Scenes

Every scene in book order. Re-sort by in-world chronology.

194 total. Sort: book order by chronology

Cold open

Year of Glad — Hal's interview in Tucson · pp. 3–17

• Scene 001: hal admissions interview — p. 3–10 · late Nov, YG (2010) — chronologically the LAST events of the novel
• Scene 002: hal eats the mold — p. 10–11 · March/early April, ~1997 (pre-Subsidized; Hal ~5) — Orin's memory, relayed by Hal narrating in YG
• Scene 003: interview aftermath er — p. 11–17 · late Nov, YG (2010), continuing scene 001 directly

Meeting the cast

Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment — Erdedy waits · pp. 17–27

• Scene 004: erdedy waits for pot — p. 17–27 · YDAU (2009), exact date unspecified — first scene under the 'YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT' header (p. 17)

1 April, Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad — the professional conversationalist · pp. 27–32

• Scene 005: professional conversationalist — p. 27–32 · 1 April, YTMP (2003) — April Fools' Day; Hal is ten

9 May Y.D.A.U. — Orin calls · pp. 32–33

• Scene 006: orin first call — p. 32–33 · 9 May, YDAU (2009), before 0600h

Y.D.A.U. — the Medical Attaché sits down to watch · pp. 33–39

• Scene 007: attache receives cartridge — p. 33–37 · Wednesday 1 April, YDAU (2009), ~1800-1927h
• Scene 008: clenette wardine — p. 37–38 · YTSDB (2004), exact date unspecified
• Scene 009: green loves mildred bonk — p. 38–39 · undated retrospect — Bruce Green's eighth-grade year (Winchester MA; roughly a decade before YDAU)

Hal and Mario at night; Orin in Phoenix · pp. 39–49

• Scene 010: hal mario moms sadness — p. 39–42 · two parts: undated retrospect (Green/Bonk, tenth grade to post-graduation years), then midnight, YDAU (2009), date unspecified
• Scene 011: attache still watching — p. 42 · 1 April, YDAU (2009), 2010h
• Scene 012: orin phoenix morning — p. 42–49 · October, YDAU (2009), morning from 0730h (per the section header, p. 42)

Y.D.A.U. — the pump room, a burglary, a nightmare · pp. 49–63

• Scene 013: hal pump room — p. 49–54 · YDAU (2009), date unspecified — 'the sad little interval after afternoon matches and conditioning but before the Academy's communal supper'
• Scene 014: attache wets recliner — p. 54 · 0015-0020h, 2 April, YDAU (2009)
• Scene 015: mario filmic function — p. 54–55 · YDAU (2009), undated descriptive present; Mario 'Eighteen in May'
• Scene 016: gately duplessis burglary — p. 55–60 · Autumn YDPAH (2008); A.D.A.-revenge backstory some years earlier (undated)
• Scene 017: ydau tech catalog — p. 60 · YDAU (2009) — the year defined by its tech
• Scene 018: troeltsch sick in bed — p. 60–61 · 3 Nov YDAU (2009), morning (illness onset at 0745 drills)
• Scene 019: face in the floor nightmare — p. 61–63 · dream set ~YTSDB (2004) — narrator 'almost twelve,' first nights at the Academy; narrated from a later vantage ('I am coming to see'), presumably YDAU

As of Y.D.A.U. — the Incandenza story so far · pp. 63–66

• Scene 020: joi bio eta founding — p. 63–65 · expository survey 'AS OF YDAU' (2009), covering JOI's life from B.S. childhood through death in YTSDB (2004)
• ↳ Scene n024: joi filmography — p. 985–993 · in-world reference document compiled YDPAH (2008), per its source citation (sub-footnote a); covers JOI's ~12-year career, undated 'B.S.' works through YTSDB (2004), plus posthumous releases to YWQMD (2006) · read mid-scene from page 64
• Scene 021: orin mile high wings — p. 65–66 · 1 Nov YDAU (2009), Denver CO (per the DENVER CO dateline, p. 65)

Muscimole, and a dream of tennis · pp. 66–68

• Scene 022: pemulis big buddy muscimole — p. 66–67 · YDAU (2009), undated weekday, pre-dinner Big Buddy slot
• Scene 023: hal tennis court dream — p. 67–68 · retrospective 1st-person narration (vantage YDAU or later); the bongs-and-dream events at age 15-16, ~YDPAH (2007-08); 'every now and then still recurs'

Y.D.A.U. — Kate Gompert; the Attaché's room fills up · pp. 68–87

• Scene 024: kate gompert psych ward — p. 68–78 · YDAU (2009), undated; three days after Kate's O.D. admission via the E.R.
• Scene 025: attache wife watches — p. 78–79 · just before 0145h, 2 April YDAU (2009)
• Scene 026: schtitt and mario — p. 79–85 · YDAU (2009), undated warm evening(s) — habitual/iterative narration with one specific ice-cream walk into Allston
• Scene 027: tiny ewell to ennet — p. 85–87 · early November YDAU (2009), foggy colorless day — Ewell's first day out of detox pajamas in two weeks
• Scene 028: attache room fills — p. 87 · mid-afternoon, 2 April YDAU (2009)

