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Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment
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permutations
arrangements of the same items in different sequences
"...the thing it's not entirely impossible he may have fathered..."
This is to say that C.T. may have been Mario's father and not James O. Incandenza. Given that C.T. and Avril are blood relatives, this would explain Mario's profound birth defects.
anodized
coated with metal
perk
i.e., perquisite, a special benefit
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alpaca
wool taken from an animal closely related to the camel and llama
Kaopectate
brand name of parapectolin
canted
put in an oblique position
reveille
the trumpet call played in the morning to awaken sleeping soldiers
corona
crown or halo
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muzzle
the barrel of a gun
bratwursts
This is a small German sausage composed of pork and beef; the name is German for "chopped meat sausage."
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Puker
a punitive run designed to make one vomit
American Twist
another name for a kick serve
2 m.
over 6'6" tall
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low 10's C
10º C is equal to 50º Fahrenheit.
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picric
Picric acid is an explosive, so the word "picric" w/r/t clouds probably implies an explosive (or about to explode) quality.
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fungoes
In baseball a fungo is a pop fly deliberately hit to train players in fielding. Presumably here, in tennis, these balls are thrown in a deliberate place in a deliberate manner to exercise a particular skill.
quarter
here meaning "mercy"
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forvart
German: forward
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23.8 meters, 8 I think .2 meters
close to 80 feet by nearly 27 feet
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Gymnasium Kaiserlautern
The Web site is here. Kaiserlautern means something like "Emperor acclamation" in German.
Raggedy Andy
a popular doll seen here
z coordinate
the measurement of depth
Gaugin
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a French artist who lived in Tahiti.
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morendo
a musical term meaning "a gradual decrescendo at the end of a strain or cadence" (Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary)
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