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the novel as JOI's in-world composition — none of it happened even inside the fiction; faked-death rider

crux

Theories on this crux

Reading	Verdict
The anti-Entertainment & the book-as-samizdat family	open
Minor JOI cruxes	—

Discussed in

IJ Book Club Ep. 50 (S3 Ep 16, the feed's final episode: The voice down the hall was weeping like its heart would break): one page and twelve sentences of Gately's last section — the St. Elizabeth's baptism assembly, the ice-bath dispute, the dosing war reignited, and the whole novel floated as Himself's own made-up composition (pp. ~972–974)