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>why is Eschaton such a popular chapter?
Lots just find it funny but it is an amazingly well written bit, reread it and skip the end notes this time so the flow is not broken up. It also has a few very important details buried in it which many miss.
>DFW just showing how far AA (he?) will go in saying that addiction should not be blamed on external circumstances?
No, the scene is about Gately, we learn a great deal about him in that scene, parallel and contrast it with Hal and ETA. DFW is taking issue with that aspect of AA but not in the way you likely think, you got a ways to go before you have the required information to fully parse this bit.
>Also, how on earth is Orin unable to tell that Steeply is a man
Those descriptions of Steeply are Marathe's who knows Steeply as a Haitian and a Hari Krishna and who knows what else and even possibly knows the real Steeply so Marathe has considerably more perspective, he has many before images and is still coming to terms with this new iteration of Steeply. Were you not paying attention to the use of free indirect speech? You said you noticed it, did you not bother applying that knowledge to interpret the information you receive? If the narrator is using free indirect speech the narrator is being colored by that character's perception if not outright relaying that perspective to the reader.

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