Molly Notkin's party: Joelle's overdose (p. 228)
she has no idea that Joelle’s been in a cage since Y.T.S.D.B., has no idea what she and Jim Incandenza were even about for twenty-one months, whether they were lovers or what […]
Context
What the hostess doesn't know: the narration dates Joelle's encagement precisely — since the Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar, the year of the last film and the veil. Note this is verbatim narration, not gloss: the plan's 159 row records the same phrase as Carlisle's reading there, but here it's DFW's own text.