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- Avril has real, pre-existing Québécois-separatist ties — but is (probably) not Luria P—
- Avril's separatist involvements
- Contents & mechanism: engineered "halation" — the wobbled crib's-eye lens and de-realized/blurred Joelle project every viewer's own mother, apologizing
- Gately survives; the beach scene is his relived bottom, not his death
- Hal's body synthesized DMZ endogenously from the childhood mold (Schmidt's Mold Theory)
- Hamlet as organizing intertext
- Hamlet is the organizing intertext, present from conception
- JOI killed himself in order to return as a wraith and finally reach Hal
- JOI's wraith is real (and object-capable, with a possible Lyle division of labor)
- John Wayne is a covert Québécois operative (allegiance near-text; which cell, live)
- Mario's (and Hal's) paternity
- No dose at all — withdrawal (and/or Hamlet-patterned feigning)
- Orin mailed the Entertainment to JOI's enemies (and breaks under AFR torture)
- The Swartz reconstruction — the missing year is recoverable, and it runs: wraith doses Hal; Hal, Gately, Joelle (Wayne watching) dig up JOI's head too late; Orin breaks; the AFR deploys the master
- The post-1993 stratum (late-additions) — and the mold scene as late-addition red herring
- The veil question — deformed, too beautiful, both in sequence, or deliberately undecidable
- The wraith dosed Hal's toothbrush with Pemulis's DMZ
- Wayne's Québécois allegiance (and which cell)
- What is (was) in JOI's head
- did Hal ingest DMZ, and by what route (dosed / endogenous / self / none)
- does Gately survive the hospital / what the beach scene is
- eschaton-math-error
- is the wraith real (vs. Gately's fever)
- the dig's reality, its yield, and what is (was) in JOI's head
- the macro-shape: ring, gasket, thematic chapters, dead-center design
- what broke Hal if not (only) DMZ; damage vs. emergence
- what happens between p. 981 and p. 3 (the Annulation-Text)
- what the childhood mold-eating is (cause / red herring / late addition) — cross-listed under composition
- what the film shows and why that content works (halation, mother-apology, crib lens)
- what the veil covers (deformity / beauty / nothing / undecidable)
- whether IJ itself is the samizdat / performs its logic (or is its antidote)
- who mailed the samizdat copies
- why — incl. died-to-become-a-wraith