Infinite Jest Part 60

'Rusk and Charles and Mrs. Incandenza are with him now. Scht.i.tt's been up to see him. Loach has done a thorough reflex-check. John Wayne's going to be OK.'

'Well thank heavens for that load off everyone's mind,' Pemulis said.

It was Pemulis, deLint, Nw.a.n.gi, and Watson in the Dean of Academic Affairs' Office. Mrs. Inc's ventilator hissed and something up in there whirred a little. DeLint was behind the high desk, looking like a mean little boy. n.o.body'd said if anybody higher up than deLint was going to show. Pemulis didn't know if this was good or bad.

'Let's make perfectly sure we got this in order and in your words.' Nw.a.n.gi and Watson were window-dressing. This was A. deLint's show. His face kind of came apart when he smiled. 'With no prior knowledge of anything untoward, you're pulled from the locker room and stand out in the hall with several other students, which is your first knowledge anything's untoward with Wayne.'

Pemulis figured none of the administrators had heard the thing; they always shut their soundproof doors at 1435h.; Pemulis had no idea what Wayne's said about anything, or Jim Troeltsch, who very prudently hasn't shown facial-feature one in their room since the apocalyptic broadcast. It'd taken Pemulis about half the salivaless sprint up to B-204 to figure out what had happened and to find his pilfered Tenuates in the little p.e.c.k.e.r's Sel-dane bottle. Pemulis sort of shuddered to imagine the impact of the 'drine on Wayne's cherry-red and virgin bloodstream. The slight whir of his cortex working at full speed was masked by the hiss of the ventilator and the sound of whistles and play and Scht.i.tt's megaphone outside.

'I'm in there suiting up waiting for Freer and doing a little B.B.-intervention on Possalthwaite who was in crisis and Zoltan and The Darkness come like spasming in saying Troeltsch'd jury-rigged the Duke into candid sharing for the WETA broadcast.'

'They said what, that Troeltsch had tricked Wayne into speaking candidly without awareness it's going out over WETA into all the rooms?'

Pemulis realized the limpness of this, in like that anybody'd see that Wayne'd have to have been sitting right there with Troeltsch by the little old-time gunmetal handheld mike at Lateral Alice Moore's curved desk. He'd already heard from Lateral Alice that it was more like Wayne had come rattling in and shoved Troeltsch aside and grabbed the mike and started ranting while Troeltsch and Lateral Alice Moore had looked on aghastly; and that Dave Harde, down doing some maintainance to L.A.M.'s deactivated third rail, had been so aghasted he'd pitched forward narcoleptically and stayed like that with his face in the blue carpet and a.s.s in the air for nearly an hour, and that Lateral Alice's own stress had brought on an aggravation of her chronic cyanosis to the point where her whole face was still blue-tinged and between her knees when Pemulis had got to her.

'This was more like a general sort of impression which I feel like I might have misbegotten from the agitation of the guys. Plus how completely un-Wayneish Wayne sounded, like how could anybody ever have said that s.h.i.+t if they thought it wasn't just them and Troeltsch alone, much less Wayne, who as we all know is pretty much reserve in motion.'

DeLint's nostrils got that pale flare they got, Pemulis knew, when he smelled horses.h.i.+t and knew you knew it. Pemulis knows deLint's been laying for him ever since the incident with the P.W.T.A. guy who started to wobble and then rant down at P.W.T.A., which was a totally different type of deal. The irony was that the Wayne-dosing had been a total accident and in no way Pemulis's deal, if anybody's Troeltsch's, but the cortex couldn't nail down any way to get this across without admitting to possession of a 'drine, which given the shaky pharmaceutical ground since the Eschaton and O.N.A.N.T.A. urologist would be tantamount to Clippertonizing himself. Nw.a.n.gi showed almost blinding 3rd-World teeth but was saying nothing. Watson's eyes had almost this nict.i.tater of stupidity-film on them, less a dullness than a deadness, the dead porch light of n.o.body home at chez Tex Watson. Pemulis saw the leaflet about Wayne and Mrs. I. and deviant division in the papers deLint held.

'Which is in your words your first knowledge of untowardness with Wayne.'

'My first is I get out there still trying to counsel the Postheimer and here on the speaker's Wayne doing what Keith observed may have been a sort of imitation of Dr. Tavis.'

