![]() ![]() Even the third person narration becomes jittery and unreliable, as if affected by her free-associating, freebased mindset. From this depature point, she proceeds to Davis Station and then to the unfindable Lady Delphina’s in “Upper Brighton” to buy “serious weight.” The stream-of-consciousness and shuffled timeline makes it difficult to piece together the chronology precisely. I figured it was fringey, and about as close to East Cambridge as anyone in the Back Bay could be.Ĭhronologically, Joelle’s expedition begins much earlier in the day, at her apartment in Somerville or Cambridge (it’s never specified). In the end, I placed this dot on Back Street, by the Storrow. ![]() Nevertheless, a number of clues suggest this is indeed the Back Bay, but narrowing it down any further is a fool’s errand (as this fool discovered). While no other neighborhood lies between them, something else does: the Charles River. East Cambridge is a neighborhood in Cambridge. ![]() No single location in this entire project gave me fits like this “third floor cooperative apartment on the East Cambridge fringes of the Back Bay.” Just in case anyone isn’t aware, the Back Bay is a neighborhood in Boston. We are introduced to Joelle in media res at Molly Notkin’s apartment-in a scene she intends to be her last. If there is a grim inversion of Don Gately’s exuberant excursion in Pat M.’s mythical Ford coupe, it is Joelle van Dyne’s deliberate downtown walk past Boston Common and into the Back Bay toward her “Very Last Party,” as she carries out her plan to have “Too Much Fun for anyone mortal to hope to endure.” Infinite Atlas includes this as a collected set of locations under a story I’ve simply called “ Joelle’s walk” in this entry we’ll do our best to trace her actual route. ![]()
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