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Gately, the wraith, and the figurants — "It occurs to Gately he’s never…"

quote

It occurs to Gately he’s never had any sort of dream where somebody says anything like vast bulk, much less agora, which Gately interprets as a kind of expensive sweater.

Context

The reality-test running as a gag: mid-figurant-lecture, the dream's vocabulary again outruns the dreamer (and "agora"/angora is Gately's mishearing engine working even on evidence against the dream being his). Texture-tier sibling of the pp. 832-833 audit.

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