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<span class="marker">258* · Port Washington Tournament</span>

==Page 258==

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

'''halogen'''<br />
Halogens are the following elements -- fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine -- some of which are used in high-powered lamps

'''the color of sour apples'''<br />
i.e., light green

==Page 259==

'''2^27'''<br />
2^27 (2 to the 27th power) = 134,217,728

'''Montcerf, Québec'''<br />
a city of Québec about 82.5 miles due north of Ottawa

'''Mercier Dam'''<br />
You can read more about it [http://www.hydroquebec.com/generation/projets/pop/pop_mercier.html here].

'''Pompano Beach'''<br />
a town in Florida about 10 miles north of Fort Lauderdale

'''a sepulchral Czech kid named Lendl'''<br />
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'''<br />
an American [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly-Clark corporation] based in Wisconsin

'''"His Unforced-Error stats look like a decimal-error."'''<br />
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'''<br />
a person who returns

'''transom'''<br />
a window above a door

'''thespio-historical'''<br />
regarding the history of acting

'''"...had the word ''Homo'' in the title..."'''<br />
The film is James O. Incandenza's ''Homo Duplex''.

'''quad-function'''<br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_function quadratic function], which produces a parabolic graph result

==Page 261==

'''pirouette'''<br />
a spin, in ballet terminology

==Page 262==

[[Image:I-beam.jpg|thumb|caption|I-beam|right|120px]]

'''I-beams'''<br />
standard construction beams made of metal (see right)

'''hypertonic'''<br />
having rigid, tense muscles

==Page 263==

'''undead'''<br />
the state of several unnatural beings (vampires, mummies, zombies, etc.), which is in a state neither live nor dead

'''kibitzing'''<br />
chatting or conversing

==Page 264==

'''whippet'''<br />
a one-inhalation dose of nitrous oxide (laughing gas)

==Page 265==

[[Image:YinYang.png|thumb|caption|Yin/Yang symbol|right|120px]]
'''Taoist paraboloid logo'''<br />
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.'''<br />
32.8 feet

'''VAPS'''<br/>
an air traffic control acronym for visual approaches.

==Page 266==

'''effete'''<br />
degenerate or decadent

'''Sinn Fein'''<br />
Irish for "ourselves alone," this is the political wing of the Irish Republican Army.

'''cruciform'''<br />
in the form of a cross

'''cuffs'''<br />
rotator cuffs

'''polybutylene'''<br />
This is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybutylene polymerized butlyene].

==Page 267==

'''neurasthenic'''<br />
regarding a syndrome of anxiety, fatigue, pain, etc., caused by exhaustion of the central nervous system

'''Preludin'''<br />
brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preludin phenmetrazine]

'''Inv.'''<br />
Invitational

'''40º C'''<br />
104 degrees Fahrenheit

==Page 268==

'''pregnable'''<br />
open to attack; capable of being won by force

'''nacelle'''<br />
the car of a balloon or blimp

'''corrugated'''<br />
bent into folds

'''leaf-cutter-ant'''<br />
a type of [http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/learning/animals/invertebrates/ant North American ant]

'''Gore-Tex'''<br />
[http://www.gore-tex.com/remote/Satellite/content/what-is-gore-tex brand name] of material

==Page 269==

'''AC'''<br />
Alternating Current

'''low-lipid'''<br />
i.e., low-fat

==Endnote 89==

'''reductive statistics'''<br />
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'''<br />
mental or emotional stability

'''laissez-faire'''<br />
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'''<br />
bursting forth

'''Boards'''<br />
college entrance examinations

'''ad'''<br />
a tennis term meaning "advantage" for one or the other player

<span class="marker">270 · Day and Gately</span>

==Page 270==

'''Montesian'''<br />
also the name of a [http://oh.lake-link.com/lakes/lake.cfm?LakeID=1515&RegionID=749 lake] in Wisconsin

'''Lenz'''<br />
German for "springtime"

'''Goodwill'''<br />
a [http://www.goodwill.org/page/guest/about charity] that redistributes donated goods and clothing

==Page 271==

'''non sequiturs'''<br />
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'''<br />
which is to say, with a certain, probably faked, coolness

'''macramé'''<br />
a type of fabric-making done by knotting rather than knitting

'''Paul Harvey'''<br />
Born Paul Harvey Aurandt, Paul Harvey (born 1918) is an American radio broadcaster known for his platitudes.

