BEER Ch. 4 A Mom-Approved First-Person Shooter

[Dave Monroe]

   "Maxine finishes up the dishes and puts her head in the boys' room,
where she finds them with Fiona intensely attending to a screen on
which is unfolding a first-person shooter, in a cityscape that looks
like New York and with a generous range of weaponry." (BE, Ch. 4, p.
33)


first-person shooter

First-person shooter (FPS) is a video game genre centered on gun and
projectile weapon-based combat through a first-person perspective;
that is, the player experiences the action through the eyes of the
protagonist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-person_shooter

... vs. (as in Lot 49, IV + BE) ...

The third-person subjective is when the narrator conveys the thoughts,
feelings, opinions, etc. of one or more characters. If it is just one
character, it can be termed third-person limited, in which the reader
is "limited" to the thoughts of some particular character (often the
protagonist) as in the first-person mode, except still giving personal
descriptions using "he", "she", "it", and "they", but not "I".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_mode#Third-person.2C_subjective


"A store something like a Fairway"

http://www.fairwaymarket.com/

Fairway Market is an American grocery chain. Founded in the 1930s, it
is one of the United States' highest grossing food retailers per
square foot with 14 million customers per year. Fairway has had
significant store expansion in the New York area, with 13 locations in
the tri-state area including 13 food markets and 3 wine and spirit
shops. The flagship store still occupies the original Broadway
location at West 74th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairway_Market
http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_4#Page_33


"quite the fresser"

Fresser {n}
    fresser [Yiddish] [sl.] [glutton]

http://www.dict.cc/german-english/Fresser.html
http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_4#Page_33


Heckler & Koch UMP45 (p. 34)

http://www.hk-usa.com/military_products/ump_general.asp

The UMP (Universale Maschinenpistole, German for "Universal Machine
Pistol") is a submachine gun developed and manufactured by Heckler &
Koch. The UMP has been adopted by various agencies such as the U.S.
Customs and Border Protection.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch_UMP


"'See? No blood, virtually nonviolent.'"

vir·tu·al
adjective \ˈvər-chə-wəl, -chəl; ˈvərch-wəl\

: very close to being something without actually being it
: existing or occurring on computers or on the Internet

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/virtual

vir·tue
noun \ˈvər-(ˌ)chü\

: morally good behavior or character
: a good and moral quality

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/virtue

vir·tu·ous
adjective \ˈvər-chə-wəs, ˈvərch-wəs\

: morally good : having or showing virtue

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/virtuous
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