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		+	=☽ (AS OF) YDAU - The Enfield Tennis Academy=
		+	==Page 63==
−	=☽ - Orin and Joelle=	+	'''Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment'''<br />
		+	Which is to say, as of 2009
−	==Page 283==	+	'''pre-Method actor'''<br />
		+	He was an actor before the dawn of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_acting the Method].
−	'''C.U.S.P.'''<br />	+	'''dipsomaniacal'''<br />
−	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].	+	Characterized by an uncontrollable urge to consume alcohol, describing James O. Incandenza's father
−	'''Johnny Gentle'''<br />	+	==Endnote 23==
−	the name of a [http://www.johnnygentle.co.uk/ real musician] from the U.K.	+	[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote_23|Notes and Errata - Endnote 23]]
−	'''O.N.A.N.ism'''<br />	+	==Page 63 (cont'd)==
−	Onanism is another word for masturbation in the English language	+
−	'''cholera and amoebic-dysentery'''<br />	+	'''G. Ford - early G. Bush'''<br />
−	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.	+	Roughly 1974 to 1989.
−	'''diasporic'''<br />	+	'''S.A.C.'''<br />
−	here denoting being in exile	+	Strategic Air Command.
−	==Endnote 94==	+	'''neutron'''<br />
		+	A subatomic particle with no charge.
−	'''''Lebensgefährtin'''''<br />	+	'''gamma-refractive'''<br />
−	German: female romantic companion (rather, "significant other" or "longtime companion")	+	Referring to a certain index of refraction, i.e., a measure of how much the speed of light is slowed down under certain conditions.
−	==Page 284==	+	'''lithium-anodized'''<br />
		+	[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anodizing Anodizing] is the process of making something electrically passive via electrolytic chemical deposition, or oxidation of the surface layer. Presumably lithium-anodized implies this process is done with the alkali metal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium lithium].
−	'''Palmer Academy'''<br />	+	==Page 64==
−	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'''<br />	+	'''cold annular fusion'''<br />
−	Reserve Officer Training Corps, which recruits future officers in the U.S. Armed Forces from universities	+	Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped.  Cold fusion is highly controversial.  Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a torus (donut).
−	'''A.P.'''<br />	+	'''Tableaux'''<br />
−	Advanced Placement	+	This is the French pluralization of "tableau,"
−	'''Croate'''<br />	+	'''homolosine-cartography'''<br />
−	French for "Croat" but probably just a misspelling	+	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].
−	==Endnote 95==	+	'''optative'''<br />
		+	descriptive of a mood of verbs in Greek and other languages, expressing a wish or choice, more or less equivalent to the English "if only."
−	'''post-Windows DOS'''<br />	+	'''U.S.T.A.'''<br />
−	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.	+	United States Tennis Association.
−	[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]	+	'''après-garde'''<br />
		+	French for "rear guard," it's the opposite of ''avant-garde.''
		+	: No. French for "rear gard" is ''arrière-garde'', there is no such thing as ''après-garde'' in French. DFW makes either a mistake or a pun — likely the latter — because the notion of a rear guard is here transposed to time instead of space.
−	'''recompile'''<br />	+	'''recondite'''<br />
−	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.	+	Esoteric, arcane, abstruse.
−	==Page 285==	+	==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]]
−	'''inducement'''<br />	+	==Page 64 (cont'd)==
−	an incentive	+
−	'''Dodge'''<br />	+	'''Macdonald Chair'''<br />
−	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.	+	Sir William C. Macdonald (1831-1917) was one of the most important donors in the history of McGill University. There is a Macdonald Chair in Chemistry.
−	==Endnote 96==	+	'''Royal Victoria College of McGill University'''<br />
		+	now an [http://www.mcgill.ca/residences/undergraduate/tour/rvc/ all-women's residence] at [http://www.mcgill.ca/ McGill University] in Montreal.
−	'''Fredericton, N.B.'''<br />	+	'''Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems'''<br />
−	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.	+	These are two systems of cognition, the latter is associative, rapid in processing, and subconscious, while the former is rule-based and thus slower.
−	==Page 285 (cont'd)==	+	'''Personnes à Qui On Doit Surveiller Attentivement'''<br />
		+	French: People Whom We Must Watch Closely.
		+	: Proper French for this would be ''Personnes que l’on doit surveiller attentivement''.
−	'''septuagenaric'''<br />	+	'''Throppinghamshire Provincial College, New Brunswick, Canada'''<br />
−	in one's seventies	+	There is no such college, though New Brunswick is a province of Canada.
−	'''patrician'''<br />	+	'''recondite'''<br />
−	aristocratic	+	Esoteric, arcane, abstruse.
−	'''vault the net'''<br />	+	'''mordantly'''<br />
−	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.	+	in a caustic manner.
−	'''round-robins'''<br />	+	'''feck'''<br />
−	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.	+	efficacy; force; value.
−	'''deck-sneakers'''<br />	+	'''CNS-rendingly'''<br />
−	You can see examples [http://sneakers.pair.com/m-deck.htm here].	+	A play on the term 'heart-rending'. CNS is an acronym for central nervous system.
−	==Page 286==	+	==Page 65==
−	'''Lacoste'''<br />	+	'''F.C.'''<br />
−	a French apparel company, known for producing [http://www.izod.com/ Izod]	+	Perhaps "formerly Canadian."
−	'''levantine'''<br />	+	'''A.E.C.'''<br />
−	from the Near East, particularly Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, or Israel, i.e., the Levant	+	Atomic Energy Commission.
−	'''kohl'''<br />	+	'''ARPA-NET'''<br />
−	a powder used to darken the eyelids	+	The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, development by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, was a forerunner of the Internet.
−	'''Terriers'''<br />	+	'''L'Islet County'''<br />
