Hal supine in Viewing Room 5 (pp. 901–902)
C.T. was the infant son she’d brought to the new union, his father a ne’er-do-well killed in a freak accident playing competitive darts in a Brattleboro tavern
Context
Charles Tavis's own paternity, glimpsed in the family's murk: a ne'er-do-well father killed throwing darts in a tavern, leaving C.T. an infant to be absorbed into the Mondragon household. The man who steps into the dead Incandenza father's office (068) turns out to be himself the son of an absent, disreputable father — the substitute patriarch produced by his own paternal vacancy. (Avril's binge-drinking potato-farmer father, in the same passage, is family-hamlet's, and left per the plan.)