62.5% of the room’s faces are directed my way,
What a great detail. He could have just said “five out of the eight” or “5/8ths of the faces in the room,” but he did the math and gave us the figure down to the decimal. Which lets us know that’s exactly how Hal thinks. Who else but DFW would have thought to do that? Especially this early in the novel. We have such little information about this kid, but in one line he gives us so much.
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