Fackelmann, Sunshine, the beach (p. 981)
The last rotating sight was the chinks coming back through the door, holding big shiny squares of the room. As the floor wafted up and C's grip finally gave, the last thing Gately saw was an Oriental bearing down with the held square and he looked into the square and saw clearly a reflection of his own big square pale head with its eyes closing as the floor finally pounced. And when he came back to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out.
Context
The novel's final sentences. Gately's last sight before the dark is his own reflection bearing down on him — the AFR's mirror-trap (p. 846) sprung on the book's hero — and then the narrative refuses to end, looping instead back to the tide-and-beach image that has recurred in his dreams all along. The book closes by circling. Annular structure executed at full scale, last page of the main text.