Hal alone with JOI's films; "would call Hal depressed"; projects into the ex-bureaucrat

texture · 11 Nov YDAU, evening

• When: 11 Nov YDAU evening (same viewing session)
• What: Skipping his Boards-prep, Hal watches a run of his dead father's entertainments alone in V.R. 6 — American Century Seen Through a Brick, Pre-Nuptial Agreement of Heaven and Hell, Death in Scarsdale, Various Small Flames, etc., cutting off "Medusa v. Odalisque" when spectators turn to stone and declining the two cartridges of JOI being interviewed. "Anyone else looking at him in there tonight would call Hal depressed." He runs Wave Bye-Bye to the Bureaucrat (Mario's favorite) twice, secretly liking it and imaginatively projecting himself into the ex-bureaucrat's leisurely drive "toward ontological erasure" — a quiet anhedonic/death-drift beat keyed to Himself.