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"Stones Upon His Eyes" is the tenth chapter of Into the Forest. It is the second chapter to be narrated by Xanther Ibrahim.

### Chapter Quote

"But in all chaos there is calculation." - Lorde

### Summary

The chapter opens up on May 15, 2014 at 14:47:50 in Los Angeles, California. Xanther is beginning to notice something strange happening: ever since leaving the vet, she "has watched shadows collect like squid ink" in the hollows of people's eyes. She has been rubbing her eyes a lot lately, thinking that this problem has something to do with her vision, but it will not stop. She repeatedly attempts to make the problem go away on her own, but when she can't she starts thinking about telling someone about the problem, though she is unsure of how to explain it properly.

Xanther is at her school. She goes to her math class where the teacher reviews all of the material for the final test which is three weeks away. As the teacher lectures, Xanther daydreams to a past event in which she asked Dov why he decided to enlist in the Army. Dov told her he joined because he loved to fight.

Once math is over, Xanther spots Mary Ellen, one of the popular school bullies. She knows that Dendish happens to be Mary's best friend. She moves to blend in with the crowd of students in an attempt to avoid Mary. She is feeling the sickening, burning sensation again. She wants to return home so she can be around the cat.

Xanther, Kle, and Cogs all carpool with a girl named Brigitte. Brigitte's mother drives each of them home. Xanther tries to talk to Kle and Cogs about her newfound eye condition, but neither of them are able to really understand her problem or offer any way to cure it. When Brigitte's mother stops at a red light, Xanther looks out of the car window and spots Mary standing on the sidewalk. She is with Dendish and a few other kids. They are all smoking cigarettes. She sees Xanther and points her out to Dendish. Xanther tries to squirm down in her seat to hide. She looks out of the window again and sees that Dendish is approaching the car. Once he walks up to the car, he starts making mocking gestures towards Xanther. Nobody else in the car notices. Once the light turns green, the car continues driving and Dendish returns to Mary and the others. A bit later, still being driven home, all four car doors suddenly open at the same time. During the next light, Xanther sees a stranger walking by. When she looks at his eyes, she does not see ink, but instead sees stones.

Later, after finally being home for a few hours, Xanther sits at the piano with the cat on her shoulder. Astair enters the room and sees the cat. She is confused and decides to ask Xanther where she found it at, since she and Anwar have been searching all over the house for it all day but they have not been able to locate it.

The chapter ends on May 15, 2014 at 17:07:07.
TFv03 CH 08 Waving back (annotated)

Annotations for Waving back from Honeysuckle & Pain.

## Page 220

**Chris**
**Bohjalian**

American novelist and the author of 18 novels, including the
bestsellers Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls;

***She is as***
changeless as the streets

from Sandcastle girls. The Sandcastle Girls (2012)
is about the Armenian Genocide and its century-long denial by Turkey. The novel
includes two stories in one: the story of Elizabeth Endicott and Armen
Petrosian, lovers who meet in Syria during the genocide; and the story of Laura
Petrosian, their granddaughter, who after a century tries to understand why
they were so silent about their youth, while her suburban existence is quite
different from the violent setting in which her grandparents fell in love.
According to USA Today, Bohjalian makes "a near-century-old event come to
life in a way that will make readers gasp with shock that such a terrible event
— Turkey's determination to kill all the Armenians in their country — is such a
small part of our knowledge of world history". Oprah Winfrey chose it as a
Book of the Week: "This rendering of one of history's greatest (and least
known) tragedies is a nuanced, sophisticated portrayal of what it means not
only to endure but also to insist on hope".

Quote is
about Elizabeth: „He is almost mad to see her and hold her and be reassured
that she is as changeless as the streets.

## Page 221

18 days
since last time

## Page 225

**bussiness cards**

See V2 671 – get bussiness card

**lapis stellatus**

Lapis
armenus also known as Armenian stone is a variety of precious stone, resembling
lapis lazuli, except that it is softer, and instead of veins of pyrite, is
intermixed with green. It has been found in Tirol, Hungary, and Transylvania,
and used both in mosaic work, to make the blue color azure, and as a treatment
of melancholia.

**Garnet**

red

**Jade**

green - echoes "I had green" (lights) from Volume 1

**Picture**

collors match his dogears

## Page 226

proof
that the red XXXX censoring is by Narcons

**Censored:**

TF-Narcon^9?

## Page 230

**Հենց չեն իմանում**

Just don’t know

## Page 233

**japanese**

"I'm happy you called. I was doing all right. A few
weeks ago, everyone was told that I would come. Everyone was waiting to get a
call from me. But I didn't call. Nobody even knows I actually came here. I was
sitting in a hotel room, and I didn't even write a word. I feel like if there
was a hole I would like to go into it."

## Page 234

**katsu**

(Zen Buddhism): A word shouted out in Zen Buddhism (as well as other sects of Buddhism), and in East Asian martial arts schools, used to help focus the energy (気 (ki)), and thereby induce an enlightened state.

## Page 236

**tailgated**

drive too closely behind another vehicle

## Page 238

**pattern break**

text not upper left but upper right + inverted V like 84-85 + left
turn not so sacred after all. Also the breadcrumbs are different.

c**rossed text**

Arshalous - female Armenian name meaning dawn
Shnorhk Zildjian

A humble taxi driver living in Los Angeles, California with his wife, Patil. Not much is known about Shnorhk at this point other than he's of Armenian origins and is very proud of his driver's license. Shnorhk is also suffering from an unknown illness which causes him to cough up blood.

## Chapters

### Volume 1

* 10) “Yeah man. Something died.”
* 17) Is little irrelevant

### Volume 2

* 11) Clinic
* 28) “Left it in cab.”

