohol Studies''''' 
There is no such journal.

'''183.6 cm.''' 
a little over six feet tall

'''recumbency''' 
DFW is making up a noun here. Recumbent means “sprawled out” or otherwise sitting comfortably. So you add the suffix ''-cy'' to that to get an “action” noun from an adjective, in this case a couch where one can be recumbent. From [https://www.dictionary.com/browse/-cy Dictionary.com] '''-cy''': a suffix used to form abstract nouns from adjectives with stems in -t, -te, -tic, and especially-nt (democracy; accuracy; expediency; stagnancy; lunacy), and sometimes used to form action nouns (vacancy; occupancy).

[[Image:Husband Pillow.jpg|thumb|right|"Husband" pillow]]

'''spectation-pillows''' 
"husband" pillows like the one shown at right

'''mylar''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PET_film_(biaxially_oriented) PET film]

'''197 cm.''' 
over 6'5"

'''Vaipassana''' 
a type of Buddhist meditation ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipassanā Wikipedia]); usually spelled "Vipassana"

'''"...etymology of the word ''blizzard''..."''' 
While Hal believes the etymology is unknown, there is one offered [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/blizzard here].

'''lumiphobia''' 
probably fear of light, although the proper term is "photophobia"

'''brooha''' 
Does not seem to be an English word, so it is probably a corruption of ''brouhaha'', a French loanword meaning general noise and stir.

'''sausage-analog''' 
something similar in appearance to a breakfast sausage link, but perhaps made of textured vegetable protein rather than pork or other meat

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'''averred''' 
asserted with confidence

'''neologism''' 
a newly coined word

'''"...corruption of the French ''blesser,''..."''' 
''Blesser'' is French for "to injure or wound."

'''''Northern Vindicator''''' 
the name of several real publications

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

==Page 900==

'''Sitney and Schneewind's'' Dictionary of Environmental Sciences''''' 
There is no such book, but the name Schneewind is German for "snow wind." There are two contemporary academics with those surnames, though they are not scientists: P. Adams Sitney (b. 1944) is a scholar of avant-garde film; J.B. Schneewind (b. 1930) is a philosopher and an authority on Kant and the history of ethics

'''12 cm.''' 
about 4.73 inches

'''60 kph.''' 
about 38.3 miles per hour

'''500 meters''' 
a little over 1,650 feet

'''perspicacity''' 
keenness of perception

'''topology''' 
the mathematical study of sets

'''philately''' 
stamp collecting

'''gerundives''' 
the verbal adjective or present participle―in English, these end in "ing";

'''Hamlet''' 
Hal confronts his sausage-analog in Shakespeare.

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'''phocomelic''' 
having extremely short limbs

'''Brattleboro''' 
a town in Vermont about 75 miles west of Manchester, N.H.

'''achondroplastic''' 
having dwarfism as a result of a disorder of bone and cartilage

'''homodontic''' 
having teeth that are all of similar form (see page 316 and endnote 119)

'''bicuspid''' 
another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicuspid premolar] teeth (see note for page 316)

'''Kevlon''' 
Possibly a portmanteau-word combining Kevlar and Teflon, meaning a substance that is tough and slippery ([http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=kevlon Urbandictionary.com]).

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'''sarcophagus''' 
coffin

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==Page 964==
'''Gaudeamus Igitur''' 
Latin: " so let us rejoice", an ancient academic drinking song now popular as a graduation hymn, whose text pokes fun at university life and urges students to enjoy life while they can.

'''claret-colored''' 
A deep purplish red. Claret is also the name of a wine that is produced in the Bordeaux region of France and slang for 'blood'.[http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fuller's+earth]

'''fuller's earth or sawdust''' 
Fuller's earth is an absorbent clay that is used in talcum powder. Sawdust and chalk (talcum) are used by tennis players to keep their grip dry.
[http://www.usta.com/USTA/Global/Archive/News/Lessons/Lessons/444102_The_Final_Word_Chalking_Up.aspx]

==Page 965==

'''shifted antigens''' 
An antigenic shift generally refers to the medical term that explains how two strains of the influenza virus join together to form a new subtype and, in turn, become more virulent. The new subtype has a mixture of the antigens from the originals. An antigen is the substance that stimulates the immune system. [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/926623/antigenic-shift]

It's used here to refer to rumors about severe weather and the Quebec Junior Team. These rumors undergo an antigenic shift as they circulate around the locker room. They combine and are reconstituted as a new rumor before being returned to the rumor's originator. 

'''the Csikszentmihalyi kid was doing a kind of piaffer''' 
A piaffer is a trot in place where the legs are lifted high. This type of trot is usually done by a horse, but it's part of the 'Csikszentmihalyi kid's' pre-game ritual to stretch his hip flexors. 

The name Csikszentmihalyi may be a humorous nod to the Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi who is noted for his work in happiness and creativity. He is known as the world's leading researcher on positive psychology and proposed the concept of Flow. Flow is the mental state whereby a person is fully immersed and focused on an activity (such as Tennis). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi] 

'''hip-flexors''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_flexor muscles] that move the hip

'''an ascot or a very fey tie''' 
An ascot is a scarf or tie with broad ends typically worn for formal occasions[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascot_tie]. If the tie very fey, it is excessively refined [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fey] or fancy to the point that it could be confused with an ascot.

'''astringent''' 
a substance or preparation, such as alum, that draws together or constricts body tissues and is effective in stopping the flow of blood or other secretions

'''invoking Camilla, goddess of speed and light step''' 
Camilla of Volsci, a heroine from Roman Mythology, found in Virgil's prose and ancient pottery paintings. Virgil claimed Camilla was so fast that she could run across the ocean without wetting her feet and across fields of grain without bending the grass. [http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Camilla_(mythology)] To 'invoke' is to petition for help with an incantation.[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/invoking]

==Page 966==

'''Frankenstein''' 
or, more correctly, Frankenstein's monster

'''Hal''' 
who is clearly not narrating anymore, unless he is speaking of himself in the third person

'''malleolus''' 
a bony lump on the side of the ankle

'''Joni Mitchell''' 
Joni Mitchell (born Roberta Joan Anderson in 1943) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter and painter. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_Mitchell Wikipedia Entry].

'''occluded''' 
Closed off, shut in, or blocked off [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/occlude]

'''they all in here existed basically as Fourier Transforms of postures and little routines''' 

A Fourier transform is a mathematical operation that transforms one function into another. This type of transform is named in honour of Joseph Fourier. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fourier] To exist basically as Fourier Transforms of postures and routines is to exist as an abstraction where a student is trained in postures and routines is transformed into tennis player capable of executing a variation of those postures and routines.

It is also worth noting that the Fourier transform converts a signal from the time domain (that is, that the signal is a function of time) to the frequency domain (no longer a function of time but of frequency, the function being composed of wave functions). The implication being that all the "postures and little routines" are composed of repeated actions (analogous to the waves that make up a Fourier series) and can be expressed in a time independent manner.

'''ingenuish''' 
in the manner of an ingenue, an innocent young woman
: Not necessarily a woman. The French word ''ingénu'' (masculine) / ''ingénue'' (feminine) can apply to males and females.

'''moribund''' 
nearing death or in a terminal decline [http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/moribund?view=uk]

==Page 967==

'''Y.T.M.P.''' 
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]

'''ciquatoxic''' 
An alternate or mispelling of 'ciguatoxic'. Reef fish can carry ciguatoxins, which cause ciguatera food poisoning [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciguatera] in humans who consume the contaminated fish. These toxins may be specific to certain reefs, are concentrated up the food chain and as such are more likely to be present in larger reef fish, and cannot be destroyed by cooking and freezing. For more, see [http://www.livefoodfishtrade.org/definitions.htm here].

'''R.C. clergy''' 
Roman Catholic priesthood

'''P.O.''' 
philharmonic orchestra

'''Carmelite''' 
a member of the Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a Catholic order.

'''liniment''' 
a liquid preparation rubbed into the skin or gums as a counterirritant, rubefacient, anodyne, or cleansing agent

==Page 968==

'''Sanger-Brown's ataxia''' 
another name for [http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/1672.html Marie's ataxia]

'''St. John's Seminary''' 
an actual institution in Brighton

'''reading his hours''' 
The Liturgy of the Hours is the set of daily prayers prescribed by the Catholic Church as part of the canonical obligation of those ordained as deacons. The prayers take place throughout the day: Matins or Vigils, during the night; Lauds or Dawn Prayer; Prime or Early Morning Prayer; Terce or Mid-Morning Prayer; Sext or Midday Prayer; None or Mid-Afternoon Prayer; Vespers or Evening Prayer; Compline or Night prayer.

'''practicum''' 
the student-teaching portion of a teaching education

'''spiritually necrotic''' 
Necrosis usually refers to the localized death of cells within healthy tissue. To be spiritually necrotic is akin to having a dead spirit in an otherwise healthy body.

'''Jesuitical Endeavors''' 
An endeavor is a purposeful undertaking that requires boldness. Jesuitical endeavors are those undertaken as part of a Jesuit ministry.

'''Numero Uno''' 
Spanish for ''Number One'', used here as an expression to mean concern about only oneself.

'''Flexor carpi ulnaris muscle''' 
Muscle in the side of the forearm, used to twist the hand side to side, thus important when tossing playing cards.

'''ineluctable''' 
incapable of being avoided or changed

'''Apologia''' 
An Apologia is a defense of one's beliefs, religious or other. Here, Barry is out of his league in his ability to put up a good defense of the religious beliefs that may help get his brother out of his own spiritual funk.

==Page 969==

'''self-mimetic''' 
imitating one's self

'''not that much unlike Alyosha and Ivan's conversations in the good old ''Brothers K''.''' 
''The Brother's Karamazov'' is a novel by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881). Ivan and Alyosha, main characters in the novel, are siblings. Alyosha has a faith in God that manifests in a love of mankind and Ivan is a rationalist who is burdened by his inability or unwillingness to believe in a God that could preside over an unjust world. In the novel the brothers, Ivan and Alyosha, discuss their opposing beliefs.

'''erudite''' 
scholarly

'''carcinogenic''' 
causing cancer

'''acerbity''' 
acidity

'''Ivan's Grand Inquisitor scenario''' 
Read this portion [http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/philosophy/existentialism/dostoevsky/grand.html here].

'''lumpen''' 
marginalized; uneducated and/or unenlightened; disenfranchised

'''solar plexus''' 
a complex of nerves in the abdomen. Taking blows to the solar plexus refers to the sensation of "having the wind knocked out of you", as the solar plexus is involved in the autonomic activity of respiration.

'''verminousness''' 
resembling vermin

'''mufti''' 
civilian dress; also a name for a type of Muslim scholar

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'''alms''' 
charity

'''silt''' 
very small grains of rock or sand

==Page 971==

'''fuliginous''' 
smoky or sooty

'''the then-Head Trainer suffered the terrible accident […]''' 
this has got to be Lyle, who came back as a wraith. He can levitate, licks sweat off people (he died of dehydration), talks about death, can visit Gately in the same way as Himself’s wraith.

'''50° C''' 
122° Fahrenheit

=Orin=
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''''Do it to her!''' '''''Do it to her!'''''' 
a reference to George Orwell's 1984. Winston Smith shouts 'Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia!' under similar circumstances.

'''ham''' 
an actor who is bad by virtue of over-acting

=Final Chapter=

==Page 972==

'''confiteor''' 
a prayer of confession of sins

==Page 973==

==Endnote 385==

'''gram-negative''' 
This refers to a bacterium that does not show up in a violet stain using Gram's method; in other words, the doctor suspects that Gately has a particularly resistant strain of bacteria within his body, which previous antibiotics given to him have been ineffective in eliminating.

==Page 973 (cont.)==

'''...look down her shirt and spell ''attic''...''' 
and thus saying, "A-T-T-I-C" or "a titty I see"

''''The truth will [you] set you free,...'''' 
See the Gospel of John 8:32.

==Page 974==

'''vertical hold''' 
the control on a television that prevents the picture from rolling bottom to top

==Page 975==

[[Image:Weejun.jpg|thumb|right|Men's cordovan Bass Weejun]]

'''Weejuns''' 
G. H. Bass & Co.'s tradename for its line of men's and women's penny loafer shoes (see right)

==Page 976==

'''Jack Daniels''' 
a famous brand of bourbon whiskey

==Page 977==

'''S&W''' 
Smith & Wesson

'''"The contorted face... "''' 
The painting of Whitey Sorkin is the same one that had Hal "popping Nunhagen compulsively until his ears started ringing" when it appeared in the advertisement for Nunhagen Aspirin Co. created by Viney and Veals Advertising. See footnote 162.

'''2500-IU ampule''' 
IUs are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_unit international units], which converts to metric depending on the substance.

'''transvestals''' 
i.e., transvestites
: Not sure this is relevant, but the word also contains ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestal_Virgin vestal]'', as in the Roman priestess, quite the opposite (trans-) of what these people are.

'''Sorkin had given Bobby C. free rain''' 
Could be a misspelling of [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/free_rein free rein] (permission to do as he pleases), but it could also be a pun since Bobby C. is effectively getting [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rain rain] (massive amounts of drugs) for free.

==Page 978==

==Endnote 386==

'''Exocet''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exocet missile]

'''antagonists''' 
a drug that acts against an agonist, i.e., a drug that stimulates a certain receptor

==Page 978 (cont'd)==

'''Linda McCartney''' 
Linda Louise, Lady McCartney (1941-1998) was an American photographer and wife of Beatle Paul McCartney (born 1943).

'''"....somebody had taken an old disk of McCartney and Wings [...] and run it through a Kurtzweil remixer and removed every track on the songs except the tracks of poor old Mrs. Linda McCartney singing backup and playing tambourine"''' 
An alleged isolated vocal track of Linda McCartney singing along to "Hey Jude" at a concert did circulate, but the production itself may have been a hoax. For more, see [http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/03/audio_hoaxes_an.html here].
Kurtzweil appears to be a misspelling of Kurzweil, referring to Ray Kurzweil, an inventor in audio and speech technologies, artificial intelligence, and futurist author. See
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil].

==Endnote 387==

'''pentazocine''' 
a synethetic opioid painkiller

==Endnote 387a==

'''dysmenorrhea''' 
pre-menstrual syndrome and/or painful periods

'''PX''' 
with a pharmaceutical as part of the name, it means it contains pentazocine

==Page 979==

'''hot shot''' 
an injection intended to kill

==Page 980==

'''ditty''' 
a little song

==Page 981==

'''"...the one about ultraviolence and sadism."''' 
Gately is thinking of Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/ "A Clockwork Orange."]

'''"...the last thing Gately saw was an Oriental bearing down with the held square and he looked into the square and saw clearly a reflection of his own big square pale head with its eyes closing as the floor finally pounced."''' 
See page 934: "He dreams he looks in a mirror and sees nothing and keeps trying to clean the mirror with his sleeve."

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==Page 964==
'''Gaudeamus Igitur''' 
Latin: " so let us rejoice", an ancient academic drinking song now popular as a graduation hymn, whose text pokes fun at university life and urges students to enjoy life while they can.

'''claret-colored''' 
A deep purplish red. Claret is also the name of a wine that is produced in the Bordeaux region of France and slang for 'blood'.[http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fuller's+earth]

'''fuller's earth or sawdust''' 
Fuller's earth is an absorbent clay that is used in talcum powder. Sawdust and chalk (talcum) are used by tennis players to keep their grip dry.
[http://www.usta.com/USTA/Global/Archive/News/Lessons/Lessons/444102_The_Final_Word_Chalking_Up.aspx]

==Page 965==

'''shifted antigens''' 
An antigenic shift generally refers to the medical term that explains how two strains of the influenza virus join together to form a new subtype and, in turn, become more virulent. The new subtype has a mixture of the antigens from the originals. An antigen is the substance that stimulates the immune system. [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/926623/antigenic-shift]

It's used here to refer to rumors about severe weather and the Quebec Junior Team. These rumors undergo an antigenic shift as they circulate around the locker room. They combine and are reconstituted as a new rumor before being returned to the rumor's originator. 

'''the Csikszentmihalyi kid was doing a kind of piaffer''' 
A piaffer is a trot in place where the legs are lifted high. This type of trot is usually done by a horse, but it's part of the 'Csikszentmihalyi kid's' pre-game ritual to stretch his hip flexors. 

The name Csikszentmihalyi may be a humorous nod to the Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi who is noted for his work in happiness and creativity. He is known as the world's leading researcher on positive psychology and proposed the concept of Flow. Flow is the mental state whereby a person is fully immersed and focused on an activity (such as Tennis). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi] 

'''hip-flexors''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_flexor muscles] that move the hip

'''an ascot or a very fey tie''' 
An ascot is a scarf or tie with broad ends typically worn for formal occasions[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascot_tie]. If the tie very fey, it is excessively refined [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fey] or fancy to the point that it could be confused with an ascot.

'''astringent''' 
a substance or preparation, such as alum, that draws together or constricts body tissues and is effective in stopping the flow of blood or other secretions

'''invoking Camilla, goddess of speed and light step''' 
Camilla of Volsci, a heroine from Roman Mythology, found in Virgil's prose and ancient pottery paintings. Virgil claimed Camilla was so fast that she could run across the ocean without wetting her feet and across fields of grain without bending the grass. [http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Camilla_(mythology)] To 'invoke' is to petition for help with an incantation.[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/invoking]

==Page 966==

'''Frankenstein''' 
or, more correctly, Frankenstein's monster

'''Hal''' 
who is clearly not narrating anymore, unless he is speaking of himself in the third person

'''malleolus''' 
a bony lump on the side of the ankle

'''Joni Mitchell''' 
Joni Mitchell (born Roberta Joan Anderson in 1943) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter and painter. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_Mitchell Wikipedia Entry].

'''occluded''' 
Closed off, shut in, or blocked off [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/occlude]

'''they all in here existed basically as Fourier Transforms of postures and little routines''' 

A Fourier transform is a mathematical operation that transforms one function into another. This type of transform is named in honour of Joseph Fourier. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fourier] To exist basically as Fourier Transforms of postures and routines is to exist as an abstraction where a student is trained in postures and routines is transformed into tennis player capable of executing a variation of those postures and routines.

It is also worth noting that the Fourier transform converts a signal from the time domain (that is, that the signal is a function of time) to the frequency domain (no longer a function of time but of frequency, the function being composed of wave functions). The implication being that all the "postures and little routines" are composed of repeated actions (analogous to the waves that make up a Fourier series) and can be expressed in a time independent manner.

'''ingenuish''' 
in the manner of an ingenue, an innocent young woman
: Not necessarily a woman. The French word ''ingénu'' (masculine) / ''ingénue'' (feminine) can apply to males and females.

'''moribund''' 
nearing death or in a terminal decline [http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/moribund?view=uk]

==Page 967==

'''Y.T.M.P.''' 
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]

'''ciquatoxic''' 
An alternate or mispelling of 'ciguatoxic'. Reef fish can carry ciguatoxins, which cause ciguatera food poisoning [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciguatera] in humans who consume the contaminated fish. These toxins may be specific to certain reefs, are concentrated up the food chain and as such are more likely to be present in larger reef fish, and cannot be destroyed by cooking and freezing. For more, see [http://www.livefoodfishtrade.org/definitions.htm here].

'''R.C. clergy''' 
Roman Catholic priesthood

'''P.O.''' 
philharmonic orchestra

'''Carmelite''' 
a member of the Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a Catholic order.

'''liniment''' 
a liquid preparation rubbed into the skin or gums as a counterirritant, rubefacient, anodyne, or cleansing agent

==Page 968==

'''Sanger-Brown's ataxia''' 
another name for [http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/1672.html Marie's ataxia]

'''St. John's Seminary''' 
an actual institution in Brighton

'''reading his hours''' 
The Liturgy of the Hours is the set of daily prayers prescribed by the Catholic Church as part of the canonical obligation of those ordained as deacons. The prayers take place throughout the day: Matins or Vigils, during the night; Lauds or Dawn Prayer; Prime or Early Morning Prayer; Terce or Mid-Morning Prayer; Sext or Midday Prayer; None or Mid-Afternoon Prayer; Vespers or Evening Prayer; Compline or Night prayer.

'''practicum''' 
the student-teaching portion of a teaching education

'''spiritually necrotic''' 
Necrosis usually refers to the localized death of cells within healthy tissue. To be spiritually necrotic is akin to having a dead spirit in an otherwise healthy body.

'''Jesuitical Endeavors''' 
An endeavor is a purposeful undertaking that requires boldness. Jesuitical endeavors are those undertaken as part of a Jesuit ministry.

'''Numero Uno''' 
Spanish for ''Number One'', used here as an expression to mean concern about only oneself.

'''Flexor carpi ulnaris muscle''' 
Muscle in the side of the forearm, used to twist the hand side to side, thus important when tossing playing cards.

'''ineluctable''' 
incapable of being avoided or changed

'''Apologia''' 
An Apologia is a defense of one's beliefs, religious or other. Here, Barry is out of his league in his ability to put up a good defense of the religious beliefs that may help get his brother out of his own spiritual funk.

==Page 969==

'''self-mimetic''' 
imitating one's self

'''not that much unlike Alyosha and Ivan's conversations in the good old ''Brothers K''.''' 
''The Brother's Karamazov'' is a novel by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881). Ivan and Alyosha, main characters in the novel, are siblings. Alyosha has a faith in God that manifests in a love of mankind and Ivan is a rationalist who is burdened by his inability or unwillingness to believe in a God that could preside over an unjust world. In the novel the brothers, Ivan and Alyosha, discuss their opposing beliefs.

'''erudite''' 
scholarly

'''carcinogenic''' 
causing cancer

'''acerbity''' 
acidity

'''Ivan's Grand Inquisitor scenario''' 
Read this portion [http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/philosophy/existentialism/dostoevsky/grand.html here].

'''lumpen''' 
marginalized; uneducated and/or unenlightened; disenfranchised

'''solar plexus''' 
a complex of nerves in the abdomen. Taking blows to the solar plexus refers to the sensation of "having the wind knocked out of you", as the solar plexus is involved in the autonomic activity of respiration.

'''verminousness''' 
resembling vermin

'''mufti''' 
civilian dress; also a name for a type of Muslim scholar

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'''alms''' 
charity

'''silt''' 
very small grains of rock or sand

==Page 971==

'''fuliginous''' 
smoky or sooty

'''the then-Head Trainer suffered the terrible accident […]''' 
this has got to be Lyle, who came back as a wraith. He can levitate, licks sweat off people (he died of dehydration), talks about death, can visit Gately in the same way as Himself’s wraith.

'''50° C''' 
122° Fahrenheit

=Orin=
==Page 971==

==Page 972==

''''Do it to her!''' '''''Do it to her!'''''' 
a reference to George Orwell's 1984. Winston Smith shouts 'Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia!' under similar circumstances.

'''ham''' 
an actor who is bad by virtue of over-acting

=Final Chapter=

==Page 972==

'''confiteor''' 
a prayer of confession of sins

==Page 973==

==Endnote 385==

'''gram-negative''' 
This refers to a bacterium that does not show up in a violet stain using Gram's method; in other words, the doctor suspects that Gately has a particularly resistant strain of bacteria within his body, which previous antibiotics given to him have been ineffective in eliminating.

==Page 973 (cont.)==

'''...look down her shirt and spell ''attic''...''' 
and thus saying, "A-T-T-I-C" or "a titty I see"

''''The truth will [you] set you free,...'''' 
See the Gospel of John 8:32.

==Page 974==

'''vertical hold''' 
the control on a television that prevents the picture from rolling bottom to top

==Page 975==

[[Image:Weejun.jpg|thumb|right|Men's cordovan Bass Weejun]]

'''Weejuns''' 
G. H. Bass & Co.'s tradename for its line of men's and women's penny loafer shoes (see right)

==Page 976==

'''Jack Daniels''' 
a famous brand of bourbon whiskey

==Page 977==

'''S&W''' 
Smith & Wesson

'''"The contorted face... "''' 
The painting of Whitey Sorkin is the same one that had Hal "popping Nunhagen compulsively until his ears started ringing" when it appeared in the advertisement for Nunhagen Aspirin Co. created by Viney and Veals Advertising. See footnote 162.

'''2500-IU ampule''' 
IUs are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_unit international units], which converts to metric depending on the substance.

'''transvestals''' 
i.e., transvestites
: Not sure this is relevant, but the word also contains ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestal_Virgin vestal]'', as in the Roman priestess, quite the opposite (trans-) of what these people are.

==Page 978==

==Endnote 386==

'''Exocet''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exocet missile]

'''antagonists''' 
a drug that acts against an agonist, i.e., a drug that stimulates a certain receptor

==Page 978 (cont'd)==

'''Linda McCartney''' 
Linda Louise, Lady McCartney (1941-1998) was an American photographer and wife of Beatle Paul McCartney (born 1943).

'''"....somebody had taken an old disk of McCartney and Wings [...] and run it through a Kurtzweil remixer and removed every track on the songs except the tracks of poor old Mrs. Linda McCartney singing backup and playing tambourine"''' 
An alleged isolated vocal track of Linda McCartney singing along to "Hey Jude" at a concert did circulate, but the production itself may have been a hoax. For more, see [http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/03/audio_hoaxes_an.html here].
Kurtzweil appears to be a misspelling of Kurzweil, referring to Ray Kurzweil, an inventor in audio and speech technologies, artificial intelligence, and futurist author. See
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil].

==Endnote 387==

'''pentazocine''' 
a synethetic opioid painkiller

==Endnote 387a==

'''dysmenorrhea''' 
pre-menstrual syndrome and/or painful periods

'''PX''' 
with a pharmaceutical as part of the name, it means it contains pentazocine

==Page 979==

'''hot shot''' 
an injection intended to kill

==Page 980==

'''ditty''' 
a little song

==Page 981==

'''"...the one about ultraviolence and sadism."''' 
Gately is thinking of Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/ "A Clockwork Orange."]

'''"...the last thing Gately saw was an Oriental bearing down with the held square and he looked into the square and saw clearly a reflection of his own big square pale head with its eyes closing as the floor finally pounced."''' 
See page 934: "He dreams he looks in a mirror and sees nothing and keeps trying to clean the mirror with his sleeve."

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=November 20th, YDAU - Pre-Exhibition Fête=

==Page 964==
'''Gaudeamus Igitur''' 
Latin: " so let us rejoice", an ancient academic drinking song now popular as a graduation hymn, whose text pokes fun at university life and urges students to enjoy life while they can.

'''claret-colored''' 
A deep purplish red. Claret is also the name of a wine that is produced in the Bordeaux region of France and slang for 'blood'.[http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fuller's+earth]

'''fuller's earth or sawdust''' 
Fuller's earth is an absorbent clay that is used in talcum powder. Sawdust and chalk (talcum) are used by tennis players to keep their grip dry.
[http://www.usta.com/USTA/Global/Archive/News/Lessons/Lessons/444102_The_Final_Word_Chalking_Up.aspx]

==Page 965==

'''shifted antigens''' 
An antigenic shift generally refers to the medical term that explains how two strains of the influenza virus join together to form a new subtype and, in turn, become more virulent. The new subtype has a mixture of the antigens from the originals. An antigen is the substance that stimulates the immune system. [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/926623/antigenic-shift]

It's used here to refer to rumors about severe weather and the Quebec Junior Team. These rumors undergo an antigenic shift as they circulate around the locker room. They combine and are reconstituted as a new rumor before being returned to the rumor's originator. 

'''the Csikszentmihalyi kid was doing a kind of piaffer''' 
A piaffer is a trot in place where the legs are lifted high. This type of trot is usually done by a horse, but it's part of the 'Csikszentmihalyi kid's' pre-game ritual to stretch his hip flexors. 

The name Csikszentmihalyi may be a humorous nod to the Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi who is noted for his work in happiness and creativity. He is known as the world's leading researcher on positive psychology and proposed the concept of Flow. Flow is the mental state whereby a person is fully immersed and focused on an activity (such as Tennis). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi] 

'''hip-flexors''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_flexor muscles] that move the hip

'''an ascot or a very fey tie''' 
An ascot is a scarf or tie with broad ends typically worn for formal occasions[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascot_tie]. If the tie very fey, it is excessively refined [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fey] or fancy to the point that it could be confused with an ascot.

'''astringent''' 
a substance or preparation, such as alum, that draws together or constricts body tissues and is effective in stopping the flow of blood or other secretions

'''invoking Camilla, goddess of speed and light step''' 
Camilla of Volsci, a heroine from Roman Mythology, found in Virgil's prose and ancient pottery paintings. Virgil claimed Camilla was so fast that she could run across the ocean without wetting her feet and across fields of grain without bending the grass. [http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Camilla_(mythology)] To 'invoke' is to petition for help with an incantation.[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/invoking]

==Page 966==

'''Frankenstein''' 
or, more correctly, Frankenstein's monster

'''Hal''' 
who is clearly not narrating anymore, unless he is speaking of himself in the third person

'''malleolus''' 
a bony lump on the side of the ankle

'''Joni Mitchell''' 
Joni Mitchell (born Roberta Joan Anderson in 1943) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter and painter. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_Mitchell Wikipedia Entry].

'''occluded''' 
Closed off, shut in, or blocked off [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/occlude]

'''they all in here existed basically as Fourier Transforms of postures and little routines''' 

A Fourier transform is a mathematical operation that transforms one function into another. This type of transform is named in honour of Joseph Fourier. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fourier] To exist basically as Fourier Transforms of postures and routines is to exist as an abstraction where a student is trained in postures and routines is transformed into tennis player capable of executing a variation of those postures and routines.

It is also worth noting that the Fourier transform converts a signal from the time domain (that is, that the signal is a function of time) to the frequency domain (no longer a function of time but of frequency, the function being composed of wave functions). The implication being that all the "postures and little routines" are composed of repeated actions (analogous to the waves that make up a Fourier series) and can be expressed in a time independent manner.

'''ingenuish''' 
in the manner of an ingenue, an innocent young woman
: Not necessarily a woman. The French word ''ingénu'' (masculine) / ''ingénue'' (feminine) can apply to males and females.

'''moribund''' 
nearing death or in a terminal decline [http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/moribund?view=uk]

==Page 967==

'''Y.T.M.P.''' 
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]

'''ciquatoxic''' 
An alternate or mispelling of 'ciguatoxic'. Reef fish can carry ciguatoxins, which cause ciguatera food poisoning [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciguatera] in humans who consume the contaminated fish. These toxins may be specific to certain reefs, are concentrated up the food chain and as such are more likely to be present in larger reef fish, and cannot be destroyed by cooking and freezing. For more, see [http://www.livefoodfishtrade.org/definitions.htm here].

'''R.C. clergy''' 
Roman Catholic priesthood

'''P.O.''' 
philharmonic orchestra

'''Carmelite''' 
a member of the Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a Catholic order.

'''liniment''' 
a liquid preparation rubbed into the skin or gums as a counterirritant, rubefacient, anodyne, or cleansing agent

==Page 968==

'''Sanger-Brown's ataxia''' 
another name for [http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/1672.html Marie's ataxia]

'''St. John's Seminary''' 
an actual institution in Brighton

'''reading his hours''' 
The Liturgy of the Hours is the set of daily prayers prescribed by the Catholic Church as part of the canonical obligation of those ordained as deacons. The prayers take place throughout the day: Matins or Vigils, during the night; Lauds or Dawn Prayer; Prime or Early Morning Prayer; Terce or Mid-Morning Prayer; Sext or Midday Prayer; None or Mid-Afternoon Prayer; Vespers or Evening Prayer; Compline or Night prayer.

'''practicum''' 
the student-teaching portion of a teaching education

'''spiritually necrotic''' 
Necrosis usually refers to the localized death of cells within healthy tissue. To be spiritually necrotic is akin to having a dead spirit in an otherwise healthy body.

'''Jesuitical Endeavors''' 
An endeavor is a purposeful undertaking that requires boldness. Jesuitical endeavors are those undertaken as part of a Jesuit ministry.

'''Numero Uno''' 
Spanish for ''Number One'', used here as an expression to mean concern about only oneself.

'''Flexor carpi ulnaris muscle''' 
Muscle in the side of the forearm, used to twist the hand side to side, thus important when tossing playing cards.

'''ineluctable''' 
incapable of being avoided or changed

'''Apologia''' 
An Apologia is a defense of one's beliefs, religious or other. Here, Barry is out of his league in his ability to put up a good defense of the religious beliefs that may help get his brother out of his own spiritual funk.

==Page 969==

'''self-mimetic''' 
imitating one's self

'''not that much unlike Alyosha and Ivan's conversations in the good old ''Brothers K''.''' 
''The Brother's Karamazov'' is a novel by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881). Ivan and Alyosha, main characters in the novel, are siblings. Alyosha has a faith in God that manifests in a love of mankind and Ivan is a rationalist who is burdened by his inability or unwillingness to believe in a God that could preside over an unjust world. In the novel the brothers, Ivan and Alyosha, discuss their opposing beliefs.

'''erudite''' 
scholarly

'''carcinogenic''' 
causing cancer

'''acerbity''' 
acidity

'''Ivan's Grand Inquisitor scenario''' 
Read this portion [http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/philosophy/existentialism/dostoevsky/grand.html here].

'''lumpen''' 
marginalized; uneducated and/or unenlightened; disenfranchised

'''solar plexus''' 
a complex of nerves in the abdomen. Taking blows to the solar plexus refers to the sensation of "having the wind knocked out of you", as the solar plexus is involved in the autonomic activity of respiration.

'''verminousness''' 
resembling vermin

'''mufti''' 
civilian dress; also a name for a type of Muslim scholar

==Page 970==

'''alms''' 
charity

'''silt''' 
very small grains of rock or sand

==Page 971==

'''fuliginous''' 
smoky or sooty

'''the then-Head Trainer suffered the terrible accident […]''' 
this has got to be Lyle, who came back as a wraith. He can levitate, licks sweat off people (he died of dehydration), talks about death, can visit Gately in the same way as Himself’s wraith.

'''50° C''' 
122° Fahrenheit

=Orin=
==Page 971==

==Page 972==

''''Do it to her!''' '''''Do it to her!'''''' 
a reference to George Orwell's 1984. Winston Smith shouts 'Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia!' under similar circumstances.

'''ham''' 
an actor who is bad by virtue of over-acting

=Final Chapter=

==Page 972==

'''confiteor''' 
a prayer of confession of sins

==Page 973==

==Endnote 385==

'''gram-negative''' 
This refers to a bacterium that does not show up in a violet stain using Gram's method; in other words, the doctor suspects that Gately has a particularly resistant strain of bacteria within his body, which previous antibiotics given to him have been ineffective in eliminating.

==Page 973 (cont.)==

'''...look down her shirt and spell ''attic''...''' 
and thus saying, "A-T-T-I-C" or "a titty I see"

''''The truth will [you] set you free,...'''' 
See the Gospel of John 8:32.

==Page 974==

'''vertical hold''' 
the control on a television that prevents the picture from rolling bottom to top

==Page 975==

[[Image:Weejun.jpg|thumb|right|Men's cordovan Bass Weejun]]

'''Weejuns''' 
G. H. Bass & Co.'s tradename for its line of men's and women's penny loafer shoes (see right)

==Page 976==

'''Jack Daniels''' 
a famous brand of bourbon whiskey

==Page 977==

'''S&W''' 
Smith & Wesson

'''"The contorted face... "''' 
The painting of Whitey Sorkin is the same one that had Hal "popping Nunhagen compulsively until his ears started ringing" when it appeared in the advertisement for Nunhagen Aspirin Co. created by Viney and Veals Advertising. See footnote 162.

'''2500-IU ampule''' 
IUs are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_unit international units], which converts to metric depending on the substance.

'''transvestals''' 
i.e., transvestites

==Page 978==

==Endnote 386==

'''Exocet''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exocet missile]

'''antagonists''' 
a drug that acts against an agonist, i.e., a drug that stimulates a certain receptor

==Page 978 (cont'd)==

'''Linda McCartney''' 
Linda Louise, Lady McCartney (1941-1998) was an American photographer and wife of Beatle Paul McCartney (born 1943).

'''"....somebody had taken an old disk of McCartney and Wings [...] and run it through a Kurtzweil remixer and removed every track on the songs except the tracks of poor old Mrs. Linda McCartney singing backup and playing tambourine"''' 
An alleged isolated vocal track of Linda McCartney singing along to "Hey Jude" at a concert did circulate, but the production itself may have been a hoax. For more, see [http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/03/audio_hoaxes_an.html here].
Kurtzweil appears to be a misspelling of Kurzweil, referring to Ray Kurzweil, an inventor in audio and speech technologies, artificial intelligence, and futurist author. See
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil].

==Endnote 387==

'''pentazocine''' 
a synethetic opioid painkiller

==Endnote 387a==

'''dysmenorrhea''' 
pre-menstrual syndrome and/or painful periods

'''PX''' 
with a pharmaceutical as part of the name, it means it contains pentazocine

==Page 979==

'''hot shot''' 
an injection intended to kill

==Page 980==

'''ditty''' 
a little song

==Page 981==

'''"...the one about ultraviolence and sadism."''' 
Gately is thinking of Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/ "A Clockwork Orange."]

'''"...the last thing Gately saw was an Oriental bearing down with the held square and he looked into the square and saw clearly a reflection of his own big square pale head with its eyes closing as the floor finally pounced."''' 
See page 934: "He dreams he looks in a mirror and sees nothing and keeps trying to clean the mirror with his sleeve."

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=Gately and Fackelmann continued=

==Page 934==

==Page 935==

'''recursive''' 
repeating in a self similar manner. Recursion is a favorite technique of computer programmers and mathematicians; a recursive function is one that is called within its own definition. For a fun demonstration of recursion, try [http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=recursion googling it]

'''some creepy thing''' 
the creepy thing Gately and Fackelmann watch may be J.O Incandenza's ''Various Small Flames'', see Endnote 24

'''retsin''' 
'Retsyn' is the supposed active ingredient in Certs breath mints

'''Ciao Bello''' 
Italian: Goodbye (common). Literally: "Goodbye, Beautiful."

==Page 936==

'''corrode''' 
to eat away at; to rust

'''nimbus''' 
halo

'''ICBM''' 
intercontinental ballistic missile

'''boot''' 
junkie slang for injecting drugs

==Page 937==

'''imprimatur''' 
sanction or approval - in the Catholic church an imprimatur is a formal declaration that a work is free of doctrinal or moral error and may be published.

''''More tattoos than teeth'''' 
perhaps a reference to the [http://www.chicagomotorcycleguide.com/TEETHTATTOOS.HTM inverse relationship] between the number of intact teeth and the number of tattoos worn by members of motorcycle gangs. Conversely it could mean a show of menace without any substance, as in "all bark and no bite".

'''bonded''' 
Sorkin had put up Gately's bail.

'''ruddled''' 
reddened

'''serration''' 
notches in the edges

==Page 938==

'''belled''' 
rang like a bell

=Joelle Talks About the Entertainment=

==Page 938==

==Page 939==

'''epicene''' 
androgynous

'''I assume you can Identify.''' 
Joelle is being interviewed by the cross-dressing Steeply.

'''bassinet''' 
an oblong basket for a baby

'''catadioptric''' 
an optical system that uses combined reflection and refraction; a catadioptric telescope has a large concave mirror to collect and focus light on an optical eyepiece having lenses to provide additional magnification

'''nystagmus''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nystagmus condition] of voluntary or involuntary rapid and rhythmic oscillation of the eyes

==Page 940==

'''astigmatic''' 
failing to have light rays converge on a single point

==Page 941==

=Hal Narrates (Still)=
==Page 941==

'''slight tremble of something hanging from the tip of a pipette''' 
A pipette is a type of thin glass tube used in chemistry, and the something trembling would be a drop of some liquid, I suspect...

'''Thtithe fickn meth''' 
Coyle is probably trying to say, "Stice's fucking mess."

==Page 942==

'''panic-attack''' 
another term for an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_attack anxiety attack]

==Page 943==

==Page 944==

'''rank amateurs''' 
complete/total amateurs

'''pernicious''' 
harmful

'''Brecht''' 
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (1898-1956) was a German playwright, poet, and director.

'''Glen Riddle, Pennsylvania''' 
a suburb of Philadelphia, about twenty miles west

'''DeNiro''' 
Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. (born 1943), is an Academy Award-winning American actor, cast by Martin Scorsese in [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070379/ Mean Streets] and several times thereafter.

'''McLachlin''' 
a misspelling of Kyle MacLachlan (born 1959), an American actor whose second film was [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/ Blue Velvet]

'''Lynch''' 
David Keith Lynch (born 1946) is an American filmmaker.
David Lynch and Kyle MacLachlan worked together on the movies "Dune" (1984), "Blue Velvet" (1986), and the TV series ''Twin Peaks'' (1990-1991).

'''Allen to Allen''' 
a reference to American director Woody Allen (born 1935 as Allen Stewart Königsberg), who casts himself in many of his films

'''temporal-lobe''' 
the part of the brain involved in hearing, speech, and vision

==Page 945==

'''familiar foil packet''' 
i.e., a condom

'''ascot''' 
a neck scarf

[[Image:FDR.jpg|thumb|caption|FDR and his filter|right|200px]]

'''long white FDR-style filter''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt], the 32nd President of the United States. He often used a cigarette holder as seen in the photo on the right.

'''canopied''' 
framed with curtains

'''boudoir''' 
a bedroom or private sitting room

'''ponce''' 
an effeminate man

[[Image:Single-edged Razor Blade.jpg|thumb|right|Single-edged razor blade]]

'''an old-fashioned one-sharp-sided razor blade''' 
still manufactured but perhaps more commonly used in certain kinds of box-cutters than in razors (see right)

==Page 946==

'''Pheromonic Musk''' 
a scent designed to emit pheromones, or a chemical that attracts the opposite sex

'''Kaposi's Sarcoma''' 
A tumor caused by Human herpesvirus-8. One of the most common symptoms of AIDS. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaposi%27s_sarcoma here]

'''chartreuse''' 
bright yellowish-green

'''500 seconds''' 
8 minutes and 20 seconds

==Page 947==

'''conundra''' 
insoluble questions; the plural of ''conundrum'' is disputed, with the OED apparently preferring ''conundrums'', as with ''stadiums''

'''VW-Bug''' 
nickname for the Volkswagen Beetle automobile model

'''sinkhole''' 
a hole formed when material falls into a void beneath it

'''pratfall''' 
a fall on one's rear

==Page 948==

'''two-meter''' 
about 6.56 feet

'''Nor'easter''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nor%27easter type of storm] common to the Northeast U.S.

'''snorkels''' 
tubes for breathing

'''plucky''' 
having or showing courage and spirit in trying circumstances

'''pugnacious''' 
having a tendency to fistfight
: To fight in general, not necessarily with fists.

==Page 949==

'''VA''' 
Veterans Affairs (formerly Veterans Administration)

'''snifter''' 
a piece of glass stemware with a wide bottom that narrows at the top, for drinking brandy; the "one-handed" variety can be easily palmed with two fingers astride the stem

'''twidgeling''' 
one of Hal's nonce words, meaning digital manipulation

'''Hancock tower''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_Tower skyscraper] in Boston

'''mimesis''' 
in art, the imitative representation of nature or human behavior; i.e., the radio was broadcasting nothing but audio static, or "snow"

==Page 950==

'''sinciput''' 
the upper part of the skull
: more like the forehead. Also, one more occurrence of a buried skull (as in Hamlet).

'''convolutions''' 
folds on the surface of the brain

'''filigree''' 
intricate ornamentation usually consisting of twisted metal wire/ribbons on, say, a fence

'''Lindisfarne Gospels''' 
Richly decorated illuminated manuscipt ofthe Gospels, believed to have been produced around 700 AD in a monastery near Lindisfarne, Northumberland, UK. Some carpet pages from the Lindisfarne Gospels can be seen [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/lindisfarne/carpetpages.html here].

'''hyperfertilized''' 
given too much fertilizer

'''finial''' 
an architectural device used to top a gable

'''defile''' 
a narrow passage

'''neutered''' 
castrated

'''Noxzema''' 
A brand of skin cleanser

'''topiary''' 
a sculptured shrub or bush

'''gambrel''' 
here referring to a double-sloping roof, as often seen on barns and some churches

'''Block Mother''' 
Older version of the volunteer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Parent_Program Block Parent Program]. "Participants in the program (Block Parents) place signs on their homes indicating that the house is a police-screened, safe home for community members in distress, particularly children."

==Page 951==

[[File:Fritz_lang_directing_metropolis.jpg|thumb|right|The photo of Fritz Lang directing Metropolis. Also appeared on the copy of ''The Cinema Book'' that Wallace owned[http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/culturalcompass/2010/03/08/infinite-possibilities-a-first-glimpse-into-david-foster-wallace%E2%80%99s-library/][http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/fb/e8/0eb681b0c8a03b9679fea110._AA240_.L.jpg], and was one of the photographs Wallace considered using on the cover of ''Infinite Jest'' (mentioned in ''Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself'').]]

'''framed print of Lang directing Metropolis''' 
see photo at left

'''étagère''' 
a stand with a series of open shelves

'''delfts''' 
type of earthenware

'''claret''' 
red wine

==Page 952==

'''Hagia Sophia and S. Simeon''' 
Hagia Sophia is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia mosque] in Istanbul that had been a Byzantine basilica. S. Simeon refers to the ruins of a monastery named for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Stylites Simeon Stylites].

'''Qal'at Si'man''' 
Arabic for "Saint Simeon"

'''guilloche''' 
the most annular of the ornamental moldings used in interior decoration (see below)

[[Image: Guilloche molding.jpg]]

'''prurient''' 
inordinately interested in matters of sex; lascivious

'''Levirates''' 
men required to marry their brothers' widows

'''''maniera greca''''' 
a style of Italian painting ("Greek style") popular in the early Renaissance

'''half a meter''' 
about 1.64 feet

'''hyperemic''' 
an unusual amount of blood in part of the body

'''seraglio''' 
the living quarters of a Turkish harem

'''fieldstone''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fieldstone construction material]

==Page 953==

'''varicotic''' 
having varicose veins

'''onyx''' 
a deep black form of quartz

'''''specular'''''

actually, 'specular' does not appear to be the correct term because it refers to reflection characteristic of a mirror
: ''specular'' also means "assisting light", like optic equipments (lenses, etc.), so it looks correct to me in this context.

'''kyphotic''' 
having abnormal curvature of the spine

==Page 954==

'''climacteric''' 
A period of decrease in reproductive capacity; in women, menopause.

'''Infantilist''' 
While the term can mean a type of paraphilia in which one dresses up like a baby, here Hal more likely means a pediatrician that treats patients like babies.

'''koans''' 
in Zen Buddhism, statements that defy rational explanation upon which to meditate

'''sado-periodontal''' 
Periodontology is the dental speciality concerned with the supporting structures of the teeth - gums, alveolar bone, periodontal ligament, etc. Sado-periodontal, then refers to sadistic treatment involving the gums, most likely.

==Page 955==

'''misnomer''' 
a misapplied name or designation

'''''The Green Door''''' 
The full title of the 1972 film is [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068260/ "Behind the Green Door"].

'''''Deep Throat''''' 
another pornographic film from 1972, starring [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001483/ Linda Lovelace]

'''jism''' 
slang for semen

'''interrogatives''' 
questions

==Page 956==

==Page 957==

'''expatriates''' 
people living outside their countries of origin

'''Faulknerian''' 
recollecting the style or manner of William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897-1962), American novelist

'''aspirating''' 
inhaling

=After the Interview=

==Page 958==

'''She''' 
i.e., Joelle

'''Middlesex County''' 
a county comprising most of the suburbs northwest and west of Boston

=Hi, Mikey=

==Page 958==

==Page 959==

'''the hook''' 
presumably, the sister's hand; or the screen door is still secured by its hooking mechanism to keep him out

'''boatayouse''' 
i.e., "both of you"

==Page 960==

'''a hundred m.'s''' 
a little over 328 feet

=The Assistant District Attorney=

==Page 960==

'''easement''' 
a right of way across a plot of property owned by another

'''Suffolk County''' 
the county in Massachusetts where Boston is

'''McDonald's House''' 
a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_McDonald_House Ronald McDonald House Charities], which provides housing for the parents of children undergoing intensive medical care

==Page 961==

'''Tooty''' 
apparently the ADA's wife

'''Fourth- and Eighth-Step''' 
two of the original Twelve Steps of the Alcoholics Anonymous program: 4) "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves," and 8) "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all"

==Page 962==

'''weal''' 
welfare

'''peroxide''' 
hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), used as a bleach and whitener

==Page 963==

==Page 964==

'''NoCoat LinguaScraper''' 
Fictional product mentioned on [http://wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_127-156#Page_151 Page 151].

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==Page 934==

==Page 935==

'''recursive''' 
repeating in a self similar manner. Recursion is a favorite technique of computer programmers and mathematicians; a recursive function is one that is called within its own definition. For a fun demonstration of recursion, try [http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=recursion googling it]

'''some creepy thing''' 
the creepy thing Gately and Fackelmann watch may be J.O Incandenza's ''Various Small Flames'', see Endnote 24

'''retsin''' 
'Retsyn' is the supposed active ingredient in Certs breath mints

'''Ciao Bello''' 
Italian: Goodbye (common). Literally: "Goodbye, Beautiful."

==Page 936==

'''corrode''' 
to eat away at; to rust

'''nimbus''' 
halo

'''ICBM''' 
intercontinental ballistic missile

'''boot''' 
junkie slang for injecting drugs

==Page 937==

'''imprimatur''' 
sanction or approval - in the Catholic church an imprimatur is a formal declaration that a work is free of doctrinal or moral error and may be published.

''''More tattoos than teeth'''' 
perhaps a reference to the [http://www.chicagomotorcycleguide.com/TEETHTATTOOS.HTM inverse relationship] between the number of intact teeth and the number of tattoos worn by members of motorcycle gangs. Conversely it could mean a show of menace without any substance, as in "all bark and no bite".

'''bonded''' 
Sorkin had put up Gately's bail.

'''ruddled''' 
reddened

'''serration''' 
notches in the edges

==Page 938==

'''belled''' 
rang like a bell

=Joelle Talks About the Entertainment=

==Page 938==

==Page 939==

'''epicene''' 
androgynous

'''I assume you can Identify.''' 
Joelle is being interviewed by the cross-dressing Steeply.

'''bassinet''' 
an oblong basket for a baby

'''catadioptric''' 
an optical system that uses combined reflection and refraction; a catadioptric telescope has a large concave mirror to collect and focus light on an optical eyepiece having lenses to provide additional magnification

'''nystagmus''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nystagmus condition] of voluntary or involuntary rapid and rhythmic oscillation of the eyes

==Page 940==

'''astigmatic''' 
failing to have light rays converge on a single point

==Page 941==

=Hal Narrates (Still)=
==Page 941==

'''slight tremble of something hanging from the tip of a pipette''' 
A pipette is a type of thin glass tube used in chemistry, and the something trembling would be a drop of some liquid, I suspect...

'''Thtithe fickn meth''' 
Coyle is probably trying to say, "Stice's fucking mess."

==Page 942==

'''panic-attack''' 
another term for an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_attack anxiety attack]

==Page 943==

==Page 944==

'''rank amateurs''' 
complete/total amateurs

'''pernicious''' 
harmful

'''Brecht''' 
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (1898-1956) was a German playwright, poet, and director.

'''Glen Riddle, Pennsylvania''' 
a suburb of Philadelphia, about twenty miles west

'''DeNiro''' 
Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. (born 1943), is an Academy Award-winning American actor, cast by Martin Scorsese in [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070379/ Mean Streets] and several times thereafter.

'''McLachlin''' 
a misspelling of Kyle MacLachlan (born 1959), an American actor whose second film was [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/ Blue Velvet]

'''Lynch''' 
David Keith Lynch (born 1946) is an American filmmaker.
David Lynch and Kyle MacLachlan worked together on the movies "Dune" (1984), "Blue Velvet" (1986), and the TV series ''Twin Peaks'' (1990-1991).

'''Allen to Allen''' 
a reference to American director Woody Allen (born 1935 as Allen Stewart Königsberg), who casts himself in many of his films

'''temporal-lobe''' 
the part of the brain involved in hearing, speech, and vision

==Page 945==

'''familiar foil packet''' 
i.e., a condom

'''ascot''' 
a neck scarf

[[Image:FDR.jpg|thumb|caption|FDR and his filter|right|200px]]

'''long white FDR-style filter''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt], the 32nd President of the United States. He often used a cigarette holder as seen in the photo on the right.

'''canopied''' 
framed with curtains

'''boudoir''' 
a bedroom or private sitting room

'''ponce''' 
an effeminate man

[[Image:Single-edged Razor Blade.jpg|thumb|right|Single-edged razor blade]]

'''an old-fashioned one-sharp-sided razor blade''' 
still manufactured but perhaps more commonly used in certain kinds of box-cutters than in razors (see right)

==Page 946==

'''Pheromonic Musk''' 
a scent designed to emit pheromones, or a chemical that attracts the opposite sex

'''Kaposi's Sarcoma''' 
A tumor caused by Human herpesvirus-8. One of the most common symptoms of AIDS. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaposi%27s_sarcoma here]

'''chartreuse''' 
bright yellowish-green

'''500 seconds''' 
8 minutes and 20 seconds

==Page 947==

'''conundra''' 
insoluble questions; the plural of ''conundrum'' is disputed, with the OED apparently preferring ''conundrums'', as with ''stadiums''

'''VW-Bug''' 
nickname for the Volkswagen Beetle automobile model

'''sinkhole''' 
a hole formed when material falls into a void beneath it

'''pratfall''' 
a fall on one's rear

==Page 948==

'''two-meter''' 
about 6.56 feet

'''Nor'easter''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nor%27easter type of storm] common to the Northeast U.S.

'''snorkels''' 
tubes for breathing

'''plucky''' 
having or showing courage and spirit in trying circumstances

'''pugnacious''' 
having a tendency to fistfight
: To fight in general, not necessarily with fists.

==Page 949==

'''VA''' 
Veterans Affairs (formerly Veterans Administration)

'''snifter''' 
a piece of glass stemware with a wide bottom that narrows at the top, for drinking brandy; the "one-handed" variety can be easily palmed with two fingers astride the stem

'''twidgeling''' 
one of Hal's nonce words, meaning digital manipulation

'''Hancock tower''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_Tower skyscraper] in Boston

'''mimesis''' 
in art, the imitative representation of nature or human behavior; i.e., the radio was broadcasting nothing but audio static, or "snow"

==Page 950==

'''sinciput''' 
the upper part of the skull
: more like the forehead. Also, one more occurrence of a buried skull (as in Hamlet).

'''convolutions''' 
folds on the surface of the brain

'''filigree''' 
intricate ornamentation usually consisting of twisted metal wire/ribbons on, say, a fence

'''Lindisfarne Gospels''' 
Richly decorated illuminated manuscipt ofthe Gospels, believed to have been produced around 700 AD in a monastery near Lindisfarne, Northumberland, UK. Some carpet pages from the Lindisfarne Gospels can be seen [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/lindisfarne/carpetpages.html here].

'''hyperfertilized''' 
given too much fertilizer

'''finial''' 
an architectural device used to top a gable

'''defile''' 
a narrow passage

'''neutered''' 
castrated

'''Noxzema''' 
A brand of skin cleanser

'''topiary''' 
a sculptured shrub or bush

'''gambrel''' 
here referring to a double-sloping roof, as often seen on barns and some churches

'''Block Mother''' 
Older version of the volunteer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Parent_Program Block Parent Program]. "Participants in the program (Block Parents) place signs on their homes indicating that the house is a police-screened, safe home for community members in distress, particularly children."

==Page 951==

[[File:Fritz_lang_directing_metropolis.jpg|thumb|right|The photo of Fritz Lang directing Metropolis. Also appeared on the copy of ''The Cinema Book'' that Wallace owned[http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/culturalcompass/2010/03/08/infinite-possibilities-a-first-glimpse-into-david-foster-wallace%E2%80%99s-library/][http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/fb/e8/0eb681b0c8a03b9679fea110._AA240_.L.jpg], and was one of the photographs Wallace considered using on the cover of ''Infinite Jest'' (mentioned in ''Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself'').]]

'''framed print of Lang directing Metropolis''' 
see photo at left

'''étagère''' 
a stand with a series of open shelves

'''delfts''' 
type of earthenware

'''claret''' 
red wine

==Page 952==

'''Hagia Sophia and S. Simeon''' 
Hagia Sophia is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia mosque] in Istanbul that had been a Byzantine basilica. S. Simeon refers to the ruins of a monastery named for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Stylites Simeon Stylites].

'''Qal'at Si'man''' 
Arabic for "Saint Simeon"

'''guilloche''' 
the most annular of the ornamental moldings used in interior decoration (see below)

[[Image: Guilloche molding.jpg]]

'''prurient''' 
inordinately interested in matters of sex; lascivious

'''Levirates''' 
men required to marry their brothers' widows

'''''maniera greca''''' 
a style of Italian painting ("Greek style") popular in the early Renaissance

'''half a meter''' 
about 1.64 feet

'''hyperemic''' 
an unusual amount of blood in part of the body

'''seraglio''' 
the living quarters of a Turkish harem

'''fieldstone''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fieldstone construction material]

==Page 953==

'''varicotic''' 
having varicose veins

'''onyx''' 
a deep black form of quartz

'''''specular'''''

actually, 'specular' does not appear to be the correct term because it refers to reflection characteristic of a mirror

'''kyphotic''' 
having abnormal curvature of the spine

==Page 954==

'''climacteric''' 
A period of decrease in reproductive capacity; in women, menopause.

'''Infantilist''' 
While the term can mean a type of paraphilia in which one dresses up like a baby, here Hal more likely means a pediatrician that treats patients like babies.

'''koans''' 
in Zen Buddhism, statements that defy rational explanation upon which to meditate

'''sado-periodontal''' 
Periodontology is the dental speciality concerned with the supporting structures of the teeth - gums, alveolar bone, periodontal ligament, etc. Sado-periodontal, then refers to sadistic treatment involving the gums, most likely.

==Page 955==

'''misnomer''' 
a misapplied name or designation

'''''The Green Door''''' 
The full title of the 1972 film is [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068260/ "Behind the Green Door"].

'''''Deep Throat''''' 
another pornographic film from 1972, starring [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001483/ Linda Lovelace]

'''jism''' 
slang for semen

'''interrogatives''' 
questions

==Page 956==

==Page 957==

'''expatriates''' 
people living outside their countries of origin

'''Faulknerian''' 
recollecting the style or manner of William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897-1962), American novelist

'''aspirating''' 
inhaling

=After the Interview=

==Page 958==

'''She''' 
i.e., Joelle

'''Middlesex County''' 
a county comprising most of the suburbs northwest and west of Boston

=Hi, Mikey=

==Page 958==

==Page 959==

'''the hook''' 
presumably, the sister's hand; or the screen door is still secured by its hooking mechanism to keep him out

'''boatayouse''' 
i.e., "both of you"

==Page 960==

'''a hundred m.'s''' 
a little over 328 feet

=The Assistant District Attorney=

==Page 960==

'''easement''' 
a right of way across a plot of property owned by another

'''Suffolk County''' 
the county in Massachusetts where Boston is

'''McDonald's House''' 
a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_McDonald_House Ronald McDonald House Charities], which provides housing for the parents of children undergoing intensive medical care

==Page 961==

'''Tooty''' 
apparently the ADA's wife

'''Fourth- and Eighth-Step''' 
two of the original Twelve Steps of the Alcoholics Anonymous program: 4) "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves," and 8) "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all"

==Page 962==

'''weal''' 
welfare

'''peroxide''' 
hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), used as a bleach and whitener

==Page 963==

==Page 964==

'''NoCoat LinguaScraper''' 
Fictional product mentioned on [http://wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_127-156#Page_151 Page 151].

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=Gately and Fackelmann continued=

==Page 934==

==Page 935==

'''recursive''' 
repeating in a self similar manner. Recursion is a favorite technique of computer programmers and mathematicians; a recursive function is one that is called within its own definition. For a fun demonstration of recursion, try [http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=recursion googling it]

'''some creepy thing''' 
the creepy thing Gately and Fackelmann watch may be J.O Incandenza's ''Various Small Flames'', see Endnote 24

'''retsin''' 
'Retsyn' is the supposed active ingredient in Certs breath mints

'''Ciao Bello''' 
Italian: Goodbye (common). Literally: "Goodbye, Beautiful."

==Page 936==

'''corrode''' 
to eat away at; to rust

'''nimbus''' 
halo

'''ICBM''' 
intercontinental ballistic missile

'''boot''' 
junkie slang for injecting drugs

==Page 937==

'''imprimatur''' 
sanction or approval - in the Catholic church an imprimatur is a formal declaration that a work is free of doctrinal or moral error and may be published.

''''More tattoos than teeth'''' 
perhaps a reference to the [http://www.chicagomotorcycleguide.com/TEETHTATTOOS.HTM inverse relationship] between the number of intact teeth and the number of tattoos worn by members of motorcycle gangs. Conversely it could mean a show of menace without any substance, as in "all bark and no bite".

'''bonded''' 
Sorkin had put up Gately's bail.

'''ruddled''' 
reddened

'''serration''' 
notches in the edges

==Page 938==

'''belled''' 
rang like a bell

=Joelle Talks About the Entertainment=

==Page 938==

==Page 939==

'''epicene''' 
androgynous

'''I assume you can Identify.''' 
Joelle is being interviewed by the cross-dressing Steeply.

'''bassinet''' 
an oblong basket for a baby

'''catadioptric''' 
an optical system that uses combined reflection and refraction; a catadioptric telescope has a large concave mirror to collect and focus light on an optical eyepiece having lenses to provide additional magnification

'''nystagmus''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nystagmus condition] of voluntary or involuntary rapid and rhythmic oscillation of the eyes

==Page 940==

'''astigmatic''' 
failing to have light rays converge on a single point

==Page 941==

=Hal Narrates (Still)=
==Page 941==

'''slight tremble of something hanging from the tip of a pipette''' 
A pipette is a type of thin glass tube used in chemistry, and the something trembling would be a drop of some liquid, I suspect...

'''Thtithe fickn meth''' 
Coyle is probably trying to say, "Stice's fucking mess."

==Page 942==

'''panic-attack''' 
another term for an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_attack anxiety attack]

==Page 943==

==Page 944==

'''rank amateurs''' 
complete/total amateurs

'''pernicious''' 
harmful

'''Brecht''' 
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (1898-1956) was a German playwright, poet, and director.

'''Glen Riddle, Pennsylvania''' 
a suburb of Philadelphia, about twenty miles west

'''DeNiro''' 
Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. (born 1943), is an Academy Award-winning American actor, cast by Martin Scorsese in [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070379/ Mean Streets] and several times thereafter.

'''McLachlin''' 
a misspelling of Kyle MacLachlan (born 1959), an American actor whose second film was [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/ Blue Velvet]

'''Lynch''' 
David Keith Lynch (born 1946) is an American filmmaker.
David Lynch and Kyle MacLachlan worked together on the movies "Dune" (1984), "Blue Velvet" (1986), and the TV series ''Twin Peaks'' (1990-1991).

'''Allen to Allen''' 
a reference to American director Woody Allen (born 1935 as Allen Stewart Königsberg), who casts himself in many of his films

'''temporal-lobe''' 
the part of the brain involved in hearing, speech, and vision

==Page 945==

'''familiar foil packet''' 
i.e., a condom

'''ascot''' 
a neck scarf

[[Image:FDR.jpg|thumb|caption|FDR and his filter|right|200px]]

'''long white FDR-style filter''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt], the 32nd President of the United States. He often used a cigarette holder as seen in the photo on the right.

'''canopied''' 
framed with curtains

'''boudoir''' 
a bedroom or private sitting room

'''ponce''' 
an effeminate man

[[Image:Single-edged Razor Blade.jpg|thumb|right|Single-edged razor blade]]

'''an old-fashioned one-sharp-sided razor blade''' 
still manufactured but perhaps more commonly used in certain kinds of box-cutters than in razors (see right)

==Page 946==

'''Pheromonic Musk''' 
a scent designed to emit pheromones, or a chemical that attracts the opposite sex

'''Kaposi's Sarcoma''' 
A tumor caused by Human herpesvirus-8. One of the most common symptoms of AIDS. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaposi%27s_sarcoma here]

'''chartreuse''' 
bright yellowish-green

'''500 seconds''' 
8 minutes and 20 seconds

==Page 947==

'''conundra''' 
insoluble questions; the plural of ''conundrum'' is disputed, with the OED apparently preferring ''conundrums'', as with ''stadiums''

'''VW-Bug''' 
nickname for the Volkswagen Beetle automobile model

'''sinkhole''' 
a hole formed when material falls into a void beneath it

'''pratfall''' 
a fall on one's rear

==Page 948==

'''two-meter''' 
about 6.56 feet

'''Nor'easter''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nor%27easter type of storm] common to the Northeast U.S.

'''snorkels''' 
tubes for breathing

'''plucky''' 
having or showing courage and spirit in trying circumstances

'''pugnacious''' 
having a tendency to fistfight
: To fight in general, not necessarily with fists.

