endnote n.160: the Unviewable Clipperton footage
Certain other and doubtless really disturbing footage of Clipperton’s suicide still exists, having—with perhaps half a dozen other emotionally or professionally sensitive cartridge-Masters—been designated Unviewable by testatory codicil and, as far as either Hal or Orin knows, enclosed in some sort of vault-apparatus that only Himself’s attorneys and maybe Avril have access to. As far as can be determined, only those lawyers, Avril, Disney Leith, and perhaps Mario know that the cartridges were, in fact, along with his case of special lenses, interred right there with J. O. Incandenza’s dead body […]
Context
JOI filmed Clipperton's suicide, and the footage was deemed Unviewable and — the endnote's yicky punchline — buried inside JOI's own casket. Pointed texture: the book's two marquee suicides literally interred together, the filmed one sealed inside the self-inflicted one.