the pre-Experialist upheaval: the tumescence of O.N.A.N.ism

The founding-era dated against a family timeline: Orin's exit from tennis fell "during the period of great pre-Experialist upheaval and the emergence of the fringe C.U.S.P. of Johnny Gentle, Famous Crooner, and the tumescence of O.N.A.N.ism." The three-word political history — pre-Experialist upheaval, fringe C.U.S.P., swelling O.N.A.N.ism — is dropped as mere chronological backdrop to a boy's ranking decline, the theme's characteristic move of narrating the nation's founding as the weather behind a domestic event.