Shepherding E.T.A.'s boys on the jr. tour — the Clipperton summer

texture · the very last couple years of B.S. ("that summer")

• When: the summer circuit of the Clipperton years — Clipperton first appears "In the very last couple years of solar, Unsubsidized Time"; Orin Incandenza is seventeen and Mario eight that summer
• What: In the Clipperton-legend digression inside the Interdependence-Day screening frame, Leith's early E.T.A. chaperone role surfaces: "Disney Leith and an early prorector named Cantrell are shepherding the male tournament contingent (including a solid but sort of plateau-stuck and no longer much improving seventeen-year-old Orin Incandenza) that summer" on the domestic jr. circuit — the summer eight-year-old Mario befriends Eric Clipperton, while Headmaster Incandenza shows up at events shooting a two-part U.S.T.A. documentary. Leith is already the adult E.T.A. deputizes when the founder is behind a camera instead.