"You wanna cookie, Polly?" (pg. 297)
affectation (pg. 46) -- The act of taking on or displaying an attitude or mode of behavior not natural to oneself or not genuinely felt.
we're not looking for 'Ozymandias' here (pg. 84) -- Poem by Shelley having to do with Egypt.
res gestae (pg. 90) -- Latin for "things done".
...at a workman who was serenely pruning a leggy hibiscus trellised along an archway... (pg. 175) -- The world "Hibiscus" was crossed out and "boug." penciled in. I guess someone thought a bougainvillea would be more likely to be on a trellis than a hibiscus. And from my research, I agree. But exactly is a "leggy" hibiscus?