TFv03 CH 23 Oceanica (annotated)

Annotations for Oceanica from Honeysuckle & Pain.

## Page 569

**Quote**

 didn’t find the origin

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**weeks ago**

27 days ago, almost 4 weeks

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**M.A.**

master of arts

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**doighty**

dirty + doughty

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**Amtrak**

train

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**bougainvilleas**

an ornamental climbing plant that is widely cultivated in the
tropics. The insignificant flowers are surrounded by brightly colored papery
bracts (listene) that persist on the plant for a long time.

**Anger is fear**

like Xanther”s anger

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**DABDA**

is the five stages of coping with dying were
described by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her classic book On Death and Dying in
1969 (denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance).

**"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"**

(also
referred to as "The Last Lecture") was a lecture given by Carnegie
Mellon University computer science professor Randy Pausch on September 18, 2007.

## Page 579

**Johns Hopkins University**

is an American private
research university in Baltimore, Maryland

**Reactive response**

reacting to problems when they occur
instead of doing something to prevent them

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**noetic**

of or relating to mental activity
or the intellect

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**practicum**

a course of study for teachers, doctors,
nurses, etc., that involves actually working in the area of study and using the
knowledge and skills that have been learned.

**Izod**

a clothing company that produces dressy-casual
clothing

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**Rancho Santa Margarita**

city in California

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**remembering is never passive**

remembering is pink, is it not an objective flashback?

## Page 590

**haw**

the membrane, but also Haw flakes, shānzhābǐng
(Chinese: 山楂餅)
are Chinese sweets made from the fruit of the Chinese hawthorn

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**fight vector**

?

## Page 594

**downward slope**

like to upward slope X saw in the
forest?

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**Spackle**

a compound used to fill cracks in plaster and
produce a smooth surface

**Rosacea**

a condition in which certain facial blood vessels
enlarge, giving the cheeks and nose a flushed appearance

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**taijitu**

the original ying-yang

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**Axon**

the long threadlike part of a nerve cell along
which impulses are conducted from the cell body to other cells

**The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)**

is an
agency of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for the development of
emerging technologies for use by the military.

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**SSRI**

Selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors or
serotonin-specific reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are a class of drugs that are
typically used as antidepressants in the treatment of major depressive disorder
and anxiety disorders.

**root-meaning creation**

?, something to do with Yiggdrasil?
Or like root of the word?

**affect**

mentioned also by Cas (affect derived responses as
reason why people are unable to see the truth (V1 635) and Narcon9 (AIMs –
Affect-Intersectional Motivations (V1 565))

**introjects**

Introjection (German: Introjektion) is a
psychoanalytical term with a variety of meanings. Generally, it is regarded as
the process where the subject replicates in itself behaviors, attributes or
other fragments of the surrounding world, especially of other subjects. Cognate
concepts are identification, incorporation, and internalization. To use a
simple example, a person who picks up traits from their friends (e.g., a person
who begins frequently exclaiming "Ridiculous!" as a result of hearing
a friend of theirs repeatedly doing the same) is introjecting.

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**Cielito**

diminutive of ceilo, which means 'sky' in spanish. Also means sweetie.

**MMA**

Mixed Martial Arts

**UFC**

Ultimate Fighting Championship

**Iyengar**

joga

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**The Changing Light at Sandover**

is a 560-page epic poem
by James Merrill (1926–1995). Sometimes described as a postmodern apocalyptic
epic, the poem was published in three volumes from 1976 to 1980, and as one
volume "with a new coda" by Atheneum) in 1982.

Already established in the 1970s among the finest lyric
poets of his generation, Merrill made a surprising detour by incorporating
extensive occult messages into his work (although a poem from the 1950s,
"Voices from the Other World", was the first to quote such
"otherworldly" voices). With his partner David Jackson, Merrill spent
more than 20 years transcribing supernatural communications during séances
using a ouija board;

**Planchette**

from the French for "little plank",
is a small, usually heart-shaped flat piece of wood equipped with two wheeled
castors and a pencil-holding aperture, used to facilitate automatic writing.
The use of planchettes to produce mysterious written messages gave rise to the
belief that the devices foster communication with spirits as a form of
mediumship.

**Enabler**

a person or thing that makes something possible

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**Zacatecas**

Mexican state

**Tlaquepaque**

a city and the surrounding municipality in the
Mexican state of Jalisco