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'''H., Morris''' 
''See'' [[#Hanley|Hanley, Morris]]

'''Habitant Soup''' 
425; 480;

'''Hagia Sophia''' 
952; floor plans for, at Qal'at Si'man

'''halation''' 
"That most angelic of distortions" 97; "a kind of pale sweet aura, a luminescence76. Halation, Axford observed" 218; "everything milky and halated through her veils' damp linen" 221; "rain's wet veil blurs things like Jim had designed his neonatal lens to blur things" 222; "fiery violet aura around the heads of respectables" 304; "holding a light-meter and something else too halated to make out on the tape" 410; "the rising sun behind him gives his white head a pinkish corona" 452; "his dental overhead light's corona giving him one of those malperspectived medieval halos" 526; "the stars shine right through people's heads" 617; "as if he's seeing her through a kind of cloud of light, a milky filter" 851; "plus I think a milky blur. Neonatal nystagmus" 939; "pale sweet aura that an LSD afterglow conferred, some milky corona, like almost a halo of approved grace" 999; "a corona of sweat shimmering around him" 1034

'''Hallie''' 
49; aka Hal Incandenza

'''Hammid''' 
185;

'''Hamilton, M(argaret)''' 
191; actress who played the West Witch in''Wizard of Oz'', color Xerox of in Avril's study;

'''Hamlet''' 
"Riverside ''Hamlet''" 171; "signifying zip" 174; 238; 900; "never once doubts the reality of the ghost"; Poor Yorick Entertainment, fn.24/990; "the graveyard scene from" fn.337/1076;

<div id="Hanley">'''Hanley, Morris'''</div>
205; Ennet House resident; "special tollhouse cookies" 205; 279; 363; 564; baked cream-cheese brownies for hospitalized Gately, 826;

'''Haplology''' 
745-2;

'''Happy Patches''' 
420; fn.169/1031; 474;

'''Happy Slippers ("pisscatchers")''' 
85-86; what they wear at Ennet House

'''Harde, Dave ("Fall Down Very")''' 
152; narcoleptic old ETA janitor; fn.93; "Flight of the Bumblebee" 405; 666; "spinal funiculi" fn.324/1066;

'''Hartigan, Neil''' 
454; laconic ETA prorector; "traditional Tahitian shirt and Gaugin-motif sweater" 460; 525; 667;

'''Harv''' 
802; at Inner Child group

'''Harvey, Paul''' 
271; radio personality known for "The Rest Of The Story."

'''Hasbro''' 
883; "tie-ins with"

'''Hawaii Five-O''' 
584; 60s TV detective show

'''Hayworth, Rita''' 
209; American film actress of mid 20th century.

'''Hazel''' 
834; 70s TV sitcom

'''head-''' 
Millicent Kent hairdo, 122; eye popping out of "C's map" 134; Mario's "large but sort of withered-looking head" 154; "Hal's head, closely monitored by deLint and Staff, is judged still level and focused" 155; Himself "transcending that overlarge head" 158; "the sound of your head revving, and head is still just body" 159; "pencil-necked big-headed asthmatic little kid staring up through Coke-bottle lenses" 182; "The engineer [...] has extremely bad skin" 183; "M.I.T.'s near-new Student Union [...] one enormous cerebral cortex" 184; "a living corporeal head" 189; "phrenologically malformed" 190; "Two-Baggers" 190; "the utterly noseless" 191; "Kornspan's red face is leaping around on his skull" 199; "mesomorphic head" 200; "99% of the head's thinking activity consists of trying to scare the everliving shit out of itself" 204; Didi N.'s tattoo of "tattered screaming skull" 208; "synthetic-narc-addicted kid" named Skull, 208; "her brain heving around in its skull" 226; "brain heaving in its bone-box" 231; "lifted her veil back to cover her skull like a bride" 235; "[Schacht's] own big sick head" 262; Mario's "poor big head" 267; "They identify their whole selves with their head, and the Disease makes its command headquarters in the head" 272; "head-gaming" 273; Treat's "ruined face" 274; "Disease chewing away inside his head" 274; "garbage-head all-Substance-type kid [...] face very slightly smunched in on one side" 276; "bird-like head movements" 276; "look of a mean clown" 277; Gately's "massive square head" 277;

'''Heath, Pam''' 
fn.24/987; played dentist's wife in Himself's''Fun with Teeth''; played wife in Himself's''Various Small Flames'', fn.24/988; plays "Death as a lethally beautiful woman" in Himself's''Möbius Strips'', fn.24/990;

'''Heaven, Paul Anthony''' 
910; thumbless; played dull Academic in''Good-Looking Men ...''; "data entry drone for Ocean Spray"; narrated''"There Are No Losers Here"'' fn.24/986; played a son in Himself's''Low-Temperature Physics'', fn.24/991;

'''Heidegger , Martin''' 
233; Ger. philosopher

<div id="Henderson">'''Henderson, Clenette'''</div>
37; half-sister of Wardine; at Ennet House, 180; 363; janitor at ETA, 527; the maid in C.T.'s office when Hal & Pemulis got spot urinalysis by O.N.A.N.T.A. urologist, 633; brought "shitload of cartridges" from ETA dumpster to Ennet House, 825;

'''Herman The Ceiling That Breathed''' 
447; in "decayed beach-cottage" in Salem MA where Gately lived as a child; 923;

'''Himself''' 
Family name for [[I#joi|James O. Incandenza]]

'''Hinton''' 
253;

'''HmH''' 
189; Headmaster's House at ETA, where Avril I. and Chuck Tavis live

'''Ho, Don''' 
583; Hawaiian pop singer; "My Lovely Launa-Una Luau Lady" 586; "voice has the quality of a type of:''ointment''" 587;

'''Hobbes, Thomas''' 
12; English philosopher; "Hobbesian sewers" 44

'''Hoffman-Jeep, Pamela''' 
465; Gately's "totally alcoholic past girlfriend"; about the relationship, 924;

'''Holt, Gretchen''' 
755; younger ETA student

'''Home Group''' 
209; "Ewell's chosen"

'''Hooley, Maureen''' 
876; Vice-President for Children's Entertainment, Interlace Telentertainment, Inc.;

'''Hope, Bob''' 
51; code for marijuana; fn.27/994 (Bob Hope, American comedian)

'''Hopman''' 
82; tennis teacher (? listed with Nick Bolliteri, famous Floridian nurturer of tennis youth.)

'''Horace''' 
551; Stice family dog back in Kansas, and Stice's name for his anger

'''Howell, Mr.''' 
169; Pemulis' ~ hat, presumably after character Mr. Howell, played by Jim Backus in American TV sitcom "Gilligan's Island."

'''''Howl''''' 
906; Allen Ginsberg's famous poem about his lost generation

'''Hoyne, Henri F.''' 
507; head of Data Analysis at B.S.S., victim of "the Entertainment"; 647;

'''Hoyne, Miriam''' 
508; wife of Henri

'''Huizenga, Wayne''' 
415; owner of Blockbuster Entertainment (and at least one professional sports franchise.)

'''Hundt Act''' 
184; regarding FM bandwidth (1966)

'''Hung Toys''' 
131; front for Wo's dope business

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

'''holding his cheek and jaw when he talks like cutout photos of the late J. Benny''' 
Comedian Jack Benny (1894-1974) would often hold his chin with his hand while addressing an audience. See Benny's statue in Cucamonga where he is holding his cheek and jaw [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bennystatue.jpg].

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

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'''phantasms''' 
apparitions or specters

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

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

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'''velour''' 
a felt that looks like velvet

'''''ACCIACCATURA''''' 
Comes from the Italian verb acciaccare, "to crush". The acciaccatura (sometimes called ''short appoggiatura'') is perhaps best thought of as a shorter, less melodically significant, variant of the ''long appoggiatura'', where the delay of the principal note is scarcely perceptible – theoretically subtracting no time at all." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acciaccatura#Acciaccatura Wikipedia])

'''''ALEMBIC''''' 
a device used for distillation made up of a tube connecting two containers

'''''LATRODECTUS MACTANS''''' 
"'''''Latrodectus mactans''''', the '''(southern) Black widow''', is a highly venomous species of spider in the genus Latrodectus. They are well known for the distinctive black and red coloring of the female of the species and for the fact that she will occasionally eat her mate after reproduction. The species is native to the United States of America and Mexico. The female black widow's venom is particularly harmful to humans (males almost never bite humans). The injection of venom from these species is a comparatively dangerous or lethal bite." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectus_mactans Wikipedia])

'''''NEUTRAL DENSITY POINT''''' 
it's not clear what this refers to, but it's quite possible it refers to a concept in optics similar to the concept applied in a Neutral Density Filter, given ''Infinite Jest'''s optics motif. 
"In photography and optics, a neutral density filter or ND filter can be colorless (clear) or grey filter. An ideal neutral density filter reduces and/or modifies intensity of all wavelengths or colors of light equally, giving no changes in hue of color rendition. 
The purpose of standard photographic neutral density filters is to allow the photographer greater flexibility to change the aperture, exposure time and/or blur of subject in different situations and atmospheric conditions." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_density_filter Wikipedia])

'''''CHIAROSCURO''''' 
a term originally used in drawing and painting, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiaroscuro chiaroscuro] is also used in photography and cinematography for techniques of contrasting light and dark

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

'''''TESTUDO''''' 
Latin for "tortoise." May refer to a genus of tortoises, a type of harp, or a military formation.

'''''ANNULATE''''' 
Having or consisting of rings or ringlike segments.

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

'''''CATALEPT''''' 
a person suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalepsy catalepsy], a condition of rigidity and unresponsiveness

'''''GERRYMANDER''''' 
the breaking up of territory into electoral districts so that one political party has a majority in as many districts as possible

'''''SCOPOPHILIA''''' 
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) & scopophiliac (p.230)]

'''''LAERTES''''' 
a character from ''Hamlet'' who blames Hamlet for the deaths of his father and sister (Polonius and Ophelia), and seeks to avenge them by killing Hamlet with a poisoned sword

'''''EXTRUDING''''' 
to push or thrust out

'''''STRIGIL''''' 
"A strigil was a small, curved, metal tool used in ancient Greece and Rome to scrape dirt and sweat from the body before effective soaps became available." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strigil Wikipedia])

'''''LORDOSIS''''' 
a condition where a person has a forward-curving spine

'''''IMPOST''''' 
a tax or duty that is imposed - this word was use by Tiny Ewell while he was speaking to (or rather, at) Gately on page 815

'''''SINISTRAL''''' 
left-handed

'''''MENISCUS''''' 
A concavo-convex lens, or other crescent-shaped body.

'''''CHRONAXY''''' 
"In the mathematical description of the functioning of the nervous system, the chronaxie (or chronaxy) is the minimum time over which an electric current double the strength of the rheobase needs to be applied, in order to stimulate a muscle fiber or nerve cell." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronaie Wikipedia])

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

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

'''''LUCULUS''''' 
Lucullus (two l's) was a Roman general of antiquity ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucullus Wikipedia])

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

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

'''''NEO-REAL''''' 
"Italian neorealism is a style of film characterized by stories set amongst the poor and working class, filmed on location, frequently using nonprofessional actors. Italian neorealist films mostly contend with the difficult economical and moral conditions of post-World War II Italy, reflecting the changes in the Italian psyche and the conditions of everyday life: poverty and desperation." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_neorealism Wikipedia])

'''''CRANE DOLLY''''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_dolly camera dolly] with a crane that holds the camera.

'''''CIRCUMAMBIENTFOUNDDRAMALEVIRATEMARRIAGE''''' 
Circumambient means walking around. "Found Drama" was one of James Incandenza's contributions to film artistic history. Levirate marriage is a tradition in several cultures whereby the younger brother of a deceased man marries the dead brother's widow. (See also ''Consummation of the Levirates'' on [[Pages_157-181#Page_171|p. 171]])

'''''HELIATED''''' 
When someone inhales helium, their voice becomes high-pitched.

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'''shinola''' 
a now-defunct brand of mid-20th century shoe polish, preserved in the expression, "You don't know shit from Shinola."

'''epiphanyish''' 
An [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epiphany epiphany] is a divine manifestation, or by extension, a sudden, deep insight.

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'''Vertical Hold''' 
refers to a setting on a television that adjusts the picture's vertical stabilization

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

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

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

'''Nom''' 
Gatley means "Norm," as in the ''Cheers'' character "Norm Peterson"; "Nom" is how a North Shore native such as Gately might pronounce the name.

'''fractional''' 
comparatively small or insignificant

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

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

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

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

'''agora''' 
a place of congregation, originally marketplaces in Ancient Greece

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

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'''acerbic''' 
acidic; sharp or biting

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

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'''Mennonite''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabaptist Anabaptist] denomination named for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menno_Simons Menno Simons] (1496-1561), a Frisian religious leader

'''avers''' 
declares

'''vapid''' 
lacking liveliness or spirit

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'''packy''' 
short for "package store," a Massachusetts euphemism for "liquor store"

'''pre-metric''' 
in the alternate timeline of ''Infinite Jest'', it's obvious that U.S. Customary systems of measurement are finally abandoned, at some point (perhaps during Reconfiguration), for the global standard of the Metric System (''ed.'': optimism on Wallace's part, one might say) - the weights the M.P. used were marked with U.S. "pounds" (lbs) instead of Metric kilograms (kg).

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'''fencing''' 
to sell stolen goods

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

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'''lit''' 
landed

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

'''''Al-Anon''''' 
Al-Anon/Alateen, Al-Anon Family Groups - support group for families/friends of alcoholics.

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

'''penchant''' 
a predilection

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==Page 828==

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

'''holding his cheek and jaw when he talks like cutout photos of the late J. Benny''' 
Comedian Jack Benny (1894-1974) would often hold his chin with his hand while addressing an audience. See Benny's statue in Cucamonga where he is holding his cheek and jaw [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bennystatue.jpg].

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

==Page 829==

==Page 830==

'''phantasms''' 
apparitions or specters

==Page 831==

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

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

==Page 832==

'''velour''' 
a felt that looks like velvet

'''''ACCIACCATURA''''' 
Comes from the Italian verb acciaccare, "to crush". The acciaccatura (sometimes called ''short appoggiatura'') is perhaps best thought of as a shorter, less melodically significant, variant of the ''long appoggiatura'', where the delay of the principal note is scarcely perceptible – theoretically subtracting no time at all." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acciaccatura#Acciaccatura Wikipedia])

'''''ALEMBIC''''' 
a device used for distillation made up of a tube connecting two containers

'''''LATRODECTUS MACTANS''''' 
"'''''Latrodectus mactans''''', the '''(southern) Black widow''', is a highly venomous species of spider in the genus Latrodectus. They are well known for the distinctive black and red coloring of the female of the species and for the fact that she will occasionally eat her mate after reproduction. The species is native to the United States of America and Mexico. The female black widow's venom is particularly harmful to humans (males almost never bite humans). The injection of venom from these species is a comparatively dangerous or lethal bite." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectus_mactans Wikipedia])

'''''NEUTRAL DENSITY POINT''''' 
it's not clear what this refers to, but it's quite possible it refers to a concept in optics similar to the concept applied in a Neutral Density Filter, given ''Infinite Jest'''s optics motif. 
"In photography and optics, a neutral density filter or ND filter can be colorless (clear) or grey filter. An ideal neutral density filter reduces and/or modifies intensity of all wavelengths or colors of light equally, giving no changes in hue of color rendition. 
The purpose of standard photographic neutral density filters is to allow the photographer greater flexibility to change the aperture, exposure time and/or blur of subject in different situations and atmospheric conditions." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_density_filter Wikipedia])

'''''CHIAROSCURO''''' 
a term originally used in drawing and painting, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiaroscuro chiaroscuro] is also used in photography and cinematography for techniques of contrasting light and dark

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

'''''TESTUDO''''' 
Latin for "tortoise." May refer to a genus of tortoises, a type of harp, or a military formation.

'''''ANNULATE''''' 
Having or consisting of rings or ringlike segments.

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

'''''CATALEPT''''' 
a person suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalepsy catalepsy], a condition of rigidity and unresponsiveness

'''''GERRYMANDER''''' 
the breaking up of territory into electoral districts so that one political party has a majority in as many districts as possible

'''''SCOPOPHILIA''''' 
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) & scopophiliac (p.230)]

'''''LAERTES''''' 
a character from ''Hamlet'' who blames Hamlet for the deaths of his father and sister (Polonius and Ophelia), and seeks to avenge them by killing Hamlet with a poisoned sword

'''''EXTRUDING''''' 
to push or thrust out

'''''STRIGIL''''' 
"A strigil was a small, curved, metal tool used in ancient Greece and Rome to scrape dirt and sweat from the body before effective soaps became available." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strigil Wikipedia])

'''''LORDOSIS''''' 
a condition where a person has a forward-curving spine

'''''IMPOST''''' 
a tax or duty that is imposed - this word was use by Tiny Ewell while he was speaking to (or rather, at) Gately on page 815

'''''SINISTRAL''''' 
left-handed

'''''MENISCUS''''' 
A concavo-convex lens, or other crescent-shaped body.

'''''CHRONAXY''''' 
"In the mathematical description of the functioning of the nervous system, the chronaxie (or chronaxy) is the minimum time over which an electric current double the strength of the rheobase needs to be applied, in order to stimulate a muscle fiber or nerve cell." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronaie Wikipedia])

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

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

'''''LUCULUS''''' 
Lucullus (two l's) was a Roman general of antiquity ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucullus Wikipedia])

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

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

'''''NEO-REAL''''' 
"Italian neorealism is a style of film characterized by stories set amongst the poor and working class, filmed on location, frequently using nonprofessional actors. Italian neorealist films mostly contend with the difficult economical and moral conditions of post-World War II Italy, reflecting the changes in the Italian psyche and the conditions of everyday life: poverty and desperation." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_neorealism Wikipedia])

'''''CRANE DOLLY''''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_dolly camera dolly] with a crane that holds the camera.

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

'''''HELIATED''''' 
When someone inhales helium, their voice becomes high-pitched.

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'''shinola''' 
a now-defunct brand of mid-20th century shoe polish, preserved in the expression, "You don't know shit from Shinola."

'''epiphanyish''' 
An [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epiphany epiphany] is a divine manifestation, or by extension, a sudden, deep insight.

==Page 834==

'''Vertical Hold''' 
refers to a setting on a television that adjusts the picture's vertical stabilization

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

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

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

'''Nom''' 
Gatley means "Norm," as in the ''Cheers'' character "Norm Peterson"; "Nom" is how a North Shore native such as Gately might pronounce the name.

'''fractional''' 
comparatively small or insignificant

==Page 835==

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

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

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

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

'''agora''' 
a place of congregation, originally marketplaces in Ancient Greece

==Page 836==

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

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'''acerbic''' 
acidic; sharp or biting

==Page 838==

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

==Page 839==

'''Mennonite''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabaptist Anabaptist] denomination named for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menno_Simons Menno Simons] (1496-1561), a Frisian religious leader

'''avers''' 
declares

'''vapid''' 
lacking liveliness or spirit

==Page 840==

'''packy''' 
short for "package store," a Massachusetts euphemism for "liquor store"

'''pre-metric''' 
in the alternate timeline of ''Infinite Jest'', it's obvious that U.S. Customary systems of measurement are finally abandoned, at some point (perhaps during Reconfiguration), for the global standard of the Metric System (''ed.'': optimism on Wallace's part, one might say) - the weights the M.P. used were marked with U.S. "pounds" (lbs) instead of Metric kilograms (kg).

==Page 841==

'''fencing''' 
to sell stolen goods

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

==Page 842==

'''lit''' 
landed

==Page 843==

==Page 844==

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

'''''Al-Anon''''' 
Al-Anon/Alateen, Al-Anon Family Groups - support group for families/friends of alcoholics.

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

'''penchant''' 
a predilection

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'''0.473 litres''' 
222; one pint

'''AA/NA''' 
clichés, 270; "the Gift" 273; Getting In Touch With Your Feelings, 446; "accept it on faith" 533; Powerless, 546; rationalizing, 555; is your Higher Power "omni-potent enough to make a suitcase that's too heavy for him to lift"? 564; Gratitude List, 596; "Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it" 606; Suicide Contract, 697; Attitude of Platitude, 706; Denial Aisle, 707; black addict (Reginald or Roy Tony?) who blows off pregnant wife and child, 708; Interval of Issues-Resolution, 716; Ninth Step, 815; Pulsing Blue Light, 833; White-Knuckle, 838; Poor Me, Poor Me, Pour Me A Drink, 839; Church of Perpetual Revenge (CPR)--what White Flaggers call AA, 844; "One Day at a Time" "Keep It in the Day" 858; "AA's real gift: it's no accident they call it ''The Present''" 860; Old Cold Bird, 860; 13th-Stepping (newcomer-seducing), 863; "Let [thoughts of taking a Substance] come as they will, but do not ''Entertain'' them" 890 (see also p.26); "The truth will set you free, but not until it's done with you" 973; "Addicts Don't Have Relationships, They Take Hostages" fn.292/1054

'''Abbott, E. A.''' 
281; author of ''Flatland''

'''Abrams, Shoshana''' 
756; rooms w/Spodek at ETA

'''Academia de Vera Cruz''' 
259; tennis academy in Mexico

'''Academy of Visual Arts and Sciences''' 
548;

'''ACOA''' 
1050; Adult Children of Alcoholics

'''ACOG''' 
1050; Adult Children of Gamblers (?)

'''ACONA''' 
1050; Adult Children of Narcotics Addicts

'''Actaeon Complex''' 
290; "deep phylogenic fear of transhuman beauty"

'''A.D.A.''' 
55; North Shore Assistant District Attorney who has it in for Gately; lives in "upscale Wonderland Valley section of Revere"; wife "needs Valium just to floss" 59; 818; 821; talking with Pat M. about apologizing to Gately, 960; wears a Stetson w/feather, fn.14/984-85;

'''ad valorem''' 
33; Latin: to value. "In proportion to the value"

'''addiction''' 
marijuana, 17; giving one's self away, 53; "Drug addicts [...] are not often inclined toward violent crime" 55; "Who teaches your U.S.A. children how to choose their temple?" 107; Kicking The Bird, 135; Mario I. to Madame Psychosis' WYYY show, 171, 190; methadone clinic in Unit #2, 194; stats and info on, 200; "all but lose your mind when [the enslaving substance] is taken away from you" 201; "Analysis-Paralysis," 203; McDade's tattoo of "flaming skull on his left shoulderblade" 206; Joelle's to "the Material [freebase cocaine]" 222; Pemulis' "neurasthenic stomach" 267; Troeltsch and 'drines" 267; Hal's "devolution from occasional tourist to subterranean compulsive" 270; "some people never get over the loss of what they'd thought was their one true best friend" 273; The Spider, 274; "difference between abstinence v. recovery" 277;

'''advertising''' 
Statue of Liberty, 33, 367; "declining fortunes of broadcast television advertising, 150; sponsorships, 264, 266; TV-advertising's demise, 411;

'''A.F.R.''' 
89; aka '''''Assassins des Fauteuils Rollents''''', aka '''Wheelchair Assassins of Québec'''

'''Agnew, Spiro''' 
281; Vice President under Richard Nixon; resigned in disgrace

'''Ahts of Vancouver''' 
243; primitives

'''AlaTeens''' 
1050;

'''ALGOL''' 
491; fn.223/1036

'''All-Bright Printing''' 
894; where Parias-Carbo works; near Jackson-Mann School;

'''Allen, Woody''' 
944; American comedian, film actor and director; parodied by Himself in ''Death in Scarsdale''

'''Allston, MA''' 
"Kiss me where it smells, she said, so I took her to Allston" 154, 578

'''Alphonso''' 
178; resident at Ennet House, from Cuba

'''Altman, Robert''' 
835; American film director - "crafted imitation of aural chaos"

'''American Council of Disseminators of Cable (A.C.D.C.)''' 
412;

'''Anchorman's Bloat''' 
147

'''anhedonia''' 
Anhedonia is the inability to experience pleasure; "You seek to vanquish and transcend the limited self whose limits make the game possible" 84; "it is often more fun to want something than to have it" 205; simple melancholy, afflicting goal-oriented people, 692-93

'''annulation''' 
"cold annular fusion" 64; annular hyperfloration cycles, 65; vicious circle of drug-taking and tennis, 67; "circle of arms" 69; "annularly overfertilized forests" 93; "firelight's circle" 103; "curve's classically annular shape" 150; "annularized Great Concavity's No-Time," 183; "cold-fusion ring" 185; "annulation equations" 185; "the ultimate annular fusion" 222; "some beastly post-annular scopophiliacal vector" 233; "subannular regions of the Great Concavity" 241; "annular-generated amps" 242; 306; 309; & Jim Incandenza, 502-03; and shame, 535; "the annulated Shawshine River" 561; 569; explained, 570-74; annular medicine, 572; Mr. Green "clunking around in circles" 580; people "milling in rings" around an Empire W.D.V. mishap, 620; "concentric rings of pond and crowd" 622; ''Metallurgy of Annular Isotopes'' , 624; "his finger's annular pallor" 638; more concentric rings, 718; ETA's annular heating system, 870; "concentric circles" 891;

'''Anschluss''' 
1020; German: "connection"; O.N.A.N.ite Anschluss, 421; "of Hitler" 777;

'''Anti-Anti-O.N.A.N. Activities' Agency''' 
549; under U.S.O.U.S.; fn.229/1037

'''anticonfluentialism''' 
185; 376; 380; fn.61/996

'''Antitoi Entertain[m]ent''' 
215; "cut-rate mirror, blown-glass, practical joke 'n gag, trendy postcard, and low-demand old film-cartridge emporium [...] just up Prospect St. from Inman Square in Cambridge's decayed Portugo/Brazilian district" where Pemulis bought the DMZ from 2 Canadian insurgents, on Inman Square in Cambridge, MA; owned by Antitoi brothers, 300; 304; Gately drives past, 480; sell used entertainment cartridges, 483; and PT "Poor Tony" Krause, 690-91; Krause running to, 720

'''Antitoi, Bertraund''' 
480; "the brains of the outfit" viz. the Antitois' cell, "self-contained, a monomitotic cell, eccentric and borderline-incompetent"; death, 486; ''Front-Contre-O.N.A.N.isme'' action against the "Canadian Minister of Inter-O.N.A.N. Trade, 690-91;

'''Antitoi, Lucien''' 
480; Bertraund's brother who doesn't know French; death, 488;

'''Antonioni''' 
185;

'''appropriation artist''' 
23; former romantic interest of Gately's

'''Arslanian, Idris ("Id")''' 
98; 14-year-old Pakistani ETA student; 567;

'''''Assassins des Fauteuils Rollents''''' 
''See'' '''Wheelchair Assassins of Québec'''

'''ATHSCME''' 
51; make fans that blow toxic smoke/fumes north to Canada; "giant protective [...] fans atop the hugely convex protective walls of anodized Lucite" 93; "make really big fans" 240; 268-69; Sunstrand Plaza, 542; de-linting, 542; 1017;

'''A.T.P. Tour''' 
111; 259

'''Au Bon Pain''' 
130; cafe in Harvard Square; 212

'''Avalon, Frankie''' 
168

'''Axford''', Trevor ("The Axhandle") 
50; ETA student; clean-urine sales (w/Pemulis), 151; "only three-and-a-half digits on his right hand" 332; fireworks accident 3 Interdependence Days past, 512; "a true redheaded person" 512; fell off his bike and "received a tiny lesion-type brain injury after which all food everywhere tastes horrible to him" 628; Big Buddy to Penn and Ingersoll, fn.209/1035

'''Axhandle, the''' 
''See'' '''Axford, Trevor '''

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'''M., Gene''' 
''See'' [[#Martinez|Martinez, Eugenio]]

'''Mackey''' 
fn.209/1035; senior male ETA student

<div id="Madame-Psychosis">'''Madame, The'''</div>
542; hallucinogen Doony Glynn did in 1989

'''Made Guys from the North End''' 
609; presumably "made" members of the mafia. (Becoming a made man is something akin to getting tenure.) (Or so I've read.)

'''''Maggie: A Girl of the Streets''''' 
191; "depressing book" read by [[#Madame-Psychosis|Madame, The]].

'''Mainwaring, Reeves''' 
238; at Notkin's party

'''Makavajev''' 
233; possibly Dusan Makavejev, Belgrade-born filmmaker.

'''Makulic, Bernard''' 
634; "little 14-C" at ETA

'''Malone''' 
411; owned TCI cable TV network

'''Mann''' 
fn.24/987; filmmaker parodied in Himself's''Death in Scarsdale''

'''Man o' War Grille''' 
682; Portuguese restaurant on Prospect in Cambridge, where Matty Pemulis is;

'''map''' 
129; slang term for face; personal map, 196; "personal competitive map" fn.75; "utter demapping" fn.75; "eliminate their own map for keeps" (commit suicide), 220; 231; "keep his map shut when he's got nothing important to say" 276; 280; de-mapping, 300;

'''Marathe, Gertraud''' 
89 (unnamed); 126; wife of Rémy; dying of ventricular restenosis, 126; born w/o a skull, 429; 529; 752; "among the first Swiss children of southwestern Switzerland to become born without a skull" 779; her condition, 779; in a comatose state for almost one year, 780;

'''Marathe, Rémy''' 
88; member of "Wheelchair Assassins" and quadruple agent (fn.40/995); "Something bigger than the self [...] You are what you love" 107; wife dying of ventricular restenosis, 126; "eidetic, near-perfect in recall" 127; reports to M. Fortier, 127; 317; wife was born without a skull, 429; father's death, 490; dreams of father, 528; A.F.R. believes him to be a triple agent, 529; at Ennet House, 730; "prepared to die violently at any time" 732; w/paranoid addict who raves about the "metal" people, 735; at Ennet House w/Pat M., 747; aka "Henri" 748; w/Kate Gompert, 774; how he met his wife, 777; "a used Kenbeck pacemaker for Maranthe's father, now deceased" fn.313/1062;

'''Marblehead''' 
55; where ADA and wife go to "celebrity sailing thing"

'''Marlon''' 
386; perpetually wet former ETA student & Orin's doubles partner

'''Martin, Dean''' 
863; American actor and singer

<div id="Martinez">'''Martinez, Eugenio'''</div>
177; volunteer alumnus counselor at Ennet House & Gately's counselor when he was a resident; 196; 273; "ex coke and -phone-bunko guy whose left ear had been one of his Losses" and "grizzled Filipino" 466;

'''Marxist Film-Cartridge Theory''' 
227; subject of Notkin's oral critique for Ph.D.

<div id="MASH">'''M*A*S*H'''</div>
639; 70s TV show with which Steeply's father was obsessed; U.N. Korean Police Action only lasted two years, 644; 834;

'''masks-''' 
"blank facial masking" 72; Lemon Pledge husks "a battery of five-holed masks" 223; Notkin's Karl Marx, 227; guy in wheelchair tailing Orin with "some kind of domino-mask" 245; "Wayne's father is an asbestos miner who [...] wears triple-thick masks" 262; "a disguise that makes [Lenz] look like Cesar Romero after a terrible accident" 276;

'''Massachussetts Department of Public Health''' 
138; of which Division of Substance Abuse Services is a part

'''Material''' 
222; dope

'''Mathis, Johnny''' 
102; American pop crooner (50s-60s); "Chances Are"

'''McCartney, Linda''' 
978; wife of Paul; CD of just her contributions to Wings tunes

<div id="McCartney">'''McCartney, Paul'''</div>
978; former Beatle and leader of Wings

'''McDade, Wade''' 
177; resident at Ennet House; tatoos, 206; 363; "a young hard-core flask-alkie from Ashland KY" 469; 533;

'''McGee''' 
fn.304/1055; "-like chaos" unknown reference

'''McGruff''' 
880; "the freaking crime dog;" Smokey The Bear-ish mascot for law enforcement.

'''MCI-Billerica''' 
462; where Gately did some time (Mass. Correctional Institution, in Billerica.)

'''McKenna, Kieran''' 
341; ETA student

'''McLachlin, Kyle''' 
944; Kyle''MacLachlan'', American actor who worked with director [[L#Lynch|David Lynch]] on''Blue Velvet'',''Twin Peaks,'' and''Dune''.

'''McLean Hospital''' 
249; where Himself did "a two-day purge and detox" while working on the Entertainment; fn.145/1027; in Belmont, MA, where J.O.I. planned out Found Drama ("the ultimate Neorealism") "to get revenge" on critics of his films

<div id="McNair">'''McNair, Stokely ("Dark Star")'''</div>
129; junkie in Boston; 300; "the late" 690;

'''M.D.C.''' 
137; MA Department of Correction; 210

'''Meech Lake Accord''' 
1013; I, II & III; III was "Ottawa's last attempt to placate Québec with a constitutional amendment formalizing the Gallic province's right to 'preserve and promote' a 'distinct society and culture.'" 1021;

'''Méliès''' 
219; molded plastic chair of, in Notkin's apartment

'''Melinda''' 
229 (unnamed); "beautiful young woman" high on Ecstacy, dancing in front of mirror, at Notkin's party; 233; 235

'''Menelaus''' 
105; king of Sparta at the time of the Trojan War; husband of Helen and brother of Agamemnon.

'''Mercier Dam''' 
259; Canadian dam on the St. Lawrence.

'''Merman, Ethel''' 
214; American comic actress and singer noted for her poweful voice. 1909-1984

'''methedrine addict from New Bedford''' 
194; woman who hangs w/Gately at Ennet House

'''Metheun-Andover border''' 
456; locus of mammoth effectuators, in no. MA; Metheun Fan-Complex, 571; 670;

'''''Metropolis''''' 
193; 1927 film by Fritz Lang; "chilling framed print of Lang directing" 951

'''Micheaux''' 
232; filmmaker?

'''Mikey''' 
958; "alcoholic, addict and a sick fuck" with child visitation issues with his mother and sister

'''Militant Grammarians of Massachussetts (MGM)''' 
288; led by Avril I.; Tactical Phalanx, 288; fn.234/1039

'''Millennial Fizzy''' 
182; soft drink; fn.138; taken w/Oreos for "jittery amphetaminic buzz" 200

'''Miller, W.''' 
581; tracts by, being handed out by Bruce Green's aunt

'''Minimal Mambo''' 
229; danced at Notkin's party

'''mint green Ford sedan''' 
327; with Nunhagen Asprin ad on its right rear door, 332

'''Minty, Emil''' 
aka "yrstruly" (12/YDPAH), 128-35; resident at Ennet House, 178; 207; "hard-core smack-addict punk" 275; 300; 615; (Note, Emil Minty is the name of the child actor who plays the "Feral Kid" in the post-apocalyptic Mel Gibson movie "Road Warrior.")

'''Miss Diagnosis''' 
450; "alto grad student" who is Madame Psychosis' replacement at WYYY; 624;

'''Mitchell, Joni''' 
966; disk of, playing in J. Wayne's locker. (singer/songwriter, b. Roberta Joan Anderson, Saskatchewan, Canada, 7Nov43)

'''M.I.T. Student Union''' 
184; "one enormous cerebral cortex"

'''MK-Ultra''' 
472; CIA-sponsored brainwashing experiments in B.S. '53

'''M & M's''' 
20; Fackelmann, Dilaudid and, 932

'''M.M.P.I.''' 
472; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. A tool (test) used to categorize humans by personality. Similar to (and often used concurrently with) Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

'''Mohammed''' 
108; Arab prophet of Islam; established a theocratic state at Medina after 622 and began to convert Arabia to Islam. (American Heritage Dict.)

'''''Moment'' Magazine''' 
Orin to be interviewed by some profiler from, 48; story about heart-in-a-purse lady, 142; article about Army DMZ casualty, 214; "medical, soft sports, personality, and home-entertainment-trends reporting" 227; story on Orin, 244, 1012; "supermarket-checkout-lane-display magazine" 244; "physically imposing''Moment'' girl" 246; "a national magazine for and about exceptional people" 660;

'''Monroe, Dr. Robert ("Sixties Bob")''' 
927; "septuagenarian pink-sunglasses-and-Nehru-jacket-wearing N.C.-F.P.F. ergotic-vascular-headachetreatment specialized [who] interned at Sandoz [in Switzerland] [and was] one of T. Leary's original circle"; treats Sorkins headaches; big Grateful Dead fanatic; perhaps got the DMZ he sold to Antitois from Kite;

'''Montcalmists''' 
420; Canadian resistance group

'''Montesian, Ms. Patricia, M.A., C.S.A.C.''' 
176; Executive Director, Ennet House in Enfield, MA; 196; had a stroke, 278; "photo-seizure-prone" 361; her black 1964 Ford Aventura, 461; husband, 461; background & description, 465; and Mars (husband?), 960;

'''Moore, Lateral Alice''' 
99; ETA administration, C.T.'s administrative ass't; 174; 432; about, 509-;

'''More Will Be Revealed''' 
540; NA group

'''Morris [sic] Code''' 
275

'''M.P.''' 
446; Gately's mother's "live-in lover, a former Navy M.P. who used to beat her up on a regular schedule"; 840-43; drove a "cheese-and-egg delivery truck for Cheese King Inc." 841; maiming flies, 842;

'''mucronate''' 
314.1+5. having a sharp point

'''Mulroney, (Martin) Brian''' 
fn.304/1058; Canadian president from 1984 - ??

'''Munch, Edvard''' 
1016; 1863-1944; Norwegian artist famous for his painting "The Scream."

'''Murnau''' 
219; molded plastic chair of, in Notkin's apartment

'''mythology''' 
Icarus, 65; "Tristan and Isolde. Lancelot and what's-her-name. Agamemnon and Helen, Dante and Beatrice." 105; "Helen and Paris. He of Troy." Menelaus, 105; Medusa, 190, 529; Popogatapec, 243; "It's a myth no one misses [the Substance]" 273; 528; Circe, 529; "Polycleitos body, Hermes or Theseus before his trials" 636; Job, 740, 895; Promethean-guilt angle, 791; Incandenza family, 838; Camilla, "goddess of speed and light step" 965; "visually lethal mythologic females" in Himself's''"The Medusa v. the Odalisque'', fn.24/988;

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'''P ------- , Luria''' 
''See'' [[#Perec|Perec, Luria]]

'''Papineau''' 
88; desolate region in extreme southwest Québec; fn.304/1058;

'''parabola''' 
"weird Taoist paraboloid logo" 265;

'''paranoia''' 
Fenton the paranoid-schizophrenic, 47; "Pemulis's poster of the paranoid king" 60; "dealers that stay around any length of time tend to be on the paranoid side" 75; "Nothing brings you together like a common enemy" 113; "It'll help your attitude to look for evidence of design" 113; "Accident? Random happenstance?" 114; Pemulis "fears the dealer's Brutus" 156; "They" 175; "the people to be most frightened of are the people who are most frightened" 204; paranoid king, 213; "Yes, I'm paranoid--but am I paranoid enough?" fn.211/1035;

'''Parias-Carbo, Alphonso''' 
363; Ennet House resident; 611; "the totally ununderstandable Cuban" 887;

'''Parrot, Annie''' 
279; Asst. Mgr. at Ennet House; Ass't Director at Ennet House, 434; to "go get certified in jet-engine maintenance at East Coast Aerotech on a Mass Rehab grant" 822;

'''Patch the Pony Who Says Nay to Strangers''' 
879; toy manufactured by ChildSearch.

'''Patty citizen type''' 
128; straight person (?)

'''p-dope''' 
131;

'''Pearson, Heath''' 
672; former ETA student; in Himself's films, 687; founder of the sub-14's Tunnel Club, 899; "former tow-truck shareholder" fn.209/1035;

'''Pei, I.M. (Ieoh Ming)''' 
184; Chinese-born American architect, b. 1917. Architect of the MIT Stratton Student Center, building W20, 84 Mass. Ave., which dates from the late 60's. The original student center, still standing near Ames St. and Memorial Drive, 142 Memorial Dr., is the Walker Memorial, building 50. This is the one with the columns.

'''Peckinpah, Sam''' 
185; American filmmaker parodied in Himself's''Fun with Teeth'', fn.24/987

'''Pemberton, Hugh''' 
fn.110; ETA student; 1009;

'''Pemulis, "Da"''' 
683; abusive father of Matty and Michael, who came over "on a boat from Louth in Lenster in 1989;

'''Pemulis, Matty (aka "Mad Matty")''' 
682; 23-year-old prostitute brother of Michael; described, 683; former crewmate of Poor Tony Krause, 691;

'''Pemulis, Michael Mathew''' 
40; student at ETA and Big Buddy; rooms w/Troeltsch & Schacht in subdorm B in the back north part of the second floor of West House (171); "reptilian" (according to Avril); 50; "One kid asks you to please commit a crime" 75; "has this way of looking warily from side to side" 95, 211; Big Buddy to Lord & Possalthwaite, 116; clean-urine sales (w/Axford), 151; about, 154; "Please commit a crime" 156; DMZ arrangements with "day-shift Ennet House kid at the booth who raises the portcullis" at ETA, 171; Tenuate (methedrine) spansules, 216, 329, fn.321/1065, fn.324/1068; considering dosing Wayne, 213; puking at Port Washington, 262; "physically 'drine dependent" 267; dosed tennis opponent at P.W., 281; PowerBook, 431; waiting to see Tavis, 509, 526; interrupting Avril & J. Wayne, 552; holding forth on annulation, 570-74; "He goes to the library and pores" 785; trying to cut down on places with 'N' in their name, 908; crawling into the ceiling at ETA, "Entrepôt-bound" 916; to Hal: "cut yourself off of it altogether, you die inside. You lose your mind" fn.321/1065; takes two Tenuate spansules before a tennis game, fn.324/1067; got out of urine-test by threatening to bust Avril and J. Wayne for "major-sport interlude" fn.324/1068; "how 17 can actually go into 56 way more than 3.294 times" fn.324/1069;

'''Pendleton''' 
921; doctor at St. Elizabeth's tending to Gately

'''Penn, Jeffrey Joseph ("J. J.")''' 
327; ETA student, "a high-ranked thirteen-year-old but not exactly the brightest log on the Yuletide fire"; roommate w/Ingersoll, 338; perhaps seriously injured, 452 (see p.341);

'''Penn, Michael H.''' 
333; 21-year-old brother of J.J. and "sworn foe" of Pemulis for calling him "Penisless";

'''Penn, Miles''' 
687; ETA student in Himself's films

'''Penn, W. (William)''' 
216; English Quaker colonizer in America, founded Pennsylvania in 1681.

'''''perdre son coeur''''' 
fn.304/1060; French: "lose his heart"

<div id="Perec">'''Perec, Mlle. Luria'''</div>
30; "of Lamartine, county of L'Islet, Québec; stenographer to Tine, Sr., and to DuPlessis, 92; with whom R. Tine is "smitten" 92, fn.156 (1030); 440; aka "Swiss" woman, 566, 598, 655, 726, 845, 971-2;

'''Perot, Ross''' 
382; elfin Texas businessman; presidential candidate in 1992 & 1996

'''personal-injury attorney''' 
''See'' [[E#Ewell|Ewell, Eldred K., Jr.]]

'''''Personnes Qui On Doit''''' 
92

'''Peterson, Sidney''' 
234;''The Lead Shoes''; 185; "Peterson-shaped directorial chair" 788;''The Cage'' in background of''Good-Looking Men...'', 911; 957; "1947 classic''The Cage'' " fn.24/986; "low-budget classic''The Cage'' , which is mostly about a peripatetic eyeball rolling around" fn.366/1077;

'''Peterson, "Sleepy T.P."''' 
115; ETA student; 330;

'''Pettijohn''' 
254; ETA teacher

'''P.G.O.A.T.''' 
Prettiest Girl Of All Time

'''Phelps and Phelps''' 
fn.304/1058; authors of''The Cults of the Unwavering I''

'''Phiely, R. Bill ("Touchy")''' 
510; "of California's Rolling Hills Academy"; infamous pediphile

'''Philips Andover Academy''' 
915; Gately made false MA driver's licenses for the rich kids there

'''Phob-Comp-Anon''' 
961; 12-Step splinter Ass't D.A. attends - codependency-issues

'''Phoenix House''' 
503; halfway house in Somerville MA; visited by Fortier, 727;

'''Picasso''', Pablo (1881-1973) 
798; "Seated Harlequin" print hanging in Quabbin Recovery Systems; Spanish artist.

'''Pillow-biter''' 
274; homosexual

'''Pine Street Inn''' 
434; "the biggest and foulest homeless shelter in all of Boston" where Gately works as a janitor

'''Pinker, Steven''' 
fn.24/987; debate w/Avril I. which was subject of Himself's''Union of Theoretical Grammarians in Cambridge''

'''pisser''' 
204; metro Boston for "really quite wonderful" pronounced PISS-ah

'''Plasmatron-7''' 
358; aka Bernard; "industrial-grunge post-punk" at Ennet House

'''Plate, Sylvia''' 
593; Gately's foggy memory of Sylvia Plath, an American writer (1932-1963) who committed suicide by sticking in her in an oven

'''Pointgravè''' 
975; colleague of Bobby C.'s; "had no real loyalties or membership in any community" fn.369/1078

'''Polep''' 
17; tennis player in Hal's age group

'''Poor Tony''' 
''See'' [[K#Krause|Krause, Tony]]

'''Port Washington Tennis Academy''' 
103; I.D. Day; where ETA-PW tennis tournament is held on Long Island; "the Xerox Inc. Of North American tennis academies" 217; "a fancy tri-domed system of permanent all-weather Lung" 258;

'''Posener''' 
fn.145/1027; Brandeis film critic

'''Possalthwaite, Todd ("Postal-Weight")''' 
98; "the great lobber" at ETA; "endomorphic thirteen-year-old from Edina MN" 330; broken nose, 758; Minneapolis-developer father, fn.324/1068;

'''Post-Coital Vestibulitis''' 
928; rare neurological disorder that Yale's star power forward has

'''Poutrincourt, Mlle. Thierry T.''' 
309; ETA prorector who taught a class called "Separatism and Return: Québecois History from Frontenac Through the Age of Interdependence" in Québecois French; 523; described, 673, 675; suspects Helen Steeply is neither a "civilian soft-profiler nor even a female" 1052; "History of Canadian Unpleasantness" course, fn.304/1055;

'''Powell's ''Peeping Tom''''' 
502; still-posters from in J.O. Incandenza's childhood bedroom in Sepulveda CA (1963)

'''Power-PC''' 
417; perhaps the BST Apple Mac computer with RISC processor

'''Presque Isle Maine''' 
571; near Loring A.F.B.

'''Pressburger''' or'''Prissburger, Dr.''' 
920; w/Gately and gorgeous R.N.

'''Pricket[t], Mrs. Miriam''' 
188; endowed-for-perpetuity at ETA; 229

'''Prince Q -------''' 
33

'''Prins, Diane''' 
fn. 92; Bernadette Longley's doubles partner; 311; 757;

'''prorector''' 
ETA post-graduates "who stay on for two years and serve as deLint's" assistants, 283; "teach one marginal class per term and serve as on-court assistants" fn.94;

'''Provident Nursing Home''' 
198; near Boston, MA; Hester Thrale works there, 601;

<div id="Madame-Psychosis">'''Psychosis, Madame'''</div>
170; (10/22/YDAU) hosting "Madame Psychosis Hour," M-F 0000h.-0100h., on M.I.T.'s semi-underground WYYY, FM-109, "Largest Whole Prime On The FM Band"; 181; main theme is film and film-cartridges, 185; "issue of enclosure" 189; "strangely empty" voice, 189; music, 190, 191; "Madame's Downer-Lit Hour," 191; 450; 589; inaugural year: YW, 591; 625; "used to read an Eve Arden beauty brochure all the time where [she] says: 'The importance of a mask is to increase your circulation'" 774; mother killed in a garbage disposal, 788; in Gately's dream "with wings and no underwear and asks if they knew him, the dead guy with the head" 934; in Himself's ''Low-Temperature Physics'', fn.24/991; ''See also [[V#JVD|van Dyne, Joelle]]''

'''Public Garden''' 
427; Marathe's favorite off-duty place, in Boston MA; draining the pond in November, 621;

'''Puente, Tito''' 
22; Latin singer and bandleader (b. Ernesto Antonio Puente, Jr., Apr 20, 1923, NYC.)