The braid begins

30 April Y.D.A.U. — Marathe and Steeply; the locker room · pp. 87–128

• Scene 029: marathe steeply entertainment — p. 87–93 · 30 April YDAU (2009), sunset into dusk (opens the mountainside serial — every installment is the night of 30 Apr–1 May YDAU)
• Scene 030: feral hamsters — p. 93 · undated YDAU-era present; herd's origin 'the subsidized Year of the Whopper' (2002)
• Scene 031: marathe steeply duplessis — p. 93–95 · 30 April YDAU (2009), dusk deepening — continuous with scene 029 (mountainside serial, night of 30 Apr–1 May)
• Scene 032: locker room quiz — p. 95–97 · Tuesday 3 Nov YDAU (2009), 1640h
• Scene 033: desert dusk interstitial — p. 97 · 30 April YDAU (2009), full dusk — continuous with scenes 029/031 (mountainside serial, night of 30 Apr–1 May)
• Scene 034: locker room big buddies — p. 97–105 · Tuesday 3 Nov YDAU (2009), ~1640-1700h — continuous with scene 032
• Scene 035: marathe steeply temple — p. 105–109 · 30 April YDAU (2009), night — moonrise; continuous with scenes 029/031/033 (mountainside serial, night of 30 Apr–1 May)
• Scene 036: big buddy sessions — p. 109–121 · 3 Nov YDAU (2009), the unstructured forty-five before dinner
• Scene 037: mario millicent kent — p. 121–126 · mid-Oct YDAU (2009), ~1900h, dusk
• Scene 038: marathe steeply disguises — p. 126–127 · 30 April YDAU (2009), after nightfall — the 30 Apr–1 May mountainside night
• Scene 039: lyle weight room guru — p. 127–128 · undated; E.T.A. habitual present, ~YDAU (2009) — iterative ('he's always in there')

Poor Tony, C, and yrstruly · pp. 128–135

• Scene 040: yrstruly xmas eve — p. 128–135 · 24-25 Dec YDPAH (2008), Christmas Eve into Christmas morning (with two days' withdrawal aftermath)

3 November Y.D.A.U. — phone calls and found documents · pp. 135–151

• Scene 041: orin calls separatism — p. 135–137 · 3 Nov YDAU (2009), just before E.T.A. dinner (the West-house triangle audible at the end)
• Scene 042: ennet house founding — p. 137–138 · expository, narrated from ~YDAU (2009); founding in YW (2002)
• Scene 043: founder lore glynn letter — p. 138–140 · two-part: Ennet-founder retrospect narrated from ~YDAU (founder d. YYTMRCYTPC/2007); State Farm e-mail dated 26 June YDPAH (2008)
• Scene 044: hal hero essay — p. 140–142 · document dated 21 Feb YPW (2005); Hal in seventh grade, age 12 (consistent with Hal's June-1992 birth date)
• Scene 045: steeply jarvik heart article — p. 142–144 · document dated 10 Aug YDAU (2009); incident undated, earlier YDAU
• Scene 046: separatist groups list — p. 144 · undated; a YDAU-era R.C.M.P. / U.S.O.U.S. designation document
• Scene 047: videophony rise fall — p. 144–151 · undated encyclopedic essay, vantage ~YDAU (2009); the videophony fad itself spans ~16 months / 5 sales quarters early in the InterLace era

The urine business · pp. 151–156

• Scene 048: urine day — p. 151–156 · urine-day, Oct YDAU (2009) — sample labels printed '10-15-Y.D.A.U.' (15 Oct); habitual-quarterly register throughout

Winter, B.S. 1960 — a father's monologue (and the DMZ) · pp. 157–181

• Scene 049: joi father monologue — p. 157–169 · Winter B.S. 1960 (pre-Subsidized; Gregorian 1960), Tucson AZ — JOI age ten
• Scene 050: pemulis scores dmz — p. 169–171 · 4 Nov YDAU (2009), ~lunchtime ('most of them are still at lunch,' p. 171; Carlisle concurs)
• Scene 051: tennis feral prodigy — p. 171–176 · cartridge dated April YYTMRCYTPC (2007), 'almost exactly three years after Dr. James O. Incandenza passed from this life' (title block, p. 171) — consistent with JOI's 1 Apr YTSDB (2004) death date
• Scene 052: montesian transcripts — p. 176–181 · Wednesday 4 Nov YDAU (2009), 1300-1500h (title block, p. 176)