==Page 949==

'''VA''' 
Veterans Affairs (formerly Veterans Administration)

'''snifter''' 
a piece of glass stemware with a wide bottom that narrows at the top, for drinking brandy; the "one-handed" variety can be easily palmed with two fingers astride the stem

'''twidgeling''' 
one of Hal's nonce words, meaning digital manipulation

'''Hancock tower''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_Tower skyscraper] in Boston

'''mimesis''' 
in art, the imitative representation of nature or human behavior; i.e., the radio was broadcasting nothing but audio static, or "snow"

==Page 950==

'''sinciput''' 
the upper part of the skull

'''convolutions''' 
folds on the surface of the brain

'''filigree''' 
intricate ornamentation usually consisting of twisted metal wire/ribbons on, say, a fence

'''Lindisfarne Gospels''' 
Richly decorated illuminated manuscipt ofthe Gospels, believed to have been produced around 700 AD in a monastery near Lindisfarne, Northumberland, UK. Some carpet pages from the Lindisfarne Gospels can be seen [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/lindisfarne/carpetpages.html here].

'''hyperfertilized''' 
given too much fertilizer

'''finial''' 
an architectural device used to top a gable

'''defile''' 
a narrow passage

'''neutered''' 
castrated

'''Noxzema''' 
A brand of skin cleanser

'''topiary''' 
a sculptured shrub or bush

'''gambrel''' 
here referring to a double-sloping roof, as often seen on barns and some churches

'''Block Mother''' 
Older version of the volunteer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Parent_Program Block Parent Program]. "Participants in the program (Block Parents) place signs on their homes indicating that the house is a police-screened, safe home for community members in distress, particularly children."

==Page 951==

[[File:Fritz_lang_directing_metropolis.jpg|thumb|right|The photo of Fritz Lang directing Metropolis. Also appeared on the copy of ''The Cinema Book'' that Wallace owned[http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/culturalcompass/2010/03/08/infinite-possibilities-a-first-glimpse-into-david-foster-wallace%E2%80%99s-library/][http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/fb/e8/0eb681b0c8a03b9679fea110._AA240_.L.jpg], and was one of the photographs Wallace considered using on the cover of ''Infinite Jest'' (mentioned in ''Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself'').]]

'''framed print of Lang directing Metropolis''' 
see photo at left

'''étagère''' 
a stand with a series of open shelves

'''delfts''' 
type of earthenware

'''claret''' 
red wine

==Page 952==

'''Hagia Sophia and S. Simeon''' 
Hagia Sophia is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia mosque] in Istanbul that had been a Byzantine basilica. S. Simeon refers to the ruins of a monastery named for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Stylites Simeon Stylites].

'''Qal'at Si'man''' 
Arabic for "Saint Simeon"

'''guilloche''' 
the most annular of the ornamental moldings used in interior decoration (see below)

[[Image: Guilloche molding.jpg]]

'''prurient''' 
inordinately interested in matters of sex; lascivious

'''Levirates''' 
men required to marry their brothers' widows

'''''maniera greca''''' 
a style of Italian painting ("Greek style") popular in the early Renaissance

'''half a meter''' 
about 1.64 feet

'''hyperemic''' 
an unusual amount of blood in part of the body

'''seraglio''' 
the living quarters of a Turkish harem

'''fieldstone''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fieldstone construction material]

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'''varicotic''' 
having varicose veins

'''onyx''' 
a deep black form of quartz

'''''specular'''''

actually, 'specular' does not appear to be the correct term because it refers to reflection characteristic of a mirror

'''kyphotic''' 
having abnormal curvature of the spine

==Page 954==

'''climacteric''' 
A period of decrease in reproductive capacity; in women, menopause.

'''Infantilist''' 
While the term can mean a type of paraphilia in which one dresses up like a baby, here Hal more likely means a pediatrician that treats patients like babies.

'''koans''' 
in Zen Buddhism, statements that defy rational explanation upon which to meditate

'''sado-periodontal''' 
Periodontology is the dental speciality concerned with the supporting structures of the teeth - gums, alveolar bone, periodontal ligament, etc. Sado-periodontal, then refers to sadistic treatment involving the gums, most likely.

==Page 955==

'''misnomer''' 
a misapplied name or designation

'''''The Green Door''''' 
The full title of the 1972 film is [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068260/ "Behind the Green Door"].

'''''Deep Throat''''' 
another pornographic film from 1972, starring [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001483/ Linda Lovelace]

'''jism''' 
slang for semen

'''interrogatives''' 
questions

==Page 956==

==Page 957==

'''expatriates''' 
people living outside their countries of origin

'''Faulknerian''' 
recollecting the style or manner of William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897-1962), American novelist

'''aspirating''' 
inhaling

=After the Interview=

==Page 958==

'''She''' 
i.e., Joelle

'''Middlesex County''' 
a county comprising most of the suburbs northwest and west of Boston

=Hi, Mikey=

==Page 958==

==Page 959==

'''the hook''' 
presumably, the sister's hand; or the screen door is still secured by its hooking mechanism to keep him out

'''boatayouse''' 
i.e., "both of you"

==Page 960==

'''a hundred m.'s''' 
a little over 328 feet

=The Assistant District Attorney=

==Page 960==

'''easement''' 
a right of way across a plot of property owned by another

'''Suffolk County''' 
the county in Massachusetts where Boston is

'''McDonald's House''' 
a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_McDonald_House Ronald McDonald House Charities], which provides housing for the parents of children undergoing intensive medical care

==Page 961==

'''Tooty''' 
apparently the ADA's wife

'''Fourth- and Eighth-Step''' 
two of the original Twelve Steps of the Alcoholics Anonymous program: 4) "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves," and 8) "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all"

==Page 962==

'''weal''' 
welfare

'''peroxide''' 
hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), used as a bleach and whitener

==Page 963==

==Page 964==

'''NoCoat LinguaScraper''' 
Fictional product mentioned on [http://wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_127-156#Page_151 Page 151].

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==Page 916==

'''Entrepôt''' 
a place where stolen goods are stored and sold from

'''frustum''' 
This is "the part of a conical solid left after cutting off a top portion with a plane parallel to the base" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

=More of Gately's Past=

==Page 916==

'''proclavity''' 
Gately means "proclivity"

==Page 917==

'''fuchsia''' 
hot pink

'''boot-knife''' 
defined [http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Boot_knife here]
: Broken link. Also defined in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_knife Wikipedia]. It seems to be little else than a knife designed to be worn in a boot (duh).

'''highatus''' 
i.e., hiatus

==Page 918==

'''VO''' 
a type of whiskey by Seagram's, the VO standing for Seagram's '''V'''ery '''O'''wn family blend; for cognac, the same abbreviation is for '''V'''ery '''O'''ld, denoting a minimum aging time of at least four years (see more on [http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/vo-xo-deciphering-cognac-labels.html cognac labels]

'''32 mb²''' 
this would, presumably, be 1024 megabytes, or 1 gigabyte.
This is strange on many counts. First, a megabyte is normally denoted as MB, not mb. Lowercase 'm' commonly means 'milli' or one-thousandth and lowercase 'b' would refer to bits instead of bytes. Second, the superscript 2 on an indicator of units typically refers to a two-dimensional unit as in, for example, square feet. Why not just say 1GB?

'''pinwheel-eyed''' 
Gately is thinking of the spiraling eyes often seen in hypnotized or narcotized cartoon characters, a convention much like that of indicating a dead cartoon character with small crosses in the place of the eyes.

==Page 919==

'''''LISLE''''' 
a fine, hard-twisted cotton thread used for hose, gloves, etc.

'''''EMBRASURE''''' 
an opening in a thick wall for a window

'''lissome''' 
agile; nimble

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'''''CIRCUMAMBIENT''''' 
surrounding; encompassing

'''head''' 
toilet; bathroom

'''goopy sleet''' 
Cf. "sleep-goop film" from Page 918

'''Pressburger''' 
Until the city was renamed Bratislava (currently the capital of Slovakia), a person from that Pressburg was called a ''Pressburger.''

==Page 921==

'''Something-with-six-syllables-that-started-with-''Sterno''''' 
possibilities: "Sternocleidomastoid," a muscle in the neck, or "Sternoclavicular," a joint where the clavicle, part of the sternum, and the cartilage of the first rib meet

'''16 mm. siphuncular''' 
0.63 inches; siphuncular basically means "tubular"

'''4 ml.''' 
The proper abbreviation for milliliters is mL.

==Endnote 373==

'''viscid''' 
sticky; adhesive

'''inspissated''' 
thickened by evaporation to become more dense

==Page 921 (cont.)==

'''scratch golfer''' 
one with a handicap of zero

'''edema''' 
swelling due to excess fluid

'''discreditated''' 
Presumably he means "discredited."

'''''Morbid Trauma Quarterly''''' 
not a real publication

'''hemoptysis''' 
coughing up blood

'''pertussive''' 
accompanied by coughing

==Page 922==

'''30 kg''' 
about 66.14 lbs

'''bupkis''' 
Yiddish for "absolutely nothing" (spelled "bupkus" on page 878)

'''''embrasure''''' 
an opening in a thick wall, mentioned earlier

'''woodie''' 
erection

'''myopic''' 
near-sighted

'''Turner''' 
probably a reference to Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), a British painter

'''innerdicted''' 
i.e., interdicted

==Page 923==

'''post-mortem''' 
Latin: after death

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

==Page 924==

'''''Night-Errand''''' 
i.e., knight-errant

'''papoose''' 
While the word technically means "baby," Gately's usage is probably closer to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papoose that explained here].

==Page 925==

'''W. T. Sherman''' 
William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) was an American army general, responsible for burning Atlanta during the U.S. Civil War.

'''dipsoid''' 
alcoholic

'''Margaret Thatcher''' 
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (born 1925), was Prime Minister of the U.K. from 1979 to 1990.

[[Image:Margaret_Thatcher_cropped1.png‎|thumb|caption|''Margaret Thatcher''|right|200px]]

'''cherry''' 
a term for a virgin

'''simper''' 
to smile self-consciously

'''highball''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highball_%28cocktail%29 family of mixed drinks]

==Page 926==

'''Carry Nation''' 
Carrie A. Nation (1846-1911) was an American proponent of prohibition of alcohol.

'''exoskeletally''' 
meaning in the manner of a creature with an exoskeleton, which is to say having the structural material on the outside, with insects being a prime example

'''Zegna''' 
a clothing company founded by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zegna Ermenegildo Zegna]

'''MILKEN''' 
Michael Robert Milken (born 1946) is a former stockbroker who served several years in prison for securities fraud.

'''Beamer''' 
a BMW

'''al''mo''meter''' 
i.e., Alma Mater

==Page 927==

'''septuagenarian''' 
in one's seventies

'''tiger's eyes''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger%27s_eye gemstone]

'''doublets''' 
tight-fitting jackets

'''Plasma spheres''' 
another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_sphere plasma lamp]

'''involuted''' 
complex, intricate

'''howitzer''' 
a short type of cannon

'''Green-Cardless''' 
not having permanent resident status and, thus, an illegal alien

'''moll''' 
the girlfriend of a criminal

'''truncheon''' 
Baton caried by police officers in the United Kingdom from 1829 until the early 1990s. In Northern Ireland, however, all police officers carry firearms (more information [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_use_of_firearms_in_the_United_Kingdom here]).

'''Belfast Bobbie''' 
This is an oxymoron. 'Bobby' is an English slang term for a policeman (after [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Peel Robert Peel]), but the armed Northern Ireland police force (the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Ulster_Constabulary Royal Ulster Constabulary]) were never known as 'Bobbies'.

'''Old Sod''' 
A term for the "old country" among U.S. immigrants of Irish origin.

'''bagmen''' 
people who collect payments in organized crime

'''cervical massage''' 
neck massage to reduce muscle tension

'''wpm''' 
words per minute

'''shillelagh''' 
an Irish [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shillelagh_%28club%29 hand weapon]

==Page 928==

'''Bulldog''' 
mascot of Yale University

'''Post-Coital Vestibulitis''' 
Vestibulitis is inflammation of the vestibule, or vaginal opening, and thus a woman's affliction, although the related (but rare) pudendal neuralgia can occur in men; the more common symptom of the latter is pain when sitting.

'''vertiginous''' 
As in related to vertigo, the sensation of imbalance or dizziness

'''proprioception''' 
the sense of the relative position of neighbouring parts of the body. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception Wikipedia])

''''''debriefed'''''' 
i.e., had their briefs (or panties) removed

'''VLR''' 
visitor's locker room

'''pyrotechnic''' 
explosive, like fireworks ("pyrotechnic glandular atmosphere" must imply an orgasmic situation)

'''conoid''' 
conic; cone-like

'''vas deferens''' 
the conduit for semen from the testis to the ejaculatory duct, from which it is propelled through the urethra

'''Bruins''' 
mascot of Brown University, though they actually just call themselves the "Bears"

==Page 929==

'''wrench in the ointment''' 
a mixup of "monkey wrench in the works" and "fly in the ointment," both meaning ruining someone's original plans

'''Dworkinite''' 
Andrea Dworkin was a radical feminist, known for criticism of pornography, which later extended to a denunciation of all heterosexual intercourse which she saw as coercive and degrading to women.

'''Phalanx''' 
From the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_formation Ancient Greek military formation] comprising a group of soldiers standing closely together, meaning a close-knit organized group moving forward.

'''filigreed''' 
finely and elaborately ornamented work, usually made out of wire

'''N.O.W.''' 
National Organization of Women

'''power forward''' 
the one of the two forwards in basketball who more often will drive to the net

'''ursine''' 
pertaining to bears

'''ersatz''' 
an inferior substitute

'''assassination''' 
Obviously President Limbaugh was assassinated in the recent past.

==Page 930==

'''obsequity''' 
excessive compliance

'''Gaelic''' 
i.e., the Irish language

'''C-notes''' 
hundred dollar bills

'''375 sky-blue grams''' 
about 13.23 ounces

==Page 931==

==Endnote 376==

'''$660.00/g''' 
about $18,000 an ounce

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

==Page 931 (cont'd)==

'''adulterant''' 
an impurity

'''fillip''' 
to smack one's finger against by pressing the finger against the thumb and releasing

'''gigantism''' 
excessive growth

'''Ward-and-Wally''' 
referring to Theodore Cleaver's father and older brother in the CBS-ABC television series [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_It_to_Beaver ''Leave It to Beaver''] (1957-1963)

'''smack''' 
slang term for heroin

==Page 932==

'''beeline''' 
a direct route traveled quickly

'''craven''' 
cowardly

'''gloaming''' 
dusk

==Page 933==

'''entr'actes''' 
the periods between dramatic performances

'''"The wraith is back...except now with him is another, younger, way more physically fit wraith in kind of faggy biking shorts and U.S. tank top who's leaning way over Gately's railing and... fucking ''licking Gately's forehead'' with a rough little tongue..."''' 
It's Lyle. However, Lyle, being alive and well, must be able to achieve status as a wraith via meditation (this adds significance to the "Lyle Meditates" section on pg. 700).

==Page 934==

'''"...digging some dead guy's head up..."''' 
See ''Hamlet,'' Act V, Scene i.

See also pages 16-17, where Hal reflects: "I think of John N.R. Wayne...standing watch in a mask as Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head."

'''"...asks if they knew him..."''' 
"Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio..." (''Hamlet'').

=While Leaving St. Elizabeth's...=

==Page 934==

'''"...a grotesquely huge woman whose hose bulged..."''' 
It's Helen Steeply.

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==Page 884==

'''''Ethan From''''' 
Gately means American author Edith Wharton's 1911 novel [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Frome ''Ethan Frome''].

'''''OMMATOPHORIC''''' 
having eyes at the ends of stalks

'''''ghostwords''''' 
a word that has come into existence by error rather than by normal linguistic transmission, as through the mistaken reading of a manuscript, a scribal error, or a misprint. ([http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Ghost+words Dictionary.com])

==Page 885==

'''cuneiform''' 
the writing of ancient Sumer, made by digging a wedge into clay

'''Marshall Plan''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan plan] to rebuild Germany after WWII

'''Shane''' 
a reference to a [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046303/ popular western film]

==Page 886==

'''Synovial''' 
of or pertaining to the fluid that lubricates the joints

'''renal calculus''' 
kidney stones

'''ectopic labor''' 
pregnancy in the fallopian tube

'''ibuprofen''' 
the generic name for Advil

'''antipyretic''' 
designed to combat fever

'''SR''' 
Usually in drug names, this stands for "sustained release."

'''Dilaudid''' 
brand name for hydromorphone hydrochloride

'''bayou''' 
a marshy arm of a lake

'''C-II''' 
These drugs are highly addictive. Cocaine is in this class, as it is still used legally in dentistry.

==Page 887==

'''Hydrocodone''' 
also the active ingredient in Vicodin

'''Oxycodone-nalaxone''' 
Oxycodone also the active ingredient in Oxycontin. Naloxone blocks (partially, one must guess) the effects of opioids, probably to reduce abuse potential.

==Endnote 358==

'''NX''' 
Attached to a drug name, this means it contains Naloxone.

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==Page 890==

'''somnolent''' 
drowsy

==Page 891==

'''concentric circles''' 
circles within circles (and more annularity); more specifically circles of different radii but a common center

'''chintz''' 
printed, glazed fabric, usually of bright colors

'''the lobsters' eyes' stalks''' 
see ''OMMATOPHORIC'' earlier on pg. 884

'''The fish asking about what's water.''' 
A reference to DFW's Kenyon College commencement speech [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Water This Is Water]

'''Ipswich''' 
a town in northern Massachusetts about 40 miles east of Nashua, N.H.

'''intra-ocular''' 
within the eye

==Page 892==

'''Bufferin''' 
a brand of aspirin with a protectant for the stomach

'''JFK Library''' 
the Kennedy [http://www.jfklibrary.org/ Presidential library], located in Boston

'''Banfis''' 
expensive Italian shoes

==Page 893==

'''libido''' 
sex drive

'''taciturn''' 
reserved or reticent in speech; saying little.

'''ebubblient''' 
i.e., "ebullient" (with bubbles)

'''''hatbeat''''' 
i.e., "heartbeat" with a Boston accent ("Ya can't pak ya ca in Havid Yad.")

'''tittymount''' 
i.e., "tantamount"

==Page 894==

'''sombrero w/ balls''' 

[[Image:Sombrero with Dingle Balls.jpg]]

'''maroon''' 
a cartoonish pronunciation (''à la'' Bugs Bunny) of "moron;" (see note for page 302 ''supra'')

'''scuttlebutt''' 
gossip, rumor

==Page 895==

'''''FLEET''''' 
a brand of enema

'''alacrity''' 
eagerness

'''mortification''' 
extreme embarrassment

==Page 896==

=Hal Continues Narrating=

==Page 896==

'''''Tosca''''' 
Opera by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) that premiered in 1900. Hal's "protracted death aria" is probably Cavaradossi's final aria 'E lucevan le stelle' ('And the stars shone'). Full lyrics and a recording can be found [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_lucevan_le_stelle here].

'''overcognitive''' 
thinking too much

==Page 897==

'''megagram''' 
a million grams, or slightly over 2,200 pounds

'''vivisected''' 
slaughtered, yes, but not cut apart while still living

==Page 898==

'''''Yale Journal of Alcohol Studies''''' 
There is no such journal.

'''183.6 cm.''' 
a little over six feet tall

'''recumbency''' 
DFW is making up a noun here. Recumbent means “sprawled out” or otherwise sitting comfortably. So you add the suffix ''-cy'' to that to get an “action” noun from an adjective, in this case a couch where one can be recumbent. From [https://www.dictionary.com/browse/-cy Dictionary.com] '''-cy''': a suffix used to form abstract nouns from adjectives with stems in -t, -te, -tic, and especially-nt (democracy; accuracy; expediency; stagnancy; lunacy), and sometimes used to form action nouns (vacancy; occupancy).

[[Image:Husband Pillow.jpg|thumb|right|"Husband" pillow]]

'''spectation-pillows''' 
"husband" pillows like the one shown at right

'''mylar''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PET_film_(biaxially_oriented) PET film]

'''197 cm.''' 
over 6'5"

'''Vaipassana''' 
a type of Buddhist meditation ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipassanā Wikipedia]); usually spelled "Vipassana"

'''"...etymology of the word ''blizzard''..."''' 
While Hal believes the etymology is unknown, there is one offered [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/blizzard here].

'''lumiphobia''' 
probably fear of light, although the proper term is "photophobia"

'''brooha''' 
Does not seem to be an English word, so it is probably a corruption of ''brouhaha'', a French loanword meaning general noise and stir.

'''sausage-analog''' 
something similar in appearance to a breakfast sausage link, but perhaps made of textured vegetable protein rather than pork or other meat

==Page 899==

'''averred''' 
asserted with confidence

'''neologism''' 
a newly coined word

'''"...corruption of the French ''blesser,''..."''' 
''Blesser'' is French for "to injure or wound."

'''''Northern Vindicator''''' 
the name of several real publications

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

==Page 900==

'''Sitney and Schneewind's'' Dictionary of Environmental Sciences''''' 
There is no such book, but the name Schneewind is German for "snow wind." There are two contemporary academics with those surnames, though they are not scientists: P. Adams Sitney (b. 1944) is a scholar of avant-garde film; J.B. Schneewind (b. 1930) is a philosopher and an authority on Kant and the history of ethics

'''12 cm.''' 
about 4.73 inches

'''60 kph.''' 
about 38.3 miles per hour

'''500 meters''' 
a little over 1,650 feet

'''perspicacity''' 
keenness of perception

'''topology''' 
the mathematical study of sets

'''philately''' 
stamp collecting

'''gerundives''' 
the verbal adjective or present participle―in English, these end in "ing";

'''Hamlet''' 
Hal confronts his sausage-analog in Shakespeare.

==Page 901==

'''phocomelic''' 
having extremely short limbs

'''Brattleboro''' 
a town in Vermont about 75 miles west of Manchester, N.H.

'''achondroplastic''' 
having dwarfism as a result of a disorder of bone and cartilage

'''homodontic''' 
having teeth that are all of similar form (see page 316 and endnote 119)

'''bicuspid''' 
another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicuspid premolar] teeth (see note for page 316)

'''Kevlon''' 
Possibly a portmanteau-word combining Kevlar and Teflon, meaning a substance that is tough and slippery ([http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=kevlon Urbandictionary.com]).

==Page 902==

'''sarcophagus''' 
coffin

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==Page 845==

'''gauche''' 
from the French for "left" but here meaning "crude" or "socially unacceptable"

=Gately Dreaming=

==Page 846==

'''change their bags''' 
i.e., their colostomy bags

'''''leur rai pays''''' 
cf. note ''supra''for '''NOTRE RAI PAYS''' on page 222; this would be idiomatic French for "their home away from home" or "their colony" (Québec)

==Page 847==

'''the sort of body Gately's only ever seen with a staple in its navel''' 
a centerfold nude in a magazine, such as ''Playboy''

'''fifth post''' 
You get the picture.

[[Image:Taj.jpg|thumb|caption|Taj Mahal|right|200px]]

'''Taj''' 
i.e., the Taj Mahal; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_mahal Wikipedia]

'''viscous''' 
very thick

==Page 848==

'''Twister''' 
see note ''supra'' for page 634

==Page 849==

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'''starkers''' 
i.e., stark naked

==Page 851==

=November 20th, YDAU; ''GAUDEAMUS IGITUR'' - Hal Narrates=

==Page 851==

'''''Gaudeamus Igitur''''' 
A traditional European graduation song that exhorts the listener to enjoy all that our brief lives have to offer--in particular, the recreations in which university undergraduates typically partake. The phrase comes from the opening Latin words of the lyric: "Let us rejoice therefore/
While we are young/After a pleasant youth/After a troublesome old age/The earth will have us."

==Page 852==

'''50 cm.''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''A formula for the temporal relation...''' 
To understand why Hal's insight is true, first take a look at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trammel_of_Archimedes Trammel of Archimedes]. Now imagine a system in which the two shuttles travel back and forth along their respective axes and flash each time they reach the ellipse before reversing direction. Both shuttles are confined to the ellipse, so that the shuttle on the major axis travels farther (and temporally longer) between its flashes than does its counterpart on the minor axis. There are two formulas for describing the [http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/Ellipse.topicArticleId-257309,articleId-257249.html ellipse], one for the major axis on the horizontal and the other for the major axis on the vertical.

'''conic sections''' 
These are studied in advanced trigonometry; they are geometric shapes forced by passing a plane through a double-naped cone at different angles and observing the cross-sections, i.e., circles, ellipses (see note ''supra''), parabolas, and hyperbolas.

==Page 853==

'''terre-batu''' 
French for "beaten earth," this is a reference to French clay courts.
: Proper spelling is ''terre battue''. Roland-Garros, usually played in May and June, is one of the four Grand Slam tournaments and the only one of them played on clay courts.

'''Ethiopian spear chuckers''' 
Reference to the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, when Mussolini's heavily armed and mechanized Italian invading forces took on Haile Selassi's Army of the Ethiopian Empire. Despite the fact that many of the Abyssinians were equipped with little more than spears or bows they managed to give the Italians a good run for their money, but against tanks and aerial bombardments of mustard gas the result was inevitable.

==Page 854==

=Gately's Dreaming, cont.=

==Page 854==

'''effulgence''' 
shining brilliance

[[Image:Huipil.jpg|thumb|right|Contemporary huipil with typical square neckline]]

'''hulpil''' 
probably a misspelling of "huipil," a traditional Mayan dress

==Page 855==

'''''And Lo''''' 
the words used by Madame Psychosis to open her radio show (p. 184)

==Page 856==

[[Image:Huarache.jpg]]

'''huaraches''' 
Mexican sandals, the "uppers" of which are made from woven strips of leather

'''B.U.M.''' 
perhaps Boston University Multimedia - but more likely B.U.M. Equipment, a clothes manufacturer that can be read about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.U.M. here]

'''St. Columbkill''' 
this is actually spelled "St. Columbkille," one of the many names of St. Columba, who was also called "Colum Cille," meaning "dove of the church," and was one of the "Twelve Apostles of Ireland" who converted the native Irish - St. Columbkille Parish is a real Parish in Brighton, MA, as end note 348 mentions, the website of which is [http://www.brightoncatholic.org/ here].

==Page 857==

'''mush''' 
a cornmeal porridge, similar to grits but thicker

'''w.o.m.''' 
word of mouth

'''jimson''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimsonweed loco weed]

'''have to much to go on''' 
this appears to be a misprint of "have too much to go on"

==Page 859==

'''Evel Knievel''' 
Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel, Jr. (1938-2007), was an American motorcycle daredevil.

'''''As God is my fucking witness...''''' 
echoing Scarlett O'Hara's [http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=as+god+is+my+witness+i%27ll+never&view=detail&mid=75BCE76FF4D9CC87EF2F75BCE76FF4D9CC87EF2F&first=0&qpvt=as+god+is+my+witness+i%27ll+never climactic speech] in the 1939 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/ "Gone with the Wind"]

'''MCI/Billerica''' 
the '''M'''assachusetts '''C'''orrectional '''I'''nstitution in Billerica, a town about 20 miles northwest of Boston

'''Revere''' 
another Massachusetts town, about five miles northeast of Boston, on the Bay; named for Paul Revere

==Page 860==

'''Nuckslaughter''' 
i.e., killing a Canadian

==Page 861==

'''UPS''' 
United Parcel Service

'''Route 45''' 
U.S. Route 45 runs from US-98 in Mobile, Ala., to I-43/I-94 in Milwaukee. It passes through Kentucky.

==Page 863==

'''orchasm''' 
i.e., orgasm; an interesting gaffe considering it incorporates "chasm," meaning "abyss"

'''''Liebestod''''' 
German: love-death―this is the final aria sung by Isolde in Wagner's ''Tristan und Isolde''; see note ''supra'' for page 756

==Page 864==

=Hal's Narration, cont.=

'''Spiru-Tein''' 
a high-protein energy drink distributed, in powered form, in cans

'''guilloche''' 
Hal is referring to an ornamental molding of the kind shown below.

[[Image:Guilloche molding.jpg]]

'''parabolic dusting of snow''' and '''snow swirling in funnels and eddies''' 
Hal (or Wallace) is on a kind of annular jag with all this talk of ellipses, conic sections, parabolas, funnels and eddies, and even the guilloche pattern.

'''lee side''' 
nautical term meaning the side facing away from the wind

==Page 865==

'''ablutions''' 
ritualistic washings of the body

'''11-18-EST0456''' 
November 18, Eastern Standard Time, 04:56 a.m. (Despite the fact that it's apparently November 20th. Whether this is an error or not is unclear.)

'''furriners''' 
dialect pronunciation of "foreigners"

==Page 866==

'''Mount Auburn''' 
probably the [http://www.mountauburnclub.com/ Mount Auburn Club] in Watertown, Mass.

'''F.A.A.''' 
Federal Aviation Administration

'''skirling''' 
shrieking; playing of bagpipes

==Page 867==

'''duck blind''' 
a shelter for concealing duck hunters

'''Winchester double-aughts''' 
Winchester 00 shotguns file shells with 7-9 pellets of nominal diameter of 0.33" (8.4 mm).

'''''raisin-debt''''' 
''raison d'être'', French: reason for being

'''"We got him..."''' 
Obviously, the point of Stice's unfunny joke is that the statistical average of the first two shots would yield a shot that hit the duck.

==Page 868==

'''confected''' 
candied or covered in sugar

'''Schacht heard that joke down at the Cranial place''' 
"Schacht interns twice a week for a root-specialist over at the National Cranio-Facial Pain Foundation", Cf. Page 267

'''medials''' 
i.e., medians

==Page 869==

'''brang''' 
Stice's solecism for "brought"

==Page 870==

'''hyper-v'd''' 
hyperventilated

'''cantilevered''' 
having a "projecting structure, such as a beam, that is supported at one end and carries a load at the other end or along its length" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'')

'''Telekiniption''' 
i.e., telekinesis

'''Parabnormal''' 
another good one

'''occlusive''' 
descriptive of a bandage that closes a wound and keeps it from air

==Page 871==

'''Subhadronic''' 
making up the parts of the parts of an atom; very, very small; hadrons are particles made up of quarks, mainly baryons -- protons and neutrons, made of three quarks -- and mesons -- made of two quarks, so subhadronic particles may be quarks

'''Moët''' 
Moët & Chandon is a French champagne manufacturer

'''parotitic''' 
having the mumps

'''half a meter''' 
about 1.64 feet

'''dermis''' 
skin

==Page 872==

'''tacit''' 
unspoken

==Page 873==

==Endnote 352==

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

'''betel-nut extract''' 
This extract causes the teeth and gums to be stained red

'''internecine''' 
destructive to both sides (of a conflict, esp. within an organization)

==Page 873 (cont'd)==

'''naïf''' 
a naive male

'''dessicated''' 
dried up

'''S.-B. I.Q.''' 
'''S'''tanford-'''B'''inet '''I'''ntelligence '''Q''uotient

'''Submoronic-to-Moronic''' 
At one time, the term "moron" was used to describe a person who tested with an IQ of 50-69; "submoronic" by this reckoning would either be an "imbecile" (with an IQ of 20-49) or an "idiot" (with an IQ below 20). These terms came to be considered offensive and fell from use in the psychological community.

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken]]

'''sinecure''' 
an office requiring little or no work

'''Ba'hai''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahai Bahá'í], a Middle-Eastern faith
==Page 874==

'''hypomanic''' 
not quite manic, but close

'''co-eval of venereal interface''' 
"Co-eval" can have the more specific meaning of "contemporary," i.e., having the same age (date of origin) or duration, but Kenkle is using periphrasis to say "equivalent of sex."

==Endnote 353==

'''Roxbury and Mattapan''' 
In fact, the Orange line continues through Roxbury to terminate at Forest Hills (on the south end of the line); the Red line goes to Mattapan (via transfer at Ashmont). Some branches of the Green line have stops in Brighton, the stand-in for Enfield in the novel.

'''joss''' 
luck

==Page 874==

'''fireman's carry''' 
to carry someone by draping them over your shoulder

'''Noh-style''' 
in the style of Noh (alternative romanization: "Nou"), which is the highly stylized, elaborately costumed classical drama of Japan

'''hawked''' 
spit, after hawking up phlegm

'''nihil''' 
Latin: nothing

==Page 875==

'''Good prince Hal''' 
Falstaff addresses the future King Henry V in this manner in Act II, scene ii, of ''I Henry IV''.

'''athe[-]ling''' 
Anglo-Saxon prince or royal heir

'''cachinated''' 
misspelling of cachinnated, i.e., laughed loudly

'''compadre''' 
Spanish term for "friend"

==Page 876==

'''Brandt had a full metal bucket''' 
Is this a reference to Kubrick’s ''Full Metal Jacket''? It wouldn’t be the only Kubrick reference in IJ.

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==Page 736==

'''B.Y.P.''' 
Brookline Young People's (a previously mentioned AA group)

'''YYY tapes''' 
apparently recordings of radio-station WYYY broadcasts

==Page 737==

'''Pokie''' 
apparently a childhood nickname for Joelle

'''fifth wall''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_wall "fourth wall"] is a term used in theater to describe the imaginary wall that separates the stage from the audience. The "fifth wall" could be an extrapolation of this concept, meaning a wall separating an actor from a critic, or separating two people sharing the same experience notably when viewing projected or broadcasted media. Or possibly simply a reference to the fact that rooms tend not to have fifth walls, meaning that his face was never there.

==Page 738==

'''futon''' 
a Japanese-style pallet or mattress that can be folded into a sofa or open like a bed; many futons have adjustable frames, but some simply fold up along a wall for seating until unfolded when needed for sleeping

'''amniotic''' 
taking place ''in utero''

'''greebles''' 
Here, Joelle means little wads of paper resulting from worrying the wet tissue. There is another use of [http://www.reference.com/search?r=13&q=Greeble ''greeble''], but she is not referring here to background treatments for films. The "little bits of sleepy goo you got in your eyes' corners" (two paragraphs following) are the thin mucous discharges ('eye boogers') known as ''rheum''.

'''basso''' 
having a very low voice

==Page 739==

'''Carefree''' 
a brand of sanitary pads

'''Chore-type supplies''' 
e.g., stainless-steel or copper [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chore_Boy scouring pads] now branded as Chore Boy, after some years as Chore Girl; ironically, the pads are often used in homemade crack-cocaine pipes (see note for page 222)

'''talking batons and low-pH chemistry 
''batons'' presumably in encouragement of Joelle's amateur career as a twirler and low-pH chemistry (the chemistry of acids) because of his work for the Dyne-Riney Proton Donor Reagent Corporation

'''disdain''' 
dislike or hatred

==Page 740==

[[Image:Stink Bug.jpg|thumb|right|Adult female brown marmorated stink bug
]]

'''rancid-cinnamon smell''' 
possibly the odor of the stink bug (see right); ironically, cinnamon itself can be used to dispel rancid odors; or, more likely, at least a way of covering up the odor of drugs, see, e.g., footnote 324, page 1067, where Permulis uses cayenne pepper to a similar purpose.

'''oeuvre''' 
body of work

'''Job-like protagonist''' 
referring to the title character in the Old Testament book

[[Image:Sitting Duck.jpg|right]]

'''dunk-tank''' 
a carnival attraction (see right) in which the participant pays to hurl one or more balls at a target that, if hit, will trigger a mechanism that unseats a victim into a receptacle of water

'''inbent''' 
directed inward

==Page 741==

'''s-boarded''' 
story-boarded

'''anality''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_retentiveness anal-retentiveness]

'''Everclear''' 
a brand of pure grain alcohol

'''Shoats''' 
young pigs

'''Boosters''' 
members of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booster_%28sports%29 booster club]

'''H.S.''' 
high school

'''YardGuard''' 
a brand name of [http://www.yardguardmosquito.com/ insect repellent]

==Page 742==

'''Vittorio's Bernini Room''' 
possibly a meeting room in the [http://www.nh-hotels.com/nh/en/hotels/italy/rome/nh-vittorio-veneto.html NH Vittorio Veneto] hotel in Rome; or it may refer to the Cornaro Chapel of Santa Maria della Vittoria [note the different spelling] in Rome, where Bernini's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstasy_of_St_Theresa ''Ecstasy of St. Teresa''] resides. Given the book's repeated allusions to the Bernini sculpture, probably the latter.

'''herring''' 
i.e., a red herring—a distraction

==Page 743==

'''Legal Seafood up in Brookline''' 
[http://www.legalseafoods.com Legal Sea Foods], a chain that got its start in Inman Square, has a restaurant at 43 Boylston St., at the border of Brookline and within five miles of ETA.

==Endnote 309==

'''boniface''' 
an innkeeper

==Page 743 (cont'd)==

'''grouper''' 
a family of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grouper fish] including sea basses

==Page 744==

'''obtruding''' 
pushing something forward without invitation

'''tri-faceted''' 
three-faced or three-walled

'''diphthong''' 
A sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves toward another

'''Albertan champagne''' 
an oxymoron — champagne comes only from the Champagne region of France

==Page 745==

'''Clift''' 
Edward Montgomery Clift (1920-1966) was an American actor.

'''two meters''' 
about 6.6 feet

[[Image:Heliotrope Plant.jpg|right|200px|Heliotrope Plant]]

'''heliotropes''' 
flowering plants of the genus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliotrope_(plant) ''heliotropium''] (sample at right), so-named because their blossoms turn toward the sun

'''candela''' 
From the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units International System of Units] (SI): The candela is the luminous intensity, in a given direction, of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540×1012 hertz and that has a radiant intensity in that direction of 1/683 watt per steradian ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt watt] is a unit of energy; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steradian steradian] a measure of solid angle, the 3 dimensional equivalent of a planar angle).

'''freezing point of platinum''' 
If the melting point of platinum is 3214.9 ° F, then at any temperature below this, it will be solid, i.e., frozen.

'''Bazin''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Bazin André Bazin] (1918– 1958) was an influential French film critic and film theorist.

'''Thomist''' 
ascribing to the philosophy of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquinas St. Thomas Aquinas]

'''''personalistes''''' 
One of the main currents of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-conformists_of_the_1930s non-conformist movement] in France in the 1930s, the ''personalistes'' school's main organ was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Mounier Emmanuel Mounier's] jouranl ''Esprit'', in which Bazin published film criticism. The aesthetic theory of the ''personalistes'' was formulated by [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/maritain/#Aest Jacques Maritain]. For a discussion of Bazin's relation to Mounier see [http://www.horschamp.qc.ca/new_offscreen/bazin_intro2.html this article].

'''Sagan''' 
Carl Edward Sagan (1934-1996) was an American astronomer and host of a television show called ''Cosmos''.

'''Haplology''' 
in speech, the elision of one of two consecutive, identical syllables, e.g., "probly" for "probably" (see the Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplology entry] for further examples, including "haplogy," the kind of in-joke that philologists enjoy)

==Page 746==

''''the vapors'''' 
a euphemism for hysteria

'''Spielberg's old computer-enhanced celluloid dinosaur things''' 
Steven Spielberg directed "Jurassic Park" (1993) and its sequel "The Lost World" (1997); it's unclear, of course, whether Wallace could have anticipated "Jurassic Park III" (2001), for which Spielberg was executive producer. (He is taking the same role on "Jurassic Park IV," announced for 2014.)

==Page 747==

'''Kahlua''' 
a coffee-flavored [http://www.kahlua.com/ liqueur]

'''blancmange''' 
a thick milk pudding

'''chickory''' 
usually spelled [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicory chicory], is used as a coffee substitute or additive in some places

'''thymus''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thymus bodily organ] that plays a role in immune function

=Marathe at Ennet House, cont.=

==Page 747==

'''subaltern''' 
a subordinate

'''"He had the great fatigue..."''' 
A less literal translation would be: "He was very tired..."

'''"Thinner by far of her other leg"''' 
Probably from having a good understanding of French and English, I find one of the very many "funniest" things about this book to be DFW's deadpan literal renderings of the Québecois French of Marathe (and others) into English. He is more deadpan than Google Translate, much more. Note the "room of storage" at the premises of Antitoi.

==Page 748==

'''"...to smack, to scag, and to H, seeking desperately the residential treatment"''' 
all the same thing, being street names for heroin, and, following, even more intense deadpan literal translation

==Page 749==

'''bolt of death''' 
deadpan translation: a deadbolt lock

'''Chit Chat Farms''' 
This is a real detox in Wernersville, Pa., about 70 miles northwest of Philadelphia.

==Page 750==

'''chez''' 
reductively, a French preposition meaning "at the home of;" more complexly, "in the system of," e.g., if discussing fetal rats and how they receive nutrients, one would start with, "chez le rat." I promise, having done rat research in Paris, that this is true and not a joke.

'''[Marathe] had the ability of splitting his mind’s thinking along parallel tracks''' 
A railroad motif.

==Page 751==

'''infirmière''' 
Should be ''infirmerie'' (infirmary). Marathe was certainly not put inside a nurse (''infirmière'').

'''''comment-on-dit?''''' 
French: How do you say?

'''45 kph''' 
almost 28 miles per hour

'''''Caisse de Dépôt et Placement''''' 
French: Fund for Registration and Placement

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==Page 751==

'''katexia''' 
Just like when Joelle referred to CA newcomers as "catexic" on pg 707, there's no word "katexia" in any American dictionary, although Freud used "katexis" to refer to the process by means of which libido energy is tied or placed into the mental representation of a personality, idea, or thing." What would make more sense in context is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cachexia cachexia], the weight loss and muscle atrophy caused by some chronic diseases.

==Page 752==

'''''Feeling Good''''' 
One of the key books on cognitive therapy for depression by David D. Burns, M.D., an American psychiatrist.

=Marathe's Intake, cont.=

==Page 752==

'''volubly''' 
in a voluble manner, to speak readily, fluidly, incessantly

'''M./Mlle.''' 
French: Monsieur/Mademoiselle, i.e., Mr./Ms., used because of Steeply's disguise

'''restenotic''' 
refers to restenosis, or the re-narrowing of blood vessels after initial stenosis

==Page 753==

'''spire''' 
steeple

'''''manche à balai''''' 
French: broom handle

'''''chanteur-fou''''' 
French: crazy singer

'''calculus''' 
here meaning simply "calculation"

'''Lopate''' 
The name is perhaps taken from Philip Lopate (born 1943), an American film critic.

'''''transpercé''''' 
pierced through

==Page 754==

'''etier''' 
or étier: neither is a French, Swiss, or Québecois word. Perhaps a malentendu in French on the part of DFW – Marathe should have heard itier for ETA.

==Endnote 315==

'''malentendu''' 
mishearing

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'''B.Y.P.''' 
Brookline Young People's (a previously mentioned AA group)

'''YYY tapes''' 
apparently recordings of radio-station WYYY broadcasts

==Page 737==

'''Pokie''' 
apparently a childhood nickname for Joelle

'''fifth wall''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_wall "fourth wall"] is a term used in theater to describe the imaginary wall that separates the stage from the audience. The "fifth wall" could be an extrapolation of this concept, meaning a wall separating an actor from a critic, or separating two people sharing the same experience notably when viewing projected or broadcasted media. Or possibly simply a reference to the fact that rooms tend not to have fifth walls, meaning that his face was never there.

==Page 738==

'''futon''' 
a Japanese-style pallet or mattress that can be folded into a sofa or open like a bed; many futons have adjustable frames, but some simply fold up along a wall for seating until unfolded when needed for sleeping

'''amniotic''' 
taking place ''in utero''

'''greebles''' 
Here, Joelle means little wads of paper resulting from worrying the wet tissue. There is another use of [http://www.reference.com/search?r=13&q=Greeble ''greeble''], but she is not referring here to background treatments for films. The "little bits of sleepy goo you got in your eyes' corners" (two paragraphs following) are the thin mucous discharges ('eye boogers') known as ''rheum''.

'''basso''' 
having a very low voice

==Page 739==

'''Carefree''' 
a brand of sanitary pads

'''Chore-type supplies''' 
e.g., stainless-steel or copper [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chore_Boy scouring pads] now branded as Chore Boy, after some years as Chore Girl; ironically, the pads are often used in homemade crack-cocaine pipes (see note for page 222)

'''talking batons and low-pH chemistry 
''batons'' presumably in encouragement of Joelle's amateur career as a twirler and low-pH chemistry (the chemistry of acids) because of his work for the Dyne-Riney Proton Donor Reagent Corporation

'''disdain''' 
dislike or hatred

==Page 740==

[[Image:Stink Bug.jpg|thumb|right|Adult female brown marmorated stink bug
]]

'''rancid-cinnamon smell''' 
possibly the odor of the stink bug (see right); ironically, cinnamon itself can be used to dispel rancid odors; or, more likely, at least a way of covering up the odor of drugs, see, e.g., footnote 324, page 1067, where Permulis uses cayenne pepper to a similar purpose.

'''oeuvre''' 
body of work

'''Job-like protagonist''' 
referring to the title character in the Old Testament book

[[Image:Sitting Duck.jpg|right]]

'''dunk-tank''' 
a carnival attraction (see right) in which the participant pays to hurl one or more balls at a target that, if hit, will trigger a mechanism that unseats a victim into a receptacle of water

'''inbent''' 
directed inward

==Page 741==

'''s-boarded''' 
story-boarded

'''anality''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_retentiveness anal-retentiveness]

'''Everclear''' 
a brand of pure grain alcohol

'''Shoats''' 
young pigs

'''Boosters''' 
members of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booster_%28sports%29 booster club]

'''H.S.''' 
high school

'''YardGuard''' 
a brand name of [http://www.yardguardmosquito.com/ insect repellent]

==Page 742==

'''Vittorio's Bernini Room''' 
possibly a meeting room in the [http://www.nh-hotels.com/nh/en/hotels/italy/rome/nh-vittorio-veneto.html NH Vittorio Veneto] hotel in Rome; or it may refer to the Cornaro Chapel of Santa Maria della Vittoria [note the different spelling] in Rome, where Bernini's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstasy_of_St_Theresa ''Ecstasy of St. Teresa''] resides. Given the book's repeated allusions to the Bernini sculpture, probably the latter.

'''herring''' 
i.e., a red herring—a distraction

==Page 743==

'''Legal Seafood up in Brookline''' 
[http://www.legalseafoods.com Legal Sea Foods], a chain that got its start in Inman Square, has a restaurant at 43 Boylston St., at the border of Brookline and within five miles of ETA.

==Endnote 309==

'''boniface''' 
an innkeeper

==Page 743 (cont'd)==

'''grouper''' 
a family of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grouper fish] including sea basses

==Page 744==

'''obtruding''' 
pushing something forward without invitation

'''tri-faceted''' 
three-faced or three-walled

'''diphthong''' 
A sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves toward another

'''Albertan champagne''' 
an oxymoron — champagne comes only from the Champagne region of France

==Page 745==

'''Clift''' 
Edward Montgomery Clift (1920-1966) was an American actor.

'''two meters''' 
about 6.6 feet

[[Image:Heliotrope Plant.jpg|right|200px|Heliotrope Plant]]

'''heliotropes''' 
flowering plants of the genus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliotrope_(plant) ''heliotropium''] (sample at right), so-named because their blossoms turn toward the sun

'''candela''' 
From the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units International System of Units] (SI): The candela is the luminous intensity, in a given direction, of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540×1012 hertz and that has a radiant intensity in that direction of 1/683 watt per steradian ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt watt] is a unit of energy; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steradian steradian] a measure of solid angle, the 3 dimensional equivalent of a planar angle).

'''freezing point of platinum''' 
If the melting point of platinum is 3214.9 ° F, then at any temperature below this, it will be solid, i.e., frozen.

'''Bazin''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Bazin André Bazin] (1918– 1958) was an influential French film critic and film theorist.

'''Thomist''' 
ascribing to the philosophy of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquinas St. Thomas Aquinas]

'''''personalistes''''' 
One of the main currents of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-conformists_of_the_1930s non-conformist movement] in France in the 1930s, the ''personalistes'' school's main organ was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Mounier Emmanuel Mounier's] jouranl ''Esprit'', in which Bazin published film criticism. The aesthetic theory of the ''personalistes'' was formulated by [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/maritain/#Aest Jacques Maritain]. For a discussion of Bazin's relation to Mounier see [http://www.horschamp.qc.ca/new_offscreen/bazin_intro2.html this article].

'''Sagan''' 
Carl Edward Sagan (1934-1996) was an American astronomer and host of a television show called ''Cosmos''.

'''Haplology''' 
in speech, the elision of one of two consecutive, identical syllables, e.g., "probly" for "probably" (see the Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplology entry] for further examples, including "haplogy," the kind of in-joke that philologists enjoy)

==Page 746==

''''the vapors'''' 
a euphemism for hysteria

'''Spielberg's old computer-enhanced celluloid dinosaur things''' 
Steven Spielberg directed "Jurassic Park" (1993) and its sequel "The Lost World" (1997); it's unclear, of course, whether Wallace could have anticipated "Jurassic Park III" (2001), for which Spielberg was executive producer. (He is taking the same role on "Jurassic Park IV," announced for 2014.)

==Page 747==

'''Kahlua''' 
a coffee-flavored [http://www.kahlua.com/ liqueur]

'''blancmange''' 
a thick milk pudding

'''chickory''' 
usually spelled [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicory chicory], is used as a coffee substitute or additive in some places

'''thymus''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thymus bodily organ] that plays a role in immune function

=Marathe at Ennet House, cont.=

==Page 747==

'''subaltern''' 
a subordinate

'''"He had the great fatigue..."''' 
A less literal translation would be: "He was very tired..."

'''"Thinner by far of her other leg"''' 
Probably from having a good understanding of French and English, I find one of the very many "funniest" things about this book to be DFW's deadpan literal renderings of the Québecois French of Marathe (and others) into English. He is more deadpan than Google Translate, much more. Note the "room of storage" at the premises of Antitoi.

==Page 748==

'''"...to smack, to scag, and to H, seeking desperately the residential treatment"''' 
all the same thing, being street names for heroin, and, following, even more intense deadpan literal translation

==Page 749==

'''bolt of death''' 
deadpan translation: a deadbolt lock

'''Chit Chat Farms''' 
This is a real detox in Wernersville, Pa., about 70 miles northwest of Philadelphia.

==Page 750==

'''chez''' 
reductively, a French preposition meaning "at the home of;" more complexly, "in the system of," e.g., if discussing fetal rats and how they receive nutrients, one would start with, "chez le rat." I promise, having done rat research in Paris, that this is true and not a joke.

'''[Marathe] had the ability of splitting his mind’s thinking along parallel tracks''' 
A railroad motif.

==Page 751==

'''''comment-on-dit?''''' 
French: How do you say?

'''45 kph''' 
almost 28 miles per hour

'''''Caisse de Dépôt et Placement''''' 
French: Fund for Registration and Placement

=Joelle Continues to Clean=

==Page 751==

'''katexia''' 
Just like when Joelle referred to CA newcomers as "catexic" on pg 707, there's no word "katexia" in any American dictionary, although Freud used "katexis" to refer to the process by means of which libido energy is tied or placed into the mental representation of a personality, idea, or thing." What would make more sense in context is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cachexia cachexia], the weight loss and muscle atrophy caused by some chronic diseases.

==Page 752==

'''''Feeling Good''''' 
One of the key books on cognitive therapy for depression by David D. Burns, M.D., an American psychiatrist.

=Marathe's Intake, cont.=

==Page 752==

'''volubly''' 
in a voluble manner, to speak readily, fluidly, incessantly

'''M./Mlle.''' 
French: Monsieur/Mademoiselle, i.e., Mr./Ms., used because of Steeply's disguise

'''restenotic''' 
refers to restenosis, or the re-narrowing of blood vessels after initial stenosis

==Page 753==

'''spire''' 
steeple

'''''manche à balai''''' 
French: broom handle

'''''chanteur-fou''''' 
French: crazy singer

'''calculus''' 
here meaning simply "calculation"

'''Lopate''' 
The name is perhaps taken from Philip Lopate (born 1943), an American film critic.

'''''transpercé''''' 
pierced through

==Page 754==

'''etier''' 
or étier: neither is a French, Swiss, or Québecois word. Perhaps a malentendu in French on the part of DFW – Marathe should have heard itier for ETA.

==Endnote 315==

'''malentendu''' 
mishearing

==Page 755==

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==Page 698==

==Page 699==

==Endnote 285==

'''catachresis''' 
misuse of words, as in a mixed metaphor

==Page 699 (cont'd)==

'''Norfolk County''' 
a county of Massachusetts bordering Rhode Island to the southwest

''''...operating a pharmaceutical company without a license.'''' 
i.e., he was running a meth lab

==Page 700==

=Troeltsch Gets Ready for Prime Time=

==Page 700==

'''screwed''' 
i.e., left the room

=Pemulis's hiding spot=

==Page 700==

'''drop-ceiling''' 
a ceiling where, instead of meeting sheetrock at the top of the walls, you reach a series of tiles (often fiberglass-filled) that are hung a few inches below the actual ceiling, sometimes for aesthetic reasons, sometimes to facilitate lighting, etc.

=Lyle meditates=

==Page 700==

'''hovers''' 
hangs in air

=Mario and Schtitt go to get confections=

==Page 701==

'''sidecar''' 
a passenger car for a motorcycle, usually to the right side of the cycle driver

=The Moms Makes a Phone Call=

==Page 701==

'''stern''' 
i.e., the back end

=More With Hal Watching Himself's Movies/Segue to Addiction=

==Page 701==

'''wimple''' 
a cloth that goes over the head, frames the face, and is tucked under the chin, worn by nuns

'''in violent medias res''' 
''In medias res'' is Latin for "in the middle of the thing, meaning, like many epic poems, the work begins in the middle of the story (e.g., the ''Iliad'' begins nine years into a ten-year war).

'''recumbency''' 
DFW is making up this noun (as he also does on [[Pages_883-902#Page_898|Page 888]]). Recumbent means “sprawled out” or otherwise sitting comfortably. So you add the suffix ''-cy'' to that to get an “action” noun from an adjective, in this case a couch where one can be recumbent. From [https://www.dictionary.com/browse/-cy Dictionary.com] '''-cy''': a suffix used to form abstract nouns from adjectives with stems in -t, -te, -tic, and especially-nt (democracy; accuracy; expediency; stagnancy; lunacy), and sometimes used to form action nouns (vacancy; occupancy).

'''rheostat''' 
another name for a "variable resistor," which is something that alters the value of a circuit without interrupting it--in this case, this is in reference to a light switch with a dial, which allows for dimming the lights

'''50-point''' 
THIS BIG compared to the usual 12pt font.

 

==Page 702==

'''emetics''' 
drugs designed to make one vomit

'''descants''' 
A descant is an ornamental melody or counterpoint sung or played above a theme.

'''banks''' 
makes something (here, the spoon) glance off a surfaces (or more than one; here, the insides of her cheeks)

==Page 703==

'''hanuman''' 
a monkey held sacred in India

'''scuttly''' 
scampering

==Endnote 288==

'''The Continent's Best Yogurt''' 
It actually stands for "The Country's Best Yogurt," but given the formation of O.N.A.N., the change seems fitting if not necessary.

==Page 703 (cont'd)==

'''cognoscenti''' 
people having superior knowledge

'''wont''' 
accustomed

==Page 704==

'''Langesque''' 
in the style of Fritz Lang

'''tremulous''' 
fearful and shaking

'''osteoporotic''' 
suffering from osteoporosis, a bone disease that can cause pain, decreased height, and skeletal deformity (e.g., curvature of the spine, as suggested by Hal's imagining)

'''Indian-style''' 
in the lotus position of yoga

==Page 705==

'''Hawg''' 
a Harley-Davidson motorcycle

'''novenas''' 
In Roman Catholicism, a novena is a devotion or set of prayers said over nine days.

'''crank cocaine''' 
Methamphetamine and cocaine (the use of ether and baking soda implies freebase cocaine and crack cocaine, respectively; both of these freebase products are water insoluble and therefore cannot be introduced to the bloodstream via injection or snorting).

'''stelliform''' 
star-shaped

'''coiffure''' 
hairdo

==Endnote 290==

'''stock''' 
commonplace

==Page 705 (cont'd)==

'''sacristy''' 
an anteroom or outbuilding of a church, used to store vestments, serving implements for communion, etc.

'''matins and vespers''' 
two of the nine prayer services a day in Catholic abbeys and monasteries; essentially, the daybreak and twilight services, respectively

[[IMAGE:Butch cut.jpg|thumb|right|MSNBC news anchor Rachel Maddow]]

'''severe and somewhat lesbianic haircut''' 
a "butch" cut (see right)

'''Trappists''' 
members of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trappists Order of Cistercians of Strict Observance], who do not, by the way, all take vows of silence

'''montage''' 
a film sequence in which a period of time is quickly covered with short (a few seconds) scenes, usually underscored with music

==Page 706==

'''lantern jaw''' 
a mandible that protrudes beyond the maxilla, or one that is long and thin

'''Promethean''' 
suggestive of Prometheus, probably in the sense of ''bold'' and ''defiant''

''''Getting to Know You'''' 
a song from the 1951 musical ''The King and I'', by Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics)

'''saccharine''' 
sickeningly sweet

'''entrepreneurism''' 
usually ''entrepreneurship''

'''Wild Turkey''' 
a popular bourbon whiskey

'''Lorimar's ''Dynasty''''' 
Lorimar was a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorimar production company] and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081856/ Dynasty] a prime-time soap opera that aired in the 1980s.

'''shibboleths''' 
A shibboleth is any language usage indicative of one's social or regional origin, or more broadly, any practice that identifies members of a group. (See [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges%2012:4%E2%80%936&version=9 Judges 12:4-6] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth Wikipedia entry].)

==Page 707==

==Endnote 291==

'''aperture''' 
a small opening

==Page 707 (cont'd)==

'''catexic''' 
this is likely a misspelling of "cathexic," which means "emotionally charged."

'''sloe''' 
Plum-brown.

==Endnote 292==

==Endnote 292a==

'''covalence-hungry isotopes''' 
Isotopes of certain atoms combine with others to form covalent bonds.

'''gnomes''' 
aphorisms

'''Waterloo''' 
a city in Belgium where Napoleon suffered his final defeat — the term has come to mean "final defeat"

==Page 707 (cont'd)==

'''sloe''' 
likely refers to a type of North American plum tree, which can produce dark purple, yellow, or red fruit, depending on the sub-type of tree

'''tannin''' 
any of several vegetable compounds tending to have a reddish-brown color, widely used in leather- and winemaking

==Page 708==

'''Raytheon''' 
a major American defense contractor

'''float''' 
i.e., the money keeping them afloat (figuratively)

'''rye''' 
whiskey made from rye grain

==Page 709==

'''Ford Mystique''' 
See one [http://www.canadiandriver.com/articles/jc/95-99mystique.htm here].

'''pluck''' 
resourceful daring in the face of great difficulty

==Endnote 294==

'''apostrophe''' 
direct address of an absent person, in rhetoric

==Page 710==

'''autodidactic''' 
self-taught

'''Logan''' 
the major airport of Boston

==Page 711==

=''Blood Sister'' Synopsis Continued=

==Page 711==

'''novitiate''' 
a novice of a religious order

'''recidivism''' 
the state of falling back into a life of crime

'''de-mufflering''' 
removing the muffler from her motorcycle, thus making it extra loud

'''Harley Hawg''' 
a repetition in terms

'''jiggers''' 
measures of 1.5 ounces; in Utah, a shot is also defined as 1.5 ounces, although a shot glass may have a capacity of 2 ounces

==Endnote 296==

'''ferric oxide''' 
i.e., iron oxide, or rust

'''F/X''' 
a show business term for special effects

==Page 711 (cont'd)==

'''inimical''' 
adverse in tendency or effect

'''accretes''' 
increases

'''censer''' 
a device for burning incense, especially in religious services

'''mace''' 
a medieval weapon, basically consisting of a stick with a ball covered with spikes at the end

'''verger''' 
a church official, such as a caretaker

==Page 712==

'''Marseillese''' 
more properly ''Marseillaise'', i.e., from Marseilles, France

'''Bing Crosby''' 
Boston-area slang term for Cocaine.

'''octogenarian''' 
in one's eighties

'''Confiteor''' 
a penitent prayer said by Roman Catholics

==Endnote 297==

'''cowled''' 
hooded

==Page 712 (cont'd)==

'''Kabuki''' 
a form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabuki Japanese theater]

'''habitements''' 
a neologism, probably just referring to the habits the nuns wear

==Page 713==

'''Champlain-era''' 
of the era of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_de_Champlain Samuel de Champlain]

'''Huron''' 
the more common name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huron Wyandot Indians]

'''mahogany Christian object''' 
i.e., the aforementioned crucifix

'''lapsarian''' 
Pertaining generally to the Fall of Man from innocence (into sexual awareness) and specifically to Adam and Eve's lapse from God's favor after disobediently partaking from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (Genesis 2:8 through 3:24); see the usages below on page 713 of ''lapse'' and ''pre-saved''.

'''obeisance''' 
a bow, curtsy, salaam, or similar gesture or movement of the body symbolizing obedience and possibly also devotion

'''nave''' 
the part of the church with the pews on either side, facing the altar but not on the altar

'''tympanum''' 
the recess between the top of the door and the arch above it

'''"...with a sword and a plowshare..."''' 
A plowshare is the blade of a plow; the reference is from [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%202:4;&version=9; Isaiah 2:4]; they are symbols of war and peace, respectively. The syringe and soup-ladle mentioned in the carving could be symbols of similarly opposed addiction (or poison, but probably not medicine) and sustenance.

[[Image:Bohr Coat of Arms.png|thumb|right|200|Coat of arms Niels Bohr]]

'''''CONTRARIA SUNT COMPLEMENTA''''' 
Latin: Opposites are complementary. The motto appears on the coat of arms of Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885-1962), the 1922 Nobelist in physics; the coat of arms (see right) also incorporates the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_yang_symbol taijitu] (yin-yang symbol), which perfectly illustrates the concept. At this [http://blog.kyleoliver.net/2007/12/bohr-identity.html blogpost], the motto continues, "...and wholeness leads to clarity." See also this interesting discussion of the good-evil dichotomy in the paragraph on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_the_knowledge_of_good_and_evil#Composition Composition] in the Wikipedia entry on the '''Tree of the knowledge of good and evil''', as well as the note on '''lapsarian''' above.

==Page 714==

'''Smothergill''' 
i.e., Phillip T. Smothergill, the former E.T.A. who starred in Himself's movies and whose name Hal couldn't remember

=Kate & Ruth Continued=

==Page 714==

'''gargoyle''' 
a small statue of a monster used to adorn churches and other buildings to ward off evil

==Page 715==

'''deft''' 
dexterous or nimble

'''mafun ho''' 
i.e., mother-fucking whore

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==Page 664==

'''V.D.''' 
Very dearly

==Endnote 269==

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_269_.C2.B7_Steeply-Bain_Correspondence|Endnote 269 · Actual Steeply-Bain Correspondence]]

=The Tunnel Club's cleaning duty=

==Page 666==

'''ferrous''' 
containing iron

'''morphic''' 
probably short for "metamorphic," a type of rock

'''ovoid''' 
egg-shaped

'''ambulatory''' 
able to walk

'''26 meters''' 
about 85.3 feet

'''B.P.''' 
battery-powered

'''parget''' 
plaster used for covering walls

'''remanded''' 
placed into custody

'''dendriurethane''' 
a branching organic compound (carbamate), probably rubbery or at least flexible for construction purposes

==Page 667==

'''novitiate''' 
in the beginning period of something

'''dross''' 
rubbish

'''Trojan''' 
a brand of condoms

'''vermiform''' 
looking like a worm

'''Habitant''' 
a French Canadian brand of pea soup

'''fridgelettes''' 
small refrigerators ("dorm-sized" in the sense of small enough to fit in a dormitory room, not the size of a dorm)

'''raison d'être''' 
French: reason for being

'''recapitulating''' 
summarizing

==Page 668==

'''''Robert's Rules''''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%27s_Rules_of_Order#Application_to_specific_organizations ''Robert's Rules of Order''], a text widely used throughout the United States as a standard for deliberative assemblies

==Page 669==

'''P.B.''' 
perhaps "pulsed beam" or maybe just an inadvertent transposition of B.P. in reference to the same lights mentioned on p. 666

'''radial nerve''' 
a nerve running from above the shoulder (in the neck) down the length of the arm

'''parfait''' 
a tall glass filled with ice cream

'''electrostatic''' 
giving off erratic static electricity

'''Tallat-Kelpsa''' 
also the name of a Latvian classical composer

==Page 670==

'''pules''' 
whimpers

'''Lucite''' 
A brand name of polymethyl methacrylate, a kind of safety glass similar to polycarbonate.

'''burg''' 
city/town

==Page 671==

'''malefic''' 
producing evil

'''Orkin''' 
a nationwide chain of exterminators

'''latency''' 
i.e., sexual latency, the period Freud posited during which male sexuality is dormant

==Page 672==

'''quorum''' 
the minimal number of people required to be present, usually within an organization (in this case, The Tunnel Club), for an official piece of business to occur

==Page 673==

'''The Bible''' 
The quote isn't from the Bible.

''''What're maggots?'''' 
They're fly larvae.

=Hal plays Stice, cont.=

==Page 673==

'''Collyrium''' 
Collyrium [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyrium itself] is not a brand name; it's the generic name.