'''Purity Supreme Market''' 
461; in Allston MA, where Gately shops for Ennet House

'''Purpleboy''' 
129; junkie in Boston

'''''pursuiva le bonheur''''' 
427; French: "pursuit of happiness"; "il ne faut plus qu'on pursuive le bonheur" 483;

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'''vade mecum''' 
156; " A useful thing that one constantly carries about; A book, such as a guidebook, for ready reference." (''American Heritage Dictionary'')

'''Valayat, Pir''' 
34 ; promulgater of "North American sufism"

'''van Cleve, Ruth''' 
595; "brand-new Court-Ordered female" at Ennet House "who looks like one of those people you see in pictures of African famine"; 698; dumped her baby in an alley, 699; purse snatched by Poor Tony, 714;

'''van der Meer, Dennis''' 
82; "a Dutch immigrant low-level pro who became a major pro coach and tennis-education-theory guru" (fn.184); 457;

'''van der Rohe''' 
191; architect

'''Vandervoort''' 
fn.209/1035; senior male ETA student

<div id="JVD">'''van Dyne, Joelle'''</div>
219; "retreat into broadcast sound" 220; wears a linen veil, 220; contemplating "the absolute end of her life and beauty" 221; "excruciatingly alive and encaged" 222; "veilless [...] like some grotesque clown" 223; involved w/Jim Incandenza, Jr., 224; "after the acid, after first Orin left and then Jim came and made her sit through that filmed apology-scene and then vanished and then came back" 225; "Imitate the wife and mother they both declined to shoot" 225; aka Madame P., 225; formerly lived w/Orin I., 227; living on Himself's "generous trust" 228; "has never seen the completed assembly of what she'd appeared in [...] and doubts that any sum of scenes as pathologic as he'd stuck that long quartzy auto-wobbling lens on the camera and filmed her for could have been as entertaining as he'd said the thing he'd always wanted to make had broken his heart by ending up" 228; "mirror of quality plate" 229; background, 234; "deveiled, too pretty for words, maybe the Prettiest Girl of All Time" 239, 290; 249; 289; "the prettiness getting visibly worse day by day" 298; admitted to Ennet House on 11/8/YDAU, 345 (& fn.134); 361; 364; vegetarian, 475; talking w/Gately, 531; the veil, 533; "I'm so beautiful I drive anybody with a nervous system out of their fucking mind" 538; aka "Joe L."543; in''I.J.'' , 549; 563; "after [J.v.D.] had been disfigured" 634; considering showing someone "the face" 710; obsessing on her teeth, 723; dream of Gately, 724; and cleaning, 736; and earplugs, 736; and Orin, 736; aka "Pokie" 737; introduced to Himself by Orin, 739; majored in "Film/Cartridge Studies" at MIT, 743; "terrible accident and deformation" 790; father "a low-pH chemist for a Kentucky reagent outfit" 792; the horrible accident described, 793; real name: Lucille Duquette, 795; bull named Mr. Man and mule named Chet, 861; being interrogated by B.S.S., 938-41; returning to Ennet House after interrogation and seeing in parked in front "the Middlesex County Sheriff's car [with] a uniform at the wheel absently feeling his face" 958; ''See also'' [[P#Madame-Psychosis|Madame Psychosis]]

'''van Dyne, Joe Lon''' 
295; Joelle's father, of Shiny Prize, KY, and of the Dyne-Riney Proton Donor Reagent Corp. Of Boaz KY; 315; still "sucking air" 563; mother died same Thanksgiving Day that Joelle had "irreparable facial trauma" 791; real name: "Earl or Al Duquette of extreme southeast KY" 795; never named dogs, 861;

'''van Slack, Duncan''' 
fn.148/1029; ETA student; "kid who carried a guitar around with himself everyplace but never played it" fn.324/1071;

'''van Vleck, Brian''' 
115; ETA student; 460;

'''VAPS''' 
265; ETA term for Vector/Angle/Pace/Spin; 568;

'''Vaught Caryn''' 
214; 17-year-old ETA student & twin of Sharyn, from Akron, OH; ONAN's top-ranked junior women's doubles team (w/Sharyn); "special one-match doubles exhibition" 217; twins "play as one" 218; 661;

'''Vaught, Sharyn''' 
214; 17-year-old ETA student & twin of Caryn, from Akron, OH; ONAN's top-ranked junior women's doubles team (w/Caryn); "special one-match doubles exhibition" 217; 661;

'''V.D.''' 
281; Victory by Default

'''Veach''' 
259; #1 American tennis "kid", in Florida

'''Veals, P. Tom''' 
415; co-owner of Viney and Veals; Gentle's campaign manager, 418; Veals Associates Advertising, 440; 11/20/YDAU meeting re ads warning against viewing dubious entertainment cartridges, 876;

'''Velvety Vocalists Guild''' 
381; "the tanned, gold-chained labor union" headed by Johnny Gentle; enforced "Live Silence" strike-thing

'''videophony''' 
64; 190; stress, 144-51;''Video-Physiognomic Dysphoria'' (VPD), 147;''Transmittable Tableau'' (TT), 149;''Optimistic Misrepresentational Masking'' (OMM), 149; Tableaux, 149, fn.234/1039;

'''Vienna, Virginia Szechuan steakhouse''' 
411; "where ... Subsidized Tim was conceived";

'''vig''' 
204; street argot for the bookmaker's commission on an illegal bet

'''Viney and Veals Advertising''' 
360; in Boston MA; orchestrated cable campaign against the Big Four; 393; 412;

'''Vinoy, Kely''' 
129; prostitute in Boston

'''Vogelsong''' 
231; of Emerson College, at Notkin's party

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'''vade mecum''' 
156; " A useful thing that one constantly carries about; A book, such as a guidebook, for ready reference." (''American Heritage Dictionary'')

'''Valayat, Pir''' 
34 ; promulgater of "North American sufism"

'''van Cleve, Ruth''' 
595; "brand-new Court-Ordered female" at Ennet House "who looks like one of those people you see in pictures of African famine"; 698; dumped her baby in an alley, 699; purse snatched by Poor Tony, 714;

'''van der Meer, Dennis''' 
82; "a Dutch immigrant low-level pro who became a major pro coach and tennis-education-theory guru" (fn.184); 457;

'''van der Rohe''' 
191; architect

'''Vandervoort''' 
fn.209/1035; senior male ETA student

<div id="JVD">'''van Dyne, Joelle'''</div>
219; "retreat into broadcast sound" 220; wears a linen veil, 220; contemplating "the absolute end of her life and beauty" 221; "excruciatingly alive and encaged" 222; "veilless [...] like some grotesque clown" 223; involved w/Jim Incandenza, Jr., 224; "after the acid, after first Orin left and then Jim came and made her sit through that filmed apology-scene and then vanished and then came back" 225; "Imitate the wife and mother they both declined to shoot" 225; aka Madame P., 225; formerly lived w/Orin I., 227; living on Himself's "generous trust" 228; "has never seen the completed assembly of what she'd appeared in [...] and doubts that any sum of scenes as pathologic as he'd stuck that long quartzy auto-wobbling lens on the camera and filmed her for could have been as entertaining as he'd said the thing he'd always wanted to make had broken his heart by ending up" 228; "mirror of quality plate" 229; background, 234; "deveiled, too pretty for words, maybe the Prettiest Girl of All Time" 239, 290; 249; 289; "the prettiness getting visibly worse day by day" 298; admitted to Ennet House on 11/8/YDAU, 345 (& fn.134); 361; 364; vegetarian, 475; talking w/Gately, 531; the veil, 533; "I'm so beautiful I drive anybody with a nervous system out of their fucking mind" 538; aka "Joe L."543; in''I.J.'' , 549; 563; "after [J.v.D.] had been disfigured" 634; considering showing someone "the face" 710; obsessing on her teeth, 723; dream of Gately, 724; and cleaning, 736; and earplugs, 736; and Orin, 736; aka "Pokie" 737; introduced to Himself by Orin, 739; majored in "Film/Cartridge Studies" at MIT, 743; "terrible accident and deformation" 790; father "a low-pH chemist for a Kentucky reagent outfit" 792; the horrible accident described, 793; real name: Lucille Duquette, 795; bull named Mr. Man and mule named Chet, 861; being interrogated by B.S.S., 938-41; returning to Ennet House after interrogation and seeing in parked in front "the Middlesex County Sheriff's car [with] a uniform at the wheel absently feeling his face" 958; ''See also'' [[M#Madame-Psychosis|Madame Psychosis]]

'''van Dyne, Joe Lon''' 
295; Joelle's father, of Shiny Prize, KY, and of the Dyne-Riney Proton Donor Reagent Corp. Of Boaz KY; 315; still "sucking air" 563; mother died same Thanksgiving Day that Joelle had "irreparable facial trauma" 791; real name: "Earl or Al Duquette of extreme southeast KY" 795; never named dogs, 861;

'''van Slack, Duncan''' 
fn.148/1029; ETA student; "kid who carried a guitar around with himself everyplace but never played it" fn.324/1071;

'''van Vleck, Brian''' 
115; ETA student; 460;

'''VAPS''' 
265; ETA term for Vector/Angle/Pace/Spin; 568;

'''Vaught Caryn''' 
214; 17-year-old ETA student & twin of Sharyn, from Akron, OH; ONAN's top-ranked junior women's doubles team (w/Sharyn); "special one-match doubles exhibition" 217; twins "play as one" 218; 661;

'''Vaught, Sharyn''' 
214; 17-year-old ETA student & twin of Caryn, from Akron, OH; ONAN's top-ranked junior women's doubles team (w/Caryn); "special one-match doubles exhibition" 217; 661;

'''V.D.''' 
281; Victory by Default

'''Veach''' 
259; #1 American tennis "kid", in Florida

'''Veals, P. Tom''' 
415; co-owner of Viney and Veals; Gentle's campaign manager, 418; Veals Associates Advertising, 440; 11/20/YDAU meeting re ads warning against viewing dubious entertainment cartridges, 876;

'''Velvety Vocalists Guild''' 
381; "the tanned, gold-chained labor union" headed by Johnny Gentle; enforced "Live Silence" strike-thing

'''videophony''' 
64; 190; stress, 144-51;''Video-Physiognomic Dysphoria'' (VPD), 147;''Transmittable Tableau'' (TT), 149;''Optimistic Misrepresentational Masking'' (OMM), 149; Tableaux, 149, fn.234/1039;

'''Vienna, Virginia Szechuan steakhouse''' 
411; "where ... Subsidized Tim was conceived";

'''vig''' 
204; street argot for the bookmaker's commission on an illegal bet

'''Viney and Veals Advertising''' 
360; in Boston MA; orchestrated cable campaign against the Big Four; 393; 412;

'''Vinoy, Kely''' 
129; prostitute in Boston

'''Vogelsong''' 
231; of Emerson College, at Notkin's party

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''See'' [[#Perec|Perec, Luria]]

'''Papineau''' 
88; desolate region in extreme southwest Québec; fn.304/1058;

'''parabola''' 
"weird Taoist paraboloid logo" 265;

'''paranoia''' 
Fenton the paranoid-schizophrenic, 47; "Pemulis's poster of the paranoid king" 60; "dealers that stay around any length of time tend to be on the paranoid side" 75; "Nothing brings you together like a common enemy" 113; "It'll help your attitude to look for evidence of design" 113; "Accident? Random happenstance?" 114; Pemulis "fears the dealer's Brutus" 156; "They" 175; "the people to be most frightened of are the people who are most frightened" 204; paranoid king, 213; "Yes, I'm paranoid--but am I paranoid enough?" fn.211/1035;

'''Parias-Carbo, Alphonso''' 
363; Ennet House resident; 611; "the totally ununderstandable Cuban" 887;

'''Parrot, Annie''' 
279; Asst. Mgr. at Ennet House; Ass't Director at Ennet House, 434; to "go get certified in jet-engine maintenance at East Coast Aerotech on a Mass Rehab grant" 822;

'''Patch the Pony Who Says Nay to Strangers''' 
879; toy manufactured by ChildSearch.

'''Patty citizen type''' 
128; straight person (?)

'''p-dope''' 
131;

'''Pearson, Heath''' 
672; former ETA student; in Himself's films, 687; founder of the sub-14's Tunnel Club, 899; "former tow-truck shareholder" fn.209/1035;

'''Pei, I.M. (Ieoh Ming)''' 
184; Chinese-born American architect, b. 1917. Architect of the MIT Stratton Student Center, building W20, 84 Mass. Ave., which dates from the late 60's. The original student center, still standing near Ames St. and Memorial Drive, 142 Memorial Dr., is the Walker Memorial, building 50. This is the one with the columns.

'''Peckinpah, Sam''' 
185; American filmmaker parodied in Himself's''Fun with Teeth'', fn.24/987

'''Pemberton, Hugh''' 
fn.110; ETA student; 1009;

'''Pemulis, "Da"''' 
683; abusive father of Matty and Michael, who came over "on a boat from Louth in Lenster in 1989;

'''Pemulis, Matty (aka "Mad Matty")''' 
682; 23-year-old prostitute brother of Michael; described, 683; former crewmate of Poor Tony Krause, 691;

'''Pemulis, Michael Mathew''' 
40; student at ETA and Big Buddy; rooms w/Troeltsch & Schacht in subdorm B in the back north part of the second floor of West House (171); "reptilian" (according to Avril); 50; "One kid asks you to please commit a crime" 75; "has this way of looking warily from side to side" 95, 211; Big Buddy to Lord & Possalthwaite, 116; clean-urine sales (w/Axford), 151; about, 154; "Please commit a crime" 156; DMZ arrangements with "day-shift Ennet House kid at the booth who raises the portcullis" at ETA, 171; Tenuate (methedrine) spansules, 216, 329, fn.321/1065, fn.324/1068; considering dosing Wayne, 213; puking at Port Washington, 262; "physically 'drine dependent" 267; dosed tennis opponent at P.W., 281; PowerBook, 431; waiting to see Tavis, 509, 526; interrupting Avril & J. Wayne, 552; holding forth on annulation, 570-74; "He goes to the library and pores" 785; trying to cut down on places with 'N' in their name, 908; crawling into the ceiling at ETA, "Entrepôt-bound" 916; to Hal: "cut yourself off of it altogether, you die inside. You lose your mind" fn.321/1065; takes two Tenuate spansules before a tennis game, fn.324/1067; got out of urine-test by threatening to bust Avril and J. Wayne for "major-sport interlude" fn.324/1068; "how 17 can actually go into 56 way more than 3.294 times" fn.324/1069;

'''Pendleton''' 
921; doctor at St. Elizabeth's tending to Gately

'''Penn, Jeffrey Joseph ("J. J.")''' 
327; ETA student, "a high-ranked thirteen-year-old but not exactly the brightest log on the Yuletide fire"; roommate w/Ingersoll, 338; perhaps seriously injured, 452 (see p.341);

'''Penn, Michael H.''' 
333; 21-year-old brother of J.J. and "sworn foe" of Pemulis for calling him "Penisless";

'''Penn, Miles''' 
687; ETA student in Himself's films

'''Penn, W. (William)''' 
216; English Quaker colonizer in America, founded Pennsylvania in 1681.

'''''perdre son coeur''''' 
fn.304/1060; French: "lose his heart"

<div id="Perec">'''Perec, Mlle. Luria'''</div>
30; "of Lamartine, county of L'Islet, Québec; stenographer to Tine, Sr., and to DuPlessis, 92; with whom R. Tine is "smitten" 92, fn.156 (1030); 440; aka "Swiss" woman, 566, 598, 655, 726, 845, 971-2;

'''Perot, Ross''' 
382; elfin Texas businessman; presidential candidate in 1992 & 1996

'''personal-injury attorney''' 
''See'' [[E#Ewell|Ewell, Eldred K., Jr.]]

'''''Personnes Qui On Doit''''' 
92

'''Peterson, Sidney''' 
234;''The Lead Shoes''; 185; "Peterson-shaped directorial chair" 788;''The Cage'' in background of''Good-Looking Men...'', 911; 957; "1947 classic''The Cage'' " fn.24/986; "low-budget classic''The Cage'' , which is mostly about a peripatetic eyeball rolling around" fn.366/1077;

'''Peterson, "Sleepy T.P."''' 
115; ETA student; 330;

'''Pettijohn''' 
254; ETA teacher

'''P.G.O.A.T.''' 
Prettiest Girl Of All Time

'''Phelps and Phelps''' 
fn.304/1058; authors of''The Cults of the Unwavering I''

'''Phiely, R. Bill ("Touchy")''' 
510; "of California's Rolling Hills Academy"; infamous pediphile

'''Philips Andover Academy''' 
915; Gately made false MA driver's licenses for the rich kids there

'''Phob-Comp-Anon''' 
961; 12-Step splinter Ass't D.A. attends - codependency-issues

'''Phoenix House''' 
503; halfway house in Somerville MA; visited by Fortier, 727;

'''Picasso''', Pablo (1881-1973) 
798; "Seated Harlequin" print hanging in Quabbin Recovery Systems; Spanish artist.

'''Pillow-biter''' 
274; homosexual

'''Pine Street Inn''' 
434; "the biggest and foulest homeless shelter in all of Boston" where Gately works as a janitor

'''Pinker, Steven''' 
fn.24/987; debate w/Avril I. which was subject of Himself's''Union of Theoretical Grammarians in Cambridge''

'''pisser''' 
204; metro Boston for "really quite wonderful" pronounced PISS-ah

'''Plasmatron-7''' 
358; aka Bernard; "industrial-grunge post-punk" at Ennet House

'''Plate, Sylvia''' 
593; Gately's foggy memory of Sylvia Plath, an American writer (1932-1963) who committed suicide by sticking in her in an oven

'''Pointgravè''' 
975; colleague of Bobby C.'s; "had no real loyalties or membership in any community" fn.369/1078

'''Polep''' 
17; tennis player in Hal's age group

'''Poor Tony''' 
''See'' [[K#Krause|Krause, Tony]]

'''Port Washington Tennis Academy''' 
103; I.D. Day; where ETA-PW tennis tournament is held on Long Island; "the Xerox Inc. Of North American tennis academies" 217; "a fancy tri-domed system of permanent all-weather Lung" 258;

'''Posener''' 
fn.145/1027; Brandeis film critic

'''Possalthwaite''', Todd ("Postal-Weight") 
98; "the great lobber" at ETA; "endomorphic thirteen-year-old from Edina MN" 330; broken nose, 758; Minneapolis-developer father, fn.324/1068;

'''Post-Coital Vestibulitis''' 
928; rare neurological disorder that Yale's star power forward has

'''Poutrincourt, Mlle. Thierry T.''' 
309; ETA prorector who taught a class called "Separatism and Return: Québecois History from Frontenac Through the Age of Interdependence" in Québecois French; 523; described, 673, 675; suspects Helen Steeply is neither a "civilian soft-profiler nor even a female" 1052; "History of Canadian Unpleasantness" course, fn.304/1055;

'''Powell's'''''Peeping Tom'''''''' 
502; still-posters from in J.O. Incandenza's childhood bedroom in Sepulveda CA (1963)

'''Power-PC''' 
417; perhaps the BST Apple Mac computer with RISC processor

'''Presque Isle Maine''' 
571; near Loring A.F.B.

'''Pressburger''' or'''Prissburger, Dr.''' 
920; w/Gately and gorgeous R.N.

'''Pricket[t], Mrs. Miriam''' 
188; endowed-for-perpetuity at ETA; 229

'''Prince Q -------''' 
33

'''Prins, Diane''' 
fn. 92; Bernadette Longley's doubles partner; 311; 757;

'''prorector''' 
ETA post-graduates "who stay on for two years and serve as deLint's" assistants, 283; "teach one marginal class per term and serve as on-court assistants" fn.94;

'''Provident Nursing Home''' 
198; near Boston, MA; Hester Thrale works there, 601;

<div id="Madame-Psychosis">'''Psychosis, Madame'''</div>
170; (10/22/YDAU) hosting "Madame Psychosis Hour," M-F 0000h.-0100h., on M.I.T.'s semi-underground WYYY, FM-109, "Largest Whole Prime On The FM Band"; 181; main theme is film and film-cartridges, 185; "issue of enclosure" 189; "strangely empty" voice, 189; music, 190, 191; "Madame's Downer-Lit Hour," 191; 450; 589; inaugural year: YW, 591; 625; "used to read an Eve Arden beauty brochure all the time where [she] says: 'The importance of a mask is to increase your circulation'" 774; mother killed in a garbage disposal, 788; in Gately's dream "with wings and no underwear and asks if they knew him, the dead guy with the head" 934; in Himself's ''Low-Temperature Physics'', fn.24/991; ''See also [[V#JVD|van Dyne, Joelle]]''

'''Public Garden''' 
427; Marathe's favorite off-duty place, in Boston MA; draining the pond in November, 621;

'''Puente, Tito''' 
22; Latin singer and bandleader (b. Ernesto Antonio Puente, Jr., Apr 20, 1923, NYC.)

'''Purity Supreme Market''' 
461; in Allston MA, where Gately shops for Ennet House

'''Purpleboy''' 
129; junkie in Boston

'''''pursuiva le bonheur''''' 
427; French: "pursuit of happiness"; "il ne faut plus qu'on pursuive le bonheur" 483;

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=☽ Notes and Errata=
==Endnote 3==

'''cardioid''' 
In geometry, a cardioid is a plane curve produced by tracing the path of a chosen point of a circle which rolls around a fixed circle. The cardioid shape of E.T.A. has one cusp, i.e., a point on the curve that is not smooth. The ''r'' referred to by the narrator here is the radius of the moving circle.

'''Übermensch''' 
German for "superhuman"

'''Brandeis''' 
Brandeis is a Jewish-founded university in Waltham, Mass., about nine miles west of Boston, named for Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941) the first Jewish Supreme Court justice.

==Endnote 5==

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

==Endnote 5a==

'''nystagmus''' 
involuntary eye movement

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

'''loquacity''' 
talkativeness

==Endnote 6==

'''Halcion (still available in Canada, unbelievably, still)''' 
It's also still available here, though the U.K. has banned it since 1991.

==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

==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

==Endnote 19==

French: A person of terrible importance

==Endnote 21==

'''Q.v.''' 
Latin abbreviation for ''quod vide'' ("which see"), used to direct a reader elsewhere in a book. Here we are directed to...

==Endnote 23==
'''U.S.D.D.''' 
United States Department of Defense

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===Page 986===
'''meniscus''' 
a lens with a crescent-shaped section

'''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. 

==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

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

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

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

'''paucity''' 
scarcity

'''swotted''' 
studied intensively

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

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

'''penultimate''' 
second to last

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

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

===Endnote 110d===

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

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

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

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

'''and c.''' 
et cetera

===Page 1007===

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1008===

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

'''seraphic''' 
like an angel

'''lascivious''' 
appealing to sexual tastes

'''mesmerized''' 
hypnotized

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

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

===Page 1009===

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

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

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

===Page 1010===

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

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

'''Snuff''' 
chewing tobacco

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

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

===Page 1011===

[[Image:Eddy.jpg|right]]

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

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

'''Droll''' 
whimsically comic

===Page 1012===

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

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

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

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

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

'''acuity''' 
acuteness of perception

'''in utero''' 
in the womb

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1013===

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

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

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

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

'''Francophonic''' 
French-speaking

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

'''Toujours''' 
French: always

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

'''Ottawa''' 
the capital of Canada

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

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

'''flux''' 
frequent change

'''appalled''' 
dismayed

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

===Page 1014===

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

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

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

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

===Endnote 110h===

'''Gallic''' 
French

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

'''Anglophone''' 
English-speaking

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

===Endnote 110i===

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Rubensian''' 
The word more often used is "Rubenesque," but this refers to the women in paintings by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the Flemish artist. His women tended to be plump.

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

'''rapacious''' 
ravenous

===Page 1015===

'''lissome''' 
supple

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''anaerobic''' 
thriving without oxygen

===Page 1016===

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

'''Brazilian ''Nuevo Contras''''' 
These would be "new" ''contras'', the old ones having been U.S.-funded anti-communist guerrillas in Nicaragua in the 1980s.

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1017===

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

'''attendant''' 
consequent or concomitant

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

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

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

'''Infant-depredations''' 
preying on babies

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

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

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

===Page 1018===

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

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1019===

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

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

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

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

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

'''D-bases''' 
databases

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

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

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

===Page 1020===

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

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1021===

'''hapless''' 
here meaning haphazard

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

'''jaunty''' 
smartly trim

'''toggle''' 
a type of switch

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

===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 1035===

==Endnote 211==

'''suborn''' 
to bribe or induce someone to commit a crime or misdeed
==Endnote 234 · Excerpts From Orin's Interview With ''Moment''==

===Page 1038===

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

'''NPR''' 
National Public Radio

===Page 1039===

'''dun''' 
make repeated demands on

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

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

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

===Page 1040===

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

'''schizogenic''' 
produced or formed by fission

'''pathogenic''' 
capable of producing disease

===Page 1041===

'''antidote''' 
Orin means "anecdote."

'''Quelquechose''' 
French: something

===Page 1042===

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

===Page 1043===

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

'''BPL''' 
Boston Public Library

===Page 1044===

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

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

'''guile''' 
insidious cunning

'''larval''' 
immature in its kind

'''codpieces''' 
a pouch at the crotch of tight-fitting breeches, popular during the Renaissance

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

'''prenominate''' 
aforementioned

'''apposite''' 
relevant

===Page 1048===

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

'''purposive''' 
serving some purpose

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

'''anaclitic''' 
denoting psychologic dependence

===Page 1049===

'''prevarication''' 
lying

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

mendacious 
untruthful

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

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

===Page 1050===

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

'''Steeley''' 
ditto

'''ACOAs''' 
Adult Children of Alcoholics

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

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

'''ACOGs''' 
ACOG is most commonly the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, but in this context it probably stands for Adult Children of Gamblers.

'''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

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

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

'''perspicuous''' 
clearly expressed

===Page 1052===

'''multivalent''' 
having various meanings

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

==Endnote 304 · The Train Game==

===Page 1055===

'''McGee-like chaos''' 
(don't know)

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

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

===Page 1056===

'''QUOI?''' 
WHAT?

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

'''G. T. Day, M.S.''' 
Geoffrey Day, of Ennet House?

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

'''''dasein''''' 
Being, existence.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasein]

===Page 1058===

'''geatalt''' 
Misprint of gestalt.

'''municipal fluoridation''' 
i.e. tap water fluoridation

===Page 1060===

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

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

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

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

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

'''inexorably''' 
relentlessly

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

===Page 1064===
'''Digestive-Flora''' 
bacteria that live in the intestine and aid in digestion

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

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

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

'''impotence''' 
Probably means impetus

'''Blue Flames''' 
apparently some sort of drug
===Page 1065===
'''O2''' 
oxygen

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

==Endnote 324 · John Wayne loses it==

===Page 1066===

'''moon''' 
to spend time idly

'''camphonated''' 
more like "camphorated," i.e., contained camphor

===Endnote 324a===

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

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

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

'''whorl''' 
a circular arrangement

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

===Page 1067===

'''gonions''' 
the outer points on either side of the lower jaw at which the jawbone angles upward

'''uncolloped''' 
having no fat

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

'''profligate''' 
wasteful

'''Nordicular''' 
i.e., Nordic, which is to say blond-haired and blue-eyed

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

'''callow''' 
immature; inexperienced

'''entrepôt''' 
a place for storing and dispensing goods

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

===Page 1068===

'''welching''' 
swindling by not paying a debt or wager

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

'''cavalier''' 
disdainful; unceremonious

'''burr''' 
here used to mean "irritant"

===Page 1069===

'''canvas restraint-wrap''' 
straitjacket

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

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

'''rheumy''' 
full of thin mucous

===Page 1070===

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

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

'''b/w''' 
Black and white

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

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

'''cretinous''' 
stupid

===Page 1071===

===Endnote 324f===

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

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

'''redoubted''' 
formidable

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

'''Nucleic acids''' 
DNA and RNA

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

'''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], by Rudyard Kipling: "If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you"

'''Csíkszentmihályi''' 
The name may be taken from Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (born 1934), a prominent Hungarian-American psychologist. His son Christopher is on the faculty at MIT.

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

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

===Page 1072===

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

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

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

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

'''"...Wiener, Reimann, Frege, Green..."''' 
Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) was an American mathematician. Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) was a German mathematician. Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a German mathematician and logician. Green is probably George Green (1793-1841), English mathematician and physicist.

==Endnote 332 · DeLint slays the Peemster==

===Page 1073===

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

===Page 1074===

'''nictitater''' 
the word meant here is probably "nictitate," which means to wink - so, in other words, a "wink" of stupidity-film on Watson's eyes, or just a hint

'''castigations''' 
criticisms; reprimands

===Page 1075===

'''loupes''' 
eyepiece magnifying glasses used by jewellers

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

===Page 1076===

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

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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-adonized''' 
Made more beautiful with 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 taurus (donut).

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

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

'''optative''' 
Expressing a wish or choice.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''mordantly''' 
in a caustic manner.

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

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

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

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

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

'''hyperfloration''' 
Overgrowth of flowers or plants.

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

'''anticonfluential''' 
against things coming together

'''chiaroscuro''' 
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting.

'''annulation''' 
The formation of rings.

'''hypertrophied''' 
Grown exceeding large.

=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.

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==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.

==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.

'''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=
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==Endnote 26==

'''enkephalin''' 
A type of painkiller

==Page 67 (cont'd)==

'''psychodysleptic''' 
A drug that negative effects the take psychologically.

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

'''oblique''' 
Neither perpendicular nor parallel.

'''deliquesce''' 
To become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.

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==Page 68==

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

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

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

'''emery board''' 
A disposable nail file.

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

'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital''' 
A real hospital.

'''Parnate''' 
A brand name of tranylcypromine, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (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, often used from engine exhaust for suicide.

'''hemotoxicity''' 
Poisonous blood level.

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

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

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

'''trepidation''' 
Hesitancy caused by fear.

'''facial affect''' 
Emotions expressed on the face.

'''Lithonate''' 
A brand name of lithium.

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

'''plangent''' 
Loud and resounding.

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'''carpopedal''' 
Involving both the hands and feet.

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

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'''circumorals''' 
Muscles around the mouth.

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

'''dentate''' 
Having teeth.

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

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

'''duBois''' 
Fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette.

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

==Endnote 30==

'''boric acid''' 
Also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects.

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==Page 77==

'''the T''' 
Local public transit in the Boston metro area.

==Page 78==

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

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'''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''' 
A [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ real 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; 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'').

==Page 82==

'''simpatico''' 
In agreement.

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

==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)==

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

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

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

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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].

==Page 86==

'''12°C''' 
~54°F

==Page 87==

'''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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==Endnote 3==

'''cardioid''' 
In geometry, a cardioid is a plane curve produced by tracing the path of a chosen point of a circle which rolls around a fixed circle. The cardioid shape of E.T.A. has one cusp, i.e., a point on the curve that is not smooth. The ''r'' referred to by the narrator here is the radius of the moving circle.

'''Übermensch''' 
German for "superhuman"

'''Brandeis''' 
Brandeis is a Jewish-founded university in Waltham, Mass., about nine miles west of Boston, named for Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941) the first Jewish Supreme Court justice.

==Endnote 5==

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

==Endnote 5a==

'''nystagmus''' 
involuntary eye movement

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

'''loquacity''' 
talkativeness

==Endnote 6==

'''Halcion (still available in Canada, unbelievably, still)''' 
It's also still available here, though the U.K. has banned it since 1991.

==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

==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

==Endnote 19==

French: A person of terrible importance

==Endnote 21==

'''Q.v.''' 
Latin abbreviation for ''quod vide'' ("which see"), used to direct a reader elsewhere in a book. Here we are directed to...

==Endnote 23==
'''U.S.D.D.''' 
United States Department of Defense

==Endnote 24 · JAMES O. INCANDENZA: A FILMOGRAPHY==
'''meniscus''' 
a lens with a crescent-shaped section

'''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. 

==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

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

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

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

'''paucity''' 
scarcity

'''swotted''' 
studied intensively

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

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

'''penultimate''' 
second to last

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

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

===Endnote 110d===

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

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

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

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

'''and c.''' 
et cetera

===Page 1007===

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1008===

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

'''seraphic''' 
like an angel

'''lascivious''' 
appealing to sexual tastes

'''mesmerized''' 
hypnotized

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

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

===Page 1009===

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

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

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

===Page 1010===

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

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

'''Snuff''' 
chewing tobacco

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

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

===Page 1011===

[[Image:Eddy.jpg|right]]

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

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

'''Droll''' 
whimsically comic

===Page 1012===

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

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

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

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

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

'''acuity''' 
acuteness of perception

'''in utero''' 
in the womb

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1013===

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

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

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

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

'''Francophonic''' 
French-speaking

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

'''Toujours''' 
French: always

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

'''Ottawa''' 
the capital of Canada

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

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

'''flux''' 
frequent change

'''appalled''' 
dismayed

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

===Page 1014===

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

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

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

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

===Endnote 110h===

'''Gallic''' 
French

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

'''Anglophone''' 
English-speaking

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

===Endnote 110i===

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Rubensian''' 
The word more often used is "Rubenesque," but this refers to the women in paintings by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the Flemish artist. His women tended to be plump.

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

'''rapacious''' 
ravenous

===Page 1015===

'''lissome''' 
supple

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''anaerobic''' 
thriving without oxygen

===Page 1016===

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

'''Brazilian ''Nuevo Contras''''' 
These would be "new" ''contras'', the old ones having been U.S.-funded anti-communist guerrillas in Nicaragua in the 1980s.

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1017===

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

'''attendant''' 
consequent or concomitant

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

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

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

'''Infant-depredations''' 
preying on babies

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

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

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

===Page 1018===

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

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1019===

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

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

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

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

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

'''D-bases''' 
databases

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

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

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

===Page 1020===

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

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1021===

'''hapless''' 
here meaning haphazard

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

'''jaunty''' 
smartly trim

'''toggle''' 
a type of switch

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

===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 1035===

==Endnote 211==

'''suborn''' 
to bribe or induce someone to commit a crime or misdeed
==Endnote 234 · Excerpts From Orin's Interview With ''Moment''==

===Page 1038===

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

'''NPR''' 
National Public Radio

===Page 1039===

'''dun''' 
make repeated demands on

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

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

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

===Page 1040===

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

'''schizogenic''' 
produced or formed by fission

'''pathogenic''' 
capable of producing disease

===Page 1041===

'''antidote''' 
Orin means "anecdote."

'''Quelquechose''' 
French: something

===Page 1042===

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

===Page 1043===

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

'''BPL''' 
Boston Public Library

===Page 1044===

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

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

'''guile''' 
insidious cunning

'''larval''' 
immature in its kind

'''codpieces''' 
a pouch at the crotch of tight-fitting breeches, popular during the Renaissance

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

'''prenominate''' 
aforementioned

'''apposite''' 
relevant

===Page 1048===

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

'''purposive''' 
serving some purpose

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

'''anaclitic''' 
denoting psychologic dependence

===Page 1049===

'''prevarication''' 
lying

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

mendacious 
untruthful

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

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

===Page 1050===

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

'''Steeley''' 
ditto

'''ACOAs''' 
Adult Children of Alcoholics

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

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

'''ACOGs''' 
ACOG is most commonly the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, but in this context it probably stands for Adult Children of Gamblers.

'''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

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

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

'''perspicuous''' 
clearly expressed

===Page 1052===

'''multivalent''' 
having various meanings

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

==Endnote 304 · The Train Game==

===Page 1055===

'''McGee-like chaos''' 
(don't know)

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

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

===Page 1056===

'''QUOI?''' 
WHAT?

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

'''G. T. Day, M.S.''' 
Geoffrey Day, of Ennet House?

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

'''''dasein''''' 
Being, existence.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasein]

===Page 1058===

'''geatalt''' 
Misprint of gestalt.

'''municipal fluoridation''' 
i.e. tap water fluoridation

===Page 1060===

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

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

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

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

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

'''inexorably''' 
relentlessly

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

===Page 1064===
'''Digestive-Flora''' 
bacteria that live in the intestine and aid in digestion

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

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

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

'''impotence''' 
Probably means impetus

'''Blue Flames''' 
apparently some sort of drug
===Page 1065===
'''O2''' 
oxygen

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

==Endnote 324 · John Wayne loses it==

===Page 1066===

'''moon''' 
to spend time idly

'''camphonated''' 
more like "camphorated," i.e., contained camphor

===Endnote 324a===

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

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

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

'''whorl''' 
a circular arrangement

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

===Page 1067===

'''gonions''' 
the outer points on either side of the lower jaw at which the jawbone angles upward

'''uncolloped''' 
having no fat

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

'''profligate''' 
wasteful

'''Nordicular''' 
i.e., Nordic, which is to say blond-haired and blue-eyed

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

'''callow''' 
immature; inexperienced

'''entrepôt''' 
a place for storing and dispensing goods

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

===Page 1068===

'''welching''' 
swindling by not paying a debt or wager

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

'''cavalier''' 
disdainful; unceremonious

'''burr''' 
here used to mean "irritant"

===Page 1069===

'''canvas restraint-wrap''' 
straitjacket

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

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

'''rheumy''' 
full of thin mucous

===Page 1070===

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

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

'''b/w''' 
Black and white

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

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

'''cretinous''' 
stupid

===Page 1071===

===Endnote 324f===

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

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

'''redoubted''' 
formidable

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

'''Nucleic acids''' 
DNA and RNA

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

'''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], by Rudyard Kipling: "If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you"

'''Csíkszentmihályi''' 
The name may be taken from Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (born 1934), a prominent Hungarian-American psychologist. His son Christopher is on the faculty at MIT.

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

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

===Page 1072===

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

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

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

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

'''"...Wiener, Reimann, Frege, Green..."''' 
Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) was an American mathematician. Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) was a German mathematician. Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a German mathematician and logician. Green is probably George Green (1793-1841), English mathematician and physicist.

==Endnote 332 · DeLint slays the Peemster==

===Page 1073===

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

===Page 1074===

'''nictitater''' 
the word meant here is probably "nictitate," which means to wink - so, in other words, a "wink" of stupidity-film on Watson's eyes, or just a hint

'''castigations''' 
criticisms; reprimands

===Page 1075===

'''loupes''' 
eyepiece magnifying glasses used by jewellers

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

===Page 1076===

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

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==Endnote 3==

'''cardioid''' 
In geometry, a cardioid is a plane curve produced by tracing the path of a chosen point of a circle which rolls around a fixed circle. The cardioid shape of E.T.A. has one cusp, i.e., a point on the curve that is not smooth. The ''r'' referred to by the narrator here is the radius of the moving circle.

'''Übermensch''' 
German for "superhuman"

'''Brandeis''' 
Brandeis is a Jewish-founded university in Waltham, Mass., about nine miles west of Boston, named for Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941) the first Jewish Supreme Court justice.

==Endnote 5==

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

==Endnote 5a==

'''nystagmus''' 
involuntary eye movement

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

'''loquacity''' 
talkativeness

==Endnote 6==

'''Halcion (still available in Canada, unbelievably, still)''' 
It's also still available here, though the U.K. has banned it since 1991.

==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

==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

==Endnote 19==

French: A person of terrible importance

==Endnote 21==

'''Q.v.''' 
Latin abbreviation for ''quod vide'' ("which see"), used to direct a reader elsewhere in a book. Here we are directed to...

==Endnote 23==
'''U.S.D.D.''' 
United States Department of Defense

==Endnote 24==
'''meniscus''' 
a lens with a crescent-shaped section

'''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. 

==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

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

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

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

'''paucity''' 
scarcity

'''swotted''' 
studied intensively

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

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

'''penultimate''' 
second to last

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

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

===Endnote 110d===

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

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

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

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

'''and c.''' 
et cetera

===Page 1007===

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1008===

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

'''seraphic''' 
like an angel

'''lascivious''' 
appealing to sexual tastes

'''mesmerized''' 
hypnotized

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

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

===Page 1009===

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

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

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

===Page 1010===

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

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

'''Snuff''' 
chewing tobacco

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

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

===Page 1011===

[[Image:Eddy.jpg|right]]

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

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

'''Droll''' 
whimsically comic

===Page 1012===

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

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

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

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

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

'''acuity''' 
acuteness of perception

'''in utero''' 
in the womb

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1013===

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

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

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

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

'''Francophonic''' 
French-speaking

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

'''Toujours''' 
French: always

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

'''Ottawa''' 
the capital of Canada

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

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

'''flux''' 
frequent change

'''appalled''' 
dismayed

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

===Page 1014===

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

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

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

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

===Endnote 110h===

'''Gallic''' 
French

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

'''Anglophone''' 
English-speaking

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

===Endnote 110i===

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Rubensian''' 
The word more often used is "Rubenesque," but this refers to the women in paintings by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the Flemish artist. His women tended to be plump.

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

'''rapacious''' 
ravenous

===Page 1015===

'''lissome''' 
supple

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''anaerobic''' 
thriving without oxygen

===Page 1016===

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

'''Brazilian ''Nuevo Contras''''' 
These would be "new" ''contras'', the old ones having been U.S.-funded anti-communist guerrillas in Nicaragua in the 1980s.

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1017===

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

'''attendant''' 
consequent or concomitant

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

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

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

'''Infant-depredations''' 
preying on babies

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

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

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

===Page 1018===

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

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1019===

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

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

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

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

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

'''D-bases''' 
databases

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

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

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

===Page 1020===

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

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1021===

'''hapless''' 
here meaning haphazard

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

'''jaunty''' 
smartly trim

'''toggle''' 
a type of switch

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

===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 1035===

==Endnote 211==

'''suborn''' 
to bribe or induce someone to commit a crime or misdeed
==Endnote 234 · Excerpts From Orin's Interview With ''Moment''==

===Page 1038===

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

'''NPR''' 
National Public Radio

===Page 1039===

'''dun''' 
make repeated demands on

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

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

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

===Page 1040===

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

'''schizogenic''' 
produced or formed by fission

'''pathogenic''' 
capable of producing disease

===Page 1041===

'''antidote''' 
Orin means "anecdote."

'''Quelquechose''' 
French: something

===Page 1042===

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

===Page 1043===

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

'''BPL''' 
Boston Public Library

===Page 1044===

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

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

'''guile''' 
insidious cunning

'''larval''' 
immature in its kind

'''codpieces''' 
a pouch at the crotch of tight-fitting breeches, popular during the Renaissance

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

'''prenominate''' 
aforementioned

'''apposite''' 
relevant

===Page 1048===

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

'''purposive''' 
serving some purpose

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

'''anaclitic''' 
denoting psychologic dependence

===Page 1049===

'''prevarication''' 
lying

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

mendacious 
untruthful

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

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

===Page 1050===

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

'''Steeley''' 
ditto

'''ACOAs''' 
Adult Children of Alcoholics

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

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

'''ACOGs''' 
ACOG is most commonly the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, but in this context it probably stands for Adult Children of Gamblers.

'''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

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

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

'''perspicuous''' 
clearly expressed

===Page 1052===

'''multivalent''' 
having various meanings

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

==Endnote 304 · The Train Game==

===Page 1055===

'''McGee-like chaos''' 
(don't know)

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

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

===Page 1056===

'''QUOI?''' 
WHAT?

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

'''G. T. Day, M.S.''' 
Geoffrey Day, of Ennet House?

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

'''''dasein''''' 
Being, existence.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasein]

===Page 1058===

'''geatalt''' 
Misprint of gestalt.

'''municipal fluoridation''' 
i.e. tap water fluoridation

===Page 1060===

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

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

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

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

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

'''inexorably''' 
relentlessly

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

===Page 1064===
'''Digestive-Flora''' 
bacteria that live in the intestine and aid in digestion

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

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

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

'''impotence''' 
Probably means impetus

'''Blue Flames''' 
apparently some sort of drug
===Page 1065===
'''O2''' 
oxygen

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

==Endnote 324 · John Wayne loses it==

===Page 1066===

'''moon''' 
to spend time idly

'''camphonated''' 
more like "camphorated," i.e., contained camphor

===Endnote 324a===

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

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

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

'''whorl''' 
a circular arrangement

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

===Page 1067===

'''gonions''' 
the outer points on either side of the lower jaw at which the jawbone angles upward

'''uncolloped''' 
having no fat

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

'''profligate''' 
wasteful

'''Nordicular''' 
i.e., Nordic, which is to say blond-haired and blue-eyed

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

'''callow''' 
immature; inexperienced

'''entrepôt''' 
a place for storing and dispensing goods

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

===Page 1068===

'''welching''' 
swindling by not paying a debt or wager

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

'''cavalier''' 
disdainful; unceremonious

'''burr''' 
here used to mean "irritant"

===Page 1069===

'''canvas restraint-wrap''' 
straitjacket

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

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

'''rheumy''' 
full of thin mucous

===Page 1070===

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

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

'''b/w''' 
Black and white

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

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

'''cretinous''' 
stupid

===Page 1071===

===Endnote 324f===

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

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

'''redoubted''' 
formidable

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

'''Nucleic acids''' 
DNA and RNA

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

'''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], by Rudyard Kipling: "If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you"

'''Csíkszentmihályi''' 
The name may be taken from Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (born 1934), a prominent Hungarian-American psychologist. His son Christopher is on the faculty at MIT.

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

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

===Page 1072===

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

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

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

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

'''"...Wiener, Reimann, Frege, Green..."''' 
Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) was an American mathematician. Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) was a German mathematician. Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a German mathematician and logician. Green is probably George Green (1793-1841), English mathematician and physicist.

==Endnote 332 · DeLint slays the Peemster==

===Page 1073===

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

===Page 1074===

'''nictitater''' 
the word meant here is probably "nictitate," which means to wink - so, in other words, a "wink" of stupidity-film on Watson's eyes, or just a hint

'''castigations''' 
criticisms; reprimands

===Page 1075===

'''loupes''' 
eyepiece magnifying glasses used by jewellers

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

===Page 1076===

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

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'''recursive''' 
capable of being used repeatedly

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

'''Ciao Bello''' 
Italian: Goodbye, Handsome

==Page 936==

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

'''ICBM''' 
intercontinental ballistic missile

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

==Page 937==

'''imprimatur''' 
sanction or approval

'''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

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

'''catadioptric''' 
produced by reflection and refraction simultaneously

==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 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 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.

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

'''temporal-lobe''' 
the part of the brain involved in hearing, speeech, 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

'''"...an old-fashioned one-sharp-sided razor..."''' 

==Page 946==

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

'''chartreuse''' 
bright yellowish-green

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

==Page 947==

'''conundra''' 
insoluble questions

'''sinkhole''' 
a depressed area into which waste collects

'''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

'''pugnacious''' 
having a tendency to fistfight

==Page 949==

'''snifter''' 
a glass with a wide bottom that narrows at the top, for drinking brandy

'''twidgeling''' 
not a real word

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

'''mimesis''' 
the imitation of aspects in the sensible world

==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''' 
an Old English text of the Gospels found in England

'''hyperfertilized''' 
given too much fertilizer

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

'''defile''' 
a narrow passage

'''neutered''' 
castrated

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

'''gambrel''' 
the hock of an animal, particularly a horse

==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.

'''etagere''' 
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"

'''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

'''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

==Page 955==

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

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

'''''Deep Throat''''' 
a pornographic film 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

=Hi, Mikey=

==Page 958==

==Page 959==

'''the hook''' 
presumably, the sister's hand

'''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 convenience

'''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

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

'''Fourth- and Eighth-Step''' 
"Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves" and "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all," respectively

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'''weal''' 
welfare

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

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'''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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'''recursive''' 
capable of being used repeatedly

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

'''Ciao Bello''' 
Italian: Goodbye, Handsome

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

'''ICBM''' 
intercontinental ballistic missile

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

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'''imprimatur''' 
sanction or approval

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

'''ruddled''' 
reddened

'''serration''' 
notches in the edges

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'''belled''' 
rang like a bell

=Joelle Talks About the Entertainment=

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'''epicene''' 
androgynous

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

'''catadioptric''' 
produced by reflection and refraction simultaneously

==Page 940==

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

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=Hal Narrates (Still)=
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'''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 fucking mess."

==Page 942==

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

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'''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 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.

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

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

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'''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

'''"...an old-fashioned one-sharp-sided razor..."''' 

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

'''chartreuse''' 
bright yellowish-green

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

==Page 947==

'''conundra''' 
insoluble questions

'''sinkhole''' 
a depressed area into which waste collects

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

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'''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

'''pugnacious''' 
having a tendency to fistfight

==Page 949==

'''snifter''' 
a glass with a wide bottom that narrows at the top, for drinking brandy

'''twidgeling''' 
not a real word

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

'''mimesis''' 
the imitation of aspects in the sensible world

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'''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''' 
an Old English text of the Gospels found in England

'''hyperfertilized''' 
given too much fertilizer

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

'''defile''' 
a narrow passage

'''neutered''' 
castrated

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

'''gambrel''' 
the hock of an animal, particularly a horse

==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.

'''etagere''' 
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"

'''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

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

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'''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

==Page 955==

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

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

'''''Deep Throat''''' 
a pornographic film starring [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001483/ Linda Lovelace]

'''jism''' 
slang for semen

'''interrogatives''' 
questions

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'''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=

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

=Hi, Mikey=

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'''the hook''' 
presumably, the sister's hand

'''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 convenience

'''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''' 
"Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves" and "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all," respectively

==Page 962==

'''weal''' 
welfare

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

==Page 963==

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'''NoCoat LinguaScraper''' 
not a real product, but there are such appliances that clean the tongue

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'''gauche''' 
Literally, French for "left," but here meaning "awkward".

=Gately Dreaming=

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==Page 847==

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'''Taj''' 
i.e., the Taj Mahal; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_mahal Wikipedia]

'''viscous''' 
very thick

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'''starkers''' 
i.e., stark naked

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'''50 cm.''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''conic sections''' 
These are studied in advanced trig; 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, ovals, parabolas, and hyperbolas

==Page 853==

'''''terre batu''''' 
French for "beaten earth," this is a reference to French clay courts.

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=Gately's Dreaming, cont.=

==Page 854==

'''effulgence''' 
shining brilliance

'''hulpil''' 
probably a misspelling of "huipil," which is a kind of thin Mexican blouse

==Page 856==

'''huaraches''' 
Mexican sandals

'''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==

'''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.

==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 pun considering it incorporates "chasm," meaning "abyss"

'''''Liebestod''''' 
German: love-death - this is the final aria sung by Isolde in Wagner's ''Tristan und Isolde''

==Page 864==

=Hal's Narration, cont.=

'''guilloche''' 
an ornamental border that has intersecting curved lines that form a continuous circular design

'''lee side''' 
nautical term meaning the side facing away from the wind

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'''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''' 
This is the Winchester 00 rifle, "aught" being a widespread expression for "zero."

'''''raisin-debt''''' 
''raison d'être'', French: reason for being

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'''confected''' 
candied or covered in sugar

'''medials''' 
i.e., medians

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'''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

'''occlusive''' 
descriptive of a bandage that closes a wound and keeps it from air

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'''Subhadronic''' 
making up the parts of the parts of an atom; very, very small

'''Moët''' 
Moët & Chandon is a French champagne manufacturer

'''parotitic''' 
having the mumps

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

'''dermis''' 
skin

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'''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''' 
between siblings

==Page 873 (cont'd)==

'''naif''' 
a naive male

'''dessicated''' 
dried up

'''S.-B. I.Q.''' 
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Quotient

[[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''' 
one of the same generation or era; contemporary

==Endnote 353==

'''joss''' 
luck

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'''fireman's carry''' 
to carry someone by draping them over your shoulder

'''Noh-style''' 
in the style of Noh (alternative romanization: "No"), which is the highly stylized, elaborately costumed classical drama of Japan

'''hawked''' 
spit

'''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''.

'''atheling''' 
Anglo-Saxon prince or royal heir

'''cachinated''' 
misspelling of cachinnated, i.e., laughed loudly

'''compadre''' 
Spanish term for "friend"

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'''plexus''' 
an intricate network

'''tête''' 
French: head

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'''I/O''' 
Input/Output

'''''C'est ça''''' 
French: that's that

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'''ALGOL''' 
an ancient [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL computer programming language]

=Winter, B.S. 1963; Sepulveda, CA - Flashback to Himself's Childhood=

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==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 "metastatize."

'''gibber''' 
to chatter unintelligibly

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'''Synchronicity''' 
the state of happening simultaneously

'''Concord''' 
agreement

==Page 494==

'''declivity''' 
downward slope or hill

==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 sides."

==Page 497==

'''ebullient''' 
zestfully enthusiastic

'''caster''' 
wheel

==Page 499==

'''rodential''' 
like a rodent

'''stalactite''' 
the kind of V-shaped rock formations in caves that come down from the top

==Page 502==

'''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

'''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]

==Page 503==

=Ken Erdedy & Kate Gompert go to NA=

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'''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, with bodily rigidity

'''circadian arrhythmia''' 
sleep disturbance

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'''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

'''Penn Station''' 
the chief national train station in New York, at 34th Street and Eighth Avenue

==Page 505==

'''styptic''' 
contracting tissue

'''dis''' 
act of disrespect

==Page 506==

'''anorak''' 
a hooded pullover jacket

'''bonhommic''' 
a neologism, meaning "denoting good-heartedness"

==Page 507==

'''Keds''' 
a brand of sneaker

=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 character, often the butt of jokes

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

'''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''' 
a type of coal

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'''crop-and-epaulette''' 
crop being a riding crop, 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

==Endnote 105==

'''Dworkinite''' 
The word refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Dworkin Andrea Dworkin] (1946-2005), and 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.

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

==Page 308==

'''eustacian-crumbling''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustachian Eustachian tube] connects the inner ear to the throat; this compound adjective would mean "deafeningly loud."

