The son flees east; the X-Ray Specs windfall; retirement back to the desert he loathed

texture · B.S. mid-1960s

• When: UNDATED sequence pinned by 071's ordering: Jim "grew up and fled east" (tennis scholarships, then the O.N.R. doctorate); "just after," his own father the oculist strikes it rich and dies mid-putt; the inheritance-funded retirement and desert return follow
• What: The son he built uses the game to leave him: tennis scholarships financing schooling "just about as far away from the U.S. Southwest as one could get without drowning" (scene 020). Then the estranged line pays out backwards: his father the Green Valley oculist "made a small fortune, just after Jim grew up and fled east, by inventing those quote X-Ray Specs! that don’t work but whose allure for mid-’60s pubescent comic-book readers almost compelled mail-order, then selling the copyrights to New England novelty-industry titan AcméCo, then promptly in mid-putt died" — the golf man dead on a golf course — "allowing James Incandenza Sr. to retire from a sad third career as the Man From Glad in sandwich-bag commercials during the B.S. 1960s and move back to the saguaro-studded desert he loathed" (scene 071). The one sentence carries the record's only use of his full style ("James Incandenza Sr."), the inheritance, the retirement, and the homecoming-in-defeat — back to the state of the 1933 court, the widows, and the trailer years.