Global timeline
The global in-world timeline: every character's and plot thread's spine events, merged into one chronology.
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Before Subsidization (1933)
Before Subsidization (1960)
Before Subsidization (1963)
Before Subsidization (1981)
Before Subsidization (1983)
Before Subsidization (1989)
Before Subsidization (1990)
Before Subsidization (1996)
Before Subsidization (1997)
Before Subsidization (1998)
Before Subsidization (2001)
- Rodney Tine · ★ Tine architects the experialist Reconfiguration — the gifting of the toxified northeast to Canada → Scene 086: concavity cabinet clipperton — ~B.S. 2001 (Gentle-Era onset); the "16 January" Concavity Cabinet
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ Orin first sees Joelle twirling; defects from tennis to football → Scene 068: orin bu punting joelle — B.S. 2001, Sept
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ The approaches: the Shiny Prize lineman, then Orin and the Columbus Day football → Scene 068: orin bu punting joelle — UNDATED (H.S.) + B.S. 2001, Oct; disputed
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ The Legal Seafood supper: Joelle meets JOI → Scene 150: joelle cleaning incandenza thanksgiving — ~Nov 2001 (pre-Subsidized)
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ Cohabitation begins; the last pre-Subsidized Thanksgiving with the Incandenzas → Scene 068: orin bu punting joelle — B.S. 2001, Nov
- Orin Incandenza · ★ The Legal Seafood supper: Orin introduces Joelle to JOI; the failure to communicate → Scene 150: joelle cleaning incandenza thanksgiving — ~Nov 2001 (pre-Subsidized)
- Charles Tavis · ★ Liaisons Orin's B.U. deal; cashes his return ticket; stays on as Assistant Headmaster → Scene 068: orin bu punting joelle — ~B.S. 2001 (pre-Subsidized)
- Orin Incandenza · ★ College choice: B.U., an Orin/Avril decision brokered by C.T. → Scene 068: orin bu punting joelle — B.S. ~2001 (Orin ~18)
- Orin Incandenza · ★ The defection: Orin sees Joelle twirling and leaves tennis for football → Scene 068: orin bu punting joelle — B.S. 2001, freshman fall
- Orin Incandenza · ★ The romance takes root; "It was all for free"; cohabitation in the co-op → Scene 068: orin bu punting joelle — B.S. 2001, Columbus Day onward
- Gerhardt Schtitt · ★ The Orin-punt diagnosis: same lob-dependency, "bad feelings about Orin's future, inside" → Scene 068: orin bu punting joelle — ~B.S. 2001 (Orin's B.U. freshman fall), recalled
Year of the Whopper (2002)
- Ennet · ★ Ennet House is founded by the Guy Who Didn't Even Use His First Name → Scene 042: ennet house founding — YW (2002)
- A.F.R. · ★ Founding of Les Assassins des Fauteuils Rollents; the escutcheon, "the squeak," and the stated war-aims → Scene n304: struck plagiarizes afr train cult — ~YW (2002), Reconfiguration onward
- U.S.O.U.S. · ★ The Office of Unspecified Services and the founding of O.N.A.N. — Rodney Tine, architect → Scene 029: marathe steeply entertainment — ~YW (2002), Reconfiguration; O.U.S. standing since
- Rodney Tine · ★ Subsidized Time: Tine's corporate-year revenue scheme to pay for the Reconfiguration → Scene 091: fresno quik subsidized time — ~YW (2002), onset of Subsidized Time; dating clash — see notes
- Johnny Gentle · ★ The wiener epiphany and the placemat meeting: Gentle green-lights Subsidized Time → Scene 091: fresno quik subsidized time — ~YW (onset of Subsidized Time); dating clash — see notes
- Eric Clipperton · ★ Subsidized Time arrives; the O.N.A.N.T.A. computer ranks him #1 → Scene 089: clipperton suicide — YW (2002), spring
- O.N.A.N. · ★ The Experialist migration — mass relocation south off the reconfigured map → Scene 030: feral hamsters — from YW (2002)
- Eric Clipperton · ★ Clipperton appears at the E.T.A. portcullis, seeking counsel → Scene 089: clipperton suicide — YW (2002), a rainy warm late A.M. two days before the Clays
- Eric Clipperton · ★ The recorded counsel session; Clipperton kills himself → Scene 089: clipperton suicide — YW (2002), high noon, Subdorm C of East House
- Jim's Filmography & the Entertainment · ★ From anticonfluentialism to unironic melodrama "conducive to self-forgetting" → Scene 179: hal accomplice blizzard weston — ~YW–YTSDB (2002–2004), the late leap
- Eric Clipperton · ★ The funeral at Veedersburg IN; Mario's unfaltering smile → Scene 089: clipperton suicide — YW (2002), soon after
- O.N.A.N. · ★ The Québécois separatist backlash — the mirror-across-highway terror campaign → Scene 070: prorector classes separatism — YW-YTMP (2002-2003)
- Eric Clipperton · ★ Mario cleans the room alone; the sealed Clipperton Suite → Scene 089: clipperton suicide — YW (2002) and after
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ Joelle enters JOI's film world: Leith understudy, stage name, three JOI films, Toronto → Scene 068: orin bu punting joelle — ~YW (2002)
- Orin Incandenza · ★ Orin steers Joelle toward JOI: the wish to "use" her, the three-way bond → Scene 150: joelle cleaning incandenza thanksgiving — ~B.S. 2001–YW 2002
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ M.I.T. film-theory graduate work; the retreat into broadcast sound → Scene 058: joelle last walk — UNDATED (pre-radio, ~YW-YTMP)
- Orin Incandenza · ★ The rapt sole spectator: Orin re-watching Joelle's punt-clips (film #78) → Scene 068: orin bu punting joelle — YW–YTMP (2002–03)
- Mario Incandenza · ★ Clipperton's suicide at E.T.A. — Mario admits him and records it → Scene 089: clipperton suicide — YW / 2002
Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad (2003)
- Luria Perec · ★ The "professional conversationalist" alleges an Incandenza-family liaison — the earliest dated attestation, inside a collapsing frame → Scene 005: professional conversationalist — 1 April YTMP
- Hal Incandenza · ★ JOI meets Hal disguised as a "professional conversationalist" → Scene 005: professional conversationalist — YTMP (2003), 1 Apr
- James O. Incandenza · ★ The professional-conversationalist disguise: JOI cannot hear his ten-year-old son → Scene 005: professional conversationalist — 1 April YTMP (Tucks Medicated Pad, ~2003)
- Avril Incandenza · ★ JOI's "professional conversationalist" rant links Avril to Luria P—, DuPlessis, and the Resistance → Scene 005: professional conversationalist — 1 April YTMP (2003) — separatist-ties crux
- Molly Notkin · ★ The veil / P.G.O.A.T.-deformity crux: the acid-incident full story → Scene 159: notkin spills — 24 Nov YTMP per Notkin; reported ? Nov YDAU
- Molly Notkin · ★ Joelle's mother's garbage-disposal suicide → Scene 159: notkin spills — 24 Nov YTMP evening per Notkin; reported ? Nov YDAU
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ The acid incident at the Thanksgiving table — the compressed and the full telling, deformity disputed → Scene 060: joelle walk uhid — 24 Nov YTMP, disputed
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ Joelle's mother's garbage-disposal suicide → Scene 159: notkin spills — 24 Nov YTMP, evening
- Molly Notkin · ★ The sobriety condition and the widow's revenge bottle → Scene 159: notkin spills — Xmas YTMP-1 Apr YTSDB per Notkin; reported ? Nov YDAU
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ The sobriety condition: JOI quits distilled spirits as Joelle's price for appearing in the final work → Scene 064: hal orin phone joi suicide — Xmas YTMP / Jan YTSDB
- Samizdat · ★ JOI films the final cartridge — the auto-wobble neonatal lens; the two scenes; the sobriety price → Scene 062: notkin party joelle overdose — Xmas YTMP – 1 Apr YTSDB; filming start of YTSDB (2003-04)
- Jim's Filmography & the Entertainment · ★ The Madame Psychosis "Death" cycle: casting the veiled Joelle across the late filmography → Scene n024: joi filmography — YTMP–YTSDB (2003–2004)
- Avril Incandenza · ★ The Volvo evidence: nude footprints on the windshield; the "word" on the fogged window → Scene 170: hal horizontal vr5 — ~YTMP-YTSDB (the days before JOI's 1 Apr YTSDB death) — separatist + liaison cruxes
- James O. Incandenza · ★ The final opus: filming the veiled Joelle, the crib-lens, and the two accounts of Infinite Jest (V/VI) → Scene 038: marathe steeply disguises — YTMP-YTSDB (Xmas YTMP filming; JOI's death during post-production, 1 Apr YTSDB); content disputed
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ Acting credits as 'Madame Psychosis' — the YTMP cluster; Low-Temperature Civics her first JOI appearance → Scene n024: joi filmography — YTMP (2003)
- Orin Incandenza · ★ The separation: Orin left, "wouldn't even face up to why" → Scene 166: joelle visits gately abiding — UNDATED (~YTMP-YTSDB), versions differ
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ The Orin-Joelle separation → Scene 166: joelle visits gately abiding — UNDATED (~YTMP-YTSDB), versions differ
Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar (2004)
- Dolores Rusk · ★ With Avril, Rusk shunts the bereaved Hal into professional grief-and-trauma therapy → Scene 064: hal orin phone joi suicide — April-May YTSDB (2004)
- Hal Incandenza · ★ Hal's grief-therapy ordeal and the "something smelled delicious" breakthrough → Scene 064: hal orin phone joi suicide — YTSDB (2004), Apr-May
- James O. Incandenza · ★ JOI's suicide by microwave: the mechanics, the anhedonia-theory denied, the gift-bottle, the mirrored maternal suicide; found by thirteen-year-old Hal; no note → Scene 010: hal mario moms sadness — 1 April YTSDB (Trial-Size Dove Bar); age 54
- Samizdat · ★ JOI's death without a note; the Master(s) buried in the coffin; the annuity → Scene 060: joelle walk uhid — YTSDB (2004), per testament; death 1 Apr YTSDB
- E.T.A. · ★ Charles Tavis takes the helm after JOI's suicide — the motto swapped, the founder's role assumed → Scene 068: orin bu punting joelle — 1 April YTSDB onward; Convocation 31 Aug YDPAH
- Charles Tavis · ★ Moves into the Headmaster's House upstairs — days before JOI's death → Scene 064: hal orin phone joi suicide — ~28-29 Mar YTSDB (just before the suicide)
- Disney Leith · ★ One of the few who know the Unviewable Masters lie in the casket → Endnote 160 — What was buried with Himself — ~YTSDB (Incandenza's burial); knowledge attested YDAU
- Hal Incandenza · ★ "Tennis and the Feral Prodigy": Hal's formation under Himself → Scene 051: tennis feral prodigy — childhood formation, B.S.-YTSDB; the film Apr YYTMRCYTPC (2007)
- Charles Tavis · ★ Assumes the helm; swaps the motto "before the head cooled"; the Convocation of absorbed resentment → Scene 026: schtitt and mario — YTSDB (2004), from 1 Apr
- Jim's Filmography & the Entertainment · ★ The Entertainment as culmination — the wraith's account: a toy to reach mute Hal, "to entertain" → Scene 162: gately wraith figurants — YTSDB (2004) / sober last 90 days
- Avril Incandenza · ★ JOI's microwave suicide and Avril: the detox errand, the turkey-bottle, "Death incarnate," the tears that never came → Scene 064: hal orin phone joi suicide — 1 April YTSDB (2004)
- Jim's Filmography & the Entertainment · ★ Death during post-production: the testament buries the Masters and seals the oeuvre → Scene n024: joi filmography — 1 Apr YTSDB (2004); testament effective at death
- Mario Incandenza · ★ Mario and Himself inseparable; of the three sons he spent the most time with his father → Scene 071: mario birth defects — JOI's filmmaking years, ~B.S.-1 Apr YTSDB
- Orin Incandenza · ★ JOI's microwave suicide; Orin skips the funeral, then two years' silence → Scene 064: hal orin phone joi suicide — 1 Apr YTSDB (2004)
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ JOI films her for the final cartridge — the filming, and the two accounts of what was shot → Scene 062: notkin party joelle overdose — start of YTSDB (2004), content disputed
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ She started freebasing → Scene 062: notkin party joelle overdose — ~YTSDB ("five years back"), recalled
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ JOI's will: the annuity, and the cartridge Master(s) buried with him → Scene 062: notkin party joelle overdose — YTSDB (2004), per testament
- Mario Incandenza · ★ Mario tended JOI in his final underground month → Scene 064: hal orin phone joi suicide — ~Feb-Mar YTSDB / 2004
- Hal Incandenza · ★ Hal, "thirteen going on really old," finds his father's suicided body → Scene 064: hal orin phone joi suicide — YTSDB (2004), 1 Apr
- Clenette Henderson · ★ Clenette narrates the Wardine abuse section → Scene 008: clenette wardine — YTSDB (2004)