'''fin''' 
a slang term for a $5 bill

'''SPN''' 
Shared Processing Network

'''joe''' 
coffee

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

==Page 309==

'''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

'''Sonora, Mexico''' 
a state of northern Mexico, bordering Arizona

'''Junebug''' 
a genus of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllophaga_%28genus%29 beetles] found, among elsewhere, in the Eastern U.S.

'''moonballed''' 
Here used as a past-tense noun, a moonball is a very high lob.

'''détente''' 
a relaxation of tensions

'''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.

'''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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==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

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]

'''diabolic''' 
devilishly evil

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'''benzodioxane''' 
a metabolite of benzodiazepines

=Mario's birth, early development=

==Page 312==

'''pica''' 
abnormal appetite

'''Vermeer''' 
Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) was a Dutch painter.

'''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''' 
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])

'''gerontologic''' 
having to do with the study of old age

'''lentissimo''' 
a musical term that is Italian for "very, very slowly"

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'''inebriate''' 
as a noun, a drunkard

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'''blepharoplasty''' 
surgical reshaping of the eyelid

'''corticate''' 
having an outer layer

'''mucronate''' 
having abruptly projecting points

'''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

'''joint of beef''' 
a piece of beef of a good size for roasting

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'''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

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'''à clef''' 
French for "by key," the term is usually given as ''roman à clef'', i.e., a novel for which one needs a key to understand.

'''canted''' 
sloped at an angle

'''tangrams''' 
a type of Chinese puzzle

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

=April 30th/May 1st, YDAU - Marathe & Steeply Again=

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'''''l'aine des Etats Unis''''' 
French: the ass of the United States

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'''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

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'''''L'état protecteur''''' 
French: the protector-state

'''lume nacreous''' 
pearly light

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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

'''cholera and amoebic-dysentery''' 
Cholera is extreme diarrhea brought on by unsanitary conditions. Amoebic dysentery is also extreme diarrhea, this time brought on by the acquisition of a parasitic infection.

'''diasporic''' 
here denoting being in exile

==Endnote 94==

'''''Lebensgefährtin''''' 
German: female romantic companion (rather, "significant other" or "longtime companion")

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'''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.

'''ROTC''' 
Reserve Officer Training Corps, which recruits future officers in the U.S. Armed Forces from universities

'''A.P.''' 
Advanced Placement

'''Croate''' 
French for "Croat" but probably just a misspelling

==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 late 2007.

[[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.

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'''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.

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'''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].

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'''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]]

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'''jugular''' 
the largest vein in the neck

''''''Tenebrae Factae Sunt,''' sotto v.''' 
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 Latin ''sotto voce,'' which means "in a low voice."

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'''locusts''' 
Given the noise their 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 Salic Law was a legal code of medieval Central Europe that, among other things, prevented accession to a monarchy on the basis of female relationship.

'''anthracnose''' 
another name for the plant disease known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthracnose canker]

'''PAC''' 
Political Action Committee

'''florid''' 
very red

'''trilled r's''' 
as pronounced in a Spanish word such as ''perro'' ("dog")

''''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

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'''"...had a poster of Bill Tilden in his office..."''' 
which implies that the coach was either gay (as was Tilden) or very old-fashioned, since Tilden's career was far in the past

'''schizoid''' 
here meaning "erratic"

'''refraction''' 
here referring to the splitting of white light into a spectrum of color

'''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 would be the side of the body between the ribs and hip.

'''decapitated''' 
beheaded

'''epithet''' 
a word or phrase applied to a person, often derisively

==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 and then be changed into a deer, which was then hunted unto death — all of which perhaps suggests an underlying reluctance in the men to pursue Joelle because she might pursue them in return.

'''phylogenic''' 
regarding the evolution of an organism

'''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''' 
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''' 
a perfume extracted from flowers

'''avuncular''' 
characteristic of an uncle

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'''Facsmile''' 
probably a misspelling of "facsimile"

'''three-meter''' 
almost ten feet

'''lateral''' 
sideways

'''''bona fried''''' 
the other players mean to say "bona fide"

'''dope-slaps''' 
more commonly known as "bitch-slaps"

'''orthopedic''' 
denoting an anomaly in the bones

'''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 foot. In between are the tibia and fibula — the bones of the lower leg — and the patella, or kneecap. 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

'''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 diphthong rather than the long /u/ phoneme.

'''aegis''' 
sponsorship or auspices; from the Greek for "shield"

'''bilateral''' 
having two sides

'''S.T.''' 
Special Teams

'''wide receiver's number''' 
Kickers can only be assigned numbers 1 through 19, while wide receivers get numbers in the 80s.

'''"...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''' 
This is a bit confusing, since the sense would seem to imply that the "book" is a record book, but the record for a punt in both college and professional football is 99 yards.

'''Orangemen''' 
the Syracuse football team's name

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'''podiatric''' 
having to do with the foot

'''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 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.

'''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

'''lardy''' 
fat

'''tête-à-tête''' 
From the French for "head to head," this term denotes a private conversation between two people.

'''30,0000''' 
The game against Syracuse is a home game, so the audience couldn't have been 30,000 because Nickerson Field has a capacity of less than 10,000 people.

'''amniotic''' 
pertaining to the fluid that surrounds a fetus ''in utero''

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'''cathedran''' 
Presumably Wallace means "like a cathedral," but this is not a real word. The proper word would be cathedrarian.

'''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.

'''fealty''' 
faithfulness, here to a sports team

'''4WD''' 
four-wheel-drive vehicle

'''kudzu''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudzu climbing vine] indigenous to the U.S. South

'''pointers''' 
a breed of hunting dog

'''Pyrex''' 
a brand name of heat-resistant glass

'''turn blue litmus paper red''' 
presumably something highly acidic

'''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 [http://louisville.edu/a-s/english/subcultures/ideas/buzzpounds/pountwirl.html short story] 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 unlike 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''' 
aspect or appearance

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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

'''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

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[[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.

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'''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 sexual activity between a gay man and a straight man, sometimes for money or drugs

'''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''' 
which probably means he "flipped his wig" during withdrawal; doubtful—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''' 
a type of hair extension worn at the back of the head

'''troughs and nodes''' 
deep furrows and swollen areas, respectively

'''habilements''' 
misspelling of habiliments, i.e., clothing

'''wan''' 
pale in color

'''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

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'''Merry Widow''' 
a woman's undergarment consisting of a strapless bra and short corset

'''Amalfo''' 
apparently a misspelling of Amalfi, a brand of shoes

'''45 kg''' 
a little over 99 pounds

'''''Zuckung''''' 
German: convulsion

'''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

'''bilirubin''' 
the compound that makes urine yellow

'''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

'''obstretric''' 
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 181==

'''Madame Psychosis''' 
not just a byname for DMZ, but also a radio show host

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'''patricidal''' 
having a tendency to kill one's father

'''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

'''epiglottal''' 
having to do with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiglottis epiglottis]

'''Hillel''' 
a nationwide (worldwide?) Jewish student union present on several campuses

'''corpus callosum''' 
the part of the brain connecting the left and right hemispheres

'''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

'''parietal''' 
referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parietal_lobe parietal lobe] of the brain, responsible for sensory memory and response

'''pop''' 
Midwesterners in the U.S. use this word to denote what others call "soda," i.e., Coca-Cola, 7-Up, etc.

'''Dow''' 
a pun on the Chinese word ''tao,'' ("the way") and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJIA Dow Jones Industrial Average]

'''gasper''' 
cigarette

'''E.S.T.''' 
Eastern Standard Time

'''medulla''' 
literally that part of the brain responsible for autonomic functions like heartbeat, organ activity, etc.

==Page 184==

'''I. M. Pei''' 
Ieoh Ming Pei (born 1917) is a Chinese-born American architect who designed, among other famous buildings, MIT's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Building_%28MIT%29 Green Building].

==Endnote 60==

'''J. A. Stratton''' 
Julius Adams Stratton (1901-1994) was an American educator and president of MIT between 1959 and 1965.

==Page 184 (cont'd)==

'''cerebral cortex''' 
that part of the brain responsible for higher-order thinking

'''"...what she's said for three years of midnights..."''' 
Up until 'Look at that fucker ''Dance,''' the rest of her introduction is from [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201&version=9 Genesis 1].

'''Largest Whole Prime On The FM Band''' 
109 is a prime number, i.e., divisible only by itself and by 1. Actually the highest number you can get on FM is 108, and there are no whole numbers in FM radio in the U.S.

'''EM''' 
probably denoting "electromagnetic"

'''centrifugal''' 
that force in a spinning object that tends to push away objects from the angle of rotation

'''Hundt Act''' 
Reed E. Hundt (born 1948) was chairman of the Federal Communications Committee in 1996, when the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was passed. Wallace may be riffing on that, as it appears there was no equivalent legislation in 1966.

'''spatter's center''' 
The spatter referred to here is probably the small amount of FM bands that can be sent out.

'''inelastic''' 
When used with regard to demand, this term means tending not to change.

'''3-km. cannon''' 
The range is about 1.86 miles.

'''P.E.''' 
Physical Education

'''Philology''' 
The 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 urinate.

'''The spasmodically torticollic.''' 
having a head tilted to one side (torticollis) involving convulsions (spasmodic)

'''G.S.L.''' 
Guaranteed Student Loan

'''treillage''' 
latticework

'''interneural''' 
between nerves

'''semitic ideograms''' 
Semitic languages actually tend to be written uses alphabets, where a symbol denotes a phoneme, rather than in ideograms, like Chinese and Korean are. The oldest alphabet is the Phoenician, which was Semitic.0

'''rostral lamina''' 
in biology, a beaklike or snoutlike (rostral) layer of tissue (lamina)

'''neuroform''' 
Neuroform is actually the brand-name of a type of stent.

'''S.O.P.''' 
Standard Operating Procedure

'''neorealist''' 
adhering to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_neorealism Italian neorealism]

'''Peterson/Broughton and Dali/Buñuel''' 
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0677403/ Sidney Peterson] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0112687/ James Broughton] collaborated on [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038855/ The Potted Psalm] (1946), an experimental film.

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Púbol (1904-1989) and Luis Buñuel Portolés (1900-1983) were both Spanish artists. They collaborated on ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020530/ Un chien andalou]'' (''An Andalusian Dog'', 1929), another experimental film.

'''Deren/Hammid''' 
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220305/ Maya Deren] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0352413/ Alexander Hammid] codirected [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036154/ Meshes of the Afternoon]

'''Antonioni''' 
Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007) was an Italian filmmaker probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060176/ Blowup].

'''Tarkovsky''' 
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (1932-1986) was a Soviet-Russian filmmaker, most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0176227/ Voyage in Time], made with Antonioni.

'''Sometimes Ozu and Bresson''' 
Yasujirō Ozu (1903-1963) was a Japanese filmmaker. Robert Bresson (1901-1999) was a French filmmaker.

'''hoary dramaturgy''' 
According to Wikipedia, dramaturgy is "the art of dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage." To call it "hoary" would be to imply it's old.

'''Sir Herbert Tree''' 
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852-1917) was a British actor and manager. You can hear his performances of ''Hamlet'' [http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/playhamlet.html here].

'''Kaelesque''' 
In the style of Pauline Kael (1919-2001), an American film critic for ''New Yorker'' magazine.

'''De Palma, Tarantino''' 
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000361/ Brian De Palma] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000233/ Quentin Tarantino]

==Endnote 61==

'''dissociative formalism''' 
presumably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formalist_film_theory formalism] that focuses too much on form and not enough on character and other aspects of filmmaking

'''Stan Brakhage and Hollis Frampton''' 
Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) and Hollis Frampton (1936-1984) were American avant-garde filmmakers.

'''Beth B.''' 
You can read about here [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0044579/ here].

'''the Snow brothers, Vigdis Simpson''' 
One of the Snow brothers would have to be Michael Snow (born 1929), a Canadian-American filmmaker, principally known for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength_%281966_film%29 Wavelength]. Vigdis Simpson seems created.

==Page 185 (cont'd)==

'''Brutalism, Found Drama''' 
Brutalism may refer to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalism brutalist architecture]. Found Drama is the cinematic extension of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_art Found Art].

'''dissonant''' 
inharmonious with other things (here, aspects of Madame Psychosis's taste)

==Page 186==

'''Baraka''' 
Imamu Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones, 1934) is an African-American poet, playwright, author, and political activist.

'''piamater''' 
actually two words: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pia_mater Pia mater]

'''sulci''' 
plural of "sulcus," a furrow or groove, particularly between sections of the brain

'''A.Y. ('V.F.') Rickey's ''summum opus''''' 
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.

''Summum opus'' would be a "great work" while ''magnum opus'' would be the "best work."

'''parietooccipital''' 
referring to both the parietal lobe of the brain, as well as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occipital_lobe occipital] lobe, which is where vision is processed

'''Pons and abducent''' 
The Pons is a structure on the brain stem, while the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abducent_nerve abducens nerve] is a nerve in the muscles of the eye.

'''basilar-stem artery''' 
a stem of an artery that carries blood to the brain

'''oblongata''' 
the second half of the full name of the medulla

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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]

'''wooferless''' 
lacking the larger speaker (i.e., the "woofer") found in multi-speaker systems

'''saddle-noses''' 
noses having a collapsed nasal bridge

'''atrophic''' 
shrinking in size

'''Scleredema adultorum''' 
a [http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic385.htm disease] characterized by non-pitting induration of the skin

'''serodermatotic''' 
suffering from serodermatosis, a skin disease with serous effusion into the skin

'''hydrocephalic''' 
having water on the brain

'''tabescent and chachetic''' 
Tabescent refers to a person with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabes tabes dorsalis], and chachetic (probably misspelled) apparently refers to a person with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cachexia cachexia].

'''Brag's-Diseased''' 
This would seem to be a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glioma glioma], though it is mentioned almost nowhere.

'''carbuncular or steatocryptotic''' 
Carbuncular means "pimply," while steatocryptotic refers to a person suffering from steatocryptosis, which is derangement of the sebaceous glands.

'''Marin-Amat Syndrome''' 
This is involuntary closure on one eye, named for Manuel Marin Amat, an early 20th century Spanish ophthalmologist.

'''scrofulodermic''' 
suffering from [http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic434.htm cutaneous tuberculosis]

'''Bell-shaped steatopygiacs''' 
A steatopygiac is a person suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steatopygia steatopygia]; if you're bell-shaped, it just means the fat is closer to the bottom than the top

'''Pityriasis Rosea''' 
a skin disease marked by patches of pink, oval rash

'''"Blessed are the poor in body, for they."''' 
This is not one of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatitude Beatitudes].

'''U.H.I.D.''' 
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

'''Thorp's Trigonometry of Cubes''' 
Edward Oakley Thorp (born 1932) is an American mathematician, but he seems not to have created a "trigonometry of cubes," which would be, frankly, impossible.

'''aphotic to apochromatic''' 
Aphotic means without light, while apochromatic means developing color.

'''Best Boy''' 
a member of a film crew, assistant to either the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaffer_%28motion_picture_industry%29 gaffer] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_grip key grip]

'''Cambridgeport''' 
an area of Cambridge, Mass.

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'''leukodermatic''' 
white-skinned

'''xanthodantic''' 
misspelling of xanthodontic, which means yellow-toothed

'''basilisk-breathed and pyorrheic''' 
A basilisk is a type of dragon, and pyorrhea is the condition of having gum disease.

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'''peronic or teratoidal''' 
Peronic means having a bent penis, while teratoidal means malformed.

'''phrenologically malformed''' 
malformed in the shape of the skull

'''supuratively lesioned''' 
having lesions that ooze pus

'''acervulus-nosed''' 
having blisters on the nose

'''radically -ectomied''' 
-having to do with body-part removal (think radical mastectomy)

'''diaphoretic''' 
perspiring

'''granulomatous''' 
having masses of ulcerated infections of the skin

'''lazarettes and oubliettes''' 
A lazarette is a hospital that treats infectious diseases, while an oubliette is a dungeon accessible only by trapdoor.

'''kyphotic and lordotic''' 
Kyphotic means having abnormal rear curvature of the spine (i.e., hunchbacked), while lordotic having abnormal forward curvature of the spine.

'''cellulitic''' 
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''' 
a crosier is a type of French roll

'''lager''' 
a type of beer, medium in darkness

'''vin blanc''' 
French: white wine

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'''''Good Morning, Midnight'' and ''Maggie: A Girl of the Streets'' and ''Giovanni's Room'' and ''Under the Volcano''''' 
''Good Morning, Midnight'' is a novel by Jean Rhys (1890-1979), born Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams, a Caribbean novelist, on the topic of a woman forced to confront her own loneliness and despair. ''Maggie: A Girl of the Streets'' is a novel by Stephen Crane (1871-1900), an American novelist, on the topic of a child prostitute. ''Giovanni's Room'' by African-American expatriate author James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987) is a novel on the topic of a young man coming to terms with his homosexuality. ''Under the Volcano'' is a novel by Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957), a British writer, on the topic of alcoholism.

'''Bret Ellis''' 
Bret Easton Ellis (born 1965) is an American novelist probably best known for ''Less Than Zero'' (1985), about a drug addict who turns to prostitution, and ''American Psycho'' (1991), about a serial killer.

'''van der Rohe''' 
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) was a German-born American architect.

==Endnote 66==

'''R.E.M. and Pearl Jam''' 
R.E.M.'s lead singer, Michael Stipe, was famous for his unintelligible lyrics until around 1987's ''Document''. Pearl Jam's vocalist, Eddie Vedder, is as cryptic now as he was fifteen years ago, when they released their first record.

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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

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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''' 
not moving at all

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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'').

'''Clorets''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clorets popular gum]

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'''Kornspan''' 
German: corn chip

'''isometrics''' 
While this is just another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isometric_exercise isometric exercise], it's not clear how Pemulis would be making his face stronger.

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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, study body

=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

'''''tecato gusano''''' 
a worm from Tecate, Mexico, a small city in Baja California, bordering the U.S.

==Page 201==

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

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

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

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

==Page 202==

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

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

'''nexus''' 
a means of connection

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

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

==Endnote 70==

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

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

==Page 202 (cont'd)==

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

==Page 203==

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

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

'''unalloyed''' 
pure

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

'''insipid''' 
without any interesting qualities

==Page 204==

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

'''''vig''''' 
short for "vigorish"

'''argot''' 
slang

==Page 205==

'''pancreatitis''' 
inflammation of the pancreas

==Page 206==

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

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

==Page 207==

'''200 kilos''' 
over 440 pounds

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

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

'''necrotic''' 
dead

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'''hyperemic''' 
erect

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

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

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

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

'''mucronate''' 
having a projecting point

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

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

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

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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

'''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 That 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''' 
the proper word 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

=The Incredibly Potent DMZ=

==Page 211==

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

'''psychosensual''' 
Where as psychosensual would have a more sexual connotation...

'''psychosensory''' 
...psychosensory would be the more correct word, as it would apply to sensory stimulation, not necessarily sexual.

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

'''hydrangea''' 
several species of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrangea flowering plants]

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

'''Decoct''' 
as opposed to "concoct"

'''spectrometer''' 
an optical instrument used to conduct spectroscopic analysis on matter to determine its constituent elements

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

==Page 213==

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

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

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

'''Sierpinski 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

'''philatelic forceps, a loupe''' 
Philatelic refers to stamp collecting. A loupe is used primarily by a jeweler to view flaws in diamonds.

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Ethel Merman''' 
an American [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0581062/ actress], also known for Broadway roles

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

==Page 215==

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 216==

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

'''otiose''' 
superfluous or useless

[[Image:Quaker.png|right]]

'''"... the way W. Penn in his Quaker Oats hat in like the 16th century must have felt trading a few trinkets to babe-in-the-woods Natives for New Jersey..."''' 
William Penn (1644-1718) was the British-born founder of the colony (and later state) of Pennsylvania. For the hat, see right. Penn obviously lived later than the 16th century and he had no involvement in the founding of New Jersey, which Pemulis seems to be conflating with the purchase of Manhattan by the Dutch for about $24 worth of jewelry.

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

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

'''stolid''' 
unemotional or impassive

'''''contre-pied''''' 
Literally French for "against-foot," this term is used to apply to a direction taken by dogs in pursuit of an animal they are no longer chasing.

'''purgatorial''' 
referring neither to heaven nor hell

'''128-256 Alphabetville''' 
Because of his injury, Schacht was ranked in the lower 128 seeds in the tournament just after his hurt his knee. 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]]

'''arachnodactylic''' 
having fingers like spiders

==Page 217==

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

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

'''the Xerox Inc. of North American tennis academies''' 
This demonstrates that Port Washington Academy is big, but Xerox is far from the biggest corporation in the U.S.

'''Port Washington''' 
It's made clear here that this is the town on Long Island. This is the "East Egg" of F. Scott Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby,'' in Nassau County on the north shore of Long Island, very close to New York City.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==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

'''RAM''' 
Random Access Memory

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'''halcyon''' 
prosperous, happy

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

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==Endnote 77==

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

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

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'''White halogen''' 
i.e., the light from a halogen lamp

'''the color of sour apples''' 
i.e., light green

==Page 259==

'''2^27''' 
2^27 (2 to the 27th power) = 134,217,728

'''Montcerf, Québec''' 
a city of Québec about 82.5 miles due north of Ottawa

'''Mercier Dam''' 
You can read more about it [http://www.hydroquebec.com/generation/projets/pop/pop_mercier.html here].

'''Pompano Beach''' 
a town in Florida about 10 miles north of Fort Lauderdale

'''a sepulchral Czech kid named Lendl''' 
Sepulchral implies the grave and can mean "hollow;" syn. "cadaverous." The Czech kid is probably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Lendl Ivan Lendl], although Lendl has not committed suicide.

==Page 260==

'''Kimberly-Clark''' 
an American [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly-Clark corporation] based in Wisconsin

'''"His Unforced-Error stats look like a decimal-error."''' 
which is to say that the percentage expressed as a a decimal has so many leading zeros that it looks as if someone made a mistake transcribing the number

==Endnote 86==

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

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'''revenant''' 
a person who returns

'''transom''' 
a window above a door

'''thespio-historical''' 
regarding the history of acting

'''"...had the word ''Homo'' in the title..."''' 
The film is James O. Incandenza's ''Homo Duplex''.

'''quad-function''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_function quadratic function], which produces a parabolic graph result

==Page 261==

'''pirouette''' 
a spin, in ballet terminology

==Page 262==

[[Image:I-beam.jpg|thumb|caption|I-beam|right|120px]]

'''I-beams''' 
standard construction beams made of metal (see right)

'''hypertonic''' 
having rigid, tense muscles

==Page 263==

'''undead''' 
the state of several unnatural beings (vampires, mummies, zombies, etc.), which is in a state neither live nor dead

'''kibitzing''' 
chatting or conversing

==Page 264==

'''whippet''' 
a one-inhalation dose of nitrous oxide (laughing gas)

==Page 265==

[[Image:YinYang.png|thumb|caption|Yin/Yang symbol|right|120px]]
'''Taoist paraboloid logo''' 
referring to the yin/yang symbol (seen right). In Chinese philosophy, the concept of yin yang is used to describe how seemingly disjunct or opposing forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, giving rise to each other in turn. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_yang Wikipedia])

'''ten m.''' 
32.8 feet

'''VAPS''' 
an air traffic control acronym for visual approaches.

==Page 266==

'''effete''' 
degenerate or decadent

'''Sinn Fein''' 
Irish for "ourselves alone," this is the political wing of the Irish Republican Army.

'''cruciform''' 
in the form of a cross

'''cuffs''' 
rotator cuffs

'''polybutylene''' 
This is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybutylene polymerized butlyene].

==Page 267==

'''neurasthenic''' 
regarding a syndrome of anxiety, fatigue, pain, etc., caused by exhaustion of the central nervous system

'''Preludin''' 
brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preludin phenmetrazine]

'''Inv.''' 
Invitational

'''40º C''' 
104 degrees Fahrenheit

==Page 268==

'''pregnable''' 
open to attack; capable of being won by force

'''nacelle''' 
the car of a balloon or blimp

'''corrugated''' 
bent into folds

'''leaf-cutter-ant''' 
a type of [http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/learning/animals/invertebrates/ant North American ant]

'''Gore-Tex''' 
[http://www.gore-tex.com/remote/Satellite/content/what-is-gore-tex brand name] of material

==Page 269==

'''AC''' 
Alternating Current

'''low-lipid''' 
i.e., low-fat

==Endnote 89==

'''reductive statistics''' 
Wallace is talking either about the process in statistics of reducing variables or Schtitt's use of statistics being reductive, i.e., being simplistic

==Page 269 (cont'd)==

'''equanimity''' 
mental or emotional stability

'''laissez-faire''' 
French for "to let to do," this is a term usually applied to conservative economics but here generally gives a sense of not caring very much.

==Page 270==

'''erumpent''' 
bursting forth

'''Boards''' 
college entrance examinations

'''ad''' 
a tennis term meaning "advantage" for one or the other player

=Day gives Gately a lesson in patience=

==Page 270==

'''Montesian''' 
also the name of a [http://oh.lake-link.com/lakes/lake.cfm?LakeID=1515&RegionID=749 lake] in Wisconsin

'''Lenz''' 
German for "springtime"

'''Goodwill''' 
a [http://www.goodwill.org/page/guest/about charity] that redistributes donated goods and clothing

==Page 271==

'''non sequiturs''' 
From the Latin for "it does not follow," a non sequitur is a statement with no connection to what comes before or what follows it.

'''butter wouldn't melt''' 
which is to say, with a certain, probably faked, coolness

'''macramé''' 
a type of fabric-making done by knotting rather than knitting

'''Paul Harvey''' 
Born Paul Harvey Aurandt, Paul Harvey (born 1918) is an American radio broadcaster known for his platitudes.

==Page 272==

'''nictitated''' 
winking

'''Quaalude''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methaqualone methaqualone]

'''Malden''' 
a northern suburb of Boston, about 7 miles north of the city

'''egregulous''' 
not a real word (possibly egregious + ridiculous)

==Endnote 90==

'''ephebe''' 
a young man between the ages of 18 and 20

'''redolent''' 
smelling badly

'''main''' 
here meaning "physical strength"

'''interdicted''' 
prohibited

'''sally''' 
a clever remark

'''mild sedatives''' 
Quaaludes are more like a sledgehammer to the head than a "mild sedative."

'''reductia ad absurdum''' 
a misstatement or misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum reductio ad absurdum]

'''"Simply open wide for the spoon."''' 
This is perhaps a reference to a line from William S. Burroughs's ''Naked Lunch'', regarding the time when one realizes "what is at the end of that long newspaper spoon."

'''"...To interdict a fundamental doctrinal question by invoking a doctrine against questioning? Wasn't this the very horror the Madisonians were horrified of in 1791? Amendments I and IX? My Grievance is disallowed because my Petition for Redress is a priori interdicted by the inadvisability of all Petitioning?"''' 
Day is referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment#Text First Amendment] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Text Ninth Amendment] to the U.S. Constitution, drafted by James Madison (though he personally thought them unnecessary, referring to them as "politic, if not obligatory"). Day is apparently suggesting that without those amendments, Congress could pass a law prohibiting attempts to get them to change the law, thereby making the law forever impervious to attempts to change it, since any such attempt would be prohibited by the law itself. This doesn't sound like the kind of thing the Madisonians were actually worried about; the right to petition dates back to the Magna Carta (where it referred to petitioning the King) and the Ninth Amendment was added to make it clear that just because some rights were explicitly spelled out in the Bill of Rights didn't mean that other rights didn't exist too (Madison believed "the people have those rights in their own hands", which is why he didn't think a Bill of them was necessary in the first place).

'''lapped''' 
a reference to track and field, in which a runner is so far ahead of another runner on a circular court that he has "lapped" him, i.e., is now a lap ahead of him

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'''iona''' 
Iona is an island off the west coast of Scotland. Gately means iota.

'''bunko artists''' 
con artists

'''jonesing''' 
an addict term for the desire for one's substance of choice

'''mokus''' 
1) Loneliness or depression. Oddly, this term could not be found in a U.S. dictionary, but is referred to in the ''OED'' as "US slang." 2) More often spelled as "mocus," common American 12-Step term for a hazy, unfocused state of mind, especially in early sobriety. Said to come from "mind out of focus." Mokus is also Hungarian for squirrel, raising the possibility of a pun on "feeling squirrelly."

==Page 274==

'''Guy That Didn't Even Use His First Name''' 
a joke based on the fact that in recovery programs like AA, people do not use their last names

'''Spont-Dissem''' 
Spontaneous Dissemination, i.e., live as opposed to pre-recorded

'''R.C.''' 
presumably Roman Catholic

==Endnote 91==

'''''f''-term''' 
i.e., "fag"

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'''Morris Code''' 
a misstatement of Morse Code

'''XSive''' 
excessive

'''cook-and-shoot''' 
i.e. cooking and shooting up drugs

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'''east of Atlantic City, NJ''' 
which would be either in Europe on the Atlantic Ocean somewhere -- or nowhere

'''Borderline''' 
suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_Personality_Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder]

'''organic-coke''' 
an oxymoronic term, since cocaine is a chemical

'''Charlestown''' 
a suburb to the north of Boston, right over the Charles River

'''100 grams''' 
About 3.5 ounces. The street value of 100 grams of cocaine is enormous -- after cutting on the order of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

'''D.E.A.''' 
Drug Enforcement Agency

'''MP''' 
Military Police

'''Cesar Romero''' 
Cesar Romero (1907-1994) was a Cuban-American [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003110/ actor and entertainer], best known to a generation of television viewers as the man who played the Joker on the television live-action series of [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059968/ Batman].

==Page 277==

[[Image:Easter.jpg|thumb|caption|Easter Island statues|right|125px]]
'''Easter Island statue''' 
Easter Island is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian triangle. The island is a special territory of Chile. Easter Island is famous for its monumental statues, called ''moai'', created by the Rapanui people. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_island Wikipedia]

[[Image:Prince.jpg|thumb|caption|Prince Valiant|right|125px]]

'''Prince Valiantish haircut''' 
''Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur'', or simply ''Prince Valiant'', is a comic strip created by Hal Foster, which began running in 1937. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Valiant Wikipedia]] Prince Valiant's haircut was your basic "bowl" cut, as seen at right.

==Page 278==

'''pince-nez''' 
From the French for "pinch-nose," these are glasses without temples to go over the ears.

'''2F and 1M''' 
2 females and 1 male

'''suppurating''' 
oozing pus

'''Grand Mall epilepsy''' 
Gately means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_mal grand mal].

'''(4)''' 
Notice that after listing points (a), (b), and (c) about clichés, Gately moves on to (4) rather than (d).

==Page 279==

'''dun''' 
grayish-brown

==Page 280==

'''Spiro Agnew''' 
Spiro Theodore Agnew (1918-1996) was vice president of the U.S. under Richard Nixon until forced to resign after pleading no contest to charges of charges of tax evasion and money laundering.

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=Home from Port Washington=

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'''"...bearing their shields rather than upon them..."''' 
The reference is from ''Quotes from Spartan Women'' by Mestrius Plutarchus (Plutarch; AD 45-120), the Greek historian. One translation (from ''On Sparta'' translated by Richard Talbert) cites the source as follows: "Another woman, handing over the shield to her son as he was going off on campaign said: 'Your father always used to keep this safe for you. So you must either keep it safe too, or cease to exist" (p. 187).

'''distaffs''' 
women's groups

'''dubs''' 
doubles

'''V.D.''' 
alternately this could stand for Venereal Disease

'''nystagmic''' 
suffering from involuntary eye movement

'''Stockhausen''' 
German for "stick houses"; could be a nod to Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music" (Hewett 2007). He is known for his ground-breaking work in electronic music, aleatory (controlled chance) in serial composition, and musical spatialization. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockhausen Wikipedia]

'''E. A. Abbott''' 
Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926) was a British author and theologians best known for having written ''Flatland,'' which can be read [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=umhistmath;idno=ABR0624.0001.001 here]. The book tries to dramatize dimensionality by telling the story of shapes that live 2D and their interaction with 1D and 3D shapes. It's very popular with aspiring math-physics-computer-science students.

==Page 282==

'''Disciplinary Lit.''' 
a joke on the more common "interdisciplinary" academic classes

'''Goncharov's ''Oblomov''''' 
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (1812-1891) was a Russian novelist and author of ''Oblomov,'' which can be read [http://www.oblomovka.com/eldritch/iag/oblomov.htm here]. The book is about a young man too lazy to act or decide; he doesn't leave his bed for the first 150 pages.

'''listing to port''' 
a nautical term meaning "leaning leftward"

'''feeling punk''' 
Defined as "weak in spirits or health" in the ''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.''

'''tincture of benzoin''' 
A tincture is a mixture of a drug dissolved in alcohol. Benzoin is a balsamic resin used as an antiseptic and expectorant.

'''Xing''' 
presumably a synonym for copulating with someone

==Endnote 92==

'''Perth Amboy NJ''' 
a town in northern NJ, about 30 miles southwest of New York

==Page 282 (cont'd)==

'''Pierre Trudeau''' 
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau (commonly called Pierre-Elliot Trudeau; 1919-2000) was the Prime Minister of Canada for most of the 1970s and from 1980 to 1984.

==Page 283==

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==Page 258==

'''White halogen''' 
i.e., the light from a halogen lamp

'''the color of sour apples''' 
i.e., light green

==Page 259==

'''2^27''' 
2^27 (2 to the 27th power) = 134,217,728

'''Montcerf, Québec''' 
a city of Québec about 82.5 miles due north of Ottawa

'''Mercier Dam''' 
You can read more about it [http://www.hydroquebec.com/generation/projets/pop/pop_mercier.html here].

'''Pompano Beach''' 
a town in Florida about 10 miles north of Fort Lauderdale

'''a sepulchral Czech kid named Lendl''' 
Sepulchral implies the grave and can mean "hollow;" syn. "cadaverous." The Czech kid is probably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Lendl Ivan Lendl], although Lendl has not committed suicide.

==Page 260==

'''Kimberly-Clark''' 
an American [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly-Clark corporation] based in Wisconsin

'''"His Unforced-Error stats look like a decimal-error."''' 
which is to say that the percentage expressed as a a decimal has so many leading zeros that it looks as if someone made a mistake transcribing the number

==Endnote 86==

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

==Page 260 (cont'd)==

'''revenant''' 
a person who returns

'''transom''' 
a window above a door

'''thespio-historical''' 
regarding the history of acting

'''"...had the word ''Homo'' in the title..."''' 
The film is James O. Incandenza's ''Homo Duplex''.

'''quad-function''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_function quadratic function], which produces a parabolic graph result

==Page 261==

'''pirouette''' 
a spin, in ballet terminology

==Page 262==

[[Image:I-beam.jpg|thumb|caption|I-beam|right|120px]]

'''I-beams''' 
standard construction beams made of metal (see right)

'''hypertonic''' 
having rigid, tense muscles

==Page 263==

'''undead''' 
the state of several unnatural beings (vampires, mummies, zombies, etc.), which is in a state neither live nor dead

'''kibitzing''' 
chatting or conversing

==Page 264==

'''whippet''' 
a one-inhalation dose of nitrous oxide (laughing gas)

==Page 265==

[[Image:YinYang.png|thumb|caption|Yin/Yang symbol|right|120px]]
'''Taoist paraboloid logo''' 
referring to the yin/yang symbol (seen right). In Chinese philosophy, the concept of yin yang is used to describe how seemingly disjunct or opposing forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, giving rise to each other in turn. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_yang Wikipedia])

'''ten m.''' 
32.8 feet

'''VAPS''' 
an air traffic control acronym for visual approaches.

==Page 266==

'''effete''' 
degenerate or decadent

'''Sinn Fein''' 
Irish for "ourselves alone," this is the political wing of the Irish Republican Army.

'''cruciform''' 
in the form of a cross

'''cuffs''' 
rotator cuffs

'''polybutylene''' 
This is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybutylene polymerized butlyene].

==Page 267==

'''neurasthenic''' 
regarding a syndrome of anxiety, fatigue, pain, etc., caused by exhaustion of the central nervous system

'''Preludin''' 
brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preludin phenmetrazine]

'''Inv.''' 
Invitational

'''40º C''' 
104 degrees Fahrenheit

==Page 268==

'''pregnable''' 
open to attack; capable of being won by force

'''nacelle''' 
the car of a balloon or blimp

'''corrugated''' 
bent into folds

'''leaf-cutter-ant''' 
a type of [http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/learning/animals/invertebrates/ant North American ant]

'''Gore-Tex''' 
[http://www.gore-tex.com/remote/Satellite/content/what-is-gore-tex brand name] of material

==Page 269==

'''AC''' 
Alternating Current

'''low-lipid''' 
i.e., low-fat

==Endnote 89==

'''reductive statistics''' 
Wallace is talking either about the process in statistics of reducing variables or Schtitt's use of statistics being reductive, i.e., being simplistic

==Page 269 (cont'd)==

'''equanimity''' 
mental or emotional stability

'''laissez-faire''' 
French for "to let to do," this is a term usually applied to conservative economics but here generally gives a sense of not caring very much.

==Page 270==

'''erumpent''' 
bursting forth

'''Boards''' 
college entrance examinations

'''ad''' 
a tennis term meaning "advantage" for one or the other player

=Day gives Gately a lesson in patience=

==Page 270==

'''Montesian''' 
also the name of a [http://oh.lake-link.com/lakes/lake.cfm?LakeID=1515&RegionID=749 lake] in Wisconsin

'''Lenz''' 
German for "springtime"

'''Goodwill''' 
a [http://www.goodwill.org/page/guest/about charity] that redistributes donated goods and clothing

==Page 271==

'''non sequiturs''' 
From the Latin for "it does not follow," a non sequitur is a statement with no connection to what comes before or what follows it.

'''butter wouldn't melt''' 
which is to say, with a certain, probably faked, coolness

'''macramé''' 
a type of fabric-making done by knotting rather than knitting

'''Paul Harvey''' 
Born Paul Harvey Aurandt, Paul Harvey (born 1918) is an American radio broadcaster known for his platitudes.

==Page 272==

'''nictitated''' 
winking

'''Quaalude''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methaqualone methaqualone]

'''Malden''' 
a northern suburb of Boston, about 7 miles north of the city

'''egregulous''' 
not a real word (possibly egregious + ridiculous)

==Endnote 90==

'''ephebe''' 
a young man between the ages of 18 and 20

'''redolent''' 
smelling badly

'''main''' 
here meaning "physical strength"

'''interdicted''' 
prohibited

'''sally''' 
a clever remark

'''mild sedatives''' 
Quaaludes are more like a sledgehammer to the head than a "mild sedative."

'''reductia ad absurdum''' 
a misstatement or misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum reductio ad absurdum]

'''"Simply open wide for the spoon."''' 
This is perhaps a reference to a line from William S. Burroughs's ''Naked Lunch'', regarding the time when one realizes "what is at the end of that long newspaper spoon."

'''"...To interdict a fundamental doctrinal question by invoking a doctrine against questioning? Wasn't this the very horror the Madisonians were horrified of in 1791? Amendments I and IX? My Grievance is disallowed because my Petition for Redress is a priori interdicted by the inadvisability of all Petitioning?"''' 
Day is referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment#Text First Amendment] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Text Ninth Amendment] to the U.S. Constitution, drafted by James Madison (though he personally thought them unnecessary, referring to them as "politic, if not obligatory"). Day is apparently suggesting that without those amendments, Congress could pass a law prohibiting attempts to get them to change the law, thereby making the law forever impervious to attempts to change it, since any such attempt would be prohibited by the law itself. This doesn't sound like the kind of thing the Madisonians were actually worried about; the right to petition dates back to the Magna Carta (where it referred to petitioning the King) and the Ninth Amendment was added to make it clear that just because some rights were explicitly spelled out in the Bill of Rights didn't mean that other rights didn't exist too (Madison believed "the people have those rights in their own hands", which is why he didn't think a Bill of them was necessary in the first place).

'''lapped''' 
a reference to track and field, in which a runner is so far ahead of another runner on a circular court that he has "lapped" him, i.e., is now a lap ahead of him

==Page 273==

'''iona''' 
Iona is an island off the west coast of Scotland. Gately means iota.

'''bunko artists''' 
con artists

'''jonesing''' 
an addict term for the desire for one's substance of choice

'''mokus''' 
1) Loneliness or depression. Oddly, this term could not be found in a U.S. dictionary, but is referred to in the ''OED'' as "US slang." 2) More often spelled as "mocus," common American 12-Step term for a hazy, unfocused state of mind, especially in early sobriety. Said to come from "mind out of focus." Mokus is also Hungarian for squirrel, raising the possibility of a pun on "feeling squirrelly."

==Page 274==

'''Guy That Didn't Even Use His First Name''' 
a joke based on the fact that in recovery programs like AA, people do not use their last names

'''Spont-Dissem''' 
Spontaneous Dissemination, i.e., live as opposed to pre-recorded

'''R.C.''' 
presumably Roman Catholic

==Endnote 91==

'''''f''-term''' 
i.e., "fag"

==Page 275 ==

'''Morris Code''' 
a misstatement of Morse Code

'''XSive''' 
excessive

'''cook-and-shoot''' 
i.e. cooking and shooting up drugs

==Page 276==

'''east of Atlantic City, NJ''' 
which would be either in Europe on the Atlantic Ocean somewhere -- or nowhere

'''Borderline''' 
suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_Personality_Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder]

'''organic-coke''' 
an oxymoronic term, since cocaine is a chemical

'''Charlestown''' 
a suburb to the north of Boston, right over the Charles River

'''100 grams''' 
About 3.5 ounces. The street value of 100 grams of cocaine is enormous -- after cutting on the order of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

'''D.E.A.''' 
Drug Enforcement Agency

'''MP''' 
Military Police

'''Cesar Romero''' 
Cesar Romero (1907-1994) was a Cuban-American [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003110/ actor and entertainer], best known to a generation of television viewers as the man who played the Joker on the television live-action series of [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059968/ Batman].

==Page 277==

[[Image:Easter.jpg|thumb|caption|Easter Island statues|right|125px]]
'''Easter Island statue''' 
Easter Island is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian triangle. The island is a special territory of Chile. Easter Island is famous for its monumental statues, called ''moai'', created by the Rapanui people. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_island Wikipedia]

[[Image:Prince.jpg|thumb|caption|Prince Valiant|right|125px]]

'''Prince Valiantish haircut''' 
''Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur'', or simply ''Prince Valiant'', is a comic strip created by Hal Foster, which began running in 1937. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Valiant Wikipedia]] Prince Valiant's haircut was your basic "bowl" cut, as seen at right.

==Page 278==

'''pince-nez''' 
From the French for "pinch-nose," these are glasses without temples to go over the ears.

'''2F and 1M''' 
2 females and 1 male

'''suppurating''' 
oozing pus

'''Grand Mall epilepsy''' 
Gately means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_mal grand mal].

'''(4)''' 
Notice that after listing points (a), (b), and (c) about clichés, Gately moves on to (4) rather than (d).

==Page 279==

'''dun''' 
grayish-brown

==Page 280==

'''Spiro Agnew''' 
Spiro Theodore Agnew (1918-1996) was vice president of the U.S. under Richard Nixon until forced to resign after pleading no contest to charges of charges of tax evasion and money laundering.

==Page 281==

=Home from Port Washington=

==Page 281==

'''"...bearing their shields rather than upon them..."''' 
The reference is from ''Quotes from Spartan Women'' by Mestrius Plutarchus (Plutarch; AD 45-120), the Greek historian. One translation (from ''On Sparta'' translated by Richard Talbert) cites the source as follows: "Another woman, handing over the shield to her son as he was going off on campaign said: 'Your father always used to keep this safe for you. So you must either keep it safe too, or cease to exist" (p. 187).

'''distaffs''' 
women's groups

'''dubs''' 
doubles

'''V.D.''' 
alternately this could stand for Venereal Disease

''nystagmic''' 
suffering from involuntary eye movement

'''Stockhausen''' 
German for "stick houses"; could be a nod to Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music" (Hewett 2007). He is known for his ground-breaking work in electronic music, aleatory (controlled chance) in serial composition, and musical spatialization. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockhausen Wikipedia]

'''E. A. Abbott''' 
Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926) was a British author and theologians best known for having written ''Flatland,'' which can be read [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=umhistmath;idno=ABR0624.0001.001 here]. The book tries to dramatize dimensionality by telling the story of shapes that live 2D and their interaction with 1D and 3D shapes. It's very popular with aspiring math-physics-computer-science students.

==Page 282==

'''Disciplinary Lit.''' 
a joke on the more common "interdisciplinary" academic classes

'''Goncharov's ''Oblomov''''' 
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (1812-1891) was a Russian novelist and author of ''Oblomov,'' which can be read [http://www.oblomovka.com/eldritch/iag/oblomov.htm here]. The book is about a young man too lazy to act or decide; he doesn't leave his bed for the first 150 pages.

'''listing to port''' 
a nautical term meaning "leaning leftward"

'''feeling punk''' 
Defined as "weak in spirits or health" in the ''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.''

'''tincture of benzoin''' 
A tincture is a mixture of a drug dissolved in alcohol. Benzoin is a balsamic resin used as an antiseptic and expectorant.

'''Xing''' 
presumably a synonym for copulating with someone

==Endnote 92==

'''Perth Amboy NJ''' 
a town in northern NJ, about 30 miles southwest of New York

==Page 282 (cont'd)==

'''Pierre Trudeau''' 
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau (commonly called Pierre-Elliot Trudeau; 1919-2000) was the Prime Minister of Canada for most of the 1970s and from 1980 to 1984.

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==Endnote 3==

'''cardioid''' 
In geometry, a cardioid is a plane curve produced by tracing the path of a chosen point of a circle which rolls around a fixed circle. The cardioid shape of E.T.A. has one cusp, i.e., a point on the curve that is not smooth. The ''r'' referred to by the narrator here is the radius of the moving circle.

'''Übermensch''' 
German for "superhuman"

'''Brandeis''' 
Brandeis is a Jewish-founded university in Waltham, Mass., about nine miles west of Boston, named for Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941) the first Jewish Supreme Court justice.

==Endnote 5==

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

==Endnote 5a==

'''nystagmus''' 
involuntary eye movement

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

'''loquacity''' 
talkativeness

==Endnote 6==

'''Halcion (still available in Canada, unbelievably, still)''' 
It's also still available here, though the U.K. has banned it since 1991.

==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

==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

==Endnote 19==

French: A person of terrible importance

==Endnote 21==

'''Q.v.''' 
Latin abbreviation for ''quod vide'' ("which see"), used to direct a reader elsewhere in a book. Here we are directed to...

==Endnote 23==
'''U.S.D.D.''' 
United States Department of Defense

==Endnote 24==
'''meniscus''' 
a lens with a crescent-shaped section

'''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.

==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

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

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

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

'''paucity''' 
scarcity

'''swotted''' 
studied intensively

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

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

'''penultimate''' 
second to last

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

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

===Endnote 110d===

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

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

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

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

'''and c.''' 
et cetera

===Page 1007===

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1008===

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

'''seraphic''' 
like an angel

'''lascivious''' 
appealing to sexual tastes

'''mesmerized''' 
hypnotized

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

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

===Page 1009===

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

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

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

===Page 1010===

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

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

'''Snuff''' 
chewing tobacco

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

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

===Page 1011===

[[Image:Eddy.jpg|right]]

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

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

'''Droll''' 
whimsically comic

===Page 1012===

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

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

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

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

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

'''acuity''' 
acuteness of perception

'''in utero''' 
in the womb

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1013===

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

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

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

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

'''Francophonic''' 
French-speaking

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

'''Toujours''' 
French: always

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

'''Ottawa''' 
the capital of Canada

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

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

'''flux''' 
frequent change

'''appalled''' 
dismayed

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

===Page 1014===

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

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

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

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

===Endnote 110h===

'''Gallic''' 
French

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

'''Anglophone''' 
English-speaking

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

===Endnote 110i===

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Rubensian''' 
The word more often used is "Rubenesque," but this refers to the women in paintings by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the Flemish artist. His women tended to be plump.

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

'''rapacious''' 
ravenous

===Page 1015===

'''lissome''' 
supple

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''anaerobic''' 
thriving without oxygen

===Page 1016===

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

'''Brazilian ''Nuevo Contras''''' 
These would be "new" ''contras'', the old ones having been U.S.-funded anti-communist guerrillas in Nicaragua in the 1980s.

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1017===

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

'''attendant''' 
consequent or concomitant

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

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

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

'''Infant-depredations''' 
preying on babies

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

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

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

===Page 1018===

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

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1019===

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

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

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

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

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

'''D-bases''' 
databases

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

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

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

===Page 1020===

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

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

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

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

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

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

===Page 1021===

'''hapless''' 
here meaning haphazard

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

'''jaunty''' 
smartly trim

'''toggle''' 
a type of switch

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

===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 1035===

==Endnote 211==

'''suborn''' 
to bribe or induce someone to commit a crime or misdeed
==Endnote 234 · Excerpts From Orin's Interview With ''Moment''==

===Page 1038===

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

'''NPR''' 
National Public Radio

===Page 1039===

'''dun''' 
make repeated demands on

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

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

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

===Page 1040===

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

'''schizogenic''' 
produced or formed by fission

'''pathogenic''' 
capable of producing disease

===Page 1041===

'''antidote''' 
Orin means "anecdote."

'''Quelquechose''' 
French: something

===Page 1042===

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

===Page 1043===

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

'''BPL''' 
Boston Public Library

===Page 1044===

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

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

'''guile''' 
insidious cunning

'''larval''' 
immature in its kind

'''codpieces''' 
a pouch at the crotch of tight-fitting breeches, popular during the Renaissance

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

'''prenominate''' 
aforementioned

'''apposite''' 
relevant

===Page 1048===

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

'''purposive''' 
serving some purpose

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

'''anaclitic''' 
denoting psychologic dependence

===Page 1049===

'''prevarication''' 
lying

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

mendacious 
untruthful

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

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

===Page 1050===

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

'''Steeley''' 
ditto

'''ACOAs''' 
Adult Children of Alcoholics

'''AlaTeens''' 
a support group for teenage children of alcoholics

'''ACONAs''' 
Adult Children of Narcotics Anonymous

'''ACOGs''' 
ACOG is most commonly the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, but in this context it probably stands for Adult Children of Gamblers.

'''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

'''albatross''' 
a burden, from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner''

'''Starksaddle''' 
another mistake with Steeply's name

'''perspicuous''' 
clearly expressed

===Page 1052===

'''multivalent''' 
having various meanings

'''Bainbridge''' 
This isn't even close to Steeply's name.

==Endnote 304 · The Train Game==

===Page 1055===

'''McGee-like chaos''' 
(don't know)

'''smelling a rat in the woodpile''' 
Rats often use woodpiles as cover for their burrows.[http://unexco.com/Rat.html]

'''B.P.L. ArchFax database search''' 
Possibly: Boston Public Library Archival Facsimiles.

===Page 1056===

'''QUOI?''' 
WHAT?

'''Sudetenlandization''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudetenland Wikipedia - Sudetenland]

'''G. T. Day, M.S.''' 
Geoffrey Day, of Ennet House?

