A 1000+ tome describing a year in the life of Hal Incandenza, a budding tennis champion and lexical genius.
Brief Chapter Summaries
- 3* -- Admissions Interview
- 10 -- Hal eats mold
- 11 -- Admissions Interview, cont.
- 13 -- Hal on restroom floor
- 15 -- So yo then man what's your story?
- 17* -- Erdedy pot debauch: (Where's the woman who said she'd come?)
- 27* -- Dad: Professional Conversationalist
- 32* -- Orin's phone call rouses Mario
- 33* -- Medical Attache & mystery TP cartridge
- 37 -- Wardine, Roy Tony, and Reginald. Ebonics.
- 38 -- Mildred Bonk & Bruce Green
- 39* -- Hal & Mario talk God & don't sleep
- 42 -- Orin wakes. Slowly.; Medical Attache update #1
- 49* -- ETA Physical Plant/Pump Room/ Hal's Secrecy
- 54 -- Medical Attache update #2
- 55 -- Don Gately: Botched DuPlessis Burglary
- 60 -- InterLace, 932/1864 R.I.S.C. Power TPs...
- 60 -- Troeltsch's rapid onset rhinovirus
- 61 -- Evil in the dorm room with you
- 63* -- Dad bio Mom, CT info
- Endnote: (#24) James' Filmography
- 65 -- Orin hang-glides into Mile High Stadium
- 66* -- Pemulis' pharmocology seminar
- 67 -- Football field-sized tennis court dream
- 68* -- Kate Gompert, in hospital
- 78 -- Medical Attache catatonic
- 79 -- Gerhardt Schtitt & Mario walk and talk
- 85 -- Tiny Ewell's cab ride
- 87 -- Medical Attache update #3
- 87* -- Marathe and Steeply: "You have ridiculous tits..."
- 93 -- "It's a herd of feral hamsters."
- 93 -- Marathe and Steeply in the desert, pt. 2
- 95 -- Pop quiz in the shower room
- 97 -- Marathe & Steeply, silent at dusk
- 97 -- Exhausted in the ETA shower room
- 105 -- Marathe and Steeply debate Helen of Troy
- 109 -- ETA Big Buddy Meetings
- 121 -- USS Millicent Kent seduces Mario!
- 126 -- Marathe and Steeply: Anti Entertainment
- 127 -- "Your murated nation."
- 127* -- Lyle, the sweat licking guru
- 128 -- Wo dranos C; Poor Tony wants the stole
- 135* -- Orin calls Hal: he's very hot.
- 137 -- Ennet House & its anonymous founder
- 138 -- Absurd Workmen's Comp claim
- 140 -- Hal's term paper, reprinted
- 142 -- Steeply's "Artifical Heart Purse Snatch" piece.
- 144 -- Table: Separatist/Anti-ONAN terrorist groups
- 144 -- The Rise and Fall of Videophony
- 151* -- Buying Urinalysis/Hal & Pemulis bio
- 157* -- James Sr. lectures James (age 10); Ruined Knees
- 169 -- Pemulis scores DMZ from town
- 172 -- Hal: "How To Be A Feral Tennis Prodigy"
- 176 -- Montesian's Ennet House transcripts
- 181* -- Madame Psychosis
- 193 -- Ennet Complex (EMPHH) layout
- 198 -- Weight Room, ETA
- 200 -- "...many exotic new facts..."; Tiny's tattoo jones
- 211 -- The Incredibly Potent DMZ
- 219* -- Joelle VD ponders demapping herself @ Molly Notkin's party...
- 223 -- SUBSIDIZED TIME PRIMER
- 223 -- ...Joelle VD continues her contemplation...
- 227 -- H.P. Steeply: Curriculum Vitae
- 227 -- ...Joelle VD finishes the job.
- 240* -- Enfield, MA, and environs
- 242 -- Hal relates James' suicide to Orin
- 258* -- Port Washington tournament
- 270 -- Geoffrey Day & Gately at Ennis
- 281 -- Bus ride back from Port Washington
- 283* -- Orin: Punting, Joelle: Filming
- 299 -- Poor Tony withdraws and crashes spectacularly
- 306* -- Prorected Syllabus; Troeltsch's play-by-play; Mirrors across I-87
- Endnote: (#110) Hal & Orin discuss Quebec (Still separatist? Or Anti-ONAN?)
