The dead-infant speaker at White Flag
(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
The meeting's last speaker describes freebasing through labor, and Gately clocks the veil moving. Carlisle makes the sighting pharmacologically exact: Joelle is roughly twenty-four hours off her own freebase overdose — this is same-Substance Identification, the veil functioning as an involuntary readout of the face it hides.