Found Drama XI.... conceptual, conceptually unfilmable. UNRELEASED Mobius Strips. Year of the Whopper. Lactrodectus Mactans Productions. "Hugh G. Rection," Pam Heath, "Bunny Day," "Taffy Appel"; 35 mm.; 109 minutes; black and white; sound. p.o.r.nography-parody, possible parodic homage to Fosse"s Year of the Whopper. Lactrodectus Mactans Productions. "Hugh G. Rection," Pam Heath, "Bunny Day," "Taffy Appel"; 35 mm.; 109 minutes; black and white; sound. p.o.r.nography-parody, possible parodic homage to Fosse"s All That Jazz, All That Jazz, in which a theoretical physicist ("Rection"), who can only achieve creative mathematical insight during coitus, conceives of Death as a lethally beautiful woman (Heath). INTERLACE TELENT FEATURE CARTRIDGE #3576532 (Y.W.) in which a theoretical physicist ("Rection"), who can only achieve creative mathematical insight during coitus, conceives of Death as a lethally beautiful woman (Heath). INTERLACE TELENT FEATURE CARTRIDGE #3576532 (Y.W.) Wave Bye-Bye to the Bureaucrat. Year of the Whopper. Latrodectus Mactans Productions. Everard Maynell, Phillip T. Smothergill, Paul Anthony Heaven, Pamela-Sue Voorheis; 16 mm.; 19 minutes; black and white; sound. Possible parody/homage to B.S. public-service-announcement cycle of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Year of the Whopper. Latrodectus Mactans Productions. Everard Maynell, Phillip T. Smothergill, Paul Anthony Heaven, Pamela-Sue Voorheis; 16 mm.; 19 minutes; black and white; sound. Possible parody/homage to B.S. public-service-announcement cycle of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, c c a harried commuter is mistaken for Christ by a child he knocks over. a harried commuter is mistaken for Christ by a child he knocks over.
Blood Sister: One Tough Nun. Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Latrodectus Mactans Productions. Telma Hurley, Pam Heath, Marla-Dean Chumm, Diane Saltoone, Soma Richardson-Levy, Cosgrove Watt; 35 mm.; 90 minutes; color; sound. Parody of revenge/recidivism action genre, a formerly delinquent nun"s (Hurley"s) failure to reform a juvenile delinquent (Chumm) leads to a rampage of recidivist revenge. INTERLACE TELENT PULSE-DISSEMINATION 21 JULY Y.T.M.P., CARTRIDGE #3578704 Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Latrodectus Mactans Productions. Telma Hurley, Pam Heath, Marla-Dean Chumm, Diane Saltoone, Soma Richardson-Levy, Cosgrove Watt; 35 mm.; 90 minutes; color; sound. Parody of revenge/recidivism action genre, a formerly delinquent nun"s (Hurley"s) failure to reform a juvenile delinquent (Chumm) leads to a rampage of recidivist revenge. INTERLACE TELENT PULSE-DISSEMINATION 21 JULY Y.T.M.P., CARTRIDGE #3578704 Infinite Jest (IV). Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Latrodectus Mactans Productions. Pam Heath (?), "Madame Psychosis"(?); 78 mm.; 90 minutes(?); color; sound. Unfinished, unseen attempt at completion of Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Latrodectus Mactans Productions. Pam Heath (?), "Madame Psychosis"(?); 78 mm.; 90 minutes(?); color; sound. Unfinished, unseen attempt at completion of Infinite Jest (III). Infinite Jest (III). UNRELEASED UNRELEASED Let There Be Lite. Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Doc.u.mentary cast w/ narrator Ken N. Johnson; 16mm.; 50 minutes(?); black and white; silent w/ narration. Unfinished doc.u.mentary on genesis of reduced-calorie bourbon industry. UNRELEASED Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Doc.u.mentary cast w/ narrator Ken N. Johnson; 16mm.; 50 minutes(?); black and white; silent w/ narration. Unfinished doc.u.mentary on genesis of reduced-calorie bourbon industry. UNRELEASED Unt.i.tled. Unfinished. UNRELEASED Unfinished. UNRELEASED No Troy. Year of the Whopper. Latrodectus Mactans Productions. No cast; liquid-surface holography by Urquhart Ogilvie Jr.; 35 mm.; 7 minutes; enhanced color; silent. Scale-model holographic recreation of Troy NY"s bombardment by miscalibrated Waste Displacement Vehicles, and its subsequent elimination by O.N.A.N. cartographers. MAGNETIC VIDEO (PRIVATE RELEASE LIMITED TO NEW BRUNSWICK, ALBERTA, QUeBEC) Note: Archivists in Canada and the U.S. West Coast do not list Year of the Whopper. Latrodectus Mactans Productions. No cast; liquid-surface holography by Urquhart Ogilvie Jr.; 35 mm.; 7 minutes; enhanced color; silent. Scale-model holographic recreation of Troy NY"s bombardment by miscalibrated Waste Displacement Vehicles, and its subsequent elimination by O.N.A.N. cartographers. MAGNETIC VIDEO (PRIVATE RELEASE LIMITED TO NEW BRUNSWICK, ALBERTA, QUeBEC) Note: Archivists in Canada and the U.S. West Coast do not list No Troy No Troy but do list t.i.tles but do list t.i.tles The Violet City The Violet City and and The Violet Ex-City, The Violet Ex-City, respectively, leading scholars to conclude that the same film was released under several different appellations. respectively, leading scholars to conclude that the same film was released under several different appellations.
Unt.i.tled. Unfinished. UNRELEASED Unfinished. UNRELEASED Valuable Coupon Has Been Removed. Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Cosgrove Watt, Phillip T. Smothergill, Diane Saltoone; 16 mm.; 52 minutes; color; silent. Possible Scandinavian-psychodrama parody, a boy helps his alcoholic-delusional father and disa.s.sociated mother dismantle their bed to search for rodents, and later he intuits the future feasibility of D.T.-cycle lithiumized annular fusion. CELLULOID (UNRELEASED) Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Cosgrove Watt, Phillip T. Smothergill, Diane Saltoone; 16 mm.; 52 minutes; color; silent. Possible Scandinavian-psychodrama parody, a boy helps his alcoholic-delusional father and disa.s.sociated mother dismantle their bed to search for rodents, and later he intuits the future feasibility of D.T.-cycle lithiumized annular fusion. CELLULOID (UNRELEASED) Baby Pictures of Famous Dictators. Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Doc.u.mentary or uncredited cast w/ narrator P. A. Heaven; 16 mm.; 45 minutes; black and white; sound. Children and adolescents play a nearly incomprehensible nuclear strategy game with tennis equipment against the real or holographic(?) backdrop of sabotaged ATHSCME 1900 atmospheric displacement towers exploding and toppling during the New New England Chemical Emergency of Y.W. CELLULOID (UNRELEASED) Stand Behind the Men Behind the Wire. Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Doc.u.mentary cast w/ narrator Soma Richardson-Levy; Super-8 mm.; 52 minutes; black and white/color; sound. Shot on location north of Lowell MA, doc.u.mentary on Ess.e.x County Sheriff"s Dept. and Ma.s.sachusetts Department of Social Services" expedition to track, verify, capture, or propitiate the outsized feral infant alleged to have crushed, gummed, or picked up and dropped over a dozen residents of Lowell in January, Y.T.M.P. INTERLACE TELENT CARTRIDGE #3571256 Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Doc.u.mentary cast w/ narrator Soma Richardson-Levy; Super-8 mm.; 52 minutes; black and white/color; sound. Shot on location north of Lowell MA, doc.u.mentary on Ess.e.x County Sheriff"s Dept. and Ma.s.sachusetts Department of Social Services" expedition to track, verify, capture, or propitiate the outsized feral infant alleged to have crushed, gummed, or picked up and dropped over a dozen residents of Lowell in January, Y.T.M.P. INTERLACE TELENT CARTRIDGE #3571256 As of Yore. Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Cosgrove Watt, Marlon Bain; 16/78 mm.; 181 minutes; black and white/color; sound. A middle-aged tennis instructor, preparing to instruct his son in tennis, becomes intoxicated in the family"s garage and subjects his son to a rambling monologue while the son weeps and perspires. INTERLACE TELENT CARTRIDGE # 3571609 Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Cosgrove Watt, Marlon Bain; 16/78 mm.; 181 minutes; black and white/color; sound. A middle-aged tennis instructor, preparing to instruct his son in tennis, becomes intoxicated in the family"s garage and subjects his son to a rambling monologue while the son weeps and perspires. INTERLACE TELENT CARTRIDGE # 3571609 The Clever Little b.a.s.t.a.r.d. Unfinished, unseen. UNRELEASED Unfinished, unseen. UNRELEASED The Cold Majesty of the Numb. Unfinished, unseen. UNRELEASED Unfinished, unseen. UNRELEASED Good-Looking Men in Small Clever Rooms That Utilize Every Centimeter of Available s.p.a.ce With Mind-Boggling Efficiency. Unfinished due to hospitalization. UNRELEASED Unfinished due to hospitalization. UNRELEASED Low-Temperature Civics. Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Cosgrove Watt, Herbert G. Birch, Ken N. Johnson, Soma Richardson-Levy, Everard Maynell, "Madame Psychosis," Phillip T. Smothergill, Paul Anthony Heaven; 35 mm.; 80 minutes; black and white; sound. Wyler parody in which four sons (Birch, Johnson, Maynell, Smothergill) intrigue for control of a sandwich-bag conglomerate after their CEO father (Watt) has an ecstatic encounter with Death ("Psychosis") and becomes irreversibly catatonic. NATIONAL DISSEMINATION IN INTERLACE TELENT"S "CAVALCADE OF EVIL" SERIES - JANUARY/YEAR OF TRIAL-SIZE DOVE BAR - AND INTERLACE TELENT CARTRIDGE #3578905 Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Cosgrove Watt, Herbert G. Birch, Ken N. Johnson, Soma Richardson-Levy, Everard Maynell, "Madame Psychosis," Phillip T. Smothergill, Paul Anthony Heaven; 35 mm.; 80 minutes; black and white; sound. Wyler parody in which four sons (Birch, Johnson, Maynell, Smothergill) intrigue for control of a sandwich-bag conglomerate after their CEO father (Watt) has an ecstatic encounter with Death ("Psychosis") and becomes irreversibly catatonic. NATIONAL DISSEMINATION IN INTERLACE TELENT"S "CAVALCADE OF EVIL" SERIES - JANUARY/YEAR OF TRIAL-SIZE DOVE BAR - AND INTERLACE TELENT CARTRIDGE #3578905 (At Least) Three Cheers for Cause and Effect. Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Cosgrove Watt, Pam Heath, "Hugh G. Rection"; 78 mm.; 26 minutes; black and white; sound. The headmaster of a newly constructed high-alt.i.tude sports academy (Watt) becomes neurotically obsessed with litigation over the construction"s ancillary damage to a V.A. hospital far below, as a way of diverting himself from his wife"s (Heath"s) poorly hidden affair with the academically renowned mathematical topologist who is acting as the project"s architect ("Rection"). CELLULOID (UNRELEASED) Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Cosgrove Watt, Pam Heath, "Hugh G. Rection"; 78 mm.; 26 minutes; black and white; sound. The headmaster of a newly constructed high-alt.i.tude sports academy (Watt) becomes neurotically obsessed with litigation over the construction"s ancillary damage to a V.A. hospital far below, as a way of diverting himself from his wife"s (Heath"s) poorly hidden affair with the academically renowned mathematical topologist who is acting as the project"s architect ("Rection"). CELLULOID (UNRELEASED) (The) Desire to Desire. Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Robert Lingley, "Madame Psychosis," Marla-Dean Chumm; 35 mm.; 99 minutes(?); black and white; silent. A pathology resident (Lingley) falls in love with a beautiful cadaver ("Psychosis") and the paralyzed sister (Chumm) she died rescuing from the attack of an oversized feral infant. Listed by some archivists as unfinished. UNRELEASED Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Robert Lingley, "Madame Psychosis," Marla-Dean Chumm; 35 mm.; 99 minutes(?); black and white; silent. A pathology resident (Lingley) falls in love with a beautiful cadaver ("Psychosis") and the paralyzed sister (Chumm) she died rescuing from the attack of an oversized feral infant. Listed by some archivists as unfinished. UNRELEASED Safe Boating Is No Accident. Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad(?). Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited/X-Ray and Infrared Photography by Shuco-Mist Medical Pressure Systems, Enfield MA. Ken N. Johnson, "Madame Psychosis," P. A. Heaven. Kierkegaard/Lynch (?) parody, a claustrophobic water-ski instructor (Johnson), struggling with his romantic conscience after his fiancee"s ("Psychosis""s) face is grotesquely mangled by an outboard propeller, becomes trapped in an overcrowded hospital elevator with a defrocked Trappist monk, two overcombed missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, an enigmatic fitness guru, the Ma.s.sachusetts State Commissioner for Beach and Water Safety, and seven severely intoxicated opticians with silly hats and exploding cigars. Listed by some archivists as completed the following year, Y.T.-S.D.B. UNRELEASED Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad(?). Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited/X-Ray and Infrared Photography by Shuco-Mist Medical Pressure Systems, Enfield MA. Ken N. Johnson, "Madame Psychosis," P. A. Heaven. Kierkegaard/Lynch (?) parody, a claustrophobic water-ski instructor (Johnson), struggling with his romantic conscience after his fiancee"s ("Psychosis""s) face is grotesquely mangled by an outboard propeller, becomes trapped in an overcrowded hospital elevator with a defrocked Trappist monk, two overcombed missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, an enigmatic fitness guru, the Ma.s.sachusetts State Commissioner for Beach and Water Safety, and seven severely intoxicated opticians with silly hats and exploding cigars. Listed by some archivists as completed the following year, Y.T.-S.D.B. UNRELEASED Very Low Impact. Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Marla-Dean Chumm, Pam Heath, Soma Richardson-Levy-O"Byrne; 35 mm.; 30 minutes; color; sound. A narcoleptic aerobics instructor (Chumm) struggles to hide her condition from students and employers. POSTHUMOUS RELEASE Y.W.