===Page 1057===
'''vishnu''' 
Vishnu is the preserver/maintainer god of the Hindu Trimurti.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu]

'''''dasein''''' 
Being, existence.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasein]

===Page 1058===

'''geatalt''' 
Misprint of gestalt.

'''municipal fluoridation''' 
i.e. tap water fluoridation

===Page 1060===

'''Bernard Wayne''' 
Most likely John "N.R." Wayne's brother.

==Endnote 321 · Hal's DMZ Dream==
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'''Rise Over Run''' 
The rise (amount the line increases) of a line divided over the run (length of the line) give you the slope of the line, which is also equal in calculus to the first derivative.

'''tangent''' 
This concept is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangent#Trigonometry here].

'''Differentiation''' 
the process by which one determines the first derivative of a mathematical function

'''inexorably''' 
relentlessly

'''covers''' 
a recording or performance of a song that was first recorded or made popular by somebody else

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'''Digestive-Flora''' 
bacteria that live in the intestine and aid in digestion

'''Verdun Protestant Hospital''' 
now called [http://www.douglas.qc.ca/ Douglas Mental Health Institute]

'''''tu-sais-qué''''' 
really bad French for "you know what"

'''Human Hatchet''' 
i.e., Axford

'''impotence''' 
Probably means impetus

'''Blue Flames''' 
apparently some sort of drug
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'''O2''' 
oxygen

'''Jiminy Cricket''' 
a character from [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032910/ Pinocchio]

==Endnote 324 · John Wayne loses it==

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'''moon''' 
to spend time idly

'''camphonated''' 
more like "camphorated," i.e., contained camphor

===Endnote 324a===

'''loamy''' 
consisting of rich, arable soil

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===Page 1066 (cont'd)===

'''whorl''' 
a circular arrangement

'''funiculi''' 
plural of "funiculus," i.e., part of the spinal cord

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'''gonions''' 
the outer points on either side of the lower jaw at which the jawbone angles upward

'''uncolloped''' 
having no fat

'''latissimal''' 
referring to the [http://www.reference.com/search?r=13&q=Latissimus lattissimus dorsi] muscles

'''profligate''' 
wasteful

'''Nordicular''' 
i.e., Nordic, which is to say blond-haired and blue-eyed

'''armamentarium''' 
an arsenal, particularly used by physicians to refer to drugs or treatments

'''callow''' 
immature; inexperienced

'''entrepôt''' 
a place for storing and dispensing goods

'''dinkle''' 
a euphemism for "penis"

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'''welching''' 
swindling by not paying a debt or wager

'''three-setter''' 
a tennis game ending in three sets, rather than five, because one player has gone up 3 to 0

'''cavalier''' 
disdainful; unceremonious

'''burr''' 
here used to mean "irritant"

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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.

'''rheumy''' 
full of thin mucous

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'''Bedouins''' 
certain Arabs of the deserts of Arabia and the Levant

'''buggered''' 
being on the receiving end of anal sex

'''b/w''' 
Black and white

'''J. Gleason''' 
Jackie Gleason (1916-1987) was [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001276/ one of the great comic actors] of the 20th century.

'''Zoltan''' 
actually a Hungarian name, which means "ruler"

'''cretinous''' 
stupid

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===Endnote 324f===

'''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''' 
adenine and guanine, thymine and cytosine, the compounds that make up 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], by Rudyard Kipling: "If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you"

'''Csíkszentmihályi''' 
The name may be taken from Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (born 1934), a prominent Hungarian-American psychologist. His son Christopher is on the faculty at MIT.

'''lemma''' 
a proven statement used as a step in a mathematical proof

'''Boardman MN''' 
a town about 40 miles west-northwest of the Twin Cities

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''' "Leap like a knight of faith . . ." ''' 

A reference to Soren Kierkegaard's knight of faith. Kierkegaard, a theologian and philosopher, didn't think there could be any logical justification for believing in God. Instead the believer is required to take a leap of faith, so called because he (the believer) has no evidence for his convictions and thus must always, on some rational level, doubt them. In fact to Kierkegaard doubt defines faith, because if there were no doubt no leap of faith would be required in the first place, much like it doesn't require a leap of faith for you to believe you're actually reading this wikipedia entry right now, or that I'm not an alien sub rosa manipulating your mind for my own purposes.

'''"...Peano, Leibniz, Hilbert..."''' 
Giuseppe Peano (1858-1932) was an Italian mathematician. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a German polymath and one of the creators of calculus. David Hilbert (1862-1943) was a German mathematician.

'''"...Fourier, Gauss, LaPlace, Rickey..."''' 
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) was a French mathematician and physicist. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) was a German mathematician. Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (1749-1827) was a French mathematician and astronomer. Rickey would seem to refer to [http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/ V. Frederick Rickey], though he is contemporary while the other named men are not.

'''"...Wiener, Reimann, Frege, Green..."''' 
Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) was an American mathematician. Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) was a German mathematician. Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a German mathematician and logician. Green is probably George Green (1793-1841), English mathematician and physicist.

==Endnote 332 · DeLint slays the Peemster==

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'''jury-rigged''' 
a corruption of "jerry-rigged" (a pejorative term about Germans), which basically means rigged in a makeshift, ad hod manner

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'''nictitater''' 
the word meant here is probably "nictitate," which means to wink - so, in other words, a "wink" of stupidity-film on Watson's eyes, or just a hint

'''castigations''' 
criticisms; reprimands

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'''loupes''' 
eyepiece magnifying glasses used by jewellers

'''"may the road rise up to meet you..."''' 
part of an old Irish blessing

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'''incubus''' 
a male demon that seduces female humans

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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''' 
To ask earnestly; beg.

'''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

'''Wild Turkey''' 
[http://www.wildturkeybourbon.com/ Bourbon.]

'''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

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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 Swedish-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 albacans''''' 
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.

'''promulgated''' 
make widely known

'''imperial''' 
a small pointed beard.

'''detritus''' 
debris

'''silk-analog''' 
molecularly similar to silk

'''recursive''' 
repetitive

'''dyspeptic''' 
irritable

'''penitent''' 
showing regret for having done wrong

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'''necrosis''' 
a term for death of bodily tissue

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'''triptych''' 
a three-part art display

'''O.N.A.N.M.A.''' 
Organization of North American Nations Medical Assocation

'''actinomycete-class antibiotics''' 
antibiotics effective against Gram-positive bacteria called actinobacteria

'''CBC/PATHÉ''' 
CBC is the Canadian Broadcasting Company. PATHÉ is probably the French entertainment company Pathé Frères (Pathé Brothers).

'''''Nass''''' 
Arabic for "text"

=YTSDB - Wardine & Roy Tony=

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'''double dutch''' 
a type of rope jumping where two ropes are used

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'''Brighton Projects''' 
presumably high-rise, low-income housing in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton,_Boston,_Massachusetts Brighton]

'''Shedd Spread''' 
a brand of [http://www.countrycrock.com/products.asp margarine]

'''wraithlike''' 
A wraith is a type of ghost.

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'''nocturnal emitter''' 
a boy who has a wet dream

'''anfractuous''' 
full of twists and turns

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'''petulant''' 
unreasonably irritable

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'''''Tosca''''' 
The title of an opera by Italian composer Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (1858-1924), which premiered in 1900.

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'''agoraphobic''' 
suffering from an irrational fear of going outside

'''portcullis''' 
This is "a strong grating, as of iron, made to slide along vertical grooves at the sides of a gateway of a fortified place and let down to prevent passage" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

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'''2010h. on 1 April''' 
The medical attaché has been watching for forty-three minutes.

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=HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! cont.=
=October, YDAU - Orin in Phoenix, AZ=
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'''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.

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'''''Blattaria implacblus''''' 
''Blattaria'' is the order that contains the several genus and species of cockroaches. The Latin phrase really means "implacable cockroach."

==Page 45==

'''fantods''' 
sudden outpourings of anger, outrage, or fear

'''Chalmette''' 
an eastern suburb of New Orleans

==Page 46==

'''kippers''' 
cured herring

'''Mrs. Avril M. T. Incandenza''' 
Hal's mother is named for the first time.

'''phylacteryish''' 
Remove "-ish" and you have the English word for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefillin tefillin].

'''imprimatur''' 
sanction or approval

==Page 48==

'''Positron-Emission Topography''' 
According to Wikipedia, this is "a nuclear medicine medical imaging technique that produces a three-dimensional image or map of functional processes in the body."

'''positrons''' 
the sub-atomic particles that are the opposite of electrons

'''Fritz Lang''' 
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (1890-1976) was a Viennese-born Austrian-American director, probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022100/ M].

'''''Moment'' magazine''' 
This is a Jewish-interest [http://www.momentmag.com/ magazine].

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'''Pandora's box of worms''' 
a mixed metaphor of "Pandora's box" and "can of worms," neither of which can be shut again once they're opened

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'''one-hitter''' 
a small marijuana pipe that will provide one "hit" of marijuana per packing

==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

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'''Bob Hope''' 
Cockney rhyming slang for "dope"

'''neo-Georgian''' 
modern-day architecture that approximates that of the Georgian period, from 1714 (accession of George I of the U.K.) to 1830 (death of George III)

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'''spherocubular''' 
Another neologism, presumably meaning having characteristics of both a sphere and cube -- a three-dimension "squircle".

'''Leith''' 
A homonym of Lethe, the name of the river in Greek mythology whose water, if drunk, will erase one's memory.

'''Dr. James O. Incandenza''' 
Hal's father's full name is given for the first time.

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'''dendriurethane''' 
This substance does not actually exist. An educated guess is that it is a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyurethane polyurethane] that comes from trees, ''dendri'' being Greek for "tree."

'''twenty meters''' 
almost twenty-two yards

'''unfenestrated''' 
having no windows

'''two meter''' 
a little over 6.5 ft

'''banshee''' 
In Irish mythology, the banshee is female spirit, who acts as an omen of death. They are known for "keening," i.e., shrieking.

'''flange''' 
a plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe

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'''post-latency''' 
after the latency period that Freud posited in his four-stage theory of psychosexual development in children

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_5|Endnote 5]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_5a|Endnote 5a]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_6|Endnote 6]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_7|Endnote 7]]

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[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_8|Endnote 8]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_8a|Endnote 8a]]

'''mushrooms or X''' 
psilocybin mushrooms or MDMA (called ecstasy)

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'''Interdependent regions''' 
I.e., Canada

'''prorectors''' 
members of a management body of a university, each managing his/her specific area

'''the Show''' 
professional tennis

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'''Kodiak''' 
a brand of chewing tobacco

'''quail''' 
to shrink back in fear

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=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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[[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

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'''Marblehead''' 
A town in Essex County, Mass., home to a yachting resort. It's about 15 miles northeast of the city on the water.

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[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_17|Endnote 17]]

'''''International Affairs'' and ''Interdependent Affairs''''' 
The first magazine is real; the second is not.

'''teak chiffonier''' 
a piece of furniture, one of which you can see [http://www.artfact.com/catalog/viewLot.cfm?lotCode=4xRrS2JB here]

'''Berkshires''' 
the mountainous region in the westernmost portion of Massachusetts, a popular vacation spot

'''van Dyke''' 
a goatee

'''apocopes''' 
losses of syllables from words, particularly unstressed vowels

'''Café au Lait''' 
half coffee and half milk in a large cup, as drunk in France

'''gangrenously tight''' 
I.e., so tight as to cause gangrene, i.e., death of tissue due to lack of blood

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'''grippe''' 
flu

'''pre-British-takeover Québecois''' 
The British took over Quebec on September 8, 1760.

'''grackles''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passerine passernine] birds native to North America

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'''intercostal''' 
pertaining to the ribs or the muscles around them

'''Montreal Tulip Fest''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival Canadian Tulip Festival] actually takes place in Ottawa, Ontario, and Gatineau, Quebec, which border each other.

'''Guillaume DuPlessis''' 
A man by this name was one of the first French Calvinist settlers on the island of St. Kitts in the 17th century.

'''250 clicks due east''' 
Clicks are kilometers. Two hundred fifty km is about 155 miles.

'''lividity''' 
the change of color in skin brought on by livor mortis, an after-death phenomenon when blood settles in the body at low points of gravity

'''comme-il-faut''' 
French: As is necessary

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[[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.

'''R.I.S.C.''' 
reduced instruction set computer, i.e., a computer that takes a limited set of commands

'''Primestar''' 
a direct broadcast satellite network active in the 1990s

'''D.S.S.''' 
digital satellite system

'''pixel-free''' 
smooth and not pixelated

'''baud''' 
a unit equal to bits per second; a baud rate is the number of bits per second a modem can send/receive

'''''couture''''' 
French for "fashion"

'''nanoprocessors''' 
very small processors -- smaller than microprocessors

'''chromotography''' 
Here misspelled, chromatography is "any of various techniques for the separation of complex mixtures that rely on the differential affinities of substances for a gas or liquid mobile medium and for a stationary adsorbing medium through which they pass, such as paper, gelatin, or magnesia" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'').

'''carpal neuralgia''' 
nerve pain in the bones of the hand

'''phosphenic migraine''' 
the phenomenon of seeing lights accompanying a migraine

'''gluteal hyperadiposity''' 
fat in the buttocks

'''lumbar stressae''' 
back stress

=November 3rd, YDAU - Troeltsch's illness=
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'''Jim Troeltsch''' 
The most famous person with this surname is [http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/WeirdWildWeb/courses/mwt/dictionary/mwt_themes_705_troeltsch.htm Ernst Troeltsch] (1865-1923), a German Protestant theologian and philosopher of religion and history.

'''Narberth PA''' 
a suburb of Philadelphia, on the famous Main Line from Philadelphia to Lancaster

'''meatus''' 
a natural bodily opening

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_21|Endnote 21]]

'''OTC''' 
over the counter

'''expectorants''' 
drugs that induce phlegm-producing coughing

'''pertussives''' 
cough suppressants

'''megaspansules''' 
a combination of mega + span + capsule, these would be large, time-released capsules

==Endnote 22==

'''mucoid dessicators''' 
drugs that dry up phlegm

==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.

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'''nebulizer''' 
something that turns a liquid into a spray

'''fugue-state''' 
According to Wikipedia, a fugue state is "a state of mind characterized by abandonment of personal identity, along with the memories, personality and other identifying characteristics of individuality."

'''prolix''' 
extended to a great, unneedy length

=Nightmares=
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'''rhinoviri''' 
Wallace's plural for rhinovirus, one of dozens of variations of the virus that causes the common cold, also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus rhinoviruses]

'''mucosa''' 
An absorptive/secretive tissue layer in the body; here, in Troeltsch's throat or nose

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'''matte''' 
as an adjective, having a dull or lusterless finish

'''snuff-white''' 
Snuff is grayish to yellowish brown in color; snuff-white must be that color, but lighter.

'''reglets''' 
narrow, flat moldings

'''rheostats''' 
continuously variable electronic resistors

'''shank''' 
part of the leg between the knee and ankle

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'''Uncle Charles''' 
See ''C.T.''

'''Remington-hung''' 
Hal is referring to the fact that the office he's in is decorated with art by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), an American painter who work can be seen online [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm here].

'''Half-Windsors''' 
A type of knot used to tie a necktie. Picture of a half-Windsor [http://www.sutree.com/upload/ymxxpnyqiuyiggefhkbsq/captured.jpg here].

'''prorector''' 
See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prorector prorector]. Possibly an originally German term. Also see [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=P prorector index entry].

'''A. deLint''' 
See [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=D deLint index entry]; p. 4.

'''C.T.''' 
Uncle Charles, mentioned previously. See [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_27-63 Page 50].

'''periphery''' 
fringe; outer boundary

'''Harold Incandenza''' 
Hal's full first name is given for the first time.

'''Enfield''' 
A fictional town just west of Boston, where parts of the real town of Brighton and the Boston neighborhood of Allston exist in reality. There used to be a real Enfield in western Massachusetts but it was disincorporated in 1938.

'''court-shaped''' 
like a tennis court, presumably

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<div id="onancaa">'''O.N.A.N.C.A.A.''' </div>
Organization of North American Nations Collegiate Athletic Association -- presumably the future complement of the NCAA.

'''Wen''' 
"A benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp, containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''Aubrey F. deLint''' 
Enfield Tennis Academy prorector. See [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=D deLint index entry].

'''avers''' 
Asserts as true or alleges.

'''among the very cream''' 
as in, among the cream of the crop, or among the very best.

'''Randolph Tennis Center''' 
The [http://www.randolphtenniscenter.com/ Randolph Tennis Center] is a real place, near Tucson, Ariz. and the main campus of the University of Arizona.

'''El Con Marriott''' 
"El Con" is short for "El Conquistador," and while there is a Hilton El Conquistador Hotel in Tucson, the Marriot has a different name.

'''top-hole''' 
British exclamation meaning first-rate or excellent

'''WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational''' 
A fictional junior tennis tournament, sponsored by Whataburger®, a real fast-food chain in the southwest U.S. See p. 14.

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'''"...the fat women in the Viking hat having sung..."''' 
Another way of saying, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." This expression refers to opera, particularly those by Richard Wagner.

'''62.5%''' 
Out of eight people in the room (including Hal, three deans, the Director of Composition, deLint, and C.T.), five are looking at Hal. Hal not being able to look at himself, two people are not looking at Hal, presumably deLint and C.T.

'''Edmonton''' 
Presumably Edmonton, Alberta.

'''mottle''' 
Spots of color.

'''circumflex''' 
A circumflex is a diacritical mark, as seen in the French verb être (to be). Presumably, the dean's eyebrows have taken on this shape.

'''Pac 10''' 
The Pacific 10 athletic conference, the other members of which are: Arizona State Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Oregon, Oregon State Univ., Stanford Univ., UCLA, USC, Univ. of Washington, and Washington State Univ.
 
'''"I stare carefully into the Kekuléan knot of the middle Dean's necktie."''' [[image:wiki.png|frame|August Kekulé (left), the self-consuming snake (middle) and the benzene molecular structure it inspired (right)]]
"Kekuléan" is not a type of knot. To Hal, the knot he is focusing on resembles the self-consuming, annular shape of the snake that inspired August Kekulé's discovery of benzene's molecular structure. August Kekule (1829-1896), a renowned German organic chemist, was the principal founder of the theory of chemical structure. His most famous work, the discovery of benzene molecule's structure, is said to be inspired by a dream. "Kekulé's Dream" was that of a self-devouring snake, the shape of which he used to describe the benzene ring. Hal's intense focus on this annular, or ring-like, part of the tie is the first reference to annular shapes.

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'''aviarian''' 
This word, not found in dictionaries, would seem to mean "of or pertaining to an aviary," an aviary being where birds are kept.

'''phonetic perspective''' 
Judging from the way the words sound when spoken.

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'''lapidary''' 
"Marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression: lapidary prose" (''thefreedictionary.com''). The original meaning refers to the cutting and polishing of precious stones. Wallace favored this word to describe well-wrought prose, and used it often himself in interviews and readings.

'''effete''' 
Overrefined.

'''Prescriptive Grammar''' 
This term describes a school of thought that there are rules of grammar that should be obeyed and taught. Wallace wrote at length about the thorny questions surrounding this subject in the famous essay, "Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage," which can be found at http://www.harpers.org/archive/2001/04/0070913

'''Post-Fourier Transformations''' 
Named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician, a Fourier transformation is "a certain linear operator that maps functions to other functions" (Wikipedia). Post-Fourier would refer to those transformations that came after Fourier.

'''Holographically Mimetic''' 
Approximating reality using holograms.

'''Stasis''' 
Inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing forces [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stasis]. 

'''Montague Grammar''' 
Named for Richard Merett Montague (1930-1971), an American logician, this is an approach to semantics that suggests that the semantics of natural languages is essentially the same as those of formal languages, such as logic or computer programming.

'''Physical Modality''' 
Modality, in linguistics, refers to sign theory. Physical modality would, therefore, be either how a physical thing is represented by a sign or how any idea is represented by something physical.

'''Tertiary''' 
Third-level, after primary and secondary.

'''Justinian''' 
The era of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565).

'''sotto''' 
Italian for "below." Particularly when used in the phrase, "sotto voce," it means speaking in a low voice, under one's breath.

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'''Oxbridge Quadrivium-Trivium''' 
Oxbridge refers to the two oldest colleges in the U.K., Oxford and Cambridge. The Quadrivium are the four academic subjects of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. The Trivium are three disciplines, i.e., grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

'''hyperthrophied''' 
Growth of tissue, especially muscle. Although there are many causes, the most common is exercise. (see, contra, ''atrophied''.)

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'''insigniated''' 
A neologism, meaning infused with insignia (a distinguishing mark or sign, many graphic logos are insignia).

'''N.A.A.U.P.''' 
North American Associaton of University Professors, the presumed follower to the American Assocation of University Professors.

'''de moi''' 
French: from me.

'''"...who use whomsoever as a subject..."''' 
"Whosoever" would be the proper subjective form of this word. Hal is saying that the Deans, even with their limited grammatical abilities, would find the recent essays appalling.

'''hip-shot''' 
one hip lower than the other.

'''capillary webs''' 
The smallest networks of blood vessels, where arteries turn into veins.

'''defacatory''' 
As if eliminating solid bodily waste.

'''Don''' 
A mafia boss.

'''RICO''' 
An acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute used primarily to charge organized crime figures in criminal conspiracies.

=Account of young Hal eating the mold=
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'''vortexing''' 
whirling

'''nepotistic''' 
relating to the practice of favoring relatives or friends

'''Brewster's-Angle light''' 
Named for Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist; the angle at which non-polarized light striking a surface will reflect polarized light. Presumably a desk lamp is positioned at such an angle. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle more].

'''Weston''' 
A suburb of Boston, about 17 miles west of the city

'''Orin''' 
Hal's older brother and the middle name of Hal & Orin's father, James O. Incandenza, literally "a tree" or "pale."

'''Rototiller''' 
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_tiller rotary tiller]

'''Pooh-wear''' 
Children's clothing bearing Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon images or graphics, presumably pajamas in this instance

[[Image:poohwear.jpg|thumb|Pooh-wear Pajamas|right]]

'''hirsute''' 
hairy

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'''presbyopic''' 
Literally "old-eyed," this is the inability to focus one's eyes as one grows older

'''Rototrembling''' 
A Wallace neologism (and portmanteaux) to describe the effects (shaking hands) of prolonged operation of a Rototiller

'''caustic''' 
adj., biting, stinging, sarcastic

'''plumb''' 
adj., straight or true; in line with

'''martial''' 
war-like

'''ideogram''' 
an idea represented by a shape, e.g., a stop sign, known by its eight-sided configuration

=Hal at the University, cont.=
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'''ROM-drives''' 
ROM is an acronym for "Read Only Memory", a class of computer data storage. In the real world, best known in the name of the non-music version of Compact Discs (CD-ROM). CD-ROMs were becoming a popular way to distribute software (and pre-Internet computerized encyclopedias and atlases) when Infinite Jest was written, and even then it was predicted that DVD-ROMs or some other video/data disk would eventually supplant them. In more technical contexts, ROM refers to a specific variety of computer chips, but since Hal is talking about "drives", it seems likely that he means something more like a CD.

'''Kirkegaard''' 
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a 19th century Danish philosopher and one of the progenitors of existential philosophy

'''Camus''' 
Albert Camus was a 20th century Algerian-born French author of existentialist texts.

'''Dennis Gabor''' 
Dennis Gabor, born Gábor Dénes, was a 20th century Hungarian physicist who invented holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

'''"...Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror..."''' 
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a British philosopher and author of Leviathan. In it, he suggests that the only escape from living in a state of nature that is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short" is to build societies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was the Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, in which he advances the same argument but idealizes the state of nature.

'''Hegel''' 
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher.

'''creatus''' 
Latin for "creation," the line over the a indicates the vowel is pronounced as in "hate" rather than in "father."

'''pinion''' 
v. tr., "To restrain or immobilize (a person) by binding the arms" (''thefreedictionary.com'')

'''parquet''' 
An in-laid wood pattern, often a block-pattern, typically in flooring. Also, in France, the branch of the law that deals with the persecution of crime.

'''Nunn Bush''' 
A brand of shoes, generally pricey.

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'''half nelson''' 
a wrestling hold with the offensive competitor's arm wrapped under the opponent's arm and over the opponent's neck from behind, allowing an opponent to be immobilized or levered from behind

'''Heimlich''' 
The Heimlich maneuver, named for contemporary American physician Henry Jay Heimlich, dislodges food from a choking person's trachea by applying sharp pressure to the abdomen.

'''roil''' 
To move about in whirling manner.

'''pases''' 
This is the plural of pase, a Spanish word used in bullfighting to denote the movement of the matador's cape in drawing in the bull.

'''supine''' 
lying on one's back

'''enfilade''' 
a word used to denote a type of military gunfire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its length. For instance, a column of marching troops is enfiladed if fired on from the front rather than the side.

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<div id="whataburger">'''Whataburger'''</div> [[Image:What.jpg|thumb|100px|Whataburger logo|right]]
Synechdoche for the the fictional "WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational," an annual juniors' tennis tournament held in the novel in Tucson, AZ. (A Corpus Christi invention, [http://www.whataburger.com/ Whataburger®] is a well-established local burger chain in Pheonix (with 28 franchisees in AZ in 2009) but whose real fan base hails from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Pre-European_era Texas].)

'''viscous''' 
Sticky, thick and liquid.

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'''espadrilles''' 
shoes popular in Latin American with rope for soles

'''savant''' 
Mentally handicapped but brilliant in one specific way.

'''shunt''' 
To shove.

'''kangaroo-interview''' 
Alludes to kangaroo-court, a sham legal proceeding.

'''leonine''' 
lion-like

'''cirri''' 
plural of cirrus, a type of cloud

'''vectors''' 
Direct paths to desired locations

'''martinet''' 
a strict disciplinarian

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'''ultra-mach''' 
Named for Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a Bohemian-Austrian physicist, the mach unit is a unit for the speed of sound. "Ultra-mach" would apply to a plane flying at several times the speed of sound.

'''barnwood''' 
This word refers to "aged and weathered boards, esp. those salvaged from dismantled barns" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).

'''starboard list''' 
Employing the nautical term for "right" (starboard), the woman referred to tends to move right as she tries to move forward.

'''gigantism''' 
excessive or abnormally large growth in humans, also ''giantism''

'''parodic''' 
having the qualities of a parody

'''infantophile''' 
one subject to infantophilia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantophilia#Diagnosis pedophilia]), but may simply reference the earlier Inner Infant group

'''incisionish''' 
a neologism meaning "of or like an incision"

'''hypophalangial''' 
Wallace neologism describing a smallness or absence of fingers or hands

'''Himself's''' 
An Incandenza family nickname for Hal's father, James O. Incandenza; the first reference to James O. Incandenza in the novel

'''antenna''' 
Referring here to the portable phone's antenna.

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'''"...Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head..."''' 
See Hamlet, Act Five, Scene One.

'''Venus Williams''' 
At the time this novel was published, Venus Williams would have been sixteen years old.

'''Dymphna''' 
Dymphna was a 7th century Irish saint. Her feast day is May 15. She is the patron saint of mental illness professionals, epilectics, and the mentally ill, among others.

'''Petropolis Kahn''' 
Petropolis is Greek for "city of stone" or "city of Peter." Petrópolis is a city in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. A treaty was signed there on November 11, 1903, ending hostilities between Bolivia and Brazil.

"Kahn" is a variant on the Jewish name for a priest, i.e., kohen.

'''etiology''' 
the cause of a disease

'''Socratic method'''
a technique of teaching by asking students questions, attributed to Socrates' pedagogy in ancient Greece

'''O.E.D. VI's count''' 
This is a reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition.

'''nonarchaic''' 
still in use, as distinct from those dictionary words considered archaic and not part of the modern language

'''Latinate''' 
deriving from Latin

'''Saxonic''' 
deriving from Old English

'''quick-bit''' 
Wallace neologism for "bitten to the quick", as in nails gnawed down to where they emerged from the fingertips

'''jou''' 
the sound of a Spanish-speaker's pronunciation of "you"

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'''girder''' 
An upright beam

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'''200 grams''' 
a little over seven ounces

'''"...using just audio..."''' 
The implication here is that in the time of the book, there are videophones.

'''Allston''' 
A part of Boston proper, west of downtown and across the Charles river from Cambridge. The fictional Enfield most likely occupies part of what is in reality Allston.

'''high-resin dope''' 
generally high-quality marijuana, containing a high volume of resins where THC in marijuana plants is produced

'''harelip''' 
vernacular, arguably offensive, term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate cleft lip]

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'''TP''' 
"Teleputer", as used elsewhere in the text. Assumed to be a hybridized communications/entertainment device.

'''"own marijuana"''' 
To physically posses marijuana.

'''modem''' 
used as a verb, communicating with the office via modem, an early but ubiquitous tool for transmitting data between servers and client/servers.

'''e-note''' 
electronic note, likely not a literal reference to an actual electronic communication, conceived in the pre-Internet era

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'''Mountie''' 
a member of the [http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police], their equivalent of the FBI

'''Porter Square, Cambridge''' 
a neighborhood of Cambridge bordering on Somerville, about a mile from [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University], which is on the Somerville/Medford border

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'''convulsive''' 
Experiencing convulsions, violent involuntary physical shaking

'''Wedekind festival''' 
This would presumably be a festival celebrating the plays of German playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864-1914), a proto-expressionist.

'''rapacious''' 
Aggressively greedy.

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'''pleurisy''' 
inflammation of the pleurae, the membranes surrounding the lungs

'''Interlace viewer''' 
A television-based home entertainment system, ubiquitous in the time the novel is set, which plays copy-protected "cartridges" custom-ordered by viewers, invented by [[L#"Lace"|Noreen Lace-Forché]]

'''raptly''' 
with intense attention to

'''cartridge''' 
See ''Interlace viewer'', above

'''debauch''' 
an episode of debauchery, engaging in excessive, pleasure-seeking, often sexual- or drug/alcohol-related

'''120 grams''' 
about 4.2 ounces

'''debased''' 
of low character and lacking integrity

'''Tito Puente''' 
[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/tito_puente/ Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr.], an internationally known Puerto Rican jazz musician.

'''Marlborough Street''' 
Marlborough Street runs through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston,_Massachusetts Back Bay] area of Boston.

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'''appropriation''' 
taking something as one's own, without permission

'''methamphetamine hydrochloride''' 
As the endnote on p. 983 tells us, this the chemical name for crystal meth. Calling to mind that Infinite Jest was published in 1996, don't think crystal meth is a new phenomenon.

==Page 24==

'''pastiche''' 
a mixture of varying style or content

'''magisculed''' 
typo or intentional misspelling of ''majuscule'', an initial capital letter, often large-type to introduce a section of written material; Wallace's use of the noun in a verb form is likely a neologism (especially if the alternate spelling is retained)

'''50 grams''' 
about 1.75 ounces

'''hydroponic''' 
grown in water without soil

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'''stein''' 
a drinking mug

'''E.W.D. land barge''' 
acronym for "Empire Waste Disposal"; a garbage truck

'''phallocentric''' 
biased from a male point of view

'''half a meter''' 
nearly 20 inches

'''carb''' 
Short for "carburetor," just as the carburetor in an internal combustion engine mixes air with gas to allow combustion, the carburetor on a water pipe allows one to draw air in with marijuana smoke.

'''oblique''' 
slanted, like an acute or obtuse angle, not a right-angle

'''teleputer''' 
Combination television and computer, generic term for an Interlace player, see also [[T#"TP"|TP]]

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'''jibe''' 
correspond with; match up

'''oblique''' 
indirect or dishonest

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'''desiccated''' 
dried out

'''convulsively''' 
As if struck by a convulsion; moving suddenly and without coordination.

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'''capricious''' 
subject to acting on a whim

'''Caillou Bay''' 
You can see a map of southern Louisiana [http://www.mobilegeographics.com/tideimages/tidesta5222.png here].

'''Cajun''' 
a French-speaking people dwelling in the woods of Louisiana, having emigrated there from French Canada two hundred years ago

'''Taurus PT9''' 
You can see this pistol [http://www.gunsamerica.com/976925959/Guns/Pistols/Taurus-Pistols-Revolvers/Pistols/Steel-Frame/Taurus_PT9_380.htm here].

'''unsafetied''' 
The gun's safety is off.

'''longshoremen''' 
Dock workers who load and unload ships.

'''caricaturesque''' 
pertaining to a depiction of someone that exaggerates certain facial or bodily characteristics

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'''subsumption''' 
the act of placing something under a more comprehensive category

'''''rôle''''' 
This is how we used to spell "role" in English and how it's still spelled in French.

'''Edmonton''' 
the capital of Alberta

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'''malice''' 
desire to do harm

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'''vacuous''' 
lacking in ideas or intelligence

'''Maxwell House''' 
a brand of coffee

'''M. Kemp''' 
as in Monsieur Kemp, i.e., Jack Kemp, implying he was assassinated with a bomb in his house

'''Very Large Satan''' 
or "Great Satan," if you will

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'''''utilitaire''''' 
utilitarian, i.e., providing the greatest good for the greatest number

'''Comme on dit''' 
French: Like they say

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'''chasm''' 
a gorge or deep cleft in the earth's surface

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'''Habitant ''soupe aux pois''''' 
''Habitant'' is Québecois French for "farmer," though it seems like a brand name here. ''Soupe aux pois'' is pea soup, very popular in Québec.

'''parodically''' 
in a sarcastic or mocking way

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'''Safeway''' 
a chain of supermarkets

'''burrs''' 
protruding, ragged edges

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'''''ami''''' 
French: friend

'''''un autre''''' 
an other, i.e., an outsider

'''supine''' 
on one's back

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'''ponderous''' 
awkward or unwieldy

==Endnote 173==

==Endnote 304==

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'''''Veuillez Recycler Ce Contenant''''' 
French: Please Recycle This Container

'''''en ce moment''''' 
French: at this moment

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'''''D'éclaisant''''' 
not a real French word

'''maffick''' 
to celebrate boisterously

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'''''Entre nous''''' 
French: Between us

=The Rest of the Eric Clipperton Story=

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'''slider''' 
a breaking pitch in baseball that curves down and out, with much more speed than a typical curveball

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

'''Forest Lawn NNY''' 
a town in New York state, on Lake Ontario

'''cuirass''' 
a piece of armor covering the heart

'''PowerBook''' 
an IBM brand of laptop computer

'''vig''' 
interest, as on a loan from a loan shark

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'''CPR''' 
Cardiopulonary resuscitation

'''Winchester''' 
a city in Massachusetts about 8.5 miles northwest of Boston

'''counsel''' 
purpose, plan, or design

'''whey''' 
the liquid remaining after milk has been curdled and strained

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'''miasma''' 
a noxious atmosphere

'''cordite''' 
a propellant used in place of gunpowder in firearms

'''Crawfordsville, Indiana''' 
a town about 45 miles northwest of Indianapolis

'''Veedersburg IN''' 
this town lies 22 miles west of Crawfordsville on Route 74

'''brandykinetic''' 
with slowed movements due to neurologic dysfunction

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'''vicissitude''' 
a change or variation in the course of something

'''votaried''' 
filled with devotion

=Gately's Other Job=

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'''Jamaica Plain''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_Plain,_Massachusetts section] of Boston

'''cab of his 4 X 4''' 
A 4 X 4 is a pick-up truck and the cab is where people sit.

'''sub-table''' 
under the table, i.e., off the books so that taxes don't have to be paid

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'''colostomy''' 
a procedure by which feces exit the body via a hole in a person's side into a bag, rather than via the anus

'''Kaposi's Sarcoma''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaposi%27s_sarcoma type of viral cancer] that causes skin lesions

'''B&E''' 
Breaking and Entry, i.e., burglary

'''finski''' 
slang: $5 bill

'''Kools''' 
a brand of menthol cigarettes

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'''mobilely upward''' 
that is to say, upwardly mobile

'''witticism''' 
a funny remark

=More O.N.A.N. History=

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'''Davis''' 
a city in California about 15 miles west of Sacramento

'''Quik''' 
a powder mix used to make chocolate milk

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'''NaCN''' 
sodium cyanide

'''rivet''' 
a type of pin or bolt; DFW is likely playing off the phrase "dead as a doornail" here

'''acrostics''' 
These are "set(s) of words arranged in a square such that they read the same horizontally and vertically" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'').

'''dewimpled''' 
like defrocked, except for a nun

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'''Benedict Arnold''' 
Benedict Arnold V (1741-1801) was an American general during the Revolutionary War who turned traitor for the British.

==Endnote 176==

'''Minister of Environment and Resource-Development Enterprises''' 
The initials spell ''merde'', which is French for "shit."

'''macrocartographic''' 
immense and involved with maps

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'''Sino-temporal-endorsement''' 
Chinese-style-time-sponsorship; a reference to China's use of animal signs to date the years (Year of the Dog, Pig, Rat, etc.); the obvious inspiration or model for [[Subsidized Time]].

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

'''orts''' 
scraps of food

'''CONCORD''' 
the capital of New Hampshire

'''CLEMSON''' 
a [http://www.clemson.edu/ university] in South Carolina

'''Rantoul IL''' 
a town 125 miles south-southwest of Chicago

'''Ithaca NY''' 
a town in upstate New York, home to [http://www.cornell.edu/ Cornell University]

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'''camp''' 
deliberately artificial or vulgar -- sometimes referring specifically to gay humor

'''robber-baron''' 
Wikipedia defines robber-barons as "businessmen and bankers who dominated their respective industries and amassed huge personal fortunes, typically as a direct result of pursuing various allegedly anti-competitive or unfair business practices."

'''Ollster''' 
a nickname for Oliver, like "Ollie"

'''"...one slim cat with an outsized leg..."''' 
i.e., Orin Incandenza

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'''placative''' 
intending to pacify or calm

'''quadrennial''' 
occurring every four years

'''pulchritudinous''' 
good-looking

'''chapeau''' 
hat

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'''cheri''' 
French: my dear

'''Cerberus''' 
in Greek mythology, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus three-headed dog] that guards Hades

'''Achilles' tendon''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles%27_tendon tendon] in the back of the leg, near the foot

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'''canter''' 
an easy gallop

'''Ixnayish''' 
Remove -ish, and you have Pig Latin for "nix."

'''H.U.D.''' 
Housing and Urban Development

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'''Bishop Allen''' 
Bishop Richard Allen was a former slave and American abolitionist.

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'''promoted''' 
i.e., stolen

'''otiose''' 
of no use

'''chop''' 
helicopter

==Page 718==

'''nonchalant''' 
coolly unconcerned

==Page 719==

'''Yellow Brick Road''' 
a reference to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/ The Wizard of Oz]

=Two Ways of Going=

==Page 719==

'''technical interview''' 
i.e., torture

'''''abeyant''''' 
Not a real French word, it's used here to mean "in abeyance," i.e., suspension of activity

=November 14th, YDAU - Poor Tony runs from Ruth van Cleeve, cont.=

==Page 719==

'''careered''' 
ran at full speed

'''veronica''' 
a bullfighting maneuver where the matador swings his cape away from the charging bull

==Page 720==

'''jay-ran''' 
punning on "jaywalk," it means running across the street not at a corner

'''feinted''' 
acted in a way to cause a diversion

==Page 721==

'''''zuckung''''' 
German: convulsion

'''Aigners''' 
a Parisian brand of fine shoes, handbags, etc. - in this case it appears to be in reference to shoes

'''stitch''' 
the very least bit

'''ON PARLE LE PORTUGAIS ICI''' 
French: Portuguese spoken here

'''chignon''' 
a roll of hair at the back of the head or nape of the neck

=AFR at Antitoi's=

==Page 721==

'''sartorially''' 
with regard to dress

==Endnote 300==

'''café au lait''' 
hot coffee served with an equal amount of hot milk

==Page 722==

'''Glen Almond''' 
a section of Québec City

'''''coffre d'amas''''' 
French: waste basket

'''RELACHE''' 
French: relax

'''Tassigny''' 
This character's name is perhaps taken from Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny (1889-1952), a French military hero of WWII.

'''EEG''' 
electroencephalogram

'''''Donc. D'accord.''''' 
French: So. Okay.

==Endnote 301==

'''M.B.A.''' 
Master's of Business Administration''' 
'''litigatory''' 
having to do with legal proceedings

'''OS''' 
operating system

==Page 722 (cont'd)==

'''''frappe''''' 
French: punch or kick

==Page 723==

'''U.S.B.S.S.''' 
probably United States Bureau of Special Services

=A Moment With Fortier=

==Page 723==

'''perambulation''' 
walking

=November 14th, YDAU - Joelle's Teeth=

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==Page 724==

'''selvage''' 
the edge of a fabric

'''lampblack''' 
A pigment taken from oil resin, football players wear it below their eyes.

'''canines''' 
the eye teeth

=A.F.R. at Antitoi's, after locating the copy=

==Page 724==

'''embossed''' 
decorated with a raised design

==Page 725==

'''Desjardins''' 
A fairly popular French surname, it may have been inspired here by Gabriel-Alphonse Desjardins (1854-1920), Québecois founder of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desjardins_Group Desjardins Group].

'''''Bôf''''' 
an interjection in French expressing lack of interest

==Page 726==

'''"...an employee at the Academy of Tennis..."''' 
This would very likely be Poutrincourt.

'''Mlle. Luria P----''' 
This would very likely be the "Swiss" Girl Orin is sleeping with.

'''alacrity''' 
willingness; quickness

'''''demi-maisons''''' 
French: a created word for half-way houses.

'''25-km.''' 
about 15.5 miles

==Page 727==

'''orthopedic saw''' 
a saw used to cut bones

'''econometrics''' 
the application of quantitative and statistical methods to the study of economics

'''''de coeur''''' 
French: of the heart

'''''c'est ça''''' 
French: that's that

==Page 728==

'''sybaritically''' 
in the manner of one who engages in sensual pleasure

=Lenz Still on the Prowl=

==Page 728==

'''Sterno''' 
a brand of denatured and jellied alcohol used for cooking, as well as drinking by many street alcoholics

'''Kryptonite''' 
either a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptonite_lock Kryptonite lock] or a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptonite Kryptonite] of ''Superman'' fame

==Page 729==

'''extruding''' 
i.e., exuding

'''agnate''' 
Maybe he means "argot"?

'''fence''' 
to sell stolen goods

=Marathe at Ennet House=

==Page 729==

'''thrift''' 
frugality

==Page 730==

'''''de l'infere''''' 
probably a Québecois expression, it sounds like the French for "from Hell"

'''''inutile''''' 
useless

==Page 731==

'''cheesecloth''' 
lightweight cotton of open texture

'''velour''' 
a felt made to resemble velvet

==Page 732==

'''I-93''' 
Interstate 93 runs from St. Johnsbury, Vt., to Canton, Mass., just outside Boston.

'''Lac de Deux Montaignes''' 
French: Lake of Two Mountains — near Montreal

'''''Le Culte du Prochain Train''''' 
French: Cult of the Next Train

==Endnote 304==

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==Page 733==

'''Levi #501''' 
once-popular button-fly jeans by Levi Strauss

'''Trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid''' 
Apparently this acid is indeed higher in the sweat of schizophrenics.

==Page 734==

'''''Potable''''' 
It does mean "drinkable" in English.

==Page 735==

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'''payloaders''' 
a type of [http://www.combination.ph/payloader.html construction equipment]

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'''agnate''' 
paternal, related on the father's side
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=Feral Hamsters=

==Page 93==

'''Champaign IL''' 
He probably attends the [http://www.uiuc.edu/ University of Illinois] main campus.

'''Ward and June''' 
The mother and father's names on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_It_To_Beaver Leave It to Beaver]

'''pedalferrous''' 
apparently a neologism, the word would mean "of or pertaining to foot metal," i.e., fast driving

'''fulvous''' 
in color, yellow-gray to yellowish-brown

'''teratogenic''' 
having an effect on the development of a fetus

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 93==

''''''n sûr''''' 
An elision of ''bien sûr'', French for "of course"

==Page 94==

'''Sterling UL35 9 mm machine pistol with Mag Na Port silencer''' 
Sterling is a real British gun manufacturer and [http://www.oegmag.com/Magnaport.asp 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

'''acutance''' 
the edge contrast of an image

'''Michael Pemulis, ..., clear his throat deeply''' 
this grammatical error appears shortly after a discussion of a class on grammar

==Page 97==

'''halation''' 
blurring of a visual image by glare

'''quiescent''' 
still or at rest

=Marathe & Steeply, cont.=

==Page 97==

'''digitate''' 
having fingers

=ETA Locker Room, cont.=

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==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.

'''suppliants''' 
A suppliant is a petitioner.

==Page 99==

'''sienna''' 
yellowish- to reddish-brown

'''louvered''' 
with angled slats

'''thoracic''' 
having to do with the chest

'''atavistically''' 
Atavism means reversion to an earlier evolutionary type.

'''piebald''' 
having patches of different colors

==Page 100==

'''cognomen''' 
a nickname

'''inflation-generative grammar''' 
i.e. a set of rules to generates phrases of increasing emphasis

==Page 101==

'''semion''' 
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, Brylcreem was a brand name of men's hair grooming product.

'''zygomatics''' 
the [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].

'''Johnny Mathis's "Chances Are"''' 
available on [http://wm01.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=33:d95txqehldfe these recordings]

==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==

The disease is named for Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884-1983), American gastroenterologist.

==Page 103, cont.==

'''carminative''' 
antispasmodic

'''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==

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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.

'''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."

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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

==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''' 
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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'''Stan Smith''' 
Born in 1946, Smith is a retired professional tennis player, having won Wimdledon 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==

'''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''''' 
A Latin pun on ''E pluribus unum'' ("From many, one"), the U.S. motto. This would mean "From one, many."

==Page 113==

'''Solipsism''' 
a kind of narcissism based on the idea that one's own mind is all one can ever truly know

'''''ballet de se''''' 

French: Ballet of (itself)

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'''plateaux''' 
the proper French plural of "plateau," rather than "plateaus"

'''slog''' 
to drive with blows

==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''' 
double-edged

'''accretive''' 
of or pertaining to the process of natural growth

'''autonomical''' 
of or pertaining to the reflexive nervous system

==Page 118==

'''machine-language''' 
a coding system for computers that requires no compiling before running

'''Orinda CA''' 
city of northern California, in the Bay Area, about 18 miles east-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 a thrashing (at tennis), particularly hitting the ball at your opponent

==Page 119==

'''Mein kinder''' 
German: My children

==Page 120==

'''Wagenknecht''' 
sort of a formal German word for "chauffeur."

'''guilloche''' 
This is "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'').

'''A la contraire''' 
A French mistake: Should be ''au contraire'' (masculine)

'''gingival mound''' 
mound of gum tissue

==Page 121==

'''aperçu''' 
an insight

=Mario Incandenza's romantic experience=
==Page 121==

'''two hundred kilos''' 
over 440 pounds

'''Southpaw''' 
left-handed

==Page 122==

'''coiffure''' 
hairdo

'''osseously''' 
Osseous means "bone-like."

'''reticulate''' 
netted

'''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

==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"

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==Endnote 3==

'''cardioid''' 
In geometry, a cardioid is a plane curve produced by tracing the path of a chosen point of a circle which rolls around a fixed circle. The cardioid shape of E.T.A. has one cusp, i.e., a point on the curve that is not smooth. The ''r'' referred to by the narrator here is the radius of the moving circle.

'''Übermensch''' 
German for "superhuman"

'''Brandeis''' 
Brandeis is a Jewish-founded university in Waltham, Mass., about nine miles west of Boston, named for Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941) the first Jewish Supreme Court justice.

==Endnote 5==

'''N.B.''' 
abbreviation for Latin ''nota bene'', i.e., "note well," stated before an important example or corollary point

==Endnote 5a==

'''nystagmus''' 
involuntary eye movement

'''entrepôt''' 
French for "warehouse," this is where foreign merchandise can be purchased duty-free

'''loquacity''' 
talkativeness

==Endnote 6==

'''Halcion (still available in Canada, unbelievably, still)''' 
It's also still available here, though the U.K. has banned it since 1991.

==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

==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

==Endnote 19==

French: A person of terrible importance

==Endnote 21==

'''Q.v.''' 
Latin abbreviation for ''quod vide'' ("which see"), used to direct a reader elsewhere in a book. Here we are directed to...

==Endnote 23==
'''U.S.D.D.''' 
United States Department of Defense

==Endnote 24==
'''meniscus''' 
a lens with a crescent-shaped section

'''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.

==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==

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'''Hush Puppy''' 
a [http://www.hushpuppies.com/en-US/Main.aspx brand name] of shoes

'''squeegeed''' 
cleaned with a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeegee squeegee]

'''truncated''' 
cut short

===Page 1005===

'''R&R''' 
Rest and Relaxation

'''ex officio''' 
Latin: by virtue of one's office

''''The Yellow Rose (of Texas)'''' 
Dickinson's poems can also be read to the meter of "Mary Had a Little Lamb."

'''falsetto''' 
a man's voice when he pitches it falsely high to sound like a woman

'''riffling''' 
turning pages quickly

'''Ample make this bed''' 
The full poem is [http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1337.html here].

===Page 1006===

'''quotidian''' 
commonplace

[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.-Q.M.D.]]

'''pistil''' 
that part of a flower that is analogous to the female reproductive organs

'''Sikorski''' 
C.T. is probably comparing the bee (which flies) to an airplane (which also flies) produced by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_Aircraft Sikorsky Aircraft].

'''paucity''' 
scarcity

'''swotted''' 
studied intensively

'''wakked''' 
I have no idea.

'''unperspicous''' 
not clearly expressed or presented

'''penultimate''' 
second to last

'''whingeing''' 
complaining (pronounced to rhyme with "jing")

'''xerophagy''' 
eating of bread and water only

===Endnote 110d===

'''anti-sclerotic''' 
tending to ward of hardening of tissues (as of arteries, here)

===Page 1006 (cont'd)===

'''maunder''' 
to talk incoherently or aimlessly

'''Solecism''' 
nonstandard or incorrect grammatical usage

'''and c.''' 
et cetera

===Page 1007===

'''20 X 25 centimeter''' 
very close to 8" x 10"

'''Jethro Bodine''' 
a character on the television show [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055662/ The Beverly Hillbillies]

'''proviso''' 
a clause, usually in a document, making a stipulation or qualification

'''"...isn't even iambic, much less quatrameter/trimeter..."''' 
This is to say that the poetry of Dickinson is not in iambic pentameter, also known as verse. This is the style of poetry Shakespeare is written in ("Now is the winter of our discontent") -- ten syllables, and five iambs (feet, or beats) per line (thus pentameter). Quatrameter/trimeter would be the rhythm scheme of "Yellow Rose of Texas" and "Marry Had a Little Lamb."