−	[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhett_the_Boston_Terrier Rhett the Boston Terrier] is the mascot of Boston University.	+	A county of Québec at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains.
−	'''plum'''<br />	+	'''hyperfloration'''<br />
−	an excellent or desirable thing	+	Overgrowth of flowers or plants.
−	'''hiati'''<br />	+	'''festschrift'''<br />
−	the plural of "hiatus"	+	A ''Festschrift'' (in German meaning roughly "a celebratory piece of writing") is a collection of essays dedicated to an important scholar. A festschrift usually marks the retirement, an important birthday, or the death of the recipient.
−	'''Blue Cross'''<br />	+	'''anticonfluential'''<br />
−	an health insurance company	+	neologism, against things coming together
−	'''felo de se'''<br />	+	'''chiaroscuro'''<br />
−	Latin for "felony against one's self," this is a term for suicide.	+	Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting. It normally refers to a strong contrast between light and shade, as in work by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravaggio#/media/File:The_Calling_of_Saint_Matthew-Caravaggo_(1599-1600).jpg Caravaggio] or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt Rembrandt]
−	[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.P.A.H.]]	+	'''elegaic'''<br />
		+	Misspelling of ''elegiac'' (related to mourning).
−	'''sedulous'''<br />	+	'''annulation'''<br />
−	diligent or attentive	+	The formation of rings, marked by rings, formed by rings
−	[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar]]	+	'''hypertrophied'''<br />
		+	Grown exceedingly large.
−	==Page 287==	+	=November 1st, YDAU - Denver, CO - The Cardinals=
		+	==Page 65==
−	[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland]]	+	'''tacks'''<br />
		+	Follows a zigzag course.  In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.
−	'''jugular'''<br />	+	'''Mile-High'''<br />
−	the largest vein in the neck	+	The stadium in which the Denver Broncos played until 2001.
−	''''''Tenebrae Factae Sunt,''' sotto v.'''<br />	+	'''100 meters over the 40'''<br />
−	Latin for "There Was Darkness," ''Tenebrae Factae Sunt'' is a hymn traditionally sung on Good Friday, the day on which Jesus was crucified. "Sotto v." is shorthand for the Italian ''sotto voce,'' which means "in a low voice."	+	''I.e.'', the 40-yard line on the football field. One hundred meters is slightly longer than the length of the field.
−	==Page 288==	+	'''nongarish'''<br />
		+	Not garish, ''i.e.'', not excessively ornate.
−	'''locusts'''<br />	+	==Page 66==
−	Given the noise their making, Wallace is probably referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada cicadas].	+
−	'''trundle'''<br />	+	'''zither'''<br />
−	Used here, it means an impulse that causes something to move.	+	A harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels.
−	'''Salic law'''<br />	+	'''water-drops'''<br />
−	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.	+	Being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks.
−	'''anthracnose'''<br />	+	'''Oiler'''<br />
−	another name for the plant disease known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthracnose canker]	+	The former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans.
−	'''PAC'''<br />	+	'''Brown'''<br />
−	Political Action Committee	+	The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.
−	'''florid'''<br />	+	=☽ - Pemulis's lecture=
−	very red	+	==Page 66==
−	'''trilled <i>r</i>'s'''<br />	+	'''organopsychedelic'''<br />
−	as pronounced in a Spanish word such as ''perro'' ("dog")	+	An organic molecule which, when ingested, produces a psychedelic effect.
−	''''Politics and the English Language''''<br />	+	'''isoxazole-alkaloid'''<br />
−	You can read Orwell's essay [http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79e/part42.html here].	+	Isoxazole is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoxazole here]; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.
−	'''Tactical Phalanx'''<br />	+	''' ''Amanita muscaria'', a.k.a. the fly agaric mushroom'''<br />
−	Normally a military term, this would be a phalanx (from the Latin word for "fingers") or row of soldiers deployed for tactical purposes.	+	a poisonous and psychoactive fungus, usually red with white spots.  It was used as an entheogen in Siberia.  It has also been proposed that this is the "Soma" of the ''Rig Veda''. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria Wikipedia])
−	'''MGM'''<br />	+	'''synesthesia'''<br/>
−	Militant Grammarians of Massachusetts	+	A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color. ([http://www.thefreedictionary.com/synesthesia thefreedictionary])
−	'''tiller'''<br />	+	==Page 67==
−	a nautical term for the device attached to a boat's rudder to assist in steering	+
−	'''sinecure'''<br />	+	'''methoxylated'''<br />
−	a job requiring little or no work	+	Addition of a methoxy group.  Wikipedia redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxylation here] or "methoxylation."
−	==Page 289==	+	'''phenylkylamine'''<br />
		+	Possibly a made-up substance, similar to synthetic substance, phenylalkylamine, and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychotropic_alkylamines psychotropic alkylamines]
−	'''"...had a poster of Bill Tilden in his office..."'''<br />	+	'''rock and bob Hasidically'''<br />
−	which implies that the coach was either gay (as was Tilden) or very old-fashioned, since Tilden's career was far in the past	+	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.
−	'''schizoid'''<br />	+	'''titrated'''<br />
−	here meaning "erratic"	+	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'').
−	'''refraction'''<br />	+	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).
−	here referring to the splitting of white light into a spectrum of color	+
−	'''strabismic'''<br />	+	=Please Play=
−	having improperly aligned eyes	+	==Page 67==
−	'''diffraction'''<br />	+	==Endnote 26==
−	the bending or stretching of waves, assuming light is a wave and not a particle	+
−	'''OCD'''<br />	+	'''enkephalin'''<br />
