Endnotes
The 388 endnotes, in order.
388 total.
- Endnote 1 — Meth
- Endnote 2 — Orin and his surface-level dreams
- Endnote 3 — E.T.A. built as a cardioid
- Endnote 4 — The term "prorector"
- Endnote 5 — 'drines, and Pemulis's abstinence
- Endnote 6 — The lightweight-tranq menu, and "Pulmonary Sloth"
- Endnote 7 — Why top juniors mostly avoid alcohol and cocaine
- Endnote 8 — The psychedelics catalogue
- Endnote 9 — "Black Star" acid and the Bridgeport pipeline
- Endnote 10 — The "gentle fiction" of voluntary enrollment
- Endnote 11 — An Arab women's game
- Endnote 12 — Demerol, Talwin, and the O.N.A.N. drug-schedule
- Endnote 13 — The masked figure is Trent Kite
- Endnote 14 — The A.D.A.'s Stetson
- Endnote 15 — ATF under the Office of Unspecified Services
- Endnote 16 — Trent Kite again
- Endnote 17 — Codeineless pills and an addict's eye
- Endnote 18 — The burglary's high-end haul
- Endnote 19 — The French behind a phrase
- Endnote 20 — What Québec has banned
- Endnote 21 — A cross-reference
- Endnote 22 — Seldane, the antihistamine
- Endnote 23 — O.N.R.
- Endnote 24 — The filmography
- Endnote 25 — A dating correction
- Endnote 26 — Synthetic enkephalin and CadaverGate
- Endnote 27 — The drug-argot key: Bing Crosby and Doris
- Endnote 28 — Parnate and Zoloft
- Endnote 29 — E.C.T.
- Endnote 30 — The boric-acid eyewash
- Endnote 31 — Schtitt's pet name for deLint
- Endnote 32 — The A.F.R.'s macabre motto
- Endnote 33 — What "B.S." means
- Endnote 34 — Extra-Linear Dynamics
- Endnote 35 — The Cantor behind the initial
- Endnote 36 — The Low-Bavarian for lostness
- Endnote 37 — "Fauteuil"
- Endnote 38 — The Bröcken-specter, and a wraith seed
- Endnote 39 — Fortier, and the Wheelchair Assassins
- Endnote 40 — Marathe's stacked loyalties
- Endnote 41 — "Doubling"
- Endnote 42 — Pretending only to pretend
- Endnote 43 — Crohn's disease
- Endnote 44 — "Technical interviews," the euphemism
- Endnote 45 — A cross-reference
- Endnote 46 — Tincture of benzoin
- Endnote 47 — The F.L.Q.
- Endnote 48 — Cardiac stenosis, defined
- Endnote 49 — "Redundancy sic"
- Endnote 50 — "The Crocodiles"
- Endnote 51 — How Avril founded the Grammarians
- Endnote 52 — The GC/MS drug scan
- Endnote 53 — Eschaton's origin
- Endnote 54 — E.T.A.'s grammar sequence
- Endnote 55 — Suborned, not entrapped
- Endnote 56 — DMZ above the psychedelics
- Endnote 57 — DMZ and the sense of time
- Endnote 58 — C.S.A.C.
- Endnote 59 — Oxycodone-with-acetaminophen
- Endnote 60 — What the new building replaced
- Endnote 61 — The "Cinema of Chaotic Stasis"
- Endnote 62 — The boom in Step-based groups
- Endnote 63 — Whose analogy
- Endnote 64 — Trivium and quadrivium
- Endnote 65 — The Headmaster's House nickname
- Endnote 66 — M.I.T. students taping the shows
- Endnote 67 — The Shed and its "objay darts"
- Endnote 68 — Freer's self-appointed nickname
- Endnote 69 — The alphabet of Anonymous fellowships, and the God stuff
- Endnote 70 — Recovery taken to a fatal extreme
- Endnote 71 — "You Can't Unring a Bell"
- Endnote 72 — McDade on his old manager
- Endnote 73 — Prorectors and bed-check duty
- Endnote 74 — Davis Cup vs. Wightman
- Endnote 75 — Hal's fear of a lopsided exhibition
- Endnote 76 — Hal reclassified from damaged to gifted
- Endnote 77 — Pemulis's deLint video game
- Endnote 78 — A dating stamp for a contract
- Endnote 79 — The death of the video suicide note
- Endnote 80 — Why Avril thought Joelle and Jim were lovers
- Endnote 81 — A mock film-studies citation
- Endnote 82 — The Incandenza boys as slobs
- Endnote 83 — B.P.D.