### Volume 3

* 08) Waving back
* 14) On behalf of life
* 21) Maneki neko

### Volume 4

* 02) Same cage
* 15) "I sue you all!"
* 25) "We miss you, brother."

## Relationships

### Family

* Patil (wife)
* Hovahn (brother-in-law)

### Friends

* Mnatsagan
* Alonzo
* Dimitri (Dimi)
TFv02 CH 18 Warlock (annotated)

Annotations for Warlock from Into the Forest.

## Page 433

**Sunnynook**

RiverPark, LA

**Soma**

On 13 May 2014, an explosion at a coal mine in Soma, Manisa,
Turkey, caused an underground mine fire, which burned until 15 May. In
total, 301 people were killed in what was the worst mine disaster in
Turkey's history

**Gecmi olsun**

Get well soon

## Page 436

**Donkey & Goat Chardonay**

Isandorno animals

## Page 438

**Asian flush**

a slightly
embarassing condition in which the flow of blood to one's face increases after
the imbuement of a relatively small amount of alcohol, resulting in rosy cheeks
- it may look as though one has just come in from the cold.

Asian flush results from the fact
that the rate of metabolism of alcohol in one's asian digestive system is
unfortunately much lower than the alcohol intake rate - even when one is
drinking alcohol at a reasonable rate.

As a result, many asians have
very low alcohol tolerance

**Basel**

Switzerland

## Page 439

**Lagavalin**

whiskey

**end of desire**

Persephone

## Page 443

**Kalevshir**

invented name?

## Page 444

**Serge and Beate Klarsfeld**

activists and Nazi hunters known
for documenting the Holocaust in order to establish the record and to
enable the prosecution of war criminals

**Efraim Zuroff**

American-born Israeli historian and Nazi hunter who
has played a key role in bringing indicted Nazi and fascist war
criminals to trial

**Efrat**

Israeli settlement established in 1983 and a local council in the Judean Mountains of the West Bank

## Page 445

**Rimon**

School of Music?

**Aribert Heim**

was an Austrian SS doctor, also known as Dr. Death.
During World War II he served at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp
 in Mauthausen, killing and torturing inmates by various methods, such
as direct injections of toxic compounds into the hearts of his victims

**BA’AL GOMER**

doesn't exist. Ba'al – originaly "lord", later term for
 false god. Gomer – 1. wife of the prophet Hosea, mentioned in the
Hebrew Bible's Book of Hosea. Hosea 1:2 refers to her alternatively as a
 "promiscuous woman" (NIV), a "harlot" (NASB), and a "whore". 2. the
eldest son of Japheth, his grandfather was Noe

## Page 446

**Northeast**

Frogtown

**Hollenbeck**

Planski’s drug case

## Page 447

**Florian**

Serbulo, in Long Beach

## Page 448

**Harry Bosh**

 LA policeman from Michael Connelly's novels

## Pages 450-451 – ENTRACTE 3 - Goldenrods

**Hebrew**

a golden blossom has succeeded

a barrier that a
root didn't know

this is a bee's day.

**Hopi in rawrgrl**

 golden buds pass
through

fences roots never suspect

this day for a bee
TFv04 CH 21 The Arsenal (annotated)

Annotations for The Arsenal of Hades.

## Page 596

**quote**

In 1682 the Archbishop of Canterbury John Tillotson preached
a sermon titled “The Danger of Zeal without Knowledge”.

There is nothing oftner misleads Men, than
a misguided Zeal; it is an ignis fatuus, a false fire, which often leads Men
into Boggs and Precipices; it appears in the Night, in dark and ignorant and
weak minds, and offers it self a guide to those who have lost their way; it is
one of the most ungovernable Passions of Human Nature, and therefore requires
great knowledge and judgment to manage it, and keep it within bounds. It is
like fire, a good Servant, but a bad Master. . .

## Page 601

**complication**

refers to any feature in a mechanical timepiece beyond the simple display of hours and
minutes. A timepiece indicating only hours and minutes is otherwise known as a
simple movement. Common complications in commercial watches are day/date
displays, alarms, chronographs (stopwatches), and automatic winding mechanisms

## Page 602

**Borrego**

dessert

## Page 606

**another child**

???

## Page 609

**palantír**

A palantír
is a fictional magical artefact from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy legendarium. A
palantír (sometimes translated as "Seeing Stone" but literally
meaning "Farsighted" or "One that Sees from Afar"; cf.
English television) is a crystal ball, used for both communication and as a
means of seeing events in other parts of the world or in the distant past.

## Page 612

**Roy Campanella**

an American baseball player. Cas has his picture in her house

## Page 617

**aks you**

The word "ask" is often pronounced "aks" in various areas of the US.
TFv04 CH 07 Uneasy Magic (annotated)

Annotations for Uneasy Magic of Hades.

## Page 164

**She’s never been out of the country before.**

TFv3 p 289

## Page 172

**men who are not weak**

Isandorno
means himself

## Page 173

**la Zona Rosa**

Zona Rosa is a neighborhood in Mexico City which is known
for its shopping, nightlife, gay community, and its recently established Korean
community (Wikipedia)

**she**

the same girl Luther met when he visited Teyo in Hawaii.

## Page 174

**valences**

the combining power of an element,
especially as measured by the number of hydrogen atoms it can displace or
combine with.

