Global timeline

The global in-world timeline: every character's and plot thread's spine events, merged into one chronology.

642 total. Show: All events ★ Starred

Before Subsidization (1933)

• James Incandenza, Sr. · ★ The fall and the verdict: "Yes, But He’ll Never Be Great." → Scene 049: joi father monologue — A.D. 1933, Tucson; he is "twelve or thirteen"

Before Subsidization (1960)

• James O. Incandenza · ★ The Incandenza line and the itinerant desert boyhood → Scene 005: professional conversationalist — UNDATED (B.S. era; JOI's Tucson/Southwest boyhood, three generations; two memories stamped Winter 1960 and Winter 1963 — events 2-3)
• James O. Incandenza · ★ The garage monologue: the father's greatness-prophecy, the body-as-machine doctrine, and "a machine in the ghost" → Scene 049: joi father monologue — Winter B.S. 1960, Tucson AZ; JOI is ten
• James Incandenza, Sr. · ★ The garage monologue: the body doctrine, the greatness prophecy, "A machine in the ghost" → Scene 049: joi father monologue — Winter B.S. 1960, Tucson AZ

Before Subsidization (1963)

• James O. Incandenza · ★ JOI's own voice: the Man-from-Glad father, the moving of the bed, and the origin of annulation → Scene 099: man from glad mattress — Winter B.S. 1963, Sepulveda CA; JOI ~13
• James Incandenza, Sr. · ★ The mattress afternoon: the squeaking bed, the collapse — his son's one memory of him in the son's own voice → Scene 099: man from glad mattress — Winter B.S. 1963, Sepulveda CA

Before Subsidization (1981)

• Don Gately · ★ Origin: the Estonian father Bulat; jaw broken, abandoned before birth → Scene 092: gately higher power bob death — ~B.S. 1981, birth

Before Subsidization (1983)

• Hugh Steeply · ★ Steeply's father consumed by "M*A*S*H"; the madness and the death → Scene 123: steeply father mash — B.S. era – B.S. 1983 (Troy NY)

Before Subsidization (1989)

• Doony Glynn · ★ 'The Madame': weeks under the Euclidian grid sky, then a month of Haldol and tapioca → Scene 105: lenz demaps animals — B.S. 1989
• James O. Incandenza · ★ The optics career and the serial obsessions: gamma-refractive lenses, cold annular fusion, the patented fortune, tennis-as-mathematics → Scene 020: joi bio eta founding — UNDATED (Federal interval G. Ford - early G. Bush, B.S. era; a "B.S. 1989" convention datum)
• Gerhardt Schtitt · ★ James Incandenza woos Schtitt to E.T.A.: the meeting of tennis minds → Scene 026: schtitt and mario — B.S. 1989 (first meeting) → ~B.S. 1997 (hire, at E.T.A.'s founding)

Before Subsidization (1990)

• Avril Incandenza · ★ Mario's hidden-pregnancy birth; C.T. present; Avril's transcendent, guilt-tinged love → Scene 071: mario birth defects — UNDATED (~Mario's birth, ~B.S. c.1990), paternity crux
• Mario Incandenza · ★ Mario's premature "first birth" on the brownstone staircase → Scene 071: mario birth defects — ~25 Nov B.S. 1990
• Mario Incandenza · ★ The paternity question: the hidden pregnancy, C.T.'s spring visit, the "possible half-uncle" → Scene 071: mario birth defects — ~1990 birth-circumstances, as printed

Before Subsidization (1996)

• Hal Incandenza · ★ Hal eats the mold as a small child ("I ate this") → Scene 002: hal eats the mold — ~B.S. 1996-97 (Hal ~4-5)

Before Subsidization (1997)

• Avril Incandenza · ★ The mold-eating hysteria — Avril's signature terror of spoilage and filth → Scene 002: hal eats the mold — March/early April ~1997 B.S. (Weston MA)

Before Subsidization (1998)

• Avril Incandenza · ★ Founding the Academy: Avril quits M.I.T. to build the curriculum; Dean of Academic Affairs & Females; C.T. installed as Headmaster → Scene 053: madame psychosis show — UNDATED (E.T.A.'s founding, ~B.S. 1998-99)

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)

• Michael Pemulis · ★ Architect-emeritus of Eschaton → Scene 073: eschaton debacle — conceived ~his 12th year; rulebook YPW (2005); role standing in YDAU
• Joelle van Dyne · ★ The inaugural year of "Sixty Minutes More or Less with Madame Psychosis" → Scene 117: mario night walk ennet — YPW (2005)
• Joelle van Dyne · ★ Joelle joins U.H.I.D. and takes the veil → Scene 104: gately joelle veil uhid — UNDATED (~late YPW-YWQMD (2005-06), basis: arithmetic on "almost four years in")

Year of the Yushityu 2007 Mimetic-Resolution-Cartridge (2007)

