I just finished page 527 of Infinite Jest. Though it's been mostly plotless so far, the net's definitely drawing in around the timid lagomorph that could stand in for this book's story, all of its greatest motive power packed away in the back set of legs, the front being mostly for show. And digging.
I point out the page I finished on because it's got the greatest cliffhanger in the book yet.
The famous Eschaton game was played what seems to be 100 pages ago, and only now are we seeing the disciplinary action that comes of it. Or at least all the nail-biting, anxiety-laden waiting that comes before said Eschaton-caused disciplinary action. All of that waiting ends on page 527, however.
We see Hal and Pemulis and the rest go into Tavis' office, and then the doors to his office are closed. Doors as opaque to us as they are to Hal and co. since we're brought back to Marathe and Steeply on page 528.
What we imagine is often better than what can be written, but I'll be monstrously disappointed if what happens to Hal and co. in Tavis' office never gets mentioned.
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