| place | scenes | |
|---|
| E.T.A. (Enfield Tennis Academy) |
10 |
Incandenza's hilltop tennis academy in Enfield; use for whole-grounds / all-over-campus scenes and academy-topical expository passages. |
| ↳ E.T.A. subdormitories |
25 |
The players' dorm rooms and hallways — above all Hal & Mario's room; where the boys talk, sleep, scheme, and score. |
| ↳ E.T.A. Comm.-Ad. building |
6 |
The Community & Administration building: lobby, admin reception, Schtitt's room 106, the Headmaster's waiting room, and the Deans' doorless offices. |
| ↳ E.T.A. Viewing Rooms |
7 |
The cartridge-screening rooms (V.R.5, V.R.6, etc.) inside Comm.-Ad.; site of the *Blood Sister* viewings and Hal going horizontal. |
| ↳ E.T.A. locker rooms |
5 |
The males' locker room downstairs in Comm.-Ad.; the quizzes, Big-Buddy talks, Urine-Day, the Loach saga. |
| ↳ E.T.A. weight room |
7 |
Lyle's domain — the weight room / sauna / towel-dispenser corridor; the guru-on-the-towel-dispenser scenes. |
| ↳ E.T.A. dining hall (West House) |
7 |
The West House dining hall; anchor for the whole Interdependence-Day gala screening sequence. |
| ↳ E.T.A. courts & Eschaton grounds |
8 |
The outdoor East/West/Show Courts, bleachers, pavilions — and the East-Courts patch that hosts Eschaton and the Hal-Stice match. |
| ↳ E.T.A. tunnels |
4 |
The under-grounds tunnel system: prorectors' hallway-tunnel, the child-diameter off-tunnels, the Lung-Storage and Pump Rooms, the Tunnel Club. |
| ↳ Headmaster's House (HmH) |
4 |
The Incandenza/Tavis residence on the E.T.A. grounds; Mario's air-mattress nights, Tavis at the window, Avril's orbit. |
| Enfield Marine Public Health Hospital complex |
1 |
The seven-unit V.A.-managed complex at the foot of the E.T.A. hill; use for whole-complex / other-units / grounds scenes. |
| ↳ Ennet House Drug & Alcohol Recovery House |
32 |
Unit #6 of Enfield Marine — the halfway house; the front office, the 5-Woman/3-Man rooms, the living room, Gately on the desk. The recovery spine's home base. |
| St. Elizabeth's Hospital (Trauma Wing) |
13 |
The Enfield/Brighton hospital; Gately's flat-on-his-back Trauma-Wing bed (and its CA-Group auditorium two floors down) for the whole back-third. |
| Provident Nursing Home (White Flag AA) |
3 |
The Hanneman St. nursing-home cafeteria in Enfield where the White Flag Group holds its Sunday AA speaker meetings. |
| Other AA/NA meetings |
4 |
Catch-all for the other recovery meetings — Braintree, Belmont/Waltham NA, Brookline Young People's, unnamed Boston rooms. |
| Shattuck Shelter, Jamaica Plain |
1 |
The homeless-men's shelter where Gately works a janitor shift. |
| metro Boston (unspecified) |
13 |
Catch-all for scenes located only as "Boston" / "metro Boston" with no finer pin — the medical-attaché apartment, Erdedy's condo, an unnamed psych ward, BU. |
| Inman Square / "Little Lisbon", Cambridge |
10 |
The Cambridge Portuguese-Québécois blocks — Prospect St., Central-to-Inman alleys, Ryle's jazz club, the Man o' War Grille; Poor Tony / Kate / Lenz territory. |
| ↳ Antitoi Entertainment |
7 |
The Antitoi brothers' shopfront-and-back-room on Prospect St., later the A.F.R.'s Boston base and the site of the samizdat's discovery. |
| Cambridge (Harvard/Central Sq, other) |
3 |
Cambridge beyond Inman Sq — Harvard Square, Central Square, Davis Sq Red Line, Cambridge City Hospital. (Currently secondary-only; keep for cross-link.) |
| M.I.T. Student Union / WYYY |
1 |
The brain-shaped M.I.T. Student Union housing the WYYY-109 studios — Madame Psychosis's broadcast (studio, stairwells, rooftop). |
| Allston-Brighton |
8 |
The Enfield-Brighton-Allston streets — Comm. Ave., Faneuil/Brainerd, the Canadian party house; Lenz's night demapping walks. |
| Back Bay / East-Cambridge co-ops |
5 |
The brownstone-co-op world on the Back Bay / East-Cambridge fringe — Molly Notkin's third-floor co-op (once Orin & Joelle's, a JOI shooting location), Mario's birth-staircase. |
| Brookline |
2 |
Upscale Brookline — DuPlessis's home (the Gately/Fax burglary) and the Young People's AA on Beacon St. |
| Watertown |
3 |
Watertown MA — the Armenian Foundation Library men's room, Mount Auburn fitness center; Poor Tony's seizure. |
| Boston North Shore (Beverly/Salem/Danvers) |
7 |
Gately's home ground north of Boston — Beverly, Salem, Danvers, Saugus; his football-and-Demerol youth and the stripped-luxury-apartment Fackelmann binge. |
| Downtown Boston |
7 |
The tourist/civic core — Boston Common, Copley Sq / Boston Public Library, the Public Gardens, the State House Annex; Joelle's U.H.I.D. walk, the Jarvik-heart hunt, the Fully-Functional-Phil meeting. |
| Brighton Projects |
2 |
The housing-project blacktop of the Clenette/Wardine and yrstruly street-voices. |
| Mountainside outcrop above Tucson |
13 |
The shale/rock shelf in the Tortolita foothills NW of Tucson where Marathe and Steeply hold their all-night dialogue serial, the desert bonfire below. |
| Tucson / U. of Arizona |
5 |
Tucson city and the University of Arizona — Hal's opening admissions interview, the trailer-park monologue, Steeply's *Moment*-magazine cover address. |
| Phoenix-area Arizona |
8 |
Orin's turf — metro Phoenix / Tempe / Scottsdale / Mesa / Superstition Mtns; his condo, hotel rooms, and Subject-hunting. |
| the Great Concavity |
1 |
The toxic ceded territory (ex-northern-New-England); the feral-hamster plains of what used to be Vermont. |
| Quebec / A.F.R. territory |
3 |
Southwest Québec and the northbound routes into it — the Papineau region, the van run past ex-Montpelier/St.-Johnsbury to the Autoroute-55 checkpoint. |
| Port Washington Tennis Academy, Long Island |
2 |
The rival academy under its tri-domed Lungs; the away meet and the bus home. |
| Incandenza family homes |
2 |
The pre-E.T.A. family houses — the Weston MA backyard (the mold) and the Sepulveda CA hillside home (the Man-from-Glad mattress). |
| Other single-scene locales |
11 |
Honest catch-all for one-off distant places: Winchester junior high, Mile-High Stadium Denver, Liberty Island/NNYC, Natick (Q.R.S.), Revere, Indiana funeral, New Orleans, Troy NY, etc. — usually a secondary. |
| No fixed setting |
10 |
Documents, encyclopedic/expository interludes, cover-dossiers, and unanchored dreams with no diegetic place. |
| Multiple locations (montage) |
1 |
The one true simultaneity montage (p0654) whose point is happening in many places at once; reserved so it isn't mislabelled "unspecified." |