Up the hill and down: E.T.A. and Ennet House

Late October Y.D.A.U. — Madame Psychosis on the air · pp. 181–219

• Scene 053: madame psychosis show — p. 181–193 · 22 Oct YDAU (2009) — heading 'LATE OCTOBER Y.D.A.U.' (p. 181); 'It's 22 October in the O.N.A.N.ite year...' (p. 187); the show itself (0000-0100h, Hal coated 'at like 0101h,' p. 193) technically straddles into 23 Oct
• Scene 054: enfield marine units — p. 193–198 · undated expository present, autumn YDAU (2009) — Gately now live-in Staff; flashbacks to his residency year (Carlisle places the present at 'early November Y.D.A.U.' via Ewell's arrival + the 4-Nov drop-ins)
• Scene 055: weight room lyle — p. 198–200 · 6 Nov YDAU (2009), 1610h
• Scene 056: ennet facts ewell tattoos — p. 200–211 · undated expository present, autumn YDAU (2009) — Ewell's 'two-month obsession' during early residency; Gately on live-in Staff
• Scene 057: dmz show and tell — p. 211–219 · 4-5 Nov YDAU (2009) — the room scene over lunch hour (continuing scene 050's day), the planning 'over the course of the next academic day,' fence-side on 'a raw 11/5 P.M.' (Thursday, p. 216)

7 November Y.D.A.U. — Joelle's walk to the party · pp. 219–240

• Scene 058: joelle last walk — p. 219–223 · 7 Nov YDAU (2009) — heading p. 219; 'this last day before the great O.N.A.N.ite Interdependence revel' (p. 221); a Saturday (cf. p. 225, scene 060)
• Scene 059: subsidized time chronology — p. 223 · n/a (document) — the list spans YW (2002) through YG (2010)
• Scene 060: joelle walk uhid — p. 223–227 · 7 Nov YDAU (2009), continuing scene 058 — Saturday, eve of Interdependence Day
• Scene 061: steeply putative cv — p. 227 · n/a (undated document; cover legend in use during YDAU/2009)
• Scene 062: notkin party joelle overdose — p. 227–240 · 7 Nov YDAU (2009), afternoon into evening — I-Day eve; party for Molly Notkin's Orals, passed the day before

Enfield — the town, the hill, a long phone call · pp. 240–258

• Scene 063: enfield topography — p. 240–242 · n/a (undated expository survey; narrated from YDAU/2009 vantage — E.T.A. 'some ten years' on its hill)
• Scene 064: hal orin phone joi suicide — p. 242–258 · 5 Nov YDAU (2009) (dateline, p. 242)

6 November Y.D.A.U. — the Port Washington meet · pp. 258–283

• Scene 065: port washington meet — p. 258–270 · 6 Nov YDAU (2009) (dateline, p. 258)
• Scene 066: ennet living room day gately — p. 270–281 · Fri 6 Nov YDAU (2009), 0825-0832h
• ↳ Scene n090: day gately interface — p. 1000–1003 · Wed 11 Nov YDAU (2009), 'on and off from just after the Brookline Young People's AA mtng up to about 2329h.' per the log's own heading · read mid-scene from page 272
• Scene 067: bus ride home pwta — p. 281–283 · 6-7 Nov YDAU (2009) — evening of the meet through the 0030h Denny's stop

Orin's story; Poor Tony's ordeal · pp. 283–307

• Scene 068: orin bu punting joelle — p. 283–299 · retrospective sweep, B.S. ~2000-01 through YDPAH (2008), narrated from YDAU (2009)
• Scene 069: poor tony seizure — p. 299–307 · 14 Nov YDAU (2009) (dateline, p. 299); flashback coverage of the preceding ~4 months

7 November Y.D.A.U. — classes, Mario's birth, the mountainside · pp. 307–321

• Scene 070: prorector classes separatism — p. 307–312 · 7 Nov YDAU (2009) (dateline, p. 307); Saturday last class period, ~1435-1445h
• ↳ Scene n110: orin hal phone — p. 1005–1022 · Sat 7 Nov YDAU (2009), I.-Day Eve, late afternoon ~1600h+ — 'later in the same day, 11/7' (p. 1005); Orin's machine message logged 1412h · read mid-scene from page 309
• Scene 071: mario birth defects — p. 312–317 · n/a (expository; Mario's birth ~Nov B.S. 1990 narrated from the YDAU (2009) present, Mario 'at 18+')
• Scene 072: marathe steeply choosing — p. 317–321 · night of 30 April / 1 May YDAU (2009) (dateline, p. 318; the whole mountainside serial is this one night)