- Samizdat · ★ The maker's optics — holography, annular capital, and the "Hostile School" substrate → Scene 098: master copies temptation — UNDATED (JOI's film career, B.S. through YTSDB)
- Roy Tony · ★ The predation on Wardine — the abuse at the center of the Wardine thread → Scene 008: clenette wardine — YTSDB (2004)
- Clenette Henderson · ★ Clenette's own pregnancy — the section's closing turn → Scene 008: clenette wardine — YTSDB (2004)
- Jim's Filmography & the Entertainment · ★ The "sub/inversions": metacinematic genre parody ('Blood Sister,' 'The Night Wears a Sombrero') → Scene 138: blood sister viewing — B.S.–YTSDB (the genre-cycle)
- James O. Incandenza · ★ The filmography: the partial present-scene roster and the full n024 catalogue of the Work → Scene 001: hal admissions interview — UNDATED span (~twelve years of directorial activity, B.S. into YTSDB)
- Charles Tavis · ★ Total Worry — the administrative identity → Scene 094: dawn drills second world — standing (YTSDB-YDAU); dawn 9 Nov YDAU
- O.N.A.N. · ★ The A.F.R. and the insurgency's total anti-O.N.A.N. demands — "Sudetenlandization" and the squeak → Scene n304: struck plagiarizes afr train cult — Root Cult pre-Experialist; assassinations peak autumn YTSDB (2004); standing as of YDAU
- Jim's Filmography & the Entertainment · ★ 'Infinite Jest (V?)': the auto-wobble neonatal lens — the optics-to-auteur arc culminates; the archival crux → Scene n024: joi filmography — YTSDB (2004)
- Avril Incandenza · ★ The withdrawal: agoraphobia, the tunnels, the workaholism — "she never leaves the grounds anymore" → Scene 010: hal mario moms sadness — since YTSDB (2004), ongoing to YDAU
- James O. Incandenza · ★ "Where is the Master buried": the grave in L'Islet / the Concavity, the Masters willed into the ground, and Gately's grave-dig dream → Scene 178: joelle q interview master — YTSDB burial and after, into Nov YDAU
- Jim's Filmography & the Entertainment · ★ The oeuvre at his death: posthumous citation, the anticonfluential tribute, the festschrift → Scene 020: joi bio eta founding — YTSDB (2004) and after
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ Infinite Jest (V?) — sole credit of the Entertainment → Scene n024: joi filmography — YTSDB (2004)
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ "In a cage since Y.T.S.D.B.": the trust, the unseen Entertainment → Scene 062: notkin party joelle overdose — since YTSDB (2004)
- Mario Incandenza · ★ The willed head-mount Bolex arrives for Mario's "thirteenth Xmas" → Scene 071: mario birth defects — Xmas YTSDB / 2004
Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken (2005)
Year of the Yushityu 2007 Mimetic-Resolution-Cartridge (2007)
Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland (2008)
- Doony Glynn · ★ The barrel-of-bricks letter: the Workers' Comp claim that made him an insurance legend → Scene 043: founder lore glynn letter — 27 Mar YDPAH
- yrstruly · ★ The crew and the "never ending strugle": yrstruly, C, and Poor Tony → Scene 040: yrstruly xmas eve — 24 Dec YDPAH, morning
- Bobby C · ★ The Christmas-Eve crewing day: the ear, the second roll, and "not 2Bdenied" → Scene 040: yrstruly xmas eve — 24 Dec YDPAH
- Poor Tony Krause · ★ The Wo hotshot: Bobby C dies; Poor Tony lets him boot first, then informs → Scene 040: yrstruly xmas eve — 24/25 Dec YDPAH (2008)
- Bobby C · ★ Dr. Wo's revenge: the poisoned hotshot kills C on the Copley blowergrate → Scene 040: yrstruly xmas eve — 24/25 Dec YDPAH, night into Christmas morning
- yrstruly · ★ The Chinatown decision: Dr. Wo, and C's Wo/Sorkin history → Scene 040: yrstruly xmas eve — 24/25 Dec YDPAH, late night
- yrstruly · ★ Copping three bundles from Wo; the trap is set → Scene 040: yrstruly xmas eve — 24/25 Dec YDPAH, ~2300, Chinatown / Hung Toys
- yrstruly · ★ The hotshot: yrstruly reads the tell and lets C boot first; C dies → Scene 040: yrstruly xmas eve — 25 Dec YDPAH, small hours, Copley library blowergrate
- yrstruly · ★ Aftermath: the body dumped, Poor Tony's confession, and his flight → Scene 040: yrstruly xmas eve — 25 Dec YDPAH, after the death
- yrstruly · ★ yrstruly's own Christmas: locked out by the Mumster, Kicking The Bird, then Detox → Scene 040: yrstruly xmas eve — 25 Dec YDPAH+, Christmas
- Eugenio Martinez · ★ Assigned as Gately's individual counselor: the Subaru driving sessions → Scene 095: gately staff the removal — ~YDPAH (Gately's residency)
- John Wayne · ★ Canadian junior #1 → recruited to E.T.A.; disowned as an emigrant → Scene 065: port washington meet — ~YDPAH-YDAU; recruited "last spring," citizenship revoked "last year"
- Eugenio Martinez · ★ The Spider: the entomologic doctrine of the Disease → Scene 066: ennet living room day gately — ~YDPAH (Gately's residency), and standing
- Eugenio Martinez · ★ The Betty Crocker Cake-Mix analogy → Scene 095: gately staff the removal — ~YDPAH (Gately's residency), one night near the Allston Spur barge-docks
- A.F.R. · ★ Guillaume DuPlessis, coordinator of the Resistance, dies in Gately's botched burglary — the inciting decapitation → Scene 016: gately duplessis burglary — Autumn YDPAH (2008) per scene 016 — dating clash; see Dating notes
- Guillaume DuPlessis · ★ The copies of the Entertainment in the Brookline house — and the conjectured Incandenza source → Scene 145: afr antitoi search — UNDATED (before Autumn YDPAH)
- Guillaume DuPlessis · ★ The burglary: bound, gagged, and suffocated by a head-cold in his own kitchen → Scene 016: gately duplessis burglary — Autumn YDPAH
- Guillaume DuPlessis · ★ Aftermath, U.S. side: headlines, the Murder-2 file, the A.D.A.'s vendetta, and the federal vanishing → Scene 016: gately duplessis burglary — Autumn YDPAH → YDAU
- Pat Montesian · ★ Admitting Gately: a clearly bad-news specimen, let in on honesty alone → Scene 095: gately staff the removal — ~YDPAH (Gately's application, last year)
- Jim's Filmography & the Entertainment · ★ The critical rap: "narratively dull and plotless and static," audience-hostile → Scene 172: hal supine pemulis interface — UNDATED (critical reception, to YDPAH)
- Samizdat · ★ The DuPlessis copy — the trailhead the A.F.R. follows → Scene 016: gately duplessis burglary — DuPlessis copy: taken Autumn YDPAH, traced YDAU
- Don Gately · ★ The 92-day Revere Holding bit: kicking the Bird (the "Present"-doctrine origin) and the A.D.A.-toothbrush revenge → Scene 016: gately duplessis burglary — pre-YDPAH
- Don Gately · ★ The DuPlessis home-invasion and the accidental suffocation death → Scene 016: gately duplessis burglary — Autumn YDPAH
- Don Gately · ★ The legal Losses catalog; the DuPlessis case goes federal; the pending 90-day bit → Scene 095: gately staff the removal — pre-YDPAH → YDAU
- Don Gately · ★ Getting sober: coming wobbling into Ennet House, and the shock that AA works → Scene 074: white flag aa meeting — ~YDPAH
- Don Gately · ★ The smily-face "Sergeant at Arms" dream and Gately's first Ask For Help → Scene 074: white flag aa meeting — ~YDPAH residency
- Don Gately · ★ The Desire to use is Removed; the seven-month table-crack crisis → Scene 095: gately staff the removal — ~4-7 months into residency, YDPAH-YDAU
- Don Gately · ★ Joining the White Flag Group, getting Active, and taking Ferocious Francis G. as sponsor → Scene 074: white flag aa meeting — ~YDPAH-YDAU
Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment (2009)
February
April
- Ferocious Francis Gehaney · ★ Coffee after the cracked tabletop: the minor-league/major-league God line → Scene 095: gately staff the removal — ~Apr YDAU
- U.S.O.U.S. · ★ The Boston "razzle" — the medical attaché massacre; Tine dispatched to metro Boston → Scene 107: tine samizdat dossier — ~April YDAU ("late last spring")
- the medical attaché · ★ The disrupted Wednesday and the unlabelled "HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!" cartridge from Phoenix → Scene 007: attache receives cartridge — 1 April YDAU, evening
- Samizdat · ★ The medical attaché razzle — the object mailed, the recursive loop, the ward of the "pithed" → Scene 007: attache receives cartridge — 1-2 April YDAU (2009)
- Tech · ★ The Entertainment enters circulation by physical mail — the delivery infrastructure exploited → Scene 007: attache receives cartridge — 1 April YDAU
- the medical attaché · ★ Searchers-turned-viewers: everyone sent to find him sits down and joins the loop → Scene 028: attache room fills — 2 April, mid-afternoon YDAU
- the medical attaché · ★ Aftermath: the casualty toll, patient-zero status, and the living-death in a ward — the lethality exhibit, mechanism unexplained → Scene 029: marathe steeply entertainment — 30 April YDAU + later YDAU
- the medical attaché · ★ The wife returns: the ecstatic rictus, no response, and she follows his line of sight to the viewer → Scene 025: attache wife watches — 2 April ~0145h YDAU
- the medical attaché · ★ The fatal loop: still watching, rewound to a recursive loop, incontinent in the chair → Scene 011: attache still watching — 1 April 2010h – 2 April 0020h YDAU
- Guillaume DuPlessis · ★ The doctrine he taught the cells: "the genius of Guillaume DuPlessis" → Scene 072: marathe steeply choosing — UNDATED (pre-YDAU; attested 30 April / 1 May YDAU)
- U.S.O.U.S. · ★ Tine, Luria Perec, and the loyalty question at the top of the Office → Scene 029: marathe steeply entertainment — standing question through YDAU
- Gertraude Marathe · ★ The terminal decline: irreversible restenosis, the exit-less coma, the Jaarvik IX as her one chance → Scene 038: marathe steeply disguises — ~YDAU−1 into YDAU (coma onset; durations clash — see notes)
- Luria Perec · ★ "Yours for Luria to command": the timeless-love debate and the standing power attributed to her → Scene 035: marathe steeply temple — 30 April YDAU
- Rodney Tine · ★ The Luria P— affair: Tine's compromising attachment, and the open loyalty question → Scene 029: marathe steeply entertainment — ongoing (historical into YDAU); resolves nothing
- Hugh Steeply · ★ The desert outcropping: the sixth-or-seventh night-long interface with Marathe → Scene 029: marathe steeply entertainment — 30 April – 1 May YDAU
- Gertraude Marathe · ★ The price of the betrayal: her medical care is what Marathe sells his loyalty for → Scene 029: marathe steeply entertainment — standing arrangement, in force by 30 April YDAU
- Rémy Marathe · ★ Gertraude's terminal illness; Marathe agrees to betray the A.F.R. for U.S. cardiac care — the triple/quadruple-agent structure → Scene 029: marathe steeply entertainment — ~YDAU-1 to YDAU (Gertraude's coma ~1 yr as of the desert night)
- A.F.R. · ★ The cell penetrated from within: Marathe's quadruple-agent structure → Scene 029: marathe steeply entertainment — arrangement runs into YDAU
- U.S.O.U.S. · ★ The DuPlessis burglary and the alleged Master — the Office's cartridge-inventory picture → Scene 031: marathe steeply duplessis — death before 30 Apr YDAU (its own dating clashes — see Dating notes); the inventory aired 30 Apr - 1 May YDAU
- A.F.R. · ★ The mountainside interface with Steeply; the attaché "razzle" and the A.F.R.'s denial → Scene 029: marathe steeply entertainment — 30 April – 1 May YDAU
- Rémy Marathe · ★ The desert rendezvous with Steeply — the sixth-or-seventh night-long interface → Scene 029: marathe steeply entertainment — 30 April – 1 May YDAU
- Hugh Steeply · ★ Steeply's freedom-case: the doctrine debate → Scene 072: marathe steeply choosing — 30 April / 1 May YDAU
- Guillaume DuPlessis · ★ "An inept burglary and grippe indeed": the enemy reads the death as assassination → Scene 031: marathe steeply duplessis — attested 30 April YDAU and ?/9 Nov YDAU
- Samizdat · ★ The ecology of copies — Read-Only everywhere, no Master; the dissemination-as-weapon thesis → Scene 072: marathe steeply choosing — 30 April – 1 May YDAU; standing YDAU condition
- Rémy Marathe · ★ The doctrine: "You are what you love"; choose your temple; fanatic = worshipper at the temple → Scene 035: marathe steeply temple — 30 April YDAU
- U.S.O.U.S. · ★ The mountainside interface with Marathe — the Office runs the A.F.R. from inside → Scene 029: marathe steeply entertainment — 30 April - 1 May YDAU
- Avril Incandenza · ★ Steeply's B.S.S. dossier: the widow, "political sex," and the medical attaché → Scene 029: marathe steeply entertainment — 30 April – 1 May YDAU — separatist-ties crux
May
July
August
September
October
- Millicent Kent · ★ Mario's first romantic experience: the tripod hunt, the sumac seduction, the tickle escape — and the tripod found after all → Scene 037: mario millicent kent — mid-Oct YDAU, ~1900h dusk
