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Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment
Latinate
suggestive in style of the ancient Romans
Inman Square
a square in Cambridge named for colonial merchant Ralph Inman
Brioni
a high-fashion clothes company
Mr. Howell
Gilligan's Island character Thurston J. Howell, III
rakish
jaunty or dashing
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oxfords
formal shoes with laces
nacelle
the enclosed part of an airplane, where the engine is housed
DMZ
Most commonly, this acronym stands for "demilitarized zone," as in the area between North and South Korea. Here it is a made-up drug name.
MED.COM
not a real Web site
mescaline
Mescaline is the active ingredient in peyote.
TMA
an acronym for trimethoxyamphetamine
DOM or STP
STP stands for "serenity, tranquity, and peace," and it's a pseudonym for DOM, which stands for dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine.
DMT
acronym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyltryptamine dimethyltryptamine
Ololiuqui or datura's scopolamine, or Fluothane, or Bufotenine (a.k.a. 'Jackie-O.'), or Ebene
Ololiuqui is a type of morning glory plants, the seeds of which are known to be hallucinogenic. Datura's scopolamine is another name for hyoscine. Fluothane is an inhaled general anesthetic. Bufotenine is an alternate spelling of bufotenin and is the active ingredient in the skin of toads that cause hallucinations when licked. (I have no idea why it's called "Jackie-O.") Ebene is a South American tree that yields a hallucinogen used in rituals.
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PMA
acronym for [paramethoxyamphetamine paramethoxyamphetamine]
myristicin
Found in nutmeg, it does not have hallucinogenic properties.
ergine
Also called LSA, it's found in morning glory seeds
ibogaine
Found in varieties of dogbane, it is a drug used to ease heroin withdrawal.
yagé's harmaline
Yagé is the native name for banisteria. Harmaline is the active ingredient.
fitviavi
apparently a coined word
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Tibetan-Dead-Book
better known as the Tibetan Book of the Dead
Futurist
referring to Italian Futurism, an art movement on the early 20th century
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chemist at Sandoz Pharm.
This would be Albert Hoffman (born 1906), a Swiss scientist best known for first synthesizing LSD.
Alan Watts
Alan Wilson Watts (1915-1973) was a British-born philosopher and writer in the field of comparative religion.
T. Leary
Timothy Francis Leary (1920-1996) was an American writer and psychologist best known as an advocate for regular LSD use.
Millbrook NY
a town in New York state, about 90 miles north of New York City
WYYY
actually a radio station in Syracuse, New York
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Riverside Hamlet
The Riverside Shakespeare is one of the better-known editions of Shakespeare's work. Note that Hal, who is based on the character Hamlet, is reading Hamlet.
Consummation of the Levirates
A levirate is a man called up to marry his elder brother's childless widow, in accordance with Jewish Law.
Baron's
a deliberate (probably) misspelling of Barron's
Tilden on Spin
The book by William Tatem "Big Bill" Tilden II (1893-1953), American tennis giant, is actually entitled Match Play and the Spin of the Ball.
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