Hal biographical/physical facts (from notes): left-handed; secret daily habit >1 yr; unrestricted nights; APs

texture · ~YDAU, standing facts

• When: ~YDAU (spans; several notes)
• What: Discrete Hal facts from endnotes: (1) Hal is left-handed — "both Hal Incandenza and the boy in black [Stice] were left-handed" (n268). (2) The severity/duration of the secret habit: Hal "hasn't gone over twenty-four hours without getting high in secret for well over a year" (n279) — i.e. a daily, year-plus concealed marijuana dependence. (3) Avril pointedly does not restrict Hal — "she lets Hal go off nightly wherever he likes" (n243), the freedom that enables the Pump-Room habit and the Natick trip. (4) Hal is signed up for the E.T.S. Advanced Placement tests in English and (Parisian) French (n344). (5) Room texture (n82): "in like psychic opposition to their Moms's compulsive cleaning thing, both Orin when he was at E.T.A. and now Hal are horrific slobs" — facilitated by Subdorm C's third-floor prorector being "the incredibly lax and laid-back Corbett Thorp," who "never comes around with a white glove and clipboard"; Hal's sheets are "Bean-James River flannels in matching green and black Night Watch plaid," his comforter a tagless "green fiberfill winter-camp sleeping bag" of unknown origin (n82 p. 0999). (The n334 "Abandon All Hope" trope, mined with these, is split out to its own dated event — see event 98.)