Orin phones Hal about Himself's suicide (p. 257)

quote

‘What I feel is myself gathering my resources for the right foot, finally. That magic feeling’s back. I’m not lining up the vectors for the wastebasket or anything. I’m not even thinking. I’m trusting the feeling. It’s like that celluloid moment when Luke removes his high-tech targeting helmet.’

Context

Hal closes the call by reaching for a movie to describe The Zone — the "celluloid moment" of Star Wars' targeting-helmet removal — which Orin, of course, doesn't recognize. Even Hal's account of unselfconscious flow is routed through film; the Incandenza kids think in frames.

Quoted from

Scene 064: hal orin phone joi suicide

In anthology

Film and Opticstexture