Endnote 80 — Why Avril thought Joelle and Jim were lovers
Orin knew Joelle and James Incandenza were not lovers, and by the time they met Jim was in no neurological condition to be anyone's lover; Avril, however, believed otherwise. The note ties her assumption to the Volvo incident — Avril's own infidelity exposed when a lover's name reappeared in the steamed-up window — and to Jim's will, which left Joelle an "addiction-enabling" (p. 999) annuity and ordered a filmed farewell to her buried in his casket, cementing the false appearance of an affair.
What links here
- "In a cage since Y.T.S.D.B.": the trust, the unseen Entertainment
- Death during post-production: the testament buries the Masters and seals the oeuvre
- JOI films her for the final cartridge — the filming, and the two accounts of what was shot
- JOI films the final cartridge — the auto-wobble neonatal lens; the two scenes; the sobriety price
- JOI's death without a note; the Master(s) buried in the coffin; the annuity
- JOI's will: the annuity, and the cartridge Master(s) buried with him
- Orin as the family's sole source; the Volvo footprints (Avril–Wayne)
- The Death-mother mythos the Entertainment embodies
- The Volvo window and the "word" — a conjugal pall