![]() ![]() ![]() His mother, Avril Incandenza, freaks out and parades Hal around their backyard screaming for help from the neighbors. Hal's personal arc begins when he's a toddler and he swallows a clump of strange mold from his family's basement. The interview devolves into chaos as Hal seems to have a panic attack and is promptly rushed to the hospital. The novel opens with a scene of Hal Incandenza, unable to verbally communicate for reasons as yet undetermined, undergoing an admissions interview with faculty and coaching staff at the University of Arizona. ![]() A novel that almost defies summary, Infinite Jestbegins with a scene at the latest chronological point in the purview of the novel: in the "Year of Glad," the final year of nine-year-long Subsidized Time calendar in O.N.A.N., a nation made up of parts of the former United States and Canada. ![]()
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