IJ study archive

A young-JOI scene — killing a black widow with his father ("I have one sober memory of my father…"), dated B.S. 1960 — was cut…

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This is material that was cut: present in a draft, absent from the published novel.

In the published book. This material does not appear in the published book. Adjacent world = scene 49 (pp. 157–169, JOI's dad's Winter-1960 garage monologue)

Evidence. Independently corroborated. (described + scanned). Documented by Steven Moore's first-draft collation (description); Paul Debraski's survey of the draft record (Newsweek scan, with the B.S. 1960 dating).