Rémy Marathe, a Quebecois wheelchair user and member of the separatist organization A.F.R. This whole group of people now stands staring at the attaché’s TP. The assistant himself doesn’t come back, and neither do two security guards from the Saudi embassy or a pair of Seventh Day Adventists who attempt to deliver a pamphlet to the attaché’s house. Meanwhile, the medical attaché hasn’t shown up for work, so Prince Q-’s personal assistant goes to his house to see what’s wrong. Kate Gompert, who has just been hospitalized after her fourth suicide attempt in three years, tells her doctor about the unbearable pain of her depression and how this intersects with her marijuana addiction. Avril is from Québec, and her marriage to James allowed her to secure an American visa after difficulties she encountered due to her youthful involvement with Quebecois separatists. went on to gain a PhD in optical physics and then began making avant-garde films. Both James and his father, James Sr., had been talented junior tennis players. Charles and Avril had an affair and Charles is likely Mario’s true father. following his death, his brother-in-law Charles Tavis took over. James Incandenza was the first Headmaster of E.T.A.

He breaks into the home of Guillaume DuPlessis and accidentally kills him by gagging him when DuPlessis is ill with a cold and cannot breathe through his nose. Hal has developed a secret marijuana addiction, and spends much of his time secretly getting high in the Pump Room at E.T.A.ĭon Gately is a 27-year-old narcotics addict who robs houses to finance his addiction. Orin is an NFL player who has been having nightmares about his mother, Avril. He finds an unmarked cartridge that has been sent to him in the mail and puts it in the Teleputer ( TP) to watch. The medical attaché to Prince Q-, the Saudi Minister for Home Entertainment, wants to relax at the end of the day by watching a film cartridge. Hal speaks to his other brother Orin on the phone, but the line cuts out. Hal shares a bedroom with his older, disabled brother Mario at the Enfield Tennis Academy in Enfield, Massachusetts. Their conversations would end in Hal choking. Hal always had difficulty communicating with his father, James, who is now dead. Hal tries to explain that the application is genuine, but the deans think he is having some kind of seizure or psychotic episode, and he is taken to the hospital. Note: The narrative is non-chronological its structure is meant to follow the pattern of a Sierpinski triangle, a mathematically-generated pattern of triangles inside triangles.Īt Hal Incandenza’s admissions interview at the University of Arizona, the university’s deans are concerned that he may have cheated on his highly impressive (but uneven) application.

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