'''putative''' 
supposed

==Page 674==

'''rictal''' 
showing the expanse of an open mouth

'''Donnay''' 
a brand of [http://www.tennis-warehouse.com/DonnayRacquets.html tennis racquet]

'''akimbo''' 
with hands on hips

'''quandariacal''' 
not a real word (a forced adjective from "quandary")

==Page 675==

''''''Veux que nous nous parlons français? Serait plus facile, ça?'''''' 
French: Do you want to speak in French? Would that be easier?

'''Lenglen, Rosewall''' 
Suzanne Rachel Flore Lenglen (1899-1938) was a French tennis player who won thirty-one Grand Slams. Kenneth Robert ("Ken") Rosewall (born 1934) was an Australian tennis player with three Grand Slam wins.

''''In A.D. 1887 a fifteen-year-old-girl won Wimbledon...'''' 
This is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottie_Dod Lottie Dod] (1871-1960), who won another four Wimbledon championships.

'''Evert''' 
Christine Marie Evert (born 1954) was a former American tennis player with eighteen grand slam wins.

'''Austin, Jaeger, Graff, Sawamatsu''' 
Tracy Ann Austin Holt (born 1962) was an American tennis player who won Wimbledon in 1979 and 1981. Andrea Jaeger (born 1965) was an American tennis player who is now an Anglican nun. Stefanie Maria Graf (born 1969) is a German former tennis player with twenty-one Grand slam titles. Naoko Sawamatsu (born 1973) was a Japanese tennis player who retired in 1988

'''Wilander''' 
Mats Wilander (born 1964) was a Swedish tennis player with seven Grand Slam titles.

'''Treffer, Medvedev, Esconja''' 
Only Andriy Medvedev (born 1974), the Ukrainian player who won the French Open in 1991, is a real person, apparently.

'''Becker''' 
Boris Franz Becker (born 1967) was a German tennis player with six Grand Slam titles.

'''Kleckner''' 
not a real player

'''''senza errori''''' 
Italian: without errors

==Page 676==

==Endnote 274==

'''Falls Church VA''' 
a city about ten miles west of Washington, D.C. Also very close to Langley, VA (home of the CIA).

'''Clipper''' 
A clipper in electronics is a way of sort of metering how much electricity, power, data, etc., goes through a circuit. Here its usage would seem more to indicate a computer hacker.
: More probably a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip Clipper chip], an encryption device that "secured" telecom lines while providing a backdoor (a way to listen in) to the NSA.

==Page 676 (cont'd)==

'''ephebic''' 
relating to a stage of life commonly known as young adult; no longer a teenager but not quite an adult

'''Arias and Krickstein''' 
James ("Jimmy") Arias (born 1964) was a former American pro tennis player. Aaron Krickstein (born 1967) is also a former American tennis player.

'''Treffert''' 
apparently not a real player

'''Capriati''' 
Jennifer Marie Capriati (born 1976) was an American pro tennis player, winning three Grand Slam titles.

'''well-known tragedy''' 
By the time ''Infinite Jest'' had been published, Capriati had been arrested for marijuana possession. She returned to pro tennis that same year, perhaps after the book went to press.

'''Pat Cash''' 
Patrick Hart "Pat" Cash (born 1965) was an Australian pro tennis player, winning Wimbledon in 1987.

'''ephebe''' 
Usually an adolescent male, although sometimes a term for an adolescent of any sex, as here. (Derived from a Greek graduation tradition)

'''''aux disques''''' 
French: on disks, here probably referring to TP disks

==Page 677==

'''Oven-toughened''' 
metal and glass can be strengthened though a process known as tempering (cycles of extreme heating and cooling that alter the chemical structure of the material)

==Page 678==

'''Augustus''' 
Caesar Augustus, first emperor of Rome

'''Bud''' 
short for Budweiser, a brand name of beer

'''half-meter''' 
1.64 feet

'''apparition''' 
a ghost, but here referring to Mario

==Page 679==

'''salaam''' 
Arabic for "peace," here meaning a deep bow

'''intersticial''' 
misspelling of "interstitial"

'''ideogram''' 
a written note or character that symbolizes an idea without indicating the sounds used to say it.

==Page 680==

'''''Japonois''''' 
French: a misspelling of ''japonais'', meaning Japanese

==Page 681==

'''raglan''' 
having sleeves that go in one piece to the neckline

==Page 682==

=November 14th, YDAU - Matty Pemulis, some family background=

==Page 682==

==Page 683==

'''calamari''' 
Italian-style squid

'''Louth in Lenster''' 
Louth is about 50 miles north-northwest of Dublin. Leinster (note spelling) is one of the four traditional provinces of Ireland, the others being Connaught, Ulster, and Munster. There are not officially used as Ulster is divided between the Republic of Ireland and the U.K. since 1922.

'''hauteur''' 
arrogance

==Page 684==

'''mien''' 
appearance

'''''A fook in t'boom''''' 
"a fuck in the bum" with an Irish brogue

'''malt liquor''' 
a high-alcohol-content variety of beer

'''largesse''' 
genorosity of spirit or attitude

'''sone''' 
i.e., son

'''a.''' 
A word ("queer" or "faggot" perhaps) is being deleted by Matty in his remembrance

==Page 685==

'''"...rosebud, his dark star..."''' 
his anus

'''russet''' 
yellowish- or reddish-brown

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'''plexus''' 
an intricate network, no doubt a reference to the solar plexus, a blow to which results in having "one's wind knocked out" because it temporarily causes the diaphragm not to function

'''confiscated from razzles... 
(To find a useful note for this is a challenge. It occurs 4 times in the book, always in association with 'the entertainment' but its meaning is unclear.)

'''tête''' 
French: head

==Page 490==

'''consummately''' 
perfectly or skillfully

'''I/O''' 
Input/Output

'''''C'est ça''''' 
French: that's that

==Page 491==

'''ALGOL''' 
an ancient [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL computer programming language]

=Winter, B.S. 1963; Sepulveda, CA - Flashback to Himself's Childhood=

==Page 491==

==Endnote 208==

'''''Institut für Neutronenphysik und Reaktortechnik, Kernforschungszentrum''''' 
German: Institute for Neutron Physics and Reactor Engineering, Nuclear Research Center (a real organization)

'''Karlsruhe''' 
a city in Germany about 90 miles south of Frankfurt (Main)

'''U.R.G.''' 
probably United Republic of Germany

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

'''Springer-Verlag''' 
one of the largest publishers in Germany

'''Wien''' 
the German name for Vienna, capital of Austria

==Page 491 (cont'd)==

'''Bazin''' 
André Bazin (1918-1958) was a French film theorist and director.

==Page 492==

'''Eureka''' 
Ancient Greek for "I've found it," made famous by Archimedes

'''metastisate''' 
He means "metastasize."

'''replete''' 
full

'''gibber''' 
to chatter unintelligibly

==Page 493==

'''Synchronicity''' 
the state of happening simultaneously

'''Concord''' 
agreement

'''field series generator''' 
probably a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunt_generator shunt generator]

'''leatherette''' 
imitation leather

==Page 494==

'''declivity''' 
downward slope or hill

'''precipitate''' 
product of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precipitation_%28chemistry%29 precipitation]

==Page 495==

'''hypotenuse''' 
the longest arm of a right triangle

'''right dihedral triangle''' 
a right triangle is one whose largest angle is 90º. Dihedral means "having two faces," a three dimensional structure (a mattress) is under discussion. In architecture, the intersection of two planar walls is a dihedral angle.

'''toggle bolt''' 
bolts with expanding wings used to fasten objects onto hollow surfaces, e.g., drywall

==Page 497==

'''ebullient''' 
zestfully enthusiastic

'''caster''' 
wheel

'''deep-pile''' 
carpet with relatively long fibers

==Page 498==

'''''Variety''''' 
a still-running entertainment tabloid magazine

'''cast''' 
tinge of color

==Page 499==

'''rodential''' 
OED: of or relating to rodents; resembling or characteristic of a rodent.

'''stalactite''' 
the kind of V-shaped rock formation in caves that grows from the '''c'''eiling down; cf. ''stala'''g'''mite'', which grows from the floor or '''g'''round of the cave upward

==Page 500==

'''carriage-head bolt''' 
a bolt with a domed head not designed to be driven

'''attenuated''' 
reduced

==Page 502==

'''magneto''' 
a small generator using a permanent magnet to produce high-voltage pulses

'''Powell's ''Peeping Tom''''' 
Michael Latham Powell (1905-1990) was a British filmmaker, and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054167/ Peeping Tom] was one of his films.

'''hex''' 
i.e., hexagonal, having six sides

'''cycloid''' 
a curve traced by a point of a circle as it rolls across a straight line demonstrated [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Cycloid_f.gif here]

'''L'Hôpital''' 
Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital (1661-1704), was a French mathematician.

'''Bernoulli''' 
Jacob Bernoulli (1654-1705) was a Swiss mathematician.

'''Brachistochrone''' 
a reference to a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachistochrone brachistochrone curve]

'''apposite''' 
NOAD: apt in the circumstances or in relation to something

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'''minor-D''' 
Musical works written in the key of D Minor tend to carry an ominous tone. See[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzR9bhei_o A Fugue in D Minor].

Wallace displays his familiarity with the subject of music by inverting its more commonly known name of D Minor to "minor-D." This is a habit of many professional musicians, because the fact that the composition is in a minor mode is more important than the pitch of its tonic (root) note.

=Ken Erdedy & Kate Gompert go to NA=

==Page 503==

'''anechoic vestry''' 
Anechoic means "characterized by a low level of reverberation;" a vestry is where the priests' vestments (clothing for mass) are kept between ceremonies.

'''lassitude''' 
weariness of body

'''catalepsy''' 
suspension of sensation and consciousness, with bodily rigidity

'''circadian arrhythmia''' 
sleep disturbance

==Page 504==

'''anhedonia''' 
inability to feel pleasure

'''peristyle''' 
a colonnade surrounding an open space, or the space so encircled

'''astrolabes''' 
a type of navigational device used before the invention of the sextant

'''prickets''' 
sharp metal points on which to stick candles

'''Knights of Columbus''' 
a Catholic fraternal order

'''plasm''' 
synonym of plasma, i.e., a state of matter most similar to gas

'''cordite''' 
a smokeless explosive, see note to page 433

'''Motley''' 
incongruously varied in character or appearance

'''sap''' 
a bludgeon or club

'''Penn Station''' 
the chief national train station in New York, at 34th Street and Eighth Avenue; a terminal for both Amtrak and the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR)

==Page 505==

'''morose''' 
gloomy

'''styptic''' 
contracting tissue

'''dis''' 
act of disrespect

==Page 506==

'''anorak''' 
a hooded pullover jacket

'''bonhommic''' 
a neologism meaning "good-hearted"

==Page 507==

'''Keds''' 
a brand of sneaker

'''parquet''' 
wooden mosaic flooring

=Steeply & Marathe discuss temptation to watch the Entertainment=

==Page 507==

'''''C'est la guerre''''' 
French: That's war

'''Perseus''' 
the Greek hero who beheaded Medusa (cf. ''The Medusa v. The Odalisque'') , using the head to kill others; compared here to the A.F.R. ("the legs ... were amputated") which steals the Entertainment and uses it to kill others

'''jongleur''' 
a wandering minstrel

'''pantalone''' 
a stock mime or Commedia dell'Arte character, often the butt of jokes
: and a wearer of long trousers, to which he gave their modern French name ''pantalon''. DFW’s use of the term in the context of amputated legs is certainly not a coincidence.

'''Hercules''' 
the Greek hero who lost his mind, murdered his family, and was forced to suffer twelve labors as punishment, including calming a three-headed dog, clearing dung from the Augean stables, and stealing apples of infinite joy; compared here to Gately ("head was square"), who lost his mind as an addict and was forced into a twelve-step program, where he had to calm Pat M.'s dogs and clear shit from the Shattuck shelter (he previously stole the master to the Entertainment). Hercules also borrowed Athena's chariot on occasion; Gately borrows Pat M.'s car.

'''Castor and Pollux''' 
stars in the constellation Gemini, named for twin sons of Zeus and Leda in Greek mythology

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==Page 380==

'''fiat''' 
a formal authorization or proposition; an arbitrary order.

'''sucrotically''' 
referring to sucrose, i.e. ordinary table sugar, α-D-glucopyranosyl-(1→2)-β-D-fructofuranoside, a disaccharide (one of many such) in which glucose and fructose are linked in a specific way

==Endnote 147==

'''pluck''' 
courage or resolution in the face of difficulty

'''qua''' 
in the capacity or character of

==Page 380 (cont'd)==

[[Image:toque_William_Orpen.jpg|thumb|caption|toque|right|150px]]
[[Image:preachers.jpg|thumb|caption|Preacher's Hat|right|200px]]
'''toque''' 
a kind of brimless hat

'''flitty''' 
OED: [obsolete] flitting, unstable, flighty

'''aigrette''' 
a headdress or head ornament consisting of white egret's feathers, or incorporating something resembling this, such as a spray of gems. Also: an egret's feather, or tuft of feathers, esp. one forming part of such a headdress.

==Endnote 148==

'''sallet''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallet helmet], the forerunner of the modern combat helmets

'''calpac''' 
a high-crowned felt or sheepskin hat worn in Turkey, Iran, and Central Asia

'''calotte''' 
A skullcap, especially one worn by Roman Catholic priests

'''topography''' 
a detailed description of something, usually a place or region.

'''escudo''' 
Spanish for shield

'''shako''' 
tall, cylindrical military cap, usually with a visor and sometimes tapered at the top

<gallery>
Image:sallet.jpg|Sallet
Image:calpac.jpg|Calpac
Image:calotte.jpg|Calotte
Image:shako.gif|Shako
</gallery>

==Page 380 (cont'd)==

'''maraschino''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marasca_cherry marasca cherry]

'''Redi-Whip''' 
actually Reddi-wip, a brand name of pressurized whipped cream in a can

'''tendentiously''' 
NOAD: expressing or intending to promote a particular cause or point of view, especially a controversial one

==Page 381==

[[Image:Fedora.jpg|thumb|caption|Fedora|right|200px]]

'''amanuentic''' 
secretarial

'''fedoras''' 
A fedora is a soft felt hat that is creased lengthwise down the crown and pinched in the front on both sides. Similar hats with a C-crown (with an indentation for the head in the top of the crown) are occasionally called fedoras. (see right) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora Wikipedia]

'''baklava''' 
a Near Eastern dessert made from filo dough, honey, nuts, and spices

'''Echt''' 
German for "bona fide"

'''linotype''' 
short form name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linotype_machine linotype machine]

''''Let the call go forth . . . generation of Americans...'''' 
Compare John F. Kennedy's [http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres56.html inaugural address]

'''né''' 
French for "born," the feminine ''née'' being more common to denote a woman's birth name, but here the masculine né is appropriate as Gentle is a man

'''Joyner''' 
not the real Johnny Gentle, who was born with the surname Askew and in the U.K.

'''retentive''' 
here short for "anal-retentive"

'''Dermalatix''' 
not a real product

'''Hypospectral''' 
a neologism that would mean "below the [visible] spectrum [of light]," i.e., invisible

'''epidermal''' 
of or pertaining to the outermost layer of skin

'''schmaltz''' 
rendered chicken fat, used in cooking by Jews who keep kosher (among others), who cannot use lard or other rendered pork fat; in this context, it means sentimental or corny music

==Endnote 149==

'''Frankies and Tonies''' 
likely a reference to crooners of the Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett ilk

==Page 382 (cont'd)==

'''scab''' 
a derogatory word for a worker who replaces a union worker on strike

'''GE/RCA''' 
General Electric/Radio Company of America

'''fulcrum''' 
a support or point of rest

'''lap-dissolves''' 
According to Wikipedia, a lap dissolve "is a technical term in film editing, most often used in the United States, applying to the process whereby the fading last shot of a preceding scene is superimposed over the emerging first shot (fade in) of the next scene..."

'''prescient''' 
having previous knowledge

'''jingoist''' 
patriotic to an extreme

'''macrobiotic''' 
regarding a diet designed largely of whole grains and beans, designed to prolong life

'''Rush L.''' 
Rush Limbaugh, the conservative host of a popular political radio talk-show

'''Hillary R.C.''' 
Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former First Lady, and Secretary of State under President Obama

'''LaRoucheishly''' 
a reference to Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr. (born 1922), a political extremist and cult leader

==Endnote 150==

'''dioxins''' 
dioxin: a highly toxic compound produced as a byproduct in some manufacturing processes, notably herbicide production and paper bleaching. It is a serious and persistent environmental pollutant. [A heterocyclic organochlorine compound; alternative name: 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzoparadioxin]

'''high-R-waste''' 
probably refers to high radioactivity; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roentgen_%28unit%29 Roentgen] (R) is a standard for measuring radiation.

==Page 382 (cont'd)==

'''post-Perot''' 
i.e., after the immediate era of Texan [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot H. Ross Perot], founder of Electronic Data Systems and twice an indepedent U.S. presidential candidate (in 1992 and in 1996, as the leader of his Reform Party)

'''white-gloved finger''' 
implying that the finger is on the hand in a white glove, used to draw one's hand over a recently cleaned surface to see if any residual dirt remains

'''U.W.S.A.''' 
United We Stand America, Perot's political movement

'''G.O.P.s''' 
Republicans, G.O.P. standing for "Grand Old Party"

'''Jihad''' 
an Arabic word meaning "struggle" but often translated as "holy war"

'''redolent''' 
extremely fragrant

'''retinue''' 
a body of attendants to a powerful person

'''psychosphere''' 
sort of a synonym for collective consciousness

==Page 383==

'''"majestic ambers and purple fruits"''' 
words, slightly jumbled, from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_the_Beautiful "America, the Beautiful"]

'''effluvia''' 
invisible exhalations of noxious vapors

'''petroleated''' 
neologism, making a past participle of the noun

'''CO''' 
carbon monoxide

'''Uno''' 
as in ''numero uno,'' number one

'''dandling''' 
bouncing a baby up and down, as on one's knee

'''mufti''' 
civilian clothes

'''adipose''' 
adipose tissue, i.e., fat

'''fractious''' 
unruly or angry

==Page 384==

'''Seal''' 
the [http://www.greatseal.com/ Great Seal] of the U.S.

'''Teutons''' 
The President seems to be using this as a place name (perhaps a malapropism of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetons Tetons]), but Teutons is a term for German-speaking people.
: Or he is using it correctly, since the next term in the enumeration is "Latins", a people.

'''imbricate-sequin dresses''' 
dresses decorated with overlapping sequins

'''wavered''' 
quavering in sound

'''Wurlitzer''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurlitzer Rudolf Wurlitzer Company], a producer of organs

'''dusky''' 
dark-skinned

'''entr' acte''' 
French: between acts

==Page 385==

'''glycemically''' 
in a manner that is motivated or caused by the level of sugar in the blood

'''cannolis''' 
a type of Italian dessert pastry, stuffed with sweetened ricotta cheese

'''carbuncular''' 
characterized by boils or abscesses in and below the skin, at times interconnected, often caused by strains of Staph. aureus bacteria

'''absolution''' 
forgiveness of sins

'''jejune''' 
naive, simplistic, superficial

'''Experialism''' 
apparently another Wallace neologism, presumably the antonym of ''imperialism'', and thus perhaps "empire-dismantling" as opposed to "empire-building"
: More like having a tendency to give away a part of one’s territory (and send waste there), rather than to expand one’s territory by invading neighbours.

'''J.J.J.C.''' 
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien

'''sympatico''' 
in agreement

'''inexorable''' 
impossible to stop or prevent

'''prandial''' 
[humorous] during or relating to dinner or lunch

'''NATO''' 
North Atlantic Treaty Organization

'''EEC''' 
European Economic Community

'''oown''' 
mock-Canadian pronunciation

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

'''butter and guns''' 
These are the typical goods used in certain economic models because they are non-competing goods. A reference to the choice between military spending and spending on the general welfare.

'''infraternal''' 
not a real word, but perhaps a Wallace (or Gentle) portmanteau of ''internal'' and ''fraternal'' (as "within the brotherhood"?)

==Page 386==

'''''frappeurs''''' 
apparently a French expression for something that strikes something else; literally it means 'strikers', but it seems it's usually used to refer to batters in baseball and cricket

'''ICBM''' 
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

'''maple leaf''' 
the national emblem of Canada

'''toot sweet''' 
i.e., ''tout de suite'', French for "right away" (which is pronounced very close to 'toot sweet')

''''It's a Small World After All'''' 
the song heard ''ad nauseam'' at a [http://disneyland.disney.go.com/disneyland/its-a-small-world/ Disneyland boat-ride attraction]

'''enjambment''' 
the breaking of a line at the end of a verse (in a poem, song, etc.)

=Meanwhile, in the Weight Room=

==Page 386==

'''purling''' 
flowing or rippling

==Page 387==

'''gurutical''' 
not a real word, but apparently having to do with gurus

'''fulgurant''' 
flashing like lightning

==Page 388==

'''glabrous''' 
smooth, hairless

'''wunderkind''' 
German: child prodigy

'''I/SPN''' 
probably meant to be a follow-up television channel to ESPN, perhaps DFW intends Interdependent / Sports Programming Network

'''M. Chang''' 
Michael Chang (born 1972) is an American former, but still-living, professional tennis player. Wallace misguessed Chang's early demise.

'''Mephistophelan''' 
per the OED, probably Mephistophelean or Mephistophelian is intended, referring to Mephistopheles, the devil character in Goethe's ''Faust'' and Marlowe's ''Doctor Faustus'', to whom Faust sells his soul

'''assuasive''' 
soothing, calming

==Page 389==

'''hagiography''' 
the writing of the lives of the saints

''''The truth will set you free...'''' 
Lyle is paraphrasing [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%208:32;&version=9; John 8:32].

'''alfresco''' 
''Al fresco'' in Italian means "outside."

==Page 390==

'''Seventh-Day Adventists''' 
a Protestant sect of Christianity marked by its observance of the weekly sabbath on Saturdays

'''turpitude''' 
depravity

'''dire''' 
indicating trouble

'''C.F.D.C.''' 
Caffeine-Free Diet Coke

=''The ONANtiad'', cont.=

==Page 391==

'''Benson & Hedges''' 
a brand of cigarettes

'''high-lipid''' 
high-fat

'''''auteur''''' 
creator, author

'''UKRAINE, TWO MORE BALTIC STATES APPLY FOR NATO INCLUSION''' 
Ukraine did not begin application for NATO membership until 2006, while the Baltic States were all admitted in 2004.

'''THERMS''' 
thermonuclear warheads

'''twelve out of fifteen NATO nations''' 
The last time NATO had fifteen members was in 1982, when Spain was admitted.

'''Finlandization''' 
This is defined as "the influence that one powerful country may have on the policies of a smaller neighboring country" and refers to Finland's relations with the USSR following WWII.

==Page 392==

''''BIG STICKS'''' 
Jean Chrétien admits that the issues were used here as the "big stick" in the T. Roosevelt-era "speak softly and carry a big stick" foreign policy of President Gentle.

'''TURTLE MTN. INDIAN RESERVATION''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_Mountain_Indian_Reservation reservation] for Chippewa Indians

==Page 393==

'''GI-X-Ray-Grade Colonic Purgative''' 
the kind of laxatives given to people about to undergo colonoscopies (GI meaning Gastro-intestinal)

'''pruritis''' 
itching

'''U.N.L.V.''' 
University of Nevada at Las Vegas

'''D.O.E.''' 
Department of Energy

'''METHUEN''' 
a city of Massachusetts about 30 miles north of Boston

'''Scorsese''' 
Martin Scorsese (b. 1942), American film director.

==Page 394==

=Meanwhile, in the Weight Room, cont.=

==Page 394==

'''Partridge KS''' 
a city in Kansas about 60 miles northwest of Wichita

'''telekinetic''' 
able to moves things with one's mind

'''somnambulist''' 
sleepwalker

==Page 395==

'''calotte''' 
a skullcap, typically worn by Roman Catholic acolytes (image in note above, page 380)

'''M.O.''' 
''Modus operandi'', a Latin phrase meaning the way in which a criminal operates out of habit
[[Discussion Subject|'''DISCUSSION''']] Or more generally, way of operating

'''DMV''' 
Department of Motor Vehicles

'''oncologist''' 
a physician who treats cancer

=Some of Himself's Movies=

==Page 395==

'''masochistic''' 
tending to enjoy pain to the point of sexual response; cf. ''sadistic'', tending to derive sexual pleasure from the infliction of pain on another

==Page 396==

'''sucrose''' 
table sugar, a disaccharide in which a 5 membered ring and a 6 membered ring are joined as β-D-fructofuranosyl-(2→1)-α-D-glucopyranoside; β--fructofuranosyl-α-glucopyranoside

'''siren''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirens Sirens] of Greek mythology

'''56-gram''' 
about two ounces

'''Ford's Theater''' 
This is the theater where President Lincoln was assassinated.

'''muttonchops''' 
very thick long wide sideburns

'''involuted''' 
complicated; abstruse.

'''petrification''' 
the process whereby organic matter exposed to minerals over time is turned into stone

'''Ste. Thérèse''' 
Her full name [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_de_Lisieux Thérèse de Lisieux]

==Page 397==

'''cottoned''' 
took a liking, to cotton to is to take a liking to

'''marquees''' 
the lighted signs on which theaters announce what is playing

'''dirndls''' 
women's dresses with close fitting bodices and full [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirndl skirts]

==Page 398==

'''loo''' 
the British word for "bathroom"

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==Page 380==

'''fiat''' 
a formal authorization or proposition; an arbitrary order.

'''sucrotically''' 
referring to sucrose, i.e. ordinary table sugar, α-D-glucopyranosyl-(1→2)-β-D-fructofuranoside, a disaccharide (one of many such) in which glucose and fructose are linked in a specific way

==Endnote 147==

'''pluck''' 
courage or resolution in the face of difficulty

'''qua''' 
in the capacity or character of

==Page 380 (cont'd)==

[[Image:toque_William_Orpen.jpg|thumb|caption|toque|right|150px]]
[[Image:preachers.jpg|thumb|caption|Preacher's Hat|right|200px]]
'''toque''' 
a kind of brimless hat

'''flitty''' 
OED: [obsolete] flitting, unstable, flighty

'''aigrette''' 
a headdress or head ornament consisting of white egret's feathers, or incorporating something resembling this, such as a spray of gems. Also: an egret's feather, or tuft of feathers, esp. one forming part of such a headdress.

==Endnote 148==

'''sallet''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallet helmet], the forerunner of the modern combat helmets

'''calpac''' 
a high-crowned felt or sheepskin hat worn in Turkey, Iran, and Central Asia

'''calotte''' 
A skullcap, especially one worn by Roman Catholic priests

'''topography''' 
a detailed description of something, usually a place or region.

'''escudo''' 
Spanish for shield

'''shako''' 
tall, cylindrical military cap, usually with a visor and sometimes tapered at the top

<gallery>
Image:sallet.jpg|Sallet
Image:calpac.jpg|Calpac
Image:calotte.jpg|Calotte
Image:shako.gif|Shako
</gallery>

==Page 380 (cont'd)==

'''maraschino''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marasca_cherry marasca cherry]

'''Redi-Whip''' 
actually Reddi-wip, a brand name of pressurized whipped cream in a can

'''tendentiously''' 
NOAD: expressing or intending to promote a particular cause or point of view, especially a controversial one

==Page 381==

[[Image:Fedora.jpg|thumb|caption|Fedora|right|200px]]

'''amanuentic''' 
secretarial

'''fedoras''' 
A fedora is a soft felt hat that is creased lengthwise down the crown and pinched in the front on both sides. Similar hats with a C-crown (with an indentation for the head in the top of the crown) are occasionally called fedoras. (see right) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora Wikipedia]

'''baklava''' 
a Near Eastern dessert made from filo dough, honey, nuts, and spices

'''Echt''' 
German for "bona fide"

'''linotype''' 
short form name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linotype_machine linotype machine]

''''Let the call go forth . . . generation of Americans...'''' 
Compare John F. Kennedy's [http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres56.html inaugural address]

'''né''' 
French for "born," the feminine ''née'' being more common to denote a woman's birth name, but here the masculine né is appropriate as Gentle is a man

'''Joyner''' 
not the real Johnny Gentle, who was born with the surname Askew and in the U.K.

'''retentive''' 
here short for "anal-retentive"

'''Dermalatix''' 
not a real product

'''Hypospectral''' 
a neologism that would mean "below the [visible] spectrum [of light]," i.e., invisible

'''epidermal''' 
of or pertaining to the outermost layer of skin

'''schmaltz''' 
rendered chicken fat, used in cooking by Jews who keep kosher (among others), who cannot use lard or other rendered pork fat; in this context, it means sentimental or corny music

==Endnote 149==

'''Frankies and Tonies''' 
likely a reference to crooners of the Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett ilk

==Page 382 (cont'd)==

'''scab''' 
a derogatory word for a worker who replaces a union worker on strike

'''GE/RCA''' 
General Electric/Radio Company of America

'''fulcrum''' 
a support or point of rest

'''lap-dissolves''' 
According to Wikipedia, a lap dissolve "is a technical term in film editing, most often used in the United States, applying to the process whereby the fading last shot of a preceding scene is superimposed over the emerging first shot (fade in) of the next scene..."

'''prescient''' 
having previous knowledge

'''jingoist''' 
patriotic to an extreme

'''macrobiotic''' 
regarding a diet designed largely of whole grains and beans, designed to prolong life

'''Rush L.''' 
Rush Limbaugh, the conservative host of a popular political radio talk-show

'''Hillary R.C.''' 
Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former First Lady, and Secretary of State under President Obama

'''LaRoucheishly''' 
a reference to Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr. (born 1922), a political extremist and cult leader

==Endnote 150==

'''dioxins''' 
dioxin: a highly toxic compound produced as a byproduct in some manufacturing processes, notably herbicide production and paper bleaching. It is a serious and persistent environmental pollutant. [A heterocyclic organochlorine compound; alternative name: 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzoparadioxin]

'''high-R-waste''' 
probably refers to high radioactivity; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roentgen_%28unit%29 Roentgen] (R) is a standard for measuring radiation.

==Page 382 (cont'd)==

'''post-Perot''' 
i.e., after the immediate era of Texan [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot H. Ross Perot], founder of Electronic Data Systems and twice an indepedent U.S. presidential candidate (in 1992 and in 1996, as the leader of his Reform Party)

'''white-gloved finger''' 
implying that the finger is on the hand in a white glove, used to draw one's hand over a recently cleaned surface to see if any residual dirt remains

'''U.W.S.A.''' 
United We Stand America, Perot's political movement

'''G.O.P.s''' 
Republicans, G.O.P. standing for "Grand Old Party"

'''Jihad''' 
an Arabic word meaning "struggle" but often translated as "holy war"

'''redolent''' 
extremely fragrant

'''retinue''' 
a body of attendants to a powerful person

'''psychosphere''' 
sort of a synonym for collective consciousness

==Page 383==

'''"majestic ambers and purple fruits"''' 
words, slightly jumbled, from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_the_Beautiful "America, the Beautiful"]

'''effluvia''' 
invisible exhalations of noxious vapors

'''petroleated''' 
neologism, making a past participle of the noun

'''CO''' 
carbon monoxide

'''Uno''' 
as in ''numero uno,'' number one

'''dandling''' 
bouncing a baby up and down, as on one's knee

'''mufti''' 
civilian clothes

'''adipose''' 
adipose tissue, i.e., fat

'''fractious''' 
unruly or angry

==Page 384==

'''Seal''' 
the [http://www.greatseal.com/ Great Seal] of the U.S.

'''Teutons''' 
The President seems to be using this as a place name (perhaps a malapropism of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetons Tetons]), but Teutons is a term for German-speaking people.
: Or he is using it correctly, since the next term in the enumeration is "Latins", a people.

'''imbricate-sequin dresses''' 
dresses decorated with overlapping sequins

'''wavered''' 
quavering in sound

'''Wurlitzer''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurlitzer Rudolf Wurlitzer Company], a producer of organs

'''dusky''' 
dark-skinned

'''entr' acte''' 
French: between acts

==Page 385==

'''glycemically''' 
in a manner that is motivated or caused by the level of sugar in the blood

'''cannolis''' 
a type of Italian dessert pastry, stuffed with sweetened ricotta cheese

'''carbuncular''' 
characterized by boils or abscesses in and below the skin, at times interconnected, often caused by strains of Staph. aureus bacteria

'''absolution''' 
forgiveness of sins

'''jejune''' 
naive, simplistic, superficial

'''Experialism''' 
apparently another Wallace neologism, presumably the antonym of ''imperialism'', and thus perhaps "empire-dismantling" as opposed to "empire-building"

'''J.J.J.C.''' 
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien

'''sympatico''' 
in agreement

'''inexorable''' 
impossible to stop or prevent

'''prandial''' 
[humorous] during or relating to dinner or lunch

'''NATO''' 
North Atlantic Treaty Organization

'''EEC''' 
European Economic Community

'''oown''' 
mock-Canadian pronunciation

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

'''butter and guns''' 
These are the typical goods used in certain economic models because they are non-competing goods. A reference to the choice between military spending and spending on the general welfare.

'''infraternal''' 
not a real word, but perhaps a Wallace (or Gentle) portmanteau of ''internal'' and ''fraternal'' (as "within the brotherhood"?)

==Page 386==

'''''frappeurs''''' 
apparently a French expression for something that strikes something else; literally it means 'strikers', but it seems it's usually used to refer to batters in baseball and cricket

'''ICBM''' 
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

'''maple leaf''' 
the national emblem of Canada

'''toot sweet''' 
i.e., ''tout de suite'', French for "right away" (which is pronounced very close to 'toot sweet')

''''It's a Small World After All'''' 
the song heard ''ad nauseam'' at a [http://disneyland.disney.go.com/disneyland/its-a-small-world/ Disneyland boat-ride attraction]

'''enjambment''' 
the breaking of a line at the end of a verse (in a poem, song, etc.)

=Meanwhile, in the Weight Room=

==Page 386==

'''purling''' 
flowing or rippling

==Page 387==

'''gurutical''' 
not a real word, but apparently having to do with gurus

'''fulgurant''' 
flashing like lightning

==Page 388==

'''glabrous''' 
smooth, hairless

'''wunderkind''' 
German: child prodigy

'''I/SPN''' 
probably meant to be a follow-up television channel to ESPN, perhaps DFW intends Interdependent / Sports Programming Network

'''M. Chang''' 
Michael Chang (born 1972) is an American former, but still-living, professional tennis player. Wallace misguessed Chang's early demise.

'''Mephistophelan''' 
per the OED, probably Mephistophelean or Mephistophelian is intended, referring to Mephistopheles, the devil character in Goethe's ''Faust'' and Marlowe's ''Doctor Faustus'', to whom Faust sells his soul

'''assuasive''' 
soothing, calming

==Page 389==

'''hagiography''' 
the writing of the lives of the saints

''''The truth will set you free...'''' 
Lyle is paraphrasing [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%208:32;&version=9; John 8:32].

'''alfresco''' 
''Al fresco'' in Italian means "outside."

==Page 390==

'''Seventh-Day Adventists''' 
a Protestant sect of Christianity marked by its observance of the weekly sabbath on Saturdays

'''turpitude''' 
depravity

'''dire''' 
indicating trouble

'''C.F.D.C.''' 
Caffeine-Free Diet Coke

=''The ONANtiad'', cont.=

==Page 391==

'''Benson & Hedges''' 
a brand of cigarettes

'''high-lipid''' 
high-fat

'''''auteur''''' 
creator, author

'''UKRAINE, TWO MORE BALTIC STATES APPLY FOR NATO INCLUSION''' 
Ukraine did not begin application for NATO membership until 2006, while the Baltic States were all admitted in 2004.

'''THERMS''' 
thermonuclear warheads

'''twelve out of fifteen NATO nations''' 
The last time NATO had fifteen members was in 1982, when Spain was admitted.

'''Finlandization''' 
This is defined as "the influence that one powerful country may have on the policies of a smaller neighboring country" and refers to Finland's relations with the USSR following WWII.

==Page 392==

''''BIG STICKS'''' 
Jean Chrétien admits that the issues were used here as the "big stick" in the T. Roosevelt-era "speak softly and carry a big stick" foreign policy of President Gentle.

'''TURTLE MTN. INDIAN RESERVATION''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_Mountain_Indian_Reservation reservation] for Chippewa Indians

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'''GI-X-Ray-Grade Colonic Purgative''' 
the kind of laxatives given to people about to undergo colonoscopies (GI meaning Gastro-intestinal)

'''pruritis''' 
itching

'''U.N.L.V.''' 
University of Nevada at Las Vegas

'''D.O.E.''' 
Department of Energy

'''METHUEN''' 
a city of Massachusetts about 30 miles north of Boston

'''Scorsese''' 
Martin Scorsese (b. 1942), American film director.

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'''Partridge KS''' 
a city in Kansas about 60 miles northwest of Wichita

'''telekinetic''' 
able to moves things with one's mind

'''somnambulist''' 
sleepwalker

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'''calotte''' 
a skullcap, typically worn by Roman Catholic acolytes (image in note above, page 380)

'''M.O.''' 
''Modus operandi'', a Latin phrase meaning the way in which a criminal operates out of habit
[[Discussion Subject|'''DISCUSSION''']] Or more generally, way of operating

'''DMV''' 
Department of Motor Vehicles

'''oncologist''' 
a physician who treats cancer

=Some of Himself's Movies=

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'''masochistic''' 
tending to enjoy pain to the point of sexual response; cf. ''sadistic'', tending to derive sexual pleasure from the infliction of pain on another

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'''sucrose''' 
table sugar, a disaccharide in which a 5 membered ring and a 6 membered ring are joined as β-D-fructofuranosyl-(2→1)-α-D-glucopyranoside; β--fructofuranosyl-α-glucopyranoside

'''siren''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirens Sirens] of Greek mythology

'''56-gram''' 
about two ounces

'''Ford's Theater''' 
This is the theater where President Lincoln was assassinated.

'''muttonchops''' 
very thick long wide sideburns

'''involuted''' 
complicated; abstruse.

'''petrification''' 
the process whereby organic matter exposed to minerals over time is turned into stone

'''Ste. Thérèse''' 
Her full name [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_de_Lisieux Thérèse de Lisieux]

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'''cottoned''' 
took a liking, to cotton to is to take a liking to

'''marquees''' 
the lighted signs on which theaters announce what is playing

'''dirndls''' 
women's dresses with close fitting bodices and full [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirndl skirts]

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'''loo''' 
the British word for "bathroom"

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

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

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

'''puerile''' 
childish

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''LIBSYR''' 
Libya and Syria

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

'''INDPAK''' 
India and Pakistan

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

==Endnote 123==

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

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

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

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'''synoptic''' 
by way of summary

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

==Endnote 124==

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

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

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

'''bellicosity''' 
a warlike disposition

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

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

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

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'''PCs''' 
Personal Computers

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

'''profligate''' 
recklessly extravagant

'''metastasizes''' 
spreads like cancer

'''EM''' 
electromagnetic

'''baroque''' 
extravagantly ornate

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

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

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

==Endnote 125==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Endnote 126==

'''picayune''' 
small or trifling

'''TRISITs''' 
triggering situations

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Endnote 127==

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

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

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

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

'''four kilgrams''' 
about 8.8 pounds

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''NSA''' 
National Security Agency

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

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

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

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

'''thanatoptic''' 
contemplating death

'''adepts''' 
expert players

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

'''pique''' 
resentment

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

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

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'''probity''' 
integrity or honesty

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

'''purloined''' 
stolen

'''subterranean''' 
literally underground

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''microcephalic''' 
having a tiny head

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

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

'''cerebral''' 
oriented toward thinking

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

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

'''extant''' 
still existing

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

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

'''cod''' 
a type of fish

'''EMP''' 
electromagnetic pulse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''parley''' 
to hold a discussion

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'''contrite''' 
apologetic

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''cerebrate''' 
to think about something

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''One True Faith''' 
Islam

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

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

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

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

'''tripartite''' 
having three parts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''accreting''' 
gathering increasing amounts

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

'''equivocation''' 
ambiguity

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'''candent''' 
glowing with heat

'''Orion''' 
one of the more famous [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28constellation%29 constellations] in the night sky

'''Lay''' 
non-professional

'''Anthracite''' 
coal of nearly pure carbon that burns with high heat and relatively little smoke

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'''crop-and-epaulette''' 
crop being a riding crop, and epaulet a military or quasi-military shoulder emblem, this would suggest a certain militaristic disposition

'''Winter Park FL''' 
a city in Florida about five miles north-northeast of Orlando

'''grange''' 
shorthand for the [http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0821549.html Granger movement], here used in the generic sense of organizing, as of labor [another editor queries that] — NOAD: (the Grange) —(in the US) a farmers' association organized in 1867. The Grange sponsors social activities, community service, and political lobbying.

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'''Dworkinite''' 
The word refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Dworkin Andrea Dworkin] (1946-2005), an American radical lesbian feminist

'''Pizzitola''' 
probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzitola_Sports_Center Pizzitola Sports Center] in Providence, R.I.

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'''eustacian-crumbling''' 
The (misspelt by DFW) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustachian Eustachian tube] connects the middle ear to the back of the nose; this compound gerundive would mean "deafeningly loud."

'''fin''' 
a slang term for a $5 bill

'''SPN''' 
Shared Processing Network

'''joe''' 
coffee

'''Ulcerative colitis''' 
a form of inflammatory bowel disease (Wikipedia)

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'''Vivian, Utah''' 
a city about 30 miles southeast of Salt Lake City

'''Hempstead, Long Island''' 
a town in New York about 25 miles into Long Island, about halfway between the North and South shores

'''Tapio Martti''' 
"Tapio" and "Martti" are both Finnish first names. Tapio is also the Finnish pagan god of forests.

'''Sonora, Mexico''' 
a state of northern Mexico, bordering Arizona

'''Junebug''' 
a genus of flying [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllophaga_%28genus%29 beetles] found, among elsewhere, in the Eastern U.S.

'''moonballed''' 
Here used as a past-tense verb, a moonball is a very high lob.

'''détente''' 
a relaxation of tensions

'''Mlle Thierry Poutrincourt''' 
Thierry is a masculine given name, one of many occurrences of gender ambiguity in IJ.

'''Frontenac''' 
probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Frontenac Battle of Fort Frontenac] during the French and Indian Wars, where the British defeated the French

'''Canadianism''' 
presumably this is a political movement of some kind, probably based on separation from the U.S.

'''rub''' 
obstacle or impediment

'''real-French''' 
as opposed to Québecois French

'''Pléaide Classics''' 
better known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioth%C3%A8que_de_la_Pl%C3%A9iade Bibliothèque de la Pléaide]

'''glottal''' 
involving the epiglottis in pronunication

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'''thorax''' 
chest

'''prenatal dentition''' 
growth of teeth before birth

'''Cartier and Roberval and Cap Rouge and Champlain''' 
Jacques Cartier (1491-1557) was a French explorer who first mapped the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and who coined the name "Canada." Jean-François de la Roque de Roberval (1500-1560) was a French pirate and first lieutenant general of New France (i.e., French Canada, i.e., Québec). Cap-Rouge is a section of present-day Québec City, where Cartier tried to place his first French settlement. Samuel de Champlain (1567-1635) was the French founder of Québec City

'''Ursuline nuns''' 
the Order of St. Ursula, the members of which teach young girls

'''wimples''' 
the head coverings that nuns wear

'''U.N. Day''' 
October 24

'''wig-and-jerkin''' 
A jerkin is a close-fitting men's jacket. With the wig, this is the costume of the early Modern warrior. Infinitely preferable to wig and merkin.

'''Amherst''' 
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717-1797), was a British field marshal and veteran of the French and Indian Wars. Town in Massachusetts named after him also gave its name to Wallace's alma mater. The story of Lord Jeffery Amherst discussing coating blankets with smallpox and distributing them to Native Americans is well-known at Amherst College.

'''Hurons''' 
More properly called the Wyandot or Wendat, these are an indigenous people of North America originally inhabiting Québec before the French arrived.

'''''variola''''' 
the Latin word for "smallpox"

'''SACPOP''' 
Strike Against Civilian Population

'''toadstool''' 
a poisonous mushroom

'''Steinkamp''' 
German: stone enclosure

'''Saluki''' 
a breed of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saluki dog]

'''ROM''' 
Read-Only Memory

'''Levesque-Parti-and-Bloc Québecois and Fronte de la Libération Nationale''' 
René Lévesque (1922-1987) was a Québecois government minister and founder of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parti_Qu%C3%A9b%C3%A9cois Parti Québécois]. Bloc Québécois promotes sovereignty for Québec while the Parti promotes independence. The Fronte mentioned above is probably a misnomer or early form of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLQ FLQ].

'''convolved''' 
wound together

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[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote 110 · Hal and Orin Discuss Québecois Politics|Endnote 110]]

==Page 311 (cont'd)==

'''U.S. Interstate 87''' 
It runs from Champlain, NY, on the Canadian border, to the Bronx.

'''empiricist''' 
describing drivers orienting themselves by experience, rather than paying close attention; 'naively empiricist' probably means that they are reacting to their immediate experience without thinking

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]

'''diabolic''' 
devilishly evil

==Page 312==

'''benzodioxane''' 
a metabolite of benzodiazepines

=Mario's birth, early development=

==Page 312==

'''pica''' 
a craving and fulfillment thereof to eat things that are not foods, occasionally occurring in pregnant women ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_(disorder) Wikipedia]), normal children with iron deficiency (especially with a target of ice), and developmenatally askance individuals of all ages.

'''Vermeer''' 
Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) was a Dutch painter of extraordinary talent & sensitivity to light, 17th c.

'''Toronto's Skydome''' 
Now known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skydome Rogers Centre], this is the home field of the Toronto Blue Jays.

==Page 313==

'''contractured''' 
having shortened muscle tissue

'''Green Valley AZ''' 
a city in Arizona about 22.5 miles due south of Tucson

'''saguaro''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saguaro cactus]

'''bradyauxetic''' 
slow in cell development

==Endnote 115==

'''Volkmann’s contracture''' 
Richard von Volkmann (1830-1889) was a prominent German surgeon who described Volkmann's contracture in 1881. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Volkmann Wikipedia]) DFW’s explanation is rare-for-him bunk. Although it may be associated with a fracture, it has other causes.

'''gerontologic''' 
having to do with the study of old age

'''lentissimo''' 
a musical term that is Italian for "very, very slowly"

==Page 313 (cont'd)==

'''inebriate''' 
as a noun, a drunkard

==Page 314==

'''blepharoplasty''' 
surgical reshaping of the eyelid

'''corticate''' 
having an outer layer

'''mucronate''' 
ending abruptly in a short sharp point or mucro.

'''nonprehensile''' 
unable to grab

'''yarmulke''' 
the Yiddish word for the skullcap that observant Jewish men wear

'''Stanford-Binet''' 
a type of IQ test

'''bradyphrenic''' 
slow witted

'''more like refracted''' 
Refraction occurs when light slows down when it enters a new medium. The change of speed also causes a change in direction of travel. Although light travels at a constant speed in a vacuum, it travels more slowly in matter.

'''joint of beef''' 
a piece of beef of a good size for roasting

==Page 315==

'''NNYC''' 
New New York City

'''.7-meter''' 
about 2.3 feet

'''Marino lamps''' 
shorthand for a San Marino floor lamp

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

'''codicil''' 
an addition to a legal will

==Endnote 116==

'''hyperfloriated''' 
overdecorated with floral designs

==Page 315 (cont'd)==

'''juvenilia''' 
art created by a child or teenager

'''attenuates''' 
lessens

==Page 316==

'''à clef''' 
French for "by key," the term is usually given as ''roman à clef'', i.e., a novel in which real people or events appear with invented names.

'''canted''' 
sloped at an angle

'''saurian''' 
lizard-like (especially, here, with respect to the skin)

'''homodontic''' 
having teeth of all one type (see endnote 119; in Mario's case, all his teeth are bicuspids, the two-pronged sort normally found between the canines and the molars)

'''tangrams''' 
a type of Chinese puzzle, a square cut into seven pieces, but which can be reassembled into many other shapes indeed

==Page 317==

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

=April 30th/May 1st, YDAU - Marathe & Steeply Again=

==Page 317==

==Page 318==

'''''l'aine des Etats Unis''''' 
French: the groin of the United States

==Page 319==

'''redemised''' 
"Demise" is a legal term meaning to convey or lease land. Redemised title would normally refer to an interest returned to the original owner, as in a sale and lease-back, but may here just refer to a second transfer of title, or regifting as we say at Christmas time.

'''Sans-Christe''' 
French: Without Christ

'''''Un ennemi commun''''' 
French: a common enemy

==Page 320==

'''''L'état protecteur''''' 
French: the protector-state

'''lume nacreous''' 
not sure where DFW got that, perhaps lumière nacrée, French, “pearly light” is intended

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==Page 283==

'''C.U.S.P.''' 
Stands for Clean United States Party, i.e. Johnny Gentle's pro-hygiene political platform. In reality, though it was created after ''Infinite Jest'' was published, there is an organization called [http://geo.international.gc.ca/can-am/main/border/creating_cusp-en.asp CUSP].

'''Johnny Gentle''' 
the name of a [http://www.johnnygentle.co.uk/ real musician] from the U.K.

'''O.N.A.N.ism''' 
Onanism is another word for masturbation in the English language, but there might be much more to it than [http://infinitesummer.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=302 that]. At the target, expand your understanding of Levirate marriage as well.

'''cholera and amoebic-dysentery''' 
Cholera is extreme diarrhea brought on by ingesting V. cholera, a comma shaped bacterium excreted in extraordinary quantities in the feces of victims. (The interested reader will enjoy learning about John Snow and the Broad Street pump.) Amoebic dysentery is also extreme diarrhea, this time brought on by the acquisition of a parasitic infection.

'''diasporic''' 
scattered; dispersed (from one's homeland)

==Endnote 93==

''winners never quit and quitters never win'' is a quote by [[wikipedia:Vince Lombardi|Vince Lombardi]] who was the Greenbay Packers coach in the 1960s

==Endnote 94==

'''''Lebensgefährtin''''' 
German: female romantic companion (rather, "significant other" or "longtime companion")

'''''neurasthenic''''' 
a psychological disorder marked especially by easy fatigability and often by lack of motivation, feelings of inadequacy, and psychosomatic symptoms — compare chronic fatigue syndrome.

==Page 284==

'''afflatus''' 
a divine creative impulse or inspiration.

'''Palmer Academy''' 
There is a [http://www.privateschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/6794 Palmer Academy] in Florida, but it's in Haines City, sixty miles east of Tampa.

'''deafflatusized''' 
neologism: uninspired. afflatus is inspiration, divine communication of knowledge, literally to blow upon. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afflatus Wikipedia]

'''ROTC''' 
Reserve Officer Training Corps, which recruits future officers in the U.S. Armed Forces from universities

'''A.P.''' 
Advanced Placement

'''Croate''' 
French for "female Croat" (or Croatian modifying a feminine French noun) but probably just a misspelling,
OR indicative that the "Croation-refugee transfer" from Palmer Academy, who brought Eschaton to E.T.A. was a female.
: It is in fact both the male and female form of the adjective meaning ''Croat'' or ''Croatian''.

==Endnote 95==

'''post-Windows DOS''' 
A DOS is a Disk Operating System, the programming by which a computer runs other programs. Microsoft has not issued a new DOS after Windows as of 2016 and claims they never will.

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

'''recompile''' 
Some programs needed to be "compiled" before they run, depending on the computer language in which they're written. Recompiling would be compiling over again.

==Page 285==

'''inducement''' 
an incentive

'''Dodge''' 
A reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_City Dodge City, Kansas], to "get out of Dodge" is to disappear because of some kind of perceived or real threat.

==Endnote 96==

'''Fredericton, N.B.''' 
Fredericton is the capital of the Canadian province of New Brunswick (N.B.) about 175 miles as the crow flies (much longer if you drive it) from Halifax, Nova Scotia, the nearest "big city" in that part of Canada.

==Page 285 (cont'd)==

'''septuagenaric''' 
in one's seventies

'''patrician''' 
aristocratic

'''vault the net''' 
It used to be a tradition in tennis for one player to jump ("vault") over the net to congratulate or console his/her opponent after a match.

'''round-robins''' 
This is a type of tournament in which each player plays every other player once, the winner being the person/team/etc. with the most wins. Compare this to a single-elimination tournament like the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.

'''deck-sneakers''' 
You can see examples [http://sneakers.pair.com/m-deck.htm here].

==Page 286==

'''Lacoste''' 
a French apparel company, known for producing [http://www.izod.com/ Izod]
: Also notable because it was founded by Frenchman René Lacoste (1904-1996), a tennis player, nicknamed ''the Crocodile'' (like the old AA members) because of his playing style, and who later adopted the crocodile logo for his brand.

'''levantine''' 
from the Near East, particularly Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, or Israel, i.e., the Levant

'''kohl''' 
a powder used to darken the eyelids

'''Terriers''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhett_the_Boston_Terrier Rhett the Boston Terrier] is the mascot of Boston University.

'''plum''' 
an excellent or desirable thing

'''hiati''' 
the plural of "hiatus"

'''Blue Cross''' 
an health insurance company

'''felo de se''' 
Latin for "felony against one's self," this is a term for suicide.

[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.P.A.H.]]

'''sedulous''' 
diligent or attentive

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

==Page 287==

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

'''jugular''' 
the largest vein in the neck

''''''Tenabrae Factae Sunt,''' sotto v.''' 
Ten'''e'''brae Factae Sunt misspelt. Latin for "There Was Darkness," ''Tenebrae Factae Sunt'' is a hymn traditionally sung on Good Friday, the day on which Jesus was crucified. "Sotto v." is shorthand for the Italian ''sotto voce,'' which means "in a low voice."

==Page 288==

'''locusts''' 
Given the noise they're making, Wallace is probably referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada cicadas].

'''trundle''' 
Used here, it means an impulse that causes something to move.

'''Salic law''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salic_law Salic Law] was a legal code of medieval Central Europe. The phrase is sometimes used simply to refer to its best-known tenet: agnatic succession, or the inheritance of the throne only by male heirs.

'''anthracnose''' 
another name for the plant disease known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthracnose canker] that usually has no cure.

'''PAC''' 
Political Action Committee

'''florid''' 
flowery in style 

'''trilled r's''' 
as pronounced in a Spanish word such as ''perro'' ("dog") 
The French trilled r can be uvular (on the back of the tongue) or aveolar (front of the tongue, like the Spanish ''perro'' example).
: Most French speakers don’t use trilled r’s at all nowadays, the most common pronunciation being an uvular fricative. It survives in dialects and niches, like old-style singing.

''''Politics and the English Language'''' 
You can read Orwell's essay [http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79e/part42.html here].

'''Tactical Phalanx''' 
Normally a military term, this would be a phalanx (from the Latin word for "fingers") or row of soldiers deployed for tactical purposes.

'''MGM''' 
Militant Grammarians of Massachusetts

'''tiller''' 
a nautical term for the device attached to a boat's rudder to assist in steering

'''sinecure''' 
a job requiring little or no work but that confers status/prestige

==Page 289==

'''Bill Tilden''' 
Tilden was considered the world's best tennis player from 1920 - 1934.


'''schizoid''' 
here meaning "erratic"

'''refraction''' 
here referring to the splitting of white light into a spectrum of color, as on the cover of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Side_of_the_Moon Dark Side of the Moon]

'''strabismic''' 
having improperly aligned eyes

'''diffraction''' 
the bending or stretching of waves, assuming light is a wave and not a particle

'''OCD''' 
Obsessive-Compulsive Disoder



'''postcoital flanks''' 
Postcoital denotes after sexual intercourse. The flank is the side of the body between the ribs and hip.

'''decapitated''' 
beheaded

'''epithet''' 
an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.

==Page 290==

'''Actaeon Complex''' 
This is not a real psychiatric disorder. Actaeon was a figure from Greek mythology who fell in love with the goddess of the hunt, Artemis, only to anger her (by observing her bathing) and then be changed by her into a deer, which was then hunted to death by Actaeon's own dogs — all of which perhaps suggests an underlying reluctance in the men to pursue Joelle because she might pursue them in return. (But, it was not Artemis who pursued Actaeon…??)

'''phylogenic''' 
(phylogenetic is the more common variant) OED: of, relating to, or characteristic of the evolutionary development of a species or other group of organisms through a succession of forms.

'''ascapartic''' 
A word coined by Wallace, it means gigantic, as Ascapart was a giant depicted in the fiction of, among other people, J.R.R. Tolkien.

'''elisions and apical lapses''' 
Elisions are the droppings of phonemes from words. Apical refers to sounds made using the tip of the tongue; lapses would be absences of such sounds.

'''four meters''' 
a little over thirteen feet.

'''zygomatics''' 
so-called cheekbones, arches on the outer borders of the eyes

'''HD''' 
high-definition, like a television

'''pungently''' 
in a way that sharply affects the organs of sense

'''attar''' 
an essential oil extracted from flowers

'''decocted''' 
to extract the flavor of by boiling

'''avuncular''' 
characteristic of an uncle

==Page 291==

'''strabismic''' 
squinty or improperly aligned eyes

'''Facsmile''' 
probably a misspelling of "facsimile"

'''three-meter''' 
almost ten feet

'''lateral''' 
sideways

'''''mollygag''''' 
the exiled Oklahoman football coach appears to combine "lolly-gag" and "molly-coddle"

'''''bona fried''''' 
the exiled Oklahoman coach here appears to mean "bona fide"

'''dope-slaps''' 
a smack to the back of the head, designed to get attention rather than inflict pain; distinct from more familiar "bitch-slap"

'''adit''' 
entrance or passage, antonym exit

'''orthopedic''' 
the branch of medicine devoted to the correction of anomalies or injuries to bones or muscles

'''180-kilo''' 
almost 400 pounds

'''Special Teams''' 
These are the squads responsible in football for tactics that are neither offensive or defensive, e.g., returning kick-offs, kicking field goals or extra points, and, of course, punting.

'''femur to tarsus''' 
The femur is the bone running from the hip to the knee — the largest bone in the body. The tarsi (plural of tarsus) are the bones of the midfoot. In between are the tibia and fibula — the bones of the lower leg — and the patella, or kneecap – and the calcaneus or heelbone. All of these were apparently broken.

==Page 292==

'''caromed''' 
To carom is to strike and rebound; caromed is the past tense.

'''CNS''' 
Central Nervous System

'''Gauloise''' 
a French brand of cigarettes, the word means of or pertaining to Gaul, the name by which France was known in Roman times

'''draconian''' 
Derived from Draco, the 7th century BC first lawgiver of Athens, the word means unusually harsh or severe.

==Page 293==

'''SUNY''' 
State University of New York

'''kick serve''' 
a serve in tennis with so much spin that the ball bounces high and to the left (if right-handed) or right (if left-handed) of the receiver

'''Rockette''' 
Named for the Rockefeller family and nearby Rockefeller Center, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockette Rockettes] are the Radio City Music Hall-based dancers famous for high kicks.

'''preternatural''' 
out of the ordinary course or nature

[[Image:Parabola.png|thumb|caption|parabola|right|125px]]
'''parabola''' 
a curve; more precisely a conic section formed by cutting a cone with a plane, where the plane is parallel to a line running along the cone's side from the vertex (point) to the circular base; see right

'''factota''' 
plural for factotum, which is a word for a servant or assistant

'''herbicide''' 
something that kills plants

==Page 294==

'''''Schmüberty''''' 
Technically speaking, this wouldn't rhyme with "puberty," because an umlaut over a "u" in German produces a high front rounded vowel (as in French ''tu'' "you") rather than the long /u/ phoneme.

'''kill it just by touching''' 
When a player on the punter's team touches the ball while it is still in the field of play, the play is whistled "dead" and the opposing team takes possession at that point

'''coffin-corner kicks''' 
Usually refers to a punt inside the opponent's 20 yard line that goes out of bounds and thus cannot be returned, as opposed to inside the 20-yard-line punts that remain in the field of play but are touched (killed) by a downfield runner

'''aegis''' 
sponsorship or auspices; (in classical art and mythology) an attribute of Zeus and Athena (or their Roman counterparts Jupiter and Minerva) usually represented as a goatskin shield.

'''bilateral''' 
having two sides, as here used meaning "on both sides"

'''S.T.''' 
Special Teams

'''wide receiver's number''' 
Punters are typically assigned a uniform with a number between 1 and 19, while wide receivers typically get a number in the 80s, though the NCAA has no hard and fast rules in this regard.

'''"...it was in its last season of representing an American university..."''' 
Presumably under the constitution of O.N.A.N., Syracuse, N.Y., became part of Canada.

'''book-long''' 
The "book" length of a punt is not the same as its physical distance. Hal kicked the "baptismal competitive punt" 90 yards in the air, but was only credited with a 40-yard punt. Because the line of scrimmage was Syracuse's 40, and Hal kicked the ball through the end zone, the punt is recorded as 40 yards (the distance from the line of scrimmage to the end zone). The ball would be placed at Syracuse's 20, so the "net" on the punt would only have been 20 yards.

'''90-yard punt''' 
The record for a punt in both college and professional football is 99 yards. Presumably in each instance the punting team had the ball at its own 1 yard line and the punt, through the air and then with fortuitous bounces, came to rest in the opponent's end zone. Orins's punt is said to have traveled 90 yards in the air, which is a bit beyond the outer limits of what even a top pro can do on his best kicks.

'''Orangemen''' 
the Syracuse football team's name

==Page 295==

'''podiatric''' 
of or pertaining to the treatment of the feet and their ailments.

'''USMC''' 
United States Marine Corps

'''Rolling Thunder's big-bellied Berthas''' 
Rolling Thunder was the bombing campaign on North Vietnam carried out by South Vietnam and the U.S. military between 1965 and 1968. A Bertha is probably just a really big gun, like the famous [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bertha Big Bertha] used by Germany during WWI.
More likely Bertha is referring here to large bombs dropped during the Rolling Thunder campaign, though B52s capable of dropping really large bombs were used much more extensively later - in the escalation into Cambodia for example

'''sousaphone''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousaphone tuba] developed by John Philip Sousa (1854-1932), American composer, for easier carrying with a marching band

'''extrication''' 
freedom from entanglement, it means extract in this context, the punctured football is extricated/extracted from the bell of the sousaphone.

'''lardy''' 
fat

'''tête-à-tête''' 
From the French for "head to head," this term denotes a private conversation between two people.

'''30,0000''' 
This must refer to the attendance for the game at Boston College's Alumni Stadium, which has a capacity of 44,500 (see page 293 for schedule). Nickerson Field at BU has a capacity of less than 10,000 people. BU also played at Rhode Island in Hal's first four weeks, but its field has a capacity of only 5,180.

'''amniotic''' 
pertaining to the fluid that surrounds a fetus ''in utero''

==Page 296==

'''cathedran''' 
Presumably Wallace means "like a cathedral," but this is not a real word. The proper word would be cathedrarian which th OED calls a "nonce-word" n. a word apparently used only ‘for the nonce’, i.e. on one specific occasion or in one specific text or writer's works..

'''Yankee Conference''' 
Ironically, in 1997 (a year after ''Infinite Jest'' was published), Boston University dropped its football program.

'''K-L-RMKI/Forsythia Bowl''' 
This is not a real bowl game, but the letters stand for Ken-L-Ration-Magnavox-Kemper-Insurance Forsythia Bowl.

'''three subway stops distant''' 
East Cambridge is about ten green-line stops from BU.

'''fealty''' 
faithfulness, here to a sports team

'''4WD''' 
four-wheel-drive vehicle

'''kudzu''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudzu climbing vine] now prevalent in the U.S. South. It was introduced in the 30s and 40s and has long been viewed as an invasive nuisance. I recall it being so viewed in the 1960s.

'''pointers''' 
a breed of hunting dog

'''Pyrex''' 
a brand name of heat-resistant glass

'''turn blue litmus paper red''' 
something acidic: something basic would turn red litmus paper blue

'''star-fated''' 
as opposed to star-crossed, i.e., predestined for disaster, as Romeo and Juliet

==Page 297==

'''dailies''' 
Also called "rushes," these are the pieces of raw film recorded during a single day, including cuts, takes, prints, etc.

'''turtle-headed''' 
implying that Orin's neck is covered entirely but visible, as with a turtleneck sweater

'''fireman-carrying''' 
carrying a person over one's shoulder

'''Dixie Baton-Twirling Institute in Oxford MS''' 
Wallace has taken this idea from a  short story "Twirling at Ole Miss" by [http://www.terrysouthern.com/ Terry Southern]. Oxford, Miss., is the home of "Ole Miss," i.e., the [http://www.olemiss.edu/ University of Mississippi] and is about 60 miles southeast of Memphis, Tenn.

'''hypertrophied''' 
overgrown anatomically

'''quadriceps''' 
one of the muscles in front of the thigh

'''P.T.s''' 
Physical Therapists

'''thespian''' 
having to do with acting

'''BTL''' 
the initials of several telecommunications and television companies

'''Angenieux''' 
a [http://www.angenieux.com/ company] that produces high-technology optics devices

'''half-disk-sector''' 
an indication of the amount of digital memory used

'''#78''' 
This is Orin's jersey number — why he didn't get a changed number is uncertain, as is why it said he had gotten a receiver's number. A number in the 70s would be an offensive or defensive lineman — someone unlikely to have contact with the ball.