It had been uncanny. It had made Stice look like a rank amateur. Wayne had told Troeltsch to pretend he was some adolescent girl: this was adolescent Tavis asking her for a date; Pemulis shuddered; he couldn't exactly remember all the little mannerisms, which Wayne'd clearly gotten locked down from Tavis always sitting next to him on the bus back from victories going at him nonstop, but in outline it was Chuckie Tavis coming up to some Canadian cheerleader or something and telling her he was going to be completely open with her: he had a terrible fear of rejection; he was telling her up-front now that tomorrow he was going to ask her out for a date and was begging begging her not openly to reject him if she didn't want to go, to think up some plausible excuse - though of course he said he realized that what he was saying would make that excuse hard to believe, now that he's openly asked her to make up an excuse. her not openly to reject him if she didn't want to go, to think up some plausible excuse - though of course he said he realized that what he was saying would make that excuse hard to believe, now that he's openly asked her to make up an excuse.

'Whereupon the whole Academy hears Mr. Troeltsch prompt Wayne into making public castigations of his various peers and instructors.'

'I've got to say it did seem like Troeltsch had kind of orchestrated things somehow, sir, was my impression.'

'Referring to Corbett Thorp as a -' pretending to riffle through the papers so Pemulis'd have to see the 17-into-56 leaflet several times as it came up in the riffle.

'I believe the expression was "a palsied twit," ' Nw.a.n.gi said to deLint.

'Yes "palsied twit." And Francis Unwin quote "has the on-court look of a cornered rodent." And Disney R. Leith: the quote "sort of man you always end up sitting next to at civic functions." Ms. Richardson-Levy-o'Byrne-Chawaf as chair of some sort of committee dealing with the topic of the quote "Itty Bitty t.i.tty." On Coach Scht.i.tt, quote, seeming as if he'd been "denied some kind of vitally important moisture from birth henceforward." Our own Mr. Nw.a.n.gi here being in rough quote if I've got it quote "the sort of fellow who'll be in a Chinese restaurant with you and won't even share food or trade food." '

'Meaning mean-spirited.' Nw.a.n.gi threw his head back and beamed like he was blind. What was chilling was that in Wayne's scenario Tavis does succeed, Wayne projects, in seducing the Canadian cheerleader or whatever, even when he's totally open on the date about the fact that he'd deliberately told her he was afraid of rejection in the first place only as a strategy to make him seem to her different from other boys, more honest and open, so that the scenario was that the honesty was so exhausting she'd basically just laid back exhausted and let him X her just to shut him up. Except - chillingly - he hadn't shut up.

'- including some sort of imitation of Dr. Tavis carrying on a monologue during the act of s.e.xual intercourse,' deLint said, trying to find it in the sheaf. 'On Bernadette Longley: "Bernadette Longley looks like her hair grew her head instead of the other way around." On Mary Esther Thode: "a face like a pancake." On the Academy's own late Founder and husband of the Dean of Ac.-Aff.: "so full of himself he could have s.h.i.+t limbs." Unquote. On his own doubles partner Hal Incandenza: "by all appearances addicted to everything that is not tied down, cannot outrun him, and is fittable in the mouth." '

'I'm remembering the word as insertable insertable.' Pemulis kicked himself, mentally. The pancake thing had been expanded to like fifteen seconds as Wayne had sketched M. E. Thode's face as circular, burned, freckled, cratered, doughy, s.h.i.+ny, soggy, on and on. Plus somehow even more chilling was that Pemulis knew from Inc that Wayne's pseudo-Tavis 'I-live-in-fear-of-rejection' ploy was actually in the top five or ten of the troubling 'Strategies' that Inc's brother Orin the punter called up to Hal about employing to X young married women.

'Donni Stott has we're informed "skin like an attache case and is a compelling advertis.e.m.e.nt for sunscreen." I myself am, here I quote, quote "a man who would not lend his own mother a quarter for a rubber tip for her crutch." '

'Is the emerging point that this is going to impact my getting to go on the WhataBurger trip?'