'''dink''' 
a synonym for a drop shot, which in tennis is a light tap just over the net

===Page 1008===

'''obverse''' 
the more conspicuous of two possible choices

'''seraphic''' 
like an angel

'''lascivious''' 
appealing to sexual tastes

'''mesmerized''' 
hypnotized

'''skitter''' 
to move rapidly along a surface

'''knight-errant''' 
a knight on a quest to prove his chivalry

===Page 1009===

'''Ainsi''' 
French: so to speak

'''breviary''' 
a prayer and hymn book

'''"Kitchens and heat..."''' 
which is to say, if you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen

===Page 1010===

'''Gloeckner''' 
German for "ringer," taking that in either of the meanings it has in English

'''3-kilo''' 
a little over 7.25 pounds

'''Snuff''' 
chewing tobacco

'''Andover''' 
as in [http://www.boardingschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/5 Philips Academy Andover], alma mater of both presidents Bush

'''"Dickinson's about as Transcendalist as Poe."''' 
which is to say, not at all

===Page 1011===

[[Image:Eddy.jpg|right]]

'''R.C.M.P.''' 
Royal Canadian Mounted Police

'''Nelson Eddy''' 
Nelson Ackerman Eddy (1901-1967) was an American singer and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0248904/ movie star]. As far as what he looked like, see right.

'''Droll''' 
whimsically comic

===Page 1012===

'''nanomicroscopy''' 
the looking at extremely small things (nano- being the prefix for "one-billionth") through a microscope

'''Thevet''' 
This is probably a reference to André de Thevet (1502-1590), a French priest and explorer. Though never in Canada, he relied on French-Canadian explorers' work for his own voyages to South America.

'''"...the 5 on the French Achievement boards..."''' 
The highest possible score on the French Advanced Placement Exam (for which one can receive college credit) is 5.

'''Boswell''' 
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (1740-1795), was the Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson.

'''E cup''' 
a very large breast size

'''acuity''' 
acuteness of perception

'''in utero''' 
in the womb

'''thalidomide''' 
a drug developed to treat morning sickness in pregnant women that ended up causing babies to be born missing limbs

'''Condé Nast''' 
one of the largest magazine publishers in the country, owned by Advance Publications (the Newhouse family) and founded by Condé Montrose Nast (1873-1942), an American publisher

'''deform''' 
here meaning simply "to spoil"

'''persona''' 
a fictional identity created for a person, narrator in a book, etc.

'''''du''''' 
French: of the (masculine)

===Page 1013===

'''Meech Lake''' 
a lake in Gatineau Park, near Chelsea, Québec

'''Parizeau''' 
This is probably Jacques Parizeau (born 1930), a former Premier of Québec and proponent of Québecois sovereignty.

'''Charlottetown''' 
the capital of the Canadian province of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island Prince Edward Island]

'''Crétien assassination''' 
This is probably a misspelling of the surname of Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien (born 1934), Prime Minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003.

'''Francophonic''' 
French-speaking

'''Acadian Zionism''' 
Acadia is the traditional name for what is now (in part) eastern Québec. Zionism is used here as a synonym for nationalism, rather than with its specific Jewish connotations

'''Toujours''' 
French: always

'''"On ne parle d'Anglais ici."''' 
French: English is not spoken here

'''Ottawa''' 
the capital of Canada

'''"Permettez Nous Partir, Permettez Nous Être."''' 
French: Allow us to leave, allow us to be.

'''Winnipeg''' 
the capital of Canadian province of Manitoba

'''flux''' 
frequent change

'''appalled''' 
dismayed

'''UV-booth''' 
UV standing for ultraviolet (as in light), this is probably a tanning booth.

===Page 1014===

'''"Nous v. La Plupart Toujours"''' 
French: Us versus the majority always

'''Lesotho''' 
a kingdom of southern Africa, existing as an enclave entirely within the Republic of South Africa

'''SOUTHAF''' 
This is the Union of South Africa, which was formed in 1910 as a British colony and tried to annex Lesotho to it. Because of the imposition of ''apartheid'' laws in S. Africa, the annexation failed.

'''antebellum''' 
before the war, here the U.S. Civil War

===Endnote 110h===

'''Gallic''' 
French

===Page 1014 (cont'd)===

'''Anglophone''' 
English-speaking

'''Plains of Abraham''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains_of_Abraham Battle of the Plains of Abraham], part of the French and Indian Wars, which ended in a decisive British victory of the French

===Endnote 110i===

''''La Guerre des Britanniques et des Sauvages'''' 
French: The War of the British and the Savages

'''Ticonderoga''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Carillon Battle of Carillon], fought at Fort Ticonderoga

===Page 1014 (cont'd)===

'''Booty''' 
treasure taken from a defeated party

'''1759''' 
On September 13, 1759, Québec fell to the British.

'''NAFTA''' 
North American Free Trade Agreement

'''Rubensian''' 
The word more often used is "Rubenesque," but this refers to the women in paintings by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the Flemish artist. His women tended to be plump.

'''retardate''' 
more often used as a noun, offensively referring to a retarded person

'''rapacious''' 
ravenous

===Page 1015===

'''lissome''' 
supple

'''Rubensophile''' 
See above, Rubensian.

'''gulag''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GULAG GULAG] prison system of the Soviet Union

''''ce pas?''' 
French elision of "n'est-ce pas?" i.e., "right?"

'''Anbesol''' 
a brand name of benzocaine used for tooth pain

'''flanges''' 
Orin probably means to say "phalanges."

'''Rue Sherbrooke''' 
a road in Montreal

'''St. Jean-Baptiste Day''' 
another name for la [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%AAte_nationale_du_Qu%C3%A9bec fête nationale du Québec]

'''anaerobic''' 
thriving without oxygen

===Page 1016===

'''weedy''' 
scrawny; Hal is probably using it to mean "thin," as in a line of argumentation

'''Brazilian ''Nuevo Contras''''' 
These would be "new" ''contras'', the old ones having been U.S.-funded anti-communist guerrillas in Nicaragua in the 1980s.

'''The ''Noie Störkraft'''s? Shining Path's? The Belgian CCC's?''' 
''Noie Störkraft'' is Swedish "New Great Power"; it does not appear to be a new organization, though Störkraft is the name of a skinhead band from Sweden. The Shining Path (''Sendero Luminoso'' in Spanish) is the Communist Party of Peru, which has waged guerrilla warfare against the Peruvian government since 1980. CCC is a French acronym for Communist Combatant Cells; they were eliminated as a terrorist group in 1986.

'''''Ez-ed-Dean-el-Qassan''''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izz_ad-Din_al-Qassam_Brigades alternate spelling] of a Palestinian militant group affiliated with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas Hamas]

'''P.E.T.A.''' 
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

[[Image:Munch.jpg|right|100px]]

'''wobbled shrieking figure in the Munch lithograph''' 
See right.

===Page 1017===

'''subjoin''' 
to append to the end of something

'''attendant''' 
consequent or concomitant

'''cloracne''' 
probably a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloracne chloracne]

'''olfactory hallucinations''' 
hallucinations wherein one smells things that aren't there

'''machete''' 
a large cleaver-like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machete cutting tool]

'''Infant-depredations''' 
preying on babies

'''phenols''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenol carbolic acid]

'''Fundy''' 
probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Fundy Bay of Fundy]

'''straw-and-camel''' 
i.e., the straw that broke the camel's back

===Page 1018===

'''Docksider''' 
a type of boat shoe

'''full-toll''' 
i.e., it takes its full toll on you

'''Constantine''' 
perhaps [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_I Constantine I], by tradition first Christian emperor of Rome

'''merde''' 
French for "shit"

'''cartographic''' 
having to do with maps

'''parliamentary wigs''' 
Canadian MPs don't wear wigs, though barristers (lawyers) and judges do.

===Page 1019===

'''bone of dissension''' 
Orin means "bone of contention."

'''desmirched''' 
probably a malapropism, although it could mean "to un-besmirch"

'''re-gerrymandered''' 
To gerrymander is to divide an area into electoral districts favorable to one party over another.

'''Cuibono''' 
more properly ''cui bono'', Latin for "who benefits?"

'''swivet''' 
a state of nervous excitement

'''D-bases''' 
databases

'''falcate''' 
to curve like a sickle

'''Albertan ultra-rightists''' 
There is a tradition of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Separatism separatism] in Alberta.

'''Duluth''' 
a town in Minnesota and home to Bob Dylan, on Lake Superior about 150 miles north of the Twin Cities

===Page 1020===

'''Vichified''' 
i.e., as Vichy France, which was a puppet government to the Nazis

'''Anschluss''' 
German for "annexation," it most often refers to Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria in 1938.

'''mayhi''' 
Orin seems to be using this term as a plural of "mayhem."

'''P.Q.s''' 
members of the Parti Québecois

'''P.M.''' 
Prime Minister (of Canada)

'''''aller, partir''''' 
French: to go, to leave

===Page 1021===

'''hapless''' 
here meaning haphazard

'''botulizing''' 
infecting with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulism botulism]

'''jaunty''' 
smartly trim

'''toggle''' 
a type of switch

'''anapestic''' 
An anapest is a three-syllable word where the emphasis is one last syllable. "Anapest" is an anapest.

===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 1035===

==Endnote 211==

'''suborn''' 
to bribe or induce someone to commit a crime or misdeed
==Endnote 234 · Excerpts From Orin's Interview With ''Moment''==

===Page 1038===

'''Rafferty''' 
Terrence Rafferty was a film critic for the ''New Yorker'' magazine.

'''NPR''' 
National Public Radio

===Page 1039===

'''dun''' 
make repeated demands on

'''Madison Avenue''' 
the street in New York famous for its advertising firms

'''traversion''' 
Orin probably means "introversion."

'''T-square''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-square drafting tool]

===Page 1040===

'''Prussian''' 
here used to mean "very strict"

'''schizogenic''' 
produced or formed by fission

'''pathogenic''' 
capable of producing disease

===Page 1041===

'''antidote''' 
Orin means "anecdote."

'''Quelquechose''' 
French: something

===Page 1042===

'''pièce''' 
as in "pièce de resistance," the punchline or main point

===Page 1043===

'''four horsemen''' 
as in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse] from the Book of Revelation

'''BPL''' 
Boston Public Library

===Page 1044===

==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 high way. It could have been the same accident as the one Bain's referring to here.

'''J.O.I.''' 
James O. Incandenza

'''guile''' 
insidious cunning

'''larval''' 
immature in its kind

'''codpieces''' 
a pouch at the crotch of tight-fitting breeches, popular during the Renaissance

'''Swinburne''' 
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was a British poet whose work had themes of homosexuality and sadomasochism.

'''prenominate''' 
aforementioned

'''apposite''' 
relevant

===Page 1048===

'''fairly high-sodium way''' 
i.e., with a grain (or more) of salt

'''purposive''' 
serving some purpose

'''cross-sectioned cow''' 
Cornell University apparently has a cow whose stomachs you can see in action.

'''anaclitic''' 
denoting psychologic dependence

===Page 1049===

'''prevarication''' 
lying

'''"...as if from the Rose Garden..."''' 
like the President of the U.S. answering a question from a reporter

mendacious 
untruthful

'''monilial''' 
having to do with vaginal yeast infection

'''S. Johnson''' 
probably a reference to Dr. Samuel Johnson, the lexicographer

===Page 1050===

'''Steeples''' 
Bain has become to get Steeply's name wrong.

'''Steeley''' 
ditto

'''ACOAs''' 
Adult Children of Alcoholics

'''AlaTeens''' 
a support group for teenage children of alcoholics

'''ACONAs''' 
Adult Children of Narcotics Anonymous

'''ACOGs''' 
ACOG is most commonly the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, but in this context it probably stands for Adult Children of Gamblers.

'''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

'''albatross''' 
a burden, from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner''

'''Starksaddle''' 
another mistake with Steeply's name

'''perspicuous''' 
clearly expressed

===Page 1052===

'''multivalent''' 
having various meanings

'''Bainbridge''' 
This isn't even close to Steeply's name.

==Endnote 304 · The Train Game==

===Page 1055===

'''McGee-like chaos''' 
(don't know)

'''smelling a rat in the woodpile''' 
Rats often use woodpiles as cover for their burrows.[http://unexco.com/Rat.html]

'''B.P.L. ArchFax database search''' 
Possibly: Boston Public Library Archival Facsimiles.

===Page 1056===

'''QUOI?''' 
WHAT?

'''Sudetenlandization''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudetenland Wikipedia - Sudetenland]

'''G. T. Day, M.S.''' 
Geoffrey Day, of Ennet House?

===Page 1057===
'''vishnu''' 
Vishnu is the preserver/maintainer god of the Hindu Trimurti.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu]

'''''dasein''''' 
Being, existence.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasein]

===Page 1058===

'''geatalt''' 
Misprint of gestalt.

'''municipal fluoridation''' 
i.e. tap water fluoridation

===Page 1060===

'''Bernard Wayne''' 
Most likely John "N.R." Wayne's brother.

==Endnote 321 · Hal's DMZ Dream==
===Page 1063===

'''Rise Over Run''' 
The rise (amount the line increases) of a line divided over the run (length of the line) give you the slope of the line, which is also equal in calculus to the first derivative.

'''tangent''' 
This concept is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangent#Trigonometry here].

'''Differentiation''' 
the process by which one determines the first derivative of a mathematical function

'''inexorably''' 
relentlessly

'''covers''' 
songs written by other people than yourself
===Page 1064===
'''Digestive-Flora''' 
bacteria that live in the intestine and aid in digestion

'''Verdun Protestant Hospital''' 
now called [http://www.douglas.qc.ca/ Douglas Mental Health Institute]

'''''tu-sais-qué''''' 
really bad French for "you know what"

'''Human Hatchet''' 
i.e., Axford

'''impotence''' 
Probably means impetus

'''Blue Flames''' 
apparently some sort of drug
===Page 1065===
'''O2''' 
oxygen

'''Jiminy Cricket''' 
a character from [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032910/ Pinocchio]

==Endnote 324 · John Wayne loses it==

===Page 1066===

'''moon''' 
to spend time idly

'''camphonated''' 
more like "camphorated," i.e., contained camphor

===Endnote 324a===

'''loamy''' 
consisting of rich, arable soil

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]

===Page 1066 (cont'd)===

'''whorl''' 
a circular arrangement

'''funiculi''' 
plural of "funiculus," i.e., part of the spinal cord

===Page 1067===

'''gonions''' 
the outer points on either side of the lower jaw at which the jawbone angles upward

'''uncolloped''' 
having no fat

'''latissimal''' 
referring to the [http://www.reference.com/search?r=13&q=Latissimus lattissimus dorsi] muscles

'''profligate''' 
wasteful

'''Nordicular''' 
i.e., Nordic, which is to say blond-haired and blue-eyed

'''armamentarium''' 
an arsenal, particularly used by physicians to refer to drugs or treatments

'''callow''' 
immature; inexperienced

'''entrepôt''' 
a place for storing and dispensing goods

'''dinkle''' 
a euphemism for "penis"

===Page 1068===

'''welching''' 
swindling by not paying a debt or wager

'''three-setter''' 
a tennis game ending in three sets, rather than five, because one player has gone up 3 to 0

'''cavalier''' 
disdainful; unceremonious

'''burr''' 
here used to mean "irritant"

===Page 1069===

'''canvas restraint-wrap''' 
straitjacket

'''catgut''' 
This is "a strong cord made by twisting the dried intestines of animals, as sheep, used in stringing musical instruments and tennis rackets, for surgical sutures, etc." (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''"...his late great Da's..."''' 
Clearly Pemulis has no idea that his brother was molested by their father.

'''rheumy''' 
full of thin mucous

===Page 1070===

'''Bedouins''' 
certain Arabs of the deserts of Arabia and the Levant

'''buggered''' 
being on the receiving end of anal sex

'''b/w''' 
Black and white

'''J. Gleason''' 
Jackie Gleason (1916-1987) was [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001276/ one of the great comic actors] of the 20th century.

'''Zoltan''' 
actually a Hungarian name, which means "ruler"

'''cretinous''' 
stupid

===Page 1071===

===Endnote 324f===

'''Orly''' 
one of the airports serving Paris

===Page 1071 (cont'd)===

'''redoubted''' 
formidable

'''Modus Tollens''' 
a Latin logical term, meaning, roughly, "the means of denying"

'''Nucleic acids''' 
DNA and RNA

'''A and G, T and C''' 
adenine and guanine, thymine and cytosine, the compounds that make up DNA

'''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], by Rudyard Kipling: "If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you"

'''Csíkszentmihályi''' 
The name may be taken from Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (born 1934), a prominent Hungarian-American psychologist. His son Christopher is on the faculty at MIT.

'''lemma''' 
a proven statement used as a step in a mathematical proof

'''Boardman MN''' 
a town about 40 miles west-northwest of the Twin Cities

===Page 1072===

''' "Leap like a knight of faith . . ." ''' 

A reference to Soren Kierkegaard's knight of faith. Kierkegaard, a theologian and philosopher, didn't think there could be any logical justification for believing in God. Instead the believer is required to take a leap of faith, so called because he (the believer) has no evidence for his convictions and thus must always, on some rational level, doubt them. In fact to Kierkegaard doubt defines faith, because if there were no doubt no leap of faith would be required in the first place, much like it doesn't require a leap of faith for you to believe you're actually reading this wikipedia entry right now, or that I'm not an alien sub rosa manipulating your mind for my own purposes.

'''"...Peano, Leibniz, Hilbert..."''' 
Giuseppe Peano (1858-1932) was an Italian mathematician. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a German polymath and one of the creators of calculus. David Hilbert (1862-1943) was a German mathematician.

'''"...Fourier, Gauss, LaPlace, Rickey..."''' 
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) was a French mathematician and physicist. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) was a German mathematician. Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (1749-1827) was a French mathematician and astronomer. Rickey would seem to refer to [http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/ V. Frederick Rickey], though he is contemporary while the other named men are not.

'''"...Wiener, Reimann, Frege, Green..."''' 
Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) was an American mathematician. Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) was a German mathematician. Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a German mathematician and logician. Green is probably George Green (1793-1841), English mathematician and physicist.

==Endnote 332 · DeLint slays the Peemster==

===Page 1073===

'''jury-rigged''' 
a corruption of "jerry-rigged" (a pejorative term about Germans), which basically means rigged in a makeshift, ad hod manner

===Page 1074===

'''nictitater''' 
the word meant here is probably "nictitate," which means to wink - so, in other words, a "wink" of stupidity-film on Watson's eyes, or just a hint

'''castigations''' 
criticisms; reprimands

===Page 1075===

'''loupes''' 
eyepiece magnifying glasses used by jewellers

'''"may the road rise up to meet you..."''' 
part of an old Irish blessing

===Page 1076===

'''incubus''' 
a male demon that seduces female humans

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==Endnote 3==

'''cardioid''' 
In geometry, a cardioid is a plane curve produced by tracing the path of a chosen point of a circle which rolls around a fixed circle. The cardioid shape of E.T.A. has one cusp, i.e., a point on the curve that is not smooth. The ''r'' referred to by the narrator here is the radius of the moving circle.

'''Übermensch''' 
German for "superhuman"

'''Brandeis''' 
Brandeis is a Jewish-founded university in Waltham, Mass., about nine miles west of Boston, named for Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941) the first Jewish Supreme Court justice.

==Endnote 5==

'''N.B.''' 
abbreviation for Latin ''nota bene'', i.e., "note well," stated before an important example or corollary point

==Endnote 5a==

'''nystagmus''' 
involuntary eye movement

'''entrepôt''' 
French for "warehouse," this is where foreign merchandise can be purchased duty-free

'''loquacity''' 
talkativeness

==Endnote 6==

'''Halcion (still available in Canada, unbelievably, still)''' 
It's also still available here, though the U.K. has banned it since 1991.

==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

==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

==Endnote 19==

French: A person of terrible importance

==Endnote 21==

'''Q.v.''' 
Latin abbreviation for ''quod vide'' ("which see"), used to direct a reader elsewhere in a book. Here we are directed to...

==Endnote 23==
'''U.S.D.D.''' 
United States Department of Defense

==Endnote 24==
'''meniscus''' 
a lens with a crescent-shaped section

'''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.

==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

[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.-Q.M.D.]]

'''pistil''' 
that part of a flower that is analogous to the female reproductive organs

'''Sikorski''' 
C.T. is probably comparing the bee (which flies) to an airplane (which also flies) produced by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_Aircraft Sikorsky Aircraft].

'''paucity''' 
scarcity

'''swotted''' 
studied intensively

'''wakked''' 
I have no idea.

'''unperspicous''' 
not clearly expressed or presented

'''penultimate''' 
second to last

'''whingeing''' 
complaining (pronounced to rhyme with "jing")

'''xerophagy''' 
eating of bread and water only

===Endnote 110d===

'''anti-sclerotic''' 
tending to ward of hardening of tissues (as of arteries, here)

===Page 1006 (cont'd)===

'''maunder''' 
to talk incoherently or aimlessly

'''Solecism''' 
nonstandard or incorrect grammatical usage

'''and c.''' 
et cetera

===Page 1007===

'''20 X 25 centimeter''' 
very close to 8" x 10"

'''Jethro Bodine''' 
a character on the television show [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055662/ The Beverly Hillbillies]

'''proviso''' 
a clause, usually in a document, making a stipulation or qualification

'''"...isn't even iambic, much less quatrameter/trimeter..."''' 
This is to say that the poetry of Dickinson is not in iambic pentameter, also known as verse. This is the style of poetry Shakespeare is written in ("Now is the winter of our discontent") -- ten syllables, and five iambs (feet, or beats) per line (thus pentameter). Quatrameter/trimeter would be the rhythm scheme of "Yellow Rose of Texas" and "Marry Had a Little Lamb."

'''dink''' 
a synonym for a drop shot, which in tennis is a light tap just over the net

===Page 1008===

'''obverse''' 
the more conspicuous of two possible choices

'''seraphic''' 
like an angel

'''lascivious''' 
appealing to sexual tastes

'''mesmerized''' 
hypnotized

'''skitter''' 
to move rapidly along a surface

'''knight-errant''' 
a knight on a quest to prove his chivalry

===Page 1009===

'''Ainsi''' 
French: so to speak

'''breviary''' 
a prayer and hymn book

'''"Kitchens and heat..."''' 
which is to say, if you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen

===Page 1010===

'''Gloeckner''' 
German for "ringer," taking that in either of the meanings it has in English

'''3-kilo''' 
a little over 7.25 pounds

'''Snuff''' 
chewing tobacco

'''Andover''' 
as in [http://www.boardingschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/5 Philips Academy Andover], alma mater of both presidents Bush

'''"Dickinson's about as Transcendalist as Poe."''' 
which is to say, not at all

===Page 1011===

[[Image:Eddy.jpg|right]]

'''R.C.M.P.''' 
Royal Canadian Mounted Police

'''Nelson Eddy''' 
Nelson Ackerman Eddy (1901-1967) was an American singer and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0248904/ movie star]. As far as what he looked like, see right.

'''Droll''' 
whimsically comic

===Page 1012===

'''nanomicroscopy''' 
the looking at extremely small things (nano- being the prefix for "one-billionth") through a microscope

'''Thevet''' 
This is probably a reference to André de Thevet (1502-1590), a French priest and explorer. Though never in Canada, he relied on French-Canadian explorers' work for his own voyages to South America.

'''"...the 5 on the French Achievement boards..."''' 
The highest possible score on the French Advanced Placement Exam (for which one can receive college credit) is 5.

'''Boswell''' 
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (1740-1795), was the Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson.

'''E cup''' 
a very large breast size

'''acuity''' 
acuteness of perception

'''in utero''' 
in the womb

'''thalidomide''' 
a drug developed to treat morning sickness in pregnant women that ended up causing babies to be born missing limbs

'''Condé Nast''' 
one of the largest magazine publishers in the country, owned by Advance Publications (the Newhouse family) and founded by Condé Montrose Nast (1873-1942), an American publisher

'''deform''' 
here meaning simply "to spoil"

'''persona''' 
a fictional identity created for a person, narrator in a book, etc.

'''''du''''' 
French: of the (masculine)

===Page 1013===

'''Meech Lake''' 
a lake in Gatineau Park, near Chelsea, Québec

'''Parizeau''' 
This is probably Jacques Parizeau (born 1930), a former Premier of Québec and proponent of Québecois sovereignty.

'''Charlottetown''' 
the capital of the Canadian province of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island Prince Edward Island]

'''Crétien assassination''' 
This is probably a misspelling of the surname of Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien (born 1934), Prime Minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003.

'''Francophonic''' 
French-speaking

'''Acadian Zionism''' 
Acadia is the traditional name for what is now (in part) eastern Québec. Zionism is used here as a synonym for nationalism, rather than with its specific Jewish connotations

'''Toujours''' 
French: always

'''"On ne parle d'Anglais ici."''' 
French: English is not spoken here

'''Ottawa''' 
the capital of Canada

'''"Permettez Nous Partir, Permettez Nous Être."''' 
French: Allow us to leave, allow us to be.

'''Winnipeg''' 
the capital of Canadian province of Manitoba

'''flux''' 
frequent change

'''appalled''' 
dismayed

'''UV-booth''' 
UV standing for ultraviolet (as in light), this is probably a tanning booth.

===Page 1014===

'''"Nous v. La Plupart Toujours"''' 
French: Us versus the majority always

'''Lesotho''' 
a kingdom of southern Africa, existing as an enclave entirely within the Republic of South Africa

'''SOUTHAF''' 
This is the Union of South Africa, which was formed in 1910 as a British colony and tried to annex Lesotho to it. Because of the imposition of ''apartheid'' laws in S. Africa, the annexation failed.

'''antebellum''' 
before the war, here the U.S. Civil War

===Endnote 110h===

'''Gallic''' 
French

===Page 1014 (cont'd)===

'''Anglophone''' 
English-speaking

'''Plains of Abraham''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains_of_Abraham Battle of the Plains of Abraham], part of the French and Indian Wars, which ended in a decisive British victory of the French

===Endnote 110i===

''''La Guerre des Britanniques et des Sauvages'''' 
French: The War of the British and the Savages

'''Ticonderoga''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Carillon Battle of Carillon], fought at Fort Ticonderoga

===Page 1014 (cont'd)===

'''Booty''' 
treasure taken from a defeated party

'''1759''' 
On September 13, 1759, Québec fell to the British.

'''NAFTA''' 
North American Free Trade Agreement

'''Rubensian''' 
The word more often used is "Rubenesque," but this refers to the women in paintings by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the Flemish artist. His women tended to be plump.

'''retardate''' 
more often used as a noun, offensively referring to a retarded person

'''rapacious''' 
ravenous

===Page 1015===

'''lissome''' 
supple

'''Rubensophile''' 
See above, Rubensian.

'''gulag''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GULAG GULAG] prison system of the Soviet Union

''''ce pas?''' 
French elision of "n'est-ce pas?" i.e., "right?"

'''Anbesol''' 
a brand name of benzocaine used for tooth pain

'''flanges''' 
Orin probably means to say "phalanges."

'''Rue Sherbrooke''' 
a road in Montreal

'''St. Jean-Baptiste Day''' 
another name for la [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%AAte_nationale_du_Qu%C3%A9bec fête nationale du Québec]

'''anaerobic''' 
thriving without oxygen

===Page 1016===

'''weedy''' 
scrawny; Hal is probably using it to mean "thin," as in a line of argumentation

'''Brazilian ''Nuevo Contras''''' 
These would be "new" ''contras'', the old ones having been U.S.-funded anti-communist guerrillas in Nicaragua in the 1980s.

'''The ''Noie Störkraft'''s? Shining Path's? The Belgian CCC's?''' 
''Noie Störkraft'' is Swedish "New Great Power"; it does not appear to be a new organization, though Störkraft is the name of a skinhead band from Sweden. The Shining Path (''Sendero Luminoso'' in Spanish) is the Communist Party of Peru, which has waged guerrilla warfare against the Peruvian government since 1980. CCC is a French acronym for Communist Combatant Cells; they were eliminated as a terrorist group in 1986.

'''''Ez-ed-Dean-el-Qassan''''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izz_ad-Din_al-Qassam_Brigades alternate spelling] of a Palestinian militant group affiliated with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas Hamas]

'''P.E.T.A.''' 
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

[[Image:Munch.jpg|right|100px]]

'''wobbled shrieking figure in the Munch lithograph''' 
See right.

===Page 1017===

'''subjoin''' 
to append to the end of something

'''attendant''' 
consequent or concomitant

'''cloracne''' 
probably a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloracne chloracne]

'''olfactory hallucinations''' 
hallucinations wherein one smells things that aren't there

'''machete''' 
a large cleaver-like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machete cutting tool]

'''Infant-depredations''' 
preying on babies

'''phenols''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenol carbolic acid]

'''Fundy''' 
probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Fundy Bay of Fundy]

'''straw-and-camel''' 
i.e., the straw that broke the camel's back

===Page 1018===

'''Docksider''' 
a type of boat shoe

'''full-toll''' 
i.e., it takes its full toll on you

'''Constantine''' 
perhaps [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_I Constantine I], by tradition first Christian emperor of Rome

'''merde''' 
French for "shit"

'''cartographic''' 
having to do with maps

'''parliamentary wigs''' 
Canadian MPs don't wear wigs, though barristers (lawyers) and judges do.

===Page 1019===

'''bone of dissension''' 
Orin means "bone of contention."

'''desmirched''' 
probably a malapropism, although it could mean "to un-besmirch"

'''re-gerrymandered''' 
To gerrymander is to divide an area into electoral districts favorable to one party over another.

'''Cuibono''' 
more properly ''cui bono'', Latin for "who benefits?"

'''swivet''' 
a state of nervous excitement

'''D-bases''' 
databases

'''falcate''' 
to curve like a sickle

'''Albertan ultra-rightists''' 
There is a tradition of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Separatism separatism] in Alberta.

'''Duluth''' 
a town in Minnesota and home to Bob Dylan, on Lake Superior about 150 miles north of the Twin Cities

===Page 1020===

'''Vichified''' 
i.e., as Vichy France, which was a puppet government to the Nazis

'''Anschluss''' 
German for "annexation," it most often refers to Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria in 1938.

'''mayhi''' 
Orin seems to be using this term as a plural of "mayhem."

'''P.Q.s''' 
members of the Parti Québecois

'''P.M.''' 
Prime Minister (of Canada)

'''''aller, partir''''' 
French: to go, to leave

===Page 1021===

'''hapless''' 
here meaning haphazard

'''botulizing''' 
infecting with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulism botulism]

'''jaunty''' 
smartly trim

'''toggle''' 
a type of switch

'''anapestic''' 
An anapest is a three-syllable word where the emphasis is one last syllable. "Anapest" is an anapest.

===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 1035===

==Endnote 211==

'''suborn''' 
to bribe or induce someone to commit a crime or misdeed
==Endnote 234 · Excerpts From Orin's Interview With ''Moment''==

===Page 1038===

'''Rafferty''' 
Terrence Rafferty was a film critic for the ''New Yorker'' magazine.

'''NPR''' 
National Public Radio

===Page 1039===

'''dun''' 
make repeated demands on

'''Madison Avenue''' 
the street in New York famous for its advertising firms

'''traversion''' 
Orin probably means "introversion."

'''T-square''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-square drafting tool]

===Page 1040===

'''Prussian''' 
here used to mean "very strict"

'''schizogenic''' 
produced or formed by fission

'''pathogenic''' 
capable of producing disease

===Page 1041===

'''antidote''' 
Orin means "anecdote."

'''Quelquechose''' 
French: something

===Page 1042===

'''pièce''' 
as in "pièce de resistance," the punchline or main point

===Page 1043===

'''four horsemen''' 
as in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse] from the Book of Revelation

'''BPL''' 
Boston Public Library

===Page 1044===

==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 high way. It could have been the same accident as the one Bain's referring to here.

'''J.O.I.''' 
James O. Incandenza

'''guile''' 
insidious cunning

'''larval''' 
immature in its kind

'''codpieces''' 
a pouch at the crotch of tight-fitting breeches, popular during the Renaissance

'''Swinburne''' 
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was a British poet whose work had themes of homosexuality and sadomasochism.

'''prenominate''' 
aforementioned

'''apposite''' 
relevant

===Page 1048===

'''fairly high-sodium way''' 
i.e., with a grain (or more) of salt

'''purposive''' 
serving some purpose

'''cross-sectioned cow''' 
Cornell University apparently has a cow whose stomachs you can see in action.

'''anaclitic''' 
denoting psychologic dependence

===Page 1049===

'''prevarication''' 
lying

'''"...as if from the Rose Garden..."''' 
like the President of the U.S. answering a question from a reporter

mendacious 
untruthful

'''monilial''' 
having to do with vaginal yeast infection

'''S. Johnson''' 
probably a reference to Dr. Samuel Johnson, the lexicographer

===Page 1050===

'''Steeples''' 
Bain has become to get Steeply's name wrong.

'''Steeley''' 
ditto

'''ACOAs''' 
Adult Children of Alcoholics

'''AlaTeens''' 
a support group for teenage children of alcoholics

'''ACONAs''' 
Adult Children of Narcotics Anonymous

'''ACOGs''' 
ACOG is most commonly the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, but in this context it probably stands for Adult Children of Gamblers.

'''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

'''albatross''' 
a burden, from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner''

'''Starksaddle''' 
another mistake with Steeply's name

'''perspicuous''' 
clearly expressed

===Page 1052===

'''multivalent''' 
having various meanings

'''Bainbridge''' 
This isn't even close to Steeply's name.

==Endnote 321 · Hal's DMZ Dream==
===Page 1063===

'''Rise Over Run''' 
The rise (amount the line increases) of a line divided over the run (length of the line) give you the slope of the line, which is also equal in calculus to the first derivative.

'''tangent''' 
This concept is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangent#Trigonometry here].

'''Differentiation''' 
the process by which one determines the first derivative of a mathematical function

'''inexorably''' 
relentlessly

'''covers''' 
songs written by other people than yourself
===Page 1064===
'''Digestive-Flora''' 
bacteria that live in the intestine and aid in digestion

'''Verdun Protestant Hospital''' 
now called [http://www.douglas.qc.ca/ Douglas Mental Health Institute]

'''''tu-sais-qué''''' 
really bad French for "you know what"

'''Human Hatchet''' 
i.e., Axford

'''impotence''' 
Probably means impetus

'''Blue Flames''' 
apparently some sort of drug
===Page 1065===
'''O2''' 
oxygen

'''Jiminy Cricket''' 
a character from [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032910/ Pinocchio]

==Endnote 324 · John Wayne loses it==

===Page 1066===

'''moon''' 
to spend time idly

'''camphonated''' 
more like "camphorated," i.e., contained camphor

===Endnote 324a===

'''loamy''' 
consisting of rich, arable soil

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]

===Page 1066 (cont'd)===

'''whorl''' 
a circular arrangement

'''funiculi''' 
plural of "funiculus," i.e., part of the spinal cord

===Page 1067===

'''gonions''' 
the outer points on either side of the lower jaw at which the jawbone angles upward

'''uncolloped''' 
having no fat

'''latissimal''' 
referring to the [http://www.reference.com/search?r=13&q=Latissimus lattissimus dorsi] muscles

'''profligate''' 
wasteful

'''Nordicular''' 
i.e., Nordic, which is to say blond-haired and blue-eyed

'''armamentarium''' 
an arsenal, particularly used by physicians to refer to drugs or treatments

'''callow''' 
immature; inexperienced

'''entrepôt''' 
a place for storing and dispensing goods

'''dinkle''' 
a euphemism for "penis"

===Page 1068===

'''welching''' 
swindling by not paying a debt or wager

'''three-setter''' 
a tennis game ending in three sets, rather than five, because one player has gone up 3 to 0

'''cavalier''' 
disdainful; unceremonious

'''burr''' 
here used to mean "irritant"

===Page 1069===

'''canvas restraint-wrap''' 
straitjacket

'''catgut''' 
This is "a strong cord made by twisting the dried intestines of animals, as sheep, used in stringing musical instruments and tennis rackets, for surgical sutures, etc." (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''"...his late great Da's..."''' 
Clearly Pemulis has no idea that his brother was molested by their father.

'''rheumy''' 
full of thin mucous

===Page 1070===

'''Bedouins''' 
certain Arabs of the deserts of Arabia and the Levant

'''buggered''' 
being on the receiving end of anal sex

'''b/w''' 
Black and white

'''J. Gleason''' 
Jackie Gleason (1916-1987) was [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001276/ one of the great comic actors] of the 20th century.

'''Zoltan''' 
actually a Hungarian name, which means "ruler"

'''cretinous''' 
stupid

===Page 1071===

===Endnote 324f===

'''Orly''' 
one of the airports serving Paris

===Page 1071 (cont'd)===

'''redoubted''' 
formidable

'''Modus Tollens''' 
a Latin logical term, meaning, roughly, "the means of denying"

'''Nucleic acids''' 
DNA and RNA

'''A and G, T and C''' 
adenine and guanine, thymine and cytosine, the compounds that make up DNA

'''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], by Rudyard Kipling: "If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you"

'''Csíkszentmihályi''' 
The name may be taken from Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (born 1934), a prominent Hungarian-American psychologist. His son Christopher is on the faculty at MIT.

'''lemma''' 
a proven statement used as a step in a mathematical proof

'''Boardman MN''' 
a town about 40 miles west-northwest of the Twin Cities

===Page 1072===

''' "Leap like a knight of faith . . ." ''' 

A reference to Soren Kierkegaard's knight of faith. Kierkegaard, a theologian and philosopher, didn't think there could be any logical justification for believing in God. Instead the believer is required to take a leap of faith, so called because he (the believer) has no evidence for his convictions and thus must always, on some rational level, doubt them. In fact to Kierkegaard doubt defines faith, because if there were no doubt no leap of faith would be required in the first place, much like it doesn't require a leap of faith for you to believe you're actually reading this wikipedia entry right now, or that I'm not an alien sub rosa manipulating your mind for my own purposes.

'''"...Peano, Leibniz, Hilbert..."''' 
Giuseppe Peano (1858-1932) was an Italian mathematician. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a German polymath and one of the creators of calculus. David Hilbert (1862-1943) was a German mathematician.

'''"...Fourier, Gauss, LaPlace, Rickey..."''' 
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) was a French mathematician and physicist. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) was a German mathematician. Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (1749-1827) was a French mathematician and astronomer. Rickey would seem to refer to [http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/ V. Frederick Rickey], though he is contemporary while the other named men are not.

'''"...Wiener, Reimann, Frege, Green..."''' 
Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) was an American mathematician. Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) was a German mathematician. Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a German mathematician and logician. Green is probably George Green (1793-1841), English mathematician and physicist.

==Endnote 332 · DeLint slays the Peemster==

===Page 1073===

'''jury-rigged''' 
a corruption of "jerry-rigged" (a pejorative term about Germans), which basically means rigged in a makeshift, ad hod manner

===Page 1074===

'''nictitater''' 
the word meant here is probably "nictitate," which means to wink - so, in other words, a "wink" of stupidity-film on Watson's eyes, or just a hint

'''castigations''' 
criticisms; reprimands

===Page 1075===

'''loupes''' 
eyepiece magnifying glasses used by jewellers

'''"may the road rise up to meet you..."''' 
part of an old Irish blessing

===Page 1076===

'''incubus''' 
a male demon that seduces female humans

===Page 1076===

'''glycerine''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycerine glycerol]

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'''recursive''' 
capable of being used repeatedly

'''retsin''' 
the supposed active ingredient in Certs breath mints

'''Ciao Bello''' 
Italian: Goodbye, Handsome

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'''corrode''' 
to eat away at; to rust

'''ICBM''' 
intercontinental ballistic missile

'''boot''' 
junkie slang for injecting drugs

==Page 937==

'''imprimatur''' 
sanction or approval

'''bonded''' 
Sorkin had put up Gately's bail.

'''ruddled''' 
reddened

'''serration''' 
notches in the edges

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'''belled''' 
rang like a bell

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'''epicene''' 
androgynous

'''bassinet''' 
an oblong basket for a baby

'''catadioptric''' 
produced by reflection and refraction simultaneously

==Page 940==

'''astigmatic''' 
failing to have light rays converge on a single point

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'''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 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 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.

'''Allen to Allen''' 
a reference to American director Woody Allen (born 1935 as Allen Stewart Königsberg), who casts himself in most of his films

'''temporal-lobe''' 
the part of the brain involved in hearing, speeech, 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''' 
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States. He was a central figure of the 20th century during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war. Elected to four terms in office, he served from 1933 to 1945 and is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Roosevelt Wikipedia]

'''canopied''' 
framed with curtains

'''boudoir''' 
a bedroom or private sitting room

'''ponce''' 
an effeminate man

'''"...an old-fashioned one-sharp-sided razor..."''' 

==Page 946==

'''Pheromonic Musk''' 
a scent designed to emit pheromones, or a chemical that attracts the opposite sex

'''chartreuse''' 
bright yellowish-green

'''500 seconds''' 
8 minutes and 20 seconds

==Page 947==

'''conundra''' 
insoluble questions

'''sinkhole''' 
a depressed area into which waste collects

'''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

'''pugnacious''' 
having a tendency to fistfight

==Page 949==

'''snifter''' 
a glass with a wide bottom that narrows at the top, for drinking brandy

'''twidgeling''' 
not a real word

'''Hancock tower''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_Tower skyscraper] in Boston

'''mimesis''' 
the imitation of aspects in the sensible world

==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''' 
an Old English text of the Gospels found in England

'''hyperfertilized''' 
given too much fertilizer

'''finial''' 
an architectural device used to top a gable

'''defile''' 
a narrow passage

'''neutered''' 
castrated

'''topiary''' 
a sculptured shrub or bush

'''gambrel''' 
the hock of an animal, particularly a horse

==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.

'''etagere''' 
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"

'''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

'''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

==Page 955==

'''misnomer''' 
a misapplied name or designation

'''''The Green Door''''' 
The full title is [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068260/ Behind the Green Door].

'''''Deep Throat''''' 
a pornographic film 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

=Hi, Mikey=

==Page 958==

==Page 959==

'''the hook''' 
presumably, the sister's hand

'''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 convenience

'''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''' 
"Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves" and "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all," respectively

==Page 962==

'''weal''' 
welfare

'''peroxide''' 
hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), used as a bleach and whitener

==Page 963==

==Page 964==

'''NoCoat LinguaScraper''' 
not a real product, but there are such appliances that clean the tongue

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The photo of Fritz Lang directing Metropolis, mentioned on [[Pages 934-964#Page_951|p. 951]]. 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'').

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==Page 786==

'''depose''' 
ask questions of someone while under oath

'''''A.T.E.''''' 
Hal is wearing his jacket inside out.

=Endnote 324 · John Wayne loses it=

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_324_.C2.B7_John_Wayne_loses_it|Endnote 324]]

=U.S.O.U.S. "interviews" Molly Notkin=

==Page 787==

'''homburg''' 
a felt hat with a brim meant for a man

'''post-Marxist''' 
an adherent [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Marxism school of thought] that encompasses the arts as well as politics

==Page 788==

'''co-op''' 
a co-operative, i.e., an apartment building that is jointly owned by the tenants

'''''V'' or ''VI''''' 
The filmography of Incandenza presented in an earlier (lengthy) endnote would seem to indicate that there were only five versions of the film, although the fifth version was apparently reviewed, which would mean that the "entertainment" so desperately sought is actually a sixth version.

'''instantiation''' 
a representation of an idea, here visual

'''anamorphosized''' 
changed from one form to another as a step in evolution

==Endnote 329==

'''heuristic''' 
serving to indicate or point out

==Page 788 (cont'd)==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]

'''Rube-Goldbergesque''' 
Reuben Garret Lucius "Rube" Goldberg (1883-1970) was a Jewish-American cartoonist, famous for drawing incredibly complicated devices used to perform simple tasks.

==Page 789==

'''parturient''' 
about to give birth

'''synecdoche''' 
This complicated figure of speech is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche here].

'''glabrous''' 
hairless

'''venery''' 
the gratification of sexual desire

'''chicanery''' 
deception by trickery or sophistry

'''keel''' 
This word denotes "the principal structural member of a ship, running lengthwise along the center line from bow to stern, to which the frames are attached" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language''). Here it is used in the sense of "on an even keel," i.e., sane.

==Page 790==

'''interrment''' 
a misspelling of interment, i.e., burial

'''thanatoptic''' 
regarding a vision of death

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar]]

'''''felo de self''''' 
a misspeaking of ''felo de se''

==Page 791==

'''olla podrida''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olla_podrida stew] popular in Spain

'''cerise''' 
a vivid purplish red

'''wattles''' 
wattles are ornamental skin on or near the base of the bill of certain birds, in this case the red wattles on the turkey's beak/bill

'''malcathected''' 
attached to emotionally in a negative way

==Page 792==

'''''Liebestod''''' 
German: love of death

'''antinomically''' 
in a manner suggesting opposition of laws

'''perspicuous''' 
clearly expressed

'''Gilles Deleuze''' 
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was a French philosopher.

'''''Incest and the Life of Death in Capitalist Entertainment''''' 
There is no such title.

'''malefic''' 
having a bad influence

'''reagent''' 
a substance used to produce other substances

'''menses''' 
menstruation

'''Pap smears''' 
screenings for female reproductive cancers, named for Georgios N. Papanikolaou (1883-1962), a Greek oncologist

'''''Putti''''' 
Italian: statues of human babies

==Page 793==

'''actaeonizing''' 
a neologism in reference to Actaeon, a young hunter in Greek Mythology who looked upon Artemis bathing, who turned him into a stag - he was then killed by his own hunting dogs

'''tines''' 
prongs of a fork

'''beau''' 
boyfriend

==Page 794==

'''bell-jar''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_jar laboratory glassware] -- also the title of a novel by Sylvia Plath

'''itinerant''' 
traveling from place to place

'''pointers''' 
A pointer is a breed of hunting dog

==Page 795==

'''Lucille Duquette''' 
Molly is lying about Joelle's real name, but this name means something like "Light of the Collection."

'''bradykinetic''' 
slow moving

=Endnote 332 · DeLint slays the Peemster=

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_332_.C2.B7_DeLint_slays_the_Peemster|Endnote 332]]

=Hal's First Meeting=

==Page 795==

==Endnote 333==

'''exurbs''' 
towns too far away from cities to be called "suburbs" but not far enough to be rural

'''Nantucket''' 
an island of Massachusetts about 30 miles south of Cape Cod

==Page 795 (cont'd)==

'''Route 27''' 
a Massachusetts highway running from Route 106 in Kingston to Route 4 in Chelsmfold

==Page 796==

'''condonation''' 
overlooking of an offense

'''Abandoned All Hope''' 
In Dante's ''Inferno'', the sign above Hell reads, "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."

'''shunpike''' 
a side road to avoid taking a turnpike

'''Rte. 9''' 
a Massachusetts highway running from US-20 in Pittsfield (western Massachusetts) to Route 28 in Boston

'''I-90''' 
an interstate running from Seattle to Boston

'''NPR''' 
National Public Radio

'''George Will''' 
George Frederick Will (born 1941) is a conservative American columnist. wallace implies that he has had his voicebox removed and now speaks with a prosthetic voicebox.

'''Cleveland Circle''' 
a neighborhood of Boston

==Page 797==

'''Æolic''' 
an ancient Greek dialect spoken between 800 and 300 BC

'''Thynne''' 
This is probably a reference to Francis Thynne (1544-1608), an English administrator at the College of Arms in London.

'''taproot''' 
something that provides a central source for growth

'''Cynewulf''' 
probably a reference to the Anglo-Saxon poet by that name

'''penumbra''' 
a shadowy, gray area

'''gneiss''' 
a form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gneiss metamorphic rock]

'''Quabbin''' 
the name of a reservoir in Massachusetts

'''Burma-Shave''' 
an old brand of shaving cream that advertised with consecutive road signs that rhymed

'''Lombardy''' 
a region of northern Italy with its capital at Milan

'''quoins''' 
cornerstones

==Page 798==

'''deignition''' 
shutting down of an engine

'''lintel''' 
a horizontal piece of architecture supporting the weight above a window or door

'''puce''' 
dark or brownish purple

''''Seated Harlequin'''' 
You can see this painting [http://www.abcgallery.com/P/picasso/picasso255.html here].

==Page 799==

'''Rubikular''' 
referring to [http://www.rubiks.com/ Rubik's cube]

'''scrip''' 
paper money

'''São Paulo''' 
the capital of Brazil

'''altruistic''' 
tending to do good things for their own sakes

'''"...the color of Thousand Island dressing..."''' 
sort of light orange

==Page 800==

'''sibilance''' 
hissing sound

'''bereft''' 
deprived, especially by a death

==Page 801==

'''diglobular''' 
consisting of two lumps of fat - here it refers to, however, his globe-like head seated atop his globe-like body, as mentioned on the previous page

==Page 802==

'''treacly''' 
Sentimental; too sweet.

'''mauve''' 
a moderate grey-violet to red-purple color

'''apneated''' 
As if punctuated by temporary cessations of breathing.

'''Philip Glass''' 
Philip Glass (born 1937) is an American music composer and pianist. His music is repetitive and minimal.

'''quaaludes''' 
Methaqualone. A sedative often used recreationally.

==Page 803==

'''inguinal''' 
situated in the groin

'''lachrymucus''' 
mucus flowing as a result of crying

'''obliquest''' 
Most oblique; slanted.

'''Dedham''' 
a town in Massachusetts about 12 miles southwest of Boston

'''Wharton''' 
The business school at the Ivy-League University of Pennsylvania, located in Philadelphia. Generally believed to be the most prestigious undergraduate business school in the world. Also highly regarded at post-graduate levels.

==Endnote 336==

'''sudoriferous''' 
sweaty

==Page 804==

'''Humboldt County''' 
probably the county in far-north California.

[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland]]

'''"mercantile counterpart at the Rolling Hills Academy"''' 
A student at Rolling Hills who fulfills at his school much the same role that Pemulis fulfills at E.T.A.

'''Delta-9''' 
Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol. The main psychoactive substance found in marijuana.

'''MBRO''' 
Acronym for "Metro-Boston Recovery Options"

'''pathos''' 
A quality that evokes pity.

'''pizzicato''' 
the musical effect of the plucking of strings on a classical instrument

'''civety''' 
A civet is a small carnivorous mammal that emits a strange smell.

'''fenestration''' 
The arrangement of windows and doors on the elevations of a building.

==Page 805==

'''dandled''' 
Move a baby up and down in a playful manner.

'''Fred MacMurray''' 
Fredrick Martin MacMurray (1908-1991) was an American actor who starred as a father in the television show [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053525/ My Three Sons]

'''''in loco parentis''''' 
Latin: in the place of parents

'''swart''' 
Swarthy.

==Page 806==

'''widow's peak''' 
a hairline that comes to a point in the center of the forehead

'''Ruminative''' 
In the manner of thinking deeply about something.

'''narcosis''' 
A stupor generally caused by drugs.

'''Addis Ababa''' 
the capital of Ethiopia

'''American Falls''' 
the American part of Niagara Falls

==Page 807==

'''Keens''' 
Wails.

'''imperial''' 
A small pointed beard beneath the lower lip. Associated with Napoleon III.

'''vivisecting''' 
Performing an operation on a living animal for research.