- Geoffrey Day · ★ The bottom: the Saab through the store window; Dimock Detox → Scene 066: ennet living room day gately — late Oct YDAU
- Orin Incandenza · ★ Phoenix condo life: morning-dread, the roach-and-tumbler ritual, the Moms-head dream → Scene 012: orin phoenix morning — Oct YDAU
- Mario Incandenza · ★ Mario's first and only romantic experience — the U.S.S. Millicent Kent → Scene 037: mario millicent kent — mid-Oct YDAU
- Trevor Axford · ★ Cash-flow man of the clean-urine racket → Scene 048: urine day — STANDING — quarterly; narrated 15 Oct YDAU
- Michael Pemulis · ★ The urine-testing evasion machinery and the drug operation → Scene 048: urine day — dated 15 Oct YDAU (established operation); the Muslim-urine pitch ~Nov
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ The Madame Psychosis Hour: the U.H.I.D. circular broadcast → Scene 053: madame psychosis show — 22 Oct YDAU
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ The moon-caller resolution: she stops lying to herself → Scene 058: joelle last walk — 22 Oct YDAU, recalled 7 Nov
- Mario Incandenza · ★ Mario's devotion to Madame Psychosis; sure she can't sense her own beauty → Scene 053: madame psychosis show — 22 Oct YDAU + habitual
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ Madame Psychosis vanishes from the air: the unannounced WYYY hiatus → Scene 093: hal teeth dream wyyy — from 23 Oct YDAU
- Randy Lenz · ★ The animal-cruelty escalation — his private "substance": rats, then bagged cats, then the knife on dogs → Scene 105: lenz demaps animals — autumn YDAU (~Oct into Nov)
- AA&R · ★ The resident who won't surrender: Randy Lenz, the cult-objection answered, and ejection → Scene 105: lenz demaps animals — ~late Oct-14 Nov YDAU
November
3 November
4 November
6 November
7 November
- Mary Esther Thode · ★ Blacklisted radical come home: who Thode is at E.T.A. → Scene 070: prorector classes separatism — BACK-HISTORY; surfaced 7 Nov YDAU
- M. Fortier · ★ The "Survey" ruse: casing Orin at the hotel door (identity by inference) → Scene 119: orin survey wheelchair man — 7 Nov YDAU
- Tex Watson · ★ The colon-mad energy class, the Pemulis détente, and going the extra click for the Booger → Scene 070: prorector classes separatism — Fall YDAU term; class frame 7 Nov, Doucette crisis ? Nov
- Mary Esther Thode · ★ Midterm day in the batsoid seminar → Scene 070: prorector classes separatism — 7 Nov YDAU, Saturday class
- Luria Perec · ★ The "putatively Swiss" hand-model appears at Sky Harbor and becomes Orin's newest Subject → Scene 113: orin swiss hand model — 7 Nov YDAU — unnamed attestation
- Molly Notkin · ★ Notkin's Orals party — the cocktail set-piece; Joelle nearly ODs in her bathroom → Scene 058: joelle last walk — 7 Nov YDAU
- Luria Perec · ★ The knock at the door: the narration drops the cover — "the non-Swiss woman," calm, with a machine pistol in her purse → Scene 119: orin survey wheelchair man — 7 Nov YDAU — unnamed attestation
- K. D. Coyle · ★ Blamed for Stice's wandering bed; sidelined in the infirmary → Scene 084: stice bed lyle objects — ~7-8 Nov YDAU, the weekend
- Jim Troeltsch · ★ The WETA Saturday broadcast of the rout → Scene 070: prorector classes separatism — 7 Nov YDAU, ~1435-1445h
- AA&R · ★ The P.G.O.A.T. enters the recovery arc: the freebase overdose, then the first White Flag meeting → Scene 058: joelle last walk — 7-8 Nov YDAU
- Hugh Steeply · ★ Cultivating Orin: the Moment soft-profile interview series in Phoenix → Scene n234: orin steeply interview — ~5–7 November YDAU
- U.S.O.U.S. · ★ The Orin operation — Steeply's soft-profile cover mines the Incandenza family → Scene 128: steeply bain correspondence — November YDAU
- Orin Incandenza · ★ The "lost We": the obliterating trinity felt once, never recovered → Scene 113: orin swiss hand model — c. B.S. 2001–03 (the Joelle romance), recalled 7 Nov YDAU
- Orin Incandenza · ★ The stalkers: Orin's fear of the wheelchaired, and the "Survey" man at the door (Fortier) → Scene 064: hal orin phone joi suicide — late Oct–Nov YDAU
- Avril Incandenza · ★ Notkin's denial: no anti-American ties, only "individually neurotic agendas"; but "Death incarnate" → Scene 159: notkin spills — 7 Nov YDAU — separatist-ties crux, evidence AGAINST
- Orin Incandenza · ★ The Swiss hand-model: the seduction that is the trap → Scene 113: orin swiss hand model — 7 Nov YDAU
- Orin Incandenza · ★ Samizdat and Separatism: Steeply's questions, JOI's name, and the Entertainment (the mailer crux) → Scene n110: orin hal phone — 3–7 Nov YDAU
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ The suicide walk: freebase kit assembled piece by piece → Scene 058: joelle last walk — 7 Nov YDAU
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ At Notkin's Orals party, planning to freebase until her heart stops → Scene 058: joelle last walk — 7 Nov YDAU
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ The overdose: Too Much Fun in Notkin's bathroom → Scene 062: notkin party joelle overdose — 7 Nov YDAU, evening
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ B&W E.R.: Joelle revived with Inderal and nitro; the physician sees her unveiled face and calls Pat Montesian → Scene 074: white flag aa meeting — 7 Nov YDAU, night
8 November
- Ann Kittenplan · ★ The butch, mustached, rage-prone twelve-year-old — the steroid aside → Scene 073: eschaton debacle — STANDING — narrated 8 Nov YDAU
- Glenn K. · ★ "His personally chosen Higher Power is Satan": the un-kickable White Flagger, and the gavel that ends the break → Scene 074: white flag aa meeting — 8 Nov YDAU
- Trevor Axford · ★ Fireworks accident: right-hand digit loss → Scene 073: eschaton debacle — ~3 Interdependence Days pre-YDAU
- Ann Kittenplan · ★ Eschaton: SOVWAR's Air Marshal — the parley, her one line, and Ingersoll's headshot → Scene 073: eschaton debacle — 8 Nov YDAU (Interdependence Day)
- LaMont Chu · ★ The Lyle confession: crippling obsession with tennis fame → Scene 082: lyle weight room supplicants — 8 Nov YDAU — I-Day night
- Otis P. Lord · ★ Playing God: the cart, the beanies, the ferrying → Scene 073: eschaton debacle — 8 Nov YDAU, I-Day afternoon
- Ken Erdedy · ★ Arrival at Ennet House: the ad-exec bio; the gas-station humility job → Scene 074: white flag aa meeting — YDAU, ~early-to-mid Oct
- Mary Esther Thode · ★ The Eschaton drive-by: "put a hat on" → Scene 073: eschaton debacle — 8 Nov YDAU, I-Day afternoon
- Ferocious Francis Gehaney · ★ White Flag in full: the parachute line, the hall, the whole pedagogy → Scene 074: white flag aa meeting — 8 Nov YDAU (I-Day)
- Ortho Stice · ★ The bed that moves in the night: the Lyle consult and the three explanations → Scene 084: stice bed lyle objects — 8 Nov YDAU
- Ennet · ★ Joelle van Dyne enters the House post-overdose; the White Flag AA meeting → Scene 074: white flag aa meeting — Sun 8 Nov YDAU (2009), Interdependence Day
- Lyle · ★ LaMont Chu and the delusion of fame → Scene 082: lyle weight room supplicants — 8 Nov YDAU (Interdependence Day, during Mario's puppet film)
- AA&R · ★ Boston AA and the White Flag Group: Commitments, Giving It Away, Identify-not-Compare → Scene 074: white flag aa meeting — 8 Nov YDAU (Interdependence Day)
- Jim Struck · ★ Blackout-drunk through the entire Eschaton catastrophe → Scene 073: eschaton debacle — 8 Nov YDAU — Interdependence Day
- AA&R · ★ The Substance-career, the Bottom, and the Miracle: Starve the Spider, surrender the will → Scene 074: white flag aa meeting — 8 Nov YDAU
- Trevor Axford · ★ Eschaton: growling at Ingersoll, the dark thrill → Scene 073: eschaton debacle — 8 Nov YDAU — Interdependence Day
- Lyle · ★ "Do not underestimate objects": Ortho Stice and the moving bed → Scene 084: stice bed lyle objects — 8 Nov YDAU
- AA&R · ★ "Do not ask WHY": the anti-Cause doctrine and the unironic truth → Scene 074: white flag aa meeting — 8 Nov YDAU
- Pat Montesian · ★ The Joelle intake: a Saturday-night phone call leapfrogs the waiting list → Scene 074: white flag aa meeting — 8 Nov YDAU (Interdependence Day)
- E.T.A. · ★ Eschaton — the homemade Academy game and its Interdependence-Day catastrophe → Scene 073: eschaton debacle — origins B.S. era (Orin first game-master); the I.-Day game 8 Nov YDAU
- Michael Pemulis · ★ The Eschaton debacle: eminence grise, the map/territory purist, the free-for-all → Scene 073: eschaton debacle — 8 Nov YDAU, Interdependence Day
- Hal Incandenza · ★ Hal smokes dope in public against his own concealment instinct — "marijuana thinking" → Scene 073: eschaton debacle — 8 Nov YDAU (I-Day)
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ Joelle enters Ennet House, leapfrogging the waiting list → Scene 074: white flag aa meeting — 8 Nov YDAU
- Hal Incandenza · ★ Hal's affect-detachment: he feels his own face to check whether he is wincing → Scene 073: eschaton debacle — 8 Nov YDAU
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ Joelle's first AA meeting: the raffle-break exchange with Gately — Miracle over Grace, the subjunctive demolition → Scene 074: white flag aa meeting — 8 Nov YDAU, ~2000h+
- Hal Incandenza · ★ Hal's "secret drug problem" named; the Kodiak nicotine habit → Scene 085: hal joi audience films — 8 Nov YDAU, evening
- Mario Incandenza · ★ Mario's ONANtiad puppet-film and its Interdependence-Day screening → Scene 081: marios onantiad gaudeamus — shot ~3 summers prior; screened annually, incl. 8 Nov YDAU
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ U.S.O.U.S. interrogates Molly Notkin about Joelle → Scene 159: notkin spills — ? Nov YDAU
- LaMont Chu · ★ AMNAT President in the Eschaton debacle → Scene 073: eschaton debacle — 8 Nov YDAU — Interdependence Day, afternoon
- Josh Gopnik · ★ Eschaton: SOUTHAF's enfilade, the Commentary gag, and the brawl → Scene 073: eschaton debacle — 8 Nov YDAU, afternoon
- Kieran McKenna · ★ Eschaton: AMNAT's wiseacre, the pincer on Kittenplan, and the beating → Scene 073: eschaton debacle — 8 Nov YDAU, I-Day afternoon
- Timmy Peterson · ★ Eschaton: SOVWAR's premier, "define equivocationary," and a ball in the groin → Scene 073: eschaton debacle — 8 Nov YDAU, Interdependence Day
- Ann Kittenplan · ★ The retaliation that turns Eschaton into a brawl — and totals the game's God-cart → Scene 073: eschaton debacle — 8 Nov YDAU (Interdependence Day)
- Todd Possalthwaite · ★ Interdependence Day Eschaton: AMNAT's launcher; the riot; the nose → Scene 073: eschaton debacle — 8 Nov YDAU
- Otis P. Lord · ★ The red beanie, the flicked propeller, and headfirst through the monitor → Scene 073: eschaton debacle — 8 Nov YDAU, to the 1600h siren
- Evan Ingersoll · ★ Eschaton: IRLIBSYR's Imam fires on the players — and becomes fair game → Scene 073: eschaton debacle — 8 Nov YDAU, I-Day afternoon
9 November
- M. Fortier · ★ The Antitoi raid: directing Lucien's fatal technical interview (identity by inference) → Scene 097: aventura antitoi afr raid — 9 Nov YDAU, ~1800h+
- M. Fortier · ★ The methodical search of the shop; mid-search departure for Southwest ops → Scene 145: afr antitoi search — ~9-11 Nov YDAU
- Roy Tony · ★ The NA-meeting hug confrontation: Roy Tony vs. the hug-refusing Erdedy → Scene 100: na hug roy tony — 9 Nov YDAU
- Antitoi brothers · ★ The A.F.R. raid: Bertraund and Lucien murdered → Scene 097: aventura antitoi afr raid — ?/9 Nov YDAU
- Gerhardt Schtitt · ★ "A second world inside the lines": here there are no conditions → Scene 094: dawn drills second world — UNDATED (standing doctrine; dramatized at dawn drills, 9 Nov YDAU)
- E.T.A. · ★ Charles Tavis's administration: E.T.A. by the numbers and the doctrine of "Total Worry" → Scene 094: dawn drills second world — 9 Nov YDAU
- Antitoi brothers · ★ A.F.R. occupy the shop and search it; find and verify the Read-Only samizdat → Scene 143: afr two ways — ~9-14 Nov YDAU
- Ken Erdedy · ★ The marijuana NA meeting and the Roy Tony hug confrontation → Scene 100: na hug roy tony — 9 Nov YDAU
- A.F.R. · ★ The Antitoi storefront raid; the shop taken as the A.F.R.'s Cambridge headquarters → Scene 097: aventura antitoi afr raid — ~9 Nov YDAU
- Ortho Stice · ★ Rusk's counterphobia diagnosis → Scene 108: pemulis catches avril wayne — 9 Nov YDAU
- John Wayne · ★ Pemulis walks in on the Avril/Wayne football-cheerleader tableau → Scene 108: pemulis catches avril wayne — 9 Nov YDAU
- Samizdat · ★ The Antitoi shop — the real Entertainment found, but Read-Only not a Master; why copies can't be duped → Scene 143: afr two ways — ~9-14 Nov YDAU
- Michael Pemulis · ★ Pemulis catches Avril and John Wayne — the leverage → Scene 108: pemulis catches avril wayne — 9 Nov YDAU, late P.M.