Nw.a.n.gi crumpled and slapped his knee. His face literally looked like a very dark hatchet. Tex Watson reached down behind the console he was slumped in his chair by and brought out Pemulis's special yachting cap and dangled it like something you want a dog to jump for. From someplace under Nw.a.n.gi's chair were brought out two pharmaceutical scales, several jeweller's loupes, the tow truck's supply of empty sterile Visine bottles, and plus every bottle from Troeltsch's bedside table, which clearly Troeltsch had eaten some enormous wedge of putrid deal-cutting cheese.

Pemulis tasted the metallic taste of a seriously anxious stomach. 'I request to see the Dean of Ac.-Aff. before any of this goes further.'

'We have again Ms. Heath, apparently on someone's mind very much today, now said to be the sort of person who quote "cries at card tricks." We have a Rik Dunkel who "could not find his own bottom with both hands and a nautical compa.s.s of exacting precision." We have a return engagement with Ms. Heath, described as "dwelling always at the edge of some vast continent of menstrual hysteria." We have our own beloved Tex, sitting right here, described as having "a tiny liquid-filled nubbin at the top of the spine" in lieu of higher cortex function.'

'Aubs, no kidding: something pressing I have to interface about with Mrs. Inc. Tell her it concerns U.S.-Canadian relations.'

Nw.a.n.gi's laugh was high and had the slight teakettle-wheeze to it of the laughs of large black men the world over. 'She sends you her regards, regards, the Dean said to tell you.' He slapped his knee three times. the Dean said to tell you.' He slapped his knee three times.

DeLint looked a little less happy because he clearly didn't know what any of it was about and didn't like playing coded messenger, but he still looked pretty happy: 'Michael Mathew Pemulis, the Academy's Dean of Academic Affairs said to tell you the administration's too naturally concerned about the state of one of our two very finest current talents, who it's clear he's been unwittily dosed with an artificial stimulant prohibited by federal statute, O.N.A.N.T.A. regulations, and the Enfield Tennis Academy Honor-Code Specs on Artificial Substances, to permit itself the satisfaction of giving you the Dean's very best regards and her wish that quote "may the road rise up to meet you whitherever your future travels lie." ' DeLint probed his ear. 'I think that was it in a nutsh.e.l.l.'

Pemulis got very cool and bra.s.s-mask-faced. He was breathing very clearly through his nose, and the office air seemed mentholated. Everything got very cool and formal inside and glycerine-clear. 'Aubs, before anything gets nailed in stone that we'll all I promise you and Mrs. Inc we'll all of us regret -'

DeLint said 'I was given to understand you can either finish out the term for credit or you can hit the trail with your little sailing cap full of pockets on a stick like a bandanna to some other O.N.A.N.T.A. inst.i.tution and see if they'll take a senior without any kind of positive reference, which the sense I get is the administration says fat chance on any kind of reference.'

Tex Watson said something about urine.

Pemulis recrossed his leg. DeLint looked at Nw.a.n.gi: 'I believe the kid is speechless.'

'I believe he has nothing to say.'

'I don't believe it.'

'And something about you're invited to shout whatever you threatened the administration to shout about from the highest hill you can find, which pretty soon won't be this one.'

Nw.a.n.gi got out through laughter: 'And that the administrative office doork.n.o.bs have been rubberized and grounded, the administrative files all recryptographilated, everyone's room's mirrors reanodized and sealed with Plastic Wood, Mrs. Inc said to tell you.'

The little deck-of-cards riffle of the wings of the s.h.i.+t Fairy, which he privately envisions as a kind of violet incubus with the Da's saggy frown. Pemulis scratched very coolly next to his ear. 'And this affects the WhataBurger, my chances?'

