pg.+26-27

Sophie **Amanuensis** – “That is not what Red Peter was striving for when he wrote, through his amanuensis Franz Kafka, the life history that, in November of 1917…” //A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.//

//Requiring great exertion, laborious, using much energy or vigor.//
 * Arduous** – “If Red Peter took it upon himself to make the arduous descent from the silence of the beasts to the gabble of reason in the spirit of the scapegoat, the chosen one, then his amanuensis was a scapegoat from birth”

//Rapid, unintelligible talk// Costello referes to talk of reason as "gabble", which could imply that she thinks that such talk is nonsense. The use of the word also contributes to her style of speaking, which is somewhat defiant and strong-opinioned.
 * Gabble** – “If Red Peter took it upon himself to make the arduous descent from the silence of the beasts to the gabble of reason in the spirit of the scapegoat…”

//A feeling or impression that something is about to happen (usually something evil or foreboding)//
 * Presentiment** – “…then his amanuensis was a scapegoat from birth, with a presentiment, a //Vorgefuhl//, for the massacre of the chosen people that was to take place so soon after death.”

//**Vorgefühl** –//“…then his amanuensis was a scapegoat from birth, with a presentiment, a //Vorgefuhl//, for the massacre of the chosen people that was to take place so soon after death.” //Premonition: Used right after “presentiment”, this is a similar word.// Coetzee most likely uses the German word right after to capture a feeling that cannot be expressed so accurately in English.

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//Pertaining to Prussia (A former country that included Poland and Germany that was abolished after World War II)//
 * Prussian** – “In 1912 the Prussian Academy of Sciences established on the island of Tenerife a station devoted to experimentation into the mental capacities of apes, particularly chimpanzees.”

//The largest of the Canary Islands, off the northwest coast of Africa.//
 * Tenerife** – “Let me recount to you some of what the apes of Tenerife learned from their master Wolfgang Kohler…”

//A German psychologist who contributed to the creation of the Gestalt psychology, also the author of The Mentality of Apes. He was also the director of the Prussian Academy of Sciences located in Tenerife.// Elizabeth Costello refers to Wolfgang Kohler's work in her speech, describing how Kafka had read Kohler's work, //The Mentality of Apes,// and how he might have been influenced by it. The "Sultan" story that Costello tells during her speech was apparently Kohler's idea, which provided insight to how a man's mind works and what they are forced to think in certain situations.
 * Wolfgang Köhler** – “One of the scientists working there was the psychologist Wolfgang Kohler.”

//A highly detailed and thoroughly documented study or paper written about a limited area of a subject or field inquiry.//
 * Monograph** – “In 1917 Kohler published a monograph entitled //The Mentality of Apes// describing his experiments.”

__**The Mentality of Apes**__ - “In 1917 Kohler published a monograph entitled //The Mentality of Apes// describing his experiments.” //The finding of Kohler’s experiments, which emphasized insight and led to a radical revision of learning theory.// Costello references //The Mentality of Apes// in her lecture when she talks about Kafka, and Kohler's Sultan story.