Orin, B.U. punting, and Joelle (pp. 296–297)
He blasted up the hill to Enfield and brought down The Mad Stork’s own Pre-Nuptial Agreement of Heaven and Hell, which had a major impact on her. Right after Thanksgiving Himself let the P.G.O.A.T. understudy with Leith on the set of The American Century as Seen Through a Brick in return for getting to film her thumb against a plucked string. […] This might have been the end’s start, gradually, in hindsight. Joelle that summer declined a sixth summer at the Dixie Baton-Twirling Institute in Oxford MS and let Himself give her a stage name and use her in rapid succession in Low Temperature Civics, (The) Desire to Desire, and Safe Boating Is No Accident, travelling with Himself and Mario while Orin stayed in Boston recuperating from minor surgery on a hypertrophied left quadriceps
Context
Joelle's apprenticeship into the Incandenza oeuvre, dated and itemized: the Pre-Nuptial cartridge as first contact, the Leith understudy bought with a thumb-against-a-plucked-string shot (Jim filming fragments of her from the very first transaction), then the stage name and three films in rapid succession. The narrator stamps it plainly: "the end's start, gradually, in hindsight."