DeLint told Pemulis he just f.u.c.king slayed him while Watson looked from face to face and Nw.a.n.gi rocked and wheezed and slapped at his knee, and Pemulis, close-mouthed and breathing with terrible ease, found their good humor almost infectious. (back to text) (back to text) 333. Put out by the Ma.s.s Division of S.A.S., listing meetings of all but the very most lunatic-fringe-type 12-Step Programs in city, sub-, and exurbs, all up and down both Sh.o.r.es, the Cape, and Nantucket. (back to text) (back to text) 334. Hal's Pemulis-inspired trope for putting down the secret daily Bob H., which started as a wry dark mental joke and now within a week has become the way Hal characterizes abstinence to himself, which any Boston AA would tell him isn't a very promising way to think about it at all, in terms of self-pity. (back to text) (back to text) 335. Except of course for a certain hardwired type of p.o.r.nography- and onanistic s.e.x-addict, which has given rise to a couple exceptionally icky Step-based fellows.h.i.+ps. (back to text) (back to text) 336. (according to his sudoriferous and and agora-compulsive younger brother, M. Bain) (back to text) (back to text) 337. Latin blunder for self-defense's se defendendo se defendendo is is sic, sic, either a befogged muddling of a professional legal term, or a post-Freudian slip, or (least likely) a very oblique and subtle jab at Gately from a Ewell intimate with the graveyard scene from either a befogged muddling of a professional legal term, or a post-Freudian slip, or (least likely) a very oblique and subtle jab at Gately from a Ewell intimate with the graveyard scene from Hamlet Hamlet - namely V.i. 9. - namely V.i. 9. (back to text) (back to text) 338. Ketorolac tromethamine, a non-narcotic a.n.a.lgesic, little more than Motrin with ambition - Syntex Labs. (back to text) (back to text) 339. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. (back to text) (back to text) 340. Doxycycline hyclate, an I.V.-antibiotic -Parke-Davis Pharmaceuticals. (back to text) (back to text) 341. Oxycodone hydrochloride + acetaminophen, a Schedule C-III narcotic oral a.n.a.lgesic - Du Pont Pharmaceuticals. (back to text) (back to text) 342. Or possibly Babel Babel. (back to text) (back to text) 343. Boston AA slogan meaning trying to quit addictive Substance-use without working any kind of Recovery Program. (back to text) (back to text) 344. E.T.S.'s a a Advanced Placement Standardized Subject Tests, which Hal Incandenza's signed up to take in English and (Parisian) French. Advanced Placement Standardized Subject Tests, which Hal Incandenza's signed up to take in English and (Parisian) French. (back to text) (back to text) 345. The College of Basic Studies Bldg. on Commonwealth and Granby, approx. 3 clicks east-southeast of E.T.A. (back to text) (back to text) 346. Montreal International Airport-D'Orval, Cartierville Airport being now restricted to intra-Quebec flights only. (back to text) (back to text) 347. (Which in fact she doesn't, but she had had perfume on the last time she wore the hulpil.) (back to text) (back to text) 348. An R. Catholic church just off Brighton Center. (back to text) (back to text) 349. Sic Sic. (back to text) (back to text) 350. Or a face writhing in involuntary disgust at Don G.'s own armlessness and hook, maybe. (back to text) (back to text) 351. As in a combination of the First and Twelfth Steps, goes the AA joke: 'My Life Is Unmanageable and I'd Like to Share It With You.' (back to text) (back to text) 352. Reference to January-February Y.D.A.U., when person or persons unknown went around coating selected toothbrushes of the Boys and Girls 16's with what was finally pinpointed as betel-nut extract, causing panic and internecine finger-pointing and resulting in serial oxidation-treatment visits to Dr. E. Zegarelli, D.D.S., by half a dozen E.T.A.s until the brush-tamperings ceased as suddenly as they'd begun; and now nine months later no one still has the slightest idea re perpetrator or point. (back to text) (back to text) 353. Which runs not to Enfield-Brighton but to Roxbury and Mattapan, places where it is very bad nighttime joss indeed to be both white and incapacitated. (back to text) (back to text) 354. Q.v. note a to Note 12. (back to text) (back to text) 355. Anexsia - SmithKline Beecham Laboratories. (back to text) (back to text) 356. Levo-Dromoran - Roche Laboratories. (back to text) (back to text) 357. Numorphan, kind of a watered-down Dilaudid - Du Pont Pharmaceuticals. (back to text) (back to text) 358. Perwin NX - hBoswell Medications Ltd., Canada - which accounts for the C-III, because the Canadians are notoriously insane when it comes to forecasting abuse-potential. (back to text) (back to text) 359. A.k.a. Chlordiazepoxide hydrochloride - Roche, Inc. - a low-grade Valiumish tranq. (back to text) (back to text) 360. A C-III and sort of entry-level oral narcotic, the side-effects and inconsistent buzz of which often send abusers up the ladder to C-II compounds. (back to text) (back to text) 361. A.k.a. hyoscyamine sulfate - Schwarz Pharma Kremers Urban, Inc. - an anti-spasmodic for anything from colitis to Irritable Bowel Syndrome. (back to text) (back to text) 362. A.k.a. methaqualone, now manufactured outside O.N.A.N. jurisdiction under the trade name Parestol. (back to text) (back to text) 363. Later one-third of the rent-and-strip-luxury-apts. crew, and even later Gately's trusted colleague on some of his most disastrous and bottom-hastening home-invasions, including that of one G. DuPlessis, which Kite ended up regretting exponentially more than Gately did, once the A.F.R. got through with him. (back to text) (back to text) 364. MDA, MDMA ('X'), MMDA-2 ('Love Boat'), MMDA3a ('Eve'), DMMDA-2 ('Starry Night'), etc. (back to text) (back to text) 365. Long-Term Inst.i.tution. (back to text) (back to text) 366. Sounding rather suspiciously like Professor H. Bloom's turgid studies of artistic influenza influenza - though it's unclear how either Flood- or dead-ancestor discussions have any connection to S. Peterson's low-budget cla.s.sic - though it's unclear how either Flood- or dead-ancestor discussions have any connection to