IJ study archive

The Fackelmann scam and the wraith's return (pp. 917–918)

quote

It wasn’t until Fackelmann’s map had been presumably eliminated for keeps and Kite had returned from his long highatus […] Sorkin would have regretfully had the C kid and his Nuck/fag crew demap him, Gately, too, along with Fackelmann, if he’d thought Gately had been part of Fax’s scam

Context

The suicide idiom in its homicide register: Fackelmann's murder, and the murder Gately barely escaped, both told in map-language before the flashback even gets going. ("Long highatus" as written — reads as a deliberate hiatus/high pun; confirmed in print.)

In anthology