recursal/Fanatic-Fandom huggingface dataset:
TFv03 CH 21 Hyperion (annotated)

Annotations for Hyperion from Honeysuckle & Pain.

## Page 512

**X2**

 (formerly known as X) is a steel
roller coaster operating at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California.
It is the world's first 4th Dimension roller coaster

**ArcLight**

Cinema

## Page 513

**Fort Irwin National Training Center**

is
a major training area for the United States Military and is a census-designated
place located in the Mojave Desert in northern San Bernardino County,
California

## Page 514

**Rose Bowl**

is an outdoor athletic
stadium in Pasadena, California, just outside Los Angeles

**shock dosing**

The feeding of treatment to a
system all in one slug or dose rather than gradually (also called a slug
dosage). Shocking your Above Ground Pool water refers to adding large
quantities of chemicals (maybe 5-10 times the normal dose) in order to break
down any organic waste and contamination and re-establish a positive level of
sanitisation

**Archimedes screw**

also called the
Archimedean screw or screwpump, is a machine historically used for transferring
water from a low-lying body of water into irrigation ditches. Water is pumped
by turning a screw-shaped surface inside a pipe

**Ferric chloride**

When dissolved in water,
iron(III) chloride undergoes hydrolysis and gives off heat in an exothermic
reaction. The resulting brown, acidic, and corrosive solution is used as a
flocculant in sewage treatment and drinking water production

**thermoclines**

a steep temperature gradient
in a body of water such as a lake, marked by a layer above and below which the
water is at different temperatures

## Page 515

**digester**

a huge vessel where chemical
or biological reactions are carried out. These are used in different types of
process industries

## Page 516

**Headworks**

apparatus for controlling the flow
of water in a river or canal

## Page 532

**Basement Crawl**

a 2014 video game for
PlayStation 4, bomberman style

**1:52**

1+5+2=8

## Page 533

**BLTs**

BLT (Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato) is a
type of bacon sandwich

**2:24**

2+2+4 = 8

**John-117**

from the Halo game

## Page 538

**Lynx**

The Lynx, or GM6 as referred to
within the game files, is a high-power, bullpup sniper rifle that appears in
Call of Duty: Ghosts and Advanced Warfare.

## Page 540

**Weejun**

censored American from Caged
Hunt, good shot

## Page 544

**Edsel**

censored american from Caged
Hunt

## Page 545

**Lawler**

censored american from Caged
Hunt, lousy shot

So we know that whatever is in the fourth box
will kill everyone from Caged hunt and the time difference is 2 hours, so 3:14
is 5:14 in Mexico

## Page 549

**Luna**

probably one of the two Mexican children that beat the crates with bowling pins

## Page 550

**Riley**

Simon "Ghost" Riley
from CoD Ghosts

**Pink dress**

one of the Mexican children is
wearing pink dress, I guess this is Luna.

**Rictus**

a fixed grimace or grin
Isandòrno

A mysterious man working his way through Mexico. Little is known about Isandòrno other than he is a practitioner of superstition who is not superstitious. It is not known why he does this or when this started. He is currently being paid to deliver several crates to an employer.

## Chapters

### Volume 1

* 13) Veinte Pesos
* 26) The Fourth Crate

### Volume 2

* 06) Between Nowhere and Nowhere
* 17) The Mayor
* 27) A Picnic

### Volume 3

* 11) A Sleeping Warrior
* 27) One Lab

### Volume 4

* 08) Uneasy Magic
* 16) Cynthia
* 24) -Of course

### Volume 5

* 11) A Thing of God
* 21) The ROAR
* 29) Cold Figs and Milk
The Fourth Crate

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"The Fourth Crate" is the twenty-sixth chapter of One Rainy Day in May. It is the second and final chapter to be narrated by Isandòrno.

### Summary

The chapter opens up on May 10, 2014 at 18:38:12 in Veracruz, Mexico. Isandòrno is about to reach a place referred to as The Ranch. He knows who will be waiting for him there: an old man named Juan Ernesto Izquierdo, who always mocks him for "mistrusting the sea and for never crossing a border." Juan's wife Maria will also be there, along with their children Nastasia and Estella. The two children always refer to Isandòrno as "Tio" (Spanish for "Uncle") and he gives them hard candy when he sees them. There will be others there as well.

There should be three crates waiting at The Ranch. They were sent from Africa and had arrived earlier than expected. The first crate contains a small hyena. The second crate contains a baby elephant. The third crate contains a baby giraffe. Each of these animals are wounded and barely able to move. These wounds are possibly already infected as well. They are scheduled to be sent north somewhere but Isandòrno doubts they will survive the trip.

Before the animals are sent off, Isandòrno questions why there is a fourth crate when he was only expecting three. The driver who will be taking the animals says it costs less to bring too many rather than too few. Isandòrno does not approach the crate, but instead asks the driver what's inside. He checks the paperwork for the crates and sees that the three he was expecting are labeled as crates "W," "X," and "Y." The driver asks if he should take the fourth crate back and only ship off the three others. Isandòrno decides it would be better to see the animal before making that decision. He begins walking towards the fourth crate but stops himself before opening it. He is unsure of what to do.

The chapter ends on May 10, 2014 at 18:47:09.
Sew

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"Sew" is the thirteenth chapter of Honeysuckle & Pain. It is the second chapter to be narrated by Cas "The Wizard" Stern.

## Chapter Quote

"We do not walk alone, Great Being walks beside us." - Sevenka Qöyawayma

## Summary

The chapter begins on Thursday, July 10, 2014 at 18:14:16 on Georgia State Route 15.