- 312 -- "Every Inch Of Mario Incandenza"
- 317 -- Marathe and Steeply: Children & Freedom
- 321* -- ESCHATON!
- 343 -- Real dependence/Boston AAs (longest chapter)
- 367 -- Statue Of Liberty snippet
- 367 -- Boston AAs cont./the abused invertebrate sister
- 375 -- Marathe unsure of Steeply
- 375 -- Himself visits Lyle
- Endnote (#145): Found Drama
- 376 -- Why Deny The Marcescent Child?
- 379 -- Himself & Lyle, libating
- 380* -- ETA Gala: "ONANTiad of Mario"
- 386 -- ETA Gala/Lyle/Reconfig Headlines
- 394 -- Lyle: Levitating chair story
- 395 -- James O.'s Films: Medusa & Odialisque/Eyeball/The Joke
- 398 -- More ONANtiad/Clipperton
- 410 -- Hal's Paper: Broadcast Networks & Advertising fold, InterLace Emerges
- 418 -- Marathe & Steeply: Freedom to choose?
- 430 -- Clipperton suicide
- 434 -- Gately & Stavros janitize Shattuck
- 436 -- Cyanide Quik/Subsidized time cabinet mtg.
- 442* -- AA: Gately & God, Mom, & memories
- 449 -- Hal's tooth dream/Mario misses Joelle
- 450 -- ETA: AM Drills/Schtitt's Lecture
- 461 -- Gately shops, cooks, drives Pat's Aventura
- 470 -- Marathe & Steeply: P-terminals
- 475 -- Gately cruises; AFR skewer & spike Lucien & Bertraund, respectively, though not in that order
- 489 -- Marathe & Steeply: Haven't you been tempted?
- 491 -- James' Father's Bedframe's Collapse (aka Chapter 16 of "The Awakening Of My Interest In Annular Systems")
- 503 -- NA mtg: The Roy Tony & Erdedy hugging set-to.
- 507 -- Marathe & Steeply: We've lost some people...
- 508 -- Eschaton reprisals/In CT's Waiting Room
- 528 -- Marathe & Steeply: Dawn, Odalisque de St Therese
- 531 -- Gately & Joelle: So What's Behind The Veil?
- 538* -- Randy Lenz "Resolves" Rats & Cats
- 548 -- Tine's Ruler / Dissemination Point
- 550 -- The Moms & John Wayne dot dot dot
- 553 -- Lenz & Bruce Green walk. Lenz Talks.
- 560 -- Wayne Pokes His Head In
- 560 -- Lenz continues...
- 563 -- Gately's Informal Moments' Snippets
- 565 -- Orin Xs the Swiss Handmodel
- Endnote: (#234) Steeply Interviews Orin
- 567 -- Pemulis Lectures Arslanian in the tunnel
- 574 -- Orin: Handmodel leaves, wheelchairs return.
- 575 -- Bruce Green's Folks' Deaths. Lenz slashes dog
- 589 -- Mario feels no pain, wanders down to Ennet
- 593 -- Life on Ennet Staff: Picayune & unpleasant
- 596 -- Orin, w/ Swiss subject, is questioned by handicapped surveyor
- 601 -- Gately is shot
- 620* -- AFR kidnaps WYYY engineer @ Duck Pond draining
- 627 -- Stice almost beats Hal; Rapacious eating at ETA
- 638 -- Marathe & Steeply: Steeply's Dad ODs on M*A*S*H
- 648 -- G Day to Kate G: "billowing black sail of hell"
- 651 -- Hal v. Stice on court; Steeply v. deLint in bleachers
- 663 -- Marlon Bain on Orin Incandenza
- Endnote: (#269) Steeply interviews Orin.