-Q.M.D.; INTERLACE TELENT CARTRIDGE # 3579729 Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Marla-Dean Chumm, Pam Heath, Soma Richardson-Levy-O"Byrne; 35 mm.; 30 minutes; color; sound. A narcoleptic aerobics instructor (Chumm) struggles to hide her condition from students and employers. POSTHUMOUS RELEASE Y.W.-Q.M.D.; INTERLACE TELENT CARTRIDGE # 3579729 The Night Wears a Sombrero. Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad (?). Ken N. Johnson, Phillip T. Smothergill, Dianne Saltoone, "Madame Psychosis"; 78 mm.; 105 minutes; color; silent/sound. Parody/homage to Lang"s Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad (?). Ken N. Johnson, Phillip T. Smothergill, Dianne Saltoone, "Madame Psychosis"; 78 mm.; 105 minutes; color; silent/sound. Parody/homage to Lang"s Rancho Notorious, Rancho Notorious, a nearsighted apprentice cowpoke (Smothergill), swearing vengeance for a gunslinger"s (Johnson"s) rape of what he (the cowpoke) mistakenly believes is the motherly brothel-owner (Saltoone) he (the cowpoke) is secretly in love with, loses the trail of the gunslinger after misreading a road sign and is drawn to a sinister Mexican ranch where Oedipally aggrieved gunslingers are ritually blinded by a mysterious veiled nun ("Psychosis"). Listed by some archivists as completed the preceding year, Y.W. INTERLACE TELENT CARTRIDGE #3575651 a nearsighted apprentice cowpoke (Smothergill), swearing vengeance for a gunslinger"s (Johnson"s) rape of what he (the cowpoke) mistakenly believes is the motherly brothel-owner (Saltoone) he (the cowpoke) is secretly in love with, loses the trail of the gunslinger after misreading a road sign and is drawn to a sinister Mexican ranch where Oedipally aggrieved gunslingers are ritually blinded by a mysterious veiled nun ("Psychosis"). Listed by some archivists as completed the preceding year, Y.W. INTERLACE TELENT CARTRIDGE #3575651 Accomplice! Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Cosgrove Watt, Stokely "Dark Star" McNair; 16 mm.; 26 minutes; color; sound. An aging pederast mutilates himself out of love for a strangely tattooed street hustler. INTERLACE TELENT CARTRIDGE # 3571010 withdrawn from dissemination after Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Cosgrove Watt, Stokely "Dark Star" McNair; 16 mm.; 26 minutes; color; sound. An aging pederast mutilates himself out of love for a strangely tattooed street hustler. INTERLACE TELENT CARTRIDGE # 3571010 withdrawn from dissemination after Cartridge Scene Cartridge Scene reviewers called reviewers called Accomplice! Accomplice! "... the stupidest, nastiest, least subtle and worst-edited product of a pretentious and wretchedly uneven career." NOW UNRELEASED "... the stupidest, nastiest, least subtle and worst-edited product of a pretentious and wretchedly uneven career." NOW UNRELEASED Unt.i.tled. Unfinished. UNRELEASED Unfinished. UNRELEASED Unt.i.tled. Unfinished. UNRELEASED Unfinished. UNRELEASED Unt.i.tled. Unfinished. UNRELEASED Unfinished. UNRELEASED Dial C for Concupiscence. Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Soma Richardson-Levy-O"Byrne, Marla-Dean Chumm, Ibn-Said Chawaf, Yves Fran-coeur; 35 mm.; 122 minutes; black and white; silent w/ subt.i.tles. Parodic Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Soma Richardson-Levy-O"Byrne, Marla-Dean Chumm, Ibn-Said Chawaf, Yves Fran-coeur; 35 mm.; 122 minutes; black and white; silent w/ subt.i.tles. Parodic noir- noir- style tribute to Bresson"s style tribute to Bresson"s Les Anges du Peche, Les Anges du Peche, a cellular phone operator (Richardson-Levy-O"Byrne), mistaken by a Quebecois terrorist (Francoeur) for another cellular phone operator (Chumm) the FLQ had mistakenly tried to a.s.sa.s.sinate, mistakes his mistaken attempts to apologize as attempts to a.s.sa.s.sinate her (Richardson-Levy-O"Byrne) and flees to a bizarre Islamic religious community whose members communicate with each other by means of semaph.o.r.e flags, where she falls in love with an armless Near Eastern medical attache (Chawaf). RELEASED IN INTERLACE TELENT"S "HOWLS FROM THE MARGIN" UNDERGROUND FILM SERIES - MARCH/Y.T.-S.D.B. - AND INTERLACE TELENT CARTRIDGE #3577543 a cellular phone operator (Richardson-Levy-O"Byrne), mistaken by a Quebecois terrorist (Francoeur) for another cellular phone operator (Chumm) the FLQ had mistakenly tried to a.s.sa.s.sinate, mistakes his mistaken attempts to apologize as attempts to a.s.sa.s.sinate her (Richardson-Levy-O"Byrne) and flees to a bizarre Islamic religious community whose members communicate with each other by means of semaph.o.r.e flags, where she falls in love with an armless Near Eastern medical attache (Chawaf). RELEASED IN INTERLACE TELENT"S "HOWLS FROM THE MARGIN" UNDERGROUND FILM SERIES - MARCH/Y.T.-S.D.B. - AND INTERLACE TELENT CARTRIDGE #3577543 Insubstantial Country. Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Cosgrove Watt; 16 mm.; 30 minutes; black and white; silent/sound. An unpopular apres-garde filmmaker (Watt) either suffers a temporal lobe seizure and becomes mute or else is the victim of everyone else"s delusion that his (Watt"s) temporal lobe seizure has left him mute. PRIVATE CARTRIDGE RELEASE BY POOR YORICK ENTERTAINMENT UNLIMITED Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Cosgrove Watt; 16 mm.; 30 minutes; black and white; silent/sound. An unpopular apres-garde filmmaker (Watt) either suffers a temporal lobe seizure and becomes mute or else is the victim of everyone else"s delusion that his (Watt"s) temporal lobe seizure has left him mute. PRIVATE CARTRIDGE RELEASE BY POOR YORICK ENTERTAINMENT UNLIMITED It Was a Great Marvel That He Was in the Father Without Knowing Him. Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Cosgrove Watt, Phillip T. Smothergill; 16 mm.; 5 minutes; black and white; silent/ sound. A father (Watt), suffering from the delusion that his etymologically precocious son (Smothergill) is pretending to be mute, poses as a "professional conversationalist" in order to draw the boy out. RELEASED IN INTERLACE TELENT"S "HOWLS FROM THE MARGIN" UNDERGROUND FILM SERIES - MARCH/Y.T.-S.D.B - AND INTERLACE TELENT CARTRIDGE #3577550 Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Cosgrove Watt, Phillip T. Smothergill; 16 mm.; 5 minutes; black and white; silent/ sound. A father (Watt), suffering from the delusion that his etymologically precocious son (Smothergill) is pretending to be mute, poses as a "professional conversationalist" in order to draw the boy out. RELEASED IN INTERLACE TELENT"S "HOWLS FROM THE MARGIN" UNDERGROUND FILM SERIES - MARCH/Y.T.-S.D.B - AND INTERLACE TELENT CARTRIDGE #3577550 Cage IV - Web. Unfinished. UNRELEASED Unfinished. UNRELEASED Cage V - Infinite Jim. Unfinished. UNRELEASED Unfinished. UNRELEASED Death and the Single Girl. Unfinished. UNRELEASED. Unfinished. UNRELEASED.