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

The chapter ends on Friday, July 11, 2014 at 21:21:21 in Knoxville, TN.
Wings

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"wings" is the first chapter of Honeysuckle & Pain. It is the first chapter to be narrated by Jingjing.

## Chapter Quote

"The spirit said very simply that all the trees were already full." - Jonathan Lim

## Summary

The chapter begins on Friday, June 13, 2014 at 02:14:15 in Singapore. Jingjing, while in his flat, suddenly hears Tian Li shriek, "She's dying!" Tian Li has been doing this for the past few nights now. Jingjing has tried asking her about who "she" is. Tian Li responded once by saying she is referring to herself, but Jingjing seems dissatisfied with this answer.

Jingjing has managed to avoid smoking since last time. He assures to himself that nothing bad will happen to him for smoking pale blue. He also claims that he is not an addict, and only smokes for fun.

When dawn arrives, Jingjing finds Tian Li lying down again. She will not sit up and can barely speak a sentence without losing focus. Jingjing becomes frustrated and reminisces about when Tian Li was so well-known and respected, and when she had regular customers. She would almost always have her cat riding her shoulder. These days, they are struggling more and more to make money.

Later on, Jingjing pays 23 another visit. He wants to try a pink balloon but is still unable to afford one. 23 offers him another pale blue instead. Jingjing accepts the pale blue and he and 23 travel outside of 23's apartment to smoke the pale blue together. They go somewhere else where they are served tea. As Jingjing smokes, he spots Tian Li nearby. This causes him to panic, and when the person serving tea asks why he is panicking, he points to Tian Li. She and 23 do not see Tian Li and they laugh it off, so Jingjing calms back down. As he continues smoking, he realizes how happy he has become ever since he started again. He considers the disappearance of the cat to be a positive thing for him. He reaches for his deck of monster cards, draws three, and places them all face down. He returns two of them to the deck and finishes smoking from the pale blue balloon. He then flips over the remaining card. It is a Red Beard card.

Jingjing begins walking away to return home. He is still holding a glass pipe and a lighter. He is spotted by a police car, which causes him to panic and toss the pipe. The pipe shatters and Jingjing begins running from the police car. The car gives chase but after some time, Jingjing manages to evade them. When he returns home, he enters the void deck. It is empty. He gets into the elevator and rides it up to his floor. The hallway is also empty. As Jingjing approaches his flat, he stops when he hears voices. He is unable to tell exactly what the voices are saying, but he becomes paranoid over them. He worries that the police tracked him down. He also worries that the voices could be because Tian Li did die. The voices stop when he unlocks the door. Once he goes inside, he finds Tian Li standing excitedly. She tells Jingjing that they must leave for Los Angeles as soon as possible.

The chapter ends on Saturday, June 14, 2014 at 04:07:59.
Big Surprise

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"Big Surprise" is the fifth chapter of One Rainy Day in May. It is the first chapter to be narrated by Astair Ibrahim.

### Chapter Quote

"We're all they've got, Walt."

"That's not enough." - Moonrise Kingdom

### Summary

The chapter opens up on May 10, 2014 at 09:36:15 in Los Angeles, California. Astair is in her home with her twin daughters Shasti and Freya. The rain has caused holes to appear in the roof and they set pots and containers beneath the holes to catch the rainwater. Astair contemplates calling her landlord, Cyril Kosignski, to discuss the problem. She does not call, though, as she becomes distracted by her daughters.

Astair, while waiting for her friend Taymor to arrive, tells the twins to get ready so they can all drive somewhere. The house's landline, as well as both Anwar and Astair's cell phones, are still ringing nonstop due to the recent prank of Anwar's old friend Mefisto. She unplugs all of the cordless phones in the house except for the one in Anwar's office, which continues to ring as well.

As Astair sits on her bed and waits, she looks at the manila envelope next to her. She knows it contains the thesis she wrote for her college course but she does not want to open it and see her grade on it until later that night. She feels confident, though, as her advisor Llewyn Fabler has given her good feedback with the previous draft.

Soon after this, Taymor pulls up into the driveway. Shasti and Freya ask Astair about what the big surprise for Xanther is. She tells them that they are getting her a dog.

The chapter ends on May 10, 2014 at 09:51:09.
The Orb

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"The Orb" is the sixth chapter of One Rainy Day in May. It is the first chapter to be narrated by Catherine "Cas" Aa'ala Stern, also known as The Wizard.

### Summary

The chapter opens up on May 10, 2014 at 11:51:10 in Marfa, Texas. Cas and her husband Bobby are hiding out in an RV where they hope they will not be found. The two are in possession of a mysterious Orb. They do not fully understand how to use it or how it works but it seems to be able to show different moments throughout history. It may possibly be able to see different versions of those same events as well. Cas uses the Orb to view different events until Bobby approaches her and asks if she would like anything for lunch.

Cas seems to be depressed over a failed attempt at something that happened before the chapter began. When a police car drives past the trailer, she becomes anxious and paranoid until it is no longer in sight. She and Bobby begin discussing recent events. They have lost a great deal of what they worked for in the past because of someone who goes by the name Recluse. According to Cas, Recluse has managed to create a VEM Window Reduction which has caused their Distribution to self-replicate. It is unclear what this exactly means.

Cas asks Bobby about the locations of some of their other associates. These people go by the names Endoria, Artemis, Treebeard, Sorcerer, and Warlock. Bobby is unsure of where they are, though they are both relieved that their partner Deakin, aka Merlin, arrived. He checked into a hotel earlier in the morning and has invited the two for dinner. Bobby is always becomes slightly uncomfortable around Deakin because of a fling between him and Cas that occurred in the 70s, though he does his best to look past it now.

