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- Avril has real, pre-existing Québécois-separatist ties — but is (probably) not Luria P—
- Avril's separatist involvements
- Gately survives; the beach scene is his relived bottom, not his death
- JOI's death was suicide (default), not murder or a rigged relapse
- JOI's wraith is the in-universe author/narrator of Infinite Jest
- John Wayne is a covert Québécois operative (allegiance near-text; which cell, live)
- Lethality: the Entertainment is EUP's malignantly addictive television carried to its asymptote — continuous with real TV, not a sci-fi MacGuffin
- Lyle's nature
- Marathe's end (incl. the Year-of-Glad ER identification)
- No dose at all — withdrawal (and/or Hamlet-patterned feigning)
- The wraith's agenda is not benign — the dose happened and the protective speech to Gately is a lie
- The wraith's plan was to interface with Hal through Ortho Stice
- Wayne's Québécois allegiance (and which cell)
- did Hal ingest DMZ, and by what route (dosed / endogenous / self / none)
- does Gately survive the hospital / what the beach scene is
- how/why it kills; whether lethality is continuous with real TV
- ij-community-catalog
- protective project vs. lying/malign agenda
- suicide vs. murder vs. rigged relapse
- the macro-shape: ring, gasket, thematic chapters, dead-center design
- the wraith's use of Ortho Stice (draft "Wraithster")
- what broke Hal if not (only) DMZ; damage vs. emergence
- where Joelle ends the novel
- whether the counter-cartridge exists
- who narrates IJ (wraith-JOI, Hal, plural)