S. Peterson's low-budget cla.s.sic The Cage, The Cage, which is mostly about a peripatetic eyeball rolling around, other than the fact that J. O. Incandenza loved this film and stuck little snippets of it or references to it just about anywhere he could; maybe the 'disjunction' or 'disconnection' between the screen's film and Ph.D.'s scholastic discussion of art is part of the point. which is mostly about a peripatetic eyeball rolling around, other than the fact that J. O. Incandenza loved this film and stuck little snippets of it or references to it just about anywhere he could; maybe the 'disjunction' or 'disconnection' between the screen's film and Ph.D.'s scholastic discussion of art is part of the point. a a (back to text) (back to text) 367. Though they did, just as in depictions of organized crime in popular entertainment, often change the cell-phones they used, to avoid potential taps or Pen Registers - Sorkin buying new units and #s, Gately more often borrowing student R.N.s' cellulars and then returning them after a few days. One of Gately's biggest challenges in this career was remembering all the different f.u.c.king phone numbers and addresses of luxury-apts.-ofthe-week when he was strafed on Bam-Bams just about all the time. (back to text) (back to text) 368. Cimetidine - SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals - 800-mg. spansules for generalized cranio-vascular woe (derived, kind of interestingly, from the same ergot rye-mold as LSD). (back to text) (back to text) 369. For the two maps Sorkin had to have eliminated altogether during this period, it's maybe worth observing that he eschewed both Towers and instead used the thuggish ex-Quebecer muscleboys DesMontes and Pointgrave, who had no real loyalties or members.h.i.+p in any community and hired themselves out as enforcers for books and high-interest lenders all up and down both Sh.o.r.es. Gately did, as a coercive collector, demap one person, but it was essentially an accident - the debtor had been blond, and drinking Heinekens, and then when things got physical he'd squirted Gately in the face with Mace, and a red curtain of rage had descended over Gately's sight, and when he'd come back to himself the debtor's head was turned 180 around on his neck and had the little Mace can all the way up one nostril, and it was the most professionally horrified Gately had ever been up until the thing with the suffocated Canadian P.I.T., P.I.T., which anyway occurred much later and when Gately was way more nonviolence-p.r.o.ne. which anyway occurred much later and when Gately was way more nonviolence-p.r.o.ne. (back to text) (back to text) 370. Purified pork insulin in a zinc suspension - Lilly Pharmaceuticals. (back to text) (back to text) 371. An elite private high school up near the Methuen salient. (back to text) (back to text) 372. Surely skeet skeet and and vig, vig, meaning debt and bookmaker's automatic percentage (usually 10% subtracted from winnings or added to skeet) are not just metro Boston terms. meaning debt and bookmaker's automatic percentage (usually 10% subtracted from winnings or added to skeet) are not just metro Boston terms. (back to text) (back to text) 373. A.k.a. Acetylcysteine-20 - Bristol Laboratories - a nebulizable prophylaxis against the post-traumatic buildup of abnormal, viscid, or insp.i.s.sated mucus. (back to text) (back to text) 374. With the hard-ch sound distinctive of North Sh.o.r.e p.r.o.nun. of words like sound distinctive of North Sh.o.r.e p.r.o.nun. of words like Chicago Chicago and and champagne champagne. (back to text) (back to text) 375. Known less sensitively among neuro-urology residents as 'Dizzy d.i.c.k Disorder' or sometimes just '3-D.' (back to text) (back to text) 376. Knoll Laboratories' good old Dilaudid - $666.00/g. wholesale and $5/mg. street at Y.W.-Q.M.D. valuations. (back to text) (back to text) 377. A 'Phillips Screwdriver,' vodka and Milk of Magnesia, which Gately finds nauseous and privately refers to as a 'lowball.' (back to text) (back to text) 378. (As opposed to self-confronting, presumably.) (back to text) (back to text) 379. See Note 144 supra supra. (back to text) (back to text) 380. The 1.3:1-aspect-ratio rectangle scanned by electron beams in video imaging, now replaced by multi-interlace a a solid-field HD digital imaging. solid-field HD digital imaging. (back to text) (back to text) 381. More like B.S. 1926, according to the Still Photo Archive at NNY City's Museum of Modern Art. Plus n.b. the print - which Hal correctly remembers Avril always loathing a a - long pre-dated J.O.I.'s ever picking up a camera. - long pre-dated J.O.I.'s ever picking up a camera. (back to text) (back to text) 382. Whether in singles against him or doubles alongside, when Hal is on-court with Wayne he always gets the creepy feeling that Wayne has control out there not just of his voluntary CNS but also of his heartrate and blood pressure, the diameter of his pupils, etc., which feeling is not only creepy but distracting, adding to the tension of playing with Wayne. (back to text) (back to text) 383. Winter Park FL facility for enmeshment-, codependency-, and compulsivity-related Issues. (back to text) (back to text) 384. A.k.a. Lorazepam - Wyeth-Aherst Labs - a venerable anti-anxiety tranq, of which 25 mg./day is enough to anxiolytize a good-sized Clydesdale. (back to text) (back to text) 385. Probably meaning Doryx, Parke-Davis's doxycycline hyclate, the Cruise missile of gram-negative antibiotics. (back to text) (back to text) 386. Nalaxone hydrochloride, the Exocet missile of narcotic antagonists - DuPont Pharm. - 2 ml./20ml.-saline pre-filled syringes. (back to text) (back to text) 387. Metro Boston's third-hardest thing to street-cop after raw Vietnamese opium and the incredibly potent DMZ, Suns.h.i.+ne is pentazocine hydrochloride and mefenamic acid a a - hSanofi Winthrop, Canada, Inc. - w/ trade-name Talwin-PX - Day-Glo-yellow serum, 7ml./20ml.-saline pre-filled syringes. - hSanofi Winthrop, Canada, Inc. - w/ trade-name Talwin-PX - Day-Glo-yellow serum, 7ml./20ml.-saline pre-filled syringes. (back to text) (back to text) 388. Talwin-NX -Sanofi Winthrop U.S. (back to text) (back to text)

