was the Notkin-party overdose a deliberate suicide attempt
This asks whether Joelle's freebase overdose at Molly Notkin's party was a genuine suicide attempt rather than an accident. It matters because it reframes her whole arc into Ennet House, turning a drug mishap into a survived decision to die.
Scenes
Adjudication
This crux has an adversarial ledger: Joelle's Veil and Face. The per-reading verdicts are below.
Theories on this crux
| Reading | Verdict |
|---|---|
| Minor Joelle cruxes | favored |
Discussed in
- Hardcore Literature IJ Lecture II: In the Zone (pp. 233–489) — the Entertainment as womb-return, Joelle's veil and overdose, flow states, AA clichés, the freedom debate, Eschaton
- IJ Book Club Ep. 09: All good parties have a line for the bathroom — Ennet House grounds, the halfway-house wisdom list, tattoos, DMZ logistics, and Joelle's last party (from p. ~193, page ref ASR-derived)
- IJ Book Club Ep. 38 (S3 Ep 4 by feed position): Full of the sound and fury... — the off-the-board roadmap session: the head-dig as settled fact, JOI's save-Joelle scheme, the hole-communication mechanism, and the who-is-the-plant fight (no new pages)
- Infinite Cast Part 31: Joelle has too much fun — commentary segment (~20 min): the overdose read flatly as a suicide attempt, prose that dissociates with her, Infinite Boston, the red-flag-book taxonomy, Hamlet finally noticed
- Mapping the Zone Ep. 04: I just need to put the book down and go for a walk — monthly IJ read-through, pp. 198–306 (Joelle's overdose, the Schacht match, Ennet House, Orin's backstory, Poor Tony)