−	Obsessive-Compulsive Disoder	+	A type of painkiller [DFW's note explains and embroiders]; a substance manufactured within the human body by the human body that binds to some of the same neural receptors to which bind exogenous opiates. They could be considered a subset of endorphins that bind uniquely to central nervous system tissue receptors.
−	'''postcoital flanks'''<br />	+	==Page 67 (cont'd)==
−	Postcoital denotes after sexual intercourse. The flank would be the side of the body between the ribs and hip.	+
−	'''decapitated'''<br />	+	'''psychodysleptic'''<br />
−	beheaded	+	Inducing a delusional mental state; hallucinatory, a neologism by Hal's criteria.
−	'''epithet'''<br />	+	'''Sominex'''<br />
−	a word or phrase applied to a person, often derisively	+	Diphenhydramine, an over the counter sleep aid, marketed under many names in support of many claims
−	==Page 290==	+	'''''in medias'''''<br />
		+	Latin: in the middle of. Probably an intended short form for ''in medias res'' "right into the middle (of a story)". Without ''res'' the feminine plural of ''medias'' doesn't make any sense. (Cf. note on 701 s.v. ''in violent medias res'')
−	'''Actaeon Complex'''<br />	+	'''convolved'''<br />
−	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.	+	rolled or coiled together.
−	'''phylogenic'''<br />	+	'''oblique'''<br />
−	regarding the evolution of an organism	+	Neither perpendicular nor parallel.
−	'''ascapartic'''<br />	+	'''deliquesce'''<br />
−	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.	+	To become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.
−	'''elisions and apical lapses'''<br />	+	=☽ YDAU - Kate Gompert in the Psych Ward=
−	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'''<br />	+	==Page 68==
−	a little over thirteen feet.	+
−	'''zygomatics'''<br />	+	'''hale'''<br />
−	arches on the outer borders of the eyes	+	free from disease or infirmity.
−	'''HD'''<br />	+	'''Watteau'''<br />
−	high-definition, like a television	+	Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter.
−	'''pungently'''<br />	+	'''Yevtuschenko's ''Field Guide to Clinical States'''''<br />
−	in a way that sharply affects the organs of sense	+	This book does not exist. One famous famous person with the name Yevtuschenko (''sic'') is Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), Russian poet most famous for his composition [http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm Babi Yar], about the mass murder of 35,000 Jews by the Nazis at this location in Ukraine during World War II.
−	'''attar'''<br />	+	==Page 69==
−	a perfume extracted from flowers	+
−	'''decocted'''<br />	+	'''hypocapnia'''<br />
−	to extract the flavor of by boiling	+	Reduced carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hyperventilation.
−	'''avuncular'''<br />	+	'''emery board'''<br />
−	characteristic of an uncle	+	A disposable nail file.
−	==Page 291==	+	'''Wellesley Hills'''<br />
		+	A section of the town of Wellesley, Mass., 15 miles west-southwest of Boston.
−	'''Facsmile'''<br />	+	'''Newton-Wellesley Hospital'''<br />
−	probably a misspelling of "facsimile"	+	A real hospital.
−	'''three-meter'''<br />	+	'''Parnate'''<br />
−	almost ten feet	+	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.
−	'''lateral'''<br />	+	'''dysphoria'''<br />
−	sideways	+	A mental state of feeling horrible.
−		+
−	'''''mollygag'''''<br />	+
−	the exiled Oklahoman football coach appears to combine "lolly-gag" and "molly-coddle"	+
−		+
−	'''''bona fried'''''<br />	+
−	the exiled Oklahoman coach here appears to mean "bona fide"	+
−		+
−	'''dope-slaps'''<br />	+
−	a smack to the back of the head, designed to get attention rather than inflict pain; distinct from more familiar "bitch-slap"	+
−		+
−	'''adit'''<br />	+
−	entrance or passage	+
−		+
−	'''orthopedic'''<br />	+
−	denoting an anomaly in the bones	+
−		+
−	'''180-kilo'''<br />	+
−	almost 400 pounds	+
−		+
−	'''Special Teams'''<br />	+
−	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'''<br />	+
−	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'''<br />	+
−	To carom is to strike and rebound; caromed is the past tense.	+
−		+
−	'''CNS'''<br />	+
−	Central Nervous System	+
−		+
−	'''Gauloise'''<br />	+
−	a French brand of cigarettes	+
−		+
−	'''draconian'''<br />	+
−	Derived from Draco, the 7th century BC first lawgiver of Athens, the word means unusually harsh or severe.	+
−		+
−	==Page 293==	+
−		+
−	'''SUNY'''<br />	+
−	State University of New York	+
−		+
−	'''kick serve'''<br />	+
−	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'''<br />	+
−	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'''<br />	+
−	out of the ordinary course or nature	+
−		+
−	[[Image:Parabola.png|thumb|caption|parabola|right|125px]]	+
−	'''parabola'''<br />	+
−	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'''<br />	+
−	plural for factotum, which is a word for a servant or assistant	+
−		+
−	'''herbicide'''<br />	+
−	something that kills plants	+
−		+
−	==Page 294==	+
−		+
−	'''''Schmüberty'''''<br />	+
−	Technically speaking, this wouldn't rhyme with "puberty," because an umlaut over a "u" in German produces a high front rounded vowel (as in French ''tu'' "you") rather than the long /u/ phoneme.	+
−		+
−	'''kill it just by touching'''<br />	+
−	When a player on the punter's team touches the ball while it is still in the field of play, the play is whistled "dead" and the opposing team takes possession at that point	+
−		+
−	'''coffin-corner kicks'''<br />	+
−	Usually refers to a punt inside the opponent's 20 yard line that goes out of bounds and thus cannot be returned, as opposed to inside the 20-yard-line punts that remain in the field of play but are touched (killed) by a downfield runner	+
−		+
−	'''aegis'''<br />	+
−	sponsorship or auspices; from the Greek for "shield"	+
−		+
−	'''bilateral'''<br />	+
−	having two sides	+
−		+
−	'''S.T.'''<br />	+
−	Special Teams	+
−		+
−	'''wide receiver's number'''<br />	+
−	Punters are typically assigned a uniform with a number between 1 and 19, while wide receivers typically get a number in the 80s, though the NCAA has no hard and fast rules in this regard.	+
−		+
−	'''"...it was in its last season of representing an American university..."'''<br />	+
−	Presumably under the constitution of O.N.A.N., Syracuse, N.Y., became part of Canada.	+