a. Tenuate's the trade name of diethylpropion hydrochloride, Marion Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, technically a prescription antiobesity agent, favored by some athletes for its mildly euphoric and resources-rallying properties w/o the tooth-grinding and hideous post-blood-spike crash that the hairier-chested 'drines like Fastin and Cylert inflict, though with a discomfitting tendency to cause post-spike ocular nystagmus. Nystagmus or no nystagmus, Tenuate's a particular favorite of Michael Pemulis, who h.o.a.rds for personal ingestion every 75-mg. white Tenuate capsule he can lay hands on, and does not sell or trade them, except sometimes to roommate Jim Troeltsch, who nags Pemulis for them and also goes into Pemulis's special entrepot-yachting-cap and promotes still more of them on the sly, a couple at a time, feeling that they help his sports-color-commentary loquacity, which secret promotions Pemulis knows about all too well, and is biding his time to retaliate, never you fear. Tenuate's the trade name of diethylpropion hydrochloride, Marion Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, technically a prescription antiobesity agent, favored by some athletes for its mildly euphoric and resources-rallying properties w/o the tooth-grinding and hideous post-blood-spike crash that the hairier-chested 'drines like Fastin and Cylert inflict, though with a discomfitting tendency to cause post-spike ocular nystagmus. Nystagmus or no nystagmus, Tenuate's a particular favorite of Michael Pemulis, who h.o.a.rds for personal ingestion every 75-mg. white Tenuate capsule he can lay hands on, and does not sell or trade them, except sometimes to roommate Jim Troeltsch, who nags Pemulis for them and also goes into Pemulis's special entrepot-yachting-cap and promotes still more of them on the sly, a couple at a time, feeling that they help his sports-color-commentary loquacity, which secret promotions Pemulis knows about all too well, and is biding his time to retaliate, never you fear. (back to text) (back to text)

