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=☽ (Mid-November, YDAU) - WYYY Engineer goes "sunning"=

==Page 620==

'''baud'''<br />
a unit of one bit per second in data transmission

'''couture'''<br />
high-fashion women's clothing

'''carpal neuralgia, phospenic migraine, gluteal hyperadiposity, lumbar stressae'''<br />
hand pain, migraines with flashing lights, fat buttocks, and lower back pain

'''"...all three O.N.A.N. time zones..."'''<br />
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'''<br />
kneeling to the ground on one knee, esp. to convey respect

'''sub-rosa'''<br />
secret

''''spect-ops''''<br />
Perhaps a play on the popularized military term 'spec-ops,' meaning 'special operation(s).'

'''Gapers' Blocks'''<br />
traffic delays caused by rubbernecking, i.e., blocking or retarding traffic by stopping to gape at the scene of an accident

==Page 621==

'''apotheosis'''<br />
the process of being raised to godlike status

'''coprolaliac'''<br />
uncontrollably disposed to the use of profanity

'''nucleic'''<br />
pertaining to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_force nuclear force], which binds protons and neutrons into atomic nuclei 

'''PAs'''<br />
public-address sytems

'''nostrums'''<br />
patent medicines, i.e., quack medicines

'''Cultists in saffron with much percussion'''<br />
members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Society_for_Krishna_Consciousness (Hare Krishna movement)] in their distinctive saffron-colored (orange) robes, likely carrying [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mridangam Mridangams] and tambourines

'''bunting'''<br />
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.'''<br />
abbreviation for ''circa'', Latin for "around," used here in the sense of "approximately"

'''mufflered'''<br />
wearing scarves

'''sylvan'''<br />
woodsy

==Page 622==
'''phylogenic'''<br />
From ''phylogeny'', the study of changes and developments in organisms' lineages.  ''Phylogenetic'' is the more common adjectival form.
 
'''möbiusizing'''<br />
a neologism for taking on the shape of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip Möbius strip]

'''coccyx'''<br />
tailbone

'''scopophile'''<br />
someone who derives pleasure (usually sexual) from looking at something

'''dun'''<br />
grayish brown

'''martial at ease'''<br />
a military stance with feet shoulder's width apart and hands clasped behind the back

==Endnote 258==
'''peasant skirt'''<br />
a long, flowing skirt usually featuring bands of embroidery

==Page 622 (cont'd)==

'''Gregg pen'''<br />
[[file:gregg.jpg|left]]Gregg is a phonetic shorthand writing system for stenographers, devised by John Robert Gregg and first published in 1888. The rights to Gregg shorthand were owned by the Gregg Publishing Company, founded in 1896. The Gregg company licensed pen manufacturers to produce pens to Gregg’s specifications and use the Gregg name; these pens are relatively thin and have very firm fine nibs. Some Gregg pens were fitted with an enameled Gregg emblem inlaid into the end of the cap, as shown at left on a Wahl pen from the late 1920s. [http://www.richardspens.com/?page=ref/glossary/G.htm here]. Read more about Gregg shorthand [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg_Shorthand here] and Gregg pens [http://www.vintagepens.com/gregg_shorthand_discovery.htm here].

'''purview'''<br />
scope of vision

==Page 623==

'''verdigrised'''<br />
covered with grayish-green rust

'''statues of ducklings in a row'''<br />
Wallace is referring to an actual statue in Boston Public Garden shown [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/Make_way_for_ducklings_statue.jpg here]

'''Robert McCloskey'''<br />
Robert McCloskey (1914-2003) was an American author and illustrator of children's books.

'''''Make Way for Ducklings'''''<br />
Read about this book [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Way_for_Ducklings here].

