the Kodiak plug and the dry unspittable mouth
Though Hal hasn’t had more than four or five total very small hits off the public duBois
Context
The body's low chemical hum tracked through the scene as Hal leans repeatedly to spit into a NASA glass — dry-mouthed from four or five small hits and a plug of Kodiak, the spitting getting harder as the mouth dries, until he can't gather enough to spit at all. The compulsive apparatus (the tobacco, the dope, the spitting-ritual) running under the surface of a boy just sitting and watching.