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Hal in the Pump Room (pp. 51–52)

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Then two even smaller tunnels, navigable by any adult willing to assume a kind of knuckle-dragging simian posture, in turn connect each of the subbasements to the former optical and film-development facilities of Leith and Ogilvie and the late Dr. James O. Incandenza (now deceased) below and just west of the Headmaster’s House

Context

The screen's catch, inside the E.T.A. tunnel-geography excursus: JOI's optics and film-development labs persist as physical plant, mapped in passing as infrastructure the way the laundry room and Pump Room are. The founder's whole working apparatus is now a "former" facility you reach by knuckle-dragging tunnel — the optics career gone subterranean under the tennis academy that replaced it. Note the doubled death-marking, "the late Dr. James O. Incandenza (now deceased)," quoted as written. The same facilities are revisited at pp. 666-669 (screen target 129).

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