Annotations for Bones Nest, the eleventh chapter of One Rainy Day In May.
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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
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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
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Portia and Scott
streets in Echo Park
thespian
an actor or actress
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Duder, Woder Do, odder Wo etc
wordplay on the word Redwood, a mysterious character/creature from House of Leaves
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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)
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Bella's wedding night
Twilight refference
Dark Arches Zoo Evening
DAZE
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filicide
killing of son or daughter
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Dov Z. Mudd
DZM, MZD (Mark Z. Danielewski) backwards
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