Notes on fading out

Infinite Jest continues to let its plot unravel. Its notes also continue to get more involved. Curiously, though, there are (so far) two sections that aren't included in the main text, but are, instead, notes. What's really weird about these sections' placement is that their content is pretty essential to the story. 

One noted section shows a conversation between Hal and Pemulis, and the other shows Pemulis' meeting with DeLint, Nwangi, and Watson. In the first, the two are discussing Hal's withdrawal from marijuana (aka Bob Hope), and Pemulis tries to convince him to take something stronger under the thinking that Hal'll need it less than his regimented daily Hope. The second scene pretty much wraps it up for Pemulis, as his narcotics use and pre-drug test sterile urine selling are found out. What's more, the cause for his being found out is that ETA's top player took the tenuates that Pemulis was keeping for himself. 

As is pretty plain, some major stuff goes down in these noted sections, and it's not like they aren't set up by main text, either. We see Hal taking his concern with his withdrawal to Ennet House and a Narcotics Anonymous meeting. There's also a whole bit where Pemulis is talking Todd "Postal-Weight" Possalthwaite through an existential crisis. 

So, as far as I can tell, the reason that those noted sections are in the back of the book because Wallace is trying to have Pemulis fade out of the story. After all, he's Hal's enabler, and if Hal goes off of drugs completely as he plans to do, it seems that Pemulis would lose his function.

Of course, I'm half expecting one more main text section from Pemulis' perspective. Maybe a meeting with Avril, or his bidding farewell to Hal.