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Orin at B.U.: punting and Joelle (p. 286)

quote

Incandenza Himself having eliminated his own map on 1 April of the Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar just as spring Letters of Intent were due

Context

The narrator of Orin's B.U. football conversion, glancing back at how C.T. came to run E.T.A.: JOI's suicide, dated to the day, delivered entirely inside the street idiom — the book's most consequential death rendered as map-elimination in a subordinate clause about admissions paperwork. The idiom's first application to the Incandenza patriarch himself, the man who (per p. 64, in texture) held an actual patent in cartography software.

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