'''mattes''' 
This is shorthand for a matte shot, which is "a shot in which parts of the background and sometimes the foreground are masked so that a different background, foreground, image, etc., can be substituted during printing" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''spectation''' 
watching

==Page 298==

'''rheostat''' 
This is "an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''Jiffy Pop''' 
a brand name of home popping corn

[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.]]

'''rpm''' 
revolutions per minute

'''Storrow 500''' 
a local nickname for Storrow Drive in Boston

'''barney''' 
a heavy padded cover for a camera to reduce the amount of noise from the camera's moving parts getting onto the soundtrack

'''Pilotone blooper''' 
Pilotone is an old brand of film equipment, and a blooper is, according to the ''Random House Unabridged Dictionary,'' "a receiving set that generates from its antenna radio-frequency signals that interfere with other nearby receivers."

'''auracopia''' 
a Wallace neologism based on "aura" (sound) and "copia" (plenty) and based on cornucopia (horn of plenty)

'''Delaware''' 
The Yankee Conference, by the way, ceased to exist in 1997.

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

'''U. Vermont and UNH now history''' 
This implies that Vermont and New Hampshire were also annexed to Canada. However, the University of Vermont had not been in the conference since 1974.

'''four-point stances''' 
with both hands and both feet on the ground

'''chuff''' 
to blow hard and loudly

'''stave''' 
to break or crush; Wallace might also mean to ward off or keep away, but the more commmon phrase for that is "stave off".

'''scrimmage''' 
the scrimmage line, i.e., where the offense currently has the ball

==Page 299==

'''a bright noncontact white''' 
Orin's helmet is white because he hasn't been tackled.

'''pendular 180-arc of Orin's leg''' 
meaning Orin's leg moves the full length of half a circle around the center that is his hip, in a motion similar to that of a pendulum

'''gluteal''' 
pertaining to the buttocks

=November 14th, YDAU - Poor Tony Goes Cold Turkey=

==Page 299==

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

'''Armenian Foundation Library in horrid central Watertown MA''' 
This is probably the same as the [http://www.almainc.org/ Armenian Library and Museum of America]. Watertown is a suburb of Boston nine miles west of the city, and it has a very large Armenian population.

==Page 300==

'''Equus Reese''' 
''Equus'' is Latin for "horse."

'''Donegal cap''' 
You can see one [http://irishop.com/dontweedcap.html here].

'''cadge''' 
to obtain by begging

'''Antitoi''' 
French for "against you"

'''de-mapping''' 
murder

'''''non grata''''' 
Latin: not welcome

'''Aigner accessory''' 
Etienne Aigner is a designer of women's handbags & leather goods.

'''cop''' 
obtain drugs

'''rough-trade''' 
homosexual prostitution - trading sexual activity for money or drugs, frequently associated with violence [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/rough+trade FreeDictionary]

'''Brockton''' 
a city in Massachusetts about 25 miles south of Boston

'''portents''' 
omens

'''Fort Point''' 
a section of Boston named for a colonial-era fort of the same name

'''hepatitis-G''' 
This [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis#Hepatitis_G disease] had been identified the same year that Wallace published ''Infinite Jest''. It's unclear whether he was aware of this.

'''chip''' 
to use enough heroin to stave off withdrawal

'''wigless-head''' 
Tony is carrying his auburn wig and red leather coat in a shopping bag.

'''The Old Cold Bird''' 
a variation on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_turkey cold turkey]

'''fifty kilos''' 
a little over 110 pounds

==Page 301==

'''color of summer squash''' 
The colors of summer squashes vary, but Wallace probably is implying that Poor Tony looks yellow.

'''sty''' 
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stye stye]

'''chignon''' 
hair tied into a knot worn at the back of the head, similar to a bun.

'''troughs and nodes''' 
deep furrows and swollen areas, respectively 
more likely: lows and data points or vertices between changes in symptoms.

'''habilements''' 
misspelling of habillements, i.e., clothing (the word is French)

'''wan''' 
pale in color

'''neurasthenic''' 
suffering from nervous exhaustion (with no apparent physical cause)

'''gender-dysphoric''' 
a person suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria gender identity disorder]

'''shiva''' 
the Jewish ritual of mourning for seven days, tearing one's clothes, sitting on the floor, covering mirrors, etc.

'''[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]'''

'''412 Mount Auburn Street''' 
This is a real address in Watertown. You can see the house [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=%22412+Mount+Auburn+Street%22+Watertown,+MA&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=51.488837,67.412109&ie=UTF8&ll=42.370023,-71.166751&spn=0.00148,0.002057&t=k&z=19&om=1 here]. It doesn't look like a residence. [Google street view suggests otherwise?]

==Page 302==

'''Codinex Plus''' 
a brand name of cough syrup

'''C17-morphine''' 
regular old morphine, which has the chemical composition C17H19NO3

'''Bonwit's''' 
a department store in Boston

'''hubris''' 
pride to a fault

'''cadences''' 
flows of events

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'''Merry Widow''' 
a woman's undergarment consisting of a strapless bra and short corset

'''Amalfo''' 
the very odd singular of Amalfi, a brand of shoes

'''45 kg''' 
a little over 99 pounds

'''''Zuckung''''' 
German: convulsion, jerk or twitch

'''pebbled glass''' 
a drinking glass having a rough surface

'''filial''' 
pertaining to a son or daughter

'''Mount Auburn Cemetery''' 
the first [http://www.mountauburn.org/ landscaped cemetery] in the U.S.

'''A.F.L.''' 
Armenian Foundation Library

'''loo''' 
British colloquialism for toilet

'''flatulence''' 
farting

'''demethylated''' 
with a methyl group (CH3) removed. Technically, this is incorrect; to go from codeine (C18H21NO3) to morphine (C17H19NO3) requires the removal of a methyl''ene'' group (CH2). The accurate term would be "demethyl''en''ated."

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'''duplicitous''' 
deceptive in speech

'''hapless''' 
without luck

'''formicating''' 
moving like ants

'''bilirubin''' 
a yellow chemical that results from the incomplete metabolism of heme, the oxygen carrying part of hemoglobin molecules, odorless, to be distinguished from urochrome which gives urine its yellow color

'''behemoth''' 
a large beast

'''synaptic''' 
pertaining to the spaces between brain cells

'''dessicated''' 
dried out

'''Eighty-Proof''' 
40 percent alcohol

'''augur''' 
to serve as an omen

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'''incongruous''' 
out of place

'''obstetric''' 
of or relating to childbirth

'''dirigibles''' 
blimps or zeppelins (airships)

'''tumid''' 
swollen

'''Red Sox of Rice and Lynn''' 
Jim Rice (1974-1989) and Fred Lynn (1974-1980) both played in the 1975 World Series.

'''taffeta''' 
a crisp, smooth, woven fabric, often made from silk, used in gowns

'''gaffed fish''' 
caught with a very large hook

'''flounces''' 
strips of decorative material

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==Page 283==

'''C.U.S.P.''' 
Stands for Clean United States Party, i.e. Johnny Gentle's pro-hygiene political platform. In reality, though it was created after ''Infinite Jest'' was published, there is an organization called [http://geo.international.gc.ca/can-am/main/border/creating_cusp-en.asp CUSP].

'''Johnny Gentle''' 
the name of a [http://www.johnnygentle.co.uk/ real musician] from the U.K.

'''O.N.A.N.ism''' 
Onanism is another word for masturbation in the English language, but there might be much more to it than [http://infinitesummer.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=302 that]. At the target, expand your understanding of Levirate marriage as well.

'''cholera and amoebic-dysentery''' 
Cholera is extreme diarrhea brought on by ingesting V. cholera, a comma shaped bacterium excreted in extraordinary quantities in the feces of victims. (The interested reader will enjoy learning about John Snow and the Broad Street pump.) Amoebic dysentery is also extreme diarrhea, this time brought on by the acquisition of a parasitic infection.

'''diasporic''' 
scattered; dispersed (from one's homeland)

==Endnote 93==

''winners never quit and quitters never win'' is a quote by [[wikipedia:Vince Lombardi|Vince Lombardi]] who was the Greenbay Packers coach in the 1960s

==Endnote 94==

'''''Lebensgefährtin''''' 
German: female romantic companion (rather, "significant other" or "longtime companion")

'''''neurasthenic''''' 
a psychological disorder marked especially by easy fatigability and often by lack of motivation, feelings of inadequacy, and psychosomatic symptoms — compare chronic fatigue syndrome.

==Page 284==

'''afflatus''' 
a divine creative impulse or inspiration.

'''Palmer Academy''' 
There is a [http://www.privateschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/6794 Palmer Academy] in Florida, but it's in Haines City, sixty miles east of Tampa.

'''deafflatusized''' 
neologism: uninspired. afflatus is inspiration, divine communication of knowledge, literally to blow upon. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afflatus Wikipedia]

'''ROTC''' 
Reserve Officer Training Corps, which recruits future officers in the U.S. Armed Forces from universities

'''A.P.''' 
Advanced Placement

'''Croate''' 
French for "female Croat" (or Croatian modifying a feminine French noun) but probably just a misspelling,
OR indicative that the "Croation-refugee transfer" from Palmer Academy, who brought Eschaton to E.T.A. was a female.
: It is in fact both the male and female form of the adjective meaning ''Croat'' or ''Croatian''.

==Endnote 95==

'''post-Windows DOS''' 
A DOS is a Disk Operating System, the programming by which a computer runs other programs. Microsoft has not issued a new DOS after Windows as of 2016 and claims they never will.

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

'''recompile''' 
Some programs needed to be "compiled" before they run, depending on the computer language in which they're written. Recompiling would be compiling over again.

==Page 285==

'''inducement''' 
an incentive

'''Dodge''' 
A reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_City Dodge City, Kansas], to "get out of Dodge" is to disappear because of some kind of perceived or real threat.

==Endnote 96==

'''Fredericton, N.B.''' 
Fredericton is the capital of the Canadian province of New Brunswick (N.B.) about 175 miles as the crow flies (much longer if you drive it) from Halifax, Nova Scotia, the nearest "big city" in that part of Canada.

==Page 285 (cont'd)==

'''septuagenaric''' 
in one's seventies

'''patrician''' 
aristocratic

'''vault the net''' 
It used to be a tradition in tennis for one player to jump ("vault") over the net to congratulate or console his/her opponent after a match.

'''round-robins''' 
This is a type of tournament in which each player plays every other player once, the winner being the person/team/etc. with the most wins. Compare this to a single-elimination tournament like the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.

'''deck-sneakers''' 
You can see examples [http://sneakers.pair.com/m-deck.htm here].

==Page 286==

'''Lacoste''' 
a French apparel company, known for producing [http://www.izod.com/ Izod]
: Also notable because it was founded by Frenchman René Lacoste (1904-1996), a tennis player, nicknamed ''the Crocodile'' (like the old AA members) because of his playing style, and who later adopted the crocodile logo for his brand.

'''levantine''' 
from the Near East, particularly Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, or Israel, i.e., the Levant

'''kohl''' 
a powder used to darken the eyelids

'''Terriers''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhett_the_Boston_Terrier Rhett the Boston Terrier] is the mascot of Boston University.

'''plum''' 
an excellent or desirable thing

'''hiati''' 
the plural of "hiatus"

'''Blue Cross''' 
an health insurance company

'''felo de se''' 
Latin for "felony against one's self," this is a term for suicide.

[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.P.A.H.]]

'''sedulous''' 
diligent or attentive

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

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

'''jugular''' 
the largest vein in the neck

''''''Tenabrae Factae Sunt,''' sotto v.''' 
Ten'''e'''brae Factae Sunt misspelt. Latin for "There Was Darkness," ''Tenebrae Factae Sunt'' is a hymn traditionally sung on Good Friday, the day on which Jesus was crucified. "Sotto v." is shorthand for the Italian ''sotto voce,'' which means "in a low voice."

==Page 288==

'''locusts''' 
Given the noise they're making, Wallace is probably referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada cicadas].

'''trundle''' 
Used here, it means an impulse that causes something to move.

'''Salic law''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salic_law Salic Law] was a legal code of medieval Central Europe. The phrase is sometimes used simply to refer to its best-known tenet: agnatic succession, or the inheritance of the throne only by male heirs.

'''anthracnose''' 
another name for the plant disease known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthracnose canker] that usually has no cure.

'''PAC''' 
Political Action Committee

'''florid''' 
flowery in style 

'''trilled r's''' 
as pronounced in a Spanish word such as ''perro'' ("dog") 
The French trilled r can be uvular (on the back of the tongue) or aveolar (front of the tongue, like the Spanish ''perro'' example).

''''Politics and the English Language'''' 
You can read Orwell's essay [http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79e/part42.html here].

'''Tactical Phalanx''' 
Normally a military term, this would be a phalanx (from the Latin word for "fingers") or row of soldiers deployed for tactical purposes.

'''MGM''' 
Militant Grammarians of Massachusetts

'''tiller''' 
a nautical term for the device attached to a boat's rudder to assist in steering

'''sinecure''' 
a job requiring little or no work but that confers status/prestige

==Page 289==

'''Bill Tilden''' 
Tilden was considered the world's best tennis player from 1920 - 1934.


'''schizoid''' 
here meaning "erratic"

'''refraction''' 
here referring to the splitting of white light into a spectrum of color, as on the cover of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Side_of_the_Moon Dark Side of the Moon]

'''strabismic''' 
having improperly aligned eyes

'''diffraction''' 
the bending or stretching of waves, assuming light is a wave and not a particle

'''OCD''' 
Obsessive-Compulsive Disoder



'''postcoital flanks''' 
Postcoital denotes after sexual intercourse. The flank is the side of the body between the ribs and hip.

'''decapitated''' 
beheaded

'''epithet''' 
an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.

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'''Actaeon Complex''' 
This is not a real psychiatric disorder. Actaeon was a figure from Greek mythology who fell in love with the goddess of the hunt, Artemis, only to anger her (by observing her bathing) and then be changed by her into a deer, which was then hunted to death by Actaeon's own dogs — all of which perhaps suggests an underlying reluctance in the men to pursue Joelle because she might pursue them in return. (But, it was not Artemis who pursued Actaeon…??)

'''phylogenic''' 
(phylogenetic is the more common variant) OED: of, relating to, or characteristic of the evolutionary development of a species or other group of organisms through a succession of forms.

'''ascapartic''' 
A word coined by Wallace, it means gigantic, as Ascapart was a giant depicted in the fiction of, among other people, J.R.R. Tolkien.

'''elisions and apical lapses''' 
Elisions are the droppings of phonemes from words. Apical refers to sounds made using the tip of the tongue; lapses would be absences of such sounds.

'''four meters''' 
a little over thirteen feet.

'''zygomatics''' 
so-called cheekbones, arches on the outer borders of the eyes

'''HD''' 
high-definition, like a television

'''pungently''' 
in a way that sharply affects the organs of sense

'''attar''' 
an essential oil extracted from flowers

'''decocted''' 
to extract the flavor of by boiling

'''avuncular''' 
characteristic of an uncle

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'''strabismic''' 
squinty or improperly aligned eyes

'''Facsmile''' 
probably a misspelling of "facsimile"

'''three-meter''' 
almost ten feet

'''lateral''' 
sideways

'''''mollygag''''' 
the exiled Oklahoman football coach appears to combine "lolly-gag" and "molly-coddle"

'''''bona fried''''' 
the exiled Oklahoman coach here appears to mean "bona fide"

'''dope-slaps''' 
a smack to the back of the head, designed to get attention rather than inflict pain; distinct from more familiar "bitch-slap"

'''adit''' 
entrance or passage, antonym exit

'''orthopedic''' 
the branch of medicine devoted to the correction of anomalies or injuries to bones or muscles

'''180-kilo''' 
almost 400 pounds

'''Special Teams''' 
These are the squads responsible in football for tactics that are neither offensive or defensive, e.g., returning kick-offs, kicking field goals or extra points, and, of course, punting.

'''femur to tarsus''' 
The femur is the bone running from the hip to the knee — the largest bone in the body. The tarsi (plural of tarsus) are the bones of the midfoot. In between are the tibia and fibula — the bones of the lower leg — and the patella, or kneecap – and the calcaneus or heelbone. All of these were apparently broken.

==Page 292==

'''caromed''' 
To carom is to strike and rebound; caromed is the past tense.

'''CNS''' 
Central Nervous System

'''Gauloise''' 
a French brand of cigarettes, the word means of or pertaining to Gaul, the name by which France was known in Roman times

'''draconian''' 
Derived from Draco, the 7th century BC first lawgiver of Athens, the word means unusually harsh or severe.

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'''SUNY''' 
State University of New York

'''kick serve''' 
a serve in tennis with so much spin that the ball bounces high and to the left (if right-handed) or right (if left-handed) of the receiver

'''Rockette''' 
Named for the Rockefeller family and nearby Rockefeller Center, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockette Rockettes] are the Radio City Music Hall-based dancers famous for high kicks.

'''preternatural''' 
out of the ordinary course or nature

[[Image:Parabola.png|thumb|caption|parabola|right|125px]]
'''parabola''' 
a curve; more precisely a conic section formed by cutting a cone with a plane, where the plane is parallel to a line running along the cone's side from the vertex (point) to the circular base; see right

'''factota''' 
plural for factotum, which is a word for a servant or assistant

'''herbicide''' 
something that kills plants

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'''''Schmüberty''''' 
Technically speaking, this wouldn't rhyme with "puberty," because an umlaut over a "u" in German produces a high front rounded vowel (as in French ''tu'' "you") rather than the long /u/ phoneme.

'''kill it just by touching''' 
When a player on the punter's team touches the ball while it is still in the field of play, the play is whistled "dead" and the opposing team takes possession at that point

'''coffin-corner kicks''' 
Usually refers to a punt inside the opponent's 20 yard line that goes out of bounds and thus cannot be returned, as opposed to inside the 20-yard-line punts that remain in the field of play but are touched (killed) by a downfield runner

'''aegis''' 
sponsorship or auspices; (in classical art and mythology) an attribute of Zeus and Athena (or their Roman counterparts Jupiter and Minerva) usually represented as a goatskin shield.

'''bilateral''' 
having two sides, as here used meaning "on both sides"

'''S.T.''' 
Special Teams

'''wide receiver's number''' 
Punters are typically assigned a uniform with a number between 1 and 19, while wide receivers typically get a number in the 80s, though the NCAA has no hard and fast rules in this regard.

'''"...it was in its last season of representing an American university..."''' 
Presumably under the constitution of O.N.A.N., Syracuse, N.Y., became part of Canada.

'''book-long''' 
The "book" length of a punt is not the same as its physical distance. Hal kicked the "baptismal competitive punt" 90 yards in the air, but was only credited with a 40-yard punt. Because the line of scrimmage was Syracuse's 40, and Hal kicked the ball through the end zone, the punt is recorded as 40 yards (the distance from the line of scrimmage to the end zone). The ball would be placed at Syracuse's 20, so the "net" on the punt would only have been 20 yards.

'''90-yard punt''' 
The record for a punt in both college and professional football is 99 yards. Presumably in each instance the punting team had the ball at its own 1 yard line and the punt, through the air and then with fortuitous bounces, came to rest in the opponent's end zone. Orins's punt is said to have traveled 90 yards in the air, which is a bit beyond the outer limits of what even a top pro can do on his best kicks.

'''Orangemen''' 
the Syracuse football team's name

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'''podiatric''' 
of or pertaining to the treatment of the feet and their ailments.

'''USMC''' 
United States Marine Corps

'''Rolling Thunder's big-bellied Berthas''' 
Rolling Thunder was the bombing campaign on North Vietnam carried out by South Vietnam and the U.S. military between 1965 and 1968. A Bertha is probably just a really big gun, like the famous [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bertha Big Bertha] used by Germany during WWI.
More likely Bertha is referring here to large bombs dropped during the Rolling Thunder campaign, though B52s capable of dropping really large bombs were used much more extensively later - in the escalation into Cambodia for example

'''sousaphone''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousaphone tuba] developed by John Philip Sousa (1854-1932), American composer, for easier carrying with a marching band

'''extrication''' 
freedom from entanglement, it means extract in this context, the punctured football is extricated/extracted from the bell of the sousaphone.

'''lardy''' 
fat

'''tête-à-tête''' 
From the French for "head to head," this term denotes a private conversation between two people.

'''30,0000''' 
This must refer to the attendance for the game at Boston College's Alumni Stadium, which has a capacity of 44,500 (see page 293 for schedule). Nickerson Field at BU has a capacity of less than 10,000 people. BU also played at Rhode Island in Hal's first four weeks, but its field has a capacity of only 5,180.

'''amniotic''' 
pertaining to the fluid that surrounds a fetus ''in utero''

==Page 296==

'''cathedran''' 
Presumably Wallace means "like a cathedral," but this is not a real word. The proper word would be cathedrarian which th OED calls a "nonce-word" n. a word apparently used only ‘for the nonce’, i.e. on one specific occasion or in one specific text or writer's works..

'''Yankee Conference''' 
Ironically, in 1997 (a year after ''Infinite Jest'' was published), Boston University dropped its football program.

'''K-L-RMKI/Forsythia Bowl''' 
This is not a real bowl game, but the letters stand for Ken-L-Ration-Magnavox-Kemper-Insurance Forsythia Bowl.

'''three subway stops distant''' 
East Cambridge is about ten green-line stops from BU.

'''fealty''' 
faithfulness, here to a sports team

'''4WD''' 
four-wheel-drive vehicle

'''kudzu''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudzu climbing vine] now prevalent in the U.S. South. It was introduced in the 30s and 40s and has long been viewed as an invasive nuisance. I recall it being so viewed in the 1960s.

'''pointers''' 
a breed of hunting dog

'''Pyrex''' 
a brand name of heat-resistant glass

'''turn blue litmus paper red''' 
something acidic: something basic would turn red litmus paper blue

'''star-fated''' 
as opposed to star-crossed, i.e., predestined for disaster, as Romeo and Juliet

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'''dailies''' 
Also called "rushes," these are the pieces of raw film recorded during a single day, including cuts, takes, prints, etc.

'''turtle-headed''' 
implying that Orin's neck is covered entirely but visible, as with a turtleneck sweater

'''fireman-carrying''' 
carrying a person over one's shoulder

'''Dixie Baton-Twirling Institute in Oxford MS''' 
Wallace has taken this idea from a  short story "Twirling at Ole Miss" by [http://www.terrysouthern.com/ Terry Southern]. Oxford, Miss., is the home of "Ole Miss," i.e., the [http://www.olemiss.edu/ University of Mississippi] and is about 60 miles southeast of Memphis, Tenn.

'''hypertrophied''' 
overgrown anatomically

'''quadriceps''' 
one of the muscles in front of the thigh

'''P.T.s''' 
Physical Therapists

'''thespian''' 
having to do with acting

'''BTL''' 
the initials of several telecommunications and television companies

'''Angenieux''' 
a [http://www.angenieux.com/ company] that produces high-technology optics devices

'''half-disk-sector''' 
an indication of the amount of digital memory used

'''#78''' 
This is Orin's jersey number — why he didn't get a changed number is uncertain, as is why it said he had gotten a receiver's number. A number in the 70s would be an offensive or defensive lineman — someone unlikely to have contact with the ball.

'''mattes''' 
This is shorthand for a matte shot, which is "a shot in which parts of the background and sometimes the foreground are masked so that a different background, foreground, image, etc., can be substituted during printing" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''spectation''' 
watching

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'''rheostat''' 
This is "an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''Jiffy Pop''' 
a brand name of home popping corn

[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.]]

'''rpm''' 
revolutions per minute

'''Storrow 500''' 
a local nickname for Storrow Drive in Boston

'''barney''' 
a heavy padded cover for a camera to reduce the amount of noise from the camera's moving parts getting onto the soundtrack

'''Pilotone blooper''' 
Pilotone is an old brand of film equipment, and a blooper is, according to the ''Random House Unabridged Dictionary,'' "a receiving set that generates from its antenna radio-frequency signals that interfere with other nearby receivers."

'''auracopia''' 
a Wallace neologism based on "aura" (sound) and "copia" (plenty) and based on cornucopia (horn of plenty)

'''Delaware''' 
The Yankee Conference, by the way, ceased to exist in 1997.

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

'''U. Vermont and UNH now history''' 
This implies that Vermont and New Hampshire were also annexed to Canada. However, the University of Vermont had not been in the conference since 1974.

'''four-point stances''' 
with both hands and both feet on the ground

'''chuff''' 
to blow hard and loudly

'''stave''' 
to break or crush; Wallace might also mean to ward off or keep away, but the more commmon phrase for that is "stave off".

'''scrimmage''' 
the scrimmage line, i.e., where the offense currently has the ball

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'''a bright noncontact white''' 
Orin's helmet is white because he hasn't been tackled.

'''pendular 180-arc of Orin's leg''' 
meaning Orin's leg moves the full length of half a circle around the center that is his hip, in a motion similar to that of a pendulum

'''gluteal''' 
pertaining to the buttocks

=November 14th, YDAU - Poor Tony Goes Cold Turkey=

==Page 299==

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

'''Armenian Foundation Library in horrid central Watertown MA''' 
This is probably the same as the [http://www.almainc.org/ Armenian Library and Museum of America]. Watertown is a suburb of Boston nine miles west of the city, and it has a very large Armenian population.

==Page 300==

'''Equus Reese''' 
''Equus'' is Latin for "horse."

'''Donegal cap''' 
You can see one [http://irishop.com/dontweedcap.html here].

'''cadge''' 
to obtain by begging

'''Antitoi''' 
French for "against you"

'''de-mapping''' 
murder

'''''non grata''''' 
Latin: not welcome

'''Aigner accessory''' 
Etienne Aigner is a designer of women's handbags & leather goods.

'''cop''' 
obtain drugs

'''rough-trade''' 
homosexual prostitution - trading sexual activity for money or drugs, frequently associated with violence [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/rough+trade FreeDictionary]

'''Brockton''' 
a city in Massachusetts about 25 miles south of Boston

'''portents''' 
omens

'''Fort Point''' 
a section of Boston named for a colonial-era fort of the same name

'''hepatitis-G''' 
This [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis#Hepatitis_G disease] had been identified the same year that Wallace published ''Infinite Jest''. It's unclear whether he was aware of this.

'''chip''' 
to use enough heroin to stave off withdrawal

'''wigless-head''' 
Tony is carrying his auburn wig and red leather coat in a shopping bag.

'''The Old Cold Bird''' 
a variation on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_turkey cold turkey]

'''fifty kilos''' 
a little over 110 pounds

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'''color of summer squash''' 
The colors of summer squashes vary, but Wallace probably is implying that Poor Tony looks yellow.

'''sty''' 
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stye stye]

'''chignon''' 
hair tied into a knot worn at the back of the head, similar to a bun.

'''troughs and nodes''' 
deep furrows and swollen areas, respectively 
more likely: lows and data points or vertices between changes in symptoms.

'''habilements''' 
misspelling of habillements, i.e., clothing (the word is French)

'''wan''' 
pale in color

'''neurasthenic''' 
suffering from nervous exhaustion (with no apparent physical cause)

'''gender-dysphoric''' 
a person suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria gender identity disorder]

'''shiva''' 
the Jewish ritual of mourning for seven days, tearing one's clothes, sitting on the floor, covering mirrors, etc.

'''[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]'''

'''412 Mount Auburn Street''' 
This is a real address in Watertown. You can see the house [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=%22412+Mount+Auburn+Street%22+Watertown,+MA&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=51.488837,67.412109&ie=UTF8&ll=42.370023,-71.166751&spn=0.00148,0.002057&t=k&z=19&om=1 here]. It doesn't look like a residence. [Google street view suggests otherwise?]

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'''Codinex Plus''' 
a brand name of cough syrup

'''C17-morphine''' 
regular old morphine, which has the chemical composition C17H19NO3

'''Bonwit's''' 
a department store in Boston

'''hubris''' 
pride to a fault

'''cadences''' 
flows of events

==Page 303==

'''Merry Widow''' 
a woman's undergarment consisting of a strapless bra and short corset

'''Amalfo''' 
the very odd singular of Amalfi, a brand of shoes

'''45 kg''' 
a little over 99 pounds

'''''Zuckung''''' 
German: convulsion, jerk or twitch

'''pebbled glass''' 
a drinking glass having a rough surface

'''filial''' 
pertaining to a son or daughter

'''Mount Auburn Cemetery''' 
the first [http://www.mountauburn.org/ landscaped cemetery] in the U.S.

'''A.F.L.''' 
Armenian Foundation Library

'''loo''' 
British colloquialism for toilet

'''flatulence''' 
farting

'''demethylated''' 
with a methyl group (CH3) removed. Technically, this is incorrect; to go from codeine (C18H21NO3) to morphine (C17H19NO3) requires the removal of a methyl''ene'' group (CH2). The accurate term would be "demethyl''en''ated."

==Page 304==

'''duplicitous''' 
deceptive in speech

'''hapless''' 
without luck

'''formicating''' 
moving like ants

'''bilirubin''' 
a yellow chemical that results from the incomplete metabolism of heme, the oxygen carrying part of hemoglobin molecules, odorless, to be distinguished from urochrome which gives urine its yellow color

'''behemoth''' 
a large beast

'''synaptic''' 
pertaining to the spaces between brain cells

'''dessicated''' 
dried out

'''Eighty-Proof''' 
40 percent alcohol

'''augur''' 
to serve as an omen

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'''incongruous''' 
out of place

'''obstetric''' 
of or relating to childbirth

'''dirigibles''' 
blimps or zeppelins (airships)

'''tumid''' 
swollen

'''Red Sox of Rice and Lynn''' 
Jim Rice (1974-1989) and Fred Lynn (1974-1980) both played in the 1975 World Series.

'''taffeta''' 
a crisp, smooth, woven fabric, often made from silk, used in gowns

'''gaffed fish''' 
caught with a very large hook

'''flounces''' 
strips of decorative material

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'''C.U.S.P.''' 
Stands for Clean United States Party, i.e. Johnny Gentle's pro-hygiene political platform. In reality, though it was created after ''Infinite Jest'' was published, there is an organization called [http://geo.international.gc.ca/can-am/main/border/creating_cusp-en.asp CUSP].

'''Johnny Gentle''' 
the name of a [http://www.johnnygentle.co.uk/ real musician] from the U.K.

'''O.N.A.N.ism''' 
Onanism is another word for masturbation in the English language, but there might be much more to it than [http://infinitesummer.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=302 that]. At the target, expand your understanding of Levirate marriage as well.

'''cholera and amoebic-dysentery''' 
Cholera is extreme diarrhea brought on by ingesting V. cholera, a comma shaped bacterium excreted in extraordinary quantities in the feces of victims. (The interested reader will enjoy learning about John Snow and the Broad Street pump.) Amoebic dysentery is also extreme diarrhea, this time brought on by the acquisition of a parasitic infection.

'''diasporic''' 
scattered; dispersed (from one's homeland)

==Endnote 93==

''winners never quit and quitters never win'' is a quote by [[wikipedia:Vince Lombardi|Vince Lombardi]] who was the Greenbay Packers coach in the 1960s

==Endnote 94==

'''''Lebensgefährtin''''' 
German: female romantic companion (rather, "significant other" or "longtime companion")

'''''neurasthenic''''' 
a psychological disorder marked especially by easy fatigability and often by lack of motivation, feelings of inadequacy, and psychosomatic symptoms — compare chronic fatigue syndrome.

==Page 284==

'''afflatus''' 
a divine creative impulse or inspiration.

'''Palmer Academy''' 
There is a [http://www.privateschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/6794 Palmer Academy] in Florida, but it's in Haines City, sixty miles east of Tampa.

'''deafflatusized''' 
neologism: uninspired. afflatus is inspiration, divine communication of knowledge, literally to blow upon. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afflatus Wikipedia]

'''ROTC''' 
Reserve Officer Training Corps, which recruits future officers in the U.S. Armed Forces from universities

'''A.P.''' 
Advanced Placement

'''Croate''' 
French for "female Croat" (or Croatian modifying a feminine French noun) but probably just a misspelling,
OR indicative that the "Croation-refugee transfer" from Palmer Academy, who brought Eschaton to E.T.A. was a female.
: It is in fact both the male and female form of the adjective meaning ''Croat'' or ''Croatian''.

==Endnote 95==

'''post-Windows DOS''' 
A DOS is a Disk Operating System, the programming by which a computer runs other programs. Microsoft has not issued a new DOS after Windows as of 2016 and claims they never will.

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

'''recompile''' 
Some programs needed to be "compiled" before they run, depending on the computer language in which they're written. Recompiling would be compiling over again.

==Page 285==

'''inducement''' 
an incentive

'''Dodge''' 
A reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_City Dodge City, Kansas], to "get out of Dodge" is to disappear because of some kind of perceived or real threat.

==Endnote 96==

'''Fredericton, N.B.''' 
Fredericton is the capital of the Canadian province of New Brunswick (N.B.) about 175 miles as the crow flies (much longer if you drive it) from Halifax, Nova Scotia, the nearest "big city" in that part of Canada.

==Page 285 (cont'd)==

'''septuagenaric''' 
in one's seventies

'''patrician''' 
aristocratic

'''vault the net''' 
It used to be a tradition in tennis for one player to jump ("vault") over the net to congratulate or console his/her opponent after a match.

'''round-robins''' 
This is a type of tournament in which each player plays every other player once, the winner being the person/team/etc. with the most wins. Compare this to a single-elimination tournament like the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.

'''deck-sneakers''' 
You can see examples [http://sneakers.pair.com/m-deck.htm here].

==Page 286==

'''Lacoste''' 
a French apparel company, known for producing [http://www.izod.com/ Izod]

'''levantine''' 
from the Near East, particularly Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, or Israel, i.e., the Levant

'''kohl''' 
a powder used to darken the eyelids

'''Terriers''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhett_the_Boston_Terrier Rhett the Boston Terrier] is the mascot of Boston University.

'''plum''' 
an excellent or desirable thing

'''hiati''' 
the plural of "hiatus"

'''Blue Cross''' 
an health insurance company

'''felo de se''' 
Latin for "felony against one's self," this is a term for suicide.

[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.P.A.H.]]

'''sedulous''' 
diligent or attentive

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

==Page 287==

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

'''jugular''' 
the largest vein in the neck

''''''Tenabrae Factae Sunt,''' sotto v.''' 
Ten'''e'''brae Factae Sunt misspelt. Latin for "There Was Darkness," ''Tenebrae Factae Sunt'' is a hymn traditionally sung on Good Friday, the day on which Jesus was crucified. "Sotto v." is shorthand for the Italian ''sotto voce,'' which means "in a low voice."

==Page 288==

'''locusts''' 
Given the noise they're making, Wallace is probably referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada cicadas].

'''trundle''' 
Used here, it means an impulse that causes something to move.

'''Salic law''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salic_law Salic Law] was a legal code of medieval Central Europe. The phrase is sometimes used simply to refer to its best-known tenet: agnatic succession, or the inheritance of the throne only by male heirs.

'''anthracnose''' 
another name for the plant disease known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthracnose canker] that usually has no cure.

'''PAC''' 
Political Action Committee

'''florid''' 
flowery in style 

'''trilled r's''' 
as pronounced in a Spanish word such as ''perro'' ("dog") 
The French trilled r can be uvular (on the back of the tongue) or aveolar (front of the tongue, like the Spanish ''perro'' example).

''''Politics and the English Language'''' 
You can read Orwell's essay [http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79e/part42.html here].

'''Tactical Phalanx''' 
Normally a military term, this would be a phalanx (from the Latin word for "fingers") or row of soldiers deployed for tactical purposes.

'''MGM''' 
Militant Grammarians of Massachusetts

'''tiller''' 
a nautical term for the device attached to a boat's rudder to assist in steering

'''sinecure''' 
a job requiring little or no work but that confers status/prestige

==Page 289==

'''Bill Tilden''' 
Tilden was considered the world's best tennis player from 1920 - 1934.


'''schizoid''' 
here meaning "erratic"

'''refraction''' 
here referring to the splitting of white light into a spectrum of color, as on the cover of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Side_of_the_Moon Dark Side of the Moon]

'''strabismic''' 
having improperly aligned eyes

'''diffraction''' 
the bending or stretching of waves, assuming light is a wave and not a particle

'''OCD''' 
Obsessive-Compulsive Disoder



'''postcoital flanks''' 
Postcoital denotes after sexual intercourse. The flank is the side of the body between the ribs and hip.

'''decapitated''' 
beheaded

'''epithet''' 
an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.

==Page 290==

'''Actaeon Complex''' 
This is not a real psychiatric disorder. Actaeon was a figure from Greek mythology who fell in love with the goddess of the hunt, Artemis, only to anger her (by observing her bathing) and then be changed by her into a deer, which was then hunted to death by Actaeon's own dogs — all of which perhaps suggests an underlying reluctance in the men to pursue Joelle because she might pursue them in return. (But, it was not Artemis who pursued Actaeon…??)

'''phylogenic''' 
(phylogenetic is the more common variant) OED: of, relating to, or characteristic of the evolutionary development of a species or other group of organisms through a succession of forms.

'''ascapartic''' 
A word coined by Wallace, it means gigantic, as Ascapart was a giant depicted in the fiction of, among other people, J.R.R. Tolkien.

'''elisions and apical lapses''' 
Elisions are the droppings of phonemes from words. Apical refers to sounds made using the tip of the tongue; lapses would be absences of such sounds.

'''four meters''' 
a little over thirteen feet.

'''zygomatics''' 
so-called cheekbones, arches on the outer borders of the eyes

'''HD''' 
high-definition, like a television

'''pungently''' 
in a way that sharply affects the organs of sense

'''attar''' 
an essential oil extracted from flowers

'''decocted''' 
to extract the flavor of by boiling

'''avuncular''' 
characteristic of an uncle

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'''strabismic''' 
squinty or improperly aligned eyes

'''Facsmile''' 
probably a misspelling of "facsimile"

'''three-meter''' 
almost ten feet

'''lateral''' 
sideways

'''''mollygag''''' 
the exiled Oklahoman football coach appears to combine "lolly-gag" and "molly-coddle"

'''''bona fried''''' 
the exiled Oklahoman coach here appears to mean "bona fide"

'''dope-slaps''' 
a smack to the back of the head, designed to get attention rather than inflict pain; distinct from more familiar "bitch-slap"

'''adit''' 
entrance or passage, antonym exit

'''orthopedic''' 
the branch of medicine devoted to the correction of anomalies or injuries to bones or muscles

'''180-kilo''' 
almost 400 pounds

'''Special Teams''' 
These are the squads responsible in football for tactics that are neither offensive or defensive, e.g., returning kick-offs, kicking field goals or extra points, and, of course, punting.

'''femur to tarsus''' 
The femur is the bone running from the hip to the knee — the largest bone in the body. The tarsi (plural of tarsus) are the bones of the midfoot. In between are the tibia and fibula — the bones of the lower leg — and the patella, or kneecap – and the calcaneus or heelbone. All of these were apparently broken.

==Page 292==

'''caromed''' 
To carom is to strike and rebound; caromed is the past tense.

'''CNS''' 
Central Nervous System

'''Gauloise''' 
a French brand of cigarettes, the word means of or pertaining to Gaul, the name by which France was known in Roman times

'''draconian''' 
Derived from Draco, the 7th century BC first lawgiver of Athens, the word means unusually harsh or severe.

==Page 293==

'''SUNY''' 
State University of New York

'''kick serve''' 
a serve in tennis with so much spin that the ball bounces high and to the left (if right-handed) or right (if left-handed) of the receiver

'''Rockette''' 
Named for the Rockefeller family and nearby Rockefeller Center, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockette Rockettes] are the Radio City Music Hall-based dancers famous for high kicks.

'''preternatural''' 
out of the ordinary course or nature

[[Image:Parabola.png|thumb|caption|parabola|right|125px]]
'''parabola''' 
a curve; more precisely a conic section formed by cutting a cone with a plane, where the plane is parallel to a line running along the cone's side from the vertex (point) to the circular base; see right

'''factota''' 
plural for factotum, which is a word for a servant or assistant

'''herbicide''' 
something that kills plants

==Page 294==

'''''Schmüberty''''' 
Technically speaking, this wouldn't rhyme with "puberty," because an umlaut over a "u" in German produces a high front rounded vowel (as in French ''tu'' "you") rather than the long /u/ phoneme.

'''kill it just by touching''' 
When a player on the punter's team touches the ball while it is still in the field of play, the play is whistled "dead" and the opposing team takes possession at that point

'''coffin-corner kicks''' 
Usually refers to a punt inside the opponent's 20 yard line that goes out of bounds and thus cannot be returned, as opposed to inside the 20-yard-line punts that remain in the field of play but are touched (killed) by a downfield runner

'''aegis''' 
sponsorship or auspices; (in classical art and mythology) an attribute of Zeus and Athena (or their Roman counterparts Jupiter and Minerva) usually represented as a goatskin shield.

'''bilateral''' 
having two sides, as here used meaning "on both sides"

'''S.T.''' 
Special Teams

'''wide receiver's number''' 
Punters are typically assigned a uniform with a number between 1 and 19, while wide receivers typically get a number in the 80s, though the NCAA has no hard and fast rules in this regard.

'''"...it was in its last season of representing an American university..."''' 
Presumably under the constitution of O.N.A.N., Syracuse, N.Y., became part of Canada.

'''book-long''' 
The "book" length of a punt is not the same as its physical distance. Hal kicked the "baptismal competitive punt" 90 yards in the air, but was only credited with a 40-yard punt. Because the line of scrimmage was Syracuse's 40, and Hal kicked the ball through the end zone, the punt is recorded as 40 yards (the distance from the line of scrimmage to the end zone). The ball would be placed at Syracuse's 20, so the "net" on the punt would only have been 20 yards.

'''90-yard punt''' 
The record for a punt in both college and professional football is 99 yards. Presumably in each instance the punting team had the ball at its own 1 yard line and the punt, through the air and then with fortuitous bounces, came to rest in the opponent's end zone. Orins's punt is said to have traveled 90 yards in the air, which is a bit beyond the outer limits of what even a top pro can do on his best kicks.

'''Orangemen''' 
the Syracuse football team's name

==Page 295==

'''podiatric''' 
of or pertaining to the treatment of the feet and their ailments.

'''USMC''' 
United States Marine Corps

'''Rolling Thunder's big-bellied Berthas''' 
Rolling Thunder was the bombing campaign on North Vietnam carried out by South Vietnam and the U.S. military between 1965 and 1968. A Bertha is probably just a really big gun, like the famous [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bertha Big Bertha] used by Germany during WWI.
More likely Bertha is referring here to large bombs dropped during the Rolling Thunder campaign, though B52s capable of dropping really large bombs were used much more extensively later - in the escalation into Cambodia for example

'''sousaphone''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousaphone tuba] developed by John Philip Sousa (1854-1932), American composer, for easier carrying with a marching band

'''extrication''' 
freedom from entanglement, it means extract in this context, the punctured football is extricated/extracted from the bell of the sousaphone.

'''lardy''' 
fat

'''tête-à-tête''' 
From the French for "head to head," this term denotes a private conversation between two people.

'''30,0000''' 
This must refer to the attendance for the game at Boston College's Alumni Stadium, which has a capacity of 44,500 (see page 293 for schedule). Nickerson Field at BU has a capacity of less than 10,000 people. BU also played at Rhode Island in Hal's first four weeks, but its field has a capacity of only 5,180.

'''amniotic''' 
pertaining to the fluid that surrounds a fetus ''in utero''

==Page 296==

'''cathedran''' 
Presumably Wallace means "like a cathedral," but this is not a real word. The proper word would be cathedrarian which th OED calls a "nonce-word" n. a word apparently used only ‘for the nonce’, i.e. on one specific occasion or in one specific text or writer's works..

'''Yankee Conference''' 
Ironically, in 1997 (a year after ''Infinite Jest'' was published), Boston University dropped its football program.

'''K-L-RMKI/Forsythia Bowl''' 
This is not a real bowl game, but the letters stand for Ken-L-Ration-Magnavox-Kemper-Insurance Forsythia Bowl.

'''three subway stops distant''' 
East Cambridge is about ten green-line stops from BU.

'''fealty''' 
faithfulness, here to a sports team

'''4WD''' 
four-wheel-drive vehicle

'''kudzu''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudzu climbing vine] now prevalent in the U.S. South. It was introduced in the 30s and 40s and has long been viewed as an invasive nuisance. I recall it being so viewed in the 1960s.

'''pointers''' 
a breed of hunting dog

'''Pyrex''' 
a brand name of heat-resistant glass

'''turn blue litmus paper red''' 
something acidic: something basic would turn red litmus paper blue

'''star-fated''' 
as opposed to star-crossed, i.e., predestined for disaster, as Romeo and Juliet

==Page 297==

'''dailies''' 
Also called "rushes," these are the pieces of raw film recorded during a single day, including cuts, takes, prints, etc.

'''turtle-headed''' 
implying that Orin's neck is covered entirely but visible, as with a turtleneck sweater

'''fireman-carrying''' 
carrying a person over one's shoulder

'''Dixie Baton-Twirling Institute in Oxford MS''' 
Wallace has taken this idea from a  short story "Twirling at Ole Miss" by [http://www.terrysouthern.com/ Terry Southern]. Oxford, Miss., is the home of "Ole Miss," i.e., the [http://www.olemiss.edu/ University of Mississippi] and is about 60 miles southeast of Memphis, Tenn.

'''hypertrophied''' 
overgrown anatomically

'''quadriceps''' 
one of the muscles in front of the thigh

'''P.T.s''' 
Physical Therapists

'''thespian''' 
having to do with acting

'''BTL''' 
the initials of several telecommunications and television companies

'''Angenieux''' 
a [http://www.angenieux.com/ company] that produces high-technology optics devices

'''half-disk-sector''' 
an indication of the amount of digital memory used

'''#78''' 
This is Orin's jersey number — why he didn't get a changed number is uncertain, as is why it said he had gotten a receiver's number. A number in the 70s would be an offensive or defensive lineman — someone unlikely to have contact with the ball.

'''mattes''' 
This is shorthand for a matte shot, which is "a shot in which parts of the background and sometimes the foreground are masked so that a different background, foreground, image, etc., can be substituted during printing" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''spectation''' 
watching

==Page 298==

'''rheostat''' 
This is "an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''Jiffy Pop''' 
a brand name of home popping corn

[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.]]

'''rpm''' 
revolutions per minute

'''Storrow 500''' 
a local nickname for Storrow Drive in Boston

'''barney''' 
a heavy padded cover for a camera to reduce the amount of noise from the camera's moving parts getting onto the soundtrack

'''Pilotone blooper''' 
Pilotone is an old brand of film equipment, and a blooper is, according to the ''Random House Unabridged Dictionary,'' "a receiving set that generates from its antenna radio-frequency signals that interfere with other nearby receivers."

'''auracopia''' 
a Wallace neologism based on "aura" (sound) and "copia" (plenty) and based on cornucopia (horn of plenty)

'''Delaware''' 
The Yankee Conference, by the way, ceased to exist in 1997.

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

'''U. Vermont and UNH now history''' 
This implies that Vermont and New Hampshire were also annexed to Canada. However, the University of Vermont had not been in the conference since 1974.

'''four-point stances''' 
with both hands and both feet on the ground

'''chuff''' 
to blow hard and loudly

'''stave''' 
to break or crush; Wallace might also mean to ward off or keep away, but the more commmon phrase for that is "stave off".

'''scrimmage''' 
the scrimmage line, i.e., where the offense currently has the ball

==Page 299==

'''a bright noncontact white''' 
Orin's helmet is white because he hasn't been tackled.

'''pendular 180-arc of Orin's leg''' 
meaning Orin's leg moves the full length of half a circle around the center that is his hip, in a motion similar to that of a pendulum

'''gluteal''' 
pertaining to the buttocks

=November 14th, YDAU - Poor Tony Goes Cold Turkey=

==Page 299==

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

'''Armenian Foundation Library in horrid central Watertown MA''' 
This is probably the same as the [http://www.almainc.org/ Armenian Library and Museum of America]. Watertown is a suburb of Boston nine miles west of the city, and it has a very large Armenian population.

==Page 300==

'''Equus Reese''' 
''Equus'' is Latin for "horse."

'''Donegal cap''' 
You can see one [http://irishop.com/dontweedcap.html here].

'''cadge''' 
to obtain by begging

'''Antitoi''' 
French for "against you"

'''de-mapping''' 
murder

'''''non grata''''' 
Latin: not welcome

'''Aigner accessory''' 
Etienne Aigner is a designer of women's handbags & leather goods.

'''cop''' 
obtain drugs

'''rough-trade''' 
homosexual prostitution - trading sexual activity for money or drugs, frequently associated with violence [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/rough+trade FreeDictionary]

'''Brockton''' 
a city in Massachusetts about 25 miles south of Boston

'''portents''' 
omens

'''Fort Point''' 
a section of Boston named for a colonial-era fort of the same name

'''hepatitis-G''' 
This [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis#Hepatitis_G disease] had been identified the same year that Wallace published ''Infinite Jest''. It's unclear whether he was aware of this.

'''chip''' 
to use enough heroin to stave off withdrawal

'''wigless-head''' 
Tony is carrying his auburn wig and red leather coat in a shopping bag.

'''The Old Cold Bird''' 
a variation on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_turkey cold turkey]

'''fifty kilos''' 
a little over 110 pounds

==Page 301==

'''color of summer squash''' 
The colors of summer squashes vary, but Wallace probably is implying that Poor Tony looks yellow.

'''sty''' 
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stye stye]

'''chignon''' 
hair tied into a knot worn at the back of the head, similar to a bun.

'''troughs and nodes''' 
deep furrows and swollen areas, respectively 
more likely: lows and data points or vertices between changes in symptoms.

'''habilements''' 
misspelling of habillements, i.e., clothing (the word is French)

'''wan''' 
pale in color

'''neurasthenic''' 
suffering from nervous exhaustion (with no apparent physical cause)

'''gender-dysphoric''' 
a person suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria gender identity disorder]

'''shiva''' 
the Jewish ritual of mourning for seven days, tearing one's clothes, sitting on the floor, covering mirrors, etc.

'''[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]'''

'''412 Mount Auburn Street''' 
This is a real address in Watertown. You can see the house [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=%22412+Mount+Auburn+Street%22+Watertown,+MA&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=51.488837,67.412109&ie=UTF8&ll=42.370023,-71.166751&spn=0.00148,0.002057&t=k&z=19&om=1 here]. It doesn't look like a residence. [Google street view suggests otherwise?]

==Page 302==

'''Codinex Plus''' 
a brand name of cough syrup

'''C17-morphine''' 
regular old morphine, which has the chemical composition C17H19NO3

'''Bonwit's''' 
a department store in Boston

'''hubris''' 
pride to a fault

'''cadences''' 
flows of events

==Page 303==

'''Merry Widow''' 
a woman's undergarment consisting of a strapless bra and short corset

'''Amalfo''' 
the very odd singular of Amalfi, a brand of shoes

'''45 kg''' 
a little over 99 pounds

'''''Zuckung''''' 
German: convulsion, jerk or twitch

'''pebbled glass''' 
a drinking glass having a rough surface

'''filial''' 
pertaining to a son or daughter

'''Mount Auburn Cemetery''' 
the first [http://www.mountauburn.org/ landscaped cemetery] in the U.S.

'''A.F.L.''' 
Armenian Foundation Library

'''loo''' 
British colloquialism for toilet

'''flatulence''' 
farting

'''demethylated''' 
with a methyl group (CH3) removed. Technically, this is incorrect; to go from codeine (C18H21NO3) to morphine (C17H19NO3) requires the removal of a methyl''ene'' group (CH2). The accurate term would be "demethyl''en''ated."

==Page 304==

'''duplicitous''' 
deceptive in speech

'''hapless''' 
without luck

'''formicating''' 
moving like ants

'''bilirubin''' 
a yellow chemical that results from the incomplete metabolism of heme, the oxygen carrying part of hemoglobin molecules, odorless, to be distinguished from urochrome which gives urine its yellow color

'''behemoth''' 
a large beast

'''synaptic''' 
pertaining to the spaces between brain cells

'''dessicated''' 
dried out

'''Eighty-Proof''' 
40 percent alcohol

'''augur''' 
to serve as an omen

==Page 305==

'''incongruous''' 
out of place

'''obstetric''' 
of or relating to childbirth

'''dirigibles''' 
blimps or zeppelins (airships)

'''tumid''' 
swollen

'''Red Sox of Rice and Lynn''' 
Jim Rice (1974-1989) and Fred Lynn (1974-1980) both played in the 1975 World Series.

'''taffeta''' 
a crisp, smooth, woven fabric, often made from silk, used in gowns

'''gaffed fish''' 
caught with a very large hook

'''flounces''' 
strips of decorative material

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'''perfunctory''' 
(of an action or gesture) carried out with a minimum of effort or reflection.

'''striated''' 
marked with stripes or streaks

'''Cukor''' 
George Dewey Cukor (1899-1983) was an American [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002030/ film director].

'''Murnau in Méliès's fiberglass lap''' 
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (1888-1931) was a German expressionist filmmaker who later worked in Hollywood. He made the classic vampire film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013442/ "Nosferatu"] (1922). Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès (1861-1938) was a French filmmaker, famous for the 1902 silent [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000417/ "A Trip to the Moon"] (featured in Martin Scorsese's 2011 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970179/ "Hugo"]).

'''cummerbund''' 
the band of fabric worn around the waist with a tuxedo

'''M.I.T.-crested''' 
see right

==Page 220==

'''low-pH chemist''' 
i.e., he worked with acids

'''piebald''' 
having patches of black and white

'''G.W. Pabst''' 
Georg Wilhelm Pabst (1885-1967) was a Bohemian-born Austrian filmmaker.

'''sorghum''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorghum grain] used in the production of molasses, alcholic beverages, and animal feed

'''tumefies''' 
swells

'''sororal''' 
another word for "sisterly"

'''sub-rosa''' 
From the Latin "under the rose," this word means secretly held.

==Page 221==

'''sienna-glazed''' 
glazed with an earth-based pigment

'''polyresin''' 
a resin compound used to make figurines, among other things

'''staccato''' 
in music, notes that are sounded in a detached and distinct manner

'''cataract''' 
In the non-ophthalmic sense, this word means "waterfall."

==Page 222==

'''NOTRE RAI PAYS''' 
perhaps idiomatic French (literally "our spoke [''or'' ray] country") for "our home away from home," indicating Québec's colonial status with respect to motherland France; potentially meant to be translated as "our shining land". [Or perhaps the V fell off from NOTRE VRAI PAYS, our true country, -different editor]

'''.473-liter''' 
16 ounces, a pint

'''Big Red Soda Water''' 
a [http://www.bigredltd.com/ real brand] similar to cream soda, only red. This was originally only sold in Central/South Texas and Kentucky and is still popular in that region, though available elsewhere.

'''Chore Boy''' 
a brand of [http://www.choreboyscrubbers.com/ scrubbing pads]. The copper version of these pads can be used as a filter for smoking crack.

'''two-k. square''' 
0.77 square miles

'''Disgorge''' 
Eject

'''Monogram''' 
a design consisting of two or more alphabetic letters combined or interlaced

'''selvage''' 
the finished edge of a piece of fabric, so done to prevent fraying

'''Neonatal''' 
of or relating to newborn children.

'''The afternoon's meshes.''' 
recalls an experimental film by Maya Deren and her husband Alexander Hammid, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meshes_of_the_Afternoon Meshes of the Afternoon] (1943)

'''delimits''' 
establishes the boundaries of

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'''Acetate''' 
Rayon

=Chronology of O.N.A.N.'s Revenue-Enhancing Subsidized Time™=

==Page 223==

See [[Subsidized Time]].

==Endnote 78==

'''G.F.R. Co.''' 
perhaps [http://www.gfr.cc/ Global Food Resources]

'''Zanesville OH''' 
a town 55 miles east of Columbus

'''Vienna VA''' 
a suburb of Washington, D.C., about 15 miles due west of the city

=Joelle, cont.=

==Page 223==

'''Colonel Shaw and the MA 54th''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw Robert Gould Shaw] was a Bostonian killed in the Civil War while commanding the all-black Massachusetts 54th Regiment. A relief sculpture [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_Memorial memorial] to him is located on Beacon Street (not Boylston Street) in front of the Massachusetts State House.

==Page 225==

'''tumbrel''' 
a cart for hauling manure or for hauling victims to the guillotine during the French Revolution

'''imprecated''' 
called down curses upon someone

'''Delphina''' 
name of a [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04701a.htm beatified Catholic virgin]

==Endnote 79==

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

==Page 225 (cont'd)==

'''Veedersburg, Indiana and Powell, Wyoming''' 
Veedersburg is about 70 miles west-northwest of Indianapolis; Powell is about 90 miles south of Billings, Mont.

'''parallax''' 
This is "the difference between the view of an object as seen through the picture-taking lens of a camera and the view as seen through a separate viewfinder" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary''). "Difference or change in the apparent position or direction of an object as seen from two different points" (OED)

'''penultimate''' 
next to the last

==Page 226==

'''8-gram''' 
a bit over a quarter of an ounce

'''wildly carbuncular wife''' 
This is a reference to Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor (1879-1964), wife of Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor (the quote has also been attributed to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Braddock#Trivia Bessie Braddock])

'''P.M.U.K.''' 
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

'''Lend-Lease''' 
a program between the beginning of World War II and U.S. entry after the bombing of Pearl Harbor whereby the U.S. government provided materiel to Britain (and later the Soviets) in return for military bases

'''scopophobic''' 
scopophobia is the morbid fear of being seen or stared at by others

'''he was indeed inebriated...while she...would tomorrow still be hideously and improbably deformed.''' 
Many versions of this witty exchange between Winston Churchill and a woman have been propagated over the the years. It may or may not have actually occurred.

=Helen P. Steeply's (putative) c.v.=

==Page 227==

'''putative''' 
supposed

'''curriculum vitae''' 
résumé

'''1.98 M., 104 KG., A.B., M.J.A.''' 
1.98 meters is about 6'4" tall. 104 kg is around 230 lbs. She's enormous.
: 1.93m (about 6'3") according to the original hardcover.

A.B. is the older Latin equivalent (''Artium Baccalaureus'' or ''Artium Baccalaureatus'') of B.A., i.e., Bachelor of Arts. M.J.A. is Master of Justice Administration.

'''''Decade Magazine''''' 
probably not a real publication 

'''''Southwest Annual''''' 
probably not a real publication

'''''Ladies Day''''' 
also not a real publication

'''Erythema AZ''' 
not a real town, but erythema is a [http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9363881/erythema real disease]

=Joelle, cont.=

==Page 227==

'''A.B.D.''' 
"All But Dissertation," a term used to refer to people who have completed their doctoral studies with the exception of their dissertations.

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

'''Homburg''' 
A homburg is a stiff felt hat characterized by a single dent running down the center of the crown and a brim fixed in a tight, upwards curl. It is superficially similar to the trilby or fedora; trilbys and fedoras, however, have soft, "snappable" brims and can have various designs "pinched" into the crown, whereas the shape of a homburg is fixed. (see right) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homburg_(hat) Wikipedia]

'''Wiesbaden''' 
a city of Germany above 25 miles west of Frankfurt (Main)

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.S.D.B.]]

==Page 228==

'''the A.M.'s interruptus''' 
Presumably this means the end of the morning, although the only common English usage of "interruptus" is in the Latin phrase ''coitus interrruptus'', i.e., "pulling out." (See the [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_157-181#Page_171 Consummation of the Levirates].)

The A.M.'s interruptus could refer to her "quitting" her drug use that morning.

'''Maya Deren''' 
Born Eleanora Derenkowsky, Maya Deren (1917-1961) was a Ukrainian-born American director [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220305/].

==Page 229==

'''glycine''' 
one of the 20 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycine amino acids] found in proteins; however, DFW probably meant to say 'glassine bags'

'''Rutherford Keck and Crosby Baum''' 
These both seem to be invented people.... Continuing with the optics theme, Keck is a major observatory on the big island of Hawaii. Rutherford could refer to a British nuclear physicist who pioneered an erroneous model of the atom and discovered the concept of radioactive half-life.

'''Infernatron Viewer''' 
A type of TP (Teleputer) as seen it Year of the Yushityu 2007 Mimetic-Resolution-Cartridge-View-Motherboard-Easy-To-Install-Upgrade For Infernatron/InterLace TP Systems For Home, Office Or Mobile (sic). [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlaced_video Interlacing] video makes it possible to cut the frame rate in half but can cause [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlaced_video#Interlacing_problems problems]. The infernatron has to deliver the same "mimetic resolution" as the interlaced model at double the frame rate making it a very advanced television/telephone computer. If it's a portmanteau of infernal and electron that could be making a statement about DFW's TV addiction.

'''Smothergill''' 
...as does this...

'''Miriam Prickett''' 
...and this.

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

'''Franciscan bald spot''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscan Orders of Friars Minor] were known to shave the tops of their heads in medieval and early modern times.

==Page 230==

'''paps''' 
breasts or nipples

'''diphthong''' 
In linguistics, a diphthong is a vowel combination involving a smooth transition from one vowel to another in the same syllable. "Splitting the diphthong" in "beautiful" is pronouncing it bee-yoo-ti-ful.

'''febrile''' 
feverish

'''scopophiliac''' 
An individual affected with the desire to look at sexually stimulating scenes especially as a substitute for actual sexual participation. From the translation of the Freudian notion of Schaulust, "pleasure in looking," in the sense of both seeing and being seen, as well as "curiosity." Freud distinguished between two frequently encountered forms of this partial drive: one active, "voyeurism," and the other passive, "exhibitionism," neither of which he would necessarily rank among perversions. [cf. scopophobic (p.226) & scopophilia (p.832)]

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.S.D.B.]]

'''Boaz''' 
the name of cities in both Alabama and West Virginia

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'''Vogelsong''' 
"Vogel" = German for "bird", i.e. something like: bird song ("song" is not German)

'''Emerson College''' 
a [http://www.emerson.edu/ college] in Boston

'''ectoplasm''' 
the supposed emanation of the soul from the body; here used as a metaphor for vomit

'''afflatus''' 
inspiration; a divine imparting of knowledge or power

'''aural''' 
of or relating to the ear or the sense of hearing

'''dithers''' 
behaves in a nervous or agitated way

'''jaundice''' 
yellowing of the skin caused by liver disease

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

'''Bouvier''' 
[[Wikipedia:Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis|Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]]'s maiden surname

'''''f''-stop''' 
The ratio of the [[wikipedia:focal length|focal length]] (''f'') of a lens or lens system to the effective diameter of its [[wikipedia:aperture|aperture]]" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition''). The higher the number, the smaller the aperture, and the greater the depth of field.

'''old super 8''' 
They had a slow frame rate. Aperture is relative to shutter speed. The person speaking here seems very confused about everything they're saying. (This reader disagrees. The relationship of aperture to shutter speed is constrained by frame rate. So called super 8 differed in aspect ratio, but not frame rate, from 8 mm.)

'''''Berliner''''' h
Technically, it's called the ''Berliner Pfannkuchen'' (doughnut). There was a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ich_bin_ein_Berliner#Jelly_doughnut_misconception misconception] that JFK said he was a doughnut in his 1963 speech (see the next page).

'''vulgate''' 
common or colloquial speech.

'''idiom''' 
a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light ).

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'''seminal''' 
(of a work, event, moment, or figure) strongly influencing later developments.

'''''Ich bein ein Berliner''''' 
''Bein'' is the wrong word. It's a noun in German and means "leg". The first-person singular of ''sein'' ("to be") is ''bin''. Still, the wrong spelling may be related to Kennedy's wrong pronunciation of this sentence.

'''Teutonic''' 
The [[wiki:Teutons|Teutons]] were a Germanic tribe or Celtic people.

'''TA''' 
Teaching Assistant

'''Doubles the focal-length''' 
Zooms the camera in.

'''''À du nous avons foi au poison''''' 
French (roughly): We have faith in poison [the French or Québecois is itself quite rough]

'''Eve Plumb''' 
She played Jan Brady on ''The Brady Bunch''.

'''Henderson''' 
Florence Henderson, who played Carol Brady

'''Davis''' 
Ann B. Davis, who played Alice, the maid

'''Peter''' 
the middle son, played by Christopher Knight

'''Greg''' 
the eldest son, played by Barry Williams

'''raison''' 
raison d'être - reason or justification for existence

'''ineluct-''' 
ineluctable - not able to be avoided or changed

'''''De gustibus non est disputandum''''' 
Latin: There's no accounting for taste (literally, "tastes are not disputable")

'''Eisenstein and Kurosawa and Michaux''' 
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (1898-1948) was a Latvian-born Russian-Jewish filmmaker, famous for his film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015648/ Battleship Potemkin]. Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) was perhaps the most prominent Japanese filmmaker of the twentieth century. [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0584778 Oscar Micheaux] (1893-1951) was an African-American filmmaker.

'''tesseract''' 
4 dimensional hypercube [[File:tesseract.gif|thumb|Tesseract|100px]]

'''draw a bead''' 
slang for taking aim at a target with a rifle

'''ten m.''' 
Ten meters is equal to 32.8 feet.

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'''Heideggerian''' 
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) was a prominent twentieth-century German philosopher and proponent of existentialism.