The Film Adaptation of Peter Weiss"s "The Persecution and a.s.sa.s.sination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade." Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. James O. Incandenza, Disney Leith, Urquhart Ogilvie, Jr., Jane Ann p.r.i.c.kett, Herbert G. Birch, "Madame Psychosis," Marla-Dean Chumm, Marlon Bain, Pam Heath, Soma Richardson-Levy-O"Byrne-Chawaf, Ken N. Johnson, Dianne Saltoone; Super-8 mm.; 88 minutes; black and white; silent/sound. Fictional "interactive doc.u.mentary" on Boston stage production of Weiss"s 20th-century play within play, in which the doc.u.mentary"s chemically impaired director (Incandenza) repeatedly interrupts the inmates" dumbshow-capering and Marat and Sade"s dialogues to discourse incoherently on the implications of Brando"s Method Acting and Artaud"s Theatre of Cruelty for North American filmed entertainment, irritating the actor who plays Marat (Leith) to such an extent that he has a cerebral hemorrhage and collapses onstage well before Marat"s scripted death, whereupon the play"s nearsighted director (Ogilvie), mistaking the actor who plays Sade (Johnson) for Incandenza, throws Sade into Marat"s medicinal bath and throttles him to death, whereupon the extra-dramatic figure of Death ("Psychosis") descends Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. James O. Incandenza, Disney Leith, Urquhart Ogilvie, Jr., Jane Ann p.r.i.c.kett, Herbert G. Birch, "Madame Psychosis," Marla-Dean Chumm, Marlon Bain, Pam Heath, Soma Richardson-Levy-O"Byrne-Chawaf, Ken N. Johnson, Dianne Saltoone; Super-8 mm.; 88 minutes; black and white; silent/sound. Fictional "interactive doc.u.mentary" on Boston stage production of Weiss"s 20th-century play within play, in which the doc.u.mentary"s chemically impaired director (Incandenza) repeatedly interrupts the inmates" dumbshow-capering and Marat and Sade"s dialogues to discourse incoherently on the implications of Brando"s Method Acting and Artaud"s Theatre of Cruelty for North American filmed entertainment, irritating the actor who plays Marat (Leith) to such an extent that he has a cerebral hemorrhage and collapses onstage well before Marat"s scripted death, whereupon the play"s nearsighted director (Ogilvie), mistaking the actor who plays Sade (Johnson) for Incandenza, throws Sade into Marat"s medicinal bath and throttles him to death, whereupon the extra-dramatic figure of Death ("Psychosis") descends deus ex machina deus ex machina to bear Marat (Leith) and Sade (Johnson) away, while Incandenza becomes ill all over the theater audience"s first row. 8 MM. SYNC-PROJECTION CELLULOID. UNRELEASED DUE TO LITIGATION, HOSPITALIZATION to bear Marat (Leith) and Sade (Johnson) away, while Incandenza becomes ill all over the theater audience"s first row. 8 MM. SYNC-PROJECTION CELLULOID. UNRELEASED DUE TO LITIGATION, HOSPITALIZATION Too Much Fun. Unfinished. UNRELEASED Unfinished. UNRELEASED The Unfortunate Case of Me. Unfinished. UNRELEASED Unfinished. UNRELEASED Sorry All Over the Place. Unfinished. UNRELEASED Unfinished. UNRELEASED Infinite Jest (V?). Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. "Madame Psychosis"; no other definitive data. Th.o.r.n.y problem for archivists. Incandenza"s last film, Incandenza"s death occurring during its post-production. Most archival authorities list as unfinished, unseen. Some list as completion of Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. "Madame Psychosis"; no other definitive data. Th.o.r.n.y problem for archivists. Incandenza"s last film, Incandenza"s death occurring during its post-production. Most archival authorities list as unfinished, unseen. Some list as completion of Infinite Jest (IV), Infinite Jest (IV), for which Incandenza also used "Psychosis," thus list the film under Incandenza"s output for Y.T.M.P. Though no scholarly synopsis or report of viewing exists, two short essays in different issues of for which Incandenza also used "Psychosis," thus list the film under Incandenza"s output for Y.T.M.P. Though no scholarly synopsis or report of viewing exists, two short essays in different issues of Cartridge Quarterly East Cartridge Quarterly East refer to the film as "extraordinary" refer to the film as "extraordinary" d d and "far and away [James O. Incandenza"s] most entertaining and compelling work." and "far and away [James O. Incandenza"s] most entertaining and compelling work." e e West Coast archivists list the film"s gauge as "16 ... 78 ... West Coast archivists list the film"s gauge as "16 ... 78 ... n n mm.," basing the gauge on critical allusions mm.," basing the gauge on critical allusions f f to "radical experiments in viewers" optical perspective and context" as to "radical experiments in viewers" optical perspective and context" as IJ(V?) IJ(V?)"s distinctive feature. Though Canadian archivist Tete-Beche lists the film as completed and privately distributed by P.Y.E.U. through posthumous provisions in the filmmaker"s will, all other comprehensive filmographies have the film either unfinished or UNRELEASED, its Master cartridge either destroyed or vaulted sui testator. sui testator. (back to text) (back to text) 25. More like JulyOctober, actually. (back to text) (back to text) 26. Synthetically enhanced enkephalin, an opiate-like pentapeptide or so-called endorphin manufactured in the human spine, one of the compounds prominently involved in the infamous "CadaverGate" scandal that brought down so many funeral directors in the Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken. (back to text) (back to text) 27. Metro Boston subdialectical argot - origin unknown - for cannabis, pot, gra.s.s, du-Bois, dope, ganja, bhang, herb, hash, m. jane, kif, etc.; with "Bing Crosby" designating cocaine and organic methoxies ("drines), and - inexplicably - "Doris" standing for synthetic d.i.c.kies, psychs, and phenyls. (back to text) (back to text) 28. Monoamine-oxidase inhibitors, a venerable cla.s.s of antidepressants/anxiolytics, of which Parnate - SmithKline Beecham"s product-name for tranylcypromine sulfate - is a member. Zoloft is sertraline hydrochloride, a serotonin-reuptake-inhibitor (SRI) not all that dissimilar to Prozac, manufactured by Pfizer-Roerig. (back to text) (back to text) 29. Electro-Convulsive Therapy. (back to text) (back to text) 30. A neutral boric acid eyewash, a kind of turbo-charged Visine, available over-counter from Wyeth Labs, with its own eye-cup of apothecary-blue plastic that"s downright gorgeous when held up to a window"s light. (back to text) (back to text) 31. Scht.i.tt"s term for Mr. A. deLint, which means technically "soulmate" or "spouse" but isn"t meant at all s.e.xually w/r/t deLint, we can rest a.s.sured. (back to text) (back to text) 32. Roughly, "They Can Kill You, But the Legalities of Eating You Are Quite a Bit Dicier." (back to text) (back to text) 33. I.e., "Before Subsidization" or the beginning of the subsidized O.N.A.N.ite lunar calendar under President Gentle; see sub sub. (back to text) (back to text) 34. A.k.a. "E.L.D.," that still-green shoot off the pure branch of math that deals with systems and phenomena whose chaos is beyond even Mandelbrotian math"s Strange Equations and Random Attractants, a delimiting reaction against the Chaos Theories of fractal-happy meteorologists and systems a.n.a.lysts, E.L.D., whose post-G.o.delian theorems and nonexistence proofs amount to extremely lucid and elegant admissions of defeat in certain cases, hands thrown up w/ complete deductive justification. Incandenza, whose frustrated interest in grand-scale failure was unflagging through four different careers, would have been all over Extra-Linear Dynamics like white on rice, had he survived. (back to text) (back to text) 35. I.e., presumably, "of-Georg-Cantor," Cantor being a 1900s-era set-theorist (German also) and more or less founder of transfinite mathematics, the man who proved some infinities were bigger than other infinities, and whose 1905-ish Diagonal Proof demonstrated that there can be an infinity of things between any two things no matter how close together the two things are, which D. Proof deeply informed Dr. J. Incandenza"s sense of the transstatistical aesthetics of serious tennis. (back to text) (back to text) 36. Low-Bavarian for something like "wandering alone in blasted disorienting territory beyond all charted limits and orienting markers," supposedly. (back to text) (back to text) 37. Wheelchair. (back to text) (back to text) 38. Ghostly light- and monster-shadow phenomenon particular to certain mountains; e.g. q.v. Part I of Goethe"s Faust, Faust, the Walpurgisnacht six-toed danceathon on the Harz-Brocken, in which there"s described a cla.s.sic the Walpurgisnacht six-toed danceathon on the Harz-Brocken, in which there"s described a cla.s.sic "Brockengespenstphanom." "Brockengespenstphanom." ( (Gespenst