## Page 178

**Sinaloa**

see TFv1 p 208 - Cenobio...Felipe... – real members of Sinaloa Cartel. TFv2 p 199 “When will you go down again? Your old Traite (cow?) and your crew (plebada – slang of the Sinaola state)?" TFv3 p 648 - El Chapo - Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera is a Mexican drug
lord who heads the Sinaloa Cartel, a criminal organization named after the
Mexican Pacific coast state of Sinaloa where it was formed

**Zeta**

Los Zetas (pronounced: [los
ˈsetas], Spanish for "The Zs") is a Mexican criminal syndicate.
Considered by the US government to be "the most technologically advanced,
sophisticated, efficient, violent, ruthless, and dangerous cartel operating in
Mexico" (Wikipedia)

**Gulf**

The Gulf Cartel is a criminal syndicate
and drug trafficking organization in Mexico, and perhaps one of the oldest
organized crime groups in the country (Wkipedia)

## Page 181

**Maxiley, Servando, Ravelo, Ismael, Freddie, Luna**

These names appear in the blood spurts in TFv3 pgs 440-449

## Readers Guide Questions

***One of the keywords for TFv4 is “cynegetics,” which means “hunting” or “chase.” Who hunts and is hunted in Hades? How has your understanding of the Caged Hunt sequences from the Previews changed now that they’ve been incorporated into Isandòrno’s narrative (pp. 182-184)?***
Lutéro Perez

A ruthless and ambitious gang member from East Los Angeles, California. Luther is determined to be on top, no matter what he has to do to get there. He has no family that we know of but he does have a loyal crew and nine very dangerous fighting dogs to back him up.

## Chapters

### Volume 1

* 02) Lupita’s
* 09) Blue Pencil
* 15) Dawgz
* 25) Walk

* 32) St. Hopi

### Volume 2

* 08) Frogtown
* 15) Pikachu
* 21) Better Forgotten
* 30) The Loyal Hawaiian

### Volume 3

* 07) Lives of Others
* 18) Nacho
* 30) Pomona

### Volume 4

* 05) The Range
* 21) Locochón
* 28) Domingo's Mother

## Relationships

### Friends

* Juarez
* Victor
* Tweetie
* Piña
TFv03 CH 01 wings (annotated)

Annotations for wings from Honeysuckle & Pain.

## Page 48

**Jonathan Lim**

actor, director and playwright from Singapore
– or maybe someone else (traveler?)

## Page 49

**6.13**

last time we saw him was 5.20

## Page 51

**kay tiam**

very quiet

## Page 54

**eye**
see no or-yee-or

be blind, ignorant or
clueless

**kong si mi**

say what?

## Page 56

**kuai kuai**

"well behaved" or "innocent"

**ladeeda**

la dee da?

**heng**

lucky

**boh lui**
liao

no money

**teh lum pah chi saht**

an expression of intense regret literally meaning "to commit
suicide by squeezing one's testicles."

## Page 57

**kia si lang**

scared to dead

**Smith Street**

a small street running through the
heart of the Chinatown district in Singapore

**goo chia sui**

in TFv1 pg 104 it's niu che shui, Chinatown

## Page 58

jingjing used to sleep with men for money, the same way like a character from
the movie “15”
mentioned in V2

**boh tah boh lum par**

Literally, Hokkien for"If it's
not dry,you've got no balls." A dare given to someone to drink up
something unpleasant

**hum sup loh**

dirty old man

**pau ka liau**

Undertake the whole thing; do everything

**bag**

slang: have sex with

**corright**

correct, right

**pattern tzuay kuay badminton**

Literally:
more patterns than badminton. Phrase describing someone as extraordinarily
complicated, or even devious

## Page 60

**03-03**

room number. in Vol 2, jingjing
started in 02-02

**lao hiao**

dirty old man

**Si beh ah kah liao**

very good friends

**ak**

?, maybe A.K. - acronym for Ah Kua or Ah
Qua, the Hokkien word for transvestite

**suka-suka**

happiness, pleasure,
delight

## Pages 62-63

interesting placement of the
fractals

## Page 68

**relac one corner**

chillout, relax

**si beh sala**

very wrong

**Kuching**

capital and the most populous city
in the state of Sarawak in Malaysia

## Page 69

**alamak**

Mother of God

**ang mor gao**

red haired monkey, a racial term for
white people

## Page 70

**chio kao peng**

to laugh until one falls down

## Page 72

**cabut lari**

escape, run

**siao liao**

already gone crazy

**gostan**

go astern, turn around

**boh tai ji**

no problem

**changi**

Changi Prison

**si peh kwee**

very low on spirit, morale, embarrased

**goondu**

stupid

## Page 74

**cha si nang**

literally means "disturb the
dead", used when someone is making so much noise he/she can almost wake
dead people up or can almost make people dead with the noise

**tarik**

pouring

## Page 78

**si beh**

very
TFv02 CH 17 Eldon Avantine (annotated)

Annotations for Eldon Avantine from Into the Forest.

## Page 406

**James Hillman**

was an American psychologist. He studied at, and then guided studies for, the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. He founded a movement toward archetypal psychology (Wikipedia) The origin of the quote is unknown

## Page 408

**Steve Miller**

an American guitarist and singer-songwriter who began his career in blues and blues rock
 and evolved to a more pop-oriented sound which, from the mid-1970s
through the early 1980s, resulted in a series of highly popular singles and albums (Wikipedia)

## Page 413

**Kirsty Hume**

model

## Page 422

Astair uses tai chi to calm herself and
concentrate. She uses the techique to redirect Eldon’s verbal assault

## Page 424

**pomaceous**

 Of, relating to, bearing, or characteristic of pomes, especially apples

## Page 425

**adumbration**

 to produce a faint image or resemblance of

**alterity**

 otherness

## Page 426

**self becoming familiar but only in the company of the tacit**

 Is Astair's work about how people create their own identity by projecting themselves into the imagined character of God?

## Page 427

**Gandhi**

 his sentence was mentioned, but not uttered, in Vol 1
Eldon Avantine (Chapter)

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"Eldon Avantine" is the eighteenth chapter of Into the Forest. It is the third chapter to be narrated by Astair Ibrahim.