'''greensward'''<br />
stretch of grassy turf

'''lithe'''<br />
slim and gracefully flexible

'''...play a game with a small beanbaggy ball...'''<br />
a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacky_Sack hacky sack] (or "hackey sack")

'''5º C'''<br />
41º Fahrenheit

'''attenuated'''<br />
weakened, also pertaining to the propagation of waves in telecommunications

'''unmoored'''<br />
opposite of the nautical term moored meaning fastened or secured in place (as in a boat)

'''stupor'''<br />
state of near-unconsciousness

'''appurtenances'''<br />
equipment, e.g., clothing, tools, or instruments, used for a specific purpose or style of living

'''Bread & Circus'''<br />
a small chain of health-food stores that first opened in Brookline, MA, in 1975 and acquired by Whole Foods Market in 1992

'''sepia'''<br />
dark brown, as in the pigment used to make very early photographs

'''chanting very softly 'Smoke''''<br />
i.e., surreptitiously peddling marijuana

'''undercapitalized'''<br />
lacking sufficient funds to complete a business transaction

==Page 624==

'''thermal'''<br />
an upward current of warm air

'''metallurgy'''<br />
the making and conducting of alloys

'''chyme'''<br />
semi-fluid partially digested food

'''Mass Comm.'''<br />
Mass Communications

==Page 625==

'''allay'''<br />
put to rest

'''triptych'''<br />
three-fold

'''micronized'''<br />
reduced in particle size to only a few microns (millionths of a meter) in diameter

'''ICU'''<br />
Intensive Care Unit

'''swart'''<br />
swarthy, i.e., dark-skinned

'''Basilar'''<br />
related to or situated at the base, especially the base of the skull (as with the basilar artery); capitalization could suggest a fictitious branding, perhaps a competitor of Otis

'''half a house'''<br />
a half-way house

'''copless'''<br />
without policemen

'''M.D.C.'''<br />
Metropolitan District Commission, a former Massachusetts state agency that was responsible for maintenance of public parks and roads in the Metropolitan Boston area

'''hackysackers'''<br />
players of a game (hacky sack) where people in a circle kick a small leather bag around to one another (see "game with a small beanbaggy ball" on page 623)

'''slaloms'''<br />
moves around in a zigzagging fashion

'''moguls'''<br />
a bumps on a ski slope formed by the repeated turns of skiers over the same path

'''coruscant'''<br />
sparkling

==Page 626==

'''Autoteller'''<br />
an ATM (automated teller machine)

'''moguls'''<br />
bumps of the kind often seen in snow on ski slopes

'''coruscant'''<br />
glittering

=November 11th, YDAU - Mealtime at ETA=

==Page 627==

'''fenestrated'''<br />
having windows

'''R.H.I.P.'''<br />
Rank Has Its Privileges

'''mastication'''<br />
chewing

==Page 628==

'''P.O.W.ish'''<br />
greedily, in the manner of '''p'''risoners '''o'''f '''w'''ar

'''Liberal KS'''<br />
To be exact, it's three miles via Route 83 to the Oklahoma border.

'''C/W'''<br />
Country & Western

'''juris-prudential precepts'''<br />
rulings from a court of law

'''Beefeater'''<br />
a British brand of gin

'''clapboard'''<br />
a long, thin board, thicker along one edge than the other, used in covering the outer walls of buildings (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'')

'''nuptial'''<br />
marital

==Page 629==

'''toilet-eau'''<br />
eau de toilette (French: toilet water) is used mainly by women and is less concentrated than perfume, but more concentrated than eau de cologne, which is used more commonly by men

'''connubial'''<br />
marital

[[Image:Birkenstock sandals.jpg|thumb|right|Birkenstock sandals]]

'''Birkenstock'''<br />
Birkenstock is a German brand of sandals and shoes (see right)

'''glutens'''<br />
a mixture of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten wheat proteins]

'''torpor'''<br />
sluggishness

'''turrets'''<br />
refers here to small towers of the kind seen on medieval castles and other fortifications, often built with battlement crenels (notches) for use by defensive archers

