Orin phones Hal about Himself's suicide (p. 246)
‘It’s gradually emerging it’s going to be some sort of memorial to the Stork as patriarch, everybody’s talents and accomplishments profiled as some sort of refracted tribute to el Storko’s careers.’
Context
Orin explaining why "Helen" Steeply's soft profile has him rattled: the piece is shaping up as a tribute to the dead father, with the living family as the refracting medium. The optics verb applied to the family itself — everyone a lens bending Himself's light — two scenes before scene 068 makes refraction Orin's master image.