- Samizdat · ★ The indirect route — hunting the performer and the auteur's circle → Scene 143: afr two ways — ~9-19 Nov YDAU
- Avril Incandenza · ★ Pemulis discovers Avril and John Wayne — the cheerleader-and-punter tableau, and the blackmail → Scene 108: pemulis catches avril wayne — 9 Nov YDAU (and standing) — the Wayne liaison
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ A.F.R. marks Joelle a target on the "indirect route" → Scene 143: afr two ways — c. 9 Nov YDAU
- Hal Incandenza · ★ Schtitt's "second world inside the lines"; Hal answers "One world, sir" → Scene 094: dawn drills second world — 9 Nov YDAU
- Johnette Foltz · ★ The marijuana NA meeting: 'nonunique and unalone,' the hug blur, and hauling at Roy Tony → Scene 100: na hug roy tony — 9 Nov YDAU, night
- E.T.A. · ★ Dawn drills and Schtitt's pedagogy: "this second world inside the lines" → Scene 094: dawn drills second world — 9 Nov YDAU
- Petropolis Kahn · ★ The dawn-drills collapse: 60, 59, face-down, and the swingset-shove → Scene 094: dawn drills second world — 9 Nov YDAU (dawn)
- Dolores Rusk · ★ The Stice counterphobia session, overheard through the door — Rusk's one extended appearance → Scene 108: pemulis catches avril wayne — Late P.M., Monday 9 Nov YDAU (session); standing weights-exemption behind it
10 November
11 November
- Charlotte Treat · ★ The secret dream — dental hygienist for frightened children — and its dark key (n239) → Scene 116: lenz kills nuck dog — STANDING; surfaced 11 Nov YDAU
- Geoffrey Day · ★ The ex-academic: junior-college instructor, quarterly editor, and the plagiarized A.F.R. essay → Scene 066: ennet living room day gately — UNDATED (adult career, pre-YDAU; the essay ~YWQMD)
- Randy Lenz · ★ The compulsions: "what time is it," the need to be north, the pulse-checks, the grandiosity → Scene 066: ennet living room day gately — autumn YDAU, ongoing
- Alfonso Parias-Carbo · ★ Drags the shot Gately indoors — the hernia, the refused codeine, the growth experience → Scene 161: gately hospital visitors — 11-12 Nov YDAU, aftermath; relayed
- Idris Arslanian · ★ The blindfold: "volunteer blindness" and the Dymphna/Thorp theory → Scene 114: arslanian blindfold annulation — UNDATED — ? Nov YDAU
- Randy Lenz · ★ The secret cocaine hidden inside sobriety: the hollowed book-spine, the beaten urines → Scene 105: lenz demaps animals — autumn YDAU (occasional since summer)
- Thierry Poutrincourt · ★ The bleacher dialogue: étoiles, doom, two selves, and the Founder's types of sight → Scene 130: hal stice bleachers etoile doom — 11 Nov YDAU
- Tony Nwangi · ★ Carrying Ingersoll's tray into the hushed dining hall → Scene 122: eta supper stice hal — 11 Nov YDAU, dinner
- Bridget Boone · ★ Viewing Room 6: frozen yogurt, the spoon-plane, and Blood Sister → Scene 138: blood sister viewing — 11 Nov YDAU, evening
- Nell Gunther · ★ Fight night: couch violation, Crane stance, and the twirling heel-kick → Scene 120: gately shot nucks — 11-12 Nov YDAU, ~2330h-past midnight
- Thierry Poutrincourt · ★ Mutual detection: the Falls Church file, and the word "transperçant" → Endnote 274 — Poutrincourt's genuine accent — 11 Nov YDAU
- Aubrey deLint · ★ Minding Helen Steeply at the Hal–Stice exhibition: gatekeeper and Academy spokesman → Scene 125: hal stice match begins — 11 Nov YDAU
- Bernadette Longley · ★ The Viewing Room drop-in: warning Hal about the huge lady with the notebook → Scene 138: blood sister viewing — 11 Nov YDAU (P.M. Study Period)
- Calvin Thrust · ★ The night Gately is shot: summoned by name, the Lenz ultimatum, and the Corvette run to St. Elizabeth's → Scene 120: gately shot nucks — 11-12 Nov YDAU (around midnight)
- Clenette Henderson · ★ The E.T.A. cartridge haul(s) down to Ennet House → Scene 122: eta supper stice hal — 11-14 Nov YDAU
- Clenette Henderson · ★ The Nuck stomping during Lenz's disaster → Scene 120: gately shot nucks — 11-12 Nov YDAU
- Randy Lenz · ★ The coke-high walk with Green: the grandiose confabulations → Scene 109: lenz coked monologue green — 11 Nov YDAU
- Evan Ingersoll · ★ Back on crutches: the unsigned cast and the hall's visible unease → Scene 122: eta supper stice hal — 11 Nov YDAU, dinner
- James O. Incandenza · ★ The Work's aesthetic: anti-illusionism, the hostile/scopophilic audience, self-forgetting as Grail, and the late turn to entertainment → Scene 179: hal accomplice blizzard weston — UNDATED (JOI's filmmaking years; the Work reviewed 11-20 Nov YDAU)
- Ortho Stice · ★ The exhibition match vs Hal: Stice takes a set and nearly wins — and balls swerve to his will → Scene 125: hal stice match begins — 11 Nov YDAU
- Ennet · ★ Randy Lenz's secret relapse and animal-killing — the fuse the House's machinery can't see → Scene 105: lenz demaps animals — autumn YDAU (2009), culminating 11 Nov
- Bruce Green · ★ The Québecer melee: Green saves Gately's life → Scene 120: gately shot nucks — 11-12 Nov YDAU, ~midnight
- Jim Struck · ★ DMZ research at the B.U. Pharmacy library → Scene 126: simultaneity montage — 11 Nov YDAU + STANDING thread
- Hugh Steeply · ★ E.T.A. infiltration as "Helen": the Hal–Stice match, deLint and Poutrincourt → Scene 122: eta supper stice hal — 11 November YDAU
- E.T.A. · ★ deLint states the academy's creed to the outside: "seeing instead of being seen" → Scene 127: delint steeply seeing — 11 Nov YDAU
- E.T.A. · ★ Poutrincourt's doctrine: transcend the goal or be doomed — the academy's deepest pedagogy → Scene 130: hal stice bleachers etoile doom — 11 Nov YDAU
- Ennet · ★ The House rallies around its hospitalized Staffer; the legal fallout; the wraith at the bedside → Scene 161: gately hospital visitors — ~12-19 Nov YDAU (2009)
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ Hal: Orin's covert-double-date phase came after the girl he loved "had been disfigured"; JOI "compulsively used" her in films; the left-out Subject-chart → Scene 122: eta supper stice hal — pre-YDAU (after the romance), recalled 11 Nov YDAU
- Hal Incandenza · ★ deLint's verdict: Hal "just never quite occurred out there" — the nonoccurrence that chills Hal → Scene 132: hal vr6 wave bye bye — 11 Nov YDAU, after supper
- Hal Incandenza · ★ Hal's Bob-Hopeless withdrawal onset: nausea, loss of kinesthetic sense, name-recall failure → Scene 132: hal vr6 wave bye bye — 11 Nov YDAU, evening
- Hal Incandenza · ★ Hal's field guide to liars; the undetectable liar as the only real "monster" → Scene 155: hal mario liars — 11-12 Nov YDAU, pre-dawn
- Hal Incandenza · ★ Hal confesses the secret Bob Hope habit to Mario → Scene 157: hal confession mario — 11-12 Nov YDAU, toward dawn
- Hal Incandenza · ★ Hal's abrupt-withdrawal dread and the "hole"; fear it will kill the Moms → Scene 157: hal confession mario — 11-12 Nov YDAU, toward dawn
- Mario Incandenza · ★ Mario tells Hal he seems sad; Hal confesses his secret drug use to Mario → Scene 157: hal confession mario — 11-12 Nov YDAU, near dawn
- Mario Incandenza · ★ Mario tells Hal the confiding itself is what he should do → Scene 157: hal confession mario — 11-12 Nov YDAU, dawn
- Don Gately · ★ The Ennet House streetlet shooting — Gately shot defending residents from the Nucks → Scene 120: gately shot nucks — ~0004-0010h, night of Wed 11 → early Thu 12 Nov YDAU
- Don Gately · ★ Front-office night-talk with Joelle: the Lowell bar-shooting and the football/brightness probe → Scene 104: gately joelle veil uhid — 0450h, 11 Nov YDAU
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ The pre-dawn front-office duet: Joelle expounds U.H.I.D. doctrine and declares herself "deformed with beauty" → Scene 104: gately joelle veil uhid — 11 Nov YDAU, 0450h
- Kieran McKenna · ★ Adjudicated uninjured — the bruised-skull footnote — and remanded to the tunnel detail → Scene 129: tunnel club fridge — 11 Nov YDAU, 1625h
- Kent Blott · ★ The feral-hamster claim, the tunnel detail, and the maggoty fridge → Scene 129: tunnel club fridge — 11 Nov YDAU, 1625h
- Tall Paul Shaw · ★ Beats Trevor Axford in straight sets → Scene 122: eta supper stice hal — by 11 Nov YDAU; rematch 12 Nov
- Ortho Stice · ★ The dining-hall aftermath: the gift-body, the cherry-tomato willing, and the bed-rumor surfaces → Scene 122: eta supper stice hal — 11 Nov YDAU, supper
- Hal Incandenza · ★ The "whole new chemical-free Hal" — Hal has secretly quit dope for the urine test; near-loss to Stice → Scene 122: eta supper stice hal — 11 Nov YDAU
- Jim Struck · ★ The term-paper night: plagiarizing the Wheelchair-Assassins essay → Scene n304: struck plagiarizes afr train cult — 11 Nov YDAU, 2030h
- Mario Incandenza · ★ Mario's fall E.T.A. documentary — the night-walk footage → Scene 154: mario bolex avril sadness — 11 Nov YDAU ~2100h
- Mario Incandenza · ★ Mario asks Avril how to tell whether someone is sad — intuiting Hal → Scene 154: mario bolex avril sadness — 11 Nov YDAU ~2100h
- Randy Lenz · ★ The dog-kill on W. Brainerd — the catastrophe that draws the A.F.R. → Scene 116: lenz kills nuck dog — 11 Nov YDAU, ~2245h.