## Summary

The chapter opens up on May 18, 2014 at 05:07:08 in Los Angeles, California. Astair woke up early and is driving through the city. Her appointment with her new advisor, Eldon Avantine, is not until 11am. Before she left the house, she noticed Xanther had found her tic-tac-toe sheet and added comments to it. During the drive, she spots a wandering coyote. A cat is in its mouth.

Around 7am, Astair reaches a place in Santa Barbara where she drinks coffee and eats a croissant. A man approaches the table she sits at and attempts to flirt with her. Astair does not mind but also does not allow the conversation to go any further. Her next destination is a nearby bookstore. She goes in wanting to buy a book about coyotes but instead ends up buying one about cats. Once she exits the bookstore, she goes to the beach and takes a walk along the shore. She practices Tai Chi for the next hour. She receives a phone call from Eldon. He reschedules the appointment to 2:30pm and at an off-campus location.

Astair decides to visit her college, Oceanica, anyway. She wanders around the campus and decides to visit the bookstore. She asks if there are any books about coyotes but, again, ends up buying another book about cats. Astair then leaves the campus and goes to the place Eldon told her to meet him at. She hands Eldon her thesis and he spends some time reading and analyzing it. He does not like her paper at all. He is unsure of how Llewyn Fabler could have given it a good grade. He goes over each section of the paper with Astair and explains why he does not like it. During this, she also begins to wonder why Llewyn told her it was good. She wonders why Anwar told her it was good.

Astair asks Eldon if there is any way for her to rework the paper in time and have it regraded. Eldon tells her it will need to be started over, almost completely from scratch. Astair asks if she could have her new paper focus on a pet and the psychological effects it can have on a family. She wants to write her new paper on dogs, specifically. Eldon likes the idea and asks why she chose this subject. When Astair starts talking about Xanther's cat, he becomes further intrigued. He tells Astair not to write about dogs, but instead to write about Xanther's cat. The due date for the new paper will be in mid-September.

The chapter ends on May 18, 2014 at 15:09:51.
On behalf of life

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"On behalf of life" is the fourteenth chapter of Honeysuckle & Pain. It is the second chapter to be narrated by Shnorhk Zildjian.

## Summary

The chapter begins on Friday, July 11, 2014 at 21:21:22 in Los Angeles, CA.

\*\*\*SUMMARY PENDING / UNDER CONSTRUCTION\*\*\*

The chapter ends on Sunday, July 13, 2014 at 00:31:04.
TFv03 CH 15 MI (annotated)

Annotations for MI from Honeysuckle & Pain.

## Page 373

**Ana Castillo**

 Mexican-American Chicana novelist, poet, short story writer, essayist, editor, playwright, translator;

“I ask the impossible: love me forever.

Love me when all desire is gone.

Love me with the single mindedness of a monk.

When the world in its entirety,

and all that you hold sacred advise you

against it: love me still more.

When rage fills you and has no name: love me.

When each step from your door to our job tires you--

love me; and from job to home again, love me, love me.

Love me when you're bored--

when every woman you see is more beautiful than the last,

or more pathetic, love me as you always have:

not as admirer or judge, but with

the compassion you save for yourself

in your solitude.

Love me as you relish your loneliness,

the anticipation of your death,

mysteries of the flesh, as it tears and mends.

Love me as your most treasured childhood memory--

and if there is none to recall--

imagine one, place me there with you.

Love me withered as you loved me new.

Love me as if I were forever--

and I, will make the impossible

a simple act,

by loving you, loving you as I do”

― Ana Castillo, I Ask
the Impossible

## Page 379

**Pierre**

stone

## Page 383

**All went home**

is this about immigration?

**Encoding**

 communication with ants through action

## Page 384

**encoding**

story of opera encoded to musical

## Page 385

**Mascara**

see also TFv2 769

## Page 386

**the path 2009**

about pale girl in forrest

**chia seeds**

mexican seed

## Page 387

**school’s out**

see also TFv2 769

## Page 388

**Astair stops laughing**

because she remembers the drug
connection with X

**Why suddenly these intertextual refferences?**

Maybe to read
V2 again

## Page 390

**MS**

Mara Salvatrucha – gang – see also TFv1 53

## Page 392

**uzhe**

usual

## Page 395

**Six Flags**

firm that manages Magic Mountain

## Page 399

**Charan Singh**

Prime Minister of the Republic of
India, serving from 1979 to 1980.
TFv02 CH 25 A Picnic (annotated)

Annotations for A Picnic from Into the Forest.

## Page 641

**Cezar Miguel Orozco Hernandez**

footbal star

## Page 646

**tartars**

 steak tartare, cream of tartar is a by-product of
winemaking, i tis derived from refined tartaric acid, which forms on the
 inside of wine

## Page 665

**Let's eat**

echoes the drowning of Hopi, cat and the spilling of boiling oil on young Johnny Truant in House of Leaves
TFv01 CH 17 Is little irrelevant (annotated)

Annotations for Is little irrelevant, the seventeenth chapter of One Rainy Day In May.