'''''a priori''''' 
From the Latin for "from what comes first," these are assumptions made before observations are made. In the context of Heidegger, it refers to things that can be known without any experience of the world, usually because they involve the structure of the mind or of concepts.

'''wraith''' 
another word for "ghost"

'''labile''' 
unstable

'''''The Incision''''' 
I could locate no film by this name. (In my opinion, that is because it is a fictional film or cartridge, perhaps directed and produced by James O. Incandenza, and perhaps his son Mario is the cinematographer being sought in the conversation.)

'''- way it can be film qua film--answering their phone''' 
this next paragraph is most likely about the movie Infinite jest. Sounds like porn. DFW speaks on the coming of virtual reality porn in a few 1996 interviews. VR headsets and porn will be released at the end of 2015.

'''qua''' 
From the Latin ablative case of the word for "who," this word means "in the character or capacity of."

'''dopamine''' 
[[wikipedia:dopamine|dopamine]] is a neurotransmitter. It plays major role in arousal and sexual gratification

'''suprasubliminal''' 
supra means above. so it's not subliminal... perhaps liminal

'''post-annular''' 
after the onset of annular fusion (elsewhere discussed) [editor changes] see [[wikipedia:annulus|annulus]] - still the same meaning "ringlike". The inguinal ring is annular and at either end of the [[wikipedia:Inguinal canal|Inguinal canal]] where sperm is made. [editor changes] Sperm is not made at either end of the inguinal canal. It is made in the testes, which are located in the scrotum, below either end of the inguinal canal..

'''Scopophiliacal''' 
Scopophilia is deriving pleasure from looking. As an expression of sexuality, it refers to sexual pleasure derived from looking at erotic objects: erotic photographs, pornography, naked bodies, etc.

'''blinis''' 
Russian crepes

'''tartines''' 
a type of French open-faced sandwich

'''sweetbreads''' 
thymus gland or pancreas of young animals (calf or lamb)

'''glacé''' 
French for "iced" or “glazed,” in the culinary not architectural sense

'''Morris Mini''' 
another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Minor Morris Minor] a British car made from 1948–71.

'''Charles''' 
Brandeis University, Harvard University, Boston University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are all located along the [[wikipedia:charles river|charles river]]

'''ipecac''' 
derived from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipecacuanha ipecacuanha plant], a syrup produced to induce vomiting

'''clapper''' 
[[wikipedia:clapperboard|little board]] at the beginning of takes that opens and snaps shut to sync video and audio. It also designates and marks particular scenes and takes

'''Dishmaster''' 
see [[Subsidized Time]]

'''whorls''' 
a pattern of spirals or concentric circles. A fingerprint is an example.

'''Makavajev''' 
Born in 1932, [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0538445/ Dusan Makavejev] (probably misspelled) is a Yugoslavian-born film director.

==Page 234==

'''Shiny Prize, Kentucky''' 
not a real town

'''1.7 meters tall''' 
a little over 5'6"

'''48 kilograms''' 
about 106 pounds (This makes her about 15-30 pounds below her ideal weight.)

'''volition''' 
the faculty or power of using one's will.

'''wopse''' 
to heap, wrap, or tangle in a disorderly way

'''phalloneurotic''' 
a portmanteau of ''phallus'' and ''neurotic'', probably intended to mean a mental disorder involving obsession with one's penis, or perhaps with penis more generally; uncertain as to which "phalloneurotic" New Yorker this refers

'''EZ-Widers''' 
a brand of cigarette rolling papers

'''Cyrillic''' 
employing the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_alphabet Cyrillic alphabet], as with Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Bulgarian, etc.

'''mollified''' 
softened in feeling and temper

'''soft rock's grim dental association''' 
which is to say, it's the kind of music you'd hear in a dentist's office

'''Kinski as Paganini''' 
Klaus Kinski (1926-1991), Danzig-born German-American actor, played Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840), the Italian violinist and composer, in his final film, [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098052/ Kinski Paganini].

'''Léaud as Doinel''' 
Jean-Pierre Léaud (born 1944), a French actor, played the fictional character Antoine Doinel in five [http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0027246/ films].

'''Peterson's ''The Lead Shoes''''' 
An 18-minute [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh8Dlxpu0gM film] by Sidney Peterson (1949), preceded by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's great [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040725/ ''The Red Shoes''](1948) with Moira Shearer. (Cf. the color in the title of the fictitious monograph in endnote 81.)

'''pomander''' 
This is "a mixture of aromatic substances, often in the form of a ball, formerly carried on the person as a supposed guard against infection but now placed in closets, dressers, etc." (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

==Page 235==

'''elision''' 
the process of joining together or merging things, especially abstract ideas

'''dicky''' 
impaired

'''bathetic''' 
appealing to bathos, i.e., insincere pathos (emotion)

'''neat bourbon''' 
bourbon without ice

'''Vittoria''' 
a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_della_Vittoria Santa Maria della Vittoria], where [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Ecstasy_of_Saint_Teresa_September_2015-2a.jpg the mentioned work] by Bernini hangs

'''recumbent''' 
reclining

'''Gleem''' 
a brand of toothpaste

'''NoCoat scraper''' 
Presumably refers to NoCoat LinguaScrapers (tongue scrapers) mentioned on [http://wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_127-156#Page_151 Page 151].

'''NeGram''' 
a brand name of nalidixic acid, used to treat urinary tract infections

'''depilatory''' 
for removal of hair

'''Monostat''' 
actually Monistat, a brand name of miconazole, used for treatment for vaginal [and other] yeast infections

'''Parapectolin''' 
a mixture of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaolin kaolinite] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pectin pectin], used to change the appearance of the stool in patients with diarrhea. Some persons whimsically refer to this as "treatment."

'''Diaphragm foam''' 
Vaginal Contraceptive Foam

==Page 236==

'''Kodachrome''' 
a brand name of color positive camera film manufactured by Kodak. [Positive means that when the exposed film is developed, at can be projected as a color slide.]

'''Reynolds Wrap''' 
a brand name of aluminum foil

'''baking soda''' 
Joelle is making crack, as opposed to 'freebase cocaine' which requires ether. Crack production is procedurally distinct (and safer) from that of purer 'freebase cocaine,' but the freebase products are the same: the baking soda serves to ''free'' the cocaine ''base'' from the pure cocaine hydrochloride. Both methods produce crystals that can be smoked. The production method of Joelle's earlier "home made freebase cocaine" is uncertain, but conventional terminology suggests she makes the ether-based variety at home.

'''C knob''' 
the knob for cold water

==Page 237==

'''Paducah''' 
a city in Kentucky about 175 miles southeast of St. Louis, Mo.

'''Qantas''' 
an airline serving Australia and New Zealand

==Page 238==

'''fillips''' 
a sharp tap, "made by bending the last joint of a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing it (so as to propel some small object, or merely as a gesture)" (OED)

'''mâché''' 
French for "chewed" indicating here bits and pieces of the material. e.g., papier mâché

'''S.O.P.''' 
Standard Operating Procedure

'''imperial''' 
[[Image:Napoleon-III-Imperial-Beard.jpg|thumb|caption|Napoleon III & His Beard|150px|left]] Refers to the small pointed beard made famous by Napoleon III (at left)

'''"...darkness dance on the face of the deep..."''' 
a play on [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201:2;&version=9; Genesis 1:2] 
''And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.''

'''"...that skull fragment out of the ''Hamlet'' graveyard scene..."''' 
i.e., "infinite jest"

'''Mad Stork''' 
the nickname for former NFL linebacker [http://www.profootballhof.com/history/release.jsp?release_id=1046 Ted Hendricks]. This might be in the category of true, but not related. Given his great height and his mannerisms, J.O.I. could easily have earned the nickname on his own, and been assigned it by persons who attended not at all to professional football.

==Page 239==

'''banal''' 
hackneyed or trite

'''Prettiest G.O.A.T.''' 
Though G.O.A.T. stands here for "Girl Of All Time," it's an oxymoron, because "goat" is a slang term for an ugly person.

'''slew-footed''' 
with the foot turned on the axis of the ankle

==Page 240==

'''white- party-noise''' 
which is to say random noise generated by the party outside the bedroom

'''stretto''' 
section at the end of a fugue in which successive introductions of the theme follow at shorter intervals than before, increasing the sense of excitement.

''''We've Only Just Begun'''' 
a song by Paul Williams and Roger Nichols first recorded by the [http://wc04.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:hifrxqw5ldfe Carpenters] in 1970

'''mercuric red''' 
red as the color made by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merbromin MercuroChrome] brand of merbromin, an organometallic compound formerly used as a topical antiseptic.

=☽ - Enfield, MA=

==Page 240==

Note: Most of these places exist but there is no such town (anymore) as Enfield, Mass. The real town of Enfield, Mass, was one of four disincorporated during the construction of the Quabbin Reservoir in western Mass. The others were Dana, Greenwich, and Prescott.

'''Di[s]calced''' 
Apparently there is a misspelling in some editions. My Kindle edition has the correct spelling. The correct term would be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discalced_Carmelites Discalced Carmelites], which means they go barefoot or wear sandals.

==Page 241==

'''RCC''' 
Roman Catholic Church

'''''les trebuchets noirs''''' 
French: the black catapults

'''5 km''' 
about 3.1 miles

'''brachiform''' 
in the shape of an arm

'''75 hectares''' 
almost 900,000 square yards

'''palisades''' 
fences

'''guano''' 
feces, particularly of birds or bats

'''four-km.''' 
almost 2.5 miles

'''coaxial''' 
[[wikipedia:coaxial cable|coaxial cable]]
A type of cable that has an inner conductor surrounded by a tubular insulating layer, surrounded by a tubular conducting shield.

'''Sunstrand''' 
not a real place.
[[wikipedia:Sundstrand Corporation|Sundstrand Corporation]] makes Aerospace and Industrial Products.

'''ohm''' 
unit of electrical resistance

==Page 242==

'''Ø's''' 
This could refer to all the zeros in the presumably large number of amps in the warning signs, but it may also refer (in plural) to the internationally recognized graphic prohibition sign, i.e., the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ No symbol], although the graphic incorporates a red circle with a backslash (from top left to bottom right, rather than bottom left to top right), as for the zero symbol. The numerical symbol incorporates the forward slash to distinguish it from the capital letter O. Also a Scandinavian vowel letter, uncial, probably not germane to DFW's usage here.

'''A.D.E.''' 
one of ATSHCME's Air-Displacement Effectuators

=November 5th, YDAU - Hal and Orin discuss Himself's suicide=

==Page 242==

[http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=L Barry Loach] is Head Trainer at E.T.A.

==Endnote 82==
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote 82|Endnote 82]]

==Page 243==

'''caroms''' 
rebounds

'''1100 meters''' 
a little over 3,600 feet

'''Superstition mountains''' 
a real range east of Phoenix

'''precipice''' 
a cliff with a vertical face

'''''propitiate''''' 
to conciliate, appease or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit

'''apotropaic barn-signs''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_sign Hex signs] commonly seen in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, ostensibly intended to ward off evil, but now probably used more as a decorative element

'''Popogatapec''' 
Neologism, possibly a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popocat%C3%A9petl Popocatépetl] an active volcano, located in Central Mexico

'''Ahts of Vancouver''' 
another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuu-chah-nulth Nuu-chah-nulth], the indigenous peoples of Vancouver Island, Canada

'''Micturation''' 
micturition, urination

==Page 244==

'''200-kilo''' 
about 441 pounds

'''apposite''' 
pertinent

'''Papineau-region''' 
a region, defined variously for various purposes, of southwestern [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papineau_Regional_County_Municipality Québec]

==Page 245==

'''decamp''' 
to depart secretly

'''domino-mask''' 
This is "a large, hooded cloak with a mask covering the eyes, worn at masquerades" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''lacuna''' 
a missing part. OED: "In a manuscript, an inscription, the text of an author: A hiatus, blank, missing portion"

'''discursive''' 
rambling, digressing from subject to subject

'''diorama''' 
a model representing a scene with three-dimensional figures, either in miniature or as a large-scale museum exhibit.

'''frothy biblical saw''' 
a trifling or empty biblical proverb

==Page 246==

'''rodneys''' 
cigarettes, the intent is to denigrate the magazine as some kind of impulse buy

'''refracted''' 
bent or twisted by a change in medium. An optics term, so this is an oblique reference to filming.

'''Cardinal Stadium''' 
The Arizona Cardinals now play in the University of Phoenix Stadium.

==Page 247==

'''Royal Victoria''' 
The Royal Victoria College was a women's college created as part of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.

'''Lyle''' 
The Sweat Guru

'''annulation''' 
forming rings. Possibly a metaphor for having children. 
[[wikipedia:Robinson_annulation|Robinson annulation]] is used to make cortisone. Himself most likely had cortisone shots in his knees after his fall. 
In French, with which IJ is permeated, "action de rendre nul" or nullification, cancellation.

==Page 248==

'''Rog and Wilc,O.''' 
"Roger Wilco, Orin" - Roger Wilco is a radio communication meaning Roger - "I received your message./" and Wilco - "I will comply."

''''20 for 28 is what, 65%?'''' 
It's a little over 71%.

==Page 249==

'''telemachry''' 
Maybe not the word Hal was looking for, but Telemachus was a monk who tried to stop the Roman gladiator fights and told the Romans to stop worshiping false idols instead of Christ. He was stoned to death, though his death is sometimes said to have ended the Gladiatorial games. So, "telemachry" could be interpreted to be trust in a higher power. 
Another Telemachus, perhaps more widely known, was the son of Odysseus, for whom was named The Odyssey.

'''telemetry''' 
the transmission of something automatically and at a distance -- here, Hal's toenails to the wastebasket

==Page 250==
'''asphyxuated''' 
There's no clear reason for Orin's mispronunciation of ''asphyxiated''. Perhaps he's combining ''asphyxia'' and ''evacuated''.

==Page 251==

'''magnitron''' 
a misspelling of "magnetron," which is "a two-element vacuum tube in which the flow of electrons is under the influence of an external magnetic field, used to generate extremely short radio waves" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''kg.s.cm.''' 
kilograms per square centimeter, as a measurement of pressure, like pounds per square inch; could just be a reference to kilogram-second-centimeter, or a form of the metric system (though the metric systems usually have 'second' last - as in CGS [centimeter-gram-second] or MKS [meter-kilogram-second]), though 'two sticks of TNT' doesn't really imply a system of units.

'''evince''' 
reveal the presence of (a quality or feeling). (NOAD)

==Page 252==

'''hombré''' [sic] 
hombre, Spanish for man, is intended

'''synclinal''' 
sloping downward from opposite directions to meet in a common point or line

'''Adriatic''' 
the sea between the west coast of Italy and the Balkan peninsula

==Page 253==

'''StairMaster''' 
a brand name of exercise machines

'''Kübler-Ross, Hinton''' 
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. (1926-2004) was a Swiss-born American psychiatrist and specialist on death and dying. John Hinton is a British contemporary expert in the field.

'''Kastenbaum and Kastenbaum''' 
Robert J. Kastenbaum is another prominent scholar in the field of death and dying. I can't find another person by that name, so perhaps Hal is referring to multiple volumes by the same Kastenbaum.

'''Elizabeth Harper Neeld's ''Seven Choices: Taking the Steps to New Life After Losing Someone You Love''''' 
A real book, it's actually 343 pages. (The 1997 edition is 343 pages, but an earlier publishing may have been 352.)

'''acceptance / Wyclif and 14th-century ''langue-d'oc'' French''' 
John Wyclif was a 14th century English theologian. He made the first translation of the Bible into English, thus his importance to etymology in general. ''Langue d'oc'' is another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langue_d%27oc Occitan] language. The ''OED'' actually dates the earliest usage of the word "acceptance" to 1596 by Shakespeare in ''The Merchant of Venice''.

'''Hindi''' 
a national language of India and one of the most widely spoken

'''Gila monster''' 
a venomous lizard native to the Southwest U.S. and Mexico, known for its tenacious bite

'''hypertensive''' 
having high blood pressure

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'''''Leaves of Grass''''' 
the most famous volume of poetry by Walt Whitman. Whitman spent most of his professional life writing and re-writing Leaves of Grass, revising it multiple times until his death. This resulted in vastly different editions over four decades—the first a small book of twelve poems and the last a compilation of over 400 poems.

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'''unfazable''' 
incapable of being fazed or disturbed

'''paroxysmic''' 
paroxysmal is much the more common modern variant. OED: characterized by a violent attack or outburst of emotion or activity

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'''half a meter''' 
about 1.64 feet

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'''dewlaps''' 
loose flesh as under the jaw of a cow

'''"...when Luke removes his high-tech targeting helmet..."''' 
Hal is referring to a scene from [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/ Star Wars]; Luke is Luke Skywalker.

'''vestiges''' 
a part or organ of an organism that has become reduced or functionless in the course of evolution.

'''atavistic''' 
relating to or characterized by reversion to something ancient or ancestral.

'''coccyges''' 
plural of coccyx, i.e., the tailbone

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'''jonquil-yellow''' 
another name for the flower known as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonquil narcissus] or daffodil

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'''Madame Psychosis''' 
not just a byname for DMZ, but also a radio show host, and perhaps a punning allusion to metempsychosis

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'''apotheosizing''' 
apotheosis is the glorifying of someone to a divine level

'''patricidal''' 
having a tendency to kill one's father

'''literally sophomoric''' 
i.e. as in "immature", not "like a second-year student".

'''entomologist''' 
a person who studies insects scientifically

'''sephenoid''' 
a misspelling for [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sphenoid sphenoid], "a winged bone at the base of the cranium."
''Merriam-Webster Online. 25 May 2009''

'''Infundibular''' 
having the form of a funnel. The infundibular recess alluded to here is a part of the pituitary gland's structure. Cf. "chronosynclastic infundibulum" in Vonnegut's ''Sirens of Titan'', a fictional place were "all the different kinds of truths fit together."

'''epiglottal''' 
having to do with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiglottis epiglottis], the flap in the throats of [at least] mammals that keeps items swallowed with an intended destination of the stomach from entering the airway.

'''Hillel''' 
a nationwide (worldwide?) Jewish student union present on several campuses

'''corpus callosum''' 
the part of the brain connecting the left and right hemispheres

'''laryngeally 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

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'''chiffon''' 
a lightweight, balanced, plain-woven fabric

'''limned''' 
To limn means to describe or delineate, more or less, originally used in the sense of portraiture, the sense in which it is used here, rather thn literature

'''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. See also "tonic," p. 478.

'''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.

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'''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.

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'''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.

'''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 study of literature or language.

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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 control the flow of urine.

'''The spasmodically torticollic.''' 
having a head tilted to one side (torticollis) involving spasms (spasmodic)

'''transuranial metallurgist.''' 

`transuranial' refers to the elements with an atomic number greater than 92.

'''G.S.L.''' 
Guaranteed Student Loan

'''treillage''' 
latticework

'''interneural''' 
between nerves

'''semitic ideograms''' 
Semitic languages actually are written using 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.

'''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, most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0176227/ Voyage in Time], made with Antonioni, although some nominate Solaris [Солярис].

'''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/works/hamlet 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 her [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.

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'''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)

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'''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''''' 
A.Y. "Vector Field" Rickey, as first referenced back in Endnote 3 as the architect of the cardioid E.T.A. buildings. Possibly named after [http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/ V. Frederick Rickey], a prominent mathematician. It is notable that there is, in fact, no Student Union building at MIT.

(Well, it may not be called the "Student Union", but there is the J.A.Stratton Student Center mentioned in Endnote 60.)

The ''summum opus'' would be the "greatest work" while a ''magnum opus'' would be a "great 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 from midbrain to one of the muscles of the eye.

'''basilar-stem artery''' 
a stem of an artery that carries blood to the back part of the brain

'''oblongata''' 
the second half of the full name of the medulla

'''meatus''' 

a passage or opening leading to the interior of the body.

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'''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] in the +2 oxidation state, as opposed to the +1, or mercurous, state

'''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 (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 (and not in the target of the link). This is one of DFW's most obscure references. Possibly leptospirosis, also known as Fort Bragg fever, is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptospirosis intended].

'''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''' 
Marin Amat syndrome is a rarely reported synkinesis in which eyelids close upon full opening of the jaw or movement of the jaw laterally, named for Manuel Marin Amat, an early 20th century Spanish [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2636018/ 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 temporary skin disease marked by patches of rough, pink, oval rash. It is extraordinarily difficult to photograph successfully, although the human eye can grasp it at a glance.

'''"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.''' 
Union of the Hideously 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].

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'''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.

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'''''mens-sana'' pedagogy''' 
"healthy-mind" teaching

'''''ad valorem''''' 
Latin: by value

'''''corpore potis''''' 
Latin: able of body. The second part of the play on "Mens sana in corpore sano."

'''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 not altering the colour of the light passing through it.

'''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.

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'''leukodermatic''' 
probably referring to leukoderma, having patches of skin that are white, missing pigment

'''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.

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'''peronic or teratoidal''' 
Peronic probably means having a bent penis (from ''Peyronie’s'' disease), while teratoidal means malformed.

'''phrenologically malformed''' 
malformed in the shape of the skull

'''supuratively lesioned''' 
having lesions that ooze pus

'''acervulus''' 
a small asexual fruiting body that erupts through the epidermis of host plants parasitised by mitosporic fungi of the form order Melanconiales (Deuteromycota, Coelomycetes). It has the form of a small cushion at the bottom of which short crowded conidiophores are formed. The spores escape through an opening at the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acervulus top].

'''radically -ectomied''' 
-having to do with body-part removal (think radical mastectomy)

'''diaphoretic''' 
perspiring

'''granulomatous''' 
characterized by inflammatory masses consisting mostly of cells called macrophages, found in many different tissues in various disease states [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granuloma granuloma]

'''lazarettes and oubliettes''' 
A lazarette is a hospital that treats infectious diseases, especially plague or leprosy, 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''' 
Having cellulite, i.e., deposits of subcutaneous fat within fibrous connective tissue (as in the thighs, hips, and buttocks) that give a puckered and dimpled appearance to the skin surface ([http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cellulite Merriam-Webster])

'''fatally pulchritudinous''' 
deadly good-looking

'''Actaeonizing''' 
Reference to the story of Actaeon - "In the version that was offered by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus (Hymn v), which has become the standard setting, Artemis was bathing in the woods when the hunter Actaeon stumbled across her, thus seeing her naked. He stopped and stared, amazed at her ravishing beauty. Once seen, Actaeon was punished by Artemis: she forbade him speech — if he tried to speak, he would be changed into a stag — for the unlucky profanation of her virginity's mystery. Upon hearing the call of his hunting party, he cried out to them and immediately was changed into a stag. His own hounds then turned upon him and tore him to pieces, not recognizing him." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actaeon Wikipedia])

'''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''' 
This reference is to the steamed crosier fronds of ostrich fern, which is occasionally eaten as a spring vegetable in Maine and in the Maritime Provinces of Canada. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddlehead_fern Wikipedia]

'''lager''' 
a type of beer, medium in darkness

'''vin blanc''' 
French: white wine

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

'''''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.

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'''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].

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[[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

=Layout of the Enfield Marine Public Health Hospital complex=

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'''VA''' 
the U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs

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'''solvent''' 
i.e., financially solvent

'''methadone''' 
a drug used to wean heroin addicts off that drug and onto methadone, which is equally addictive but produces no "high"

'''methedrine''' 
the brand name of methamphetamine

'''New Bedford''' 
a city of Massachusetts, about 50 miles south of Boston

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''''Vette''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvette Chevrolet Corvette]

'''ornithology''' 
the study of birds

'''aminating''' 
introducing an amino acid into something

'''shiv''' 
an improvised prison weapon used for stabbing

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'''LTIs''' 
Long-Term Illnesses

==Endnote 67==

'''The Unexamined Life tavern''' 
Socrates said that the unexamined life is not worth living in ''Apology''.

'''parasolled''' 
having an umbrella on or in it

'''Mudslides''' 
a type of [http://drinkoftheweek.com/archive/m/mudslide.htm drink]

''''objay darts'''' 
a bastardized form of ''objets d'arts'', French for "objects of art"

'''catatonic''' 
relating to catatonia, a neurogenic motor immobility arising from a disturbed mental state (resulting in little or no movement in the sufferer)

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'''mansard''' 
This is "a hip roof, each face of which has a steeper lower part and a shallower upper part" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

[[Image:mansard.png|'Mansard Roof| thumbnail|right]]

'''Clorets''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clorets popular gum]

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'''yogic full lotus''' 
the cross-legged sitting position

'''crustacean''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean branch of animals] with external skeletons, including lobsters, shrimp, and other similar shellfish

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'''''DEUS PROVIDEBIT''''' 
Latin: God will provide. The line appears in the Vulgate (Latin) version of the Bible at Genesis 22:8, where Abraham tell Isaac, whom he intends to sacrifice, that God will provide an animal for the sacrifice.

'''crewed''' 
worked in a gang

'''boosting''' 
stealing

'''onnings''' 
awnings

'''Patty citizen type''' 
slang for a "Patrician" type respectable citizen, person of means, &c.

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'''elemonade''' 
eliminate

'''map''' 
face

'''slope''' 
derogatory slang for a person of Asian descent

'''insentive not to eat no cheese''' 
to discourage the victim from contacting law enforcement

'''pernt''' 
point

'''Copley''' 
Copley Square, a neighborhood of Boston

'''personnel works''' 
(personal works) - personal equipment for injecting drugs

'''cop''' 
obtain drugs

'''aile''' 
aisle

'''Bow&Arrow''' 
a reference to the Bow and Arrow Pub at 1 Bow Street. Closed in 2000 due to a building renovation and the rent being raised.

'''foran''' 
foreign

'''Cheap-O Records''' 
a reference to Cheapo Records (no hyphen) in Central Square, Cambridge. It was located at 645 Mass Ave when the book was written, but the building has since been demolished. It now resides at 538 Mass Ave. http://www.cheaporecords.com/

'''trancemission''' 
transmission

==Page 130==

'''dopesick''' 
in withdrawal from opiates such as heroin

'''old hose''' 
old whores

'''supperst''' 
supposed

'''petaled ass''' 
(peddled ass) prostituted himself

'''roll''' 
rob

'''legless on shots alone''' 
very drunk to the point of not being able to walk well

'''wet work''' 
sexual acts in exchange for drugs/money/etc. [Not sure of poster's source for this. Seems like a reasonable interpretation, but "wet work" usually refers to killing, with "wet" referring to blood, which is at least equally plausible in this context.]

'''pernts''' 
points

'''stifing''' 
(stiffing) They did not give the Santa any money.

'''feather snake''' 
feather boa - a feathered scarf

'''eat cheese''' 
be a rat

==Page 131==

'''pissboys''' 
people who administer urine drug tests

'''glass pipes''' 
for smoking crack

'''Crown Royal in purple bags''' 
Crown Royal is Canadian whisky that comes in a purple cloth bag

'''kwai9''' 
quinine 

'''p-dope''' 
heavily cut heroin

'''bunk''' 
poor quality, cut, or fake

'''bundles''' 
heroin

==Page 132==

'''stoal''' 
stole

==Page 133==

'''super statiously''' 
superstitiously

==Page 134==

'''Hotshots''' 
poisoned heroin so as to be lethal when injected

'''booted''' 
injected

'''thearized''' 
theorized

==Page 135==

'''true straight eating cheese''' 

'''Kicking the Bird''' 
eliminate the heroin habit (going thru withdrawal)

'''three squars''' 
three squares; i.e. three square meals

'''methadoan''' 
Methadone - used to help ease off a heroin addiction

=☽ November 3rd, YDAU - Orin calls Hal (about Separatism)=

==Page 135==

==Page 136==

'''Phoenician''' 
Orin uses it to mean a native of Phoenix, but the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicians Phoenicians] were actually an ancient culture who founded the city of Carthage. True, true, not related. The demonym for persons who live in Phoenix is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona Phoenicians]

==Page 137==

'''Advent''' 
the four Sundays preceding Christmas

=Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House=

==Page 137==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

'''Walpole''' 
a suburb of Boston about eighteen miles from the city

==Page 138==

'''mythopoeia''' 
the creating of a myth

'''Yushityu''' 
literally appears to be: "You shit, you"

=State Farm E-mail - my def. of a bad day.=

==Page 138==

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

==Page 139==

'''blood-alcohol of .3+''' 
If "legally drunk" is now .08 in many states, it's fair to say this guy was hammered

'''bricklayer''' 
The story of the barrel of bricks is thought to have originated in British music halls of the 1920s, and was printed as a story in a 1937 issue of Readers Digest. The story's most famous iterations are probably the speech given by German-British musician and humourist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Hoffnung Gerard Hoffnung] at the Oxford Union in 1958 (later released as an LP) and the comic song 'The Sick Note', written by Pat Cooksey in 1969.

'''900 kg''' 
fifteen pounds short of a ton

'''75 kg''' 
about 165.3 pounds

==Page 140==

'''30 kg''' 
a little over 66 pounds

=February 21st, YPWC - Hal's First Film Commentary=

==Page 140==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken]]

'''21 February''' 
David Foster Wallace was born February 21, 1962.

==Page 141==

'''Viz.''' 
Latin abbreviation for ''videlicet'', meaning "that is to say"

'''Mirandized''' 
read his or her rights, from the Supreme Court case ''Miranda v. Arizona'' (1965)

==Page 142==

'''probity''' 
integrity

=August 10th, YDAU - Helen Steeply's Only Putative Published Article=

==Page 142==

'''Jarvik IX''' 
undoubtedly named for Robert Koffler Jarvik (born 1946), inventor of the first artificial heart placed in a human being 

'''restenosis''' 
stenosis is an abnormal narrowing of blood vessels; restenosis is a recurrence of stenosis

==Page 143==

'''Etienne Aigner''' 
a fashionable leather goods manufacturer

==Page 144==

'''Brigham and Women's City of Boston Hospital''' 
a [http://www.brighamandwomens.org/ real hospital], now affiliated with Harvard Medical School

=Tally of Séparatisteur/Anti-O.N.A.N. Groups=

==Page 144==

'''séparatisteur''' 
Broken French, should be ''séparatistes''.

'''québecois''' 
Misspelling of ''québécois''.

'''''Les Fils de Montcalm''''' 
French: Sons of Montcalm. Probably referring to Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, Marquis de Saint-Veran (1712-1759), French general during the French and Indian War who presided over the fall of Québec.

=Decline of Videophony=

==Page 144==

'''homuncular''' 
of or pertaining to a diminutive human being

==Page 145==

'''straw boater''' 
a type of hat (a "boater") made of straw

'''tumescent''' 
swollen

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

'''Freddie-Mac''' 
common name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mac Federal Home Loan Mortgage Company]

'''trivalent''' 
in this context, most likely [OED]: of a vaccine: giving immunity to three forms of a disease. Also, [having a chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valence_%28chemistry%29 valance] of three]

==Page 146==

'''vectored''' 
To vector is to direct the position of (an airplane).

'''gumlet''' 
By context, it would seem this word is a synonym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglet aglet].

==Page 147==

'''furtive''' 
shifty or sneaky

'''''Physiognomic Dysphoria''''' 
Loosely, it means "feeling badly about how one looks."

==Page 148==

'''snafus''' 
plural of "snafu," a military acronym for "situation normal: all fucked up"

==Page 149==

'''ostentatious''' 
pretentious or showy

==Page 150==

'''verve''' 
enthusiasm or vigor

'''precipitant''' 
sudden, hasty, or rash

'''micro-econometrist''' 
An econometrist is an economist who uses statistical methods. A microeconomist is an economist who studies a smaller level of economics, i.e., firms and businesses rather than nations or international business.

'''Ludditism''' 
Named for Ned Ludd (born Ned Ludlam), the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite Luddites] were 19th century opposers of the Industrial Revolution.

'''retrograde''' 
moving backward

==Page 151==

'''electric zirconium jewelry''' 
Jewelry made of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zircon zircon]. Electricity can be applied to a zircon to make a lamp.

'''NoCoat LinguaScrapers''' 
tongue scrapers designed to remove a film coat

'''and c.''' 
''Et cetera'' or ''etc.'' is Latin for "and other things." Here Wallace has translated ''et'' and left ''c'' untranslated.

'''panagoraphobia''' 
fear of going outside (agoraphobia) in any place (pan-)

=☽ - Urine Testing=

==Page 151==

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

'''agnate''' 
related or akin through males, as in a line of males and a line of females (coeds)

'''widow's peak''' 
a hairline that dips down to a V-shaped point in front when the hair is pulled back

==Page 152==

==Endnote 52==

'''spectrometer''' 
an optical instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum

'''E.M.I.T. and AbuScreen/RIA''' 
Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Technique; Abusecreen is a brand name of drug test, and RIA stands for radioimmunoassay, "a procedure that measures minute amounts of a substance, such as a hormone or drug, by quantitating the binding, or the inhibition of binding, of a radiolabeled substance to an antibody" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition'').

==Page 152 (cont'd)==

'''cc''' 
cubic centimeter, equal to 0.001 liters

'''wienerman''' 
hot-dog salesman

==Page 153==

'''Yarmouth sail''' 
a type of boat sail, seen [http://www.ephotozine.com/photo/657716 here]

'''Pepperdine''' 
a [http://www.pepperdine.edu/ university] in Malibu, Calif.

'''derrick''' 
A derrick is "a jib crane having a boom hinged near the base of the mast so as to rotate about the mast, for moving a load toward or away from the mast by raising or lowering the boom" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''foot-treadle''' 
a lever worked by foot

'''f/x''' 
special effects in film

'''Bolex''' 
a Swiss [http://www.bolex.ch/NEW/index.php camera manufacturer]

'''undulating''' 
moving with a wave-like motion

==Page 154==

'''petrochemical''' 
a chemical derived from petroleum or natural gas

'''spronging''' 
''sprong'' is Dutch for "to leap or bound"

'''Eschatonic''' 
The name of the game is based on the same root as eschatology, i.e., the study of the end of the world.

'''''pünch''''' 
There is no such German word.

'''serpentine''' 
snake-like

'''Standford-Bïnet''' 
Misspelling of Standford-Binet (intelligence scale).

'''dilettantish''' 
from "dilettante" - a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.

==Page 155==

'''dento-dermal''' 
by the skin of his teeth

'''brine''' 
salt water

'''emulsion''' 
Emulsion is colloidal suspension of one liquid in another.

'''differentials''' 
first derivatives in calculus

'''three Canadians copulating on a snowmobile''' 
One Website ([http://www.homegame.org/HG/a-c/beast20k.html x281 Beast From 20,000 Fathoms]) seems to give the answer as a "BBQ-ed Polar Bear," which, if correct, makes about as much sense as the question!
: More likely ''ménage à froid'' (''froid'' means ''cold'').

'''high-water''' 
pants hemmed too high

'''erumpent''' 
1. bursting forth.
2. (of fungi or algae) prominent; projecting from or bursting through host tissue.

'''gratis''' 
free of charge

'''''ex cathedra''''' 
Latin for "from the chair" and referring to the doctrine of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_infallibility papal infallibility] on matters of faith and morals

'''éclat''' 
great brilliance or conspicuous success

==Page 156==

'''dewy-eyed''' 
exhibiting childlike simplicity

'''''FIENDS IN HUMAN SHAPE''''' 
how a Memphis newspaper described Union soldiers during the Civil War

'''Feenian''' 
possibly "fenian", referring to a breed of horse or to both the Fenian Brotherhood and Irish Republican Brotherhood, two organizations dedicated to the establishment of an independent Irish republic

'''Brighton''' 
a section of Boston

'''natal''' 
of or pertaining to a person's birth

'''Brutus''' 
Marcus Junius Brutus (85-42 BC) was the most famous assassin of Julius Caesar (100-44 BC).

'''''vade mecum''''' 
Latin for "go with me," this is a book for quick reference

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'''yogic full lotus''' 
the cross-legged sitting position

'''crustacean''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean branch of animals] with external skeletons, including lobsters, shrimp, and other similar shellfish

==Page 128==

'''''DEUS PROVIDEBIT''''' 
Latin: God will provide. The line appears in the Vulgate (Latin) version of the Bible at Genesis 22:8, where Abraham tell Isaac, whom he intends to sacrifice, that God will provide an animal for the sacrifice.

'''crewed''' 
worked in a gang

'''boosting''' 
stealing

'''onnings''' 
awnings

'''Patty citizen type''' 
slang for a "Patrician" type respectable citizen, person of means, &c.

==Page 129==

'''elemonade''' 
eliminate

'''map''' 
face

'''slope''' 
derogatory slang for a person of Asian descent

'''insentive not to eat no cheese''' 
to discourage the victim from contacting law enforcement

'''pernt''' 
point

'''Copley''' 
Copley Square, a neighborhood of Boston

'''personnel works''' 
(personal works) - personal equipment for injecting drugs

'''cop''' 
obtain drugs

'''aile''' 
aisle

'''Bow&Arrow''' 
a reference to the Bow and Arrow Pub at 1 Bow Street. Closed in 2000 due to a building renovation and the rent being raised.

'''foran''' 
foreign

'''Cheap-O Records''' 
a reference to Cheapo Records (no hyphen) in Central Square, Cambridge. It was located at 645 Mass Ave when the book was written, but the building has since been demolished. It now resides at 538 Mass Ave. http://www.cheaporecords.com/

'''trancemission''' 
transmission

==Page 130==

'''dopesick''' 
in withdrawal from opiates such as heroin

'''old hose''' 
old whores

'''supperst''' 
supposed

'''petaled ass''' 
(peddled ass) prostituted himself

'''roll''' 
rob

'''legless on shots alone''' 
very drunk to the point of not being able to walk well

'''wet work''' 
sexual acts in exchange for drugs/money/etc. [Not sure of poster's source for this. Seems like a reasonable interpretation, but "wet work" usually refers to killing, with "wet" referring to blood, which is at least equally plausible in this context.]

'''pernts''' 
points

'''stifing''' 
(stiffing) They did not give the Santa any money.

'''feather snake''' 
feather boa - a feathered scarf

'''eat cheese''' 
be a rat

==Page 131==

'''pissboys''' 
people who administer urine drug tests

'''glass pipes''' 
for smoking crack

'''Crown Royal in purple bags''' 
Crown Royal is Canadian whisky that comes in a purple cloth bag

'''kwai9''' 
quinine 

'''p-dope''' 
heavily cut heroin

'''bunk''' 
poor quality, cut, or fake

'''bundles''' 
heroin

==Page 132==

'''stoal''' 
stole

==Page 133==

'''super statiously''' 
superstitiously

==Page 134==

'''Hotshots''' 
poisoned heroin so as to be lethal when injected

'''booted''' 
injected

'''thearized''' 
theorized

==Page 135==

'''true straight eating cheese''' 

'''Kicking the Bird''' 
eliminate the heroin habit (going thru withdrawal)

'''three squars''' 
three squares; i.e. three square meals

'''methadoan''' 
Methadone - used to help ease off a heroin addiction

=☽ November 3rd, YDAU - Orin calls Hal (about Separatism)=

==Page 135==

==Page 136==

'''Phoenician''' 
Orin uses it to mean a native of Phoenix, but the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicians Phoenicians] were actually an ancient culture who founded the city of Carthage. True, true, not related. The demonym for persons who live in Phoenix is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona Phoenicians]

==Page 137==

'''Advent''' 
the four Sundays preceding Christmas

=Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House=

==Page 137==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

'''Walpole''' 
a suburb of Boston about eighteen miles from the city

==Page 138==

'''mythopoeia''' 
the creating of a myth

'''Yushityu''' 
literally appears to be: "You shit, you"

=State Farm E-mail - my def. of a bad day.=

==Page 138==

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

==Page 139==

'''blood-alcohol of .3+''' 
If "legally drunk" is now .08 in many states, it's fair to say this guy was hammered

'''bricklayer''' 
The story of the barrel of bricks is thought to have originated in British music halls of the 1920s, and was printed as a story in a 1937 issue of Readers Digest. The story's most famous iterations are probably the speech given by German-British musician and humourist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Hoffnung Gerard Hoffnung] at the Oxford Union in 1958 (later released as an LP) and the comic song 'The Sick Note', written by Pat Cooksey in 1969.

'''900 kg''' 
fifteen pounds short of a ton

'''75 kg''' 
about 165.3 pounds

==Page 140==

'''30 kg''' 
a little over 66 pounds

=February 21st, YPWC - Hal's First Film Commentary=

==Page 140==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken]]

'''21 February''' 
David Foster Wallace was born February 21, 1962.

==Page 141==

'''Viz.''' 
Latin abbreviation for ''videlicet'', meaning "that is to say"

'''Mirandized''' 
read his or her rights, from the Supreme Court case ''Miranda v. Arizona'' (1965)

==Page 142==

'''probity''' 
integrity

=August 10th, YDAU - Helen Steeply's Only Putative Published Article=

==Page 142==

'''Jarvik IX''' 
undoubtedly named for Robert Koffler Jarvik (born 1946), inventor of the first artificial heart placed in a human being 

'''restenosis''' 
stenosis is an abnormal narrowing of blood vessels; restenosis is a recurrence of stenosis

==Page 143==

'''Etienne Aigner''' 
a fashionable leather goods manufacturer

==Page 144==

'''Brigham and Women's City of Boston Hospital''' 
a [http://www.brighamandwomens.org/ real hospital], now affiliated with Harvard Medical School

=Tally of Séparatisteur/Anti-O.N.A.N. Groups=

==Page 144==

'''séparatisteur''' 
Broken French, should be ''séparatistes''.

'''québecois''' 
Misspelling of ''québécois''.

'''''Les Fils de Montcalm''''' 
French: Sons of Montcalm. Probably referring to Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, Marquis de Saint-Veran (1712-1759), French general during the French and Indian War who presided over the fall of Québec.

=Decline of Videophony=

==Page 144==

'''homuncular''' 
of or pertaining to a diminutive human being

==Page 145==

'''straw boater''' 
a type of hat (a "boater") made of straw

'''tumescent''' 
swollen

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

'''Freddie-Mac''' 
common name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mac Federal Home Loan Mortgage Company]

'''trivalent''' 
in this context, most likely [OED]: of a vaccine: giving immunity to three forms of a disease. Also, [having a chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valence_%28chemistry%29 valance] of three]

==Page 146==

'''vectored''' 
To vector is to direct the position of (an airplane).

'''gumlet''' 
By context, it would seem this word is a synonym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglet aglet].

==Page 147==

'''furtive''' 
shifty or sneaky

'''''Physiognomic Dysphoria''''' 
Loosely, it means "feeling badly about how one looks."

==Page 148==

'''snafus''' 
plural of "snafu," a military acronym for "situation normal: all fucked up"

==Page 149==

'''ostentatious''' 
pretentious or showy

==Page 150==

'''verve''' 
enthusiasm or vigor

'''precipitant''' 
sudden, hasty, or rash

'''micro-econometrist''' 
An econometrist is an economist who uses statistical methods. A microeconomist is an economist who studies a smaller level of economics, i.e., firms and businesses rather than nations or international business.

'''Ludditism''' 
Named for Ned Ludd (born Ned Ludlam), the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite Luddites] were 19th century opposers of the Industrial Revolution.

'''retrograde''' 
moving backward

==Page 151==

'''electric zirconium jewelry''' 
Jewelry made of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zircon zircon]. Electricity can be applied to a zircon to make a lamp.

'''NoCoat LinguaScrapers''' 
tongue scrapers designed to remove a film coat

'''and c.''' 
''Et cetera'' or ''etc.'' is Latin for "and other things." Here Wallace has translated ''et'' and left ''c'' untranslated.

'''panagoraphobia''' 
fear of going outside (agoraphobia) in any place (pan-)

=☽ - Urine Testing=

==Page 151==

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

'''agnate''' 
related or akin through males, as in a line of males and a line of females (coeds)

'''widow's peak''' 
a hairline that dips down to a V-shaped point in front when the hair is pulled back

==Page 152==

==Endnote 52==

'''spectrometer''' 
an optical instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum

'''E.M.I.T. and AbuScreen/RIA''' 
Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Technique; Abusecreen is a brand name of drug test, and RIA stands for radioimmunoassay, "a procedure that measures minute amounts of a substance, such as a hormone or drug, by quantitating the binding, or the inhibition of binding, of a radiolabeled substance to an antibody" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition'').

==Page 152 (cont'd)==

'''cc''' 
cubic centimeter, equal to 0.001 liters

'''wienerman''' 
hot-dog salesman

==Page 153==

'''Yarmouth sail''' 
a type of boat sail, seen [http://www.ephotozine.com/photo/657716 here]

'''Pepperdine''' 
a [http://www.pepperdine.edu/ university] in Malibu, Calif.

'''derrick''' 
A derrick is "a jib crane having a boom hinged near the base of the mast so as to rotate about the mast, for moving a load toward or away from the mast by raising or lowering the boom" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''foot-treadle''' 
a lever worked by foot

'''f/x''' 
special effects in film

'''Bolex''' 
a Swiss [http://www.bolex.ch/NEW/index.php camera manufacturer]

'''undulating''' 
moving with a wave-like motion

==Page 154==

'''petrochemical''' 
a chemical derived from petroleum or natural gas

'''spronging''' 
''sprong'' is Dutch for "to leap or bound"

'''Eschatonic''' 
The name of the game is based on the same root as eschatology, i.e., the study of the end of the world.

'''''pünch''''' 
There is no such German word.

'''serpentine''' 
snake-like

'''Standford-Bïnet''' 
Misspelling of Standford-Binet (intelligence scale).

'''dilettantish''' 
from "dilettante" - a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.

==Page 155==

'''dento-dermal''' 
by the skin of his teeth

'''brine''' 
salt water

'''emulsion''' 
Emulsion is colloidal suspension of one liquid in another.

'''differentials''' 
first derivatives in calculus

'''three Canadians copulating on a snowmobile''' 
One Website ([http://www.homegame.org/HG/a-c/beast20k.html x281 Beast From 20,000 Fathoms]) seems to give the answer as a "BBQ-ed Polar Bear," which, if correct, makes about as much sense as the question!

'''high-water''' 
pants hemmed too high

'''erumpent''' 
1. bursting forth.
2. (of fungi or algae) prominent; projecting from or bursting through host tissue.

'''gratis''' 
free of charge

'''''ex cathedra''''' 
Latin for "from the chair" and referring to the doctrine of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_infallibility papal infallibility] on matters of faith and morals

'''éclat''' 
great brilliance or conspicuous success

==Page 156==

'''dewy-eyed''' 
exhibiting childlike simplicity

'''''FIENDS IN HUMAN SHAPE''''' 
how a Memphis newspaper described Union soldiers during the Civil War

'''Feenian''' 
possibly "fenian", referring to a breed of horse or to both the Fenian Brotherhood and Irish Republican Brotherhood, two organizations dedicated to the establishment of an independent Irish republic

'''Brighton''' 
a section of Boston

'''natal''' 
of or pertaining to a person's birth

'''Brutus''' 
Marcus Junius Brutus (85-42 BC) was the most famous assassin of Julius Caesar (100-44 BC).

'''''vade mecum''''' 
Latin for "go with me," this is a book for quick reference

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==Page 127==

'''yogic full lotus''' 
the cross-legged sitting position

'''crustacean''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean branch of animals] with external skeletons, including lobsters, shrimp, and other similar shellfish

==Page 128==

'''''DEUS PROVIDEBIT''''' 
Latin: God will provide. The line appears in the Vulgate (Latin) version of the Bible at Genesis 22:8, where Abraham tell Isaac, whom he intends to sacrifice, that God will provide an animal for the sacrifice.

'''crewed''' 
worked in a gang

'''boosting''' 
stealing

'''onnings''' 
awnings

'''Patty citizen type''' 
slang for a "Patrician" type respectable citizen, person of means, &c.

==Page 129==

'''elemonade''' 
eliminate

'''map''' 
face

'''slope''' 
derogatory slang for a person of Asian descent

'''insentive not to eat no cheese''' 
to discourage the victim from contacting law enforcement

'''pernt''' 
point

'''Copley''' 
Copley Square, a neighborhood of Boston

'''personnel works''' 
(personal works) - personal equipment for injecting drugs

'''cop''' 
obtain drugs

'''aile''' 
aisle

'''Bow&Arrow''' 
a reference to the Bow and Arrow Pub at 1 Bow Street. Closed in 2000 due to a building renovation and the rent being raised.

'''foran''' 
foreign

'''Cheap-O Records''' 
a reference to Cheapo Records (no hyphen) in Central Square, Cambridge. It was located at 645 Mass Ave when the book was written, but the building has since been demolished. It now resides at 538 Mass Ave. http://www.cheaporecords.com/

'''trancemission''' 
transmission

==Page 130==

'''dopesick''' 
in withdrawal from opiates such as heroin

'''old hose''' 
old whores

'''supperst''' 
supposed

'''petaled ass''' 
(peddled ass) prostituted himself

'''roll''' 
rob

'''legless on shots alone''' 
very drunk to the point of not being able to walk well

'''wet work''' 
sexual acts in exchange for drugs/money/etc. [Not sure of poster's source for this. Seems like a reasonable interpretation, but "wet work" usually refers to killing, with "wet" referring to blood, which is at least equally plausible in this context.]

'''pernts''' 
points

'''stifing''' 
(stiffing) They did not give the Santa any money.

'''feather snake''' 
feather boa - a feathered scarf

'''eat cheese''' 
be a rat

==Page 131==

'''pissboys''' 
people who administer urine drug tests

'''glass pipes''' 
for smoking crack

'''Crown Royal in purple bags''' 
Crown Royal is Canadian whisky that comes in a purple cloth bag

'''kwai9''' 
quinine 

'''p-dope''' 
heavily cut heroin

'''bunk''' 
poor quality, cut, or fake

'''bundles''' 
heroin

==Page 132==

'''stoal''' 
stole

==Page 133==

'''super statiously''' 
superstitiously

==Page 134==

'''Hotshots''' 
poisoned heroin so as to be lethal when injected

'''booted''' 
injected

'''thearized''' 
theorized

==Page 135==

'''true straight eating cheese''' 

'''Kicking the Bird''' 
eliminate the heroin habit (going thru withdrawal)

'''three squars''' 
three squares; i.e. three square meals

'''methadoan''' 
Methadone - used to help ease off a heroin addiction

=☽ November 3rd, YDAU - Orin calls Hal (about Separatism)=

==Page 135==

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'''Phoenician''' 
Orin uses it to mean a native of Phoenix, but the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicians Phoenicians] were actually an ancient culture who founded the city of Carthage. True, true, not related. The demonym for persons who live in Phoenix is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona Phoenicians]

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'''Advent''' 
the four Sundays preceding Christmas

=Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House=

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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

'''Walpole''' 
a suburb of Boston about eighteen miles from the city

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'''mythopoeia''' 
the creating of a myth

'''Yushityu''' 
literally appears to be: "You shit, you"

=State Farm E-mail - my def. of a bad day.=

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

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'''blood-alcohol of .3+''' 
If "legally drunk" is now .08 in many states, it's fair to say this guy was hammered

'''bricklayer''' 
The story of the barrel of bricks is thought to have originated in British music halls of the 1920s, and was printed as a story in a 1937 issue of Readers Digest. The story's most famous iterations are probably the speech given by German-British musician and humourist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Hoffnung Gerard Hoffnung] at the Oxford Union in 1958 (later released as an LP) and the comic song 'The Sick Note', written by Pat Cooksey in 1969.

'''900 kg''' 
fifteen pounds short of a ton

'''75 kg''' 
about 165.3 pounds

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'''30 kg''' 
a little over 66 pounds

=February 21st, YPWC - Hal's First Film Commentary=

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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken]]

'''21 February''' 
David Foster Wallace was born February 21, 1962.

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'''Viz.''' 
Latin abbreviation for ''videlicet'', meaning "that is to say"

'''Mirandized''' 
read his or her rights, from the Supreme Court case ''Miranda v. Arizona'' (1965)

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'''probity''' 
integrity

=August 10th, YDAU - Helen Steeply's Only Putative Published Article=

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'''Jarvik IX''' 
undoubtedly named for Robert Koffler Jarvik (born 1946), inventor of the first artificial heart placed in a human being 

'''restenosis''' 
stenosis is an abnormal narrowing of blood vessels; restenosis is a recurrence of stenosis

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'''Etienne Aigner''' 
a fashionable leather goods manufacturer

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'''Brigham and Women's City of Boston Hospital''' 
a [http://www.brighamandwomens.org/ real hospital], now affiliated with Harvard Medical School

=Tally of Séparatisteur/Anti-O.N.A.N. Groups=

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'''séparatisteur''' 
Broken French, should be ''séparatistes''.

'''québecois''' 
Misspelling of ''québécois''.

'''''Les Fils de Montcalm''''' 
French: Sons of Montcalm. Probably referring to Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, Marquis de Saint-Veran (1712-1759), French general during the French and Indian War who presided over the fall of Québec.

=Decline of Videophony=

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'''homuncular''' 
of or pertaining to a diminutive human being

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'''straw boater''' 
a type of hat (a "boater") made of straw

'''tumescent''' 
swollen

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

'''Freddie-Mac''' 
common name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mac Federal Home Loan Mortgage Company]

'''trivalent''' 
in this context, most likely [OED]: of a vaccine: giving immunity to three forms of a disease. Also, [having a chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valence_%28chemistry%29 valance] of three]

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'''vectored''' 
To vector is to direct the position of (an airplane).

'''gumlet''' 
By context, it would seem this word is a synonym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglet aglet].

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'''furtive''' 
shifty or sneaky

'''''Physiognomic Dysphoria''''' 
Loosely, it means "feeling badly about how one looks."

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'''snafus''' 
plural of "snafu," a military acronym for "situation normal: all fucked up"

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'''ostentatious''' 
pretentious or showy

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'''verve''' 
enthusiasm or vigor

'''precipitant''' 
sudden, hasty, or rash

'''micro-econometrist''' 
An econometrist is an economist who uses statistical methods. A microeconomist is an economist who studies a smaller level of economics, i.e., firms and businesses rather than nations or international business.

'''Ludditism''' 
Named for Ned Ludd (born Ned Ludlam), the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite Luddites] were 19th century opposers of the Industrial Revolution.

'''retrograde''' 
moving backward

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'''electric zirconium jewelry''' 
Jewelry made of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zircon zircon]. Electricity can be applied to a zircon to make a lamp.

'''NoCoat LinguaScrapers''' 
tongue scrapers designed to remove a film coat

'''and c.''' 
''Et cetera'' or ''etc.'' is Latin for "and other things." Here Wallace has translated ''et'' and left ''c'' untranslated.

'''panagoraphobia''' 
fear of going outside (agoraphobia) in any place (pan-)

=☽ - Urine Testing=

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

'''agnate''' 
related or akin through males, as in a line of males and a line of females (coeds)

'''widow's peak''' 
a hairline that dips down to a V-shaped point in front when the hair is pulled back

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==Endnote 52==

'''spectrometer''' 
an optical instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum

'''E.M.I.T. and AbuScreen/RIA''' 
Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Technique; Abusecreen is a brand name of drug test, and RIA stands for radioimmunoassay, "a procedure that measures minute amounts of a substance, such as a hormone or drug, by quantitating the binding, or the inhibition of binding, of a radiolabeled substance to an antibody" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition'').

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'''cc''' 
cubic centimeter, equal to 0.001 liters

'''wienerman''' 
hot-dog salesman

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'''Yarmouth sail''' 
a type of boat sail, seen [http://www.ephotozine.com/photo/657716 here]

'''Pepperdine''' 
a [http://www.pepperdine.edu/ university] in Malibu, Calif.

'''derrick''' 
A derrick is "a jib crane having a boom hinged near the base of the mast so as to rotate about the mast, for moving a load toward or away from the mast by raising or lowering the boom" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''foot-treadle''' 
a lever worked by foot

'''f/x''' 
special effects in film

'''Bolex''' 
a Swiss [http://www.bolex.ch/NEW/index.php camera manufacturer]

'''undulating''' 
moving with a wave-like motion

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'''petrochemical''' 
a chemical derived from petroleum or natural gas

'''spronging''' 
''sprong'' is Dutch for "to leap or bound"

'''Eschatonic''' 
The name of the game is based on the same root as eschatology, i.e., the study of the end of the world.

'''''pünch''''' 
There is no such German word.

'''serpentine''' 
snake-like

'''dilettantish''' 
from "dilettante" - a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.

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'''dento-dermal''' 
by the skin of his teeth

'''brine''' 
salt water

'''emulsion''' 
Emulsion is colloidal suspension of one liquid in another.

'''differentials''' 
first derivatives in calculus

'''three Canadians copulating on a snowmobile''' 
One Website ([http://www.homegame.org/HG/a-c/beast20k.html x281 Beast From 20,000 Fathoms]) seems to give the answer as a "BBQ-ed Polar Bear," which, if correct, makes about as much sense as the question!

'''high-water''' 
pants hemmed too high

'''erumpent''' 
1. bursting forth.
2. (of fungi or algae) prominent; projecting from or bursting through host tissue.

'''gratis''' 
free of charge

'''''ex cathedra''''' 
Latin for "from the chair" and referring to the doctrine of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_infallibility papal infallibility] on matters of faith and morals

'''éclat''' 
great brilliance or conspicuous success

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'''dewy-eyed''' 
exhibiting childlike simplicity

'''''FIENDS IN HUMAN SHAPE''''' 
how a Memphis newspaper described Union soldiers during the Civil War

'''Feenian''' 
possibly "fenian", referring to a breed of horse or to both the Fenian Brotherhood and Irish Republican Brotherhood, two organizations dedicated to the establishment of an independent Irish republic

'''Brighton''' 
a section of Boston

'''natal''' 
of or pertaining to a person's birth

'''Brutus''' 
Marcus Junius Brutus (85-42 BC) was the most famous assassin of Julius Caesar (100-44 BC).

'''''vade mecum''''' 
Latin for "go with me," this is a book for quick reference

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'''payloaders''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loader_(equipment) construction equipment]

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'''Fauteuil de rollent''' 
: French for ''wheelchair'' is ''fauteuil roulant''.

'''Brockengespenst'''

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken_spectre.

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'''Bureau des services sans spécificité''' 
French for ''unspecified'' is ''non spécifié''; ''sans spécificité'' means ''without specificity'', i.e., generic.

'''c'était la guerre'''

It was war.
: ''c’était de bonne guerre'' (it was fair game) seems more fitting, possibly what DFW meant.

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'''agnate''' 
Paternal, related on the father's side. In this case agnate seems to mean that the shadows come from the same source, the setting sun. 

'''samizdat''' 
самиздать From the Russian verb "to publish on one's own" or "to self-publish." Originally used to denote underground publications in the Soviet Union, now used more generally for dissident activity[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat]

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'''stenographer-cum-''jeune-fille-de-Vendredi''''' 
secretary who takes diction AND devoted assistant. ''Jeune-fille-de-Vendredi'' is French for "young girl Friday." "Man Friday" (or "girl Friday") is a term that means a very competent and loyal servant or assistant, and originates from the Friday of ''Robinson Crusoe''.

'''amaneunsis''' 
Misspelling of ''amanuensis'' (secretary).

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=Feral Hamsters=

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'''uremic''' 

of or involving excess nitrogenous waste products in the urine

'''somatic''' 

of or relating to the body, esp. as distinct from the mind.

'''Champaign IL''' 
He probably attends the [http://www.uiuc.edu/ University of Illinois] main campus at Urbana-Champaign, formerly Champaign-Urbana.

'''Ward and June''' 
The mother's and father's names on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_It_To_Beaver ''Leave It to Beaver'']

'''pedalferrous''' 
pedalfer is a soil type composed of aluminum and iron oxides. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedalfer apparently a neologism, the word would mean "of or pertaining to foot metal," i.e., fast driving

'''fallow''' 

plowed and harrowed but left unsown for a period in order to restore its fertility as part of a crop rotation or to avoid surplus production

'''fulvous''' 
in color, yellow-gray to yellowish-brown

'''teratogenic''' 
having an ill effect on the development of a fetus

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

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''''''n sûr''''' 
An elision of ''bien sûr'', French for "of course"

'''electrolysis''' 

the removal of hair roots or small blemishes on the skin by the application of heat using an electric current.

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'''Sterling UL35 9 mm machine pistol with Mag Na Port silencer''' 
Sterling is a real British gun manufacturer and [http://www.magnaport.com/ Mag-Na-Port] is real also, but this particular gun model is apparently made-up.

'''Charleston''' 
a dance popular in the 1920s

'''mesquite''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesquite mesquite] plant

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=YDAU - ETA Locker Room=

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'''Barbicide''' 
a brand name of disinfectant used for combs and hairbrushes

'''Tolstoy's sentence''' 
The question probably referred to the opening lines of Leo Tolstoy's ''Anna Karenina:'' "HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

'''Michael Pemulis, ..., clear his throat deeply''' 
this grammatical error appears shortly after a discussion of a class on grammar

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'''No cathode gun. No phosphenic screen.''' 
A cathode gun is an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_gun electron gun] used in a cathode ray tube. "Phosphenic" refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene phosphenes].

'''UHF''' 
Ultra High Frequency

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'''acutance''' 
the edge contrast of an image. Hal appears to be correct insofar as contrast is more or less the same as resolution. Acutance is related to a pulse's slope and height. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acutance

'''halation''' 
blurring of a visual image by glare

'''quiescent''' 
still or at rest

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

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'''digitate''' 
“having deep radiating divisions” (OED)

=ETA Locker Room, cont.=

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'''Zoltan''' 
Zoltán was a 10th century ruler of Hungary.

'''Csikzentmihalyi''' 
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (''sic'') is a psychologist best known for his concept of "flow", a psychological state where one "is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity", e.g. "being in the zone" while playing sports.

'''Idris Arslanian, new this year, ethnically vague''' 
Idris is an Arabic name, corresponding in the Qur'an to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch%2C_ancestor_of_Noah Enoch] in the Bible. The last name Arslanian sounds Armenian, though ''Arslan'' is a Turkish word for "lion."

'''R.A.''' 
Resident Assistant

'''Tex Watson''' 
Besides a character in ''Infinite Jest,'' Tex Watson was the nickname of Charles Watson, one of the chief murderers in the Charles Manson Family.

'''ephebes''' 
An ephebe is an adolescent male.

'''attritive''' 
[OED] gradually wearing away or weakening something or someone

'''suppliants''' 
A suppliant is a petitioner.

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'''sienna''' 
[or siena] a yellowish- to reddish-brown pigment

'''louvered''' 
fitted with angled slats, the better to permit passage of light or air

'''thoracic''' 
having to do with the chest

'''atavistically''' 
Atavism means reversion to an earlier evolutionary type; i.e., Hal's complexion resembles his grandparents or earlier ancestors more than his parents

'''piebald''' 
having patches of different colors

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'''cognomen''' 
a nickname

'''inflation-generative grammar''' 
i.e. a set of rules to generate phrases of increasing emphasis

==Page 101==

'''semion''' 
from context, it means sign or gesture, evincing with semaphore a common ancestor. [A semion is technically part of an anyon, the latter of which is defined in the ''OED'' as "a particle having characteristics intermediate between those of fermions and bosons in two-dimensional space." However, it seems Wallace uses the word as a form closer to "semiotics."] A later search reveals that ''semion'' is Greek for "sign."

'''Umbrian''' 
From the Italian ''reggione'' of Umbria, in central Italy. Hal is Italian on his father's side, as well as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pima Pima] Native American. His mother, of course, is French-Canadian.

'''Brylcreemed''' 
Used as a verb here, [http://www.brylcreemusa.com/ Brylcreem] is a brand name of men's hair grooming product.

'''zygomatics''' 
the cheekbones, so-called, or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygomatics zygomatic bones] of the face

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'''haul ashes''' 
For a history of this term, click [http://www.wordwizard.com/ch_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6859 here]. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=haul%20your%20ashes

'''Johnny Mathis's "Chances Are"''' 
listen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEH3uqbpsm8 here] 

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'''Luther's 16th-century shoes, awaiting epiphany''' 
Martin Luther (1483-1546), German father of the Reformation, was a notorious sufferer of constipation.

'''hobnailed boots''' 
boots assembled with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobnail hobnails]

==Endnote 43==
'''Crohn's''' 
The disease is named for Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884-1983), American gastroenterologist.

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'''carminative''' 
combatting or expelling flatulence

'''gout''' 
a disease characterized by the collection of uric acid in the joints

'''Port Washington''' 
There are three cities by this name in the U.S.: In New York, Wisconsin, and Ohio.

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'''woppsed up''' 
a created word, apparently something like "wadded up"

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

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'''Tristan and Isolde''' 
star-crossed lovers from Arthurian myth

'''Lancelot and what's-her-name''' 
Guinevere

'''Agamemnon and Helen''' 
Steeply has this one wrong. Helen abandoned her husband, Menelaus, the brother of Agamemnon, to flee to Troy with Paris, younger brother of Hector.

'''Dante and Beatrice''' 
Beatrice is Dante's guide through heaven in the third part of the ''Divine Comedy'', ''Paradiso''

'''Narcissus and Echo''' 
The story of these doomed lovers from Greek mythology is [http://thanasis.com/echo.htm here].

'''Kierkegaard and Regina''' 
Regina Olsen was the short-term fiancée of Kierkegaard.

'''Kafka and that poor girl afraid to go the postbox for the mail''' 
The story being referred to can be read [http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.jsp?what=KafkaDoll here].

