Young Jim, his father, and the mattress — "From Ch. 16, ‘The Awakening of…"
From Ch. 16, ‘The Awakening of My Interest in Annular Systems,’ in The Chill of Inspiration: Spontaneous Reminiscences by Seventeen Pioneers of DT-Cycle Lithiumized Annular Fusion, ed. Prof. Dr. Günther Sperber […] © Y.T.M.P. from Springer-Verlag Wien NNY.
Context
The scene's first two words are the theme — "I remember" — and then the source-note (n.208's text, second quote) reveals what kind of remembering this is: a chapter in a published anthology of fusion pioneers' "Spontaneous Reminiscences," written some forty years after the fact, copyrighted. The only sustained first-person JOI in the novel is an adult act of remembering the father, on paper, for money — memory as document in the fullest sense. Every "I remember" that follows is a published sentence.