It just occured to me how self-referential the text becomes after repeated readings during this part. The question of why "Accomplice" (IJ itself) is so long and torturous, the use of figurants or umimportant characters to convey central themes, the gratituous violence and depravity shown in a clinical light.
I just went through this part and it hit me very hard that these are Wallace's own thoughts, or at least his perception of others' thoughts regarding IJ itself. The following part is the snow broadcast and how repetitive and boring it is, Hal losing count of the amount of times "snow" is mentioned as much as I've stopped counting the appearances of "rodential" in the text.
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