Interdependence Day

8 November — Interdependence Day: Eschaton; the White Flag meeting · pp. 321–379

• Scene 073: eschaton debacle — p. 321–342 · Sunday 8 November YDAU (2009) — Interdependence Day, afternoon (game ends at the 1600h. Sunstrand siren)
• Scene 074: white flag aa meeting — p. 343–367 · 8 November YDAU (2009), Interdependence Day, Sunday evening from ~2000h — 'GAUDEAMUS IGITUR' (p. 343)
• Scene 075: liberty statue product — p. 367 · undated; O.N.A.N./Subsidized era (the product rotates 'each 1 Jan.' with the Subsidized year)
• Scene 076: aa raquel mask speaker — p. 367–375 · 8 November YDAU (2009), Interdependence Day — White Flag meeting continued, same evening as scene 074
• Scene 077: marathe steeply betrayal — p. 375 · night of 30 April / 1 May YDAU (2009) — text header p. 375; all the mountainside installments are this one night
• Scene 078: found drama inception — p. 375–376 · the recounted night: 'early in the O.N.A.N.ite temporo-subsidized era' (~YW 2002), a 'first brutal winter night' soon after InterLace's dissemination of The Man Who Began to Suspect He Was Made of Glass; narrated from YDAU retrospect
• Scene 079: dead infant speaker — p. 376–379 · 8 November YDAU (2009), Interdependence Day — White Flag meeting, final speaker (same evening as scenes 074/076)
• Scene 080: lyle joi weight room — p. 379 · undated, habitual ('often,' 'sometimes'): late-night sessions in the 'newly outfitted' E.T.A. weight room, B.S./early-Subsidized era up to JOI's death (1 April YTSDB/2004); narrated from YDAU retrospect

Interdependence Day evening — Mario's movie; the Clipperton story · pp. 380–442

• Scene 081: marios onantiad gaudeamus — p. 380–386 · 8 November YDAU (2009), Interdependence Day evening, ~1930h (dateline '8 NOVEMBER YDAU GAUDEAMUS IGITUR'; gala starts after supper)
• Scene 082: lyle weight room supplicants — p. 386–391 · 8 November YDAU (2009), Interdependence Day night, during the gala screening (rain after P.M. snow)
• Scene 083: onan headline montage — p. 391–394 · 8 November YDAU (2009), Interdependence Day evening (the gala screening continues)
• Scene 084: stice bed lyle objects — p. 394–395 · 8 November YDAU (2009), Interdependence Day night (continuing Lyle's weight-room consultations during the gala)
• Scene 085: hal joi audience films — p. 395–399 · 8 November YDAU (2009), Interdependence Day evening, during the gala screening
• Scene 086: concavity cabinet clipperton — p. 398–410 · 8 November YDAU (2009), Interdependence Day evening (the gala screening continues; Clipperton legend told as E.T.A. lore)
• Scene 087: hal tv ad interlace history — p. 410–418 · 8 November YDAU (2009), Interdependence Day evening, during the gala (Hal's reverie resumes)
• Scene 088: marathe steeply soup — p. 418–430 · Night of 30 April – 1 May YDAU (2009) (dateline '30 APRIL / 1 MAY YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT', p. 418)
• Scene 089: clipperton suicide — p. 430–434 · Year of the Whopper (2002) — Clipperton's sanctioned #1 and suicide, two days before the Continental Clay-Courts; preceded by his last pre-Subsidized season; told as E.T.A. lore within the 8 Nov YDAU (2009) gala sequence
• Scene 090: gately shattuck janitor — p. 434–436 · Fall YDAU (2009), ~Nov; habitual-present narration of Gately's routine as live-in Staff
• Scene 091: fresno quik subsidized time — p. 436–442 · 8 November YDAU (2009), I-Day gala, late in the screening; film-within: Gentle's first term, around/just before the Year of the Whopper; lore: an undated B.S.-era Fresno tragedy

November darkens

Y.D.A.U. — Gately at the podium; the Antitoi brothers · pp. 442–489

• Scene 092: gately higher power bob death — p. 442–449 · YDAU (2009): the Braintree Commitment and that night's dream 'this past July' (Gately ~10 months clean); the surfacing memories May–June YDAU; childhood flashbacks B.S. (Gately ~9-11, then 17); narrated from later in YDAU (dateline 'YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT', p. 442)
• Scene 093: hal teeth dream wyyy — p. 449–450 · Very late October YDAU (2009) (dateline 'VERY LATE OCTOBER Y.D.A.U.', p. 449), about an hour before dawn drills
• Scene 094: dawn drills second world — p. 450–461 · 9 Nov YDAU (2009) — text header '9 NOVEMBER YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT' (p. 450); dawn, the morning after the I.-Day Eschaton debacle and gala
• Scene 095: gately staff the removal — p. 461–470 · ~9 Nov YDAU (2009) — iterative/habitual present; the frame day runs on into scene 097's 'Then tonight' (~1800h); long flashbacks to Gately's intake interview (~14 months earlier, late summer) and his first sober year
• Scene 096: p terminals rivers of reward — p. 470–475 · night of 30 April / 1 May YDAU (2009) — text header 'PRE-DAWN, 1 MAY — Y.D.A.U. … STILL' (p. 470); one installment of the single mountainside night
• Scene 097: aventura antitoi afr raid — p. 475–489 · evening, ~1800h, 9 Nov YDAU (2009) — 'Then tonight' continues scene 095's frame-day; Joelle is a brand-new resident (entered 8 Nov YDAU, the dating fixed by endnote 134); the Antitoi raid unfolds the same twilight, linked in one continuous narrated movement

