A different glimpsing of the same

Only just now is the stuff of Infinite Jest's plot getting underway, and it looks like there's something else happening, too.

Maybe one of the ETA players is from a town too close to the Great Convexity. There, the wastes of the area may have nurtured his or her nascent psychic powers, which still remain dormant. But, though unaware, this person moves things around the academy in strict defiance of gravity and sense.

Yes, the bit about Ortho "The Darkness" Stice's furniture moving around while he sleeps isn't just a strange aside among other strange asides, but seems to carry one thread of the plot. At least, the mention of other items winding up in places where they shouldn't be leads me to believe that it's more important than a one off bit.

This is also the part of the book where chronology begins to really churn around Interdependence Day, November 11th, in the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment. Even though it was sections/chapters ago, we return to an earlier point in the Interdependence Day banquet. A point during the festivities at which Hal's near loss to Stice has caused quite a stir. And, we also get a little hint of what went on in Tavis' office. Just a wee little bit.

If what's happening currently in the book, vis a vis its structure is any indication, we're riding a swirl of a tale, rounding a core group of events and ideas over and over again from different angles and positions. Eventually, one that looks into that office through a window or vent or something has to be visible.