Hal in Tavis's waiting room
Two of the room's six institutional-plush chairs, whose legs were steel tubes bent into big ellipses, which wobbled, so that while the chairs couldn't really be rocked in they could be sort of bobbed in, which Michael Pemulis was doing absently as he waited […] The printout kept rotating in Pemulis's hands.
Context
The waiting room's furniture runs on ellipses, and Pemulis's incriminating printout literally rotates — seed imagery for the orbit cluster that takes over the scene's flashback.