Pemulis shows off the DMZ
An alcohol hangover was definitely no frolic in the psychic glade, all thirsty and sick and your eyes bulging and receding with your pulse, but after a night of involved hallucinogens Hal said the dawn seemed to confer on his psyche a kind of pale sweet aura, a luminescence. Halation, Axford observed.
Context
The theme's title-term spoken aloud as a one-word diagnosis: Hal describes his post-hallucinogen dawns as conferring "a kind of pale sweet aura, a luminescence" on his psyche, and Axford names it with JOI's optics vocabulary — Halation, the same lens-distortion the E.T.A. curriculum quizzes on elsewhere in the anthology. This sighting comes in two parts: the endnote hung between the two sentences here — [n.76], stripped from the quote per convention — is where the "halo of approved grace" text lives, quoted separately at this collection's n076 entry. Within the scene the exchange caps the DMZ risk-assessment: the boys pricing a psychospiritual hangover in light-effects.