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