a. Homemade transdermals, usually MDMA or Muscimole, with DDMS or the over-counter-available DMSO as the transdermal carrier. Homemade transdermals, usually MDMA or Muscimole, with DDMS or the over-counter-available DMSO as the transdermal carrier. (back to text) (back to text)

a. Following the Continental Controlled Substance Act of Y.T.M.P., O.N.A.N.D.E.A.'s hierarchy of a.n.a.lgesics/antipyretics/anxiolytics establishes drug-cla.s.ses of Category-II through Category-VI, with C-II's (e.g. Dilaudid, Demerol) being judged the heaviest w/r/t dependence and possible abuse, down to C-VI's that are about as potent as a kiss on the forehead from Mom. Following the Continental Controlled Substance Act of Y.T.M.P., O.N.A.N.D.E.A.'s hierarchy of a.n.a.lgesics/antipyretics/anxiolytics establishes drug-cla.s.ses of Category-II through Category-VI, with C-II's (e.g. Dilaudid, Demerol) being judged the heaviest w/r/t dependence and possible abuse, down to C-VI's that are about as potent as a kiss on the forehead from Mom. (back to text) (back to text)

a. From Comstock, Posner, and Duquette, 'The Laughing Pathologists: Exemplary Works of the Anticonfluential From Comstock, Posner, and Duquette, 'The Laughing Pathologists: Exemplary Works of the Anticonfluential Apres Garde Apres Garde: Some a.n.a.lyses of the Movement Toward Stasis in North American Conceptual Film (w/ Beth B., Vivienne d.i.c.k, James O. Incandenza, Vigdis Simpson, E. and K. Snow).' ONANite Film and Cartridge Studies Annual, ONANite Film and Cartridge Studies Annual, vol. 8, nos. 13 (Year of D.P. from the A.H.), pp. 44117. vol. 8, nos. 13 (Year of D.P. from the A.H.), pp. 44117. (back to text) (back to text)

b. With the possible exception of With the possible exception of Cage III - Free Show Cage III - Free Show , Incandenza's , Incandenza's Cage Cage series bears no discernible relation to Sidney Peterson's 1947 cla.s.sic, series bears no discernible relation to Sidney Peterson's 1947 cla.s.sic, The Cage The Cage. (back to text) (back to text)

c. See Romney and Sperber, 'Has James O. Incandenza Ever Even Once Produced One Genuinely Original or Unappropriated or Nonderivative Thing?' See Romney and Sperber, 'Has James O. Incandenza Ever Even Once Produced One Genuinely Original or Unappropriated or Nonderivative Thing?' Post-Millennium Film Cartridge Journal, Post-Millennium Film Cartridge Journal, nos. 79 (Fall/Winter, Y.P.W.), pp. 426. nos. 79 (Fall/Winter, Y.P.W.), pp. 426. (back to text) (back to text)

d. E. Duquette, 'Beholden to Vision: Optics and Desire in Four Apres Garde Films,' E. Duquette, 'Beholden to Vision: Optics and Desire in Four Apres Garde Films,' Cartridge Quarterly East, Cartridge Quarterly East, vol. 4 no. 2, Y.W.-Q.M.D., pp. 3539. vol. 4 no. 2, Y.W.-Q.M.D., pp. 3539. (back to text) (back to text)

e. Anonymous, 'Seeing v. Believing,' Anonymous, 'Seeing v. Believing,' Cartridge Quarterly East, Cartridge Quarterly East, vol. 4 no. 4, Y.W.-Q.M.D., pp. 9395. vol. 4 no. 4, Y.W.-Q.M.D., pp. 9395. (back to text) (back to text)