Pre-dawn, 1 May — the mountainside, a mattress, an NA meeting · pp. 489–538

• Scene 098: master copies temptation — p. 489–491 · night of 30 April / 1 May YDAU (2009) — text header 'PRE-DAWN, 1 MAY Y.D.A.U. … STILL' (p. 489); one installment of the single mountainside night
• Scene 099: man from glad mattress — p. 491–503 · Winter B.S. 1963 (pre-Subsidized, Gregorian as written), Sepulveda CA; written as memoir, published YTMP (2003) per n.208
• Scene 100: na hug roy tony — p. 503–507 · Monday 9 Nov YDAU (2009) — 'the night after' the 8 Nov joint Interdependence Day picnic (p. 503)
• Scene 101: entertainment casualties — p. 507–508 · night of 30 April – 1 May YDAU (2009) (mountainside serial; all one night)
• Scene 102: tavis waiting room — p. 508–527 · 10 Nov YDAU (2009), ~48 hours after the I-Day Eschaton debacle; long analepsis to late August YDAU (Tina Echt's intake) and to earlier this day (Zegarelli's dental chair)
• Scene 103: odalisque myths — p. 528–530 · pre-dawn and dawn, 1 May YDAU (2009) — night of 30 April – 1 May (mountainside serial)
• Scene 104: gately joelle veil uhid — p. 531–538 · 0450h, Wed 11 Nov YDAU (2009)

Randy Lenz, out at night · pp. 538–619

• Scene 105: lenz demaps animals — p. 538–547 · iterative, late summer–early Nov YDAU (2009): Lenz in Ennet House 'since the summer'; SteelSak escalation c. United Nations Day (24 Oct), the Browning adopted 'before Halloween' ('near Halloween' is the Blanchard's-alley drunk)
• Scene 106: ennet house locks — p. 548 · undated (Nov YDAU Ennet House sequence)
• Scene 107: tine samizdat dossier — p. 548–549 · early Nov YDAU (2009), per the EARLY NOVEMBER Y.D.A.U. section header
• Scene 108: pemulis catches avril wayne — p. 550–553 · late P.M. (c. 2100h Study Period), Mon 9 Nov YDAU (2009)
• Scene 109: lenz coked monologue green — p. 553–559 · Wed 11 Nov YDAU (2009), c. 1610h (the hairspray cat) through the 2109h raffle-break lines and the post-meeting walk past 2202h
• Scene 110: hal photosynthesizing — p. 560 · ? Nov YDAU (2009), lunchtime — undated micro-scene spliced between the two halves of the 11 Nov Lenz/Green walk
• Scene 111: lenz cult lore concavity — p. 560–562 · Wed 11 Nov YDAU (2009), continuing the post-meeting walk (after 2202h)
• Scene 112: gately staff snippets — p. 563–565 · Wed 11 Nov YDAU (2009), 'on and off from just after the Brookline Young People's AA mtng. up to about 2329h.'
• Scene 113: orin swiss hand model — p. 565–567 · 7 Nov YDAU (2009) — the day Orin drives 'Helen' Steeply down I-17/-10 to Sky Harbor; the rented-room seduction follows the airport meeting
• ↳ Scene n234: orin steeply interview — p. 1038–1044 · interview series November YDAU (2009); core anecdote B.S. mid-1990s, Weston MA (Hal ~4, Orin 'let's say thirteen') · read mid-scene from page 565
• Scene 114: arslanian blindfold annulation — p. 567–574 · ? Nov YDAU (2009); after the O.N.A.N.T.A. urologist's 30-day window opens (scene 102, 10 Nov) — the urine-acquisition scheme answers it — and before Pemulis's 17 Nov expulsion
• Scene 115: orin wheelchairs return — p. 574–575 · 7 Nov YDAU (2009) — hours after 'Helen' Steeply leaves Phoenix; Orin driving away from the hotel after the hand-model encounter
• Scene 116: lenz kills nuck dog — p. 575–589 · 11 Nov YDAU (2009), night (post-AA-meeting walk; dog killed well after 2245h)
• Scene 117: mario night walk ennet — p. 589–593 · 11 Nov YDAU (2009), ~2300h (though 'hiatus enters its third week' and the 25 Nov birthday countdown read later in the text itself)
• Scene 118: gately staffer duties — p. 593–596 · 11 Nov YDAU (2009), evening into ~2300h (same night as scenes 116-117)
• Scene 119: orin survey wheelchair man — p. 596–601 · 7 Nov YDAU (2009) — the hotel-room encounter scene 115 (pp. 574-575) alludes to, narrated in full
• Scene 120: gately shot nucks — p. 601–619 · night of Wed 11 - Thurs 12 Nov YDAU (2009), 2300h to just past 0005h (the raw's last stamp)

The convergence (11–17 November)