'''timpani''' 
Large drums used in orchestras.

'''Cornet''' 
A brass instrument that looks much like a trumpet.

'''Appian Way''' 
an ancient [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appian_Way Roman road]

'''cannoli''' 
an Italian pastry stuffed with sweetened ricotta cheese

'''Ascension Island''' 
A volcanic island off the coast of Africa.

'''South Atlantic''' 
South Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic Ocean is bounded by the east coasts of the Americas and the west coasts of Eurasia and Africa. The area of the Ocean below the equator is referred to as the South Atlantic Ocean.

==Page 808==

''''I Don't Know (How to Love Him)'''' 
a song from the rock opera ''Jesus Christ Superstar'', sung by the character of Mary Magdalene

'''"tornadic gale"''' 
Tornado-strength wind.

'''Azores''' 
A group of islands in the Atlantic Ocean, west of Portugal.

'''cytological''' 
like microscopic cells

'''plume''' 
Here, a stream of water resembling a feather.

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==Page 786==

'''depose''' 
ask questions of someone while under oath

'''''A.T.E.''''' 
Hal is wearing his jacket inside out.

=Endnote 324=

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_324_.C2.B7_John_Wayne_loses_it|Endnote 324 · John Wayne loses it]]

=U.S.O.U.S. "interviews" Molly Notkin=

==Page 787==

'''homburg''' 
a felt hat with a brim meant for a man

'''post-Marxist''' 
an adherent [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Marxism school of thought] that encompasses the arts as well as politics

==Page 788==

'''co-op''' 
a co-operative, i.e., an apartment building that is jointly owned by the tenants

'''''V'' or ''VI''''' 
The filmography of Incandenza presented in an earlier (lengthy) endnote would seem to indicate that there were only five versions of the film, although the fifth version was apparently reviewed, which would mean that the "entertainment" so desperately sought is actually a sixth version.

'''instantiation''' 
a representation of an idea, here visual

'''anamorphosized''' 
changed from one form to another as a step in evolution

==Endnote 329==

'''heuristic''' 
serving to indicate or point out

==Page 788 (cont'd)==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]

'''Rube-Goldbergesque''' 
Reuben Garret Lucius "Rube" Goldberg (1883-1970) was a Jewish-American cartoonist, famous for drawing incredibly complicated devices used to perform simple tasks.

==Page 789==

'''parturient''' 
about to give birth

'''synecdoche''' 
This complicated figure of speech is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche here].

'''glabrous''' 
hairless

'''venery''' 
the gratification of sexual desire

'''chicanery''' 
deception by trickery or sophistry

'''keel''' 
This word denotes "the principal structural member of a ship, running lengthwise along the center line from bow to stern, to which the frames are attached" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language''). Here it is used in the sense of "on an even keel," i.e., sane.

==Page 790==

'''interrment''' 
a misspelling of interment, i.e., burial

'''thanatoptic''' 
regarding a vision of death

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar]]

'''''felo de self''''' 
a misspeaking of ''felo de se''

==Page 791==

'''olla podrida''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olla_podrida stew] popular in Spain

'''cerise''' 
a vivid purplish red

'''wattles''' 
wattles are ornamental skin on or near the base of the bill of certain birds, in this case the red wattles on the turkey's beak/bill

'''malcathected''' 
attached to emotionally in a negative way

==Page 792==

'''''Liebestod''''' 
German: love of death

'''antinomically''' 
in a manner suggesting opposition of laws

'''perspicuous''' 
clearly expressed

'''Gilles Deleuze''' 
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was a French philosopher.

'''''Incest and the Life of Death in Capitalist Entertainment''''' 
There is no such title.

'''malefic''' 
having a bad influence

'''reagent''' 
a substance used to produce other substances

'''menses''' 
menstruation

'''Pap smears''' 
screenings for female reproductive cancers, named for Georgios N. Papanikolaou (1883-1962), a Greek oncologist

'''''Putti''''' 
Italian: statues of human babies

==Page 793==

'''actaeonizing''' 
a neologism in reference to Actaeon, a young hunter in Greek Mythology who looked upon Artemis bathing, who turned him into a stag - he was then killed by his own hunting dogs

'''tines''' 
prongs of a fork

'''beau''' 
boyfriend

==Page 794==

'''bell-jar''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_jar laboratory glassware] -- also the title of a novel by Sylvia Plath

'''itinerant''' 
traveling from place to place

'''pointers''' 
A pointer is a breed of hunting dog

==Page 795==

'''Lucille Duquette''' 
Molly is lying about Joelle's real name, but this name means something like "Light of the Collection."

'''bradykinetic''' 
slow moving

=Endnote 332 · DeLint slays the Peemster=

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_332_.C2.B7_DeLint_slays_the_Peemster|Endnote 332]]

=Hal's First Meeting=

==Page 795==

==Endnote 333==

'''exurbs''' 
towns too far away from cities to be called "suburbs" but not far enough to be rural

'''Nantucket''' 
an island of Massachusetts about 30 miles south of Cape Cod

==Page 795 (cont'd)==

'''Route 27''' 
a Massachusetts highway running from Route 106 in Kingston to Route 4 in Chelsmfold

==Page 796==

'''condonation''' 
overlooking of an offense

'''Abandoned All Hope''' 
In Dante's ''Inferno'', the sign above Hell reads, "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."

'''shunpike''' 
a side road to avoid taking a turnpike

'''Rte. 9''' 
a Massachusetts highway running from US-20 in Pittsfield (western Massachusetts) to Route 28 in Boston

'''I-90''' 
an interstate running from Seattle to Boston

'''NPR''' 
National Public Radio

'''George Will''' 
George Frederick Will (born 1941) is a conservative American columnist. wallace implies that he has had his voicebox removed and now speaks with a prosthetic voicebox.

'''Cleveland Circle''' 
a neighborhood of Boston

==Page 797==

'''Æolic''' 
an ancient Greek dialect spoken between 800 and 300 BC

'''Thynne''' 
This is probably a reference to Francis Thynne (1544-1608), an English administrator at the College of Arms in London.

'''taproot''' 
something that provides a central source for growth

'''Cynewulf''' 
probably a reference to the Anglo-Saxon poet by that name

'''penumbra''' 
a shadowy, gray area

'''gneiss''' 
a form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gneiss metamorphic rock]

'''Quabbin''' 
the name of a reservoir in Massachusetts

'''Burma-Shave''' 
an old brand of shaving cream that advertised with consecutive road signs that rhymed

'''Lombardy''' 
a region of northern Italy with its capital at Milan

'''quoins''' 
cornerstones

==Page 798==

'''deignition''' 
shutting down of an engine

'''lintel''' 
a horizontal piece of architecture supporting the weight above a window or door

'''puce''' 
dark or brownish purple

''''Seated Harlequin'''' 
You can see this painting [http://www.abcgallery.com/P/picasso/picasso255.html here].

==Page 799==

'''Rubikular''' 
referring to [http://www.rubiks.com/ Rubik's cube]

'''scrip''' 
paper money

'''São Paulo''' 
the capital of Brazil

'''altruistic''' 
tending to do good things for their own sakes

'''"...the color of Thousand Island dressing..."''' 
sort of light orange

==Page 800==

'''sibilance''' 
hissing sound

'''bereft''' 
deprived, especially by a death

==Page 801==

'''diglobular''' 
consisting of two lumps of fat - here it refers to, however, his globe-like head seated atop his globe-like body, as mentioned on the previous page

==Page 802==

'''treacly''' 
Sentimental; too sweet.

'''mauve''' 
a moderate grey-violet to red-purple color

'''apneated''' 
As if punctuated by temporary cessations of breathing.

'''Philip Glass''' 
Philip Glass (born 1937) is an American music composer and pianist. His music is repetitive and minimal.

'''quaaludes''' 
Methaqualone. A sedative often used recreationally.

==Page 803==

'''inguinal''' 
situated in the groin

'''lachrymucus''' 
mucus flowing as a result of crying

'''obliquest''' 
Most oblique; slanted.

'''Dedham''' 
a town in Massachusetts about 12 miles southwest of Boston

'''Wharton''' 
The business school at the Ivy-League University of Pennsylvania, located in Philadelphia. Generally believed to be the most prestigious undergraduate business school in the world. Also highly regarded at post-graduate levels.

==Endnote 336==

'''sudoriferous''' 
sweaty

==Page 804==

'''Humboldt County''' 
probably the county in far-north California.

[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland]]

'''"mercantile counterpart at the Rolling Hills Academy"''' 
A student at Rolling Hills who fulfills at his school much the same role that Pemulis fulfills at E.T.A.

'''Delta-9''' 
Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol. The main psychoactive substance found in marijuana.

'''MBRO''' 
Acronym for "Metro-Boston Recovery Options"

'''pathos''' 
A quality that evokes pity.

'''pizzicato''' 
the musical effect of the plucking of strings on a classical instrument

'''civety''' 
A civet is a small carnivorous mammal that emits a strange smell.

'''fenestration''' 
The arrangement of windows and doors on the elevations of a building.

==Page 805==

'''dandled''' 
Move a baby up and down in a playful manner.

'''Fred MacMurray''' 
Fredrick Martin MacMurray (1908-1991) was an American actor who starred as a father in the television show [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053525/ My Three Sons]

'''''in loco parentis''''' 
Latin: in the place of parents

'''swart''' 
Swarthy.

==Page 806==

'''widow's peak''' 
a hairline that comes to a point in the center of the forehead

'''Ruminative''' 
In the manner of thinking deeply about something.

'''narcosis''' 
A stupor generally caused by drugs.

'''Addis Ababa''' 
the capital of Ethiopia

'''American Falls''' 
the American part of Niagara Falls

==Page 807==

'''Keens''' 
Wails.

'''imperial''' 
A small pointed beard beneath the lower lip. Associated with Napoleon III.

'''vivisecting''' 
Performing an operation on a living animal for research.

'''timpani''' 
Large drums used in orchestras.

'''Cornet''' 
A brass instrument that looks much like a trumpet.

'''Appian Way''' 
an ancient [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appian_Way Roman road]

'''cannoli''' 
an Italian pastry stuffed with sweetened ricotta cheese

'''Ascension Island''' 
A volcanic island off the coast of Africa.

'''South Atlantic''' 
South Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic Ocean is bounded by the east coasts of the Americas and the west coasts of Eurasia and Africa. The area of the Ocean below the equator is referred to as the South Atlantic Ocean.

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''''I Don't Know (How to Love Him)'''' 
a song from the rock opera ''Jesus Christ Superstar'', sung by the character of Mary Magdalene

'''"tornadic gale"''' 
Tornado-strength wind.

'''Azores''' 
A group of islands in the Atlantic Ocean, west of Portugal.

'''cytological''' 
like microscopic cells

'''plume''' 
Here, a stream of water resembling a feather.

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==Page 786==

'''depose''' 
ask questions of someone while under oath

'''''A.T.E.''''' 
Hal is wearing his jacket inside out.

=Endnote 324=

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=U.S.O.U.S. "interviews" Molly Notkin=

==Page 787==

'''homburg''' 
a felt hat with a brim meant for a man

'''post-Marxist''' 
an adherent [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Marxism school of thought] that encompasses the arts as well as politics

==Page 788==

'''co-op''' 
a co-operative, i.e., an apartment building that is jointly owned by the tenants

'''''V'' or ''VI''''' 
The filmography of Incandenza presented in an earlier (lengthy) endnote would seem to indicate that there were only five versions of the film, although the fifth version was apparently reviewed, which would mean that the "entertainment" so desperately sought is actually a sixth version.

'''instantiation''' 
a representation of an idea, here visual

'''anamorphosized''' 
changed from one form to another as a step in evolution

==Endnote 329==

'''heuristic''' 
serving to indicate or point out

==Page 788 (cont'd)==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]

'''Rube-Goldbergesque''' 
Reuben Garret Lucius "Rube" Goldberg (1883-1970) was a Jewish-American cartoonist, famous for drawing incredibly complicated devices used to perform simple tasks.

==Page 789==

'''parturient''' 
about to give birth

'''synecdoche''' 
This complicated figure of speech is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche here].

'''glabrous''' 
hairless

'''venery''' 
the gratification of sexual desire

'''chicanery''' 
deception by trickery or sophistry

'''keel''' 
This word denotes "the principal structural member of a ship, running lengthwise along the center line from bow to stern, to which the frames are attached" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language''). Here it is used in the sense of "on an even keel," i.e., sane.

==Page 790==

'''interrment''' 
a misspelling of interment, i.e., burial

'''thanatoptic''' 
regarding a vision of death

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar]]

'''''felo de self''''' 
a misspeaking of ''felo de se''

==Page 791==

'''olla podrida''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olla_podrida stew] popular in Spain

'''cerise''' 
a vivid purplish red

'''wattles''' 
wattles are ornamental skin on or near the base of the bill of certain birds, in this case the red wattles on the turkey's beak/bill

'''malcathected''' 
attached to emotionally in a negative way

==Page 792==

'''''Liebestod''''' 
German: love of death

'''antinomically''' 
in a manner suggesting opposition of laws

'''perspicuous''' 
clearly expressed

'''Gilles Deleuze''' 
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was a French philosopher.

'''''Incest and the Life of Death in Capitalist Entertainment''''' 
There is no such title.

'''malefic''' 
having a bad influence

'''reagent''' 
a substance used to produce other substances

'''menses''' 
menstruation

'''Pap smears''' 
screenings for female reproductive cancers, named for Georgios N. Papanikolaou (1883-1962), a Greek oncologist

'''''Putti''''' 
Italian: statues of human babies

==Page 793==

'''actaeonizing''' 
a neologism in reference to Actaeon, a young hunter in Greek Mythology who looked upon Artemis bathing, who turned him into a stag - he was then killed by his own hunting dogs

'''tines''' 
prongs of a fork

'''beau''' 
boyfriend

==Page 794==

'''bell-jar''' 
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_jar laboratory glassware] -- also the title of a novel by Sylvia Plath

'''itinerant''' 
traveling from place to place

'''pointers''' 
A pointer is a breed of hunting dog

==Page 795==

'''Lucille Duquette''' 
Molly is lying about Joelle's real name, but this name means something like "Light of the Collection."

'''bradykinetic''' 
slow moving

=Endnote 332=

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=Hal's First Meeting=

==Page 795==

==Endnote 333==

'''exurbs''' 
towns too far away from cities to be called "suburbs" but not far enough to be rural

'''Nantucket''' 
an island of Massachusetts about 30 miles south of Cape Cod

==Page 795 (cont'd)==

'''Route 27''' 
a Massachusetts highway running from Route 106 in Kingston to Route 4 in Chelsmfold

==Page 796==

'''condonation''' 
overlooking of an offense

'''Abandoned All Hope''' 
In Dante's ''Inferno'', the sign above Hell reads, "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."

'''shunpike''' 
a side road to avoid taking a turnpike

'''Rte. 9''' 
a Massachusetts highway running from US-20 in Pittsfield (western Massachusetts) to Route 28 in Boston

'''I-90''' 
an interstate running from Seattle to Boston

'''NPR''' 
National Public Radio

'''George Will''' 
George Frederick Will (born 1941) is a conservative American columnist. wallace implies that he has had his voicebox removed and now speaks with a prosthetic voicebox.

'''Cleveland Circle''' 
a neighborhood of Boston

==Page 797==

'''Æolic''' 
an ancient Greek dialect spoken between 800 and 300 BC

'''Thynne''' 
This is probably a reference to Francis Thynne (1544-1608), an English administrator at the College of Arms in London.

'''taproot''' 
something that provides a central source for growth

'''Cynewulf''' 
probably a reference to the Anglo-Saxon poet by that name

'''penumbra''' 
a shadowy, gray area

'''gneiss''' 
a form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gneiss metamorphic rock]

'''Quabbin''' 
the name of a reservoir in Massachusetts

'''Burma-Shave''' 
an old brand of shaving cream that advertised with consecutive road signs that rhymed

'''Lombardy''' 
a region of northern Italy with its capital at Milan

'''quoins''' 
cornerstones

==Page 798==

'''deignition''' 
shutting down of an engine

'''lintel''' 
a horizontal piece of architecture supporting the weight above a window or door

'''puce''' 
dark or brownish purple

''''Seated Harlequin'''' 
You can see this painting [http://www.abcgallery.com/P/picasso/picasso255.html here].

==Page 799==

'''Rubikular''' 
referring to [http://www.rubiks.com/ Rubik's cube]

'''scrip''' 
paper money

'''São Paulo''' 
the capital of Brazil

'''altruistic''' 
tending to do good things for their own sakes

'''"...the color of Thousand Island dressing..."''' 
sort of light orange

==Page 800==

'''sibilance''' 
hissing sound

'''bereft''' 
deprived, especially by a death

==Page 801==

'''diglobular''' 
consisting of two lumps of fat - here it refers to, however, his globe-like head seated atop his globe-like body, as mentioned on the previous page

==Page 802==

'''treacly''' 
Sentimental; too sweet.

'''mauve''' 
a moderate grey-violet to red-purple color

'''apneated''' 
As if punctuated by temporary cessations of breathing.

'''Philip Glass''' 
Philip Glass (born 1937) is an American music composer and pianist. His music is repetitive and minimal.

'''quaaludes''' 
Methaqualone. A sedative often used recreationally.

==Page 803==

'''inguinal''' 
situated in the groin

'''lachrymucus''' 
mucus flowing as a result of crying

'''obliquest''' 
Most oblique; slanted.

'''Dedham''' 
a town in Massachusetts about 12 miles southwest of Boston

'''Wharton''' 
The business school at the Ivy-League University of Pennsylvania, located in Philadelphia. Generally believed to be the most prestigious undergraduate business school in the world. Also highly regarded at post-graduate levels.

==Endnote 336==

'''sudoriferous''' 
sweaty

==Page 804==

'''Humboldt County''' 
probably the county in far-north California.

[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland]]

'''"mercantile counterpart at the Rolling Hills Academy"''' 
A student at Rolling Hills who fulfills at his school much the same role that Pemulis fulfills at E.T.A.

'''Delta-9''' 
Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol. The main psychoactive substance found in marijuana.

'''MBRO''' 
Acronym for "Metro-Boston Recovery Options"

'''pathos''' 
A quality that evokes pity.

'''pizzicato''' 
the musical effect of the plucking of strings on a classical instrument

'''civety''' 
A civet is a small carnivorous mammal that emits a strange smell.

'''fenestration''' 
The arrangement of windows and doors on the elevations of a building.

==Page 805==

'''dandled''' 
Move a baby up and down in a playful manner.

'''Fred MacMurray''' 
Fredrick Martin MacMurray (1908-1991) was an American actor who starred as a father in the television show [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053525/ My Three Sons]

'''''in loco parentis''''' 
Latin: in the place of parents

'''swart''' 
Swarthy.

==Page 806==

'''widow's peak''' 
a hairline that comes to a point in the center of the forehead

'''Ruminative''' 
In the manner of thinking deeply about something.

'''narcosis''' 
A stupor generally caused by drugs.

'''Addis Ababa''' 
the capital of Ethiopia

'''American Falls''' 
the American part of Niagara Falls

==Page 807==

'''Keens''' 
Wails.

'''imperial''' 
A small pointed beard beneath the lower lip. Associated with Napoleon III.

'''vivisecting''' 
Performing an operation on a living animal for research.

'''timpani''' 
Large drums used in orchestras.

'''Cornet''' 
A brass instrument that looks much like a trumpet.

'''Appian Way''' 
an ancient [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appian_Way Roman road]

'''cannoli''' 
an Italian pastry stuffed with sweetened ricotta cheese

'''Ascension Island''' 
A volcanic island off the coast of Africa.

'''South Atlantic''' 
South Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic Ocean is bounded by the east coasts of the Americas and the west coasts of Eurasia and Africa. The area of the Ocean below the equator is referred to as the South Atlantic Ocean.

==Page 808==

''''I Don't Know (How to Love Him)'''' 
a song from the rock opera ''Jesus Christ Superstar'', sung by the character of Mary Magdalene

'''"tornadic gale"''' 
Tornado-strength wind.

'''Azores''' 
A group of islands in the Atlantic Ocean, west of Portugal.

'''cytological''' 
like microscopic cells

'''plume''' 
Here, a stream of water resembling a feather.

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==Page 664==

'''V.D.''' 
Very dearly

==Endnote 269==

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=The Tunnel Club's cleaning duty=

==Page 666==

'''ferrous''' 
containing iron

'''morphic''' 
probably short for "metamorphic," a type of rock

'''ovoid''' 
egg-shaped

'''26 meters''' 
about 85.3 feet

'''B.P.''' 
battery powered

'''parget''' 
plaster used for covering walls

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'''novitiate''' 
in the beginning period of something

'''dross''' 
refuse metal from the refining process

'''Trojan''' 
a brand of condoms

'''vermiform''' 
looking like a worm

==Page 668==

'''''Robert's Rules''''' 
''Robert's Rules of Parliamentary Procedure,'' the standard text on how to run a meeting

==Page 669==

'''P.B.''' 
perhaps "pulsed beam"

'''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

'''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

==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.

'''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.

==Page 676 (cont'd)==

'''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.

'''''aux disques''''' 
French: on disks, here probably referring to TP disks

==Page 677==

==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"

==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==

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==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

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'''"...rosebud, his dark star..."''' 
his anus

'''russet''' 
yellowish- or reddish-brown

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==Page 983==

===Endnote 3===

'''cardioid''' 
In geometry, a cardioid is a plane curve produced by tracing the path of a chosen point of a circle which rolls around a fixed circle. The cardioid shape of E.T.A. has one cusp, i.e., a point on the curve that is not smooth. The ''r'' referred to by the narrator here is the radius of the moving circle.

'''Übermensch''' 
German for "superhuman"

'''Brandeis''' 
Brandeis is a Jewish-founded university in Waltham, Mass., about nine miles west of Boston, named for Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941) the first Jewish Supreme Court justice.

===Endnote 5===

'''N.B.''' 
abbreviation for Latin ''nota bene'', i.e., "note well," stated before an important example or corollary point

===Endnote 5a===

'''nystagmus''' 
involuntary eye movement

'''entrepôt''' 
French for "warehouse," this is where foreign merchandise can be purchased duty-free

'''loquacity''' 
talkativeness

===Endnote 6===

'''Halcion (still available in Canada, unbelievably, still)''' 
It's also still available here, though the U.K. has banned it since 1991.

==Page 984==

===Endnote 7===

'''bevelling''' 
Here meaning "smoothed out" and misspelled, beveling is the making of 45º angles where perpendiculars meet.

===Endnote 8===

===Endnote 8a===

'''Muscimole''' 
another mushroom-based hallucinogen, like psilocybin

'''DDMS''' 
dibromododecenyl methylsulfimide

'''DMSO''' 
dimethylsulfoxide

===Endnote 8 (cont'd)===

'''dickies''' 
As a dickie is designed to give the appearance of wearing a tie, Wallace uses this word here to deal with drugs that mimic the effects of other drugs.

'''MMDA, DMA, DMMM, 2CB, para-DOT I-VI''' 
You can read about MMDA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMDA_%28psychedelic%29 here], DMA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethoxyamphetamine here], 2CB [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2CB here], DOT [http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_Chemical.jsp?Rec_Id=PC35343 here] (apparently). DMMM appears to be made up.

'''CNS''' 
central nervous system

'''gamma hydroxybutric acid''' 
now more commonly known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-Hydroxybutyric_acid GHB]

'''DMZ/M.P.''' 
DMZ is another made-up drug. M.P. refers to its street name, Madame Psychosis.

===Endnote 12a===

'''"...Continental Controlled Substances Act of Y.T.M.P., O.N.A.N.D.E.A.'s hierarchy of analgesics/antipyretics/axiolytics..."''' 
There is no such act, obviously. Y.T.M.P. is [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]. The second acronym is Organization of North American Nations Drug Enforcement Agency. Analgesics are painkillers. Antipyretics are fever-reducing drugs, and anxiolytics are anxiety-reducing drugs.

===Endnote 13===

'''Quo Vadis''' 
Latin: Where are you going? Famously asked of Jesus by Peter when the former was on his way to be crucified. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quo_vadis here.] Also a novel and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043949/ film] by that name were made.

==Page 985==

===Endnote 17===

'''datum''' 
piece of information

===Endnote 19===

French: A person of terrible importance

===Endnote 21===

'''Q.v.''' 
Latin abbreviation for ''quod vide'' ("which see"), used to direct a reader elsewhere in a book. Here we are directed to...

===Endnote 23===
'''U.S.D.D.''' 
United States Department of Defense

===Endnote 24===
'''meniscus''' 
a lens with a crescent-shaped section

'''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 1000==

===Endnote 82===

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'''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

[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.-Q.M.D.]]

'''pistil''' 
that part of a flower that is analogous to the female reproductive organs

'''Sikorski''' 
C.T. is probably comparing the bee (which flies) to an airplane (which also flies) produced by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_Aircraft Sikorsky Aircraft].

'''paucity''' 
scarcity

'''swotted''' 
studied intensively

'''wakked''' 
I have no idea.

'''unperspicous''' 
not clearly expressed or presented

'''penultimate''' 
second to last

'''whingeing''' 
complaining (pronounced to rhyme with "jing")

'''xerophagy''' 
eating of bread and water only

===Endnote 110d===

'''anti-sclerotic''' 
tending to ward of hardening of tissues (as of arteries, here)

===Page 1006 (cont'd)===

'''maunder''' 
to talk incoherently or aimlessly

'''Solecism''' 
nonstandard or incorrect grammatical usage

'''and c.''' 
et cetera

===Page 1007===

'''20 X 25 centimeter''' 
very close to 8" x 10"

'''Jethro Bodine''' 
a character on the television show [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055662/ The Beverly Hillbillies]

'''proviso''' 
a clause, usually in a document, making a stipulation or qualification

'''"...isn't even iambic, much less quatrameter/trimeter..."''' 
This is to say that the poetry of Dickinson is not in iambic pentameter, also known as verse. This is the style of poetry Shakespeare is written in ("Now is the winter of our discontent") -- ten syllables, and five iambs (feet, or beats) per line (thus pentameter). Quatrameter/trimeter would be the rhythm scheme of "Yellow Rose of Texas" and "Marry Had a Little Lamb."

'''dink''' 
a synonym for a drop shot, which in tennis is a light tap just over the net

===Page 1008===

'''obverse''' 
the more conspicuous of two possible choices

'''seraphic''' 
like an angel

'''lascivious''' 
appealing to sexual tastes

'''mesmerized''' 
hypnotized

'''skitter''' 
to move rapidly along a surface

'''knight-errant''' 
a knight on a quest to prove his chivalry

===Page 1009===

'''Ainsi''' 
French: so to speak

'''breviary''' 
a prayer and hymn book

'''"Kitchens and heat..."''' 
which is to say, if you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen

===Page 1010===

'''Gloeckner''' 
German for "ringer," taking that in either of the meanings it has in English

'''3-kilo''' 
a little over 7.25 pounds

'''Snuff''' 
chewing tobacco

'''Andover''' 
as in [http://www.boardingschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/5 Philips Academy Andover], alma mater of both presidents Bush

'''"Dickinson's about as Transcendalist as Poe."''' 
which is to say, not at all

===Page 1011===

[[Image:Eddy.jpg|right]]

'''R.C.M.P.''' 
Royal Canadian Mounted Police

'''Nelson Eddy''' 
Nelson Ackerman Eddy (1901-1967) was an American singer and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0248904/ movie star]. As far as what he looked like, see right.

'''Droll''' 
whimsically comic

===Page 1012===

'''nanomicroscopy''' 
the looking at extremely small things (nano- being the prefix for "one-billionth") through a microscope

'''Thevet''' 
This is probably a reference to André de Thevet (1502-1590), a French priest and explorer. Though never in Canada, he relied on French-Canadian explorers' work for his own voyages to South America.

'''"...the 5 on the French Achievement boards..."''' 
The highest possible score on the French Advanced Placement Exam (for which one can receive college credit) is 5.

'''Boswell''' 
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (1740-1795), was the Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson.

'''E cup''' 
a very large breast size

'''acuity''' 
acuteness of perception

'''in utero''' 
in the womb

'''thalidomide''' 
a drug developed to treat morning sickness in pregnant women that ended up causing babies to be born missing limbs

'''Condé Nast''' 
one of the largest magazine publishers in the country, owned by Advance Publications (the Newhouse family) and founded by Condé Montrose Nast (1873-1942), an American publisher

'''deform''' 
here meaning simply "to spoil"

'''persona''' 
a fictional identity created for a person, narrator in a book, etc.

'''''du''''' 
French: of the (masculine)

===Page 1013===

'''Meech Lake''' 
a lake in Gatineau Park, near Chelsea, Québec

'''Parizeau''' 
This is probably Jacques Parizeau (born 1930), a former Premier of Québec and proponent of Québecois sovereignty.

'''Charlottetown''' 
the capital of the Canadian province of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island Prince Edward Island]

'''Crétien assassination''' 
This is probably a misspelling of the surname of Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien (born 1934), Prime Minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003.

'''Francophonic''' 
French-speaking

'''Acadian Zionism''' 
Acadia is the traditional name for what is now (in part) eastern Québec. Zionism is used here as a synonym for nationalism, rather than with its specific Jewish connotations

'''Toujours''' 
French: always

'''"On ne parle d'Anglais ici."''' 
French: English is not spoken here

'''Ottawa''' 
the capital of Canada

'''"Permettez Nous Partir, Permettez Nous Être."''' 
French: Allow us to leave, allow us to be.

'''Winnipeg''' 
the capital of Canadian province of Manitoba

'''flux''' 
frequent change

'''appalled''' 
dismayed

'''UV-booth''' 
UV standing for ultraviolet (as in light), this is probably a tanning booth.

===Page 1014===

'''"Nous v. La Plupart Toujours"''' 
French: Us versus the majority always

'''Lesotho''' 
a kingdom of southern Africa, existing as an enclave entirely within the Republic of South Africa

'''SOUTHAF''' 
This is the Union of South Africa, which was formed in 1910 as a British colony and tried to annex Lesotho to it. Because of the imposition of ''apartheid'' laws in S. Africa, the annexation failed.

'''antebellum''' 
before the war, here the U.S. Civil War

===Endnote 110h===

'''Gallic''' 
French

===Page 1014 (cont'd)===

'''Anglophone''' 
English-speaking

'''Plains of Abraham''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains_of_Abraham Battle of the Plains of Abraham], part of the French and Indian Wars, which ended in a decisive British victory of the French

===Endnote 110i===

''''La Guerre des Britanniques et des Sauvages'''' 
French: The War of the British and the Savages

'''Ticonderoga''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Carillon Battle of Carillon], fought at Fort Ticonderoga

===Page 1014 (cont'd)===

'''Booty''' 
treasure taken from a defeated party

'''1759''' 
On September 13, 1759, Québec fell to the British.

'''NAFTA''' 
North American Free Trade Agreement

'''Rubensian''' 
The word more often used is "Rubenesque," but this refers to the women in paintings by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the Flemish artist. His women tended to be plump.

'''retardate''' 
more often used as a noun, offensively referring to a retarded person

'''rapacious''' 
ravenous

===Page 1015===

'''lissome''' 
supple

'''Rubensophile''' 
See above, Rubensian.

'''gulag''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GULAG GULAG] prison system of the Soviet Union

''''ce pas?''' 
French elision of "n'est-ce pas?" i.e., "right?"

'''Anbesol''' 
a brand name of benzocaine used for tooth pain

'''flanges''' 
Orin probably means to say "phalanges."

'''Rue Sherbrooke''' 
a road in Montreal

'''St. Jean-Baptiste Day''' 
another name for la [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%AAte_nationale_du_Qu%C3%A9bec fête nationale du Québec]

'''anaerobic''' 
thriving without oxygen

===Page 1016===

'''weedy''' 
scrawny; Hal is probably using it to mean "thin," as in a line of argumentation

'''Brazilian ''Nuevo Contras''''' 
These would be "new" ''contras'', the old ones having been U.S.-funded anti-communist guerrillas in Nicaragua in the 1980s.

'''The ''Noie Störkraft'''s? Shining Path's? The Belgian CCC's?''' 
''Noie Störkraft'' is Swedish "New Great Power"; it does not appear to be a new organization, though Störkraft is the name of a skinhead band from Sweden. The Shining Path (''Sendero Luminoso'' in Spanish) is the Communist Party of Peru, which has waged guerrilla warfare against the Peruvian government since 1980. CCC is a French acronym for Communist Combatant Cells; they were eliminated as a terrorist group in 1986.

'''''Ez-ed-Dean-el-Qassan''''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izz_ad-Din_al-Qassam_Brigades alternate spelling] of a Palestinian militant group affiliated with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas Hamas]

'''P.E.T.A.''' 
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

[[Image:Munch.jpg|right|100px]]

'''wobbled shrieking figure in the Munch lithograph''' 
See right.

===Page 1017===

'''subjoin''' 
to append to the end of something

'''attendant''' 
consequent or concomitant

'''cloracne''' 
probably a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloracne chloracne]

'''olfactory hallucinations''' 
hallucinations wherein one smells things that aren't there

'''machete''' 
a large cleaver-like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machete cutting tool]

'''Infant-depredations''' 
preying on babies

'''phenols''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenol carbolic acid]

'''Fundy''' 
probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Fundy Bay of Fundy]

'''straw-and-camel''' 
i.e., the straw that broke the camel's back

===Page 1018===

'''Docksider''' 
a type of boat shoe

'''full-toll''' 
i.e., it takes its full toll on you

'''Constantine''' 
perhaps [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_I Constantine I], by tradition first Christian emperor of Rome

'''merde''' 
French for "shit"

'''cartographic''' 
having to do with maps

'''parliamentary wigs''' 
Canadian MPs don't wear wigs, though barristers (lawyers) and judges do.

===Page 1019===

'''bone of dissension''' 
Orin means "bone of contention."

'''desmirched''' 
probably a malapropism, although it could mean "to un-besmirch"

'''re-gerrymandered''' 
To gerrymander is to divide an area into electoral districts favorable to one party over another.

'''Cuibono''' 
more properly ''cui bono'', Latin for "who benefits?"

'''swivet''' 
a state of nervous excitement

'''D-bases''' 
databases

'''falcate''' 
to curve like a sickle

'''Albertan ultra-rightists''' 
There is a tradition of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Separatism separatism] in Alberta.

'''Duluth''' 
a town in Minnesota and home to Bob Dylan, on Lake Superior about 150 miles north of the Twin Cities

===Page 1020===

'''Vichified''' 
i.e., as Vichy France, which was a puppet government to the Nazis

'''Anschluss''' 
German for "annexation," it most often refers to Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria in 1938.

'''mayhi''' 
Orin seems to be using this term as a plural of "mayhem."

'''P.Q.s''' 
members of the Parti Québecois

'''P.M.''' 
Prime Minister (of Canada)

'''''aller, partir''''' 
French: to go, to leave

===Page 1021===

'''hapless''' 
here meaning haphazard

'''botulizing''' 
infecting with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulism botulism]

'''jaunty''' 
smartly trim

'''toggle''' 
a type of switch

'''anapestic''' 
An anapest is a three-syllable word where the emphasis is one last syllable. "Anapest" is an anapest.

===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 1035==

===Endnote 211===

'''suborn''' 
to bribe or induce someone to commit a crime or misdeed
==Endnote 234 · Excerpts From Orin's Interview With ''Moment''==

===Page 1038===

'''Rafferty''' 
Terrence Rafferty was a film critic for the ''New Yorker'' magazine.

'''NPR''' 
National Public Radio

===Page 1039===

'''dun''' 
make repeated demands on

'''Madison Avenue''' 
the street in New York famous for its advertising firms

'''traversion''' 
Orin probably means "introversion."

'''T-square''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-square drafting tool]

===Page 1040===

'''Prussian''' 
here used to mean "very strict"

'''schizogenic''' 
produced or formed by fission

'''pathogenic''' 
capable of producing disease

===Page 1041===

'''antidote''' 
Orin means "anecdote."

'''Quelquechose''' 
French: something

===Page 1042===

'''pièce''' 
as in "pièce de resistance," the punchline or main point

===Page 1043===

'''four horsemen''' 
as in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse] from the Book of Revelation

'''BPL''' 
Boston Public Library

===Page 1044===

==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 high way. It could have been the same accident as the one Bain's referring to here.

'''J.O.I.''' 
James O. Incandenza

'''guile''' 
insidious cunning

'''larval''' 
immature in its kind

'''codpieces''' 
a pouch at the crotch of tight-fitting breeches, popular during the Renaissance

'''Swinburne''' 
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was a British poet whose work had themes of homosexuality and sadomasochism.

'''prenominate''' 
aforementioned

'''apposite''' 
relevant

===Page 1048===

'''fairly high-sodium way''' 
i.e., with a grain (or more) of salt

'''purposive''' 
serving some purpose

'''cross-sectioned cow''' 
Cornell University apparently has a cow whose stomachs you can see in action.

'''anaclitic''' 
denoting psychologic dependence

===Page 1049===

'''prevarication''' 
lying

'''"...as if from the Rose Garden..."''' 
like the President of the U.S. answering a question from a reporter

mendacious 
untruthful

'''monilial''' 
having to do with vaginal yeast infection

'''S. Johnson''' 
probably a reference to Dr. Samuel Johnson, the lexicographer

===Page 1050===

'''Steeples''' 
Bain has become to get Steeply's name wrong.

'''Steeley''' 
ditto

'''ACOAs''' 
Adult Children of Alcoholics

'''AlaTeens''' 
a support group for teenage children of alcoholics

'''ACONAs''' 
Adult Children of Narcotics Anonymous

'''ACOGs''' 
ACOG is most commonly the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, but in this context it probably stands for Adult Children of Gamblers.

'''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

'''albatross''' 
a burden, from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner''

'''Starksaddle''' 
another mistake with Steeply's name

'''perspicuous''' 
clearly expressed

===Page 1052===

'''multivalent''' 
having various meanings

'''Bainbridge''' 
This isn't even close to Steeply's name.

==Endnote 321 · Hal's DMZ Dream==
===Page 1063===

'''Rise Over Run''' 
The rise (amount the line increases) of a line divided over the run (length of the line) give you the slope of the line, which is also equal in calculus to the first derivative.

'''tangent''' 
This concept is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangent#Trigonometry here].

'''Differentiation''' 
the process by which one determines the first derivative of a mathematical function

'''inexorably''' 
relentlessly

'''covers''' 
songs written by other people than yourself
===Page 1064===
'''Digestive-Flora''' 
bacteria that live in the intestine and aid in digestion

'''Verdun Protestant Hospital''' 
now called [http://www.douglas.qc.ca/ Douglas Mental Health Institute]

'''''tu-sais-qué''''' 
really bad French for "you know what"

'''Human Hatchet''' 
i.e., Axford

'''impotence''' 
Probably means impetus

'''Blue Flames''' 
apparently some sort of drug
===Page 1065===
'''O2''' 
oxygen

'''Jiminy Cricket''' 
a character from [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032910/ Pinocchio]

==Endnote 324 · John Wayne loses it==

===Page 1066===

'''moon''' 
to spend time idly

'''camphonated''' 
more like "camphorated," i.e., contained camphor

===Endnote 324a===

'''loamy''' 
consisting of rich, arable soil

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]

===Page 1066 (cont'd)===

'''whorl''' 
a circular arrangement

'''funiculi''' 
plural of "funiculus," i.e., part of the spinal cord

===Page 1067===

'''gonions''' 
the outer points on either side of the lower jaw at which the jawbone angles upward

'''uncolloped''' 
having no fat

'''latissimal''' 
referring to the [http://www.reference.com/search?r=13&q=Latissimus lattissimus dorsi] muscles

'''profligate''' 
wasteful

'''Nordicular''' 
i.e., Nordic, which is to say blond-haired and blue-eyed

'''armamentarium''' 
an arsenal, particularly used by physicians to refer to drugs or treatments

'''callow''' 
immature; inexperienced

'''entrepôt''' 
a place for storing and dispensing goods

'''dinkle''' 
a euphemism for "penis"

===Page 1068===

'''welching''' 
swindling by not paying a debt or wager

'''three-setter''' 
a tennis game ending in three sets, rather than five, because one player has gone up 3 to 0

'''cavalier''' 
disdainful; unceremonious

'''burr''' 
here used to mean "irritant"

===Page 1069===

'''canvas restraint-wrap''' 
straitjacket

'''catgut''' 
This is "a strong cord made by twisting the dried intestines of animals, as sheep, used in stringing musical instruments and tennis rackets, for surgical sutures, etc." (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''"...his late great Da's..."''' 
Clearly Pemulis has no idea that his brother was molested by their father.

'''rheumy''' 
full of thin mucous

===Page 1070===

'''Bedouins''' 
certain Arabs of the deserts of Arabia and the Levant

'''buggered''' 
being on the receiving end of anal sex

'''b/w''' 
Black and white

'''J. Gleason''' 
Jackie Gleason (1916-1987) was [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001276/ one of the great comic actors] of the 20th century.

'''Zoltan''' 
actually a Hungarian name, which means "ruler"

'''cretinous''' 
stupid

===Page 1071===

===Endnote 324f===

'''Orly''' 
one of the airports serving Paris

===Page 1071 (cont'd)===

'''redoubted''' 
formidable

'''Modus Tollens''' 
a Latin logical term, meaning, roughly, "the means of denying"

'''Nucleic acids''' 
DNA and RNA

'''A and G, T and C''' 
adenine and guanine, thymine and cytosine, the compounds that make up DNA

'''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], by Rudyard Kipling: "If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you"

'''Csíkszentmihályi''' 
The name may be taken from Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (born 1934), a prominent Hungarian-American psychologist. His son Christopher is on the faculty at MIT.

'''lemma''' 
a proven statement used as a step in a mathematical proof

'''Boardman MN''' 
a town about 40 miles west-northwest of the Twin Cities

===Page 1072===

''' "Leap like a knight of faith . . ." ''' 

A reference to Soren Kierkegaard's knight of faith. Kierkegaard, a theologian and philosopher, didn't think there could be any logical justification for believing in God. Instead the believer is required to take a leap of faith, so called because he (the believer) has no evidence for his convictions and thus must always, on some rational level, doubt them. In fact to Kierkegaard doubt defines faith, because if there were no doubt no leap of faith would be required in the first place, much like it doesn't require a leap of faith for you to believe you're actually reading this wikipedia entry right now, or that I'm not an alien sub rosa manipulating your mind for my own purposes.

'''"...Peano, Leibniz, Hilbert..."''' 
Giuseppe Peano (1858-1932) was an Italian mathematician. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a German polymath and one of the creators of calculus. David Hilbert (1862-1943) was a German mathematician.

'''"...Fourier, Gauss, LaPlace, Rickey..."''' 
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) was a French mathematician and physicist. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) was a German mathematician. Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (1749-1827) was a French mathematician and astronomer. Rickey would seem to refer to [http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/ V. Frederick Rickey], though he is contemporary while the other named men are not.

'''"...Wiener, Reimann, Frege, Green..."''' 
Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) was an American mathematician. Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) was a German mathematician. Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a German mathematician and logician. Green is probably George Green (1793-1841), English mathematician and physicist.

==Endnote 332 · DeLint slays the Peemster==

===Page 1073===

'''jury-rigged''' 
a corruption of "jerry-rigged" (a pejorative term about Germans), which basically means rigged in a makeshift, ad hod manner

===Page 1074===

'''nictitater''' 
the word meant here is probably "nictitate," which means to wink - so, in other words, a "wink" of stupidity-film on Watson's eyes, or just a hint

'''castigations''' 
criticisms; reprimands

===Page 1075===

'''loupes''' 
eyepiece magnifying glasses used by jewellers

'''"may the road rise up to meet you..."''' 
part of an old Irish blessing

===Page 1076===

'''incubus''' 
a male demon that seduces female humans

==Page 1076==

'''glycerine''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycerine glycerol]

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==Page 983==

===Endnote 3===

'''cardioid''' 
In geometry, a cardioid is a plane curve produced by tracing the path of a chosen point of a circle which rolls around a fixed circle. The cardioid shape of E.T.A. has one cusp, i.e., a point on the curve that is not smooth. The ''r'' referred to by the narrator here is the radius of the moving circle.

'''Übermensch''' 
German for "superhuman"

'''Brandeis''' 
Brandeis is a Jewish-founded university in Waltham, Mass., about nine miles west of Boston, named for Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941) the first Jewish Supreme Court justice.

===Endnote 5===

'''N.B.''' 
abbreviation for Latin ''nota bene'', i.e., "note well," stated before an important example or corollary point

===Endnote 5a===

'''nystagmus''' 
involuntary eye movement

'''entrepôt''' 
French for "warehouse," this is where foreign merchandise can be purchased duty-free

'''loquacity''' 
talkativeness

===Endnote 6===

'''Halcion (still available in Canada, unbelievably, still)''' 
It's also still available here, though the U.K. has banned it since 1991.

==Page 984==

===Endnote 7===

'''bevelling''' 
Here meaning "smoothed out" and misspelled, beveling is the making of 45º angles where perpendiculars meet.

===Endnote 8===

===Endnote 8a===

'''Muscimole''' 
another mushroom-based hallucinogen, like psilocybin

'''DDMS''' 
dibromododecenyl methylsulfimide

'''DMSO''' 
dimethylsulfoxide

===Endnote 8 (cont'd)===

'''dickies''' 
As a dickie is designed to give the appearance of wearing a tie, Wallace uses this word here to deal with drugs that mimic the effects of other drugs.

'''MMDA, DMA, DMMM, 2CB, para-DOT I-VI''' 
You can read about MMDA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMDA_%28psychedelic%29 here], DMA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethoxyamphetamine here], 2CB [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2CB here], DOT [http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_Chemical.jsp?Rec_Id=PC35343 here] (apparently). DMMM appears to be made up.

'''CNS''' 
central nervous system

'''gamma hydroxybutric acid''' 
now more commonly known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-Hydroxybutyric_acid GHB]

'''DMZ/M.P.''' 
DMZ is another made-up drug. M.P. refers to its street name, Madame Psychosis.

===Endnote 12a===

'''"...Continental Controlled Substances Act of Y.T.M.P., O.N.A.N.D.E.A.'s hierarchy of analgesics/antipyretics/axiolytics..."''' 
There is no such act, obviously. Y.T.M.P. is [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]. The second acronym is Organization of North American Nations Drug Enforcement Agency. Analgesics are painkillers. Antipyretics are fever-reducing drugs, and anxiolytics are anxiety-reducing drugs.

===Endnote 13===

'''Quo Vadis''' 
Latin: Where are you going? Famously asked of Jesus by Peter when the former was on his way to be crucified. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quo_vadis here.] Also a novel and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043949/ film] by that name were made.

==Page 985==

===Endnote 17===

'''datum''' 
piece of information

===Endnote 19===

French: A person of terrible importance

===Endnote 21===

'''Q.v.''' 
Latin abbreviation for ''quod vide'' ("which see"), used to direct a reader elsewhere in a book. Here we are directed to...

===Endnote 23===
'''U.S.D.D.''' 
United States Department of Defense

===Endnote 24===
'''meniscus''' 
a lens with a crescent-shaped section

'''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 1000==

===Endnote 82===

[[Image:Plaid.jpg|thumb|caption|Night Watch Plaid|150px|right]]
'''Bean''' 
as in L.L. Bean, a privately-held mail-order and retail company based in Freeport, Maine, United States, specializing in clothing and outdoor recreation equipment.

'''Night Watch plaid''' 
A pattern of plaid. See right.

==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

[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.-Q.M.D.]]

'''pistil''' 
that part of a flower that is analogous to the female reproductive organs

'''Sikorski''' 
C.T. is probably comparing the bee (which flies) to an airplane (which also flies) produced by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_Aircraft Sikorsky Aircraft].

'''paucity''' 
scarcity

'''swotted''' 
studied intensively

'''wakked''' 
I have no idea.

'''unperspicous''' 
not clearly expressed or presented

'''penultimate''' 
second to last

'''whingeing''' 
complaining (pronounced to rhyme with "jing")

'''xerophagy''' 
eating of bread and water only

===Endnote 110d===

'''anti-sclerotic''' 
tending to ward of hardening of tissues (as of arteries, here)

===Page 1006 (cont'd)===

'''maunder''' 
to talk incoherently or aimlessly

'''Solecism''' 
nonstandard or incorrect grammatical usage

'''and c.''' 
et cetera

===Page 1007===

'''20 X 25 centimeter''' 
very close to 8" x 10"

'''Jethro Bodine''' 
a character on the television show [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055662/ The Beverly Hillbillies]

'''proviso''' 
a clause, usually in a document, making a stipulation or qualification

'''"...isn't even iambic, much less quatrameter/trimeter..."''' 
This is to say that the poetry of Dickinson is not in iambic pentameter, also known as verse. This is the style of poetry Shakespeare is written in ("Now is the winter of our discontent") -- ten syllables, and five iambs (feet, or beats) per line (thus pentameter). Quatrameter/trimeter would be the rhythm scheme of "Yellow Rose of Texas" and "Marry Had a Little Lamb."

'''dink''' 
a synonym for a drop shot, which in tennis is a light tap just over the net

===Page 1008===

'''obverse''' 
the more conspicuous of two possible choices

'''seraphic''' 
like an angel

'''lascivious''' 
appealing to sexual tastes

'''mesmerized''' 
hypnotized

'''skitter''' 
to move rapidly along a surface

'''knight-errant''' 
a knight on a quest to prove his chivalry

===Page 1009===

'''Ainsi''' 
French: so to speak

'''breviary''' 
a prayer and hymn book

'''"Kitchens and heat..."''' 
which is to say, if you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen

===Page 1010===

'''Gloeckner''' 
German for "ringer," taking that in either of the meanings it has in English

'''3-kilo''' 
a little over 7.25 pounds

'''Snuff''' 
chewing tobacco

'''Andover''' 
as in [http://www.boardingschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/5 Philips Academy Andover], alma mater of both presidents Bush

'''"Dickinson's about as Transcendalist as Poe."''' 
which is to say, not at all

===Page 1011===

[[Image:Eddy.jpg|right]]

'''R.C.M.P.''' 
Royal Canadian Mounted Police

'''Nelson Eddy''' 
Nelson Ackerman Eddy (1901-1967) was an American singer and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0248904/ movie star]. As far as what he looked like, see right.

'''Droll''' 
whimsically comic

===Page 1012===

'''nanomicroscopy''' 
the looking at extremely small things (nano- being the prefix for "one-billionth") through a microscope

'''Thevet''' 
This is probably a reference to André de Thevet (1502-1590), a French priest and explorer. Though never in Canada, he relied on French-Canadian explorers' work for his own voyages to South America.

'''"...the 5 on the French Achievement boards..."''' 
The highest possible score on the French Advanced Placement Exam (for which one can receive college credit) is 5.

'''Boswell''' 
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (1740-1795), was the Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson.