f. Ibid. Ibid. (back to text) (back to text)

a. Les a.s.sa.s.sins des Fauteuils Rollents, Les a.s.sa.s.sins des Fauteuils Rollents, a.k.a. Wheelchair a.s.sa.s.sins, pretty much Quebec's most dreaded and rapacious anti-O.N.A.N. terrorist cell. a.k.a. Wheelchair a.s.sa.s.sins, pretty much Quebec's most dreaded and rapacious anti-O.N.A.N. terrorist cell. (back to text) (back to text)

b. See Note 304 See Note 304 sub sub. (back to text) (back to text)

a. Don't ask. Don't ask. (back to text) (back to text)

b. Ibid. Ibid. (back to text) (back to text)

c. I.e., the Militant Grammarians of Ma.s.sachusetts, a syntactic-integrity PAC Avril had put together with two or three very dear friends and colleagues around metro Boston. I.e., the Militant Grammarians of Ma.s.sachusetts, a syntactic-integrity PAC Avril had put together with two or three very dear friends and colleagues around metro Boston. (back to text) (back to text)

d. The Year of the Whisper-Quiet Maytag Dishmaster's anti-sclerotic miracle-food craze. The Year of the Whisper-Quiet Maytag Dishmaster's anti-sclerotic miracle-food craze. (back to text) (back to text)

e. The then-skinny Eliot Kornspan, before Loach and Freer got hold of him. The then-skinny Eliot Kornspan, before Loach and Freer got hold of him. (back to text) (back to text)

f. At once high-tech and somehow atavistic, Telegrocery services let you order off your TP and then have the stuff brought right to your door by college-studenty types, often within hours, saving one the stress and fluorescent ha.s.sle of public food-shopping. As of Y.D.A.U. it's still very big in some areas and not all that big in others. The first Tele-grocery service didn't even launch in metro Boston until YY2007MRCVMETIUFI/ ITPSFH,O,OM( At once high-tech and somehow atavistic, Telegrocery services let you order off your TP and then have the stuff brought right to your door by college-studenty types, often within hours, saving one the stress and fluorescent ha.s.sle of public food-shopping. As of Y.D.A.U. it's still very big in some areas and not all that big in others. The first Tele-grocery service didn't even launch in metro Boston until YY2007MRCVMETIUFI/ ITPSFH,O,OM(s), and it's still mostly in Boston a downscale and blue-collar thing, oddly. (back to text) (back to text)

g. InterLace serves just about all of habitable O.N.A.N.; each nation comprises (roughly speaking) an entertainment-dissemination 'Grid.' InterLace serves just about all of habitable O.N.A.N.; each nation comprises (roughly speaking) an entertainment-dissemination 'Grid.' (back to text) (back to text)

h. After Meech Lake I, Charlottetown I and II, and Meech Lake II, this was Ottawa's fifth and final attempt to placate Quebec with a const.i.tutional amendment formalizing the Gallic province's right to 'preserve and promote' a 'distinct society and culture.' After Meech Lake I, Charlottetown I and II, and Meech Lake II, this was Ottawa's fifth and final attempt to placate Quebec with a const.i.tutional amendment formalizing the Gallic province's right to 'preserve and promote' a 'distinct society and culture.' (back to text) (back to text)

i. The French and Indian War, known to Quebecers as 'La Guerre des Britanniques et des Sauvages,' BS c. 175460, at the final battles of which, at the Plains of Abraham in '59 and Montreal in '60, the English and Americans kicked a.s.s and took names in a large way that's never quite been forgotten by the Quebecois, whose memory for insult is the stuff of legend. The wily Amherst was there, too, at Ticonderoga and Montreal, with his trusty smallpox-blankets. The French and Indian War, known to Quebecers as 'La Guerre des Britanniques et des Sauvages,' BS c. 175460, at the final battles of which, at the Plains of Abraham in '59 and Montreal in '60, the English and Americans kicked a.s.s and took names in a large way that's never quite been forgotten by the Quebecois, whose memory for insult is the stuff of legend. The wily Amherst was there, too, at Ticonderoga and Montreal, with his trusty smallpox-blankets. (back to text) (back to text)