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Steeply's father and M*A*S*H (pp. 642–647)

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Steeply gave small indications of paying attention to the small squeaks as Marathe turned his chair slightly this way and that way, achieving different angles of sight on his small shadow. […] Every change of his postures brought small squeaks of leather and metal.

Context

The dawn installment's chair-squeaks, twice under Steeply's long MAS*H monologue (p. 642, then p. 647 near the close): the A.F.R.'s audible signature firing on schedule.

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