Plot threads

Carlisle's plot threads: the braided storylines the novel cuts between.

16 total.

The novel's threads

• E.T.A.
  Life at the Enfield Tennis Academy — its students, staff, philosophy, and strange November.
• Jim's Filmography & the Entertainment
  Jim's filmography and the theory of entertainment — the films, the filmography endnote, and the Entertainment itself.
• Tech
  O.N.A.N.-era media technology — InterLace, teleputers, videophony, and Jim's optical inventions.
• Ennet
  Ennet House and the Enfield Marine complex — the recovery half of the novel.
• AA&R
  Addiction and recovery beyond Ennet House — Boston AA, the meetings, the Substances.
• Samizdat
  The lethal Entertainment as an object of terror — copies, victims, and the hunt for the Master.
• U.S.O.U.S.
  The Office of Unspecified Services — Steeply and the U.S. side of the samizdat war.
• O.N.A.N.
  Continental politics and culture — O.N.A.N., Subsidized Time, the Great Concavity, Gentle's C.U.S.P.
• A.F.R.
  Les Assassins des Fauteuils Rollents — Marathe, the wheelchair cell, and Quebec's war over the Entertainment.

Character arcs

• Orin
  Orin Incandenza — punting, Subjects, and the phobic spiral. Full arc on his character page.
• Hal
  Hal Incandenza — the collapse thread. Full arc on his character page.
• Mario
  Mario Incandenza — the films, the night walks, the grace notes. Full arc on his character page.
• James O. Incandenza — Life and Death
  James O. Incandenza's life and death — optics, film, and the microwave. Full arc on the JOI character page.
• Avril
  Avril Incandenza — the Moms, the politics, the question marks. Full arc on her character page.
• Joelle
  Joelle van Dyne — Madame Psychosis, the veil, the overdose, Ennet House. Full arc on her character page.
• Gately
  Don Gately — the burglaries, the House, the shooting, the trauma wing. Full arc on his character page.