means specter or wraith.) means specter or wraith.) (back to text) (back to text) 39. Marathe"s superior in the A.F.R., a a the leader of the Wheelchair a.s.sa.s.sins" U.S.A. cell, and the former boyhood friend of Remy Marathe"s late older brothers, both struck and killed by trains. the leader of the Wheelchair a.s.sa.s.sins" U.S.A. cell, and the former boyhood friend of Remy Marathe"s late older brothers, both struck and killed by trains. b b (back to text) (back to text) 40. In other words, M. Fortier and the A.F.R. (as far as Marathe knew) believed that Marathe was functioning as a kind of "triple agent" or duplicitous "double agent" - at Fortier"s direction, Marathe had pretended to approach B.S.S. seeking to trade knowledge of the A.F.R."s anti-O.N.A.N. activities for protection and medical care for his hideously ill wife (Marathe"s) - only (as far as Marathe can know) Marathe and very few B.S.S. operatives know that Marathe is now only pretending pretending to pretend to betray, that M. Steeply is fully aware that Marathe responds to B.S.S."s summonses with what M. Fortier believes is his (Fortier"s) full knowledge, that M. Fortier is not (as far as Marathe and Steeply can reasonably posit) aware that Steeply and B.S.S. are aware that Fortier is aware of Marathe"s meetings with Steeply, and that Marathe"s own violent death will be the smallest of his (Marathe"s) problems should his Mont-Tremblant countrymen come to suspect the even-numbered total of his final loyalties. to pretend to betray, that M. Steeply is fully aware that Marathe responds to B.S.S."s summonses with what M. Fortier believes is his (Fortier"s) full knowledge, that M. Fortier is not (as far as Marathe and Steeply can reasonably posit) aware that Steeply and B.S.S. are aware that Fortier is aware of Marathe"s meetings with Steeply, and that Marathe"s own violent death will be the smallest of his (Marathe"s) problems should his Mont-Tremblant countrymen come to suspect the even-numbered total of his final loyalties. (back to text) (back to text) 41. Intra-O.N.A.N. sobriquet for "acting as a double agent"; similarly w/ "tripling," and so on. (back to text) (back to text) 42. The "thing of important" seems to be that Marathe"s A.F.R. superiors believe he only is pretending to betray them in order to secure advanced U.S. cardiac-prosthetic technology for his wife; but that in fact he really is is betraying them (the superiors, his country) - probably actually for that medical tech - and is thus only pretending only to pretend. betraying them (the superiors, his country) - probably actually for that medical tech - and is thus only pretending only to pretend. (back to text) (back to text) 43. Chronic inflammation of the terminal ileum and adjacent tissues, named in dubious honor of a Dr. Crohn in B.S. 1932. (back to text) (back to text) 44. Professional euphemism for involuntary interrogation, either w/ or w/o physical inducements. (back to text) (back to text) 45. See Note 304 sub sub. (back to text) (back to text) 46. Over-the-counter topical stuff for the corticatization of skin, tincture of benzoin facilitates the development of the kinds of callus that don"t get blood-blisters underneath. Way more common and universal among serious players than Lemon Pledge. Finding the smell of t. of b. nauseous, some junior players prefer an applied layer of corn starch or baby powder, which makes the t. of b. easier to wash off later but also leaves weird little white fingerprints over everything you touch. (back to text) (back to text) 47. Le Front de la Lib" eration de la Quebec, Le Front de la Lib" eration de la Quebec, rather a younger and rowdier and less implacably businesslike cell than the A.F.R., and symbolically adopting certain cultural customs, musics and motifs a.s.sociated with Hawaii, supposedly an ironic nod to the idea that Quebec is now, too, a kind of annex or territory of the U.S., a Canadian province only on paper, and separated from its real captor-nation by distances of s.p.a.ce and culture that are unbridgeable. rather a younger and rowdier and less implacably businesslike cell than the A.F.R., and symbolically adopting certain cultural customs, musics and motifs a.s.sociated with Hawaii, supposedly an ironic nod to the idea that Quebec is now, too, a kind of annex or territory of the U.S., a Canadian province only on paper, and separated from its real captor-nation by distances of s.p.a.ce and culture that are unbridgeable. (back to text) (back to text) 48. The progressive asymmetrical narrowing of one or more cardiac sinuses; can be either atherosclerotic or neoplastic; rare before continental Interdependence; now the third-leading cause of death among adults of Quebec and New Brunswick and the seventh among adults of the Northeastern U.S.A.; a.s.sociated with chronic low-level exposure to 2,3,7,8 Tetrachlorodibenzo-P-Di- and -Trioxin compounds. (back to text) (back to text) 49. Redundancy sic sic. (back to text) (back to text) 50. Said galoots also known, in the old founder"s AA circle, Enfield MA"s White Flag Group, as "The Crocodiles." (back to text) (back to text) 51. Syntax sic, sic, which had helped drive Mrs. Avril Incandenza - her Op-Ed letters and formal complaints apparently ignored at every political level - to help found the Militant Grammarians of Ma.s.sachusetts, ever since a bramble in the flank of advertisers, corporations, and all fast-and-loose-players with the integrity of public discourse - see which had helped drive Mrs. Avril Incandenza - her Op-Ed letters and formal complaints apparently ignored at every political level - to help found the Militant Grammarians of Ma.s.sachusetts, ever since a bramble in the flank of advertisers, corporations, and all fast-and-loose-players with the integrity of public discourse - see sub. sub. (back to text) (back to text) 52. The Gas Chromatography/Ma.s.s Spectometry scan uses particle-bombardment and a positive-ion read by a spectrometer. It"s the mid-range test of choice for corporations and athletic bodies, way less expensive than chromosomatic breakdowns of hair samples, but - as long as environmental controls on the hardware"re strictly observed - more comprehensive and reliable than the older E.M.I.T. and AbuScreen/RIA urine tests. (back to text) (back to text) 53. Eschaton is a real-partic.i.p.ant and tennis-court-modified version of the EndStath ROM-run nuclear-conflagration game. (back to text) (back to text) 54. Viz. Prescriptive Grammar (Grade 10), Descriptive Grammar (11), Grammar and Meaning (12). (back to text) (back to text) 55. Hal, who personally thinks the term that"d apply here would be suborned, suborned, not not entrapped entrapped - unless the caller were himself a police officer - keeps his own counsel on this point and basically goes along to get along. - unless the caller were himself a police officer - keeps his own counsel on this point and basically goes along to get along. (back to text) (back to text) 56. ... or PMA, Grievous Bod., nutmeg"s myristicin, or Hawaiian baby-woodrose seeds" ergine, or the African iboga"s ibogaine, the yage"s harmaline... or the fly agaric fungus"s well-known muscimole, which fitviavi"s derived DMZ resembles chemically sort of the way an F-18 resembles a Piper Cub.... (back to text) (back to text) 57. Ingesters" accounts of the temporal-perception consequences of DMZ in the literature are, as far as Pemulis is concerned, vague and inelegant and more like mystical in the Tibetan-Dead-Book Tibetan-Dead-Book vein than rigorous or referentially clear; one account Pemulis doesn"t completely get but can at least get the neuro-t.i.tillating gist of is one monograph"s toss-off quote from an Italian lithographer who"d ingested DMZ once and made a lithograph comparing himself on DMZ to a piece of like Futurist sculpture, plowing at high knottage through time itself, kinetic even in stasis, plowing temporally ahead, with time coming off him like water in sprays and wakes. vein than rigorous or referentially clear; one account Pemulis doesn"t completely get but can at least get the neuro-t.i.tillating gist of is one monograph"s toss-off quote from an Italian lithographer who"d ingested DMZ once and made a lithograph comparing himself on DMZ to a piece of like Futurist sculpture, plowing at high knottage through time itself, kinetic even in stasis, plowing temporally ahead, with time coming off him like water in sprays and wakes. (back to text) (back to text) 58. Certified (by the Commonwealth of Ma.s.sachusetts) Substance Abuse Counselor. (back to text) (back to text) 59. Oxycodone hydrochloride w/ acetaminophen, C-II Cla.s.s, Du Pont Pharmaceuticals. (back to text) (back to text) 60. Replacing the old neo-Georgian J. A. Stratton Student Center, right off Ma.s.s. Ave. and gutted with C4 during the so-called M.I.T. Language Riots of twelve years