Community book club 2
Advances
- Avril's separatist involvements
- JOI's wraith is the in-universe author/narrator of Infinite Jest
- The book is annular by design — chronological end first, reader sent back to p. 3; organized thematically, not chronologically
- crossdressing-dysphoria
- did Hal ingest DMZ, and by what route (dosed / endogenous / self / none)
- does Gately survive the hospital / what the beach scene is
- endnote 24 as JOI's coded autobiography
- eschaton-function
- eschaton-math-error
- hal-dfw-surrogate
- how/why it kills; whether lethality is continuous with real TV
- is the wraith real (vs. Gately's fever)
- mario-grace
- media-prescience
- optics-light-motif
- the Avril–Orin incest question
- the Master's custody trail (DuPlessis's safe? Gately's hands? where it went)
- the on-air collapse: accidental vs. dosed
- theology-sin-salvation
- what JOI made it *for* (communication vs. weapon)
- what broke Hal if not (only) DMZ; damage vs. emergence
- 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)