E.T.A., Ennet House, and the A.F.R., cross-cut · pp. 620–808

• Scene 121: afr snatches wyyy engineer — p. 620–626 · a gray weekday c. mid-Nov YDAU (2009), morning (the annual Public Gardens pond-draining)
• Scene 122: eta supper stice hal — p. 627–638 · Wed 11 Nov YDAU (2009), 1810h+ — same evening, hours before scene 120's shooting downhill
• Scene 123: steeply father mash — p. 638–648 · dawn, 1 May YDAU (2009) — late installment of the Marathe/Steeply mountainside serial (all installments fall within the night of 30 Apr-1 May YDAU)
• Scene 124: gompert day billowing shape — p. 648–651 · 13 Nov YDAU (2009), 0245h — 'the hours that are truly wee'
• Scene 125: hal stice match begins — p. 651–654 · 11 Nov YDAU (2009), afternoon (cold noon cloud-cover clearing into 'blue autumn glory'); match ordered post-run, attended like an exhibition
• Scene 126: simultaneity montage — p. 654–655 · 11 Nov YDAU (2009), 'at just this moment' — synchronized with the Hal/Stice first set (afternoon EST; Orin's panel stamped M.S.T.)
• Scene 127: delint steeply seeing — p. 655–662 · 11 Nov YDAU (2009), late afternoon — the Hal/Stice first set, continuous with scenes 125/129/130
• Scene 128: steeply bain correspondence — p. 663–665 · November YDAU (2009) — three letters, all dated only 'November Y.D.A.U.'; the letter text begins at p. 663
• ↳ Scene n269: marlon bain letters — p. 1047–1052 · written November YDAU (2009); recounted material spans the Bain-Orin juniors era (B.S.) through the days before JOI's suicide (1 April YTSDB/2004) · read mid-scene from page 665
• Scene 129: tunnel club fridge — p. 666–673 · 11 Nov YDAU (2009), from 1625h — concurrent with the Hal/Stice first set 26 m overhead
• Scene 130: hal stice bleachers etoile doom — p. 673–682 · Wed 11 Nov YDAU (2009), afternoon — third set of the Hal–Stice exhibition
• Scene 131: matty pemulis da birthday — p. 682–686 · Sat 14 Nov YDAU (2009) — Matty Pemulis's twenty-third birthday
• Scene 132: hal vr6 wave bye bye — p. 686–689 · Wed 11 Nov YDAU (2009), evening after supper / P.M. Study Period
• Scene 133: poor tony post seizure prowl — p. 689–691 · Sat 14 Nov YDAU (2009), purple twilight into evening
• Scene 134: day cognomens missing lenz — p. 692 · mid-Nov YDAU (2009), undated; placed in the 14 Nov sequence, after Lenz's flight
• Scene 135: anhedonia and it — p. 692–698 · narratorial essay, YDAU (2009); Kate Gompert's Newton-Wellesley ward stay 'two years ago' ≈ YYTMRCYTPC (2007)
• Scene 136: kate ruth prospect trek — p. 698–700 · Sat 14 Nov YDAU (2009), ~2200-2215h, after the Clean and Serene NA meeting
• Scene 137: eta evening montage — p. 700–701 · ? Nov YDAU; internal evidence places it the evening of Wed 11 Nov YDAU (Schtitt 'off after confections,' scene 132 p. 686)
• Scene 138: blood sister viewing — p. 701–706 · Wed 11 Nov YDAU (2009), P.M. Study Period, continuing scene 132's evening
• Scene 139: joelle ca biscuits bottom — p. 707–711 · Sat 14 Nov YDAU (2009), evening ('tonight, 11/14' p. 710); speaker's Bottom was a payday in 'cold March dusk' per the raw, while '224 days ago tonight' computes to ≈ 4 Apr YDAU — the novel's own ~5-day disagreement, cited as written
• Scene 140: blood sister finale — p. 711–714 · Wed 11 Nov YDAU (2009), late P.M. Study Period — Blood Sister's Act III and aftermath
• Scene 141: kate concussed purse snatch — p. 714–716 · night of 14 Nov YDAU (2009), c. 2215h (concurrent with scenes 142, 144, 148)
• Scene 142: lenz stalks chinese women — p. 716–719 · 14 Nov YDAU (2009), c. 2212-2214h — 'smack in the middle of the former Interval of Issues-Resolution'