## Page 398

**Hovhannes Tumanyan**

 was an Armenian writer and public activist. He is considered to be the national poet of Armenia

**Yeghishe Charents**

was an Armenian poet, writer and public activist

**Khachatur Abovian**

was an Armenian writer and national public figure
of the early 19th century who mysteriously vanished in 1848 and
eventually presumed dead

## Page 400

**Khash**

Kale Pache is a dish of boiled cow's head (and sometimes
 the feet). It is a traditional dish in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and
Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, and Turkey. Formerly a
nutritious winter food, it is now considered a delicacy, and is enjoyed
as a festive winter meal, usually by a company of women and men who sit
around in a table, early in the morning

**Mount Aragats**

is a large stratovolcano in northwest Armenia about 40
km northwest of the capital city of Yerevan. It is the highest point in
Armenia

## Page 402

**Medz Yeghern**

Armenian genocide

## Page 405

**Hovik Garibyan**

Buford Furrow's driver: The 1999 Los Angeles
Jewish Community Center shooting occurred on August 10, 1999, at around
10:50 a.m. local time, when white supremacist Buford O. Furrow, Jr.
walked into the lobby of the North Valley Jewish Community Center in
Granada Hills and opened fire with a semiautomatic weapon, firing 70
shots into the complex. The gunfire wounded five people: three children,
 a teenage counselor, and an office worker. Shortly thereafter, Furrow
murdered a mail carrier, fled the state, and finally surrendered to
authorities

## Page 408

**Talin**

a town in the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. The 7th-century Cathedral of Talin is located in the town

**Zangezur**

The Zangezur Mountains (historically known as Syuniq
Mountains) comprise a mountain range that defines the border between
Armenia's southern province of Syunik and Azerbaijan's Nakhichevan
Autonomous Republic

**Zurnas**

wind instrument played in central Eurasia

**ishkhan**

sevan trout

**churchkhelas**

Churchkhela is a traditional sausage-shaped candy originating from Georgia

## Page 415

**now, here**

Only Revolutions reference?

## Page 417

**alway armenian with you**

always english with you – 397

**Նա ուժեղ լույս է: Բոլորս բախտավոր կլինենք որ նման լույս ունենանք**

She is a strong light: We are all fortunate to have such a light.

**Գեղեցկությունա թող փայլի**

Let beauty shine

## Reader's Guide Questions:

***14. In the chapter “Is little irrelevant,” we learn from Mnatsagan that Shnorhk no longer speaks Armenian (p. 397) or plays Armenian music, although he feels very strongly that evidence of the Armenian Genocide should be preserved. Why do you think that is so? Do you have any guesses about the “first” thing Mnatsagan misses about Shnorhk?'***
"Yeah man. Something died."

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"Yeah man. Something died." is the tenth chapter of One Rainy Day in May. It is the first chapter to be narrated by Shnorhk Zildjian.

### Chapter Quote

"Remember in L.A.: Hope's a dead-end street." - Tony Nersesian

### Summary

The chapter opens up on May 10, 2014 at 11:11:12 in Los Angeles, California. Shnorhk, a taxi driver, is currently in court for allegedly running a red light and crashing into a police officer. Shnorhk claims to be innocent but nobody believes him. He is waiting for his witness, Dwight Plaguer, to arrive to defend him. The officer in question, Grady Vennerød, insists Shnorhk is guilty. Shnorhk tries to defend himself by suggesting Vennerød was actually the one who ran the red light and crashed into him.

Shnorhk has Dwight's phone number written on his palm in sharpie, despite his wife Patil and her friend Zanazan both warning him it would be a bad idea to save the number that way. They were right, as the number had faded, but luckily Shnorhk memorized the phone number. Shnorhk exits the courtroom and walks into the hallway so he can call Dwight. When Dwight answers the phone, he tells Shnorhk that he will not be able to make it to the courthouse. He comes up with a fake excuse that Shnorhk is able to see through, but still Dwight says he will not be coming.

After Dwight hangs up the phone, Shnorhk finds himself fighting back tears and coughing violently in the hallway. When his lawyer approaches him, he urges Shnorhk to tell the truth. Shnorhk continues to insist that he is already telling the truth and that he would like to counter-sue Vennerød. His lawyer still does not believe him. When Shnorhk exits the courthouse, he begins coughing again. His lawyer advises him to see a doctor.

The chapter ends on May 10, 2014 at 12:07:28.
TFv01 CH 18 View of the Sea (annotated)

Annotations for View of the Sea, the eighteenth chapter of One Rainy Day In May.

## Page 419

**Let sleeping dogs lie**

Don't talk about things which have caused problems in the past, or to not try to change a situation because you might cause problems

## Page 420

**Clive Buckle**

Freeman in a short movie The Girl Is Mime

**Elliot Gould - The Long Goodbye**

## Page 425

**Post & Beam**

He was going to eat there, see 161

**Carson**

Ikea is there

**his wet socks**

Ozgur's; on p.166 he mentioned being soaked through

## Page 428

**SID**

Scientific Investigation Division

## Page 429

**KTLA**

Sounds almost the same like the oft-repeated "katla". Television stations that exists in real life.

## Page 430

**skunk**

As a symbol: pacifist, independent, awareness, effectiveness, good judgement, protection, introspection, patience, silence, peace. Those with the skunk as their animal totem are naturally buoyant. They go through life with a calm assurance, and exude a peaceful energy that is extremely attractive to others

## Page 432

**Hanging a tree with rocks**

?

## Pages 434 – 435 ENTR’ACTE Three - rawrgrl

For more about Entr'actes, see link

**Blue elipses**

Contain haikus. One of them - "petals mock by count..." is more or less same as the reversed Hebrew text in Entr'acte two - Asters.

**laft at u**

Laughed at you

**thot**

Thought

**flhours**

Flowers

**naco**

Person of Indianorigin, rude, ignorant or stupid person

**naptacular**

Word describing a particularly good, albeit short, period of sleep

**tecata**

Female junkie or drug dealer
TFv05 CH 09 bad math (annotated)

Annotations for bad math]} of Redwood.

## Page 175

**quote**

from the opening: Hello, friend. Hello, friend? That's lame.
Maybe I should give you a name. But that's a slippery slope. You're only in my
head. We have to remember that.

Mr. Robot is a TV show about Elliot, a young programmer
working as a cyber-security engineer by day, and a vigilante hacker by night.

## Page 192

**"راحلتنا الصغير"**

Our little journey (?)
**"الرحله دي فوق، الرحله دي بتاعتي."**

The journey is over. The journey is mine. (?)
**"الرجوك ارزقني القوة والأيمان لأتحمّل ما هو خيرٌ لي"**

Please grant me the strength and faith to endure what is
good for me.

