Orin under the tumbler
There was a kind of louvered screen or vent high on one side of the glass, but no air was coming out. In. The air inside the huge glass was pretty clearly limited, as well, because there was already CO2 steam on the sides. […] Every few seconds Orin wiped the steam of his breath away from the thick glass to see what the faces were doing.
Context
The AFR's "technical interview": Orin sealed under a giant glass with a finite air supply, breathing and re-breathing his own exhaust, wiping his own breath off the glass to see out. A closed system consuming itself — the Endless Kiss (p. 1061) as torture apparatus, with one participant.