'''Menelaus was husband, him of Sparta''' 
Menelaus, King of Sparta, was the husband of Helen. Agamemnon was the King of Argos and Menelaus's brother.

'''Helen and Paris. He of Troy.''' 
Paris, a Trojan prince, kidnapped Helen from Menelaus, precipitating the Trojan War.

'''The horse: the gift which was not a gift''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Horse Trojan horse]

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'''electrolysistic''' 
resulting from electrolysis, the removal of hair using electric shocks

'''sangfroid''' 
From French for "cold blood," this word means "coolness," as in composure under pressure

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'''creosote''' 
There are several types of creosote, described [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creosote here].

'''crepuscular''' 
active in the twilight, as bats, deer, many mosquitos

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'''gibbous''' 
bulging outwards: the shape of the moon when it is neither full, nor crescent, nor half, i.e., when it is more than half full

'''Quonsets''' 
short form for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut Quonset huts]

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'''Stan Smith''' 
Born in 1946, Smith is a retired professional tennis player, having won Wimbledon and the U.S. Open once each.

'''dessicated''' 
dried out

==Endnote 46==

'''corticatization''' 
probably a misspelling of [http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?query=corticalization&action=Search+OMD corticalization]

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'''bow-biters''' 
1980's [http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Bow_Biters plastic clips] that help keep shoe laces tied

'''E.N.T. oncologist''' 
ear, nose, and throat; an oncologist is a cancer physician

'''violas''' 
A viola is a like a violin, only slightly larger and deeper in tone.

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'''''E Unibus Pluram''''' 
Latin wordplay on ''E pluribus unum'' ("From many, one"), the U.S. motto. This would mean "From one, many." Note that the correct Latin would be something like ''Ex uno plures'' or ''Ex uno plura'' (depending on what "many" is meant to refer to).

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'''Solipsism''' 
a kind of narcissism based on the idea that one's own mind is all one can ever truly know to exist

'''''ballet de se''''' 

mangled French: Ballet of (itself). ballet de soi would probably be closer.

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'''plateaux''' 
the proper French plural of "plateau," rather than "plateaus"
: Indeed, but the conversation takes place orally and this X is silent in French, as is the S. The only context in which it is not silent is when there is a word beginning with a vowel after it, but even then, X is pronounced like S.

'''slog''' 
to work with sustained effort against a natural resistance over a period of time

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'''Banzai!''' 
a Japanese battle cry

'''hangdog''' 
browbeaten or intimidated

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'''croupiers''' 
attendants at gambling casinos

'''plasticene''' 
misspelling of Plasticine, a brand name of plastic used for making molds

'''ancipitals''' 
having two sharp edges

'''accretive''' 
of or pertaining to the process of natural growth

'''autonomical''' 
of or pertaining to the reflexive or autonomic nervous system [archaic, autonomic is much the more commonly used term in centuries 20-21]

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'''machine-language''' 
a coding system for computers that requires no compiling before running

'''Orinda CA''' 
A small, wealthy city in Conta Costa County, immediately east of the Oakland-Berkeley metro area and about 18 miles northeast of San Francisco

'''me droogies''' 
Struck is speaking in Nadsat, the language of Anthony Burgess's novel ''A Clockwork Orange'', which is based on Russian. ''Droogies'' is Nadsat for "friends."

'''kertwanging''' 
from context, this would seem to be when an opponent is intentionally making bad calls to win points.

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'''Mein kinder''' 
German: "My children". But wrong grammar! "Mein" is singular, "kinder" is plural. "My children" would be "Meine Kinder"

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'''Wagenknecht''' 
sort of a formal German word for "chauffeur." [No, as native speaker, I do not agree. It is a quiet family name, meaning something like "cart-worker", but nobody would call a chauffeur that way!]

'''guilloche''' 
"an ornamental pattern or border, as in architecture, consisting of paired ribbons or lines flowing in interlaced curves around a series of circular voids" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary''); see below

[[Image:Guilloche molding.jpg]]

'''A la contraire''' 
A French mistake: Should be ''au contraire'' (masculine) [but consider the speaker, an adolescent non-wizard]

'''gingival mound''' 
mound of gum tissue

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'''aperçu''' 
an insight

=Mario Incandenza's romantic experience=
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'''post-prandial''' 
after a meal

'''two hundred kilos''' 
over 440 pounds

'''Southpaw''' 
left-handed

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'''doffed''' 
doff is to take off or tip in salutation (don off)

'''coiffure''' 
hairdo

'''osseously''' 
Osseous means "bone-like."

'''reticulate''' 
in a net-like or network pattern

'''chill dusk''' 
George Eliot (born Mary Anne Evans; 1819-1880), the British novelist, uses the expression in her novel [http://www.fullbooks.com/Adam-Bede.html Adam Bede].

'''easement''' 
Literally meaning the use of something legally not one's own, here it's used to mean a new path beaten through a thicket.

'''kliegs''' 
short form for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klieg Klieg light]

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'''Betty Stove''' 
Betty Stöve (born 1945) is a Dutch former professional tennis player and winner of ten Grand Slam titles

'''Montclair NJ''' 
a suburb about twenty miles west-northwest of New York City

'''Con-Edison''' 
Consolidated Edison, the utilities company serving New York

'''three meters tall''' 
about nine feet, ten inches tall

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'''Weber Grill''' 
a real brand, you can see examples [http://www.weberstuff.com/?gclid=CK71gtmRyI8CFQIQFQodpCUq9A here]

'''Passaic NJ''' 
near Montclair, Passaic is another western suburb of New York

'''capering''' 
To caper is to skip about in a playful manner.

'''rondelling''' 
To rondel (more properly, roundel) is to dance in a circle

'''simpering''' 
To simper is to smile coyly.

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

'''boscages''' 
masses of trees or shrubs

'''jetéed''' 
To jeté is to jump ballet-style.

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'''lamé''' 
an ornamental fabric incorporating threads of gold or silver

'''Titian''' 
Tiziano Vecellio (1485-1576) was a Venetian painter.

'''poison sumac''' 
a tall shrub containing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urushiol urushiol], which causes a rash similar to poison ivy

'''ambient''' 
of or pertaining to the surrounding environment

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'''les salles de danser''' 
French: dancing rooms
: Broken French. ''Les salles de danse'' would be correct.

'''Val d'Or, Québec''' 
city of northern Québec, 325 miles northwest of Montreal

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'''eidetic''' 
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_memory photographic memory]

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'''murated''' 
a rarely used English word (found in ''OED'') meaning "surrounded by walls", from French: 'mur' = wall

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'''payloaders''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loader_(equipment) construction equipment]

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'''Fauteuil de rollent''' 
: French for ''wheelchair'' is ''fauteuil roulant''.

'''Brockengespenst'''

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken_spectre.

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'''Bureau des services sans spécificité''' 
French for ''unspecified'' is ''non spécifié''; ''sans spécificité'' means ''without specificity'', i.e., generic.

'''c'était la guerre'''

It was war.
: ''c’était de bonne guerre'' (it was fair game) seems more fitting, possibly what DFW meant.

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'''agnate''' 
Paternal, related on the father's side. In this case agnate seems to mean that the shadows come from the same source, the setting sun. 

'''samizdat''' 
самиздать From the Russian verb "to publish on one's own" or "to self-publish." Originally used to denote underground publications in the Soviet Union, now used more generally for dissident activity[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat]

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'''stenographer-cum-''jeune-fille-de-Vendredi''''' 
secretary who takes diction AND devoted assistant. ''Jeune-fille-de-Vendredi'' is French for "young girl Friday." "Man Friday" (or "girl Friday") is a term that means a very competent and loyal servant or assistant, and originates from the Friday of ''Robinson Crusoe''.

'''amaneunsis''' 
Misspelling of ''amanuensis'' (secretary).

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=Feral Hamsters=

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'''uremic''' 

of or involving excess nitrogenous waste products in the urine

'''somatic''' 

of or relating to the body, esp. as distinct from the mind.

'''Champaign IL''' 
He probably attends the [http://www.uiuc.edu/ University of Illinois] main campus at Urbana-Champaign, formerly Champaign-Urbana.

'''Ward and June''' 
The mother's and father's names on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_It_To_Beaver ''Leave It to Beaver'']

'''pedalferrous''' 
pedalfer is a soil type composed of aluminum and iron oxides. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedalfer apparently a neologism, the word would mean "of or pertaining to foot metal," i.e., fast driving

'''fallow''' 

plowed and harrowed but left unsown for a period in order to restore its fertility as part of a crop rotation or to avoid surplus production

'''fulvous''' 
in color, yellow-gray to yellowish-brown

'''teratogenic''' 
having an ill effect on the development of a fetus

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

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''''''n sûr''''' 
An elision of ''bien sûr'', French for "of course"

'''electrolysis''' 

the removal of hair roots or small blemishes on the skin by the application of heat using an electric current.

==Page 94==

'''Sterling UL35 9 mm machine pistol with Mag Na Port silencer''' 
Sterling is a real British gun manufacturer and [http://www.magnaport.com/ Mag-Na-Port] is real also, but this particular gun model is apparently made-up.

'''Charleston''' 
a dance popular in the 1920s

'''mesquite''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesquite mesquite] plant

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=YDAU - ETA Locker Room=

==Page 95==

'''Barbicide''' 
a brand name of disinfectant used for combs and hairbrushes

'''Tolstoy's sentence''' 
The question probably referred to the opening lines of Leo Tolstoy's ''Anna Karenina:'' "HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

'''Michael Pemulis, ..., clear his throat deeply''' 
this grammatical error appears shortly after a discussion of a class on grammar

==Page 96==

'''No cathode gun. No phosphenic screen.''' 
A cathode gun is an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_gun electron gun] used in a cathode ray tube. "Phosphenic" refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene phosphenes].

'''UHF''' 
Ultra High Frequency

==Page 97==

'''acutance''' 
the edge contrast of an image. Hal appears to be correct insofar as contrast is more or less the same as resolution. Acutance is related to a pulse's slope and height. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acutance

'''halation''' 
blurring of a visual image by glare

'''quiescent''' 
still or at rest

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 97==

'''digitate''' 
“having deep radiating divisions” (OED)

=ETA Locker Room, cont.=

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'''Zoltan''' 
Zoltán was a 10th century ruler of Hungary.

'''Csikzentmihalyi''' 
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (''sic'') is a psychologist best known for his concept of "flow", a psychological state where one "is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity", e.g. "being in the zone" while playing sports.

'''Idris Arslanian, new this year, ethnically vague''' 
Idris is an Arabic name, corresponding in the Qur'an to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch%2C_ancestor_of_Noah Enoch] in the Bible. The last name Arslanian sounds Armenian, though ''Arslan'' is a Turkish word for "lion."

'''R.A.''' 
Resident Assistant

'''Tex Watson''' 
Besides a character in ''Infinite Jest,'' Tex Watson was the nickname of Charles Watson, one of the chief murderers in the Charles Manson Family.

'''ephebes''' 
An ephebe is an adolescent male.

'''attritive''' 
[OED] gradually wearing away or weakening something or someone

'''suppliants''' 
A suppliant is a petitioner.

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'''sienna''' 
[or siena] a yellowish- to reddish-brown pigment

'''louvered''' 
fitted with angled slats, the better to permit passage of light or air

'''thoracic''' 
having to do with the chest

'''atavistically''' 
Atavism means reversion to an earlier evolutionary type; i.e., Hal's complexion resembles his grandparents or earlier ancestors more than his parents

'''piebald''' 
having patches of different colors

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'''cognomen''' 
a nickname

'''inflation-generative grammar''' 
i.e. a set of rules to generate phrases of increasing emphasis

==Page 101==

'''semion''' 
from context, it means sign or gesture, evincing with semaphore a common ancestor. [A semion is technically part of an anyon, the latter of which is defined in the ''OED'' as "a particle having characteristics intermediate between those of fermions and bosons in two-dimensional space." However, it seems Wallace uses the word as a form closer to "semiotics."] A later search reveals that ''semion'' is Greek for "sign."

'''Umbrian''' 
From the Italian ''reggione'' of Umbria, in central Italy. Hal is Italian on his father's side, as well as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pima Pima] Native American. His mother, of course, is French-Canadian.

'''Brylcreemed''' 
Used as a verb here, [http://www.brylcreemusa.com/ Brylcreem] is a brand name of men's hair grooming product.

'''zygomatics''' 
the cheekbones, so-called, or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygomatics zygomatic bones] of the face

==Page 102==

'''haul ashes''' 
For a history of this term, click [http://www.wordwizard.com/ch_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6859 here]. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=haul%20your%20ashes

'''Johnny Mathis's "Chances Are"''' 
listen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEH3uqbpsm8 here] 

==Page 103==

'''Luther's 16th-century shoes, awaiting epiphany''' 
Martin Luther (1483-1546), German father of the Reformation, was a notorious sufferer of constipation.

'''hobnailed boots''' 
boots assembled with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobnail hobnails]

==Endnote 43==
'''Crohn's''' 
The disease is named for Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884-1983), American gastroenterologist.

==Page 103, cont.==

'''carminative''' 
combatting or expelling flatulence

'''gout''' 
a disease characterized by the collection of uric acid in the joints

'''Port Washington''' 
There are three cities by this name in the U.S.: In New York, Wisconsin, and Ohio.

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'''woppsed up''' 
a created word, apparently something like "wadded up"

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 105==

'''Tristan and Isolde''' 
star-crossed lovers from Arthurian myth

'''Lancelot and what's-her-name''' 
Guinevere

'''Agamemnon and Helen''' 
Steeply has this one wrong. Helen abandoned her husband, Menelaus, the brother of Agamemnon, to flee to Troy with Paris, younger brother of Hector.

'''Dante and Beatrice''' 
Beatrice is Dante's guide through heaven in the third part of the ''Divine Comedy'', ''Paradiso''

'''Narcissus and Echo''' 
The story of these doomed lovers from Greek mythology is [http://thanasis.com/echo.htm here].

'''Kierkegaard and Regina''' 
Regina Olsen was the short-term fiancée of Kierkegaard.

'''Kafka and that poor girl afraid to go the postbox for the mail''' 
The story being referred to can be read [http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.jsp?what=KafkaDoll here].

'''Menelaus was husband, him of Sparta''' 
Menelaus, King of Sparta, was the husband of Helen. Agamemnon was the King of Argos and Menelaus's brother.

'''Helen and Paris. He of Troy.''' 
Paris, a Trojan prince, kidnapped Helen from Menelaus, precipitating the Trojan War.

'''The horse: the gift which was not a gift''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Horse Trojan horse]

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'''electrolysistic''' 
resulting from electrolysis, the removal of hair using electric shocks

'''sangfroid''' 
From French for "cold blood," this word means "coolness," as in composure under pressure

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'''creosote''' 
There are several types of creosote, described [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creosote here].

'''crepuscular''' 
active in the twilight, as bats, deer, many mosquitos

==Endnote 45==

==Endnote 304==

[[Notes_and_Errata_-_Pages_983-1079#Endnote_304_.C2.B7_The_Train_Game|Notes and Errata - Endnote 304]]

==Page 109==

'''gibbous''' 
bulging outwards: the shape of the moon when it is neither full, nor crescent, nor half, i.e., when it is more than half full

'''Quonsets''' 
short form for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut Quonset huts]

=November 3rd, YDAU - Advice to Little Brothers=

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==Page 110==

'''Stan Smith''' 
Born in 1946, Smith is a retired professional tennis player, having won Wimbledon and the U.S. Open once each.

'''dessicated''' 
dried out

==Endnote 46==

'''corticatization''' 
probably a misspelling of [http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?query=corticalization&action=Search+OMD corticalization]

==Page 111==

'''bow-biters''' 
1980's [http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Bow_Biters plastic clips] that help keep shoe laces tied

'''E.N.T. oncologist''' 
ear, nose, and throat; an oncologist is a cancer physician

'''violas''' 
A viola is a like a violin, only slightly larger and deeper in tone.

==Page 112==

'''''E Unibus Pluram''''' 
Latin wordplay on ''E pluribus unum'' ("From many, one"), the U.S. motto. This would mean "From one, many." Note that the correct Latin would be something like ''Ex uno plures'' or ''Ex uno plura'' (depending on what "many" is meant to refer to).

==Page 113==

'''Solipsism''' 
a kind of narcissism based on the idea that one's own mind is all one can ever truly know to exist

'''''ballet de se''''' 

mangled French: Ballet of (itself). ballet de soi would probably be closer.

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==Page 115==

'''plateaux''' 
the proper French plural of "plateau," rather than "plateaus"
: Indeed, but the conversation takes place orally and this X is silent in French, as is the S. The only context in which it is not silent is when there is a word beginning with a vowel after it, but even then, X is pronounced like S.

'''slog''' 
to work with sustained effort against a natural resistance over a period of time

==Page 116==

'''Banzai!''' 
a Japanese battle cry

'''hangdog''' 
browbeaten or intimidated

==Page 117==

'''croupiers''' 
attendants at gambling casinos

'''plasticene''' 
misspelling of Plasticine, a brand name of plastic used for making molds

'''ancipitals''' 
having two sharp edges

'''accretive''' 
of or pertaining to the process of natural growth

'''autonomical''' 
of or pertaining to the reflexive or autonomic nervous system [archaic, autonomic is much the more commonly used term in centuries 20-21]

==Page 118==

'''machine-language''' 
a coding system for computers that requires no compiling before running

'''Orinda CA''' 
A small, wealthy city in Conta Costa County, immediately east of the Oakland-Berkeley metro area and about 18 miles northeast of San Francisco

'''me droogies''' 
Struck is speaking in Nadsat, the language of Anthony Burgess's novel ''A Clockwork Orange'', which is based on Russian. ''Droogies'' is Nadsat for "friends."

'''kertwanging''' 
from context, this would seem to be when an opponent is intentionally making bad calls to win points.

==Page 119==

'''Mein kinder''' 
German: "My children". But wrong grammar! "Mein" is singular, "kinder" is plural. "My children" would be "Meine Kinder"

==Page 120==

'''Wagenknecht''' 
sort of a formal German word for "chauffeur." [No, as native speaker, I do not agree. It is a quiet family name, meaning something like "cart-worker", but nobody would call a chauffeur that way!]

'''guilloche''' 
"an ornamental pattern or border, as in architecture, consisting of paired ribbons or lines flowing in interlaced curves around a series of circular voids" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary''); see below

[[Image:Guilloche molding.jpg]]

'''A la contraire''' 
A French mistake: Should be ''au contraire'' (masculine) [but consider the speaker, an adolescent non-wizard]

'''gingival mound''' 
mound of gum tissue

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'''aperçu''' 
an insight

=Mario Incandenza's romantic experience=
==Page 121==

'''post-prandial''' 
after a meal

'''two hundred kilos''' 
over 440 pounds

'''Southpaw''' 
left-handed

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'''doffed''' 
doff is to take off or tip in salutation (don off)

'''coiffure''' 
hairdo

'''osseously''' 
Osseous means "bone-like."

'''reticulate''' 
in a net-like or network pattern

'''chill dusk''' 
George Eliot (born Mary Anne Evans; 1819-1880), the British novelist, uses the expression in her novel [http://www.fullbooks.com/Adam-Bede.html Adam Bede].

'''easement''' 
Literally meaning the use of something legally not one's own, here it's used to mean a new path beaten through a thicket.

'''kliegs''' 
short form for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klieg Klieg light]

==Page 123==

'''Betty Stove''' 
Betty Stöve (born 1945) is a Dutch former professional tennis player and winner of ten Grand Slam titles

'''Montclair NJ''' 
a suburb about twenty miles west-northwest of New York City

'''Con-Edison''' 
Consolidated Edison, the utilities company serving New York

'''three meters tall''' 
about nine feet, ten inches tall

==Page 124==

'''Weber Grill''' 
a real brand, you can see examples [http://www.weberstuff.com/?gclid=CK71gtmRyI8CFQIQFQodpCUq9A here]

'''Passaic NJ''' 
near Montclair, Passaic is another western suburb of New York

'''capering''' 
To caper is to skip about in a playful manner.

'''rondelling''' 
To rondel (more properly, roundel) is to dance in a circle

'''simpering''' 
To simper is to smile coyly.

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

'''boscages''' 
masses of trees or shrubs

'''jetéed''' 
To jeté is to jump ballet-style.

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'''lamé''' 
an ornamental fabric incorporating threads of gold or silver

'''Titian''' 
Tiziano Vecellio (1485-1576) was a Venetian painter.

'''poison sumac''' 
a tall shrub containing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urushiol urushiol], which causes a rash similar to poison ivy

'''ambient''' 
of or pertaining to the surrounding environment

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=April 30th, YDAU - Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 126==

'''les salles de danser''' 
French: dancing rooms

'''Val d'Or, Québec''' 
city of northern Québec, 325 miles northwest of Montreal

==Page 127==

'''eidetic''' 
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_memory photographic memory]

=April 30th, YDAU - Still More Marathe & Steeply=

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'''murated''' 
a rarely used English word (found in ''OED'') meaning "surrounded by walls", from French: 'mur' = wall

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=November 20th, YDAU - Pre-Exhibition Fête=

==Page 964==
'''Gaudeamus Igitur''' 
Latin: " so let us rejoice", an ancient academic drinking song now popular as a graduation hymn, whose text pokes fun at university life and urges students to enjoy life while they can.

'''claret-colored''' 
A deep purplish red. Claret is also the name of a wine that is produced in the Bordeaux region of France and slang for 'blood'.[http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fuller's+earth]

'''fuller's earth or sawdust''' 
Fuller's earth is an absorbent clay that is used in talcum powder. Sawdust and chalk (talcum) are used by tennis players to keep their grip dry.
[http://www.usta.com/USTA/Global/Archive/News/Lessons/Lessons/444102_The_Final_Word_Chalking_Up.aspx]

==Page 965==

'''shifted antigens''' 
An antigenic shift generally refers to the medical term that explains how two strains of the influenza virus join together to form a new subtype and, in turn, become more virulent. The new subtype has a mixture of the antigens from the originals. An antigen is the substance that stimulates the immune system. [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/926623/antigenic-shift]

It's used here to refer to rumors about severe weather and the Quebec Junior Team. These rumors undergo an antigenic shift as they circulate around the locker room. They combine and are reconstituted as a new rumor before being returned to the rumor's originator. 

'''the Csikszentmihalyi kid was doing a kind of piaffer''' 
A piaffer is a trot in place where the legs are lifted high. This type of trot is usually done by a horse, but it's part of the 'Csikszentmihalyi kid's' pre-game ritual to stretch his hip flexors. 

The name Csikszentmihalyi may be a humorous nod to the Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi who is noted for his work in happiness and creativity. He is known as the world's leading researcher on positive psychology and proposed the concept of Flow. Flow is the mental state whereby a person is fully immersed and focused on an activity (such as Tennis). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi] 

'''hip-flexors''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_flexor muscles] that move the hip

'''an ascot or a very fey tie''' 
An ascot is a scarf or tie with broad ends typically worn for formal occasions[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascot_tie]. If the tie very fey, it is excessively refined [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fey] or fancy to the point that it could be confused with an ascot.

'''astringent''' 
a substance or preparation, such as alum, that draws together or constricts body tissues and is effective in stopping the flow of blood or other secretions

'''invoking Camilla, goddess of speed and light step''' 
Camilla of Volsci, a heroine from Roman Mythology, found in Virgil's prose and ancient pottery paintings. Virgil claimed Camilla was so fast that she could run across the ocean without wetting her feet and across fields of grain without bending the grass. [http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Camilla_(mythology)] To 'invoke' is to petition for help with an incantation.[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/invoking]

==Page 966==

'''Frankenstein''' 
or, more correctly, Frankenstein's monster

'''Hal''' 
who is clearly not narrating anymore, unless he is speaking of himself in the third person

'''malleolus''' 
a bony lump on the side of the ankle

'''Joni Mitchell''' 
Joni Mitchell (born Roberta Joan Anderson in 1943) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter and painter. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_Mitchell Wikipedia Entry].

'''occluded''' 
Closed off, shut in, or blocked off [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/occlude]

'''they all in here existed basically as Fourier Transforms of postures and little routines''' 

A Fourier transform is a mathematical operation that transforms one function into another. This type of transform is named in honour of Joseph Fourier. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fourier] To exist basically as Fourier Transforms of postures and routines is to exist as an abstraction where a student is trained in postures and routines is transformed into tennis player capable of executing a variation of those postures and routines.

It is also worth noting that the Fourier transform converts a signal from the time domain (that is, that the signal is a function of time) to the frequency domain (no longer a function of time but of frequency, the function being composed of wave functions). The implication being that all the "postures and little routines" are composed of repeated actions (analogous to the waves that make up a Fourier series) and can be expressed in a time independent manner.

'''ingenuish''' 
in the manner of an ingenue, an innocent young woman

'''moribund''' 
nearing death or in a terminal decline [http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/moribund?view=uk]

==Page 967==

'''Y.T.M.P.''' 
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]

'''ciquatoxic''' 
An alternate or mispelling of 'ciguatoxic'. Reef fish can carry ciguatoxins, which cause ciguatera food poisoning [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciguatera] in humans who consume the contaminated fish. These toxins may be specific to certain reefs, are concentrated up the food chain and as such are more likely to be present in larger reef fish, and cannot be destroyed by cooking and freezing. For more, see [http://www.livefoodfishtrade.org/definitions.htm here].

'''R.C. clergy''' 
Roman Catholic priesthood

'''P.O.''' 
philharmonic orchestra

'''Carmelite''' 
a member of the Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a Catholic order.

'''liniment''' 
a liquid preparation rubbed into the skin or gums as a counterirritant, rubefacient, anodyne, or cleansing agent

==Page 968==

'''Sanger-Brown's ataxia''' 
another name for [http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/1672.html Marie's ataxia]

'''St. John's Seminary''' 
an actual institution in Brighton

'''reading his hours''' 
The Liturgy of the Hours is the set of daily prayers prescribed by the Catholic Church as part of the canonical obligation of those ordained as deacons. The prayers take place throughout the day: Matins or Vigils, during the night; Lauds or Dawn Prayer; Prime or Early Morning Prayer; Terce or Mid-Morning Prayer; Sext or Midday Prayer; None or Mid-Afternoon Prayer; Vespers or Evening Prayer; Compline or Night prayer.

'''practicum''' 
the student-teaching portion of a teaching education

'''spiritually necrotic''' 
Necrosis usually refers to the localized death of cells within healthy tissue. To be spiritually necrotic is akin to having a dead spirit in an otherwise healthy body.

'''Jesuitical Endeavors''' 
An endeavor is a purposeful undertaking that requires boldness. Jesuitical endeavors are those undertaken as part of a Jesuit ministry.

'''Numero Uno''' 
Spanish for ''Number One'', used here as an expression to mean concern about only oneself.

'''Flexor carpi ulnaris muscle''' 
Muscle in the side of the forearm, used to twist the hand side to side, thus important when tossing playing cards.

'''ineluctable''' 
incapable of being avoided or changed

'''Apologia''' 
An Apologia is a defense of one's beliefs, religious or other. Here, Barry is out of his league in his ability to put up a good defense of the religious beliefs that may help get his brother out of his own spiritual funk.

==Page 969==

'''self-mimetic''' 
imitating one's self

'''not that much unlike Alyosha and Ivan's conversations in the good old ''Brothers K''.''' 
''The Brother's Karamazov'' is a novel by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881). Ivan and Alyosha, main characters in the novel, are siblings. Alyosha has a faith in God that manifests in a love of mankind and Ivan is a rationalist who is burdened by his inability or unwillingness to believe in a God that could preside over an unjust world. In the novel the brothers, Ivan and Alyosha, discuss their opposing beliefs.

'''erudite''' 
scholarly

'''carcinogenic''' 
causing cancer

'''acerbity''' 
acidity

'''Ivan's Grand Inquisitor scenario''' 
Read this portion [http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/philosophy/existentialism/dostoevsky/grand.html here].

'''lumpen''' 
marginalized; uneducated and/or unenlightened; disenfranchised

'''solar plexus''' 
a complex of nerves in the abdomen. Taking blows to the solar plexus refers to the sensation of "having the wind knocked out of you", as the solar plexus is involved in the autonomic activity of respiration.

'''verminousness''' 
resembling vermin

'''mufti''' 
civilian dress; also a name for a type of Muslim scholar

==Page 970==

'''alms''' 
charity

'''silt''' 
very small grains of rock or sand

==Page 971==

'''fuliginous''' 
smoky or sooty

'''the then-Head Trainer suffered the terrible accident […]''' 
this has got to be Lyle, who came back as a wraith. He can levitate, licks sweat off people (he died of dehydration), talks about death, can visit Gately in the same way as Himself’s wraith.

'''50° C''' 
122° Fahrenheit

=Orin=
==Page 971==

==Page 972==

''''Do it to her!''' '''''Do it to her!'''''' 
a reference to George Orwell's 1984. Winston Smith shouts 'Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia!' under similar circumstances.

'''ham''' 
an actor who is bad by virtue of over-acting

=Final Chapter=

==Page 972==

'''confiteor''' 
a prayer of confession of sins

==Page 973==

==Endnote 385==

'''gram-negative''' 
This refers to a bacterium that does not show up in a violet stain using Gram's method; in other words, the doctor suspects that Gately has a particularly resistant strain of bacteria within his body, which previous antibiotics given to him have been ineffective in eliminating.

==Page 973 (cont.)==

'''...look down her shirt and spell ''attic''...''' 
and thus saying, "A-T-T-I-C" or "a titty I see"

''''The truth will [you] set you free,...'''' 
See the Gospel of John 8:32.

==Page 974==

'''vertical hold''' 
the control on a television that prevents the picture from rolling bottom to top

==Page 975==

[[Image:Weejun.jpg|thumb|right|Men's cordovan Bass Weejun]]

'''Weejuns''' 
G. H. Bass & Co.'s tradename for its line of men's and women's penny loafer shoes (see right)

==Page 976==

'''Jack Daniels''' 
a famous brand of bourbon whiskey

==Page 977==

'''S&W''' 
Smith & Wesson

'''"The contorted face... "''' 
The painting of Whitey Sorkin is the same one that had Hal "popping Nunhagen compulsively until his ears started ringing" when it appeared in the advertisement for Nunhagen Aspirin Co. created by Viney and Veals Advertising. See footnote 162.

'''2500-IU ampule''' 
IUs are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_unit international units], which converts to metric depending on the substance.

'''transvestals''' 
i.e., transvestites

==Page 978==

==Endnote 386==

'''Exocet''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exocet missile]

'''antagonists''' 
a drug that acts against an agonist, i.e., a drug that stimulates a certain receptor

==Page 978 (cont'd)==

'''Linda McCartney''' 
Linda Louise, Lady McCartney (1941-1998) was an American photographer and wife of Beatle Paul McCartney (born 1943).

'''"....somebody had taken an old disk of McCartney and Wings [...] and run it through a Kurtzweil remixer and removed every track on the songs except the tracks of poor old Mrs. Linda McCartney singing backup and playing tambourine"''' 
An alleged isolated vocal track of Linda McCartney singing along to "Hey Jude" at a concert did circulate, but the production itself may have been a hoax. For more, see [http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/03/audio_hoaxes_an.html here].
Kurtzweil appears to be a misspelling of Kurzweil, referring to Ray Kurzweil, an inventor in audio and speech technologies, artificial intelligence, and futurist author. See
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil].

==Endnote 387==

'''pentazocine''' 
a synethetic opioid painkiller

==Endnote 387a==

'''dysmenorrhea''' 
pre-menstrual syndrome and/or painful periods

'''PX''' 
with a pharmaceutical as part of the name, it means it contains pentazocine

==Page 979==

'''hot shot''' 
an injection intended to kill

==Page 980==

'''ditty''' 
a little song

==Page 981==

'''"...the one about ultraviolence and sadism."''' 
Gately is thinking of Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/ "A Clockwork Orange."]

'''"...the last thing Gately saw was an Oriental bearing down with the held square and he looked into the square and saw clearly a reflection of his own big square pale head with its eyes closing as the floor finally pounced."''' 
See page 934: "He dreams he looks in a mirror and sees nothing and keeps trying to clean the mirror with his sleeve."

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==Page 755==

'''Wagnerian bass''' 
grandiose and stentorian (in the lower register) in the manner of German opera composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

'''arteries''' 
this is anatomically bizarre. Veins do not show pulses, with the exception of the external jugular, in the neck, not the arms. Arteries are not visibly “treed,” except in the anatomy lab or surgical suite, but in muscular individuals “treed” veins are readily visible.

==Page 756==

'''varicoceles''' 
plural of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varicoceles varicocele] (also "varicoscele"), an abnormal enlargement of veins in the scrotum, resembling a tangled skein of worms

'''a duet''' 
possibly "O sink hernieder, Nacht der Liebe" ("O sink down, night of love") sung by the title lovers in Act Two of Wagner's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_und_Isolde ''Tristan und Isolde'']

'''high D''' 
the D (designated D6) that is two octaves above the D above middle C (C4); considered the upper limit of the dramatic soprano range

'''Felicity Zweig''' 
"Felicity" means happiness, while ''Zweig'' is German for "stick" or "branch."

==Page 757==

'''Gilbert Treffert''' 
still not a real player

'''whistling 'Dixie.'''' 
See the discussion of this phrase in section 6 of the Wikipedia entry on the 19th-century American popular [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_(song)#Whistling_.22Dixie.22 song], once considered the unofficial national anthem of the Confederate States of America.

==Page 758==

'''Lord’s head and Penn’s leg, the Postman’s broken nose.''' 
The rhythm of this otherwise dry recitation of nicknames and injuries suggests a London nursery rhyme.
: The second part is a reference to a French nursery rhyme, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rz8gTYEtx4 Pirouette cacahuète], in which a postman breaks the tip of his nose. In this context, the Postman is Possalthwaite "Postal Weight".

'''shower-thongs''' 
footgear worn in the shower, not undergarments worn on the crotch

==Endnote 316==

'''Opheliac''' 
neologism, resembling Hamlet's girlfriend — see ''Hamlet'' IV.v

==Page 760==

'''Montague Semantics''' 
This is a form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montague_grammar natural language semantics].

==Endnote 317==

'''wildly expensive hdcover''' 
It's a real book and the hardcover goes for $105.85. It has been issued in softcover for $29. The publication information is either wrong or varies.

'''Plc''' 
public limited company

==Page 760 (cont'd)==

'''ten meters''' 
about 32.8 feet

'''plastron''' 
Definitions include: 1. the starched front of a shirt; 2. a large pad worn by a fencer to protect the chest; and 3. The part of a tortoise's shell that covers the underside. Mario wears an apparatus something like a tortoise's shell that fits around his deformed torso and allows him to carry his camera equipment in the pack on his back.

'''intercept''' 
malaprop, interrupt

==Page 761==

'''cowlick''' 
a patch of hair standing on end, or an unruly whorl of hair, especially when disagreeably situated, as in at the hairline in front.

'''pennon''' 
a pennant or flag or banner

'''peripatetic''' 
walking around, But this speaker is the Moms and the writer is DFW, so this is probably a good time to remember that in Aristotelian drama, periptaeia refers to the reversal of fortune.

==Page 762==

'''swotting''' 
hard studying, cramming

==Page 763==

==Page 764==

'''intuiting''' 
knowing without having been told

==Page 765==

'''Bic''' 
A manufacturer of inexpensive ball-point pens. Probably blue, here.

'''St. Pamphile''' 
This is a town close to Québec City; Pamphile is [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11436b.htm St. Pamphilus].

==Page 766==

'''striped like a flea''' 
meaning transversely (w/r/t/ the longitudinal axis of a flea) apparenty striped, he effect produced by the variegation of the overlapping scales on the body of a flea

==Page 767==

'''maundering''' 
talking in a rambling, foolish way

==Page 768==

'''incontinent''' 
Having no or insufficient voluntary control over urination or defecation

==Page 769==

'''tumid''' 
swollen

=Hal fills Mario in on the aftermath of the Eschaton incident=

==Page 769==

'''"Thank you Sir may I have another"''' 
a line from the film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077975/ "Animal House"] (1978)

==Page 770==

'''segue''' 
from Italian, pronounced SEG-way, a smooth transition from one thing to another

==Page 771==

'''unbent''' 
not having yielded or submitted

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

==Page 772==

'''Panglossian''' 
Pangloss is a comically optimistic character in Voltaire's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candide Candide], who believes himself and his fellows to be living in "the best of all possible worlds."

==Page 773==

'''true''' 
on target

'''mendaciously''' 
in a manner of one who is lying

'''rococo''' 
ornate or florid in speech

'''tersely''' 
in a manner using few words

==Page 774==

'''Eve Arden''' 
Eve Arden (1908-1990) was an American actress. But Mario seems to be thinking of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Arden Elizabeth Arden] (1884-1966), who founded a cosmetics company.

=Marathe and Kate G. go drinking=

==Page 774==

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

==Page 775==

'''''Big Book''''' 
the AA handbook

==Page 776==

==Page 777==

'''moribund''' 
In terminal decline; lacking vitality or vigor

'''Provincial''' 
Switzerland does not have provinces; it has cantons.

==Page 778==

'''Swiss metal helmets''' 
Kate is probably thinking "Swedish" as in a Viking's helmet.

'''''schüssch''''' 
He probably means ''schuss'', i.e., skiing.

==Page 779==

'''Kahlua''' 
the Mexican coffee-flavored, rum-based liqueur, actually spelled with an accent: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahl%C3%BAa Kahlúa]

'''restenosis''' 
recurrence of stenosis, i.e., narrowing of blood vessels

'''Garçon!''' 
French: Boy! (used in reference to the waiter)

'''n'est ce―''' 
Marathe trails off in the middle of ''n'est ce pas?'' (French: isn't it?)

==Page 780==

'''m'épouse au future''' 
French: future spouse

'''hôpital of grave nature''' 
possibly "hospital of (for the) seriously injured (or, in the case of Gertraude, the comatose)

'''Jaarvik''' 
misspelling of "Jarvik"

==Page 781==

'''Swisshead''' 
She may be using this particular epithet to mean "one who has holes in his head," à la Swiss cheese.

==Page 782==

'''''I voot make ze hreply zat''''' 
i.e., I would make the reply that — Kate making fun of Marathe's accent

=Hal and Mario, cont.=

==Page 782==

'''Irish Spring''' 
i.e., a strong-smelling brand of soap

==Page 783==

'''poppy-seed bagel''' 
conventional wisdom has it that eating such bagels could cause one to test positive for opiates

'''snuffle''' 
to sniff as in trying to detect something

'''Indy-type''' 
they clear the system very quickly

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

'''Ginsu''' 
a brand of steak knives, once marketed with late-night television commercials

'''Calli tea''' 
Read about this [http://www.diana2.com/calli_tea.html here].

==Page 784==

'''tit''' 
The OED was no help

==Page 785==

'''pores''' 
i.e., pores over books, reads them carefully

'''aprick''' 
neologism, upright, turned toward the source of sound (here used to modify ears)

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==Page 531==

'''boilermakers''' 
shots of whiskey chased with beer

'''keep''' 
i.e., the barkeep

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'''blotto''' 
extremely drunk

'''Cumberland''' 
This must refer to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_River Cumberland River], which flows into the Ohio near Paducah, in the western part of Kentucky, close to Joelle's home town of Shiny Prize (see page 237).

'''O.D.''' 
overdose

==Page 533==

'''metronome''' 
a time-keeping device for musicians, typically a pendulum-like machine that clicks to provide meter

'''caparison''' 
rich and sumptuous clothing or equipment

==Page 534==

'''a Type and a Symbol''' 
These words are used by Mr. Hooper to describe the veil he wears in Nathaniel Hawthorne's story, [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Minister's_Black_Veil "The Minister's Black Veil."]

==Page 535==

'''gregarious''' 
sociable

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==Page 538==

'''slavering''' 
drooling

=☽ - Randy Lenz: Rats, Cats, and Dogs=

==Page 538==

'''Duster''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Duster Plymouth Duster] was a sporty compact available from 1970 to 1976

'''12-gauge blast''' 
as from as 12-gauge shotgun

==Page 539==

'''loafer one''' 
presumably first step of the day, meaning Lenz never leaves Ennet House until after sunset

'''E.M.I.T.''' 
enzyme-multiplied immunoassay technique

==Page 540==

==Endnote 224==

'''EZC''' 
i.e., "easy see"

'''NAL''' 
New American Library

'''Ticknor, Fields''' 
Ticknor and Fields was a publishing house eventually bought by Houghton Mifflin in 1880.

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

==Page 540 (cont'd)==

'''W-E''' 
west-east

'''trebled''' 
tripled in number or magnitude

'''Stegosaurus''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegosaurus dinosaur]

==Page 541==

'''verminal''' 
probably a neologism (by Hal's criteria) for tending to breed vermin

'''cabbaging''' 
stealing

'''brisance''' 
the shattering effect of an explosive

==Page 542==
'''excitatingly''' 
neologism, but probably in a manner characterized by excitation is intended

'''panoply''' 
a wide-ranging array of things

'''A Program of Attraction''' 
AA refers to itself as this, meaning that it doesn't need to advertise.

'''EST and Greenwich Mean''' 
Eastern Standard Time and Greenwich Mean Time, the latter of which is determined at the Prime Meridian, or 0º longitude

'''reseau''' 
réseau is intended, a reference grid of fine lines forming uniform squares on a photographic plate or print, used to aid in measurement

'''DOW''' 
probably the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average Dow Jones Industrial Average]

'''NIKEI''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikkei_225 Nikkei 225] index of the Japanese stock market

==Page 543==
'''Eurotrochaic''' 
neologism: Euro[pean] + trochaic; here, describing the alternating two-note sound of a European emergency siren (trochaic being the adjectival form of "trochee," a metrical foot of poetry comprised of two feet, stressed and unstressed)

'''winsome''' 
charming

'''diverticulitis''' 
inflammation of abnormal outpouchings of the colon

'''gone rye''' 
malaprop: gone awry

'''Principles of Psychology and the Gifford Lectures on Natural Philosophy''' 
"[http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=88 William James’s Gifford Lectures] of 1901–1902 have been heralded by some as the greatest lectures ever to be presented in the series and perhaps the most seminal of his works (alongside The Principles of Psychology). Published initially in 1902, [http://www.csp.org/experience/james-varieties/james-varieties.html The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature] has stood the test of time and been republished thirty-six times."

'''20-gram''' 
About .70 ounces, this is a lot of cocaine.

'''bonerfied''' 
malaprop: bona fide

==Page 544==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Maytag Quietmaster]]

'''ten-kilo''' 
about 22 lbs

'''Caldor-brand''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldor chain] of discount department stores in the US Northeast. The chain closed its last store in 1999.

'''Scopophobic''' 
Of scopophobia; the fear of being seen or stared at.

==Page 545==
'''Bing''' 
cocaine, usually referring to a line of the substance

'''phosphenes''' 
light sensations in the eyes when light is physically absent

'''apnea''' 
the tendency of mainly overweight people to stop breathing intermittently in their sleep

'''hone''' 
a whetstone used to sharpen blades

==Page 546==

'''R. Lauren''' 
Ralph Lauren

'''BYP''' 
Brookline Young People's AA group

==Page 547==

'''formulating''' 
forming

'''tattlemount''' 
tantamount

==Page 548==

=Early November, YDAU - Rodney Tine and the ''Samizdat''=

==Page 548==

'''District''' 
the District of Columbia

==Endnote 228==

'''O.N.R.''' 
perhaps the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Naval_Research Office of Naval Research]

'''ambit''' 
sphere of operation or influence

==Page 548 (cont'd)==

'''twidgelling''' 
not a real word

'''NCA''' 
probably Northern California

'''Code-Five''' 
code for "stakeout in progress"

'''New Iberia LA''' 
a city about 50 miles southwest of Baton Rouge

'''apprised''' 
informed

'''pithed''' 
having had a needle stuck into the base of the skull to sever or destroy the brainstem

'''Academy of D.A.S. (or V.A.S.)''' 
It seems like it's printed as either D.A.S. or V.A.S. These are probably something like "Academy of Digital/Visual Arts and Sciences"

==Page 549==

'''U.S.O.''' 
Undercover Special Operations

'''P.E.T.s''' 
P.E.T. is the acronym for positron emission tomography, a kind of medical imaging technique; these are more commonly called PET scans

'''retinue''' 
a group of attendants, advisers, etc.

=November 9th, YDAU - Pemulis wanders the E.T.A. offices at night=

==Page 550==

'''magical thinking''' 
the correlation of actions and events in the absence of scientific proof

'''pre-Oedipal''' 
occurring prior to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_complex Oedipus complex] typically experienced from ages 3-6

'''cathexis''' 
defined as the process of investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea

==Page 551==

'''exhortation''' 
a speech or discourse that encourages, incites, or earnestly advises

'''greeble''' 
a small piece of detailing added to break up the surface of an object to add visual interest

==Page 552==

'''Filene's''' 
a Boston-based [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filene%27s department store] (and chain), defunct since December 2011

'''chintzy''' 
cheap and low grade

'''Hal's Mumsly-Wumsly''' 
his mother, Avril Incandenza

==Page 553==

'''worsted''' 
firmly twisted yarn

=November 11th, YDAU - Lenz and Green Walking=

==Page 554==

'''RIJID-brand male hairspray''' 
appears to be a fictional brand of hairspray

==Page 555==

'''stepped on''' 
cut, as in weakened the potency of a drug by adding another substance

'''half-kilo''' 
about 1.1 pounds

'''Inositol''' 
the capitalization is inappropriate. It is not a B-vitamin but at one time was thought to be one, "B8." I think from context that cyanocobalamin was intended.

==Endnote 231==

'''Manitol''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannitol mannitol]

==Page 555 (cont'd)==

'''lineskers''' 
lines of powdered cocaine assembled for snorting

'''"...go find a short pier..."''' 
and take a long walk, being the implication

'''aqua-line nose''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooknose aquiline nose]

==Page 556==

'''anileated''' 
annihilated

'''hemispasm''' 
spasm on half of the face

'''insousistent''' 
insouciant, meaning indifferent

'''aplomb''' 
self-assurance

'''skirling''' 
shrilly wailing

'''hackles''' 
the erectile hairs on the back of a dog which rise up out of fear or aggression

'''plumb''' 
exactly

'''to the maximus''' 
maybe just "the maximum" (or "the max"), but also perhaps more Wallace wordplay, as in the ''gluteus maximus'' (the largest of the muscles in the buttocks), and so a pain in the ass

'''myriadly''' 
countlessly

'''parallaxing''' 
The noun [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax ''parallax''] is a visual term; the nonce participle "parallaxing" used to describe noises here, may be Lenz's way of referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_effect Doppler effect], analogous only in terms of issues of positional perspective, of the ''viewer'' of an object at some distance in the case of ''parallex'' and the ''hearer'' of a moving noisemaker (such as the siren on a speeding ambulance) in the case of the ''Doppler shift''.

'''crucifi''' 
Probably Lenz means "crucifixes."

'''crepuscular''' 
relating to twilight, or possibly the animals active at this time

'''threnody''' 
song of mourning for the dead

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'''To Project and to Swerve''' 
a pun on the police motto "To Protect and Serve"

'''hoovered''' 
inhaled (from Hoover, a brand name of vacuum cleaner)

==Endnote 232==

'''benzoylecgonine''' 
the major metabolite of cocaine

'''ecgonine''' 
an organic chemical found naturally in coca leaves

'''nystagmus''' 
a rapid, involuntary, oscillatory motion of the eyeball

'''benzoic acid''' 
the simplest of the aromatic [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboxylic_acid carboxylic acids]

'''Crosbulation''' 
if cocaine is called "Bing," Crosbulation refers to snorting cocaine, referring to the last name of Bing Crosby

'''spider angiomas''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_angioma benign swelling] of the blood vessels just beneath the skin's surface, often containing a central red spot and reddish extensions which radiate outwards like a spider's web

'''rhinorrhagia''' 
bleeding from the nose

'''blepharospecticity''' 
a neologism meaning something like "seeing through one's eyelids," perhaps blepharospasticity misspelt, "spasm of the eyelids"

'''M.A.O.-inhibiting''' 
'''m'''ono'''a'''mine '''o'''xidase inhibitors, potent antidepressants, with many drug-drug and drug-diet interactions

'''ballism''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballism hemiballismus]

'''oral labia''' 
the lips of the mouth

'''Paliacci''' 
a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagliacci Pagliacci] (''Clowns''), an opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), an Italian composer

'''priapism''' 
persistent, usually painful erection of the penis, especially as a consequence of disease and not related to sexual arousal

'''diuresis extremus''' 
Extreme production of urine and, thus, need to urinate. The correct Greek-Latin term should be ''diuresis extrema'', ''diuresis'' being a feminine noun.

'''phobophobia''' 
fear of fear

'''sociosis''' 
a neurosis that has to do with one's ability to deal with society

'''acne rosea''' 
also known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosacea rosacea]

'''rhinophyma''' 
a red nose caused by amassing of granulomas there

'''synergism''' 
the property of things working together

'''confabulation''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation formation of false memories]

'''garrulousness''' 
propensity to ramble

'''phasece''' 
neologism; presumably a back-formation to a plural noun from the adjective 'phasic,' which in medical parlance means "Of the activity of excitable cells or tissues: discontinuous; irregular; not tonic" (OED). "Pulmonary phasece" would be heart palpitations.

'''lingual tendinitis''' 
this would mean inflammation of the tendon of the tongue, but the tongue and mouth lack tendons

==Page 557 (cont'd)==

'''sangfroid''' 
coolness of the blood (from French)

'''fob''' 
an ornament attached to a pocket watch by a chain

'''chamois''' 
Pronounced "shammy," this is a cloth or piece of leather used to shine a surface.

'''''Track and Flange''''' 
not a real magazine

'''flange''' 
a protruding rim, edge, rib, or collar, as on a wheel or a pipe shaft, used to strengthen an object, hold it in place, or attach it to another object

'''ergo''' 
Latin: therefore

'''''energois de vivre''''' 
Something like "life energy" or "life force;" although ''energois'' isn't a real French word, it might be pronounced like ''joie'' as in ''joie de vivre.''

==Page 558==

'''Estuarial crocodile''' 
the [http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Estuarine+crocodile estuarine (saltwater) crocodile]

'''Bonwit's''' 
a reference to the now-defunct upscale department store [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonwit_Teller Bonwit Teller]

'''A.D.A.''' 
American Dental Association

'''akido''' 
Lenz means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikido aikido].

'''valise''' 
a small piece of luggage

'''recurving''' 
i.e., recurring

'''t'ai-chi''' 
alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiji Taiji]

==Page 559==

'''mescal''' 
an alcoholic beverage distilled from a cactus

'''diphthongs''' 
occurrences of two adjacent vowel sounds in a word, e.g, poor, sour, coin

'''cableyarrow''' 
''Caballero'' (Spanish for "gentleman") is what he means.

'''''in vitro''''' 
Latin for "in glass," this term is used to refer to experiments that happen in test tubes. Lenz means ''in vivo'', i.e., ''in utero'' (or maybe not -- he might be claiming he was a product of artificial insemination, and that he actually remembers things from before he was implanted, who knows?).

=Hal Counts His Breaths=

==Page 560==

'''photosynthesizing''' 
turning light into energy, as plants do

'''Baobab tree''' 
a [http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/baobab.htm tree] native to Africa and India

'''pride''' 
family of lions

=Lenz and Green, cont.=

==Page 560==

'''septum''' 
the cartilage separating the nostrils

'''reguiles''' 
neologism, possible portmanteau of regales (and simultaneously beguiles)

'''Shrangi-la''' 
Lenz means Shangri-La, the utopia of the novel ''Lost Horizon'' by James Hilton (1900-1954), a British author.

'''kamasupra''' 
a witty malaprop, as in Latin supra means above or on top of, Lenz is referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra Kama Sutra].

==Page 561==

'''Fall River''' 
a city in Massachusetts about 50 miles south of Boston

'''poofta''' 
i.e., a poofter, a vulgar term for a male homosexual

'''intrepid''' 
fearless

'''fauna''' 
wildlife

'''Shawshine River''' 
also known as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawsheen_River Shawsheen]

'''ravacious''' 
neologism, this would seem to be a cross between "ravenous" and "rapacious."

==Page 562==

'''scat-piles''' 
piles of feces

'''feti''' 
plural of fetus

'''yrstruly''' 
yours truly

'''propitiating''' 
appeasing

'''diem''' 
Latin: day
: ''Diem'' is the singular accusative form of ''dies'' (day), which makes no grammatical sense here, so I would call it a Lenz malaprop.

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==Page 87==

'''payloaders''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loader_(equipment) construction equipment]

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'''Fauteuil de rollent''' 
: French for ''wheelchair'' is ''fauteuil roulant''.

'''Brockengespenst'''

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken_spectre.

==Page 89==

'''Bureau des services sans spécificité''' 
French for ''unspecified'' is ''non spécifié''; ''sans spécificité'' means ''without specificity'', i.e., generic.

'''c'était la guerre'''

It was war.
: ''c’était de bonne guerre'' (it was fair game) seems more fitting, possibly what DFW meant.

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'''agnate''' 
Paternal, related on the father's side. In this case agnate seems to mean that the shadows come from the same source, the setting sun. 

'''samizdat''' 
самиздать From the Russian verb "to publish on one's own" or "to self-publish." Originally used to denote underground publications in the Soviet Union, now used more generally for dissident activity[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat]

==Page 92==
'''stenographer-cum-''jeune-fille-de-Vendredi''''' 
secretary who takes diction AND devoted assistant. ''Jeune-fille-de-Vendredi'' is French for "young girl Friday." "Man Friday" (or "girl Friday") is a term that means a very competent and loyal servant or assistant, and originates from the Friday of ''Robinson Crusoe''.

'''amaneunsis''' 
Misspelling of ''amanuensis'' (secretary).

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=Feral Hamsters=

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'''uremic''' 

of or involving excess nitrogenous waste products in the urine

'''somatic''' 

of or relating to the body, esp. as distinct from the mind.

'''Champaign IL''' 
He probably attends the [http://www.uiuc.edu/ University of Illinois] main campus at Urbana-Champaign, formerly Champaign-Urbana.

'''Ward and June''' 
The mother's and father's names on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_It_To_Beaver ''Leave It to Beaver'']

'''pedalferrous''' 
pedalfer is a soil type composed of aluminum and iron oxides. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedalfer apparently a neologism, the word would mean "of or pertaining to foot metal," i.e., fast driving

'''fallow''' 

plowed and harrowed but left unsown for a period in order to restore its fertility as part of a crop rotation or to avoid surplus production

'''fulvous''' 
in color, yellow-gray to yellowish-brown

'''teratogenic''' 
having an ill effect on the development of a fetus

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 93==

''''''n sûr''''' 
An elision of ''bien sûr'', French for "of course"

'''electrolysis''' 

the removal of hair roots or small blemishes on the skin by the application of heat using an electric current.

==Page 94==

'''Sterling UL35 9 mm machine pistol with Mag Na Port silencer''' 
Sterling is a real British gun manufacturer and [http://www.magnaport.com/ Mag-Na-Port] is real also, but this particular gun model is apparently made-up.

'''Charleston''' 
a dance popular in the 1920s

'''mesquite''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesquite mesquite] plant

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=YDAU - ETA Locker Room=

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'''Barbicide''' 
a brand name of disinfectant used for combs and hairbrushes

'''Tolstoy's sentence''' 
The question probably referred to the opening lines of Leo Tolstoy's ''Anna Karenina:'' "HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

'''Michael Pemulis, ..., clear his throat deeply''' 
this grammatical error appears shortly after a discussion of a class on grammar

==Page 96==

'''No cathode gun. No phosphenic screen.''' 
A cathode gun is an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_gun electron gun] used in a cathode ray tube. "Phosphenic" refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene phosphenes].

'''UHF''' 
Ultra High Frequency

==Page 97==

'''acutance''' 
the edge contrast of an image. Hal appears to be correct insofar as contrast is more or less the same as resolution. Acutance is related to a pulse's slope and height. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acutance

'''halation''' 
blurring of a visual image by glare

'''quiescent''' 
still or at rest

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 97==

'''digitate''' 
“having deep radiating divisions” (OED)

=ETA Locker Room, cont.=

==Page 97==

==Page 98==

'''Zoltan''' 
Zoltán was a 10th century ruler of Hungary.

'''Csikzentmihalyi''' 
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (''sic'') is a psychologist best known for his concept of "flow", a psychological state where one "is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity", e.g. "being in the zone" while playing sports.

'''Idris Arslanian, new this year, ethnically vague''' 
Idris is an Arabic name, corresponding in the Qur'an to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch%2C_ancestor_of_Noah Enoch] in the Bible. The last name Arslanian sounds Armenian, though ''Arslan'' is a Turkish word for "lion."

'''R.A.''' 
Resident Assistant

'''Tex Watson''' 
Besides a character in ''Infinite Jest,'' Tex Watson was the nickname of Charles Watson, one of the chief murderers in the Charles Manson Family.

'''ephebes''' 
An ephebe is an adolescent male.

'''attritive''' 
[OED] gradually wearing away or weakening something or someone

'''suppliants''' 
A suppliant is a petitioner.

==Page 99==

'''sienna''' 
[or siena] a yellowish- to reddish-brown pigment

'''louvered''' 
fitted with angled slats, the better to permit passage of light or air

'''thoracic''' 
having to do with the chest

'''atavistically''' 
Atavism means reversion to an earlier evolutionary type; i.e., Hal's complexion resembles his grandparents or earlier ancestors more than his parents

'''piebald''' 
having patches of different colors

==Page 100==

'''cognomen''' 
a nickname

'''inflation-generative grammar''' 
i.e. a set of rules to generate phrases of increasing emphasis

==Page 101==

'''semion''' 
from context, it means sign or gesture, evincing with semaphore a common ancestor. [A semion is technically part of an anyon, the latter of which is defined in the ''OED'' as "a particle having characteristics intermediate between those of fermions and bosons in two-dimensional space." However, it seems Wallace uses the word as a form closer to "semiotics."] A later search reveals that ''semion'' is Greek for "sign."

'''Umbrian''' 
From the Italian ''reggione'' of Umbria, in central Italy. Hal is Italian on his father's side, as well as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pima Pima] Native American. His mother, of course, is French-Canadian.

'''Brylcreemed''' 
Used as a verb here, [http://www.brylcreemusa.com/ Brylcreem] is a brand name of men's hair grooming product.

'''zygomatics''' 
the cheekbones, so-called, or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygomatics zygomatic bones] of the face

==Page 102==

'''haul ashes''' 
For a history of this term, click [http://www.wordwizard.com/ch_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6859 here]. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=haul%20your%20ashes

'''Johnny Mathis's "Chances Are"''' 
listen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEH3uqbpsm8 here] 

==Page 103==

'''Luther's 16th-century shoes, awaiting epiphany''' 
Martin Luther (1483-1546), German father of the Reformation, was a notorious sufferer of constipation.

'''hobnailed boots''' 
boots assembled with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobnail hobnails]

==Endnote 43==
'''Crohn's''' 
The disease is named for Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884-1983), American gastroenterologist.

==Page 103, cont.==

'''carminative''' 
combatting or expelling flatulence

'''gout''' 
a disease characterized by the collection of uric acid in the joints

'''Port Washington''' 
There are three cities by this name in the U.S.: In New York, Wisconsin, and Ohio.

==Page 104==

==Page 105==

'''woppsed up''' 
a created word, apparently something like "wadded up"

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 105==

'''Tristan and Isolde''' 
star-crossed lovers from Arthurian myth

'''Lancelot and what's-her-name''' 
Guinevere

'''Agamemnon and Helen''' 
Steeply has this one wrong. Helen abandoned her husband, Menelaus, the brother of Agamemnon, to flee to Troy with Paris, younger brother of Hector.

'''Dante and Beatrice''' 
Beatrice is Dante's guide through heaven in the third part of the ''Divine Comedy'', ''Paradiso''

'''Narcissus and Echo''' 
The story of these doomed lovers from Greek mythology is [http://thanasis.com/echo.htm here].

'''Kierkegaard and Regina''' 
Regina Olsen was the short-term fiancée of Kierkegaard.

'''Kafka and that poor girl afraid to go the postbox for the mail''' 
The story being referred to can be read [http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.jsp?what=KafkaDoll here].

'''Menelaus was husband, him of Sparta''' 
Menelaus, King of Sparta, was the husband of Helen. Agamemnon was the King of Argos and Menelaus's brother.

'''Helen and Paris. He of Troy.''' 
Paris, a Trojan prince, kidnapped Helen from Menelaus, precipitating the Trojan War.

'''The horse: the gift which was not a gift''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Horse Trojan horse]

==Page 106==

'''electrolysistic''' 
resulting from electrolysis, the removal of hair using electric shocks

'''sangfroid''' 
From French for "cold blood," this word means "coolness," as in composure under pressure

==Page 107==

==Page 108==

'''creosote''' 
There are several types of creosote, described [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creosote here].

'''crepuscular''' 
active in the twilight, as bats, deer, many mosquitos

==Endnote 45==

==Endnote 304==

[[Notes_and_Errata_-_Pages_983-1079#Endnote_304_.C2.B7_The_Train_Game|Notes and Errata - Endnote 304]]

==Page 109==

'''gibbous''' 
bulging outwards: the shape of the moon when it is neither full, nor crescent, nor half, i.e., when it is more than half full

'''Quonsets''' 
short form for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut Quonset huts]

=November 3rd, YDAU - Advice to Little Brothers=

==Page 109==

==Page 110==

'''Stan Smith''' 
Born in 1946, Smith is a retired professional tennis player, having won Wimbledon and the U.S. Open once each.

'''dessicated''' 
dried out

==Endnote 46==

'''corticatization''' 
probably a misspelling of [http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?query=corticalization&action=Search+OMD corticalization]

==Page 111==

'''bow-biters''' 
1980's [http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Bow_Biters plastic clips] that help keep shoe laces tied

'''E.N.T. oncologist''' 
ear, nose, and throat; an oncologist is a cancer physician

'''violas''' 
A viola is a like a violin, only slightly larger and deeper in tone.

==Page 112==

'''''E Unibus Pluram''''' 
Latin wordplay on ''E pluribus unum'' ("From many, one"), the U.S. motto. This would mean "From one, many." Note that the correct Latin would be something like ''Ex uno plures'' or ''Ex uno plura'' (depending on what "many" is meant to refer to).

==Page 113==

'''Solipsism''' 
a kind of narcissism based on the idea that one's own mind is all one can ever truly know to exist

'''''ballet de se''''' 

mangled French: Ballet of (itself). ballet de soi would probably be closer.

==Page 114==

==Page 115==

'''plateaux''' 
the proper French plural of "plateau," rather than "plateaus"

'''slog''' 
to work with sustained effort against a natural resistance over a period of time

==Page 116==

'''Banzai!''' 
a Japanese battle cry

'''hangdog''' 
browbeaten or intimidated

==Page 117==

'''croupiers''' 
attendants at gambling casinos

'''plasticene''' 
misspelling of Plasticine, a brand name of plastic used for making molds

'''ancipitals''' 
having two sharp edges

'''accretive''' 
of or pertaining to the process of natural growth

'''autonomical''' 
of or pertaining to the reflexive or autonomic nervous system [archaic, autonomic is much the more commonly used term in centuries 20-21]

==Page 118==

'''machine-language''' 
a coding system for computers that requires no compiling before running

'''Orinda CA''' 
A small, wealthy city in Conta Costa County, immediately east of the Oakland-Berkeley metro area and about 18 miles northeast of San Francisco

'''me droogies''' 
Struck is speaking in Nadsat, the language of Anthony Burgess's novel ''A Clockwork Orange'', which is based on Russian. ''Droogies'' is Nadsat for "friends."

'''kertwanging''' 
from context, this would seem to be when an opponent is intentionally making bad calls to win points.

==Page 119==

'''Mein kinder''' 
German: "My children". But wrong grammar! "Mein" is singular, "kinder" is plural. "My children" would be "Meine Kinder"

==Page 120==

'''Wagenknecht''' 
sort of a formal German word for "chauffeur." [No, as native speaker, I do not agree. It is a quiet family name, meaning something like "cart-worker", but nobody would call a chauffeur that way!]

'''guilloche''' 
"an ornamental pattern or border, as in architecture, consisting of paired ribbons or lines flowing in interlaced curves around a series of circular voids" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary''); see below

[[Image:Guilloche molding.jpg]]

'''A la contraire''' 
A French mistake: Should be ''au contraire'' (masculine) [but consider the speaker, an adolescent non-wizard]

'''gingival mound''' 
mound of gum tissue

==Page 121==

'''aperçu''' 
an insight

=Mario Incandenza's romantic experience=
==Page 121==

'''post-prandial''' 
after a meal

'''two hundred kilos''' 
over 440 pounds

'''Southpaw''' 
left-handed

==Page 122==

'''doffed''' 
doff is to take off or tip in salutation (don off)

'''coiffure''' 
hairdo

'''osseously''' 
Osseous means "bone-like."

'''reticulate''' 
in a net-like or network pattern

'''chill dusk''' 
George Eliot (born Mary Anne Evans; 1819-1880), the British novelist, uses the expression in her novel [http://www.fullbooks.com/Adam-Bede.html Adam Bede].