- Ennet · ★ Lenz cuts the Québécois household's dog's throat → Scene 116: lenz kills nuck dog — Wed 11 Nov YDAU (2009), night, after 2245h
- Bruce Green · ★ The dog-kill: drawn off by Polynesian music, Green witnesses Lenz knife a Québecer's dog → Scene 116: lenz kills nuck dog — 11 Nov YDAU, night
- Ennet · ★ The street fracas: Gately is shot defending Lenz; Joelle takes command → Scene 120: gately shot nucks — night of Wed 11 - Thurs 12 Nov YDAU (2009), 2300-0010h
- Hal Incandenza · ★ Hal becomes unreadable — even to Mario → Scene 117: mario night walk ennet — 11 Nov YDAU, ~2300h
- Mario Incandenza · ★ Mario's night walk past Ennet House — "where the people cry in front of each other" → Scene 117: mario night walk ennet — 11 Nov YDAU ~2300h
- Chandler Foss · ★ Coffee-wired, he brings Gately the Tingley suitcase-torment — his fullest scene → Scene 112: gately staff snippets — 11 Nov YDAU (to ~2329h)
- Geoffrey Day · ★ The AA-logic sparring with Gately: Denial, the "one-in-a-million," and the "un-American" charge → Scene n090: day gately interface — 11 Nov YDAU
- Emil Minty · ★ Fight night: porch rebellion, ringside coaching, and looking just fine afterward → Scene 120: gately shot nucks — 11-12 Nov YDAU, ~2330h-past midnight
- Doony Glynn · ★ Delirious over the Roachmobile's keys as the gunfight brews below → Scene 120: gately shot nucks — 11-12 Nov YDAU (~midnight)
12 November
- Charlotte Treat · ★ Resident at Ennet House: reformed prostitute living with the Virus → Scene 066: ennet living room day gately — STANDING — Nov YDAU residency
- M. Fortier · ★ Return: the Entertainment secured Read-Only at the cost of two men; the pivot to the Master-hunt → Scene 147: afr finds entertainment — ~12-14 Nov YDAU
- Charlotte Treat · ★ Decline reported from Staff Meeting: T-cells down, eye infection, a mooted transfer — and a doily for Gately → Scene 161: gately hospital visitors — ~12-15 Nov YDAU
- Emil Minty · ★ Twelve hours, two write-ups: Thrale's undergarment, the gag-arrow, one offense from the Shoe → Scene 161: gately hospital visitors — ~12-15 Nov YDAU (reported)
- Calvin Thrust · ★ The bedside monologue: House sit-rep and street-legal analysis over a mute Gately — Thrust's one extended appearance → Scene 161: gately hospital visitors — ?/12-15 Nov YDAU
- Chandler Foss · ★ Graduation — nine months finished, and back the next morning anyway → Scene 161: gately hospital visitors — ~12-15 Nov YDAU (relayed)
- Johnette Foltz · ★ Holding the House through Gately's hospitalization → Scene 161: gately hospital visitors — 12-18 Nov YDAU, reported
- Nell Gunther · ★ The room-search finds no gun — but does find the Oriental-knife collection → Scene 161: gately hospital visitors — ~12-15 Nov YDAU (reported)
- Tiny Ewell · ★ The hospital confession: the ego cracks — Ewell's Ninth-Step crisis at Gately's bedside → Scene 161: gately hospital visitors — ~12-15 Nov YDAU
- Luria Perec · ★ The A.F.R.'s own narration: "the redoubtable Mlle. Luria P——" winning confidences in the Desert → Scene 147: afr finds entertainment — ?/12-14 Nov YDAU
- Randy Lenz · ★ The streetlet melee: Lenz uses Gately as a human shield; Gately is shot; two Nucks killed → Scene 120: gately shot nucks — 11–12 Nov YDAU, ~midnight
- A.F.R. · ★ The Entertainment found — but Read-Only, not a Master; the pivot to the indirect route → Scene 147: afr finds entertainment — ~12-14 Nov YDAU
- Pat Montesian · ★ Crisis response: laying rubber, driving interference, and the widow-black vigil → Scene 161: gately hospital visitors — 12-13 Nov YDAU
- Pat Montesian · ★ Holding the wreckage: depositions on her OK, the Item hunt, the Gompert warrant → Scene 161: gately hospital visitors — 12-20 Nov YDAU
- AA&R · ★ The recovery crux: refusing all narcotics despite unimaginable pain — sobriety held above relief → Scene 173: gately sorkin twin towers — c. 12-20 Nov YDAU, St. Elizabeth's Trauma Wing
- Don Gately · ★ The hospital serial opens — surgery, infection, muteness, the mute-confessional visitors → Scene 161: gately hospital visitors — c. Thu 12 → 20 Nov YDAU, St. Elizabeth's Trauma Wing
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ The A.F.R. traces Madame Psychosis to WYYY and takes her student engineer → Scene 121: afr snatches wyyy engineer — c. 12-14 Nov YDAU
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ Joelle staunches the shot Gately and takes command; he places her as Madame Psychosis → Scene 120: gately shot nucks — 11-12 Nov YDAU, ~2345-0010h
- Hal Incandenza · ★ Hal's DMZ nightmare: screaming for help, heard as an Ethel Merman show-tune → Scene n321: hal pemulis dmz quitting — 12 Nov YDAU, 1930h
- Hal Incandenza · ★ Hal contemplates quitting forever; edges toward naming himself an addict; on JOI not being sober at death → Scene n321: hal pemulis dmz quitting — 12 Nov YDAU
13 November
14 November
- Matty Pemulis · ★ The present: twenty-three, a prostitute, eating soup at the Man o' War Grille → Scene 131: matty pemulis da birthday — 14 Nov YDAU (Matty's twenty-third birthday)
- Poor Tony Krause · ★ Friendless hiding, starvation, and the descent into true Withdrawal → Scene 069: poor tony seizure — ~Aug–Nov YDAU
- Ruth van Cleve · ★ The chase: "the black Creature" runs Poor Tony ragged up Prospect → Scene 144: poor tony chase — 14 Nov YDAU, ~2215-2226h
- Poor Tony Krause · ★ The public grand-mal seizure on the Gray Line → Scene 069: poor tony seizure — 14 Nov YDAU
- Gertraude Marathe · ★ Ryle's: Marathe tells her whole story to Kate Gompert — "Swiss," drunk, and disputed on the spot → Scene 156: marathe kate ryles — 14 Nov YDAU, evening
- Poor Tony Krause · ★ The pursuit and escape: Ruth van Cleve chases him; the waste-barrel; flight to the Antitoi alley → Scene 144: poor tony chase — 14 Nov YDAU, ~2215-2226h
- A.F.R. · ★ Marathe infiltrates Ennet House as "Henri the Swiss"; the veiled performer located → Scene 147: afr finds entertainment — 14 Nov YDAU
- Kate Gompert · ★ Ryle's with Marathe: "novocaine of the soul," the Gertraude story rejected, the veiled Entertainment offer → Scene 156: marathe kate ryles — 14 Nov YDAU, evening
- Kate Gompert · ★ Fate left open: never returns to Ennet House; Pat swears out a warrant → Scene 161: gately hospital visitors — after 14 Nov YDAU
- Pat Montesian · ★ The Marathe intake: interviewing a disguised assassin, and the "Mars" phone call → Scene 151: marathe pat intake cartridges — 14 Nov YDAU
- Rémy Marathe · ★ Marathe infiltrates Ennet House as "Henri the Swiss," hunting the veiled performer → Scene 149: marathe ennet waiting room — 14 Nov YDAU
- AA&R · ★ Meeting culture from Denial Aisle: "shattered enough to stick," and identification-not-comparison → Scene 139: joelle ca biscuits bottom — 14 Nov YDAU, evening
- Ennet · ★ Marathe infiltrates Ennet House; the smiley-face cartridges in Pat's cabinet; Joelle identified → Scene 149: marathe ennet waiting room — Sat 14 Nov YDAU (2009), evening, group-intake night
- Rémy Marathe · ★ Ryle's with Kate Gompert: the Gertraude story, the doctrine of chosen love, and the Entertainment hint → Scene 156: marathe kate ryles — 14 Nov YDAU, evening
- AA&R · ★ The Gift of the Present / Abiding; and the newcomer-protection ethic (13th-Stepping) → Scene 166: joelle visits gately abiding — c. 14-18 Nov YDAU, Trauma-Wing frame
- Don Gately · ★ Joelle van Dyne's Trauma-Wing bedside visits — the deepening Gately-Joelle bond → Scene 166: joelle visits gately abiding — hospital, A.M. bedside, c. 14-18 Nov YDAU
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ Joelle's resolve: keep straight, and first thought of showing the face → Scene 139: joelle ca biscuits bottom — 14 Nov YDAU
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ Marathe locates Joelle: Pat's "U.H.I.D. member in early residency" → Scene 151: marathe pat intake cartridges — 14 Nov YDAU
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ Marathe's day finding "someone I think my friends will kill" and the betraying phone call → Scene 156: marathe kate ryles — 14 Nov YDAU
- Ruth van Cleve · ★ Off Restriction: the walk to the NA meeting with Kate Gompert → Scene 136: kate ruth prospect trek — 14 Nov YDAU, ~2200h
- Ruth van Cleve · ★ The oral narrative: the abandoned newborn and the jailed father → Scene 136: kate ruth prospect trek — 14 Nov YDAU, ~2200h
- Kate Gompert · ★ The mugging: the walk to Inman Square with Ruth van Cleve, and the lightpost → Scene 136: kate ruth prospect trek — 14 Nov YDAU, ~2200h
- Randy Lenz · ★ Overground fugitive: disguised, coke-frozen, robbing the two Chinese women → Scene 142: lenz stalks chinese women — 14 Nov YDAU
- Ruth van Cleve · ★ The snatch: Ruth's strap breaks, Kate is whip-swung into the lightpost → Scene 141: kate concussed purse snatch — 14 Nov YDAU, ~2215h
- Poor Tony Krause · ★ The mugging: the purse-snatch and Kate Gompert whip-swung into the lightpost → Scene 136: kate ruth prospect trek — 14 Nov YDAU, ~2215h
17 November
- Eliot Kornspan · ★ Excluded by the 16s: "cretinous and cruel," and the burnt-cats suspicion → Scene n324: trust math locker room — by 17 Nov YDAU (cats found ~early Nov)
- Aubrey deLint · ★ "A. deLint's show": the hearing that expels Pemulis → Scene n332: pemulis expelled — 17 Nov YDAU
- Johnette Foltz · ★ Her own scene: five nights deep, she opens the door to the boy who says 'whom' → Scene 158: hal ennet house door — 17 Nov YDAU, ~0830
- Jim Troeltsch · ★ The WETA "apocalyptic broadcast" (Wayne meltdown) → Scene n324: trust math locker room — 17 Nov YDAU — Tuesday, ~1435-1445h
- John Wayne · ★ The liaison as leverage: Pemulis blackmails Avril over "some sort of major-sport interlude with John Wayne" → Scene n324: trust math locker room — 17 Nov YDAU
- Michael Pemulis · ★ John Wayne dosed; the WETA rant; the expulsion → Scene n332: pemulis expelled — 17 Nov YDAU
- Michael Pemulis · ★ The last glimpses: scarce, avoiding Hal "as if he sensed something," lurking by the dumpsters → Scene 165: hal blizzard anhedonia — 17-20 Nov YDAU (post-expulsion; overlaps events 20-22)
- Don Gately · ★ Legal jeopardy — a Nuck dead, the missing Item, Federal interest, the A.D.A. in the hat → Scene 161: gately hospital visitors — hospital, c. 13-17 Nov YDAU
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ Joelle speaks at the St. Columbkill's round-robin: the Knievel breakthrough → Scene 166: joelle visits gately abiding — 17 Nov YDAU
- Ennet · ★ Hal Incandenza knocks at the Ennet House door → Scene 158: hal ennet house door — Tue 17 Nov YDAU (2009), just after 0830h
- Hal Incandenza · ★ Hal at the Ennet House door, seeking a Substance-Anonymous meeting schedule → Scene 158: hal ennet house door — 17 Nov YDAU, just after 0830h
- Zoltan Csikzentmihalyi · ★ Towel-snapping, then the summons: "There is expression. You must immediately come." → Scene n324: trust math locker room — 17 Nov YDAU, ~1420-1435h
- Todd Possalthwaite · ★ Locker-room collapse: "Nothing's fair because nothing's true" → Scene n324: trust math locker room — 17 Nov YDAU, ~1420h
- Keith Freer · ★ Cold contempt at the mirror: the weeping Possalthwaite and the math sermon → Scene n324: trust math locker room — 17 Nov YDAU, ~1420h
- Tony Nwangi · ★ The Pemulis interrogation: deLint's laughing window-dressing → Scene n332: pemulis expelled — 17 Nov YDAU
- Tex Watson · ★ Window-dressing at the Pemulis interrogation over the Wayne dosing → Scene n332: pemulis expelled — 17 Nov YDAU
- John Wayne · ★ The WETA broadcast meltdown — "lost his mind" — cause disputed → Scene 170: hal horizontal vr5 — 17 Nov YDAU
- Hal Incandenza · ★ Hal's drive to Natick: the deepening withdrawal, the mnemonic prodigy intact, "My name's Mike" → Scene 160: hal inner infant meeting — 17 Nov YDAU, ~1720h
- Hal Incandenza · ★ Hal crashes the wrong meeting (Inner-Infant men's group); envies those with parents to blame; dissociative escape → Scene 160: hal inner infant meeting — 17 Nov YDAU, 1730h
19 November
20 November
- Rodney Tine Jr. · ★ The ad meeting: two tapping Tines, "Shut up, Rodney," and the confiscated ruler → Scene 168: fully functional phil — 20 Nov YDAU
- Kieran McKenna · ★ Still in the gauze wrap: rumor-runner for the Stice-window disaster → Scene 172: hal supine pemulis interface — 20 Nov YDAU, morning