==Page 272==

'''nictitated'''<br />
winking

'''Quaalude'''<br />
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methaqualone methaqualone]

'''Malden'''<br />
a northern suburb of Boston, about 7 miles north of the city

'''egregulous'''<br />
not a real word (possibly egregious + ridiculous)

==Endnote 90==

'''ephebe'''<br />
a young man between the ages of 18 and 20

'''redolent'''<br />
smelling badly

'''main'''<br />
here meaning "physical strength"

'''interdicted'''<br />
prohibited

'''sally'''<br />
a clever remark

'''mild sedatives'''<br />
Quaaludes are more like a sledgehammer to the head than a "mild sedative."

'''reductia ad absurdum'''<br />
a misstatement or misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum reductio ad absurdum]

'''"Simply open wide for the spoon."'''<br />
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?"'''<br />
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'''<br />
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'''<br />
Iona is an island off the west coast of Scotland.  Gately means iota.

'''bunko artists'''<br />
con artists

'''jonesing'''<br />
an addict term for the desire for one's substance of choice

'''mokus'''<br />
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'''<br />
a joke based on the fact that in recovery programs like AA, people do not use their last names

'''Spont-Dissem'''<br />
Spontaneous Dissemination, i.e., live as opposed to pre-recorded

'''R.C.'''<br />
presumably Roman Catholic

==Endnote 91==

'''''f''-term'''<br />
i.e., "fag"

==Page 275 ==

'''Morris Code'''<br />
a misstatement of Morse Code

'''XSive'''<br />
excessive

'''cook-and-shoot'''<br />
i.e. cooking and shooting up drugs

==Page 276==

'''east of Atlantic City, NJ'''<br />
which would be either in Europe on the Atlantic Ocean somewhere -- or nowhere

'''Borderline'''<br />
suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_Personality_Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder]

'''organic-coke'''<br />
an oxymoronic term, since cocaine is a chemical

'''Charlestown'''<br />
a suburb to the north of Boston, right over the Charles River

'''100 grams'''<br />
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.'''<br />
Drug Enforcement Agency

'''MP'''<br />
Military Police

'''Cesar Romero'''<br />
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'''<br />
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'''<br />
''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'''<br />
From the French for "pinch-nose," these are glasses without temples to go over the ears.

'''2F and 1M'''<br />
2 females and 1 male

'''suppurating'''<br />
oozing pus

'''Grand Mall epilepsy'''<br />
Gately means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_mal grand mal].

'''(4)'''<br />
Notice that after listing points (a), (b), and (c) about clichés, Gately moves on to (4) rather than (d).

==Page 279==

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

==Page 280==

'''Spiro Agnew'''<br />
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==

<span class="marker">281 · Home from Port Washington</span>

==Page 281==

'''"...bearing their shields rather than upon them..."'''<br />
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'''<br />
women's groups

'''dubs'''<br />
doubles

'''V.D.'''<br />
alternately this could stand for Venereal Disease

''nystagmic'''<br />
suffering from involuntary eye movement

'''Stockhausen'''<br />
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'''<br />
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.'''<br />
a joke on the more common "interdisciplinary" academic classes

'''Goncharov's ''Oblomov'''''<br />
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'''<br />
a nautical term meaning "leaning leftward"

'''feeling punk'''<br />
Defined as "weak in spirits or health" in the ''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.''

'''tincture of benzoin'''<br />
A tincture is a mixture of a drug dissolved in alcohol. Benzoin is a balsamic resin used as an antiseptic and expectorant.

'''Xing'''<br />
presumably a synonym for copulating with someone

==Endnote 92==

'''Perth Amboy NJ'''<br />
a town in northern NJ, about 30 miles southwest of New York

==Page 282 (cont'd)==

'''Pierre Trudeau'''<br />
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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