−		+
−	'''book-long'''<br />	+
−	The "book" length of a punt is not the same as its physical distance.  Hal kicked the "baptismal competitive punt" 90 yards in the air, but was only credited with a 40-yard punt.  Because the line of scrimmage was Syracuse's 40, and Hal kicked the ball through the end zone, the punt is recorded as 40 yards (the distance from the line of scrimmage to the end zone).  The ball would be placed at Syracuse's 20, so the "net" on the punt would only have been 20 yards.	+
−		+
−	'''90-yard punt'''<br />	+
−	The record for a punt in both college and professional football is 99 yards.  Presumably in each instance the punting team had the ball at its own 1 yard line and the punt, through the air and then with fortuitous bounces, came to rest in the opponent's end zone.  Hal's punt is said to have traveled 90 yards in the air, which is a bit beyond the outer limits of what even a top pro can do on his best kicks.	+
−		+
−	'''Orangemen'''<br />	+
−	the Syracuse football team's name	+
−		+
−	==Page 295==	+
−		+
−	'''podiatric'''<br />	+
−	having to do with the foot	+
−		+
−	'''USMC'''<br />	+
−	United States Marine Corps	+
−		+
−	'''Rolling Thunder's big-bellied Berthas'''<br />	+
−	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'''<br />	+
−	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'''<br />	+
−	freedom from entanglement	+
−		+
−	'''lardy'''<br />	+
−	fat	+
−		+
−	'''tête-à-tête'''<br />	+
−	From the French for "head to head," this term denotes a private conversation between two people.	+
−		+
−	'''30,0000'''<br />	+
−	This must refer to the attendance for the game at Boston College's Alumni Stadium, which has a capacity of 44,500 (see page 293 for schedule).  Nickerson Field at BU has a capacity of less than 10,000 people.  BU also played at Rhode Island in Hal's first four weeks, but its field has a capacity of only 5,180.	+
−		+
−	'''amniotic'''<br />	+
−	pertaining to the fluid that surrounds a fetus ''in utero''	+
−		+
−	==Page 296==	+
−		+
−	'''cathedran'''<br />	+
−	Presumably Wallace means "like a cathedral," but this is not a real word. The proper word would be cathedrarian.	+
−		+
−	'''Yankee Conference'''<br />	+
−	Ironically, in 1997 (a year after ''Infinite Jest'' was published), Boston University dropped its football program.	+
−		+
−	'''K-L-RMKI/Forsythia Bowl'''<br />	+
−	This is not a real bowl game, but the letters stand for Ken-L-Ration-Magnavox-Kemper-Insurance Forsythia Bowl.	+
−		+
−	'''fealty'''<br />	+
−	faithfulness, here to a sports team	+
−		+
−	'''4WD'''<br />	+
−	four-wheel-drive vehicle	+
−		+
−	'''kudzu'''<br />	+
−	a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudzu climbing vine] indigenous to the U.S. South	+
−		+
−	'''pointers'''<br />	+
−	a breed of hunting dog	+
−		+
−	'''Pyrex'''<br />	+
−	a brand name of heat-resistant glass	+
−		+
−	'''turn blue litmus paper red'''<br />	+
−	presumably something highly acidic	+
−		+
−	'''star-fated'''<br />	+
−	as opposed to star-crossed, i.e., predestined for disaster, as Romeo and Juliet	+
−		+
−	==Page 297==	+
−		+
−	'''dailies'''<br />	+
−	Also called "rushes," these are the pieces of raw film recorded during a single day, including cuts, takes, prints, etc.	+
−		+
−	'''turtle-headed'''<br />	+
−	implying that Orin's neck is covered entirely but visible, as with a turtleneck sweater	+
−		+
−	'''fireman-carrying'''<br />	+
−	carrying a person over one's shoulder	+
−		+
−	'''Dixie Baton-Twirling Institute in Oxford MS'''<br />	+
−	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'''<br />	+
−	overgrown anatomically	+
−	'''quadriceps'''<br />	+	'''diurnal'''<br />
−	one of the muscles in front of the thigh	+	During the day.  Opposite of nocturnal.
−	'''P.T.s'''<br />	+	'''w/w/o'''<br />
−	Physical Therapists	+	With and without.
−	'''thespian'''<br />	+	'''CO'''<br />
−	having to do with acting	+	Carbon monoxide, sometimes used from engine exhaust for suicide.
−	'''BTL'''<br />	+	'''hemotoxicity'''<br />
−	the initials of several telecommunications and television companies	+	Poisonous blood level.
−	'''Angenieux'''<br />	+	==Page 70==
−	a [http://www.angenieux.com/ company] that produces high-technology optics devices	+
−	'''half-disk-sector'''<br />	+	'''Librium'''<br />
−	an indication of the amount of digital memory used	+	Brand name of chlordiazepoxide, the oldest benzodiazepine and used for cocaine and alcohol withdrawal.
−	'''#78'''<br />	+	'''B.P.'''<br />
−	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.	+	Blood pressure.
−	'''mattes'''<br />	+	'''Dretske'''<br />
−	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'').	+	Perhaps [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/dretske Fred Dretske] (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind.
−	'''spectation'''<br />	+	'''Mydol'''<br />
−	aspect or appearance	+	A misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midol Midol].
−	==Page 298==	+	'''trepidation'''<br />
		+	Hesitancy caused by fear.
−	'''rheostat'''<br />	+	'''facial affect'''<br />
−	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'').	+	Emotions expressed on the face.
−	'''Jiffy Pop'''<br />	+	'''Lithonate'''<br />
−	a brand name of home popping corn	+	A brand name of lithium.
−	[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.]]	+	==Page 71==
−	'''rpm'''<br />	+	'''plexor'''<br />
−	revolutions per minute	+	Another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflex_hammer reflex hammer]
−	'''Storrow 500'''<br />	+	'''plangent'''<br />
−	a local nickname for Storrow Drive in Boston	+	Loud and resounding.
−	'''barney'''<br />	+	'''wasn’t an M.D. yet but a resident'''<br />
−	a heavy padded cover for a camera to reduce the amount of noise from the camera's moving parts getting onto the soundtrack	+	On the contrary, a resident is an M.D. or D.O. in the first years after medical school, undergoing advanced training.
−	'''Pilotone blooper'''<br />	+	==Page 72==
−	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'''<br />	+	==Page 73==
−	a Wallace neologism based on "aura" (sound) and "copia" (plenty) and based on cornucopia (horn of plenty)	+
−	'''Delaware'''<br />	+	'''carpopedal'''<br />
