Orin phones Hal about Himself's suicide — "Listen, may I ask why this…"

Hal's recall presents as forensic — his own age at the discovery in third-person legalese, the interval counted to the day — and both figures are wrong by a year (Carlisle's audit: five years 218 days, Hal eleven years nine months), the same one-year-short pattern as Joelle's count at p. 225. Precision and accuracy split apart: the book's most celebrated memory delivers day-level detail on a wrong total. Cited as written.