past. (back to text) (back to text) 61. An apres-garde digital movement, a.k.a. "Digital Parallelism" and "Cinema of Chaotic Stasis," characterized by a stubborn and possibly intentionally irritating refusal of different narrative lines to merge into any kind of meaningful confluence, the school derived somewhat from both the narrative bradykineticism of Antonioni and the disa.s.sociative formalism of Stan Brakhage and Hollis Frampton, comprising periods in the careers of the late Beth B., the Snow brothers, Vigdis Simpson, and the late J. O. Incandenza (middle period). (back to text) (back to text) 62. At the zenith of the self-help-group movement in the B.S. mid-1990s, there were estimated to be over 600 wholly distinct Step-based fellowships in the U.S.A., all modelled, however heretically or flakily, on the "12 Steps" of Alcoholics Anonymous. By Y.D.A.U., the number has dropped to about one-third of that. (back to text) (back to text) 63. (the student engineer"s a.n.a.logy) (back to text) (back to text) 64. Not 100% clear on this, but the thrust is that the T and Q are the two basic courses of study leading historically to the like 18th-century equivalent of a H.S. diploma and a B.A., or maybe M.A., respectively, at nodes of h.o.a.ry cla.s.sicality like Oxford and Cambridge U. during the time of Samuel Johnson - more or less the original grammato-lexical-and-pedagogical hard-a.s.s - and that the trivium makes you take grammar, logic, and rhetoric, and then if you"re still standing you get the quadrivium of math, geometry, astronomy, and music, and that none of the cla.s.ses - including the potentially lightweight astronomy and music - were in fact lightweight, which is one possible reason why the portraits of all these cla.s.sical and neo-cla.s.sical B.A.s and D.Phil.s at Oxford and Cambridge look so pale and wasted and haunted and grim. Not to mention that the only day E.T.A.s get off cla.s.ses is Sunday, partly to make up for how much they"re away from the cla.s.sroom on trips; and back at E.T.A. cla.s.sless Sunday is a three-session day on the courts, all of which strikes people outside academies as almost fanatically brutal. For more general pedagogy here see P. Beesley"s somewhat frumpy and dated B.S.-era Revival of the Humanities in American Education, Revival of the Humanities in American Education, or better yet Dr. A. M. Incandenza"s updated version of same, with its prose updated and typos eradicated and argument rather more keenly honed, available on CD-ROM through or better yet Dr. A. M. Incandenza"s updated version of same, with its prose updated and typos eradicated and argument rather more keenly honed, available on CD-ROM through [email protected] or in trade paperback from Cornell University Press, 3rd edition Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. or in trade paperback from Cornell University Press, 3rd edition Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. (back to text) (back to text) 65. E.T.A.s" moniker for the Headmaster"s House. (back to text) (back to text) 66. Some M.I.T.s are compulsive about taping the shows and then listening to the musics again and trying to track them down in stores and college archives, not unlike the way some of their parents had killed whole evenings trying to pa.r.s.e out the lyrics on R.E.M. and Pearl Jam tapes, etc. (back to text) (back to text) 67. A couple of the Enfield Marine Public Health Hospital Security officers know E.T.A."s Hal Incandenza from having met his brother Mario when James O. Incandenza had hired the officers as lineless figurant background-extra cops for both Dial C for Concupiscence Dial C for Concupiscence and and Three Cheers for Cause and Effect Three Cheers for Cause and Effect The E.M. officers are sometimes down in The Unexamined Life tavern on Blind Bouncer nights when Hal is in there with like Axford, Hal hitting The Life quite a bit less frequently than Axford and Struck and Troeltsch, who rarely miss a Bring-Your-Braille-I.D. theme-night at The Unexamined Life, and seem able to function during A.M. drills even after several parasolled Mudslides or the House-Specialty Blue Flame cognac-based things you have to blow out before sipping from their huge blue-rimmed snifters. The E.M. cops are both young dim big good regular blue(literally)-collar Boston guys, high-school tackles now going soft, their jowls razor-burned and purpling with gin, and they"ll sometimes regale the E.T.A.s w/r/t some of the more colorful E.M. specimens they"re paid to keep secure. There"s something a little compulsive about the cops" particular interest in #5 chronic catatonics, especially. The E.M. cops call Unit #5 "The Shed," they say, because its residents don"t seem housed there so much as more like The E.M. officers are sometimes down in The Unexamined Life tavern on Blind Bouncer nights when Hal is in there with like Axford, Hal hitting The Life quite a bit less frequently than Axford and Struck and Troeltsch, who rarely miss a Bring-Your-Braille-I.D. theme-night at The Unexamined Life, and seem able to function during A.M. drills even after several parasolled Mudslides or the House-Specialty Blue Flame cognac-based things you have to blow out before sipping from their huge blue-rimmed snifters. The E.M. cops are both young dim big good regular blue(literally)-collar Boston guys, high-school tackles now going soft, their jowls razor-burned and purpling with gin, and they"ll sometimes regale the E.T.A.s w/r/t some of the more colorful E.M. specimens they"re paid to keep secure. There"s something a little compulsive about the cops" particular interest in #5 chronic catatonics, especially. The E.M. cops call Unit #5 "The Shed," they say, because its residents don"t seem housed there so much as more like stored stored there. The E.M. cops p.r.o.nounce there. The E.M. cops p.r.o.nounce stored stored "stew-wad." The chronic catatonics themselves they refer to as "objay darts," which is something else Don G. over in #6 has never understood. Over Mudslides, they"ll often give little thumbnail anecdotes about various of The Shed"s objay darts, and one of the reasons why they regale the E.T.A.s only when Hal"s down there at The Unexamined Life is that Hal is the only E.T.A. who seems truly interested, which is the sort of thing your veteran off-duty cop can always sense. E.g. one of the objay darts they"re into is the lady who sits very still with her eyes closed. The cops explain that the lady is not catatonic in the strict sense of "stew-wad." The chronic catatonics themselves they refer to as "objay darts," which is something else Don G. over in #6 has never understood. Over Mudslides, they"ll often give little thumbnail anecdotes about various of The Shed"s objay darts, and one of the reasons why they regale the E.T.A.s only when Hal"s down there at The Unexamined Life is that Hal is the only E.T.A. who seems truly interested, which is the sort of thing your veteran off-duty cop can always sense. E.g. one of the objay darts they"re into is the lady who sits very still with her eyes closed. The cops explain that the lady is not catatonic in the strict sense of catatonic catatonic but rather a "D.P.," which is mental-health-facility slang for but rather a "D.P.," which is mental-health-facility slang for Debilitatingly Phobic Debilitatingly Phobic. Her deal is apparently that she"s almost psychotically terrified of the possibility that she might be either blind or paralyzed or both. So e.g. she keeps her eyes shut tight 24/7/365 out of the reasoning that as long as she keeps her eyes shut tight she can find hope in the possibility that if she was to open them she"d be able to see, they say; but that if she were ever to actually open her eyes and actually not be able to see, she reasons, she"s lost that precious like margin of hope that she"s maybe not blind. Then they run through her similar reasoning behind sitting absolutely motionless out of a phobia of being paralyzed. After each anecdote-tale like (they"ve got like an anecdote-routine, the E.M. cops), the shorter E.M. Security officer always uses his tongue to manipulate the little green parasol from one side of his mouth to the other as he holds his snifter tight in both hands and makes his jowls accordionize as he nods and posits that the terrifying thing is that the common unifying symptom of most of The Shed"s objay darts is a terror so terrifying it makes the object of the terror come true, somehow, which observation always makes both of the big dim workingmen shiver an identical and kind of almost delicious-looking shiver, pushing their hats back and shaking their heads at their gla.s.ses, as Hal blows out the fire of the second Blue Flame they"ve bought him, making a wish before he blows. (back to text) (back to text) 68. Freer"s "The Viking" moniker is his own invention, and n.o.body