Stice stuck to the window (pp. 875–876)
‘We are in route,’ Kenkle said, ‘but why the hilarity?’ ‘What hilarity?’ Kenkle looked from me to Brandt to me. ‘What hilarity he says. Your face is a hilarity-face. It’s working hilariously. At first it merely looked a-mused. Now it is openly cach-inated. You are almost doubled over. You can barely get your words out. You’re all but slapping your knee. That hilarity, good Prince atheling Hal. I thought all you players were compadre-mundos in civilian life.’
Context
Hal fetches the janitors feeling nothing in particular, and his face, per Kenkle, is doing open cachinnation. Carlisle builds the superposition explicitly: blind Stice hears Hal's neutral voice as crying, sighted Kenkle reads the same interior as hilarity — citing Coleridge on Hamlet, laughter as the expression of extreme anguish. Hal's affect has decoupled from his interior entirely; scene 001 is now in sight.