I'm Hannah Smart who wrote the LARB \"Mister Squishy\" essay. I'm developing a DFW biography. AMA
Advances
- IJ as the execution of E Unibus Pluram's program
- did Hal ingest DMZ, and by what route (dosed / endogenous / self / none)
- encyclopedic-design
- good-old-neon-suicide-note
- incandenza-autobiography
- mister-squishy-nothing-happens
- nonfiction-fictionalization
- nonfiction-lowly-insiders
- pale-king-incompletion
- sissee-nar-private
- the dig's reality, its yield, and what is (was) in JOI's head
- the macro-shape: ring, gasket, thematic chapters, dead-center design
- the scale and content of the cuts (and the 300–500-pages myth)
- what JOI made it *for* (communication vs. weapon)
- what broke Hal if not (only) DMZ; damage vs. emergence