Molly Notkin's party: Joelle's overdose — "Comstock says if it even exists…"
Comstock says if it even exists it has to be something more like an aesthetic pharmaceutical. Some beastly post-annular scopophiliacal vector. Suprasubliminals and that. Some kind of abstractable hypnosis, an optical dopamine-cue. A recorded delusion.
Context
Grad students at the party speculating about the lethal cartridge, and the only category they can reach for is "post-annular" — the energy-cycle word drafted to describe fatal viewing. The two big loops (fusion and spectation) officially share a vocabulary now.