==Page 630==

'''"...like Roosevelt at Yalta..."'''<br />
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'''<br />
potassium nitrate or nitre, an ingredient in gunpowder, it was (is) commonly believed to be used in food fed to prisoners and even military enlistees (or other predominantly male populations, such as boys' schools and Boy Scout troops) to curb libido; there is no evidence that it causes erectile dysfunction, but large amounts can have dangerous (poisonous) side effects

'''regrout'''<br />
replace the grout (construction material used to seal the gaps between tiles)

'''Seldane'''<br />
a brand-name of non-drowsy antihistamine

'''carminative'''<br />
a herb mixture that prevents gastrointestinal pressure and gas

==Page 631==

'''carb-caloric''' (from page 630)<br />
Cranberry juice is higher in carbohydrates than other juices because of the larger amounts of sugar added to sweeten it, cranberries being less naturally sweet than, e.g., oranges or apples.

'''mammarial'''<br />
resembling or having to do with breasts

'''lecithin'''<br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecithin mixture of fats] found in milk and other foods

'''semicolonized'''<br />
otherwise, it's a comma splice

'''autolysis'''<br />
perhaps used here in the sense of digestion, although the term actually refers to ''self-digestion'', the destruction of a cell through the action of its own enzymes

'''buttinskis'''<br />
i.e., the right to butt into line

'''R.H.I. literal P.'''<br />
'''R'''ank '''H'''as '''I'''ts literal '''P'''riveleges (see '''R.H.I.P.''' on page 627)

'''Tryna'''<br />
i.e., trying to

'''scooters'''<br />
apparently a slang term for "dollars"

'''déjà vu'''<br />
From French for "already seen," it's the sense that you're re-experiencing something.

==Page 632==

'''saltire'''<br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltire Cross of St. Andrew]

'''tektitic'''<br />
referring to fossils formed by meteoric impacts

'''foist'''<br />
to insert deceitfully

==Page 633==

'''Grant's Tomb'''<br />
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 himself, and, in fact, he and his wife Julia are both entombed there. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant%27s_Tomb General Grant National Memorial] overlooks the Hudson River, in Riverside Park in Manhattan (New York).

'''the one about what do Canadian girls put behind their ears to attract boys'''<br />
Presumably a reference to this old riddle: Q: What does a blonde put behind her ears to make her more attractive? A: Her ankles.

'''cubist'''<br />
suggestive of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism Cubism], the early-20th-century avant-garde (''not'' après-garde) art movement

'''Crohn's Disease'''<br />
also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crohn%27s_disease regional enteritis], an inflammatory disease of the bowels

==Page 634==

==Endnote 261==

'''offal'''<br />
garbage, particularly rotting meat

==Page 634 (cont.)==

'''post-prandially'''<br />
after eating a meal

'''tantric'''<br />
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'''<br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twister_%28game%29 parlor game] produced by Hasbro that involves contorting the body

'''cataract'''<br />
waterfall

'''reticent'''<br />
tending to keep one's thoughts to oneself

'''colposcope'''<br />
a scope used to examine the internal female reproductive organs

'''Combat Zone'''<br />
an area of Boston known for prostitution and sex shops

==Page 635==

'''bussed'''<br />
cleaned up

'''jejune'''<br />
naive and childish

'''B.B.'''<br />
Big Buddy

'''asexual'''<br />
not sexually active or not attracted to either sex

==Page 636==

'''nascent'''<br />
beginning to develop

'''Sapphic'''<br />
i.e., lesbian, the reference being to Sappho, the ancient Greek poet from Lesbos

'''Penal Matron'''<br />
in other words, a female prison warden

'''Polycleitos'''<br />
a Greek sculptor of the fifth century BC

'''Hermes'''<br />
the messenger god of Greek mythology

'''Theseus'''<br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theseus hero] of Greek mythology

'''swart'''<br />
i.e. swarthy - of dark complexion or color

==Page 637==

'''staccato'''<br />
in music, notes sounded in a detached manner

'''acerbic'''<br />
sharp or biting

'''hick'''<br />
a person from a rural area

'''spitter'''<br />
a spitball, in baseball

'''tsunami'''<br />
tidal wave

==Page 638==

'''olla'''<br />
a pot for making stew, or stew itself

'''tsimmes'''<br />
a fruit and vegetable casserole

'''riches nouveaux'''<br />
French: new riches; here an inversion of ''nouveaux riches'', i.e., "newly rich"

