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=November 17th, YDAU - A First-Time Visitor to Ennet House=

==Page 786==

'''depose'''<br />
ask questions of someone while under oath

'''''A.T.E.'''''<br />
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'''<br />
a felt hat with a brim meant for a man

'''post-Marxist'''<br />
an adherent [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Marxism school of thought] that encompasses the arts as well as politics

==Page 788==

'''co-op'''<br />
a co-operative, i.e., an apartment building that is jointly owned by the tenants

'''''V'' or ''VI'''''<br />
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'''<br />
a representation of an idea, here visual

'''anamorphosized'''<br />
changed from one form to another as a step in evolution

'''lalating'''<br />
anybody's guess, although perhaps similar to ''ululating'', as suggested by Amy Batchelor in one of her interesting [http://anchorpoint.blogs.com/amythoughts/2005/08/infinite_jest_v_1.html Thoughts in Random Patterns] (8 August 2005)

==Endnote 329==

'''heuristic'''<br />
serving to indicate or point out

==Page 788 (cont'd)==

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]

'''ghastlyly'''<br />
even funnier coming from someone with a first name ending in ''-ly''; simply ''ghastly'' functions as the adverb (rarely) as well as the adjective (could Molly be lalating?)

'''Rube-Goldbergesque'''<br />
needlessly convoluted, like one of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine machines] for which Jewish-American cartoonist Reuben Garret Lucius "Rube" Goldberg (1883-1970) was famous

==Page 789==

'''parturient'''<br />
about to give birth

'''synecdoche'''<br />
This complicated figure of speech is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche here].

'''glabrous'''<br />
hairless

'''venery'''<br />
the gratification of sexual desire

'''chicanery'''<br />
deception by trickery or sophistry

'''keel'''<br />
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'''<br />
a misspelling of interment, i.e., burial

'''thanatoptic'''<br />
regarding a vision of death

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

'''''felo de self'''''<br />
a misspeaking of ''felo de se''

==Page 791==

'''olla podrida'''<br />
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olla_podrida stew] popular in Spain

'''cerise'''<br />
a vivid purplish red

'''wattles'''<br />
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'''<br />
attached to emotionally in a negative way

==Page 792==

'''''Liebestod'''''<br />
German: love of death

'''antinomically'''<br />
in a manner suggesting opposition of laws

'''perspicuous'''<br />
clearly expressed

'''Gilles Deleuze'''<br />
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was a French philosopher.

'''''Incest and the Life of Death in Capitalist Entertainment'''''<br />
There is no such title.

'''malefic'''<br />
having a bad influence

'''reagent'''<br />
a substance used to produce other substances

'''menses'''<br />
menstruation

'''Pap smears'''<br />
screenings for female reproductive cancers, named for Georgios N. Papanikolaou (1883-1962), a Greek oncologist

'''''Putti'''''<br />
Italian: statues of human babies

==Page 793==

'''actaeonizing'''<br />
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'''<br />
prongs of a fork

'''beau'''<br />
boyfriend

==Page 794==

'''bell-jar'''<br />
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_jar laboratory glassware] -- also the title of a novel by Sylvia Plath

'''itinerant'''<br />
traveling from place to place

'''pointers'''<br />
A pointer is a breed of hunting dog

==Page 795==

'''Lucille Duquette'''<br />
Molly is lying about Joelle's real name, but this name means something like "Light of the Collection."

'''bradykinetic'''<br />
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'''<br />
towns too far away from cities to be called "suburbs" but not far enough to be rural

'''Nantucket'''<br />
an island of Massachusetts about 30 miles south of Cape Cod

==Page 795 (cont'd)==

'''Route 27'''<br />
a Massachusetts highway running from Route 106 in Kingston to Route 4 in Chelsmfold

==Page 796==

'''condonation'''<br />
overlooking of an offense

'''Abandoned All Hope'''<br />
In Dante's ''Inferno'', the sign above Hell reads, "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."

'''C. C. Reservoir'''<br />
presumably "Cleveland Circle Reservoir," though the actual reservoir next to Cleveland Circle is known as the Chestnut Hill Reservoir.

'''shunpike'''<br />
a side road to avoid taking a turnpike, in this case, the Mass Turnpike (I-90).

'''Rte. 9'''<br />
a Massachusetts highway running from US-20 in Pittsfield (western Massachusetts) to Route 28 in Boston

'''I-90'''<br />
an interstate running from Seattle to Boston, with the Massachusetts section designated the Mass Turnpike

'''NPR'''<br />
National Public Radio

'''George Will'''<br />
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'''<br />
a neighborhood of Boston

==Page 797==

'''Æolic'''<br />
an ancient Greek dialect spoken between 800 and 300 BC

'''Thynne'''<br />
This is probably a reference to Francis Thynne (1544-1608), an English administrator at the College of Arms in London.

