Wave Bye-Bye to the Bureaucrat remains Mario’s favorite of all their late father’s entertainments, possibly because of its unhip earnestness. Though to Mario he always maintains it’s basically goo, Hal secretly likes it, too, the cartridge, and likes to project himself imaginatively into the ex-bureaucrat’s character on the leisurely drive home toward ontological erasure.
Another use of Mario as the ideal, a gentle and empathetic soul who delights in truth. Hal buries it but has the same essential feeling, which is demonstrative again of Wallace's belief in some kind of shared humanity we could all tap into.
