Gately's dream-M.D. temptation (p. 895)
—Because what if God is really the cruel and vengeful figurant Boston AA swears up and down He isn’t, and He gets you straight just so you can feel all the more keenly every bevel and edge of the special punishments He’s got lined up for you?—
Context
Job-rage in the wraith's own coinage: "figurant" imported into theology, a God present in the frame but withholding all dialogue. That the word is itself a ghostword Gately has no rights to makes the sentence double as evidence of the haunting it never mentions — the wraith's vocabulary is now doing Gately's deepest thinking.