the pre-Experialist upheaval: the last P.M. Before Subsidization

A Subsidized-Time calendar datum inside a love story: Orin's freshman New Year's Eve in Kentucky, "far from the O.N.A.N.ite upheavals of the new Northeast, the last P.M. Before Subsidization." The calendar's political hinge — the final year before the year itself was auctioned (059/083) — used here only to date a first shared cocaine; the founding's revenue-scheme measured against a private memory.