Endnote 366 — the film-scholar joke about The Cage

Mocks a Ph.D. discussion that sounds like Harold Bloom's studies of "artistic influenza" (p. 1077), noting its murky relevance to Peterson's The Cage, a film mostly about a "peripatetic eyeball" that J. O. Incandenza adored and quoted everywhere — with the wry suggestion that the very disconnect between film and scholarship may be the point.