- Petropolis Kahn · ★ The shaggy head in V.R.5's doorway — then the Petropulator tips Pemulis off → Scene 170: hal horizontal vr5 — 20 Nov YDAU (morning)
- M. Fortier · ★ The inverted-tumbler interrogation of Orin (identity by inference) → Scene 184: orin tumbler roaches — ~20 Nov YDAU
- Otis P. Lord · ★ The return: a small but univocal cheer → Scene 183: locker room loach saga — 20 Nov YDAU, morning
- Luria Perec · ★ The technical interview of Orin: her one appearance — "(and who was not really Swiss)" → Scene 184: orin tumbler roaches — ?/20 Nov YDAU
- John Wayne · ★ The Avril–Wayne liaison, per Hal's private reckoning → Scene 179: hal accomplice blizzard weston — YDAU (from ~two months after arrival); reconstructed 20 Nov
- Ortho Stice · ★ The forehead frozen to the window: the second face, the ghost question, "told nobody but Lyle" → Scene 167: stice stuck to window — 20 Nov YDAU ~0456h
- Ortho Stice · ★ The bed bolted to the ceiling: the guardian-ghost theory and the "mental buckling" that raised his game → Scene 179: hal accomplice blizzard weston — 20 Nov YDAU
- A.F.R. · ★ Orin's "technical interview" under the glass tumbler — "Where Is The Master Buried" → Scene 184: orin tumbler roaches — ~20 Nov YDAU
- Hugh Steeply · ★ Steeply intercepts and interviews Joelle — the hunt's edge; fate and outcome left open → Scene 176: steeply accosts joelle — ~20 November YDAU
- Samizdat · ★ The U.S.O.U.S. counter-measure — "Fully Functional Phil," the anti-samizdat children's ad → Scene 168: fully functional phil — 20 November YDAU
- Pat Montesian · ★ The A.D.A.'s Ninth-Step amend: the one scene inside Pat's head → Scene 182: ada ninth step pat — ~20 Nov YDAU
- Samizdat · ★ The buried-Master endgame — "Where he's buried is itself buried" → Scene 178: joelle q interview master — ?/20 Nov YDAU
- U.S.O.U.S. · ★ The Joelle interview — locating the performer; the Master's grave named → Scene 176: steeply accosts joelle — ?/20 November YDAU
- Michael Pemulis · ★ The endgame: desperate to warn Hal about "the tu-savez-quoi" → Scene 172: hal supine pemulis interface — 20 Nov YDAU
- Michael Pemulis · ★ The entrepôt: the fallen ceiling panels and the vanished DMZ → Scene 174: pemulis entrepot raided — 20 Nov YDAU
- Ennet · ★ The A.D.A.'s Ninth Step: he drops the assault charge and comes to ask Gately's forgiveness → Scene 182: ada ninth step pat — ~20 Nov YDAU (2009)
- E.T.A. · ★ The Fundraiser-Exhibition gala, the blizzard relocation, and the arriving "wheelchair contingent" → Scene 167: stice stuck to window — 20 Nov YDAU
- Avril Incandenza · ★ Hal's disclosure: the Avril-Wayne liaison since Wayne's second month; the imagined tableau → Scene 179: hal accomplice blizzard weston — 20 Nov YDAU — the Wayne liaison
- AA&R · ★ The Ninth Step reaches the least likely man: the A.D.A.'s amend, and the dropped case → Scene 182: ada ninth step pat — ~20 Nov YDAU
- Orin Incandenza · ★ The A.F.R. trap: Orin under the giant inverted tumbler → Scene 184: orin tumbler roaches — ?/20 Nov YDAU
- Don Gately · ★ The A.D.A.'s Ninth-Step amend / the dropped prosecution → Scene 182: ada ninth step pat — ~20 Nov YDAU
- Mario Incandenza · ★ Mario's handshake saves Barry Loach; Loach "all but kisses his ring" → Scene 183: locker room loach saga — ~his 14th year; the saga told 20 Nov YDAU
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ Steeply accosts Joelle outside St. E.'s → Scene 176: steeply accosts joelle — ?/20 Nov YDAU
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ The Steeply Q-interview: Joelle debriefed on her role and JOI's death → Scene 178: joelle q interview master — ?/20 Nov YDAU
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ Released as bait, Joelle goes "home" to Ennet House; the Sheriff's car → Scene 180: joelle returns sheriff car — 20 Nov YDAU
- Hal Incandenza · ★ Hal's panic attack and horizontal dissociation in V.R.5; the "black miracle" of caring → Scene 170: hal horizontal vr5 — 20 Nov YDAU, blizzard morning
- Hal Incandenza · ★ Hal's Bartleby refusal to play; the self-crippling fantasy ("Never have to, never get to") → Scene 179: hal accomplice blizzard weston — 20 Nov YDAU
- Hal Incandenza · ★ The recovered JOI-Orin memory; Hal's grief at never having had intimacy with Himself → Scene 179: hal accomplice blizzard weston — 20 Nov YDAU
- Hal Incandenza · ★ Hal "being weird" in the locker room: derealization, involuntary facial expressions, appetite gone → Scene 183: locker room loach saga — 20 Nov YDAU, pre-Fundraiser
- K. D. Coyle · ★ The ceiling-bed morning: Coyle's breaking point → Scene 167: stice stuck to window — 20 Nov YDAU, ~0100h-mid-morning
- Hal Incandenza · ★ Blizzard anhedonia: Hal can't cry, hopes not to play, fears the Bob Hope was the day's meaning → Scene 165: hal blizzard anhedonia — 20 Nov YDAU, before 0500h
- Hal Incandenza · ★ Hal's face involuntarily "mirthful" while he feels wretched; the ghostly self-image → Scene 167: stice stuck to window — 20 Nov YDAU, ~0500h
Day unpinned
- Rodney Tine Jr. · ★ Breaking Molly Notkin: the technical interviewer who keeps the light on → Scene 159: notkin spills — ? Nov YDAU
- Tiny Ewell · ★ The bottom: locked out, St. Mel's detox and the D.T. mice, the taxicab to Ennet House → Scene 027: tiny ewell to ennet — ~late Oct – early Nov YDAU
- John Wayne · ★ E.T.A. standing: #1 in the school, #3 continental / #2 U.S.T.A.; the challenge hierarchy over Hal → Scene 065: port washington meet — YDAU (autumn present)
- U.S.O.U.S. · ★ The samizdat emergency — the cartridge surfaces across the U.S.; O.U.S. names it → Scene 107: tine samizdat dossier — ~two summers before YDAU, escalating to Nov YDAU
- Tiny Ewell · ★ The tattoo taxonomy — Ewell's amateur-sociological project → Scene 056: ennet facts ewell tattoos — ~Nov YDAU, residency (narrated as a "two-month obsession")
- Geoffrey Day · ★ Ennet House arrival and the clichés-harangue: Denial as fortification → Scene 066: ennet living room day gately — early Nov YDAU (Day's first week)
- Rodney Tine · ★ Tine dispatched to metro Boston to run the samizdat manhunt — his one POV chapter → Scene 107: tine samizdat dossier — Early Nov YDAU
- Samizdat · ★ The samizdat surfaces across the U.S. and is named; the U.S.O.U.S. counter-hunt begins → Scene 107: tine samizdat dossier — two summers past → early Nov YDAU
- Molly Notkin · ★ The tell-all technical interview — Notkin sings under the lamp → Scene 159: notkin spills — ? Nov YDAU
- Chandler Foss · ★ At Gately's bedside: the recently graduated nonstick-cookware salesman → Scene 185: fackelmann sunshine beach — ? Nov YDAU (post-graduation)
- Molly Notkin · ★ The Entertainment's content: Madame Psychosis as maternal Death → Scene 159: notkin spills — ? Nov YDAU, per Notkin
- Molly Notkin · ★ "Avril as Death": the widow possibly Death incarnate → Scene 159: notkin spills — ? Nov YDAU, per Notkin
- Tech · ★ The culture the tech made — total home spectation and the spect-op hunger → Scene 121: afr snatches wyyy engineer — YDAU
- Bruce Green · ★ Ennet House: sobriety, gentle shut-down affect, cribbage with Gately → Scene 066: ennet living room day gately — ~YDAU, Oct-Nov
- Johnny Gentle · ★ The samizdat reaches the President — who has to be restrained from watching it → Scene 107: tine samizdat dossier — apprised after late spring YDAU; narrated Early Nov YDAU
- Lyle · ★ The levitation: Lyle hovering above the towel dispenser (uncanny, unresolved) → Scene 137: eta evening montage — ? Nov YDAU
- Marlon Bain · ★ The correspondence opens: "Fire away." and the letter of Qs → Scene 128: steeply bain correspondence — Nov YDAU
- Marlon Bain · ★ The testimony on Orin: sincerity with a motive, the pose of poselessness, truth as constructed → Scene n269: marlon bain letters — Nov YDAU
- Marlon Bain · ★ The testimony on Himself and Joelle; the word on the Volvo window → Scene n269: marlon bain letters — Nov YDAU (recounting up to the days before JOI's suicide)
- Marlon Bain · ★ The testimony on Avril: the abuse essay, "indictment-proof," and the closing warning → Scene n269: marlon bain letters — Nov YDAU; resolves nothing
- U.S.O.U.S. · ★ Tine's Boston command post — the Office coordinating over the Public Gardens → Scene 121: afr snatches wyyy engineer — mid-November YDAU (a pond-draining weekday)
- James O. Incandenza · ★ The samizdat's authorship and the hunt for the Master: JOI the optics-man as the Entertainment's auteur — the "verifiably lethal" pole → Scene 098: master copies temptation — Nov YDAU (years after JOI's death)
- James O. Incandenza · ★ The wraith visitation: the figurant / radical-realism aesthetic, the muted son, and the entertainment made "to reach" him — the "reach-the-son opus" pole → Scene 162: gately wraith figurants — Nov YDAU (posthumous)
- Orin Incandenza · ★ The "Moment" soft profile; Helen Steeply; Orin falls for his interviewer → Scene 064: hal orin phone joi suicide — Nov YDAU
- Don Gately · ★ Gately becomes Ennet House live-in Staff; the iron rule never to run → Scene 054: enfield marine units — YDAU
- Hal Incandenza · ★ Orin's diagnosis of Hal: shut down, performing for Avril's approval, unaware anything's wrong → Scene n234: orin steeply interview — Nov YDAU (the Steeply interviews)
Month unpinned
- Ken Erdedy · ★ The waiting-for-the-delivery set piece → Scene 004: erdedy waits for pot — YDAU (undated day), active addiction
- Luria Perec · ★ Who Luria is: the double-amanuensis between Tine and DuPlessis → Scene 029: marathe steeply entertainment — UNDATED (standing, Gentle Era into YDAU)
- Lyle · ★ Who Lyle is: the sweat-guru on the towel dispenser → Scene 039: lyle weight room guru — UNDATED (standing E.T.A. present, ~YDAU)
- E.T.A. · ★ Founding of the Enfield Tennis Academy: the hilltop shaved flat, the plant built, Schtitt recruited → Scene 026: schtitt and mario — UNDATED (B.S. era; founding "some ten years" before YDAU, when Mario was nine)
- Antitoi brothers · ★ F.L.Q. affiliation under patron DuPlessis; dispatched south to run a front shop in Cambridge → Scene 097: aventura antitoi afr raid — UNDATED (pre-YDAU)
- Bridget Boone · ★ Her room, and Hal's first bongs → Scene 023: hal tennis court dream — ~2 years before YDAU
- Eugenio Martinez · ★ Gets clean, joins Ennet House under the founder, becomes a volunteer alumni counselor → Scene 066: ennet living room day gately — UNDATED (~10+ years before YDAU)
- Kate Gompert · ★ The clinical history: unipolar depression, four hospitalizations, ECT, and the meds → Scene 024: kate gompert psych ward — UNDATED (recurring, pre-YDAU into YDAU); ECT ~YDPAH
- Pat Montesian · ★ The D.T.-stroke: rock bottom and the Surrender → Scene 095: gately staff the removal — UNDATED (~7 years before YDAU)
- Hugh Steeply · ★ The U.S.O.U.S. field-operative and his humiliating field-personae → Scene 038: marathe steeply disguises — UNDATED (pre-YDAU)
- Ortho Stice · ★ "The Darkness": the all-black kit, the KANSAS hick persona, and the unearned "gift-body" → Scene 034: locker room big buddies — UNDATED → YDAU standing
- Pat Montesian · ★ Coming In: the wheelchair, six months of blinks, and eating the rock → Scene 095: gately staff the removal — UNDATED (age 32; ~7 years before YDAU)
- AA&R · ★ The addict's cage: the "one last time" cycle and cure-by-excess (Erdedy) → Scene 004: erdedy waits for pot — UNDATED (~YDAU)
- E.T.A. · ★ Schtitt's philosophy of the game — the academy's animating pedagogy → Scene 026: schtitt and mario — UNDATED (standing doctrine; dramatized on a walk with Mario, ~YDAU)
- Hugh Steeply · ★ The "Helen Steeply" cover: Moment soft-profiler; the drag mechanics; the putative CV → Scene 061: steeply putative cv — YDAU
- AA&R · ★ The disease articulated: marijuana, "Stopping," and the anhedonic feeling (Kate Gompert) → Scene 024: kate gompert psych ward — ? YDAU
- John Wayne · ★ "The automatic": the machine-body beauty-of-function, the undead affect, the near-total silence → Scene 065: port washington meet — YDAU (autumn present)
- Broullîme · ★ The orthopedic-saw satiation experiment → Scene 147: afr finds entertainment — ?/12-14 Nov YDAU
- Idris Arslanian · ★ The devout Muslim and the urine deal: Pemulis recruits a clean supply → Scene 114: arslanian blindfold annulation — UNDATED — ? Nov YDAU
