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Joelle cleans and remembers the Incandenzas (p. 746)

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Joelle couldn’t for the life of her remember either of the names of poor old Spielberg’s old computer-enhanced celluloid dinosaur things, though her own Daddy’d personally taken her to each one.

Context

A small recall block embedded inside an otherwise prodigiously detailed memory of the Thanksgiving dinner — and the idiom is the exact one hung on Hal's block three scenes earlier: two blocks rhyming across POVs, both snagging on names from a father-mediated filmography.

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