'''taproot'''<br />
something that provides a central source for growth

'''Cynewulf'''<br />
probably a reference to the Anglo-Saxon poet by that name

'''penumbra'''<br />
a shadowy, gray area

'''gneiss'''<br />
a form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gneiss metamorphic rock]

'''Quabbin'''<br />
the name of a reservoir in Massachusetts

'''Burma-Shave'''<br />
an old brand of shaving cream that advertised with consecutive road signs that rhymed

'''Lombardy'''<br />
a region of northern Italy with its capital at Milan

'''quoins'''<br />
cornerstones

==Page 798==

'''deignition'''<br />
shutting down of an engine

'''lintel'''<br />
a horizontal piece of architecture supporting the weight above a window or door

'''puce'''<br />
dark or brownish purple

''''Seated Harlequin''''<br />
You can see this painting [http://www.abcgallery.com/P/picasso/picasso255.html here].

==Page 799==

'''Rubikular'''<br />
referring to [http://www.rubiks.com/ Rubik's cube]

'''scrip'''<br />
paper money

'''São Paulo'''<br />
Brazilian metropolis

'''altruistic'''<br />
tending to do good things for their own sakes

'''"...the color of Thousand Island dressing..."'''<br />
sort of light orange

==Page 800==

'''sibilance'''<br />
hissing sound

'''bereft'''<br />
deprived, especially by a death

==Page 801==

'''diglobular'''<br />
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'''<br />
Sentimental; too sweet.  

'''mauve'''<br />
a moderate grey-violet to red-purple color

'''apneated''' <br />
As if punctuated by temporary cessations of breathing. 

'''Philip Glass'''<br />
Philip Glass (born 1937) is an American music composer and pianist. His music is repetitive and minimal.

'''quaaludes'''<br />
Methaqualone. A sedative often used recreationally.

==Page 803==

'''inguinal'''<br />
situated in the groin

'''lachrymucus'''<br />
mucus flowing as a result of crying

'''obliquest''' <br /> 
Most oblique; slanted.  

'''Dedham'''<br />
a town in Massachusetts about 12 miles southwest of Boston

'''Wharton'''<br />
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'''<br />
sweaty

==Page 804==

'''Humboldt County'''<br />
probably the county in far-north California. 

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

'''"mercantile counterpart at the Rolling Hills Academy"'''<br /> 
A student at Rolling Hills who fulfills at his school much the same role that Pemulis fulfills at E.T.A. 

'''Delta-9'''<br />
Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol. The main psychoactive substance found in marijuana. 

'''MBRO'''<br /> 
Acronym for "Metro-Boston Recovery Options"

'''pathos''' <br />
A quality that evokes pity.

'''pizzicato'''<br />
the musical effect of the plucking of strings on a classical instrument

'''civety'''<br />
A civet is a small carnivorous mammal that emits a strange smell.

'''fenestration'''<br /> 
The arrangement of windows and doors on the elevations of a building.

==Page 805==

'''dandled'''<br /> 
Move a baby up and down in a playful manner.

'''Fred MacMurray'''<br />
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'''''<br />
Latin: in the place of parents

'''swart'''<br /> 
Swarthy

==Page 806==

'''widow's peak'''<br />
a hairline that comes to a point in the center of the forehead

'''Ruminative'''<br />
In the manner of thinking deeply about something. 

'''narcosis'''<br />
A stupor generally caused by drugs. 

'''Addis Ababa'''<br />
the capital of Ethiopia

'''American Falls'''<br />
the American part of Niagara Falls

==Page 807==

'''Keens'''<br />
Wails. 

'''imperial'''<br />
A small pointed beard beneath the lower lip. Associated with Napoleon III. 

'''vivisecting'''<br />
Performing an operation on a living animal for research.  

'''timpani'''<br />
Large drums used in orchestras.

'''Cornet'''<br />
A brass instrument that looks much like a trumpet.   

'''Appian Way'''<br />
an ancient [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appian_Way Roman road]

'''cannoli'''<br />
an Italian pastry stuffed with sweetened ricotta cheese

'''Ascension Island''' <br />
A volcanic island off the coast of Africa. 

'''South Atlantic''' <br />
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)''''<br />
a song from the rock opera ''Jesus Christ Superstar'', sung by the character of Mary Magdalene

'''"tornadic gale"''' <br />
Tornado-strength wind.

'''Azores'''<br />
A group of islands in the Atlantic Ocean, west of Portugal. 

'''cytological'''<br />
like microscopic cells. On the other hand, maybe this is a deliberate or accidental misspelling of cetological (related to whales). Hal seems to be imagining himself spitting water like a whale spouting water from its blowhole.

'''plume''' <br />
Here, a stream of water resembling a feather. 

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