## Page 193

**"يا ابني تخجلش من دموعك. أوعي الا قالوه ابوك : أنا**
باعتقد في الملائكه. أنا اومن ان الاراده الكويسه للميت بترجع."

“My son, you are ashamed of your tears. I know only
that your father said, I believe in angels, I believe that the will of the dead
will return.”

. see TFv5 p. 436
TFv02 CH 10 Clinic (annotated)

Annotations for Clinic from Into the Forest.

## Page 248

**Ikram Sevim**

from New Yorker article about the Armenian Genocide by Raffi Khatchadourian:

Sarafian didn’t know the way, but
at a courthouse we found someone who could guide us: İkram Sevim, a law clerk,
tall and thin, in a checkered blazer. As we drove past a village built on an
Armenian graveyard, Sevim spoke of 1915: “The Armenians taken away were saying,
‘We have animals up on the mountain, and if you don’t milk them then the
animals will suffer.’ We didn’t say anything. They were looking after their
animals, and we were not looking after them.” (New Yorker)

## Page 249

**Իրականությունը ձեռքիցտ տվել ես**

“have you done it?”

**Այս աննպատակ երդումը որ միայն անգլերեն խոսես հիմա հավատում եմ պատճառը** **այն է որ քո անգլերենը անչափ տկար է որ քեզ դարձրել է անպատասխանատու քո**
խոսքերով: եվ, մի գուցե, քո մտքերով

“I think this pointless oath that you only speak English now is causing
you to be weak and irresponsible with your words. And maybe your
thoughts too.”

**Նենց հիջի. խոստումը խոստում է: Լեզվով կամ առանց**

“Don’t let me down. A promise is a promise, in any language”

**...no need for corpse, when life itself is gray thing.**

Gray is Oz' page tip colour, and Shnorkh's own "stripe" (line next to his page tip) colour. Oz also found corpses in Vol. 01.

## Page 252

**Փողըն ունենք: Գիտես փողը Փողըն մի քանի նոր մեքենաների համար:**

“We have money. You know we have money for a few new cars.”

## Page 254

**shortest way is slowest**

In House of Leaves, Holloway is trying to go through the labyrinth too fast, making him go insane. It reflects the pace of the reader

## Page 255

**all ways**

Only Revolutions refference

## Page 257

**Baford Furrow**

shooter in LA Jewish Community Center. See also page 405 from Vol 01

**Gasparyan**

Armenian musician

## Page 259

**Ոճրագործ**

Felon / Villain
TFv01 CH 16 Prey (annotated)

Annotations for Prey, the sixteenth chapter of One Rainy Day In May.

## Page 374

**A spoon crossed with a fork is a spork.**

From the webcomic xkcd; full comic: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/forks\_and\_spoons.png

## Page 375

**Gil Elbaz**

Gil Elbaz is an American entrepreneur, investor, and
philanthropist best known for co-founding, along with Adam Weissman,
Applied Semantics (ASI)

## Page 378

**quenya**

Quenya is a fictional language devised by J. R. R.
Tolkien, and used by the Elves in his fictional universe that is
commonly known as Middle-earth;
Ithkuil is a constructed language created by John Quijada,[1] designed
to express deeper levels of human cognition briefly yet overtly and
clearly, particularly with regard to human categorization

**MOOWK**

Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom. Also MOO (*MUD, object-oriented*) is a text-based online virtual reality system to which multiple users (players) are connected at the same time (Wikipedia) and an onomatopoeic word for the sound made by cattle

## Page 379

**most dangerous mouse**

Merlin the magic mouse

## Page 381

**Quraysh**

a powerful merchant tribe that controlled Mecca and
its Ka'aba and that according to tradition descended from Ishmael. … The
 Muslim army entered and occupied Mecca in the year 630 CE. In 628 the
Meccan tribe of Quraish and the Muslim community in Medina signed a
truce called the Treaty of Hudaybiyya. Despite improved relations
between Mecca and Medina after the signing of the Treaty of Hudaybiyya, a
 10 year peace was to be broken by Quraish who, with their allies, the
tribe of Bakr, attacked the tribe of Khuza'ah who were allies of the
Muslims. However, Muhammad considered the treaty broken. Muhammad acted
generously to the Meccans, demanding only that the pagan idols around
the Kaaba be destroyed.

## Page 383

**Macclenny**

a city in Baker County, Florida

## Page 384

**Stellar Wind**

the code name of information collected under the
 President's Surveillance Program (PSP). The National Security Agency
(NSA) program was approved by President George W. Bush shortly after the
 September 11 2001 attacks and was revealed by Thomas Tamm to The New
York Times in 2008

**Paroxetine**

an antidepressant drug

## Page 385

**Hees and Boney**

Bees and Honey

**Valentino Braitenberg**

a neuroscientist and cyberneticist. His
book Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology became famous in
Robotics and among Psychologists, in which he described how hypothetical
 analog vehicles (a combination of sensors, actuators and their
interconnections), though simple in design, can exhibit behaviors akin
to aggression, love, foresight, and optimism. These have come to be
known as Braitenberg vehicles. His pioneering scientific work was
concerned with the relation between structures and functions of the
brain

## Page 387

**zaibatsu**

wealthy clique, a Japanese term referring to
industrial and financial business conglomerates in the Empire of Japan

**MBA**

 Master of Business Administration
"Senex in Venice"

Ends
 Previous chapter

"Senex in Venice" is the twenty-seventh chapter of One Rainy Day in May.

