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87* · Marathe & Steeply

1 Page 87
2 Page 88
3 Endnote 38
4 Page 88 (cont'd)
5 Page 89
6 Endnote 39
7 Endnote 304
8 Page 89 (cont'd)
9 Endnote 40
10 Page 89 (cont'd)
11 Page 90
12 Page 91
13 Page 92

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Page 87

Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment

payloaders

a type of construction equipment

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Page 88

Papineau

a part of Québec named for Joseph Papineau (1752-1841), Canadian political figure

Tortolita

a minor mountain range north of Tuscon

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Endnote 38

Walpurgisnacht

German for Walpurgis Night, named for St. Walpurga, 8th century Anglo-Saxon saint

Harzbröcken

Correctly spelled with the umlaut, this word means "hashish."

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Page 88 (cont'd)

Rincon

another mountain range near Tuscon, these to the east of the city

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Page 89

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Endnote 39

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Endnote 304

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Page 89 (cont'd)

Fortier

the last name of several prominent Québecois, including (historically) Moïse Fortier (1815-1877), a member of the House of Commons

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Endnote 40

Mont-Treblant

French for "trembling mountain," a mountain 1.5 hours north of Montreal

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Page 89 (cont'd)

c'était la guerre

French: That was the war

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Page 90

ami

French: friend

raggers

apparently a derogatory word for Arabs and/or Muslims

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Page 91

I-10

Interstate 10, which runs from the Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica, Calif., east to Interstate 95 in Jacksonville, Fla.

agnate

related on one's father's side

pedentive

probably a misspelling of "pendentive," which means "any of several spandrels, in the form of spherical triangles, forming a transition between the circular plan of a dome and the polygonal plan of the supporting masonry" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary)

auteur

French: creator

samizdat

From Russian: self-published. Originally meant to denote clandestine publishing in the Soviet Union, it now refers to any clandestine publication.

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