TFv01 CH 11 Bones Nest (annotated)

Annotations for Bones Nest, the eleventh chapter of One Rainy Day In May.

## Page 236

**Pierre Alferi**

 Pierre Alféri (1963) is a French novelist, poet, and essayist. Alféri is the son of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida and psychoanalyst Marguerite Aucouturier. He translated Agamben (Wikipedia). The origin of the quote is unknown

## Page 237

**Jax & Bones Nest**

 company specializing in luxury dog bedding. Interesting that Danielewski chose the chapter title to be just Bones Nest, giving it a morbid connotation

## Page 238

**Portia and Scott**

 streets in Echo Park

**the Youtube thing**

**thespian**

an actor or actress

## page 240

**Tonic-clonic**

(formerly known as grand mal seizures) are a type of generalized seizure that
affects the entire brain. Tonic–clonic seizures are the seizure type most
commonly associated with epilepsy and seizures in general, though it is a
misconception that they are the only type.

Tonic–clonic seizures can be
induced deliberately in electroconvulsive therapy;

**synaptic**

of or relating to a
synapse or synapses between nerve cells

## Page 241

**Lord Emp**

comic book
character from DC Comics WildC.A.T.s (Wikipedia)

**Taps**

a bugle call played at dusk, during flag ceremonies, and at military funerals by the Unitemed forces

## Page 242

**Virginia Hospital**

in Arlington

**Section 60**

The section of Arlington National Cemetery for veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

**Sixty seconds**

Reader is stopped for 60 seconds to read 60 number. Echoes this quote trom House of Leaves: Who has never killed an hour?
Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes? (page 543)

**now(here)**

Echoes the ~~Now Here Found Concordance~~ from Only Revolutions (and a wordplay on nowhere)

**ailuro**

Indicates connection with cats

**misailuro**

from the word misanthrope, meaning hatred towards cats

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**(( ))**

nine brackets from one side, nine from other

## Page 245

**convulsive status epilepticus**

prolonged or repeated
tonic-clonic seizures. Most tonic-clonic seizures end normally in 1 to 2
 minutes, but they may have post-ictal (or after-effects) symptoms for
much longer. This makes it hard to tell when a seizure begins and ends.
Status epilepticus occurs when: 1. The active part of a tonic-clonic
seizure lasts 5 minutes or longer 2. A person goes into a second seizure
 without recovering consciousness from the first one 3. If a person is
having repeated seizures for 30 minutes or longer. This type of status
epilepticus requires emergency treatment by trained medical personnel in
 a hospital setting. This situation can be life-threatening and getting
treatment started fast is vital.

**keep of her mind**

similar sentence is at the end of second Cas chapter

## Page 251

**5 min a 32 seconds**

echoes Five and a Half Minute Hallway from House of Leaves and also of course a song by Poe

**EMTs**

Emergency medical technician

## Page 254

**Duder, Woder Do, odder Wo etc**

wordplay on the word Redwood, a mysterious character/creature from House of Leaves

## Page 259

**Charlotte's Web**

Charlotte Figi (age 8) experienced a
reduction of her epileptic seizures after her first dose of medical
marijuana at five years of age (Wikipedia)

## Page 260

**Bella's wedding night**

Twilight refference

**Dark Arches Zoo Evening**

DAZE

## Page 262

**filicide**

killing of son or daughter

## Page 266

**Dov Z. Mudd**

DZM, MZD (Mark Z. Danielewski) backwards