### Summary

This is a short section of only two pages. It is presented in a comic book style, split up into several panels. The segment opens up on May 11, 2014 at 01:47:10 in Venice, Italy. The Senex is shown walking the Venetian streets. He says he is "a man of taste, seasoned by taste." He is an adventurous person who desires to try as many new things as possible. As he continues talking, he explains that "such adventures keep one who is perpetually young... feeling perpetually young."

The section ends on May 11, 2014 at 01:47:43.
TFv02 CH 04 Planski (annotated)

Annotations for Planski from Into the Forest.

## Page 127

**Sait Faik Abasıyanık**

was one of the greatest Turkish writers of
short stories and poetry and considered an important literary figure of
the 1940s

**SQUIRL**

real spot on N Virgil Avenue

## Page 128

**texts from university**

from Elaine

**REDCAT**

theatre in Los Angeles, and also, you know, color and animal

## Page 129

**Cally**

Xanther's favorite character from Battlestar Galactica. Did anyone notice the abundance of names and words starting with ca- or ka-? **Ca**s, **ka**tla, **Ca**lly, **ca**t, **Ca**taplist, takes place in **Ca**lifornia, **ca**b driver as a main character... A minor character, chau from void deck, gets his name changed in Volumes 2 and 3 to **ca**hu. Xanther's school - Thomas Starr King - is changed to Thomas Star **Ka**ne. It's like the mysterious force that leads all living (and unliving) creatures - Ka from Dark Tower series
 - is slowly changing the universe. A group of people summoned by ka is
ka-tet. It also means family. Were the 9 characters that heard the cat's
 cry summoned by ka? Are they going to form a ka-tet? I think the answer
 is yes

**Elevator Repair Service**

a theater group based in New York City

## Page 130

**Tums**

antacid, provides relief from acid indigestion,
heartburn, and indigestion ("sour stomach") and is considered a calcium
supplement;

**Independence cabs**

Shnorhk works there

**Code-switching**

the practice of moving between variations of languages in different contexts

## Page 131

**Shannon Plainer Yarlovsky**

Planski - Ozgur mentioned the meeting in Vol 1. Her initials spell "SPY"... foreshadowing?

**"So sorry, Oz"**

everyone is late in this chapter, why?

## Page 136

**Heinz**

Heinz launched special 50 Shades of Grey cans of beans

**What does Elaine say?**

mistake?, unfinished speech marks

**one-eighty-seven**

the crime of murder

**Rampart**

LAPD Rampart Division

## Page 137

**Boyle Heights**

is a working-class, predominantly Mexican
American, youthful neighborhood of almost 100,000 residents east of
Downtown Los Angeles

## Page 138

**Florian**

Serbulo – investigating the West Paseo del Mar triple murder

**recollection**

there were also FBI agents

**agent Trauma**

Tramilli, see V1 pg 429

## Page 140

**homegrown set**

set - Group of people, usually gang affiliated, for a particular neighborhood

## Page 142

**Synsnap-27**

?, synaps?, sins naps?
TFv04 CH 22 -Of course (annotated)

Annotations for -Of course of Hades.

## Pages 628-637

Notice the breadcrumbs change. Jesse Simms figured out that Isandòrno's crumbs (on the right page) when they change are EXACTLY the
same as the top right of Cas’ crumbs in TF4. The crumbs on the Isandòrno’s left page are the same as the right just horizontally and vertically rotated

## Page 629

**UTI**

urinary tract infection

## Page 642

**Cerro de la Estrella**

mountain which is located entirely within
eastern Mexico City, in the borough of Iztapalapa

**Museo del fuego nuevo**

New Fire Museum, archeological

## Page 643

**Te quise...**

I loved you more than anyone else you son of a bitch

## Page 646

**Juan**

Juan Ernesto Izquierdo, works for the Mayor at the Ranch
TFv03 CH 02 Xiomara (annotated)

Annotations for Xiomara from Honeysuckle & Pain.

## Page 80

**Hiroshi Sakurazaka**

 All You Need Is Kill – japan
light novel. Edge of Tomorrow is an movie adaptation of the novel. The movie
was mentioned in Vol 2 in
chapter „Starving“

## Page 81

**ceviche**

seafood dish

## Page 89

smoke, triangles, time, hourglass - a symbol for waiting similar to three dots,  number 3, 6/9

## Page 91

**Pedialyte**

helps prevent dehydration
and replace nutrients and electrolytes lost through vomiting and diarrhea in
adults, children & infants

**psychosomatic**

involving mind and
body, body ache caused by mind

## Page 96

**Marco Polo**

a children's game played in swimming pools

**Magic Mountain**

theme park located in the Valencia neighborhood
of Santa Clarita, California, north of Los Angeles

**tragus**

a small pointed eminence of the external ear, situated in front of the concha, and projecting backward over the meatus (Wikipedia)

## Page 98

**ethosuximide etc**

various anti-epilepsy drugs

## Page 99

**she’s**
not hearing any of this

similar halucination like the ones jingjing
had in previous chapter... are they seeing and hearing glimpses of other
universes?

**432 days**

4+3+2=9

**Ratatoskr**

In Norse mythology, Ratatoskr (Old Norse,
generally considered to mean "drill-tooth" or "bore-tooth")
is a squirrel who runs up and down the world tree Yggdrasil to carry messages
between the Veðrfölnir (a hawk sitting between the eyes of an unnamed eagle),
perched atop Yggdrasil, and the wyrm Níðhöggr (dragon who gnaws at a root of
the world tree, Yggdrasil), who dwells beneath one of the three roots of the tree

## Page 100

**forever gone (. . .)**

suggesting it’s not gone?

## Page 108

**Tlaquepaque**

city in Jalisco

**staph**

staphylococcus - a bacterium of a genus that
includes many pathogenic kinds that cause pus formation, especially in the skin
and mucous membranes
Cannibal stones

Ends
 Previous chapter

"cannibal stones" is the seventeenth chapter of Honeysuckle & Pain. It is the second chapter to be narrated by Jingjing.

