TFv01 CH 03 Square One (annotated)

Annotations for Square One, the third chapter of One Rainy Day In May.

## Page 82

***When code and comments disagree, both are probably wrong.***

Comment
(computer programming) - a comment is a programming language construct used
to embed programmer-readable annotations in the source code of a computer
program (Wikipedia)

**Norm Schryer**

a computer scientist and head of AT&T
Broadband Services Research. Quote is from from *More Programming Pearls: Confessions*
of a Coder, Column 6: Bumper-Sticker Computer Science*. (Wikiquote)*

## Page 83

**Square One Dining**

4854 Fountain Ave, Los Angeles California. Directly across from the Church of Scientology. Located at the start of North Catalina St.

**coffee, Kefaya**

Echoing the end of previous chapter: coughin, coffin (81)

**Kefaya**

Enough. Unofficial moniker of the Egyptian
Movement for Change, a grassroots coalition which prior to the 2011 revolution
drew its support from across Egypt’s political spectrum (Wikipedia)

**كفايه**

Enough

## Page 85

**Talbot**

 Unit of measure in
physics of luminous energy. The etymology of the name most likely comes from
the Old German “talabod” which means “messenger of destruction”

## Page 87

**Sementera**

spanish for a cultivated field /planting or seeding

**جبنا سيرة القط جه ينط**

*We*
mentioned the cat and it showed up, bouncing*. A variation*
on "speak of the devil"

**Yugen**

 Yūgen (幽玄?)
 is an important concept in traditional Japanese aesthetics. The exact
translation of the word depends on the context. In the Chinese
philosophical texts the term was taken from, yūgen meant "dim", "deep"
or "mysterious". In the criticism of Japanese waka
 poetry, it was used to describe the subtle profundity of things that
are only vaguely suggested by the poems, and was also the name of a
style of poetry (Wikipedia)

**Mefisto**

 may be from Hebrew
for scatterer or from GK meaning "not-light loving" which is
concerning. Although maybe this just means he is part of DARK. Compare with
Anwar which means luminous

**Dazine**

 Mefisto's last name

**Mel Kaye**

 character from The Story of Mel, an archetypical piece of computer programming folklore (Wikipedia)

## Page 88

**introjection**

 the unconscious adoption of the ideas or
attitudes of others

## page 89

**Lua**

 programming language

**Clojure**

 a dialect of the Lisp programming language

**standard output**

In computer programming, standard streams are preconnected input and output communication channels between a computer program and its environment when it begins execution. The three I/O connections are called standard input (stdin), standard output (stdout) and standard error (stderr). Standard output is the stream where a program writes its output data (Wikipedia)

**int main()**

In computer programming, an entry point is where
control enters a program or piece of code

**std::cout**

 standard output stream oriented to narrow
characters (of type char). It corresponds to the C stream stdout

**unaloud**

wordplay with unalowed?

**\n**

 new line

**return 0**

 used in the end of main function. Means that your
program executed without errors. On most operating systems returning 0 is a
success status like saying "The program worked fine"

**close brace**

}

## Page 90

**soft-shoe**

 a kind of tap dance performed in soft-soled shoes

**seem him**

 Interesting typo. Mark Z Danielewski often uses intentional typos and mistakes in his books

## Page 91

**Arlington National Cemetery**

 a United States military cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia (Wikipedia)

**caisson**

a two-wheeled cart designed to carry artillery ammunition. The British term was "ammunition wagon". Caissons are used to bear the casket of the deceased in some state and military funerals in certain Western cultures, including the United States (Wikipedia)

## Page 92

ا**لله يحرم الله**

 God forbid God

**short of a modern day miracle**

 similar sentence is in the Astral Omega section

## Page 94

**"The atoms making up the water falling around us are over nine billion years old."**

Nine PoV characters in the series.

**grenadine**

bar syrup, originally from pomegranate

## Page 98

**Sheep's**
Meadow

 in Central Park (Wikipedia)