I thought that scene was absolutely hilarious. I loved the descriptions of their outfits and their reactions when they're caught. One thing that I noticed is that Pemulis is very self-conscious about his fly. He checks it on 552 and then clasps his hands over it on 553. I don't know if this means anything or if he's just prone to forgetting to zip up his pants.

I was also wondering why John Wayne stuck his head in Hal's doorway and didn't say anything. Is it because he feels guilty for getting caught with Hal's mom?

Yeah, that scene was hilarious and awkward to say the least. I'd definitely tie the football uniform connection to Orin, since that seems to be Orin's sport. Why would Wayne have a football uniform, anyways, if he's totally dedicated to tennis? Something tells me the outfits were Avril's idea. And it was interesting to see Avril, who is often described as cleverly manipulative and controlling, as essentially dumbfounded and powerless, caught having sex with a student in a highschool cheerleading outfit. I guess everyone has their weaknesses/embarassing secrets in this book.

In the context of the rest of the novel, I was struck by how harmless this sexual fetish seemed compared to other pathologies that ritualize life - tennis, drugs, AA, to name a few. The guy who kills animals (Lenz, I think) talks about using cocaine to unwind. Is it so bad if Avril uses role-playing to unwind? I was also reminded of one of my favorite sections of GR, where Thanatz offers his theory of sado-anarchism: "If S and M could be established universally, at the family level, the state would wither away" (748). We don't see much of the state, of "Them," in Infinite Jest, but I think the systemic critique is still very much there.

Well, it can be problematic just because student-teacher relations in a boarding school...well, there you go.

And the really curious thing about it would be if it is hinting at the incest...

Although it was more funny than the horrifying, certainly.