J.O.I.'s bio and E.T.A.'s founding (Maps and Territory)
his optical acumen translated, after an early retirement from the public sector, into a patented fortune in rearview mirrors, light-sensitive eyewear, holographic birthday and Xmas greeting cartridges, videophonic Tableaux, homolosine-cartography software, nonfluorescent public-lighting systems and film-equipment
Context
The potted biography of James O. Incandenza in the E.T.A.-founding section, the optics prodigy cashing out of weapons work. Buried mid-list: the man whose filmography keeps equating death with map-elimination (see No Troy, p. 990) held an actual patent in map-projection software — the book's head cartographer of the self was a literal cartographer too.