Hal and Pemulis on the DMZ and quitting — "A Clipperton, you mean? You’re saying…"
‘A Clipperton, you mean? You’re saying Himself killed himself because he got sober? Because he didn’t get sober. There was a thing of Wild Turkey right there on the counter by the oven he blew his fucking head up with. So don’t try to kertwang me with him, Mike.’
Context
The bluntest statement of JOI's suicide in the whole novel, and it's Hal's: the microwave oven, the bottle of Wild Turkey on the counter beside it — deployed in fury, as a rebuttal, because Pemulis has just used Himself as a data point in the quitting-kills argument. "A Clipperton" has become a common noun for suicide by now; Hal's only way to say it is as ammunition.