Hal's hero essay (p. 140)
HAL INCANDENZA’S FIRST EXTANT WRITTEN COMMENT ON ANYTHING EVEN REMOTELY FILMIC, SUBMITTED IN MR. OGILVIE’S SEVENTH-GRADE ‘INTRODUCTION TO ENTERTAINMENT STUDIES’ (2 TERMS, REQUIRED), ENFIELD TENNIS ACADEMY, 21 FEBRUARY IN THE YEAR OF THE PERDUE WONDERCHICKEN, @ FOUR YEARS AFTER THE DEMISE OF BROADCAST TELEVISION, ONE YEAR AFTER DR. JAMES O. INCANDENZA PASSED FROM THIS LIFE […]
Context
The all-caps headnote over twelve-year-old Hal's McGarrett/Furillo essay dates one seventh-grade assignment by four reckonings at once: the calendar day, the Subsidized year-name, years since broadcast TV died, and years since Himself died. Four clocks stacked on one document — the theme's simultaneity machinery shown as literal clock-architecture, the reader made to hold all four at once.