Scribbles on my margins during the reread follow. Anyone in the know want to comment? Or even to tell me I'm totally off base.
1. During the college interview, the Dir. of Composition (p.9) "seems abruptly to have actuated, emerged as both the Alpha of the pack here and way more effeminate than he'd seemed at first.." That particular guy is also the one that wrestles Hal to the floor and holds him down, saying to Hal, "It's all right! I'm here!" I was wondering if it could be Steeply.
2. Was Orin the one who sent the samizdat to the medical attache in Boston, hoping that maybe Avril would be with him and watch it? The medical attache wasn't staying at the usual hotel, he was outside of the city, maybe in a place where he had had assignations with Avril in the past? The film was traced through the place in LA where Orin lived when he played for the Saints, and it was mailed from AZ. Who else would know to write "Happy Anniversary" on the envelope, as in April 1st, the date Jim killed himself?
3. During the "professional conversationalist" section, Jim hysterically speaks of having the cartridge implanted in his head, along with other horrific stuff done to his body. Torture by the AFR? Sounds like their methods.
_________________ "The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you." DFW
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