- Gerhardt Schtitt · ★ The core creed: the true opponent is the self; tennis as tragic self-transcendence → Scene 026: schtitt and mario — UNDATED (standing E.T.A. doctrine; dramatized on an ice-cream walk with Mario, ~YDAU)
- Tech · ★ The rise and fall of videophony — the annular consumer-tech curve → Scene 047: videophony rise fall — UNDATED (early-InterLace TP era; boom collapses within ~16 months; <10% by YDAU)
- Wade McDade · ★ Hospital visit: declines to depose; the shoplifted Get Well card → Scene 169: gately dream md temptation — post-shooting, ~mid-Nov YDAU, ~1100h
- Kate Gompert · ★ The meds overdose — "everything I had in the world" → Scene 024: kate gompert psych ward — ? YDAU (three nights before the interview)
- Emil Minty · ★ The pranks compound: HELP WANTED confirmed, engraved invitations in the works → Scene 169: gately dream md temptation — prob. 19 Nov YDAU (reported)
- Kate Gompert · ★ The psych-ward interview: kill vs. hurt, the all-over horror, the frightening smile, the plea for ECT → Scene 024: kate gompert psych ward — ? YDAU
- AA&R · ★ Ennet House culture: the many exotic facts you acquire, and the disease as DIS-EASE → Scene 056: ennet facts ewell tattoos — UNDATED (~YDAU residency)
- Kate Gompert · ★ Anhedonia vs. "It" — the Great White Shark of pain; "a hell for one" → Scene 135: anhedonia and it — UNDATED (narratorial exposition, keyed to her YDAU Withdrawal)
- Gerhardt Schtitt · ★ Substitute father: the Mario friendship — the sidecar, the walks, the ice-cream, the candor → Scene 026: schtitt and mario — UNDATED (standing relationship; ~YDAU)
- Mario Incandenza · ★ Familial Dysautonomia — the pain-insensitivity — named; the immersion-heater origin → Scene 117: mario night walk ennet — diagnosed at age 6; noted 11 Nov YDAU
- Doony Glynn · ★ Gastroenterology's happy camper: a codeine drip, possibly for life → Scene 169: gately dream md temptation — prob. 19 Nov YDAU (reported)
- Gene Fackelmann · ★ The Eighties Bill / Sixties Bob scam: the mis-booked bet → Scene 175: fackelmann scam wraith returns — Fackelmann finale (~4 yrs before YDAU)
- U.S.O.U.S. · ★ Steeply's deep-cover doctrine — the grotesque field-personae and the "Helen Steeply" disguise → Scene 088: marathe steeply soup — YDAU; the field-persona doctrine, standing
- Gene Fackelmann · ★ The fatal miscalculation: Dr. Wo, and Eighties Bill's father → Scene 175: fackelmann scam wraith returns — Fackelmann finale (~4 yrs before YDAU)
- Gene Fackelmann · ★ The flight and the death-binge: hiding in the Blues → Scene 175: fackelmann scam wraith returns — Fackelmann finale (~4 yrs before YDAU)
- Gene Fackelmann · ★ The binge: Count Faxula, "goddamn lie," and the convulsion → Scene 177: dilaudid binge — Fackelmann finale (~4 yrs before YDAU)
- Gene Fackelmann · ★ The demapping: Bobby C's crew and the sewn-open eyes → Scene 185: fackelmann sunshine beach — Fackelmann finale (~4 yrs before YDAU)
- Don Gately · ★ The Eighties Bill / Sixties Bob scam — Fackelmann marked for death → Scene 175: fackelmann scam wraith returns — Fackelmann finale, ~4 yrs before YDAU
- Don Gately · ★ Gately joins Fackelmann's death-binge; Kite flees → Scene 175: fackelmann scam wraith returns — Fackelmann finale, ~4 yrs before YDAU
- Don Gately · ★ Fackelmann's demise: Bobby C's crew and the sewn-open eyes → Scene 185: fackelmann sunshine beach — Fackelmann finale, ~4 yrs before YDAU
- Hal Incandenza · ★ Hal's secret marijuana habit and the "No-One-Must-Know" obsession → Scene 013: hal pump room — YDAU (2009), standing
- Mario Incandenza · ★ "The son was lenses" → Scene 178: joelle q interview master — JOI's final work; reported via Joelle, ~20 Nov YDAU interview
- Orin Incandenza · ★ The seduction-machine: "Subjects," the Excitement-Hope-Acquisition-Contempt cycle, the chart → Scene 122: eta supper stice hal — Subsidized era, → YDAU
- Avril Incandenza · ★ The Avril-C.T. crux: adjacent bedrooms, "extremely close," and Hal's imagined tableau → Scene 179: hal accomplice blizzard weston — YDAU (and standing) — the liaison lattice
- Avril Incandenza · ★ Avril's sexual reputation: Notkin, Bain, and Hal's lover-list → Scene 159: notkin spills — YDAU (and across the marriage) — liaison + separatist cruxes
- Hal Incandenza · ★ Hal's core anhedonia: empty inside, no real emotion since tiny, and lonely → Scene 135: anhedonia and it — UNDATED, ~YDAU
- Don Gately · ★ The refusal of all narcotics despite unimaginable pain — the recovery crux → Scene 139: joelle ca biscuits bottom — hospital, c. 12-20 Nov YDAU
- Hal Incandenza · ★ Hal's marijuana use has become a daily physiological dependence → Scene 036: big buddy sessions — YDAU, by 3 Nov
- Don Gately · ★ The wraith visitations — "Himself" (JOI) interfaces through Gately's brain-voice → Scene 162: gately wraith figurants — hospital, night(s), c. 14-16 Nov YDAU
- Mario Incandenza · ★ Schtitt confides in the damaged listener; tennis-as-tragic → Scene 026: schtitt and mario — YDAU present
- Don Gately · ★ The fever crisis / near-death → Scene 185: fackelmann sunshine beach — c. 20 Nov YDAU
- Mario Incandenza · ★ Hal secretly idealizes Mario — "Booboo," the fire-or-rise credo → Scene 071: mario birth defects — YDAU present
- Mario Incandenza · ★ The insomniac catechism — God, the Moms's grief, "you room with me out of pity" → Scene 010: hal mario moms sadness — YDAU midnight
- Mario Incandenza · ★ Mario is the Incandenza family archivist ex officio → Scene n110: orin hal phone — 7 Nov YDAU frame
Year of Glad (2010)
Undated / era-fuzzy
- Johnny Gentle · ★ The Concavity Cabinet: "give it away" — with Gentle on pure oxygen → Scene 086: concavity cabinet clipperton — Gentle-Era onset; the "16 January meeting"; resolves nothing on authorship
- O.N.A.N. · ★ The Concavity Cabinet — the experialist decision to "give it away" → Scene 086: concavity cabinet clipperton — background, 16 January (the Reconfiguration year)
- James Incandenza, Sr. · ★ Death: he drinks himself to a cerebral hemorrhage on a Tucson stairway → Scene 071: mario birth defects — UNDATED B.S. (after the desert return; before his son's adult prominence)
- Guillaume DuPlessis · ★ Luria P., his Girl-Friday — and the channel into Tine's office → Scene 029: marathe steeply entertainment — UNDATED (standing, through his death)
- Marlon Bain · ★ S. Johnson: the death by Volvo, and the lie Bain stood through → Scene n269: marlon bain letters — UNDATED (an idle August weekday, soon after Orin's license)
- Orin Incandenza · ★ S. Johnson dragged behind the Volvo; the "pulverize-and-run" lie; Avril's uncanny response → Scene n269: marlon bain letters — UNDATED (Orin ~16, B.S.), disputed
- Don Gately · ★ Finding his mother's cirrhotic hemorrhage; the end of football; the first cigarette → Scene 092: gately higher power bob death — ~age 17, B.S.
- Johnette Foltz · ★ The other live-in Staffer: South Chelsea, the Heany Facility, stepmothers, and the half-removed tiger → Scene 056: ennet facts ewell tattoos — STANDING
- K. D. Coyle · ★ Who Coyle is: desert transplant, A-3, Stice's roommate → Scene 065: port washington meet — STANDING; recruitment UNDATED, age 13
- Kent Blott · ★ Ten years old among the giants: the humanities kid, the trust fund, and the campus floor-age of sincerity → Scene 034: locker room big buddies — STANDING
- Eliot Kornspan · ★ Origins: the Telegrocer's son, "then-skinny," before Loach and Freer got hold of him → Scene n110: orin hal phone — fall Y.W.-Q.M.D. (letter-dated)
- Petropolis Kahn · ★ 'Woolly Mammoth': the hairy, thick-built galumpher of the 16's → Scene 094: dawn drills second world — STANDING
- Charles Tavis · ★ The openest man of all time — openness as composure, and the cornered rat beneath → Scene 102: tavis waiting room — standing
- Emil Minty · ★ Ennet House's hard case — mohawk, tattoos, ballism, redolence, 'Fang' → Scene 066: ennet living room day gately — STANDING
- Jim Struck · ★ Father's drained-pool ruin and the family trauma → Scene n304: struck plagiarizes afr train cult — UNDATED — childhood, pre-E.T.A.
- Trevor Axford · ★ Bike-fall lesion: food tastes the way vomit smells → Scene 122: eta supper stice hal — UNDATED — early childhood
- Matty Pemulis · ★ "Not so with Matty Pemulis": total recall and the maturer perspective → Scene 131: matty pemulis da birthday — UNDATED (standing; the childhood memory carried to the present, voiced at twenty-three)
- Jim's Filmography & the Entertainment · ★ Joelle's frame-study: the hidden human flashes and the Bernini "self-forgetting" thesis → Scene 150: joelle cleaning incandenza thanksgiving — UNDATED (~her co-op years, recalled)
- Joelle van Dyne · ★ The "lethally beautiful" in-joke and "I hid by hiddenness" → Scene 178: joelle q interview master — UNDATED
- Joe Lon van Dyne · ★ The Thanksgiving eruption and the acid — Notkin's account, with Joelle's oblique counter-frame; resolves nothing → Scene 159: notkin spills — 24 Nov Y.T.M.P. (midday), per Notkin only
- Bobby C · ★ "Party Time": C runs the Fackelmann reckoning — the novel's closing scene → Scene 185: fackelmann sunshine beach — UNDATED (end of the same era; in the story BEFORE event 5)
- Bernadette Longley · ★ One of the top girls — and a fixture of other people's talk → Scene 013: hal pump room — STANDING
- Chandler Foss · ★ The mangled MARY tattoo — his using days, written on his arm → Scene 056: ennet facts ewell tattoos — STANDING
- Charles Tavis · ★ Kinship origins — and the four-way relation-lattice left open → Scene 170: hal horizontal vr5 — UNDATED (birth, B.S. era, Vermont/Québec)
- Ferocious Francis Gehaney · ★ The most ancient and gnarled of the Crocodiles — Gately's sponsor → Scene 095: gately staff the removal — STANDING
- Jim Troeltsch · ★ Doubles identity — Schacht's partner since Philly toddlerhood → Scene 065: port washington meet — STANDING
- Marlon Bain · ★ Boyhood: the two best 10-year-olds in Boston; the Jamaica Way crash; a hanger-on at Weston → Scene n269: marlon bain letters — UNDATED (B.S.; Boys' 10's through E.T.A.'s founding)
- Gerhardt Schtitt · ★ Continental-authoritarian formation: the Gymnasium, "WE ARE WHAT WE WALK BETWEEN," and the sacrifice of the Self → Scene 026: schtitt and mario — UNDATED (Schtitt's European boyhood/youth, B.S. era, pre-Unification)
- Ted Schacht · ★ Crohn's inheritance and the toddler doubles partnership with Troeltsch → Scene 065: port washington meet — UNDATED — childhood, Philadelphia
- Jim's Filmography & the Entertainment · ★ Optics to auteur: the fortune, and the retirement into "après-garde" film → Scene 020: joi bio eta founding — UNDATED (B.S., pre-film career)
- Tiny Ewell · ★ The Money-Stealers' Club: the buried childhood fraud → Scene 161: gately hospital visitors — UNDATED (early 1970s, B.S.), 3rd grade, East Watertown
- Aubrey deLint · ★ Schtitt's enforcer: schedule-maker, drill-master, statistician, gatekeeper of the day → Scene 102: tavis waiting room — STANDING
- Bruce Green · ★ The fatal Mauna Loa snake-can: his mother's death → Scene 116: lenz kills nuck dog — B.S. era, Green's ~fifth Xmas Eve, Waltham MA
- Eric Clipperton · ★ First appearance: the unseeded unknown, "Ind." on the draw-sheet → Scene 086: concavity cabinet clipperton — UNDATED (~last couple years of Unsubsidized Time, B.S.; ~age 16)
- Gene Fackelmann · ★ The Twin Towers: Sorkin's field muscle → Scene 173: gately sorkin twin towers — ~ages 18-23 of Gately's life (B.S.)
- Don Gately · ★ The North Shore household: the alcoholic mother and the ex-Navy M.P.'s methodical beatings → Scene 092: gately higher power bob death — childhood, ~ages 8-11, B.S. late 1980s-early 90s
- Gertraude Marathe · ★ The Autoroute rescue: the metal-hatted woman frozen before the truck → Scene 156: marathe kate ryles — UNDATED (Marathe's legless early twenties)
- Jim Troeltsch · ★ Broadcaster vocation — not Show-bound, the WETA post, the fist-broadcast compulsion → Scene 070: prorector classes separatism — STANDING
- Johnny Gentle · ★ C.U.S.P. sweeps to power; the Inauguration heralds a Tighter, Tidier Nation → Scene 081: marios onantiad gaudeamus — ~final B.S. years ("the millennial fulcrum")
- Lyle · ★ Lyle's bond with James Incandenza: how far back they go → Scene 138: blood sister viewing — UNDATED (JOI history; disputed geography — B.S. '80s / pre-E.T.A.)
