a lark
for a joke; as something done for fun
association
A mental connection or relation between thoughts, feelings, ideas, or sensations; or a remembered or imagined feeling, emotion, idea, or sensation linked to a person, object, or idea.
barish
rather bare; scant in furnishings, equipment, or contents
Barnes & Noble
The largest bookstore chain in the United States, headquartered in New York City
Bartlett's
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is the oldest and most widely distributed American collection of quotations, first issued in 1855.
clementine
A fruit that is a hybrid between a mandarin and a sweet orange
disdain
the feeling that someone is unworthy of respect; contempt
Friedrich Nietszche
a German philologist, philosopher, cultural critic, poet and composer, often synonymous (somewhat wrongly) with a fatalistic or pessimist worldview
Huckleberry Hound
A cartoon character created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera in 1958. He speaks in a Southern drawl and is known to sing "O' My Darlin' Clementine" terribly out of tune.
impulsive
acting or done without forethought
intimate
private and personal
lacuna
the Latin word for gap
Maze Cinema
a style of filmmaking in which the story coils back upon itself
Montauk
A hamlet within the town of East Hampton in Suffolk County, New York, on the eastern end of the South Shore of Long Island.
off the map
In the context of Eternal Sunshine - it means that the target of erasure is moving around the patient's mind into memories that are not part of the "map" of the target within the patient's brain.
phobia
an unreasonable and debilitating fear of a particular thing
Svevo
Italio Svevo was an Italian writer fascinated with Freud, best known for Zeno's Conscience, the memoirs of a fictional character who keeps a journal at the insistence of his psychiatrist.
The Charles River
The Charles River flows 80 miles, starting at Echo Lake in Hopkinton, MA, through 23 cities and towns in eastern Massachusetts before emptying into Boston Harbor.
Vestal
chaste; pure
wino
a derogatory term for a person who drinks excessive amounts of cheap wine or other alcohol
