The dead-infant speaker (p. 376)
that new Joelle girl’s veil’s billowing in and out with her breath, Gately sees, just like it also was during the last speaker’s description of the statue’s orgasm in the catatonic’s dysfunctional Catholic mother’s devotional photo
Context
Gately's parenthetical mid-testimony: twenty-four hours off her own near-fatal freebase O.D., Joelle Identifies with the Substance itself, and the billowing linen is the only external sign the scene allows her suicide's aftermath.