Joelle cleaning; the Incandenza Thanksgiving — "though Mario did have an interest…"
though Mario did have an interest in lenses and film that had nothing to do with fathers or needs to please, so that the interest was something truly to share, the two of them; and even when Mario was allowed to work crew on some of Jim’s later Work it was without any of the sort of pressures to interact or bond via film that there’d been with Orin and Hal and tennis
Context
The family's one clean channel, stated by Jim himself (relayed through Joelle): lenses and film as the only shared interest not deformed by fatherhood or the need to please — where tennis, with the other two sons, carried all that freight. Confirms from the father's side what 048 and 154 show from Mario's: the Bolex bond was real and unlike everything else in the house.