- Rémy Marathe · ★ Le Jeu du Prochain Train, the brothers' deaths, and the loss of his legs → Scene 035: marathe steeply temple — UNDATED (Marathe's youth/early twenties, B.S. era)
- Matty Pemulis · ★ The abuse: the late-night ritual, the Da's rationalizing, Micky silent in the cot → Scene 131: matty pemulis da birthday — UNDATED (from Matty's tenth year, ~mid-B.S. 1990s; recurring late nights through boyhood)
- Ted Schacht · ★ Father's death of ulcerative colitis; arrival at E.T.A. to rejoin Troeltsch → Scene 070: prorector classes separatism — fall, Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar
- O.N.A.N. · ★ The millennial waste-and-Menace crisis; the Clean U.S. Party founded and sweeps to power → Scene 081: marios onantiad gaudeamus — background, ~turn of the millennium
- Tech · ★ JOI's optics: the patent fortune and the enabling of cold annular fusion → Scene 020: joi bio eta founding — B.S. era (Federal interval G. Ford–early G. Bush → early retirement)
- Bruce Green · ★ The father's Blammo-cigar mass murder and execution; Green's years of mutism; the Winchester aunt → Scene 116: lenz kills nuck dog — B.S. era, after the fatal Xmas
- Eric Clipperton · ★ The Glock 17 and the win-or-die M.O. → Scene 086: concavity cabinet clipperton — UNDATED (~B.S. tour years)
- Doony Glynn · ★ Ennet House's cross-eyed wiseacre — body, tattoos, Bug, rooms → Scene 056: ennet facts ewell tattoos — STANDING
- Jim Struck · ★ Congenital plagiarist, on academic probation since fifteen → Scene 034: locker room big buddies — STANDING
- Joe Lon van Dyne · ★ The devotion: front-row movies at the Paducah -plexes, batons, "prettier than this one or that one" → Scene 062: notkin party joelle overdose — UNDATED (Joelle's childhood, Shiny Prize)
- Johnny Gentle · ★ NATO dissolved, neighbors annexed to the cabinet, O.N.A.N. penned — Gentle its first Chair → Scene 081: marios onantiad gaudeamus — cabinet's second year through "the very last day of 'B.S.' solar time"
- Kate Gompert · ★ The marijuana relationship and the Stopping/relapse cycle — "Not 'drugs.' Stopping." → Scene 024: kate gompert psych ward — UNDATED (recurring pattern, "for years")
- Barry Loach · ★ The seminarian brother's spiritual collapse; the Challenge is set → Scene 183: locker room loach saga — ~Y.T.M.P.-Y.T.S.D.B. (Barry a Training major at B.C.)
- Lyle · ★ The night with Lyle that birthed Found Drama and anticonfluentialism → Scene 078: found drama inception — early O.N.A.N.ite temporo-subsidized era, one brutal winter night
- Jim's Filmography & the Entertainment · ★ The audience-obsession subphase: 'The Medusa v. the Odalisque,' 'The Joke,' 'Cage III' → Scene 085: hal joi audience films — UNDATED (B.S., "anticonfluential middle period")
- Avril Incandenza · ★ The Québécois-Separatist Left ties and the R.C.M.P. surveillance list → Scene 020: joi bio eta founding — UNDATED (her graduate years, B.S. era) — separatist-ties crux, evidence FOR
- Charles Tavis · ★ Present at Mario's touch-and-go birth — the Mario-paternity thread → Scene 071: mario birth defects — UNDATED (pre-Subsidized, Weston MA)
- Eric Clipperton · ★ The Clipperton Brigade forms; a loss to Clipperton counts as a walk → Scene 086: concavity cabinet clipperton — UNDATED (~B.S. tour years)
- Disney Leith · ★ Joelle's film teacher: "the knack," the Pilotone, the American Century set → Scene 068: orin bu punting joelle — ~Y.W. into Orin's B.U. years
- Gertraude Marathe · ★ The wedding: the nickel helmet, the pans and drains, the cleric's question → Scene 156: marathe kate ryles — UNDATED (after the rescue)
- Barry Loach · ★ The Park Street Challenge — "Touch me, just touch me, please" → Scene 183: locker room loach saga — UNDATED (nine-month span ending ~Y.T.S.D.B.)
- Rémy Marathe · ★ The hilltop rescue: choosing to love the skull-less woman → Scene 156: marathe kate ryles — UNDATED (Marathe's early-twenties depressive years, B.S. era)
- Matty Pemulis · ★ The Da's death, and the toast Matty still lifts to him → Scene 131: matty pemulis da birthday — UNDATED (Matty seventeen; the toast standing thereafter)
- Orin Incandenza · ★ The Quaker-Oats confession: sibling rivalry over maternal love → Scene 150: joelle cleaning incandenza thanksgiving — UNDATED (Weston, at Mario's birth/infancy)
- Ted Schacht · ★ The contre-pied knee blowout → Scene 057: dmz show and tell — at sixteen / "three years back" — carried unresolved
- Jim's Filmography & the Entertainment · ★ "Found Drama" and anticonfluentialism are born the night with Lyle → Scene 078: found drama inception — UNDATED (one early-Subsidized winter night)
- O.N.A.N. · ★ Gentle inaugurated; the Office of Unspecified Services; a "Tighter, Tidier Nation" → Scene 081: marios onantiad gaudeamus — background, the millennial transition
- Tech · ★ The ads that killed broadcast: Viney & Veals wake the viewer's thumb → Scene 087: hal tv ad interlace history — B.S. (the same pre-millennial window)
- Avril Incandenza · ★ Meets JOI at Toronto; the May-December marriage; the immigration saga; Orin's birth "a legal maneuver"; dual citizenship → Scene 020: joi bio eta founding — ~late 1980s-90s B.S. (JOI in his late thirties)
- Bruce Green · ★ Dreadful love for Mildred Bonk → Scene 009: green loves mildred bonk — eighth grade, B.S. era
- Eric Clipperton · ★ Clipperton v. Reat — the first meaningless victory → Scene 086: concavity cabinet clipperton — UNDATED (~B.S., age 16), Hartford Jr. Open, first round
- Gene Fackelmann · ★ The Dilaudid partnership: cooking up for Gately, and a love past sense → Scene 173: gately sorkin twin towers — Sorkin/addiction era (B.S.)
- Don Gately · ★ Mrs. Waite's birthday cake and suicide; the mother's cirrhosis diagnosis; "Sir Osis of Thuliver" → Scene 164: gately dreams mrs waite death — childhood, ~age 9, B.S.
- Joe Lon van Dyne · ★ Puberty and the dating question — two tellings that run in opposite directions → Scene 159: notkin spills — UNDATED (Joelle's puberty through the B.U. scholarship)
- Johnny Gentle · ★ The Canada showdown: Bethesda confinement, upside-down missiles, the insane pout → Scene 086: concavity cabinet clipperton — Gentle-Era onset, following the 16 January meeting
- James O. Incandenza · ★ The May-December marriage to Avril, and the remote paterfamilias: Le Masque, the "fifth wall," the light-gift, the delusion of silence → Scene 013: hal pump room — UNDATED (B.S. era into Subsidized; met at a U. Toronto conference; the silence-delusion "two years before his death")
- Barry Loach · ★ Mario Incandenza's handshake ends the Challenge → Scene 183: locker room loach saga — UNDATED (~Y.T.M.P.-Y.T.S.D.B., before JOI's death — strained; see Dating notes)
- Ted Schacht · ★ The reconfiguration: stopped caring, committed to dentistry, Schtitt's near-peer → Scene 065: port washington meet — STANDING — since the knee
- O.N.A.N. · ★ NATO dismantled; the Organization of North American Nations formed → Scene 083: onan headline montage — background, the millennial transition
- Tech · ★ Noreen Lace-Forché founds InterLace TelEntertainment — pro-active dissemination replaces broadcast → Scene 087: hal tv ad interlace history — B.S. into early Subsidized
- Lyle · ★ The nighttime weight-room economy: sweat for counsel, and the way he listens → Scene 082: lyle weight room supplicants — UNDATED (standing E.T.A. present)
- Marlon Bain · ★ The eclipse: Bain's early-puberty zenith, beating Orin, and the end of inseparability → Scene n269: marlon bain letters — ~age 15, B.S.; reunion ~16
- Orin Incandenza · ★ The pathological liar and the Moms who won't countenance a lie → Scene 155: hal mario liars — UNDATED (Weston/E.T.A. boyhood, into adolescence)
- Eric Clipperton · ★ The friendship with eight-year-old Mario; the JOI documentary circuit → Scene 086: concavity cabinet clipperton — UNDATED (~one late Unsubsidized summer)
- Joe Lon van Dyne · ★ Christmas in Shiny Prize: toddies, the storm-cellar acid collection, and "just His Way" → Scene 068: orin bu punting joelle — Dec, last B.S. year
- James O. Incandenza · ★ Founding of the Enfield Tennis Academy: shaving the hilltop, wooing Schtitt, the motto → Scene 020: joi bio eta founding — UNDATED (B.S. era; founding ~when Mario was nine)
- O.N.A.N. · ★ The territorial gift forced on Canada — Experialism, and the threat to bomb his own nation → Scene 086: concavity cabinet clipperton — background, the Reconfiguration
- Tech · ★ Cold annular fusion realized — the poison-eating reactor and the Concavity → Scene 114: arslanian blindfold annulation — Subsidized era (fusion operative; JOI's AEC contribution B.S.)
- Don Gately · ★ Academic and football collapse: flunking English, the year's withdrawal, the dropout → Scene 171: gately bim football decline — ~ages 16-17, B.S.
- James O. Incandenza · ★ JOI as tennis-father: the dawn flask, the drills, and the inherited "dark gift" of talent → Scene 051: tennis feral prodigy — UNDATED (Hal's childhood/early adolescence, B.S. into early Subsidized)
- Marlon Bain · ★ The price: methoxy-psychedelic Disabilities, impairing O.C.D., and departure from E.T.A. at 17 → Scene n269: marlon bain letters — ~ages 16-17, B.S.
- O.N.A.N. · ★ Interdependence — Gentle becomes first Chair of O.N.A.N. → Scene 083: onan headline montage — background, the last day of B.S. solar time
- Eric Clipperton · ★ The unarmed award ceremonies; a mantel of trophies and no ranking at all → Scene 089: clipperton suicide — UNDATED (the last pre-Subsidized year)
- Gene Fackelmann · ★ The chronic skim: getting over on Whitey Sorkin → Scene 175: fackelmann scam wraith returns — Sorkin era, "for years" (B.S.)
- James O. Incandenza · ★ The turn from optics to "apres-garde" film; film-as-communication and the E.T.A. Entertainment Requirement → Scene 020: joi bio eta founding — UNDATED (B.S. into Subsidized; the last ~decade of JOI's life)
- Jim's Filmography & the Entertainment · ★ The nonprofessional-actor method: stripping "the pernicious illusion of realism" → Scene 179: hal accomplice blizzard weston — UNDATED (method, career-long)
- O.N.A.N. · ★ Subsidized Time instituted — the calendar sold to pay for the giveaway → Scene 091: fresno quik subsidized time — background, at the B.S.→Subsidized hinge
- Don Gately · ★ Muscle for the bookie Whitey Sorkin — the "Twin Towers"; renamed "Don," nicknameless → Scene 173: gately sorkin twin towers — ~ages 18-23, B.S.
- Don Gately · ★ The accidental demapping: a debtor killed under a red curtain of rage → Endnote 369 — the accidental killing — Sorkin era, B.S.
- Tech · ★ Read-Only cartridges — the copyright tech that becomes the samizdat's hinge → Endnote 301 — why master cartridges are hard to copy — Standing architecture (Lace-Forché's M.B.A.-era design choice)
- James O. Incandenza · ★ Dipsomania and decline: the weight-room confessionals with Lyle, the marriage graded "a C," and ceding E.T.A. to C.T. → Scene 080: lyle joi weight room — UNDATED (JOI's decline; "the last five years of his life")
- Don Gately · ★ Discovers Demerol — the signature Substance → Scene 169: gately dream md temptation — age 23, ~B.S./early Subsidized
- Don Gately · ★ The burglary vocation: the luxury-apartment scam and the B&E crews → Scene 173: gately sorkin twin towers — addiction era, B.S.
- Charles Tavis · ★ The bond with Avril — adjacent bedrooms, "unrelated but extremely close" → Scene 102: tavis waiting room — standing
- John Wayne · ★ Is Wayne a covert Québécois / A.F.R. operative? — evidence on all sides, resolved nothing → Scene 065: port washington meet — OPEN CRUX
- Don Gately · ★ MCI-Billerica: the 17-month bit; learning the meter-shunt → Scene 095: gately staff the removal — B.S., ~age 24