Hal's teeth dream; Mario and the WYYY silence — "Now WYYY was back to running…"
Now WYYY was back to running ‘Sixty Minutes More or Less’ without anybody at all at the helm. For the past several nights Mario has lain there in a sarcophagally tapered sleeping bag of GoreTex and fiberfill and listened to them run the weird static ambient musics Madame Psychosis uses for background, but now without any spoken voice as foreground; and the static, momentumless music as subject instead of environment is somehow terribly disturbing: Hal listened to a few minutes of the stuff and told his brother it sounded like somebody’s mind coming apart right before your ears.
Context
The show runs on with nobody at the helm — figure removed, ground promoted — and the scene turns that into a small theory of broadcast: background "as subject instead of environment" is unbearable in a way silence wouldn't be. Hal's verdict lands twice, as radio criticism and as prophecy of his own Year-of-Glad interior. (The show's name appears as '60 Minutes +/−' earlier in the same paragraph-run and 'Sixty Minutes More or Less' here — both as written; see Flags.)