Involuted

in·vo·lut·ed

ˌinvəˈl(y)o͞odəd/

adjective

adjective: involuted

1. complicated; abstruse.

   "his involuted prose"

    

   It is a fucking word, OK?

Interlace viewer

A television-based home entertainment system, ubiquitous in the time the novel is set, which plays copy-protected "cartridges" custom-ordered by viewers, invented by Noreen Lace-Forché

Motive

Critics speculate Himself created the Entertainment as a way of jolting his son Hal out of his low-affect, solipsistic self-involvement.