Gately, the wraith, the figurants
Other terms and words Gately knows he doesn’t know from a divot in the sod now come crashing through his head with the same ghastly intrusive force, e.g. ACCIACCATURA and ALEMBIC, LATRODECTUS MACTANS and NEUTRAL DENSITY POINT, CHIAROSCURO and PROPRIOCEPTION and TESTUDO and ANNULATE and BRICOLAGE and CATALEPT and GERRYMANDER and SCOPOPHILIA and LAERTES […]
Context
The wraith — JOI — is beaming vocabulary directly into feverish Gately's head, and right there in the barrage sits ANNULATE. The inventor of annulation, dead, inserting the word itself into the book's hero by lexical force. The theme delivered as haunting.