- 666 -- Tunnel Club finds something maggot-infested
- 673 -- Steeply, deLint & Poutrincourt watch Hal v. Stice
- 682 -- Matty Pemulis sodomized by his Da
- 686 -- "Abandoning All Hope" / Hal views entertainments
- 689 -- Poor Tony Krause heads for Antitoi's
- 692 -- Lenz' frightful hog
- 692 -- Hal is lonely; Kate G and her Lionel Train friend
- 698 -- Kate G & Ruth vC walk, stalked by Poor Tony
- 700 -- Troeltsch sets up for play by play
- 700 -- Pemulis moves ceiling tile
- 700 -- Lyle hovers
- 701 -- Schtitt & Mario in sidecar
- 701 -- Avril phones Steeply
- 701 -- Friends join Hal to view "Blood Sister" / The peanut butter-n-biscuits story NA-splinter CA guy
- 711 -- "Blood Sister" run-through
- 714 -- Poor Tony robs Kate & Ruth
- 716 -- Lenz stalks two Chinese women
- 719 -- AFR: "Two ways of going..."
- 719 -- Ruth chases Poor Tony. Well.
- 721 -- AFR finds entertainment at Antitoi's
- 723 -- Fourtier sacrifices w/ wheelchair despite alternatives
- 723 -- Joelle dreams of Gately as dentist
- 724 -- AFR conducts interviews, testing motivation range digitally
- 728 -- Lenz robs Chinese women
- 729 -- Marathe enters Ennet "clued" by halitotic man
- Endnote: (#304) Le Jeu du Prochain Train
- 736 -- Joelle cleans room, remembers 1st Thanksgiving w/ Incandenzas
- 747 -- Marathe checks into Ennet w/ Pat M.
- 751 -- Joelle finishes cleaning Ennet room
- 752 -- Marathe & Pat talk, Johnette pokes her head in
- 755 -- Mario films, while walking, Chu; Moms' talk
- 769 -- Mario & Hal discuss liars
- 774 -- Marathe & Kate G get flapped
- 782 -- Hal fesses up to Mario re drug use
- 785 -- Hal visits Ennet/Johnette
- 787 -- Endnote #324 Pemulis reassures Possathwaite w/o throttling Freer, somehow
- 787 -- Molly Notkin tells ALL re Joelle's history
- 795 -- Endnote #332 Wayne goes nuts on the air; Pemulis confronted
- 795 -- Hal's Men's Movement Mtg.
- 809* -- Gately convalesces, sorta. / Money-Stealers Club / C. Thrust visits
- 827 -- Gately visited by wraith (James)
- 845 -- AFR prepares to take Quebec tennis bus
- 846 -- Gately's dreams: Joelle, Mrs. Waite
- 851 -- Hal first person, in his room; it's snowing
- 854 -- Joelle visits Gately, shares photo album
- 864 -- Stice stuck to window; Hal's facial tic surfaces; Kenkle & Brandt
- 876 -- Mtg.: Tine Sr. & Jr., Hooley, Yee (Splarg. Kaa.), Veals
- 883 -- Gately: FF; Hindu M.D.; McDade & Diehl visit
- 896 -- Hal stream of consciousness; Hal horizontal
- 902 -- Gately's football & pharmacological youth
- 906 -- Pemulis wants to interface w/ Hal (Hal not impressed)
- 911 -- Gately history: Fackleman & Kite
- 916 -- Pemulis checks his entrepot
- 916 -- Gately: Fackleman's HUGE windfall; digging dream.
- 934 -- Joelle is warned by Steeply
- 934 -- Gately & Fackleman's MASSIVE Dilaudid binge
- 938 -- Joelle questioned by Steeply re entertainment
- 941 -- Hal thinks; Stice on ceiling, mapless, Accomplice!, Weston, Orin's porno, Avril's...uh..."loose." Shall we say
- 958 -- Joelle, post interview, returns to Ennet
- 958 -- Mickey's "cunt sister" denies consent
- 960 -- Asst. DA "names his disease" to Pat M.
- 964 -- ETA; Quebec team gala; Barry Loach as panhandler
- 971 -- Orin under glass
- 972 -- Gately fever; Dilaudid debauch w/ Fackleman
