Infinite Jest Part 61

j. Grammar and Meaning. Grammar and Meaning. (back to text) (back to text)

k. The Clean U.S. Party of Johnny Gentle, Famous Crooner. The Clean U.S. Party of Johnny Gentle, Famous Crooner. (back to text) (back to text)

l. The Calgarian pro-Canadian Phalanx. The Calgarian pro-Canadian Phalanx. (back to text) (back to text)

a. Propranolol hydrochloride, Wyeth-Ayerst, a beta-blocking antihypertensive. Propranolol hydrochloride, Wyeth-Ayerst, a beta-blocking antihypertensive. (back to text) (back to text)

a. (in the Mondragon-family-plot area of Le Cimetiere du St. Adalbert in the now over-lush potato-growing country off Provincial Autoroute 204 in L'Islet Province, Quebec, just over the border from what is now the eastern Concavity, such that the funeral had to be delayed and then rushed to be fit in between annulation-cycles) (in the Mondragon-family-plot area of Le Cimetiere du St. Adalbert in the now over-lush potato-growing country off Provincial Autoroute 204 in L'Islet Province, Quebec, just over the border from what is now the eastern Concavity, such that the funeral had to be delayed and then rushed to be fit in between annulation-cycles) (back to text) (back to text)

a. 'Accept' isn't the same as 'be crazy about,' of course. 'Accept' isn't the same as 'be crazy about,' of course. (back to text) (back to text)

a. This may be a lie - no one else at E.T.A. knows anything else about there having been any cameras in HmH's kitchen, bathroom, etc. This may be a lie - no one else at E.T.A. knows anything else about there having been any cameras in HmH's kitchen, bathroom, etc. (back to text) (back to text)

b. sic sic. (back to text) (back to text)

* a proud member of the ACMe Family of Gags 'N Notions, Pre-Packaged Emotions, Jokes and Surprises and Wacky Disguises a proud member of the ACMe Family of Gags 'N Notions, Pre-Packaged Emotions, Jokes and Surprises and Wacky Disguises (back to text) (back to text)

a. This tendency to involuted abstraction is sometimes called "Marijuana Thinking"; and by the way, the so-called "Amotivational Syndrome" consequent to ma.s.sive Bob Hopeconsumption is a misnomer, for it is not that Bob Hope-smokers lose interest in practical functioning, but rather Marijuana-Think themselves into labyrinths of reflexive abstraction that seem to cast doubt on the very possibility of practical functioning, and the mental labor of finding one's way out consumes all available attention and makes the Bob Hopesmoker look physically torpid and apathetic and amotivated sitting there, when really he is trying to claw his way out of a labyrinth. Note that the overwhelming hunger (the so-called "munchies") that accompanies cannabis intoxication may be a natural defense mechanism against this kind of loss of practical function, since there is no more practical function anywhere than foraging for food. This tendency to involuted abstraction is sometimes called "Marijuana Thinking"; and by the way, the so-called "Amotivational Syndrome" consequent to ma.s.sive Bob Hopeconsumption is a misnomer, for it is not that Bob Hope-smokers lose interest in practical functioning, but rather Marijuana-Think themselves into labyrinths of reflexive abstraction that seem to cast doubt on the very possibility of practical functioning, and the mental labor of finding one's way out consumes all available attention and makes the Bob Hopesmoker look physically torpid and apathetic and amotivated sitting there, when really he is trying to claw his way out of a labyrinth. Note that the overwhelming hunger (the so-called "munchies") that accompanies cannabis intoxication may be a natural defense mechanism against this kind of loss of practical function, since there is no more practical function anywhere than foraging for food. (back to text) (back to text)

b. Now, Orin had never once walked S. Johnson. Orin was not even all that keen on S. Johnson, because the dog was always trying to mate with his left leg. And anyway, S. Johnson was very much Mrs. Incandenza's dog, and was normally exercised only by Mrs. Incandenza, and at rigidly specific times of day. Now, Orin had never once walked S. Johnson. Orin was not even all that keen on S. Johnson, because the dog was always trying to mate with his left leg. And anyway, S. Johnson was very much Mrs. Incandenza's dog, and was normally exercised only by Mrs. Incandenza, and at rigidly specific times of day. (back to text) (back to text)

c. Yes - all right - this may start to touch on it: not "valu Yes - all right - this may start to touch on it: not "valuable " but "val " but "valued." (back to text) (back to text)

