Hal supine; Pemulis wants to interface — "The monotone was the reason why…"
The monotone was the reason why Himself used Paul Anthony Heaven, a nonprofessional, by trade a data-entry drone for Ocean Spray, in anything that required a deadening institutional presence—Paul Anthony Heaven had also played the threatening supervisor in Wave Bye-Bye to the Bureaucrat, the Massachusetts State Commissioner [p. 911] for Beach and Water Safety in Safe Boating Is No Accident, and a Parkinsonian corporate auditor in Low-Temperature Civics.
Context
Hal narrating the cartridge the way n.24 narrates the career: a casting dossier from inside the audience. Paul Anthony Heaven is a JOI repertory player — nonprofessional, chosen for a deadening monotone, tracked across four titles — and Hal recites the filmography-within-the-filmography without effort. The son watches the father's films as a scholar of them; the viewing and the criticism are the same act. (Quote crosses the print page-turn; the raw's inline [p. 911] marker is retained per the header convention.)