Endnote 167: the rearview-mirror fortune
A couple of Incandenza’s more accessible early documentaries were bought by InterLace on a distribution-factored contingency basis, but except for a flat PBS-ish one on the lay principles of DT-annulation they never brought Meniscus/Latrodectus more than a fraction of the interest on the interest from Himself’s rearview-mirror fortune.
Context
The money gloss: the whole filmography floated on "the interest on the interest" from mirror money — the films never had to earn, which is why none of it made ILT menus "until after his untimely death" (same raw). The production company's name carries the theme on the letterhead: Meniscus (a lens curvature) slash Latrodectus (the black-widow genus) — glass and venom. This is the fortune whose origin story n218 gives (Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear; the n218 entry cross-flags this raw as "the same money").