−	The Yankee Conference, by the way, ceased to exist in 1997.	+	Involving both the hands and feet.
−	[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]	+	'''tetanic'''<br />
		+	Pertaining to tetanus, lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually by <i>C. tetani,</i> which elaborates a toxin that locks jaw muscle and most other muscles as well. In the context here, reference is being made to similar muscle contractions of much less intensity that can be seen with high blood pH from overbreathing.
−	'''U. Vermont and UNH now history'''<br />	+	==Page 74==
−	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'''<br />	+	==Page 75==
−	with both hands and both feet on the ground	+
−	'''chuff'''<br />	+	'''circumorals'''<br />
−	to blow hard and loudly	+	Muscles around the mouth.
−	'''stave'''<br />	+	'''thigmotactic'''<br />
−	to break or crush	+	Having to do with thigmotaxis, i.e., the movement or an organism as a response to a mechanical stimulus.
−	'''scrimmage'''<br />	+	'''dentate'''<br />
−	the scrimmage line, i.e., where the offense currently has the ball	+	Having teeth.
−	==Page 299==	+	'''synclinal'''<br />
		+	Sloping downward from opposite directions, so as to meet at a single point, like this: \ /.
−	'''a bright noncontact white'''<br />	+	'''Sinse'''<br />
−	Orin's helmet is white because he hasn't been tackled.	+	Short for ''sin semilla'', Spanish for "without seeds," it's a type of marijuana.
−	'''pendular 180-arc of Orin's leg'''<br />	+	'''duBois'''<br />
−	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	+	Fake etymology for "doobie," a term for a marijuana cigarette.
−	'''gluteal'''<br />	+	'''One kid makes you ask him to please commit a crime'''<br />
−	pertaining to the buttocks	+	Michael Pemulis (Page 156)
−	=November 14th, YDAU - Poor Tony Goes Cold Turkey=	+	'''And one particular guy with snakes in a tank in a trailer in Allston'''<br />
		+	Tommy Doocey or Bruce Green (Page 39)
−	==Page 299==	+	==Page 76==
−	[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]	+	'''uremic'''<br />
		+	Smelling like urine, because of a condition whereby waste products normally excreted in the urine are retained in the blood.
−	'''Armenian Foundation Library in horrid central Watertown MA'''<br />	+	==Endnote 30==
−	This is probably the same as the [http://www.almainc.org/ Armenian Library and Museum of America]. Watertown is a suburb of Boston nine miles west of the city, and it has a very large Armenian population.	+
−	==Page 300==	+	'''boric acid'''<br />
		+	Also used as a detergent and a barrier against insects.
−	'''Equus Reese'''<br />	+	==Page 76 (cont'd)==
−	''Equus'' is Latin for "horse."	+
−	'''Donegal cap'''<br />	+	==Page 77==
−	You can see one [http://irishop.com/dontweedcap.html here].	+
−	'''cadge'''<br />	+	'''the T'''<br />
−	to obtain by begging	+	Local public transit in the Boston metro area.
−	'''Antitoi'''<br />	+	==Page 78==
−	French for "against you"	+
−	'''de-mapping'''<br />	+	'''"That old cartridge, Nichols and the big Indian..."'''<br />
−	murder	+	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].
−	'''''non grata'''''<br />	+	=(April 2nd, YDAU) - Medical Attaché Update #3=
−	Latin: not welcome	+
−	'''Aigner accessory''' <br />	+	==Page 78==
−	Etienne Aigner is a designer of women's handbags & leather goods.	+
−	'''cop'''<br />	+	'''0145h.'''<br />
−	obtain drugs	+	It's been six hours and eighteen minutes since the medical attaché put the cartridge in his player.
−	'''rough-trade'''<br />	+	==Page 79==
−	homosexual sexual activity between a gay man and a straight man, sometimes for money or drugs	+
−	'''Brockton'''<br />	+	'''rictus'''<br />
−	a city in Massachusetts about 25 miles south of Boston	+	A gaping grimace.
−	'''portents'''<br />	+	=Schtitt & Mario discuss the game=
−	omens	+
−	'''Fort Point'''<br />	+	==Page 79==
−	a section of Boston named for a colonial-era fort of the same name	+
−	'''hepatitis-G'''<br />	+	'''Nick Bolletieri'''<br />
−	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.	+	An [http://www.nickbollettieri.com/ actual tennis coach].
−	'''chip'''<br />	+	'''epaulets'''<br />
−	to use enough heroin to stave off withdrawal	+	Military shoulder decorations on clothing.
−	'''wigless head'''<br />	+	'''a philosopher instead of a king'''<br />
−	which probably means he "flipped his wig" during withdrawal; doubtful—Tony is carrying his auburn wig and red leather coat in a shopping bag	+	Although Plato stresses, in the ''Republic,'' that kings should be philosophers (and vice-versa), this is obviously rarely the case.
−	'''The Old Cold Bird'''<br />	+	'''Lebensgefährtins'''<br />
−	a variation on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_turkey cold turkey]	+	Wallace's endnote 31(p. 994) claims this "means technically 'soulmate' or 'spouse'", but a more accurate translation would be 'life partner'. NB: 'Lebensgefährtin' is the feminine form of the noun. NB2: Schtitt's use of '-s' to indicate plural is incorrect for 'real' German (the correct form being ''Lebensgefährtinnen''); it is difficult to claim whether or not it is intentional on Wallace's part.
−	'''fifty kilos'''<br />	+	'''F.R.G.'''<br />
−	a little over 110 pounds	+	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).
−	==Page 301==	+	'''leptosomatic'''<br />
		+	Having a slender, frail build.
−	'''color of summer squash'''<br />	+	'''pedagogical'''<br />
−	The colors of summer squashes vary, but Wallace probably is implying that Poor Tony looks yellow.	+	Having to do with teaching.
−	'''sty'''<br />	+	==Page 80==
−	alternate spelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stye stye]	+
−	'''chignon'''<br />	+	'''post-prandial'''<br />
−	a type of hair extension worn at the back of the head	+	Following a meal.
−	'''troughs and nodes'''<br />	+	'''calliopsis'''<br />
−	deep furrows and swollen areas, respectively	+	Another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliopsis Plains correopsis].
−	'''habilements'''<br />	+	'''quincunx'''<br />
−	misspelling of habiliments, i.e., clothing	+	The arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right).[[Image:Dice.jpg|right|100px]]