• Mario Incandenza · ★ Mario makes "Tennis and the Feral Prodigy" → Scene 051: tennis feral prodigy — April YYTMRCYTPC / 2007
• AA&R · ★ The founding of Ennet House — the nameless Boston-AA galoot and "utterly total surrender" → Scene 043: founder lore glynn letter — UNDATED (institutional history; founder d. Year of the Yushityu 2007...)
• Hal Incandenza · ★ Onset of Hal's marijuana use, introduced by Bridget Boone → Scene 023: hal tennis court dream — ~YYTMRCYTPC-YDPAH (2007-08)

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

• Bruce Green · ★ The Harvard Beach-Theme party catastrophe: the sphincter failure and the grass-skirt ride home → Scene 116: lenz kills nuck dog — February (a pre-YDAU winter), Subsidized era

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

• Don Gately · ★ "Getting In Touch": childhood memories resurface at ~8 months clean → Scene 092: gately higher power bob death — May-June YDAU
• Mario Incandenza · ★ Mario's designated filmic function at E.T.A. → Scene 015: mario filmic function — YDAU present
• Gertraude Marathe · ★ The narratorial disclosure: loved more than the nation — and the railroad-spike stakes → Scene 103: odalisque myths — 1 May YDAU, pre-dawn
• Guillaume DuPlessis · ★ What was burgled from the death: the alleged Master, and the Antitoi recovery → Scene 098: master copies temptation — 30 April - 1 May YDAU (attested); ?/9-14 Nov YDAU (recovery)
• Rémy Marathe · ★ Narratorial disclosure: Marathe loves Gertraude more than Québec — his true final loyalty → Scene 103: odalisque myths — 1 May YDAU, pre-dawn
• Orin Incandenza · ★ The dawn phone calls to Hal; lying about meaningless details → Scene 006: orin first call — 9 May–Nov YDAU

July

• AA&R · ★ The Higher Power crux; recovery through pain; Getting In Touch (Gately) → Scene 092: gately higher power bob death — ~May-July YDAU
• Don Gately · ★ The TSBYSCD Commitment: the Higher-Power struggle and Bob Death's fish parable → Scene 092: gately higher power bob death — July YDAU
• Poor Tony Krause · ★ The artificial-heart purse theft, the manhunt, and the smashed Jarvik IX → Scene 045: steeply jarvik heart article — ~29 July YDAU (2009); reported 10 Aug YDAU

August

• Jim Struck · ★ Dumped at E.T.A. from a barely-slowing Lincoln; Hal runs his Orientation → Scene 102: tavis waiting room — UNDATED — pre-YDAU, on transfer

September

• Keith Freer · ★ Caught by Thode with Bernadette Longley on the Providence bus → Scene 067: bus ride home pwta — September YDAU
• Don Gately · ★ The first-year sober cake — Gately cries before non-relatives for the first time → Scene 095: gately staff the removal — September Sunday, YDAU

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

• Idris Arslanian · ★ The Big Buddy "loneliness" session: the ornate, competitive talker emerges → Scene 036: big buddy sessions — 3 Nov YDAU
• Evan Ingersoll · ★ The off-the-books trade: Axford's unanalyzable hatred, Hal's paper-thin custody → Scene 034: locker room big buddies — STANDING, in force by 3 Nov YDAU
• Kent Blott · ★ 'I hate them!': his dread-question drives Hal's loneliness disquisition → Scene 036: big buddy sessions — 3 Nov YDAU, before dinner
• Evan Ingersoll · ★ Big Buddy session: the kid Hal wishes ill → Scene 036: big buddy sessions — 3 Nov YDAU, before dinner

4 November

• Alfonso Parias-Carbo · ★ The drop-in to Pat: powerlessness "since the period of Castro" (speaker ID flagged) → Scene 052: montesian transcripts — 4 Nov YDAU, 1300–1500h
• Wade McDade · ★ Resident at Ennet House: a young flask-alkie from Ashland KY → Scene 095: gately staff the removal — STANDING — Nov YDAU residency
• Nell Gunther · ★ The steak-fork attack over the sound of peanut butter → Scene 052: montesian transcripts — ~early Nov YDAU, reported 4 Nov
• Pat Montesian · ★ Executive Director: the credential, the bay-window office, the Board tie → Scene 052: montesian transcripts — STANDING (YDAU); drop-in hours dated 4 Nov YDAU
• Trevor Axford · ★ Third corner of the DMZ trio → Scene 057: dmz show and tell — 4-5 Nov YDAU
• Bruce Green · ★ Mildred leaves with Harriet; the domestic collapse and Green's Bottom → Scene 052: montesian transcripts — summer YDAU
• Michael Pemulis · ★ The DMZ acquisition, its chemistry and lore, its storage — the was-Hal-dosed question → Scene 050: pemulis scores dmz — 4-5 Nov YDAU

