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Joelle cleaning; the Incandenza Thanksgiving — "Jim referred to the Work’s various…"

quote

Jim referred to the Work’s various films as ‘entertainments.’ He did this ironically about half the time.

Context

The book's most loaded noun, worn by its maker at exactly half-irony — the same word the state will apply to the cartridge that entertains terminally, and the word 132's narration uses for what Hal watches all evening. One-sentence texture with a long shadow.

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