Community book club 3
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Advances
- Avril as devouring-mother archetype; her smothering + JOI's remoteness as the sons' damage
- Hamlet as organizing intertext
- Lyle's nature
- Mario's (and Hal's) paternity
- crossdressing-dysphoria
- did Hal ingest DMZ, and by what route (dosed / endogenous / self / none)
- eschaton-math-error
- hyperreflexivity-sartre
- media-prescience
- the macro-shape: ring, gasket, thematic chapters, dead-center design
- the rising rival mapping (Orin/Dmitri, Hal/Ivan, Mario/Alyosha)
- wardine-voice
- what the endnote apparatus is for
- what the film shows and why that content works (halation, mother-apology, crib lens)
- whether IJ itself is the samizdat / performs its logic (or is its antidote)
- who narrates IJ (wraith-JOI, Hal, plural)