6 November

• Bernadette Longley · ★ The Adidas-blanket discovery on the bus to the East Coast Clays → Scene 067: bus ride home pwta — Sept YDAU (reported)
• Bernadette Longley · ★ The Gothic-fonted leaflet: face in her hands on the ride home → Scene 067: bus ride home pwta — 6-7 Nov YDAU (overnight)
• K. D. Coyle · ★ Port Washington meet: A-3 on Court 3, the racked light-tray, a three-set loss → Scene 065: port washington meet — 6 Nov YDAU
• Tall Paul Shaw · ★ #6 singles at the Port Washington meet; the eight-bounce ritual → Scene 065: port washington meet — 6 Nov YDAU
• Ted Schacht · ★ Port Washington: holding the head of a vomiting Pemulis → Scene 065: port washington meet — 6 Nov YDAU
• E.T.A. · ★ E.T.A.'s competitive season — the Port Washington meet, the fundraising exhibition hosting the Québec juniors, the WhataBurger → Scene 065: port washington meet — 6-8 Nov YDAU (Port Washington); ~19-21 Nov YDAU (the gala)
• Hal Incandenza · ★ Schacht privately foresees Hal's reckoning — "a psychic credit-card bill… coming" → Scene 065: port washington meet — YDAU, 6 Nov
• Eliot Kornspan · ★ The weight room: 110 kilos, Freer's bellowed atrocities, and Pemulis's whisper → Scene 055: weight room lyle — 6 Nov YDAU, 1610h
• Graham Rader · ★ The weight-room consult with Lyle: a hundred keys → Scene 055: weight room lyle — 6 Nov YDAU, 1610h
• Lyle · ★ The key-ring parable: 99% error and the paralyzed perfectionist (to Graham Rader) → Scene 055: weight room lyle — 6 Nov YDAU

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

• Ann Kittenplan · ★ The disciplinary summons: the Headmaster's waiting room, in a dress, predicting Pukers → Scene 102: tavis waiting room — 10 Nov YDAU
• Clenette Henderson · ★ E.T.A.'s "nine-month" custodial temp — in Tavis's office → Scene 102: tavis waiting room — 10 Nov YDAU
• Otis P. Lord · ★ The high-tech knight in the waiting room → Scene 102: tavis waiting room — 10 Nov YDAU
• Trevor Axford · ★ Summoned to Tavis; the 30-day urine deal — "context of objectivity" → Scene 102: tavis waiting room — 10 Nov YDAU, deal ~10-11 Nov
• Charles Tavis · ★ The disassembly-and-reassembly Intake speech to Tina Echt → Scene 102: tavis waiting room — late Aug YDAU (recalled 10 Nov YDAU)
• Michael Pemulis · ★ Eschaton fallout: the waiting room, and the O.N.A.N.T.A. urologist → Scene 102: tavis waiting room — 10 Nov YDAU
• Michael Pemulis · ★ The urine reprieve: "played like a fine instrument" vs. the Avril blackmail — disputed → Scene 155: hal mario liars — 10-11 Nov YDAU
• E.T.A. · ★ The O.N.A.N.T.A. urine-testing crisis: E.T.A.'s drug culture comes to a head → Scene 102: tavis waiting room — 10 Nov YDAU onward (30-day grace to ~mid-Dec)
• Hal Incandenza · ★ Hal's blankness toward his own family; the slack, soundless mouth → Scene 102: tavis waiting room — 10 Nov YDAU

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

• Geoffrey Day · ★ The billowing-dread — the horror his intellect was built to keep at bay → Scene 124: gompert day billowing shape — UNDATED (childhood onset; recurs to sophomore year at Brown); recalled 13 Nov YDAU

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

• Broullîme · ★ The experiment sabotaged; a lethal interview weighed "for reasons of anger only" → Scene 163: afr mirror ambush plan — 19 Nov YDAU
• Ferocious Francis Gehaney · ★ The Trauma-Wing dream-visit: empathy, gossip, and the refusal to decide for him → Scene 169: gately dream md temptation — prob. 19 Nov YDAU
• Poor Tony Krause · ★ The A.F.R. capture: forced Entertainment test-subject; Lenz maims his digits; fate open → Scene 163: afr mirror ambush plan — 19 Nov YDAU
• Randy Lenz · ★ The A.F.R. acquire Lenz off the street as a forced Entertainment test-subject — his last attestation; fate open → Scene 163: afr mirror ambush plan — by 19 Nov YDAU
• A.F.R. · ★ The mirror-ambush plan: seize and replace the Québec junior team en route to E.T.A. → Scene 163: afr mirror ambush plan — 19 Nov YDAU
• Rémy Marathe · ★ Negative on the performer; the plan to seize the Québec junior team en route to E.T.A.; delegating to Balbalis → Scene 163: afr mirror ambush plan — 19 Nov YDAU
• Ennet · ★ The A.F.R. escalation: the mirror-ambush of the Québec juniors; acquiring the auteur's family → Scene 163: afr mirror ambush plan — 19 Nov YDAU (2009)

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)

• John Wayne · ★ The grave-watch: Wayne, masked, stands watch as Gately and Hal dig up JOI's head → Scene 003: interview aftermath er — late Nov YG (~1 yr after YDAU)
• Hal Incandenza · ★ Hal's communication collapse at the U. of Arizona admissions interview → Scene 001: hal admissions interview — YG (2010), late Nov — LAST in the story
• Petropolis Kahn · ★ Round of 16 at the WhataBurger: barely dispatched by Dymphna → Scene 003: interview aftermath er — late Nov YG
• Aubrey deLint · ★ The Arizona interview and Hal's collapse: the 2-D martinet kneels → Scene 001: hal admissions interview — late Nov YG

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