Chapter 3

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A Wideawake Hat is a men's hat resembling those worn by the Quakers that settled parts of the United States. They are usually made from black or brown felt and have a fairly wide brim that is upturned slightly (maybe 15 degrees) from the base of the hat on the left and right sides, while being pretty flat on the front and back with a fairly blunt top (as opposed to the well rounded top of a bowler). Usually there is also a fairly tall black hatband around the base, just above the brim. [1]

From Henry Adams' "Les Miracles de Notre Dame" in Mont Saint Michel and Chartres:

"[the Virgin] was above the law; she took feminine pleasure in turning Hell into an ornament" ^[1]

a: 85; b: 86 - Girgis the mountebank
A mountebank is person who sells quack medicines from a platform, a boastful unscrupulous pretender, or charlatan.

References

1. ↑ Adams, Henry, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres and The Education, The Library of America, 1983, p.596

Chapter 1 In which Benny Profane, a schlemihl and human yo-yo, gets to an apocheir 9/1	Chapter 2 The Whole Sick Crew 44/39	Chapter 3 In which Stencil, a quick-change artist, does eight impersonations 61/59	Chapter 4 In which Esther gets a nose job 95/97
Chapter 5 In which Stencil nearly goes West with an alligator 111/115	Chapter 6 In which Profane returns to street level 134/141	Chapter 7 She hangs on the western wall 152/161	Chapter 8 In which Rachel gets her yo-yo back, Roony sings a song, and Stencil calls on Bloody Chiclitz 213/229
Chapter 9 Mondaugen's story 229/247	Chapter 10 In which various sets of young people get together 280/305	Chapter 11 Confessions of Fausto Maijstral 304/333	Chapter 12 In which things are not so amusing 347/385
Chapter 13 In which the yo-yo string is revealed as a state of mind 367/407	Chapter 14 V. in love 393/437	Chapter 15 Sahha 415/461	Chapter 16 Valletta 424/471
Epilogue, 1919 456/507