−	'''wan'''<br />	+	'''briers' yeasty musk'''<br />
−	pale in color	+	The yeasty smell arising from the brier patches.
−	'''gender-dysphoric'''<br />	+	'''bradykinetic'''<br />
−	a person suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria gender identity disorder]	+	Describing abnormally slow movement.
−	'''shiva'''<br />	+	'''varicocele'''<br/>
−	the Jewish ritual of mourning for seven days, tearing one's clothes, sitting on the floor, covering mirrors, etc.	+	a varicose condition of the spermatic veins of the scrotum
−	[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]	+	'''plosivity'''<br />
		+	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.''.
−	'''412 Mount Auburn Street'''<br />	+	'''Euclid'''<br />
−	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?]	+	Euclid of Alexandria was a 4th century BC Greek mathematician and "father of geometry."
−	==Page 302==	+	==Page 81==
−	'''Codinex Plus'''<br />	+	'''tympana'''<br />
−	a brand name of cough syrup	+	Plural for the Latin ''tympanum'', i.e., "drum," here it is a drum-shaped architectural design.
−	'''C<sub>17</sub>-morphine'''<br />	+	'''''TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST'''''<br />
−	regular old morphine, which has the chemical composition C<sub>17</sub>H<sub>19</sub>NO<sub>3</sub>	+
−	'''Bonwit's'''<br />	+	The euphemistic translation aside, this literally means (in Latin): They can kill you but they cannot eat you; it's a crime.
−	a department store in Boston	+
−	'''hubris'''<br />	+	'''discursive'''<br />
−	pride to a fault	+	Rambling in speech.
−	'''cadences'''<br />	+	'''wonk'''<br />
−	flows of events	+	A wonk is "a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').
−	==Page 303==	+	==Page 82==
−	'''Merry Widow'''<br />	+	'''simpatico'''<br />
−	a woman's undergarment consisting of a strapless bra and short corset	+	In agreement.
−	'''Amalfo'''<br />	+	'''diagnate'''<br />
−	apparently a misspelling of Amalfi, a brand of shoes	+	perhaps a combination of "diagonal", referring to Cantor's diagonal proof, and "agnate"
−	'''45 kg'''<br />	+	==Endnote 34==
−	a little over 99 pounds	+
−	'''''Zuckung'''''<br />	+	'''Mandelbrotian'''<br />
−	German: convulsion	+	Referring to Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born 1924), French-American-Jewish mathematician.
−	'''pebbled glass'''<br />	+	'''post-Gödelian'''<br />
−	a drinking glass having a rough surface	+	Coming after Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher.
−	'''filial'''<br />	+	==Page 82 (cont'd)==
−	pertaining to a son or daughter	+
−	'''Mount Auburn Cemetery'''<br />	+	'''Hopman and van der Meer and Bollettieri'''<br />
−	the first [http://www.mountauburn.org/ landscaped cemetery] in the U.S.	+	Harry Hopman, Dennis van der Meer, and Nick Bollettieri, highly regarded tennis instructors. Bollettieri and van der Meer each founded tennis boarding schools in the United States.
−	'''A.F.L.'''<br />	+	'''fractal'''<br />
−	Armenian Foundation Library	+	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...]
−	'''loo'''<br />	+	'''aleatory'''<br />
−	British colloquialism for toilet	+	Of or pertaining to accidental causes.
−	'''flatulence'''<br />	+	'''''Lieber Gott nein'''''<br />
−	farting	+	German: ''Dear God, no''.
−	'''demethylated'''<br />	+	'''''Gymanasium'''''<br />
−	with a methyl group (CH<sub>3</sub>) removed.  Technically, this is incorrect; to go from codeine (C<sub>18</sub>H<sub>21</sub>NO<sub>3</sub>) to morphine (C<sub>17</sub>H<sub>19</sub>NO<sub>3</sub>) requires the removal of a methyl''ene'' group (CH<sub>2</sub>). The accurate term would be "demethyl''en''ated."	+	The equivalent of a U.S. college-preparatory high school.
−	==Page 304==	+	'''appetitive will'''<br />
		+	That part of the will that desires physical things.
−	'''duplicitous'''<br />	+	==Page 83==
−	deceptive in speech	+
−	'''hapless'''<br />	+	'''''palestra'''''<br />
−	without luck	+	An ancient Greek school of wrestling.
−	'''bilirubin'''<br />	+	'''experialist'''<br />
−	the compound that makes urine yellow	+	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.
−	'''behemoth'''<br />	+	'''''Verstiegenheit'''''<br />
−	a large beast	+	Literally German for "eccentricity" -- or extravagance.  But this word is really old-fashioned and would be not used by a contemporary German speaker.
−	'''synaptic'''<br />	+	'''''Platz'''''<br />
−	pertaining to the spaces between brain cells	+	German: a public square. But also just "place".
−	'''dessicated'''<br />	+	==Page 84==
−	dried out	+
−	'''Eighty-Proof'''<br />	+	'''pirouetting'''<br />
−	40 percent alcohol	+	Whirling on the toes.
−	'''augur'''<br />	+	==Page 85==
−	to serve as an omen	+
−	==Page 305==	+	=YDAU - Tiny Ewell in Detox=
−	'''incongruous'''<br />	+	==Page 85==
−	out of place	+
−	'''obstretric'''<br />	+	'''D.T.'''<br />
−	of or relating to childbirth	+	Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens delirium tremens].
−	'''dirigibles'''<br />	+	==Page 86==
−	blimps or zeppelins (airships)	+
−	'''tumid'''<br />	+	'''12°C'''<br />
−	swollen	+	~54°F
−	'''Red Sox of Rice and Lynn'''<br />	+	==Page 87==
−	Jim Rice (1974-1989) and Fred Lynn (1974-1980) both played in the 1975 World Series.	+	'''screaming meemies'''<br/>
		+	used to describe anxiety or aprehension (i.e., the "heebie-jeebies" or the "willies"); originally a nickname for a type of German rocket used in WWII, which emitted a high-pitched noise as it flew. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebelwerfer Wikipedia])
−	'''taffeta'''<br />	+	'''skallycap'''<br />
−	a crisp, smooth, woven fabric, often made from silk, used in gowns	+	another name for a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_%28cap%29 tam]
−	'''gaffed fish'''<br />	+	=(April 2nd, YDAU) - Medical Attaché Update #4=
−	caught with a very large hook	+
−	'''flounces'''<br />	+	==Page 87==
−	strips of decorative material	+
−	==Page 306==	+	'''Seventh Day Adventist'''<br />
		+	a [http://www.adventist.org/ Protestant denomination] marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"
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Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment
Which is to say, as of 2009

