marathe-steeply-commentary
Theories on this crux
| Reading | Verdict |
|---|---|
| Minor structure & design cruxes | favored |
Discussed in
- IJ Book Club Ep. 18: Not Quite Strictly Sober — Clipperton, the advertising essay, the long Marathe/Steeply night (pp. ~407–442): the lexical-fingerprint method arrives
- IJ Book Club Ep. 19: Silent and Dim and the Same Temperature He Is — Gately's home life, the P-terminals, the MF-cup climax (pp. ~438–480): the in-utero ending reading
- IJ Book Club Ep. 21 (S2 opener): Diddle Check? — the blue waiting room, the surprise urine test, and the Marathe/Steeply dawn (pp. ~508–~530)
- Infinite Cast Part 42: endnote 110 concluded — commentary segment (~20 min): the mechanics recap, the Steeply-inception hypothesis, plot-in-footnotes, the weed-addict window
- Infinite Cast Part 44: Eschaton rules pt 1 — commentary segment (~15 min): both men on the hill made grotesque on purpose, Wallace as both of them, and RAND's real-world Eschaton
- Mapping the Zone Ep. 06: Il ne faut plus qu'on pursuive le bonheur — pp. 410–503 (Marathe/Steeply, Clipperton, Gately's routine, the Antitois, the mattress)