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"...bearing their shields rather than upon them..."

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

women's groups

dubs

doubles

V.D.

alternately this could stand for Venereal Disease

Stockhausen

German for "stick houses"

E. A. Abbott

Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926) was a British author and theologians best known for having written Flatland, which can be read here.

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Disciplinary Lit.

a joke on the more common "interdisciplinary" academic classes

Goncharov's Oblomov

Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (1812-1891) was a Russian novelist and author of Oblomov, which can be read here.

listing to port

a nautical term meaning "leaning leftward"

feeling punk

Defined as "weak in spirits or health" in the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.

tincture of benzoin

A tincture is a mixture of a drug dissolved in alcohol. Benzoin is a balsamic resin used as an antiseptic and expectorant.

Xing

presumably a synonym for copulating with someone

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Endnote 92

Perth Amboy NJ

a town in northern NJ, about 30 miles southwest of New York

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Pierre Trudeau

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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