The two continue to discuss the recent events involving Recluse. Somehow, Recluse has managed to completely remove all existing information about the two of them as well as the information they wanted to make public off of the internet. Neither of them know how he could do this. They have spent the past three days searching for any remaining information but were unable to find anything. They hope that he has not been able to track their current location yet. Shortly after, Cas returns to the Orb. Bobby suggests that the Orb could be evil.

The chapter ends on May 10, 2014 at 12:04:07.
Power Draws a Crowd

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"Power Draws a Crowd" is the seventh chapter of One Rainy Day in May. It is the first chapter to be narrated by Özgür Yildirim.

### Chapter Quote

"Perhaps those that hear well will find something captured which escapes contemplation." - Bill Evans

### Summary

The chapter opens up on May 10, 2014 at 10:04:08 in Los Angeles, California. Oz is in a neighborhood outside of where he should be. When questioned about this by fellow officer Rodney Balascoe, he explains he is currently on his way to Santa Rosalia Drive to get something to eat. He invites Balascoe to join him but Balascoe refuses, saying he only eats what he brings from home because he fears getting shot if he eats in a public area. As the two of them talk, they are joined in by another officer named Nyra Carlton. All three of them discuss a recent case.

Oz thinks shortly about Elaine, the USC professor with whom he has an on-and-off relationship. He then gets to speak to an apprehended criminal. Oz is unable to stay for long because he is supposed to meet with someone elsewhere. He assists Balascoe with his current case by piecing together a few bits of information then proceeds to leave the area. As he leaves, he thinks about a time when Elaine asked him if he would ever leave the city.

The chapter ends on May 10, 2014 at 10:30:38.
TFv05 CH 28 (devastation's gaze) (annotated)

Annotations for (devastation's gaze) of Redwood.

**quote**

from The Coast of Utopia, a 2002 trilogy of plays: Voyage, Shipwreck, and Salvage,
written by Tom Stoppard with focus on the philosophical debates in
pre-revolution Russia
between 1833 and 1866

quote continues

...a
gigantic ginger cat, for example!

## Page 755

**Momus**

a Scottish songwriter, author, blogger and former journalist for Wired.

## Page 764

**"إن شاء الله"**

"god willing"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inshallah
TFv04 CH 29 Undaunted (annotated)

Annotations for Undaunted of Hades.

## Page 787

**Ammon Bundy**

an American car fleet manager who led armed militants in the
2016 occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. “Those who want to go
take hard stand, get in your trucks and follow me!” Ammon Bundy declared to
rally-goers at the conclusion of Saturday’s event, according to several people
who were in attendance. Not long afterward, the group had taken over the
federal wildlife preserve. (link)

## Page 789

**Nathan Hale**

(June 6, 1755 – September 22, 1776) was an American soldier
and spy for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He
volunteered for an intelligence-gathering mission in New York City but was
captured by the British and executed. His last words before being hanged were
reported to be, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my
country." Hale has long been considered an American hero and, in 1985,
he was officially designated the state hero of Connecticut.

## Page 790

**passphrase**

It’s place of bears. Suggested by Cas on page 234.

**Plaintext:**

Mohonk Mountain House

1000 Mountain Rest Rd

New Paltz, NY 12561

41.768545, -74.155966

Courtesy of ellimist

Mohonk was originally Moggonck. This was possibly derived
from a Lenape word maxkwung which means "place of bears". Courtesy of
Phxphxphxphx.

## Page 791

**but never Athropos**

It was Atropos who chose the mechanism of death and ended
the life of mortals by cutting their thread with her "abhorred
shears." She worked along with her two sisters, Clotho, who spun the
thread, and Lachesis, who measured the length.

## Page 796

**Whim 'n Rhythm**

is Yale's elite a cappella group for women in the senior
class

**If you go down to Hammond**

The Roches - Hammond Song
Lupita's

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"Lupita's" is the second chapter of One Rainy Day in May. It is the first chapter to be narrated by Luther Perez.

### Chapter Quote

"This is not your country." - Luis J. Rodriguez

### Summary

The chapter opens up on May 10, 2014 at 08:19:16 in Los Angeles, California. Luther is standing out in the rain with a blanket over his head, and he seems to be waiting for someone. Already with him is Almoraz, a fellow member of the gang he is a part of. The two talk, and when Almoraz insults him, Luther head butts him in the nose. A younger man named Chitel is also there, and when Luther sees him with his phone out, he threatens Chitel about making sure he has no pictures of Luther saved on there. Seeing that whoever was supposed to show up still has not arrived, Luther and Almoraz go inside where Almoraz gets his nose checked out.

Luther begins talking to Lupita (whose real name is Paloma Cadenaza Carnamando), and she informs him of a job that needs to be taken care of. She wants Luther to assist Chitel and his crew with selling drugs in Glendale. Luther initially rejects this assignment, stating that he has other work to do, but Lupita talks him into doing it.

The chapter ends on May 10, 2014 at 08:43:58.
Volume 2: Into the Forest

*Into the Forest* is the second Volume of *The Familiar* by Mark Z. Danielewski. It was released on October 27th, 2015. The book follows the nine protagonists introduced in Volume 1 as they continue their various paths and storylines.

## Opening Quote

*It should break your heart to kill.*

*- Brian Turner*

## New This Season

* *Astral Omega: The Unwilling*
* *Petch*
* *Caged Hunt: Part Two*

## Ratings

* **F)**orest
* **S)**ex
* **H)**unger
* **C)**argo
* **V)**iolence

## Chapters

* Mother’s Day
* 078\*371\*636
* ‘Birds?’
* Planski
* be extraordinary
* Between Nowhere and Nowhere
* rawrgrl
* Frogtown
* (shed))
* Stones Upon His Eyes
* Clinic
* so it begins
* A Stranger
* Due Diligence
* Pikachu
* The Killing Machine
* The Mayor
* Eldon Avantine
* Warlock
* smoke
* Better Forgotten
* Memorial Weekend
* The Bath
* Hunger
* The Reunionist
* “Senex in Library”
* A Picnic
* “Left it in cab.”
* The Same Ghost
* The Loyal Hawaiian
* Starving
* My Love
TFv04 CH 14 Cynthia (annotated)

Annotations for Cynthia of Hades.