- Endnote 84 — Where to find the text
- Endnote 85 — An "Independent"
- Endnote 86 — Court-side oxygen on the junior tour
- Endnote 87 — A cross-reference
- Endnote 88 — A racket-fraud accusation
- Endnote 89 — The point of E.T.A.'s hardest question
- Endnote 90 — Gately's interface hours
- Endnote 91 — The limits of Gately's vocabulary
- Endnote 92 — A name and place
- Endnote 93 — deLint's banned locker-room banners
- Endnote 94 — What prorectors are and how students see them
- Endnote 95 — Pink, the DOS
- Endnote 96 — Thorp's dead-end job
- Endnote 97 — Why a scholarship still matters
- Endnote 98 — Tavis and Avril fleeing their charges
- Endnote 99 — MA Dept. of Revenue
- Endnote 100 — The AA arithmetic of powerlessness
- Endnote 101 — Orin, films, and a punch in the arm
- Endnote 102 — The dockworkers' union
- Endnote 103 — A seizure, clinically
- Endnote 104 — Why instructors are called instructors
- Endnote 105 — The F.O.P.P.P.s
- Endnote 106 — Who gets a cartridge-viewer, and what it can't do
- Endnote 107 — The WhataBurger on tape
- Endnote 108 — Gaps in the campus broadcasts
- Endnote 109 — Parti Québécois versus the Bloc
- Endnote 110 — Hal alone in his room
- Endnote 111 — "whinge"
- Endnote 112 — The wheelchair assassins named
- Endnote 113 — "Neural-gray"
- Endnote 114 — Copyright of the last Subsidized year
- Endnote 115 — Mario's medical vocabulary
- Endnote 116 — Mario's film camera
- Endnote 117 — Mario's oversized head
- Endnote 118 — Mario and the work staff
- Endnote 119 — Mario's teeth
- Endnote 120 — "Historical Consciousness"
- Endnote 121 — How rarely Eschaton is actually played
- Endnote 122 — The classroom map's catalogue code
- Endnote 123 — Pemulis explains the Mean-Value formula
- Endnote 124 — EndStat and Mathpak trademarks
- Endnote 125 — Ball buckets
- Endnote 126 — Canadians as Eschaton villains
- Endnote 127 — Whose embellishments these are
- Endnote 128 — "MVL"
- Endnote 129 — Pemulis the revenge artist
- Endnote 130 — Pemulis's actual words
- Endnote 131 — Beginners' meetings
- Endnote 132 — Why "Group" is capitalized
- Endnote 133 — Gately's wall of clippings
- Endnote 134 — How Joelle got into Ennet House
- Endnote 135 — "My Best Thinking Got Me Here"
- Endnote 136 — Fastin
- Endnote 137 — Not Gately's terms
- Endnote 138 — The recovery to-do list
- Endnote 139 — Counselor Gene M.'s bug metaphors
- Endnote 140 — Gately's word for banal
- Endnote 141 — An unreconstructed vocabulary
- Endnote 142 — Words the speaker didn't use
- Endnote 143 — "Sic"
- Endnote 144 — A mock film-studies citation
- Endnote 145 — Orin, Steeply, and Found Drama
- Endnote 146 — An early Incandenza film
- Endnote 147 — Who tells whom about the Eschaton disaster
- Endnote 148 — The Interdependence Day hats
- Endnote 149 — Crooners miming to silence
- Endnote 150 — The waste crisis around the millennium
- Endnote 151 — The actual term
- Endnote 152 — Not a last-name place
- Endnote 153 — A puppet-directed grievance
- Endnote 154 — Cage III — Free Show
- Endnote 155 — The Medusa and Odalisque costumes
- Endnote 156 — The theory that Tine runs everything
- Endnote 157 — Mario's tribute to his mother
- Endnote 158 — Who umpires the junior tour
- Endnote 159 — Clipperton's one-handed toss
- Endnote 160 — What was buried with Himself
- Endnote 161 — The other prophetic call
- Endnote 162 — The paintings that repelled the test audience
- Endnote 163 — NoCoat inherits a broadcast ranking slot
- Endnote 164 — Hal's account of Lace-Forché and Veals is oversimplified
- Endnote 165 — a legal motive behind an InterLace move
- Endnote 166 — R.I.S.C.
