Joelle visits Gately, abiding (p. 863)
The projective mental union of Gately and Joelle (‘M.P.’) van Dyne keeps foundering on the vision of Gately knee-dandling a kid in a huge blue- or pink-bordered veil, however. Or tenderly removing the spongy clamps of Joelle’s veil in moonlight on their honeymoon in Atlantic City and discovering just like one eye in the middle of her forehead or a horrific Churchill-face or something.
Context
The drug addict's instant mental matrimony runs aground exactly where the theme lives: the veil breeds — the imagined kid comes veiled too, gender legible only by border color — and the honeymoon unveiling opens onto cyclopia or the Churchill-face from his dreams. Gately's romance can survive anything except finding out. (Endnote 350 hangs off this sentence and flips it — below, at p. 1077.)