## Page 354

**World Cup**

from 12
June – 13 July 2014.

## Page 359

**strike by Giovani dos Santos**

Netherlands
Mexico 2-1 in
the knockout stage.

## Page 363

**Estadio Azteca**

is a football stadium located in the suburb of Santa Úrsula in Mexico City

## Page 374

**Morelos**

Mexican state

## Page 379

**Zenobia**

("one whose life derives from Zeus") was a
third-century queen of the Syria-based Palmyrene Empire. In 270, Zenobia
launched an invasion which brought most of the Roman East under her sway and
culminated with the annexation of Egypt. By mid-271 her realm extended from
Ancyra in the north to southern Egypt, although she remained nominally
subordinate to Rome. However, in reaction to Roman emperor Aurelian's campaign
in 272, Zenobia declared her son emperor and assumed the title of empress
(declaring Palmyra's secession from Rome). The Romans were victorious after
heavy fighting; the queen was besieged in her capital and captured by Aurelian,
who exiled her to Rome where she spent the remainder of her life.

**Colleen Marie Applegate**

known by her stage name Shauna Grant (May 30, 1963 – March
23, 1984), was an American nude model and pornographic performer. She ran away
from her small town in Minnesota and proceeded to appear in over 30
pornographic films, earning up to $100,000 in her two-year career. A drug
addict, Grant killed herself after the arrest of her partner in March, 1984

## Readers Guide Questions

***Why do you think Cynthia makes Isandòrno feel uneasy (p. 387)? Is it because he’s unable to read her as quickly as he can others? Or perhaps he sees something of himself in her?***
TFv04 CH 17 Marisol (annotated)

Annotations for Marisol of Hades.

## Page 463

**Marisol**

is a Spanish name, a shortened form of *María de la Soledad* ("Mary of [the] Solitude"), a title given to the Virgin Mary

**poem**

Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-Odd

The wheeling of the stars is not infinite

And the tiger is one of the forms that return,

But we, remote from chance of hazard,

Believed we were exiled in a time outworn,

Time when nothing can happen.

The universe, the tragic universe, was not here

And maybe should be looked for somewhere else;

I hatched a humble mythology of fencing

walls and knives

And Ricardo thought of his drovers.

We did not know that time to come held a lightning bolt;

We did not forsee the shame, the fire, and the fearful

night of the Alliance;

Nothing told us that Argentine history would be thrust

out to walk the streets,

History, indignation, love,

The multitudes like the sea, the name of Córdoba,

The flavor of the real and the incredible, the

horror and the glory.

[From *Dreamtigers*, by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Harold Morland]

Borges was already seeing a connection between his
literary projects of the 1920s and the „fascist“ government of the 1940 in Argentina. The poem
contrasts his innocence as a young artist with the political events of
decades later (Perón coming to power and later being overthrown by a
„revolution“ that started in a city of Cordoba). Here too his desire to
create a „mythology“ for Buenos Aires based on popular culture is presented and
somehow linked to the emergence of the totalitarioan regimes. (from *Borges and the Politics of Form* by Jose Eduardo Gonzalez)

## Page 466

**censored**

maybe 1435 Logan St.? There is a school called Gabriella Charter

## Page 470

**circle around a stone**

the „company“ that produced Familiar (and House of Leaves)
TFv04 CH 20 black dog (annotated)

Annotations for black dog of Hades.

## Page 573

**Elohim**

electro-pop artist from Los Angeles. Quote is
from song Xanax.

*I don't*
wanna be dependent

*On synthetic medicine*

*That keeps me calm enough to sleep*

It’s also a Hebrew word for "gods" and a name of the god of Israel in the Hebrew Bible

## Page 574

**tsao like siao**

run like crazy

**tor hwee**

"vomit blood", an expression for extreme
difficulty, intense suffering, or great irritation

## Page 575

**kiu kiu kio**

make a lot of noise

**kio tio**

"to have grabbed it", means stumbling upon good
fortune. Here meaning gave that up

**tapi**

but

## Page 576

**boh pian**

can’t do

**tapi**

but

## Page 577

**samseng**

gangster

**hor**

"Ohhhhh".
Usually used when someone give you some revelation, and it's just dawning on
you

**ah beng**

An unsophisticated Chinese boy

**kia si lang ah seng**

to scare anybody

**swee swee boh kay chwee**

"beautiful and not diluted with water" – something
is perfect

## Page 578

**lan lan**

penis penis, means have no other choice

## Page 579

**buay tzai**

not calm, unsteady

**buay song**

“not satisfied”.
Usually used in a vaguely belligerent tone.

## Page 580

**chinese**

"He is killing her!" Same as pg. 302.

## Page 581

**chinese**

"They?" "The cat?" Same as pg. 303.

## Page 582

**buay kum guan**

"unwilling"
or "reluctant".

**chinese**

Jing, please let go, I fainted on purpose.
?. Not much time, I will be difficult, may need help and things.

