IJ97.2
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97 (2) · ETA Locker Room (cont'd)
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Zoltan
Zoltán was a 10th century ruler of Hungary.
Idris Arslanian, new this year, ethnically vague
Idris is an Arabic name, corresponding in the Qur'an to Enoch in the Bible. The last name Arslanian sounds Armenian, though Arslan is a Turkish word for "lion."
R.A.
Resident Assistant
Tex Watson
Besides a character in Infinite Jest, Tex Watson was the nickname of Charles Watson, one of the chief murderers in the Charles Manson Family.
ephebes
An ephebe is an adolescent male.
suppliants
A suppliant is a petitioner.
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sienna
yellowish- to reddish-brown
thoracic
having to do with the chest
atavistically
Atavism means reversion to an earlier evolutionary type.
piebald
having patches of different colors
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cognomen
a nickname
inflation-generative grammar
a grammar that generates air
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semion
A semion is technically part of an anyone, the latter of which is defined in the OED as "a particle having characteristics intermediate between those of fermions and bosons in two-dimensional space." However, it seems Wallace uses the word as a form closer to "semiotics." A later search reveals that semion is Greek for "sign."
Umbrian
From the Italian reggione of Umbria, in central Italy. Hal is Italian on his father's side, as well as Pima Native American. His mother, of course, is French-Canadian.
Brylcreemed
Used as a verb here, Brylcreem was a brand name of men's hair grooming product.
zygomatics
the zygomatic bones of the face
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haul ashes
For a history of this term, click here.
Johnny Mathis's "Chances Are"
available on these recordings
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Luther's 16th-century shoes, awaiting epiphany
Martin Luther (1483-1546), German father of the Reformation, was a notorious sufferer of constipation.
hobnailed boots
boots assembled with hobnails
Endnote 43
The disease is named for Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884-1983), American gastroenterologist.
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carminative
antispasmodic
gout
a disease characterized by the collection of uric acid in the joints
Port Washington
There are three cities by this name in the U.S.: In New York, Wisconsin, and Ohio.
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woppsed up
a created word, apparently something like "wadded up"
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