I Hate Infinite Jest ep. XXXII (pp. 938–981, the end) — guest Tim Eastwood: the ending-theories finale — the Lyle-toothbrush DMZ walkthrough, the single-quote narrator argument, and the Marathe ER identification
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Advances
- Avril's counterstrike calculus behind Pemulis's expulsion (domestic scope, not avril-afr)
- Avril's separatist involvements
- Lyle's nature
- Marathe's end (incl. the Year-of-Glad ER identification)
- The veil question — deformed, too beautiful, both in sequence, or deliberately undecidable
- did Hal ingest DMZ, and by what route (dosed / endogenous / self / none)
- does Gately survive the hospital / what the beach scene is
- is the wraith real (vs. Gately's fever)
- the Avril–Orin incest question
- the dig's reality, its yield, and what is (was) in JOI's head
- the wraith's use of Ortho Stice (draft "Wraithster")
- what JOI made it *for* (communication vs. weapon)
- what broke Hal if not (only) DMZ; damage vs. emergence
- what happens between p. 981 and p. 3 (the Annulation-Text)
- what happens to Wayne in the missing year
- what the film shows and why that content works (halation, mother-apology, crib lens)
- what the veil covers (deformity / beauty / nothing / undecidable)
- who mailed the samizdat copies
- who narrates IJ (wraith-JOI, Hal, plural)
- why — incl. died-to-become-a-wraith