Hal in V.R. 6: Wave Bye-Bye to the Bureaucrat — "a cartridge called Blood Sister: One…"
a cartridge called Blood Sister: One Tough Nun that he’d always found kind of gratuitously nasty and overwrought, but which Hal has no idea that this piece of entertainment actually germinated out of James O. Incandenza’s one brief and unpleasant experience with Boston AA, in the B.S. mid-’90s, when Himself lasted two and a half months and then drifted gradually away, turned off by the simplistic God-stuff and covert dogma. […] Each of the cartridges is a carefully labelled black diskette; they’re all signed neatly out on the clipboard by the egg-shaped glass bookshelf and are loaded in the cueing slots and waiting to drop, in order, and be digitally decoded.
Context
The narrator hands the reader the biographical key Hal lacks: Blood Sister is encrypted AA autobiography, and the son about to spend two scenes (138, 140) doing genre-criticism on it "has no idea." All the dramatic irony of the viewing arc is set here. The closer is pure apparatus: the oeuvre as labelled black diskettes in cueing slots — a father queued up "waiting to drop, in order, and be digitally decoded."