- Endnote 167 — how little Incandenza's films earned in his lifetime
- Endnote 168 — why Schtitt backed J. Gentle
- Endnote 169 — Triaminotetralin
- Endnote 170 — "Working up steam"
- Endnote 171 — "Homestyle. Ready to Serve."
- Endnote 172 — "Pursuit of happiness"
- Endnote 173 — A cross-reference
- Endnote 174 — "Absolutely no bonking"
- Endnote 175 — A logistically impossible image
- Endnote 176 — Mario's film echoes his father's ONANtiad
- Endnote 177 — the official name for the land handover
- Endnote 178 — A truer AA epigram
- Endnote 179 — Gately's fuzzy memory of early recovery
- Endnote 180 — Mario tracks down Madame Psychosis's silent studio
- Endnote 181 — Corbett Thorp's cruel nickname
- Endnote 182 — "Pukers"
- Endnote 183 — Which kind of bucket
- Endnote 184 — the "contre-pied" and a tennis pedigree
- Endnote 185 — Stice's family and his smuggled treats
- Endnote 186 — How juniors pick up a ball
- Endnote 187 — "Overhands" and "pointers"
- Endnote 188 — "forage" on the halfway-house menu
- Endnote 189 — Pebbles and Bam-Bam
- Endnote 190 — the felony-murder rule addicts fear
- Endnote 191 — "Blue-Filed" and "Red-Filed"
- Endnote 192 — Not literally "shitstorm"
- Endnote 193 — the sourcing of Gately's knowledge
- Endnote 194 — Not Volkmann's contracture
- Endnote 195 — Gately's Financial Amend over a cracked table
- Endnote 196 — The veterans' one-liners
- Endnote 197 — Never read the box
- Endnote 198 — Project MK-Ultra
- Endnote 199 — Xanax
- Endnote 200 — Whose analysis
- Endnote 201 — a burglar's leftover reflexes
- Endnote 202 — "The Storrow"
- Endnote 203 — A flagged solecism
- Endnote 204 — who supplies the novelty gags, and who owns him
- Endnote 205 — why some cartridges look blank
- Endnote 206 — "To hear the squeak"
- Endnote 207 — The phrase Lenz withholds
- Endnote 208 — A mock annular-fusion citation
- Endnote 209 — the wall of E.T.A. photographs
- Endnote 210 — Avril remains attractive to men
- Endnote 211 — Pemulis's fear of expulsion
- Endnote 212 — who is on the hook in the waiting room
- Endnote 213 — Hal and Axford can't ask for a stray ball back
- Endnote 214 — The lob-suicide drill
- Endnote 215 — the kid who reported the Pukers
- Endnote 216 — "No clue"
- Endnote 217 — why Hal skipped the soft-court Junior Slams
- Endnote 218 — the mirror that made Incandenza's first fortune
- Endnote 219 — The InterLace kids'-show host
- Endnote 220 — the machine that nearly runs Tavis over
- Endnote 221 — The Latvian pro
- Endnote 222 — the difficulty of Marathe's dialect
- Endnote 223 — decoding the samizdat's fight scene
- Endnote 224 — the William James line that stopped Lenz
- Endnote 225 — A trademark attribution
- Endnote 226 — "Ibid."