## Chapter Quote

"I bet you didn't know that I was dangerous." - Big Data

## Summary

The chapter begins on Friday, July 18, 2014 at 13:22:30 in Singapore.

\*\*\*SUMMARY PENDING / UNDER CONSTRUCTION\*\*\*

The chapter ends on Saturday, July 19, 2014 at 00:32:40.
TFv03 CH 25 One Lab (annotated)

Annotations for One Lab from Honeysuckle & Pain.

## Page 643

**Zacatecas**

Mexican state, see 615 – Xiomara sounds like Zacatecas poet

## Page 648

**Puerto de Hierro**

Puerta de Hierro, ("Iron
Gate" in English) is a neighborhood in Zapopan, Mexico, as part of the
metropolitan area of Guadalajara

**El Chapo**

Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera is a Mexican drug
lord who heads the Sinaloa Cartel, a criminal organization named after the
Mexican Pacific coast state of Sinaloa where it was formed. Known as "El Chapo
Guzmán" ("Shorty Guzmán") for his 168 cm stature, he
became Mexico's top drug kingpin in 2003 after the arrest of his rival Osiel
Cárdenas of the Gulf Cartel, and is considered the "most powerful drug
trafficker in the world" by the United States Department of the Treasury.

**La Maceta**

Loteria: 52 La maceta ("the
flowerpot")

*El que nace pa'maceta, no sale del corredor.*

He who is born to be a flowerpot, does not go beyond the
hallway.

## Page 649

**el topo**

the mole – propably another nickname for
Guzmán, because he is held in Altiplano.

## Page 650

**cartels**

all real

**puto peña nieto**

Enrique Peña Nieto is the 57th President
of Mexico.

## Page 652

**Cutberto**

Cutberto Bruno Villegas – Mayor’s
accountant, the Mayor killed him and his child.

## Page 660

**Juan**

Juan Ernesto Izquierdo – Works for the Mayor at
the Ranch
TFv04 CH 15 Ammonia (annotated)

Annotations for Ammonia of Hades.

## Page 403

**quote**

from Kafka’s short story The Hunter Gracchus. The story presents a boat
carrying the long-dead Hunter Gracchus as it arrives at a port. The mayor of
Riva enters the boat and inside he meets Gracchus, who gives him an account of
his death while hunting, and explains that he is destined to wander aimlessly
and eternally over the seas.

full quote

"And you have no part in the other world?" asked the Burgomaster,
knitting his brow.

"I am forever." replied the Hunter, "on the
great stair that leads up to it. On that infinitely wide and spacious stair I
clamber about, sometimes up, sometimes down, sometimes on the right, sometimes
on the left, always in motion. The Hunter has been turned into a butterfly. Do
not laugh."

## Page 404

**Universal CityWalk**

the entertainment and retail districts located adjacent to
the theme parks of Universal Parks & Resorts. Universal CityWalk Hollywood
is a three-block entertainment, dining, shopping promenade. It has more than 30
places to eat, a 19-screen movie theater featuring Imax, seven night spots,
indoor skydiving and more than 30 stores.

**spider**

Spider Queen from Hopi myth?

## Page 405

**Moon River**

from Breakfast at Tiffany’s

**Chief Anderton**

played by Tom Cruise

## Page 409

**Sobibor**

was a German extermination camp located on the outskirts of
the village of Sobibór, in occupied Poland, within the semi-colonial territory
of General Government, during World War II (Wikipedia)
Isa

Isa is a deluxe posable Our Generation Doll. Her release date is unknown.

## Appearance

* Skin: Light
* Face Mold:
* Eye Color: Brown
* Hair Style: Two low ponytails
* Hair Texture: Wavy
* Hair Color: Light Brown

## Book

Isa comes with the book *A Fair Share At The Diner*. Noa comes with the same book. The book is written by Erika Nadine White and illustrated by Geraldine Charette. The description of the book on the website is this:

"Isa and Noa have been best friends all their lives. They do everything together, from hanging out at the local diner to volunteering at the food bank. Everyone is in for a whole lot of fun when they decide to combine the two and throw an amazing fundraising party!"

## References

1. ↑ Our Generation Deluxe Doll Isa https://www.ourgeneration.com/shop/dolls/isa
2. ↑  Our Generation Deluxe Doll Isa Web Archive Version https://web.archive.org/web/20200815191648/https://www.ourgeneration.com/shop/dolls/isa
TFv02 CH 22 The Bath (annotated)

Annotations for The Bath from Into the Forest.

## Page 537

**Jim Sullivan**

the song is Roll Back The Time

## Page 539

**binary code**

translates as love lost loved lost
love loved love lost loved lost love loved love lost loved lost love loved

## Page 542

**tradecraft**

the techniques used in modern espionage and generally, the activity of intelligence

## Page 545

**A.E.C.**

Atomic Energy Commission

## Page 550

**Darby and Joan**

a proverbial phrase for a married couple content to share a quiet life of mutual devotion

**Turnbull & Asser 57th**

New York

## Page 552

**Paul Bowles**

an American expatriate composer, author, and
translator. He became associated with Tangier, Morocco, where he settled
 in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his life

**The Sheltering Sky**

a 1949 novel of post-colonial alienation and existential despair

## Page 554

**Mr G and Jellybean**

video

## Page 556

**Seminole**

Native American tribe originally from Florida

**Susan Faludi**

American humanist, journalist and author. She won a
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1991, for a report on the
leveraged buyout of Safeway Stores, Inc.

**Centerville**

a city in Montgomery and Greene counties in the U.S. state of Ohio

**Beavercreek**

 the largest city in Greene County, Ohio, United States, and the second largest suburb of Dayton behind Kettering