'''E cup''' 
a very large breast size

'''acuity''' 
acuteness of perception

'''in utero''' 
in the womb

'''thalidomide''' 
a drug developed to treat morning sickness in pregnant women that ended up causing babies to be born missing limbs

'''Condé Nast''' 
one of the largest magazine publishers in the country, owned by Advance Publications (the Newhouse family) and founded by Condé Montrose Nast (1873-1942), an American publisher

'''deform''' 
here meaning simply "to spoil"

'''persona''' 
a fictional identity created for a person, narrator in a book, etc.

'''''du''''' 
French: of the (masculine)

===Page 1013===

'''Meech Lake''' 
a lake in Gatineau Park, near Chelsea, Québec

'''Parizeau''' 
This is probably Jacques Parizeau (born 1930), a former Premier of Québec and proponent of Québecois sovereignty.

'''Charlottetown''' 
the capital of the Canadian province of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island Prince Edward Island]

'''Crétien assassination''' 
This is probably a misspelling of the surname of Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien (born 1934), Prime Minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003.

'''Francophonic''' 
French-speaking

'''Acadian Zionism''' 
Acadia is the traditional name for what is now (in part) eastern Québec. Zionism is used here as a synonym for nationalism, rather than with its specific Jewish connotations

'''Toujours''' 
French: always

'''"On ne parle d'Anglais ici."''' 
French: English is not spoken here

'''Ottawa''' 
the capital of Canada

'''"Permettez Nous Partir, Permettez Nous Être."''' 
French: Allow us to leave, allow us to be.

'''Winnipeg''' 
the capital of Canadian province of Manitoba

'''flux''' 
frequent change

'''appalled''' 
dismayed

'''UV-booth''' 
UV standing for ultraviolet (as in light), this is probably a tanning booth.

===Page 1014===

'''"Nous v. La Plupart Toujours"''' 
French: Us versus the majority always

'''Lesotho''' 
a kingdom of southern Africa, existing as an enclave entirely within the Republic of South Africa

'''SOUTHAF''' 
This is the Union of South Africa, which was formed in 1910 as a British colony and tried to annex Lesotho to it. Because of the imposition of ''apartheid'' laws in S. Africa, the annexation failed.

'''antebellum''' 
before the war, here the U.S. Civil War

===Endnote 110h===

'''Gallic''' 
French

===Page 1014 (cont'd)===

'''Anglophone''' 
English-speaking

'''Plains of Abraham''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains_of_Abraham Battle of the Plains of Abraham], part of the French and Indian Wars, which ended in a decisive British victory of the French

===Endnote 110i===

''''La Guerre des Britanniques et des Sauvages'''' 
French: The War of the British and the Savages

'''Ticonderoga''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Carillon Battle of Carillon], fought at Fort Ticonderoga

===Page 1014 (cont'd)===

'''Booty''' 
treasure taken from a defeated party

'''1759''' 
On September 13, 1759, Québec fell to the British.

'''NAFTA''' 
North American Free Trade Agreement

'''Rubensian''' 
The word more often used is "Rubenesque," but this refers to the women in paintings by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the Flemish artist. His women tended to be plump.

'''retardate''' 
more often used as a noun, offensively referring to a retarded person

'''rapacious''' 
ravenous

===Page 1015===

'''lissome''' 
supple

'''Rubensophile''' 
See above, Rubensian.

'''gulag''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GULAG GULAG] prison system of the Soviet Union

''''ce pas?''' 
French elision of "n'est-ce pas?" i.e., "right?"

'''Anbesol''' 
a brand name of benzocaine used for tooth pain

'''flanges''' 
Orin probably means to say "phalanges."

'''Rue Sherbrooke''' 
a road in Montreal

'''St. Jean-Baptiste Day''' 
another name for la [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%AAte_nationale_du_Qu%C3%A9bec fête nationale du Québec]

'''anaerobic''' 
thriving without oxygen

===Page 1016===

'''weedy''' 
scrawny; Hal is probably using it to mean "thin," as in a line of argumentation

'''Brazilian ''Nuevo Contras''''' 
These would be "new" ''contras'', the old ones having been U.S.-funded anti-communist guerrillas in Nicaragua in the 1980s.

'''The ''Noie Störkraft'''s? Shining Path's? The Belgian CCC's?''' 
''Noie Störkraft'' is Swedish "New Great Power"; it does not appear to be a new organization, though Störkraft is the name of a skinhead band from Sweden. The Shining Path (''Sendero Luminoso'' in Spanish) is the Communist Party of Peru, which has waged guerrilla warfare against the Peruvian government since 1980. CCC is a French acronym for Communist Combatant Cells; they were eliminated as a terrorist group in 1986.

'''''Ez-ed-Dean-el-Qassan''''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izz_ad-Din_al-Qassam_Brigades alternate spelling] of a Palestinian militant group affiliated with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas Hamas]

'''P.E.T.A.''' 
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

[[Image:Munch.jpg|right|100px]]

'''wobbled shrieking figure in the Munch lithograph''' 
See right.

===Page 1017===

'''subjoin''' 
to append to the end of something

'''attendant''' 
consequent or concomitant

'''cloracne''' 
probably a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloracne chloracne]

'''olfactory hallucinations''' 
hallucinations wherein one smells things that aren't there

'''machete''' 
a large cleaver-like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machete cutting tool]

'''Infant-depredations''' 
preying on babies

'''phenols''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenol carbolic acid]

'''Fundy''' 
probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Fundy Bay of Fundy]

'''straw-and-camel''' 
i.e., the straw that broke the camel's back

===Page 1018===

'''Docksider''' 
a type of boat shoe

'''full-toll''' 
i.e., it takes its full toll on you

'''Constantine''' 
perhaps [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_I Constantine I], by tradition first Christian emperor of Rome

'''merde''' 
French for "shit"

'''cartographic''' 
having to do with maps

'''parliamentary wigs''' 
Canadian MPs don't wear wigs, though barristers (lawyers) and judges do.

===Page 1019===

'''bone of dissension''' 
Orin means "bone of contention."

'''desmirched''' 
probably a malapropism, although it could mean "to un-besmirch"

'''re-gerrymandered''' 
To gerrymander is to divide an area into electoral districts favorable to one party over another.

'''Cuibono''' 
more properly ''cui bono'', Latin for "who benefits?"

'''swivet''' 
a state of nervous excitement

'''D-bases''' 
databases

'''falcate''' 
to curve like a sickle

'''Albertan ultra-rightists''' 
There is a tradition of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Separatism separatism] in Alberta.

'''Duluth''' 
a town in Minnesota and home to Bob Dylan, on Lake Superior about 150 miles north of the Twin Cities

===Page 1020===

'''Vichified''' 
i.e., as Vichy France, which was a puppet government to the Nazis

'''Anschluss''' 
German for "annexation," it most often refers to Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria in 1938.

'''mayhi''' 
Orin seems to be using this term as a plural of "mayhem."

'''P.Q.s''' 
members of the Parti Québecois

'''P.M.''' 
Prime Minister (of Canada)

'''''aller, partir''''' 
French: to go, to leave

===Page 1021===

'''hapless''' 
here meaning haphazard

'''botulizing''' 
infecting with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulism botulism]

'''jaunty''' 
smartly trim

'''toggle''' 
a type of switch

'''anapestic''' 
An anapest is a three-syllable word where the emphasis is one last syllable. "Anapest" is an anapest.

===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 1035==

===Endnote 211===

'''suborn''' 
to bribe or induce someone to commit a crime or misdeed
==Endnote 234 · Excerpts From Orin's Interview With ''Moment''==

===Page 1038===

'''Rafferty''' 
Terrence Rafferty was a film critic for the ''New Yorker'' magazine.

'''NPR''' 
National Public Radio

===Page 1039===

'''dun''' 
make repeated demands on

'''Madison Avenue''' 
the street in New York famous for its advertising firms

'''traversion''' 
Orin probably means "introversion."

'''T-square''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-square drafting tool]

===Page 1040===

'''Prussian''' 
here used to mean "very strict"

'''schizogenic''' 
produced or formed by fission

'''pathogenic''' 
capable of producing disease

===Page 1041===

'''antidote''' 
Orin means "anecdote."

'''Quelquechose''' 
French: something

===Page 1042===

'''pièce''' 
as in "pièce de resistance," the punchline or main point

===Page 1043===

'''four horsemen''' 
as in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse] from the Book of Revelation

'''BPL''' 
Boston Public Library

===Page 1044===

==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 high way. It could have been the same accident as the one Bain's referring to here.

'''J.O.I.''' 
James O. Incandenza

'''guile''' 
insidious cunning

'''larval''' 
immature in its kind

'''codpieces''' 
a pouch at the crotch of tight-fitting breeches, popular during the Renaissance

'''Swinburne''' 
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was a British poet whose work had themes of homosexuality and sadomasochism.

'''prenominate''' 
aforementioned

'''apposite''' 
relevant

===Page 1048===

'''fairly high-sodium way''' 
i.e., with a grain (or more) of salt

'''purposive''' 
serving some purpose

'''cross-sectioned cow''' 
Cornell University apparently has a cow whose stomachs you can see in action.

'''anaclitic''' 
denoting psychologic dependence

===Page 1049===

'''prevarication''' 
lying

'''"...as if from the Rose Garden..."''' 
like the President of the U.S. answering a question from a reporter

mendacious 
untruthful

'''monilial''' 
having to do with vaginal yeast infection

'''S. Johnson''' 
probably a reference to Dr. Samuel Johnson, the lexicographer

===Page 1050===

'''Steeples''' 
Bain has become to get Steeply's name wrong.

'''Steeley''' 
ditto

'''ACOAs''' 
Adult Children of Alcoholics

'''AlaTeens''' 
a support group for teenage children of alcoholics

'''ACONAs''' 
Adult Children of Narcotics Anonymous

'''ACOGs''' 
ACOG is most commonly the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, but in this context it probably stands for Adult Children of Gamblers.

'''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

'''albatross''' 
a burden, from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner''

'''Starksaddle''' 
another mistake with Steeply's name

'''perspicuous''' 
clearly expressed

===Page 1052===

'''multivalent''' 
having various meanings

'''Bainbridge''' 
This isn't even close to Steeply's name.

==Endnote 321 · Hal's DMZ Dream==
===Page 1063===

'''Rise Over Run''' 
The rise (amount the line increases) of a line divided over the run (length of the line) give you the slope of the line, which is also equal in calculus to the first derivative.

'''tangent''' 
This concept is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangent#Trigonometry here].

'''Differentiation''' 
the process by which one determines the first derivative of a mathematical function

'''inexorably''' 
relentlessly

'''covers''' 
songs written by other people than yourself
===Page 1064===
'''Digestive-Flora''' 
bacteria that live in the intestine and aid in digestion

'''Verdun Protestant Hospital''' 
now called [http://www.douglas.qc.ca/ Douglas Mental Health Institute]

'''''tu-sais-qué''''' 
really bad French for "you know what"

'''Human Hatchet''' 
i.e., Axford

'''impotence''' 
Probably means impetus

'''Blue Flames''' 
apparently some sort of drug
===Page 1065===
'''O2''' 
oxygen

'''Jiminy Cricket''' 
a character from [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032910/ Pinocchio]

==Endnote 324 · John Wayne loses it==

===Page 1066===

'''moon''' 
to spend time idly

'''camphonated''' 
more like "camphorated," i.e., contained camphor

===Endnote 324a===

'''loamy''' 
consisting of rich, arable soil

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]

===Page 1066 (cont'd)===

'''whorl''' 
a circular arrangement

'''funiculi''' 
plural of "funiculus," i.e., part of the spinal cord

===Page 1067===

'''gonions''' 
the outer points on either side of the lower jaw at which the jawbone angles upward

'''uncolloped''' 
having no fat

'''latissimal''' 
referring to the [http://www.reference.com/search?r=13&q=Latissimus lattissimus dorsi] muscles

'''profligate''' 
wasteful

'''Nordicular''' 
i.e., Nordic, which is to say blond-haired and blue-eyed

'''armamentarium''' 
an arsenal, particularly used by physicians to refer to drugs or treatments

'''callow''' 
immature; inexperienced

'''entrepôt''' 
a place for storing and dispensing goods

'''dinkle''' 
a euphemism for "penis"

===Page 1068===

'''welching''' 
swindling by not paying a debt or wager

'''three-setter''' 
a tennis game ending in three sets, rather than five, because one player has gone up 3 to 0

'''cavalier''' 
disdainful; unceremonious

'''burr''' 
here used to mean "irritant"

===Page 1069===

'''canvas restraint-wrap''' 
straitjacket

'''catgut''' 
This is "a strong cord made by twisting the dried intestines of animals, as sheep, used in stringing musical instruments and tennis rackets, for surgical sutures, etc." (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''"...his late great Da's..."''' 
Clearly Pemulis has no idea that his brother was molested by their father.

'''rheumy''' 
full of thin mucous

===Page 1070===

'''Bedouins''' 
certain Arabs of the deserts of Arabia and the Levant

'''buggered''' 
being on the receiving end of anal sex

'''b/w''' 
Black and white

'''J. Gleason''' 
Jackie Gleason (1916-1987) was [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001276/ one of the great comic actors] of the 20th century.

'''Zoltan''' 
actually a Hungarian name, which means "ruler"

'''cretinous''' 
stupid

===Page 1071===

===Endnote 324f===

'''Orly''' 
one of the airports serving Paris

===Page 1071 (cont'd)===

'''redoubted''' 
formidable

'''Modus Tollens''' 
a Latin logical term, meaning, roughly, "the means of denying"

'''Nucleic acids''' 
DNA and RNA

'''A and G, T and C''' 
adenine and guanine, thymine and cytosine, the compounds that make up DNA

'''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], by Rudyard Kipling: "If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you"

'''Csíkszentmihályi''' 
The name may be taken from Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (born 1934), a prominent Hungarian-American psychologist. His son Christopher is on the faculty at MIT.

'''lemma''' 
a proven statement used as a step in a mathematical proof

'''Boardman MN''' 
a town about 40 miles west-northwest of the Twin Cities

===Page 1072===

''' "Leap like a knight of faith . . ." ''' 

A reference to Soren Kierkegaard's knight of faith. Kierkegaard, a theologian and philosopher, didn't think there could be any logical justification for believing in God. Instead the believer is required to take a leap of faith, so called because he (the believer) has no evidence for his convictions and thus must always, on some rational level, doubt them. In fact to Kierkegaard doubt defines faith, because if there were no doubt no leap of faith would be required in the first place, much like it doesn't require a leap of faith for you to believe you're actually reading this wikipedia entry right now, or that I'm not an alien sub rosa manipulating your mind for my own purposes.

'''"...Peano, Leibniz, Hilbert..."''' 
Giuseppe Peano (1858-1932) was an Italian mathematician. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a German polymath and one of the creators of calculus. David Hilbert (1862-1943) was a German mathematician.

'''"...Fourier, Gauss, LaPlace, Rickey..."''' 
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) was a French mathematician and physicist. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) was a German mathematician. Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (1749-1827) was a French mathematician and astronomer. Rickey would seem to refer to [http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/ V. Frederick Rickey], though he is contemporary while the other named men are not.

'''"...Wiener, Reimann, Frege, Green..."''' 
Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) was an American mathematician. Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) was a German mathematician. Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a German mathematician and logician. Green is probably George Green (1793-1841), English mathematician and physicist.

==Endnote 332==

===Page 1073===

'''jury-rigged''' 
a corruption of "jerry-rigged" (a pejorative term about Germans), which basically means rigged in a makeshift, ad hod manner

===Page 1074===

'''nictitater''' 
the word meant here is probably "nictitate," which means to wink - so, in other words, a "wink" of stupidity-film on Watson's eyes, or just a hint

'''castigations''' 
criticisms; reprimands

===Page 1075===

'''loupes''' 
eyepiece magnifying glasses used by jewellers

'''"may the road rise up to meet you..."''' 
part of an old Irish blessing

===Page 1076===

'''incubus''' 
a male demon that seduces female humans

==Page 1076==

'''glycerine''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycerine glycerol]

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===Endnote 3===

'''cardioid''' 
In geometry, a cardioid is a plane curve produced by tracing the path of a chosen point of a circle which rolls around a fixed circle. The cardioid shape of E.T.A. has one cusp, i.e., a point on the curve that is not smooth. The ''r'' referred to by the narrator here is the radius of the moving circle.

'''Übermensch''' 
German for "superhuman"

'''Brandeis''' 
Brandeis is a Jewish-founded university in Waltham, Mass., about nine miles west of Boston, named for Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941) the first Jewish Supreme Court justice.

===Endnote 5===

'''N.B.''' 
abbreviation for Latin ''nota bene'', i.e., "note well," stated before an important example or corollary point

===Endnote 5a===

'''nystagmus''' 
involuntary eye movement

'''entrepôt''' 
French for "warehouse," this is where foreign merchandise can be purchased duty-free

'''loquacity''' 
talkativeness

===Endnote 6===

'''Halcion (still available in Canada, unbelievably, still)''' 
It's also still available here, though the U.K. has banned it since 1991.

==Page 984==

===Endnote 7===

'''bevelling''' 
Here meaning "smoothed out" and misspelled, beveling is the making of 45º angles where perpendiculars meet.

===Endnote 8===

===Endnote 8a===

'''Muscimole''' 
another mushroom-based hallucinogen, like psilocybin

'''DDMS''' 
dibromododecenyl methylsulfimide

'''DMSO''' 
dimethylsulfoxide

===Endnote 8 (cont'd)===

'''dickies''' 
As a dickie is designed to give the appearance of wearing a tie, Wallace uses this word here to deal with drugs that mimic the effects of other drugs.

'''MMDA, DMA, DMMM, 2CB, para-DOT I-VI''' 
You can read about MMDA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMDA_%28psychedelic%29 here], DMA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethoxyamphetamine here], 2CB [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2CB here], DOT [http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_Chemical.jsp?Rec_Id=PC35343 here] (apparently). DMMM appears to be made up.

'''CNS''' 
central nervous system

'''gamma hydroxybutric acid''' 
now more commonly known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-Hydroxybutyric_acid GHB]

'''DMZ/M.P.''' 
DMZ is another made-up drug. M.P. refers to its street name, Madame Psychosis.

===Endnote 12a===

'''"...Continental Controlled Substances Act of Y.T.M.P., O.N.A.N.D.E.A.'s hierarchy of analgesics/antipyretics/axiolytics..."''' 
There is no such act, obviously. Y.T.M.P. is [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]. The second acronym is Organization of North American Nations Drug Enforcement Agency. Analgesics are painkillers. Antipyretics are fever-reducing drugs, and anxiolytics are anxiety-reducing drugs.

===Endnote 13===

'''Quo Vadis''' 
Latin: Where are you going? Famously asked of Jesus by Peter when the former was on his way to be crucified. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quo_vadis here.] Also a novel and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043949/ film] by that name were made.

==Page 985==

===Endnote 17===

'''datum''' 
piece of information

===Endnote 19===

French: A person of terrible importance

===Endnote 21===

'''Q.v.''' 
Latin abbreviation for ''quod vide'' ("which see"), used to direct a reader elsewhere in a book. Here we are directed to...

===Endnote 23===
'''U.S.D.D.''' 
United States Department of Defense

===Endnote 24===
'''meniscus''' 
a lens with a crescent-shaped section

'''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 1000==

===Endnote 82===

[[Image:Plaid.jpg|thumb|caption|Night Watch Plaid|150px|right]]
'''Bean''' 
as in L.L. Bean, a privately-held mail-order and retail company based in Freeport, Maine, United States, specializing in clothing and outdoor recreation equipment.

'''Night Watch plaid''' 
A pattern of plaid. See right.

==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

[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.-Q.M.D.]]

'''pistil''' 
that part of a flower that is analogous to the female reproductive organs

'''Sikorski''' 
C.T. is probably comparing the bee (which flies) to an airplane (which also flies) produced by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_Aircraft Sikorsky Aircraft].

'''paucity''' 
scarcity

'''swotted''' 
studied intensively

'''wakked''' 
I have no idea.

'''unperspicous''' 
not clearly expressed or presented

'''penultimate''' 
second to last

'''whingeing''' 
complaining (pronounced to rhyme with "jing")

'''xerophagy''' 
eating of bread and water only

===Endnote 110d===

'''anti-sclerotic''' 
tending to ward of hardening of tissues (as of arteries, here)

===Page 1006 (cont'd)===

'''maunder''' 
to talk incoherently or aimlessly

'''Solecism''' 
nonstandard or incorrect grammatical usage

'''and c.''' 
et cetera

===Page 1007===

'''20 X 25 centimeter''' 
very close to 8" x 10"

'''Jethro Bodine''' 
a character on the television show [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055662/ The Beverly Hillbillies]

'''proviso''' 
a clause, usually in a document, making a stipulation or qualification

'''"...isn't even iambic, much less quatrameter/trimeter..."''' 
This is to say that the poetry of Dickinson is not in iambic pentameter, also known as verse. This is the style of poetry Shakespeare is written in ("Now is the winter of our discontent") -- ten syllables, and five iambs (feet, or beats) per line (thus pentameter). Quatrameter/trimeter would be the rhythm scheme of "Yellow Rose of Texas" and "Marry Had a Little Lamb."

'''dink''' 
a synonym for a drop shot, which in tennis is a light tap just over the net

===Page 1008===

'''obverse''' 
the more conspicuous of two possible choices

'''seraphic''' 
like an angel

'''lascivious''' 
appealing to sexual tastes

'''mesmerized''' 
hypnotized

'''skitter''' 
to move rapidly along a surface

'''knight-errant''' 
a knight on a quest to prove his chivalry

===Page 1009===

'''Ainsi''' 
French: so to speak

'''breviary''' 
a prayer and hymn book

'''"Kitchens and heat..."''' 
which is to say, if you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen

===Page 1010===

'''Gloeckner''' 
German for "ringer," taking that in either of the meanings it has in English

'''3-kilo''' 
a little over 7.25 pounds

'''Snuff''' 
chewing tobacco

'''Andover''' 
as in [http://www.boardingschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/5 Philips Academy Andover], alma mater of both presidents Bush

'''"Dickinson's about as Transcendalist as Poe."''' 
which is to say, not at all

===Page 1011===

[[Image:Eddy.jpg|right]]

'''R.C.M.P.''' 
Royal Canadian Mounted Police

'''Nelson Eddy''' 
Nelson Ackerman Eddy (1901-1967) was an American singer and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0248904/ movie star]. As far as what he looked like, see right.

'''Droll''' 
whimsically comic

===Page 1012===

'''nanomicroscopy''' 
the looking at extremely small things (nano- being the prefix for "one-billionth") through a microscope

'''Thevet''' 
This is probably a reference to André de Thevet (1502-1590), a French priest and explorer. Though never in Canada, he relied on French-Canadian explorers' work for his own voyages to South America.

'''"...the 5 on the French Achievement boards..."''' 
The highest possible score on the French Advanced Placement Exam (for which one can receive college credit) is 5.

'''Boswell''' 
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (1740-1795), was the Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson.

'''E cup''' 
a very large breast size

'''acuity''' 
acuteness of perception

'''in utero''' 
in the womb

'''thalidomide''' 
a drug developed to treat morning sickness in pregnant women that ended up causing babies to be born missing limbs

'''Condé Nast''' 
one of the largest magazine publishers in the country, owned by Advance Publications (the Newhouse family) and founded by Condé Montrose Nast (1873-1942), an American publisher

'''deform''' 
here meaning simply "to spoil"

'''persona''' 
a fictional identity created for a person, narrator in a book, etc.

'''''du''''' 
French: of the (masculine)

===Page 1013===

'''Meech Lake''' 
a lake in Gatineau Park, near Chelsea, Québec

'''Parizeau''' 
This is probably Jacques Parizeau (born 1930), a former Premier of Québec and proponent of Québecois sovereignty.

'''Charlottetown''' 
the capital of the Canadian province of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island Prince Edward Island]

'''Crétien assassination''' 
This is probably a misspelling of the surname of Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien (born 1934), Prime Minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003.

'''Francophonic''' 
French-speaking

'''Acadian Zionism''' 
Acadia is the traditional name for what is now (in part) eastern Québec. Zionism is used here as a synonym for nationalism, rather than with its specific Jewish connotations

'''Toujours''' 
French: always

'''"On ne parle d'Anglais ici."''' 
French: English is not spoken here

'''Ottawa''' 
the capital of Canada

'''"Permettez Nous Partir, Permettez Nous Être."''' 
French: Allow us to leave, allow us to be.

'''Winnipeg''' 
the capital of Canadian province of Manitoba

'''flux''' 
frequent change

'''appalled''' 
dismayed

'''UV-booth''' 
UV standing for ultraviolet (as in light), this is probably a tanning booth.

===Page 1014===

'''"Nous v. La Plupart Toujours"''' 
French: Us versus the majority always

'''Lesotho''' 
a kingdom of southern Africa, existing as an enclave entirely within the Republic of South Africa

'''SOUTHAF''' 
This is the Union of South Africa, which was formed in 1910 as a British colony and tried to annex Lesotho to it. Because of the imposition of ''apartheid'' laws in S. Africa, the annexation failed.

'''antebellum''' 
before the war, here the U.S. Civil War

===Endnote 110h===

'''Gallic''' 
French

===Page 1014 (cont'd)===

'''Anglophone''' 
English-speaking

'''Plains of Abraham''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains_of_Abraham Battle of the Plains of Abraham], part of the French and Indian Wars, which ended in a decisive British victory of the French

===Endnote 110i===

''''La Guerre des Britanniques et des Sauvages'''' 
French: The War of the British and the Savages

'''Ticonderoga''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Carillon Battle of Carillon], fought at Fort Ticonderoga

===Page 1014 (cont'd)===

'''Booty''' 
treasure taken from a defeated party

'''1759''' 
On September 13, 1759, Québec fell to the British.

'''NAFTA''' 
North American Free Trade Agreement

'''Rubensian''' 
The word more often used is "Rubenesque," but this refers to the women in paintings by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the Flemish artist. His women tended to be plump.

'''retardate''' 
more often used as a noun, offensively referring to a retarded person

'''rapacious''' 
ravenous

===Page 1015===

'''lissome''' 
supple

'''Rubensophile''' 
See above, Rubensian.

'''gulag''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GULAG GULAG] prison system of the Soviet Union

''''ce pas?''' 
French elision of "n'est-ce pas?" i.e., "right?"

'''Anbesol''' 
a brand name of benzocaine used for tooth pain

'''flanges''' 
Orin probably means to say "phalanges."

'''Rue Sherbrooke''' 
a road in Montreal

'''St. Jean-Baptiste Day''' 
another name for la [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%AAte_nationale_du_Qu%C3%A9bec fête nationale du Québec]

'''anaerobic''' 
thriving without oxygen

===Page 1016===

'''weedy''' 
scrawny; Hal is probably using it to mean "thin," as in a line of argumentation

'''Brazilian ''Nuevo Contras''''' 
These would be "new" ''contras'', the old ones having been U.S.-funded anti-communist guerrillas in Nicaragua in the 1980s.

'''The ''Noie Störkraft'''s? Shining Path's? The Belgian CCC's?''' 
''Noie Störkraft'' is Swedish "New Great Power"; it does not appear to be a new organization, though Störkraft is the name of a skinhead band from Sweden. The Shining Path (''Sendero Luminoso'' in Spanish) is the Communist Party of Peru, which has waged guerrilla warfare against the Peruvian government since 1980. CCC is a French acronym for Communist Combatant Cells; they were eliminated as a terrorist group in 1986.

'''''Ez-ed-Dean-el-Qassan''''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izz_ad-Din_al-Qassam_Brigades alternate spelling] of a Palestinian militant group affiliated with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas Hamas]

'''P.E.T.A.''' 
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

[[Image:Munch.jpg|right|100px]]

'''wobbled shrieking figure in the Munch lithograph''' 
See right.

===Page 1017===

'''subjoin''' 
to append to the end of something

'''attendant''' 
consequent or concomitant

'''cloracne''' 
probably a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloracne chloracne]

'''olfactory hallucinations''' 
hallucinations wherein one smells things that aren't there

'''machete''' 
a large cleaver-like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machete cutting tool]

'''Infant-depredations''' 
preying on babies

'''phenols''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenol carbolic acid]

'''Fundy''' 
probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Fundy Bay of Fundy]

'''straw-and-camel''' 
i.e., the straw that broke the camel's back

===Page 1018===

'''Docksider''' 
a type of boat shoe

'''full-toll''' 
i.e., it takes its full toll on you

'''Constantine''' 
perhaps [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_I Constantine I], by tradition first Christian emperor of Rome

'''merde''' 
French for "shit"

'''cartographic''' 
having to do with maps

'''parliamentary wigs''' 
Canadian MPs don't wear wigs, though barristers (lawyers) and judges do.

===Page 1019===

'''bone of dissension''' 
Orin means "bone of contention."

'''desmirched''' 
probably a malapropism, although it could mean "to un-besmirch"

'''re-gerrymandered''' 
To gerrymander is to divide an area into electoral districts favorable to one party over another.

'''Cuibono''' 
more properly ''cui bono'', Latin for "who benefits?"

'''swivet''' 
a state of nervous excitement

'''D-bases''' 
databases

'''falcate''' 
to curve like a sickle

'''Albertan ultra-rightists''' 
There is a tradition of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Separatism separatism] in Alberta.

'''Duluth''' 
a town in Minnesota and home to Bob Dylan, on Lake Superior about 150 miles north of the Twin Cities

===Page 1020===

'''Vichified''' 
i.e., as Vichy France, which was a puppet government to the Nazis

'''Anschluss''' 
German for "annexation," it most often refers to Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria in 1938.

'''mayhi''' 
Orin seems to be using this term as a plural of "mayhem."

'''P.Q.s''' 
members of the Parti Québecois

'''P.M.''' 
Prime Minister (of Canada)

'''''aller, partir''''' 
French: to go, to leave

===Page 1021===

'''hapless''' 
here meaning haphazard

'''botulizing''' 
infecting with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulism botulism]

'''jaunty''' 
smartly trim

'''toggle''' 
a type of switch

'''anapestic''' 
An anapest is a three-syllable word where the emphasis is one last syllable. "Anapest" is an anapest.

===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 1035==

===Endnote 211===

'''suborn''' 
to bribe or induce someone to commit a crime or misdeed
==Endnote 234 · Excerpts From Orin's Interview With ''Moment''==

===Page 1038===

'''Rafferty''' 
Terrence Rafferty was a film critic for the ''New Yorker'' magazine.

'''NPR''' 
National Public Radio

===Page 1039===

'''dun''' 
make repeated demands on

'''Madison Avenue''' 
the street in New York famous for its advertising firms

'''traversion''' 
Orin probably means "introversion."

'''T-square''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-square drafting tool]

===Page 1040===

'''Prussian''' 
here used to mean "very strict"

'''schizogenic''' 
produced or formed by fission

'''pathogenic''' 
capable of producing disease

===Page 1041===

'''antidote''' 
Orin means "anecdote."

'''Quelquechose''' 
French: something

===Page 1042===

'''pièce''' 
as in "pièce de resistance," the punchline or main point

===Page 1043===

'''four horsemen''' 
as in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse] from the Book of Revelation

'''BPL''' 
Boston Public Library

===Page 1044===

==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 high way. It could have been the same accident as the one Bain's referring to here.

'''J.O.I.''' 
James O. Incandenza

'''guile''' 
insidious cunning

'''larval''' 
immature in its kind

'''codpieces''' 
a pouch at the crotch of tight-fitting breeches, popular during the Renaissance

'''Swinburne''' 
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was a British poet whose work had themes of homosexuality and sadomasochism.

'''prenominate''' 
aforementioned

'''apposite''' 
relevant

===Page 1048===

'''fairly high-sodium way''' 
i.e., with a grain (or more) of salt

'''purposive''' 
serving some purpose

'''cross-sectioned cow''' 
Cornell University apparently has a cow whose stomachs you can see in action.

'''anaclitic''' 
denoting psychologic dependence

===Page 1049===

'''prevarication''' 
lying

'''"...as if from the Rose Garden..."''' 
like the President of the U.S. answering a question from a reporter

mendacious 
untruthful

'''monilial''' 
having to do with vaginal yeast infection

'''S. Johnson''' 
probably a reference to Dr. Samuel Johnson, the lexicographer

===Page 1050===

'''Steeples''' 
Bain has become to get Steeply's name wrong.

'''Steeley''' 
ditto

'''ACOAs''' 
Adult Children of Alcoholics

'''AlaTeens''' 
a support group for teenage children of alcoholics

'''ACONAs''' 
Adult Children of Narcotics Anonymous

'''ACOGs''' 
ACOG is most commonly the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, but in this context it probably stands for Adult Children of Gamblers.

'''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

'''albatross''' 
a burden, from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner''

'''Starksaddle''' 
another mistake with Steeply's name

'''perspicuous''' 
clearly expressed

===Page 1052===

'''multivalent''' 
having various meanings

'''Bainbridge''' 
This isn't even close to Steeply's name.

==Endnote 321 · Hal's DMZ Dream==
===Page 1063===

'''Rise Over Run''' 
The rise (amount the line increases) of a line divided over the run (length of the line) give you the slope of the line, which is also equal in calculus to the first derivative.

'''tangent''' 
This concept is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangent#Trigonometry here].

'''Differentiation''' 
the process by which one determines the first derivative of a mathematical function

'''inexorably''' 
relentlessly

'''covers''' 
songs written by other people than yourself
===Page 1064===
'''Digestive-Flora''' 
bacteria that live in the intestine and aid in digestion

'''Verdun Protestant Hospital''' 
now called [http://www.douglas.qc.ca/ Douglas Mental Health Institute]

'''''tu-sais-qué''''' 
really bad French for "you know what"

'''Human Hatchet''' 
i.e., Axford

'''impotence''' 
Probably means impetus

'''Blue Flames''' 
apparently some sort of drug
===Page 1065===
'''O2''' 
oxygen

'''Jiminy Cricket''' 
a character from [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032910/ Pinocchio]

==Endnote 324==

===Page 1066===

'''moon''' 
to spend time idly

'''camphonated''' 
more like "camphorated," i.e., contained camphor

===Endnote 324a===

'''loamy''' 
consisting of rich, arable soil

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]

===Page 1066 (cont'd)===

'''whorl''' 
a circular arrangement

'''funiculi''' 
plural of "funiculus," i.e., part of the spinal cord

===Page 1067===

'''gonions''' 
the outer points on either side of the lower jaw at which the jawbone angles upward

'''uncolloped''' 
having no fat

'''latissimal''' 
referring to the [http://www.reference.com/search?r=13&q=Latissimus lattissimus dorsi] muscles

'''profligate''' 
wasteful

'''Nordicular''' 
i.e., Nordic, which is to say blond-haired and blue-eyed

'''armamentarium''' 
an arsenal, particularly used by physicians to refer to drugs or treatments

'''callow''' 
immature; inexperienced

'''entrepôt''' 
a place for storing and dispensing goods

'''dinkle''' 
a euphemism for "penis"

===Page 1068===

'''welching''' 
swindling by not paying a debt or wager

'''three-setter''' 
a tennis game ending in three sets, rather than five, because one player has gone up 3 to 0

'''cavalier''' 
disdainful; unceremonious

'''burr''' 
here used to mean "irritant"

===Page 1069===

'''canvas restraint-wrap''' 
straitjacket

'''catgut''' 
This is "a strong cord made by twisting the dried intestines of animals, as sheep, used in stringing musical instruments and tennis rackets, for surgical sutures, etc." (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''"...his late great Da's..."''' 
Clearly Pemulis has no idea that his brother was molested by their father.

'''rheumy''' 
full of thin mucous

===Page 1070===

'''Bedouins''' 
certain Arabs of the deserts of Arabia and the Levant

'''buggered''' 
being on the receiving end of anal sex

'''b/w''' 
Black and white

'''J. Gleason''' 
Jackie Gleason (1916-1987) was [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001276/ one of the great comic actors] of the 20th century.

'''Zoltan''' 
actually a Hungarian name, which means "ruler"

'''cretinous''' 
stupid

===Page 1071===

===Endnote 324f===

'''Orly''' 
one of the airports serving Paris

===Page 1071 (cont'd)===

'''redoubted''' 
formidable

'''Modus Tollens''' 
a Latin logical term, meaning, roughly, "the means of denying"

'''Nucleic acids''' 
DNA and RNA

'''A and G, T and C''' 
adenine and guanine, thymine and cytosine, the compounds that make up DNA

'''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], by Rudyard Kipling: "If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you"

'''Csíkszentmihályi''' 
The name may be taken from Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (born 1934), a prominent Hungarian-American psychologist. His son Christopher is on the faculty at MIT.

'''lemma''' 
a proven statement used as a step in a mathematical proof

'''Boardman MN''' 
a town about 40 miles west-northwest of the Twin Cities

===Page 1072===

''' "Leap like a knight of faith . . ." ''' 

A reference to Soren Kierkegaard's knight of faith. Kierkegaard, a theologian and philosopher, didn't think there could be any logical justification for believing in God. Instead the believer is required to take a leap of faith, so called because he (the believer) has no evidence for his convictions and thus must always, on some rational level, doubt them. In fact to Kierkegaard doubt defines faith, because if there were no doubt no leap of faith would be required in the first place, much like it doesn't require a leap of faith for you to believe you're actually reading this wikipedia entry right now, or that I'm not an alien sub rosa manipulating your mind for my own purposes.

'''"...Peano, Leibniz, Hilbert..."''' 
Giuseppe Peano (1858-1932) was an Italian mathematician. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a German polymath and one of the creators of calculus. David Hilbert (1862-1943) was a German mathematician.

'''"...Fourier, Gauss, LaPlace, Rickey..."''' 
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) was a French mathematician and physicist. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) was a German mathematician. Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (1749-1827) was a French mathematician and astronomer. Rickey would seem to refer to [http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/ V. Frederick Rickey], though he is contemporary while the other named men are not.

'''"...Wiener, Reimann, Frege, Green..."''' 
Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) was an American mathematician. Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) was a German mathematician. Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a German mathematician and logician. Green is probably George Green (1793-1841), English mathematician and physicist.

==Endnote 332==

===Page 1073===

'''jury-rigged''' 
a corruption of "jerry-rigged" (a pejorative term about Germans), which basically means rigged in a makeshift, ad hod manner

===Page 1074===

'''nictitater''' 
the word meant here is probably "nictitate," which means to wink - so, in other words, a "wink" of stupidity-film on Watson's eyes, or just a hint

'''castigations''' 
criticisms; reprimands

===Page 1075===

'''loupes''' 
eyepiece magnifying glasses used by jewellers

'''"may the road rise up to meet you..."''' 
part of an old Irish blessing

===Page 1076===

'''incubus''' 
a male demon that seduces female humans

==Page 1076==

'''glycerine''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycerine glycerol]

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'''cheese-nibbler''' 
i.e., a rat

'''skittery''' 
shy or coy

==Page 565==

'''nomonous''' 
i.e., anonymous

=Orin and the "Swiss" Hand Model=

==Page 565==

'''Sky Harbor''' 
the airport serving Phoenix

'''I-17/-10''' 
Interstate 17 runs from Phoenix to Interstate 10, which to Flagstaff, Ariz.

==Endnote 234==

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_234_.C2.B7_Excerpts_From_Orin.27s_Interview_With_Moment|Endnote 234 - Excerpts From Orin's Interview With ''Moment'']]

==Page 566==

'''languor''' 
lack of energy

==Page 567==

=Idris Arslanian & the blindfold=

==Page 567==

'''Dural edema''' 
swelling of the dura mater due to excess liquid

==Page 568==

'''perforce''' 
by force of circumstance

==Page 569==

'''nubbin''' 
a small lump

'''insurmagulate''' 
Pemulis probably means to say "insurmountable."

'''micturate''' 
urinate

==Page 570==

'''Rindge-Latin Remedial''' 
A dig at Cambridge Rindge & Latin, Cambridge, MA's public high school

'''avail''' 
advantage, use, efficacy

'''"...part the veil of Maya.."''' 
This means to glimpse transcendental truth by parting the veil of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_(illusion) Maya]. Why Idris, a Muslim from Pakistan, would be aware of this Hindu reference is not explained

'''presaging''' 
an indication or warning of a future occurrence

==Page 571==

'''hot''' 
hearing denoting radioactivity

'''UF4''' 
chemical notation for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_tetrafluoride uranium tetrafluoride], used in some nuclear reactors

'''zirconium''' 
a transition metal element

'''Da''' 
a common Irish nickname for one's father

'''cuc—''' 
Pemulis is probably about to say "cuckold."

==Page 572==

'''coprolite''' 
fossilized dung

'''A.E.C.''' 
Atomic Energy Commission

'''anathematic''' 
likely to be greatly hated

==Endnote 238==

'''meta-disease''' 
a disease syndrome, or a disease that itself causes other diseases

==Page 572==

'''''Jawohl''''' 
German for "yes" in a particularly enthusiastic way

==Page 573==

'''sterabolic anoids''' 
i.e., anabolic steroids

'''rapacial''' 
i.e., rapacious

'''"...each month's prime numbers..."''' 
Which would be the second, third, fifth, seventh, eleventh, thirteenth, seventeenth, nineteenth, twenty-third, twenty-ninth, and thirty-first (when the month has thirty-one days)

'''decelerated''' 
slowed down

'''jacklights''' 
backlights with a special light used as a lure during hunting

==Page 574==

'''Eliotical''' 
referring to T.S. Eliot, author of ''The Waste Land''

'''repose''' 
rest

=Orin Realizes Something=

==Page 574==

'''Junoesque''' 
Juno is the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hera Hera]. Orin means to say that "Helen" is like a goddess.

==Page 575==

'''Rt. 85''' 
Arizona State Route 85 connects Interstate 10 to the Mexican border near Lukesville, Ariz.

=(November 11th, YDAU) - Lenz and Green, cont.=

==Page 575==

'''rhynophemic''' 
a misspelled reference to rhinophyma, the reddening of the nose common to alcoholics

'''"...like a seahorse..."''' 
Seahorses actually have two eyes.

'''G.E.D.''' 
General Equivalency Degree

==Endnote 239==

'''N2O''' 
nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas

'''thiopental sodium''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiopental_sodium sodium pentothal], a powerful general anesthetic

==Page 575 (cont'd)==

'''mumus''' 
a long, formless, loose-hanging dress

'''brocade''' 
fabric woven with an elaborate design

'''hove''' 
past tense of "heave"

==Page 576==

'''ordinational''' 
i.e., ordinal, or increasing by number

'''jounce''' 
to move joltingly up and down

'''recesstacle''' 
apparently a combination of "recess" and "receptacle"

'''sojourn''' 
not a synonym for "journey," as Lenz is using it, but rather a term meaning a stay in a place for a prolonged period

'''derisive''' 
intended to offend or insult

'''excretate''' 
i.e., extricate

'''plaintiffly''' 
Lenz means "plaintively."

'''Dukakis''' 
Michael Stanley Dukakis (born 1933) was governor of Massachusetts (1983-1991) and the 1988 Democratic nominee for President.

'''18th-Circus''' 
That should be "18th Circuit."

'''1.5-meter''' 
about 4.9 feet

==Page 577==

[[Image:Mondrian.jpg|thumb|caption|''Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue'' 1921|right|200px]]

'''Mondrian''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Mondrian Pieter Cornelis (Piet) Mondrian] (1872-1944) was a Dutch painter. The reference to his work makes more sense when seen right.

'''defiles''' 
narrow passageways

'''blaze-trailing''' 
trailblazing

'''5/4''' 
a meter is music with five quarter-notes per measure

''''shine''' 
a derogatory term for a black person

'''zithery''' 
provoking the sound of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zither zither], a string instrument

'''rimed''' 
covered with frost

'''kalpacs''' 
a high-crowned felt or fur hat worn by Turks and Central Asians

'''iridescent''' 
displaying all the colors of the rainbow

'''Y.C.A.''' 
Youth Corrections Act

'''patissiers''' 
French: pastry chefs

==Page 578==

'''garish''' 
crudely colorful

==Page 579==

'''''Buns of Steel''''' 
still available [http://www.amazon.com/Buns-Steel-Greg-Smithey/dp/6303182135 for sale]

'''sedentary''' 
involving much sitting

'''bosun''' 
slang sailor term for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boatswain boatswain]

'''Falstaff''' 
a brand of beer that stopped being [http://www.falstaffbrewing.com/ brewed] in 2005

'''suet''' 
fatty tissue surrounding the kidneys of cattle and sheep, used in cooking

'''Gummi Bears''' 
a small [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gummi_bear candy] originating in Germany

==Page 580==

'''ejaculatory''' 
sudden

'''cardiac''' 
i.e., a heart attack

'''opaque''' 
cloudy; not allowing light through

'''brambled''' 
beaten with thorns

==Page 581==

'''tetryl''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetryl explosive] used to make detonators

'''V.F.W.''' 
Veterans of Foreign Wars

'''Rotarians''' 
members of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_Club Rotary International]

'''Shriners''' 
members of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shriners Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine]

'''W. Miller''' 
William Miller (1782-1849) was an American religious leader and one of the founders of the Seventh-Day Adventist movement.

'''Defarge''' 
Madame Thérèse Defarge is a character in Charles Dickens's novel ''A Tale of Two Cities''.

'''O.D.C.''' 
Ohio Department of Corrections

'''igneous''' 
produced by volcanic action

[[Image:Fez.jpg|right]]

'''fezzes''' 
Turkish or Middle-Eastern style hats (see right)

'''sump''' 
cesspool

==Page 582==

'''warbly''' 
tending to warble, i.e., to sing with a trill

'''acclivity''' 
an upward slope

'''dogleg''' 
a route that turns at a sharp angle

'''psoriatic''' 
this is in reference to psoriasis, a skin condition that produces whitish, scale-like scabs of dead skin

'''Choosy Mothers''' 
probably taken from the Jif peanut butter commerical slogan: "Choosy Mothers Choose Jif"

==Page 583==

'''midbrain''' 
another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midbrain mesencephalon]

'''intaglioed''' 
engraved

'''disincentive''' 
a deterrent

'''War of the Welles''' 
a reference to the film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046534/ War of the Worlds], itself adapted from the 1938 radio play by George Orson Welles (1915-1985), American actor and filmmaker

'''Don Ho''' 
Donald Tai Loy Ho (1930-2007) was a Hawaiian musician.

'''Sol Hoopi Players''' 
Solomon Ho'opi'i Ka'ai'ai (1902-1953) was another famous Hawaiian musician.

[[Image:Quebec.gif|right]]

'''blue and white Quenucker flag''' 
see right

'''JBL''' 
an [http://www.jbl.com/ audio wares company]

==Page 584==

'''skulk''' 
to move about secretively

'''Shetland''' 
a Shetland pony, giving some idea how big the dog is

'''''noblest oblige''''' 
a superlative pun on ''noblesse oblige'', the requirement of the wealthy to be kind to those less fortunate

'''undulate''' 
to move like waves

'''Hawaii Five-O''' 
a [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062568/ television series] than ran in the late 1960s and 1970s

==Page 585==

'''Southern Comfort''' 
an orange-flavored whiskey

'''anomic''' 
class-alienating

'''andante''' 
In music, this word indicates a moderately slow tempo.

==Page 586==

'''''Don Ho: From Hawaii With All My Love''''' 
This doesn't appear to be a real record.

'''lalations''' 
misspelling of "lallations," i.e., baby-talk

'''Day-Glo''' 
a brand name of glow-in-the-dark fabrics

'''Geiger counter''' 
a machine used to measure radioactivity

''''My Lovely Launa-Una Luau Lady'''' 
Nor does this appear to be a real song.

'''p.m.''' 
per minute

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]

'''Canadian''' 
i.e., in French

'''Montego''' 
either the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Montego Austin Montego] or the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Montego Mercury Montego]

==Page 587==

'''Molson''' 
a Canadian brand of beer

'''scruff''' 
nape of the neck

'''32-kilo''' 
a little over 70 lbs

==Page 588==

'''jabber''' 
to talk rapidly

''''Dyu!'''' 
most likely ''Dieu!'', French for "God!"

==Page 589==

'''180s''' 
turns half-way around, i.e., 180º

'''lee''' 
away from the wind

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==Page 983==

===Endnote 3===

'''cardioid''' 
In geometry, a cardioid is a plane curve produced by tracing the path of a chosen point of a circle which rolls around a fixed circle. The cardioid shape of E.T.A. has one cusp, i.e., a point on the curve that is not smooth. The ''r'' referred to by the narrator here is the radius of the moving circle.

'''Übermensch''' 
German for "superhuman"

'''Brandeis''' 
Brandeis is a Jewish-founded university in Waltham, Mass., about nine miles west of Boston, named for Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941) the first Jewish Supreme Court justice.

===Endnote 5===

'''N.B.''' 
abbreviation for Latin ''nota bene'', i.e., "note well," stated before an important example or corollary point

===Endnote 5a===

'''nystagmus''' 
involuntary eye movement

'''entrepôt''' 
French for "warehouse," this is where foreign merchandise can be purchased duty-free

'''loquacity''' 
talkativeness

===Endnote 6===

'''Halcion (still available in Canada, unbelievably, still)''' 
It's also still available here, though the U.K. has banned it since 1991.

==Page 984==

===Endnote 7===

'''bevelling''' 
Here meaning "smoothed out" and misspelled, beveling is the making of 45º angles where perpendiculars meet.

===Endnote 8===

===Endnote 8a===

'''Muscimole''' 
another mushroom-based hallucinogen, like psilocybin

'''DDMS''' 
dibromododecenyl methylsulfimide

'''DMSO''' 
dimethylsulfoxide

===Endnote 8 (cont'd)===

'''dickies''' 
As a dickie is designed to give the appearance of wearing a tie, Wallace uses this word here to deal with drugs that mimic the effects of other drugs.

'''MMDA, DMA, DMMM, 2CB, para-DOT I-VI''' 
You can read about MMDA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMDA_%28psychedelic%29 here], DMA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethoxyamphetamine here], 2CB [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2CB here], DOT [http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_Chemical.jsp?Rec_Id=PC35343 here] (apparently). DMMM appears to be made up.

'''CNS''' 
central nervous system

'''gamma hydroxybutric acid''' 
now more commonly known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-Hydroxybutyric_acid GHB]

'''DMZ/M.P.''' 
DMZ is another made-up drug. M.P. refers to its street name, Madame Psychosis.

===Endnote 12a===

'''"...Continental Controlled Substances Act of Y.T.M.P., O.N.A.N.D.E.A.'s hierarchy of analgesics/antipyretics/axiolytics..."''' 
There is no such act, obviously. Y.T.M.P. is [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]. The second acronym is Organization of North American Nations Drug Enforcement Agency. Analgesics are painkillers. Antipyretics are fever-reducing drugs, and anxiolytics are anxiety-reducing drugs.

===Endnote 13===

'''Quo Vadis''' 
Latin: Where are you going? Famously asked of Jesus by Peter when the former was on his way to be crucified. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quo_vadis here.] Also a novel and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043949/ film] by that name were made.