- Endnote 227 — Haldol
- Endnote 228 — the agencies folded into Unspecified Services
- Endnote 229 — the shadowy outfit paying Steeply
- Endnote 230 — "Mitts"
- Endnote 231 — Lenz's cutting agent
- Endnote 232 — Why cocaine poisons some people and not others
- Endnote 233 — Lidocaine, the perfect cut
- Endnote 234 — Orin's interview with "Helen" Steeply
- Endnote 235 — Photographs on the dresser
- Endnote 236 — "VAPS"
- Endnote 237 — A cartographic-trigonometry aside
- Endnote 238 — A mock citation for annular fusion medicine
- Endnote 239 — Charlotte Treat's hidden backstory
- Endnote 240 — A macadamia trademark
- Endnote 241 — Bruce Green's dated taste in music
- Endnote 242 — Why Mario lets himself be dangled for filming
- Endnote 243 — Avril's unspoken worry about Mario
- Endnote 244 — A small shared aversion
- Endnote 245 — A terse two-line exchange
- Endnote 246 — The sober dance club
- Endnote 247 — The tiers of Ennet House punishment
- Endnote 248 — How Ennet House gets its drug tests done
- Endnote 249 — Gately and his mother
- Endnote 250 — Henderson's Lincoln
- Endnote 251 — Insurance reasons
- Endnote 252 — Gately looks the other way on smoking
- Endnote 253 — What fits Gately
- Endnote 254 — Gately never runs
- Endnote 255 — A word for a handgun
- Endnote 256 — A stage parenthetical
- Endnote 257 — A stage parenthetical
- Endnote 258 — A stage parenthetical
- Endnote 259 — Court squeegees
- Endnote 260 — A grading tic
- Endnote 261 — Scavenging the academy's trash
- Endnote 262 — "W.T.A."
- Endnote 263 — A flagged trade name
- Endnote 264 — A flagged solecism
- Endnote 265 — "R.A.S.U."
- Endnote 266 — Charles Tavis with the parents
- Endnote 267 — The ace/double-fault ratio
- Endnote 268 — An abundance of left-handers
- Endnote 269 — Marlon Bain's letters
- Endnote 270 — A receptacle-corp trademark
- Endnote 271 — A phantom injury
- Endnote 272 — Why Ann Kittenplan skips cleanup
- Endnote 273 — "Étoiles"
- Endnote 274 — Poutrincourt's genuine accent
- Endnote 275 — "S'annuler" not "se détruire"
- Endnote 276 — The slip that unmasks Steeply
- Endnote 277 — A reason to get up
- Endnote 278 — The Pemulis household at night
- Endnote 279 — The kid Hal cannot name
- Endnote 280 — Where "anhedonia" comes from
- Endnote 281 — Hal's theory of loneliness
- Endnote 282 — Why pain isolates
- Endnote 283 — "S.S.R.I.s"
- Endnote 284 — Crude methedrine
- Endnote 285 — A misheard drug name
- Endnote 286 — Kate Gompert and the classes of addict
- Endnote 287 — Traces of a secret smoker
- Endnote 288 — A yogurt trademark
- Endnote 289 — What one of Himself's films really was
- Endnote 290 — Ambiguous scars in a film
- Endnote 291 — Why the House steers residents away from CA
- Endnote 292 — why Ennet House forbids new-sober romance
- Endnote 293 — Joelle's dated racial vocabulary
- Endnote 294 — Speech as apostrophe to "Jim"
- Endnote 295 — "B.H.A."
- Endnote 296 — Movie blood
- Endnote 297 — the Trappists as Greek chorus
- Endnote 298 — Schtitt's untranslated motto
- Endnote 299 — A lottery copyright
- Endnote 300 — how the A.F.R. tracked DuPlessis
- Endnote 301 — why master cartridges are hard to copy
- Endnote 302 — Fortier's plan to force Marathe to watch
- Endnote 303 — why the searchers knew the Master was gone
- Endnote 304 — Struck plagiarizes the A.F.R. train-cult material
- Endnote 305 — "(she thought then)"
- Endnote 306 — the Incandenzas fighting over a cliché
- Endnote 307 — who approached whom
- Endnote 308 — "P.O.V."