• Scene 143: afr two ways — p. 719 · ~9 Nov YDAU (2009); undated summary of the A.F.R.'s standing position while occupying the Antitoi shop
• Scene 144: poor tony chase — p. 719–721 · night of 14 Nov YDAU (2009), c. 2215-2225h (same event as scene 141, thief's POV)
• Scene 145: afr antitoi search — p. 721–723 · c. 9-11 Nov YDAU (2009); retrospective dossier of the search's first days
• Scene 146: joelle teeth dentist dream — p. 723–724 · 14 Nov YDAU (2009), night (Joelle asleep in the 5-Woman room); tooth-worry begun 'a few days before the debacle in which Don Gately got hurt' (i.e., before 11 Nov)
• Scene 147: afr finds entertainment — p. 724–728 · c. 12-14 Nov YDAU (2009); closes on Fortier's southbound bus ride, night of 14 Nov
• Scene 148: lenz alley loot — p. 728–729 · 14 Nov YDAU (2009), 'somewhere vague between 2224 and 2226h' — minutes after scene 142
• Scene 149: marathe ennet waiting room — p. 729–736 · evening of 14 Nov YDAU (2009) — Ennet House group-intake night, 'the last demi-maison on his portion of the list for this day'
• ↳ Scene n304: struck plagiarizes afr train cult — p. 1055–1062 · frame: 2030h, 11 Nov YDAU (2009); plagiarized article written/published ~YWQMD (2006, its own 'vulgate perspective'); le Jeu du Prochain Train originates 'B.S.' (pre-Subsidized, a decade+ before Reconfiguration) · read mid-scene from page 732
• Scene 150: joelle cleaning incandenza thanksgiving — p. 736–747 · night of 14 Nov YDAU (2009), Joelle cleaning the 5-Woman room; long memory-spine reaching back to her B.U. years with Orin and the Incandenzas
• Scene 151: marathe pat intake cartridges — p. 747–751 · evening of 14 Nov YDAU (2009) — Marathe's intake interview, directly continuing scene 149
• Scene 152: joelle family secrets — p. 751–752 · night of 14 Nov YDAU (2009) — scene 150's cleaning frame continuing
• Scene 153: marathe quadruple calculus — p. 752–755 · evening of 14 Nov YDAU (2009) — close of Marathe's Ennet House intake (continuous with scenes 149/151); Johnette clocking in for Dream Duty
• Scene 154: mario bolex avril sadness — p. 755–769 · 11 Nov YDAU (2009), ~2100h and after
• Scene 155: hal mario liars — p. 769–774 · night of 11-12 Nov YDAU (2009), pre-dawn, after Mario has moved back into the room
• Scene 156: marathe kate ryles — p. 774–782 · 14 Nov YDAU (2009), night — after Marathe's day locating the Entertainment's performer and his phone call of betrayal
• Scene 157: hal confession mario — p. 782–785 · night of 11-12 Nov YDAU (2009), continuing scene 155 toward dawn (~40 hours into Hal's abstinence)
• ↳ Scene n321: hal pemulis dmz quitting — p. 1063–1066 · Thurs 12 Nov YDAU (2009), 1930h, per the note's own dateline · read mid-scene from page 785
• Scene 158: hal ennet house door — p. 785–787 · 17 Nov YDAU (2009), just after 0830h
• ↳ Scene n324: trust math locker room — p. 1066–1072 · 17 Nov YDAU (2009), ~1420h-on (1420h in the note; end-time inferred from sub-fn b's 1430h match start; same day as scene 158's morning) · read mid-scene from page 787
• Scene 159: notkin spills — p. 787–795 · ? Nov YDAU (2009) — mid/late Nov, after Joelle's 7 Nov overdose (House entry 8 Nov per n.134) and removal to what Notkin believes is an elite faraway treatment facility; Notkin fresh off the N.N.Y.C. high-speed rail
• ↳ Scene n332: pemulis expelled — p. 1072–1076 · 17 Nov YDAU (2009), per the note's dateline; Wayne's WETA broadcast evidently just prior (the administrators 'always shut their soundproof doors at 1435h.,' p. 1073) · read mid-scene from page 795
• Scene 160: hal inner infant meeting — p. 795–808 · Tues 17 Nov YDAU (2009), evening; Meeting listed 1730h (same day as Wayne's WETA meltdown / Pemulis's expulsion)