==Page 985==

===Endnote 17===

'''datum''' 
piece of information

===Endnote 19===

French: A person of terrible importance

===Endnote 21===

'''Q.v.''' 
Latin abbreviation for ''quod vide'' ("which see"), used to direct a reader elsewhere in a book. Here we are directed to...

===Endnote 23===
'''U.S.D.D.''' 
United States Department of Defense

===Endnote 24===
'''meniscus''' 
a lens with a crescent-shaped section

'''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 1000==

===Endnote 82===

[[Image:Plaid.jpg|thumb|caption|Night Watch Plaid|150px|right]]
'''Bean''' 
as in L.L. Bean, a privately-held mail-order and retail company based in Freeport, Maine, United States, specializing in clothing and outdoor recreation equipment.

'''Night Watch plaid''' 
A pattern of plaid. See right.

==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

[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.-Q.M.D.]]

'''pistil''' 
that part of a flower that is analogous to the female reproductive organs

'''Sikorski''' 
C.T. is probably comparing the bee (which flies) to an airplane (which also flies) produced by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_Aircraft Sikorsky Aircraft].

'''paucity''' 
scarcity

'''swotted''' 
studied intensively

'''wakked''' 
I have no idea.

'''unperspicous''' 
not clearly expressed or presented

'''penultimate''' 
second to last

'''whingeing''' 
complaining (pronounced to rhyme with "jing")

'''xerophagy''' 
eating of bread and water only

===Endnote 110d===

'''anti-sclerotic''' 
tending to ward of hardening of tissues (as of arteries, here)

===Page 1006 (cont'd)===

'''maunder''' 
to talk incoherently or aimlessly

'''Solecism''' 
nonstandard or incorrect grammatical usage

'''and c.''' 
et cetera

===Page 1007===

'''20 X 25 centimeter''' 
very close to 8" x 10"

'''Jethro Bodine''' 
a character on the television show [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055662/ The Beverly Hillbillies]

'''proviso''' 
a clause, usually in a document, making a stipulation or qualification

'''"...isn't even iambic, much less quatrameter/trimeter..."''' 
This is to say that the poetry of Dickinson is not in iambic pentameter, also known as verse. This is the style of poetry Shakespeare is written in ("Now is the winter of our discontent") -- ten syllables, and five iambs (feet, or beats) per line (thus pentameter). Quatrameter/trimeter would be the rhythm scheme of "Yellow Rose of Texas" and "Marry Had a Little Lamb."

'''dink''' 
a synonym for a drop shot, which in tennis is a light tap just over the net

===Page 1008===

'''obverse''' 
the more conspicuous of two possible choices

'''seraphic''' 
like an angel

'''lascivious''' 
appealing to sexual tastes

'''mesmerized''' 
hypnotized

'''skitter''' 
to move rapidly along a surface

'''knight-errant''' 
a knight on a quest to prove his chivalry

===Page 1009===

'''Ainsi''' 
French: so to speak

'''breviary''' 
a prayer and hymn book

'''"Kitchens and heat..."''' 
which is to say, if you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen

===Page 1010===

'''Gloeckner''' 
German for "ringer," taking that in either of the meanings it has in English

'''3-kilo''' 
a little over 7.25 pounds

'''Snuff''' 
chewing tobacco

'''Andover''' 
as in [http://www.boardingschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/5 Philips Academy Andover], alma mater of both presidents Bush

'''"Dickinson's about as Transcendalist as Poe."''' 
which is to say, not at all

===Page 1011===

[[Image:Eddy.jpg|right]]

'''R.C.M.P.''' 
Royal Canadian Mounted Police

'''Nelson Eddy''' 
Nelson Ackerman Eddy (1901-1967) was an American singer and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0248904/ movie star]. As far as what he looked like, see right.

'''Droll''' 
whimsically comic

===Page 1012===

'''nanomicroscopy''' 
the looking at extremely small things (nano- being the prefix for "one-billionth") through a microscope

'''Thevet''' 
This is probably a reference to André de Thevet (1502-1590), a French priest and explorer. Though never in Canada, he relied on French-Canadian explorers' work for his own voyages to South America.

'''"...the 5 on the French Achievement boards..."''' 
The highest possible score on the French Advanced Placement Exam (for which one can receive college credit) is 5.

'''Boswell''' 
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (1740-1795), was the Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson.

'''E cup''' 
a very large breast size

'''acuity''' 
acuteness of perception

'''in utero''' 
in the womb

'''thalidomide''' 
a drug developed to treat morning sickness in pregnant women that ended up causing babies to be born missing limbs

'''Condé Nast''' 
one of the largest magazine publishers in the country, owned by Advance Publications (the Newhouse family) and founded by Condé Montrose Nast (1873-1942), an American publisher

'''deform''' 
here meaning simply "to spoil"

'''persona''' 
a fictional identity created for a person, narrator in a book, etc.

'''''du''''' 
French: of the (masculine)

===Page 1013===

'''Meech Lake''' 
a lake in Gatineau Park, near Chelsea, Québec

'''Parizeau''' 
This is probably Jacques Parizeau (born 1930), a former Premier of Québec and proponent of Québecois sovereignty.

'''Charlottetown''' 
the capital of the Canadian province of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island Prince Edward Island]

'''Crétien assassination''' 
This is probably a misspelling of the surname of Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien (born 1934), Prime Minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003.

'''Francophonic''' 
French-speaking

'''Acadian Zionism''' 
Acadia is the traditional name for what is now (in part) eastern Québec. Zionism is used here as a synonym for nationalism, rather than with its specific Jewish connotations

'''Toujours''' 
French: always

'''"On ne parle d'Anglais ici."''' 
French: English is not spoken here

'''Ottawa''' 
the capital of Canada

'''"Permettez Nous Partir, Permettez Nous Être."''' 
French: Allow us to leave, allow us to be.

'''Winnipeg''' 
the capital of Canadian province of Manitoba

'''flux''' 
frequent change

'''appalled''' 
dismayed

'''UV-booth''' 
UV standing for ultraviolet (as in light), this is probably a tanning booth.

===Page 1014===

'''"Nous v. La Plupart Toujours"''' 
French: Us versus the majority always

'''Lesotho''' 
a kingdom of southern Africa, existing as an enclave entirely within the Republic of South Africa

'''SOUTHAF''' 
This is the Union of South Africa, which was formed in 1910 as a British colony and tried to annex Lesotho to it. Because of the imposition of ''apartheid'' laws in S. Africa, the annexation failed.

'''antebellum''' 
before the war, here the U.S. Civil War

===Endnote 110h===

'''Gallic''' 
French

===Page 1014 (cont'd)===

'''Anglophone''' 
English-speaking

'''Plains of Abraham''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains_of_Abraham Battle of the Plains of Abraham], part of the French and Indian Wars, which ended in a decisive British victory of the French

===Endnote 110i===

''''La Guerre des Britanniques et des Sauvages'''' 
French: The War of the British and the Savages

'''Ticonderoga''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Carillon Battle of Carillon], fought at Fort Ticonderoga

===Page 1014 (cont'd)===

'''Booty''' 
treasure taken from a defeated party

'''1759''' 
On September 13, 1759, Québec fell to the British.

'''NAFTA''' 
North American Free Trade Agreement

'''Rubensian''' 
The word more often used is "Rubenesque," but this refers to the women in paintings by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the Flemish artist. His women tended to be plump.

'''retardate''' 
more often used as a noun, offensively referring to a retarded person

'''rapacious''' 
ravenous

===Page 1015===

'''lissome''' 
supple

'''Rubensophile''' 
See above, Rubensian.

'''gulag''' 
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GULAG GULAG] prison system of the Soviet Union

''''ce pas?''' 
French elision of "n'est-ce pas?" i.e., "right?"

'''Anbesol''' 
a brand name of benzocaine used for tooth pain

'''flanges''' 
Orin probably means to say "phalanges."

'''Rue Sherbrooke''' 
a road in Montreal

'''St. Jean-Baptiste Day''' 
another name for la [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%AAte_nationale_du_Qu%C3%A9bec fête nationale du Québec]

'''anaerobic''' 
thriving without oxygen

===Page 1016===

'''weedy''' 
scrawny; Hal is probably using it to mean "thin," as in a line of argumentation

'''Brazilian ''Nuevo Contras''''' 
These would be "new" ''contras'', the old ones having been U.S.-funded anti-communist guerrillas in Nicaragua in the 1980s.

'''The ''Noie Störkraft'''s? Shining Path's? The Belgian CCC's?''' 
''Noie Störkraft'' is Swedish "New Great Power"; it does not appear to be a new organization, though Störkraft is the name of a skinhead band from Sweden. The Shining Path (''Sendero Luminoso'' in Spanish) is the Communist Party of Peru, which has waged guerrilla warfare against the Peruvian government since 1980. CCC is a French acronym for Communist Combatant Cells; they were eliminated as a terrorist group in 1986.

'''''Ez-ed-Dean-el-Qassan''''' 
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izz_ad-Din_al-Qassam_Brigades alternate spelling] of a Palestinian militant group affiliated with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas Hamas]

'''P.E.T.A.''' 
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

[[Image:Munch.jpg|right|100px]]

'''wobbled shrieking figure in the Munch lithograph''' 
See right.

===Page 1017===

'''subjoin''' 
to append to the end of something

'''attendant''' 
consequent or concomitant

'''cloracne''' 
probably a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloracne chloracne]

'''olfactory hallucinations''' 
hallucinations wherein one smells things that aren't there

'''machete''' 
a large cleaver-like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machete cutting tool]

'''Infant-depredations''' 
preying on babies

'''phenols''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenol carbolic acid]

'''Fundy''' 
probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Fundy Bay of Fundy]

'''straw-and-camel''' 
i.e., the straw that broke the camel's back

===Page 1018===

'''Docksider''' 
a type of boat shoe

'''full-toll''' 
i.e., it takes its full toll on you

'''Constantine''' 
perhaps [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_I Constantine I], by tradition first Christian emperor of Rome

'''merde''' 
French for "shit"

'''cartographic''' 
having to do with maps

'''parliamentary wigs''' 
Canadian MPs don't wear wigs, though barristers (lawyers) and judges do.

===Page 1019===

'''bone of dissension''' 
Orin means "bone of contention."

'''desmirched''' 
probably a malapropism, although it could mean "to un-besmirch"

'''re-gerrymandered''' 
To gerrymander is to divide an area into electoral districts favorable to one party over another.

'''Cuibono''' 
more properly ''cui bono'', Latin for "who benefits?"

'''swivet''' 
a state of nervous excitement

'''D-bases''' 
databases

'''falcate''' 
to curve like a sickle

'''Albertan ultra-rightists''' 
There is a tradition of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Separatism separatism] in Alberta.

'''Duluth''' 
a town in Minnesota and home to Bob Dylan, on Lake Superior about 150 miles north of the Twin Cities

===Page 1020===

'''Vichified''' 
i.e., as Vichy France, which was a puppet government to the Nazis

'''Anschluss''' 
German for "annexation," it most often refers to Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria in 1938.

'''mayhi''' 
Orin seems to be using this term as a plural of "mayhem."

'''P.Q.s''' 
members of the Parti Québecois

'''P.M.''' 
Prime Minister (of Canada)

'''''aller, partir''''' 
French: to go, to leave

===Page 1021===

'''hapless''' 
here meaning haphazard

'''botulizing''' 
infecting with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulism botulism]

'''jaunty''' 
smartly trim

'''toggle''' 
a type of switch

'''anapestic''' 
An anapest is a three-syllable word where the emphasis is one last syllable. "Anapest" is an anapest.

===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 1035==

===Endnote 211===

'''suborn''' 
to bribe or induce someone to commit a crime or misdeed
==Endnote 234 · Excerpts From Orin's Interview With ''Moment''==

===Page 1038===

'''Rafferty''' 
Terrence Rafferty was a film critic for the ''New Yorker'' magazine.

'''NPR''' 
National Public Radio

===Page 1039===

'''dun''' 
make repeated demands on

'''Madison Avenue''' 
the street in New York famous for its advertising firms

'''traversion''' 
Orin probably means "introversion."

'''T-square''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-square drafting tool]

===Page 1040===

'''Prussian''' 
here used to mean "very strict"

'''schizogenic''' 
produced or formed by fission

'''pathogenic''' 
capable of producing disease

===Page 1041===

'''antidote''' 
Orin means "anecdote."

'''Quelquechose''' 
French: something

===Page 1042===

'''pièce''' 
as in "pièce de resistance," the punchline or main point

===Page 1043===

'''four horsemen''' 
as in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse] from the Book of Revelation

'''BPL''' 
Boston Public Library

===Page 1044===

==Page 1047==

[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]

''' 'After my own parents were horribly killed on the Jamaica Way commuter road one morning in the freak crash of a radio traffic-report helicopter . . .' ''' 

Lateral Alice Moore was handicapped when the news helicopter she flew in crashed onto a high way. It could have been the same accident as the one Bain's referring to here.

'''J.O.I.''' 
James O. Incandenza

'''guile''' 
insidious cunning

'''larval''' 
immature in its kind

'''codpieces''' 
a pouch at the crotch of tight-fitting breeches, popular during the Renaissance

'''Swinburne''' 
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was a British poet whose work had themes of homosexuality and sadomasochism.

'''prenominate''' 
aforementioned

'''apposite''' 
relevant

==Page 1048==

'''fairly high-sodium way''' 
i.e., with a grain (or more) of salt

'''purposive''' 
serving some purpose

'''cross-sectioned cow''' 
Cornell University apparently has a cow whose stomachs you can see in action.

'''anaclitic''' 
denoting psychologic dependence

==Page 1049==

'''prevarication''' 
lying

'''"...as if from the Rose Garden..."''' 
like the President of the U.S. answering a question from a reporter

mendacious 
untruthful

'''monilial''' 
having to do with vaginal yeast infection

'''S. Johnson''' 
probably a reference to Dr. Samuel Johnson, the lexicographer

==Page 1050==

'''Steeples''' 
Bain has become to get Steeply's name wrong.

'''Steeley''' 
ditto

'''ACOAs''' 
Adult Children of Alcoholics

'''AlaTeens''' 
a support group for teenage children of alcoholics

'''ACONAs''' 
Adult Children of Narcotics Anonymous

'''ACOGs''' 
ACOG is most commonly the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, but in this context it probably stands for Adult Children of Gamblers.

'''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

'''albatross''' 
a burden, from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner''

'''Starksaddle''' 
another mistake with Steeply's name

'''perspicuous''' 
clearly expressed

==Page 1052==

'''multivalent''' 
having various meanings

'''Bainbridge''' 
This isn't even close to Steeply's name.

===Endnote 321===

'''(1063-1066)'''

[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]

'''Rise Over Run''' 
The rise (amount the line increases) of a line divided over the run (length of the line) give you the slope of the line, which is also equal in calculus to the first derivative.

'''tangent''' 
This concept is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangent#Trigonometry here].

'''Differentiation''' 
the process by which one determines the first derivative of a mathematical function

'''inexorably''' 
relentlessly

'''covers''' 
songs written by other people than yourself

'''Digestive-Flora''' 
bacteria that live in the intestine and aid in digestion

'''Verdun Protestant Hospital''' 
now called [http://www.douglas.qc.ca/ Douglas Mental Health Institute]

'''''tu-sais-qué''''' 
really bad French for "you know what"

'''Human Hatchet''' 
i.e., Axford

'''impotence''' 
Probably means impetus

'''Blue Flames''' 
apparently some sort of drug

'''O2''' 
oxygen

'''Jiminy Cricket''' 
a character from [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032910/ Pinocchio]

===Endnote 324===

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

==Page 1066==

'''moon''' 
to spend time idly

'''camphonated''' 
more like "camphorated," i.e., contained camphor

===Endnote 324a===

'''loamy''' 
consisting of rich, arable soil

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]

==Page 1066 (cont'd)==

'''whorl''' 
a circular arrangement

'''funiculi''' 
plural of "funiculus," i.e., part of the spinal cord

==Page 1067==

'''gonions''' 
the outer points on either side of the lower jaw at which the jawbone angles upward

'''uncolloped''' 
having no fat

'''latissimal''' 
referring to the [http://www.reference.com/search?r=13&q=Latissimus lattissimus dorsi] muscles

'''profligate''' 
wasteful

'''Nordicular''' 
i.e., Nordic, which is to say blond-haired and blue-eyed

'''armamentarium''' 
an arsenal, particularly used by physicians to refer to drugs or treatments

'''callow''' 
immature; inexperienced

'''entrepôt''' 
a place for storing and dispensing goods

'''dinkle''' 
a euphemism for "penis"

==Page 1068==

'''welching''' 
swindling by not paying a debt or wager

'''three-setter''' 
a tennis game ending in three sets, rather than five, because one player has gone up 3 to 0

'''cavalier''' 
disdainful; unceremonious

'''burr''' 
here used to mean "irritant"

==Page 1069==

'''canvas restraint-wrap''' 
straitjacket

'''catgut''' 
This is "a strong cord made by twisting the dried intestines of animals, as sheep, used in stringing musical instruments and tennis rackets, for surgical sutures, etc." (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''"...his late great Da's..."''' 
Clearly Pemulis has no idea that his brother was molested by their father.

'''rheumy''' 
full of thin mucous

==Page 1070==

'''Bedouins''' 
certain Arabs of the deserts of Arabia and the Levant

'''buggered''' 
being on the receiving end of anal sex

'''b/w''' 
Black and white

'''J. Gleason''' 
Jackie Gleason (1916-1987) was [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001276/ one of the great comic actors] of the 20th century.

'''Zoltan''' 
actually a Hungarian name, which means "ruler"

'''cretinous''' 
stupid

==Page 1071==

===Endnote 324f===

'''Orly''' 
one of the airports serving Paris

==Page 1071 (cont'd)==

'''redoubted''' 
formidable

'''Modus Tollens''' 
a Latin logical term, meaning, roughly, "the means of denying"

'''Nucleic acids''' 
DNA and RNA

'''A and G, T and C''' 
adenine and guanine, thymine and cytosine, the compounds that make up DNA

'''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], by Rudyard Kipling: "If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you"

'''Csíkszentmihályi''' 
The name may be taken from Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (born 1934), a prominent Hungarian-American psychologist. His son Christopher is on the faculty at MIT.

'''lemma''' 
a proven statement used as a step in a mathematical proof

'''Boardman MN''' 
a town about 40 miles west-northwest of the Twin Cities

==Page 1072==

''' "Leap like a knight of faith . . ." ''' 

A reference to Soren Kierkegaard's knight of faith. Kierkegaard, a theologian and philosopher, didn't think there could be any logical justification for believing in God. Instead the believer is required to take a leap of faith, so called because he (the believer) has no evidence for his convictions and thus must always, on some rational level, doubt them. In fact to Kierkegaard doubt defines faith, because if there were no doubt no leap of faith would be required in the first place, much like it doesn't require a leap of faith for you to believe you're actually reading this wikipedia entry right now, or that I'm not an alien sub rosa manipulating your mind for my own purposes.

'''"...Peano, Leibniz, Hilbert..."''' 
Giuseppe Peano (1858-1932) was an Italian mathematician. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a German polymath and one of the creators of calculus. David Hilbert (1862-1943) was a German mathematician.

'''"...Fourier, Gauss, LaPlace, Rickey..."''' 
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) was a French mathematician and physicist. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) was a German mathematician. Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (1749-1827) was a French mathematician and astronomer. Rickey would seem to refer to [http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/ V. Frederick Rickey], though he is contemporary while the other named men are not.

'''"...Wiener, Reimann, Frege, Green..."''' 
Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) was an American mathematician. Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) was a German mathematician. Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a German mathematician and logician. Green is probably George Green (1793-1841), English mathematician and physicist.

===Endnote 332===

==Page 1073==

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'''jury-rigged''' 
a corruption of "jerry-rigged" (a pejorative term about Germans), which basically means rigged in a makeshift, ad hod manner

==Page 1074==

'''nictitater''' 
the word meant here is probably "nictitate," which means to wink - so, in other words, a "wink" of stupidity-film on Watson's eyes, or just a hint

'''castigations''' 
criticisms; reprimands

==Page 1075==

'''loupes''' 
eyepiece magnifying glasses used by jewellers

'''"may the road rise up to meet you..."''' 
part of an old Irish blessing

==Page 1076==

'''incubus''' 
a male demon that seduces female humans

'''glycerine''' 
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycerine glycerol]

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==Page 470==

'''stereotaxy''' 
also known as "stereotaxis," this is three-dimensional brain imaging

'''Elder, Elders''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Olds James Olds], co-discovered the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasure_center#Experiments_on_rodents "pleasure center"]

'''plutonium-239''' 
a fissile isotope of plutonium

'''ablative surgery''' 

a treatment for neurological disorders involving freezing or burning of brain tissue

==Page 471==

'''Q-dopa''' 
not a real neurotransmitter

==Page 472==

'''MK-Ultra''' 
an actual [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKULTRA CIA mind-control experiment] starting in the 1950s and continuing well into the 1960s and possibly 70s

==Endnote 198==

'''''Orlikow et al. v. United States of America''''' 
This was a real case, and you can read the proceedings [http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/orli-01.htm here].

==Page 472 (cont'd)==

'''G.C.''' 
Government of Canada, perhaps

'''M.M.P.I.''' 
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, a commonly administered psychological test designed to give an overview of personality, neuroses, etc.

==Page 473==

'''Millon's''' 
the [http://millon.net/instruments/MCMI_III.htm Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III], another psych inventory

'''Approception''' 
apparently not a real test

'''shiatsu''' 
a type of Asian massage

'''weal''' 
prosperity or happiness

'''Turner, Bush, Casey''' 
Admiral Stansfield Turner was head of the CIA from 1977 to 1981. George H.W. Bush (later President) was CIA head from 1976 to 1977. William J. Casey was head from 1981 to 1987.

'''Langley''' 
the town in Virginia where the CIA is headquartered

==Page 474==

'''divans''' 
couches or sofas

'''rutting''' 
heat, i.e., sexual excitement

'''N.S.A.''' 
National Security Agency

'''C7''' 
The C7 is a modified version of the American M-16 combat rifle. It's implied here that C7 was some kind of security apparatus, but there is no evidence that such a body existed.

==Page 475==

=Gately Driving / Antitoi Brothers=

==Page 475==

'''princess-and-pea''' 
a reference to the fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea," wherein despite several mattresses, a princess can still feel a single pea below her

'''cluster migraines''' 
Cluster headaches and migraines are actually two distinct syndromes.

'''feldspar''' 
a rock-forming mineral

==Page 476==

'''E.R.''' 
Emergency Room

'''CITGO''' 
one of the [http://www.citgo.com/Home.jsp major oil] companies

'''70 kph.''' 
about 43.5 miles per hour

'''CVS''' 
a large chain of [http://www.cvs.com/ drugstores]

'''75 k''' 
about 46.6 miles per hour

'''ς''' 
the Greek letter ''sigma'' as it appears in lower case at the ends of words

'''mysticetously''' 
in the manner of a baleen whale

'''cognomen''' 
a descriptive nickname

==Page 477==

'''tallboys''' 
a long-necked bottle

'''80 kph''' 
almost 50 miles per hour

'''Berklee School of Music''' 
a real school, one of the highest-prestige [http://www.berklee.edu/ music schools] in the U.S.

==Page 478==

==Endnote 202==

'''Escherian''' 
referring to the work of Maurits Cornelis (M.C.) Escher (1898-1972), a Dutch graphic artist

==Page 478 (cont'd)==

'''slalom''' 
to zigzag between obstacles

==Page 479==

'''bodegas''' 
a Spanish-owned grocery

'''crèche''' 
a nativity scene

'''propinquous''' 
Probably what's intended is "propinquitous," meaning "proximity" or "nearness."

'''Chickens Fresh Killed Daily''' 
a reference to the prominent 'Live Poultry Fresh Killed' sign of the Mayflower Poultry Company at 621 Cambridge St, East Cambridge about a half a mile from Inman Square. http://bostonist.com/2007/09/07/mayflower_poult.php

'''Ryle's Jazz Club''' 
a reference to Ryles Jazz Club (no apostrophe) in Inman Square, Cambridge at 212 Hampshire Street. http://www.rylesjazz.com/

'''briar pipes''' 
a type of pipe for [http://www.tinderboxinternational.com/briar.htm smoking]

'''60 k''' 
about 37.3 miles per hour

==Page 480==

'''MF''' 
Millennial Fizzy

'''aerodyne''' 
a heavier-than-air aircraft deriving lift from motion

'''viz.''' 
abbreviation for ''videlicet'' (Latin)

'''CQBC''' 
not a real entity, but probably here denoting a French-Canadian radio station

'''monomitotic''' 
"Mitosis" is cell division; "monomitosis" would be the splitting of a cell into a single cell, i.e., not splitting.G

'''Gaspé Peninsula''' 
a [http://www.great-adventures.com/destinations/canada/gaspe.html region] in northern Québec

'''''chiens-courants''''' 
French: running dogs

==Page 481==

'''U.S.A. 91''' 
Interstate 91, which runs from New Haven, Conn, to Derby Line, Vt., at the Canadian border

'''Bellow's Falls VT''' 
a town off Route 91, about 70 miles west of Manchester, N.H.

'''paisley''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paisley_%28design%29 popular design] originating in Scotland

'''Nehru jacket''' 
A collarless jacket named for Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), first Prime Minister of India and father of Indira Gandhi

'''''école-spéciale''''' 
French: special school

'''''Va chier, putain!''''' 
French: Piss off, whore!

'''trop formidable''' 
French: too strong

==Page 482==

'''Basel''' 
a city of Switzerland about 50 miles north of the capital of Bern

'''''tu-sais-quoi''''' 
French: you know what

'''impost''' 
something imposed, as a tax or duty

==Page 483==

==Endnote 204==

'''Saprogenic''' 
of or pertaining to putrefaction or rotting

==Page 483 (cont'd)==

'''illicit''' 
illegal

'''IL NE FAUT PLUS QU'ON PURSUIVE LE BONHEUR''' 
French: It is no longer necessary to pursue happiness

==Page 484==

'''125-kilo''' 
about 276 lbs

'''ROPAS''' 
Spanish: CLOTHES

==Page 485==

'''union-suit underwear''' 
one-piece long undergarments

'''stelliform''' 
in the form of a star

==Page 486==

'''baguette''' 
a long roll of French bread

'''cerise''' 
deep red to purple in color

''''''n soir, 'sieur''''' 
an elision of ''bon soir, monsieur,'' i.e., "Goodnight, sir" in French

''''''Malhereusement, ton collégue est décedé. It faisait une excellente soupe aus pois.'''''' 
French: Sadly, your friend is dead. He made an excellent pea soup.

on p. 425, Marathe outlined a hypothetical in which two people both wanted a Habitant ''soupe aus pois'' that belonged to someone who had recently died

''''''Non? Ou c'était toi, faisait-elle?'''''' 
French: No? Or was it you that made it?

==Page 487==

'''wangs''' 
slaps or bangs against

'''''frère''''' 
French: brother

'''sphincter''' 
Any muscle in ring form, here it means the anus, which has failed Lucien by allowing him to soil himself

'''''ne pas plaisanter''''' 
French: not pleasure

'''''iront paître''''' 
French: they will go to eat

'''''entend-il?''''' 
French: Does he hear?

==Page 488==

'''''inutile''''' 
French: useless

'''natal''' 
like a baby's

'''aphonia''' 
absence of sound

'''muskie''' 
short for "muskellunge," a type of fish

==Page 489==

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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)

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==Page 620==

'''carpal neuralgia, phospenic migraine, gluteal hyperadiposity, lumbar stressae''' 
hand pain, migraines with flashing lights, fat buttocks, and lower back pain

'''"...all three O.N.A.N. time zones..."''' 
Three is considerably fewer time zones than the five the U.S. (including Alaska and Hawaii) currently span, plus the Atlantic Time Zone, in which some of Canada can be found.

'''genuflecting''' 
bending the knee

'''Gapers' Blocks''' 
traffic delays caused by rubbernecking

==Page 621==

'''apotheosis''' 
the process of being raised to godlike status

'''coprolaliac''' 
abnormally disposed to using profanity

'''nucleic''' 
pertaining to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_force nuclear force], which binds protons and neutrons into atomic nuclei

'''PAs''' 
public-address sytems

'''nostrums''' 
patent medicines

'''bunting''' 
loosely woven fabric in a generally half-circle shape; red-white-and-blue ones can be seen hung on podiums, porches, baseball stadiums, etc, especially on the 4th of July and other patriotic holidays.

'''c.''' 
circa

'''sylvan''' 
woodsy

==Page 622==

'''möbiusizing''' 
a neologism for taking on the shape of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip Möbius strip]

'''scopophile''' 
someone who derives pleasure (usually sexual) from looking at something

'''dun''' 
grayish brown

'''Gregg pen''' 
See one [http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?s=2eae74b99300ac6261751443db9182fa&showtopic=33208&st=0&p=305917&#entry305917 here]

'''purview''' 
scope of vision

==Page 623==

'''verdigrised''' 
covered with grayish-green rust

'''Robert McCloskey''' 
Robert McCloskey (1914-2003) was an American author and illustrator of children's books.

'''''Make Way for Ducklings''''' 
Read about this book [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Way_for_Ducklings here].

'''greensward''' 
stretch of grassy turf

'''5º C''' 
41º Fahrenheit

'''appurtenances''' 
apparatus or instruments

'''sepia''' 
dark brown, as in the pigment used to make very early photographs

==Page 624==

'''metallurgy''' 
the making and conducting of alloys

'''Mass Comm.''' 
mass communications

==Page 625==

'''ICU''' 
Intensive Care Unit

'''swart''' 
swarthy, i.e., dark-skinned

'''half a house''' 
a half-way house

'''M.D.C.''' 
Metropolitan District Commission

'''hackysackers''' 
players of a game (hackeysack) where people in a circle kick a small leather bag around to one another

==Page 626==

'''Autoteller''' 
an ATM

'''moguls''' 
bumps

'''coruscant''' 
glittering

=November 11th, YDAU - Mealtime at ETA=

==Page 627==

'''fenestrated''' 
having windows

'''R.H.I.P.''' 
Rank Has Its Privileges

'''mastication''' 
chewing

==Page 628==

'''P.O.W.''' 
Prisoner of War

'''Liberal KS''' 
To be exact, it's three miles via Route 83 to the Oklahoma border.

'''C/W''' 
Country & Western

'''Beefeater''' 
a British brand of gin

'''clapboard''' 
a long, thin board, thicker along one edge than the other, used in covering the outer walls of buildings (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'')

'''nuptial''' 
marital

==Page 629==

'''toilet-eau''' 
eau de toilette, sort of like perfume

'''connubial''' 
marital

'''Birkenstock''' 
a German brand of sandals and shoes

'''glutens''' 
a mixture of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten wheat proteins]

'''torpor''' 
sluggishness

'''turrets''' 
projections from a building where guns are placed

==Page 630==

'''"...like Roosevelt at Yalta..."''' 
a reference to the supposed bullying by Stalin of FDR at the conference at Yalta in 1945 to cede Eastern Europe to Soviet control

'''saltpeter''' 
potassium nitrate, commonly believed to cause erectile dysfunction

'''Seldane''' 
a brand-name of non-drowsy antihistamine

'''carminative''' 
expelling gas

==Page 631==

'''mammarial''' 
resembling or having to do with breasts

'''lecithin''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecithin mixture of fats] found in milk and other foods

'''semicolonized''' 
otherwise, it's a comma splice

'''buttinskis''' 
i.e., the right to butt into line

'''scooters''' 
apparently a slang term for "dollars"

'''déjà vu''' 
From French for "already seen," it's the sense that you're re-experiencing something.

==Page 632==

'''saltire''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltire Cross of St. Andrew]

'''tektitic''' 
referring to fossils formed by meteoric impacts

'''foist''' 
to insert deceitfully

==Page 633==

'''Grant's Tomb''' 
The trick answer to the question is "no one." As the tomb is above ground, Ulysses S. Grant is technically "entombed" and not "buried." The obvious answer is Grant.

'''the one about what do Canadian girls put behind their ears to attract boys''' 
Presumably a reference to Q: What does a blonde put behind her ears to make her more attractive? A: Her ankles.

==Page 634==

==Endnote 261==

'''offal''' 
garbage, particularly rotting meat

==Page 634 (cont.)==

'''tantric''' 
referring to a particular branch of Hinduism, but very particularly to the sexual aspect of this branch, which emphasizes long sessions of sexual intercourse

'''Twister''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twister_%28game%29 parlor game] produced by Hasbro that involves contorting the body

'''cataract''' 
waterfall

'''reticent''' 
the tendency to keep one's thoughts to oneself

'''colposcope''' 
a scope used to examine the internal female reproductive organs

'''Combat Zone''' 
an area of Boston known for prostitution and sex shops

==Page 635==

'''bussed''' 
cleaned up

'''B.B.''' 
Big Brother

'''asexual''' 
not sexually active or not attracted to either sex

==Page 636==

'''nascent''' 
beginning to develop

'''Sapphic''' 
i.e., lesbian, the reference being to Sappho, the ancient Greek poet from Lesbos

'''Penal Matron''' 
in other words, a female prison warden

'''Polycleitos''' 
a Greek sculptor of the fifth century BC

'''Hermes''' 
the messenger god of Greek mythology

'''Theseus''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theseus hero] of Greek mythology

'''swart''' 
i.e. swarthy - of dark complexion or color

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'''staccato''' 
in music, notes sounded in a detached manner

'''acerbic''' 
sharp or biting

'''hick''' 
a person from a rural area

'''spitter''' 
a spitball, in baseball

'''tsunami''' 
tidal wave

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'''olla''' 
a pot for making stew, or stew itself

'''tsimmes''' 
a fruit and vegetable casserole

'''riches nouveaux''' 
French: new riches; here an inversion of ''nouveaux riches'', i.e., "newly rich"

=May 1st, YDAU - Steeply & Marathe discuss an obsession with ''M*A*S*H''=

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'''acronym''' 
MASH stands for "Mobile Army Surgical Hospital."

'''prima facie''' 
Latin: at first sight

'''Troy, New York''' 
a college town about ten miles from the state capital of Albany

'''wens''' 
a harmless cyst on the scalp or face

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'''Canadiens of the N.L. of H.''' 
the Montreal Canadiens, a team in the National Hockey League

==Page 641==

'''canned laughter''' 
pre-recorded, but also a reminder of the can of macadamia nuts incident

'''''Bröckengespenstphänom''''' 
German: Brocken is a German mountain and the brockengespenst refers to the large shadow an observer on the mountain casts in a certain lighting.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken_spectre]
This is an allusion to a scene from ''Gravity's Rainbow''.[http://www.badgerinternet.com/~bobkat/jestwiley2.html]

==Page 642==

'''Marsh or Swamp''' 
The principal male characters in ''M*A*S*H*'' lived in the same tent, which they called "the Swamp."

==Endnote 263==

'''Betamax''' 
the smaller format of videotape that was eventually pushed out of the market by VHS

==Page 642 (cont'd)==

'''''transperçant''''' 
French: penetrating across

'''Major Burns''' 
a "villain" character played by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0513271/?fr=c2M9MXxsbT01MDB8ZmI9dXx4PTB8eT0wfG14PTIwfGh0bWw9MXxzaXRlPWRmfHE9TGFycnkgTGludmlsbGV8bm09MXxwbj0w;fc=1;ft=20 Larry Linville]

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'''inveterate''' 
habitual

'''Maury Linville''' 
There is no such actor.

''''In the South Korea of history.'''' 
sort of implying that in the time of the novel, there's only one Korea again

''''You are not meaning your sister was a goat.'''' 
bearing in mind that "kid" also means a baby goat

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'''Korean Police Action of the U.N.'''

this in reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War Korean War], which involved military support from (in defense of South Korea from the invading North) United Nations member nations. The war actually lasted three full years.

'''baroquoco''' 
This would seem to be a mix between "baroque" and "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo rococo]."

'''augured''' 
predicted for the future

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'''Alda''' 
a reference to ''M*A*S*H'' star [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000257/ Alan Alda]

'''transmural infarction''' 
heart attack

'''ventricle''' 
one of two of the four chambers of the heart

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'''mesquite''' 
a spiny shrub with bean pods

'''Dick Willis''' 
There was a spy named Richard Willis (1613-1690) active during the English Civil War (1642-1660). This is also the name of a professional peer of Steeply in the novel, first mentioned earlier.

'''Ossified''' 
turned to stone

'''plura''' 
a misspelling (likely) of "pleura," which is a thin membrane enclosing the lungs

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=November 13th, YDAU - Kate Gompert & Geoffrey Day discuss It=

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'''benign''' 
harmless

'''anomaly''' 
something like nothing else

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'''malevolent''' 
intending harm

'''''magna cum laude''''' 
Latin: with very high honors

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'''130-kilo''' 
286.6 pounds

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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''' 
To ask earnestly; beg.

'''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

'''Wild Turkey''' 
[http://www.wildturkeybourbon.com/ Bourbon.]

'''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

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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).

==Page 33==

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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 Swedish-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 albacans''''' 
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.

'''promulgated''' 
make widely known

'''imperial''' 
a small pointed beard.

'''detritus''' 
debris

'''silk-analog''' 
molecularly similar to silk

'''recursive''' 
repetitive

'''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 effective against Gram-positive bacteria called actinobacteria

'''CBC/PATHÉ''' 
CBC is the Canadian Broadcasting Company. PATHÉ is probably the French entertainment company Pathé Frères (Pathé Brothers).

'''''Nass''''' 
Arabic for "text"

==Page 37==
=YTSDB - Wardine & Roy Tony=

'''double dutch''' 
a type of rope jumping where two ropes are used

==Page 38==

'''Brighton Projects''' 
presumably high-rise, low-income housing in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton,_Boston,_Massachusetts Brighton]

'''Shedd Spread''' 
a brand of [http://www.countrycrock.com/products.asp margarine]

'''wraithlike''' 
A wraith is a type of ghost.

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'''nocturnal emitter''' 
a boy who has a wet dream

'''anfractuous''' 
full of twists and turns

=☽ YDAU - Mario and Hal talk before sleep=

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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''' 
sudden outpourings of anger, outrage, or fear

'''Chalmette''' 
an eastern suburb of New Orleans

==Page 46==

'''kippers''' 
cured herring

'''Mrs. Avril M. T. Incandenza''' 
Hal's mother is named for the first time.

'''phylacteryish''' 
Remove "-ish" and you have the English word for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefillin tefillin].

'''imprimatur''' 
sanction or approval

==Page 48==

'''Positron-Emission Topography''' 
According to Wikipedia, this is "a nuclear medicine medical imaging technique that produces a three-dimensional image or map of functional processes in the body."

'''positrons''' 
the sub-atomic particles that are the opposite of electrons

'''Fritz Lang''' 
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (1890-1976) was a Viennese-born Austrian-American director, probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022100/ M].

'''''Moment'' magazine''' 
This is a Jewish-interest [http://www.momentmag.com/ magazine].

==Page 49==

'''Pandora's box of worms''' 
a mixed metaphor of "Pandora's box" and "can of worms," neither of which can be shut again once they're opened

=☽ YDAU - Hal getting covertly high=
==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-dimension "squircle".

'''Leith''' 
A homonym of Lethe, the name of the river in Greek mythology whose water, if drunk, will erase one's memory.

'''Dr. James O. Incandenza''' 
Hal's father's full name is given for the first time.

==Page 52==

'''dendriurethane''' 
This substance does not actually exist. An educated guess is that it is a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyurethane polyurethane] that comes from trees, ''dendri'' being Greek for "tree."

'''twenty meters''' 
almost twenty-two yards

'''unfenestrated''' 
having no windows

'''two meter''' 
a little over 6.5 ft

'''banshee''' 
In Irish mythology, the banshee is female spirit, who acts as an omen of death. They are known for "keening," i.e., shrieking.

'''flange''' 
a plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe

==Page 53==

'''post-latency''' 
after the latency period that Freud posited in his four-stage theory of psychosexual development in children

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_5|Endnote 5]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_5a|Endnote 5a]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_6|Endnote 6]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_7|Endnote 7]]

==Page 53 (cont'd)==

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_8|Endnote 8]]

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_8a|Endnote 8a]]

'''mushrooms or X''' 
psilocybin mushrooms or MDMA (called ecstasy)

==Page 53 (cont'd)==

'''Interdependent regions''' 
I.e., Canada

'''prorectors''' 
members of a management body of a university, each managing his/her specific area

'''the Show''' 
professional tennis

==Page 54==

'''Kodiak''' 
a brand of chewing tobacco

'''quail''' 
to shrink back in fear

==Page 54==
=HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! cont.=
'''0020h''' 
The medical attaché has now been watching for four hours and fifty-three minutes.

=Mario's designated function around ETA=
'''filmic''' 
having to do with motion pictures

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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==

'''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

'''van Dyke''' 
a goatee

'''apocopes''' 
losses of syllables from words, particularly unstressed vowels

'''Café au Lait''' 
half coffee and half milk in a large cup, as drunk in France

'''gangrenously tight''' 
I.e., so tight as to cause gangrene, i.e., death of tissue due to lack of blood

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'''grippe''' 
flu

'''pre-British-takeover Québecois''' 
The British took over Quebec on September 8, 1760.

'''grackles''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passerine passernine] birds native to North America

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[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_19|Endnote 19]]

'''intercostal''' 
pertaining to the ribs or the muscles around them

'''Montreal Tulip Fest''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival Canadian Tulip Festival] actually takes place in Ottawa, Ontario, and Gatineau, Quebec, which border each other.

'''Guillaume DuPlessis''' 
A man by this name was one of the first French Calvinist settlers on the island of St. Kitts in the 17th century.

'''250 clicks due east''' 
Clicks are kilometers. Two hundred fifty km is about 155 miles.

'''lividity''' 
the change of color in skin brought on by livor mortis, an after-death phenomenon when blood settles in the body at low points of gravity

'''comme-il-faut''' 
French: As is necessary

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[[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.

'''R.I.S.C.''' 
reduced instruction set computer, i.e., a computer that takes a limited set of commands

'''Primestar''' 
a direct broadcast satellite network active in the 1990s

'''D.S.S.''' 
digital satellite system

'''pixel-free''' 
smooth and not pixelated

'''baud''' 
a unit equal to bits per second; a baud rate is the number of bits per second a modem can send/receive

'''''couture''''' 
French for "fashion"

'''nanoprocessors''' 
very small processors -- smaller than microprocessors

'''chromotography''' 
Here misspelled, chromatography is "any of various techniques for the separation of complex mixtures that rely on the differential affinities of substances for a gas or liquid mobile medium and for a stationary adsorbing medium through which they pass, such as paper, gelatin, or magnesia" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'').

'''carpal neuralgia''' 
nerve pain in the bones of the hand

'''phosphenic migraine''' 
the phenomenon of seeing lights accompanying a migraine

'''gluteal hyperadiposity''' 
fat in the buttocks

'''lumbar stressae''' 
back stress

=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 suburb of Philadelphia, on the famous Main Line from Philadelphia to Lancaster

'''meatus''' 
a natural bodily opening

[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_21|Endnote 21]]

'''OTC''' 
over the counter

'''expectorants''' 
drugs that induce phlegm-producing coughing

'''pertussives''' 
cough suppressants

'''megaspansules''' 
a combination of mega + span + capsule, these would be large, time-released capsules

==Endnote 22==

'''mucoid dessicators''' 
drugs that dry up phlegm

==Page 60 (cont'd)==

'''Rader''' 
If the name is pronounced with a "long a," as in the Oakland football team, a famous person with this last name was Erich Johann Albert Raeder (1876-1960), a World War II-era German grand admiral, sentenced to life at Nuremberg but served only nine years.

==Page 61==

'''nebulizer''' 
something that turns a liquid into a spray

'''fugue-state''' 
According to Wikipedia, a fugue state is "a state of mind characterized by abandonment of personal identity, along with the memories, personality and other identifying characteristics of individuality."

'''prolix''' 
extended to a great, unneedy length

=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

'''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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'''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==

'''pigeon-toed''' 
having toes that point inward, like this: / \

'''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 virile. 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, more virile, 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.

'''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]

As part of their pre-match ritual, the female players, Thode and Donni Stott, can be heard praying to or otherwise petitioning Camilla whose light footed speed may translate to success on the court.

==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.

'''ingenuish''' 
in the manner of an innocent young woman

'''moribund''' 
nearing death or in a terminal decline [http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/moribund?view=uk]

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'''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 [http://www.livefoodfishtrade.org/definitions.htm]

'''P.O.''' 
philharmonic orchestra

'''R.C. clergy''' 
Roman Catholic priesthood

'''Jesuit seminary'''
Theological training for the Society of Jesus Roman Catholic religious order of clerks, known as Jesuits. Jesuits are known for for their missionary work, social justice and human rights. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Jesus]

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'''Sanger-Brown's ataxia''' 
another name for [http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/1672.html Marie's ataxia]

'''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.

'''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.

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'''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''' 
disenfrancished

'''solar plexus''' 
a complex of nerves in the abdomen

'''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

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'''fuliginous''' 
smoky or sooty

'''50° C''' 
122° Fahrenheit

=Orin=
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==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 - so in other words, the implication is that the doctor suspects Gately has a particularly resistant strain of bacteria within his body that previous antibiotics given to him have been ineffective in eliminating.

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'''"...look down her shirt and spell ''attic''..."''' 
and thus saying, "A-T-T-I-C" or "a titty I see"

==Page 974==

'''vertical hold''' 
the control on a television that prevents the picture from rolling bottom to top

==Page 975==

'''Weejuns''' 
a type of shoe, see [http://www.bassweejuns.com/ here]

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'''Jack Daniels''' 
a famous brand of bourbon whiskey

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'''S&W''' 
Smith & Wesson

'''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

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==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).

==Page 979==

==Endnote 387==

'''pentazocine''' 
a synethetic opioid painkiller

==Endnote 387a==

'''dysmenorrhea''' 
pre-menstrual syndrome and/or painful periods

'''hot shot''' 
an injection intended to kill

'''PX''' 
with a pharmaceutical as part of the name, it means it contains pentazocine

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'''ditty''' 
a little song

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'''"...the one about ultraviolence and sadism."''' 
Gately is thinking of Kubrick's [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/ A Clockwork Orange]

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'''recursive''' 
capable of being used repeatedly

'''retsin''' 
the supposed active ingredient in Certs breath mints

'''Ciao Bello''' 
Italian: Goodbye, Handsome

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'''corrode''' 
to eat away at; to rust

'''ICBM''' 
intercontinental ballistic missile

'''boot''' 
junkie slang for injecting drugs

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'''imprimatur''' 
sanction or approval

'''bonded''' 
Sorkin had put up Gately's bail.

'''ruddled''' 
reddened

'''serration''' 
notches in the edges

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'''belled''' 
rang like a bell

=Joelle Talks About the Entertainment=

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'''epicene''' 
androgynous

'''bassinet''' 
an oblong basket for a baby

'''catadioptric''' 
produced by reflection and refraction simultaneously

==Page 940==

'''astigmatic''' 
failing to have light rays converge on a single point

==Page 941==

=Hal Narrates (Still)=

'''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 fucking mess."

==Page 942==

'''panic-attack''' 
another term for an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_attack anxiety attack]

==Page 943==

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'''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 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.

'''Allen to Allen''' 
a reference to American director Woody Allen (born 1935 as Allen Stewart Königsberg), who casts himself in most of his films

'''temporal-lobe''' 
the part of the brain involved in hearing, speeech, and vision

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'''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''' 
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States. He was a central figure of the 20th century during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war. Elected to four terms in office, he served from 1933 to 1945 and is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Roosevelt Wikipedia]

'''canopied''' 
framed with curtains

'''boudoir''' 
a bedroom or private sitting room

'''ponce''' 
an effeminate man

'''"...an old-fashioned one-sharp-sided razor..."''' 

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'''Pheromonic Musk''' 
a scent designed to emit pheromones, or a chemical that attracts the opposite sex

'''chartreuse''' 
bright yellowish-green

'''500 seconds''' 
8 minutes and 20 seconds

==Page 947==

'''conundra''' 
insoluble questions

'''sinkhole''' 
a depressed area into which waste collects

'''pratfall''' 
a fall on one's rear

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'''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

'''pugnacious''' 
having a tendency to fistfight

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'''snifter''' 
a glass with a wide bottom that narrows at the top, for drinking brandy

'''twidgeling''' 
not a real word

'''Hancock tower''' 
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_Tower skyscraper] in Boston

'''mimesis''' 
the imitation of aspects in the sensible world

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'''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''' 
an Old English text of the Gospels found in England

'''hyperfertilized''' 
given too much fertilizer

'''finial''' 
an architectural device used to top a gable

'''defile''' 
a narrow passage

'''neutered''' 
castrated

'''topiary''' 
a sculptured shrub or bush

'''gambrel''' 
the hock of an animal, particularly a horse

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'''etagere''' 
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"

'''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

'''kyphotic''' 
having abnormal curvature of the spine

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'''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

==Page 955==

'''misnomer''' 
a misapplied name or designation

'''''The Green Door''''' 
The full title is [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068260/ Behind the Green Door].

'''''Deep Throat''''' 
a pornographic film 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

=Hi, Mikey=

==Page 958==

==Page 959==

'''the hook''' 
presumably, the sister's hand

'''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 convenience

'''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''' 
"Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves" and "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all," respectively

==Page 962==

'''weal''' 
welfare

'''peroxide''' 
hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), used as a bleach and whitener

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'''NoCoat LinguaScraper''' 
not a real product, but there are such appliances that clean the tongue

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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]

'''highatus''' 
i.e., hiatus

==Page 918==

'''VO''' 
a type of whiskey by Seagram's, the VO standing for "very own"

'''32 mb²''' 
this would, presumably, be 1024 megabytes, or a little over 1 gigabyte

==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

'''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.)==

'''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"

'''''embrasure''''' 
an opening in a thick wall, mentioned earlier

'''woodie''' 
erection

'''myopic''' 
near-sighted

'''Turner''' 
possibly 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.

'''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''' 
in a way so that it is outside the skeleton

'''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 ones 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]

'''howitzer''' 
a short type of cannon

'''Green-Cardless''' 
not having permanent resident status and, thus, an illegal alien

'''moll''' 
the girlfriend of a criminal

'''bagmen''' 
people who collect payments in organized crime

'''wpm''' 
words per minute

'''shillelagh''' 
an Irish [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shillelagh_%28club%29 hand weapon]

'''Old Sod''' 
an term for the "old country" among U.S. immigrants

==Page 928==

'''Bulldog''' 
mascot of Yale University

'''proprioception''' 
the sense of the relative position of neighbouring parts of the body. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception Wikipedia])

'''VLR''' 
visitor's locker room

'''pyrotechnic''' 
like fireworks

'''Bruins''' 
mascot of Brown University, though they actually just call themselves the "Bears"

==Page 929==

'''Phalanx''' 
a close-knit group of people

'''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.

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'''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

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==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

'''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

==Page 934==

'''"...digging some dead gy's head up..."''' 
See ''Hamlet,'' Act V, Scene i.

'''"...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 Steeply.

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