WYYY, Madame Psychosis's show (pp. 190–191)
Some of Orin and Mario and Hal’s earliest memories are of nodding off at the dining-room table and being gently carried by a very tall man to bed. This was in a different house. Madame Psychosis’s cued musics stir very early memories of Mario’s father.
Context
The single warmest father-memory in the whole anthology, and all three sons share it: falling asleep at supper and being carried up to bed by "a very tall man." It's the exact memory Hal names in scene 179 as his most intimate of Himself — the scratchy jaw, the neck's warm smell — here confirmed as common to all the boys, the one tender thing the distant father reliably gave when they were small enough. Madame Psychosis's obscure haunting music reaches Mario "the way certain childhood smells will strike you," and what it reaches is this: the father as warmth remembered from before speech, before the silence set in. Supporting, because it's the positive pole the rest of the theme grieves the loss of.