I thoroughly enjoy the fact that it's gotten to the point where Steeply and Marathe's being on the desert promontory is something that even the narrator/fictional editor of the book can't believe. That's how the "Still" that's appended to their section headings comes across, anyway.
Actually, as the net of the book's progress slowly closes over the plot, I find that it's becoming much more comic. Maybe because less of the comedy is implied and much more overt. Or maybe it's because it's just absurdist comedy. How else can you describe a nearly 12 page long joke with a sentence length punchline that relies on you having read the endnote pointed to on page one?
Although my memory of exact details has faded over the months in real time since I've read of him, the reappearance of Roy Tony's also pretty shocking. All I can recall is that he was somehow involved with the "junkie-losing-an-eye-to-laced-heroine" bit earlier in the book. But, since it's been a while since an act of random violence has happened, his reappearance (and some bookshelf talk from the friend whose copy of Infinite Jest I'm reading) presages something grisly down the line. Even if his outburst against the hug-adverse Erdedy is another comic moment amidst the book's increasingly plot-relevant events.
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