The last days

Gately's bed; E.T.A. in the blizzard · pp. 809–981

• Scene 161: gately hospital visitors — p. 809–827 · ?/12-15 Nov YDAU (2009) — first full night in St. Elizabeth's Trauma Wing through the following days (post-fracas)
• Scene 162: gately wraith figurants — p. 827–845 · night 16/17 Nov YDAU (2009), through dawn Tue 17 Nov — days after the 11/12 Nov shooting (scene 120); pinned by scene 166's 'last night's St. Columbkill's' (Tue 17 per p. 546), which puts this wraith night at 16/17 and scene 175's 'yesterday' at the 17th
• Scene 163: afr mirror ambush plan — p. 845–846 · 19 Nov YDAU (2009), per dateline; Balbalis's van drives north into the blizzard that night
• Scene 164: gately dreams mrs waite death — p. 846–851 · ? Nov YDAU (2009) — Trauma Wing pain-and-fever dreams, the night before Joelle's morning visit (scene 166); night 17/18 Nov, the night before scene 166's Wed-18-A.M. visit
• Scene 165: hal blizzard anhedonia — p. 851–854 · 20 Nov YDAU (2009), before 0500h — dateline '20 NOVEMBER YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT / GAUDEAMUS IGITUR'
• Scene 166: joelle visits gately abiding — p. 854–864 · prob. Wed 18 Nov YDAU (2009), A.M. — directly out of scene 164's dream; 'last night's St. Columbkill's Meeting' (p. 856) = Tue 17 Nov, St. Collie's Tuesday per p. 546 (scene 105); gray-windy-no-snow morning fits 18 Nov, pre-blizzard (a dating Carlisle's Sunday-St.-Collie's argument helped pin)
• Scene 167: stice stuck to window — p. 864–876 · 20 Nov YDAU (2009), ~0456h, pre-dawn of the great blizzard — but the hall's digital display reads '11–18-EST0456' (p. 865) — an inconsistency in the text itself; 20 Nov holds (Wayne's Tue 17 Nov broadcast and Wednesday's run are already past per p. 900)
• Scene 168: fully functional phil — p. 876–883 · 20 Nov YDAU (2009), afternoon (transcript dateline; 'Afternoon, Chief!' p. 876) — the weather-delayed meeting during the blizzard of scenes 167/170
• Scene 169: gately dream md temptation — p. 883–896 · prob. 19 Nov YDAU (2009), dawn through ~1100h+ — sleet at the window, and Diehl's sinus predicts snow 'as early as tonight' (p. 894), i.e. the eve of the 20 Nov blizzard of scenes 167/168/170; the exact day is left open
• Scene 170: hal horizontal vr5 — p. 896–902 · 20 Nov YDAU (2009), early morning — continuous with scene 167 (Hal leaving the Stice rescue as the blizzard continues)
• Scene 171: gately bim football decline — p. 902–906 · narrated from Gately's St. E.'s bed, ~19-20 Nov YDAU (2009); content retrospective, Gately's North Shore boyhood through age 17 in 'that last September of Unsubsidized Time' (B.S. 2001, the year before Year of the Whopper)
• Scene 172: hal supine pemulis interface — p. 906–911 · 20 Nov YDAU (2009), A.M. — three days after Pemulis's 17 Nov expulsion (n.332), which Hal does not yet know about
• Scene 173: gately sorkin twin towers — p. 911–916 · frame: ? Nov YDAU (2009), St. E.'s Trauma Ward; flashback: Gately's ages ~18-23 working for Sorkin, ending the Forsythia Bowl just after Xmas before 'the last New Year's Eve of Unsubsidized Time' (i.e. Dec 2001, with Year of the Whopper as 2002; see Connections for the chronology strain)
• Scene 174: pemulis entrepot raided — p. 916 · ?/20 Nov YDAU (2009) — same morning as scene 172's brush-off, three days after the 17 Nov expulsion (n.332)
• Scene 175: fackelmann scam wraith returns — p. 916–934 · frame: prob. Wed 18 Nov YDAU (2009), gray winter P.M. toward 1600h, St. E.'s Trauma Ward — the wraith's first visit was 'yesterday' (p. 923), i.e. the 16/17 Nov wraith night of scene 162; halo-rig staged for Lord's Thursday-19 procedure (p. 948) fits; flashback: the three bail months Sorkin bonded, end of Unsubsidized Time (internal 'over four years later,' p. 937 — see chronology note in Connections)
• Scene 176: steeply accosts joelle — p. 934 · ?/20 Nov YDAU (2009) — after one of Joelle's St. E.'s visits to Gately
• Scene 177: dilaudid binge — p. 934–938 · frame: ?/20 Nov YDAU (2009), St. E.'s (one heart-monitor intrusion, p. 937); flashback: the next ~two days after scene 175's relapse, end of Unsubsidized Time ('In his stuporous recall over four years later,' p. 937 — a chronology wrinkle, see scene 175)
• Scene 178: joelle q interview master — p. 938–941 · ?/20 Nov YDAU (2009) — the interview following Steeply's sidewalk grab (scene 176)
• Scene 179: hal accomplice blizzard weston — p. 941–958 · 20 Nov YDAU (2009), morning of the blizzard / Gaudeamus Igitur fundraiser day
• Scene 180: joelle returns sheriff car — p. 958 · 20 Nov YDAU (2009), blizzard day, after Joelle's release from the U.S.O.U.S. interview
• Scene 181: mikey aa speaker — p. 958–960 · ? Nov YDAU (2009), a smoky lunchtime round-robin AA meeting
• Scene 182: ada ninth step pat — p. 960–964 · ?/20 Nov YDAU (2009) — during Gately's St. Elizabeth's stay ('up at Saint Elizabeth's off and on for three days')
• Scene 183: locker room loach saga — p. 964–971 · 20 Nov YDAU (2009), 'IMMEDIATELY PRE-FUNDRAISER-EXHIBITION-FÊTE GAUDEAMUS IGITUR' (caps dateline, p. 964); Loach saga flashback reaches back ~9+ years
• Scene 184: orin tumbler roaches — p. 971–972 · ?/20 Nov YDAU (2009) — Orin's A.F.R. 'technical interview,' after his abduction via the Swiss hand-model honeytrap
• Scene 185: fackelmann sunshine beach — p. 972–981 · frame: ?/late Nov YDAU (2009), St. Elizabeth's, Gately febrile; flashback: Gately's last run before sobriety — no date in this scene; best dated c. Dec 2001 per p. 915's 'last New Year's Eve of Unsubsidized Time' (canonical ruling, VOCAB/STATE)