The thematic anthologies: every passage the archive collected under each theme.
- Addiction and Recovery
Every passage on Substances, the Spider, Boston AA, and getting clean.
- Annularity
Passages on circles and cycles: annular fusion, waste, and the novel's returning shapes.
- Communication and Solipsism
Passages on failed connection: conversations that miss, cages of one.
- Depression and Anhedonia
Passages on the It, the Bird, anhedonia, and the psych-ward view of despair.
- Disability and Deformity
Passages on damaged and different bodies: the U.H.I.D., wheelchairs, the veil.
- Dreams
The novel's dream passages: nightmares, the face in the floor, dreams that leak.
- Entertainment and the Self
Passages on watching and being dissolved by it: cartridges, spectation, the Entertainment.
- Family and Hamlet
Passages on the Incandenza family system and its Hamlet echoes.
- Fathers and Sons
Passages on fathers and sons: what gets handed down and at what cost.
- Film and Optics
Passages on film, lenses, and light: Jim's work and the novel's optics.
- Ghosts and Wraiths
Passages on the wraith and the novel's other hauntings.
- Irony and Sincerity
Passages on irony as armor and the risk of meaning what you say.
- Language and Grammar
Passages on words as a battlefield: usage, prescriptivism, the OED childhood.
- Maps and Territory
Passages where map and territory blur: Eschaton, representation, the Concavity.
- Memory and Forgetting
Passages on remembering and burying: trauma, repression, recovered scenes.
- Nationalism and O.N.A.N.
Passages on O.N.A.N. politics: Subsidized Time, the Concavity, Canada.
- Surveillance and Disguise
Passages on watching and hiding: disguises, veils, field agents.
- The Body and Tennis
Passages on the athletic body: drills, injury, the price of the Show.
- Time and Perception
Passages on subjective time: the Year of, clock-time versus felt time.