**sombong**

proud

**ya ya**

yes yes

**sibeh**

very

**panadol**

acetaminophen/pain reliever brand

## Page 583

**koyok**

quack medicine

**chiak**

eat

## Page 584

**heck care**

don’t care

## Page 585

**chinese**

This person lost. See also 550-551

**toh osso lah**

fail also, lah

## Page 586

**lui**

money

## Page 587

**siao liao**

already gone crazy

**tau hong**

to go mad (have „air in the head“)

**kuat**

brave

**tua tao**

big head, gang leader

**tua teow**

To encounter great
trouble.

## Page 590

**baliking**

return home

**boleh**

can, possible

**kakilang**

buddies or close
companions („my own legs“)

**chao**

smelly

**gong gong**

stupid, foolish

**two colors not there blur his then eyes**

entoptic

**jaga**

awake, alert

**si beh**

very

**red passport**

singaporean

## Page 591

**blue one**

american

**welcome back**

see pg 293

## Page 592

**diam**

quiet

## Page 595

**chee-seen**

chee sin – crazy

**siao ting tong**

dumbbell,
crazy person
Litter

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"Litter" is the twenty-first chapter of One Rainy Day in May. It is the fourth chapter to be narrated by Xanther Ibrahim.

### Chapter Quote

"Who did you meet, my darling young one?" - Bob Dylan

### Summary

The chapter opens up on May 10, 2014 at 15:05:40 in Los Angeles, California. Xanther and Anwar are driving over to the adoption center so they can pick up the dog. Anwar hands her his phone and asks her to call the center, Galvadyne, Inc. and let them know they are on their way. She calls them and learns that the dog's name is SugarLady, which is a name Xanther detests. Anwar tells her that they can change the name.

Xanther still can't forget about the photo she saw that Dendish edited. Her friends seem not to be concerned with it. The school year will be over soon and Dendish is in eighth grade, so they will not have to deal with him anymore. She also keeps thinking about the discussion between Talbot and Glasgow regarding Realic. The word "house" has especially caught her attention. Her thoughts then shifted to Paradise Open and the words Anwar told her earlier, about being tracked by an unseen predator. Her thoughts shift again, but this time to Dov. Dov always had a fondness for dogs. If he were still alive, she knows he would have wanted to know all about the Akita they are getting.

Suddenly, Xanther begins to hear a strange sound coming from far away. Anwar asks her if she will read the road sign in front of them for him but she is too distracted by the sound. She eventually starts asking more questions about how game engines work. Anwar doesn't answer, and instead asks her again to read the sign for him. Xanther rolls down the window and tries to read the sign but she tells Anwar that she is unable to read what it says. She can still hear the distant sound. She can tell it is a small animal and it seems to be crying for help. Without thinking, Xanther swings the car door open and runs out into the storm. She is unsure of where she's going but she knows she must get there quickly.

Xanther runs a great distance. She crosses through several neighborhoods and cuts through some hills. On one hill, she falls and ends up getting her hands and knees scraped. She also loses her glasses, but she continues running. She arrives to another neighborhood and stops at a grate at the base of a curb. She sees something inside. It is an animal, and it is in danger of drowning. Xanther struggles to find a way to rescue the animal. She reaches her arms in between the bars of the grate and tries to reach for the creature. The animal begins to carve away at her arms out of fear but she does her best to ignore it. The creature is small and has white fur with pink triangular spots. She is able to pull it through the grate. She holds the creature in one palm. Its mouth is closed and Xanther fears that she is too late and it has drowned. She holds the creature closely and starts looking around the area, realizing that Anwar still hasn't caught up with her.

The chapter ends on May 10, 2014 at 15:14:49.
The Wizard

Dr. Catherine Aa’ala Stern (76), better known as Cas, is on the lam with her partner Bobby. Cas has led a full life and had many titles, but currently her life is dedicated to the protection of a mysterious Orb she refers to as Scry Baby. Cas, along with Bobby and several associates, are trying to keep Scry Baby and the other existing Orbs away from an enormously powerful organization.

## Chapters

### Volume 1

* 06) The Orb
* 28) Tiny Storms

### Volume 2

* 13) A Stranger
* 23) The Bath
* 32) My Love

### Volume 3

* 06) Withdrawal
* 13) Sew
* 29) Esse Quam Videri

### Volume 4

* 01) Near Little Switzerland
* 10) EDS
* 23) The Arsenal
* 31) Undaunted

## Relationships

### Family

* Bobby

* daughter

### Friends

* Mefisto Dazine
* Deakin Carraway (Merlin)
* Sew
TFv02 CH 14 Pikachu (annotated)

Annotations for Pikachu from Into the Forest.

## Page 324

**quote**

 from the song Gold. Full passage:

*No neighbourhood is rough enough*
There is no clip that's full enough

I can't fold, I need gold, I re-up and reload

Product must be sold to you

Fiends ain't coming fast enough

There is no cut that's pure enough

I can't fold, I need gold, I re-up and reload

Product must be sold to you

Folding besides the obvious poker referrence echoes Ozgur's folding of origami

## Page 325

**Adolfo**

owner of El Porvenir, see V2 191 (Ocho mil if I don’t see it again)

**ocho**

eight

**chinos**

trousers

**el ejabán**

IF, by chance this IS a typo, the proper words might be ‘el tejabán,’ meaning ‘the shed.’ This seems to be relevatory to the setting at-hand, so I’m personally convicted this was an unintentional typo. He doesn’t want to drop by ‘the shed’ where I assume is Dawgz.

## Page 326

**Nopales**

cactus, the girl Lupita beat up in V1

## Page 327

**suelta**

NOT loose. The proper translation for this context is ‘release.’

## Page 328

**quinceanera**

15-year-old

**Bitch Trace**

The phone he uses for "bitches" (as mentioned on the previous page, he owns another phone for business)

## Page 329

**Football Star**

see 198

## Page 330

**Icu**

Intensive Care Unit

**vato**

dude, man

## Page 331

**Radio Shack**

RadioShack - American electronics retail chain, here a gang name?