pre-Method actor
He was an actor before the dawn of the Method.

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

Endnote 23

Notes and Errata - Endnote 23

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G. Ford - early G. Bush
Roughly 1974 to 1989.

S.A.C.
Strategic Air Command.

neutron
A subatomic particle with no charge.

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

lithium-anodized
Anodizing is the process of making something electrically passive via electrolytic chemical deposition, or oxidation of the surface layer. Presumably lithium-anodized implies this process is done with the alkali metal lithium.

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cold annular fusion
Cold fusion is a low-energy nuclear reaction. That it is annular means it is ring-shaped. Cold fusion is highly controversial. Regular fusion experiments take place in a tokamak, which is shaped like a torus (donut).

Tableaux
This is the French pluralization of "tableau,"

homolosine-cartography
This is map-making based on an equal distribution of land, created by John Paul Goode (1862-1932), an American geographer. Goode did this to replace the Eurocentric Mercator projection.

optative
descriptive of a mood of verbs in Greek and other languages, expressing a wish or choice, more or less equivalent to the English "if only."

U.S.T.A.
United States Tennis Association.

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

No. French for "rear gard" is arrière-garde, there is no such thing as après-garde in French. DFW makes either a mistake or a pun — likely the latter — because the notion of a rear guard is here transposed to time instead of space.

recondite
Esoteric, arcane, abstruse.

Endnote 24 - JOI's Filmography

See Notes and Errata - Endnote 24

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Macdonald Chair
Sir William C. Macdonald (1831-1917) was one of the most important donors in the history of McGill University. There is a Macdonald Chair in Chemistry.

Royal Victoria College of McGill University
now an all-women's residence at McGill University in Montreal.

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

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

Proper French for this would be Personnes que l’on doit surveiller attentivement.

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

recondite
Esoteric, arcane, abstruse.

mordantly
in a caustic manner.

feck
efficacy; force; value.

CNS-rendingly
A play on the term 'heart-rending'. CNS is an acronym for central nervous system.

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F.C.
Perhaps "formerly Canadian."

A.E.C.
Atomic Energy Commission.

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

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

hyperfloration
Overgrowth of flowers or plants.

festschrift
A Festschrift (in German meaning roughly "a celebratory piece of writing") is a collection of essays dedicated to an important scholar. A festschrift usually marks the retirement, an important birthday, or the death of the recipient.

anticonfluential
neologism, against things coming together

chiaroscuro
Distribution of light and shade in a photo or painting. It normally refers to a strong contrast between light and shade, as in work by Caravaggio or Rembrandt

elegaic
Misspelling of elegiac (related to mourning).

annulation
The formation of rings, marked by rings, formed by rings

hypertrophied
Grown exceedingly large.

November 1st, YDAU - Denver, CO - The Cardinals

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tacks
Follows a zigzag course. In sailing, tacking is a change of direction through the direction of the wind.

Mile-High
The stadium in which the Denver Broncos played until 2001.

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

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

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zither
A harp-like instrument, hand-held, associated with angels.

water-drops
Being dropped into water, presumably because the football team in Seattle is the Seahawks.

Oiler
The former football team of Houston, now the Tennessee Titans.

