Orin Incandenza

Consolidated unresolved date/identity puzzles; as printed throughout.

• Event 12 (co-op location): scene 068 places Orin and Joelle's cohabitation in "an East Cambridge co-op three subway stops distant from B.U." (p. 0296), whereas scenes 062 (p. 0227), 150 (pp. 0736-0737), and 179 (p. 0944) all describe a Back Bay brownstone co-op "provided nearly gratis by Jim." Joelle also processes her walk toward it as "the cooperative Back Bay–edge brownstone she had lived in once with Orin" (062). Unreconciled — possibly two descriptions of one address (East Cambridge / Back Bay fringe are adjacent in the text's geography), cite both.
• Events 10-14 (freshman-year dating) — HEADER OVERRIDE, flag loud: the whole B.U. sequence is dated by the freshman-year New Year's Eve = "the last P.M. Before Subsidization" = 31 Dec B.S. 2001 (scene 068, p. 0296), so freshman fall = B.S. 2001 and the defection is "the third week of his freshman year" (p. 0288). This is the the Joelle timeline event-6 chain; not independently re-derived here. Scene 068's own header reads "date: 2000 - YTMP, YTSDB - YDPAH" (header string re-verified against the source text): this chronology overrides the header's 2000 start in favor of the internal chain, per the archive's rule that the in-text chain is authoritative over the header hedge. The override is deliberate and flagged here.
• Event 1 vs. Orin's stated age: Orin gives his age as "twenty-six" to the "survey"-man (scene 119, p. 0598) in Nov YDAU (2009), implying birth ~1983; a B.U. freshman at ~18 in B.S. 2001 is consistent. No hard clash, noted for the index.
• Event 22 (silence duration): Orin's estrangement is quantified twice in scene 064 — JOI's death was "four years 216 days" past (p. 0250), "with two years of that not even once even calling" (p. 0247). Consistent internally; anchored to the archive's 1-Apr-YTSDB suicide ruling.
• Event 23 (JOI's sobriety timeline): Orin (relaying Joelle) says JOI "quit drinking in January" YTSDB and "hadn't had a drop in weeks" (scene 064, p. 0250); Hal counters that by the end "it was hard to tell whether he'd been ingesting anything or not," and a half-full Wild Turkey bottle sat by the oven. Disputed, cite both.
• Event 20 (the separation's trigger): four accounts that do not reconcile — Joelle's "wouldn't even face up to why / jealous fantasy" (166), Notkin's "the boot within months of the traumatic deformity" under the enmeshment accusation (159, triple hearsay; the only account that dates the split, hanging it off the 24 Nov YTMP acid-throwing), Bain's "James… asked her to perform… they supposedly became close" (n269), and Hal's "after… had been disfigured" (122). The deformity itself is disputed elsewhere in the Joelle record (the U.H.I.D. ruin-or-perfection enigma). Left open per the fate/identity rule.
• Event 12 (who approached whom): scene 068's narration has Joelle approaching Orin at the Columbus Day function, but n307 states flatly that "Joelle van Dyne and Orin Incandenza each remember themselves as the original approachee," and that Orin has perceived himself as approachee only twice ever — Joelle and the "Swiss hand-model" (34). Cite both as written.
• Event 24 (team-of-record, #71 on both): New Orleans Saints as of YWQMD (the "Jethro Bodine" form-reply archived under Avril's 20 June YWQMD letter, n110 p. 1006) vs. Phoenix/Arizona Cardinals by Oct YDAU (the trade, scene 012). Reconcilable as career progression (Saints earlier → Cardinals by YDAU); he wears #71 with both. Flag, not resolve.
• Events 21/37 (triple Volvo-window motif): three variant window-signs of Avril's infidelity, all Orin-sourced or Orin-adjacent — Bain's "word" on the fogged window that "cast a conjugal pall" (n269, via an intimate of Orin's), the smeared nude footprints on the inside of the windshield Orin alleged in YTMP (170), and the name idly written in the window's steam that reappeared as JOI drove to film Joelle (n080, Joelle's relayed account; Orin "would not say who or whether he knew who"). Possibly one incident refracted three ways, possibly three; the text never reconciles them. Cite each as written.
• The mailer crux (35): the novel never shows Orin mailing the Entertainment. The in-range evidence is circumstantial: Steeply cultivating Orin (30); the "samizdat"/JOI-name question routed through Orin (35); and the A.F.R.'s deduction that DuPlessis "received his original copies from this relative, an athlete" (scene 145, p. 0723). Recorded as open — the question is examined at length in this archive's adjudication of the Orin-mailer question; the novel gives evidence, not an answer.
• Event 36 (fate): the tumbler "technical interview" (scene 184) is the last attestation on this timeline; whether Orin dies, breaks, or reveals the grave's location is never shown. Left open. Orin's fate is weighed in the same Orin-mailer adjudication in this archive.