**lodo**

mud

**verga**

cock, rooster

**Como es...**

How's it going after hard day's work?

## Page 332

**Cállate!**

Shut up!

## Page 333

**fuga**

leak, escape, getaway;
Joint Session

Ends
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"Joint Session" is the tenth chapter of Honeysuckle & Pain. It is the second chapter to be narrated by Astair Ibrahim.

## Chapter Quote

"And then there's a moment. The wind changes, the grass stops swaying." - Sir Malcolm Murray

## Summary

The chapter begins on Wednesday, July 2, 2014 at 22:22:11 in Los Angeles, California.

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

The chapter ends on Saturday, July 5, 2014 at 10:13:21.
Rawrgrl (TFv1 Chapter)

Volume
 Ends
 Previous chapter

"rawrgrl" is the nineteenth chapter One Rainy Day in May.

### Summary

This segment shows the solosphere of the user "rawrgrl" on Parcel Thoughts. A group of people seem to be posting on rawrgrl's page and conversing with her, as well as with each other. It is unclear who most of these people are, though Hopi may be among them. The segment is expressed through eight panels across the two pages, each accompanied with the date and time of posting. The first post was made on May 10, 2014 at 14:52:25, and the final post was made on 14:55:32, just three minutes later.
TFv01 CH 10 “Yeah man. Something died.” (annotated)

Annotations for “Yeah man. Something died.”, the tenth chapter of One Rainy Day In May.

## Page 225

**Tony Nersessian**

? Unknown author and quote

## Page 226

**Pettalosky...**

The constant change of names echoes similar technique used in Only Revolutions, previous novel by Mark Z. Danielewski (Viazazonacci, Tiatitonacci etc.)

**Shnorhk Zildjian**

 Shnorhk: Armenian for "grace."

Zildjian: cymbal manufacturer in
the United States of Turkish Cymbals since 1623

**aboosh**

stupid

## Page 227

**Shan vordi**

 Son of a bitch

**Lloyd George**

a British Liberal politician and statesman, Prime Minister (1916-1922) (Wikipedia)

## Page 229

**Houzom**

 a deep feeling of sorrow and sadness. "Among the survivors we interviewed were some who appeared melancholic
and despairing over the genocide, not even showing any overt signs of an
 internal struggle with the event. Their passivity was not the result of
 being reconciled to the genocide; rather, these survivors seemed
consumed by what Armenians called **houzom**–a deep feeling of sorrow and
sadness. Some of these individuals appeared almost affectless as they
told their story" - Donald E. Miller and Lorna Touryan Miller, *Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide* (fromarmeniangenocidehistory.tumblr)

## Page 234

Arshalous – armenian girl name, means Dawn
TFv04 CH 27 Worse Than Any Nightmare (annotated)

Annotations for Worse Than Any Nightmare of Hades.

## Page 738

fire,smoke, teeth, circle round the stone

**Ismail Bapu**

a real person mentioned in the book Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the
Jungles of History and the Mind. His cows were killed by a lioness.

**goes**

in Only
Revolutions, the substitude for “dies”

## Page 739

**muy lejos**

very far
away, a far cry

## Page 741

**postictal**

postictal
state is the altered state of consciousness after an epileptic seizure

## Page 742

**Never to return . . .**

One of many echoes of Luther's final speech from previous chapter

## Page 759

**teeth**

evokes the common dream of teeth falling of

## Readers Guide Questions

***Who or what is “A Circle Round a Stone Production” at the very beginning of the book, and what is its possible connection to the nightmare stones that Freya and Shasti are hoarding (p. 748)? Could there be a connection between the nightmare stones and the stones that Xanther flicks (TFv, pp. 251, 388), or the ones that appear on people’s eyes (TFv3, p. 404)? And how do the Circle Round a Stone Production pages differ from each other throughout the volumes?***

***There is a notable anachronism in the chapter “slashes,” when Xanther asks the Galvadyne executive if he can get tickets to the musical Hamilton. TF-Narco 27 confirms that indeed, in September 2014, this request is “not part of her historical possibilities” (p. 450). There is a related “error” when she translates the Italian phrase, “La perfezione è nemica del bene,” because she doesn’t speak the language (p. 512). And her new math skills are also surprising (p. 746). Where are these abilities coming from?***

***How is the relationship between Xanther and her cat evolving? What do you make of their simultaneous seizures? What does Xanther mean when she says “I just think we’re really connected . . . but not, like, in just a good way” (p. 691)?***
Honeysuckle

Ends
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"Honeysuckle" is the ninth chapter of Honeysuckle & Pain. It is the second chapter to be narrated by Xanther Ibrahim.

## Chapter Quote

"It's the hardest thing I've ever had to do..." - Florence + The Machine

## Summary

The chapter begins on Monday, June 30, 2014 at 08:05:59 in Los Angeles, California.

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

The chapter ends on Wednesday, July 2, 2014 at 22:22:10.
TFv05 CH 25 Into hell (annotated)

Annotations for Into hell of Redwood.

**quote**

from the
book Krieg dem Kriege! Guerre à la Guerre! War against War! Oorlog aan den
Oorlog! by german pacifist  Ernst
Friedrich, published for the first time in 1924. It examines the human cost of
the First World War and shows the true face of war (injuries, mutilations,
executions, suffering, misery and death)

full quote

Give content
to these words and all wars in future will be impossible.

## Page 687

**Sian**

boredom,
weariness, frustration and emptiness

## Page 689

**char tau**

idiot
TFv03 CH 04 in the middle of their street (annotated)

Annotations for in the middle of their street from Honeysuckle & Pain.