'''easement''' 
Literally meaning the use of something legally not one's own, here it's used to mean a new path beaten through a thicket.

'''kliegs''' 
short form for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klieg Klieg light]

==Page 123==

'''Betty Stove''' 
Betty Stöve (born 1945) is a Dutch former professional tennis player and winner of ten Grand Slam titles

'''Montclair NJ''' 
a suburb about twenty miles west-northwest of New York City

'''Con-Edison''' 
Consolidated Edison, the utilities company serving New York

'''three meters tall''' 
about nine feet, ten inches tall

==Page 124==

'''Weber Grill''' 
a real brand, you can see examples [http://www.weberstuff.com/?gclid=CK71gtmRyI8CFQIQFQodpCUq9A here]

'''Passaic NJ''' 
near Montclair, Passaic is another western suburb of New York

'''capering''' 
To caper is to skip about in a playful manner.

'''rondelling''' 
To rondel (more properly, roundel) is to dance in a circle

'''simpering''' 
To simper is to smile coyly.

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

'''boscages''' 
masses of trees or shrubs

'''jetéed''' 
To jeté is to jump ballet-style.

==Page 125==

'''lamé''' 
an ornamental fabric incorporating threads of gold or silver

'''Titian''' 
Tiziano Vecellio (1485-1576) was a Venetian painter.

'''poison sumac''' 
a tall shrub containing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urushiol urushiol], which causes a rash similar to poison ivy

'''ambient''' 
of or pertaining to the surrounding environment

==Page 126==

=April 30th, YDAU - Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 126==

'''les salles de danser''' 
French: dancing rooms

'''Val d'Or, Québec''' 
city of northern Québec, 325 miles northwest of Montreal

==Page 127==

'''eidetic''' 
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_memory photographic memory]

=April 30th, YDAU - Still More Marathe & Steeply=

==Page 127==

'''murated''' 
a rarely used English word (found in ''OED'') meaning "surrounded by walls", from French: 'mur' = wall

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'''payloaders''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loader_(equipment) construction equipment]

==Page 88==

'''Fauteuil de rollent''' 
: French for ''wheelchair'' is ''fauteuil roulant''.

'''Brockengespenst'''

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken_spectre.

==Page 89==

'''Bureau des services sans spécificité''' 
French for ''unspecified'' is ''non spécifié''; ''sans spécificité'' means ''without specificity'', i.e., generic.

'''c'était la guerre'''

It was war.
: ''c’était de bonne guerre'' (it was fair game) seems more fitting, possibly what DFW meant.

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==Page 91==
'''agnate''' 
Paternal, related on the father's side. In this case agnate seems to mean that the shadows come from the same source, the setting sun. 

'''samizdat''' 
самиздать From the Russian verb "to publish on one's own" or "to self-publish." Originally used to denote underground publications in the Soviet Union, now used more generally for dissident activity[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat]

==Page 92==
'''stenographer-cum-''jeune-fille-de-Vendredi''''' 
secretary who takes diction AND devoted assistant. ''Jeune-fille-de-Vendredi'' is French for "young girl Friday." "Man Friday" (or "girl Friday") is a term that means a very competent and loyal servant or assistant, and originates from the Friday of ''Robinson Crusoe''.

'''amaneunsis''' 
Misspelling of ''amanuensis'' (secretary).

==Page 93==

=Feral Hamsters=

==Page 93==

'''uremic''' 

of or involving excess nitrogenous waste products in the urine

'''somatic''' 

of or relating to the body, esp. as distinct from the mind.

'''Champaign IL''' 
He probably attends the [http://www.uiuc.edu/ University of Illinois] main campus at Urbana-Champaign, formerly Champaign-Urbana.

'''Ward and June''' 
The mother's and father's names on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_It_To_Beaver ''Leave It to Beaver'']

'''pedalferrous''' 
pedalfer is a soil type composed of aluminum and iron oxides. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedalfer apparently a neologism, the word would mean "of or pertaining to foot metal," i.e., fast driving

'''fallow''' 

plowed and harrowed but left unsown for a period in order to restore its fertility as part of a crop rotation or to avoid surplus production

'''fulvous''' 
in color, yellow-gray to yellowish-brown

'''teratogenic''' 
having an ill effect on the development of a fetus

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 93==

''''''n sûr''''' 
An elision of ''bien sûr'', French for "of course"

'''electrolysis''' 

the removal of hair roots or small blemishes on the skin by the application of heat using an electric current.

==Page 94==

'''Sterling UL35 9 mm machine pistol with Mag Na Port silencer''' 
Sterling is a real British gun manufacturer and [http://www.magnaport.com/ Mag-Na-Port] is real also, but this particular gun model is apparently made-up.

'''Charleston''' 
a dance popular in the 1920s

'''mesquite''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesquite mesquite] plant

==Page 95==

=YDAU - ETA Locker Room=

==Page 95==

'''Barbicide''' 
a brand name of disinfectant used for combs and hairbrushes

'''Tolstoy's sentence''' 
The question probably referred to the opening lines of Leo Tolstoy's ''Anna Karenina:'' "HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

'''No cathode gun. No phosphenic screen.''' 
A cathode gun is an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_gun electron gun] used in a cathode ray tube. "Phosphenic" refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene phosphenes].

'''UHF''' 
Ultra High Frequency

'''Michael Pemulis, ..., clear his throat deeply''' 
this grammatical error appears shortly after a discussion of a class on grammar

==Page 97==

'''acutance''' 
the edge contrast of an image. Hal appears to be correct insofar as contrast is more or less the same as resolution. Acutance is related to a pulse's slope and height. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acutance

'''halation''' 
blurring of a visual image by glare

'''quiescent''' 
still or at rest

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 97==

'''digitate''' 
“having deep radiating divisions” (OED)

=ETA Locker Room, cont.=

==Page 97==

==Page 98==

'''Zoltan''' 
Zoltán was a 10th century ruler of Hungary.

'''Csikzentmihalyi''' 
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (''sic'') is a psychologist best known for his concept of "flow", a psychological state where one "is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity", e.g. "being in the zone" while playing sports.

'''Idris Arslanian, new this year, ethnically vague''' 
Idris is an Arabic name, corresponding in the Qur'an to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch%2C_ancestor_of_Noah Enoch] in the Bible. The last name Arslanian sounds Armenian, though ''Arslan'' is a Turkish word for "lion."

'''R.A.''' 
Resident Assistant

'''Tex Watson''' 
Besides a character in ''Infinite Jest,'' Tex Watson was the nickname of Charles Watson, one of the chief murderers in the Charles Manson Family.

'''ephebes''' 
An ephebe is an adolescent male.

'''attritive''' 
[OED] gradually wearing away or weakening something or someone

'''suppliants''' 
A suppliant is a petitioner.

==Page 99==

'''sienna''' 
[or siena] a yellowish- to reddish-brown pigment

'''louvered''' 
fitted with angled slats, the better to permit passage of light or air

'''thoracic''' 
having to do with the chest

'''atavistically''' 
Atavism means reversion to an earlier evolutionary type; i.e., Hal's complexion resembles his grandparents or earlier ancestors more than his parents

'''piebald''' 
having patches of different colors

==Page 100==

'''cognomen''' 
a nickname

'''inflation-generative grammar''' 
i.e. a set of rules to generate phrases of increasing emphasis

==Page 101==

'''semion''' 
from context, it means sign or gesture, evincing with semaphore a common ancestor. [A semion is technically part of an anyon, the latter of which is defined in the ''OED'' as "a particle having characteristics intermediate between those of fermions and bosons in two-dimensional space." However, it seems Wallace uses the word as a form closer to "semiotics."] A later search reveals that ''semion'' is Greek for "sign."

'''Umbrian''' 
From the Italian ''reggione'' of Umbria, in central Italy. Hal is Italian on his father's side, as well as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pima Pima] Native American. His mother, of course, is French-Canadian.

'''Brylcreemed''' 
Used as a verb here, [http://www.brylcreemusa.com/ Brylcreem] is a brand name of men's hair grooming product.

'''zygomatics''' 
the cheekbones, so-called, or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygomatics zygomatic bones] of the face

==Page 102==

'''haul ashes''' 
For a history of this term, click [http://www.wordwizard.com/ch_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6859 here]. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=haul%20your%20ashes

'''Johnny Mathis's "Chances Are"''' 
listen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEH3uqbpsm8 here] 

==Page 103==

'''Luther's 16th-century shoes, awaiting epiphany''' 
Martin Luther (1483-1546), German father of the Reformation, was a notorious sufferer of constipation.

'''hobnailed boots''' 
boots assembled with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobnail hobnails]

==Endnote 43==
'''Crohn's''' 
The disease is named for Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884-1983), American gastroenterologist.

==Page 103, cont.==

'''carminative''' 
combatting or expelling flatulence

'''gout''' 
a disease characterized by the collection of uric acid in the joints

'''Port Washington''' 
There are three cities by this name in the U.S.: In New York, Wisconsin, and Ohio.

==Page 104==

==Page 105==

'''woppsed up''' 
a created word, apparently something like "wadded up"

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 105==

'''Tristan and Isolde''' 
star-crossed lovers from Arthurian myth

'''Lancelot and what's-her-name''' 
Guinevere

'''Agamemnon and Helen''' 
Steeply has this one wrong. Helen abandoned her husband, Menelaus, the brother of Agamemnon, to flee to Troy with Paris, younger brother of Hector.

'''Dante and Beatrice''' 
Beatrice is Dante's guide through heaven in the third part of the ''Divine Comedy'', ''Paradiso''

'''Narcissus and Echo''' 
The story of these doomed lovers from Greek mythology is [http://thanasis.com/echo.htm here].

'''Kierkegaard and Regina''' 
Regina Olsen was the short-term fiancée of Kierkegaard.

'''Kafka and that poor girl afraid to go the postbox for the mail''' 
The story being referred to can be read [http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.jsp?what=KafkaDoll here].

'''Menelaus was husband, him of Sparta''' 
Menelaus, King of Sparta, was the husband of Helen. Agamemnon was the King of Argos and Menelaus's brother.

'''Helen and Paris. He of Troy.''' 
Paris, a Trojan prince, kidnapped Helen from Menelaus, precipitating the Trojan War.

'''The horse: the gift which was not a gift''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Horse Trojan horse]

==Page 106==

'''electrolysistic''' 
resulting from electrolysis, the removal of hair using electric shocks

'''sangfroid''' 
From French for "cold blood," this word means "coolness," as in composure under pressure

==Page 107==

==Page 108==

'''creosote''' 
There are several types of creosote, described [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creosote here].

'''crepuscular''' 
active in the twilight, as bats, deer, many mosquitos

==Endnote 45==

==Endnote 304==

[[Notes_and_Errata_-_Pages_983-1079#Endnote_304_.C2.B7_The_Train_Game|Notes and Errata - Endnote 304]]

==Page 109==

'''gibbous''' 
bulging outwards: the shape of the moon when it is neither full, nor crescent, nor half, i.e., when it is more than half full

'''Quonsets''' 
short form for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut Quonset huts]

=November 3rd, YDAU - Advice to Little Brothers=

==Page 109==

==Page 110==

'''Stan Smith''' 
Born in 1946, Smith is a retired professional tennis player, having won Wimbledon and the U.S. Open once each.

'''dessicated''' 
dried out

==Endnote 46==

'''corticatization''' 
probably a misspelling of [http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?query=corticalization&action=Search+OMD corticalization]

==Page 111==

'''bow-biters''' 
1980's [http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Bow_Biters plastic clips] that help keep shoe laces tied

'''E.N.T. oncologist''' 
ear, nose, and throat; an oncologist is a cancer physician

'''violas''' 
A viola is a like a violin, only slightly larger and deeper in tone.

==Page 112==

'''''E Unibus Pluram''''' 
Latin wordplay on ''E pluribus unum'' ("From many, one"), the U.S. motto. This would mean "From one, many." Note that the correct Latin would be something like ''Ex uno plures'' or ''Ex uno plura'' (depending on what "many" is meant to refer to).

==Page 113==

'''Solipsism''' 
a kind of narcissism based on the idea that one's own mind is all one can ever truly know to exist

'''''ballet de se''''' 

mangled French: Ballet of (itself). ballet de soi would probably be closer.

==Page 114==

==Page 115==

'''plateaux''' 
the proper French plural of "plateau," rather than "plateaus"

'''slog''' 
to work with sustained effort against a natural resistance over a period of time

==Page 116==

'''Banzai!''' 
a Japanese battle cry

'''hangdog''' 
browbeaten or intimidated

==Page 117==

'''croupiers''' 
attendants at gambling casinos

'''plasticene''' 
misspelling of Plasticine, a brand name of plastic used for making molds

'''ancipitals''' 
having two sharp edges

'''accretive''' 
of or pertaining to the process of natural growth

'''autonomical''' 
of or pertaining to the reflexive or autonomic nervous system [archaic, autonomic is much the more commonly used term in centuries 20-21]

==Page 118==

'''machine-language''' 
a coding system for computers that requires no compiling before running

'''Orinda CA''' 
A small, wealthy city in Conta Costa County, immediately east of the Oakland-Berkeley metro area and about 18 miles northeast of San Francisco

'''me droogies''' 
Struck is speaking in Nadsat, the language of Anthony Burgess's novel ''A Clockwork Orange'', which is based on Russian. ''Droogies'' is Nadsat for "friends."

'''kertwanging''' 
from context, this would seem to be when an opponent is intentionally making bad calls to win points.

==Page 119==

'''Mein kinder''' 
German: "My children". But wrong grammar! "Mein" is singular, "kinder" is plural. "My children" would be "Meine Kinder"

==Page 120==

'''Wagenknecht''' 
sort of a formal German word for "chauffeur." [No, as native speaker, I do not agree. It is a quiet family name, meaning something like "cart-worker", but nobody would call a chauffeur that way!]

'''guilloche''' 
"an ornamental pattern or border, as in architecture, consisting of paired ribbons or lines flowing in interlaced curves around a series of circular voids" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary''); see below

[[Image:Guilloche molding.jpg]]

'''A la contraire''' 
A French mistake: Should be ''au contraire'' (masculine) [but consider the speaker, an adolescent non-wizard]

'''gingival mound''' 
mound of gum tissue

==Page 121==

'''aperçu''' 
an insight

=Mario Incandenza's romantic experience=
==Page 121==

'''post-prandial''' 
after a meal

'''two hundred kilos''' 
over 440 pounds

'''Southpaw''' 
left-handed

==Page 122==

'''doffed''' 
doff is to take off or tip in salutation (don off)

'''coiffure''' 
hairdo

'''osseously''' 
Osseous means "bone-like."

'''reticulate''' 
in a net-like or network pattern

'''chill dusk''' 
George Eliot (born Mary Anne Evans; 1819-1880), the British novelist, uses the expression in her novel [http://www.fullbooks.com/Adam-Bede.html Adam Bede].

'''easement''' 
Literally meaning the use of something legally not one's own, here it's used to mean a new path beaten through a thicket.

'''kliegs''' 
short form for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klieg Klieg light]

==Page 123==

'''Betty Stove''' 
Betty Stöve (born 1945) is a Dutch former professional tennis player and winner of ten Grand Slam titles

'''Montclair NJ''' 
a suburb about twenty miles west-northwest of New York City

'''Con-Edison''' 
Consolidated Edison, the utilities company serving New York

'''three meters tall''' 
about nine feet, ten inches tall

==Page 124==

'''Weber Grill''' 
a real brand, you can see examples [http://www.weberstuff.com/?gclid=CK71gtmRyI8CFQIQFQodpCUq9A here]

'''Passaic NJ''' 
near Montclair, Passaic is another western suburb of New York

'''capering''' 
To caper is to skip about in a playful manner.

'''rondelling''' 
To rondel (more properly, roundel) is to dance in a circle

'''simpering''' 
To simper is to smile coyly.

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

'''boscages''' 
masses of trees or shrubs

'''jetéed''' 
To jeté is to jump ballet-style.

==Page 125==

'''lamé''' 
an ornamental fabric incorporating threads of gold or silver

'''Titian''' 
Tiziano Vecellio (1485-1576) was a Venetian painter.

'''poison sumac''' 
a tall shrub containing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urushiol urushiol], which causes a rash similar to poison ivy

'''ambient''' 
of or pertaining to the surrounding environment

==Page 126==

=April 30th, YDAU - Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

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'''les salles de danser''' 
French: dancing rooms

'''Val d'Or, Québec''' 
city of northern Québec, 325 miles northwest of Montreal

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'''eidetic''' 
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_memory photographic memory]

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'''murated''' 
a rarely used English word (found in ''OED'') meaning "surrounded by walls", from French: 'mur' = wall

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==Page 87==

'''payloaders''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loader_(equipment) construction equipment]

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'''Fauteuil de rollent''' 
: French for ''wheelchair'' is ''fauteuil roulant''.

'''Brockengespenst'''

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken_spectre.

==Page 89==

'''Bureau des services sans spécificité''' 
French for ''unspecified'' is ''non spécifié''; ''sans spécificité'' means ''without specificity'', i.e., generic.

'''c'était la guerre'''

It was war.
: ''c’était de bonne guerre'' (it was fair game) seems more fitting, possibly what DFW meant.

==Page 90==
==Page 91==
'''agnate''' 
Paternal, related on the father's side. In this case agnate seems to mean that the shadows come from the same source, the setting sun. 

'''samizdat''' 
самиздать From the Russian verb "to publish on one's own" or "to self-publish." Originally used to denote underground publications in the Soviet Union, now used more generally for dissident activity[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat]

==Page 92==
'''stenographer-cum-''jeune-fille-de-Vendredi''''' 
secretary who takes diction AND devoted assistant. ''Jeune-fille-de-Vendredi'' is French for "young girl Friday." "Man Friday" (or "girl Friday") is a term that means a very competent and loyal servant or assistant, and originates from the Friday of ''Robinson Crusoe''.

==Page 93==

=Feral Hamsters=

==Page 93==

'''uremic''' 

of or involving excess nitrogenous waste products in the urine

'''somatic''' 

of or relating to the body, esp. as distinct from the mind.

'''Champaign IL''' 
He probably attends the [http://www.uiuc.edu/ University of Illinois] main campus at Urbana-Champaign, formerly Champaign-Urbana.

'''Ward and June''' 
The mother's and father's names on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_It_To_Beaver ''Leave It to Beaver'']

'''pedalferrous''' 
pedalfer is a soil type composed of aluminum and iron oxides. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedalfer apparently a neologism, the word would mean "of or pertaining to foot metal," i.e., fast driving

'''fallow''' 

plowed and harrowed but left unsown for a period in order to restore its fertility as part of a crop rotation or to avoid surplus production

'''fulvous''' 
in color, yellow-gray to yellowish-brown

'''teratogenic''' 
having an ill effect on the development of a fetus

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 93==

''''''n sûr''''' 
An elision of ''bien sûr'', French for "of course"

'''electrolysis''' 

the removal of hair roots or small blemishes on the skin by the application of heat using an electric current.

==Page 94==

'''Sterling UL35 9 mm machine pistol with Mag Na Port silencer''' 
Sterling is a real British gun manufacturer and [http://www.magnaport.com/ Mag-Na-Port] is real also, but this particular gun model is apparently made-up.

'''Charleston''' 
a dance popular in the 1920s

'''mesquite''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesquite mesquite] plant

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=YDAU - ETA Locker Room=

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'''Barbicide''' 
a brand name of disinfectant used for combs and hairbrushes

'''Tolstoy's sentence''' 
The question probably referred to the opening lines of Leo Tolstoy's ''Anna Karenina:'' "HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

'''No cathode gun. No phosphenic screen.''' 
A cathode gun is an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_gun electron gun] used in a cathode ray tube. "Phosphenic" refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene phosphenes].

'''UHF''' 
Ultra High Frequency

'''Michael Pemulis, ..., clear his throat deeply''' 
this grammatical error appears shortly after a discussion of a class on grammar

==Page 97==

'''acutance''' 
the edge contrast of an image. Hal appears to be correct insofar as contrast is more or less the same as resolution. Acutance is related to a pulse's slope and height. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acutance

'''halation''' 
blurring of a visual image by glare

'''quiescent''' 
still or at rest

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 97==

'''digitate''' 
“having deep radiating divisions” (OED)

=ETA Locker Room, cont.=

==Page 97==

==Page 98==

'''Zoltan''' 
Zoltán was a 10th century ruler of Hungary.

'''Csikzentmihalyi''' 
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (''sic'') is a psychologist best known for his concept of "flow", a psychological state where one "is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity", e.g. "being in the zone" while playing sports.

'''Idris Arslanian, new this year, ethnically vague''' 
Idris is an Arabic name, corresponding in the Qur'an to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch%2C_ancestor_of_Noah Enoch] in the Bible. The last name Arslanian sounds Armenian, though ''Arslan'' is a Turkish word for "lion."

'''R.A.''' 
Resident Assistant

'''Tex Watson''' 
Besides a character in ''Infinite Jest,'' Tex Watson was the nickname of Charles Watson, one of the chief murderers in the Charles Manson Family.

'''ephebes''' 
An ephebe is an adolescent male.

'''attritive''' 
[OED] gradually wearing away or weakening something or someone

'''suppliants''' 
A suppliant is a petitioner.

==Page 99==

'''sienna''' 
[or siena] a yellowish- to reddish-brown pigment

'''louvered''' 
fitted with angled slats, the better to permit passage of light or air

'''thoracic''' 
having to do with the chest

'''atavistically''' 
Atavism means reversion to an earlier evolutionary type; i.e., Hal's complexion resembles his grandparents or earlier ancestors more than his parents

'''piebald''' 
having patches of different colors

==Page 100==

'''cognomen''' 
a nickname

'''inflation-generative grammar''' 
i.e. a set of rules to generate phrases of increasing emphasis

==Page 101==

'''semion''' 
from context, it means sign or gesture, evincing with semaphore a common ancestor. [A semion is technically part of an anyon, the latter of which is defined in the ''OED'' as "a particle having characteristics intermediate between those of fermions and bosons in two-dimensional space." However, it seems Wallace uses the word as a form closer to "semiotics."] A later search reveals that ''semion'' is Greek for "sign."

'''Umbrian''' 
From the Italian ''reggione'' of Umbria, in central Italy. Hal is Italian on his father's side, as well as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pima Pima] Native American. His mother, of course, is French-Canadian.

'''Brylcreemed''' 
Used as a verb here, [http://www.brylcreemusa.com/ Brylcreem] is a brand name of men's hair grooming product.

'''zygomatics''' 
the cheekbones, so-called, or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygomatics zygomatic bones] of the face

==Page 102==

'''haul ashes''' 
For a history of this term, click [http://www.wordwizard.com/ch_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6859 here]. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=haul%20your%20ashes

'''Johnny Mathis's "Chances Are"''' 
listen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEH3uqbpsm8 here] 

==Page 103==

'''Luther's 16th-century shoes, awaiting epiphany''' 
Martin Luther (1483-1546), German father of the Reformation, was a notorious sufferer of constipation.

'''hobnailed boots''' 
boots assembled with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobnail hobnails]

==Endnote 43==
'''Crohn's''' 
The disease is named for Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884-1983), American gastroenterologist.

==Page 103, cont.==

'''carminative''' 
combatting or expelling flatulence

'''gout''' 
a disease characterized by the collection of uric acid in the joints

'''Port Washington''' 
There are three cities by this name in the U.S.: In New York, Wisconsin, and Ohio.

==Page 104==

==Page 105==

'''woppsed up''' 
a created word, apparently something like "wadded up"

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 105==

'''Tristan and Isolde''' 
star-crossed lovers from Arthurian myth

'''Lancelot and what's-her-name''' 
Guinevere

'''Agamemnon and Helen''' 
Steeply has this one wrong. Helen abandoned her husband, Menelaus, the brother of Agamemnon, to flee to Troy with Paris, younger brother of Hector.

'''Dante and Beatrice''' 
Beatrice is Dante's guide through heaven in the third part of the ''Divine Comedy'', ''Paradiso''

'''Narcissus and Echo''' 
The story of these doomed lovers from Greek mythology is [http://thanasis.com/echo.htm here].

'''Kierkegaard and Regina''' 
Regina Olsen was the short-term fiancée of Kierkegaard.

'''Kafka and that poor girl afraid to go the postbox for the mail''' 
The story being referred to can be read [http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.jsp?what=KafkaDoll here].

'''Menelaus was husband, him of Sparta''' 
Menelaus, King of Sparta, was the husband of Helen. Agamemnon was the King of Argos and Menelaus's brother.

'''Helen and Paris. He of Troy.''' 
Paris, a Trojan prince, kidnapped Helen from Menelaus, precipitating the Trojan War.

'''The horse: the gift which was not a gift''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Horse Trojan horse]

==Page 106==

'''electrolysistic''' 
resulting from electrolysis, the removal of hair using electric shocks

'''sangfroid''' 
From French for "cold blood," this word means "coolness," as in composure under pressure

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==Page 108==

'''creosote''' 
There are several types of creosote, described [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creosote here].

'''crepuscular''' 
active in the twilight, as bats, deer, many mosquitos

==Endnote 45==

==Endnote 304==

[[Notes_and_Errata_-_Pages_983-1079#Endnote_304_.C2.B7_The_Train_Game|Notes and Errata - Endnote 304]]

==Page 109==

'''gibbous''' 
bulging outwards: the shape of the moon when it is neither full, nor crescent, nor half, i.e., when it is more than half full

'''Quonsets''' 
short form for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut Quonset huts]

=November 3rd, YDAU - Advice to Little Brothers=

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==Page 110==

'''Stan Smith''' 
Born in 1946, Smith is a retired professional tennis player, having won Wimbledon and the U.S. Open once each.

'''dessicated''' 
dried out

==Endnote 46==

'''corticatization''' 
probably a misspelling of [http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?query=corticalization&action=Search+OMD corticalization]

==Page 111==

'''bow-biters''' 
1980's [http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Bow_Biters plastic clips] that help keep shoe laces tied

'''E.N.T. oncologist''' 
ear, nose, and throat; an oncologist is a cancer physician

'''violas''' 
A viola is a like a violin, only slightly larger and deeper in tone.

==Page 112==

'''''E Unibus Pluram''''' 
Latin wordplay on ''E pluribus unum'' ("From many, one"), the U.S. motto. This would mean "From one, many." Note that the correct Latin would be something like ''Ex uno plures'' or ''Ex uno plura'' (depending on what "many" is meant to refer to).

==Page 113==

'''Solipsism''' 
a kind of narcissism based on the idea that one's own mind is all one can ever truly know to exist

'''''ballet de se''''' 

mangled French: Ballet of (itself). ballet de soi would probably be closer.

==Page 114==

==Page 115==

'''plateaux''' 
the proper French plural of "plateau," rather than "plateaus"

'''slog''' 
to work with sustained effort against a natural resistance over a period of time

==Page 116==

'''Banzai!''' 
a Japanese battle cry

'''hangdog''' 
browbeaten or intimidated

==Page 117==

'''croupiers''' 
attendants at gambling casinos

'''plasticene''' 
misspelling of Plasticine, a brand name of plastic used for making molds

'''ancipitals''' 
having two sharp edges

'''accretive''' 
of or pertaining to the process of natural growth

'''autonomical''' 
of or pertaining to the reflexive or autonomic nervous system [archaic, autonomic is much the more commonly used term in centuries 20-21]

==Page 118==

'''machine-language''' 
a coding system for computers that requires no compiling before running

'''Orinda CA''' 
A small, wealthy city in Conta Costa County, immediately east of the Oakland-Berkeley metro area and about 18 miles northeast of San Francisco

'''me droogies''' 
Struck is speaking in Nadsat, the language of Anthony Burgess's novel ''A Clockwork Orange'', which is based on Russian. ''Droogies'' is Nadsat for "friends."

'''kertwanging''' 
from context, this would seem to be when an opponent is intentionally making bad calls to win points.

==Page 119==

'''Mein kinder''' 
German: "My children". But wrong grammar! "Mein" is singular, "kinder" is plural. "My children" would be "Meine Kinder"

==Page 120==

'''Wagenknecht''' 
sort of a formal German word for "chauffeur." [No, as native speaker, I do not agree. It is a quiet family name, meaning something like "cart-worker", but nobody would call a chauffeur that way!]

'''guilloche''' 
"an ornamental pattern or border, as in architecture, consisting of paired ribbons or lines flowing in interlaced curves around a series of circular voids" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary''); see below

[[Image:Guilloche molding.jpg]]

'''A la contraire''' 
A French mistake: Should be ''au contraire'' (masculine) [but consider the speaker, an adolescent non-wizard]

'''gingival mound''' 
mound of gum tissue

==Page 121==

'''aperçu''' 
an insight

=Mario Incandenza's romantic experience=
==Page 121==

'''post-prandial''' 
after a meal

'''two hundred kilos''' 
over 440 pounds

'''Southpaw''' 
left-handed

==Page 122==

'''doffed''' 
doff is to take off or tip in salutation (don off)

'''coiffure''' 
hairdo

'''osseously''' 
Osseous means "bone-like."

'''reticulate''' 
in a net-like or network pattern

'''chill dusk''' 
George Eliot (born Mary Anne Evans; 1819-1880), the British novelist, uses the expression in her novel [http://www.fullbooks.com/Adam-Bede.html Adam Bede].

'''easement''' 
Literally meaning the use of something legally not one's own, here it's used to mean a new path beaten through a thicket.

'''kliegs''' 
short form for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klieg Klieg light]

==Page 123==

'''Betty Stove''' 
Betty Stöve (born 1945) is a Dutch former professional tennis player and winner of ten Grand Slam titles

'''Montclair NJ''' 
a suburb about twenty miles west-northwest of New York City

'''Con-Edison''' 
Consolidated Edison, the utilities company serving New York

'''three meters tall''' 
about nine feet, ten inches tall

==Page 124==

'''Weber Grill''' 
a real brand, you can see examples [http://www.weberstuff.com/?gclid=CK71gtmRyI8CFQIQFQodpCUq9A here]

'''Passaic NJ''' 
near Montclair, Passaic is another western suburb of New York

'''capering''' 
To caper is to skip about in a playful manner.

'''rondelling''' 
To rondel (more properly, roundel) is to dance in a circle

'''simpering''' 
To simper is to smile coyly.

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

'''boscages''' 
masses of trees or shrubs

'''jetéed''' 
To jeté is to jump ballet-style.

==Page 125==

'''lamé''' 
an ornamental fabric incorporating threads of gold or silver

'''Titian''' 
Tiziano Vecellio (1485-1576) was a Venetian painter.

'''poison sumac''' 
a tall shrub containing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urushiol urushiol], which causes a rash similar to poison ivy

'''ambient''' 
of or pertaining to the surrounding environment

==Page 126==

=April 30th, YDAU - Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 126==

'''les salles de danser''' 
French: dancing rooms

'''Val d'Or, Québec''' 
city of northern Québec, 325 miles northwest of Montreal

==Page 127==

'''eidetic''' 
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_memory photographic memory]

=April 30th, YDAU - Still More Marathe & Steeply=

==Page 127==

'''murated''' 
a rarely used English word (found in ''OED'') meaning "surrounded by walls", from French: 'mur' = wall

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==Page 87==

'''payloaders''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loader_(equipment) construction equipment]

==Page 88==

'''Fauteuil de rollent''' 
: French for ''wheelchair'' is ''fauteuil roulant''.

'''Brockengespenst'''

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken_spectre.

==Page 89==
'''c'était la guerre'''

It was war.

==Page 90==
==Page 91==
'''agnate''' 
Paternal, related on the father's side. In this case agnate seems to mean that the shadows come from the same source, the setting sun. 

'''samizdat''' 
самиздать From the Russian verb "to publish on one's own" or "to self-publish." Originally used to denote underground publications in the Soviet Union, now used more generally for dissident activity[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat]

==Page 92==
'''stenographer-cum-''jeune-fille-de-Vendredi''''' 
secretary who takes diction AND devoted assistant. ''Jeune-fille-de-Vendredi'' is French for "young girl Friday." "Man Friday" (or "girl Friday") is a term that means a very competent and loyal servant or assistant, and originates from the Friday of ''Robinson Crusoe''.

==Page 93==

=Feral Hamsters=

==Page 93==

'''uremic''' 

of or involving excess nitrogenous waste products in the urine

'''somatic''' 

of or relating to the body, esp. as distinct from the mind.

'''Champaign IL''' 
He probably attends the [http://www.uiuc.edu/ University of Illinois] main campus at Urbana-Champaign, formerly Champaign-Urbana.

'''Ward and June''' 
The mother's and father's names on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_It_To_Beaver ''Leave It to Beaver'']

'''pedalferrous''' 
pedalfer is a soil type composed of aluminum and iron oxides. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedalfer apparently a neologism, the word would mean "of or pertaining to foot metal," i.e., fast driving

'''fallow''' 

plowed and harrowed but left unsown for a period in order to restore its fertility as part of a crop rotation or to avoid surplus production

'''fulvous''' 
in color, yellow-gray to yellowish-brown

'''teratogenic''' 
having an ill effect on the development of a fetus

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 93==

''''''n sûr''''' 
An elision of ''bien sûr'', French for "of course"

'''electrolysis''' 

the removal of hair roots or small blemishes on the skin by the application of heat using an electric current.

==Page 94==

'''Sterling UL35 9 mm machine pistol with Mag Na Port silencer''' 
Sterling is a real British gun manufacturer and [http://www.magnaport.com/ Mag-Na-Port] is real also, but this particular gun model is apparently made-up.

'''Charleston''' 
a dance popular in the 1920s

'''mesquite''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesquite mesquite] plant

==Page 95==

=YDAU - ETA Locker Room=

==Page 95==

'''Barbicide''' 
a brand name of disinfectant used for combs and hairbrushes

'''Tolstoy's sentence''' 
The question probably referred to the opening lines of Leo Tolstoy's ''Anna Karenina:'' "HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

'''No cathode gun. No phosphenic screen.''' 
A cathode gun is an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_gun electron gun] used in a cathode ray tube. "Phosphenic" refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene phosphenes].

'''UHF''' 
Ultra High Frequency

'''Michael Pemulis, ..., clear his throat deeply''' 
this grammatical error appears shortly after a discussion of a class on grammar

==Page 97==

'''acutance''' 
the edge contrast of an image. Hal appears to be correct insofar as contrast is more or less the same as resolution. Acutance is related to a pulse's slope and height. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acutance

'''halation''' 
blurring of a visual image by glare

'''quiescent''' 
still or at rest

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 97==

'''digitate''' 
“having deep radiating divisions” (OED)

=ETA Locker Room, cont.=

==Page 97==

==Page 98==

'''Zoltan''' 
Zoltán was a 10th century ruler of Hungary.

'''Csikzentmihalyi''' 
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (''sic'') is a psychologist best known for his concept of "flow", a psychological state where one "is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity", e.g. "being in the zone" while playing sports.

'''Idris Arslanian, new this year, ethnically vague''' 
Idris is an Arabic name, corresponding in the Qur'an to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch%2C_ancestor_of_Noah Enoch] in the Bible. The last name Arslanian sounds Armenian, though ''Arslan'' is a Turkish word for "lion."

'''R.A.''' 
Resident Assistant

'''Tex Watson''' 
Besides a character in ''Infinite Jest,'' Tex Watson was the nickname of Charles Watson, one of the chief murderers in the Charles Manson Family.

'''ephebes''' 
An ephebe is an adolescent male.

'''attritive''' 
[OED] gradually wearing away or weakening something or someone

'''suppliants''' 
A suppliant is a petitioner.

==Page 99==

'''sienna''' 
[or siena] a yellowish- to reddish-brown pigment

'''louvered''' 
fitted with angled slats, the better to permit passage of light or air

'''thoracic''' 
having to do with the chest

'''atavistically''' 
Atavism means reversion to an earlier evolutionary type; i.e., Hal's complexion resembles his grandparents or earlier ancestors more than his parents

'''piebald''' 
having patches of different colors

==Page 100==

'''cognomen''' 
a nickname

'''inflation-generative grammar''' 
i.e. a set of rules to generate phrases of increasing emphasis

==Page 101==

'''semion''' 
from context, it means sign or gesture, evincing with semaphore a common ancestor. [A semion is technically part of an anyon, the latter of which is defined in the ''OED'' as "a particle having characteristics intermediate between those of fermions and bosons in two-dimensional space." However, it seems Wallace uses the word as a form closer to "semiotics."] A later search reveals that ''semion'' is Greek for "sign."

'''Umbrian''' 
From the Italian ''reggione'' of Umbria, in central Italy. Hal is Italian on his father's side, as well as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pima Pima] Native American. His mother, of course, is French-Canadian.

'''Brylcreemed''' 
Used as a verb here, [http://www.brylcreemusa.com/ Brylcreem] is a brand name of men's hair grooming product.

'''zygomatics''' 
the cheekbones, so-called, or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygomatics zygomatic bones] of the face

==Page 102==

'''haul ashes''' 
For a history of this term, click [http://www.wordwizard.com/ch_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6859 here]. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=haul%20your%20ashes

'''Johnny Mathis's "Chances Are"''' 
listen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEH3uqbpsm8 here] 

==Page 103==

'''Luther's 16th-century shoes, awaiting epiphany''' 
Martin Luther (1483-1546), German father of the Reformation, was a notorious sufferer of constipation.

'''hobnailed boots''' 
boots assembled with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobnail hobnails]

==Endnote 43==
'''Crohn's''' 
The disease is named for Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884-1983), American gastroenterologist.

==Page 103, cont.==

'''carminative''' 
combatting or expelling flatulence

'''gout''' 
a disease characterized by the collection of uric acid in the joints

'''Port Washington''' 
There are three cities by this name in the U.S.: In New York, Wisconsin, and Ohio.

==Page 104==

==Page 105==

'''woppsed up''' 
a created word, apparently something like "wadded up"

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 105==

'''Tristan and Isolde''' 
star-crossed lovers from Arthurian myth

'''Lancelot and what's-her-name''' 
Guinevere

'''Agamemnon and Helen''' 
Steeply has this one wrong. Helen abandoned her husband, Menelaus, the brother of Agamemnon, to flee to Troy with Paris, younger brother of Hector.

'''Dante and Beatrice''' 
Beatrice is Dante's guide through heaven in the third part of the ''Divine Comedy'', ''Paradiso''

'''Narcissus and Echo''' 
The story of these doomed lovers from Greek mythology is [http://thanasis.com/echo.htm here].

'''Kierkegaard and Regina''' 
Regina Olsen was the short-term fiancée of Kierkegaard.

'''Kafka and that poor girl afraid to go the postbox for the mail''' 
The story being referred to can be read [http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.jsp?what=KafkaDoll here].

'''Menelaus was husband, him of Sparta''' 
Menelaus, King of Sparta, was the husband of Helen. Agamemnon was the King of Argos and Menelaus's brother.

'''Helen and Paris. He of Troy.''' 
Paris, a Trojan prince, kidnapped Helen from Menelaus, precipitating the Trojan War.

'''The horse: the gift which was not a gift''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Horse Trojan horse]

==Page 106==

'''electrolysistic''' 
resulting from electrolysis, the removal of hair using electric shocks

'''sangfroid''' 
From French for "cold blood," this word means "coolness," as in composure under pressure

==Page 107==

==Page 108==

'''creosote''' 
There are several types of creosote, described [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creosote here].

'''crepuscular''' 
active in the twilight, as bats, deer, many mosquitos

==Endnote 45==

==Endnote 304==

[[Notes_and_Errata_-_Pages_983-1079#Endnote_304_.C2.B7_The_Train_Game|Notes and Errata - Endnote 304]]

==Page 109==

'''gibbous''' 
bulging outwards: the shape of the moon when it is neither full, nor crescent, nor half, i.e., when it is more than half full

'''Quonsets''' 
short form for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut Quonset huts]

=November 3rd, YDAU - Advice to Little Brothers=

==Page 109==

==Page 110==

'''Stan Smith''' 
Born in 1946, Smith is a retired professional tennis player, having won Wimbledon and the U.S. Open once each.

'''dessicated''' 
dried out

==Endnote 46==

'''corticatization''' 
probably a misspelling of [http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?query=corticalization&action=Search+OMD corticalization]

==Page 111==

'''bow-biters''' 
1980's [http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Bow_Biters plastic clips] that help keep shoe laces tied

'''E.N.T. oncologist''' 
ear, nose, and throat; an oncologist is a cancer physician

'''violas''' 
A viola is a like a violin, only slightly larger and deeper in tone.

==Page 112==

'''''E Unibus Pluram''''' 
Latin wordplay on ''E pluribus unum'' ("From many, one"), the U.S. motto. This would mean "From one, many." Note that the correct Latin would be something like ''Ex uno plures'' or ''Ex uno plura'' (depending on what "many" is meant to refer to).

==Page 113==

'''Solipsism''' 
a kind of narcissism based on the idea that one's own mind is all one can ever truly know to exist

'''''ballet de se''''' 

mangled French: Ballet of (itself). ballet de soi would probably be closer.

==Page 114==

==Page 115==

'''plateaux''' 
the proper French plural of "plateau," rather than "plateaus"

'''slog''' 
to work with sustained effort against a natural resistance over a period of time

==Page 116==

'''Banzai!''' 
a Japanese battle cry

'''hangdog''' 
browbeaten or intimidated

==Page 117==

'''croupiers''' 
attendants at gambling casinos

'''plasticene''' 
misspelling of Plasticine, a brand name of plastic used for making molds

'''ancipitals''' 
having two sharp edges

'''accretive''' 
of or pertaining to the process of natural growth

'''autonomical''' 
of or pertaining to the reflexive or autonomic nervous system [archaic, autonomic is much the more commonly used term in centuries 20-21]

==Page 118==

'''machine-language''' 
a coding system for computers that requires no compiling before running

'''Orinda CA''' 
A small, wealthy city in Conta Costa County, immediately east of the Oakland-Berkeley metro area and about 18 miles northeast of San Francisco

'''me droogies''' 
Struck is speaking in Nadsat, the language of Anthony Burgess's novel ''A Clockwork Orange'', which is based on Russian. ''Droogies'' is Nadsat for "friends."

'''kertwanging''' 
from context, this would seem to be when an opponent is intentionally making bad calls to win points.

==Page 119==

'''Mein kinder''' 
German: "My children". But wrong grammar! "Mein" is singular, "kinder" is plural. "My children" would be "Meine Kinder"

==Page 120==

'''Wagenknecht''' 
sort of a formal German word for "chauffeur." [No, as native speaker, I do not agree. It is a quiet family name, meaning something like "cart-worker", but nobody would call a chauffeur that way!]

'''guilloche''' 
"an ornamental pattern or border, as in architecture, consisting of paired ribbons or lines flowing in interlaced curves around a series of circular voids" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary''); see below

[[Image:Guilloche molding.jpg]]

'''A la contraire''' 
A French mistake: Should be ''au contraire'' (masculine) [but consider the speaker, an adolescent non-wizard]

'''gingival mound''' 
mound of gum tissue

==Page 121==

'''aperçu''' 
an insight

=Mario Incandenza's romantic experience=
==Page 121==

'''post-prandial''' 
after a meal

'''two hundred kilos''' 
over 440 pounds

'''Southpaw''' 
left-handed

==Page 122==

'''doffed''' 
doff is to take off or tip in salutation (don off)

'''coiffure''' 
hairdo

'''osseously''' 
Osseous means "bone-like."

'''reticulate''' 
in a net-like or network pattern

'''chill dusk''' 
George Eliot (born Mary Anne Evans; 1819-1880), the British novelist, uses the expression in her novel [http://www.fullbooks.com/Adam-Bede.html Adam Bede].

'''easement''' 
Literally meaning the use of something legally not one's own, here it's used to mean a new path beaten through a thicket.

'''kliegs''' 
short form for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klieg Klieg light]

==Page 123==

'''Betty Stove''' 
Betty Stöve (born 1945) is a Dutch former professional tennis player and winner of ten Grand Slam titles

'''Montclair NJ''' 
a suburb about twenty miles west-northwest of New York City

'''Con-Edison''' 
Consolidated Edison, the utilities company serving New York

'''three meters tall''' 
about nine feet, ten inches tall

==Page 124==

'''Weber Grill''' 
a real brand, you can see examples [http://www.weberstuff.com/?gclid=CK71gtmRyI8CFQIQFQodpCUq9A here]

'''Passaic NJ''' 
near Montclair, Passaic is another western suburb of New York

'''capering''' 
To caper is to skip about in a playful manner.

'''rondelling''' 
To rondel (more properly, roundel) is to dance in a circle

'''simpering''' 
To simper is to smile coyly.

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

'''boscages''' 
masses of trees or shrubs

'''jetéed''' 
To jeté is to jump ballet-style.

==Page 125==

'''lamé''' 
an ornamental fabric incorporating threads of gold or silver

'''Titian''' 
Tiziano Vecellio (1485-1576) was a Venetian painter.

'''poison sumac''' 
a tall shrub containing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urushiol urushiol], which causes a rash similar to poison ivy

'''ambient''' 
of or pertaining to the surrounding environment

==Page 126==

=April 30th, YDAU - Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 126==

'''les salles de danser''' 
French: dancing rooms

'''Val d'Or, Québec''' 
city of northern Québec, 325 miles northwest of Montreal

==Page 127==

'''eidetic''' 
referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_memory photographic memory]

=April 30th, YDAU - Still More Marathe & Steeply=

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'''murated''' 
a rarely used English word (found in ''OED'') meaning "surrounded by walls", from French: 'mur' = wall

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==Endnote 3==

'''cardioid''' 
In geometry, a cardioid is a plane curve produced by tracing the path of a chosen point of a circle which rolls around a fixed circle. The cardioid shape of E.T.A. has one cusp, i.e., a point on the curve that is not smooth. The ''r'' referred to by the narrator here is the radius of the moving circle.

'''Übermensch''' 
German for "superhuman"

'''Brandeis''' 
Brandeis is a Jewish-founded university in Waltham, Mass., about nine miles west of Boston, named for Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941) the first Jewish Supreme Court justice.

==Endnote 5==

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

==Endnote 5a==

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

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

'''loquacity''' 
talkativeness

==Endnote 6==

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

==Endnote 7==

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

==Endnote 8==

'''dickies''' 
As a dickie is designed to give the appearance of wearing a tie, Wallace uses this word here to deal with drugs that mimic the effects of other drugs.

'''MMDA, DMA, DMMM, 2CB, para-DOT I-VI''' 
You can read about MMDA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMDA_%28psychedelic%29 here], DMA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethoxyamphetamine here], 2CB [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2CB here], DOT [http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_Chemical.jsp?Rec_Id=PC35343 here] (apparently). DMMM appears to be made up.

'''CNS''' 
central nervous system

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

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

===Endnote 8a===

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

'''DDMS''' 
dibromododecenyl methylsulfimide

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

==Endnote 12a==

'''"...Continental Controlled Substances Act of Y.T.M.P., O.N.A.N.D.E.A.'s hierarchy of analgesics/antipyretics/axiolytics..."''' 
There is no such act, obviously. Y.T.M.P. is [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]. The second acronym is Organization of North American Nations Drug Enforcement Agency. Analgesics are painkillers. Antipyretics are fever-reducing drugs, and anxiolytics are anxiety-reducing drugs.

==Endnote 13==

'''Quo Vadis''' 
Latin: Where are you going? Famously asked of Jesus by Peter when the former was on his way to be crucified. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quo_vadis here.] Also a novel and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043949/ film] by that name were made.

==Endnote 17==

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

==Endnote 19==

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

==Endnote 21==

'''Q.v.''' 
Latin abbreviation for ''quod vide'' ("which see"), used to direct a reader elsewhere in a book. Here we are directed to...

==Endnote 23==
'''U.S.D.D.''' 
United States Department of Defense

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===Page 986===
'''meniscus''' 
here, a lens with a crescent-shaped section, convex on one side and concave on the other; also the curved interface between a liquid and gas in a tube

'''soliloquized''' 
spoken to oneself

'''incunabular''' 
early stages of something

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

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 992===

'''concupiscence''' 

Strong sexual desire

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

===Page 993===

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

==Endnote 82==

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

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

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

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

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

'''truncated''' 
cut short

===Page 1005===

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

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

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

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

'''riffling''' 
turning pages quickly

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

===Page 1006===

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

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

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

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

'''paucity''' 
scarcity

'''swotted''' 
studied intensively

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

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

'''penultimate''' 
second to last

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

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

===Endnote 110d===

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

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

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

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

'''and c.''' 
et cetera

===Page 1007===

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1008===

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

'''seraphic''' 
like an angel

'''lascivious''' 
appealing to sexual tastes

'''mesmerized''' 
hypnotized

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

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

===Page 1009===

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

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

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

===Page 1010===

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1011===

[[Image:Eddy.jpg|right]]

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

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

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

equestrian jaspers: probably means jodhpurs

'''Droll''' 
whimsically comic

===Page 1012===

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

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

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

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

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

'''acuity''' 
acuteness of perception

'''in utero''' 
in the womb

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1013===

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

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

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

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

'''Francophonic''' 
French-speaking

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

'''Toujours''' 
French: always

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

'''Ottawa''' 
the capital of Canada

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

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

'''flux''' 
frequent change

'''appalled''' 
dismayed

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

===Page 1014===

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

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

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

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

===Endnote 110h===

'''Gallic''' 
French

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

'''Anglophone''' 
English-speaking

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

===Endnote 110i===

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''rapacious''' 
ravenous

===Page 1015===

'''lissome''' 
supple

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''anaerobic''' 
thriving without oxygen

===Page 1016===

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1017===

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

'''attendant''' 
consequent or concomitant

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1018===

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

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1019===

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

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

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

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

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

'''D-bases''' 
databases

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

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

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

===Page 1020===

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

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1021===

'''hapless''' 
here meaning haphazard

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

'''jaunty''' 
smartly trim

'''toggle''' 
a type of switch

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

===Page 1022===

==Endnote 145 · Found Drama==

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

===Page 1026===

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

===Page 1027===

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1028===

===Page 1031===

==Endnote 162==

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

===Page 1035===

==Endnote 211==

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

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

===Page 1037===

==Endnote 228==

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

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

===Page 1038===

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

'''NPR''' 
National Public Radio

===Page 1039===

'''dun''' 
make repeated demands on

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

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

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

===Page 1040===

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

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

'''pathogenic''' 
capable of producing disease

===Page 1041===

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

'''Quelquechose''' 
French: something

===Page 1042===

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

===Page 1043===

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

'''BPL''' 
Boston Public Library

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

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

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

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

'''guile''' 
insidious cunning

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

'''larval''' 
immature in its kind

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

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

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

'''prenominate''' 
aforementioned

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

===Page 1048===

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

'''purposive''' 
serving some purpose

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

'''consummate''' 
highly skilled

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

===Page 1049===

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

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

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

'''mendacious''' 
untruthful

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

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

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

'''piteously''' 
pitifully

===Page 1050===

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

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

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

'''ACOAs''' 
Adult Children of Alcoholics

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

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

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

'''neurasthenic''' 
chronically fatigued and weak

'''aspic''' 
meat jelly

'''profligate''' 
extravagant

'''loquacious''' 
very talkative

===Page 1051===

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

'''univocal''' 
unambiguous

'''furcated''' 
branching or forking

'''solicitous''' 
concerned

'''appurtenances''' 
accessories or equipment

'''pique''' 
feeling of resentment

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

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

'''perspicuous''' 
clearly expressed

===Page 1052===

'''multivalent''' 
having various meanings

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

==Endnote 304 · The Train Game==

===Page 1055===

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

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

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

===Page 1056===

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

'''QUOI?''' 
WHAT?

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

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

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

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

===Page 1058===

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

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1060===

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

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

'''purple''' 
alluding to purple prose

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

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

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

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

'''inexorably''' 
relentlessly

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Endnote 324 · John Wayne loses it==

===Page 1066===

'''moon''' 
to spend time idly

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

===Endnote 324a===

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

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

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

'''whorl''' 
a circular arrangement

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

===Page 1067===

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

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

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

'''profligate''' 
wasteful

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

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

'''callow''' 
immature; inexperienced

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

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

===Page 1068===

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

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

'''cavalier''' 
disdainful; unceremonious

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

===Page 1069===

'''canvas restraint-wrap''' 
straitjacket

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

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

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

'''rheumy''' 
full of thin mucous

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1070===

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

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

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

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

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

'''cretinous''' 
stupid

===Page 1071===

===Endnote 324f===

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

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

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

'''redoubted''' 
formidable

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

'''Nucleic acids''' 
DNA and RNA

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

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1072===

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''"...Wiener, Reimann, Frege, Green..."''' 
Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) was an American mathematician. Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) was a German mathematician. Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a German mathematician and logician. Green is probably George Green (1793-1841), English mathematician and physicist.

===Endnote 331===

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

==Endnote 332 · Pemulis just slays deLint==

===Page 1073===

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

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

===Page 1074===

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

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

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

'''castigations''' 
criticisms; reprimands

===Page 1075===

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

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

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

===Page 1076===

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

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

===Endnote 331===

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

===Page 1077===

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

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

===Page 1078===

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

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==Endnote 3==

'''cardioid''' 
In geometry, a cardioid is a plane curve produced by tracing the path of a chosen point of a circle which rolls around a fixed circle. The cardioid shape of E.T.A. has one cusp, i.e., a point on the curve that is not smooth. The ''r'' referred to by the narrator here is the radius of the moving circle.

'''Übermensch''' 
German for "superhuman"

'''Brandeis''' 
Brandeis is a Jewish-founded university in Waltham, Mass., about nine miles west of Boston, named for Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941) the first Jewish Supreme Court justice.

==Endnote 5==

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

==Endnote 5a==

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

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

'''loquacity''' 
talkativeness

==Endnote 6==

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

==Endnote 7==

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

==Endnote 8==

'''dickies''' 
As a dickie is designed to give the appearance of wearing a tie, Wallace uses this word here to deal with drugs that mimic the effects of other drugs.

'''MMDA, DMA, DMMM, 2CB, para-DOT I-VI''' 
You can read about MMDA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMDA_%28psychedelic%29 here], DMA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethoxyamphetamine here], 2CB [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2CB here], DOT [http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_Chemical.jsp?Rec_Id=PC35343 here] (apparently). DMMM appears to be made up.

'''CNS''' 
central nervous system

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

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

===Endnote 8a===

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

'''DDMS''' 
dibromododecenyl methylsulfimide

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

==Endnote 12a==

'''"...Continental Controlled Substances Act of Y.T.M.P., O.N.A.N.D.E.A.'s hierarchy of analgesics/antipyretics/axiolytics..."''' 
There is no such act, obviously. Y.T.M.P. is [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]. The second acronym is Organization of North American Nations Drug Enforcement Agency. Analgesics are painkillers. Antipyretics are fever-reducing drugs, and anxiolytics are anxiety-reducing drugs.

==Endnote 13==

'''Quo Vadis''' 
Latin: Where are you going? Famously asked of Jesus by Peter when the former was on his way to be crucified. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quo_vadis here.] Also a novel and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043949/ film] by that name were made.

==Endnote 17==

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

==Endnote 19==

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

==Endnote 21==

'''Q.v.''' 
Latin abbreviation for ''quod vide'' ("which see"), used to direct a reader elsewhere in a book. Here we are directed to...

==Endnote 23==
'''U.S.D.D.''' 
United States Department of Defense

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

'''soliloquized''' 
spoken to oneself

'''incunabular''' 
early stages of something

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 992===

'''concupiscence''' 

Strong sexual desire

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

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

==Endnote 82==

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

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

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

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

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

'''truncated''' 
cut short

===Page 1005===

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

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

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

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

'''riffling''' 
turning pages quickly

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

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

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

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

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

'''paucity''' 
scarcity

'''swotted''' 
studied intensively

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

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

'''penultimate''' 
second to last

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

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

===Endnote 110d===

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

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

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

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

'''and c.''' 
et cetera

===Page 1007===

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1008===

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

'''seraphic''' 
like an angel

'''lascivious''' 
appealing to sexual tastes

'''mesmerized''' 
hypnotized

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

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

===Page 1009===

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

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

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

===Page 1010===

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1011===

[[Image:Eddy.jpg|right]]

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

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

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

equestrian jaspers: probably means jodhpurs

'''Droll''' 
whimsically comic

===Page 1012===

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

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

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

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

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

'''acuity''' 
acuteness of perception

'''in utero''' 
in the womb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Francophonic''' 
French-speaking

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

'''Toujours''' 
French: always

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

'''Ottawa''' 
the capital of Canada

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

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

'''flux''' 
frequent change

'''appalled''' 
dismayed

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

===Page 1014===

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

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

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

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

===Endnote 110h===

'''Gallic''' 
French

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

'''Anglophone''' 
English-speaking

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

===Endnote 110i===

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''rapacious''' 
ravenous

===Page 1015===

'''lissome''' 
supple

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''anaerobic''' 
thriving without oxygen

===Page 1016===

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1017===

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

'''attendant''' 
consequent or concomitant

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1018===

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

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1019===

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

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

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

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

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

'''D-bases''' 
databases

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

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

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

===Page 1020===

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

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1021===

'''hapless''' 
here meaning haphazard

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

'''jaunty''' 
smartly trim

'''toggle''' 
a type of switch

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

===Page 1022===

==Endnote 145 · Found Drama==

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

===Page 1026===

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

===Page 1027===

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1028===

===Page 1031===

==Endnote 162==

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

===Page 1035===

==Endnote 211==

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

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

===Page 1037===

==Endnote 228==

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

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

===Page 1038===

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

'''NPR''' 
National Public Radio

===Page 1039===

'''dun''' 
make repeated demands on

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

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

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

===Page 1040===

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

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

'''pathogenic''' 
capable of producing disease

===Page 1041===

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

'''Quelquechose''' 
French: something

===Page 1042===

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

===Page 1043===

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

'''BPL''' 
Boston Public Library

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

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

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

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

'''guile''' 
insidious cunning

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

'''larval''' 
immature in its kind

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

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

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

'''prenominate''' 
aforementioned

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

===Page 1048===

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

'''purposive''' 
serving some purpose

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

'''consummate''' 
highly skilled

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

===Page 1049===

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

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

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

'''mendacious''' 
untruthful

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

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

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

'''piteously''' 
pitifully

===Page 1050===

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

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

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

'''ACOAs''' 
Adult Children of Alcoholics

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

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

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

'''neurasthenic''' 
chronically fatigued and weak

'''aspic''' 
meat jelly

'''profligate''' 
extravagant

'''loquacious''' 
very talkative

===Page 1051===

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

'''univocal''' 
unambiguous

'''furcated''' 
branching or forking

'''solicitous''' 
concerned

'''appurtenances''' 
accessories or equipment

'''pique''' 
feeling of resentment

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

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

'''perspicuous''' 
clearly expressed

===Page 1052===

'''multivalent''' 
having various meanings

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

==Endnote 304 · The Train Game==

===Page 1055===

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

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

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

===Page 1056===

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

'''QUOI?''' 
WHAT?

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

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

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

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

===Page 1058===

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

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1060===

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

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

'''purple''' 
alluding to purple prose

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

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

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

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

'''inexorably''' 
relentlessly

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Endnote 324 · John Wayne loses it==

===Page 1066===

'''moon''' 
to spend time idly

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

===Endnote 324a===

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

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

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

'''whorl''' 
a circular arrangement

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

===Page 1067===

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

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

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

'''profligate''' 
wasteful

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

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

'''callow''' 
immature; inexperienced

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

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

===Page 1068===

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

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

'''cavalier''' 
disdainful; unceremonious

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

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'''canvas restraint-wrap''' 
straitjacket

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

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

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

'''rheumy''' 
full of thin mucous

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''cretinous''' 
stupid

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===Endnote 324f===

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

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

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'''redoubted''' 
formidable

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

'''Nucleic acids''' 
DNA and RNA

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''"...Wiener, Reimann, Frege, Green..."''' 
Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) was an American mathematician. Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) was a German mathematician. Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a German mathematician and logician. Green is probably George Green (1793-1841), English mathematician and physicist.

===Endnote 331===

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

==Endnote 332 · Pemulis just slays deLint==

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

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

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

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

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

'''castigations''' 
criticisms; reprimands

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

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

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

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

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

===Endnote 331===

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

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

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

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

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'''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

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

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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-anodized''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anodizing Anodizing] is the process of making something electrically passive via electrolytic chemical deposition, or oxidation of the surface layer. Presumably lithium-anodized implies this process is done with the alkali metal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium 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. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a torus (donut).

'''Tableaux''' 
This is the French pluralization of "tableau,"

'''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''' 
descriptive of a mood of verbs in Greek and other languages, expressing a wish or choice, more or less equivalent to the English "if only."

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

'''après-garde''' 
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''
: No. French for "rear gard" is ''arrière-garde'', there is no such thing as ''après-garde'' in French. DFW makes either a mistake or a pun — likely the latter — because the notion of a rear guard is here transposed to time instead of space.

'''recondite''' 
Esoteric, arcane, abstruse.

==Endnote 24 - JOI's Filmography==
See [[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_24_.C2.B7_JAMES_O._INCANDENZA:_A_FILMOGRAPHY|Notes and Errata - Endnote 24]]

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'''Macdonald Chair''' 
Sir William C. Macdonald (1831-1917) was one of the most important donors in the history of McGill University. There is a Macdonald Chair in Chemistry.

'''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 latter is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the former is rule-based and thus slower.

'''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement''' 
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.
: Proper French for this would be ''Personnes que l’on doit surveiller attentivement''.

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

'''recondite''' 
Esoteric, arcane, abstruse.

'''mordantly''' 
in a caustic manner.

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

'''CNS-rendingly''' 
A play on the term 'heart-rending'. CNS is an acronym for central nervous system.

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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''' 
A ''Festschrift'' (in German meaning roughly "a celebratory piece of writing") is a collection of essays dedicated to an important scholar. A festschrift usually marks the retirement, an important birthday, or the death of the recipient.

'''anticonfluential''' 
neologism, against things coming together

'''chiaroscuro''' 
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting. It normally refers to a strong contrast between light and shade, as in work by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravaggio#/media/File:The_Calling_of_Saint_Matthew-Caravaggo_(1599-1600).jpg Caravaggio] or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt Rembrandt]

'''elegaic''' 
Misspelling of ''elegiac'' (related to mourning).

'''annulation''' 
The formation of rings, marked by rings, formed by rings

'''hypertrophied''' 
Grown exceedingly large.

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'''tacks''' 
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.

'''Mile-High''' 
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos played until 2001.

'''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''' 
An organic molecule which, when ingested, produces 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.

''' ''Amanita muscaria'', a.k.a. the fly agaric mushroom''' 
a poisonous and psychoactive fungus, usually red with white spots. It was used as an entheogen in Siberia. It has also been proposed that this is the "Soma" of the ''Rig Veda''. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria Wikipedia])

'''synesthesia''' 
A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color. ([http://www.thefreedictionary.com/synesthesia thefreedictionary])

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'''methoxylated''' 
Addition of a methoxy group. Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."

'''phenylkylamine''' 
Possibly a made-up substance, similar to synthetic substance, phenylalkylamine, and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychotropic_alkylamines psychotropic alkylamines]

'''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 (and some Jews of other traditions) 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 (''e.g.'' one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD, test shot of heroin).

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'''enkephalin''' 
A type of painkiller [DFW's note explains and embroiders]; a substance manufactured within the human body by the human body that binds to some of the same neural receptors to which bind exogenous opiates. They could be considered a subset of endorphins that bind uniquely to central nervous system tissue receptors.

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'''psychodysleptic''' 
Inducing a delusional mental state; hallucinatory, a neologism by Hal's criteria.

'''Sominex''' 
Diphenhydramine, an over the counter sleep aid, marketed under many names in support of many claims

'''''in medias''''' 
Latin: in the middle of. Probably an intended short form for ''in medias res'' "right into the middle (of a story)". Without ''res'' the feminine plural of ''medias'' doesn't make any sense. (Cf. note on 701 s.v. ''in violent medias res'')

'''convolved''' 
rolled or coiled together.

'''oblique''' 
Neither perpendicular nor parallel.

'''deliquesce''' 
To become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.

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'''hale''' 
free from disease or infirmity.

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

'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States''''' 
This book does not exist. One 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 (MAOI) 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''' 
A mental state of feeling horrible.

'''diurnal''' 
During the day. Opposite of nocturnal.

'''w/w/o''' 
With and without.

'''CO''' 
Carbon monoxide, sometimes 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.

'''B.P.''' 
Blood pressure.

'''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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'''plexor''' 
Another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflex_hammer reflex hammer]

'''plangent''' 
Loud and resounding.

'''wasn’t an M.D. yet but a resident''' 
On the contrary, a resident is an M.D. or D.O. in the first years after medical school, undergoing advanced training.

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'''carpopedal''' 
Involving both the hands and feet.

'''tetanic''' 
Pertaining to tetanus, lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually by C. tetani, which elaborates a toxin that locks jaw muscle and most other muscles as well. In the context here, reference is being made to similar muscle contractions of much less intensity that can be seen with high blood pH from overbreathing.

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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.

'''One kid makes you ask him to please commit a crime''' 
Michael Pemulis (Page 156)

'''And one particular guy with snakes in a tank in a trailer in Allston''' 
Tommy Doocey or Bruce Green (Page 39)

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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.

