The disease as inheritance: the Incandenza drinking line

texture · B.S. 1960 (Tucson) and B.S. 1963 (Sepulveda CA); the dread carried into YDAU

• When: Winter B.S. 1960 (JOI age ten, Tucson) and Winter B.S. 1963 (JOI age thirteen, Sepulveda CA); the fear of the line's continuation live in YDAU
• What: The thread's inheritance premise: the novel roots the disease genealogically, generations before any meeting hall. JOI's father — the failed near-great tennis player and actor who will later serve two years as "the Man from Glad" — initiates ten-year-old Jim into the calfskin-sheathed hip-flask mid-monologue ("I drink this, sometimes, when I'm not actively working"), concedes what the boy has already seen ("brought home on occasions, dragged in the door, under what's called the Influence"), and gestures the line one generation further back to his own father ("He plays golf. Your grandfather.") — the monologue implying the flask ran in the family ("I was your age Jim here take the flask"), as printed. By Sepulveda 1963 the father mixes himself a "tomato juice beverage" at lunch and is twice "taken ill" mid-task as thirteen-year-old Jim helps him move the master mattress. And in YDAU the dread persists downhill: Avril's terror of Hal drinking is explicitly hereditary — the quote below. The disease as bequest; its recovery-room echo is event 14's "Getting In Touch" (Gately's own alcoholic mother surfacing in sobriety). See the JOI timeline, the Hal timeline (biographical depth lives there).