## Page 123

**Quote**

“I
earnestly confronted my devil and behaved with him as with a real person. This
I learned in the Mysterium: to take seriously every unknown wanderer who
personally inhabits the inner world, since they are real because they are
effectual.“~ Carl Jung; Red Book; Page 260.

## Page 124

**Delirium Tremens**

the bottle

**Mother Dough**

pizzeria in LA

## Page 125

**go-to**

noting
something that can always be relied on to bring satisfaction, success, or good
results

**mother will go to the end of the world for her daughter**

foreshadowing?

## Page 130

**catachresis**

1. the use of a word in a way that is not
correct, for example, the use of mitigate for militate. 2. figure of speech in
which a word or phrase is being applied in a way that significantly departs
from conventional (or traditional) usage. Dead people in a graveyard being
referred to as inhabitants is an example of catachresis

**apparent**

meaning the lack of love between As and An?

**inert**

lacking the ability or strength to move

## Page 134

**She’ll**
die!

screamed by auntie, page 49

## Page 139

**fishtailing**

a vehicle handling problem which occurs
when the rear wheels lose traction, resulting in oversteer

## Page 144

**Lupita**

the guy is Miz (he wears wifebeaters)

## Page 148

was the near death experience that made X so happy?
Between Nowhere and Nowhere

Ends
 Previous chapter

"Between Nowhere and Nowhere" is the sixth chapter of Into the Forest. It is the first chapter to be narrated by Isandòrno.

### Summary

The chapter opens up on May 14, 2014 at 06:17:10 in Chiapas, Mexico. Isandòrno appears to be sitting on the back of a truck as he is being driven somewhere. The truck enters heavy traffic and the driver cuts off the engine. Isandòrno climbs off of the truck and follows the driver and his wife as they walk past the stopped cars. He notices a woman peddling a bicycle through the area. Isandòrno decides to stop following the truck driver and instead follows the woman. Isandòrno follows the woman for a while longer until she stops and gets off of the bike.

After Isandòrno left Veracruz four days ago, he traveled to Benemérito de las Américas. He stayed there with a group of people. The town bordered Guatemala and Isandòrno wanted to cross the border but he never did. He would like to be able to go to other countries but it has never happened. Isandòrno's father was born in Mexico but his mother was not. According to him, she was the reason he has never been able to leave Mexico.

Isandòrno thought about a conversation he had with the man he typically bought wine off of whenever he visited his employer, The Mayor. The Mayor would never drink the wine, though. The seller asked Isandòrno why he would never leave the country. Isandòrno did not answer his question. A few men came over and drank the wine Isandòrno had bought. He told them he would not hurt them if one of them agreed to drive him back north. One of them did. Along the way to Chiapas, before getting stuck in traffic, the driver asked Isandòrno if it would be okay for them to stop in Ocosingo. The driver's wife had a cousin there who could build them a new engine, which they were planning to sell in Mexico City. Isandòrno was fine with this request.

Isandòrno stops daydreaming and stops pursing the woman on the bike. He instead decides to see why the traffic is so bad. He can spot the corpses of animals blocking the road and there are many people around who are trying to figure out what happened. Some of the animals have also been decapitated. The police are on their way to resolve everything. Isandòrno decides to step closer to get a better look. He sees many bullet holes in the animals. Among the corpses lies a goat and a donkey. He decides then to return to the truck. He worries that his late arrival will upset The Mayor, especially considering the fact that he didn't even help escort the crates to The Ranch.

The chapter ends on May 14, 2014 at 07:42:38.
TFv05 CH 03 "It's super gentle." (annotated)

Annotations for "It's super gentle." of Redwood.

## Page 74

**quote**

said by The Oracle to Neo

**Oracle**: But you already *know* what
I'm going to tell you.
**Neo**: I'm not The One.....
**Oracle**: Sorry, kid. You got the gift, but it looks like you're
waiting for something...
**Neo**: What?
**Oracle**: Your next life maybe, who knows? That's the way these
things go.

## Page 81

**instantiation**

*instantiating*. 1. to provide an instance of or concrete evidence in support of (a
theory, concept, claim, or the like)

instance- an example or single occurrence of something.

*a serious instance of corruption*
TFv03 CH 30 Satya (annotated)

Annotations for Satya from Honeysuckle & Pain.

## Page 787

***Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another***

 from Beloved. Beloved is a 1987 novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. Set
after the American Civil War (1861–1865), it is inspired by the story of an
African American slave, Margaret Garner, who escaped slavery in Kentucky late January 1856 by fleeing to Ohio, a free
 state. In the novel, the protagonist Sethe is also a
slave who escapes slavery, running to Cincinnati,
 Ohio. After twenty-eight days of
freedom, a posse arrives to retrieve her and her children under the Fugitive
Slave Act of 1850, which gave slave owners the right to pursue slaves across
state borders. Sethe kills her two-year-old daughter rather than allow her to
be recaptured and taken back to Sweet Home, the Kentucky plantation from which Sethe
recently fled. A woman presumed to be her daughter, called Beloved, returns
years later to haunt Sethe's home at 124
 Bluestone Road, Cincinnati, Ohio. The story opens with an introduction
to the ghost: "124 was spiteful. Full of a baby's venom."

## Page 796

**If God did not…**

quote from Advertisements from Volume 1

## Page 803

**cargo**

key word for V2

## Pages 826-827

Anger answers injury… Action answers anger…Until she is only… Death’s claw cubmitting
to her own death... Already death... Anger erases her of every other self...

I will not suffer without making others suffer first...
I will no tlie down without making others lie down first... I will
not coveer without making others cover first... I will not die without
making death die first...