Brown
The Browns are the football team of Cleveland.

☽ - Pemulis's lecture

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organopsychedelic
An organic molecule which, when ingested, produces a psychedelic effect.

isoxazole-alkaloid
Isoxazole is explained here; an alkaloid is a naturally occurring, nitrogen-containing, plant-produced compound.

Amanita muscaria, a.k.a. the fly agaric mushroom
a poisonous and psychoactive fungus, usually red with white spots. It was used as an entheogen in Siberia. It has also been proposed that this is the "Soma" of the Rig Veda. (Wikipedia)

synesthesia
A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color. (thefreedictionary)

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methoxylated
Addition of a methoxy group. Wikipedia redirects here or "methoxylation."

phenylkylamine
Possibly a made-up substance, similar to synthetic substance, phenylalkylamine, and the psychotropic alkylamines

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

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

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

Please Play

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enkephalin
A type of painkiller [DFW's note explains and embroiders]; a substance manufactured within the human body by the human body that binds to some of the same neural receptors to which bind exogenous opiates. They could be considered a subset of endorphins that bind uniquely to central nervous system tissue receptors.

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psychodysleptic
Inducing a delusional mental state; hallucinatory, a neologism by Hal's criteria.

Sominex
Diphenhydramine, an over the counter sleep aid, marketed under many names in support of many claims

in medias
Latin: in the middle of. Probably an intended short form for in medias res "right into the middle (of a story)". Without res the feminine plural of medias doesn't make any sense. (Cf. note on 701 s.v. in violent medias res)

convolved
rolled or coiled together.

oblique
Neither perpendicular nor parallel.

deliquesce
To become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.

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hale
free from disease or infirmity.

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

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

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

emery board
A disposable nail file.

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

Newton-Wellesley Hospital
A real hospital.

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

dysphoria
A mental state of feeling horrible.

diurnal
During the day. Opposite of nocturnal.

w/w/o
With and without.

CO
Carbon monoxide, sometimes used from engine exhaust for suicide.

hemotoxicity
Poisonous blood level.

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

B.P.
Blood pressure.

Dretske
Perhaps Fred Dretske (born 1932), a philosopher of the mind.

Mydol
A misspelling of Midol.

trepidation
Hesitancy caused by fear.

facial affect
Emotions expressed on the face.

Lithonate
A brand name of lithium.

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plexor
Another name for a reflex hammer

plangent
Loud and resounding.

wasn’t an M.D. yet but a resident
On the contrary, a resident is an M.D. or D.O. in the first years after medical school, undergoing advanced training.

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carpopedal
Involving both the hands and feet.

tetanic
Pertaining to tetanus, lockjaw caused by contamination of a wound, usually by C. tetani, which elaborates a toxin that locks jaw muscle and most other muscles as well. In the context here, reference is being made to similar muscle contractions of much less intensity that can be seen with high blood pH from overbreathing.

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circumorals
Muscles around the mouth.

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

dentate
Having teeth.

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

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

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

One kid makes you ask him to please commit a crime
Michael Pemulis (Page 156)

And one particular guy with snakes in a tank in a trailer in Allston
Tommy Doocey or Bruce Green (Page 39)

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

Endnote 30

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

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the T
Local public transit in the Boston metro area.

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"That old cartridge, Nichols and the big Indian..."
She's referring to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; "Nichols" is Jack Nicholson.

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

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rictus
A gaping grimace.

Schtitt & Mario discuss the game

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Nick Bolletieri
An actual tennis coach.

epaulets
Military shoulder decorations on clothing.

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

Lebensgefährtins
Wallace's endnote 31(p. 994) claims this "means technically 'soulmate' or 'spouse'", but a more accurate translation would be 'life partner'. NB: 'Lebensgefährtin' is the feminine form of the noun. NB2: Schtitt's use of '-s' to indicate plural is incorrect for 'real' German (the correct form being Lebensgefährtinnen); it is difficult to claim whether or not it is intentional on Wallace's part.

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

leptosomatic
Having a slender, frail build.

pedagogical
Having to do with teaching.

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post-prandial
Following a meal.

calliopsis
Another name for Plains correopsis.

quincunx

The arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice (see right).

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

bradykinetic
Describing abnormally slow movement.

varicocele
a varicose condition of the spermatic veins of the scrotum

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

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

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

TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST

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

discursive
Rambling in speech.

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

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simpatico
In agreement.

diagnate
perhaps a combination of "diagonal", referring to Cantor's diagonal proof, and "agnate"

Endnote 34

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

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

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Hopman and van der Meer and Bollettieri
Harry Hopman, Dennis van der Meer, and Nick Bollettieri, highly regarded tennis instructors. Bollettieri and van der Meer each founded tennis boarding schools in the United States.

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

aleatory
Of or pertaining to accidental causes.

Lieber Gott nein
German: Dear God, no.

Gymanasium
The equivalent of a U.S. college-preparatory high school.

appetitive will
That part of the will that desires physical things.

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palestra
An ancient Greek school of wrestling.

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

Verstiegenheit
Literally German for "eccentricity" -- or extravagance. But this word is really old-fashioned and would be not used by a contemporary German speaker.

Platz
German: a public square. But also just "place".

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pirouetting
Whirling on the toes.

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YDAU - Tiny Ewell in Detox

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D.T.
Used here as a verb, the acronym refers to delirium tremens.

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12°C
~54°F

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screaming meemies
used to describe anxiety or aprehension (i.e., the "heebie-jeebies" or the "willies"); originally a nickname for a type of German rocket used in WWII, which emitted a high-pitched noise as it flew. (Wikipedia)

skallycap
another name for a tam

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Seventh Day Adventist
a Protestant denomination marked (in its name) by the fact that they observe their sabbath on Saturday, i.e., the "seventh day"