The posthumous citation for James O. Incandenza

texture · after 1 April YTSDB

• When: shortly after J. O. Incandenza's suicide (1 April, Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar)
• What: The one direct transaction the book records between Gentle and the Incandenza family: on Himself's death, "President J. Gentle (F.C.)," acting for the Defense Department's Office of Naval Research and O.N.A.N.'s post-annular Atomic Energy Commission, confers a posthumous citation on the optics pioneer whose annular work underpins the era's energy regime — and conveys his condolences by classified ARPA-NET Electronic Mail. The state honors the man whose lens-work helped build its world; the medium (classified e-mail condolences) is the administration's intimacy at its warmest.