She lunges ahead... allways ahead... What answers pain lies
ahead... What is killed ahead lives ahead... What revards living escapes
ahead... The promise that is kept ahead allways ends now...

Sattva, Satori, Sarva, Sava,

...As death triumphs fury knows itself as death all along...

But where was life rising?;

## Pages 832-833

She pours forth like the rain... She pours forth from
pain... Allways towards all that promises the end of pain through pain:
A promise broken long before it was made...

To devour is what I do...

其将死 她会死的- Her checkmate She is mortal

## Page 835

**owoooooo . . .**

samw font as the T.M.D. section at the end of the book

## Page 839

**Comunicating through Narcons**

N9 – X, N3 – S

## Page 841

Xanther tells Satya to run away. In Anwar’s M.E.T., S is the prey
and Z is the predator

The whole chapter is only 11 seconds long
(19:18:08-19:18:19)

## Page 842

**hebrew**

Blooms welcome dawn's light

The heart is also a plan

Hummingbirds drink up
TFv05 CH 27 or bomb? (annotated)

Annotations for or bomb? of Redwood.

**quote**

Francis
Crick was a British molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, most
noted for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953
with James Watson.

## Page 732

**"يا تري اولادك**
لسه بيحبكم اد ايه!"

?

## Page 735

**"مش من دا"**
"حاجة تانية"

?

## Page 736

**Vladimir Arnold**

was a Soviet and Russian mathematician. While he is best known for the
Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable systems,
he made important contributions in several areas

**arabic**

? probably teacher or professor

**Latif Abdelghani**

?

**Taher Elgamal**

Egyptian cryptographer

**Anosov map**

In mathematics, more particularly in the fields of dynamical systems and geometric topology, an Anosov map on a manifold M is a certain type of mapping, from M to itself, with
rather clearly marked local directions of "expansion" and
"contraction"

Vladimir Arnold created Arnold's cat map, probably the reason why MZD mentions these maps here

## Page 745

**tyranny of the eye**

term coined by the poet William Wordsworth
TFv05 CH 14 flying (annotated)

Annotations for flying of Redwood.

## Page 352

**SSH key**

SSH keys
serve as a means of identifying yourself to an SSH server using public-key
cryptography and challenge-response authentication

## Page 353

**aji**

 in Go, aji means “possibilities left in a position” (https://senseis.xmp.net/?Aji) “This definition is derived from one the meanings of the word aji in
ordinary usage: taste, in the sense that it lingers. By analogy, aji in
Go refers to lingering possibilities that are latent and cannot be used
immediately, but might come to life if the situation changes later.” (Lauren Grimes)

## Page 368

**chinese**

Mine?

## Page 369

**"دم شجرة"**

blood tree

## Page 391

**detumescence**

the process of subsiding from a state of tension, swelling,
or (especially) sexual arousal.
TFv01 CH 23 Walk (annotated)

Annotations for Walk, the twenty-third chapter of One Rainy Day In May.

## Page 579

**Jim Kalin**

 writer?

## Page 580

**es la neta**

it is true, certain

**neta verdad**

certain truth, pure truth

## Page 581

**el chorro**

jet, squirt

**Rubio**

Marco Rubio, junior United States Senator from Florida, serving since January 2011. A member of the Republican Party

**mayor Carcetti**

Thomas J. "Tommy" Carcetti is a fictional character
on the HBO drama The Wire, played by Irish actor Aidan Gillen
(Littlefinger)

**Virgil Campos**

fictional character, we'll meet him later

**vato**

man, dude

## Page 582

**graders**

construction machine with a long blade used to create a flat surface during the grading process

**faucet ass**

A condition in which the fecal excrement consists mainly
 of liquid water which can in severe cases lead to dehydration. *That Mexican food gave me a serious case of faucet ass*

**Guácala**

yuck

**quinceanera**

fifteen-year-old, also a soap opera title

## Page 584

**cuerno de chivo**

Mexican slang term for an AK-47, whose
literal meaning is "goat's horn", in reference to the curved magazine
clip or banana clip that the armament uses

**lats**

latissimus muscle

**wings**

also mentioned in Oz (with a far darker wings – 422) and
jingjing (jingjing really had wings ready to grow full at last – 533)

## Page 585

**ropes**

meaning ropes of water, the water is squirting out of him

**tu me conoces**

you know me

**Cagado**

wimp, yellow, soiled

**culo**

ass

## Page 587

**placa**

police badge

**pinche**

fucking

## Page 590

**rubbing her gums**

sign of drug addiction? + same does Xanther because of the braces

**es mi grillo**

that's my cricket

## Page 591

**gotta da-da**

what word beginning with "d"?

## Page 593

**órale**

"hell yeah" or "right on", Also used to: indicate surprise

## Page 595

**tore her in half, in pieces**

like Realic

**bruja magica**

magic of a witch

## Page 598

**jotos**

homosexuals

## Page 600

**gol**

goal

## Page 601

**loco peligroso**

crazy dangerous; dangerous crazy person

**chuckling sticks**

nunchaku?

**Vete a la chingada**

go to hell

## Page 602

we finally learn that taking care of Hopi meant to kill him - but it was foreshadowed on page 79 (down)

**Por qué me haces esto**

why are you doing this to me

## Page 603

**ruca**

rustic rural house, old woman, girlfriend

**no tiene sentido**

that doesn't make sense

**tonterias**

bullshit

**a la brava**

the hard way

## Page 606

**Para el amor de las manos de niño.**

For the love of child's hands

**Juarez grabs hold**

Juarez prevents Hopi to fall into the "grave". Similarly, he scared
him pretending to throw him into the dog's pool.

## Page 608

bullet holes – in places where Jesus was wounded