Ennet and Tennis (they sound kind of like palindromes...)

I have a fear that the separate stories won’t connect together because of the part about anticonfluential cinema on page 185. If you look at the endnote it says that this was an irritating refusal to merge different narrative lines into any kind of meaningful confluence. It also says that J.O. Incandenza was a fan of this method. It seems like a warning of some kind.

Although on the other hand we see lots of forgotten characters like Tiny, Bruce Green, Kate Gompert, Erdedy, and I think some others. So it looks like they’re all starting to come together, which would be nice. It also just so happens that the Ennet House is right next to the Tennis Academy, so maybe somehow the characters will come together or maybe not, maybe there’s a parallel being made between them (we know Hal visits the “objay darts” on occasion).

I suppose the Ennet House is a place for addicts to come for reformation, in contrast to the academy, which seems to force the students to become “addicted” to tennis in a sense. I got the sense that the Ennet House “patients” were all childish and have to be reprimanded constantly by the staff, which is quite the opposite of the academy where these young boys are honing their skills to become these mature tennis players. Both places have urine tests though. For drugs.

Also, what does /w/r/t mean? He uses it a lot and I think I’m missing something.
Also, what exactly is the difference between O.N.A.N. and the U.S.? At one point they make a distinction between O.N.A.N. dollars and U.S. dollars.