==Endnote 30==

'''boric acid''' 
Also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects.

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'''the T''' 
Local public transit in the Boston metro area.

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'''"That old cartridge, Nichols 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].

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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.

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'''Nick Bolletieri''' 
An [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ actual tennis coach].

'''epaulets''' 
Military shoulder decorations on clothing.

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

'''Lebensgefährtins''' 
Wallace's endnote 31(p. 994) claims this "means technically 'soulmate' or 'spouse'", but a more accurate translation would be 'life partner'. NB: 'Lebensgefährtin' is the feminine form of the noun. NB2: Schtitt's use of '-s' to indicate plural is incorrect for 'real' German (the correct form being ''Lebensgefährtinnen''); it is difficult to claim whether or not it is intentional on Wallace's part.

'''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.

'''varicocele''' 
a varicose condition of the spermatic veins of the scrotum

'''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 literally 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.

'''diagnate''' 
perhaps a combination of "diagonal", referring to Cantor's diagonal proof, and "agnate"

==Endnote 34==

'''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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'''Hopman and van der Meer and Bollettieri''' 
Harry Hopman, Dennis van der Meer, and Nick Bollettieri, highly regarded tennis instructors. Bollettieri and van der Meer each founded tennis boarding schools in the United States.

'''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''). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractals Wikipedia entry...]

'''aleatory''' 
Of or pertaining to accidental causes.

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

'''''Gymanasium''''' 
The equivalent of a U.S. college-preparatory 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" -- or extravagance. But this word is really old-fashioned and would be not used by a contemporary German speaker.

'''''Platz''''' 
German: a public square. But also just "place".

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'''pirouetting''' 
Whirling on the toes.

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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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'''screaming meemies''' 
used to describe anxiety or aprehension (i.e., the "heebie-jeebies" or the "willies"); originally a nickname for a type of German rocket used in WWII, which emitted a high-pitched noise as it flew. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebelwerfer Wikipedia])

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

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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"

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'''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

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

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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-anodized''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anodizing Anodizing] is the process of making something electrically passive via electrolytic chemical deposition, or oxidation of the surface layer. Presumably lithium-anodized implies this process is done with the alkali metal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium 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. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a torus (donut).

'''Tableaux''' 
This is the French pluralization of "tableau,"

'''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''' 
descriptive of a mood of verbs in Greek and other languages, expressing a wish or choice, more or less equivalent to the English "if only."

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

'''après-garde''' 
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''
: No. French for "rear gard" is ''arrière-garde'', there is no such thing as ''après-garde'' in French. DFW makes either a mistake or a pun — likely the latter — because the notion of a rear guard is here transposed to time instead of space.

'''recondite''' 
Esoteric, arcane, abstruse.

==Endnote 24 - JOI's Filmography==
See [[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_24_.C2.B7_JAMES_O._INCANDENZA:_A_FILMOGRAPHY|Notes and Errata - Endnote 24]]

==Page 64 (cont'd)==

'''Macdonald Chair''' 
Sir William C. Macdonald (1831-1917) was one of the most important donors in the history of McGill University. There is a Macdonald Chair in Chemistry.

'''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 latter is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the former is rule-based and thus slower.

'''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement''' 
French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.
: Proper French for this would be ''Personnes que l’on doit surveiller attentivement''.

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

'''recondite''' 
Esoteric, arcane, abstruse.

'''mordantly''' 
in a caustic manner.

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

'''CNS-rendingly''' 
A play on the term 'heart-rending'. CNS is an acronym for central nervous system.

==Page 65==

'''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''' 
A ''Festschrift'' (in German meaning roughly "a celebratory piece of writing") is a collection of essays dedicated to an important scholar. A festschrift usually marks the retirement, an important birthday, or the death of the recipient.

'''anticonfluential''' 
neologism, against things coming together

'''chiaroscuro''' 
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting. It normally refers to a strong contrast between light and shade, as in work by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravaggio#/media/File:The_Calling_of_Saint_Matthew-Caravaggo_(1599-1600).jpg Caravaggio] or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt Rembrandt]

'''annulation''' 
The formation of rings, marked by rings, formed by rings

'''hypertrophied''' 
Grown exceedingly large.

=November 1st, YDAU - Denver, CO - The Cardinals=
==Page 65==

'''tacks''' 
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.

'''Mile-High''' 
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos played until 2001.

'''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.

==Page 66==

'''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.

=☽ - Pemulis's lecture=
==Page 66==

'''organopsychedelic''' 
An organic molecule which, when ingested, produces 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.

''' ''Amanita muscaria'', a.k.a. the fly agaric mushroom''' 
a poisonous and psychoactive fungus, usually red with white spots. It was used as an entheogen in Siberia. It has also been proposed that this is the "Soma" of the ''Rig Veda''. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria Wikipedia])

'''synesthesia''' 
A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color. ([http://www.thefreedictionary.com/synesthesia thefreedictionary])

==Page 67==

'''methoxylated''' 
Addition of a methoxy group. Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."

'''phenylkylamine''' 
Possibly a made-up substance, similar to synthetic substance, phenylalkylamine, and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychotropic_alkylamines psychotropic alkylamines]

'''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 (and some Jews of other traditions) 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 (''e.g.'' one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD, test shot of heroin).

=Please Play=
==Page 67==

==Endnote 26==

'''enkephalin''' 
A type of painkiller [DFW's note explains and embroiders]; a substance manufactured within the human body by the human body that binds to some of the same neural receptors to which bind exogenous opiates. They could be considered a subset of endorphins that bind uniquely to central nervous system tissue receptors.

==Page 67 (cont'd)==

'''psychodysleptic''' 
Inducing a delusional mental state; hallucinatory, a neologism by Hal's criteria.

'''Sominex''' 
Diphenhydramine, an over the counter sleep aid, marketed under many names in support of many claims

'''''in medias''''' 
Latin: in the middle of. Probably an intended short form for ''in medias res'' "right into the middle (of a story)". Without ''res'' the feminine plural of ''medias'' doesn't make any sense. (Cf. note on 701 s.v. ''in violent medias res'')

'''convolved''' 
rolled or coiled together.

'''oblique''' 
Neither perpendicular nor parallel.

'''deliquesce''' 
To become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.

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==Page 68==

'''hale''' 
free from disease or infirmity.

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

'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States''''' 
This book does not exist. One 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.

==Page 69==

'''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 (MAOI) 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''' 
A mental state of feeling horrible.

'''diurnal''' 
During the day. Opposite of nocturnal.

'''w/w/o''' 
With and without.

'''CO''' 
Carbon monoxide, sometimes used from engine exhaust for suicide.

'''hemotoxicity''' 
Poisonous blood level.

==Page 70==

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

'''B.P.''' 
Blood pressure.

'''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.

==Page 71==

'''plexor''' 
Another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflex_hammer reflex hammer]

'''plangent''' 
Loud and resounding.

'''wasn’t an M.D. yet but a resident''' 
On the contrary, a resident is an M.D. or D.O. in the first years after medical school, undergoing advanced training.

==Page 72==

==Page 73==

'''carpopedal''' 
Involving both the hands and feet.

'''tetanic''' 
Pertaining to tetanus, lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually by C. tetani, which elaborates a toxin that locks jaw muscle and most other muscles as well. In the context here, reference is being made to similar muscle contractions of much less intensity that can be seen with high blood pH from overbreathing.

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==Page 75==

'''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.

'''One kid makes you ask him to please commit a crime''' 
Michael Pemulis (Page 156)

'''And one particular guy with snakes in a tank in a trailer in Allston''' 
Tommy Doocey or Bruce Green (Page 39)

==Page 76==

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

==Endnote 30==

'''boric acid''' 
Also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects.

==Page 76 (cont'd)==

==Page 77==

'''the T''' 
Local public transit in the Boston metro area.

==Page 78==

'''"That old cartridge, Nichols 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].

=(April 2nd, YDAU) - Medical Attaché Update #3=

==Page 78==

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

==Page 79==

'''rictus''' 
A gaping grimace.

=Schtitt & Mario discuss the game=

==Page 79==

'''Nick Bolletieri''' 
An [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ actual tennis coach].

'''epaulets''' 
Military shoulder decorations on clothing.

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

'''Lebensgefährtins''' 
Wallace's endnote 31(p. 994) claims this "means technically 'soulmate' or 'spouse'", but a more accurate translation would be 'life partner'. NB: 'Lebensgefährtin' is the feminine form of the noun. NB2: Schtitt's use of '-s' to indicate plural is incorrect for 'real' German (the correct form being ''Lebensgefährtinnen''); it is difficult to claim whether or not it is intentional on Wallace's part.

'''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.

==Page 80==

'''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.

'''varicocele''' 
a varicose condition of the spermatic veins of the scrotum

'''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."

==Page 81==

'''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 literally 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'').

==Page 82==

'''simpatico''' 
In agreement.

'''diagnate''' 
perhaps a combination of "diagonal", referring to Cantor's diagonal proof, and "agnate"

==Endnote 34==

'''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.

==Page 82 (cont'd)==

'''Hopman and van der Meer and Bollettieri''' 
Harry Hopman, Dennis van der Meer, and Nick Bollettieri, highly regarded tennis instructors. Bollettieri and van der Meer each founded tennis boarding schools in the United States.

'''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''). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractals Wikipedia entry...]

'''aleatory''' 
Of or pertaining to accidental causes.

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

'''''Gymanasium''''' 
The equivalent of a U.S. college-preparatory high school.

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

==Page 83==

'''''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" -- or extravagance. But this word is really old-fashioned and would be not used by a contemporary German speaker.

'''''Platz''''' 
German: a public square. But also just "place".

==Page 84==

'''pirouetting''' 
Whirling on the toes.

==Page 85==

=YDAU - Tiny Ewell in Detox=

==Page 85==

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

==Page 86==

'''12°C''' 
~54°F

==Page 87==
'''screaming meemies''' 
used to describe anxiety or aprehension (i.e., the "heebie-jeebies" or the "willies"); originally a nickname for a type of German rocket used in WWII, which emitted a high-pitched noise as it flew. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebelwerfer Wikipedia])

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

=(April 2nd, YDAU) - Medical Attaché Update #4=

==Page 87==

'''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"

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==Page 63==

'''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

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

==Page 63 (cont'd)==

'''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-anodized''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anodizing Anodizing] is the process of making something electrically passive via electrolytic chemical deposition, or oxidation of the surface layer. Presumably lithium-anodized implies this process is done with the alkali metal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium lithium].

==Page 64==

'''cold annular fusion''' 
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a torus (donut).

'''Tableaux''' 
This is the French pluralization of "tableau,"

'''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''' 
descriptive of a mood of verbs in Greek and other languages, expressing a wish or choice, more or less equivalent to the English "if only."

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

'''après-garde''' 
French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''
: No. French for "rear gard" is ''arrière-garde'', there is no such thing as ''après-garde'' in French. DFW makes either a mistake or a pun — likely the latter — because the notion of a rear guard is here transposed to time instead of space.

'''recondite''' 
Esoteric, arcane, abstruse.

==Endnote 24 - JOI's Filmography==
See [[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_24_.C2.B7_JAMES_O._INCANDENZA:_A_FILMOGRAPHY|Notes and Errata - Endnote 24]]

==Page 64 (cont'd)==

'''Macdonald Chair''' 
Sir William C. Macdonald (1831-1917) was one of the most important donors in the history of McGill University. There is a Macdonald Chair in Chemistry.

'''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 latter is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the former 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''' 
Esoteric, arcane, abstruse.

'''mordantly''' 
in a caustic manner.

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

'''CNS-rendingly''' 
A play on the term 'heart-rending'. CNS is an acronym for central nervous system.

==Page 65==

'''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''' 
A ''Festschrift'' (in German meaning roughly "a celebratory piece of writing") is a collection of essays dedicated to an important scholar. A festschrift usually marks the retirement, an important birthday, or the death of the recipient.

'''anticonfluential''' 
neologism, against things coming together

'''chiaroscuro''' 
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting. It normally refers to a strong contrast between light and shade, as in work by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravaggio#/media/File:The_Calling_of_Saint_Matthew-Caravaggo_(1599-1600).jpg Caravaggio] or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt Rembrandt]

'''annulation''' 
The formation of rings, marked by rings, formed by rings

'''hypertrophied''' 
Grown exceedingly large.

=November 1st, YDAU - Denver, CO - The Cardinals=
==Page 65==

'''tacks''' 
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.

'''Mile-High''' 
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos played until 2001.

'''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.

==Page 66==

'''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.

=☽ - Pemulis's lecture=
==Page 66==

'''organopsychedelic''' 
An organic molecule which, when ingested, produces 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.

''' ''Amanita muscaria'', a.k.a. the fly agaric mushroom''' 
a poisonous and psychoactive fungus, usually red with white spots. It was used as an entheogen in Siberia. It has also been proposed that this is the "Soma" of the ''Rig Veda''. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria Wikipedia])

'''synesthesia''' 
A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color. ([http://www.thefreedictionary.com/synesthesia thefreedictionary])

==Page 67==

'''methoxylated''' 
Addition of a methoxy group. Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."

'''phenylkylamine''' 
Possibly a made-up substance, similar to synthetic substance, phenylalkylamine, and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychotropic_alkylamines psychotropic alkylamines]

'''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 (and some Jews of other traditions) 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 (''e.g.'' one hit of pot, half a tab of acid/LSD, test shot of heroin).

=Please Play=
==Page 67==

==Endnote 26==

'''enkephalin''' 
A type of painkiller [DFW's note explains and embroiders]; a substance manufactured within the human body by the human body that binds to some of the same neural receptors to which bind exogenous opiates. They could be considered a subset of endorphins that bind uniquely to central nervous system tissue receptors.

==Page 67 (cont'd)==

'''psychodysleptic''' 
Inducing a delusional mental state; hallucinatory, a neologism by Hal's criteria.

'''Sominex''' 
Diphenhydramine, an over the counter sleep aid, marketed under many names in support of many claims

'''''in medias''''' 
Latin: in the middle of. Probably an intended short form for ''in medias res'' "right into the middle (of a story)". Without ''res'' the feminine plural of ''medias'' doesn't make any sense. (Cf. note on 701 s.v. ''in violent medias res'')

'''convolved''' 
rolled or coiled together.

'''oblique''' 
Neither perpendicular nor parallel.

'''deliquesce''' 
To become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.

=☽ YDAU - Kate Gompert in the Psych Ward=

==Page 68==

'''hale''' 
free from disease or infirmity.

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

'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States''''' 
This book does not exist. One 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.

==Page 69==

'''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 (MAOI) 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''' 
A mental state of feeling horrible.

'''diurnal''' 
During the day. Opposite of nocturnal.

'''w/w/o''' 
With and without.

'''CO''' 
Carbon monoxide, sometimes used from engine exhaust for suicide.

'''hemotoxicity''' 
Poisonous blood level.

==Page 70==

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

'''B.P.''' 
Blood pressure.

'''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.

==Page 71==

'''plexor''' 
Another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflex_hammer reflex hammer]

'''plangent''' 
Loud and resounding.

'''wasn’t an M.D. yet but a resident''' 
On the contrary, a resident is an M.D. or D.O. in the first years after medical school, undergoing advanced training.

==Page 72==

==Page 73==

'''carpopedal''' 
Involving both the hands and feet.

'''tetanic''' 
Pertaining to tetanus, lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually by C. tetani, which elaborates a toxin that locks jaw muscle and most other muscles as well. In the context here, reference is being made to similar muscle contractions of much less intensity that can be seen with high blood pH from overbreathing.

==Page 74==

==Page 75==

'''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.

'''One kid makes you ask him to please commit a crime''' 
Michael Pemulis (Page 156)

'''And one particular guy with snakes in a tank in a trailer in Allston''' 
Tommy Doocey or Bruce Green (Page 39)

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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.

==Endnote 30==

'''boric acid''' 
Also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects.

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'''the T''' 
Local public transit in the Boston metro area.

==Page 78==

'''"That old cartridge, Nichols 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].

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==Page 78==

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

==Page 79==

'''rictus''' 
A gaping grimace.

=Schtitt & Mario discuss the game=

==Page 79==

'''Nick Bolletieri''' 
An [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ actual tennis coach].

'''epaulets''' 
Military shoulder decorations on clothing.

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

'''Lebensgefährtins''' 
Wallace's endnote 31(p. 994) claims this "means technically 'soulmate' or 'spouse'", but a more accurate translation would be 'life partner'. NB: 'Lebensgefährtin' is the feminine form of the noun. NB2: Schtitt's use of '-s' to indicate plural is incorrect for 'real' German (the correct form being ''Lebensgefährtinnen''); it is difficult to claim whether or not it is intentional on Wallace's part.

'''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.

'''varicocele''' 
a varicose condition of the spermatic veins of the scrotum

'''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 literally 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.

'''diagnate''' 
perhaps a combination of "diagonal", referring to Cantor's diagonal proof, and "agnate"

==Endnote 34==

'''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.

==Page 82 (cont'd)==

'''Hopman and van der Meer and Bollettieri''' 
Harry Hopman, Dennis van der Meer, and Nick Bollettieri, highly regarded tennis instructors. Bollettieri and van der Meer each founded tennis boarding schools in the United States.

'''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''). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractals Wikipedia entry...]

'''aleatory''' 
Of or pertaining to accidental causes.

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

'''''Gymanasium''''' 
The equivalent of a U.S. college-preparatory 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" -- or extravagance. But this word is really old-fashioned and would be not used by a contemporary German speaker.

'''''Platz''''' 
German: a public square. But also just "place".

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'''pirouetting''' 
Whirling on the toes.

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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

==Page 87==
'''screaming meemies''' 
used to describe anxiety or aprehension (i.e., the "heebie-jeebies" or the "willies"); originally a nickname for a type of German rocket used in WWII, which emitted a high-pitched noise as it flew. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebelwerfer Wikipedia])

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

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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"

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

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'''"...a regular verb, transitive..."''' 
In English, ''regular'' verbs end in -ed (or -d, for infinitives that end in -e) in the past simple or the past participle. An irregular verb does not follow this rule. For example, "implore," a regular verb, is "implored" in the past simple tense. "Fall," an irregular verb, becomes "fell" in the past simple tense.

A ''transitive'' verb is able to take a direct object. For example, "I implore you." Intransitive verbs generally necessitate a preposition: "I look at you."

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

'''supplication''' 
The act of asking earnestly; begging; making an entreaty.

'''OED''' 
The abbreviation for "Oxford English Dictionary."

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'''Webster's 7th''' 
Webster's Dictionary, 7th edition.

'''moniker''' 
nickname

'''apprised''' 
informed

'''consummate''' 
Highly skilled; perfect.

'''Byzantine erotica''' 
The Byzantine Empire was the continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle Ages. A cursory google search for "Byzantine Erotica" reveals not very much at all. The topic is either as esoteric as it seems or a DFW invention.

'''fly-by-night''' 
Untrustworthy.

'''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.

'''"...intra-provincial crisis..."''' 
A crisis occurring within a province.

'''racy mosaics''' 
Referring to aforementioned Byzantine Erotica. Mosaics are detailed pictures created with very small pieces of stone.

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'''sordid liaison''' 
A distasteful or morally wrong secret sexual relationship.

'''amanuensis-cum-operative''' 
The professional conversationalist is saying that Luria P----- is both an amanuensis--a secretary who takes dictation--and a secret agent.

'''lexical prodigy''' 
A child who is exceptionally talented with words.

'''avant-garde''' 
Marked by unusual, cutting-edge artistic ideas.

'''Der Spiegel''' 
A German news-weekly magazine, known for investigative journalism; literally, ''The Mirror''.

'''Wild Turkey''' 
[http://www.wildturkeybourbon.com/ Bourbon.]

'''jew's-ear''' 
a species of edible fungus. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auricularia_auricula-judae

'''malevolent''' 
evil

'''Ottawan papparazzo''' 
A photo-journalist from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa Ottawa] who seeks out impromptu unauthorized shots of the rich and famous.

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

'''Bavarian''' 
Originating from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavaria Bavaria.]

'''"...ill-swallowed cocktail onion..."''' 
The editor choked on a cocktail onion.

'''Albertan''' 
From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta Alberta.]

'''countenance''' 
Admit as possible.

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

'''blithe''' 
casually indifferent

'''cavortings''' 
sexual pursuits

'''near-eastern''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_East Ambiguous.]

'''medical attaches''' 
Here, a medical attache is a specialist who assists a wealthy or powerful person's personal physician.

'''"...stereochemically not dissimilar..."''' 
similar, based on the spatial arrangement of atoms

'''hypodermic''' 
injected

'''Jivaro''' 
Jivaro Indians are native to eastern Ecuador and Peru. They are associated with shrunken heads.

'''South-Central L.A.''' 
An area of Los Angeles known for extreme crime and violence.

'''Basin''' 
A natural depression in the earth. Used often in geological and anthropological contexts.

'''Ralston''' 
breakfast cereal

==Page 31==
'''priapistic-entertainment cartridge''' 
priapistic: Persistent, usually painful erection of the penis, especially as a consequence of disease and not related to sexual arousal.

'''fifth wall''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_wall "fourth wall"] is a term used in theater to describe the imaginary wall that separates the stage from the audience. The "fifth wall" could be an extrapolation of this concept, meaning a wall separating an actor from a critic or separating two people sharing the same experience.

'''oral-lyrologist''' 
likely refers to someone who plays a ''jew's-harp'' as evidenced by references to theory of oral lyres on page 30, and as it is a musical instrument similar to a lyre, but played orally.

'''anaplastic ''' 

Adjective meaning either relating to the surgical restoration of a lost or absent part or
relating to or characterized by cells that have become less differentiated/primitive.

'''phalluctomy''' 

Neologism probably referring to the removal of the penis

'''Mondragonoid''' 

Avril Incandenza's maiden name is revealed to be Mondragon. Also refers to Mondragón, the Spanish name for the Basque town of Arrasate, best known as the home of the [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondrag%C3%B3n_Cooperative_Corporation Mondragón Cooperative Corporation] the world's largest worker cooperative. Note the similarity of the Basque Country and Quebec as presented in IJ.

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'''locutions''' 
Sayings; phrases.

'''"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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'''Saudi''' 
Of [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/SA.html Saudi Arabia.]

'''diplomatic immunity''' 
Diplomats are granted [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_immunity freedom] from prosecution under a host country's laws.

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

'''idolatrous''' 
Worships idols instead a God.

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

'''Montreal''' 
A French-speaking [http://www.tourisme-montreal.org/ city] in the Canadian province of Quebec.

'''apposite''' 
suitable or well adapted

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

'''residency''' 
A stage of specialized medical training in a hospital after graduation from medical school.

'''retinue''' 
A group of advisers accompanying an important person; an entourage.

'''E.N.T.''' 
Abbreviation for "ear-nose-throat."

'''Toblerone''' 
A Swiss-made [http://www.toblerone.com/ chocolate bar].

In the 1990 essay "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction", DFW uses Toblerone to point out that treats are acceptable in small amounts but harmful if consumed in large amounts. "One can only guess at what volume of gin or poundage of Toblerone six hours of Special Treat a day would convert to." ''(" E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction." A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. (1997): 37.)''

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

'''''Candida albicans''''' 
the Latin name for a fungus that causes, among other disorders, thrush

'''intestinal flora''' 
Referring to ''Candida albacans'', one of the microorganisms that lives in the human mouth and intestines.

'''monilial sinusitis''' 
Inflammation of the nasal sinus caused by fungus of the genus ''Monila''.

'''thrush''' 
A fungal infection caused by (here) ''Candida albicans''. Sort of a yeast infection of the mouth.

'''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."

'''veritable''' 
Genuine

'''nonpareil''' 
unrivaled

'''sumptuous''' 
splendid; expensive

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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. The word has very many spellings. This spelling is not in the top ten in the OED. Styptic is much more common.

'''promulgated''' 
make widely known

'''imperial''' 
a small pointed beard.

'''detritus''' 
debris

'''silk-analog''' 
molecularly similar to silk

'''recursive''' 
repetitive in simple terms, but used in many more detailed ways in mathematics, logic, linguistics, and computer science, all fields in which DFW was very well-versed indeed. The OED and other sources will inform.

'''dyspeptic''' 
irritable

'''penitent''' 
showing regret for having done wrong

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'''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 derived from Gram-positive bacteria called actinobacteria, which bacteria are among the oldest and smallest free living organisms.

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

'''''Nass''''' 
Arabic for "people". Referring to a fictional Arabic version of "People Magazine"

=YTSDB - Wardine & Roy Tony=

==Page 37==
'''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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'''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==

=HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! cont.=
=October, YDAU - Orin in Phoenix, AZ=
==Page 43==

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

Ambush: To attack from a concealed position. Orin's fear of commitment, fear that the "subject" is trying to entrap him i.e marriage.

'''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''' 
A state of fidgetiness, uneasiness, or unreasonableness; nervous depression or apprehension; "the fidgets;" "the creeps;" "the willies." See online dictionary [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fantod here]

'''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]. More directly: phylactery, either of two small square leather boxes containing slips inscribed with scriptural passages and traditionally worn on the left arm and on the head by observant Jewish men and especially adherents of Orthodox Judaism during morning weekday prayers (from Webster's)

'''imprimatur''' 
sanction or approval

==Page 48==

'''Positron-Emission Tomography''' 
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 in charge to but identical in mass of electrons

'''Fritz Lang''' 
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (1890-1976) was a Viennese-born Austrian-American director. His science fiction film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136 Metropolis] (1927) presents a dystopian future where people are oppressed by technology.

'''''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

'''shaving upward''' 
the wrong way, that is to say in a direction opposite to that of the growth of the hairs

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==Page 49==

'''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-dimensional "squircle".

'''Leith''' 
A homonym of Lethe, the name of the river in Greek mythology whose water, if drunk, will erase one's memory. In keeping with the optics theme, Emmett Leith was an inventor in the field of holography. Walt Disney, of course, was a well known film producer and director.

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

'''pargeting'''

A form of plasterwork shown to the right, usually accomplished by the application of mortar or plaster over an external brick wall.[[File:pargeting.jpeg|thumb| alt = Pargeting | Pargeting]]

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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

==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]]

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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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=HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! cont.=
'''0020h''' 
The medical attaché has now been watching for four hours and fifty-three minutes.

=Mario's designated function around ETA=
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'''filmic''' 
having to do with motion pictures

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=Autumn, YDPAH - Gately's crime=

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

'''élan''' 
enthusiastic vigor or liveliness

'''Revere Holding''' 
a jail, obviously -- probably the jail for Revere, Mass., just north 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==

'''''Globe''''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boston_Globe ''Boston Globe.''] The main daily newspaper of Boston, MA.

'''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 mountainous region in the westernmost portion of Massachusetts, a popular vacation spot

'''adenoidal''' 
sounding as if the nose were pinched due to enlarged lymphatic tissue in the throat behind the uvula

'''van Dyke''' 
a goatee
: More precisely, a goatee and a moustache.

'''rheumy''' 
watery and unhealthy

'''apocopes''' 
losses of syllables from words, particularly of end-syllables containing unstressed vowels, e.g., the process that renders "information" into "info."

'''M. Café-brand Automatic Café-au-Lait maker''' 
half coffee and half milk in a large cup, as drunk in France. M. Café as in 'Mr. Coffee".

'''gangrenously tight''' 
so tight as to cause gangrene, i.e., death of tissue caused by toxic bacteria that can only grow in tissue deprived of blood flow, typically C. perfringens.

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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 passerine] birds native to North America, genus Quiscula

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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. Amplification: the substantive of the adjective livid, a curious word that can mean dusky grayish purple (in medical connoctations) or ashy pale (in the context of anger)

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

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

'''932/1864''' 
I don't know what the numbers mean, but the first is half of the second. [He might be riffing on the powers of two expressed in base ten notation, but instead of 256 (2^8), he has started with 233, a prime number. At the time the book was written, such numbers were commonly encountered in the names of computer hardware, the context here.]

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

'''Pink2''' 
Footnote 95 (to p. 284) reads "Pink being Microsoft Inc.'s first post-Windows DOS, quickly upgraded to Pink2 when InterLace took everything 100 % interactive and digital; by Y.D.A.U. it's kind of a dinosaur, but it's still the only DOS that'll run a MathpakVEndStat tree without having to stop and recompile every few seconds."

'''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 hand, usually resulting from compression of the median nerve in the so-called carpal tunnel

'''phosphenic migraine''' 
OED, phosphene: n, subjective sensation of light produced by mechanical stimulation of the retina (as by pressure on the eyeball) or by electrical stimulation of various parts of the visual pathway [as from a migraine, -ed]

'''gluteal hyperadiposity''' 
excessive fat in the buttocks; steatopygia [if you like steatopygia, callipygian might interest you]

'''lumbar stressae''' 
back stress

=November 3rd, YDAU - Troeltsch's illness=
==Page 60==

'''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 wealthy, 1 square-mile borough west of Philadelphia and part of the larger "Main Line" suburban area running from Philadelphia to Malvern.

'''meatus''' 
a natural bodily opening, typically leading to the interior of the body, urinary and external auditory being the two most commonly mentioned meati/meatuses

[[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''' 
of speech, writing, vocal music, extended to a great, unneedy length

=Nightmares=
==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

'''bolections''' 
mouldings that cover joints

'''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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==Endnote 3==

'''cardioid''' 
In geometry, a cardioid is a plane curve produced by tracing the path of a chosen point of a circle which rolls around a fixed circle. The cardioid shape of E.T.A. has one cusp, i.e., a point on the curve that is not smooth. The ''r'' referred to by the narrator here is the radius of the moving circle.

'''Übermensch''' 
German for "superhuman"

'''Brandeis''' 
Brandeis is a Jewish-founded university in Waltham, Mass., about nine miles west of Boston, named for Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941) the first Jewish Supreme Court justice.

==Endnote 5==

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

==Endnote 5a==

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

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

'''loquacity''' 
talkativeness

==Endnote 6==

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

==Endnote 7==

'''bevelling''' 
Here meaning "smoothed out" and misspelled, beveling is the making of 45º angles where perpendiculars meet.

==Endnote 8==

'''dickies''' 
As a dickie is designed to give the appearance of wearing a tie, Wallace uses this word here to deal with drugs that mimic the effects of other drugs.

'''MMDA, DMA, DMMM, 2CB, para-DOT I-VI''' 
You can read about MMDA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMDA_%28psychedelic%29 here], DMA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethoxyamphetamine here], 2CB [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2CB here], DOT [http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_Chemical.jsp?Rec_Id=PC35343 here] (apparently). DMMM appears to be made up.

'''CNS''' 
central nervous system

'''gamma hydroxybutric acid''' 
now more commonly known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-Hydroxybutyric_acid GHB]

'''DMZ/M.P.''' 
DMZ is another made-up drug. M.P. refers to its street name, Madame Psychosis.

===Endnote 8a===

'''Muscimole''' 
another mushroom-based hallucinogen, like psilocybin

'''DDMS''' 
dibromododecenyl methylsulfimide

'''DMSO''' 
dimethylsulfoxide, a common solvent used in many laboratories. It is readily absorbed through the skin, taking with it whatever it has dissolved.

==Endnote 12a==

'''"...Continental Controlled Substances Act of Y.T.M.P., O.N.A.N.D.E.A.'s hierarchy of analgesics/antipyretics/axiolytics..."''' 
There is no such act, obviously. Y.T.M.P. is [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]. The second acronym is Organization of North American Nations Drug Enforcement Agency. Analgesics are painkillers. Antipyretics are fever-reducing drugs, and anxiolytics are anxiety-reducing drugs.

==Endnote 13==

'''Quo Vadis''' 
Latin: Where are you going? Famously asked of Jesus by Peter when the former was on his way to be crucified. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quo_vadis here.] Also a novel and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043949/ film] by that name were made.

==Endnote 17==

'''datum''' 
piece of information, the singular form of the word "data"

==Endnote 19==

French: A person of terrible importance
: A person of ''the'' terrible importance. As is often the case in IJ, it makes no sense in French but conveys a feeling of the differences between languages.

==Endnote 21==

'''Q.v.''' 
Latin abbreviation for ''quod vide'' ("which see"), used to direct a reader elsewhere in a book. Here we are directed to...

==Endnote 23==
'''U.S.D.D.''' 
United States Department of Defense

==Endnote 24 · JAMES O. INCANDENZA: A FILMOGRAPHY==
===Page 986===
'''meniscus''' 
here, a lens with a crescent-shaped section, convex on one side and concave on the other; also the curved interface between a liquid and gas in a tube

'''soliloquized''' 
spoken to oneself

'''incunabular''' 
early stages of something

'''D W Griffith''' 
Film Director whose films include 'Tolerance' and 'Birth of a Nation'; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._W._Griffith Wikipedia entry]

'''Taka Limura''' 
Japanese film maker - [http://research.yale.edu/eastasianstudies/iimura.chin.pdf see article] 

'''Heliotrope''' 
An arrangement of mirrors for reflecting sunlight from a distant point to an observation station. 

===Page 987===
'''Latrodectus Mactans''' 
Properly, Latrodectus mactans, Latin name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectus_mactans Black Widow] spider

'''neuralgia''' 
A form of chronic pain where pain is felt in a nerve without stimulation of pain receptors. Difficult to diagnose and treat.

===Page 992===

'''çoncupiscence''' 

Strong sexual desire

===Page 988===
'''Godbout''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Godbout Jacques Godbout], a French-Canadian filmmaker and documentarian.

==Endnote 82==

[[Image:Plaid.jpg|thumb|caption|Night Watch Plaid|150px|right]]
'''Bean''' 
as in L.L. Bean, a privately-held mail-order and retail company based in Freeport, Maine, United States, specializing in clothing and outdoor recreation equipment.

'''Night Watch plaid''' 
A pattern of plaid. See right.

==Endnote 110 · Hal and Orin Discuss Québecois Politics==

===Page 1004===
'''Hush Puppy''' 
a [http://www.hushpuppies.com/en-US/Main.aspx brand name] of shoes

'''squeegeed''' 
cleaned with a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeegee squeegee]

'''truncated''' 
cut short

===Page 1005===

'''R&R''' 
Rest and Relaxation

'''ex officio''' 
Latin: by virtue of one's office

''''The Yellow Rose (of Texas)'''' 
Dickinson's poems can also be read to the meter of "Mary Had a Little Lamb."

'''falsetto''' 
a man's voice when he pitches it falsely high to sound like a woman

'''riffling''' 
turning pages quickly

'''Ample make this bed''' 
The full poem is [http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1337.html here].

===Page 1006===

'''quotidian''' 
commonplace, literally, “everyday”

[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.-Q.M.D.]]

'''pistil''' 
that part of a flower that is analogous to the female reproductive organs

'''Sikorski-sized''' 
Sikorsky-sized misspelt, helicopter-sized; the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_R-4 Sikorsky R-4] was the first mass-produced helicopter

'''paucity''' 
scarcity

'''swotted''' 
studied intensively

'''wakked''' 
I have no idea.

'''unperspicous''' 
not clearly expressed or presented

'''penultimate''' 
second to last

'''whingeing''' 
complaining (pronounced to rhyme with "jing")

'''xerophagy''' 
("[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerophagy dry eating]", from Greek ξηρός "dry" and φαγεῖν "eat") is the practice of eating dry food, especially food cooked without oil.

===Endnote 110d===

'''anti-sclerotic''' 
tending to ward of hardening of tissues (as of arteries, here)

===Page 1006 (cont'd)===

'''maunder''' 
to talk incoherently or aimlessly

'''Solecism''' 
nonstandard or incorrect grammatical usage

'''and c.''' 
et cetera

===Page 1007===

'''20 X 25 centimeter''' 
very close to 8" x 10"

'''Jethro Bodine''' 
a character on the television show [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055662/ The Beverly Hillbillies]

'''proviso''' 
a clause, usually in a document, making a stipulation or qualification

'''"...isn't even iambic, much less quatrameter/trimeter..."''' 
This is to say that the poetry of Dickinson is not in iambic pentameter, a particular form of verse. This is the style of poetry Shakespeare is written in ("Now is the winter of our discontent") -- ten syllables, and five iambs (feet, or beats) per line (thus pentameter). Quatrameter/trimeter would be the rhythm scheme of "Yellow Rose of Texas" and "Mary Had a Little Lamb" (although note that the first foot of the latter is incomplete).

'''dink''' 
a synonym for a drop shot, which in tennis is a light tap just over the net

===Page 1008===

'''obverse''' 
the more conspicuous of two possible choices

'''seraphic''' 
like an angel

'''lascivious''' 
appealing to sexual tastes

'''mesmerized''' 
hypnotized

'''skitter''' 
to move rapidly along a surface

'''knight-errant''' 
a knight on a quest to prove his chivalry

===Page 1009===

'''Ainsi''' 
French: so to speak

'''breviary''' 
a prayer and hymn book

'''"Kitchens and heat..."''' 
which is to say, if you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen

===Page 1010===

'''Gloeckner''' 
German for "ringer," taking that in either of the meanings it has in English

'''3-kilo''' 
a little over 7.25 pounds

'''Snuff''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuff ground tobacco], which is inhaled rather than smoked or chewed

'''Andover''' 
as in [http://www.boardingschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/5 Philips Academy Andover], alma mater of both Presidents Bush

'''"Dickinson's about as Transcendalist as Poe."''' 
which is to say, not at all

===Page 1011===

[[Image:Eddy.jpg|right]]

'''R.C.M.P.''' 
Royal Canadian Mounted Police

'''Nelson Eddy''' 
Nelson Ackerman Eddy (1901-1967) was an American singer and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0248904/ movie star]. As far as what he looked like, see right.

Rose Marie, 1936, is probably his most-remembered film. His definitive portrayal of the steadfast Mountie became a popular icon, frequently spoofed in cartoons and TV skits. When the Mounties retired their classic red jackets and hat in 1970, except for ceremonial attire, hundreds of newspapers accompanied the story with a photo of Nelson Eddy as Sgt. Bruce in Rose Marie, made 34 years earlier. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Eddy WP]

equestrian jaspers: probably means jodhpurs

'''Droll''' 
whimsically comic

===Page 1012===

'''nanomicroscopy''' 
the looking at extremely small things (nano- being the prefix for "one-billionth") through a microscope

'''Thevet''' 
This is probably a reference to André de Thevet (1502-1590), a French priest and explorer. Though never in Canada, he relied on French-Canadian explorers' work for his own voyages to South America.

'''"...the 5 on the French Achievement boards..."''' 
The highest possible score on the French Advanced Placement Exam (for which one can receive college credit) is 5.

'''Boswell''' 
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (1740-1795), was the Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson.

'''E cup''' 
a very large breast size

'''acuity''' 
acuteness of perception

'''in utero''' 
in the womb

'''thalidomide''' 
a drug developed to treat morning sickness in pregnant women that ended up causing babies to be born missing limbs

'''Condé Nast''' 
one of the largest magazine publishers in the country, owned by Advance Publications (the Newhouse family) and founded by Condé Montrose Nast (1873-1942), an American publisher

'''deform''' 
here meaning simply "to spoil"

'''persona''' 
a fictional identity created for a person, narrator in a book, etc.

'''''du''''' 
French: of the (masculine)

===Page 1013===

'''Meech Lake''' 
a lake in Gatineau Park, near Chelsea, Québec

'''Parizeau''' 
This is probably Jacques Parizeau (born 1930), a former Premier of Québec and proponent of Québecois sovereignty.

'''Charlottetown''' 
the capital of the Canadian province of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island Prince Edward Island]

'''Crétien assassination''' 
This is probably a misspelling of the surname of Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien (born 1934), Prime Minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003.

'''Francophonic''' 
French-speaking

'''Acadian Zionism''' 
Acadia is the traditional name for what is now (in part) eastern Québec. Zionism is used here as a synonym for nationalism, rather than with its specific Jewish connotations

'''Toujours''' 
French: always

'''"On ne parle d'Anglais ici."''' 
French: English is not spoken here

'''Ottawa''' 
the capital of Canada

'''"Permettez Nous Partir, Permettez Nous Être."''' 
French: Allow us to leave, allow us to be.

'''Winnipeg''' 
the capital of Canadian province of Manitoba

'''flux''' 
frequent change

'''appalled''' 
dismayed

'''UV-booth''' 
UV standing for ultraviolet (as in light), this is probably a tanning booth.

===Page 1014===

'''"Nous v. La Plupart Toujours"''' 
French: Us versus the majority always

'''Lesotho''' 
a kingdom of southern Africa, existing as an enclave entirely within the Republic of South Africa

'''SOUTHAF''' 
This is the Union of South Africa, which was formed in 1910 as a British colony and tried to annex Lesotho to it. Because of the imposition of ''apartheid'' laws in S. Africa, the annexation failed.

'''antebellum''' 
before the war, here the U.S. Civil War

===Endnote 110h===

'''Gallic''' 
French

===Page 1014 (cont'd)===

'''Anglophone''' 
English-speaking

'''Plains of Abraham''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains_of_Abraham Battle of the Plains of Abraham], part of the French and Indian Wars, which ended in a decisive British victory of the French

===Endnote 110i===

''''La Guerre des Britanniques et des Sauvages'''' 
French: The War of the British and the Savages

'''Ticonderoga''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Carillon Battle of Carillon], fought at Fort Ticonderoga

===Page 1014 (cont'd)===

'''Booty''' 
treasure taken from a defeated party

'''1759''' 
On September 13, 1759, Québec fell to the British.

'''NAFTA''' 
North American Free Trade Agreement

'''Rubensian''' 
The word more often used is "Rubenesque," but this refers to the women in paintings by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the Flemish artist. His women were usually voluptuous, not to say plump.

'''retardate''' 
more often used as a noun, offensively referring to a retarded person

'''rapacious''' 
ravenous

===Page 1015===

'''lissome''' 
supple

'''Rubensophile''' 
See above, Rubensian.

'''gulag''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GULAG GULAG] prison system of the Soviet Union

''''ce pas?''' 
French elision of "n'est-ce pas?" i.e., "right?"

'''Anbesol''' 
a brand name of benzocaine used for tooth pain

'''flanges''' 
Orin probably means to say "phalanges."

'''Rue Sherbrooke''' 
a road in Montreal

'''St. Jean-Baptiste Day''' 
another name for la [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%AAte_nationale_du_Qu%C3%A9bec fête nationale du Québec]

'''anaerobic''' 
thriving without oxygen

===Page 1016===

'''weedy''' 
scrawny; Hal is probably using it to mean "thin," as in a line of argumentation

'''Brazilian ''Nuevo Contras''''' 
These would be "new" ''contras'', the old ones having been U.S.-funded anti-communist guerrillas in Nicaragua in the 1980s. Note, though, that ''Nuevo'' being a Spanish word would not be a likely name for a Brazilian group (where Brazilian Portuguese is spoken).

'''The Noie Störkraft's? Shining Path's? The Belgian CCC's?''' 
''Noie Störkraft'' is Swedish "New Great Power"; it does not appear to be a new organization, though Störkraft is the name of a skinhead band from Sweden. The Shining Path (''Sendero Luminoso'' in Spanish) is the Communist Party of Peru, which has waged guerrilla warfare against the Peruvian government since 1980. CCC is a French acronym for Communist Combatant Cells; they were eliminated as a terrorist group in 1986.

'''''Ez-ed-Dean-el-Qassan''''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izz_ad-Din_al-Qassam_Brigades alternate spelling] of a Palestinian militant group affiliated with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas Hamas]

'''P.E.T.A.''' 
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

[[Image:Munch.jpg|right|100px]]

'''wobbled shrieking figure in the Munch lithograph''' 
See right.

===Page 1017===

'''subjoin''' 
to append to the end of something

'''attendant''' 
consequent or concomitant

'''cloracne''' 
probably a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloracne chloracne]

'''olfactory hallucinations''' 
hallucinations wherein one smells things that aren't there

'''machete''' 
a large cleaver-like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machete cutting tool]

'''Infant-depredations''' 
attacks and pillaging by feral infants (see footnote 304, pp. 1055ff, about them)

'''phenols''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenol carbolic acid]

'''Fundy''' 
probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Fundy Bay of Fundy]

'''straw-and-camel''' 
i.e., the straw that broke the camel's back

===Page 1018===

'''Docksider''' 
a type of boat shoe

'''full-toll''' 
i.e., it takes its full toll on you

'''Constantine''' 
perhaps [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_I Constantine I], by tradition first Christian emperor of Rome

'''merde''' 
French for "shit"

'''cartographic''' 
having to do with maps

'''parliamentary wigs''' 
Canadian MPs don't wear wigs, though barristers (lawyers) and judges do.

===Page 1019===

'''bone of dissension''' 
Orin means "bone of contention."

'''desmirched''' 
probably a malapropism, although it could mean "to un-besmirch"

'''re-gerrymandered''' 
To gerrymander is to divide an area into electoral districts favorable to one party over another.

'''Cuibono''' 
more properly ''cui bono'', Latin for "who benefits?"

'''swivet''' 
a state of nervous excitement

'''D-bases''' 
databases

'''falcate''' 
to curve like a sickle

'''Albertan ultra-rightists''' 
There is a tradition of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Separatism separatism] in Alberta.

'''Duluth''' 
a town in Minnesota and home to Bob Dylan, on Lake Superior about 150 miles north of the Twin Cities

===Page 1020===

'''Vichified''' 
i.e., as Vichy France, which was a puppet government to the Nazis

'''Anschluss''' 
German for "annexation," it most often refers to Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria in 1938.

'''mayhi''' 
Orin seems to be using this term as a plural of "mayhem."

'''P.Q.s''' 
members of the Parti Québecois

'''P.M.''' 
Prime Minister (of Canada)

'''''aller, partir''''' 
French: to go, to leave

===Page 1021===

'''hapless''' 
here meaning haphazard

'''botulizing''' 
infecting with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulism botulism]

'''jaunty''' 
smartly trim

'''toggle''' 
a type of switch

'''anapestic''' 
In poetry, an anapest is a trisyllable metrical foot of the following pattern: two unstressed syllables, followed by one long or stressed syllable. (Eg the line "'Twas the ''night'' before ''Christ''mas, and ''all'' through the ''house''" contains four anapestic feet.)

===Page 1022===

==Endnote 145 · Found Drama==

An invented, non-existent faux-academic style of film on which James O. Incandenza lectured and received artistic grants, created to lampoon the academic film theory community. Found Drama was not captured on film; rather, Incandenza and close friends "got out a Boston metro phone book and tore a White Pages page out at random and thumbtacked it to the wall and then [Incandenza] would throw a dart at it from across the room. ... And the name it hit becomes the subject of the Found Drama. And whatever happens to the protagonist with the name you hit with the dart for ... the next hour and a half is the Drama."

===Page 1026===

[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]

===Page 1027===

'''ne pas à la mode''' 
French: not in style

'''New Wave''' 
When this term is used w/r/t Himself's work, it is probably referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_New_Wave French New Wave], although there were several other "New Waves" in film.

'''Dick''' 
I'm unable to identify whether this person is real or not.

'''art-gesture films''' 
apparently a created genre

'''isness''' 
i.e., being

'''stasis''' 
inactivity caused by equal opposing forces

'''tenure-jockeys''' 
i.e., junior faculty at universities who are on tenure track

'''Orthochromatic''' 
According to the ''Random House Unabridged Dictionary,'' this word means "representing correctly the relations of colors as found in a subject; isochromatic."

'''retrogradism''' 
This neologism would seem to have the sense of the study or condition of moving backward.

'''McLean Hospital''' 
a real [http://mcleanhospital.org/ psychiatric hospital] in Belmont, Mass., about eight miles west-northwest of Boston

'''Duquette at M.I.T.''' 
There is no such person at M.I.T.

'''Posener''' 
There is no such person at Brandeis.

===Page 1028===

===Page 1031===

==Endnote 162==

[[Image:Francis bacon head VI.jpg|thumb|caption|Head VI (1949), Francis Bacon|150px|right]]
'''a Baconian pope with his hat on fire''' 
Referring to the work of 20th century figurative painter [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon_(artist) Francis Bacon] and his "screaming pope" paintings.

===Page 1035===

==Endnote 211==

'''suborn''' 
to bribe or induce someone to commit a crime or misdeed

==Endnote 234 · Excerpts From Orin's Interview With ''Moment''==

===Page 1037===

==Endnote 228==

'''ambit''' 
NOAD: thescope, extent, or bounds of something

==Endnote 231 · Inositol==
'''Inositol''' 
the capitalization of both inositol and mannitol is inappropriate. It is not a B-vitamin but at one time was thought to be one, "B8." I think from context that cyanocobalamin was intended.

===Page 1038===

'''Rafferty''' 
Terrence Rafferty was a film critic for the ''New Yorker'' magazine.

'''NPR''' 
National Public Radio

===Page 1039===

'''dun''' 
make repeated demands on

'''Madison Avenue''' 
the street in New York famous for its advertising firms

'''traversion''' 
Orin probably means "introversion."

'''T-square''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-square drafting tool]

===Page 1040===

'''Prussian''' 
here used to mean "very strict"

'''schizogenic''' 
botany, produced or formed by fission; what DFW apparently intends here is a neologism/malaprop for “tending to cause someone to become schizoid,” the strict psychiatric definition of which is denoting or having a personality type characterized by emotional aloofness and solitary habits. ‹informal› having inconsistent or contradictory elements; mad or crazy

'''pathogenic''' 
capable of producing disease

===Page 1041===

'''antidote''' 
malaprop, "anecdote."

'''Quelquechose''' 
French: something

===Page 1042===

'''pièce''' 
as in "pièce de resistance," the punchline or main point

===Page 1043===

'''four horsemen''' 
as in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse] from the Book of Revelation

'''BPL''' 
Boston Public Library

==Endnote 269 · Steeply-Bain Correspondence==
===Page 1047===

''''After my own parents were horribly killed on the Jamaica Way commuter road one morning in the freak crash of a radio traffic-report helicopter...'''' 

Lateral Alice Moore was handicapped when the news helicopter she flew in crashed onto a highway. It could have been the same accident as the one to which Bain refers here.

'''J.O.I.''' 
James O. Incandenza

'''guile''' 
insidious cunning

'''methoxy-psychedelic''' 
probably referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMDA_%28drug%29 MMDA]

'''larval''' 
immature in its kind

'''codpieces''' 
a codpiece is a pouch at the crotch (covering the male genetalia) of tight-fitting breeches, popular during the Renaissance

'''Swinburne''' 
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was a British poet whose work had themes of homosexuality and sadomasochism.

'''Boston's Roxbury and Mattapan districts''' 
two lower-income, primarily African American and Hispanic neighborhoods in Boston

'''prenominate''' 
aforementioned

'''apposite''' 
appropriate with regard to the current circumstances

===Page 1048===

'''fairly high-sodium way''' 
a circumlocution for “with a grain (or more) of salt”

'''purposive''' 
serving some purpose

'''Gretel the Cross-Sectioned Dairy Cow''' 
Cornell University apparently has a cow whose stomachs you can see in action.

'''consummate''' 
highly skilled

'''anaclitic''' 
in psychology, dependence on other people or another person

===Page 1049===

'''prevarication''' 
avoiding the truth by not directly answering a question

'''"...as if from the Rose Garden..."''' 
like the President of the U.S. answering a question from a reporter

'''exploded''' 
shown to be false or unfounded

'''mendacious''' 
untruthful

'''monilial''' 
relating to a fungus of the genus [http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/monilial Candida]

'''nubbin''' 
a small lump or residual part

'''S. Johnson''' 
probably a reference to Dr. Samuel Johnson, the lexicographer

'''piteously''' 
pitifully

===Page 1050===

'''Steeples''' 
[sic] for "Steeply"

'''vacuous''' 
unintelligent, foolish, empty

'''Steeley''' 
[sic] for "Steeply"

'''ACOAs''' 
Adult Children of Alcoholics

'''AlaTeens''' 
a support group for teenage children of alcoholics

'''ACONAs''' 
Adult Children of Narcotics Anonymous

'''ACOGs''' 
ACOG is most commonly the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, but in this context it probably stands for Adult Children of Gamblers (Grifters? Gladiators? Gun-wielders?)

'''neurasthenic''' 
chronically fatigued and weak

'''aspic''' 
meat jelly

'''profligate''' 
extravagant

'''loquacious''' 
very talkative

===Page 1051===

'''Starkly''' 
Bain gets Steeply's name wrong yet again.

'''univocal''' 
unambiguous

'''furcated''' 
branching or forking

'''solicitous''' 
concerned

'''appurtenances''' 
accessories or equipment

'''pique''' 
feeling of resentment

'''albatross''' 
a burden, literally a large seabird, from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner''

'''Starksaddle''' 
another mistake with Steeply's name

'''perspicuous''' 
clearly expressed

===Page 1052===

'''multivalent''' 
having various meanings

'''Bainbridge''' 
This isn't even close to Steeply's name.

==Endnote 304 · The Train Game==

===Page 1055===

'''McGee-like chaos''' 
An overflowing closet was a running gag on the old-time radio show [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibber_McGee_and_Molly ''Fibber McGee and Molly''].

'''smelling a rat in the woodpile''' 
Rats often use woodpiles as cover for their burrows, as discussed [http://unexco.com/Rat.html here].

'''B.P.L. ArchFax database search''' 
Possibly: Boston Public Library Archival Facsimiles.

===Page 1056===

'''murated''' 
a neologism, by Hal’s criteria. Walled, perhaps from the Latin murare - to wall off.

'''QUOI?''' 
WHAT?

'''Sudetenlandization''' 
florid neologism [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudetenland Wikipedia - Sudetenland]

'''G. T. Day, M.S.''' 
Geoffrey Day, of Ennet House, who claims to have "manned the helm of a Scholarly Quarterly" at "some jr. college up the Expressway in Medford" (272). Before the author is mentioned, the article is said to have come from "someplace called Bayside Community College up I-93 in Medford." Wild Conceits, the publication, is said to be edited by the author of the article Struck is ripping off.

===Page 1057===
'''vishnu''' 
Vishnu is the preserver/maintainer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu god]
of the Hindu Trimurti.

'''''dasein''''' 
German: being there (lit)., [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasein existence]; a cornerstone of the philosophy of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger Martin Heidegger] (1889-1976).

===Page 1058===

'''''cui bono''''' 
Latin: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_Bono To whose benefit?]

'''geatalt''' 
a misprint of ''gestalt''

'''municipal fluoridation''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation addition of fluoride] to public drinking- (tap-)water supplies to reduce tooth decay among the population; home filtration systems (such as Brita manufactures) can remove the flouride and thus eliminate the benefit

===Page 1059===
'''''les passages à niveau de voie ferrée''''' 
the level crossings of railway line

'''Two hundred sixteen''' 
216 is the cube of 6; thus the preliminary round would yield ''Les Trente-Six'' (36) semifinalists and the second round would produce six finalists ''attendants longtemps ses tours'' (French: "waiting a long time for their turns

'''''Le Culte de Baiser Sans Fin''''' 
French: the cult of the kiss without end, or (as translated in the following paragraph), "the Cult of the Endless Kiss"

===Page 1060===

'''Bernard Wayne''' 
Most likely John "N.R." Wayne's brother.

'''contuded''' 
contused (battered, crushed) is intended, a typographical error, a misspelling, or a malaprop: you decide.

'''purple''' 
alluding to purple prose

==Endnote 321 · Hal's DMZ Dream==
===Page 1063===

'''Rise Over Run''' 
[[Image:Slope Forumla.png]] The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slope slope] (''m'') of a line, expressed as its "rise" (variance along the ''y'' axis) divided by its run (variance along the ''x'' axis); equivalent in calculus to the first derivative.

'''tangent''' 
This concept is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangent#Trigonometry here].

'''Differentiation''' 
the process by which one determines the first derivative of a mathematical function

'''inexorably''' 
relentlessly

'''Function x, exponent n, the derivative's going to be nx + x(n-1)''' 
Permulis appears to have misspoken. The derivative of x to the nth power is n times x to the (n - 1) power, not nx plus x to the (n - 1)th power.

'''covers''' 
a recording or performance of a song that was first recorded or made popular by somebody else

===Page 1064===
'''G.C./M.S.''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_chromatography-mass_spectrometry '''G'''as '''C'''hromatography - '''M'''ass '''S'''pectrometry], a means of drug detection

'''Digestive-Flora''' 
bacteria that live in the intestines and aid in digestion, enteral microbiome

'''Verdun Protestant Hospital''' 
now called [http://www.douglas.qc.ca/ Douglas Mental Health Institute]

'''''tu-sais-qué''''' 
malaprop or just really bad French for "you know what"

'''Nutter Butters''' 
Nabisco's peanut-butter sandwich [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutter_Butter cookies]

'''Human Hatchet''' 
i.e., Axford

'''impotence''' 
a malaprop; he means ''impetus''

'''Blue Flames''' 
probably some sort of depressants

===Page 1065===
'''O2''' 
dioxygen, or oxygen gas as it exists in its natural state; ozone is O3

'''Jiminy Cricket''' 
the talking (and singing) cricket in the 1940 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032910/ "Pinocchio"], adapted from Carlo Collodi's serial for children, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Pinocchio ''The Adventures of Pinocchio''] (1881-1883)

==Endnote 324 · John Wayne loses it==

===Page 1066===

'''moon''' 
to spend time idly

'''camphonated''' 
malaprop or misspelling of "camphorated," i.e., contained camphor

===Endnote 324a===

'''loamy''' 
consisting of rich, arable soil

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]

===Page 1066 (cont'd)===

'''whorl''' 
a circular arrangement

'''funiculi''' 
plural of "funiculus," i.e., part of the spinal cord

===Page 1067===

'''gonions''' 
OED: the outermost point on the angle of the lower jaw on each side.

'''uncolloped''' 
neologism, having no collops or fat, more or less

'''latissimal''' 
referring to the [http://www.reference.com/search?r=13&q=Latissimus lattissimus dorsi] muscles

'''profligate''' 
wasteful

'''Nordicular''' 
neologism, Nordic, which is to say blond-haired and blue-eyed

'''armamentarium''' 
an arsenal, particularly used by physicians to refer to drugs or treatments

'''callow''' 
immature; inexperienced

'''entrepôt''' 
a port city or other place for storing/dispensing, importing/exporting, collecting/distributing goods

'''dinkle''' 
(American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, henceforth AHDEL5) penis

===Page 1068===

'''welching''' 
(or welsh) not paying a debt or wager

'''three-setter''' 
a tennis game ending in three sets, rather than two. So Pemulis needs to win a set against Freer to make it to the tournament.

'''cavalier''' 
disdainful; unceremonious

'''burr''' 
the word has a remarkable array of meanings, here used to mean "irritant"

===Page 1069===

'''canvas restraint-wrap''' 
straitjacket

'''catgut''' 
This is "a strong cord made by twisting the dried intestines of animals, as sheep, used in stringing musical instruments and tennis rackets, for surgical sutures, etc." (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''"...his late great Da's..."''' 
Clearly Pemulis has no idea that his brother was molested by their father.

'''pharmacopic''' 
neologism, of or pertaining to prescription medication

'''rheumy''' 
full of thin mucous

'''how 17 can actually go into 56 way more than 3.294 times''' 
This recalls Bette Midler's anecdote (recorded on her 1977 album ''Live at Last'', told while channeling the late [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Tucker Sophie Tucker]:

"I will never forget it. It was on the occasion of Ernie's eightieth birthday and in honor of the occasion he married a twenty-year-old girl. And he rang me up the very next day and he said to me, 'Soph, Soph, I have just married myself a twenty-year-old girl! What do you think of that?!' And I said to him, 'Ernie, when I am eighty years old, I shall marry myself a twenty-year-old boy, and let me tell you something, Ernie! Twenty goes into eighty a hell of a lot more than eighty goes into twenty!'"

Recall that John (N.R.) Wayne is 17, while Avril Incandenza is 56, and the young tennis stud has obviously X'd the Academy matron more than three (or four) times.

'''Joan Sutherland''' 
(1926–2010) an Australian-born internationally renowned dramatic coloratura soprano (opera singer)

'''colposcope''' 
see note, p. 634

===Page 1070===

'''Bedouins''' 
certain Arabs of the deserts of Arabia and the Levant

'''being...buggered''' 
being on the receiving end of anal sex

'''b/w''' 
black and white

'''J. Gleason''' 
Jackie Gleason (1916-1987) was [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001276/ one of the great comic actors] of the 20th century.

'''Zoltan''' 
actually a Hungarian name, which means "ruler"

'''cretinous''' 
stupid

===Page 1071===

===Endnote 324f===

'''brachiatishly''' 
neologism; brachiation is arboreal locomotion by use of the forelimbs/arms, Generally used where appropriate to refer to primates

'''Orly''' 
one of the airports serving Paris

===Page 1071 (cont'd)===

'''redoubted''' 
formidable

'''Modus Tollens''' 
a Latin logical term, meaning, roughly, "the means of denying"

'''Nucleic acids''' 
DNA and RNA

'''A and G, T and C''' 
'''a'''denine and '''g'''uanine, '''t'''hymine and '''c'''ytosine, the neucleobase molecules that combine to form neucleotides, the building blocks of DNA

'''When the boulder's slipped all the way back to the bottom''' 
a reference to the myth of [http://www.reference.com/search?q=Sisyphus Sisyphus]

'''When the headless are blaming''' 
a reference to [http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if/ "If,"] the poem by Rudyard Kipling: "If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you..."

'''Csíkszentmihályi''' 
Probably this is the last name of Zoltán, previously citted, whose “name no one can pronounce.” The name may be taken from Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (born 1934), a prominent Hungarian-American psychologist. His son Christopher is on the faculty at MIT.

'''lemma''' 
a proven statement used as a step in a mathematical proof

'''Boardman MN''' 
a town about 40 miles west-northwest of the Twin Cities

===Page 1072===

''' "directionless in a dark wood" ''' 

A reference to Dante's "Divine Comedy"'s first Canto of the Inferno.

''' "Leap like a knight of faith . . ." ''' 

A reference to Soren Kierkegaard's knight of faith. Kierkegaard, a theologian and philosopher, didn't think there could be any logical justification for believing in God. Instead the believer is required to take a leap of faith, so called because he (the believer) has no evidence for his convictions and thus must always, on some rational level, doubt them. In fact to Kierkegaard doubt defines faith, because if there were no doubt no leap of faith would be required in the first place, much like it doesn't require a leap of faith for you to believe you're actually reading this wikipedia entry right now, or that I'm not an alien sub rosa manipulating your mind for my own purposes.

'''"...Peano, Leibniz, Hilbert..."''' 
Giuseppe Peano (1858-1932) was an Italian mathematician. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a German polymath and one of the creators of calculus. David Hilbert (1862-1943) was a German mathematician.

'''"...Fourier, Gauss, LaPlace, Rickey..."''' 
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) was a French mathematician and physicist. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) was a German mathematician. Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (1749-1827) was a French mathematician and astronomer. Rickey would seem to refer to [http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/ V. Frederick Rickey], though he is contemporary while the other named men are not.

'''"...Wiener, Reimann, Frege, Green..."''' 
Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) was an American mathematician. Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) was a German mathematician. Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a German mathematician and logician. Green is probably George Green (1793-1841), English mathematician and physicist.

===Endnote 331===

'''picaresque''' 
adjective, relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero.

==Endnote 332 · Pemulis just slays deLint==

===Page 1073===

'''jury-rigged''' 
OED: nautical. used in combination to designate parts of a ship put together or contrived for temporary use; more broadly, improvised or makeshift

'''urologist''' 
see note, page 527

===Page 1074===

'''nictitater''' 
neologism, descriptive of a creature who deploys its [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nictitating_membrane nictitating membrane] (from Latin nictare, to blink) is a transparent or translucent third eyelid present in some chordates (i.e., having a vertebral column) that can be drawn across the eye from the medial canthus (i.e., inner corner of the eye) for protection and to moisten it while maintaining vision.

'''deviant division''' 
56/17 (see note ''supra'' for page 1069)

'''17-into-56 leaflet''' 
"the leaflet about Wayne and Mrs. I." referred to earlier on the page (with the "deviant division")

'''castigations''' 
criticisms; reprimands

===Page 1075===

'''loupes''' 
eyepiece magnifying glasses used by jewellers and others requiring magnification for clothes work

'''"may the road rise up to meet you..."''' 
part of an old Irish blessing

'''whitherever''' 
neologism, in whatever direction

===Page 1076===

'''recryptographilated''' 
florid neologism, re-encrypted

'''incubus''' 
a male demon that seduces female humans

===Endnote 331===

'''sudoriferous''' 
adjective (of a gland) secreting sweat.

===Page 1077===

'''Sounding rather suspiciously like Professor H. Bloom's turgid studies of artistic ''influenza''''' 
A reference to literary critic and author [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Bloom Harold Bloom] who [https://wwd.com/eye/people/the-full-bloom-3592315/ was no fan of DFW's]:

<blockquote>
Asked about novelist David Foster Wallace, who took his own life in 2008, but who has a new book out, “The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel,” put together from manuscript chapters and files found in his computer, Bloom says, “You know, I don’t want to be offensive. But ‘Infinite Jest’ [regarded by many as Wallace’s masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.” —WWD, April 26, 2011</blockquote>

===Page 1078===

'''n.b.''' 
Latin: nota bene, meaning "note well"

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