a. This is a corollary of Boston AA's suggestion that single newcomers not get romantically involved for the first year of sobriety. The big reason for this, Boston AAs with time will explain if pinned down, is that the sudden removal of Substances leaves an enormous ragged hole in the psyche of the newcomer, the pain of which the newcomer's supposed to feel and be driven kneeward by and pray to have filled by Boston AA and the old Higher Power, and intense romantic involvements offer a delusive a.n.a.lgesic for the pain of the hole, and tend to make the involvees clamp onto one another like covalence-hungry isotopes, and subst.i.tute each other for meetings and Activity in a Group and Surrender, and then if the involvement doesn't pan out (which like how many between newcomers do you suppose do) both involvees are devastated and in even more hole-pain than before and now don't have the intensive-work-in-AA-dependent strength to make it through the devastation without going back to the Substance. Relevant gnomes here might include 'Addicts Don't Have Relations.h.i.+ps, They Take Hostages' ( This is a corollary of Boston AA's suggestion that single newcomers not get romantically involved for the first year of sobriety. The big reason for this, Boston AAs with time will explain if pinned down, is that the sudden removal of Substances leaves an enormous ragged hole in the psyche of the newcomer, the pain of which the newcomer's supposed to feel and be driven kneeward by and pray to have filled by Boston AA and the old Higher Power, and intense romantic involvements offer a delusive a.n.a.lgesic for the pain of the hole, and tend to make the involvees clamp onto one another like covalence-hungry isotopes, and subst.i.tute each other for meetings and Activity in a Group and Surrender, and then if the involvement doesn't pan out (which like how many between newcomers do you suppose do) both involvees are devastated and in even more hole-pain than before and now don't have the intensive-work-in-AA-dependent strength to make it through the devastation without going back to the Substance. Relevant gnomes here might include 'Addicts Don't Have Relations.h.i.+ps, They Take Hostages' (sic) and 'An Alcoholic Is a Relief-Seeking Missile.' And so on. The no-involvement thing tends to be the Waterloo of all suggestions, for newcomers, and celibacy's often the issue that separates those who Hang from those who Go Back Out There. (back to text) (back to text)

a. N.L.-F. had even rigged it so that Masters have to be run at 585 r.p.m. instead of a consumer-TP's cartridge-drive's 450 r.p.m. N.L.-F. had even rigged it so that Masters have to be run at 585 r.p.m. instead of a consumer-TP's cartridge-drive's 450 r.p.m. (back to text) (back to text)

a. Q.v. Note 304 Q.v. Note 304 sub sub. (back to text) (back to text)

4 CBC/PATHe 1200h.0000h. Summary Cartridge # 9112404, 4 May Y.P.Wc., Y.P. Wc., PATHe Nouvelle Toujours, Ltd. CBC/PATHe 1200h.0000h. Summary Cartridge # 9112404, 4 May Y.P.Wc., Y.P. Wc., PATHe Nouvelle Toujours, Ltd. (back to text) (back to text)

5 in Phelps and Phelps, in Phelps and Phelps, The Cults of the Unwavering I: A Field Guide to Cults of Currency Speculation, Melanin, Fitness, Bioflavinoids, Spectation, a.s.sa.s.sination, Stasis, Property, Agoraphobia, Repute, Celebrity, Ac.r.a.phobia, Performance, Amway, Fame, Infamy, Deformity, Scopophobia, Syntax, Consumer Technology, Scopophilia, Presleyism, Hunterism, Inner Children, Eros, Xenophobia, Surgical Enhancement, Motivational Rhetoric, Chronic Pain, Solipsism, Survivalism, Preterition, Anti-Abortionism, Kevorkianism, Allergy, Albinism, Sport, Chiliasm, and Telentertainment in pre-O.N.A.N. North America, The Cults of the Unwavering I: A Field Guide to Cults of Currency Speculation, Melanin, Fitness, Bioflavinoids, Spectation, a.s.sa.s.sination, Stasis, Property, Agoraphobia, Repute, Celebrity, Ac.r.a.phobia, Performance, Amway, Fame, Infamy, Deformity, Scopophobia, Syntax, Consumer Technology, Scopophilia, Presleyism, Hunterism, Inner Children, Eros, Xenophobia, Surgical Enhancement, Motivational Rhetoric, Chronic Pain, Solipsism, Survivalism, Preterition, Anti-Abortionism, Kevorkianism, Allergy, Albinism, Sport, Chiliasm, and Telentertainment in pre-O.N.A.N. North America, Y.P.W. Y.P.W. (back to text) (back to text)

