Community book club 4
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Advances
- Avril's separatist involvements
- Hamlet as organizing intertext
- JOI as Ennet House's unnamed crocodile-founder — advanced-then-retracted, sighting-count only
- Mario's (and Hal's) paternity
- The veil question — deformed, too beautiful, both in sequence, or deliberately undecidable
- Wayne's Québécois allegiance (and which cell)
- crossdressing-dysphoria
- 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
- how/why it kills; whether lethality is continuous with real TV
- is the wraith real (vs. Gately's fever)
- media-prescience
- narrator-proximity
- philosophers-list
- the Avril–Orin incest question
- the Master's custody trail (DuPlessis's safe? Gately's hands? where it went)
- the macro-shape: ring, gasket, thematic chapters, dead-center design
- the professional-conversationalist scene's reality: straight event vs. Hal's drug-distorted memory while catatonic post-Year-of-Glad
- the rising rival mapping (Orin/Dmitri, Hal/Ivan, Mario/Alyosha)
- wallace-misogyny
- wardine-voice
- 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 the childhood mold-eating is (cause / red herring / late addition) — cross-listed under composition
- 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
- who narrates IJ (wraith-JOI, Hal, plural)
- why — incl. died-to-become-a-wraith