- Endnote 309 — the bartender who knew Dr. Incandenza
- Endnote 310 — Film/Cartridge Studies jargon
- Endnote 311 — The immigration bureau
- Endnote 312 — "Y.E.T."
- Endnote 313 — Marathe's father and the pacemaker
- Endnote 314 — A cross-reference
- Endnote 315 — Marathe's malapropism
- Endnote 316 — James's carsick dread coming home
- Endnote 317 — A pricey citation
- Endnote 318 — Maine is gone
- Endnote 319 — A word for leftovers
- Endnote 320 — The M.I.T. library
- Endnote 321 — Hal and Pemulis on quitting
- Endnote 322 — why Johnette F. won't say "the Finest"
- Endnote 323 — The "The Ennet House" tell
- Endnote 324 — Trust, math, and the empty locker room
- Endnote 325 — Tine's noir-shaped detective methods
- Endnote 326 — "(and then some)"
- Endnote 327 — The Bolex's alien face
- Endnote 328 — "(though never unveiled)"
- Endnote 329 — A claim let stand
- Endnote 330 — "(given the guy's track record with ingestion)"
- Endnote 331 — the avant-garde roots of James's slapstick
- Endnote 332 — Pemulis learns he's expelled
- Endnote 333 — The meeting directory
- Endnote 334 — Hal's private joke for staying clean
- Endnote 335 — The one exception
- Endnote 336 — the source on M. Bain's brother
- Endnote 337 — A Latin blunder, and Hamlet
- Endnote 338 — Toradol
- Endnote 339 — "I.B.E.W."
- Endnote 340 — Doxycycline (I.V.)
- Endnote 341 — Percocet
- Endnote 342 — "Or possibly Babel"
- Endnote 343 — White-knuckling, sloganized
- Endnote 344 — the exams Hal signed up for
- Endnote 345 — The C.B.S. building
- Endnote 346 — which Montréal airport
- Endnote 347 — Perfume and the huipil
- Endnote 348 — A church off Brighton Center
- Endnote 349 — "Sic"
- Endnote 350 — An alternative reading of a face
- Endnote 351 — A First-and-Twelfth-Step joke
- Endnote 352 — the toothbrush-poisoning mystery
- Endnote 353 — where the wrong bus goes
- Endnote 354 — A cross-reference
- Endnote 355 — Anexsia
- Endnote 356 — Levo-Dromoran
- Endnote 357 — Numorphan
- Endnote 358 — Perwin NX
- Endnote 359 — Librium
- Endnote 360 — An entry-level oral narcotic
- Endnote 361 — Levsin
- Endnote 362 — Quaaludes
- Endnote 363 — Kite and the DuPlessis job
- Endnote 364 — The designer-drug roster
- Endnote 365 — "L.T.I."
- Endnote 366 — the film-scholar joke about The Cage
- Endnote 367 — Gately's tradecraft with phones
- Endnote 368 — Sorkin's Cafergot
- Endnote 369 — the accidental killing
- Endnote 370 — Pork insulin
- Endnote 371 — A prep school
- Endnote 372 — "Skeet" and "vig"
- Endnote 373 — Mucomyst
- Endnote 374 — A North Shore hard "ch"
- Endnote 375 — "Dizzy Dick Disorder"
- Endnote 376 — Dilaudid's price
- Endnote 377 — A "Phillips Screwdriver"
- Endnote 378 — "(As opposed to self-confronting, presumably.)"
- Endnote 379 — A cross-reference
- Endnote 380 — The raster, and the "InterLace" pun
- Endnote 381 — the loathed photograph
- Endnote 382 — the eerie authority of John Wayne
- Endnote 383 — A Florida facility
- Endnote 384 — Ativan
- Endnote 385 — "Doris," probably Doryx
- Endnote 386 — Narcan
- Endnote 387 — "Sunshine" (Talwin-PX)
- Endnote 388 — Talwin-NX