Gately's dream-M.D. temptation
Christ, this is Dilaudid. Blues. Fackelmann’s Mount Doom. Kite’s steep-angled decline, as well. Death on a Ritz. The Blue Bayou. Gene Fackelmann’s killer, by and large. […] and Fackelmann’s eliminated map after the insane scam on Sorkin and a disastrous two nights of Dilaudid, when Sorkin’d—
Context
The dream trauma-M.D. sings the controlled-substance schedule at intubated Gately, and the word Dilaudid detonates: Fackelmann's death arrives mid-catalogue as an "eliminated map," the sentence cut off by a dash as the sales pitch rolls on — the climax scene 185 will deliver, foreshadowed in the death idiom's homicide register.