else uses it, instead referring to him as just "Freer," and regarding it as a cla.s.sic pathetic Freer-type move that he goes around trying to get people to refer to him as "The Viking." (back to text) (back to text) 69. NA = Narcotics Anonymous; CA = Cocaine Anonymous. In some cities there are also Psychedelics Anonymous, Nicotine Anonymous (also, confusingly, called NA), Designer Drugs Anonymous, Steroids Anonymous, even (especially in and around Manhattan) something called Prozac Anonymous. In none of these Anonymous fellowships anywhere is it possible to avoid confronting the G.o.d stuff, eventually. (back to text) (back to text) 70. Not to mention, according to some hard-line schools of 12-Step thought, yoga, reading, politics, gum-chewing, crossword puzzles, solitaire, romantic intrigue, charity work, political activism, N.R.A. membership, music, art, cleaning, plastic surgery, cartridge-viewing even at normal distances, the loyalty of a fine dog, religious zeal, relentless helpfulness, relentless other-folks"-moral-inventory-taking, the development of hard-line schools of 12-Step thought, ad darn near infinitum, including 12-Step fellowships themselves, such that quiet tales sometimes go around the Boston AA community of certain incredibly advanced and hard-line recovering persons who have pared away potential escape after potential escape until finally, as the stories go, they end up sitting in a bare chair, nude, in an unfurnished room, not moving but also not sleeping or meditating or abstracting, too advanced to stomach the thought of the potential emotional escape of doing anything whatsoever, and just end up sitting there completely motion- and escapeless until a long time later all that"s found in the empty chair is a very fine dusting of off-white ashy stuff that you can wipe away completely with like one damp paper towel. (back to text) (back to text) 71. The Boston AA slogan w/r/t this phenomenon is "You Can"t Unring a Bell." (back to text) (back to text) 72. About which Pakistani manager and his ancestry and ratty little mustache and officious management style McDade has a colorful thing or two to say, boy. (back to text) (back to text) 73. One of the graduate prorectors" little tasks is supposedly to go around to different Subdorm floors and check the rooms for things like are the beds made up drum-tight, with unpleasant little extra drills added to the regimens of bed-making and toothpaste-cap-replacing slackers, though few of the prorectors have the combination a.n.a.lity and drive actually to go around to their a.s.signed rooms with a checklist, the exceptions being Aubrey deLint, Mary Esther Thode, and the hatchet-faced Kenyan Tony Nw.a.n.gi, who"s got the Pemulis/Troeltsch/Schacht suite under extremely beady scrutiny at all times. (back to text) (back to text) 74. Davis Cup is male, Wightman female. (back to text) (back to text) 75. Hal"s private dread is that Tavis will want him to offer up his personal compet.i.tive map and dignity to John ("N.R.") Wayne - who"s never in several matches lost more than three games in a set to Hal - for the t.i.tillation of the alumni and patrons at the November Fundraiser-gala"s exhibitions, though this is pretty unlikely right before the What-aBurger, when Hal"ll be apt to face Wayne in the semis anyway, and Scht.i.tt isn"t apt to want an utter demapping that fresh in Hal"s mind right before a major event. (back to text) (back to text) 76. Hal Incandenza had been thought for a while as a toddler to have some sort of Attention Deficit Disorder - partly because he read so fast and spent so little time on each level of various pre-CD-ROM video games, partly because just about any upscale kid even slightly to port or starboard of the bell curve"s acme was thought at that time to have A.D.D. - and for a while there"d been a certain amount of specialist-shuttling, and many of the specialists were veterans of Mario and were preconditioned to see Hal as also damaged, but thanks to the diagnostic savvy of Brandeis"s Child Development Center the damage a.s.sessments were not only retracted but reversed way out to the other side of the Damaged-to-Gifted continuum, and for much of the glabrous part of his childhood Hal"d been cla.s.sified as somewhere between "Borderline Gifted" and "Gifted" - though part of this high cerebral rank was because B.C.D.C."s diagnostic tests weren"t quite so keen when it came to distinguishing between raw neural gifts and the young Hal"s monomaniacally obsessive interest and effort, as if Hal were trying as if his very life were in the balance to please some person or persons, even though no one had ever even hinted that his life depended on seeming gifted or precocious or even exceptionally pleasing - and when he"d committed to memory entire dictionaries and vocab-check software and syntax manuals and then had gotten some chance to recite some small part of what he"d pounded into his RAM for a proudly nonchalant mother or even a by-this-time-as-far-as-he-was-concerned-pretty-much-out-there father, at these times of public performance and pleasure - the Weston MA School District in the early B.S. 1990s had had interschool range-of-reading-and-recall spelling-beeish compet.i.tions called "Battle of the Books," which these were for Hal pretty much of a public turkey-shoot and approval-fest - when he"d extracted what was desired from memory and faultlessly p.r.o.nounced it before certain persons, he"d felt almost that same pale sweet aura that an LSD afterglow conferred, some milky corona, like almost a halo of approved grace, made all the milkier by the faultless nonchalance of a Moms who made it clear that his value was not contingent on winning first or even second prize, ever. (back to text) (back to text) 77. Granted, Pemulis, over the summer (he boards at E.T.A. during the summer but hasn"t qualified for the European trip since Y.P.W.), had made and distributed (at cost) a few copies of a highly amusing low-memory TP game whose graphics featured a picture of deLint and a mock-up of the h.e.l.l-panel from H. Bosch"s tryptich The Garden of Earthly Delights, The Garden of Earthly Delights, which TP game continues to enjoy a select late-night vogue among the sub-16"s. which TP game continues to enjoy a select late-night vogue among the sub-16"s. (back to text) (back to text) 78. (Subject to O.N.A.N. Dept. of Weights and Measures Oversight Committee ratification of final contract between G.F.R. Co., Zanesville OH, and the Bureau of Endors.e.m.e.nt Revenue, United States Office of Unspecified Services, Vienna VA, 15 December Y.D.A.U.) (back to text) (back to text) 79. And, it goes w/o saying, w/o one of those video-recorded suicide notes or fond farewells from the terminally ill, which digital halloos from beyond the grave were, after a brief and videophony-like vogue, by the Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar used only by the tasteless and trailer-park tacky, w/ the very tackiest using Tableaux w/ famous dead Elvis-/Carson-grade celebrities to convey their farewells. (back to text) (back to text) 80. Orin Incandenza knew that Joelle van Dyne and Dr. James O. Incandenza weren"t lovers; Mrs. Avril Incandenza did not know that they weren"t lovers, although by the time of Joelle"s acquaintance with him Jim wasn"t in a position to be lovers with anybody, neurologically speaking, though it"s not clear to Joelle whether Avril even knew this, since Jim and Avril hadn"t been intimate with each other, i.e. conjugally, for quite some time, though Jim hadn"t known the precise reason why Avril was so sanguine about their not being intimate until the incident with the Volvo, where apparently Avril had been with someone (Orin would not say who or whether he knew who) in the Volvo and had idly - and disastrously, whether w/ unconscious intent or not - and presumably post-coitally idly written the person"s first name in the steam of the steamed-up car window, which name had disappeared with the steam but had reappeared the next time the window had steamed up, which had been when James had been driving to this very brownstone, to shoot Joelle in the weird wobble-lensed maternal "I"m-so-terribly-sorry" monologue-scene of the last thing he"d done, and then never shown her, and had ordered the cartridge"s burial in the bra.s.s casket w/ him in the same testament in which he"d willed Joelle an absurd (and addiction-enabling) annuity, which Avril"d never have lowered herself to the level of contesting, but which could hardly be expected not to have solidified the appearance that they"d been lovers, Joelle and Jim. (back to text) (back to text) 81. "Theory and Praxis in Peckinpah"s Use of Red," Cla.s.sic Cartridge Studies Cla.s.sic Cartridge Studies vol. IX, nos. 2 & 3, YY2007MRCVMETIUFI/ITPSFH,O,OM( vol. IX, nos. 2 & 3, YY2007MRCVMETIUFI/ITPSFH,O,OM(s). (back