'''Amway'''<br />
the American-based international direct-sales [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amway retailer]

'''Pet-Rockish'''<br />
inane, like the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Rock fad] phenomenon of the small stones marketed as live "pets," requiring care and feeding, in the silly '70s

=May 1st, YDAU - Steeply & Marathe discuss an obsession with ''M*A*S*H''=

==Page 638==

==Page 639==

'''acronym'''<br />
MASH stands for "Mobile Army Surgical Hospital."

'''prima facie'''<br />
Latin: at first sight

'''Troy, New York'''<br />
a college town about ten miles from the state capital of Albany

'''wens'''<br />
harmless cysts on the scalp or face

==Page 640==

'''Canadiens of the N.L. of H.'''<br />
the Montreal Canadiens, a team in the National Hockey League

==Page 641==

'''canned laughter'''<br />
prerecorded laughter used on the soundtracks of some filmed comedies (which are not "filmed before a live studio audience"), but also a reminder of the incident involving the can of macadamia nuts (page 580)

'''''Bröckengespenstphänom'''''<br />
German: Brocken is a German mountain and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken_spectre brockengespenst] refers to the large shadow an observer on the mountain casts in a certain lighting. This is an allusion to a scene from Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel  [http://www.badgerinternet.com/~bobkat/jestwiley2.html ''Gravity's Rainbow''.]

==Page 642==

'''Marsh or Swamp'''<br />
The principal male characters in ''M*A*S*H'' lived in the same tent, which they called "the Swamp."

==Endnote 263==

'''Betamax'''<br />
the smaller format of videotape that was eventually pushed out of the market by VHS

==Page 642 (cont'd)==

'''''transperçant'''''<br />
French: penetrating across

'''Major Burns'''<br />
a "villain" character played by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0513271/?fr=c2M9MXxsbT01MDB8ZmI9dXx4PTB8eT0wfG14PTIwfGh0bWw9MXxzaXRlPWRmfHE9TGFycnkgTGludmlsbGV8bm09MXxwbj0w;fc=1;ft=20 Larry Linville]

==Page 643==

<i>'''Troy Record'''</i ><br />
a tabloid-style daily newspaper for the city of Troy, NY

'''inveterate'''<br />
habitual

'''Maury Linville'''<br />
Steeply is misremembering ''Larry'' Linville.

''''In the South Korea of history.''''<br />
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.''''<br />
bearing in mind that "kid" also means a baby goat

==Page 644==

'''Korean Police Action of the U.N.'''
This is a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War Korean War], which involved military support from United Nations member nations (in defense of South Korea from the invading North). The war actually lasted three full years.

'''baroquoco'''<br />
This would seem to be a mix between "baroque" and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo "rococo"].

'''augured'''<br />
predicted; forecast

==Page 645==

==Page 646==

'''Alda'''<br />
a reference to ''M*A*S*H'' star [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000257/ Alan Alda]

'''transmural infarction'''<br />
heart attack

'''ventricle'''<br />
one of two of the four chambers of the heart

==Page 647==

'''mesquite'''<br />
a spiny shrub with bean pods

'''Dick Willis'''<br />
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'''<br />
turned to bone

'''plura'''<br />
a misspelling (likely) of "pleura," which is a thin membrane enclosing the lungs

==Page 648==

=November 13th, YDAU - Kate Gompert & Geoffrey Day discuss It=

==Page 648==

==Page 649==

'''benign'''<br />
harmless

'''anomaly'''<br />
something like nothing else (i.e., an outlier)

==Page 650==

'''malevolent'''<br />
intending harm

'''''magna cum laude'''''<br />
Latin: with high honors

==Page 651==

'''130-kilo'''<br />
286.6 pounds

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