Infinite Summer at the Wild Detectives discussion

Thoughts on anything in the last eighty-one pages? Like maybe the ending?

I had to immediately go back and reread the first section, with Hal in the dean's office. So much there that just didn't mean very much the first time through.

Agreed! I am going to wait a bit to complete that loop, but the vast openness of the ending definitely caught me a off-guard. After reading so much of this book and filling in holes, I wasn't it to be tied neatly, but the gap between the ending and our small scene in the Year of Glad is so huge, it puts the Concavity to shame. I can understand why people would obsess over this book, looking for clues of all the stuff they missed the first time, but I don't think that's the point.

Also: I do feel sorry for Orin, now, though I wasn't sure I would...

As far as direct discussion questions that I want to ask:
- Which storyline leaves you most wanting further details?
- The policeman touching his face sounds like a person we encountered before...do we know who Joelle vanDyne was walking into the clutches of? (Or not, and it's just a weird partner of the ADA who wants and doesn't want revenge on Gately?)
- Where is Gately at the end? If he's dead, does this mean that Hal has the same fever dream as Gately and it never actually happened? Perhaps wraith-inspired? Or maybe Gately was just dumped somewhere and that's just the end of his memory with Fax.
- Why end the book with such a scene of horror melting into chemical-induced pleasure?