to text) (back to text) 82. Maybe 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. In Hal"s case this is facilitated by the fact that the third floor of Subdorm C"s prorector is the incredibly lax and laid-back Corbett Thorp, who may stutter and go in for half-baked motivational experiments on the younger players but never comes around with a white glove and clipboard. Mario makes his bed without fail, but you have to keep in mind that it"s not like he"s got all that much else to do. Hal"s fitted sheet and sheet are Bean-James River flannels in matching green and black Night Watch plaid, and for a comforter he uses a green fiberfill winter-camp sleeping bag that"s of unknown origin and price because he got it for Xmas and it had all the tags removed. (back to text) (back to text) 83. Boston Police Department. (back to text) (back to text) 84. Available on ROM via or in (remaindered) paperback from Delta/Delacorte division of Bantam-Doubleday-Dell-Little,-Brown, itself a division of Bell Atlantic/TCI. or in (remaindered) paperback from Delta/Delacorte division of Bantam-Doubleday-Dell-Little,-Brown, itself a division of Bell Atlantic/TCI. (back to text) (back to text) 85. = no academy affiliation. (back to text) (back to text) 86. The O.N.A.N.T.A. junior tour allows court-side oxygen ever since an unfortunate embolism in Raleigh NC, Y.W.Q.M.D. (back to text) (back to text) 87. Q.v. Note 24 supra supra. (back to text) (back to text) 88. Since claiming rampant and mysterious breakage and then one time having the Dunlop rep pa.s.sing through Allston on his way out of Boston from E.T.A. see not one but three kids on three separate corners hawking shiny new Dunlop sticks in what amounted, Dunlop charged, almost to Conspiracy to Defraud, in YY2007MRCVMETIUFI/ ITPSFH,O,OM(s). (back to text) (back to text) 89. The fact that it"s not at all clear day-to-day what this it it and and caring caring mean, or how you can be expected both to care pa.s.sionately and not care at all, that huge amounts of internal psychic energy get expended on trying to come to some acceptable understanding of all this stuff, particularly from 16 to like 18, is not accidental or a weakness in E.T.A. pedagogy, in Schacht"s opinion, though a sizable contingent of E.T.A.s view Scht.i.tt as bats and essentially a figurehead and choose to steer more by head prorector deLint"s clipboard and reductive statistics, which at least afford you a firm idea of where you stand, comparatively, at all times. mean, or how you can be expected both to care pa.s.sionately and not care at all, that huge amounts of internal psychic energy get expended on trying to come to some acceptable understanding of all this stuff, particularly from 16 to like 18, is not accidental or a weakness in E.T.A. pedagogy, in Schacht"s opinion, though a sizable contingent of E.T.A.s view Scht.i.tt as bats and essentially a figurehead and choose to steer more by head prorector deLint"s clipboard and reductive statistics, which at least afford you a firm idea of where you stand, comparatively, at all times. (back to text) (back to text) E.g.: SELECTED SNIPPET FROM THE INDIVIDUAL-RESIDENT-INFORMAL-INTERFACE HOURS OF D. W. GATELY, LIVE-IN STAFF, ENNET HOUSE DRUG AND ALCOHOL RECOVERY HOUSE, ENFIELD MA, ON AND OFF FROM JUST AFTER THE BROOKLINE YOUNG PEOPLE"S AA MTNG UP TO ABOUT 2329H., WEDNESDAY 11 NOVEMBER Y.D.A.U.
"I fear I simply have to deny the insinuation that it"s disloyal or ungrateful to find oneself troubled by certain quite glaring glaring inconsistencies in this master quote unquote Program you all seem to expect us simply to open up and blindly swallow whole and then walk around glazed with our arms right out straight in front of us parroting, reciting." inconsistencies in this master quote unquote Program you all seem to expect us simply to open up and blindly swallow whole and then walk around glazed with our arms right out straight in front of us parroting, reciting."
"Geoff - Geoffrey, man, I don"t think anybody"s trying to insinuate anything over on you, brother. I know I ain"t trying to."
"No, you simply sit there with your arms crossed nodding with that timeless patience that communicates condescension and judgment without exposing you to responsibility for insinuating anything aloud."
"Maybe when I look patient I"m really trying to be patient with myself, for not finishing school and etcetera and having a hard time keeping up with you."
"This AA tactic of masking condescension behind humility. ..."
"I guess I"m just sorry for you you"re feeling frustrated with the Program today. I know there"s lots of days I"m frustrated with it. So I don"t know what to say helpful to you except what they said to me, to just hang in there."
"One Day at a One Day at a One Day."
"Brother, that"s just all I know to tell you that"s worked for me. I know for me it don"t matter if there"s days I f.u.c.king hate hate it. I just have to do it. And it don"t help me or anybody else if I go around negativing on newcomers and trying to take out my issues on trying to f.u.c.k them up with G.o.d-puzzles." it. I just have to do it. And it don"t help me or anybody else if I go around negativing on newcomers and trying to take out my issues on trying to f.u.c.k them up with G.o.d-puzzles."
"Mr. Gately Sir, I found myself sitting tonight in yet another Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting the central Message of which was the importance of going to still more Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings. This infuriating carrot-and-donkey aspect of trudging to Meetings only to be told to trudge to still more Meetings."
"I hear you."
"As if, I mean, what"s supposedly going to be communicated at these future future meetings I"m exhorted to trudge to that cannot simply be communicated meetings I"m exhorted to trudge to that cannot simply be communicated now, now, at at this this meeting, instead of the glazed recitation of exhortations to attend these vague future revelatory meetings?" meeting, instead of the glazed recitation of exhortations to attend these vague future revelatory meetings?"
"I"m doing my best to stay with you here Day man."
"And tonight I"m just settling in in yet another uneven-legged chair, cultivating that glazed pa.s.sive spectatorial state of mind that is clearly clearly what they"re trying to inspire in the ephebe, settling in next to a positively what they"re trying to inspire in the ephebe, settling in next to a positively redolent redolent Emil M. and trying to hold my poor addled Denial-ridden mind open with all available main, listening to this ravaged-looking Yalie in yellow slacks detail episodes of tremens whose gruesomeness interdicted any possible Identification -" Emil M. and trying to hold my poor addled Denial-ridden mind open with all available main, listening to this ravaged-looking Yalie in yellow slacks detail episodes of tremens whose gruesomeness interdicted any possible Identification -"
"I"m remembering I heard Pat tell you that thinking people who are walking ahead of you are following you is a pretty bad kind of D.T.s, brother."
"And I informed her that there"s a well-known surveillance tactic known as the her that there"s a well-known surveillance tactic known as the Box Box surveillance, which involves certain members of the surveillance team establishing themselves in surveillance, which involves certain members of the surveillance team establishing themselves in front front of the subject." of the subject."
"Except I don"t ever remember you explaining why a sociology teacher weaving his way from his fourth bar to his fifth bar is important enough for four guys from some you-never-mentioned-what kind of conspiracy to be pulling this real complex surveillance thing."
"Except I was interrupting your point you were sharing, I know, and I"m sorry."
"Your basic decency is why you"re whom I bring my thoughts to, Don. You know that."
"That makes me feel good Day man."
"I mean to whom else might I speak? The girl who takes her eye out and fondles it? Poor Ewell with his obsessive tattoo charts? Lenz? Lenz?"
"It makes me feel good you think I"m decent to talk to. That"s supposed to be why I"m here. I sure needed to talk, at the start. Can you remember where you were headed before I broke i- interrupted?"
"Something this broken Ivy Leaguer said, some AA sally. He said that only one newcomer in a million actually trudges into an Alcoholics Anonymous Closed Meeting and in fact doesn"t belong there."
"Meaning doesn"t turn out to have the Disease you mean."
"Yes. And that he said that quote if You You - looking - looking right right at yours truly, seemingly, with that wearily amused patient expression you all must practice in front of the mirror - he said that only one newcomer in a million doesn"t belong here, and if quote at yours truly, seeming