6 Except in certain very esoteric variations on the game. Except in certain very esoteric variations on the game. (back to text) (back to text)

a. Pimple cream. Pimple cream. (back to text) (back to text)

b. 'Reason for all-out war,' which Struck inserts without bothering even to check for the definition Day'd been too befogged to give, which is in and of itself almost suicidal, given that Poutrincourt knows exactly how much French facility Struck's got, or rather hasn't. 'Reason for all-out war,' which Struck inserts without bothering even to check for the definition Day'd been too befogged to give, which is in and of itself almost suicidal, given that Poutrincourt knows exactly how much French facility Struck's got, or rather hasn't. (back to text) (back to text)

a. q.v. Note 334 q.v. Note 334 sub sub. (back to text) (back to text)

a. Like dry loamy clay, highly absorbent, used by some for traction on their grips, eschewed by others because it has a lot of aluminum silicates and the Y.T.M.P.'s 'aluminum-causes-impotence' panic still weighs hard on some p.u.b.escent players' minds. Like dry loamy clay, highly absorbent, used by some for traction on their grips, eschewed by others because it has a lot of aluminum silicates and the Y.T.M.P.'s 'aluminum-causes-impotence' panic still weighs hard on some p.u.b.escent players' minds. (back to text) (back to text)

b. A good many seniors' schedules have no last-period cla.s.ses, or have Independent-Study stuff slated for last period, and when two of these seniors - e.g. Pemulis & Freer - are scheduled for a P.M. challenge-match, they get to start at 1430h. instead of 1515h., and usually then finish up early, which is a great perk, given that they'll get to hit both the weight room and the locker room at slack and empty times. A good many seniors' schedules have no last-period cla.s.ses, or have Independent-Study stuff slated for last period, and when two of these seniors - e.g. Pemulis & Freer - are scheduled for a P.M. challenge-match, they get to start at 1430h. instead of 1515h., and usually then finish up early, which is a great perk, given that they'll get to hit both the weight room and the locker room at slack and empty times. (back to text) (back to text)

c. An advantage of compet.i.tive mediocrity is you get to sit in the stands and get lots of sun on your feet and chest, because you're knocked out of compet.i.tion by like the second round. Hence grotesquely pale feet are sort of a perverse mark of compet.i.tive status, maybe like toothlessness in hockey or something. An advantage of compet.i.tive mediocrity is you get to sit in the stands and get lots of sun on your feet and chest, because you're knocked out of compet.i.tion by like the second round. Hence grotesquely pale feet are sort of a perverse mark of compet.i.tive status, maybe like toothlessness in hockey or something. (back to text) (back to text)

d. Specially engineered to react very fast with the hydrolytic enzyme esterase and thus to be completely out of the tissues within 36 hrs. Specially engineered to react very fast with the hydrolytic enzyme esterase and thus to be completely out of the tissues within 36 hrs. (back to text) (back to text)

e. Q.v. Note 22 Q.v. Note 22 supra supra. (back to text) (back to text)

f. For example, during the first month of last summer's Euroclay junket, at some prear-ranged signal the male 16s would all hunch and hop around brachiatishly with their knuckles just off the ground in a circle, hitting their chests and going ' For example, during the first month of last summer's Euroclay junket, at some prear-ranged signal the male 16s would all hunch and hop around brachiatishly with their knuckles just off the ground in a circle, hitting their chests and going 'Er ah ee oo ah,' over and over, until prorector N. Hartigan finally lost his patience as they did it again in the line for Customs at L'Aeroport Orly and had hysterics so gruesome in someone that tall that the practice stopped as mysteriously as it'd started. (back to text) (back to text)

a. Educational Testing Service Inc., Princeton NJ. Educational Testing Service Inc., Princeton NJ. (back to text) (back to text)

a. (Which of course a.s.sumes there's a point.) (Which of course a.s.sumes there's a point.) (back to text) (back to text)

a. Why Noreen Lace-Forche's seminal corporation's name was a kind of wry pun: 2:1 Why Noreen Lace-Forche's seminal corporation's name was a kind of wry pun: 2:1 interlace interlace was pre-HD television's term for breaking the picture frame into two 262.5-line fields for standard 525-line raster-scanning. ... A very in-type joke designed to appeal to the same Big Four that Noreen L.-F. was then wooing. was pre-HD television's term for breaking the picture frame into two 262.5-line fields for standard 525-line raster-scanning. ... A very in-type joke designed to appeal to the same Big Four that Noreen L.-F. was then wooing. (back to text) (back to text)

a. Hence the relative queerness of its still being up on the HmH living room wall four years after Incandenza's felo de se - it's not like anybody asked her to keep the thing up. Hence the relative queerness of its still being up on the HmH living room wall four years after Incandenza's felo de se - it's not like anybody asked her to keep the thing up. (back to text) (back to text)

a. A non-narc a.n.a.lgesic marketed in the U.S. as Ponstel - Parke-Davis - mostly (oddly enough) for dysmenorrhea, sort of like nuclear-grade Mydol. A non-narc a.n.a.lgesic marketed in the U.S. as Ponstel - Parke-Davis - mostly (oddly enough) for dysmenorrhea, sort of like nuclear-grade Mydol. (back to text) (back to text)